Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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DARING LEAP TOR LIFE. Yireman ami Kngiocor .Jump I'rom a Runaway Locomotive. A pood many persons have wonder ed how it feels tu gu out into space from the cab of a locomotivo going at thc rate anywhere from forty to fifty miles up, because of a conviction that the chances of life arc ?realer by tak i ng such a leap than hy remaining on the seat of thc cab ?md taking chances with thc machine. To make such a leap into a level or grass-grown right-of-way is something that would make an ordinary man hes ?tate somewhat, but a greal many have made it and made it successful ly. To make such a leap out of a runa way engine that is descending a strcteh of track such as thc Midland has down Ute l'as?, however, taking chances on landing agaiust a granite boulder or thc side of a mountain, against aroek xibbed tunnel, er over the side of a precipice over which no one could go and live, it is even a little more stren uous, but this is thc feat that Engi neer Frank Watts and Fireman .James Brandebery ^performed at ii o'clock laBt Monday morning and both men arc still alive to tell the tale. The fact that the air brakes would not stop thc train dawned upon lOngi nocr Watts soon after crossing the safety switch below Cascade. As is well known to persons familiar with the operation of this road, every train that comes down Tte Pass, regardless of hov.* late it may be, stops ul (_!un eade for inspection. Thc; running gear of th?; train is inspected, thc brakes arc examined and tested ami four dilferetit men have to sign a book that says thc train is in shape to make tho descent of the pas9 safely before the engineer is allowed to pull tho throttle to start the machine on its downward journey. Freight No. 42 a week ago Monday morning passed inspection at Cascade and secured thc main truck at the safety switch. It was not long there after, however, that FJnginecr Watts, in recharging his air brakes, nude thc hair-raising discovery that his train was beyond his coutrol. His brakes were not[of sufficient power to with stand the terrible weight of Iiis six teen cara of gold ore anti lead and sil ver bullion, aud there was no reasona ble expectation that the train would remain ou the trucks through the first tunnel of thc eight that lay bctwocu him and level track. If it should by any miracle pass thc first tunnel, the next curve-and there were curves everywhere down that stretch of truck -would probably precipitate the train over the side of the embank m cut to destruction. Fireman Brandebery, as he tells the story, Bays: "Tho train wes inspect ed at Cascade by thc regular inspec tors and everything appeared to be in perfect trim. Tho last safety switch was paused with the train under per lest control, stealiog slowly and safe ly down the mountain tide. It ran as usual until we reached about three fourthB of a mile, when thc engineer thought he'd bettor recharge his air brakes. There is a certain amount of loss of air running thc train, and it is necessary from time to time to re charge the brakes. "If this is not done the brakes will lose their grip on tho wheels. This recharging proocss required ucarly three minutes and, with the terrible weight of the train we were bringing down,- thiu time gave us u terrific im petus. When the brakes had been recharged the engineer applied them, bnt there seemed to bo little effect. He applied them again and again, but it was of no perceptible effect what ever. You may imagine that we were feeling mighty uncomfortable just then and we had to decide pretty quick what we are going to do. We simply sized up the situation as beat we might and decided that wo had a chuuee on ly by jumping from tho cab, and a small chance ut that, and thai thc BONE FOOD Soft and crooked bones mean bad feeding. Call the disease rickets if you want to. The growing child must cat the right food for growth. Bones must haVe bone food, blood must have blood food and so on through the list : Scott's Emulsion is the right treatment for soft bones in children. Little doses everyday give the stiffnegs apd shape that healthy bones should have. Bow legs become straighter, loose joints grow stronger and firmness comes to the soft heads. .