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ALMOST SLAIN BY BLFALOES. Tuo Hunters Suddenly Contronted by a Herd They btampede the Beasts and Escape Death--A Montana Adventure. In the summer of 1879, while stationcd at one of the fiontier forts in the Yellow stone Valley, Spotted Eagle's band of hostiles, a fragment of Sitting Bull's great camp, were brought in as prison ers of war. Orders were received to send them to Standing Rock Agency, and it fell to my lot, writs :1 lieutenant in the regular army to the Philadelphia Times, to escort them across the couu try. My detachment numberedt thirty men, mounted on Cayuse piICs and well armed and equipped. The next morning. with our prisoners under guard, we struck out boldly across the country, in the direction 'of Standing Rock. It took us sixteen days to make the journey, which was full of interest ing incidents and adventures, for the country was a wild and, so to speak, un explored region as yet, with hostile Sioux and Chevennes scattered all through it. The plains of Moitana were pretty full of bufflo at the time I write, and it is of an adventure with them I am going to speak. About the third day out we were in the midst of thousands of bison, and as it was no fun to kill them with a rifle or to still hunt, by reason of numbers, I proposed to have the rare sport Gf hunting a few with the revolver and from horseback. Next morning I was up before break of day, and telling my orderly to accompany me we started ahead of the command to hunt our game, each with a brace of Colt's "forty five" revolvers and 200 rounds of ammu nition apiece strapped across our per sons. We came in sight of one herd as day was breaking, and immediately gave chase. The bison fled before us, we tearing after them like mad; but in a few minutes the herd scattered, and so we selected a certain bunch, which we followed up. I had gotte'n pretty close upon my quarry, when, whisk! out of s iht they went, and in a moment I had folowed them. They had gone over a bank into a creek so suddenly that, not observing it, I followed close upon their heels; and there we were, buffaloes, pony and myself, uninjured, but flound ering and swimming about in deep water. By the time I got to the oppo site bank and secured my pony the buffaloes were gone out of sight, scamp ering across the prairie to join the main herd, and my orderly stood on the bluff behind where we had just tumbled. from, laughing at my predicament. He had luckily checked himself and steed just in time to save both from following us. In half an hour matters were straightened out and we rode to the top of a neigh boring knoll to get a view of the sur roundings. Our original herd was dim in the distance, a cloud of dust on the horizon telling where they were still going at full speed. While regretfully watching them my orderly suddenly ex claimed: "Look, Lieutenant, here comes anoth er herd across the country, and making straight for us." Casting my eyes in the direction indi cated, sure enough another tremendous herd was pointing in the direction of our knolland coming directly at us like a thunder cloud. No use to fly, for there was no place to fly to. One solid black masn was sweeping toward us like a whirlwind, and it became necessary for us to do something, and do it quiikly, too, or have the life trampled out of us in a few minutes. "Dismount!" I cried; "sling the bridle over your arm, and, when I give the word, fire as rapidly as you can." We both dismounted and, drawing our four revolvers, opened fire on the solid phalanx at long range. The great drcve of animals were plunging dildly forward with their heads down, almost sweeping the ground, and consequently did not see us. Our hope was to attract their attention, and by so doing to frighten them and endeavor to throw them out of their course. Had they seen us in the first place they would probably have halted or turned their course to one side. As it happened they kept madly on until our bullets began to sting them, when the leaders looked up and seeing the strange sight in front of them, actually paused, or attempted to do so, but it was at their peril, for the foremost were immediately trampled beneath the 'feet of the rushing, crushing multitude behind. The pile of bodies was our salvation, for it served as an impelliment to those in the rear, and together with our rapid fire sort' of stampeded the whole outfit. The pile became higher and higher as buffalo after buffailo came rolling on to the heap, and this blockade actually caused the tremendous mass to split and divide, a moiety going each side of it. The centre had been checked, but the wings were still sweeping by at railroad speed. We hurried down to the pile of carcasses as being