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VOL, III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C, WE)NESDAY, NOVEMBER JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT LAW MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and (umzslor at Law, MANNING, S. C. F. N. WILSON, INSURANCE AGENT, MANNING. S. C. A. LEVI, ATTORNEY AT LAW MANNING, S. C. l Notary Public with seal. WM. H. INGRAM. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office at Court House, MANNING, S. C. M . CLINTON GALUCHAT, PRACTICES IN COURTS OF CHARLESTON and CLARENDON. Address Communications in care of Man ning TrEs. JOS. H. MONTGOMERY, ATTURNEY AT LAW, Main Street. SUMTER, S. C. -Collections a specialty. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTH, Sumter S, C. B. S. Dxsxwss, Manning, S. C. H AYNSWORTH & DINKINS, ATTORNEYS AT LAWI, MANNING, S. C. DR. G. ALLEN HUGGINS, DENTIST. - OFFICES - MANNING AND KINGSTREE. -OFFICE DAYs Kingstroe, from 1st to 12th of each month. Manning, from 12th to 1st of each month. -OmCE HoUns 9 A. M. toI P.M. and 2 to 4 P. M. J J. BRAGDON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Manning and R. R. 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. -o aWSamples 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., CHARLhESTO3, S. C Max G. Bryant, JAs. M. L=zawn, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & TETAND, PaoPROus. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia, located in the EX ACT BUSINESS CENT ER OF T HE CI TY; where all Street Car Lines pass the door, and its MENU is not excelled by any in the South. Notice of Application for Charter. XOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT AN I' application will be made to the General Assembly of the State of South Carolina, for a Charter for a Rail Road, to be known as the Wilson and Sumamerton Rail Road, lending from a point at or near Wilson's Mill on the Central Rail Road of Sodth Carolina, in Clarendon County, in said State, to .or near to Summerton in said County, .and thence, if deemed expedient, to a point on the Manebester and Augusta Rail Road, at or near Antioch, in said County. CORONER'S NOTICE. *OTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT I Nhave made arrangements with Mr. W. K. Bell, of Manning, to promptly torward me any telegrams or other ofticial communi c'ations. By this means 1 shall ikb able, in a few hours, to attend any inquest. P. C. COCHR AN. Coroner Clarendon County. F. VON SANTEN & SON, FA NCY G~OOD1S, TrOY, CONFECTIONERY, n~uner Gooci. HEADQUARTERs FOR CRADLES. Children's Carriages Costing from $4.50 to $40 each. 263 King Street, CHARLESTON, S. C. Mc~ahanl, Bron & Evans, Jobbers of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, and Clothing. Nos. 224, 226 and 228 Meeting St. Charleston, S.C. Wm. Burmester & Co. HAY AND GRAIN, Red Rust Proof Oats, a Spe cialty. Opposite Kerr's Wharf, ~~~ OHARLESTON S. C. BIG GRASSHOPPERS. Stories That are Told Concerning Them in the West. (From the Chicago Tribune.) No fiction can approach the truth re gardinggrasshoppers in Minnesota when the plague is on. At $1. or even 50 cents a bushel, the grasshoppers have been, at least four years out of the last twelve, a more profitable crop than wheat ever was along the incomparably fertile val leys and uplands of the Minnesota River. More than one such a bounty has drained the treasuries of prosperous counties to the last dollar within a week after it was offered. The first visitation of the pest since early in the '60's was in 187. In the latter part of June the farmers began to grow anxious, for reports from Dakota were to the effect that the young crop of grasshoppers, having devoured every green thing, including the leaves on the trees, were preparing to deluge the East. July 10, the advance of the destroyer was heralded from the Big Stone lake country. His path was a desert, with out an oasis to relieve the eye or succor the famishing. In the afternoon of July 15, the farmers along the. river bottom in Nicollet and Blue Earth counties saw the sun go out like a candle suddenly extinguished. "Grasshoppers!" That was all they said. The oornplow was stopped where it was; the scythe engaged in mowing a swarth through the weeds around the now never-to-be-harvested wheat field dropped from the farmer's hand; further farm operations were purposeless everybody abandoned all other pursuits and watched the approach of the omin ous gray clouds. The front edge of the cloud passed over Nicollet county, and the centre of thegray, granulated, swirlingmasshung, seeming undecided, a mile above the earth. Then half a dozen fat, insolent fellows, with paunches distended with Dakota good living, dropped down and folded their wings. Now it began to pour. Never did the heavens precipitate a more disgusting, disastrous torrent. People fled to their houses and shut the doors and windows. The grasshopper is a nasty-pest. He lives upon sweet green blades of wheat and