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A DIVER'S PERIL. Nearly Drowned in His Suit at the Bot tom of the Schuylkill. (Philadelphia Times Jan. 4.) John Wolter, a young German diver, in the employ of his brother. Herman Wolter, who carries on the submarine diving business at 106 South, Delaware avenue, narrowly escaped death yester day morning while repairing the bottom of a vessel in the Skuylkill River. The bark Jennie Sweeney, loaded with lumber, from Pensacola, Fla., ran on the Brandywine Shoals, this side of Cape _elopen, on her voyage up and stove in her bottom. When the vessel reached her wharf in the Schuylkill, near the Chestnut street bridge, she was badly water-logged, and a diver was sent for to repair the damages. John Woiter put on his diving suit and went down, taking with him a can vas patch 20 feet square. All went well for about half an hour, when suddenly the man in charge of the lifeline, by which signals are exchanged between the diver and those in charge of the air pump, discovered that something was wroug. He could get no answer from the diver and the line was slack. An alarm was given and the three men on the boat pulled up the slack and drew up the diver. The rope had bec me entangled about the man's feet and he came to the surface feet first. Wolter in his diving suit weighs over 400 pounds and the three men were un able to-pull him out of the water. They shouted with all their might for help, but before it arrived Wotter had gone to the bottom again bl ad tist. Two men came and the suffcatang man was once more pulled up, but the men' utied tfforts could not get him on the scow and for the second time the diver went down. - The cries of the men who were nearly crazed at the sight of the man drowning before their eyes at last brought a num ber of hands fromthe sawmill of Frank an dWolter was hauled upon t ck?fthe ow. The hamlet was . ku iecrew d and the suit cut of Tsoe'hd turned black and washorriblyswollen, and he was thought to be dead. Whisky waapoured down his throat and he was vigorously rubbed. After .the expiratio*of fteen minutes there were signs rurnig lirfe and shortly afterwaian opened his eyes and spoke. ,e was at once put to bed on the vessel and cared for. Wolter can tell but little about his terrible experience; he says that he was nailing the canvas patch over the holes in the vessel's bottom when he became aware that his supply of air was shut oft aedionewater entered his helmet. He was then about seventy five feet from the air pugp on the scow. He started to walk toward it an got about half way when he became unconscious. The cause of the accident was careless ness in adjusting the air hose to the back of the helmet, from which it be Ti artment of Agriculture. Commissioner Butler has received 2C0 copies of the following circular letter to be sent to various persons in the State: Arsam, Texas, December 20, 1898. DEaR SIR: At the last Southern Inter state Immigration Uonteation,:which con vened at Montgomery,- Ala., December 12-14, the following resolution was unani mously adopted, to which your attention a most respectfully solicited. By the S.u.tern Inte.s T...; ..mmig.ation sembled. tie it Resolved, That those of the South ern States whose legislatures are now in session, oj when beseafter next convened, bebd~i the'y are hereby pmryed to make suitable and ample appropriations to pro mnote the cause of immigration, and to car ry eut to the highest success the plans and purposes promoted and promulgated by this -convention. Resolved further, That the secretary of thia convetis reguessed promptly to trammnitto t Gov~ernors of the respective States and Territories represented in this ietigi- certdfied copies of the foregoing tn, witb the r that they call -l~sl iof zheir wing states were represented in this great convention:- Alahama, Arkan as,. Florida, Georgia, Kentucky; Louis. lana, ' Nec roling, South Carolina, es 'sYirginia, and the territo f , soand, ech member oe4d . . ~miteerepre seating theeethea~ ureau has bee supple wihtwo hundred cop les of this circular in order that thee gover nor and each membei of both- houses of the legislature of their respective states may be supplied with this certidie copy of said resolution as fordered ly tha~onven tion at Montgomery. . In his atdmirable speech before the Immi grauion C-onvent:on, Governoi Seay de clared that ".our faces are forever set to the d .is the }est~wod in e ua'ge Alabama has o. congratu laze herself that she has a govegrar who is in sy mps:hy nith )jyery -progressive.nove' ment, and whosemi4e 'gives nio uncertain -s oun ongtheeet questionLs that arepress Ing f~i'atfe6n aod soluti' n; and it is b. lieved that there is no State in the South but willl, through its governor and legisla isWe place itself-on record in the march of p ggessio and advancement of its nest intiere'sts by speedily taking steps to aid in taIfifeat Southern work -for all of which we pry. 'Respectfully, we pay.F. B. Cnitros, General Manager Etut'gedr pnt& State Irt migration Bmn-T -- . Barrison's Latest Gift. G1erRHi'ison -has received a present that is hot likely to bie placed among his collection of gifts. It was an advertising aino zMilwaukee brewery, givmng in * db olors a view of General Harrisn adGmo'rer Cleveland sitting at a table drinking overflowing glasses or beer, served to- them by a female in scant dress, with an outline of the White House in the back ground. It was sent to the President-elect -Ey express by the audacious advertisers. Tadmanapolis hews. [i'Illustrating the restlessness of the clergy noadyit is stated by a corres pondent W{rork Observer that a strong'cureh n a vflls'ge not far from New York, which has been vacant only a few weeks, has had one hundred any twen -ty applications, and more are constantly coiming. Yet probably this cehurch will do as other churches do in 'similar circumn -stacs-ignore the men who have present ed their elaims, either personally or through friends, and choosesome man who, didn't seek the position at~all. THE' sr nAWRs before the