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DOUBLE LYNCHING. ,NO DISCRIMINATION ON ACCOUNT OF RACE OR COLOR. A White Man and a Negro Hanged from the Ends of One Rope-Masked Lynch ers Batter Down the Doors of the Mor ganton Jail, Drag Out Two Murderers and Hang Them Over a Railroad Bridge. Five Minutes to Pray. CHaRLwrE, N. C., September 11. [Special to The Register. ]-There is great excitement throughout Burke County on account of a double lynch ing which oc.' rred at Morganton early this morning. Two murderers-Frank tack. (white) and Dave Boone (eol ored)-have been confined in Morganton jail for about one week. Their crimes are separate, but they both paid the penalty at the ends of one rope. Stack on the 9th of last month very brutally shot down and instantly killed Robert S. Parker in his garden at Ruth erford College. Mr. Parker was mak ing preparations to enter the Methodist ministry. Boone murdered a white man named Bolden at camp meeting on Sunday night, September 1st. When Stack was captured and placed in jail, some eight days ago, fears were then expressed that he would be lyuched and an extra guard was placed about the jail to ensure protection. A few days afterStackwasjailed Boone was placed in prison also,and then talk of lynching wasagain heard, and theguard about the jail was retained. People be gan to think feeling was gradually dying out, but early this morning 200 masked men silently rode into Morganton, and marching to the jail, demanded the keys. They being refused, heavy ham mers were taken from the buggy which had been brought along for the purpose and the doors were soon battered down. Only a few blows were required to break the locks on the two cell doors in which Stack and Boone were confined. As the men stepped in Stack's cell they found the murderer lying on the floor, muttering a prayer. 'Whes commanded to get up he made no attempt, but shook like a leaf. Then two men jerked him to his feet and started out with him. Boone was carried out into the hallway of the jail. Then both were brought together and securely bound. The two murderers cast a glance at each other, but did not speak. When bound they were carried and placed in a double seated buggy by the side of two men. Then the march to death was begun. The mob moved off slowly and cau tiously. They carried the two murder ers to a railroad bridge near by, and af ter carrying them ont into the middle of the bridge a twenty foot rope was tied in the middle to :he crossties. One end of the rope was adjusted about Stack's neck and the other was tied about the neck of Boone. The murderers were then given five minutes to pray. The leader of the mob drew a watch from his pocket and timed them. When the time was up he gave the signal and both were pushed off the bridge, and their bodies were dangling over a small stream. Some shots were fired at them, and then the mob dispersed and quickly galloped away. The officers of Morganton are mak ig special efforts to capture the lynch ers. Warrants for many parties have been issued and many arrests are ex pected to follow. Pubie sentiment does not seem to justify the lynching. Only Saturday morning of last week John Sigmond (colored) was lynched in Gastn Contyfor rape. This may be a mighty dry 'subject to' takabout, but a great proportion of human happiness after all rests on a uimber foundation. When a conflagration destroys Port land or Chicago. or an earthquake fells sea ity like Charleston, the whole nation grows sorrowful over the huge disaster. But when the crackling flames eat up hundreds of millions of feet of market able timber in the West we somehow feel that the trees can be easily spared and hardly give the subject another ctig timber is, however, one of the1 coosa interests of this -country. A 'welkwooded tract of land is a bonanza, and now that the South enters the field with two hundred varieties of wood, and enough of each kind to satisfy the de mand for two or three generations,-there is canse for public rejoicing. These woods are adapted to every .brane efin~anufacture into which that eT~rial enters. Black walnut. yellow poplar, white oak, hickory, ash, live oak, juniper, yellow pine are to be found in abundance, and fill a very important place in our diversifled industries. They are valuable for furniture, ship building, hollow ware, agricultural implements, railroad ties, car building and the thou sand and one other purposes for which special woods are necessary. Yellow pine is as saleable as cotton or wheat. The demand for it is always on the increase. It is strong enough to -bear the heaviest weights, and is used everywhere, both in the construction of houses and in the shipyard. Of thi's there seems to be an almost inexhaust ible abundance in the South. The cypress is made into shingles, the -black walnut and thegum tree are useful for cabinet purposes, the cottonwood of the Mississippi Valley is converted into a thousand useful forms, the white oak of Kentucky, Louisiana and Tennessee is made into staves. Northern lumbermen have been quick to use their opportunities, and during the last ten years have brought a score of million of acres as an investment. Soutbern enterprise is by no nmeans be hindhand,forin every State the rhythmic swing of the woodman's axe bears testimony to 'the enterprise which is bound to develop all the rich resources within reach.