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MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 23, 1889 JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING, S. C. F. N. WILSON, IrNSURANCE AGENT, MANNING. S. C. A. LEVI, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING. S. C. pr Notary Public with seal. H. INGRAM. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office at Court House, MANNING, S. C. M CLI TON GALUCHAT. PRACTICES IN COURTS OF CHARLESTON and CLARENDO. Address Commuunications in care of Man ning TIMEs. JOS. H. MONTGOMERY, ATTOREYAT LAW, Main Street. SUMTER, S. C. r'Collections a specialty. )R. G. ALLEN HUGGINS, DENTIST. - OF 'ICES - MANNING AND KINGSTREE. -OFFIcE D As Kingstree, from 1st to 12th of each month. Manning, from 12th to 1st of each month. --OmFIcE Hous 9 A. M. to 1 P.M. and 2 to 4 P. M. 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 ealities. Terms Reasonable. .Max G. Bryant, JAS. M.LAND, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, PnorRIEToss. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia, located in the EX ACT BUSINESS CENTER OF THE CITY. where all Street Car Lines pass the .door, and is MENU is not excelled by any in the South. Manning Shaving Parlor. HAIR CUTTING ARTISTICALLY EXECUTED. and Shaving done with best Razors. Spec ial attention paid to shampooing ladies beads. I have had considerable experience in several large cities, and guarantee satisfac tion to my customers. Parlor next door to MANNxING TUMES. E. D. HAMILTON. EW WAVERLY, HOUSE, IN Nhe Bend of King Street, Charleston. The Waverly, having been thoroughly renovated the past summer and newly fur nished throughout, makes its accommoda tions unsurpassed. Incandescent Electric Lights and Electric Bells are used in all rooms and hallways. Rates $2.00 and $2'.50. G. T. ALFORD, Proprietor. PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. First Class in all its Appointments .Sup plied with all Modern Improvements Excellent Cuisine, Large Airy Rooms, Otis Passenger Elevator, Elec sric Bells and Lights, Heat ed Rotunda. -BATES, $2.00, $250 AND $3.00. Rooms Reserv'ed by .Mlail or Telegraph THlE BEULAB ACADEMY, Bethlehem, S. C. B. B. THOMPSON, Principal. Fail Session Begins Monday, Oct. 29. -o Instruction thorough, government mild and decisive, appeahing generally to the student's sense of honor and judgment in the important matter of punctuality, de portment, diligence. &c. Moral and social inftuences good. ~LOCATION FINE Tuition from $1.00 to $2.00 per month. Board in good families $7.00 per month. Board from Monday to Friday per month $S.0to $4.00. p&-For further particulars, address th Principal. J. G. DINKINS, M. D. Rt. B. LORYEA. i.I Dinkins & Cos, .Druggsts and Pharnacists, --DEALERs I -PUJKE'DrJUGS AND MEDICINES, PERFUMERY, STATIONERY, FINE CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Full stock of PAIrrs, Oirs, Gu Lss Vams and WHITE LEAD, -RItS') Pajmr and WurEWA~Su BRsHs. An elegant stock of SPECTACLES and EYE GLASSES. No charge made for fitting the eye. Physicians Prescriptions carefully -compounded, day or night. 1,6; Dinkins & Co., Sign of the Golden Mortar, A BOY'S SECOND SIGlT. REMARKABLE GIFT OF A BOY WHO LIVED HALF A CENTURY AGO. Found in The Annals of Philadelphia." He Saw His Father Chasing a Jug-The Incident of the Stolen Pocketbook-The Ser Eventually Becomes a Wreck. Looking over Witson's "Annals of Philadelphia," published4n 1S30, I came across a remarkable story, which cannot fail to be of interest both locally and generally, even at this lato day. The author says: "The good people of Caledonia have so long and exclusively engrossed the fac ulty of second sight that it may justly surprise many to learn that we also have been favored with at least one case as well attested as their own. I refer to the instance of Eli Yarnall, of Frankford. Whatever were his first peculiarities, he in time lost them. le fell into intem perate habits, became a wanderer, and died in Virginia, a young man. This remarkably gifted person was born in Bucks county, Pa., and came with his parents to the vicinity of Pitts burg. The account of him contained in the narrative before mentioned is in sub stance as follows: When Yarnell was living near this city, being then a child only 7 years of age, as he was sitting in the house one (lay he suddenly burst into a fit of al most uncontrollable laughter. His mother asked him what pleased him so much. The boy replied that he saw his father (who was not at home) running rapidly down the mountain side, trying to overtake a jug of whisky which he had let fall. The jug rolled part way down the declivity, but was caught by the old man before he got to the bottom. When the father reached home he con firmed the whole story, to the great sur prise of all. After this the boy excited much talk and wonderment in the neigh borhood. SEEN AT LONG RANGE. About two years