American Forestry Congress at Atlanta attributed the unprecedented floods in Georgia during -the past two years to the reckless destruc -tion of the forests at the headwaters of the streams affecd*'I mense tracts of hard wood timber lands in the mountains of East Tennessee have been bought by Eng lish companies which are sweeping away the lumber at'aA alannming -rate. *The pine belt of Southeib Georgia- is being cleared off at.the rate of two hundred square miles a year; and the net 'result of the slaughter is increasing damage by floods and pro longed droughts. Nervous prostration is on the increase everywhere, and the medical explanation THE GOVERNOR'S POSITION. How It Is Regarded by Different Paper in South Carolina. (From the Newberry Observer) Governor Richardson may defeat the Clemson will for a time, but the will of the people will prevail in the end. And don't you forget it. (From the Fiorence Farmers' Friend.) This is nothing more than might have been expected >f the figurehead who sits inthe Gubernational chair of South Caro lina and obey a the bidding of the bosses. Time will rectify this wrong, and sooner or later the farmers will have their col lege. (From the Rock Bill Herald.) Governor Richardson has again shown his lack of sympathy with the farmers of the State by refusing to sign the Act accepting the Clemson bequest. (From the Cheraw Reporter.) Governor Richardson has shown him self on this occasion, at least, to be more wise and conservative than the Legisla ture, and the State is to be congratulated on his action in this matter. (From the St. .Matthew's spectator.) We take the same stand with Governor Richardson and those who so ably argued its postponement, upon the ground that after the validity of the two wilts has been decided in the Supreme Court then the State would have ample time to ac cept, if decided in her favor. Oar ablest lawyers differ on this point, and-it is hard to foretell the result. (From the Camden .ournal.) However, it does not matter much, as it is not likely that the suit over the estate will be settled in less Uhan a year, and by that time the friends of the col lege will know better as to what the chances are for them, and they will be better prepared to fight for it. (From the Carolina Spartan) Governor Richardson did :got veto the Clemson College bill. It was sent to him at the close of the session and he re fused to sign it. He has the privilege to pigeon-hole it until the next session and he can dispose of it the first two days of the session. He reminds one of "Old man-afraid-of-the-consequences" in this matter. (From the WoodruffNews) It's very naive, very amusing, and not very convincing-the off-hand assertion that the acceptance of the Clemson be quest "expresses the will of the people." The five and a quarter mills levy emana ted from the same source. Does that "ex press the will of the people," too? if the passage of the Clemson bill is "an ex pression of the people's will," all A -ts of the Legislature may with equal reason be said to express that will;and of eourse they don't. (From the Greenwood Tribune.) Governor R:cardson has at last given to the public through the columns of the Ring organ his intentions regarding the Clemson bill, and as was expected by those who have watched his course in the past, he has straddled the whole question. (From the Pee Dee Index.) The question is not a new one, nor was it sprung upon the Governor unex pectedly. After having twelve months in which to consider the measure eleven months more is not necessary for reach ing a conciuion. This delay, so far from being "emi nently judicious," is indeed, very un seemly, and, apart from all consider ation of Miss Lee and collateral matter, the bill, as a bill, either commended itself for approval or disapproval and should have met with positive, unequiv ocal action. (From the Chesterfleld A dvertiser.) g We do not wish to be understood to be an unqualified supporter of the CJem son bili, for we can see faults as weil as virtues connected with it. If it is going to cost anything like whatthe enemies of the bill claim is will cost, we say hands of; but we deem it prudent to accept west has been said against the~ :til by a great many with a great dea~ of allow ance. (From the Dlarllngton sews.) /We cannot believe, however, that any 'Ihing was to be gained by the aoceptane of the Clem-on bequest at this time; on the contrary, the failure of the measure on account of the Governor's action will, we feel sure, pr<.ve in the er..d to be the very best thing which could have hap pened to the proposed agricultural col It-ge, and will ensure its ultimate estab lisument on a secure basis. [From the sumter Watchman and Southronj Gov'-rnor Richardson has refused to approve or disapprove the bill for the acceptance of the "Ciemson bequest." By so doing he has placed the Legisla tire in an -awk ward position. In his message he refrained from making the slightest hint as to his opinion upon the mt er, which he should not have d one had he intended to re fase his signature to a bill of acceptasnce. The Clemscn be qrtest daea ,not commend itself .0 us I as of mued v'ilne to the State, but it is understood'that we are considermng the acion o the Governor, and nothing else. -_______ The Beaufort Elections. IBFixForer, Jan. 8 --The dec'sion of Judge .ildrich in the matter of th~e dis outed title to the county oilices was tileu here today. His Honor has rendered an elaborate and wel-digested decree. render injg a ciecision that is not only justitied rsy the inu'nerous authei-ities he. cites, but by every notion of public policy. The con clusion with wicih we are muostly con ty Comnmis-sioners and the Ceroner, who have been holuing on andi refusiog to sur render the "books. p'tpers, rt cords and furniture," are ordered forthwith to turn them over to the newly-ekcted officers in their stead.