corn, and expecto rates tobacco juice upon the slightest provocation. Half an hour of the storm and the de stroyer had arrived. During the remain ing hour before sundown a thousand acres of waving wheat had disappeared utterly the third day the most beautiful sight fertile western farms afford-luxu riant, undulating fields of corn-was transformed into a scene of utter desola tion; only the ragged stumps remained. The meadows, tame and wild, went next. and then the leaves on trees and shrubs disappeared. "Now," said the farmers, "we shall be rid of you; there is nothing left for you to eat, and to eat is your one mission on earth." But the farmers had forgotten that the grasshopper has two missions on earth; the other is to propagate and multiply his species. It is a duty he is proud of and never neglects. If the verdure of locality he is infesting dis appears before he has reached the prop agating stage he moves a league onward and fuitills his other mission. The two missions do not interfere with each other; when he is ready to devote him self to the business of raising a family, he stops eating-whatever he puts forth his hand to do he does with a will. The Edmunds bill does not apply to the grasshopper. He is a monogamous pest, but his helpmeet is the acme of fecundity. An inch below the surface she leaves an egg fully an inch long and as large as her own body. at is more than an egg-it is at least 100 eggs, each the size and much the color and shape of a grain of rye, packed snugly together in a tough membranous cover ing, which defies the elements. A dozen days of snshine in the following May and these eggs increase the pest fifty -fold. If ablade of wheat or a stalk of corn escaped the parents no remissness of the kind will remain a reproach to the chil dren. Until they have flown to other delds not a green thing will appear on the surface of the earth. A hundred little grasshoppers, scarcely bigger than a flea, will watch for the appearance of each blade of wheat, and to each hill of corn there will be a thousand. The tield in time is as black as the plowed fields of October and swarms with a pest that cannot be fought or destroyed. To prevent, if possible, the visitation of young grasshoppers, it has been the custom to offer bounties on old grass hoppers before the eggs are laid. In 1876 Nicollet and Blue Earth counties offered bounties of $3 per bushel soon after the pest arrived from Dakota. That amount did not look large at first. There are something like 20,000 adult grasshoppers in a bushel. Who would undertake to devote himself exclusively to the de struction of grasshoppers for a consider ation of less than $3 per 20,000? That is the way it looked to the county officials. On the third day after the offer was made they changed thaeir minids. German drove up to the front door of the Nicollet county court house at noon with his farm wagon loaded with sacks of some thing. It was not wheat, for the load had a horrible smell. The sacks were drenched with an offensive brown liquid, streams of which trickled through cracks in the wagon box. It was a cargo of grasshoppers. There were thirty bushels of thenm. The Germau drew $90 in cash from the treasuer and drove home in a gallop to set all his children and hired men to catching grasshoppers. Inside of a week more than $30,000 had been paid out, notwithstandiog the bounty had been thrice reduced-to $1 50, then $1, and finally to fifty cents a busheL. It was simple enough. One man with a soop made of a bag of cotton cloth stretched on a barrel hoop could walk through a meadow or wheat field and catch grasshoppers at the rate of a bushiel an hour. The most popular method of capture, however, was to line the inner arc of a wheeled wire tooth hay rake with cotton cloth and drive at a trot wherever the grasshoppers were thickest. When the cloth was covered with four or five bushels of the pest, the rake would be lifted suddenly, leaving the grasshoppers writhing under a neat win row of cotton cloth, from which they would be easily transferred into sacks. Numerous instances are known where two men with such an appliance as this ave apntured Mity bushels of grassliop pers in a day. There is no room for "fiction" where grasshoppers are con cerned. THE BRAVE BELLES OF ERIN. They Hesitate Not to Brave the Storms and Arduous Labors of Life. (Woman's World.) The women of the Irish coasts and islands are as skillful as the men in handling the oar and rudder. They know every sunken rock and dangerous current of the intricate channels between the great island of Aran and the main land, and take boats in and out in all weather. For many years a Grace Darling of this western coast, the daugh ter of a pilot who lived on Eights Island, went out in storm and darkness with her father, never trusting him alone, as she knew his weakness for the whisky. This brave girl never flinched from facing the wildest gales, fearing that disaster might befall her father and the