later the Y arnalls were visited by a friend named Robert Verree, with other Quaker relatives or acquaintances from Bucks county. Verree, to test the lad's miraculous power, asked him various questions and among other things inquired what was then going on at his own home in Bucks county. The boy described the house, which he had never seen; stated that it was built partly of logs and partly of stone: that there was a mill pond in front of the house which had recently been drained. and concluded with a descrip tion of the people in the house, and of two persons, a man and a woman. who were setting on the front porch. V hen Verree reached home he in (uired who had been at his house at the day ::ani hour lie had beid his convers. tn wih young Yarncil. He Earned t'iat there had been a showerat the t huo: and several of the field hands ha-d into time I:ou:e to escape the rain.: tih pzerson.4 on the porch had been faithfil deeribe.!. oven to the color of th-ir hair. As to the mill pond, the men ha I drained it in order to catch muskrats. In short, evry detail given by the boy was proven to be accurate. The habit of the young seer, when asked to exercise his singular faculty, was to hold his head downward, often closing his eves. After waiting for some tiane. apiparen.tly deep in thought, he would declare what he saw in his visions. Le was sometimes found alone in the th-id. siiting on a stump and crying. On I:cing asked the cause of his grief lie said he saw great numbers of men en gaged in killing each other. Although he had never seen a battle, a ship or a cannon, he described military and naval battles as if lhe had been an actual looker on. FINALLY BEC-G1E A WR~ECK. Some of the Quakers who saw him be eamie much interested in the boy, believ ig him? possessed of a noble gift, and desired to have'charge of his bringing up. ile wvas accordingly :epprenticed to a l'rankford tanner, but lhe attracted so much attention, and so many callc-d at the shop to hold conversation with him that his master became annoyed and tried to discourage such curiosity'. Thme boy, therefore, began to shun qu'estions as much as possible, and seemed by do grees to lose his singular gift. lie drifted into bad company andeventually became a wreck. His mother never allowved him to take. any money for answering questions, be lieving that his visions were God given, and that it would be wrong to turn them to account pecuniarily. Wives whose husbands had long been missing and were supposed to hav-e been lost at sea or perished in accidents, and others whose relatives had disappeared would come to him for information. Of those still alive, he would tell how they looked and what they were doing. On one oc casIon a man asked him in 'iest who had stolen his pocketbook,. anc? was nmuch taken aback when the lad replied: "No one; but you stole a pocketbook from another man when in a crowd." . And the historian of the boy's wonder ful deeds states that such was the fact. This is about all there is of the strange! narrative, which, like Sam Weller's love letter, ends so abruptly that the readeor wishes it were longer.-Pittsburg Ds patch. I1ow a Mine Was Discovered. The~ discovery of the Amulet mine, on Lynx creek, reads more like fiction than1 r-ealit:. As it has never been in print we will g.ive it: In July, 1880, F. E. Doggtt. wvith nick and 'shovel on s shoulders, wvas climbing the Lynx Creek mountains on his way to exn:nine a quartz m'ine. Decoming weary in t1.o ascnt heC stopped beneath the frien'div boughs of a juniper tree to rest. Afler renerating for somne timie lie rock u~p his pi-k, and in throwing it on his shioul der it shined from' his hands, :md. in fiing he'hind him, its sharp point struck hiha in the le:g, causing great pin'. Pi'd::s it up w'ith ai ve-henent ii hi'n.- l i-: it in the grunc'i2:i could rmain ther, and( started to, waik awa. h--d '-one-but a '-bor' dham whc he r*-enl, a'd, retumineag, paa d it ia te 'ground, bringi'ng wit ' some brghmt aid shiningw me~tl.I iis anger he had unknowingly struck it in:o a blind ledge, wvhich lie lcacted as the Aulet mine, and from which there has been over $50j,000 worth of high grade ore shipped. From a careful examnina tioa made of the second class ore, which has been allowed to remain on the dumps, it is estimated that it contains fully 2,000 tons. Samples were procured from this promiscuously, aud sampled and assayed at the samphin'g works, gii ing a value of S35 per ton, or total value of the ore on the dumps of $70,000. Why the Bear Got Mad. Said Mr. Southmayd: "When a man goes out after them he wants to be sure that his ammunition is all right. Three weeks ago I was out gunning for birds and happened to run across a big black bear. le was about ten yards away, standing on a log and looking at mne in the most impertinent manner. "I always carry a couple of buckshot cartridges in my left coat pocket for just such occasions. Breaking