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k / \ / ~jI~Iy (I ~ t ; 4 p ,-~ L~1~I; ~ I.~I ....~ V 4 'A ~ 4 ~. :~ r WED RY 15, 1890. NO. 7. VOL. Vi. MANNING, S. (9., NL~,D LY __________________ T - NEW STATE LAWS. ACTS PASSED AT THE LATE SES SION OF THE LEGISLATURE. The '-xt of.ome et the' nost !niportant Euactments of Interest to the Public. The following are among the more import as of the Acts passed at the ast session of the General Assembly: FARMING OUT CONVICTS. An Act to amend the law in regard to the leasing and hiring out of con victs and to provide for the purchase of a State farm or farms and tr the employment of the convicts there- i on. Section 1. That the board of direc tor of the State Penitentiary be, and they are hereby, authorized and em powered to purchase out of the sur plus earnings of the Penitentiary a sit~a f-m or farms, to bu worked and planted by convicts under the superintendency of said board of di rectors: Provided that the price paid therefore shall not exceed forty thous and dollars. And the said board is authorized to retain in its hands and' apply to such purchase all surplus money received and to be received by it from the operations of said insti stitution during the past fiscal year: Provided, further, that no farm or farms shall be purchased In which said directors, or any of them, shall or may be directly or indirectly inter ested. Section 2- That no contracts for the hiring or leasing of convicts to be em ployed in phosphate mining shall hereafter be made by said board of di rectors. Section 3. That said farm provided for in Section 1 shall have sufficient elevation to prevent the same from floods and overflows as near as practi cable. Approved December 23, 1S89. THE TARE ON COTTON. An AcFt amend Section 1,195 of the General Statutes, relating to tare on bales of cotton. Se.tion 1. That Section 1,195 of the General Statutes, relating to tare on bales of cotton, be, and the same here by is, amended by striking out; the whole of said section and inserting the following in lieu thereof, so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Section 1195 The custom ojj Laig a ~~ c u I cugweih t bales of unmanufactured cgtton, as an allowance for breakage or draft there on, is abolished; and all contracts made in relation to such cotton shall be deemed and taken as referring to the true and actual weight thereof without deduction; and no tare shall be deducted from the weight of such bales of co-tton except the actual weight of the bagging and ties used in baling said cotton. Section 2. That. this Act shall take eff'ect from and after the 1st day of Sep tember, 1890. Section S. That all Acts or parts of Act. in conflict, or inconsistent, with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. And when ever it shall be agreed between the buyer and seller to deduct tare on cot-I ton bales it shall be as follows: For bales of cotton covered with seven yards of standard cotton bagging and1 six iron ties the actual tare shal! be, and is hereby, fixed at sixteen pounds, and for b- les of cotton covered with seven yards of standard jute bagging and six iron ties, the actual tare shall be, and is hereby, fixed at twenty-lour pounds; and when a buyer and seller agree to sell at net weight, and when bales of cotton are covered with seven yards of standard cotton bag ging and six iron tics the actual tare shall be, and is hereby, fixed at six teen pounds, and when bales of cotton are covered with seven yards of stan dard jut e bagging and six iron ties the actual tare siall be, and is hereby, fixed at twenty-four pounds. THE EATE OF INTEREST. An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend Section 1,288 of the General Statutes, regulating the. rate of interest upon any contract arising in this state for the hiring, lending or use of money or other commodity," approved December 21, 1882. Section 1. That Section 1 of an Act entitled "AnAct to amend Section 1,288 of the General Statutes, regula ting the rate of interest upon any con tract arising in this State for the hir ing, lending or 1:se of money or other commodity," approved December 21, 1882, be, and the same isheieby, amen ded by striking out the word "ten" -wherever It appears in said section and intserting in lieu thereof the word "eight," so :that said section, when amended, shall read as follows: See tion 1. That Section 1,288 of the Gene ral Statute be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the word commodity, on the third line of said section, the folloing words to wit: Er cept upon written contracts, wherein, by express agreement, a rate of in terest not exceeding eight per cent, may be charged. So that said section,' when thus amended, shall read as fol lows: No greater rate of interest than seven per centumr per annum shall be charged, taken, agreed upon or allow ed upont any contract arising ini this State for the hiring, lending or use of money or other commodity, except upon written contracts wherein, by ex press agreement, a rate of interest not exceeding eight per cent ziay be charg ed. No person or corporation lencang or advancing money or other commod ity upo a greater rate of interst shall be allowed to recover in any Court of this State any portion of the interest so unlaw~ fully charzed; and the principal sum, amount or value so lent or advanced, without any inter est, shall be deemed and taken by the Comn ts of this State to be the true leal debt or measure of damages to all in tents and purposes whatsoever, to be recovered without costs. Provided that the provisions of this Act shall not apply tocontracts or agreements entered into, or discounts or :arrange ments made, prior to the