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VOL. V. MANNING, CLALRENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 12, 1889. CAPTURING WILDCATS. IT TOOK TIME AND PATIENCE, BUT HE HAD PLENTY OF BOTH. Amasa Macomber Wanted to See What a Wildcat's Kittens Looked Like--He Set a Trap and Caught the Mother, and the Boy Discovered the Young Ones. Amasa Macomber got a glimpse of a big she wildcat in the woods on the south side of Shiny mountain, in Spring Brook township. He saw she was going to give birth to kittens before long, and ho resolved to locate her hid ing place and rind her litter of young ones if it were possible. Macomber is an old Spring Brook woodsman, but he had never seen a wildcat under the size of a half grown one. and he desired to find out how a wildcat's kittens looked when they were real small. A few days after that Macomber went to the dark ravine again, secreted himself in a clump of bushes near a little stream, kept perfectly still and watched for the wildcat to make her appearance. PATIENCE ON A LOG. Macomber is an inveterate snioker, but he put out his pipe before he got to the woods, and for four long hours he sat there weatch mg for the wildcat to show herself, not dar ing to light up for fear of attracting the ani Dal's attention. When he had about made up his mind to fill his pipe and start for home he- had the good luck to get sight of the object of his search. She was creeping stealthily from the "-' hillside toward the rivulet, only a few yards from where Macomber was concealed, and her movements showed that she was bent on catching something. Within a few feet of the brook the wildcat stopped, and for five or six minutes she sat perfectly still. Then she made a spring, and when she turned lacom ber saw that she had a mole and several spears of dry grass in her mouth. As she ceutered up the hillside with her prey Ma conlssr took note of the direction she went:, ani he also noticed that she hadn't had her kittens yet. A week afterward Macomber watched for a.gain in the same spot. He sat in the clump of bushes for three or four hours without get ting sight of her, but on the following day he saw her mousing near the brook. She caught something and bounded away with it, and Macomber saw that she went in the same direction. By that time the wildcat had a nest of kittens somewhere in the woods, and Macomber began to lay his plans to find out how those kittens looked. He might have killed their mother when he saw her mousing there, but he said he didn't want to do it, be cause her little ones would starve to death in case he couldn't find the nest' after he had killed tleld wildcat. Sa Macomber said he concluded to try to catch her in a box trap. It wouldn't hurt .aier any to be caught in that way, and if he 'caught her he could hunt around in the woods for her nest without fearing to be tackled by her. If he found her kittens he was going to take them home with him and her, too; but if he didn't succeed in hunting up her nest, he was going to let the old cat loose, and be prepared to slay her if she pitched on him. THE SOY WAS A "]scoT." Sn the following day Macomber and his oldest son, Archer, took a box trap into the woods, baited it with a piece of chicken and a 'house mouse, and set it near the spot where the wildcat had caught the mole. Both- of them went to the ravine the next morning'to look at the trap. Before they had got in sight of it they heard a wildcat yowling and screaming further up the ravine, and t hurt-" tipa Iat Jh.St. er :.iet h - o etrito thetrap durum; ,the night. Macomber said .he was a little taken back and a bit provoked when he Looked through the iron rods oi- top of the Strap, for, instead of finding the she cat inside, big buck wildcat had his back humped up against the rods, and was snarling and spit, ' ga and scratching to get out. Maconiber *d he knocked the male wildcat ini the head, hauled him out, rand reset the trap with the samne bait, as the back wildcat had not dis turbed it. Each morning Maember and his son went up to the ravine, but they didn't find the trap sprung until the fourth day. It then had a ,sraing she wildcat in it, and Macember nd Archer let her scream and began to ~erh for her nest. They looked into every ollow log around there, as well as into every cozy spot that was shielded from the weather, and slowly wvorked their way up the hillside toward the spot wvhere Macember had seen khe wildcat disappear in the bushes with the nmole. For two hours the father and son serhed, the trapped wildcat keeping up ai o sntyelling all the time. Then they sat own on a fallen tree to rest, and Macember pvas telling his son that he guessed they would plave to give up, when the sharp ears of the ~boy heard a faint noise near the roots of the rebcer went to passing around without saying anything to his father about what he rad heard, and underneath the butt of the log he soon uncovered four baby wildcats, two of which he held up for his father to lock at. Their eyes were just open, and Ma comber said the hungry little things mewed Sgood deal like domestic kittens when the ~byhandled them. They were spotted gray nd white, with nearly white bellies. Archer tok the four wild kittens away in his hat, and when they reached the trap the fierce old 'mot.her wildcat tried her best to break out jd made a terrible fuss when she heard her . ittle ones mew. Then they poked the kittens into thre trap, and the old cat quieted down. She got them into a corner with as much care as a tame car, Macember said, and then ~curled up and tried to hide them. They lugged tire trap home from the center of a pole, and .iacomber made a strong cage for his savage captives.-Scrantoni tPa.) Cor. N~ew York Sun. * A Serpentine Problem. An astronomer from Harvard Observatory some tinme ago propounded this problem to a number of fellow savants: Suppose that three snakes, each 2 feet in length, should catch ch other by the tip of thle tail, thus making a circle 0 feet in ciretmnference. poethat each snake should begin tc ~wallow the one in front of him. In what 1way wouild the resultant figure, after each snake had swallowed the one in front of him, differ from the original circlef There were ny diverse opinions upon the sub jcsonie of them entering the consideration of the fourth dimension of space, because any one of the snakes would have swallowed the two in front of him and yet have been swallowed by the two in back of him, and, therefore, would be both inside and outside of his two fellows.-Notes and Qeries. A Little Monarch. What monarch so absolute as a spoiled baby, and who would not rather live in gar' risons in Siberia tharr under the rule of one . 