}'' Wrong food caused the' trouble. Rightfood will cure it. . In thousands, of cases Scott's Emulsion has proven to be the right food for soft bones in childhood. Send for free sample. SCOTT Si BOWNE. Chemloto. **OG-4l5 Pearl Street, Mow York, sae. and $ i.oo ; all dmggUtv,> rest of the boys on thc train had only tho samo chance that we had. "Whcu we wade up our iniods to make the leap we hail stayed with her for three-quarters of a mile and knew that she was wild and that every sec ond lessened our chances. Watts made thc leap ahead of mc. Whcn?he jumped wc were on a straight stretch of track and he w.is fortunate enough to strike thc ground on a gravel slide, ile went at least twenty-live feet Hat on his stomach and I thought still less of my.own chances when he had made the h ap. I think it was about twenty si eonds later that 1 followed him. I hit a bank of disintegrated granite, on the upper side of the track. I rolled over and over for about thirty feet, and how my head kept its connection Arith my body is something that I will never know. "I realized that I was rollingafarth er down the embankment all the time and that if I didu't stop I was going under thc wheels of the train, sure. 1 grasped and reached for something to stop me, but caught nothing. When I realized that Iliad stopped sliding and rolling my head was swimming and everything was black as night be fore mo. I couldn't tell until after the whole train had passed whether I had been ground up beneath it or not, but I knew that I was not dead, ill a few seconds, although they seemed hours, 1 realized that thc train had gone and I sat up. There was Watts, about sixty feet behind tuc, also sit ting up ami looking al inc. "I don't think I cried, but it was not because I didn't wa n't to. lu a moment we remembered that the en gine that had helped us down from Leadville was following and we Hag ged it. From that point down to Manitou we mude a slow run, expect- | ing to lind the train piled up in some of the canons along the way and to have to carry the remains of the rest of the boys down to Colorado City with us. "We were forty- ive minutes mak ing the run to Colorado City. Our surprise at finding that there was no one hurt in the wreck that wo found there waa equalled only by our sur prise at being alive ourselves." An investigation was held at the office of the superintendent at Colora do City. The main reason for-the causo of thc wreck brought out in the investigation was that the train was composed of so many foreign cars with low braking power. Au expla nation of this is that the braking pow er of the foreign ears is ouly from -il) to 50 per cent, and that of the homo cars is from 70 to 1)0 per cent, the difference being due to thc fact that foreign cars, as a rule, have compara tively level road beds to travel over, while the home cars arc adapted to the steep and curving tracks of tho mountain sides.-Denver, Col., spe cial to Philadelphia Record. Woman Who Rides Astride. Should women in tho hunting field ride astride? Those chiefly concern ed have more or less settled the point by deciding that they may if they wish, for thero is an appreciable num ber of women in England to day who habitually ride astride after hounds. They do so, cot with the desire to look manly but simply becauso it is easier to do a hard day's hunting seated firmly astride than seated sideways. The feminine appearanoe i* strictly preserved by an ingenious arrangeuicnt of the skirt, whioh falls on either side of the horse. After all, ladies do not ride bioyeles sideways. Accidents to women who ride astride are few and far between. The point of the hunting habit now adays is that it must have a safety skirt whioh shall prevent its wearor being "hung up" in case of accident. Tho safety |skirt is, BB a matter of fact, not a skirt at all, but a covering more or less of the apron type that simulates the-', old flowing drapery habit of years ago, which was the causo of so many agonizing accidents to women in tho hunting field. There are various patterns. Every woman who is at home in the saddle has her own pet one, built to meet her special needs. One typo of eafoty skirt is made for the woman who rides amide; another for tho one who is so enthusiastic a hunter that she is in the raddle almost all day; a third for tho one