-Special to Charleston World. A Cyclone as Reading, Pa. READING, Pa , Jan. 9 -A cyclone pas sed over this city this afternomon, doing con si' erable damage and causing heavy loss of life. A silk mill, in which two hundred and fifty girls were employed, was blown down just before the hour for qiuitt-ing work: Everything is it confusion. About the same time there was an ex'plosion and a fire in the same neighborhood, by which eight men were burned to day. "You know that the poet said bars do not make a prisor." "Yery true; but they sometimes get you into one." It is a mistake to think that you cannot have mourning goods dyed. Take them to the colored man; he dies black. The work of lighting the Roosac Trunel with electricity is probably one of the most difficult electric light ventures ever brought to a successfnl issue. They have a church for dleaf-mutes in Philadelphia. The people who occupy the back pews are never heard complaining~ that they can'thear what the minister says. However, front seats are desired, as all want see the sermon. Western sportsmen complain that wild duck are becoming very searce, and attrib ute their scarcity to the use of duck eggs in making a new glue that is manufactured in Canada. The eggs having become valua ble, hunters despoil nests and thus mate riahy rducethesuppy o youg dcks A REVOLUTION IN F MIE. A Secret that Solves a Difficult Problem and that will Prove a Mine of Wealth to tie south. (Fron the News and Courier.) A discovery that promises to be of the utmost importance to the Southezn States has been made by Dr. C. F. Panknin, of Charleston. It is not prac ticable or proper at this time to give the d'etails, but sufficient can be said to show the nature of the discovery and its value. At different times many experiments looking to the.cultivation of ramie have been made in the South and the plant, it has been found, can be grown without difficulty. It will grow anywhere that cotton grows at no expense whatever for cultivation. It grows like a weed and is not subject to the ravages of worms, noris it liable to any of the other maladies to which the more tender cotton is subject. Ramie then can be grown without difficulty. The trouble hitherto has been to find a quick and inexpen sive way in which the bark of the ramie plant could be prepared for manufacture without injury to the peculiar quality and value of the fibre. It is ouch a pro - cess as that which has been so long sought which Dr. Panknin has discov ered. Without any mechanical process of const quence and by simple chemical treatment, occup- ing in all from forty eight to sixty ihours, t3he bark of the ramie is brought into condition to be carded and spun, so thatin this condition it is available for all--Jhe various usee for the different textile materials, such as the finest cotton and silk. Dr. Pankain has been engaged on his ex periment for a considerable time, and has now brought it to a satisfactory conclusion. The process, as has been said, is of the simplest possible character, the only difficulty being to find out the process. Ramie is cultivated and is manufactured for use in fine domestic goods, linens and similar cloths, but the process is kept secret and the right to make use of it is not sold. THE REV. WM. MARTIM. A Short Account of the Life of One of the Oldest Citizens of Columbia. (Columbia Record, January 11.) The Rev. William Martin, a notice of whose death appeared in THE Rxconn of yesterday, was born in Mecklenburg coun ty, N. C., on March 4th. 1807. He entered the ministry of the Methodist Church at about the age of 21, becoming a member of the South Carolina Conference in 1828. Since then, for sixty years. he has labored hard in the service of the Lord. His ministry in Columbia has been lo-.ger than that of any other Methodist preacher, and it is thought that his service as a min ister has been longer than that of any other one of his denomination in the South. He was one of the founders of the Fe male'College of this city, and was its presi dent for three years. For eight years he was chaplain of the Penitentiary and for one year chaplain of the Lunatic Asylum. He spent eight years in mission service among the negroes. Early in his ministry he worked throueh the yellow fever scourge in Charleston. He contracted the disease himself while en gaged in this noble work of work. But for Mr. Martin's devotion to his church, and his energy and courage amidst poverty and discouragement, the present Washington Street Church would not hare been built. He collected and paid out every dollar for the erection of the Marion Street Church, and founded the Columbia City Mission. which is now located on the corner of Green and Assembly streets. His influence he:re was strong and ex tended. He has ministered to all classes of society, and was beloved by rich and poor. He married Miss Margaret Maxwell, of Scotland, and through her he has been con nected wia the education of girls for nearly fifty years. He was the founder of the famous Way. side Hospital, where so many sick Confed erate sldiers were tended, and he devoted himsel f' to its chxarge. Tute Rev. Win. Martin leaves a widow, a d.ughter, Miss Isabei D. Martin, of this city, and a son, Dr. Henry Martin, of Sum owervilie. The Rev. Messrs. James H. Carlisle, A. Coke Smittl. and Wmn. T. Capers have been telegraphedt for, aad will come to attend he'funeral, which will take place at the Washington Street Methodist Church to. morrow, at 12 M. Death of a Venerable Preacher. One by one the old lanadmar:~a piss away and but a few years more, we, who were boys thirty years ago, will live to see the last lines obliterated. The Rev. Adam Ivy, whose name was familiar to every household in Lancaster county. died at Bushnell. Fia..- at the residence ot his son in-law, Mr. C. M. Blake, December 80, 188. at the advanced age of 90) years, 5 months and 20 days. He was born in this county, (Ii-.ian Land) and lhved here all ais life urtil recently, when he went with some of his childre'n to Florida. He was : wice married, armi was the father of thir -eni childlren, aht - c-om grew to manhoo I ad womnanhood.