our safest point, and stood there watching the sea of animals raging and tearing byvlike the biilows of an angry sea. A "hundred yards or so further on the wings came together again, and there we were, in the midst of that living mass, safe and free trom harm. It was a strange, remarkable sight one which I never expect to see on earth again. My head turned dizzy with so 'much motion all about me, but both myself and the orderly had sense enough to' blaze away incessantly directly in front onb which had the effect to throw tlieccessive leaders in still more confusion, and no doubt was the means of saving us from. being trampled to death. After this tremendous herd of bison, going at about twelve miles an hour, had passed, which consumed some forty minutes of time, we found our selves among the scattered tail end of the herd. Here was our chance. Quick ly singling out an animal, I was soon ashing alongside of him and pumping cold lead into his bosom from my re volver. My pony, well trained to such sport, never left his side until the poor brute staggered in his tracks. When he rolled over on the prairie, in the last throes of death, I singled out another big fellow and was soon pouring leaden p-l into his shaggyo hide also. I had dropped an even dozen before my little Cayuse or I became winded. Then I looked around for my orderly, but he was no where to be seen. I anxiously scanned the horizon to catch a glimpse of him, and rode back over my trail 1n til sunset in hopes of finding some trace *of him; but I saw no sign or indication of his presence, and so regretfully had to give up the search for a tune. Taking my landmarks I struck out for campi, wchI reached about 9 o'clock that night. The orderly's pony had already come into camp ahead of me,. which leit the conclusion that the poor fellow had been unhorsed, or perhops had received some accident; and possibly he might at that very moment be lying helpless on the prairie awaiting assistance fremn us. I immediately started the whole com mand out in search of himn, with orders to scour our back trail even as far back as our last camping place. I myself want along with one party. About mnid night we heard a single shot fired far ahead-in the darkness, and, listening in tently, had about come to the conclusion that it was a mistake, when again faint lv in the distance the shot was repeated. There could be no mistake now, for the signal was repeated at regular intervals of ten minutes, which led us to the spot, where we found the poor fellow trudging along, tired and worn down with fatigue, but in good spirits and entirely un harmed. His horse had gotten away from himn somehow, and left him alone and afoot on the prairie. He immediate lv struck across the eountry in a dirce tion that must carry him across the main trail, which he did really discover before darkness set in. He had been following it ever since and tiring his revolver as described until found by us. All the relief parties came up in an hour or so, havingben attracted to the spot by. the signal shots, which had served to bring us to the sane place. Mou: ting the orderly on his horse, brought along especially for the purpose, we once more turned in the direction of camp, which we reached just as the sun was coming up over the eastern hills. WASiINGToN LETTER. W~Asu:x4;vox. 1. C.. All::31, 1 . One (.,f the busiest delart uwnts uder the aovermnent is the Patent ()lice. The :unount of werk that is done by this deprtmient can be apprceiatedl o- ily 1-y a trip through the l-4ice and an exphnation of the details. In the past twenty-tive years the granting of patents has grown to an extent that is astonishing, and indicates wlhat progress is being made in the sciences by Young America. For the first fortv-six vears after its organiza tion the number of patents issued averaged oniv two hundred and fifty per year. but the like is now Issuin:, patents at the rate of tive hndred a week. or twiec as mim in o-:e week as it formerly issued in a year. The otai number issued up to tis date is :'4,(21. The oihice, after paying its own expenses., has a balance to its credit of $2, 9-15.405.4S in the Treasury. it is the only branch of governxent that pays us own exp(-nses, and is not a burden to the people by way of taxation. A inan with a niechanlil turn of mind could intensely enjoy weeks and nmonths among tle 50o000 models anl drawings so conve n l arranged and displayed in this im mense department. George Washington and T homas Jefferson both received patents on -iaproveients in plouglhs. In a frmer letter I alluded to the friend ships tiat are so often abruptly broken among the ollicials. No matter how patronizing and humble an applicant may he, the moment he gets in he assumes all the dignity ant importance his position is entihled to, and brooks no in~iuations. Abo;ut the time Congress adjourned Sena tor Harris, of Tennessee, went up to sce the President about an appointment in his State, which some of his constituents were interested in. Ile stated his case, and the President replied: Well, it seems to me that you have a good deal of assurance to conie here asking for an appointment when vou voted aainst my man Yatthews." 