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VOL. III, MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, At~orney and' Counselor at Lato, MANNING, S. C. F. N. WILSON, INS URANCE AGENT, MANNING. S. C. A. LEVI, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. _' Notary Public with seal. M. H. INGRAM. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office at Court House, MANNING, S. C. M. CLINTON GALUCHAT PRACrIC's IN COUarS or CHARLESTON and CLAREEDON. Address Communications in care of Man ning Tmss. JO8. H. MONTGOMERY, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Main Street. SUMTBR, S. C. p9-Collections a specialty. W. F. B. HasiisworE, Sumter s, C. B. S. DnixnIs, Manning, S. C. H AYNSWORTH & DINKINS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,{ MANNING, S. C. DR. G. ALLEN HUGGINS, , DENTIST. - orrzca - MANNING AND KINGSTREE. -OrriceDars Xingstree, from 1st to 12th of each month. Manning, from 12th to 1st of each month. -Orc Houas 9A. M. tol P.M. and 2 to 4 P. M. J J. BRAGDON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, FOBESTON, S. C. Ofersfor sale on Main Street, in business portionof the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Manning and B. B. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and 6 rooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. ESTABLISHED 1852. Louis Cohen & Co. 224 king Street. CHARLESTON, S C. Importers, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry and Fancy Goods. -0 iW"Samples and prices cheerfully sent on application. Orders entrusted to me will receive my prompt personal at tention. Will be pleased to see my friends from Clarendon County. ISAAC M. LORYEA, With Louis Cohen & Co., OHARLESTON, S. C. Max G. Bryant; JAs. M.-L3aWID South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LET'AND, Pnor'szrrous. !Tegrand Cenrli the~targes and best kep hotel in Columbia, located in the 'El AC BUSINE S CEN'T ER OF T E CITI'. where all Street Car Lines pass 'the door, .na na ~arbr nontOz911-84by any in the South. ISlicS~ 4ipphationofsr Chartef. - OTCEXIEEEREBY GIVEN THAT AN !~Y plcation will be made to the General Assembl of the State of South Carolina, for a Charter foa Rail Road, to be known as the Wilem and Suinerton R~ail Road, leading froni a'point at or near Wilsons Mill on the (intral Rail Road of South Carolina, in Olarendon -County, in said State, to or Ied to- Summerton in said County. add thence, if deemed expedient. to a pint on the., )anchester anid Augusita '~al Road, at or near Antioch, in said County. CORONEfR'8 NOTICE. N OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT I have made arrangements with Mr. W. K. Bell, of Manning, to promptly forward me any-tlegrams or other official communi cations. By this means I shall be able, in a few hours, to attend any inquest. S-C P. 0. C00'HRAN, 'Coi-oner Clarendon County. 7.70N SANTEN& SON, FAluY GOODS, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, EEDQU'ARTRS FOR Children's Canrnges Costing from $4.50 to $40 each. 283 King Street, CRA RLESTON, S. C. Mo~lia, Bown & Evans, Jobbers of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, and Clothing. 1os, 2-2, 226 and 228 Meeting St. ~CharleSton, S. C. W.hBumester & Co. HAY AND GRAIN, Red Rust Proof Oats a Spe cialty. Opposite Kerr's Wharf, CHAR~LESTON S. C. MAN'S GREATEST EXPLOIT& DR. TALMAGE TELLS HOW ALL MEN MAY BECOME HEROES. They May Not be Great Generals, or States men, or Inventors, but They May Save a Man or a Womanor a Child-The Terrible Perils ot Friendless Girls. The congregation lthat attends the Brooklyn Tabenaele turned out in large numbers Sunday to hear the sermon of the Rev. Dr. Talmage. He chose for his subject: "The three greatest things to do." His text was Daniel xi. 32: "The people that do know their God shat be strong, and do exploits." Having spoken of the wars entered into in past ages by "2ntidchus Epi phanes against the Jews, and the stout resistance of the latter and their many great exploits, he went on to explain what an exploit was. "An exploit," he said, "would define to be a heroic act, a brave feat, a great achievement. 