first of March, 1890. WORKING CONVICTS ON THE STREETs. An Act to authorize and empower certain i ncorocmned towns in tho State of Souin Carolina to substitute hard laboc on their streets for fine and impriammenlt in cases of mirdemeren or vjaich come under their ju'risdic tiou. Section 1. That all incorporated towns in the State of South LUarolina of three hundred inhabitants or more are hereby authorized and empowered to substitute hard labor on their streets for fine and imprisonment, in cases of misdemeanor which come under their jurisdiction: Providad, that in no case shall such sentence to hard labor exceeda term of thirty days, unlees ~otherwise provided by law. A CtiOn 2., That this Act shall take em2 Thr- :.s :mme ,ly after hew date isapoi Approva i D~eerMr 23, 1889. REGULATIN .VEIG*TS AND MEAsURFS. Ai Act. to providle a puuish;ment for makirz use of fse scae, weights or measure. i buin ig '-r sellin. Section 1. That any perzo'i or per sons w.o shal knowincly iahe use of an- scales, weighnt, or meures which foil to conf.'riu to the standard thereof'I pr:tscribed - blw,in buying or selling : onods. wares, merchandh'e or othrr -rte les, shrl !-e deemed gull tv Cf a misd emeano, ad upon con viction shall be ined in a sum of not more thnu one hundred dollars. or be imprisooed in the count., jail for a ieriod not exceeding thirty days. Approval December 23, 1889. THE HOMESTEAD LAW. An Act to amend Section 1998 of the General Statutes, relating to the llrac ofhor d See:ien 1. Taczt Sectio 1,398 be amended so that the same shall read as follows: "Section 1,99S. No waiver of the right of homestead, however solemn, made by the head of a family at any time prior to the assignment of the homestead. shall defeat the homestead provided for in this chapter: Provided, however, that no right of homestead shall exist or be allowed in any prop erty, real or personal, aliened or mort gaged, either before or after assign Ment, by any person or persons whom soever, as against the title or claim of the alienee or mortgagee or his heir, r their heirs or assigns." Approved Debember 24, 18S9. TERROR AT A BULL FIGHT. A Graphic Description of the Fall ofa Plaza it, Mexlco-3anr SerionailJInjur ed. but Probably None Killed. Cm oF MExico, Jan. q.-Telegrams from Villa Lordo, give particulars of the fall of the plaza last Tuesday while bull fight was in progress. Abocut 10,000 people were crorided in to the building. When the second bull was being kiiled, nearly everybody rose nd stood applaudinz and statmping their feet,. when all of a sudden un ideof thc:plaza commenced to give way. L rush follo wed and the extra move nent of th:; thousands of spectatorL only elped to bring about the fall of the ,tucture, and it bul.red out rapidly and ,ben collapsed, precipitating the unlucky ef,-.;Iistauces ranging from 10 o 25 feet. tc g-ound. 1any were uricd beneath the debris _re.,.them ere many ladies of the best iamilies of he town. In their desperate situation, ights occurred amn-g the men, and nany were stnipped of every stitch of :lothing. The crowds on the opposite ;ide of the building, which numbered everal thousand, hcame panic stricken .nd fell and tumbled over one another in heir attempt to reach the outside of th e >aza. The bull-fighters were also ei:ed with a Panic and made their exit, .ith tbc bull closely folio'ving. The rarnping of the helpless, and the agoniz d crios of #h.- n .ad n -omen. made he place a scene of pandemonium. It vas not until outside people came to :he aid of the people pinned down by >anks and other timbers that the un ,rtunate victims were relieved from bheir poinful position. Many physicians rvere called, and the wounde of the pco le atteode Ito. The number of wound d will reachi into hundreds, and while great many- of the m are serious and ainfu, it is tievedl that not oue case ill prove fata'. SPARTANBURG BLACK CAPS. LOW W blto Woman Beafen and Her l'aramoaure ShotAt. partanburg (s. c.) nerald William Davis, "old crop ear Da rs" they call him, aspired to have a vhite wife, and Mary- Hall, a white -oman, asp~ired to have negro husband [hey were never mearried, but for sev ral years have been living together .n the fiat woods near Cherokee. Thib relation became so indecent that the hite people had determined to put a stop to it, and warrants had ahxeady been issued for their arrest, but last veek the action of the law was fore stalled by a band of masked men who raided the establishment. The par ties thought thcrc was but one door to the house and that they had the pair caged, but when they rushed iD Da vis rushed out of a back door and made hi escape after getting a few icks as he ran. He was shot at, but if he was hit he was not seriously hurt. He did not remain long, nor was ht rvarticular as to the manner of his going. Whcn last heard of he had left for Columbia. The woman was not so fortunate. They took her out and thrashed her soundly with cwi'ches. Itis said that she has left tbat re gion and wiiP settle near this city, on the howard gay road. But tuo courts will net be called on to keep thia par CTY'rt The raiders we're blacked like negro'es, nd prei bly were negroes, though some of thm are said to be white men. The following :a the' ecount rof the atisr as r-iblished in the Atlanta Con stttion ~under date of D~ecember 5th: "In Spartanbu'rg county last night a mob of ntegroe- in mask visited the house of John~ Hall a negro who was iving with. a white womn, who he cain wa his' wife took him out, tied in to a tree, "nd~ gave him thirty-nine lasez. Then~ th turned him toose nd teld him to ierave the county. The white ;omre wasv not molested. but wo. simnlv wa'rned to leave the State. The whit' people of