'fie SCator got hot in a secon(l. "I'll have you know Mr. President," he said, " that it is none of your business what I do or do not do in 'the Senatc. I am the master. sir, of my own actions there, as vou ::re here. I didn't come here asking any favor of you on any personal grouuds. The peeple of the State of Tennessee. whom I repttsent. asked meto dothis, and that is why I came here. You can do as you d- please, sir, about the matter: but, sir, I want it (istinetly understood that what 1 do as a Senator is beyond your juri*diction.'' and the irate Senator left in a hurry and declares he wll never speak to the Prsdent again. Tr-asury ollicials are having considerable quiet fu1 gro".-ing out of the recent bond c 'a . . -s ll Known abotut the depart me th-at Treasur-er .Jordan, who is now -t the Arkansas Hot Springs, is violently opposed to bond calls on general principles. anu. in a recenit letter to a personal frieud he fairly howled because so much of the surnlus has been ordered out of the Treas ury. At the present rate of redemption of bowls. S35,0{,-.000 per month, the redeem able part of the public debt will be wiped out ini abou~t seveni months, the'.rc being hut $1700.0 of three per cent. houds yet outstainding and subject to call. In one of the aippropriation bills passed at the last session of Congress is an item of $14 for pay to the Fourth Regirnent of Vermiont 31ilitia for services att the battle of Pavsburgh. (war of 181?,) Rather tardy just ice, but better late than never. H. While Tim re is Life There is Hope. YAny of the .diseases of this season of the year can be averted by a small amount of care and at little cost, by the timely use ot' EWBANK's TOPiz CiNclioNA CORDIL. It cures Diarrhea, Dysentery, Chol era Nobu and like complaints. ,No tra ce/cr should be without a bottle, as it wvill prevenlt any disease that would no doubt arise from the change of water, food and climate, without its use. The most valuable medicine in the worlId, contains all the best and most eurative properties of all other Tonics, Bitterns, etc., etc., being tile greatest Blood Purifier, Liver- Regula tor and Life and llalth-Restor-ing Agent itn existence. For Malaria, Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sick Head ache, Nervous Hleadache, Chr-onic Rhenmatism, etc., etc., it is truly a Herculeau Remedy. It gives new life and vigor to the aged. Fot- ladies mn deicate health, weak and sickly chii de:t, nur-sinmr mothers. See circulars wrapped with bottle. CaU\RLESTos, S. C., Sept. 1, 1885. H. B. EwBANK, Esq., President of The Topaz Cinchiona Cor-dial Co., Spatanburg, S. C.: Denar Sir-I have used a ease of your Topaz Cordial in my family, and as a Tonic and Appe tizer- 1 can cheerfully recommend i: to all who are stuffering from Debility and lack of appetite. My children, especially, have been much benefitted by its use. Respectfully, JIUTrSoN LE E. Ask your dr-uggist for EWISANK's TorAZ CINCHONA CORMDAL and take no other. THlE TOPAZ CINCITONA CNrDIAL. Co., *Spartanburg, S. C., U. S. A. War in the Ea,-:. PIuxi, September 2.-The publicatiotn oft he cor-resondence betwecen the Czar and Prin e Aexander has created a g-reat sensa tion in otc-al circles here. The Czar's mncng r-eply- to the Prine's submissive epg israrded by diplomats as ensuring Alxnersadication andl~ Rutsa's occu pad >n of lgiar-ia. It is feared that svar wil ensule unless Uismark intervenes. B:m. ,Septetmbecr 2.-Private tele ermsreeitved here this evening~ from Soti:: state that a battle took pihice at Rado iia, Eastern Rotumelia,. between regimients lov ii to Prince Alexander and reilmtents saing wit h theC revoiutionists, and that tie lttt< were defeated with heavy loss. Naval Eq.upnents. N:aval equiipiuient costs vastly more 'asi it didt thirty y-ears age. In 18853 the Duke of \ve'1ington was the most powerftul ship in the British navy. The cost of its cannon and warlike stores did Inot exceed $S5,000. The Benbow, just addedI to the British fleet, is armed with cannon costing $700,000. To fire one charge from its 110-ton gun costs $765, while the charge for the Wellington's GENERAL NEWS ITEM,. Facts of Interest Gathered from Various Quarters. The world's visible supplv of cotton is 1,152.226 bales. The fourth Louisville Expositioi was opened onl Saturday. Eiglaud