vessel it was his business to guide to a safe anchorage if she were not at the helm. Many a ship's crew beating about between Aran and Owey owed its pre servation to Nellie Boyle. Two sisters have taken the postboat into Aran for many % ears past, their father, John Nancy, being now old and infirm. The beetling cliffs and echoing caves of the dangerous coast have a weird charm of their own, and the simple peo ple born within the sound of the Atlantic surges cling with a surprising tenacity to their thatched and roped cottages, sheltered behind huge, round-backed rocks, in the hollows of which they grow their patches of potatoes and stunned oats and barley. The number of these dwellings, starting up out of what, from afar, looks like a stony desert, both by the sea and for miles inland, is startling to us who re flect upon the possibilities of subsistence afforded by this so called land. The un failing bob affords ample fuel, it is true, and the potato crop, when as good as now, will last throughout the winter. In a good season such as this the oats have a good chance of getting stacked before the equinoctial gales begin to blow. Welt it would be if these oats, ground into meal, might form a larger part of the staple food of Donegal. Strong tea, boiled in the "weep pot" beside the turf embers, with baker's oread, have now taken the place of the wholesome bone-meking porridge on which the canny Scot still lives. To buy groceries money is needed, and we wonder how this can be earned here. Kelp or seaweed, burning used to bring them money; and this year, too, thin pillars of blue smoke are rising all round by the sea, showing, let us hope, that trade in iodine is brisk. The fishing ought to be a fruitful source of prosperity to the natives, but on this subject a resi dent writes in 1884 as follows. "To the north of Aramore, stretching away to the northwest of Tory, there is a fine flashing bank where all kinds of fish might be caight every day in the year with suitable boats and gear. In very fine weather our small craft often go out from four to six miles off Aran Heads. Next day they all come back laden, and after such a takeall the other boats in the neighborhood will go out. It may be that a breeze springs up, the sea rises in the middle of a good catch, then all have to run for home or shelter. Large, well-fitted fishing smacks could stay out there for days, and make plenty of money, too, but facilities for the tran sit and sale of fish there are none." How the Dashing Cleburne Died It is not generally known that Major eneral Pat Cleburne, of tht'Confeder te army, died in my arms. -I had en isted in St. Louis in Capt. Pat Flana gan's company E. Twenty-fourth iissouri infantry, and had been detailed s clerk in the quastermaster's depart ent. During the three days' battle of Franklin our supply trains were needed loser to the front, and Captain Flana an sent me on horseback to so advise General Allen, chief quartermaster on eneral Thomas' stsff While passing ver the field of battle my horse was wounded and I dismounted. At the mo ment [ heard the voice of one calling for id. I approached and found a man wearing the uniform of a Major General f .the Confederate army. He was :angerously hurt even dying. I sat down by his side, lifted up his head and held it on my left arm. 1 applied my canteen to his lips and he emtied it. lie turned his eyes toward me and asked who I was and how I happened to come to his as sistac. As the dying General spoke a soldier who knew him came up. He. too, was a Confederate, and like the offier, was wounded. 1 asked him who the man was whose head I held, and he answered: "That is Pat Cleburne, of Mississippi." B~y that time the General was unconscious, and he died within half an hour. His last words nobody heard but myself. They were faint but distinct: "Hurrah for the Confederacy !"-St. Louis Globe. A New York G.irl who is viear Grit. Miss Cornelia Morley, of Brooklyn, N. Y. was the heroine of quite au exciting episode at Biomank's hotel last Saturday night. Aetut 9 o'clock Miss Morley, on going into her room, saw what appeared to be the feet of a man lying under her bed, the body being entirely hid from view. She quietly closed the door and took her stand just outside to await de velopments. in a few minutes the thief, a burly negro of about fifteen years, attempted to make his escape through the door, but just as he was making his exit, this bravest of women seized him by the collar and led him down to the office in the hotel and delivered him up to Mr. Bieman. He confessed his theft and delivered up all the stolen property,| consisting of a silver watch and other! 'valuables. He was then taken in hind by several men, -carried down to the livery stables and a good old fashioned whipping was administered, after which he went his way. His name was Stepney Green.