'Well,' you say, 'I ad mire such things, but there is no chance for me; mine is a sort of humdrum life. If I had an Antiochus Epiphanes to fight, I also could do exploits.' You are right so far as great wars are con cerned. There will probably be no op portunity to distinguish yourself in battle. The most of the brigadier-gen erals of this country would never have been heard of had it not been for the war. General Grant would have re mained in the useful work of tanning hides at Galena, and Stonewall Jackson would have continued a quiet college professor in Virginia. And whatever military talents you have will probably lie dormant forever. Neither will you probably become a great inventor. Nineteen hundred and ninety-nine out of every 2,000 inventions found in the Patent Office at Washington never yielded their authors enough money to pay for the expenses of securing the patent. So you will probably never be a Morse or an Edison, or a Humphrey Davy or an Eli Whitney. But there are three great exploits which man can ac complish. He can save a man, or save a woman, or save a child. During the course of his life almost every man gets into an exigency, is caught between two fires, is ground be tween two millstones, sits on the edge of some precipice, or in some other way comes near demolition. It may be a financial, or a moral, or a domestic, or a social, or a political exigency. You sometimes see it in court rooms. A young man has got into bad company and he has offended the law, and he is 1 arraigned. All blushing and confused he is in the presence of judge and jury I and lawyers. He can be sent right on ! in the wrong direction. He is feeling i disgraced, and he is almost desperate. Let the District Attorney overhaul ,him 1 as though he were an old offender, let 1 the ablest attorneys at the bar refuse to say a word for him becaus the cannot 4 afford a considerable 'ee, let the judge give no opportunity for presenting the 1 mitigating circumstances, hurry up the I case and hustle him up to Auburn or I Sig Sing. If he lives seventy years, ! for seventy years he will be a criminal, i and each decade of his life will be i blacker than its predecessor. In the in- f terregnums of prison life he can get no 1 work, and he isglad tobreak awindow- I glass, or blow openi a safe, or play the I highwayman, so as to get back again within the walls where he can get some-' thing toeat and hide himself from the erel gaze of the world. Why don't hisI father come andbelp him? THs father is dead. Why don't his mother come and help him? She is-dead.- Whr-r all the ameliorating and salutary influ-] enes of society? They do notr touch I hi.:.. "Why did not some one 'long ago in, the case understand that there was an'< opportunity for an exploit which would 4 be famous in Heaven .a quadrillion of years after the earth has become scat-' tered ashes in the last whirlwind? Why did not the District Attorney take that < younjman into his private office and i say, -My son, I see that you are the vice tmof ciroumatanoes. This is your first crime. You are sorry. I will bring the person you wronged into your pres ence and you will apologize and make all the reparation you can, and I will give you another chance.' Or that young man is presented in the court room and hehas no friends present and the 1 jdge says: 'Who is you~r counsel?' And ] e answers: 'I have none.' And the judge says: 'Who will take this young1 man's case?' And there is a dead halt ad novone offers, and after a while the1 judge turns to some attorney who never had a good case in all'his hif~e, and never will, and whose advocacy would be enough to secure the condemnation of innocence itself. And the professional incompetent crawls up beside the pris oner, helpless to rescue despair, when there ought to be a struggle among all the best men of the profession as to who should have the honor of trying to help tat unfortunate. How much Iwould such an attorney have received as his fee for such an advocacy? Nothing in dollars, but much every way in a happy consciousness that would make his own life brighter and his own dying pillow softer and his own heaven happier-the consciousness that he had saved a man. Dr. Talmage next scored unmercifully the practice of business men in seeking to grind each other out of the trade and out of existence. A little helping hand, a little kindly feeling, he said, on the part of his fellows would keep many a man and many a family from ruin and despair. "There sometimes come exigencies in the life of a woman," said Dr. Talmage. One morning about two years ago I saw in the newspaper that there was a young woman in New York whose pocketbook, conaining $37 and 33 cents, had been stolen, and she had been left without a farthing at the beginning of winter in a strange city, and no work. And al though she was a stranger, I did not allow the 9 o'clock mail to leave the lamppost on our corner without carry ing the37 and 33 cents; and the case was proved genuine. Now, I have read all Shakespeare's tragedies and all Victor Huo's tragedies and all Aleander over to anarchy and political damnation just as shure as we neglect them. Sup we each one of us save a boy or a girl. You can do it. Will you? I will. Take a cake of perfumed soap and a fine toothed comb and a New Testiment, and a little candy and prayer and a piece of cake, andfaithin God and commonsense, and begin this afternoon. "But how shall we get ready for one or all of these three exploits? We shall makea dead failureif in our own strength we try to save a man or woman or child. But my text suggests where we are to get equipment. 