who mingles riding with soci able calls, luncheons and tea parties. But one and all secure absolute freedom to the equestrienne when she is riding, while they also enable her by a dextrous arrangement,of buttons and straps to look perfectly well cloth si wben she is afoot. It is in per fecting their apron habits thai the bailors have been busy ever Binue wo men willingly consented to wear the new type of skirt, and they have now inoceeded io meeting the needs of all, )n the score of grioe, as well as of iraoticability. For hunting women's habits tho lorreot tint this autumn is gray of all ihades, from the deepest to the palest. -London Daily Mail. - The wise husband remembers hat his wife would rather have kind tords and some new Clothes now than) liWcr bandies on her coffin a few years lenee. GENERAL SEWS. - Mrs. Jefferson Davis is rapidly recovering from her illness. - A tornado at .St. Charles, Minn., killed seven persons and destroyed many buildings. - Tornado vinita Wisconsin and many buildings at Plainfield destroyed. Several liven lost. - Haleigh, N. C., has decided to establish one dispensary iu lieu of barrooms. The new law goes into effect on .January 1. 1?J04. - Hon. Wilson S. Bissel, former postmaster general under Cleveland, died at his lome in Buffalo, X. V., m Tuesday, ?'?th inst. - Negroes at Lu xor a, Ark . on Fri day night took a negro from the coun ty jail and lynched him. Tin: negro was charged with assaulting two little girls. f - A crazy man named Elliott, from Minneapolis, called at thc White House to see thc president and when refused admittance became violent and tried to shoot the guards at thc door. - Two attempts have been made within the oast week in Montana to wreck the trains of the Northern Pacific railroad by putting dynamite on the track. - Thc New York supreme court lias decided that a notary public conics within the provisions of the State law forbidding officers from accepting free passes from railroads. - Porto Hico sent to tho Knited States within a year $7,400,570 worth of sugar and Hawaii $25,310,084 worth. These two amounts equal one fifth of tho sugar wc consumed. - Walter Davis, colored, was takcu from jail al Marshall, Texas, on Thursday night by a mob and was hanged. He was lynched for killing Marshal Hayes, whom he shot from ambush. - Two worthless .sons of J. A. Scott, a confectioner, of Richmond, Va., have beeu arrested on suspicion of having murdered their father, who was shot and killed in his store on Saturday night. - The Turks and Bulgarians have been fighting, with heavy losses on both sides. Russia and Austria have served notice to Turkey that they will insist on those reforms which wero accepted by the sultan. - At Starke, Fla., a negro named William Tison was presented with two boys and two girls by his wife Sunday morning about 8 o'clock. The babies had regular features every way, but only lived about six hours. - Tho announcement is made, that by the will of Dr. Washington West, of St. Louis, Mo., who died in Au gust, one half of his estate, the whole of which is valued at $250,000. is left to the Southern Presbyterian Church. - Negroes of Pine Bluff, Ark., in vite former President Grover Cleve land to visit the Normal school at that place, in the cve.i^. of a trip South by him. Mr. Cleveland says he is not contemplating a trip South just now. - Fifteen new indictments have beeu returned at Washington as the final result of the. postal soandal in vestigation. Jumes N. Tyner, late assistant attorney general of the post ?nico department, is one of those in dicted. - Gen. Bradley T. Johnson, a gal lant Confederate goneral who served under Stonowall Jackson, died at the home of his son. Bradley S. Johnson, in Virginia, on Monday morning, 5th inst., of Brights disease, in the 75th your of his age. - Statistic? for September show that 47,852 aliens arrived at Ellis Is land, Now York, during the month, being an exocss over the correspond ing month last year of of 5,543. Ooto ber opened with the arrival of 3,013 for the first two days. - At the opening of the New York public schools it was found that there were no aeoommodations for 65,000 pupils, which will be put on half time. The reason is that the school build inga ordered by ttie Board aro iacom plctcd in consequence of strikes. - Louisiana