Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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-Tbe to^B of Prmn the NubrtlW , A moioont of tilenoe marked the oIom of Bob’* redial. Then eonro one Uo be entirely wiubed away Mm of TundHy night, reported to be lout out ■ of 900. All tele- with the town U BaMne Pam UW mile* up the Oalveelon and 96 niUee eouth- the county aeat of Jef- 8 ^uf- ri « r 4 tnrnod to Alf, who had beeu an intent i Louisiana and i.u ..ves Axed on the floor, the i cigar carttflg over hie, flno head, hia Whole attitude auggea- i county. Mg <' 1 report aaya that during the over- few a hotel containing 16 or 90 persons wee awept out into the bey and all the oo- cupeeta were drowned. i. - town wu in a state of intense ex to-night at news just received ~ b. We byre no telegraph te with Sabine Paaa, na the wHva are all down, bat an engine arrived here to-night over the East Texas railroad that left Sere about 6 o’clock. Two rill- reps, who rowed in a small boat acroas the ■rp«n— 0 f angry waters, a distance of ■ev en] milea, from the town of Sabine to the nattmad track, came in on thejpgine and gave a beart-readeriag account Sf the affair. They say the waters began to invade the town from the Gulf and the lake together about I o’clock Tueaday afternoon, and ram wkh unprecedented rapidity. The citizens of the doomed place did not realize the imminent danger until it was too late to escape. When safety by flight was recognized as being out of the question, the people who were situated so they could do so betook themselves to houses and other resort* which they judged to be safe md beti The water kept rising, and laller in ft ween 3 and 4 o’clock the amaller liouses began to yield to the reatotleas force of the waves, which not only moved them from their founda tions, but turned them over on their sides aad tops. A little later the larger houses began to give way, and death by drowning •earned la store for every person in the place. With the yielding of the smaller houaas, several persous who had remained la than were drowned, and whan the resi dsnoea and buatnem places began to crum bis the fatality Wgan to double. The follow Inglite of the drowned wa* taiaod from the gentlemen who came in Miss Mahals Chambers, and family of aix; the wife of Otto Brown aad two children; Homer King, wife and child; Mrs. Junker aad ann Mrs. Pomeroy and family of Are; Mrs Stewart, daughter and sou, a man by the nama of Wilson, Mrs. Arthur Mclk-ynoids. Mm McDonald, daughter and grandson, musk Milligan aad family Oilumbua Martin and family about Vi colon# perataa whose could not be learned The above list oomprWs over M human victims of tbs Morm—among them *->nw of the leading families of the place Thera many of them doubtless without aay one living knowing about ii ll is feared that whole dtffereut places here been swept without leaving a vestige of thetr It Is said that the nation during the imter part of ihs afternoon beggared de- scrlptiot). The aianifrsUUktn* of ten and agony by people looking face to face m dasth. and naming that therr was no SKapa, the dying criss of women, audible bat fsndsrvd almost noiseless by the roar of Mm mad sea; tbs boom roioas of pallid , trying to save those dear to ibem—all ‘ i a scene too horrible to be rHixrnS of for the relief of tbo sufmer* P The Kast i railway has placed an engine at Usdr and a party of man have gone to t aad start to tbe scene of the i damage to pi openy is very Tbs wharf properly of ihe town d by Maw York (-apiuUsta, wh< the adjoining lands, and were 1 to make tiabine Pass an Important ; an Ihe (half tlvoofcalm repose. x>y was BobF was "What sort of a inquired of tbe Republican candidate. Alf removed the fragrant weed from hjs lips, and turuiug bis chair toward the bbd peci iutr into the blaae, while a genuine •mile stole over bis countenance, said: “Well, be was a queer boy. To begin With'’—“Be caretul, AM,” amliiugly ii L c ** Ricbmoxd, Va, Octolwr 19.