-N. Y. Herald. * John L. as a Committeeman. Chairman of Congressional committee -I take it for granted, gentlemen, that we shall report favorably on this bill that has been referred to us, defining the barbarous practice of holding boxing *contests with skin-tight gloves in the -District of Columbia as a felony, and prescribing a penalty of not less than one year in the penitentiary [Enter Committeeman Sullivan, the honorable member from Boston.] The Chairman (resuming)-Er-Mr. Sullivan, we were-ah-considering this bill in relation to sparring exhibitions. What is your opinion of it? Congressman Sullivan-It's a bloody shame to bring in such a bill as that. I kin lick any feller that's in favor of it, blank my eyes, an' I'm willin' to do it ~right here if necessary The Chairman (with alacrity)-Mr. Sullivan's judgment, gentlemen, is that of an expert. I take it for granted, gentlemen, that we shall report unani *mously against this infamous bill. A Venerable Hunting Horn. Mr. A. M. Black of New Port, has in his possession a horn used by his great grandfather in fox hunting, which -is over one hundred years old. It is beautifully engraved, the characrs representing a fox chase, a lion seeking prey, and other figures. -The engraving -was done with a penknife, and shows the wonderful skill of the workman in this art. Mr. Black prizes it very bighly ..-ork Enterprise. Fortune Never Dies. What's the use of chasing fortune? Fortune never dies. Have 3 our grief, butfnever grievance. Waste no time in sighs. Everything will come to you. The world will better be For rivers only run one way, and t ver toward the sea Overhead the stars are living-always-day and night. The sun into some weary soul is ever flood ing light. Make your soul your mirror; walk with Wis dom, Meekness, Pride. A wise mao's pillow tells him more than all the world beside. Love your neighbor as yourself. bat not your neighbor's wife. Thesweetesw' thing to-living man or dying ran is life. Love, ambition, hnner, wake the world whenever it would nod And h -ly aspirations inust soar up at last to God: He will hear you and will listen, and will an swer by and by; The poorest and the meanest yet have one friend up ou high. So gather up your manhood from the ashes of.your youth, And live ror honor, friendship, love and charity and truth: --Once a Week. South Carolina at the Paris Exposition. A let ter has been received by Commis sioner Butler from Mr. T. E. Horton of Greenville, now in Paris as a special commissiolner jepresenting South Caro lina at the Exposition there. Mr. Horton writes in reference to the circular descriptive of the State re sources and advantages that it has re ceived several compliments, and was styled a document "very much to the point" by a gentleman from Birming ham, England. Mr. Horton discovered a pamphlet concerning Kansas in an out of the way place in the Exposition build ing, and says of it that it is "bulky and tiresome, aud will not be read, I believe, by one man, while our little laflet is perused by ten Speaking further as to the contrast te tween the Kansas publication and his own Mr. Horton says: "The Kansas pamphlet is left on a table to be picked up by chance passers. My circular is handed directly to the visitor by a pretty girl, who is ready to answer inquiries in English or French. and if I do not bap pen to be present she can tell the in quirer just where I may be found. You see the difference." Mr. Horton says that he has on his list the names of the following persons who desire further information concern ing our State: Professor Bernt Hottsi nark, Hoalstad street, Kristina, Norway. who is in charge of an agricultural school in Norway and speaks English; A. Girard. Beymouth, Syria, a negoirant connissuire, who says he knows of seve ral persons contemplating going to Florida or South Carolina; T. B. Hussey of North Berwick. Maine, who is thinking of coming to this State. Mr. Horton expects to leave Paris for home some time in October. How to Tell a Good Horse. Unless a horse has brains you can't teach him. See that tall bay there-a fine-looking animal, fifteen hands high. You can't teach that horse anything. Why? Well, P11 show you a difference in heads, but have a care of his heels. Look-at the brute's head-that rtunning nose, that tapering forehead, that broad, full place below the eyes. You can't trust him. That's an awful good mare as true as the sun. Y6u can see breadth and fullness between the ears and eyes. You couldn't hird that mare to act mean or hurt anybody. The eye should be full, and hazel is a good color. I like a smal, thin ear, and want a horse to throw its cars well forward. Look out for the rute that wants to listen to all nyersation going on behind him. ~he horse that turns back his ears till be almost meet at the points. take mig 'sure to do ~thng hors wih adisingface is cowardly, and a cowardly brute is usually vicious. Then I like a square muzzle, with large nostrils, to let in plenty of air to the lungs. For the under side of the head, a good horse should be well cut under the jowl. with jaw bones broad and wide apart under the throttle. The next thing to consider is the build of the animal. Never buy a long-legged, stilty horse. Let him have a short, straight back and a straight rump, and you've got a gentleman's horse. The withers should be high and the shoulders well set back and broad, but don't get them too deep in the chest. The fore leg should be short. - Give me a pretty straight hind leg, with the hock low down, short postern joins and a round mulish foot. There are- all kinds of