-Keowee Courier. An accident occurred at the insane hospital at Yankton, D. T. Monday afternoon by which one man was in stantly killed, and three others were more or less injured. The disaster was the result of the caving in of the walls of one of the wings of the hospital now under construction. President Cle'eland has appointed Thursday 29th inst. as a day of thanks UNIFORMITY IN TE*T-BOOK. Action of the State Board of Examiners, Intended to Secure that End. The following circular of instructions from the State Board of Examiners has been sent to the school authorities in the several counties, and is of especial inter est to teachers, parents and guardians: At a regular meeting of the State Board of Examiners held on September 4th and 5th, 1889, the following resolu tion was adopted: Resolved, That the peculiar condition of affairs in this State by reason of which, not only in each county, but in each school district, there are teachers and pupils of different classes and races, possessing different capacities to teach, learn and purchase books, it would be injurious to educational interest to adopt a single list of text-books for the State. That in order to secure flexibility in the system, and to meet the varying wants of the schools, and, at the same time, to prevent frequent changes in text-books in a school, which impose vexatious and unnecessary expense upon parents, the State Board of Examiners hereby adopts the following rules and regulations to govern the use of text books in the public schools of the State: The list of text-books to be adopted by the State Board for use in the puolic schools shall be elective in character. On or before Thursday, October 25, 1888, the County Board of Examiners in each county shall, from said State list, adopt a single series for use in the pub lic schools of their respective counties, provided that upon application from the teacher and Trustees of any school, within thirty days after said county adoption, or thirty days after the estab lishment of any new school, on good and sufficient reasons being shown, the County Board may allow the substitution in said school of any other book on the same subject from the list adopted by the State Board. A series orce adopted shall not be changed during the period of adoption by the State Board without permission from the said Board. This shall not, however, prevent the use in schools where the same may be needed, by and with the consent of the County Board of Examiners, of two series of Readers on the State list to be used alternately, or of proper supplemental reading. The series adopted shall be put in force ac cording to the commencement of the schools. not later than the fall of 1889. All resolutions by the County Board of Examiners pertaining to the adoption of text-books shall be recorde1 by the Connty School Commissioner in a book kept by him for the purpose, and copies of the same forwarded by him, within thirty days, to the office of the State Superintendent of Education. Any teacher who, while receiving pub lic school funds, uses text-books in the course of study prescribed for public schools that are not on the State List, shall forfeit his pay from the public school fund for the time he uses them. Any teacher may refuse to teach any pupil who is not supplied with the text books prescribed for said school. Pupils passing from one school to another, must conform to the list adopted for the latter. The Trustees, or, in their default, the County Board of Examiners, shall en force these provisions. The County School Commissioner shall withhold approval of pay certificate of any teach er not conforming thereto; and the teacher persisting in violating the same shall be deprived of his certificate of qualification. It is advisable that there be adopted, as far as possible, the same books for schools of the same class and grade within the county, in order to secure, as far as practicable, county uniformity. It shall be the duty of the County School Commissioner to report to the State Board any attempt on the part of of any publishing house, whose books are on the State list, to induce any change from the list regularly adopted for any school. As these provisions are in the interest of economy, parents are requested to co operate in securing their enforcement. Girls Who Smoke. Cigarette smoking is increasing very rapidly among young women, and not among young women alone, but among married women as well, who move in gcod society. Baltimore is no exception to the rule, says the Herald of that city. An estimable lady, who resides in a fashionable residence on Charles street, told the writer confidentially the other day that she had been so addicted to the use of nicotine that she did not enjoy a meal any longer nless it was followed by a cigarette in he-r boudoir. Young ladies usualiy purchase their cigarettes through their maids, who are in honor bound not to disclose to the tobacconist the name of the person for whom they are making their purchases. Bat maids will be garrulous and names are oftLen revealed, so that a cigar dealer on a well-known street is able to point out to his friends girl after girl who in dulges in the seductive cigarette in the secrecy of her private apartments, un known to grandmamima or doting papa. There are cases, too, not infrequent either, where the fair sex are supplied with their cigarettes by wicked young dudes, who are told that the only pur pose in view in the minds of the dear creatures is to make a collection of cigarettes, binding each with a dainty piece of ribbon, and sifixing to it a card marked with the uame of the giver. When the latter becomes a bore his cigarette is smoked by the fair recipient, who, with mild superstition, thinks that his attentions, already wearisome, will thereby become less frequent.