'The people that do know their God shall be strong and do exploits.' We must know him through Jesus Christ in our own salvation, and then we shall have His help in the salva tion of others. And while you aresaving strangers you may save some of your own kin: You think your brothers and sisters and children and grandchildren all safe, but they are not dead, and no one is safe till he is dead. 'On the English coast there was a wild storm and a wreck in the offing, and the cry was, 'Man the lifeboat!' But Harry, the usual leader of the sailors crew, was not to be found, and they went without him and brought back all the shipwrecked people except one. By this time Harry, the leader of the crew, appeared and said: 'Why did you leave that one?' The answer was: 'He could not help himself at all, and we could not get him into the boat.' " 'Man the life boat!' shouted Harry, 'and we will for that one.' 'No,' said his aged mother standing beside him, 'you must not go. I lost your father in a storm like this, and your brother Will went off six years ago and I have not heard a word from him since he left, and I don't know where he is, and I don't know what has appened to him, poor Will, and I can not let you also go, for I am old and ependent on you.' His reply was, Mother, I must go and save that one nan, and if I am lost God will take care >f you in your old days.' The lifeboat put out, and after an awful struggle with the sea they picked the poor fellow out >f the rigging just in time to save his ife, and started for the shore. And as eey came within speaking distance, farry, just before he fainted from the >verexertion, cried out, 'We saved him, md tell mother it was brother Will.' "Oh, yes, my friend, let us start >ut to save some one for time md eternity; some man, some wo nan, some child. And who knows yut it may, directly-or indirectly, be the alvation of one of ourown kindred; and hat will be an exploit worthy of cele )ration when the world itself is ship vrecked and the sun has gone out like a park from a smitten anvil and all the tars are dead." . Well, Why Is It? Why is a cat's tail like the earth? It is ur to the end. What kin is the doormat to a floor? A tp farther. What is a waist of time? The middle > an hour-glass. Why is a doctor never seasick? He is used to see sickness. Why does an old maid wear mittens? [o keep off the chaps. Why is a door in the potential mood? :t's would, or should be. What is the board of education? The choolmaster's shingle. What sticketh closer than a brother? L postage stamp, by gum. Why is a tin can tied to a dog's tail ike death? It's bound to occur. Why does a sailor know there's a man a the moon? He has been to sea. Why is the North Pole like an illicit rhisky manufactory? It is a secret still. What is it that will give a cold, cure a ld 'qnd pery the; doctor's bill? A trught.' What does a man take when he has a. man wife? He takes an elixir (he licks Ler). Whyis it easy to get in-an old man's Louse?- Because his gate is -broken and tiocks are few. Why is a man who makes pens very ricked? He makes people steel pins and he say they do write. Why is a city official like a church l? One steals from the people and the other peals from the steeple. Why is it dangerous to go out in prig? Because the trees shoot, the lowers have pistils and the bulrush is >ut. SWhat.is the difference between a dog's ail and a rich man? One keep. a wag ring and the other keeps a carriage. What is the difference between an ngineer and a school teacher? One rains the mind and the other minds the rm. What is the difference between a sol ier and a pretty woman? One faces the iowder and the other powders the face. Why is a sheet of writing paper like a azy dog? A sheet of writing paper is an nelined plain and an inclined plane is a lope up. What is the difference between an .pple and a pretty girl? One you squeeze o get cider and the other you get 'side ier to squeeze.-Pittsburg Dispatch. A Sweet Girl Evens Up Old Scores. A young society lady of the West End, hose passion to be up with the prevailing *tvles leads her at times to go to extremes, rought home a most elaborate hat from a ourth street modiste the other night. iamma was wrathy, sisters scolded, and he two cider brothers flew off into a rage. rhe young lady declared to fight it out on hat line if it. took all winter, and that she vould wear that hat in the face of the aily veto. A council of war was held etwen the two brothers, and with a acrileglous hand and a shaip penknife hey undid the artistic work of the milliner ad left the duck of a hat shorn of its rich >lumage. Amanda next morning wept, 1tormed, relapsed into silece and brooding houghts, and the following morning one jrter found his bicycle iu sections, part f it in the cellar and part in the garret, rod .the other is looking for parts of his hotgun divorced from LLe stock. A manda ;its sweetly smiling, the picture of eon cuious innocence.