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A -MODEkL SAMlSON. Remarkable Feats With Cannon, Barrels of Lead and Bar Iron. From(i the Troy, New York, Tiules. I , ropose to ,ive you a short sketch of the life of1 a man who was little known outside of the village of GIran ville Corners, in Washington county, where he was born and spent th. most of a long life. It. is known of him. and can be proved, that he has Per tormed feats of strength unsurpassed by any man that has lived in ancient and nioiern times, excepting, ofcourse, the Biblical Samson. 11is name is, or was, Siaru Carpenter. Ilis occupa tion was that of a thrimer. Being 1:at utrally of a very quiet, peaceful dispo sition and a member of the society of Friends, he never did anything for display to attract attention, but the feats of strength he pert'ormed were done more to satisfv himself and to see how much he could lift than any thing else. All his lifting was done by main strength, without harness of any kind. One of his greatest feats was lifting a box tilled with ron, which weighed 1,900 pounds, which is equa! to lifting .',600 pounds in a harness. 1le lifted it with ease with his hands by grasp ing a rope or chain which was bound around the box to secure it. Ile did not know the weight of the box of iron at the time, and was afterwards heard to say that had he known it weighed so near a ton he would have put on the other 100 pounds and lifted the whole. At another time he lifted a cannon that weighed 1,400 pounds and shoul dered it. At Comstock's Landing, on the Champlain canal, near Whitehall, one day while waiting for a load of merchandise, he lifted a barrel - of white lead with case. His neighbors, when killing hogs, if Stearn happened to be around, would ask him to guess the weight of a hog just killed. I it lihppened to be a big one, weighing four hundred or five hundred pounds, he would stoop down and twist his iinzers into the bristles, and in that way would lift the carcass clear from the ground and guess on its weight. He performed one the greatest feats of strength on record after lie had reached the age of seventy-five years. He lifted two twenty-feuir foot iron rails by grasping one in each hand, and walked off with them. The rails were resting on wooden horses, so I.e did not stoop down to lift them. Ore day in haying he was going from the field with his men to the house for dinner. They were walking along the road together when one of his men, for mischief, came up behind him, and, by a skillful trip, threw Carpenter down. He gathered himselt up and said nothing about it. He walked on to the house, and after dinner, when reTurning to the field with his men, they came along to the place where the man gave him the fall. Ele suddenly turned upon the man, and, grasping him by the shoulders and the seat of his trousers, lifting him and hurled him high in the air above him and over a seven rail fence, by the side of Which they happened to be walking. The man came down in the meadow a row or more from the fence, consider ably shaken up, but not badly hurt. Mr. Carpenter was not a gigantic man in size. He was about six feet tall, and appeared much less than that, owing to his massive build. There was no superfiuous flesh upon him, but the muscles of his s houlders and neck seemed to be' piled apon him, so great wvas their size. This gave him s stoopinglappearance. in a crowd, -a casual observer would not be likely to pick him out for one of the strongest umen that ever lived. Mr. Carpenter is living at the present time at Gran yille Corners, Washington county, N. Y., his old-home, or was living the -last time I heard of him. lie must be over eighty years of age. Cactus Frotn which the Mlexicans t Meat. Drink and Clothina. A Mexican globe cactus is about 18 inche in diameter at the largest part, some inches above the sand in which it grows, and is about as many inches high. tapering from the bulge to a cone-like tip. It is complete 13- covered with two distinct varieties of thorns-one kind slender and straight, the other longer and curved almost like a fish hook, the tips being brownish &r yellow, exceedingly bard and tough.. The plant is simpl5 aliuge branch .of rca vegetable *matter, the surface beingu oy corrugated, the ridges running spiraiy and- thickly protected by the. thorns described. Jt grows on the