horses, but the animal that has these points is almost sure to be sightly, graceful, good-natured and service able-}1ledical Classis. A Boston Girl's Bluff. The proprietor of a fashionable West Ed hotel does not receive young ladies who arec unaccompanied by chaperons, even though they hail from the United States. The other day a saucy young dasel from Boston went bowling along Picadilly -in high spirits and a spick and-span new hansom. The "fetching" combination p~ulled up at the -- hotel. She bounced in and asked if she could have a room for the night. Before the clerk could twist a smile with which to decorate his regrets that every apart ment in the house was engaged, the young lady snapped out: "My mamma will be here to-night from Liverpool. i've telegraphed for her." "-Oh. very well; in that case you can, peraps, be accommodated," gently sug grested the clerk. The new arrival went on, in a voice tremnlous with irrita tion, "Perhaps you'd like me to send for my father, too, and my sisters, and my ecousins, my aunts, and a grand father or two." "Mamma will answer t he purpose nicelv," t be clerk rerlied with serenity. " Oh,~I'm glad to knor that,'' replied the Boston lassie with a toss of the head. "Because, it it will appease your suspicion as~ to who 1 am, l can 'hiow you my visiting card, a certificate of my bir-th,the pedigree of my family for thiree generations back, and the vaccination mark on my right arm." The clerk bowed humbly. and the young lady trotted off to her apart met.-Lrun don Illustraited-Neuws. The Virginian Gets There. "Speaking about mint juleps," said a well known Board of Tiade man to a Kansas.City Times man, "I attended a barbecue down in Kentuncky once where they made it in ttubs and placed cane rods about live or six feet long in them, so that thbe audience could walk up and take a suck of t he fragrant stuff ad libi tu. That's wvhat I call the lap of lux ur." "Humph, that's nothing," said Marion Knowles, the geuiial traveling passenger agent of the Savannah. Florida and Western, who is a native of Richmond, Va. "Last year I visited a fine old gen tleman living. in Georgia. He had eight sons, and lived in a fine old plantation house. Standing on the broad veranda one could inhale the fragrance of a ten acre field of mint that stretched far away from the foot of the lawn. I re tiredl early and arose at sunrise and stepped out onf the veranda, where my host and sons were awvaiting me. As soon as I alppeared~ the old man shouted to a colored man who was doing some trivial chores on thc lawn: "Hy, there. John; take that scythe and go down into the patch and mow enough mint for breakfast." 'That's what I call true hospitality," added Knowles, and silence prevailed for THE NEW HOUSE. Possibility that the Republicans will Lose Control. WASHINGTON, September 8.-Those who study the undercurrents of North Carolina politics say that it is not un likely that Congressman Brower's pro posed bolt from the Republican caucus for Speaker will result finally in his acting with the Democrats in the organ ization of the House. His political future in the Republican party is already destroyed, and the Republican candi date in his district is already named in the person of young Thomas Settle, the son of the late Judge Settle, who was so long a Republican leader in North Caro lina. Young Mr. Settle is only twenty-five years old, but he was elected District Attorney at twenty-one and has already a reputation as one of the best stump speakers in the State. Curiously enough he had not determined to be a candi date for the' Congressional nomination until Mr. Brower secured the defeat of his mother for postmaster at Greens boro and the appointment of one of his own creatures. The Democratic candi date will probably be David Settle, the uncle of young Thomas, who was Mar shal of the District under Mr. Cleve land. Mr. Brower is reported to believe that by standing out against the Repub lican party for the repeal of the internal revenue taxes lie can defeat both parties in his district as an independent candi date for Congress. The tobacco tax, he argues, is pretty sure to be repealed, and if he makes himself a special champion of repeal he is likely to get the credit of it even though ha is not the real instrument. If he could place himself in this attitude be would undoubtedly be very strong in this district and draw votes from both parties. His friends believe he can draw enofgh to win. In either case he would have little to lose, for he is al ready out of favor with the Republican organization, and it took the united ef forts of McKinley, Quaid and Goff, as bosses of the Republican National Com mittee, to prevent his being forced off the ticket last fall for voting for the Mill's bill. " With Brower in opposition, Nutting, of New York, ill, and only three Republi can members elected in the new States, the Republicans would muster only 165 votes in the House, or one less than a quorum. POISONING HER HUSBAND. A Highly Sensational Case Under In vestigation in North Carolina. CHARLOTTE, N. C., September 11. [Special to The Register.j-The Coro ner's investigation in the Morris case at Reidsville, which has been in progress for a week, was adjourned yesterday until Monday next, on account of the illness of Mrs. Morris, who is the next witness. Her testimony will be watched for with great interest. One year ago Mr. D. E. Morris, one of the oldest and most substantial busi ness men of Reidsville, was married