is expectid to take the lead in restoring ordler in Bulgaria. Kene Bros., dry goods. San Francisco, Cal., have failed fo'r T wo little boys, brother-. were drowned near Lancaster. Penn., on Saturday. h'll( threat of an insurrection of negroes in Laurinburg, N. C., is not believedl. New York tanks now h old i ,t.907.150 in reserve inl cxccSs of leg-A renuirement. A Socialist hms been nominated for (on gres in the Second Connecticut Distrhit. Rusan newspapers still aIvi-C Prince Alexander not to resume the Bulg-arian throne. Lawrence Donovan, a young pressman. jiumped the Brooklyn bridge to win $300. ile was unhurt. N -ar Vickshurg. )iss. a negro bov killed the wife of his employer. le was imme A wild s-teer ini Bridgeporl, Il., 1-1red a miani in1 the nose, Satu'day. ia!iicting ijIu ries w hich may prove f:tal. Sundav evening there was some tiring of pistols and throwing of stones, and a few persons injured in Belfast. Three ier were fatally injured by ihe fall of a bridge over the Elm fork of Trin ity river, near Dalas. Texas, on Friday. Two ladies were drowned in the surf at Jacksonville. Fla., on Saturday, and a trav eling man at Poala beach, near same place. In a railway collision at Madling, eight miles from Vienna. seven persons were killed and twenty-two woundcd. Mtrs. Elizabeth Rodgers has been ap pointed 31aster Workman of Di-trict As ernbllv No. 24, Knights of Labor, Chicago. The President has appointed Judge IMan ning, of Louisiana, as Minister to Mexico. to succeed Gen. Jackson. resigned. Alabana has over 32,000,000 acres of land, and a little over 5.00o,.O are under cultivation. There is room in the old land yet, it would seem. The national debt statement, issued Tites day, shows the decrease for August to be $191,069,002; cash in the Treasury, $474. 270,C51.74. An article contributed by Miss Cleveland to Septemer iderary Life will be on "Va cation Reading." Miss Clevelad will do justice to her theme in a unique style. Charlie Bierman accidentally shot and killed Victor Butler. of Aigusta, Ga., on last Sunday morning, while both were hunting near that city. A colored woman and her two children were burned to death six miles from Au gusta on this side of the Savannah River on Saturday. Six hundred lives were lost and. a thou sandl persons injured by the earhquake in Greece. At least six towns were entirely and a score partially destroyed. A magnetic storm raged all the morning of Wednesday at Rochester. N. Y. The swaying of heavy magnetic needles for the detection of earth currents was very great. Zankoff and Grueff, conspirators against Alexander, have been sentenced to death, and their co-conspirator, Clement, to im prisonment for life. Mrgaret Meagher, over 40 years old, of New York, drove her husband to suicide and allowed her baby to starve to death while she indulged in a protracted debauch. A firedamp expliosion occurred at Fair Lawn, near Scranton, Pa.. on the :0th. Seven dead bodies have been recovered, and it is reported that ten men are still in the mine. *W. K. Terry, who was shot in a street fight in 31artinsville. Va., 3May 17, died last night. IHis brother, .J. K. Terry, was killed in the tight, and B. K. Terry was shot through the bc-dy, but recovered. Prof. W. J. MIeGee, of the Geological Survey, has left Washington for Charles ton, to make a scientiltte studyv of the elfect of the earthquske at what now appears to have been tile centre of disturbance. Fifty thousand Socialists, workmen aind idlers met in Trafalgar sqtuare. London, Sunday and adopted a resolution dlenounc ing the tyranny of the police and action of the athlorities in imprisoning the Socialist, Williams. It is stated that the Russian Prince D~ol gorouki's journey to Bulgaria to restore order has been postponed because of a re port that the revolution in Bulgatria huad no lender, and was initiated without any gular antee that the whole natioxn approved it. The Treasury Department has decided that cotton ties cut from bales in foreign countries and returned to the United States cannot be admitted free of duty. als they are not "returned in the same condition as exported," but being Cut must be regarded as 01(d scrap iron. The captain of a steamer just arrived at M1alta says that on August :30, when the ship was fourteen miles to the northl of thle island of Galita, off Tunis, in the M1editer ranean, he noticed that the highest peak on the eastern endi of the island was in a state of eruption, ejecting smoke fronm the crater like M1ount Etna. A dispatch from Wilcox. Arizona. dated August :30. states that Colonel Wade has rounded up all the Chirachuas and Warm Spring Apaches, numbering 4:20. H~e has thlemt under gtuard, and will, unless some accident occurs, carry out General M1iles's