arid sand, drawing its sub sistence from. the scanty materials it con tains, and from the air and dew, for rain seldom or never falls upon its desert home. The plant is anything but handsome, but it isoaremely useful. The Japanese could as easily spare their universal bamboo as the poor p-imitive M1exican could this cae-~ tus. The long, straight thorns are used by the iiaave women as needles; the curved ones are often and successfully used as fish hooks; the tough. strong tibre of the plant, when freed from its other matter, is an 'excellent substitute for our flax. and almost the only one known among the Mexicans, and, lastly, the sap supplies the people with their national drink. The flowers are a beautiful yellow, about four inches in length, and form a veritable crown of gold to this unique plant. It is the only plant which can be held tup to public ob servation when in bloom without the warn ing, chestnut-colored plaeard-Ilands oih. [Burngtons Hferkeye. P'articulars of the Recent Fire at Madin.on. WI>srMnsrs. S. C., Novemiber -. Fort Madison, our sister town, on the Air Line railway, had am awful tire early on Sunday moining. Th ree houses, valued at $2,500, were destroyed. No insurance. The tire originated in the house owned by Mr. W. .J. D~eaton and occupied by him as a dwelling and store. ie and his wife and some smaller children were sleeping down stairs, and four of hi., older children upstair-. Mr. Deaton first awoke and found that :d commniciation with the up stairs was cut olr. Hie then ran out and threw a ladder up to the window on the west end of the bouwc, got upon it, burst open the window and ctlled to his children to conme to him. The two sleeping in the room came, andl he got them down iithott their being badly buirned.I The ire by thie time had come up the stairs from below. Mr. Deaton culled loudly to his two boys. aged 14 and 12 years, to come to him. *They had to cross the fire to to so, but he got thenm down by the aid ol some frienids who had arrived. By this~ time the w hole house was ablaze. Mr. Deaton w a pain fully burned, and his two boys-bright, promising and inteliget-wecre -o badly. burned that they will not. it is thou-ght by the physician attending, recover. Mr. Deaton saved nothing. The fire then spread to the -storehouse o1 Mdr. 11. E. Ihopkins. Mr. II., however, had time to get out hisa goods. Aaothe-r house, which was vacant, was burned. A special fronm Loogootee, at town inl la diana, savs the Ackerman IHotel. a two story frme buildling. was burned and three men perished in the flames. Two of them had just been elected to till the pcsitioas of Trreasurer and Auditor, andI were fat igued from the work of the election, which caused Ahvm to sleep too cantly. - ARTIFICIAL QUININE. A London Paysician Discowrs a Proceam tor Making that Bene11cent Dru;. -. PUliile and olpiUmii il vaious forus andt uinder various names are used by phvsi Clans more than any other drugs." said Dr. ii. 31. Whelpley, editor of the /iaol Ir)Igj,'.St. in a conversation with a reporter. "Chemi!..s have for several years said it w:- possible to make qiine chcally, :.Wl the worhi of those interested has- been waiting for soulc ole to do it. II 142 a Frenehman announced he bad discovered t it process. and deposited a sample of his - ;uinine- with the French Institute. n examtiittioni it proved to b le sulplate of amt monia instead of sulphate of quinine. 31ost of the experiment has bci directed toward .uakiig qIuinne of einehonidiniCe. which is mnade from Ilie same bark. but is of lesser value :td i' cheaper than uminne. Chem icalily there is little difference Ietweil theni. Cinchonidine consist of 1) parts carbon. 22 parts hydrogen. 2 parts zitrogen and I P.art oxVen: quinine c'ntains Q0 parts of eatbon, 24 parts hydrogen. 