to Miss Cora May Scales, a very pretty young lady and the acknowledged belle of the town. It is said that Miss Scales did not love Morris, and her marriage to him was against her wishes. This is plainly evident from the fact that im mediately after the ceremony was per formed Mrs. Morris absolutely and un conditionally refused to live with her husband as his wife, and they lived apart until Morris's death. However, of late they have both lived in the same house, occupying separate apart meuts. Some days ago Mrs. Morris asked her husband to have his life in sured for ten thousand dollars, and have the policy made out in her favor. T'risyas doneund the policy was deliv ered to'11er~ Morris told ius wife that he had also made his will and had be queathed to her property worth $20,000. In a day or two Morris was found dead in his bed. Although the circumstances looked suspicious, on account of Mrs. Morris's connection, no action was taken against her and Morris was buried, her friends declaring he* was a victim of heart disease. But after Morris's body had been in the grave one week a Coroner's jumry was summoned, the body exhumed and the stomach cut out by Drs. Broughton of Reidville-and Gregory of Greensboro. These physicians pronounce the heart perfectly sound, and say that death re sulted from the effects of chloroform, and that a much smaller dose than that used would have produced death. The stomach has been sent to the State Chemist for analysis. It remains to be seen whether Morris took an overdose of chloroform or whether it was adminis tered to him. Four lawyers are employed on the case, and several days will yet be re quired to hear the evidence. Mrs. Mor ris is now in a very critical condition, her nervous system being entirely un strung. Three physicians are attending her, but it is feared she is beyond recov ery. Highly sensational developments are expected. Mrs. Morris is connected with the best families of Rockingham County. She has been placed under a rest to await the Coroner's jury. Died on Her Wedding Eve. Near Bowder Springs, Ga., Monday last, what was to have been a wedding proved to be a funeral. The daughter of Col. John McFadden had met Mr. Edward Smith of Charleston at Tallulah in the early summer. The couple soon became lovers, and the young lady re turned home before the season was out to prepare for her wedding, which was set down for Monday. Her father, wbo is one of the leading planters of Cobb County, resolved to make the wedding a grand social occaeion. The bridal trosseau was ordered from New York, and young ladies were present from several States to act as bridesmaids. Sunday night t be bride expectant ar rayed herself in her robes for the in spection of her friends. For a few-mo ments the greatest hilarity existed, when suddenly Miss McFadden put her hand to her forehead with a scream and fell to the floor. She was dead. The b~ody, arrayed as it was for the weddingt, was laid ~out for burial, and when Mr. Smith rode up at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon, which was the appointed time, he found he was at a funeral instead of a wed ding. He was so overcome that he could not go to the burial, which took place at 4 p. mi. Grave Charges Against a Pastor. The colored people of Conway hold an indignation meeting last Monday night at the A. M. E. Church. The oc casion was to protest against the indig nity of one of the young female mem bers swearing an illegitimate child to Re;'. R. E. Primus, the pastor. Lizzie Jones, who has been induced by some body into doing wrong, and the wrong has developed into a capacity of separate existence, and last week she swore before Trial Justice Gillespie that the father of the wrong was the Rev..RH. E. Prim us. The ostensible reason for the meeting last Monday night was for the friends of Primus to express their indig lation at the injustice and calumny of the allegation against their pastor: They painted the picture of the girl with the infant wrong in her arms, sat urated it with oil and burned it. High words passed between sonme of the old and prominent members, and resort to more violent measures was prevented only by the departure of some of those concerned. -orryl Herald. Lady Mandeville threatens to go on the stage unless her father-in-law, the Duke of Manchester, pays her husband's dets. THROUGH THE HEART. A BROOKLYN MILLIONAIRE MU. DERED IN HIS OFFICE. By an Impecunious Old Man With Whom He Had Had a Lawsuit-"If You Don't Give Me $500 I'll Kill You !"-A Delib erate, Cold-Bloodea Murder. NEW YoRK, September 13.-F. w. Gesswein, the millionaire tool manufac turer of Brooklyn, sat in his office at No. 39 John street, at 11 o'clock this morning, talking to his superintendent, C. F. Koester, when the office door opened and Christian Deyhle, an old man with whom Gesswein had some trouble recently over a patent suit, en tered. Deyhle requested a private inter view with Gesswein. Mr. Koester stepped into an adjoining office. As soon as Mr. Koester left the office, Deyhle demanded $500 from Gess wein. Mr. Gesswein politely refused to give him any money. Deyhle replied: "I am an old man. You have beaten me in my patent case. I must have money to enter the Old Men's Home in Philadelphia. If you do not give it to me, I will kill you!" and before Gesswein could rise from his chair Deyble drew a 3.