open my gun, I extracted the cartridg*es of small shot, kept my eye on the bear and in serted two shells from my left pocket. "Then I confidently blazed away at his head. He didn't tumble over as he ought to have done, but snarled wick edly ar.r made a break for me. With out retreat ig a step I let him have the other barrel, and that didn't stop him worth a cent. "About that time I began to suspect that there was some hitch in my cvmubi nation, and when he knocked the gun out of my hands I inferred that it was time for me to get away. You ought to have seen me go. I guess he would have won the race if it hadn't been for a big split bowlder in the track. The split wxas just wide enough for me toget through, and I went through there lively. He reached out and got a piece of my shirt, but he stuck fast in the cleft long enough for me to get a hundred yards the start, and then I was sate. .When I got home I found two buck shot cartridges safe and snug in my side pocket. I must have dropped two other shells in with them absent inindedly, and it was just my luck to grab the light loads when I wanted big shot. I had pepperecl that old bear in the face with quail shot, and I don't blame him for getting mad. I was mad myself when 1 found it out."-San Francisco Examiner. Curious Chinese Notions. Both savage and semi-barbarous peo ple have always exhibited a great repug nance to any surgical operation, lhoi. ever necessary, which involves amputation. The North China Herald, in commenting upon this circumstance, points out that the Chinese have always shown this repugnance, not on account of fear of pain, for they are patient under all kinds of physical suffering, but because they look upon it as a duty to keep the body intact. If they submit to the amputa tion of a limb, they invarially ask for the severed member, and keep it in a box, to be buried in due time with the owner. Sometimes they will actually eat it. thinking it only right that that which has been taken from the body should be returned to it. On the same principle an extracted tooth will be carefully preserved, or ground to powder and swallowed in water. Another curious phase of the s:tmae idea is seen in the belief that a sick p:,remnt can be cured by broth made frin '::lh cut from a living child. amnd it is 1:ked upon as a sired of filial piety for th' child It slmit himself to an opera ti,+n ftor that putrpose. Theo childh is s410 ' '-sed to be of the vital essence of the :' omnad if a por'tioni of this esse'nce b a im-ne to the iouniltaili head. the 1:;r :"i. lid be greatly strnithienetd. i':p-C loving nature of the Chinese i : aid to be largely' due to this respect ; te human body.-('hambers' Jour gal. Foods for Con<mnptives. in the opinion of Villich, ar ml: in, value to ovste'rs. ihe ar. ie : 'ii . ly nourihingi and wriileome. (?I eaut of their gelatinous nature *her have lately been much used in con iai':pti ns; ani as these complaints are now very~ frequen('it it wxere to be wvished, l :dial ('issies, that such pat ints w:ull give the renedy a fair trial l biing 'a~ dozen of the r'ed gar'h-n snails i rcr'v in a guart of sweet milk or wheL- for half an hour, then straining te 'lmizner through a coarse cloth und 41rinUing it with sugnir every muo'ning rId'l upnon an~ emiipty stonach. and remi'~ thes~e draughts for a nionth or Tis re arden snail has also beent u-ed et'; n-ally in tho open henmorrlhls, when frresh snails wecre appied every two i tbree honurs, in a raw state, 'withi The~ large Itomnan or (edil sni I - no4v. ed boxth as a dlencya. ad (n a' (on~t *f is i'eputed vir'tues as a r'emr-dy~ in cases of c'onsumpltionl, w.h'ich it is t-'id has in sever-al instances been en'irecly cue d by a re{ nen of thle muilage'i" from thse sncails. On the c'ontiirent the jIl man sn::il is considered a great (delicacy; b4ut t he ; ::trde-n and yellow beandd sniails are the kinds mnoi'e commonly eaten. The "Block" Sy'stemi. The block system, as it is no"' termedj in railroad parlance, is simply the divis ion of a rajhvay into a certamnnumber of what are called telegraphic districts, the distance betweent which is determninedi by the amount of traffic, and each block station has signaling instruments by vheh the signal man can communuiicate withi the i-o on each side of hm. Nowx, when a ti-ain enters any block, a semna phore signal is lowered, and no train is allowxed to followy until the one in front Ihas reached the end of the block, whn the signal is raised and at the saime time lowered for the block ahead, etc. The lock systemsin use in Europe and in the United States employ mechanical devices for lowvering and raising the out door signal: but these, it is thought, will eventually be replaced by automatic de The Mud Supply. - The (nestion agitatedl years ago. \;ihat bticoues of all the pins?" muigt h suppemen-rted by the qmery, "WhIere does PittsbIurg's mud conie from?" From" soe vikow and myvsterious seurm thercomes- to tihe streets of the. Iro Cit ytonsm upjon tousI of .utd . I is. ~c awiv. as hed away\, se t>d wy enly tor -i~er:dtogrowin mlka ail as di oa or. Known.