the'. neighbor hood had inv.estigat ed the case, and had deteminted to b rig it before the next ternm of court. misceaenation be ing a felony t'nderO The laws of the St'ate. Th cc.iored people, however, took the laws in their ow-- hands, and the parties have left the State." Livag in His Blood. A Britimo:e ipatch sag: An inter estin; case was received Thursday at IJohns Hopkios ilospitl. Thc patient has nir1aio in Thbe',e of snae iring in his blood, I1e is frcum Chiarleten, S. C., and has sufecred irom his peculinr dis ease more Or less for tw.enty years. MIu tie i blood has been exsrnined udr the microoe. and te snake shaped parasites M-ve always been found present. The blood forecxamination has geerally been drawe from a finger tip. This is the first case of the kind at Johns Hlopkns Hospital. and few doctors in th United St-.tes have personal knowi ede of the m~a Only twenty-five cases of th.is ne aro said to havc ben rrerted in thi~s country. W'smt-rI*oN, Jan. 9.--Con:essman IWm. D. Kelly, of Pennsylvania. died at 6-20 this ceeig, of intestinal catarrh, in his 7fth year. Judge Kelly wa r.n at Philadelphia Apnril 19th, 1814 A BABY SOLDIER BOY. Phe Remarkable Adventures of Dr. Cbarlez E. 'charloock--A Soldter at 11 Years of A ge. Char'.-ton Ne ws and Courier. Mr. Chark E. Scharloock wbo Is en gaged in tha drug business at the cor nor of East Bay and Calhoun streets, was probably tho youarest soldier in the Confederate servico. 'He entered the army as a drummer b.o :'!n only in his 11th year, and serve. il near the close of the war, when he was sent home from the delds of Virginia on account of his extreme illness. Mr. Scharloock was born in Moultrieville otL the 20th of June, 1850, and he beat the loneroll for the soldiers on Sulli van's Itand the morning tho Star of the West crossed the Charleston Bar. Younz Schari oock as a member of the drum wps did ECrvice in the litter erp~eza displayed bravery and for titude rarely ever to be foundt in one so young. As a true Southerner, even while confined to his bed with a des perate case of typhoid fever, he was willing, nrty, anxious, to assist In the rescue of Charleston. A Reporter of Tho News and Cour ier called on Mr. Scharloock for an ac count of his services in the Confeder te service, which he recultantly gave, saving he cared for no notoriety. 51r. Scarloock said that by the re quest of Cipt.. Warley, of the Darling ton Guards, his father consented to let him beat tho drum for Capt. Warley's command, which was stationed on Sullivan's Island, near the Huger house. When the Darlington Guards were ordered away they wished young Scharloock to accompany them, but to this his father would not consent. He I thea joined Capt. DeTreville's com pany in .he 1st S. 0. V. Soon after the bonibardment of Fort Sumter young Scharloock was, with his com mand, crdered to Edisto. The com pany remained at Eding's Bay until afterthe fall of Hilton's Head, when t the command was stationed at Fort Moultrie. . While at Church Flats his time ex- I .)ired and young Sharloock returned to his family, which during his absence bIrl become fatherless. Soon after C his return Lo Sullivan's Island he was t engaged bi Col. Wm. Butler to in struct a drum corps. I, 1S62 he wenti to Virginia, where he remained for only a short time-his mother refusing to aow one of so tender an age to be v away from home. Even while at homoe .3 had to go into service and joined I te71 imo- &h t Infantry, under Capt. amuel Lord. a~mq Ahe _argaiza tion of the band was transferredtit, ind in the band of the Union Light Infantry this youth served until the I and of the war. When in his 12th year he witnessed a the terrible assault on Battery Wag- v aer. He was detailed to the litter p -rps, where he assisted in caring for u :he wounded. Though a mere strip- r ing young Scharloock, after the o torming oi Battery Wager, was trust dI with the carrying of numerous let.- c ers to the friends and relatives of g hosc engaged in the fight. Scha-- e .oock was in Eort Sumter when the b reat night assault was made on it. b fuor this incident the "Brick-hat Bat- s Alion," as h's command wa called, s was sent to James leland, and while r :here became a part of the 27th South t carolina regiment. While stationed t it Legare's Point, the regiment was a revie wed by the late President Jetl'r. ion Davis. Young Scharloock played e i the band which greeted President v Davis, and the remark was made by a che late President that the drum of Scharloock was almost aa large as its a~ layer. In March, 1864, young Scharloock accomanied his command to V irginia,1 5 nder'Col. Gailiard. The regimen t c imediately entered into active ser vice and left Petersburg for Walthall Junctiou, where, soon after young Scharlock beat the assembly, the loody fight at Walthall commenced. During this fight Scharlock was de tailed to save the instruments; he round it necessary to remove them un-a ler a large chestnut tree, which madee it necessary for him to cross an open eld four times. He was under con stant fire, but escaped, as did his in struments, unhurt. From Walthall the regiment was nent to Drurv's Bluff; where Schar oock acted as cook for the surgeons. Whie preparing a breakfast for Dr. Pesslev and the~other surgeons a piece of a shelil fell inlto his frying.