-Chicago Herald. The Sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade. A number of the srvivors of the Bat talion of Sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade have concluded to hold a reunion in Columbia during Fair Week. It is therefore requested that all surviving soldiers of that Battalion meet in the Richland Court House on Wednesday, the 14th November, at 10 o'clock A. M. It is the desire of those who are arrang ing for this reunion to perfect a perma nent arganization of the survivors of the Battalion, and it is hoped, therefore, that there will be a full attendance. A telegram has been received from Capt. W. S. Dunlop, saying that he will surely be present at the meeting during LIFE SAVED BY FANNING. What Brought Back to Health Two Yel low Fellow I'atients. (From the Jacksonville (Fla.) Metropolis.) "A strange thing occurred the other day," said Dr. Sheitall, of Savannah this morning to a Metropolis reporter. "It happened this way: I was the physician in charge of Charley Clark, the young undertaker of your city, while he had a very bad case of yellow fever. For sev eral days I anxiously watched him and by close attention 1. managed to break the fever, but it letft him so weak that I was afraid that he would die of exhaust ion. "However, I was going to do my .best and I instructed the nurse to watch him carefully and inform me by messenger if he began to sink, and with these instru tions I left the sick man to attend to my other patients. In about an hour I re turned and on looking at the young man I found that he was in a state of collapse and rapidly sinking, and that his lower extremities from his hip' down were cold and covered with a clammy sweat. There was no doubt about it, Clark was going rapidly, and I was certain that in about three or four hours he would be dead; what to do next? I had tried everything I could think of to rally him, but noth ing would bring his pulse above 46 de grees and his temperature was down to 95 and sinking lower all the time. "Matters were looking desperate, and it was very sad to see the sturdy young fellow, who only a few days previous was a robust athlete, and now his life was slowly ebbing away. Suddenly the idea struck me to fan him. At first it seemed that that such a course would be absurd, as he was cold as an iceberg, but finally I resolved on the attempt, as I knew it would close the now open pores, and I determined to try. Calling for a fan, I took off all the covering but a sheet, and slowly began waving it over him. Ina few minutes I gave the fan to the nurse and watched the result. In ten minutes I noticed a slight change in the pulse for the better, and urged the nurse to keep up the novel treatment. In three quarters of an hour imagine my feelings when I found that the sick man's pulse had risen to 56 and his tem perature to 98. He then fell into a sweet leed and awoke out of danger. "I was so impressed that this fanning saved his life that I tried it on a lady patient of mine and with equal success." "What's her name?" "Well, I don't think that she would care to get it into the papers, but it is true, every word of it. Strange treatment, isn't it?" B4ND[TTI IN THE PIEDMONT. ('ohfirmnation of the Story of a Gang of Robbers In Pickens County--Two of the Ringleaders Captured. (Special to News andi Courier) GREENvILtE, October 30.-A sensation of a strong dime novel flavor was un earthed here to-day in the unexpected development of the existence of a real gang of robbers organized for carrying on systematic thievery in Pickens and the surrounding counties. Rumors of this nature were wired in these dispatches yesterday, but no confirmation could be obtained until Lafayette Pelfrey and. Drayton Medlin, two of half a dozen men in the suspected gang, were captured at the house of Sebe Hinson, near Roper's, Pickens County, last night, just after their unsuccessful attemp to rob the house of Norman Clardy, an old blind man, near Piedmont, on Sunday night. The capture was made by a posse of itizens headed by G. W. Griftin and William Hughes. Pelfrey was brought here to jail to-day and Meldin is not ex ected to live, having been shot in the stomach last night. When he and his ompanions were surprised, Meldin fired