2 parts nitrogen anti : parts oxygen. The proisem has beelt with chemists to add 1 part carbon, 2 parts hydrogen and 1 part oxygen. They ihave not been succesCfuil in this endeavor. There is nothing wonderful in the claim that quinine could be made from other things than the bark. "Fruit essences are n.;w made withou' fruits. and other items of chemical stock are made chemically without the interven tion of the usual natural product. Yet the medical world was disturbed last Semtei ber when Dr. Cresswell Hewitt. of London. announced that he had discovered a process to make quinine. He made no effort to establish this claim or submit his product to test: but 1 have just received a letter from L:-,ndon telling of the formation of a coi pany to manufacture the drug on Dr. Hew Itt's process. He still keeps all particulars to himself, and it is not known whether the Cinchona bark is the basis of his process. or from what he manufactures the drug. The company is called the Atlas Quinine Com pany, and I ai informed has large capital. If IHewitt has ldiscovered what lie claims he will have made us independent of the irregular supply from the countries where the trees grow that produce the bark, and while the price of the drug may not he ma teriallv reduced it will not rise in time of war in those countries. 'hen, too, his suc cess will stimulate other cheiists to exper iIents looking to the manufacture of other drut's without reliance on -the natural proiluct. 3orphine may be iiade from s mething other than opium, etc. It, how ever, remains to be seen what Dr. Hewit has really accomplished." scenes at a Japanese Theatre. One of the first things which strikes a visitor to a Japanese theatre is the peculiar shape of the stage, which projects on either side at right angles with the main stage, about half way into the auditorium. The workings behind the scenes are very siiple. Everything is done by hawl, and there is not miueh in the accessories to a -!pectacular play, but what is wn-,ing inl gorgeous ef'ect is made up by the realistic manner in which they ill the mitnor details. Thus, if in the play a man has a sword thrust through him, the weapon is withdrawn , not bright and unblemished as before it was sup posed to have pierced his body, but actually dripping with the most per feet imitation of blood. During the performance every one eats, drinks and smokes. Criticisms are very audibly expressed. Conver -ationt and "chafl' are very general, and people enter and leave when they like. If the actor is not word-perfect, the prompter follows him around with his book, without the slightest attempt at disguise. It' tihe stage carpenter wishes a light for his pipe, lie does not hesitate to crawl in front of' the actors and get it from the footlights. A man killed dturing the play is allowed to walk oft' behind the -scenes. TChe theatres of Yokohama, on the main street of the Japanese town, remind one of the Bowery in New York city. [Lu front of each one, extending from the i'oof to the ground, are wide streamers, of very gaudy appearance, with all kinds of symbols painted on them, signifying the seneis and char acters of' the play. On entering, the first thing both native and foreigner' umust do is to remove his or he'r shoes, which are checked and taken care of until the owner leaves the building. sancy on carry carrying a narrow sroof wood, at least one foot in lengthi, for a check Once inside, the usher directs you to your place, and priovides a mat, on which you are expected to squat. In cold weather each spectator is furnished with a small box of charcoal fire, with which to keep warm. The pgrogrammes are botught, and in a variety theatre there is alway's a master of ceremonies, who introduces the per'formers, espe cially when a difficult act is to be per foi'med. From the time the show begins until the end, the orchestra (?) keeps up' an incessant noise with gongs and a sort of banjo. However good the performance or difficult the feat, there is an entire absence of applause. While Th re is Life There is Hope. 31any of' the diseas~es of this season of' the year' can be averted by a small amnount of care and at little cost, by the timely tuse of EwBANK's TorAZ CINCHONA CoRm~.. It cures Diarrhe~a, Dysentery, Chol cr-a Iot'bus and like complaints. N0 tracceler should be without a bottle, as it will prevent any disease that would no dotubt arise from the change ox water, food atnd climate, without its ut-e. The most valuable medicine in the w orld, contains all the best and most cutrative properties of' all other Tont'cs, Bitters, etc., etc., being the greatest Blood Puriifler, Liver' Regula tot and Life and Health-Restoring Agent in existence. For Malaria, Fevert and Ague, Chills and Fever, Dyspeps, Indigestion, Sick liead ache, Nervous Headache, Chronic Rhenmatism, etc., etc., it is truly a Herculean Remedy. It gives new life and vigor to the aged. For ladies