-calhbre revolver from his pocket and fired one shot, which passed through Gesswein's heart. He staggered to his feet and screamed for help, then fell to the floor and died before an ambulance could be summoned. When Koester heard the shot fired, he rushed to the door in time to inter cept Deyhle, who attempted to run down stairs, and handed him over to Officer White of the first precinct. Christian Deyble is a mean, insignifi cant looking German, with a full strag gling beard, and apparently over 60 years of age. When searched at the Old Ship puhce station a few scraps of iron, a matchbox and a few cents in change-were found in his pants pockets, and a revolver was taken from his coat. Things a Woman Can Do. The Boston Times in a spirit of fair ness admits, and even proclaims, that there are some desirable things a woman can do. Here is a sample batch: She can come to a conclusion without the slightest trouble of reasoning on it, and no sane man can do that. Six of them can talk at once and get along first rate, and no two men can do that. She can safely stick fifty pins in her dress while he is getting one under his thumb nail. She is cool as a cucumber in a half dozen tight dresses and skirts, while a man will sweat and fume and growl in one loose shirt. She can talk as sweet as peaches and cream to the woman she hates, while two men would be'punching each other's head before they had exchanged ten words. She can throw a stone with a curve that would be a fortune to a baseball pitcher. She can say "no" in such a low voice that it means "yes." She can sharpen a lead pencil if you give her plenty of time and plenty of pencils. She can dance all night in a pair of shoes two sizes too small for her and en joy every minute of the time. She can appreciate a kiss from her husband seventy-five years after the marriage ceremony is performed. She can go to church and afterward tell you what every woman in the cou gregation had on, and in some rare in stances can give you some faint idea of what the text was. She can walk half the night with a colicky baby in her arms without once expressing the desire of murdering the infant. She can do more in a minute than a man can do in an hour. and do it better. She can drive a man crazy in twenty four hours and then bring him to para dise in two seconds by simply tickling him under the chin, and there does not live that mortal son of Adam's misery who can do it . Rain Gambling. A system of gambing in Calcutta on rain is carried on in a "compound" off the Burra Bazaar, where, when a rain cloud crosses the sky, a crowd collects of eager, excited men; some rush about frantically, others perch themselves high on adjoining roofs and gesticulate wildly to friends below, while all gaze anxiously at the sky. These are the sutta, or rain speculators, and the system, as explained by the lessee of the compound in which it is carried on, is extremely simple. On the roof of his office is a ditch which will hold eight s'urs of water. if a rain cloud bursts and the fall exceeds this amount, the overflow is discharged ipto the compound by a spout. This decides all the bets, those who wagered it would rain winning. The bets are entered by the propi-ietor in a book, the commission being os~e pce per rupee, and the transactions be ing all settled at 10 o'clock the following morning. A defaulter is hardly ever known; the gamblers are mostly money lenders, men of substance, and well kLown to each other. Thief are a class by themselves, and the stakes are usu ally inconsiderable, whereas in Bombay it is not unusual to have thousands of rupees on the rain. The system has one advantage-rain clouds cannot be ma nipulated; they cannot be loaded like dice, or "faked" like horses; thero are no handicappers, no starters, no owners and no jockeys.- Times of india. Catholicism and Temperance. The following, says the New York per ad, is significant as showing the drift of Roman Catholic opinion on the .sub ject of temperance. It is from the Catholic Uniperse, published in Cleve ]and. Ohio, and is the most radical opiu ion on the subject we have seen in print for a long while: "The saloon at night is the panderer of ninety-nine hundredths of the crime and vice of a large city. "Close the saloon at night ! "Let the city of Mexico plan be fol lowed in our large cities-six a. m. to six p. m.--and give the father and hus band an opportunity to make the ac quaintance of his family. The saloon ist ought to himself work for that oppor tunity and make his calling more re spect able and less odious. "Draft a bill closing saloons from six p. mn. to six a. m., with imprisonment and penalty that will dismay offenders; closing saloons on Sunday; making the license no less than $1,000; punishing with imprisonment and fine the adul teration of liquor or sale of adulterated liquor. -Then, organize your committees; go to Columbus and push this legislation. Let bishops, priests and ministers thbrow their open influence into the scale of this moral movement." A Sad Story. A da~y or two ago one of the old professors of the University of Missis sippi attempted to commit suicide. lie was an old man and had been ousted from his position at the last meeting of the board of trustees because he had outlived his usefulness. With no other means of support, and a bsolutely with out means, the poor old man sought refuge in death, and that at his own hands. It is a sad story, and one too often exemplified. The nature of his business was such that he could not accumulate against the proverbial rainy day, and the State cannot provide for him after he is unable to discharge the duties incumbent upon him.