-pan and, buried the pan, pancake~ and all. At Drury's Bluff, while out foraging,t young Schrloock had quite a pathetic exece with two dying Union soidiers. He gave them rater, called the attention ox his officers to the men and did all that was p ossible for their comfort. Fron constant exposure and hard ship thu lad gave way and fell ill. He wassent to a hosnital, recovered, re turned to his dutyr, but fell seriously ill again. The physicians sent the young drummer boy to his homo in South Carolina, where he would re ceive the attention of loving hetnds. :ieharloock was at home :-t the time of the surrender of Charleston. Al though ha had but partially recovered from au ettact of typhoid lever. he would have returned to tis command had not his mother prevented him. D'ring the burning o: Charleston young Scharloock assiste . the Char jestn engine companiet in their hat tie against the raging flames. At the close of the war Scharloock was but 14 years and 20 months eld. Three Babes in Thirteen Days. A dispatch fromn Corry, Pa., says: "Mmbers of the mnedical fratrenity hereabomts have for several wveeks past been diseminirg the remarkable case of Mrs. L. S. Harvey. who within thirteen des gavie binth to three children. Mrs. Harvey is about 40 years old, recides at Abion Station, this county, and is the moter of several children. Several weeks ago she gave birth to a three pound baby, but it did not live. Two days afterwa'rds the doctor was attain summoned and was astonished at the brthi of a second child. It wn~s dead, however, nnd not as fully developed as the first. The physician had about got Iover his astonishment nnd finished look in up the records on such matters when. ten days inter, his services were again rcquired. This time there was another stillborn babe, less fully devel oned than the second. Mrs. Harvey is doing well, and no further additions are expected. The peculiar case will be written up from a physician's stand piterthe medical journals, having already been the suoject of much discus ion among the doctors." -The Hon. Saml. J. Randall has been duly sworn in as a member of the House in the 51st Congress. The cere mony took place at his residence in Washington. A MUMM1Y UNR{LLD DETAILS OF AN INTERESTIG EX IIBITION IN LONDON. An Account WhItch :i. Irtrtet and Entermain the Lovera ef the Carlous ant Weird. A large and distinguished company o0 Eolis;hmen assembled ir. the botauicil theatrc of University Colege, L)ndou. on December 18, to witne:s the unroil of a mummy from Upper Egypt This mummiy, the London Times ays, "has for about half a century occupicd a place in the college museur, but it is not known how it came into the n:,scs sion of the authoritics. It was at lengtD decided to unroll it, and Mr. E. A. Wal lis Budge, -1. A., of the British museum was requested to undertake the task. The chair was taken by Mr. Erichscn, president of the college, and among those present were Sir. John Lubbock, M. P., Sir A. Garrod, Professor Glad itone, Professor Seeley, Profescor Ram 'ey, Professor Goodwin, Professor C'rcy Foster, Professor Hayter Lewis, Mr. Bomanes, Mr. Poynter, Mr. Almtaade na, Mr. Beerbohm Tree, Mr. Rider Hag ;ard, Mr. Maunde Thompson, Dr. Fitch %nd Dr. Quain. "The mummy was placed on a table >n the floor of the theatre and loosely overed with a cloth of fine linen of a 'aded purple color, which had formerly :onstituted its outer wrapping. Before >rocceding to perform the operation of inrolling the mummy, Mr. Budge made om.e prefatory observations on Egn ian mummies generally. He described he principal methods of preserving the utnan body by nurmmiflcatiou as thrce n number. The first process required hat the intestines sbould he e.rac:cd ed embalmed in four pjts dedic.,td to our gods. The body was then soaked n natron for seventy days. At the ed f that time it was washed, and then arefully bandaged in hundreds of yards f linen. By the second process the in estines were dissolved out by means of f.tron, after which the body was soaked a natron and then mummitied. By the hird pioceIS the body was merely salted nd put into a pit. Sometime bitunmen ;,s used with other substaces to fill tl'-. arity in the body after the intestines ad been removed. "At the conclusion of his observations, Ir. Budge proceded to un-! the mum i. which was cloti swatld in scor's ext ure. The band0s of linen r i, e ridth from four to tve inches to abou foot. Sowe of !hem were laid leogth-. rie along the body; others were wrap cd round and iound it. At the ber:;i ing of the process of unrlli 1r eflce rs a very perceptible siel:!y smeil of rc-matics, which, as tbc work we't on, ave place to a more pronoiunced and de iddlly disagrceabln odor. Wiwn :. reat part of the linen had been remov d, black stains, caused by the bitumen, ecame apparent, end nearer to tne ody the wrappings had suffered con dersbly from conta-t with this sub ace. Tvo small pieces of linen with finges were discovered in the course of io unrolling, and these bore inscrip ons more or less impaired1 by the bitu en. "When at last the coverinusa had been 'moved the body was found to b e of a ry dark brown color--so dark, indeed, to be almost black. The skirn where remained as hard and shiny, The rms and hands lay leogthwise upon the bdomen, while the heart and intestines1 ~ere~ placed beneath the knees. The ztures, when disclosed, stood out very learly, and were those of a handsome erson, but the m~ could not be deter ined. Glass ep~s had been placed in he head, and there was a linen plug in be ear. Mr. Budge, at the conclusion h is task, said that mummy seemed to long to a period about 800 years be-, ore Chzist. It was tilled with bitumen, d nearly all the flesh was destroyed in onsequence. Parts of the skin remain i upon the breast, and the bones were till in fairly good condition. The in cetines, in-tead of being put in pots, as hey usually were in case of persons of gh birth, were placed bencath the ge. "The person could not have been of 'ery geeat im~portance, because there was either scarabans nor ring e n '.he fin er. The incision on the lcft side was