in delicate health, weak anid sickly chil diei, nui'sing mothers. See circuliars wra'tpped with bottle. - CnuniusTox, S. C., Se pt. 1, 188.. II. B. EwBA~K, EsQ., President of The Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., Satauburg, S. C.: Dear' Sir-I have used a case of your Top~az Cordial in my family', anid as a Tonic and Appe ticer I can cheerfully reconmnend i', to all who ar'e stttiering from D)ebility and lack of appetite. My children, especialy, have been munch beneitted by its use. Respectfully, IcTsoN LEE. Ask'your druggist for Ewwaxx's TrzCINCHoNA CoI:D1AL atnd take nto other. THiE TOPAz CINCONA CORDIAL Co., *Spar'tanburg, S. C., LU. S. A. Little ones Buiriedl Aiia. A Stcranton, Pa.. special says: Jlame alrey, aged 2: Janies Dougherty, aged 7: .iohn D~oughe.rty, aged 6, and Ellen Drougherty, need 3. wecrc suffocated in a sadl pit in~Ward 3 Monday afternoon. A GENE1.AL NEVIS ITE3.. Faeta of Iutercbt Gathered from Varlous QuarterN. S. S. (ox. <if New York. -teceeIs 1o sS'Il lt/.ei ill ('ongress. 3Iarion nw Comies forwarl with The Augu't:4 niill ouaC Ilve 1een Ile resu-it -s to the he::iture 11 New Jersey is-tl inl dil . A disaostru a ir wccurri :. Meii;ii, Fridav. enltailinz a l -I. of ti,4.(0. The St icilsts xv;i have % 4rcstion in Lordi 31ivor's Div in LO. 'Turkeri decliine :o aidi Frme die :drin the Engih frtm EgyIu. A high .chooi .ir (-f Uey ( :y.Xiio, qiolts Shakspeare in her :-tp Ile Ie s illyi riet::n I 1 r o Ohe Hou1 i the newniLi .. C r .ynd at' d. Wmll.. ln'iurkCe Ctehrd D.: (-!euted to CkonlzIk:s 1rm1 heTw lfhi trict. -New York. Governr Trres : iof nrt i- mplic'ted in a m lurder which had for its iotive polit it:al consequencews. The Sales, of to)bacco at. Pan-.:ilk-, \~a.. wu:ing the month of ( Moher were SA';. iud.wlhiclh nett"ed n 5 Everything indicatIes anl early sitinof the lhbor troubles in Augiusta,, G:;. i),rcha Lily all the mills will be wvorkin:g next wee:k. The discovery of silver in the vicinity of Caldwelh. Kan:sas, has caused muchz ecite mlelit. A German wa.'iter at thev Ast,r Iloluse, New York, last night, s~hot the chiel cook and then commnitted sUiCide'. T..V. Powderly, at a liarge mecting last night in ('Cooper Union, spoke in f:avor of Heiry George for Mayor of New York. The Chanber of Commncre of 31inches ter, Eng., rejected a re-olution opposing free trade by a majority of only oIle vote. Frank 11. Walworth. who kill'd his father in the Sturtevant iouc. New York. in June, 1ISM died at Is hoht Fridlay. A hill granting, sutirige to VlenI w'aS passed in the \ern.,t I Iouse of Represe:t atives Friday. A Ciinanian and a white girl were nr ried in carriage at Council Bluff'.. Iowax to escape the gaze of a large crowd. Surveyor Deattie. of thte eu-tomt iiou-e. New York. was wounde4l yesierday by Louis Bieral. a di.charged einploy.ee of the custom house. According to registered hets in New York city. Hewitt will ;et N0,000 votes. Roose velt GU5,M" ad George 0,00) v.)t;es for Mivor. Richard Preston. a Bositon del er in worsted gzoods anl trimlnming. haIS disap pared, after bur-wving -50,000 fr om per sJnal friend. The Presidenmt will leave Wasuhin;;toin for l'oston next Sunday to take pariin lthe eebrattioni n (ll oidn' of the -.Uh :i versitry of the founding if 1l-irv.rd :-V On.h. if the llegroe-s wh-o luilid-redl drup. in Lee ('ounty. 1i1.. h:s betn ie0) tured and it i believed was burned1 at the stake. At a private sitting of the Deputies yes terda" it vais resolv.d to mintin the .s'rongest oppositon t ton eesion1 to Iie Lussian party. The bank president of Pori, IH.. who Obonded about a year ago wiTh W '00I0 Of the bank's funds, was arreited in 3lon tr:d. Wednesday. W. C. Elim. formerly edit,. t! the Ri hmond Whig. has anno.nna. i hiiams.