plan of moving them out of Arizona. The bark Lena. from Aspinwall for Phiiadelphia, is off the entrance to thits port. Sheo had lost one of her crew with fever on the passage uad hats seven more down aw.ith it. Shte was seeking assistance. The Board of Health officer ordered a steami tug t) tow the vessel to Ship Island q1uarantine. Reports htave gone out ft-om Augustai, Ga.. that the race feeling ag~ainst Chinanmen had prompted an attempt to assassinatte thenm with dlynamilte. It is trtue that an attempt waus made Sunday night to blow up Charlie too Chong, in thle heart of the city, but the investigation shows that the motive .was revenge by a negre for a fan cied personal wrong, and itot the outgrowth of race prejudice. Tile attempt proved futile and the perpetrator was arrestedl. ButtTalo Bill is the claimant of property valued att u$15,000,00)0, situated in the heat of the city of Clevelad. There are four hundred 'defendants to the suit, including MIr. McAndrewvs, of the Slanldard Oil Com pany, whlo built a mangnitcent mansiona, w~hich1 is plaedt half on the ground now claimed by Cody. Joe Jefferson also ha~s a mantsion on tile grounds. The sluit is pentd ing in the United States C'outs. ('ody's grandfather bought nealrly two hundreU I -ires of hlanl which a son deededl to out si(e part its. forini. it is chargeld, his father's signature. ()liers oi comupronuise have bet-n made but declined b y the great Indian tighter. D~o You Know a Maun Whose wife is troubled with diebility ntervotusness, liver comlaint or rheumia tism? Just tell him it is a pity to let the lady- stl'er thtat way, when Brown's Iron Bitters will relieve her. Mrs. L. B. Elgerly, Dexter, :Me., says: "Brown's Iron Bitters cured me of debility and nahpitation of the heart." Mrs. 1H. 5. MceLaughlin, of Scarborough , Me., say s the bitters eared her of debility. Mrs. Harding, of Windham Centre, in the same State, says it cured her of dizzi ness in the head. So it has ctured thou --nia of other l/adis * BRIC-A-BRAC. if you won't economize you must ago mze. Straws show 'which way the cobbler roes. The nights have been delightfully cool for the xast week. Spare the golden r-. and spoil the sitting ] 1ooM. Aucti'ee'rs have a nod way of receiving hids. The Man who ought to "give you fits" Your tailor. A misplaced switch-When the wrong boy is whipped. This autumn all the browns are to shade to yellow rather than red. Yes. Ella. a policeman's club might be called a limb ot the law. Strike while the iron is hot, but let some other fellow hold the iron. A lady's declining years are said to be from eighteen to twenty-five. We fail to see any difference between a traveling dress and a walking suit. There are a hundred kinds of religion, but only one kind of piety. Take a cheerful view of everything and look for beauty in everything. The smallest kird deed will return with teider light upon bome darkened day. To be content is not to be satisfied. No one ought to be satisfied with the anperfect. Be loving, and you will never want for love: be humble. and you will never want for guiding. Prudence and good breeding are neces sary, and most young men suffer from the want of them. When the summer resorts fill up it be comes more difficult for the boarders to do SO. Babies cry for the same reason that some men swear. It's because they don't know any better. In what respect might a boy on his way to the circus be said to resemble a sailor? In going to see. No, we can't take time to read a, poem written by. feflh-w who tries to makeihoime rhyme with Li.Ikome. Mere vulgar wealth, without libeTality and public spirit, is the bane of anv live and progressive community. Public opinion can only be relied iupon to change, but what new form it will take is always a matter of doubt. A writer says that "dress Is wom.%n's great conundrum." It Is hoped that she will never he compelled to give it up. In civilized communities they bang a man on evidence. In less civilized coin munities they just hang him to a tree. It would be a relief to the general publif. to b-e assured that the battle of Gettysbur.g is actually at an end. No matter what the water mill may do, the hand organ man will continue to grind. the music that is past. The New Orleans Picayune says a mil lionaire is miserably poor in the presence of an assessor. "I'll just add to the fresh hair fund," said the Indian, as he took the frontiers man's scalp. If every dog has his day, we wish that tile dogs to whom belong these days would be off with them. A Philadelphia woman has patented a life preserving corset. This will be a great boon to women who are "in the swim." To preserve bouquets put a little salt petre in the water you use for your bou quets, and the flowers will live