will maleeja wonderful exhibit of cottou at the World's Fair at St. Louis. A fiold of the groking staple will show visitors from tho North the beauty of a cotton planta tion. A miniature cotton gin will be in operation and a small press will form tho lint into miniature bales. A cotton oil press will illustrate how the cotton seed oil is made. - The handsome Monument erected at Orchard Knob to tho joint memory of the Federal and Confederate troops of Maryland, wno fought and fell ou tho historio battlefields about Mission ary Ridge, was dedicated with im pressive eoremonies in thc presence of a large delegation of prominent men from Maryland and distinguished vis tors from Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama and Tennessee, inoluding several governors accompanied by their staffs. Cures Rheumath-m end Catarrh-Medicine v s Free. Send no money-simply write and try Bu tanio Blood Balm at our expense. Botanic Blood Balm (B. B. B.) kills or destroys tho poison in the blood which Causes the awful aches in back and shoulder blades, shifting pains, diffi culty in moving fingen?, toes or legs, bono pains, swollen rausolea and joints of rheumatism, or the foul breath, hawking, spitting, droppings io throat, bad hea.iug, spooks flying befo; - the eyes, *H played out feeling of oatarrh. Botanio Blood Balm ha? cured hun dreds of oases of 30 or 40 years' stand ing after doctors, hot springs and pat ent medicines had all failed. Most of these onred patients had taken Blood Balm as a last resort. It is especially advised for ob.onie, deep-seated oases. Impossible for any one to suffer the agonies or symptoms of rheumatism or oatarrh while or after taking Blood Balm. It makes the blood pure and rioh, thereby giving a healthy blood supply. Cures are permanent and not a patching np. Drug storos, $1 per large bottle. Sample of Blood Balm seut freo and prepaid, also s peo i al medioal advice by describing your trouble and writing Blood Balm Co.. Atlanta, Gi. For salo by Evans5 Pharmacy. STATE NEWS. - A $50,000 knitting mill is in con templation for Pickeus. - A negro named Bailey stubbed and killed Iiis wife in .Summerville on Saturday uight and thea lied. - Lee Hardin, the negro watchman at Vorkvillc oil mill put a pistol to his wile's head Saturday night aud blew out her brains. - Fire fiends are at work near Lan caster. According to reports several disa>trous fire? have recently occurred in the neighborhood of the town. - James ll. Tucker has been con victed at Abbeville of burning his own barn to oust au objectionable tenant. The penalty is not lees than ten ;,'ears in thu penitentiary. . - The Hue West Female College has changed its holiday from Satur day to Monday, the object beinj/ prob ably to Keep the girls from studying their lessons on Sunday. - Union, Fairfield and Spartan burg are asking for special courts. lt is said that the appropriation of $2,500 forthat purpose has been ex pended and that there is no money to pay thc JudgcB. - Kev. Samuel Chambers, a Bap tist minister, his sister, Mrs. Kate McGurHn and Albeit Chambers, have been committed to the Walhalla jail on the charge of burning Holly Springs Baptist church last May. - William Weir, a colored fireman on the Southern, fell from a freight ono night last week and was killed. Next morning his body was found hanging on a trestle over Ninety-Six j Creek. There were $180 in his pocket. -V-One fact should make many new exhibitors for the next State Fair tlie Society pays the freight on all exhibits grown or produced in this State, thus enabling exhibits to be sent to and returned from the Fair without cost to the exhibitor. - Miss Lou Turnagc, of Columbia, was killed while walking on tho rail way track in Columbia near the glass factory. Two trains were passiug at the samo time and she seemed to bc dazed aud did not heed tho signals. Death soon followed the injury. - News has been received in Edge field by Dr. F. W. P. Butler from his father, General -M. C. Butler, that the latter is suffering considerably from a blow upor his head that he got on his way southward from Wash ington, near Alexandria, Va. A half brick was hurled violently into a win dow of a sleeping car, in which Gen. Butler was sitting, inflicting upon the u em.