'f these little despots? Mature tyrants some times relent, doff their boots and spurs arid give the oppressed a rece:.s. But under the coral scepter of the nursery autocrat there are no intermfi-ions5 for rest and refreshe rnenmt. Retsi-:ance to tyVrants is, ol'?diece' to hemven; there~f-.r*,. Chrth narents:~. dto not Bad Loans and Milsmanagement. OMAHA, June 6;.-The Bank of Omaha, wvhich was incorporated last fail with a catitatl of $100,000, very lhttle of which was paid in. closed its doors yesterday. Liabilities be'tween $60,000 and $70,000; assets nominal. The failure is due to bad loans and mismanagement. Hon. Roger Q. Mills, the great tariff reformer, makes the pubiic announce ment that he is not and will not be a candidate for the Democratic nomination for Governor of Texas. Mr. Mills is a member-elect to the next Congress, and says he pr'oposes to) continiue the fight forrtariff reform. BENJAMIN DiSRAELI. Reminisoenoes of His Early Struggles and His Audacity. When Mr. Disraeli first appeared in the political arena he made up his mind that the preliminary step to success was to create a sensation. Hence hit wild radical speeches, his challenge to O'Cnnell and his outbursts on the platform and elsewhere, which made him the butt of all the wags in London. It may, indeed, be said with truth that he never ceasod to be an object of ridicule with a large part of the press and his own party until just before his death. The "Jew," the "adven turer," the "mountebank," these were about the mildest epithets which were flung at him. Whether he cared for them or not must always remain a matter of conjecture. Some of his friends have told me that he was indif ferent alike to praise or blame. I have known many men of whom that has been said, but never one of whom it could be said with truth. Disraeli, no doubt, had the usual human feelings, although he was much more skillful in disguising them than nine men out of ten. I always regarded him as the most accomplished orator on any stage, and very few persons ever saw him without his stage make up. This may be said without any dis paragement to his great penetration, fore sight and courage as a statesman. Everything he did was done with an eye to effect, and before ho was sure of receiving public attention in the legitimate way he beat the big drum to attract their notice. His velvet coats, his gorgeous vests, his rings on every finger, his wondrous watch chain ard his flaming cravats were as much a part of the theatrical business as his bold attacks or individuals or his dashing statemetits which were not intended to bear a strict ex amination. When his position was secure these acces sories were discarded. He always retained his partiality for garishness and finery, but when he threw away his rings he began to weigh his words. The sensational part of the performance had done its duty, and the actor remembered that the English are essentially a humdrum race and that they always dis trust a man who is too clever. When Benjamin Disraeli tried to get into the house everybody was opposed to him, including his own relations, one of whom condemned it as the maddest of all mad acts, as Disraeli wrote and told his sister at the time. It is not very often, perhaps, that help or encouragement comes from ones own relations when it is most needed. Disraeli's sister believed in him, but we ha've no record of the opinions of his father or brother. He got into parliament in spite of all obstacles, and on his first day he took up his seat im mediately behind Sir Robert Peel on the second bench, the place which is usually occupied by some old and well tried friend of the party, if not of the minister. "Ton jours audace" was the motto of Benja min Disraeli. People laughed at first, but they soon began to see that they-had a for midable power to reckon with. "Next to undoubted success," wrote Disraeli to his sister, "the best thing is to make a groat noise, and many articles that are daily writ ten to announce my failure only prove that I have not failed."-London Cor. Philadelphia Tin'es. Their "Burnt Cork" Days. In 1S50, when Mr. Edwin Booth was 17, and a year after his debut as Tressel at the Boston museum, he gave an entertainment with Mr. John S. Clarke, a youth of the same age. at the court house in Belair, Md. They read selections from "Richelieu," "The Stranger," and the quarrel scene from "Julius Cesar," singing during the evening with blackened faces a number of negro melodies, "using aptiropriate dialogue," as Mrs. Asia Botcer&eceeds in the memoirotber brother, "and accomptying their vocal at tempts with the somewhat inharmonious banjo and bones." Mrs. Clarke reprints the programme of this performance, and pictures the distress of the young tragedians when they discovered, on arriving in the town, that the simon pure negro they had employed asanadvance agent had in every instance postal their bills upside down. Mr. Joseph Jefferson, the third and present bearer of that honored name, was unques tionably the youngest actor who ever made his mark with a .piece of burnt cork. The story of his first appearance is told by Mr. William Winter in his volume entitled "The Jeffersons." Coming from afamily of actors, the boy, as was natural, was reared amidst theatrical surroundings, and when only 4 years of age-ia 1833-he was brought upon the stage by Thomas D. Rice himself, on a benefit occasion at the Washington theatre. The little Joe, blackened and arrayed pre cisely like his senior, was carried on to the stage in a bag upon the shoulders of the shambling Ethiopian and emptied from it with the appropriate couplet: Ladies and gentlemen, rd have you for to know I's got a little darky here to jump Jim Crow. Mrs. John Drew, who was pr-esent, says that the boy instantly assumed the exact at titude of Jim Crow Rice, and sang and danced in imitation of his sable companion, a perfect miniature likeness of that long, un gainly, grotesque and exceedin'gly droll comedian.-Laurenlce Hutton in Harper's Magazine._________ Hard to Beat. - aTe were pretty good fish stories pub lished the other d-ay," remarked a Nashville gntleman yesterday to a reporter, "but there is a moderately young man in the real estate business in this city whose experience can discount any I ever heard of. Here last week he was fishing down in the Big Harpeth river and had just settled down to business when a fish came along and ran off with his hook and line while .he was killing bait. He looked into the watter and saw his disappearing tackle, and saw msyriads of fine fish sportinfamid the waters. He had to re turn to Nashville at the close of that day and it wouldn't do to come without something to show for his skill. Though his line was gone, he had plenty of hooks and bait remaining, and a desperate. expedient flashed through his mind. Direst ing himself of all his wearing apparel except the shirt, he carefully tore the rear of that usful garment into strips, and upon each ho placed a baited hook. "Thus equipped, he plunged in the stream and boldly made for the opposite shore. It seemed that he never had so hard a swim in his life, but he finally reached the bank and unloaded dozens of the finest fish that you ever saw. When he swam back for his clothes he took off the hooks lest the accumulating weight of fish might drown him. Those who are not in the secret regard his luck as phe nomenal.