-Cincinnati Enquirer. Drowned in's Beer Glass. A man in Trenton was recently drowned n a beer glass. He had been drinking iard and was well under alcoholic influ nce when he entered a saloon and ordered glass of beer, which was brought to him. Ele sat down at the table and fell into a tupor, his head dIropping forward into the lass before him. When the barkeeper tried to arouse him half an hour later, it was found that he was dead, his nose being immersed in the liquor in such a way that Pepiation wL/asn complly stopped. tragedy more' thrlling' tban ithat case. There are similar cases by the hundreds and thousands in all our large cities; young women witho'ut money 'and with out home and without work in these great maelstroms of metropolitan life. When such a case comes under your ob servation, how do you treat it? 'Get out of my way; we have no room in our establishment for any more hands. I don't believe in women anyway; they are a lazy, idle, worthless set. John, please show this person out of the door.' Or do you compliment her peznonal ap pearance and say things to her which, if any man said to your sister or daughter, you would kill him on the spot? That is one way, and it is tried every day in these large cities, and many of those who advertise for female hands in facto ries and for governesses in families have prpvei themaslyea-unfik to be. in:an3 placeoutside of-hell. "New York and Brooklyn ground up last year about thirty thousand young women, and would like to grind up about as many this year.. Out of all that long procession of women who march on with no hope for this world or the next, battered and bruised and scoffed at and flung off the precipice, not one but might have been saved for home and God and Heaven. But good men and good women are not in that kind of business. -Alas for that poor thing, nothing but the thread of that sewing girl's needle held her, and the thread broke. I have heard men tell in public discourse what a man is, but what is a woman? Until some one shall give abetter definition I will tell you what a woman is. "Direct from God, a sacred and deli cate gift, with affections so great that no measuring line short of that of the in finite God can tell their bound; fash ioned to refine and soothe and .lift and irradiate home and society and the world; of such value that no one can appreciate it, unless his mother lived long enough to let him understand it, or who, in some great crisis of life, ) when all else failed him, had a wife to re-enforce him with a faith in God that nothing could disturb. Speak out, ye :radles, and tell of the feet that rocked you and the anxious faces that hovered Dver you! Speak out, ye nurseries of ll Christendom, and ye homes, whether lesolate or still in full bloom with the races of wife, mother and daughter, and help me to define what woman is! If a nan during all his life accomplish nothing else except to win the love and 1 sonfidence and help and companionship >f a good woman, he is a landed I rictor, and ought to have the hands of 1 ill people between here and the grave stretched out to him in congratulation. "But as geographers tell us that the: lepths of the sea correspond with the eights of the mountains, I have to tell rou that good womanhood is not higher ip than bad womanhood is deep down. Che grander the palace, the more awful he conflagration that destroys it. The E grander the steamer Oregon, the more errible her going down just off the oast. Now, I should not wonder if you rembie a little with a sense of responsi- 1 )hty when [ say-that there fs. hardly a erson in this house but may have an j >pportunity.to save a woman. It may n your case be done by' good advice, or ] >y financial help, or by trying to bring o bear some one of a thousand Chris ian influences. You would not have to So far. If, for instance, you know mong your acquaintances a young wo nan who is apt to appear on the streets] .bout the hour when men return- from >usiness, and you finl her responding i o the smile of entire strangers-hogs hat lift their hats-then go you to her1 rd plainly tell her that nearly all the estroyed womanhood in the worl be- g gan the downward path 'withi tliaf very'd dnid of behavior. "There is another exploit that you n do, and that is to save a child. A Ihilddoes notreem to -amount-to-much.s t is nearly-a year old before'it can walk t ht all. For the first year and a half it i annot speak a word. For the first ten rears it would starve if it had to earn its >wn food. For th-e first fifteen years its pinion on any subject is absolutely ralueless. And then there are so many f them. My! what luts of children! Lnd some p~eople have contempt for :hildren. They are good for nothing aut to