n the would-be captors and was mortally wounded in return. The confession of Pefrey and the investigations of the posse who ran the gang to cover reveal regular organized burglar band, in which Pelfrey, an ex-convict, and the Medlins-Drayton, Jason, James and oe-were ringleaders. In Jane last they robb~ed an old man named Trotter of three hundred dollars, near Looper's. Petty thieving went on ontinuously in the neighborhood, and in September the gang robbed the house f Albert Toney, in Polk County, North Carolina, of $400. Several other attempts to rob old but supposedly wealthy farm ers were made in this and adjoiniung ounties, but they all failed for dlbrent causes. The men were all desperate fellows, and went fully armed on their raids. They wore uniforms raade of guano sacks and blackened their faces. 'rhe gang had terrorized one section of Pikens County, and the capture of the ringleaders by a self-constituted pos~e is a great relief. Other members of t he band are being pursued and will probably be caught in a few days. H e FIled for Safet y. SPrITAsNBUR, October 30.-Fayette Stewart, the white man who was ae-nsed of killing Bert Coan, at a corn shucking near Reidville, has come in of his own acord and surrendered to the sherill' ~e is now in jail. The reason why the deputy sheriff could not find him is that he was hiding out from home. Some cf the killed negro's friends made such a demonstration, believing that Stewart had done the deed, that he considered it prudent to leave home. A crowd of negroes, the night after the killing, or not many nights after, went to Stewart's house in search of him. It was evident that they had learned their lesson well from the white people, their neighbors, and friends, who .have shown great readiness, on two or three occasions, to take the criminal law into their own hands. After searching Ste wart's housne, they went to the house of Tom Lynch and demanded of him Stewart's where abouts. Lynch knew nothing of him and could give no information. They behaved in such a riotous manner that Lynch's wife was terribly frightened, and her mind has been somewhat shaken by the event- Five of the negroes in the crowd were identified and warrants w'ere issued for their arrest. Monday was appointed for a preliminary hearing before 'Trial Justice Harrison, of Reid ville. As a result of the investigation, one of the negroes was committed to jail last night. A German physician is out with an arti cle condemning the eating of oysters in any HOVELT Es a rWEI.lRV. The Newest Fruits of the Engraver's and Lapidary's Arts. (From the New York Star.) There arc not many startling innova. tions in jewlery. Bar pins are a thing of the past, being almost superseded by the old-fashioned brooch. Clusters are again fashionable in earrings, as well as pins. Diamonds of decided cohr are the rage this season, and the uncertain pale yellows are not very popular. The rich yellows, cinnamons and pinks are the favorite tints, and are introduced into many ornaments. Most persons are only acquainted with the conventional blue sapi-hire, but these stones are also of a beautiful rose-color, yellow and green. The alexandrite is almost chameleon like in its aspects, being green by day and red by artificial light. Uncommonly tinted stones are known as pierres tie fantaisie. At Tiffany's is a large pearl of odd shape, looking like a balloon, around which twines a writhing serpent formed of tiny diamonds. An odd conceit is a diamond stiriup intended for a pendant, and studded with pearl nail heads A head of Marie di Medicis is carv d from a single large topaz. The prond, regular features of the haughty Italian are admirably depicted. The high rui is one mass of very small diamonds, and on the head and in the ears sparkle the costly stones. The pretty flower-pins have by no means decreased in popularity. A spray of delicate purple lilacs, with dinmond centers, is very lovely. A chrysanthemum of a rich purple makes a very styli h orcament, with one large; yellow diamond in the center. A blossom of Alpine edelweisa is re fined and modest, with a centre of sap phire surrounded with diamonds. It is not generally known that pearl, are found in fresh water. Some lovely ones come from the lakes and rivers in Ohio and Tennessee. The stones are often of the purest white, but more frequently have pink and blue reflections, with an almost opaline radiance. They are not very large, and are set in pin:' in the shape of squares, triangles, cresents, stars, etc. A bee-shaped pin is formed of one ablong pearl,.witi diamond wings and eyes of burning rubies. The head of a hairpin of amber shell is formed of one brilliant yellow diamond set in a knot of smaller white diamonds; from this ornament springs an aigrette of palest yellow. A most esthetic breastpin is a dande lion blow made of raw silk sparkled with tiny diamonds. The wires in which they are set are embedded in the fluffy silk, where they scintillate like so many