-Nashvifle American. Feathers Growiug Gray. Mr. M. W. Hollis had a pgilr of geese hatched in the spring of 1841. The goose was killed by a mink about ten days ago. The gander is now living. Mr. Hols showed us a piece of home made hard soap that was made in the spring of 1841 by his mother. M.r. R.A. Mizzell reports that he has a hen iteen years old, and she lays every day. That hen has borne much fruit. Mr. William Adams, the old bachelor, has a jcock thirty-fly3 years old that has mated with a turkey hen.-Talbotton (Ga.) New Era. Internal1Revenue Collectors Appointed. WAsHINGTON, J une 6.--The Preside nt to dlay appointed to be collectors of In teal Revenue: John B. Eaves of North Carolina. for the Fifth District of North Carolina: William A. Allen of Tennessee, for the Second District of Tennessee, rice Nathan Gregg removed; David A. Nun of Tennessee, for the Fifth Dis trict or Tennessee. General Jubal &. Early. WINCHEsTER, Va., June 5.-General Jubal A. Early arrived here to-day, it being his first visit since the war. Num bers of old soldie-rs. and many c-itizenis BABIES' CHARIOTS. Wheeled Palaces for the First Rorn. Papa's Extravagant Purchase. An order for 5,00') tons of steel rails may be written in six li s on an office letterhead sheet, or if given orally the transaction is over in three minutes. An iron manufacturer picks out a $3,000 i diamond without ceremony and hands the jeweler his check without comment. The club swell considers it a bore to be measured for his new full dress suit, and sub mits to the operat .n silently and impatiently. Even a fashionable woman selects the ma terial for her priucely trousseau with an off handed air of business altogether foreign to sentiment. But let the purchase be a baby's carriage for $12 or $15, and the purchaser a papa for the first time, and the importance of the trans action, the lordly manner of the buyer, his pompous request to be shown the whole stock, his disposition to point out a single scratch on the little vehicle, and the ultimate pride with which he sets aside the carriage as his why, it becomes a business event of vastly more consequence than steel rails, diamonds and costly apparel all put together in one package. "It's the most trying thing we have got to pass through in the course of a day," said the clerk of a variety store, in speaking of the patience necessary to make a sale of a baby buggy. "I would sooner stand all day at the glove counter of a dry goods store than sell a single baby carriage. If the purchaser is a man I can tell before he has spoken three words whether he has a family of children, or if he is here on behalf of his first born. Nine cases out of ten it is the latter. Next time a new baby buggy is needed in that family the wife has to come for it; the novel ty of making such a purchase has by that time worn off for the father. "Of all idiotic questions we have to an swer the young father buying his first baby carriage, no other article of conunerce, trade or manufaeture would suggest. 'Will Toot sic not fail out of so big a bed 9 'Won't red sunshades hurt Winnie's eyes?' 'Can't you put a mirror attachment in front so 1 can see what the Bobby is while I push behind,' 'I'm afraid the tiny red headed angel will push his big feet through that thin flooring board and get them caught in the wheels.' "In the last instance," said the clerk, "I felt like telling the doting papa that for fear the blessed seraph's whole body should slip through the same hole we would supply a strap fastened to the roof of the buggy, a loop in which would nicely fit the baby's neck, thus saving a precious life in case the big feet should bore their way through the floor. "I like to wait on a man who has a family of eight or nine children. He has bought buggies before, and as they eventually be come kindling wood he merely asks for at extra good quality of inflanunable wood in the buggy, pays for it and departs in a few minutes. "Oh, yes, the world Is the same all over. Even that affectionate mother could have foreseen her shadow in the dim, distant fu ture, were she to come back, as some fat, practical matron in the most matter-of-fact way leaves this order: 'Send to my residence a new baby buggy, not quite so gorgeous as the last, a little heavier in axles, and just about the same size as the one before the last, which my husband purchased. I am not par ticular about trimmings.' "-Pittsburg Dis patch. - Bables of the World. It has been computed that between 30,000, 000 and 37,000,000 of babies are born into the ,vorld each year. And it will probably startle a good many persons to find o. e ituthnrity - ' writ t~~l - falft a year .aiigeu in a line in cradles seven deep they would go round the abbe. We have the ingenious con clusion also that supposing the little ones to grow up and the sexes to be about equally divided, we should have an army a hundred times as large as the forces of the British empire, with a wife in addition to every sol dier. The same writer looks at the matter in a still more picturesque light, Hie imagines the babies being carried past a given point in their mothers' charge, one by one, and the procession being kept up continuously night and day, until the last comner in the twelve month has passed by. A sufficiently liberal rate of speed is al lowed, but even with these babies in arms going past twenty a minute, the reviewing officer would only have seen a sixth part of the infantine host file onward by the time he had been a year at his post. In other words, the babe that had to be carried when the work began would be able to waddle onward itself when a mere fraction of its comrades had reached the saluting post; and when the year's supply of babies was tapering to a close there would be a rear guard, not of in fants, but of romping boys and girls. They would have passed, in fact, out of the mater nal arms into the hands of the school teacher. Every moment of nearly seven years would be required to complete this grand parade of those Little ones that in the course of a twelvenmonth beg-in to play their part in the first age of man.