a fortnight. If we should have a war with Mexico it is estimated that Missouri alone could fur nish half a dozen regiments in which every private would be a colonel. To be sincere we must speak as we think, believe as we pretend, act as we profess, perform as we promise and be as we appear to be. Suppose old Dr. Johnson. the lexicogra phe1r, wvere to stick his head up out of the grave andl hear somebody yell: "Boycott the scab'" The man who was discarded the other day by- one of our fair maidens told us he hadl jiust met the author of "the beauti ful's no." Cotton picking is'beginning in earnest. To the cotton fields arc tramping the great and small, the stout and tall, and the little "coons" and all. A man may read law and become a law yer: he may study medicine and become a. 'doctor; but if he wants to be a blacksmith he muist work at his trade. When the people get out of the clutches of money changers, who contract the cur rency and run the government, prospenty will return. G3en. Bragg, of Wisconsin, has been caught in some political bargaining, which he had reduced to writing. Ignorance is sometimes bliss. On October 1, 1886, the postal delivery system will be extended to all post offices in tihe country. There will lie free deliv cry to all places within one mile of the post office. The information comes by cable that Oliver Wendell Holmes has set down to table with kings and queens. This is in tere'sting as far as it goes, but how many of them did he hold? It is the little things that fret and worry us. A three-years-old boy may keep a man in perfect misery, whereas no such trial would accompany the presence of his eighteen-years-old sister. MIrs. Eve and Mr. Adam live in Augusta' Ga. Mr. Abel used to live in Columbus and Mr. ('aln in Jefferson county. But this does not indicate that Eden, Ga., was the original Garden of Eden by any means. IHe wais looking for a rich wife and thotight he was on the trail. "I love you," he said to her in rich, warm tones, "more than I can tell you in words." "You'd better try figures," she replied, coldly, for she was not so green as she looked. The following good one has been un earthed: "1)lAR S-rAx-ros: I should like very much to have Freeze appointed a Colonel. even at the risk of his not being able to tell the color of .Julius Ca-sar's hair. "A. LINCOLN." This brings tears to the eyes of the aver age civil service reformer. The Iron and Nieel Trade. P ..ntamani, Sept. 1.-The American Iron and Steel Association has cnmpleted a new dire'ctory of the iron and steel works in the United States, showing the extent of those industries now as compared with two years ago. The number of completed rolling mills and stecl works desc'ribed in the directory for 1884 was 434. with 4 bling, but in tile edition for 1886 only 41i ar'e described, with 1:3 huilding. The s.lily decreased number' of rolling mills an'd( steel w''rks in 1886i, notwithstanding thet great increase since 1884 in the erection of stee'l plants, is accounted for partly by the fact that a number of rolling mills which were btuilt to roll iron rails have been wholly abandoned, and partly by the at thait the increasing use of steel rails tends to diminish the demand for the produ1cts of iron rolling mills. The annual_ eapacity of the rolling nills in fmnished iron and steel is virtually the same now as in ls4. bein'g 7.tj00.tt00 net tons in 1884 and 7,t1:,00 tons in 1886. An exc hange says that Tom Jones was shot in the basement at the post oflice by Jim Brownu, and died immediately. We are not surprised, for that is a mighty bad plaice to shoot a person, and it generally roves fatal. Foreign News. Forty-nine arrests have made of persons vho resisted the police of Portumina in heir endeavor to evict tenants from the state of Lord Clanricarde. Four arrests have been made in connee ion with the moonlight outrages in Kerrv. reland. Gen. luller is at (llarney. and ,as made his headquarters at the Rtailway lotel. Jules Simon has published a letter in ,vhich lie predicts that France will eventu iLly become a conservan!ive republic, which We declares to be the only stable govern nent for Frenchmen. Vesuvius is again in a state of eruption. rhe people of Naples and Bari are tleein.. :o the country or gathering in open spaces o pray. At Bari the priests proclaim the martliquakes a visitation of God. Prince Alexander hnas been warned to take precautions against possible attempts on his life by Pan-Slavic fanatics and fol owers of the Metropolitan. Clement. whose party has ramifications in the inte rior of Bulgaria. Cholera returns in Italy since yesterday's report show: Barletta. 