- -im- xi~xI c"u-es for t'is increm''nt "'re not sni'iicn to) er: plain the prese nce of the-e imtddy av lanchl. The debris of newx ul:.1 . insi t: h-;her loins of the- e i~ thee o. ~tv~h!i acout for' the be' that Pittsbug mun-i, Ii!:e T'o'''' "j rocx." ittsurg lh'l!in M~oderate wvork, alternating wi th mod rate rest, gives a brain wxhich, ta-king the whbole life through, will accoinplmIih the most and the best wvork of whiebc a humani bein is ca pale. The brains ::e to be improved and developed by reason able exercise and reasonable rest. The one is as essential as thme other.--Oncc a Week'. Digby-Aw've jawst thawt awvi awv scheme taw keel) thaxw mawthis axct awf maw" clawvthes, dawv yaw knaxx? Bigby-Whawt is it? Digb-Aw-give awm awway-haw, The Climate of Mexico. The great advantage of a tropical country as a placo to flive in, day in and day out, is the freedom from the cares incident to a cold climate. There is no tire to be tended, no thick garments to be worn, 'no putting on of overshoes, no shivering at night under insufficient clothing. The cold is not cold to a trav eler fresh from the north and in good health. The invalid will feel the relative cohl of tropical nights in winter just as does a resident not very healthy, whose blood has been thinned by the action of the climato enduring over a series of years. The climate, either on the table lands or in the lower and warmer coun try, does not prevent out of door life at any season. In fact, one of necessity gets much outdoor air. It is a rare day in the coldest weeks of the short table land winter when windows are closed half a day. At nightfall the doors and windows are closed to keep out the chill, but the cold will rarely register below 62 (legs. F. The most disagreeable thing about household life in New England daring the winter is the overheating of rooms. The temptation is to make them over hot. People even get to enjoy a dry heat of t ldogs. But the danger comes when you go out of doors into the keen and eager air. In Mexican houses there is little difference at any time between the air in doors and that of out of doors. In summer the house is cooler than the street into which the clear and dazzling tropical sui is pouring its rays, but there is no such contrast of indoor and out door temperature as one finds in the north in the winter months. Ilere we have to be careful on leaving a lamp lighted room in the evening and going out of doors not to catch cold in the eyes, for it is a peculiarity of the tropics that the eyes are especially sensi tive to sudden changes from light to darkness. I knew of a lawyer who one evening sat in his study at home writing with a bright light at his elbow. He worked a few hours, and suddenly went out into the cool darkness of the corri dor of the patio, or courtyard. le was struck blind, and hopelessly. i have heard that similar risks are characteristic of the Cuban climate. =Most Mexicans on winter evenings, when emerging from the theatre or a house, put a handkerciief to their nostrils so as to take in the cooler air slowly, and many men light a cigar or cigarette to warm the air passing into the lungs. One learns to respect these customs after having had his eyes ache for a week as the result of running out c' a lighted room into the courtyard, or a. ter having got a severe head cold frot: a similar imprudence.-City of Mexico Cur. Bos toi Herald. All About Alphabets. Will my youngest American readers imy. vtry youngest-please give me their attention?: Ah, here you are! \ell, my little o:w~s, as you very sorm fare to begini to Irni your letters, if, indeed, you are not :alr ad - harning them, it may interest v.'u to -now that the babies of other countries, as well as baby Americans, : rc e.:pected to know their alphabets at a very early age; and some of them, be eau:; there are more letters in their :.bets, have even a harder time than Vy ;..1. Some again have less to learn. For instance, asa sprightly and learned co rr';pondent informs this pupil, the S:o:dwicl Island alphabet has only 12 -t;: "; the Burmese, 19; the Italian. '20; time l.galese, 21; the IHebrew. Svriae, hal:?l1, Samaritan and Latin, 23 each: the Fa-ncli. 23; the Greek, 24; the Ger n!:u o;nd Dutch, 26 each; the Spanish m:n,: i xavnic, 27 each. But, on the other hni, the A rabic has 28; the Persian and Copt ie. 32; the Georgian, '5; the Arme nho :: the Russian, 41; the Muscovite, 43; the Sanskrit and Japanese, 5o; the Ehopi- andi Tartaric, 202. Ift hism- information bewilders you, my noor- lic~l letter learners, don't mind it. It w ill :eep. One of these days you will he~ bi"t an a'ble to play tag, andl, later on, b 'seba lin these languages. Then, a few le ues mnore or less, in any one ot them, viif be a matter of small consequence to :ou. Lven now, I dare say. after what I have told you, you'd be able to play with the~ letter blocksof anycountry. In truth. ii I were you, I think I should pre for a box of Ethiopic or Tartaric letter blok- to begin with.