-Leeds Mercury. The Evolution of Tall Men. In a lecture delivered at the Royal institute by Professor Flower on the "Pigmy Races of Men," he referred to the curious fact that the "tallest and shortest races in Europe are re spectively the Norwegians and the Lapps, living In almost the same region. In Africa, also, the diminutive Bushmen and the tallest race of the country, the Kaffirs, are close neighbors." These facts indicate that climate, soil and other physical conditions have but small influence on human stature, and suggest the question whether it is due to social or moral agency. The comparative history of the Lapps and Norwegians indicates that it may iso. The Vikings were always a fight ing race; the Lapps certainly are, and so far as we know, alwvays have been, an exceptionally peaceful people, and~he Esquinaux, with wecn they ain so neareenectedlrae-iie same. The Lapps live on the snowfields of Norway, and the Esquimaux on the bitterest parts of the arctic regions, just the places to which the weakest would be driven by con querers who haive appropriated the more fer tile regions. The consequent hardship and semi-starvation would probably stunt the growth of the weaker people, while, on the ther hand, the conquering warlike race in the day's of hand to hand fighting with out siders, and struggling for chieftainship would be continually killing off the feeblm, and mul tiplying the big men by the "survival of the fittest" for such conditions of mutual murder strivin.-Gentleman's Magazir e Got Even with Her Husband. The other day a Portland lady or-dered spring chicken for dinner, without inquli-ing the price. It proved to be sixty cents a pound, and her husband sarcastically ex pressed his discontent. The next day an or der was left with the family grocer for some cucunbers to be sent to the same house. The grocer telephoned to the lady that cucum bers were small and sixty cents apiece, in quring if she wanted them at that price. "Yes," was the reply. "Send them up: I don't care if they are a dollar apiece. My huband ordered themn."-Portland loe.i Ad reruse. Challenge Declined. CUIARLEsTON. June 7.-- Special to The Reister-.]--The Rev. J. E. Wilson of Centenary Methodist Cnurch will pub lish a card to-morrow declining the challenge of the Rev. J. L. Dart, Bap tist, to meet him in a joint discussion of he merits of immllersion and sprinkling as the method of baptism. Brother Wil son says bluntly that lie does not believe that Brother Dart himself believes all that lie preaches. lHe cordially invites Brother Dart, however, to come to Cen naryv Church and listen to his sermons nd b'e .onverte1 to the true faith. JOHNSTOWN'S HORROR. APPALLING SCENES OF DESOLATION IN THE IL-FATED CITY. Pathetic Stories of Noble Self-Sacrifice on the Part cf Mothers-Deeds of Dar ing and Bravery-The Work of Finding the Bodies of Victims of Flood and Fire. Removing and Burning the Debris. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 4.-For 36 hours without intermission the fire en gines have played on the smoking ruins about the bridge, but the flames that broke out afresh at frequent intervals in this floating field of ruin seem to defy the subduing force of water. Nearly 2,000 men are employed in dif ferent parts of the valley clearing up the ruins and prosecuting diligent search for undiscovered dead. Their investi gations are not without fruitful results, for bodies of dead and charred victims of flood and fire are discovered with undiminished frequency. HUNDREDS ROASTED. It becomes hourly more and more ap parent that not a single vestige will ever be. recognized of hundreds that were roasted in the flames above the bridge. Since the last sentence was penned a party of searchers uneartned a charred and unsightly mass from the smouldering debris, within thirty yards in front of the Associated Press headquarters. Unused to such fright ful discoveries, the leader of the gang pronounced the remains to be a blackened log, and it required the authoritative verdict of a physician to demonstrate that the ghastly discovery was the charred remains of a human being. Only the trunk remained, and that was roasted beyond all semblance toy flesh. Five minutes' search revealed fragments of a skull, that at once disin tegrated of its own weight when exposed to the air, no single piece being larger than half a dollar, and the whole resem bling the remnants of shattered char coal. HORRIBLE FINDS. Within the last hour half a dozen dis coveries, in no way less horrifying than this, have been made by searchers as they rake with sticks and hooks in the smoking.ruins. So difficult is it at times to determine whether the remains are those of human beings that it is appar ent that hundreds must be fairly burned to ashes. Thus the number that have found a last resting place beneath these ruins can at best never be more than ap proximated. BRAVE, TIRELESS WORKERS. Moxham, the iron manufacturer, Mayor pro ten. of Johnstown to-day. He is probably the busiest man in the United States. Although for days without sleep, he sticks nobly to his task. Hundreds of others are like him. Men fall to the earth from sheer fatigue. There are many who have not closed an eye in sleep since they awoke Friday morning. They are a hollow-eyed, pitiable looking lot. Many have lost near relatives and all friends. H EARTLEss EXTRTIOS E . -Ten and ho s most needed to-day. Some of the unfortunates who conld not go to the relief trains en deavored to obtain flour from wrecked store in Johnstown. One dealer was charged $5 a sack for flour, and was getting it in one or two cases. Suddenly the crowd heard of the occurrence, and several desperate men went to the store andI doled flour out gratuitously to the homeless and stricken army. Another dealer was selling flour at $1.50 a sack. He refused to give any away, hut would sell it to any one who had'the money. Otherwise he would not allow any one to go near it, guarding his store with a shotgun. WORK OF GHOULs. Bodies arc recovered in Johnstown to day that have been robbed by the ghouls that flock to the scene. It was known that one lady had several hundred dol lars in her ~possession just before the disaster, but when the lady was recov ered there was not a cent in her pocket. Hungarians attacked a supply wagon be tween Morrellville and Cambria City to lay. The drivers of the wagon repulsed them, hnt they again returned. A second izht ensued, but after lively scrambling the Huns were again driven away. After that the drivers and guards of supply wagons were permitted to go armed. Registers are being opened in Johns town, and all survivors are requested to regter their names, in order to give information of their safety to inquiring friends. Postoffices were opened in Kerville and the fourth ward of Johns town to-day. The first mail got in at 9:30 this morning, and was enormous for such a small town. THF. AWFUL DEsoLATION of the scene has been described often enough already to render a repetition of the attempt here unnecessary. These descriptions have been as truthful and graphic as it is possible for man to mak them; but none have been none could be. W unbroken I " squares an- ements and sub c ars. t erc is now a level plain, as free from obstruction or excava tion as the fair fields of Arcadia after they had been swept by the British flames. The major and pret tier portion of the- beautiful city has literally been blotted from the face of the earth. Crowds of strangers are cautiously watching the wreck this morning from the railroad bridge, and as far up the river on both sides as the eye can reach. At Johnstown proper the rescuers con tinue to bring in bodies by hundreds this morning. THE DEATH LIST GROWS. Frot 12,000 to 15,000 Persons Per ished in the Johnstown Disaster. JoussTowN, Pa., June 5.