-if as a Republican candidate for Co'ngres t--ainst Gen. W. I. F. Lee. Prince Cor.za, half other f King Mil:n. hat become a cand:dte for the Iu! Zeariant throne, ie is a4 telativte of 31 d. Uiers, the Ruissian Forteigni hlinister. The proposed 1ransfer' of the leas of thet labor~t of the convis inu the Loiian't:t Stte Penitentiary to a. New Yorkh syniate ha been forbiddeni by G overnor 3k1ene. Six thousand meni in the heef -tock yarids itn Chicago went out tou a s.trike 3iondayx. They have been working ci'ght hours~ a daty and the bosses wanted ten. hec thie otike. The LondIon .Smudard h as advics from Tirnovat thiat the Czar is willing to acceept Prince Walfiemar as ruler 0f lhulgartia. but that the latter is r inmelitned tot ad-ccpt the Chief 3longus, whlile be~iig conveyedi to Fort MIarion, Fla., he jumpe~'d lthrugh ai car window and ran. On being recap1 tured he stabbed himself in several pliaces with a knife. Speaker Carlisle and Sir. Morr:is'n hatve been (defeated for Congress-Carlisle bty G. 11L T1. Loebe, a labor 'gitator, and 3!otrri sotn by John Baker, a Retpublican protee tionist. A curiosity in the shape of at full growni white buzzard has been frequently seen of late on Captain Itandle's prairie plantatfion. near Union Springs, Ala. The bird is p'er fectly white. C;hina will send a high personage to Itomie next mioth to present to) the Pope the respects of t he Emperor andi the Imipe-I rial family, and to ntotifv im thatt the Em peror ha~s attained his majorit'. Ben Grillin, of Perry county, Gai., a farmer, wandered l Saturday unighitand was found the next day in the wood~s, rest itg on his hands atid knees, dead. 1t is suIposed to be a ease of suicide. Trouble is apprehended at H igh Poit , N. C.. ats the result of a negro s itncendiary talk. State troops have been orderedi by hei Governor to hold themtselve, in readi ess to suppress any outbreak tat maytt ocur. A speclial to the Montgomery .idrC,-ter -ep)orts that Reuiben Anthony, while cut ing trees at a sawv mill, had his hip joint orn awayv by a falling treie strikingi him. lie lived a few h'ours aind then died in great hugon. Th'le St. Lotuis /hi'bl"'i n decatrLs th-t uiLt million and a half added to. the r eve nue of Missouri by high licenise during the iseal year 1886~f was money conitribu~ted in he cause of tempnerance. as is Shiowni the ] ntarked decrease in the number: of saloons. fTe Bulgarian Great Sobranje opetned Saaday. Patriotie addresses were madeY( ni favor of maintairing the indepetndence >f Bulgaria, but a despondent feeling i lainly perceptible otn account of tihe apathyi f Europe in regard to Bulgarian interests '1The statement is made that if the Chinese ation were to pass before an ob~server in ingle tile the procession would never c'ease ~or a new gener'4ion would be coming oni he stage as fast'*as the procession moved. A citizen of Minneapolis is buildinga :euine log hiuuse right itn the city. It wviil e a big. ratimling dwelling'. with queer orner's and quaint windows, but it will1 taVe aill thle modern imiprovemntts an~d wvill (-st .oti,000. Thle Supreme- Courtio has decidled~ I ?h0 h -' 0) 4iu1 lienas '-hav'e been o gramed in 'reven'ts the-s--t of uno i th al etX ui-e ha- Legislature meett -n ennes a ne' -1 tw. Th-~e" etionrturn ti fa .shwtefl inia.1 a Replmbiclt u 11 ain of0f1ur Ntht arLna. a Dem4I~'iOrtiti"t gi of', one:Ne Xork. 'a iRe ublia'n ' ain of o:: : (i, ratic gin of otne. On "aturday I nieb -o as5 Mr. 1P:ul ore, ofl Lan'castet' wast gotini homte, lit v'a- 'att-cked by ' dlo" in the streets. :andl n atttemipting- to co-ck his ; jstol to shioot it, het pistol wat s accidenftailly dischaurg~ed. the 1)all pasting thrtough his hanttd, intliting~ ai It is said that misfortunes seldom come singly. On list Monday, the g1st ult., Capt. John Dewberry lost hislagcd mother. She was living with him at the time the angels came to bear her home. She had n-ached the ripe old age of 79 years. On tie ollowing Friday his daughter, Mrs. llix. did in the same room which had been ,t I,;, scene of bher mother live day.s he C, r .---artfanburg Herald. Prioably the longest working hour. in the Ir 'reI kept by the workmen in the ihua of the midnighit situn. During the Sun'y ,xiys and nights of summer many nt:ives work from .1 in the morning until 9 at night. The long hours must be the more w-earisone since the staple diet i6 very frugal, raw herrings, rye bread. cold s 1t pork and porridge being the chief arti eles of fooI for hborers. Gov. David B. Hill, of New York, is de ribed by a political enemy as a iman who does ::ot drink. does not smoke, does not :se improper language and does not seem i of taiuselelts, though lie is not a churchm:H. His ambition is political su1c Ic. le is a bachelor, without a stain on his moral escutcheon. and may be waiting t, manrr- when President of the United States. The 01/icid c' says that General Kaulhars has refused to notice the request of the Bulgarian government for the