-St. Nicholas. Sunday in Paris. Every year Parisian tradespeople are becming less disposed to Sunday shop keeping, and there are even fewer arti sans to be seen at work than was forme~rly the case, says a correspondent. The in haitants of the proverbially lively city have net, of course, adopted the strict Sabbatarianismn of their British neigh hors, and it is even doubtful if many of themi pat ron ize thle metropolitan churches ou Sunday mornings. Their great ob jict seemis to be to extract as much ra t ional amusement as possible out of the one day in the week when they are not tied down to their eternal desks, ledgers andl counters. Dissipation thiere may be in t-oima cases, and there is much un godly revelry carried on during Sunday e~enings i second class cafes, low danc ing haltons and absinthe reeking resorts of thbe "Assommoir" type; but the re speta ble portion of the community takes its holida: v. in a decent fashion, and en jovs li~-t!? in a manner at which only the souru.g "isdplhe of Calvin or the most mele::oiv 'minded follower of Me l:ncthon could cavil. Serious, steady and respectable Parisians walk leisurely i:x ihe Ghaenpa Elysees on Sundays, whlen he '.inither permits, or attend morning peirmne ir. the theatres or the after m-oon co;:certs. Then they go homne to dimue~r and haive a family reunion, or ,id : by. a nlet game of cards o;r -da...a iii a 'favorite cafe.-Boston 1 i' rglnte'redl a house at Water ord, I relnnd, and after pm-loining every tin he c (ould lind he prepared to re lov e a large irho0g1raphic camera that ws staning on~ui a table. In some- way hto '-hed off a magnesiumi flash light 1 ttiihn'ent that was part of the machine, In 'e pecipitately when theC thing~ Grln.The ne::t day it was foundt thit ti~e -amera had taken the photo graph of th'e burglar. The negative wvas placd in the hands of the police. and by its aid th ey quickly nabbed their ma:'n. It shlowed. tie burglar with a junmny in one hand:~ and a box containing jewelry under his' am, while he carried a sack ov er is shoulder with valuable pieces of p~late. books, etc., and was gazing at the lash light in open mouthed amazement. -Buffalo Courier. An Accumulator. Swipes-Is that watch you bought any good? Bodkin-Good?j Well, I should say sot Last week it gained enough time to pay fo. itelf.-venamine's News. COSTLY AND DEADLY KNIVES. Blades Made for Business in the Early Days of California. In 1$51 M. Price, who then had a s.all cutlery shop, sat up nights and nade a fine bowie knife, which he exhibited in the first Mechanics' fair held in San Francisco. After the fair Ward Faton took the knife to the Bank Ewhage and raffled it for $150. Price had taken great care in Tempering the blade, and had ofiered to forfeit $100 if any better steel could be found. At that time Dilly Alli:;on, of 'olo, was making knives. wi :ch were sought by all men who wa '.ted reliable weapons. Surveyor General IHigley had an Alli son knife. and he backed it against Price's blade. The test was made in the Bank Exchange, and aroused as much interest as a national election. Gen. Higley laid a half dollar on the counter and drove the Allison blade through it without turning the point or edge. Ward Eaton wielded the Price blade with a steady, strong arm, and achieved the sane feat. Gen. Higley then tried two half dollars. and the point of his knife t;irncd. Eaton piled up three of the coins. drove the Price knife through them. a:d when he raised the weapon the three half dollars were impaled on the noint, which was not turned. 'fTlat made Price's bowie knives as famous on t~is coast as Toledo blades were in S pain, and every man who west heeled had to have cne. Marion Moore, a noted mining and :.porting man, whose initro-glycerine blew up Wells, Fargo & Co.'s ex'press olfice on the corner of Cali fornia and 3iont;omnery streets, ordcrcd of Price the best knife he could make. Moore gave Price a gold brick and a paice of gold quartz that he had taken out of a mine with his own hands, and told him to work the metal in. Price made an eight inch lowie, havingagold handle inlaid with quarts. Moore paid $173 for the weapon. and handed back to Price the gold that was left over. Moore's lawyer, McCabe, got a gold mounted knife for $100, and these two expensive weapons played a leading part in a bloody tragedy in White Pine, Nev. Moore had a mine there, and, as was usual in those days somebody tried to jump the claim. Mooro and McCabe wxre caught in the tunnel by a band of filhters hired by the other claimants, and cut their way out with their bowie kni ves. Several men were killed in the fight, and as most of the dead had only L:ife wounds, it