-In the midst of this scene of death and desola tion, a relenting Providence seems to be exerting a subduing influence. Six days h~ave elapsed since the great disaster, and the temperature still remains lowv and chilly in the C'onemnaughi Valley. When it is remnembered that in ordinary June weather of this locality from two to three clays are sufficient to bring an unattended body to a degree of decay and putrefaction that would render it almost impossible to prevent the spread f disease throughout the valley, the in estimable benefits of this cool weather are almost beyond appreciation. The emanations from the half-mile debris above the bridge are but little more offensive than yesterday, and should this ool weather continue a few days longer it is possible that hundreds of bodies m aye be recovered from the wreck in ue'h a stale of preservation as to render idetiicaio posii Many hundreds, of victims, however, will be roasted and charred into such shapeless masses as to preclude the hope of recognition by their nearest relative:. CLEARING UP TIE DEBRIS. The work of clearing up the wreck and recovering the bedies is now being conducted more systematically. Over six thousand men are at work at various portions of the valley, and each little gang of twenty men is directed by a foreman, who is under orders from gen eral headquarters. As the rubbish is gone over and bodies and scattered arti cles of value recovered, the debris is piled up in one high mass and the torch applied. In this way the valley is as suming a less devastated condition. In twenty-four hours more every m2ass of rubbish will prohably have been searched. and investigations will be confined to the smoking wreck above Johnstown bridge. 3ILITARY ON GUARD. Pittsburgers are now in sole charge of everything at this place. The Four teenth Regiment has not yet been as signed to any duty by Adjutant General Hastings. In an interview this morn ing he said: "The regiment was ordered here to do guard work and take charge of the place. We will not declare mar tial law, for the reason that there is no necessity for it. The local police and the citizens, who have been doing yeo man service, are abont tired out, and I will assign the regiment to guard work this afternoon and relieve the police." General Hastings sent the following telegram to Governor Beaver this morn ing: "The Chief of Police of Johns town informs me that there were no de predations last night, and everything is quiet this morning. Stories about riots and lynchings are untrue, and are sent out by people who are desirous of making sensations." FEEDING THE HUNGRY. At Johnstown station, on the East side of the river, everything was quiet, vet considerable work is being done. This is the chief commissary station, and this morning by 2 o'clock 15,000 people were fed, and about 00 families fur nished with provisions. Five carloads of clothing were distributed, awl now al most every one is provided with clothing. At the different registration places 18,000 residents of the devastated dis trict had registered as alive and well. The total population of this district was between 40.000 and 50,000. There were hundreds of people waiting around the offices to have their names placed on the list of saved. It is thought that by night at least 85 per cent. of the survivors will be registered. Roger O'Meara, Superintendent of the Police of Pittsburg, who has been here for two days looking for crooks and piclpockets, said that the reports about robberies and thieving were very greatly exaggerated. THE LOSS OF LIFE. Conservative men are of opinion that the number of people destroyed will reach from 12,000 to 15,000. This view of it is based on many fragments of evi dence obtained from over one hundred citizens carefully selected from as in telligent men and women as could be different occupat ;is possible, and from as many soc. _ Asses. They were asked fi.'estimate the per centage of loss to total population, to tell how many people of their acquaint ance have disappeared, how gatherings of residents on the streets and in public places compare with the same in former times. Their statements of fact and es timates were proved as fair as could be, and the calculation shows a list of from 12,000 to 15,000. It must be remembered that a very large proportion of this loss is made up of children. How strikingly frenuent is reference made in the death list to "Mrs. Jones and six children," 'Mrs. Smith and five children." In the morgue LITTrLE ONEs LIE IN DOZENS where adults are in half dozens. There is and has beent great difficulty in recov ering the bodies of children. Being lighter and smaller. they have often been swept into out-of-the-way recesses that are almost inaccessible, and are more easily carried away. A very great proportion of children have been swept down the river, and their bodies driven n under the overhanging banks, under thickets and in other places where there is only a sparse population and where search is not carried on in a careful and organized manner. As an illustration of this, just above New Florence some fragments of clothing were in full view of a party on the river bank. Hundreds of people passed the place for three days, looking for bodies, but thought it was only shreds of worthless clothing they were looking at. Finially some body poked at the rags with a stick and the swi-l in the current brought a two ear-old babe to the surface. The drift of opinion among intelligent men. physicians., engineers and railroad men, is that from 1,000 to 1,500 of the bodies will never be found. .Recovering the Dead. ,. Pa., June 6.