-Lancaser Ldgitr. A Vicious Negro. Frank Phillips, a negro, was brought before Trial Justice McMaster this morn ing charged with larceny and an assault of a high nature. He was accused by J. H. Hilard, a young white man, of having stolen two quilts from his wagon while it was st:mndiong in the streets yesterday. and~ when accused of the theft, Phillips (w-ho is an ex c nvict) turned upoin him witha knife and threatened to cut him. Hei then dropped the at->len prope. ty and made off, but was subsequently arrested. In default tof $300 bail, he was committed to jail to await irial at the spring term of court for both the larceny and the assault. While i'. the court room Phillips mnade tw tte t tostrike another negro who tesifid gaisthim. and was only quietec by a policeman putting handcuffs on him. -Columbia Daily Record, January 11. IstnTrToS given out by the friends o: 'Genera! Harrison furnish ground for the belief that there wili not be an immediate clean sweep of offici -holders. A corres pondent recently asked Senator Frye of Maine whether he expected rapid chanes inteofcsin that State, and he replied thathe id ot.He expressed the opinion that General Harrison would allow compe tent men at least to serve out their terms "We irnve -promised not to make a clear sweep,"- said the Senator, "and 1 think we oug at to keep the promise." Congressmar Miliken, of Maine, is not a very enthusias tic reformer, but he'said the other day: " think that we shall treat the Democrats ai Iwell as they have treated us. They have -ft a goodmany postmasters in nmy district for two or three years, and I shall riot urge their that successors be turned out at onc4 unless there is some special reason." A misfortune much sought by young men-A young heiress. The abolition of slavery in Brazil is sal: to have had a deplorable effect upon the industries of the empire, and a financial crash is anticipated. The wants of freed men being few, they will not work stead ily. Habits of industry and thrift are yet to be acquired. The financial outlook is se unfavorable that bank shares and similar securities have suffered a decline of thirty to fifty per cent. MAKING SHIRTS. HOW THE WORK IS DONE IN THE PHILADELPHIA FACTORIES. Nearly One Hundred Firms Engaged in the Cusiness in That City-Division of IL.bor-Something Concerning the Wages Paid to Operatives. At the time the "Song of the Shirt" was written, by working hard from early morn until late at night a woman could make one shirt. That <vas before the introduction of machinery and sys tems. and when the shirtmiker took home a bundle of linen and muslin piec'es and brought back the garments. made and linished outright.. Naow, with the systems and machinery in vocuC, t:om the time the material is cut until it leaves the ihdsher. it passes through the hands of sixteen persons, each of whom does a part toward preparing .t for the manly bosom. This sy-: is called e-ui work, and each one in the team averages one dozen and a half of shirts in ten hours. Another method of mal:iirg these garments is the one practiced in making up custom goods. In these places the bosoms are bought ready made, and with the remaining parts are gh-en to the hands, who make them out and out. These women will make from four to eight a day of nine hours, and the average price for this work is $3 a dozen. FROM START TO FILSH. The materials of which shirts ae made are linen, muslin, "backing." a coarse linn used in lining the bosom, percales, calicoes, flannels and 1'. i.s. a species of w orked bosom. In the large shirt factories. where the team system is practiced, the beginning of :ie work is thn cutting. The material is lI id out on long tables at times as many as sixty ply, the patterns are placed and with a pencil the marker sizes off each cut. He is followed by the cutters. who. with knives, separate the parts and these are tied into bundles and carried into an other department where the operators are. Here the "forelady" distributes the parts to different girls-the bosoms to one who returns this part complete, the sleeves to another, the neck or collar bands to another, and the cufls or wristbands to another. In preparing the bosoms, the pleats are folded by small girls with steel patterns the size of the plait required; from these girls it goes to the operator and then to the examiner, after which it is taken to a- machine where the neck receives the proper slope, and now it is ready for the body of the shirt. In the meantime the body of the shirt has been making the rounds from the first girl who hems it to an other who attends to the facings, and it Is now ready for the bosom to be run on rough, from here another hand who stitches it down solid. The front and back are now joined by the other girl, and together they move on to the next "lace where the collar bands are put on. this time the sleeves are ready and they are put in place. Now the shirt is hemmed, and then it is ta'.en hold of by another girl who is a "feitr." and when her work is done the garment is ready for the finisher. - This means placing the gussets, cutting and sev ing the button holes and putting on the buttons, by which time it is ready for the laundry. in this city ninety-five firms and indi vidual employers are in the business. Most of these places are custom stores and employ but few people, but a num ber of tI en are extensivo factories, and the capacity of a few is as high as 150 dozen shirts a day. So far as the manu facturer is concerned the business of siirt making has, during the past few years. not only held its own in this citv, but it me: rkeived the benefit of d~e ntural iucrease that comes to a.l brnches of business, but fashion, during the past two years, has decreed that the white should, in a measure, give way to other colors and texture, and, as these are nearlv all made outside of the city, the intr'oiluction of the flannel shirt has been a severe blow to the operators. A TABLE OF wAGES. The firms mentioned above employ a total of 2.&50 hands, nine-tenths of whom ar women. They are divided into the branches mentioned below, and the average wages for the year round are as annexed: iy . arkers.....