names the Russians who had been molested in Bulgaria. because the Bulgarians must know them. Kaulhars preferred to reply that he would leave Bulgaria with all the Russian agents on the first act of violence coMunit ted anywhere in Bulgaria against a Russian. This answer, it is said, received ligh approval from the Czar. The Chicago Pork Packers' Association h(d a meeting yesterday and adopted a resolution that the members of the associa ,ion will control their own business: that ti-y will protect their property at any and all co-t: that they will run their houses on the ten hours basis: and that the Executive Committee be authorized to employ any protection deemed necessary. It is claimed that the strikers already out are urging the men to go out again for eight hours. The will of 'rs. Cornelia %. Stewart bequeaths $20,000 a year to her brother, Charles P. Clinch; $10,000 a year to her sisters. Anna, Emma and Julia Clinch: M5'0000 to her neice, Sarah N. Smith; 00,000 to Cornelia S. Butler; $50,000 to each of her children, Lawrence and Chas. S. Butler: $200,000 to Kate A. Smith; to eCh of he remaining children of Sarah N. Smith, viz., Louisa, Ella, Bessie and James. -100,000: to each of the children of her deceised sister, Louise, formerly the wife of Charles E. Butler, namely, Rosalie, Helen. Virginia. Lillian, Maxwell and Pres cott. $50,000: all the rest of her estate, real and personal, to Charles J. Clinch and I lery Hilton. The Editorial of the Future. The days of editorial essays in a daily p.Ter have passed, and what is now wanted are short. snappy expressions of opinion, siarp a:: directly to the poiit, without iroloxity. It is a great thing for a young w riter to learn to stop when he grets through, a les-son which some older writers who have ben fairiv successful have never learned. Long editorials are more fre 1ucntliy a sign of la.ziness than of ability. 01' co 1urse there are some subjects which require exhaustive treatment, but under rdinar% circumstances long editcrials are written because the editor has neither the time not the brains to write short ones. The short editorial, the concise clearly written atticle, will go to make up the model paper of the future. Punctured by a pairagraph is nmore than an alliterative cnc-it. The paragraph is the most form LiablC weap)on inl the editor's arsenal, and the long editorial is the least effective. Old fogies n:iy speak with admiration of the -thoughtful" writer who turns the long netvslpaper columns, but the man who will weild real influence is he who can put his -tIought" in a few pithy sentences. Ver Iag;e has had its day, and in the best papers brain- are slowly taking its place.--Th A Fearful Tragedy. .>r Louts, November :.-A sp~ecial fromi Potosi, 3M0., says: A fearh 1 tragedy oe earred this morning at MIineral Point. forty-seven miles from this place. Robert Wiirezr was shot and instantly killed and iarvin MicCalbe received a wiund which will undoubtdiy prove fatal. An old quarrel between Wigger and 3IcCabe had I:ever beetn settled, and this morning 3Iar vi' MIcCabe and his three sons, John, James and Charles. met Wigger and renewed the quarrel. After an exchange of hot words. 31arvin attacked his old enemy. The latter drew a revolver and fired, infiicting a fatal wound. The wounded, man's song then produced their weapons, and after an ex change of a few shots Wigger sank to the groundl, shot through the body, and died almost immediately. The McCabe boys were arrested and lodged in jail at this Brave Father Danmien. Cardinal MIanning begs that I will drawv the attention of my readers to the case of Father Damicn. As the Rev. A. B. Chap man remarks in his letter to the papers about it,, the case is as simple as it is sad. Father Damien lives on the island of MIolo kai. Sandwich Islands, which is confined to lepers. Ie has himself fallen a prey to the disease, bitt this he does not seem to mnd, his ontly anxiety appearing to be that it is diflicult to obtain funds for the Ibemictit of his unfortunate fellow-lepers. lie ha's sacrificed evecrything in order to be in their midst and to cheer them in their :twful afiliction. I am sure that many of my readert will be only too glad to show their' admiration for such self-sacrifice and toble conduct bv themselves sacrificing ,omie little luxury and sending the money itould have cost to Cardinal MIanning, M'r Father lDamien's use.