-The work th-r & s Mii-vitflun ~imis~ vigor, and as the workmen ecome accustomed to their ghastly finds, and the horrors of the scene be ome commonplace, they apply hemselves more diligently to their duty nd labor with a system that produces rapid restults. The Altoona delegation has been one of the busiest and most useful on the ground. They took charge of the two leading hospitals-the Cam bria Hospital and that under Dr. Robin son in Johnstown-and ran them up to himorning, when they were relieved y the Philadelphia branch of the Red Cross Society, under Clara Bar-ton. They ae also be'en in charge of the wreck age above the bridge. B. M. Bunker of froota has had sixty men at work, aided by Dave Kirk, who is doing the ynamiting. Altoona pays all bills for this work. This party of workmen have (lone so well that a big bhaat of twenty five dynamite cartridges at 10 o'clock loosenied up the debr's, and made it pos sible to open the mouth of the old chan RUINs OF A LOST PAssENGER TRAIN rOUND. This gang of workmen have located the day express, which was swept away at Coemauith. The ruins of the tr'aiin ie about 100 feet from the fourth but tress fromt the Western end~ of the stone bridge Parts of the parlor cars have to-day been found, as well as traces of the passe~ngers. About 9 o'clock the baggage of Miss Annie Chism of Nash ville. Tenn., was found. She was a nns sionary, on her way to Brazil. for the omen's Foreign Missionary Society of' the Methodist Church. Among her ef fects was a Bible, and in it was a mes sage to be filed at Altoona, and addressed to the Methodist Book Con ern at No 20 East 10th street, Newv York, announcing that she wvas on the train; her watch, some money. and a Greek Testament. It is evident that manv lives were lost on this train-more affair is still a mystery. Ar least the passengers have not so far been found and located. The body of a nicely dressed lady was found yesterday, which was so much decomposed as to be un recognizable. The effects of Miss Chism were sent to Altoona. UNREASONABLE WORKINGMEN. There was a small-sized riot at the labor camp this morning on account of there not being food enough for the men or utensils to cook it with. Mr. Flynn, who is at the head of the labor bureau, made a speech to the men. and stated that it was impossible to get things down from the railroad, but that they would be down as soon as possible. He also stated that they (id not want men who expected to live on the fat of the land, and that this was principally a work of charity, even though the men did get paid for their work. A. few minutes after this. as Mr. Flynn was drinking some black coffee and eating! some hard crackers and cheese, two workmen came up to him and com menced to complain because they did not have soup and meat. This enraged MIr. Flynn, and after telling them that he thought he was as used to good eat ing as they were, he ordered the guards to take the men out of town and not per mit them to come back again. This seemed to have the desired etle t, and there was no more trouble. TEN THOUSAND MEN AT WORK. This morning twenty time-keepers from Pittshurg arrived, and they are now hard at work getting the names of the men employed. This morning it was stated that five thousand men are at work, and it is expected by to-morrow at least .10.000 men will be employed: but even this large force of men will not be able to remove the debris in less than several weeks. Last night about five hundred of the laborers had no tents to sleep in, but word has been received from Washington that tents are on their way. and it is expected they will arrive to-night. UNDER MARTIAL LAW. At noon to-day the boroughs of Jolis towr. and the adjoining boroughs, or what is left of them, practically passed under martial law. Adjutant General Hastings says he has not declared mar tial law yet. The soldiers are on guard, and no one is permitted between the lines unless they have an order from the Adjutant General. . Sight-seers are de barrea altogether, and the town is inac cessible, except to newspaper men and other people who have business there. Every point is guarded and soldiers pa trol the dividing lines. They are very active and deport themselve like old vet erans. They guard approaches religiously and have orders to stop any one who crosses the line. It is probable that the Eighteenth Regiment will be ordered out, from the fact that it takes so many soldiers to cover the ground. A special guard will have to be put at Kernville, Mllvale, Cambria City and other points, and this alone will take a regiment of soldiers. The Adjutant General was at first backward at ordering out any troops, from the fact that it would naturally create the impression that for calling cut the troops is to relieve the Pittsburg and Johnstown police, who have had little or no sleep for several days past. THE LIVING AND THE DEAD. The real work of ascertaining who the living and the dead of Johnstown are was started this morning, A corps of clerks, under the direction of a relief committee,started Out this morning, and they will go to every house in the vicin ity and secure the names of the living. Another corps of men will endeaver to tind out who the missing are, and in this manner it can be nearly definitely known just bow many were lost in the flood. A revision of the registration books show that only 13,000 people had registered up to one o'clock this after noon at the different registration sta tions, and by this list it is apparent that a large number of the survivors will not take the trouble togo and register. A t one of the stations, consequently the plan of hav-ing registers mak~e theC can vas was adoptad. The Situation at Williamsport. WILLIAMsPORT, Pa., June 6.-The people breathe little easier, now that all apprehensions as to further suffering with hunger have been dissipated. Seven cars of supplies were brought up yesterday evening by the Secretary of the Commonwealth and are ready to be unloaded, and work will begin some time to-day. The track is not repaired far enough to bring the ears opposite the centre of the eity, and boats cannot get down to were they arc. Before evening they will be reached. The Mayor this morning telegraphed the Governor that enough provisions are on the way to last our people for several days. The relief committees have been exceedingly busy and are constantlvy finding cases of suffering. Th.. .-ai very large class who e not applying for relief but -'o have lost all their hond'AV goods and all their clothing. These include good classes of people, many of whom lived on the principal streets. Nearly every lawyer who occu pid a first floor office has lost all his books. Knights of Honor to the Rescue. PHILADELPHIA, June .