is supposed that Moore and his lawyer did some game and lively work. * A little gambler named Barney Kenny used a six and a half in.'h bowie of Price's make with deadly effect about eighteen years ago. He was playing poker with three other sports in a saloon in Portland, Ore. Somebody was caught cheating, and Barney grabbed the pet. Instantly the three confeder ates pulled their pistols and blazed away at Barney, who drew his knife and w:aded in desperately. After a brief but furious combat, in which ifteen shots wera fired, Barney walked out of the n o:, leaving the others on the floor. .ie evas dead, a second mortally wounded, and the third cut so badly that he had to be in a hospital for mnths. In Imil Price made two knives for Col. Jack Gamble, who supplied Mexican pdd n z'aZ.;s for the handle frames. The h::ndi!es were inlaid with abaline shell m:ed gold quartz, and the colonel paid 9:0U for the two weapons. Gamble gave 'ne to his friend Charles Norris, who lest it sonic years later. It was a mere cmr Gamble's to have such a woeaiin, as he was never known to use it. Joe Winters, in 1S64, walked into p'rice's place with two friends, saw three W> knives in the case, bought them, and turning around, presented one to each of his companions just as he would hand about cIgars. One of the men who bought an extrav ganit lvexpenlsive knife from Price came into the shop some time after a fight had occurred in a mine and several meni had been carved to death, and exchanged the weainon for some othler wvares. As lie put 'the gold mounted bowie down he -aid with a shiver that lhe wvould never u:0 a knife again. When the weapon was examined the blade was found rusted with blood, and there w-as blood even in the crevices between the slabs of the handle and the frame. There were no uards on the hilts of these knives, be ause the men who bought them carried them for sudden use, and a guard is likely to catch in the clothing and delay the draw. The first big knives made by Price were fer a party of United States sur veyors, wvho wanted them as substitutes for axes in cutting trails through the brush. The blades were twelve inches long and very heavy, and in the hands f a strong man would cut a person's ead off at one blow.-San Francisco Ex almner. How "fge" Smart Broke the Baks "Doc" Smart, a noted Western bandit, ith two confederates, bought all the playing cards at El Paso, at Goldsberg's stationery st ore, paving for them $75, and when questioneJ as to whlat they in ended doing with them said that they were going up in the mines and expected o do0 a great business, but if they failed ould like the privilege to return what hey did not use. Goldsberg consented, and in a few days they returned with bout half of them. This same Goldsbcrg was in the habit f furnishing all the faro banks in town with cards, and upon receiving orders fr themn and having none on hand ex :ept those returned by Smart lie divided the lot between the different "banks," and on the same night every "bank" in El Paso wvas "busted" by Smart and a 1ow.of his confederates. The Last "Lank broke" examined their cards, and found hat every card had been "pinched." A& investigation at each "bank" showed their cards "pinched" in the ameli manner. It was found out next ay that Smart had returned these cards t( Goldsberg, and, of course, it was de ided that Smart and his gang ''pinched" hemi. The town was too hot for himi for several days after. It is estimated that the. wvini'ngs we're about Sl2~2,00y. -Sanm i rancis;co Argonaiut. Still'Hope for Him. "I'm very uch worried about my on." "What's the matter?" "Why, I've spent thousands of dollars educating him in elocution and oratory, and ho can't make living, af.er all." "Why don't he start mn business as a prize fighter?"-Lincoln Journal. While a colored laborer was upheav ng the seil in the lot of J. R~. Broad treet, of Talladega, Ala., ho unearthed silver spoon having on it the initials W. M. C.," and the date, "July, 1860." he spoon had clain there over twenty five years and1 mas in good condition. W1 lS OF THE PAST. !amous Engliahmen Who Said Some Very Sharp and Pat Thins. The late Mr. Alexander, the emi nent architect, was under cross-exam ination at Maidstone by Sergeant, afterward Baron, Garrow, who wished to detract from the weight of his tes timony, and, after asking him what was his name, proceeded: "You are a builder, I believe?" "No, sir, I am not a builder; I am an architect." "They are much the same, I suppose?" "I beg your pardon, sir; I can not admit that; I consider them to be to tally different." "O, indeed! per haps you will state wherein this great difference exists?" "An architect, sir," replied Mr. Alexan der, "conceives the design, prepares the plan, draws out the specifications -in short, supplies the mind; the builder is merely the brioklay*r or the carpenter. The builder, in fact, is the machine; the architect the power that puts the machine together and sets it going." 