-Montgom IMERSED N BOILING OIL. The Inhuman Method of Ea mining Sun pects Praticed in Ceylon. The District Judge at Kalutra, in Ceylon, had before him recently three persons, including a village headman, charged with causing grievous hurt to four others by requiring them to plunge their right hands into a caldron of boiling oil. The medical evidence described the hands as being in "a sod den, suppurating condition," the fingers being in some cases deformed. - In all cases the injured persons were unable to follow their ordinary avoca tions for about a month. The facts of the case, as stated in the judgment, were these: A woman in the village had some plumbago and rice stolen from her; a headman made inquiry, and, falling to obtain a clue to the theft, an nounced that it would be necessary on the third day to hold an ordeal with boiling oil. This appears to be a not uncommon custom in remote parts of the country, and the formalities are as follows: Some oil from newly gathered king cocoanuts is manufactured by one of the friends of the complainant; this is poured into a caldron and heated to a boiling point. Each of the suspected parties is supposed to dip his hand into the vessel of boiling oil, and is at liberty to sprinkle as much of the hot oil as he brings up with his fingers on the person of the complainant, who stands close at hand. Any exclamation of pain Oil the part of the suspected person is construed into an admission of guilt. If no such exclamation is made the innocence of the party is supposed to be established. In the present case the evidence estab lished that the pressure on the accused was not merely moral; they were forced to dip their hands into the burn ing oil. No force appears to have been used in bringing them to the scene of the ordeal; they collected there in response to the orders of the headman, who, seated on a platform opposite the vessel of oil, appears to have acted as the presiding judge. Each of the complainani.s de posed to the fact that they were re luctant to submit to the orde:d, but were forcibly dragged up to the caldron by the other two accused and their hands plunged into the boiling oil. They had sufficient self-control to ab stain from calling out, except a boy of 17, who cried out lustily, and was there upon pronounced the guilty one. The judge took the fact that it was a cus tom into account, but refused to dis miss the prisoners with a warning, as suggested by their counsel. He tined ,them 100 rupees each, with the alterna tive of rigorous imprisonment for ten months. Sea Oats-A New Industry. The Savannah News mentions the fact that shipments of sea oats from that place to New York and Europe have begun. The plant cannot be found anywhere but on the South Atlantic coast from Virginia to Florida. It grows in the greatest abundance in the vicinity of Wilmingtou, but we doubt if any one here knew that it had a market value. The New.- says: "It is growing immensely popular in the North anl West and in Earope. Ten years ago Mr. Gardner went North and carried a sample of the oats, and he readily got as many orders as he could fill. The oats retailed there as high as 25 cents a pound. The New York houses which urchased, exported them to Europe, and there a trade was opened. Orders are now being received dir-ect from Europe by Savannah firms. The West has grown very fond of the plant and large orderseare being received from that section. Over 10,000 pounds could have been shipped from Savannah this year if the facilities had been sufficient. The price of the oats has decreased con siderably since they were first shipped North, but there is a good profit now." A Carolinian in Russia. Mr. Thornwell McMaster of 'this city has lately received a letter from Mr. John S. Scott of Marion, who last Janu ary went to Russia to act nnder the Rus sian government as an instructor in the art of raising cotton in Central Asia. Mr. Scott, when he wrote, was in Mos cow, to which place he has returned after spending some time in the Russiau provinces in Central Asia carrying out the object of his mission, which was to introduce there, so far as possible, the methods of the cultivation of cotton in vogue here. Mr. Scott writes that he found agriculture there carried on mostly by irrigation, and that while he found some things in Europe to excite his admiration, he found tmany things in the Orient to excite his pity. He has been granted leave of absence to return to this country, if he can return by January next, and will endeavor to come to South Carolina in time to attend the State Fair.-Columb'ia Register. Fight Between Deer and Snake. A gentleman narrated to-your corres pondent a fight he had witnessed some time back near Ci ;co, Texas, between a deer and a rattlesnake. He saw the dear some dist ance from him engaged in cutting up peculiar antics. He could not understand what it meant, but upon creeping near he beard the rattling of the snake and understood that a fight to the finish was in progress. He waited and watched. The deer would run for ward, jump off the ground, throw its four feet together and come down with all its force in one place, then bounded from the ground as if a rubber ball, re treat, snort, ruffle up its hair and return again to go through the same proceed ings. This was kept up for some min utes. In the meantime the snake was perceptibly weakening. Finally the deer cautiously approached the snake-, raised one foot and pawed it until satisfied the snake was dead. After the battle. was over and the deer gone, the ground was found to be beaten down, the grass de stoyed and the snake pawed almost to yiees.