wear ont the carpets and break lngs and keep you awake nights cry-c ng. Wel, your estimate of .a child is [uite diIL'erent from that mothxer's~ esti-.t nate who lost her child last summer. Lhey took it to the salt air of the sea thore and to the tonic air of the nmoun ins, but no help came, and the brief yaragrph of its life is ended. Supposet hat life could be restored by purchase, row much would that bereaved mother ive? She would take all the jewels rm her ingers and neck and bureau ad put them down. And if told that ~hat was not enough she would take heri rouse and make over the deed for it, md if that were Dot enough she would all in all her investments, and putdown il her mortgages and bonds; and if toldt ~hat were not enough she would say: 'I I ave made over all my property, anai if [ can have that child back I will now1 ledge that I will toil with my own ianas and carry with my own shoulders any kind of hard work, and live in a sellar and die in a garret. Only give meI back that lost darling. "Oh, to save a child! Am I not right in putting that among the great exploits? ea, it beats the other two, for if you save the child you save the man or you save the woman. Get the first twenty years of that boy or grl all right and I guess you have got manhood or woman hood All right and there entire earthly1 ad eternal career all right. But what are going to do with those children who are worse off than if their father or mother had died the day they were born?1 There are tens of thousands of such.I Their parentage was against them. Their name is against them. The structure of their skulls is against them. Their nerves and muscles contaminated by the ine briety or dissoluteness of their parents. They are practically at their birth laid out on a plank in the middle of the. Atlantic Ocean in an equinoctial gale, and told to make for shore.- The first greeting they get from the world is to be called a brat or a ragmuffin or a wharf rat. What to do, with them is the question often asked. There is another question quite as pertinent as that is, 'What are they going to with us?' They will, ten or eleven year~s from now, have as many votes as the same number of well-born cildren, and they will hand this land CAROLINA'S CARNIVAL. THE ANNUAL GATHERING OF HER PEOrLE AT THE FAIR. An Interesting Programme.-Several New Feature,---Promise of a Splendid Time for Everybody. The Twentieth Annual Fair of the State Agricultural and Mechanical So ciety of South Carolina will open on Monday the 12th of November, and close on the following Friday. All entries should be made in person or by letter to the Secretary, Thomas W. Holloway, at Pomaria, until the 4th day of November; after that date at Co lumbia. Entry books will close on Fri day, the 9th November. This annual gathering of our people is an occasion for the reunion of the farmers from all parts of the State. Decided improvements have been made on the grounds of the Society for the convenience and comfort of exhib itors. While in some sections the recent con tinued rains have injured the crops, es pecially on the large streams, yet we be lieve the spirit and energy displayed by our people under even more adverse cir cumstances, will warrant the conclusion that their slight loss will not deter them from the usual pleasant and instructive visit to our approaching Fair. The management is determined to leave no effort untried to make the pres ent Fair second to none in its history. The usual courtesies will be extended to exhibitors by the railroads in the transportation of their exhibits. The rates of passage will be within the reach of all and special trains will be run daily for the accommodation of visitors. The City of Columbia, through a se lect committee, will furnish unusual at tractions during Fair week. An intelligence office will be estab lished, where visitors can apply for homes in private families at reasonable rates. With cheap rates of passage, comfort able accommodations for visitors and the magnificent attractions by the City of Columbia, together with the splendid exhibit of live stock, Agricultural impli ments and Machinery, and a fine display of the handiwork of the fair daughters of our State; with full exhibits in every department, we, therefore, cordially in vite all citizens of the State and espe cially the farmers, to share with us the pleasures and benefits of the occasion in promoting the general Agricultural in terests of the State. PROGRAMME FOR THE WEEK. baturday, November 10th. Secretary Holloway's office will be open at 8 A. M., when entries made nader the rules and reguladons will be assigned their proper positions. Monday, November 12th. Gates open at 9 A. M. From 10 to 11 an exhibition in the arena of all the cattle, under the direc tion of the Superintendent. From 11 to 2 a display of all the horses, beginning with