10 new cases and 2 deaths; Malfetta, 10 new cases and S deaths: Ravenna, 12 new cases and 12 deatis. In five other towns an average of 8 new cases and 2 deaths. Prince Alexander has telegraphed the Regency to announce to the people his in tention of returning to Soria. The rebel lious troops there have submitted. and, on condition that they quit the country, will not be punished. The revolution was quite bloodless, and no further opposition is feared. It is stated that Russia paid the conspirators. Bendereff and Dempstreiff, the sum of 400,000 roubles. The Berlin Vloiche Zeitung. IBerliner Tagbiatt and National Zeitung insist that i:. is impossible for Germany and Austria to tolerate Russian occupation of Bulgaria. It is stated that M. Nelidoff, Russian Am bassador at Constantinople, in an interview with the Grand Vizier, hinted at Russiau occupation of Bulgaria, adding that if a hair of one Russian was touched Russia would be compelled to interfere. The London Mornig Post says that henceforth Prince Alexander will pursue an unequivocal anti-Russian policy. and will adopt a severe law banishing Russians from Bulgaria. Russian money will not be accepted in government offices in Bulgaria, and even the soldiers' uniforms, which are now similar to the Russian uniforms, will be changed. Disastrons Washout. A dispatch from Augusta, Ga., under date of September 1, says: No trains have arrived or departed from or to Charleston or Columbia since last night, in consequence of heavy washouts in the neighborhood of Langley. The clam of the immense pond at that place was rent in twain at the first shock last night, and the large volume of water rushed out with such velocity that the South Carolina Rail way track was swept away for a distance of one mile. and the Charlotte. Columbia and Augusta track for a considerable dis tance also. The train that left for Charleston at 10.07 last night met with a terrible accident where the track was washed away near .Langley. The breaking of Langley pond caused the dam of the Bath p'nd to give way also, by the overflow of water from hi former. These two immense ponds L ting emptied inundated the entire country ad jacent, and washed away the' South Carolina track at Horse Creek crossing, wh I caused the wreck at that point. The train was made up of a number of freight cars and three passenger coaches, and ran into the washout at the above named point, overtrning the engine and killing the col ored tireman. Adam Simmons. Mr. John Reyno.'ds, the engineer, was badly injured. but his wounds are not necessarily fatal. The third car from the engine was loaded with hoi-ses. This car was completely de molished, killing some of the stock, while othes escaped only slightly injured, and were seen swiminhg about in every direc tion to .gin a salfe landing place. The Length of Girls'.Arms. "That explains a theory of mine," said a middle-aged man, as he directed attention to a matron and her little four-year-old daughter, who, hand in hand, were coming down Wabash street. The matron was quite stout, and found some diffi~ulty in reaching down to hli the land of the little toddler. The matron was evidentvy in a hurry, and she waliod along the street at an ordinary rate of speed. Hecr little daughter found it impos sible to keep up with the procession, and at regular intervals tripped and fel over, or at least would have fallen but for the ntervention of the mother. She had dhe child by the hand, and at every trip she tightened her grip, and by main strength jerked the child on her feet. The child's Left arm was being elongated. "I have always heard," continued the peaker, "that a woman's left arm is longer han her right; that her left shoulder is aigher than her right, and have been try ngto solve the problem, or at least explain t mn some wvay. Seeing that woman drag ng that little girl by her left arm explains t all. Mothers usually start out holding heir children's left hands. Why not boyvs he same wayy I'll explain that. Boys un usually run as fast as a woman can v'alk, even when they are little fellows, ud so don't have to be dragged. Little grs trip and the dragging process begins." CHAR~LOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE. I IE rumor that the Pr-incipal wvill re move to Columbia, S. C., l:, a mlistake. [le has purchased the controlling interest the CIIARLOTTE FEMALE INSTI rUTE; has spent $4,000 in renovating and mproving tile buildings, and is now mnak ng more valuable improvemients than er. The building is lighted with gas, varmed with the best of wroughlt-iron urnaces, has hot and cold water baths, nd first-class appointments as a Boarding school in every respect. No more experienced and accomplished orps of Teachers is to be found in the outl, and the Music andc Art Department Lre unsurpassed. 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