-St. Louis Republic. Negro "Regulators" in York. A few nights ago a baud of -seven ne groes visited Isaae Massey, of their own color, who lived on the lands of Mr. A. M. Black, in the Tirzah neighborhood,in York County, and chastised him by giv ing him five lashes each. He was accused of payinig improper attentions to the wife of a colored man qf the neighbor hood named Kennedy. The story goes also that Massey owed one of his assail ants $2. 50, but the debt was cancelled by Massey taking twelve lashes. He was then required to leave the neighborhood, which he did without any further in ducements. Other parties of a like character have been warned that "their turn would come next." Notes have been left at several negro houses warn ing the men to leave or they would be "regulated." In one of the letters of warning was wrapped a pistol ball. It is said the negroes are growing restless over the matter aad are arming them selves for protection, and trouble is feared. Wore Saloons Than Groceries. A new business directory of Johns town, Pa., and surrounding burroughs, contains the names of over five hundred business and professional men. It also shows that there are now thirty-six grocery stores and fifty-one saloons open in the place. A complete list of the dead in Cambria borough has been made by Mail Carrier Bridges, and he finds that there were 324 people drowned in the flood. This district was below the stone bridge, and the full force of the water did not catch it. It is the only absolutely correct list of any part of the floodedAdistrict yet published. SEE WAS A WOMAN PIRATE. Death of the Notorious "Spanish Belle," Who Gloried in Her Career of Crime. A notorious woman, known all over the Pacific coast as "Spanish Belle," died at Elmore, Idaho, last Sunday, aged eighty-seven years. ' here is scarcely a mining camp on this coast that this woman did not visit during its prosperity since the days of 1849. Her history, if correctly told, would fill a large volume says the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, and it would. be a volume of bad deeds only, for no good deeds have ever been attributed to her in the knowledge of those few who have known her history for the past forty years. It seems that she gloried in the crimes she committed, and during her convivial moments would relate some incidents of her past life. From this source it is gathered t hat at ar early age in her native land of Central America she became the mis tress of a noted sea pirate named Valzaj, whose vessel wias a terror to the mer chant ships plying the waters of the Pacific Ocean. She boasted that her duty was, when the ship anchored at a port of promi nence, to decoy rich men aboard the vessel, where they would surely he robbed and murdered. She followed this criminal career until the dis:overy of gold in California, when she left her pirate paramour and landed in San Francisco in the summer of 1849. She soon drifted to the gold mines, and followed every excitement from that date until the time of her death, plying her nefarious calling, and a terror in the community in which she happened to cast her lot. It is said Spanish Belle boasted of having mur dered four men herself alone for money. MOSQUITOBS. How to Get Rid of These Detestable Lit tle Pests. The practical question is, says the North American Reciew, how can one so control these conditions as to limit the multiplication of mosquitdes? Ob viously the answer is: limit their natu ral breeding grounds! When swamps are dried up, when stagnant pools are illed up, when brackish lakes ard slug gish streams are drained and dredged and graded, so as to give free current to their waters, when the swamp grasses, weeds, sedges, and various plants in which mosquitoes find refuge after transformations are cut down and cleared away; when, in s e scythe, lawn mowe - g ax and gard o diligence, thrift, cleanliness and care have turned our country into a cultivated garden, the days of the mosquito as a pest will be numbered. Culex pipiens and all other species of culicido (the family of mosquitoes and gnats) will still have their representa tives in the land; but they will be shorn of their power to deplete the veins of summer cottagers and guests and the purses of summer landlords. The second factor in limiting the num ber of mosquitoes is that of natural enemies. Of these only two may be mentioned- .the dragon-fly and the .spider. It is a strange illustration of human pervesity that these two animals, whose lives are spent in serving man, should be largely under the ban 'of human prejudge. The dragon-fly is dreaded, the spider is hated, and yet they are nature's checks upon the mos quito and other insects that otherwise would make our earth well-nigh unin habitable. Stanley a Conquering Hero. Stanley, according to the .Jouscement Geographigue, is marching toward the East coast of Africa with Momhossa, in the British possessions, as his objective point. He has not been idle all this long time. He has, probably with the aid of Emin Pasha's troops, been waging war in Unvoro and Uganda, and has estab lished~the authority of the British East Africa Company from the Upper Nile region to the East coast. WVhen he emerges again into civilization it will not be as a seedy adventurer in rags and