those led by the halter, and closing with saddle, single, and matched harness horses, as directed by the Supreintendent. Tuesday, November 13th. Gates open at 9 o'clock A. M. From 10 to 11 a general display of cattle. The forenoon will be devoted to the examination in the arena of the single arness horses and mnules, as directed by the Superintendent. BAOE PROGRAMfME. First race--Three-quarter mile dash all ages. Purse $75-$50 to the first; $25 to second. Second race-Three-quarter mile heats -2 in 3 trotting race, S. C. owned. Purse $100-$75 to first; $25 to second. Third race-Three-quarter mile dash -for three-year-olds, 8. C. raised and owned. Purse $75-$50) to the first $25 to second. Wednesday, November 14th. Gates open at 9 o'clock A. M. From 10 to 11 a general display of stock. From 11 to 12 a display, in the arena, of all the cattle. From 12 to 2 the same by the single ad double harness horses. At this con tet the Committees will tie the ribbons. RAcas. First race-Three-quarter mile Heats -all ages. Purse $100-$75 to first; $25 to second. Second race-Mile heats -2 in 3 trot ing that never made a rocord under 3 inutes. Purse $100- $75 to first; $25 to second. Third race-Three-quarter mile dash -two-year-olds, S. C. raised and owned. Purse $75-$50 to first; $25 to second. Fourth race-One-half mile dash saddle horses, S. C. raised and owned. Purse $75-$50 to first; $25 to second. Thuarsday, November 15th. Gates open at 9 o'clock A. M. From 10 to 11 a general display of all the premium stock, beginnmng with the attle. From 11 to 12 o'clock an exhibition in the arena of the saddle horses; after which contest the ribbons will be tied. RacRs. First race-Seven-eighths mile dash all ages. Purse $75-$50 to first; 25 to second. Second race-Mile heats-3 in 5, trot ting race. Purse $100--$75 to first; $25 to second. Third race--Mile heats-all ages. Purse $100-$75 to first; $25 to second. Fourth race-Three-quaater mile dash -all ages. Purse $75-$50 to first; $25 o second. Friday, November 16th. Gates open 9 o'clock A. M. From 10 to 12 o'clock display oi all the premium harness horses. At 11 o'clock auction sales of live stock. At 2 P. M. the premiums will be awarded from the Secretary's office. At the conclusion of which the Fair will close. - Each morning of the week, from 9 till 12 o'clock, will be devoted to testing by the Committees all kinds of implements. Exhibitors are expected to furnish their own teams. RACEs. A First race-three-quarter mile dash all ages. Purse $75.00--$50.00 to first; $25.00 to second. Second race-half mile heats-two year-olds. Purse-$75.00--$50.00 to first; $25.00 to second. Thirdrace-mile dash-allages. Purse $100.00- $75.00 to first; $25.00 to second. J. B. HUMBERT, Pres. Taos. W. HoLLowAr, Sec. ATTRACTIONS IN LOLUMBIA. Tuesday night-Fire works and Fire Department display, with music. Wednesday night-Calithumpian pa rade of fancy costumes. Thursday night-Trades display with fire works. State Ball. Friday--Balloon ascension and fire works. BILL 4KP'S LETTER. The Three Great Evils to Mankind. War, pestilence and famine-the three great scourges of mankind. We don't know much about the last, but we do know something of war and pestilence, and in some respects they are very much alike in their horrible results. It is death in its most unfeeling pitiless form. The great difference is that war is the work, of man intentionally and provoked, in stigated by bad passions that come straight from the devil, while pestilence is simply an inheritance of the curse one of the great afictions that is for man to conquer and subdue-an affliction like thorns and weeds and poison oak and devouring worms and mad dogs and measles and toothache and pains of all kinds and cold and heat and fire and flood. All of these have their remedies. Most of them have been overcome by man's ingenuity and all will be. The power of pestilence has already been broken by preventives just as the power of pain has been broken byanesthetis. Our generation suffered more than its share-more from toothache and earache and ooliaches and bees-ngs and stone bruises and stumpedtoes. If a man had to have an arm or a leg amputated or a wen cut off he wasn't put to sleep but just had to be held like he was in a vice and take the excruciation just as it came. If he went blind there was no surgeon to remove the cataract. If he had the fever not a drop of water was given him to cool his parched tongue. Ihelped to hold a poor fellow once as he lay stretched upon a long table. I held his foot hard and strong while the surgeon was cutting off his leg just below the knee and when he sawed through the bone, the severed leg and I came down together for it made me sick before I knew it. He stood it better than I did. The flow of human blood always makes me sick, and I never got hardened to it during the war. At the battle of