---------------------- $18 to $'2 Cters....... . ....--.------------. 1 to 13 Boso~ 1:snds.....----------------...8 to 9 Facig unands..........--.-.-.--.-.---- to 7 Ruaerslli..................---.. 6 t 8 Stlm-ners........----.--.--.... to 7 E acmakrs.....-.--------------- to 7 Sleevemsnters.....-...-...-.-...... 5 to 7 Banma.....rs......-..----.... 7 to 8 abaukers......-....--..--......7 to 8 Hemrs.....--..----------.....5 to 7 Joiners.... .... --.--------------- to 7 Nekbanders..........---.------- .-- 5 to 7 Pulig in sleeves.................. 5 to 7 Seanlng up...........-------------- to 7 Felling. ..--.----------------........ 7 to 8 inishing.......................... to 5 The average day's work is nine hours, and there has been no material change in the wages for some years. in a few of the places the work is steady, and in such factories the wages -are a trifle higher than those given above. With, the ex cption of the mnarking, cutting and what is called the hand finishing, the work is ali done by machinery'. There is no apprentice systemn in an; branch of the business except the cuttmng. When a girn begins work al. this business she is p aid from the beginning for what suo does, but the machine she uses she must either rent or buy outright. There is in some of these factories con sidera ble child labor utilized, p':-ticularly in the depart ment where the bosoms are made. The Liner grades of this work are finished by hand, andl while thiose who ao this work are the real practical workers of the tradle, it may be seen that their average earnings are much lower than those of any other branch. The reason of this is that large quantities of the work are sent to the Ilouse of tihe Good shephe:d, the Rosine home and other re foruatory institutions, whero it iu done for much less money than is paid outside of those places.-Philadelphia Call. Began Life Ovcr Again. I rode up town from the court with a man who is now prospermng an a respon ile business position in New York, and who holds the res pect and coniidence of his emiployers, who, when I was in the far west a dozen years back, was in state prison on the Pacific coast for forgery. Heu had been employed in a commercial house, had been bitt~n by the mania ior stock gatuling, and landed behind bars. When ne was release~d he came~ eaist Clnd began life over agan, and his record shows, n.3 clearly as any record can at least, that he gathered wisdom freom chastienenit, and really con -nced a new life with his new nnme.-httsburg Bletin. A Colored Woman on Fire. About 7 o'clock yesterday morning at old colored woman named Cindy Washing to was burned accidentally at her residenci at No. 90 King street. It seems that she was near the tire and that her garment. caught fire. Before she could extinguisi the flames, her lower limbs were pain fulh~ burned. Her screarns, however, brough1 assistance and her garments, which hac not been torn from her body, were envel oped in a blanket, which exting~uished thi blaze. The woman's injuries are painful, but not serious.-News and Courier. Kentuckianis raised enough sunflowei seeds this summer to supply the wants o1 th whole TUuited States.. As DANGKR"b ' - iTLA5.rlrE. T-he Highly Explosive Flour Dust Which Frcquently Wrecks Ruse M1l1s. (From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.) Hugh T. Ackerman, of Abilene, Kan., a gentleman largely inte rested in flour milling, said to a reporter: "The recent fearful mill explosion in Chicago, I see by the papers, has given rise to much comment and several theories have been advanced as to its cause. For my part, after an experien'ce of over twenty years in the business, I can not see any good reason for looking beyond flour dust. Ii a powry. r magazine should blow up there would be every reason to ascribe the explosion to the powder, and the fine flour du-t found in every mill where great care is not taken to keep it down, is almost as explosive as gunpow der. Few people appreciate this, but it is a fact well known to all millers. Certain ly a barrel of flour is as harmless an article as can well be imagined, but in the process of manufacture a high explo sive, scarcely less powerful than dyna mite, is generated. This consists of nothing more than the fine dust which comes from the stones. When in mass it is perfectly harmless, but let it once become disseminated through the air of a room in the form of almost impalpable powder, and it is likely to ex plode at any moment with terrific vio lence. I am not scientific man enou-h to give the reason for this, but 1=--ow that like many other sun stances -rm less when in mass, flour dust, when iine ly divided and confined, is one of the most terrible a.uts of destruction in existence. While visitiag Minneapolis to attend a millers' convonti, a in 1863, I witnessed acasualty which shall never forget. "A large party of members of the con vention were making a tour of the mills, and great pains had been taken to put every thing in the beat order for their re ception. A number of the visitors had entered the Washburn mill and were walking around looking at the machine ry. Just before their arrival a number of men had beensetto work with brooms sweeping the floors and carefully brush ing the dust out the of corners. As a con sequence the rooms were filled with minute particles of the fine dust which came from the stones, the air being fairly laden with it. I chanced to be with another party, and just as we passed into the street, we heard a sharp explo sion, instantly followed by a long, rum bling noise, ending in a peal like a thousand claps of thunder. I and those with me were thrown to the ground with violence and partially stunned. When I recovered somewhat and stag gered to my feet I saw in place of the great Washburn mills a heap of ruins, the walls being torn in pieces and a huge irregular hole being made in the ground. All the neighboring buildings were more or less injured, some having half their walls torn out, while there was not a whole pane of glass within 150 yards. The noise of the explosion