-L~ondon-Trt. The South has iron, coal, timber and :ieap) labor: capital has found it out, and -bringing all the-se into use. Bitt before roods can be made and dlividlends paid, niilions of money must be expended in utildings and machinery, and nmany moraths ~ass before the works get into successful per'ation. Should protective ditties be re nouved by a gradual reduction, such as (tie advocate, the capital now finding its vay into Southern industrial enterprises vould lbe diverted to other channel,, and he lone' established manufacturers could ise their pl'ants as now, without fear of sietheir protitale Southern trade. We LiiE it may be- set. down as an axiom, that :vr -'nA mericain manutfacturer who desires e'trade does so, not to get foreign itartkets for hits w~ares, but to shut oil do ne-sticeucmpetion in the United States, nhe free tr'ade theorists, who cite sucht men ts witnesses against protection, simply add mot-ier and greate:' blunder to the long~ i1t of their mfiseoncept iorns.-Baliwr'c Ih-naure-~ard at the Graie of Granxt. A grav-moustached man of medium teight, "dressed in dark and genteel :lothes, was standing int front of G'eneral 3rant's tomb at River'side Park to-day. JeC looked for several moments at the d!ain brick tomb, the only monument New Yerk can afford for the great dead. Lhe visitor carried a small bunch of riolets in his hand and wore a small rose mid in the lappel of his coat. The po iceman granted him the privilege to valk up to the tomb and the stranger enderly placed his violets on the grave. Ic turned to walk away, but stopped, md removing the rosebud, bent his head >er it and placed it with the violets. Ehe stranger was General (I. T. Beaure ;ard, of Louisiana.-New York Special o the Boston Heral A RICH MAN'S RICI WIDOW. Some Facts and Rocollections of Mirs. A lexan der T. Stenrt. Mrs. Stewart always called her hus band "Honey" and he always called her "My dear. Now that the 1aillionaire and ilis widow have passed from earth it is said they never spoke harshily to each otIer. but al-wavs lived a devoted and happy pair. Mrs. Stewart survivud her Iusband ten years and six months. Ier deali was comparatively painiess. The fner al took place Thursday. At one o'clock there was a private service at the beauti ful marble palace. The remaains vere taken to Garden Ciiv and the servie' were held in the Cathedral of the Incar nation which was erected tirough MIrs. Stewart's munificence. After the s-r vices the remains were deposited in the crypt under the altar and elaborate pre cautions will be taken to guard against a desecration of the grav-e. The death of Mrs. Stewart arou;-s a fresh interest in the husband. One of the remarkable things about Alexander T. Stewart was the brevity of his will. It would occupy only four or five inches and he disposed of fifty or sixty million dollars in less than five lines. Said he: "First-All my property and estate, of any and everv kind of description, and wherever sitlated, I give and devi-e And bequeath to my dear wife, Cornelia .M. Stewart, her heirs and assigns for ever." After appointing Judge Henry Hilton his executor and directing him briefly about the affairs of the estate lie added: "For which service, as a mark of my re gard, I give to said Henry Hilton S1, 000,000." There were a number of legaeies to various friends, employes and servants in the household. When the death of Mr. Stewart was made public Mrs. Stewart was consid ered the richest woman in the United States. When the bequest of all her husband's property to her was published in the daily papers the enormous burden put on her aged shoulders was universal ly believed to be greater than she could sustain. Fortune favored her, however, and she sold to Henry Hilton all her right and title in the business of A. T. Stewart and Co., for the sum of $1,000, 000 cash, which sum had been bequeath. ed to Henry Hilton by her husband. Whether this was in accordance with a pre-understanding of Mr. Stewart's de sire was never publicly explained, though it was an open secret that such was the fact. But that fact in nowise altered the legal aspect of the case. She was the absolute legatee and could have done with the property precisely as she pleased. That her action in parting with a business believed to be worth from twenty to