-ra l's head and cara severe wound. He has reached his plantation in the lower part of Edgefield County, but j is hick aud scarred from the wound. - Col. Louidas W. Spratt died in Jacksonville, Fla., on Sunday, -ith inst. Ile was oue of tho signers of the ordiuance of secession and the last survivor of the Charleston dele gation. This leaves only six survi vors of that memorable convention, i Dr. James H. Carlisle, of Spartan burg, Prof. Joseph Daniel Pope, of Columbia, Major John Jenkins, of John's Island, Dr. Peter Stokes, of Branchville, Col. Robert A. Thomp son, of Walhalla, and Mr. R. C. Lo gan, of King8tree. I H Charley Russ Found. Galveston, Oct. 5.-The case of William Vou Hodge of Galveston, who it is believed, may be Charley Ross, who was kidnapped from his horne in Germantown, Fa., July 1, 18 74, is exciting interest here. Pictures received here of the lost Charley Ross and tho boy's father and mother show a striking resemblance to young Von Hodge. A likeness of the young man, takeu when he was about IS) years old, greatly resembles thc Ko9B child. Tho photographs were submitted to experts, who ?.renounce the family re semblance and facial outlines of young Ross and his mother and Von Hodge almost identical. Von Hodge's early life is a deep mystery, md the fact that he was placed in an ayslum the same year tho Ross child disappeared, and the strong resemblance of one to the other, have strengthened thc hope that thc Ross child is still alive. Von Hodge was placed in a New Or leans orphan's home in 1874. He es caped from, there about 1380, and worked on a farm in Louisiana fivo years, elmoet a prisoner, and escaping from there, drifted East aDd entered the navy. A friend of tho family call ed on Von Hodge and is almost con vinced that he is the loDg-sought Charley Ross. He is trying to com municate with the Ross family. -II I W Stops Cough and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo-Quiuine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No Cure, No Pay Price 25 cents. Providence Intervened. One of the most miraculous escapes from death which ever occurred in this part of thc world happened this week at a farm a few milts from Hal eigh. Near an old country barn stood a great oak, whioh had died, but so recently that its withered leaves still furnished some shade. In the poroh of the house sat a mother while a lit tle Negro nurse rolled the mother's pretty baby back and forth tinder the shade of the sheltering tree. Sudden ly as the nurse sang and the baby cooed, the tree fell, burying in its wreck of branches, child, nurse and carriage. One big limb pinned the to the earth by her drcssj but was un hurt. Right and left of the carriage big limbs were broken off and driven deep into the ground, while under a sort of arch they made was thc baby in the carriage, not in the least in jured. The baby was actually laugh ing.-F A. Olds, in Charlotte Obser ver. _^_ - All men are born equal, but at the age of forty a man is either 'more or less so. CATARRH A COMMON COMPLAINT. Catarrh begins with a stubborn cold in the head, inflammation or sore ness of the membrane or lining of the nose, discharge of mucus matter, headaches, neuralgia and difficult breathing, and even ia this early stage ia jknost intolerable. But when the filthy secretions begin to drop back in^the throat and stomach, at the blood becomes polluted and tho system contaminated _ "? , . , . ._. . ._ ? " .. I had a continual headaohe, my cheeks bad grown Dy tue cacarrnai pois- purple, my nose waa always stooped np- say breath on then the sufferer n&d a sickening* and disg-uatiner odor, and i couerhod u Li-?* _J~i7,_ " incessantly. I heard of ff. B. S. and commenced to uso begins to realize what a it and after taking: several bottleB I was oured and disgusting and sicken- have never ?ince had thy Uar ^B?WB?K?K^ lng disease Catan h is. Northwest Cor. 7th and Fells Bte., 8t. Joseph, Mo. It affects the kidneyB and stomach as well as other parts of the body. It is a constitutional disease and as inhaling mixtures, salves, ointments, etc., are never more than palliative or helpful, even in the beginning of Catarrh, what can you expect from such treatment when it becomes chronic and the whole system affected ? Only such a remedy as S. S. S. can reach ibis obsti ^ nate, deep-seated disease and purge the blood