summoned the fire department and the conflagration which started up was at once checked. But the loss of life was terrible. Eleven mill proprie tors and over forty workmen, who chanced to bein the mill at the time, were instantly killed, in some cases their bodies being torn to pieces so as to ren der recognition impossible, while over a dozen men were wounded by flying fragments, some of them fatally. It was one of the most dangerous explaions ever known. "At first it was ascribed to the boilers; on investigation it was ijuni that these were uninjured, Much tesiimony, was taken before the coroner's jury, ands the responsibility fixed upon the flour dust. It appeared that just before the sweeping commenced all the windows in the milt had been closed, so that the particles were closely confined in the building. As one said, the air was white with flour, in a highly divided condition. Both testimony and experiment proved that an explosion may occur at any in-tant when these conditions prevail. Fire is not necessary; in fact it is doubtful whether flalme alone will cause the dust to explode, it going off much more readily by percussion. No one was lel t alive in the room where the disaster commenced, but probably a workman dropped an iron bar or a ham mer; or it may even have been occasioned by a violent stamp of a foot. A Warm Reception. Mr. James Davis was united in the holy bonds of matrimo:sy on the 25th uilt., to Miss Amanda Beckham. The father in law, Mr. Columbus Beckham, three or four days after the happy event, from some ause ordered his son-in-law not to put his foot in his yard again. Davis not under stnding the old gentleman to be in earnest upnu his return from bird hunting walked~ up to the house, when the olrd man met him and let in upon him with a stick. Da vis bore the beating for a time with for bearance, but con''luding the thing had prceeded far enough, turned upon the old gentlemnan and tire'd a load of birdsb't ato his leg, whichb pacified the irate pare . ,ho sought safety in flight, verifying mec old adage: "That he who fights and runs away, Lives to fight another day." [Lancaste Ledger. Severely Burned. Miss Bettie Braswell, -if the Spring Branch neighborhood, four miles from Marion, during the convulsions of an epi leptic lit last Wednesday fell in the fire and was so severely burned that there is little hoe cf her recovery. She lives with her brother, Mr J. W. Bmaswell, and it. wa :i his h use that the accident occurred. Mrs. Braswell, was sway from home at the bed side of her mother, Mrs. W. B. Gasque, who was at the time very~ ill, and no one was on the premises with her but her aged grand mother, and she was (out in the yard. As soon as the rigor of the fit had spent it self and consciousness retulrned sbe screamed-thus bringing her grand-mother to er aid. Her clott ing was almost com pletely consumed, her hair was all gone and her person was horribly burned by the time the old lady reached her side, Dr. McMillan was summoned, but he enter tains but slight hopes of her recovry. M?rion Index. Found Dead in a Barn. Last night, about half-past~ 0 o'clock, a cored man i nmed George Washingon Jonsn cale at the Police Station and sd he had Iound the dead body of a colored man ini his barn, at the Belmont farm, about four miles aboye the city. Johrnson said he did not know who the man was. le had gone into the loft of the barn to get some fodider for his horse and stooping down to pick up a bundle of fodder he picked up a man's leg instead, He was very much frightened, and he waited only long enough to discover that the man was colored and that he was dead. He then came to thc city and notified the police au thorities. Deputy Coroner Rivers will go up to-the place this morning and hold an inquest.-News and Courier. Tt is notieable that the large majortPy of vicious horses are handled by bad-tempered Truth is a plant that grn~sps thie soil anid seeks the sun. From a lirm foundation it ies higher anel higher. JAPANESE ARTISANS. Varpenters Who Work in Crude Ways, but Achieve Superior ResIts. The Japanese artisan bas four hands anid twelve fin.er.. He uses his feet as an extra pair of hands, and his two great - s can wrap themselves around the articls with which he works like an Anierican's thumb. I saw a cooper at work mending a bucket. He held the bucket between his feet while he sat down to his work and put on the hoops with a hammer and wedge. His legs were bare and his cue was tied in the old Jar :msce fashion, while his almond eyes cisely watched the work he had ber.ie him. A fter ten minutes of pound ig he !:;id down his tools and took a smoke, and during the hour that I sat near him he smoked four times. The Japanese pipe only holds a pinch of to acco. and he could do this cheaply, but the time consumed was at least twetf inutes. This perpetual siesta on.e of the fe:-eres of Japanese labor. I a= toCl by vid aeiwrican residents that i. Japane. e workman will not do one third as much a day as an American workman, and in every case they seem to do their werk in tho' ... lest of w:. The ethiods of a:e ir Japan are le direct opposite of those in America. lre carpenters, for instance, pull their planes the other way, and when they use the drawing knife they push it from them instead of pulling it towards them. They do most of their work sitting and they do all the work on the pull stroke in stead of the push stroke, and they stand the hoard as a rule at an agle of 45 degs. against something rather tan lay it on a or sawhorse as we do. They do their na, not with chalk, but with a reel and an inked string when they wish to saw in a straight line, and the whole of the work of turning the rough logs into the finest of cabinet work is done by hand. There are no planing mills in Japan, and the sawmills can be counted on the fingers of one hand. The usual method of sawing logs into boards is to stand the log at an angle against the support and saw it by hand. The saw used is not the powerful cross cut saw of America, but a wide short Japanese instrument, which