tatters, but as a conqueror with a realm at his disposal. Dr. Peters suspected that this was what Stanley was after, which accounts for his desire to go to Emin's relief in spite of Bismarck. Emin does not, it appears, accompany Stanley. He finds it better to be a potentate in Africa than a private citizen in Europe. To Cross the Cumberland Mountains. Plans are completed and work will be begun shortly on C. P. Huntington's new line of railroad f rom Richardson, Ky., to Pocahiontas, Va. Richardson is the terminus of the Chattarol road recently purchased by Huntington, and Pocahon tas is the terminus of a bran'ch of the Norfolk and Western. The distance is 135 miles. The work is to be done largely by Louisville people. The surveys have been made leading up the Big Sandy Valley and across the Cumberland Mour ains at the Breaks of Sandy. Sev eral thousand men will be put upon the grading within a few weeks. St. Paul Grins. St. Paul is one broad grin over the discovery by an evening paper that the Minneapolis directory is padded with the names of dogs. A reporter found the following on page 225 of the Minneapo lis directory just issued: "Carl Baxter. colored, watchman, Crescent Club." Carl turns out to be a mongrel dog. The St. Paal people declare it would have been bad enough had the Minneapolis people 'introduced the names or thoroughbred dogs into their directory, but mongrels are out of the question. To Break the Cotton Ring. LrvERPooL, September 13.-A joint committee of Blackburn cotton masters ad mill operatives has been appointal to consider means by which the ring controlling prices of cotton may be broken. A White 'Possum. One night last week, while Mr. T. A. Spradley. living a few miles East of Camden, was out 'possum hunting, he caught an opossum that was perfectly white. Its eyes are pink. It is the first albino 'possumn we have ever seen, and it is quite a curiosity.--Camden Jo:irn di. Death of Dr. Tucker. ATLANTA, September 9.-Dr. H. II. Tucker, an eminent Baptist divine, tried this morning from the injuries sustained in falling from the secondl story window of his residence on Saturday night. lie was one of the most prominent men of his church, editor and proprietor of the Christian Index, once chancellor of the Uiversity of Gecorgia, and president of Mercer University. A Colored Lieutenant for the Army. WasHINGTON, September 10.--Cadet Charles Young, a graduate of the Mili tary Academy, has been appointed to be an additional Second Lieutenant in the Tenth Cavalry. This is the colore'd ca let who failed last June in mathematics and was given another chance (luring the Summer~ to make good his deliceiency. A horrible warning to habitual gum chewers, says the Raleigh Call, is con tained in the shspatch which states that a charming belle of Washington has been compelled to abjure the delights of so ciety and go into retirement for an abnormal enlargement of her jaw, caused entirely by persistent and exces sive mastication of the fascinating but dangerous gum. Young ladies who do not desire to have too much jaw should take heed and govern themselves accord inly. The ManningAcademy, Mr ALrN'JGr , S. C. A GRADED SCHOOL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS. Twenty-Second Session Begins Monday, September 2, 1889. PRINCIPALS: R EY. T. .J. ROOKE, MRS. E. C. ALSBROOK. Miss Marie Graves, of Virginia, a skilled and experienced teacher of Music td Art has been employed as assistant Thorough instruction given in Hebrew, German, Greek, French, Latin, Book-keeping, Calisthenics, and Kindergarten. (No extra charge) The Department of vocal and instrumental Music will receive careful and systematic attention Special attention will be given to Reading. Spelling, singing, English Composition, Penmanship, and Drawing The Department of Fine.Arts will include Charcoal and Crayon Sketching, Water and Oil Painting, Lustra, Kensington, and other ornamental work. The school is non-sectarian. Boarding pupils are required to attead Sun :lav-school and Church at least once every Sabbath. The most approved text books are used. The blackbaard is deemed an es ential in the class room. The meaninq of an author is invariably reelpired of each pupil. In all work done, in whatever department, and whatever the ex tent of ground covered, our motto shall always be -mronorn-as. To this end we shall require that every lesson be learerd, if not in time for the class reci tation, then elsewhere. No real progress can be made so long as the pupil is allowed to go on from day to day reciting only half-perfect lessons. TERMS PER MONTH OF FOUR WEEKS. Primary D.partment (3 years' course),............. ..$1.00, $1.9, and $2.00 Interuiedliate De-partient (2 years' course),..................... .... 2.50 Ilg',her ).-partmnuit (2 years' course),.................... .-10,!l :3.50 Collegiate D..partment (3 years' course), .......... .. .. .....--- . -114 - 4.50 1nie. incluiLng use of instrument,.... ......................... 3-) Painting and Drawing,............................................ 4.0 Continge-nt Fc, per session of 5 months, in advance................. . - Board, per iolntli,............................... ........ --- - - Board troni Monday to Friday (per month)...................... . 0 Before deciding to what school to send your children consider the superior advantages of the Academy for a thorough business education and prepara tion for Colleges andj Universities. 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