till found, and wgas one of the most in ereting features in the mummy. The erson appeared to have been called 3ek-Ran or Be-Ranef. The only is cription dccipherable was the name of )siris, folded over the part of tho storm uch dedicated to that god, and a prayer 'or the heart of the deceased. There vas another piece of linen bearing the late, but the year had been 'listered by :he itumen. From the qu~ality of the uen, its fineness of texture, and the riges to the inscription, the miummyv nust belong to the bes period of The Sa mummifying, possibly the aice menth dynasty. The~ inser ptiona were written in the hieratic ojr current bar.a >f Egyptian hieroglyphics. The trum o was about 5 feet avd 3 incher in e'ight, and was that of an Egyptiau, probably one of the class corrn~ocnding to the lower misdle claas of modgrn tmes The body will unero further examination by scientific experts. Colored Pom'Z1e in Ok-fl m1 A special to the Mt. Lois Ik;ubil' fron Topeka, Iu':., ay~: ''D. D. ( rett, of tlic colrred colony 'f O' hoa trivedl in the city vcsterci:.7, una '. that there are no0w fully imu thorr: celored persos in Oleho'v, at-d th'e colonization work '7ill be pushed in l cities of the West. ec *y:: the pepl re entireiv satiQfled -Vith the co"u' -y and their lprospct: C~o nel M rno Mississippi, w.bo has ben thret weeks, is avo'sting the purchr~s ofth Chrokee strip for settlemen'ft byI the; cr this city are moing in th' ircin and will ask President H~arrison to ap point a commission of colored men to egotiate v;ith the Cherok~eee for the purchate of the strip for homestead ser tlement for their own r-ace exclusively. This proposition is founded on inform; tion that the Indians arc villing to hrs-e colored people settle o'n the strip. I; argued that, as a resolu'ion has just been introduced in the United States Stn ate to appropriate a large sum of nmoney to carry colored colonists to Africa, if the govenment can appropriato money to transport the negro to Africa, it has the power to appropriate money to purchas lands for him at home and could buy the strip for that purpose. It ii urged that a strong and united effort be made. to this end, and the Afro-Amnerican League, which meets shortly in Chicago, -.TTE DBUTLER.S A'ND CAMNERO10N tr two Prominent Fanilles .4tic Togzeter la splte of PolitI--. . Washington Letter. .Ooe of the most interesting men i national poi tiCS is Gneral NT. C. Butle 01 Outh C\A1ina. Hie comes of one 0 the oldes familics in the Palmett, Se, snd his uncle, Pierce Butler, wa it a Seator in Congress while tbe man o bonm I write was a boy. The uncI was very distinguished looking, and wa a*,:wcrin the deliberations of our high cOt les1irative bxly at a time when was fille'd v.ith great men. His nephew, who has me-eded him, occupies ar egt.-ily eanm-r position in an assem. bb: e thit harlly comrp:.re3 with thi of intellectual gints that sat ,i4 : S2 & te Chamber during the migh t ents of 18530. Those who knew hi. nue-z say that thc present Senato: hr;, :- ofLis s..df.poise, fertility of mind m y purpo. . I saw Senator Butler at the Hoff m House last night, an interesting po litical rerriniscence was recalled to me. But for nn act of kindness by Pierce But ler,wbich after generations came back to bless the nephew, the present Senato from South Carolina might never have beld seat in the Sennte. The circum stanes occurred when General Simon C}aoueron was a second time elected United Scates Senator. The late Governor BiiCr -as then his colleague. He mad an effort to ir.duce the Secate to investi gate the charge that Mr. Cameron bad secured his election by bribery. He called the matter up one day, and made a speech detailing the allegations and askiog the Senate to take cognizance of them. Pierce Butler espoused General Crimeron's cause, and made a speech in which he said that the United States Senate was not the place in which the stte of Pennsylvania couid wash its dry lincn, and moved that the resolution for investigation be not agreed to. The Sceaze f!owed Butler's lead, and Cam cron's titlo to his scat was not contezted. When the vote was announced that set ileC the centrovery, Butler walked over to wh-re Ge:Ceral Cameron sat, and sai: "Now S~imon, you ought to send me a bottle of rhiskey with which to ecle brate this occasion." "'By the life, Butler," replied Came ron, "Ili send you a barrel of the best m.de in Pennsylvania." The liqior was sent, and ever there after the facmilies of Cameron and But ler were fast friends. It is said that ";ime att last sets all things even." Narly a quarter of a century after this occuirrenc, wich has for-rmed one of the s La 2 .s of the history of this ciur r. the L:enhcw of the m-An who (id C ee:'on thLe service knocked for ad : n t the Senate with a contest on biauado. A siagle Republican vote woud ave.his title. The father called up-L Dou to repay the kindness of Prco Eutler to him when Governor E_ ger was seeking to keep. him out. Dn a-umed the oblihation and voted a.1inst'his party, and 21. C. Butler uc c::no a se:ator. Today the two families, ditl7 s'1 F o widely in politics nnd inter , areeo~sicuosly :-icndiy, givin the ie to the: lines that were written long yecar agro: "Time hah. ry Lord, a wallet cr his back, Wherein he puts amis for obliviton's sake, The..: ,:-rops arc soo1 deeds past, Fortc t "s soon vs done, MOONSHTINERS' FUN. Theyr Catch a Deputy Collector Alone. and Proceed to Have some sport. Atlanta ceostitu tica. A &pu~y colilector, who lives in At lanta. had a memoroble experience in Rockdlecounty a icw nigh's ago. Troe deput:; has said very littie about the istier and the story comes first from Riocdale. Quite a number of officials and em poyees about