Malvern Hill I saw more of the horrors of war than ever before or after. Most of the deaths were from shell and the dead were awfully torn and mangled. I recall a soldier who sat leaning against a tree, his rifle grasped with rigid hands and the muzzle resting on the ground. He was sitting up just as he fell, but his head was entirely gone and the blood still oozing from his neck. I have seen the army wagons crossing the shallow trenches where the dead of the battle of Seven Pines had been buried a few days before, and as the wheels crushed down into the soft wet clay, an arm or a leg would be forced up and fall again, and sometimes a ghastly bloated face would show itself as the heavy wheels passed upon the breast. But all this is nothing compared with the silent helpless grief that comes to a household when the pestilence is there. First one loved one is stricken and then another. Despair treads close upon the heels of Hope The house seems doomed. Nooheefuvoices, no happy songs; music and smiles have gone and sad whisperings and sadder tears have taken their places. These scenes are heart rending and no one wishes to give them thought; but all ought to, for the sufferers are our fellow creatures, and but for our sympathy would be more pitiless still. That man who gave Mayor Hewitt twelve thousand dollars for the Jacksonville sufferers and would not give his name, did not .turn away from the picture. He thought of it by day and by night, and it followed him about, and his great big heart opened wide.-I would like to have that man's picture in my parlor. How helpless these refugees from the awful pestilence must have felt when they realized the full force of the quaran tine that waas aainst them. A soourge behind them relentless as death, and as they fled to find refuge the doors of humanity were closed. This is right of* course, in some measure, but it is awful. I saw it once in 1878 when hundreds of the poor and friendless were hurried out of Memphis. Three long trains of cars freighted with women and children. I was at Grand Junction when they came and took passage with them for Chatta nooga. All night long I sat upon the platform and hugdthe iron post and nodded in my sle, and when surprise found us a few mile from our destination we met the quarantine and could go no further. There was no food and but little water. Mothers were worn out with anxiety, and the children in a piteous condition, for they. had slept upon the floor and the foul air was fear-. ful. After a long parley the humane doctors said they would go though the the city, and on to the mountains of East Tennessee. When and where they stopped I never learned but heard they< were scattered and dropped along the] line and that the kind people gave them welcome. What fearful lessons have been given to make us prudent and careful. Memphis had to be and she was purged of her filth and is now prob ably one of the healthiest cities in the South. Many years ago Savannah was purged and so was Charleston, and those citiest seem to be proof against the birth of pestilence. Two centuries ago London had become almost stagnant with her own.a corruption, and suddenly the greati plague came like a simoon, and in six weeks twenty-three thousand of her people perished. That there is a remedy for such visitation the mod.:rn civiliz ation and modern science have demon strated, and Jacksonville will yet rise above the pestilence and defy it. Blacktone says there is no wrong with out a reinedy, and so the doctors say there is no disease without an antidote. I believe this on general principles. I believe in what is called the Providence of God. As He gave King Solomon, kenoelmdge of all the herbs that were useful to man for medicine so He has hid denin His wonderfulstorehouseremedies for plague and pestilence ~and the- men of science must find them. My wife, Mrs. Arp, reads the papers and she sighs and sympathizes with these poorrefugeesandsaysitallreminda her of the war when she and half. a doen little children were running .from..the Yankees and never got. fairly sealed down at one place before she thad tghet up and hunt another. Some didn't. The children were always hungry, and pro visions were scarce, and Confederate money unpopular, and most everybody was in a condition to "welcomethe coming and speed the parting guest" and sometimes the speed was more im pressive than the welcome. The chil dren wore out their clothes before and behind and there was no more cloth.and she had to patch and patch, and. knit new socks out of the top of old ones, and make caps out of scraps, and have some shoes made out of half tanned leather, and the poor lit to ings. never got a stick of candy nor a picture book nor a Jews'-harp nor a pocket knife for a whole year. She says she never worked so hard in her life and never keptso well and the children