dew drops. The silk can be easily renewed when soiled, and the delicate blossom is as airy as its counterpart in nature. A very small miniature is protected by a table-diamond with faceted edges, in lieu of glass. A large Briolette diamond is suspended from a twisted golden knot set thickly with snall brilliants. An odd and beautiful pin is a single star sapphire, almost an inch in diameter. This stone is opaque and of a hue bordering on dove-gray. A distinct star in paler tinting is visible on the surface. The stone is surrounded with diamonds and is a rare and beautiful specimen. GRAYDON'S DYNAMITE GUN. An Invention that Shoots Dynamite Pro jectiles Out of Ordinary Cannon. (From the Intdianapolis Jonrnal.) In 1880, when Lieutenant Graiydon ol his city returned from China, he began eperimenting upon shells loaded with ynamite. The danger of such shells is heir ex plosion from heat or concusson be fore they leave the gun, thus tendlering hem more dangerous to the men operating he guns than to the enetmy. To overcome this fault of such projectiles he placed the tynamite in a packing of ab~estos, insidle the shell, the asbestos being a non-conduc-e tor of heat. and atlso soft, preventedl the premature exloin of the shells, either by hat or coancussion In the suammer of 1886 an atppropriationi was made lhy_ Coua ress for the purpos~e ot testing his mtveni tion, and on Aug. 10 of that year, undler the supervision of General Howard, ina ommand~ of the Pareitic Coast Department, numbert of x perimnts were tmade with the shells. These were so far suicce.Sfl that thle committee recommiendled that fur ter experiments be made byv the Govern ment, which wais done it Sandly Hook, otn Nov. 10, 1887, iad anthelar tavatrahle: re port was nmade. Shortly aifterward a comn paay was formedl V wiha nomainal capital ttck of *:1,00,0,J~)V whaih puircha~sedl all f the Lieuttenant's iinvencttons upy to that date, t here beng bestides the dly unmaite shell i accelerat ing eartidgle 'and :: ex phoive called the Grayd-mn ligh explosive. Pat cts were secured on them all in the United States and in foreign eountries. Abo~ut two months ago a proposition was received from the French Government for the pur hase of the right to use the dynamite shell for that naution and her colonies. The tig ires were $1 .000,000, andl not $500,000, as as been stated. and the, right to this one invention was sold last week to France for that slam. Ont Wedanesday night oft last week Johan Brown,. colored,. was shoat hy TPom McCoy. olored, an Mr. N. Z. F'eler's place neair Babterg. A thirty eight cailibrei pistol w as utsed . The ball passed enatirely throuatgh the baody. It is thought he will recover. They were rivals in love. McCa ay was lodrea in jail aon Thurir-day aundier a com mtnenat, Iraom Tri:d d1usiice I bwe. );n Mondalay anighat. thle 2and tilt., Nelson Euan~ks,. olared,. was awsassiniaed oan Mr. AlexI li5' plaice itt I ieland To wnusip. f-e was stamaiing int his door * when the shao t was ltedl by thle unaseetn murderer. War runts w erc istued lay Tr'ial .Justice Patr son fora Joe, Dave anal Hlenry Mixsau and Henry Scott, colored. They were arrested and broutght to Barnwell. A prelimninary examination was begunt on Satuirday anda contintued on~ Monday. .Jas. E Davis. Esq., appeare-d for trie State ad George I. Bites and Hobert Ahllrichi thle defenda nts. A great miany witntesses were exmnt ied. Th'le evidence was entirely circumit statial. Scott, aliais D~and.idg~e, was com mitted faor trial and the aither adefetats were discharged.- People. Twenty-seven of the forty-eight Alderman of Chicago are accused of forming a conspiracy to give a franchise to an elevated road in the city against th rts of the propeby owners along SELAItS D))N'I RCA tE HER. A Plucky Girl %% he Carrie- the mal ' broungi an Oregon Wilderness. (From the Porttand Oregonian.) Oregan has a woman mail carrier. ier name is Miss Minnie Westman, and she carries the Uncle Sam's mail from the head of navigation on the .Sinslaw River over the Coast Range mountains, following up the river to Hlde's Post Oflice station, within fifteen miles of Eugene City. Her route is twenty miles long and is situated right in the moun tains, where all the dangers and adven tures incident to such an occupation abound. She carries the mail night and day and fears nothing. " She rides horse back and carries a trusty revolver. Miss Westman is a plump little bru nette, and is just twenty years old. Her father and uncle operate a stage line and have a contract for carrying the mail. At Hale's station Minnie meets her father and gets the maii from Eugene City and starts an her route. Miss Westman has never met with a serious mishap in the performance of her duty. On one of her trips last year she found three goodsized bears in the road, right in front of her. The horse on espying them became frightenea, threw his rider to the ground, and, turn ing around, ran back the road he came. Miss Westman, with