the colletor's and mar shal' offices were more or leSS familiar with the story yesterday and smiled knovingly rvhen the subject was brought up. They a.ll object, however, to being quoted ir. the matter and the story was told with the solemn assurance that the name of the author would never, never, uder any circumstances, he made pub ic. "It lappened on the night of Decem ber tbe 28th, in Rockdalc. It was a monHght night, about 10 o'clock. The c-lectcr was driving, and was alone. Allot a sudden, just as he was on a bridige, five or Sti men stepped out ahead of him from opposice sides of the road, with guns right at him. He look ed batck, but thcre was another gang be hind him, and every one of them armed. All of them had been drinking. "Git out!" said the leader. an~d the collector got out. They made him stay on the bridge, but dlrovc his horse on a piece ad hitched it. Then they all gt --round him. "'Dobl shuine " said the leader. - 'cctor shuiled for his life. nd~ the miroonshiners yelled with delight, cco.i n:.!ir ing efl a gun or pistoi over ttis shot'lder or betw~een his legs to ke-i p courage. Eri.inwi~;'. was the next order, "orjinny reel!' was next. Tic p or fello~7's breath was gone, an emsro ex:haustedi tha~t he could L-udly Td. The sweat ..as rolling oil t-h, o. Uecgtged pittfuily. They kept him a a fo abou anour ::nd then let i"et; 'u in' The coIAector e:- u:-h - fo "i -ih C o ag t o. ur.c -*rtohm.T'y reade .-" I'r. T en theyra liedhi n c . 1, b-' y C - re hm up a d stri. *" '1 abent o'clokn'y ' m o-- in "darke H t,: ,l Iotrque h uo '. " - onith- train-at nlezb -1 h- e 'I e '.-1: . .shtcr Ihrc kno b. t i: 0s th.:e wa' :t r ot ~ m..to in T I iiv -wciod. Tof :astngh ablek~ ~ o the ne resy e chunrca but e a inured :utbrhat ith dt we~onl a q~u tion.o Tfe ruurs. S A S UCES FUL FAIMtIER. k Mr. F. ri. Enrher Teem WLY !4e.oi Pcoplo Don' %,!0 Money at Farm ing. Yo)r v;'1o 3. C., Fnquirer. r Mr. F. '71. Barber is well known as f one of York- county's most successiau >farmert He lives at Richburg, but, aower about fou thousand acre3 m: Eastern Ycrk, where he. does most of his armimr. A reporter of The En quirer mi hin the ctir ay dat Les sile., a str 'ion which he is building up on the Three Us. Th.e old gentleman had just finished setling his accounts with his crOppeis and having made a large crop sin a -real good humo r for telling hox it was done. E. said to the rep-,ort or: "You can put in the paper tna. I averaged more cotton to the roule than any other man in York countv." " Tow mav vbales, Mr. Barber?" " the maic wit.went six mules-260 bakts. Now let me see you beat that if you can." "Was your crop as good this year as usual, Mr. Farber." "No, no. I can't say that it was, but here is another point for you. I have juet paid one ncgro who runs a two mule farm on my place $:i19.56. He makes that much clear after paying everything he owes me-living and every thing-and nearly every one of a dozen others have cleared over $10 apiece. "Now people say there is nothing in farming, but I say there is. There is more in it than anything eLe there's everything in it. That's my experience and I know what I'm talk ing about when I say it, my young friend. I merchandised seventeen years, and made money. I have a one-tbird int erest in the Fishing Creek factory, and it's making as much money as any of hem. let me tell you, bu4I get larger returns out of the farm than anything else. You can 4 make the farm pas 50 and 100 per I ccnt. but you ccn't squeeze any such i nrofits out of thestore or factory." , < "But how is i that so mavy peopleI fail to anko a living on the farm, 2dr. Barber?" 7 "ihey don't work, that's why. The maioriy of Ihrrers want three Su n- I dav a week. and nobody can get along by working orly half of the time. Suppose you would take three Sundiays a week in vour bu:.iness, how would you come out? You'd bust. 'vouldn't. you? That's what you would do, and 3 hat's what anybody ele who tries it will do. Now the farmer dont have to woik any hardler or louger than anybody else. He don't have-to work from davliirht tili dark. Not a bit ci it. I have a piece of land ov.er next to the factory and have had a standin : oiler "or tIe iast three or four yeatrsf I $250 a year to auy young vm who t woud work it by the- factory bell. I just want hinm to put in ten hours a r day, Pnd at the end of the year P11 Mive him 2.0. That's fair ait i? That's as much as the factory han work; out if e w vork by te bell h' good.many pecp try to farm, and they dot kuo ythingabouc it. Tfake the 2 commna ntotion about guano. 3Iost peonie1. out 150 poand on an acre. They i wili ~i ty v i' rows acout. three feet 1 rt".; if tihe wind is blowing th-y wvill talke one of ticse horns. so as to keep t1e guano from gettiug out of the furr o, and string it along the row in Q lie white line. Thev are so ca ful about wasting it tnat if the striug hapens to get brokein fr a foot or two they won't even go back to patch it. up.~ Then they put in their cotton, which comes up and starts tc growing very nicely, 11ut .ifu little dry weather t comes along the cotton turns sicklyv and they say the guano burns it up. S But it ain't the guato. It in the poor t land that burns it up. Now think 1 about its. They put in that little streak a of guano. The piant comes up and v growve rapidly while it lasts, but so soon as the sertilizer is exhausted, of course it dies down, because there is nothrg left for it to feed on, so you t see it is the poor land that does it. I Now, to prove what I say. If a hun dred and fifty pounds of guano scorch-1 e the cotton so it wtont grow, two C thousand pound.s ought to set it~afire,( oughtn't it? But it won't. It's my ex experience, that the more fertilizeis< you use the more cotton you make, and, in order to demonstrate the mat-1 ter to the satisfaction of everybodiy. I1 ur going to make a special experi-. mer t next spring, and put two thous and pounds of guano on one acre. An < P m not going to burn anything up either. See if I do."1 "Do y ou rent your lands, pay wages 1 or work on shares?" "On shares altogether. It is the most etisfactory way for all. I furnish everything-the mules, tois and sun plies. The cropper furnishes nothing but the labor. 