--The Sapreme Ditator of the Knights of Honor. Hon. A. R. Savage of Auburn, N. Y., thasi sued an official d.stress call tor aid of the flood sufferers in Pennsylvania Lodges are directed to forwart contri butions to J. W. Branch, Supreme Trea surer, St. Louis. A Wicked Couple. ToccoA, Ga., June 4. -A man named Clay, traveling agent for the sale of pianos and organs for a house in Chatta nooga, has eloped with the widow iof Dr. Borders, the former leaving a wife and children in Chattanooga, and the latter leaving six children at and near the oldI homestead-the youngest being only about 4 years old. The last act oft mother to'child was to spank her babe and throwv it from the buggy when she started. because the little fellow cried to go with " mothr.'' The eloping parties have been heard from as having lantded at some pointi ini Canada. The' widow owed very good proery. co'nsist ing of ~eal and personal estate. IHer farm lies on Cosawattee River. Bishop Keane's Successor. NEW YoRK, June 3.-The following cablegram has been received by the Catolic Neu-s: ROME, June 3.-The Very Rev. A. Van DeVyver, Vicar General and Ad mimstrator of the Diocese of Richmond, has been elected to the Bishopric of that See. He succeeds the Right Rev. John J. Keane, who was translated to the See of Ajasso and made rector of the New Catholic University at Was hingtou in ugust, 1SS% SOUTH CAROLINA CROPS. The Unfavorable Effect of the Drought. Cotton Stands Inferior-Condition of Corn Fair-Small Grain Poor. The State Department of Agriculture furnishes the following information re garding the weather and the crops for the month of May, derived from the reports of the special County and town ship correspondents of the department and the reports of the volunteer observ ers of the State Weather Service: -THE WiATHER. There lias been a marked deficiency in rainfall during the month. For the month of May last year the rainfall was excessive--7.51 inches -while for the past month. estimated from reports received to date, the rainfall has been only 2.18 inches, nearly all of which fell on the last two days of the month. Some sections of the State have been without rain for six weeks. The effect of this protracted drought has been unfavorahl to growing crops. COTTON. From the foot of the mountains to the coast the reports, with but few excep tions, show that the "stands" of cotton are inferior. Some corresponderlts esti mate that not over 50 per cent. of the crop is yet above ground. The dry and cool weather has checked the growth of the plants and prevented the germina tion of seed. High winds have pre vailed during the month, crusting the ground and injuring young cotton. Insects have been active and have done some damage to the crop. The bene licial effects of the rains on the 28th. 29th, :0th and 31st were somewhat neutralized by the succeeding cool weather. The crop is clean and well worked and in good condition to be benefited by seasonable showers in June. If these shall come early in the month there is yet time for 4 decidedly favoraole change in crop conditions. The general condition of cotton on the 1st of June was for Upper Carolina, 80; Middle Carolina, 71: Lower Carolina, 78: average for the State, 76, against 86 at the same time last year. There has been very little change in the area. The average of the reports for the State is the same as last year, but the variatiors in the different Counties will probably show a slight increase when the final estimate is made. CORN. Corn has suffered less than cotton fro-d the effects of the long drought. On uplands the crop is reported in good condition. The plants are small but healthy. Recent rains have been very beneficial to upland corn. On bottom lands rain is needed. Bud and cut worms have damaged the crop to a consider able extent in some sections. The condi tion is reported at in Upper Carolina, 92; Middle Carolina, 79; Lower Carolina, 72; average for the State, 81, against S0 last year. It is estimated that 27 per cent. of the crop is planted on bottom lands. .SMALL GRAIN. Wheat straw is very short. and the heads smaller than usual, but the berry is full, sound and plump, and a good averago yield is expected. Han' i n r.:bout t tof T e of fall oats so. reu , the unfavorable weather, but an aver age yield will probably be obtained. Spring oats will be almost a total failure. The condition of wheat was 83 on the 1st of June, against 80 on the 1st of June last year. The condition of oats was 68 against 86 on the 1st of June last year. . POTATOES. A slight decrease is reported in the acreage of both sweet and Irish potatoes. The condition, compared to an average. is sweet potatoes 80, agaiinst 98 last year; Irish potatoes 73, against 95 last year. RICE. The rice crop has apparently not been hurt by the drought. The correspond ents generally report that the crop has been thoroughly worked and put in good order, so that it will receive the fulbenefits of June rains. The condition is reported at 89, against 85 last year. SU'GAR CANE AND SORGHUM. The condition of sugar cane is re ported at 87, and sorghum at S9. FRIT. Tho peach crop will be more abund ant than for several years. The trees in many sections of the State are filled with tinle fruit. Apples and pears are much less promising. The area in wa ter melons has been increased, but the vines need rain to produce a more vig orous growth. SUPPLIES PURCHASED. The amount of farm supplies purchased will exceed last year's purchase by about per cent. This increase is due to the loss of corn crops in 1888 on river bottoms ad to the increased use of commercial fertilizers. The tinancial condition of land wners is reported "better"~ than last ear by 42 correspondents, the .same" 2-?ud "w - by 47. Of tenants - . ~ - br 72 and worse" by 31. Of farm laborr :r~ by 19, asame" by 97, "-worse" by COMMERCIAL FERTILIZERS. . The estimated consumption of com erial fertilizers in the State for the year is 130.000 tons, as follows: Com plete fertilizers, 5:3,500; acid phosphates. 460,800 tons, and kainit, cotton seed meal afd~ chemicals 29.900 tons. About 35 per cent. of all fertilizers purchased was usedl in composting. One-fourth less kainit was used than last year. OI WOOLFOLX'S FOURTH TRIAL For the Mur'der of His Family of Nine Persons. MACON. Ga.. June 4.-A special from Perry. Houston County. Ga., says: 'om' Woolfolk. who is charged with the murder of his entire family. consisting of nine person~s, was placed on trial here yesterday. The murder was committed n Bibb County, near Macon. in 1886, nd the case goes to Houston County on change of venue The case has been famous from the fact that. technically. this is Woolfolk's fourth trial. The first took place in Macon, lastmng several as. 1ie was convicted~and sentenced oeathi. The Supreme Court reversed this decision,. giving him a new trial. rwo attempts 'weie mlade (luring the ~reseit rear to try th ecase in Macon, hut each timie the :attempts failed. owinig o the dimeiulty in securin.; a ,iuty. So a <-iangec of venue was granted to lutL~on County. Death From Red Roses. CARTHAGE, Tenn., June 5.