great presence of mind, started after the runaway, and, overtaking him, remounted and rode right through the savage cordon, and, strange to say, she was not attacked. Meeting some friends, she told them of what she had seen, and they went to the place and killed the bears. So far this year, Miss Westman has met two bears, which did not molest her. A VERY CONTENTED MAN. lie Difrered With is Wife on a Matter of Religion, But Still Was Happy. tFrom the Arkansas Traveler) A physician while strolling thcough the woods near Jacksonville, Fla., heard a pe culiar noise, and, looking about him, dis covered an old negro sitting on a log, hum ming a tune. The physician approached the negro and said: 'Youl seem to be happy, old man." "Vell, sah, I ain't got nuthin' ter 'plain erbout." "Do you know that yellow fever is rag ing all around you?" "Ought ter know it, sab, when I done buried my wife yistidy." "Then how can you sit around here and sing?" "Dis 'ere is God's wor', ain't it?" "I suppose so." "An' I b'longs ter God, doan' I?" ".Yes." "Well, ef de Lawd put it in my heart ter sing, I doan' see why 1 oughter keep my mouf shet." "Are you not afraid of taking the fever?". " Whut's tie use'n hein' erfeered? Ef de Lawil wants me ter take it, I will, an' ef lie doan*, I won't, dat's all; an', 'sides dat, I 'ain't gwine ter take it no quicker ef I sings. 1 lay you mer go round dat town now, an' you'll tid' mos' o' de folks whut's got dle feber didn't sing er tall." "I don't see," said the amused physician, "how you can feel disposed to sing when your wife was buried only yesterday." "No, sah: dats case yer didn' know dat lady like I did." "Din' get erlong tergedder ez well ez we did erpart, sah." "What was the trouble?" "Oh, well, sah, 1 is er Baptis' an' she wuz one o' dcze yere blind Meferdis. She bleeved dat tiingin' er little dab o' water on er man would do de wuck fur him, when all sens'ble pussons oughter know dat ef he waster be saved he must be souzed in de bayou head an' years. I tell yer dat w'en dis yere plan o' salwation comes up, man better not dodge de p'int. Ef .John de Baptis' got out in de ribber down at de ferry an' souzed folks under de water, w'y I doan' see w'y folks wanster take die chances by bein' sprinkled." "O:d man, do you want a job of work?" "No, sah, I kain' say dat 1 does." "Isn't your name Reuben White?" "Dat's my nomination, sah." "Didn't 1 see you, some time ago, going around asking for work?' "Yes, sah, yer mfout." "Whly dlid you want work then?" "Holi ter wuck den ter git suthin' ter "Well, but don't you have to work now?" "Y'es, but I dosn' wuck fur it. Look ye're, you rec'kon I gwine ten wuck w'en tde folks all ober de country is sendin' hams an' Ibour an' all sorts o' 'visions down yere? Is en ('at gwine ter w'ar herself out scratch in' roun' arter mice w'en dar's en big piece o' meat lyin' 'side her? Look yere, man, whbut sorter tiossipher is yen, nohow?" A Big Fire in Shelby. N. C. SmrzELBY, N. C., Oct., 29--The wornt tire ever experienced by Shelby occurred bere' tonight. The Wray block, occupied by the Southern Express Company, Bab-' imaton, Rtoberts & Co. wholesale and retail sltiimners., printers andi binders, Gardner & Quiinu, whoclesale and retail drugs, D). C. Webb & Son, general merchandise, and the Aurora newspaper, was completely biurned, only a small amount of stock being savedl. The lire originated in one of the priming ollices, and the town was without a. lire engine. The loss on the buildin; owned by W. A. WVray is estimated st $lt),4I00, and that on stock at $20,000. 'Total insurance about $I0,000. Several epoins of gun powder and kerosene oe curred during the tire, but no one was se. riousiy injured. A cro'wd narrowly es carpt'i being crushed by a falling wall Sp'ecial to News and Courier. t'rushed to Death In a Saw Mill, LAK-: Cr, Oc~t. 20.-Mr. Eligie Sauls, who has been attending to the ginning and machiinery of E. E. Sauls & Son, at Cade's, six miles below here, on the Northeastern tai~roatd, met withl a fearful accident ou last atiunrday. While crossing over the shacftin" his~ clothing became entangled, whinrling~ him around rapidly anti mang ling hinm i. a horrible manner. His irit leg wais broken in two places and his let leg in one place. H is right arm was abo4 broken in two plac.s Ills body was badly niangledl. 1Ie received also severe internal in pities. lie livedI only about six houirs, when dleathi relievedo him of' his stuffermug. -Special to News and Courier. Whvjs "inmig the 'day" for the wed ding like a mavali battle'. Because' it is a marry tim1 egaemnt D eath is thbe very friend whom, in his .lute seasonl, event tihe happiest mortal shou:i be, w illimu to emblrace'. -Caiptain,do~'the soldiers enjoytrighting ?" - - Retaly, madl:tn, I ('n't say' that they do -myv more than any othter peo ple, but they utl. luys readuy to' do their duty. Why do you a~~k' ." "Because, I notice whenever they are s ent to war the papers say they go oi in transports."