1If I make he~ mi+ and if I lose he loses, so you see it is his interest *o work, and the cadr the~ betr I lv themn the halof vry:hing tlo make,~ and that e coragesA term to make all they can Soe~ neopl. ef don give~ but t.wo-tifth,' bu li me h3 you I cet as nzuti C' of i. noalf a ny ci them. ad treasu'rer of the Fis'hig Cree I~an uoteturing Cr",nan., h.1a amr I toe at L lie-"n' iesf-Be Ibug. Heo .bas recently connected teesc re points byv e private telepho2e ip gu piled baself witLin ns speinkrg dig.ance -rf all ofsthem' a once. The Gradr Monument Fur'd. Th Grad not'm--t fund he nowj Ietu-d nearly. M.000 Th o -h P ticno hus f r r ' l n '. rm t2 tun hv ':t ove 'r'ceaa. the 2: - a--s a ret ''*. u .. itorins reei t ou en. T- 'i-ci' s~iuscrp a ro~* No -h cm ifr% 'ho diror-c sof 'h c. hngt ike. ab ioo N aYors tac ten ? hkniled bo 000Zthl h instanet s tune the drumer. m I .1 tfm!y or fluXr (ihi:dren or- their Way From .Ark:-i-:_ tc Nor;" i:carolinn. Whecn ihe Geocr iza Placi lic tr. in ar zived from inuinAa t-s morning two li*e i from the see ond &a.- a an'd looked about '.em in ::irewiidela. th wa chm "We don' know where to go, sad heel - n a trm nvice. "N7,o and ni Ilserae trying to ge4 to our home ii North .aro]ina, and so-nebody in Bir-ilghamla pydd our w n tho trai we have just. le." Frig h ened ::ob came Irem the y gir!. The eldest threw her arms protectingly about her sister. and so i: "Don't cr;, Fannie, everything will be! all ri-"t."7 giris vore taken to the nolice station. Thcy iw ere seen by a Jounal reporter and aske to tell their story. The elder answered the que.,tions. Her name was Patsy Cook and her ister.i name was Fannie Cook. She was fiftc!in years of age and her sister leven. "Two months ago," she said, "our father and mother left with us-six of us: :ere are ;ix children, you know, d :rn Lhe oldest--for Arkansas. Nty f!ther was a farmer and thought hat he would do better out West, so we left our home, which is in Wayne aounty , North Corolina, about ten niles from Goldburg. He went to Wfoodruty County, Arkansas, and had >een there only a few days when >oth my father and mother were taken sick with neumonia and died within few days0of each other. I have two t isters an 1 three little brothers. We P )ought a ticket to North Carolina for v ny younge: sister, who is four ycars >d. and then had cenou:-h money left o buy :c'kets for FaIfie and myself o BirmiLgham. At Birmingham the hie Il ..ce got us; tickets to this >lace, an \we will have to beg some odhee io. pnay our way to North roi, or to the iext *own." "iiA.I where aee tho boys?" was t ~ked. "Oh, they started out for home on dot ad I reckon the poor little fel- c ows are com?ig hoiae as fast as they an. Thev strcug and healthy, .nd if !ittle '1, nho is only seven id, d get too tired I ree2k n o"wil seen be 'ith us again. It ron't t-ke th~ very long to wai .N-; noerln. Who is there in on Carulina that will take care of "Oth, we ha've uncles snd aunts t rho v.1il ic gaId to have a.s live with 3 "Wy id-n't they send you enough iotey to pay your way back bcme?' ei "They didi't know that papa and Ymma w"'e dea-. and we didn't .noi; hio- to tell them.'' - The e?-e w'-s' referre/i to the mayor d ueity -clen, ard a pass to te giis~, and thy will soon be at home t gain. 0 And the thre- little boys are trudg ]g manlly towards the same goal. p INFLU1NZA YEARS AGO. ht Dinerxo T'uat .ppeored in South ] Carciiua 3iruy Years Ago-Some In- si teraoiag 'acts. c Raiv's hisitry ci South Carolina ntit.' the fe!Uning, which is interest 2g in the present prevalence of the T grippe:" Many persons remember that g e indluerm, af mer traversing; the United ti tatets l 780, re:'cbed Carolina and tl prcad ceasi vely. It wss very fatal on l be plnain near the northeastern ne of thre State, especially to prime full. rown negroes. Williamn Alston lost l bent thirty-tive of that description. 'hne WV !l ucous membrane, through i its receases on the insinuses of the0 sfronti:, was most grievousiy affected.a )eafaess, los3 oi taste and smell, for a >ng period were among its consequen es. More have reason to remember the fueuza of 1307. Gradually advancing ver tae Northern States, it reacheds ihalestmu in September. It scared neither age nor sez, though k hiidr'en often escaped altogether; or if r t:acked, got through with the disease k ith t':.n Inest inconvenience. The re erse was the case with aged persons. .t soon becamec so general that in some p arge families there were not a sudicien- - : of persons in health to attend en the h Ik. In a few weeks it is supoecd 'I hat 14i,000 persons, cr half of the populia- I ion of Ch aleston, had been adliered rh the dieae Of these, forty-.Eve 1: lied ; thirteo of whom were white per 'ons 'ud thirty-twvoncgroes. The for nr were "enerly ged persces. The iieserrea~d on all sides into the "-u'try. The mrtsiity in Georgetoivn ad B.uior w".s considerably greater su C uien. T" di.:ecse in toa-l cae w. 's id :,to preclude thej [u dU-nieren ~ee - shere med.icai aid I e: lwtie r i sudorifics were hin r-ied upon. Theinfrenin its commncement L n i'ri' orer the eye, 'and with rd tr aovr.- r1:ts A sharp acid cu re ~e --ge from the c-ee, . 