thirty millions of dollars for the comparative trifling sun of one mil lion, and that a gift, was the sensation of the day and excited widespread com ment. The theft of Stewart's body is still a mystery. Since the theft various expla nations have at different times been as serted, the most frequent statement being that the body had been privately recov ered by Judge Hilton and placed im the mausoleum at Garden City, but no state ment has been authorized and supported by any show of proof, and the where abouts of the body is still a secret, which the death of Mrs. Stewart may finallv open the door to disclosing. The Earthquake Outlook. That the eastern shore of the United States is, and has been, gradually set tling for the last one hundred and tift years, is well known. Buried foresh' and the flooding of~ lands "once high and dry," attest this fact. That the seismic focus should be at Charleston, where the coast line is comparatively straight, seems somewhat strange. A more probable place would be in south ern Florida, or near the volcanic islands before ailluded to-the Greater ar~d Les ser Antilles. It is not unlikely that shocks will continue till a destructive earthquake or the opening of a volcano will be experienced at some point 02 or near these islands-most likelv on or near one where hot springs occtu--simi lar to the ease at Casaiulecioha, in Ischia, July 28, 1884. A volcano may brea:k forth in some of them, or in the sea, or at some other weak spot in the earth's crust near them. Then the immense pressure and unrest benc ath that un fortunate city will be removed, the shocks will cease, and it is highly proba ble that the portions of the earth near Charleston that have been subjected to the most severe shinkings will settle to a lower level, and furnish another instance in proof that the earth is gradually growing more solid and consequently smaller.-Chicago Inter-Ocean. A Mlater of Petn-lou-.. 3Mr. John A. Amtiek (lied in Decembler 1880, and was a pension of the Unitd States as a survivor of the war of 18!'. MIr. James Shecey, who is also dead, con tinued to draw Amtiek's petnsion every three months until 188:3. In order to do .;o he had to sign Aick's n:ame to the pension ceaim. Therc signatures were witnessed and certitiedl to by JToeI Keisler, Jr.. a Trial .Justiee for Lexington county. This being violation of Sections M2 and 54> of the Revised Statutes of the United State-. (frauds on the Pension D~epartnment.) a true bill hus been found by We- United States grand jury in Charleston against Keisler. A bench warrant for Keister has been is~sued and a deputy marshal passed through the city this morning to serve the papers (hn witnesses and arrest the defendant. RomA Bnoo.-We arc all kings and queens in this country, and we have a right to as good blood as which courses through the veins of emperors. If the blood is poor and the cheeks are pleC, it is well known that Brown's Iron Bitters is the great tonic which wid give color, vigor, and vitality. Mr. 31. K. Gibson, of West Point, MIiss., says, "1 f'elt weak and debilitated. Brown's Irou Bitters made me strong and well." - Stonewall Jackson never posted a letter without calculating whether it would have to trav'el on Sunday to reach its place of destination, and if so he would not mail it till 3Monday morning. Still further did he carry his Puritanical observance. Unnumbered times he was known to receive imlportant letters so late on Saturday night thait he w ould not break his fixed resolution neveto1 use his eyes, which were very delicate, by artificial light; he would carry' the letters in his 1,cket till MIonday' orn ing, then rise with the sun to reaid thiem. igl40 watele, . I00 'n wo t -f illvrwae adR i600 wVor'th of diamnondtl. yh t di:nu were paid for. Note- were .ie o b Smuall ha, ship~ped bactk th watc and i .1iia; verwareI', dhemtandm is noe.' r Joyce says 8':uu iss a tia for purennb ' - I things. in. we~ak in 1h: d i n L1 should not be 'o har'd n the weaknm; of others in progresiv' echrI . *~mIn and bare bali. unrItintcidred a~ Let alt wiy 'e>lle : ret~ -TEE BEST TOMIC. Th medwicine, comnbining I7rn v;!n p' ti . nIeh- and enmla: :Ire 1!oo', Maha,Cblis and Fcvr-:. .dNeuralgiat. h 'i : u L r for )isCnsms Cf ti; idne a~ L*~i ver. omril, ,iri i vI who leai sedentaii-. 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