'O, very well, Mr. Architect, that will do. And now, after your very ingenious distinction without a differ ence, perhaps you can inform the court who was the architect of the Tower of Babel?" The reply for promptness and wit is not to be rivaled in the whole history of rejoinder: "There was no architect, sir, and hence the con fusion." One evening at Carlton House the 1 Prince Regent observed the author of "The Heir-at-Law." "Why, Colman, you are older than I am." George re plied: "Oh, no, sir; I could not have taken the liberty of coming into the world before your Royal Highness." When a subscription was proposed for Fox and some one was observing that it would require some delicacyand wondering ho.. Fox would take it, Sel wyn said: "Take it? Why quarterly, to be sure." To all letters soliciting his subscrip tion to any thing, Erskine has a regu lar form of reply, viz.: "Sir, I feel much honored by your application to me and I beg to subscribe"-here the reader had to turn over the leaf-"my self your very obedient servant," etc. "My Lord," said Dr. Parr to Erskine, whose conversation had delighted him, "should you die first I mean to write your epitaph." "Dr. Parr," was the reply, "it is a temptation to commit suicide." One of Curran's friends, a notorious and lucky gambler, getting entangled in conversation with him,,gradually lost his temper, and at last said, with great vehemence: "No man, sir, shall trifle with me with impunity." Curran corrected him by saying: "Play with you, you mean." An old lady residing in one of the charming villas near Tours, obse"ving that her watch had stopped, told her maid to see what o'clock it was on the sun-dial in the garden. In a few iun utes Mlle. Nicole returned, quite out of breath and carrying something heavy in her apron. "Ma foi, madame," said she, "I can't make out what it says, so I have brought it here, that madame may look at it herself." Bushe, the Irish Chief Baron, made' this impromptu verse upon two agita tors who refused to fight duels, one on account of his aff'ection for his wife and the other because of his love for his daughter. Two heroes of Erin, abhorent of slaughter, Improved on the Hebrow command; One honored his wife and theotherhis daughter, That his days might be long in the land. Dr. Croly said very smart things and with surprising readiness. At his' table one day when one of the guests' inquired the name of a pyramidal dish of barley-sugar, some one replied: "A pyramid a Macedoine." "For what use?" rejoined the other.' "To give a Philip to the appetite," said Croly. At the breaking up of a fashionable party, one of the company said he was; about to "drop" in at Lady Blessing ton's; whereupon a young gentleman, a perfect stranger to the speaker, very modestly said: "0, then, you can take me with you; I want very much to know her, and you can introduce me." While the other was standing aghast at the impudence of the proposal and muttering something about being but a slight acquaintance himself, etc., Sydney Smith observed: "Pray obiige your young friend; you can do it easily enough by introducing him in a ca pacity very desirable at this close sea son of the year-say you are bringing* with you the cool of the evening." London Society Times. Indian Mounds in Iowa. According to intelligence from that State several Indian mounds were re cently opened in the country around Dubuque, "all seeming to confirm the: theory that these mounds contain the* relics of a prehistoric race, differing greatly from the American Indian, and: a vastly superior order of intelligence and civilization. Last week several skeletons, in a perfect state of preser vation, where taken from a mound a mile from Dubuque. They have been. articulated and are now on exhibition. They are of huge stature. Another' large mound, at Charles City, in Floyd' County, has also bcen explored. He.re: the rJteletons were in a trench, instead of on the ground, and a quantity of pottery, arrow-heads and stone Im-, plemnents of peculiar design were also found. The most curious relic was a vase with a rim ornamented in the same fashion as vases found in ancient English mounds and described in the report of the United States Bureau of Ethnology. That report states that specimens of this kind are exceedingly rare in this country. Further explora-. Uinsare tobenma44" THE SULTAN'S COUR r. UowAbdul iamid Lost the Respect of JlS l'artisaus and People. Round the Sultan moves a little world of marshals, chamberlains, secretaries, dragomans and eunuchs, who interfere in all matters of state. The principle which guides His Majay in the selec tion of these officials mad be guessed from the mixture of slavish flattery of his mental abilities and insolent trad ing on his weaknesses which alone en ables thema to maintain their posts and influence. All of them have ups and downs of favoritism; but