4j ed.adi-n a fei ; bri~ wi3&t~h adri couh wa ri- I on. Th v~ho muer a mec'raun - < cas, e ~ c~is n r :oi [- the - t- di s asumedi o .th: e -rre tht f l ri of3s b:o I. -.; - 1hQ:.t ci u-i co~t3 dies b~ ti -r -nt ve m::.Ie .p. cer e e cati'n followed 4)ts 1. Jan .-T'he folle': n * i: v-te of the~ Democratic < "ac: 't- og ortel'ie S-s :-r ~did Drve, 0: M~ho, 1,4 :c ls abeliot: Brice 53; MicM2soton Erice was declared unanimously nom intar. Facts ef Interest, Gathered From Tarleas SourceM. -"La Grippe" is still raging in vari ous pdts of the country. -All the Jamaica railways have been taken by an American syndicate. -Now South Wales and Queensland have erected 887 miles of rabbit prooL fCnces. -It reuirces twenty-two volumes to egISIter the different cattle brands of Arizona. -The Ialdrin locomotive works ex pect this year to turn out not less than 1.000 loc3motives. -Ice has been found on Mouit~e Clelien, California, which is computed to be 80,OU0 years old. -The commission of French engi neers to %nvestigate the Panama Canal arrivEd on the ground. -The Baltimore committee of one bundred have fixed upon $1,000 as the rull retail license fee for that city. -Mrs. Hannah B. Southworth, the nurderess of milliouaire Stephen Pettus, lied at G c'c!ock Tuesday morning in the [ombs prison. -The engagement of George Vander >ilt to Miss Mary Johnston, daughter of ,ol. Win. Johhnston, of Annandale, reorgetown county, is S. C. announced. -A special cable o the New York ferald from Nice says: Miss Mary An erson wh. is now staying here, emphat ally denies the report that she is engag d to be married. -The wedding of Wilson S. Bisell, he ex-law pratner of Grover Cleveland, nd Miss Louise Sturges. of Geneva, 1ill be celebrated on Febriarv 8th. -A telegraph message costing $2.37 word was recently cent from Portland a Hong Kong, and an answer received twelve hourz. It was first sent to iew York, thence to London, across the 'nntinent to Yokohama. -Thus far twenty of the 211 presby :ries of the Presbyterian Church have een reported as voting on the overture. n revision of the Westminster Stand rds. For revision, 12, against revis >n, 8. -The State Conv7ention ofthe Young ren's Christian Association of North arolin-. will meet in Goldsboro March 3, 14. 15. :and 16, next. State Secre ,ry Coulter writes that 300 delegates my he expected. -Thos. A. Jones, employed in the )cl room at the ,un foundry of the avy Yard. at Wasbington, has been lsumissed'because it was learned that a aseisted John Wilkes Booth to es tpe afte]r the assassination of Lincoln. -Tenmas Nelson Page of Virginia, . of tbc brightesL literary men of the 7. has accepted1 an invitation to deliver I drss in. Atlanta wben the Socie .e biay of General Robert E. -Lee i January 10th. -Wl'ter Wright. a member of the rovi"ionol gZovernmert of Brazil, but Ergrshmnan by birth, is in New o.k. He says there is no question ia t. the republican feeling in Brazil is rong an d solid. and runs through all asses of society. -While N. S. Pope and C. J. Poat SColumnbia. were out gunning on uesday, astray shot froml Mr. Poat's mn pierced Mr Pope's left eye near e centre. It is feared the sight of Sinjured eye will be permanently ,st. -Peter Jackson the colored Austra in pugilist has sent a cable dispatch am Lor~don to the Uniteri States, an auncing hiis aceceptace of the challenge iE John L. Sullivan to fight for $1,000 side. He will sail for New York on tnuary 15, in the steamer "Adriatic." -B. 0. Jcnkins, owner of a govern Lent distillery near Earl's Station, ine miles fcom Shelby, N. C., was mat througzh the body and mortally rounded by J. H. McNeilly. store eepe~r and gauger at the distillery. 'ho cause of the quatrrel is not now nown. -General T. C. Jordan, who was a romin ent Con federate officer, was mnrd dlead on Monday in a house on !ranch, 50 miles west of Gainesville, 'exc., where he had lived alone for a umber of -ears. It is supposed he ied of heart disease. He leaves a irge fortune. -Sunday t'ight in the Methodist burch at Ficemingsburg, Ky., during a c:nn rmeeting, in observance of the -eck of prayer, one -ninister interrupted rother :during his prayer. A sharp uar:'l ced. and the Methodist minis. er cirore the congregation out, saying be scene waz too disgraceful to 'be toler ted. -It is not likcely that any war yes elawil be ont to Colombia at pres ra: as the~ --esult of +'e recent alleged einlre of Amnerican masels at ports in hett country. nas the information in he possession of the Secretary of State ro~uhd seem to indicate that the Colom in authorities were justified in re u-ing eierance to vessels at points lot regular ports of entry. -The ~A:rican Bank Note Comn qy La cmmenced work on the u--w rofstag stamps. The stamp will e otoceighth smaller than those wi us.d the designs will be Ar. h one cent stamp will outi.eue to be printed in blue; the two 'e~t stamp now printed in green, will e printed ncrMine, and changes will n' rvd inme of the other dienomi Ii'tions. -Ward McAllister's New Year's ball hor Ho0 co- C $14,400 made up of r sciptersof $00) each from144 ub.eribi . and~u Mr. McAllister says h1t nit tandiog tho rumors about ts h tvn cost 8:2,000O, the expendi ures weie all pto'1 within the limit of h: s ,r ton money. The Centen 'nl ball "which was given by Mr. ish a i thet saime house last spring, cost It is'eid that Sileott, the defaulting a rof the doutse of Representa im.~ has ne~ver been in Canada at all, me inc hC fiight from Washington b-e' scoretedi in New York State 'thi a ew minutes' walk of the rd e.It is reported that the 'atr im within a short time. I s osidthere arc several other rties conce~rned with him who will oo exposed and brought to punish ment.