-Two little atghters of Lotu Ruissell, near here. were poisoned yesterday in a remarkable manner. They were playing around the yard and ate some red roses. Both were taken violently ill in a short time, and the elder girl died last night. The younger lingered in great agony until this morning, and then died. Inve-sti ation shows that the roses were full of ittle green insects, and these are sup posel by the physicians to have been oion The girls were seven and six BRUTE SAGACITY. AN INTERESTINtG EXPERIMENT IN THE CIONIN RIUDI)ER INVESTIGATION. Dinan's White Horse, Without Guidance, Trots to the Carlson Cottage-In Doing S;, t* Beast Takes a Roundabout Route, ibat Stops at~the House of His Own Accord. CHIcAGO, June $.-The sagacity of a horse has been resorted to in the Cronin case. One of Lieutenant Horace Elliott's detectives, who is taking more than or dinary interest in the case, last evening thought that it would be a good idea to learn how much Dinau's white horse knew about the mystery. It was about 7:10 o'clock in the even ing that the celebrated white-horse rig drove up to the .Conklin residence, and when the doctor was induced to enter the buggy the horse was driven North on Clark street. To reach the Carlson cottage, where the physician was so cruelly slain, the man must have driven the doctor down Lincoln avenue to Ash land, and from this corner to Roscoe street, where the cottage is situated. This was the easiest route by which the cottage could be reached, and the detec tive, thinking that the horse would not forget the way the assassin drove, hired the rig from Liveryman Dinan and started out to ionvinee himself whether the white horse used by Cougn' friend was the animal that eairTied Cro nin to his death or not. He first drove to the Conklin resi dence, and the antnal stopped directly in front of the do' or's rooms. This was not strange, as the horse has been diven to the Conklin house on several occasions since the murder, and he natu rally would stop there. The detective jumped out of the buggy, took a drink, and then prepared to drive North. The animal, however, attempted to turn around and return toward the .livery stable, but he was started at a lively rate in the opposite direction. The driver allowed the reins to hang loosely, but he urged the animal on at a lively rate to ward Lincoln avenue. The detective was delighted when the horse, without the least pressure on the lines, darted from Clark street around Center street to Lincoln avenue. Down the street the horse went, urged at a lively rate by the detective, and the man hoped that e animal would go direct to Ashland ave-t nue and turn up that street to the cot tage-the shortest way. But the animal did nothing of the kind: When driving rapidly along the car track the brute turned. suddenly out of the rails and started down Sheffield avenue, through the mud. The man was disappointed. He thought he had found something that would at least satisfy himself that the white horse hired at Dinan's livery stable on the night of the murder was the one that drove the doctor to the place where he was assassinated. The horse was not going the shortest way-in fact he was going out of his way, and the detective was on the point of returning the rig to the stables when the animal turned up. den avenue and went as far as Bos which Sullivan's house is situated. Then the brute turned up this street to Roscoe and trotted to Ashland avenue, turning the corner, and without the least effort on the part of the detective the white horse stopped directly in front of the lit tle house where the doctor was killed. This proved almost conclusively that the rig o Yned by Dinan was the one used to convey the doctor to the place where he was murdered, and the police intend to work up this theory. The white mare found in the posses sion of Woodruff when he was arrested was obtained at Dean's livery stable and driven to the place where the trunk was found and to the catch-basin where the body was discovered. This animal did not~ display as much ingenuity as the one owned by Dinan. When she neared the place whiere the trunk was picked out of the ditch she passed right by. Two detectives-one being Palmer+ were in the bnggy that was obtained at Dean's, and when the animal did not attempt to stop at the place which is marked by the police, they made no effort to stop her. They let ber-go out along the Evanston road to the pce where the decomposing remains we? found, expecting that she would stop there if she was familiar with the place. But the mare fooled them again and would have carried the two detectives to Evanston had they not turned the animal's head toward the city. The police are nor at the end of their tether in the Cronin case, as many peo ple have been led to suppose. At least Lieutenant Eiliott says so. The o~f after examining the private papest o Dr. Cronin has, it is understood, got some new clews, which are being thoroughly followed up. "We have not dropped the case by any means," said the chief of detectives, "and we find lots of work to do." "There may be. but I cannot say. When the arrests commence, look out. lhere will be lots of them." From what could be learned from the etective's remarks it is understood that the police are endeavoring to learn the~ ames of all the conspirators and then ake wholesale arrests. Tne chief said this afternoon that he had something that would startle the public, but he would not give it ouf. "You will hear it at the ingaest, hough," was all the chief would say. AN INCENDIARY FIRE. Wipes Out the Entire Business Portion. of a Mississippi Town. MOBILE, Ala., June U.-A special from Bilexi. a thriving town of Harri-.U son County, Miss., on the Gulf coast, as that the town suffered a severe loss by~ fire this morning, all the business ouses being wiped out. The loss is 100,000: insurance $:20.000. The fire was incendiary. Citizens held an indig nation meeting this morning and ap ointed a vigilance committee to detect_ the incendiary anid punish the plunder ers who were at work during the fire. There was no fire apparatus there, but a hook and ladder of Mobile was tele raphed to for help, and sent an engine md hose truck on a special train ar - ving, however, after the fire was gottu' nder control. A Train Runs Into a Burning Trestle. MONoxvroom Ala.. June 7.-The south bound lightning express train of he Alabama Great Southern, due here about :2 o'clock this morning, met with a ecrious accident about one and a hl~ nies North of Cart bage, Ala., on the restle known as the Cairthage Gravel it Trestle. The trestle was on fire, and efore the engineer discovered it and onld stop his train he ran into it. The ireman jumped from the engine. ~eveny feet of the trestle was con umed: also the engine, mail car arid aggage e'ar. Most of the mail was