among them there are invariably two or three sufk ciently strong to get the most im portant measures blocked for weeks if it suits their purpose, and not unfre quently rejected entirely, even though unanimously recommended by the cabi net, the members of which have grad ually sunk into mere heads of depart ments. Witness the recall of the Am bassador from Rome without the knowledge of either the Grand Vizier or Foreign Minister, and an order for torpedo boats kept secret from the admiralty. Against the power of this secret council it is futile to struggle, and people dealing with the Govern ment and palace must accept things as they are, and pay court to the p .ra sites, who rapidly acquire wealth by turning their influence to the worst account. Of the Sultan's nervousness, that tremendous lever in designing hands, enough has been written to the English journals, where every body has read of tne fortified seraglio and and the mosque built at its gates; of the elaborate precautions against imaginary conspiracies, and of the host of unscrupulous spies. To his fears and indulgence in costly fol lies Abdul Hamid owes the loss of his people's respect and much of the bad luck which is dogging his footsteps. At heart he means well, and is proba bly unconscious that his selfish whims and fancies are always allowed to out weigh the good of the nation, but the effect is nevertheless deplorable. He erroneously believes himself to be a reformer, though he may fairly claim to be an innovator. Pious he is, and sober, uxorious also, and squeamishly merciful toward non-political offend ers. le will not sanction the death of - the vilest murderer, quite forgetting that, especially in Turkey, leniency to criminals entails misery on the law abiding. Music is his greatest pleas ure, though he does. not despise conjuring tricks and puppet-dancing. But,to do him justice, these are the re laxations, not the business, of life, which is to piot and scheme and labor to restore the caliphate to its ancient splendor, and the Ottoman empire to the ranks of the leading powers. Ever dreaming, never acting. Abdul Hamid loiters in his chateaux en Espagne, hug ging himself in the illusion that he is a mighty monarch and spinning, with the aid of soothsayers and toadies, in numerable cobwebs of future triumphs, while the country over which he yet rules is reeling to its foundations, and threatens to overwhelm him and his projects in acommon ruin.--Fortnight ly Review. A GOTHAM ROMANCE. An Auction Sale Behind Which Lay the Tragedy of a Life. A mysterious and striking auction sale took place in New York the other day, in an up-town flat. It had evi detly been occupied by a woman, young, beautiful and refined, and she had gone out of it without removing even her rings that layain the jewel stand on the dainty dressing-table. Every thing was sold unreservedly. A piano, with a pile of songs and sheet after sheet of .classical music; a library containing all the best of the modern authors, and many whom the verdict of the ages have consecrated; books finely bound and artistically illus trated, showir.g that the reader liked . to have her mental food served up on dainty dishes; pictures that, while they were not, perhaps, very costly. showed the owner knew the best and appreciated it; bric-a-brac of all sorts and well selected; a table service, consisting of napery-like satin and china, showing the best of the Wedg wood, Sevres and Worcester manu factures. And wearing apparel dainty enough for a Princess-tiny Satin slip pers, five-and-a-half gloves, stockings like silk cobwebs an'd handkerchiefs as fine-quaint, picturesque, made evi dently for a tall, slim woman; Eastern shawls. delicate lace-trimmed lingerie -all the beautiful things with which a high-bred and -luxurious woman sur rounds herself. Apparently no selec tions had been made, nothing kept back, and the woman had walked away . beyond a doubt with nothing but the clothes she wore. The auetioneer said, bi-efy, in answer to all interrogations, that the owner had suddenly deter mined to go into a convent, and had directed that the entire contents of the flat he dlisposed of for the b)enefit of the institution she had entered. It was plain that thme grecat tragedy of a life lay behind it. but what it was, the de tals of it, will never be knowvn.--N. Y. Cor. San Francisco Argonaut. -It is stated that vessels builtod African teak wood have lasted 100 years, to be then broken up because of faulty models. Its weight is from. orty-two to fifty-two pounds per cubic foot; it works easily, but wears the tools rapidly on account of the quan tity of silex in it. It also contains an oil which prevents the iron in contact with it from rusting. _ -A lady of Wrightsville, Ga., put up a lot of preserves and seasoned them with what she supposed to be ginger. What was her horror to fid afterward that instead of ginger she nad msed snuff. . - - l