of the 9 catarrhs! poison. S. 3. S. purines and builds up th? diseased blood, and the inflamed membranes are healed and. the excessive secretion of mucus ceases when new, rich blood is coming to, the diseased parts, and a permanent cure is the result. S. S. S. is guaranteed purely vegetable and a reliable remedy, for Catarrh in all stages. Write if in need of medical advice; this will cost you nothing. SWifT SPECiFiC CO., ATIAHTA, GA. HEADQUARTERS FOR AMERICAN FIELD AND HOG FENCE SQ INCH. 55 INCH. Regular-Sty!.: Stay? 13 In. cr 6 la. ?part Special II of, tiaras end Cattle S ty {a Stu) 3 ia in. or 6 in. opart . Made of large* strong, high-grade steel wires, heavily galvanised. Arkply provides for expansion and contraction.n Is practically ever lasting. Never goes Wrong, no matter how great a 'strain is put on it.^ Docs not mutilate, but does, efficiently, turn cattle, horses, hog* and pigs. . EVERY ROD OF AMERICAN FENCE GUARANTEED by the manufacturers and by us. Call and see it. Can show you how it will save you money s nd fence your ??Ids so they will stay fenced. A solid oar load of this Fence just received. We also have a full stock of Elwood Fence. Co. NOW FOR THE STRETCH ! r forbusiness the past season has been more than vw^ry to ourselves. We find ourselves far in advance ofi past records, having done the best year's business up to this'time ever before in our experience. Fromnow 'till September 1st we propose to keep up the record, and so HERE GOES ? iirei-claee, elegant three-quarter Percale, beautiful styles, worth 6c, U go at 5c. A 40-inch Percale, newest designs, worth 10c, our price 7c. A 40-inch White Lawn, worth 6c, going at 5c. A better quality Lawn, same width, worth 10c, to go at 8c. Summer Shirts, worth 75c, now going at 50c, to keep from carrying them over. TRXJ1N KB, Of all grades at prices to please. If you're going to the mountains you wan? a strong one. If you go to the Association you'll need a big one. We caa fit you in both. Prices on FLO UR "ave advanced sharply, but with the quality wa give you we will be found lower than the prevailing markets justify. Always Ready for Business, DEAN k mum, . e?* See us at once for genuine, old-fashioued-r PERUVIAN GUANO. Orders must be given before September let, a3 wo can't get any after that date. Analysis-Pho3. Acid 20J, Potash 3.82, Ammonia 4. ' D. & R. J HAVE JUST RECEIVED A CAR LOAD OF CORN, Slightly damaged, and can sell you at 50c. per bushel. Will have a lot of it cracked for hog and? chicken feed ' at same price. See me for OLD DOMINION CEMENT, AND LIME. O. D? ANDERSON. Tills Establishment bas been Selling IN ANDERSON for more than forty years. Daring all that time competitors have come and gona. bnt we havo remained right here. We have, always Bold Cheaper than any others, and during those long years we have not had one dis satisfied onstomer. Mistakes will sometimes ooour, and if at any time we found that a customer was dissatisfied we did not rest anti! we had made him satisfied. This policy, rigidly adhered to, has made us friends, true and last ing, and we can say with pride, but without boasting, that w? have, the confi dence of tho people of this section. We have a larger Stook of Goods this season than we have ever had, and we pledge you our word that we haye never Sold Furniture nt as close a mingin of profit as we are doing now. This is provon by. the fact that we are selling Furniture not:, only all over Anderson Const? but in every Town in the Piedmont seotion. Come and see ns. Your parents laved money by buying from ns, and yon and your children can save money by buying here, too. Wc carry EVERYTHING in tho Furniture lino, C. P. TOLLY. & SOW? Depot Street > l H : The Old Reliable1 Furniture Dealers j* ' % NO BETTER PIANOS S " 'Sat"csa be'fj^^^uid ^he^rorpSe^i ^S^^^^^^^^^^ way : Pi anotare b^^^^^^too? fjj^ 1^^^^^^^^^^^^^. woiked-over, second-hand repoesesed 6ft ^fts-_^^^ j?M ?tock. I do not sell that kind. If yo? T TS?, Jjj . are alright your credit ia good with me. Th^best Rced^rgsn uUhe world^bo^ J|^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ OFFICE-Front Booms o^or^Parm ^^^^^SHfc-^;-"^' ?;,V^'.^-^tln^5PSSi? Teetof0"^?* Seal *$MXfk9Ik\WfixflttKr VP'S! # i? Plate-more cleanly than the naln ^^gj|yjy^yyP^^^fe^Bg> . ra) U*tb. No bad taste or t roath