has a handle about two feet long, and which looks like a butcher's cleaver filed into a saw. The human sawmill stands on top of the log or under it, and pulls away for ten hours a day for about thirty cents. Skilled carpenters in cities get about forty American cents a day, and the best men in the business do'iiot get over forty five. Still, you will find no better work men in the world than here. Their work is done with the use of very few nails, and they have to he cabinetmakers as well as carpenters. Every Japanese house has walls which must move in grooves in and out every day, and the ordinary home is as finely put together as a bureau. The joining of everything is by dovetail ing. and the Japanese could teach our Aimerican workmen much in the polish ing and joining of fine woods. Speaking of house building, the Japan ese begin their work at the top. The roof goes on first, and then they begin to build the walls and toconstrue the inte rior.-Frank G. Carpenter. A Princely Host. One of the most lovely of Alpine health resorts is Bad-Kreuth, hamlet of some half dozen houses bui by the side of a r'wing of mineral water. The charm of the resort is not, however, due to its loveliness, nor to its healin" waters, but to the fact that its landlorl la Prince L:dwi;: of Bavaria, a courteous host, who in his management of the phiace comLines a lucrative business with a most generous charity. The prince, the eldest son of Duke Maximilian and the brother of the em prei of Auastr-ia, taurrendered to his younger brothecr, Karl Theodor, all'his rights as the headi of the family, because he wished to marry a lady of inferior social position, with whom he had fallen in love. The marriage proved to be a happy one, anad to~ this day, though more taan t!hirty~ years have passed since they were ui:dthrnce's manner to his wife is oretha ofa lverthan amdl aged narried mean. They have no cil. dren, and live for the greater part of the year i' a pie suite of apartments at Bad-Kreuth, where, according to a writer in Thie CornrhiU M:in 0e, she dif fuses brightness and happiness around her, and he shows how a rirnce may earn an honest livelihood, and be the first, not to receive, but to render aid. The whole of the health resort belongs to tho ducal family. The servants are theirs, and the entire management of thle iece is under Prince Ludwig's su. peritendence. He is his own butcher, b~eer dairyman and baker. During Juue, July and August Kreuth is filled with southern Germans, who pay liberally for their rooms a'nd board, an'd ma':e these months the prince' harvest time. During May and he' tem ber the prince receives no paying guests, but fills the house with those he calls his "friends." They are those who are toc poud to a-k for charity, but need a little help-<'ffcers depending upon their pay, university students, poor professors, stuggling literary men and artists. Two or three hundred of these "friends" are housed, fed and tended at the ho~tt 1 during May and September at carefully thre wealthiest gues.ts, and that, too, without its costing them one pnny. If at the height of the paying seaso a room is left vacant, some poor invalid is invited to occupy it, and no one can toil from thre manner of the host or his servants that the new arrival i not a i'ijonaire. l'rince Lutdwig never forgets a face or a n-ume, anod has a pleasant word for every on'e, whether a paving guest ora "friend." Lis manner is the same to all, the sympathretic greeting of a courteous host and the kindly greeting of a well bred man. Efl'ect of the Copyright Law. The eifect urnon the book trade of the fl.oposed copyright law is ntot as yet ctariv understood. The law is demtanded not t') protect foreign but native authors. Tre American writer has for years been struggling to get place in a buyers' tmar et. wvhcre he has had to conmnete with: t e work not of men who were liis equls or his sunteriors, but of men whose worha.. whate' er their value, could be got for nothing. That American authors have gained the plae they hold in the fall oi the flood of English books which has. dluged this market is enormiou::y to thir crediit. They have forced pl)e~ii to b""e iv th'e real excellence of their w-orL i!iaeof tha most cruel Lind of oh p ition. The iinnediato ect of th. ..-rwi e to sLUmuate Ameria' writ'r;. It will eh~i pat an er~d to *:: a. J e~le cheap libr.:ries, as ev ery oo rarth reprinting 'wi!! be protected by~ -sprght.-Curreot Literature. Anew repor:er was sent to investigate rumonr thit a well-known citizen had be cone insane. The next morning the fol loving paragraph appeared in the paper: " There was a report yesterday that some thing was the martter with Mr. Saunders' head. It is as sound as it has always been. Titre is nothing in it." The reporter". caser ended there and then. A London paper says that the art of the gdsmith is disappearing, owring to the chiuapness of diamonds. Tlne value of jew eley noev depends on the precious stones i: cotans, rather than upon the beauty of wi rkmnanship. You can never judge a man's sorrows by tire sieo his hat band. COINCIDENCES. STRANGE OCCURRENCES THAT HAVE DEFIED EXPLANATION. A Discussion of Murder and the Ghastly Sequel - Dickens' Predictions at the taces-The "Three Legged Jimas"-What ihappened to a Friend of the Poet Rogers. A coincidence of the war, of a serious nature, is that of the "three Jims." A group of four men were in the trenches duiring an artillery engagement. They were lying on the ground, chatting and saoking, out o! the direct reach of fire, when a shell suddenly exploded over their heads and so seriously injured three of the men that it necessitated amputa tion of the left leg in each instance. The Christian name of each of these three men was the same-James. The fourth, who was untouched, bore another name. The three veteran pensioners havo ever since been known among their acquaint ances as the "three legged Jims." D OwNING'S EXPERIENCE. A curious story of coincidence is re lated b.; iabcrt Browning in an English newspaper as haring occurred to him self