got along splendidly so far as health was concerned. or the - tore were all off in the army. Running from the Yankees was not so bad as running from pestilence, for there was no quarantine and nobody was afraid the Yankeeswere stickingtoyour clothes. The great trouble was that the Yankees followed you and kept you trotting but the pestilence is kind enough to stay in one place. May the good Lord deliver us from the Yankees in war and the pestilence in peace, for a thousand years, is my prayer. Burs Aar. SOME FORMER EPIDMMICS. Awful Ravages of Yellow Fever in New Or leans and Memphis. (From the Harper's weekly.) Terrible as the present situatied in Tackonville seems and really is, the fever there is, thus far, of a mild forth as 3ompared with that of other great :epi lemics of the same dread disease,..Up to this date of writing'the death 'rite Ls nly about 1 in 8 of the cases repojied. [n New Orleans in 1853 there were-29,0 0 cases and 8,101 deaths, or I: in 3.58, which was considered a low gate of ortality. The last epidemic of yellow Fever that visited New York city was in L822. It broke out-on July10 inBebtor street, and ended November 5. Such was the terror inspired by it that'the entire business portion of the city ;was deserted. Merchants, insurance--com panies and banks transferred their busi aess to Greenwich Village. There all the banks occupied temporary structures on one street, which, on that account ears the name of Bank street to this day.' In the city the infected streets were barri aded and no one was allowed to leave them. Owing bo these harsh meaares, md to ignorance of treatment ofthe di ease, the death rate was very highbl in .7, or 243 deaths out of 414 eases. During the terrible epidenic of 1878 there were 17,600 cases in Memphis out Af a population reduced by th' eodus )f all who could get away to abo '19, 500. Of these, 5,150 died, -the' rat of leaths to cases being 1 ,in 3.8. 4&.that time four Memphis refugees die'oS the fever in New York, but no .person con tracted the disease from contact 'with them and it did not spread. The Coot of aJary. It may be of interest to the peepl of the county to know whatiteaststop mre ajury for the trial of a afe*fet sses such as those .brought -tria luring the term of the Court-of Gieneral ession just closed. Fifteen grand jurorstraveled 882*piles mdall except one serv 3 . he erved but one, makig ani of L3 days. *They were paid fiey ne a nile for travel and one dollse and-aihalf a day for service-makie the toital'ost af this jury $106.10. Thirty-Six petit jurors summoned. for service during the first week trayeled L150 miles served an average of fie'aya sch and in the aggregate 195 days; for rhich they received like pay as- the grand jury, makring a total cost of $350. Twenty-seven, and extras drawn on the jury for the second week traveled L113 miles, served one day each or 27 iaye in the aggregate and paid as the Ist, cost 896,15. The whole number of niles traveled by all the juries was 89)95 niles, the whole number of days spent was 265 at total cost of $552.25, an iverage of $92,05 per day for the juries alone. The greatest distance traveled by any )ne juror was 110 miles by one of the etit jurors drawn for the first week. Lwo of the grand jurors traveled 104 niles eseh. If it was one man alone who had acted is the jury he would have lost nearly bree fourths of a year in performing the luty.-Pee Dee Index. A Negro Killed at Branchvllle. BiuNCEvILE, Oct. 9.--A negro was as brutally murdered here yesterday. It as an outrageous affair, and reminded one >f the murders perpetrated by the cowboys >l the frontiers of Texas. The facts are Lhout as follows: Cresar Stevens, the de :eased, who was in the employ of Mr. A. ?, H. Dukes, got into a difficulty with other negro on Saturday last, who was Iriving a wagon for some folks from the :ountry. Mr. A. F. H. Dukes succeeded In quiet g these two negroes, but some whit~e nen, the friends of the country negro. re iewed the quarrel with Caesar and threat ed to kill him. These men finally left ere on Saturday night, but returned yes erday morning, fully armed with pistols ud a shotgun. They found the deceased >eaceably at work in Mr. Dukes's garden nd immediately opened fire on him, shoot ig at him at least twelve or fifteen times cd striking him in nine places. - The three men who did the shooting were W. L. McFall, T. 8. Crumpler and F. A. Richardson. There were several thers who were here as accessories. The egro lingered until 8 o'clock this morning hen lhe died. The murderers as yet have iot been arrested. The universal opinion of the town Is that t was a most cold-blooded and outrageous nurder, and that the parties ought to be )unished to the full extent of the law. The leceased was a quiet. inoffenosive negro, Ld well thought of by both white and unla -.-Spncial to News and Courier.