and sister while visiting a remote valley in Switzerland some years ago, the circumstances of which are substan tially as follows: While strolling about one evening to admire the calm and repose of the valley, which lay spread out before them, their tan unaccountably turned to the sub'ect of murder, and each began to speculate as to what their first impulse would be if they should be so unfortunate as to nd the body of a murdered man in the wood. Continuing in this strain, the Brownings talked until they reached the hotel, when the matter was dropped. Mr. Browning applied for the use of a carriege the next morning, and was re fcrrcd to the landlord, who informed them that it would be impossible for thom to have the two horses intended for their carriage, as one of them was wanted to bring in the body of a man found early that morning, murdered, at the head of the valley. Questioning him, Mr. Browning learned that in all prob ability the murder had been committed very -oon after the conversation of the evening before. On visiting the spot where the body had been discovered it was found to be the identical place where, on the previ ous eveninz, they had stood speculating as to what they should do in case of such an event. To heighten the dramatic ef fect of the coincidence, they were told that no crime of violence, so far as known, had ever before been committed in that valley. The fact that the mind of the poet should have turned to such a subject just at that time partakes of the nature of a presentiment, and the coinci derco is certainly one of the most pecul iar on record. In Forster's "Life of Dickens" a curi ous story is told of what Dickens called a "parayivzfg coincidence," experienced on the boncaster race course. On the St. Leger day, in 1857, Dickens bought a card of the races, and facetiously wrote down three names for the winners of the three chief races. He had never heard or thought of any of the horses in his life, but, as he wrote to Forster, "if you can believe it, those thred races were won. one after another, by those three horse;." AFTER ?,AY FEARS. The poet, Samuel Rogers, narrated a cincidence which, although it may have been a humorous invention, is quite within the bounds of possibility, and at the same time somewhat amusing. An. oicer who was ordered to India went,. on the day before leaving England, to his lawyer's. The day being wet, he took a hackney coach, and when, he got oct. as he was paying the driver, dropped a. shilling,.1He "looked- in Tb~ nmud and slush for it in vain, and so did the coachman. On his return home after some years' service lie had occasion again to go to his lawyer's. When leay ing he recollected his lost shilling, and, by scme unaccountable impulse, began to look for it, when, strange to say, he found, just at the very spot where-he had paid the coachman-not the shilling, but twelve pennyworth of coppers, done up in brown paper. Perhans the most astonishing coinci dence of any we might mention and at the same time one perfectly authentic, is' related by that charming writer, "Tav erner," of The Boston Post. "I was walk ing." says Taverner, "on my way down town, with a neighbor who was going the s'ame way, when my companon, for no apparent cause, suddenlychaned the subject on which we were chatting by an inquiry concerning a common acquain tance, who had disappeared out of our lives several years before, and whom I knew he beld in especial detestation. ** * My friend had heard of him the year before in San Francisco, and later asomew'here on the continent of Europe. 'd th~ere is no man,' lhe went on to sa.-'a I should more heartily enjoy krio"eking dovn if he would only give me the provoctioni.' We had at that instant reahe Tremont street, where, suddenly tunn the corner, one of the passng cov' came squarely into collision with myl frid. slirpped upon a spot of ice as he :ru-;;gked "to keep his balance and far "easurcd his length on the side 'wv ii. turned to nick up the hat of the fallen man ', when I felt myself grasped by the ar n by miy friend, who whispered: ' 'oe ' cot, Taverner, don't you see it's t very ma, and I've done it. after all!' Sure er.h it was the distant traveler, wh o ha d tu rned ul) to be knocked down, o o::e2 by a coincidence."-St. Louis Gle-DemJaocrat. 'oamhing Abont New South Wales. Now a little bout the~ colony of New South Wales;. '-This is the oldest and richest of all the colonies and the parent ot them all. In 18234 Tasmania, then Vrwna n Diemien-s L.arnd, was sep arata'd from New South Wales and be came an independent colony. Four years. afer ward the colony of Western Austra lia was founded, 1336 South Australia was fouaded, 1810) New Zealand became indle ndent.1lt31 Victoria wass~eparated, :: the 'last founded was Queensland in 1830 The northern territory belongs to Soui"th utralia. with Port Darwin ns its en pi~.Nw South WVales lies between -.. and: c d-;. of south lat. and 141 and 1. iia c.st long. It has 800 miles of sac'a& , with a number of good har hrs.1 Its gner'al shape is trapezoid, con -*:inn 310.93S railes, four times as large as Great Eriai: or Victoria, or twice as Ia~rge as C.alifornia. As regards the dis tmaee from the equator it can be com pared to Cape Colony. Chile and the lower basin of the L-1 Plata in the South erni Hemisphero, v.::2 v~ith Texas. Louisi ana. Mlississippi, the :uth of Spain, Italy adGecwhich occupy similar poi ion nothof the line.-Cor. San Fran algsco Chronicle. Getting mellow every night is no way to Ireach a "ripe old age." A grizziy bear that weherd seventeen hundred pounds was killkd at Big Horn Basin, Wyoming Territory, a short time ago. One hundred and nine shots were fire d from nine rifles bcfore the brute was killed. The place of Mr. Killirgsworth near Dumnbarton, was visited by a huge wild cat one night last week. The monster car ried off a turkey hen and was pursued by ~Mr. K. with his two hounds and captured near the old Patterson mills after being shot His eats majesty weighed 241bs and measured from foot to foot 4j feet.-Barn well Sentinel