—The most week of the convention wi the General Master eats to the cua 1 to be la order, and was sustained m by the sesembty, dcepUc the i of a mw. This work of amend lag the oonstiiuikA was resumed UiU ““ and proaecutaj throughout the issent to the const! i sites ding to two ysan the terras of all fsat-ral ofllesra, exoapdog those of mem- hen of Ihe corporative board, was adopted. The terns of members of the corpondivc board ramble as at present Changes la •ba constitution require a two-thirds vote for thair adoption, aad Ihe calling of tbe 619 consumed a good deal of Whan that matter bad been disposed of tbe regular order of business wu suspend ed, aad tba General AeaemUy proceeded to i General Aeeeatbiy pro of general oflteers. General Ifaater Workman Powderty and Ge nera! Worthy Foreman Grlfhth were elected to tbs offices they have already held far seven , consecutive terns. " Al lha aflminnn aaaafam it WM decided to divide tbe office of Hecret&ry Treasurer, rhaslns H. Lichtman of Marthhoad, Mass, and Joseph Buchanan of Denver were nominated for the office was elected by Turner, the of Secretary more that 130 General ' pr- . p reseat Sacralary-Treasurer, and H. Beckmcycr of Kew Jersey were nominated for General Treasurer. Turner was elected by more than 900 majority. _ Balloting for members of the Executive The following names W. if Bailey New York, t: wore placed in nomination: V of Ohio, T. B. McGuire of Tom O’HeHJy of New York, Joseph Bueh California, William 11. Mullen of mid, Va., Ira B. Ayslworth of Bal- John Howe of Mat-sachtiHttU. An ballot waa taken, in which Hayea the number of votes polled, with saoood. Home delegates wanted to voting, but a motion to adjourn ,-5 ^ to-morrow was put and carried. Richmond, October 14.—Tbe Executive Board of the Knights of Labor held a of 8 o'clock this morning to con question of sending aid lo tbe cotton workers at Augusta, Ga , land tanners at Salem and Pea •as., aad the journeymen plumbers York city. The General Asaem bty bad already voted that money be Ap propriated for their relief. ItWresolved the sum of $15,000 be devoted to this ,000 |n cadi of tbe cases' con that further turns be sent as r kdd-a conference at Ford’s i with Wor J* colored dele- 6f Knfghu of , Florii Southern States. The ok formation through 'purpoaeof relative to the their idS nteijccted bia younger brother. “Ail light,” and ihe^, contlmiing, “yes, be wat queer. Ho was lu aH manner Of mitchief at all times,, but lie bad a :nack of getting out of the* worst scrapes without n scratch, while Nat aud Jim and I caught the devil. He waa a natural-born humorist, and with lilt droll ways could trick the old folks nine times out of ten. He would lead us into mischief and then get out just in the nick of time and leave os to calch tbe consequences. A lucky star has been over that boy,” pointing lo Bob, “from the day he was born. Let me tell you how be got ahead of us ou one occasion, but it will serve as au instance of bow he managed things. Brother Nat, Jltu and 1, Bob amfa little negro boy went In swimming one Sunday morning in tbe mill pond near oor house. Father had told oa he would whip us If we went swimming on Sunday, but wc disobeyed him. Ho found it out that afternoon. He would not punish us because it was Sunday, but be took us bright aud early in the morning to the htlll yard. We knew what was com ing. He took a shingle and bored holes through it with a gimlet, and then he made us bend over a log. You can imagine the result. He punLhcd Jim andNat and me, and we wore all crying when be went np,to Bob, who wan leaning over the log whiting hi# turn. Father raised tlie paddle, sud denly Bob pulled a halt dollar out of bis pocket and twisting his iicad around at lather with a most humor ous cxpiossion of countenance, lie id: “Dad. i’ll give yon I Ids to let me off,” aim at the same time offering father the half dollar. We were all watching him as intently as our pains would lei us. Father stood with the paddle uplifted. Bob continued in bis leauinx position, holding «tlie half dalUr between bis uplifted Angers with that grimace unalterable on bis features. Bob waa cool as a cucumber. Father at length broke out lu a lauuh and bade Bob be up andeff in a twink ling. Bob sprang to bis feet and slipping Ids half dollar back lu hU pocket walked by us to the £>(>««*. making faces at us as lie weut by.” The laughter which this fraternal sally bad created having cua»e4, the same inquisitor asked Boh of the boy hood of Alf “Well,” said Bob, with a merry twinkle in his eye, “Alf hail more temper than 1; be had more tlgl t than 1 diu, but 1 !>ad more tun. Hu was quick to resent an injury and equally quick to forgive. Alf was •Uays fmd of hunting. When a im>r<-' la<i be would go out ou tlw moun tains with on old man who lived uor us and camp out for week* at a tig}’#. I believe be bad rather hunt now than do anything. Alf waa my favorite brother, if I bad a favorite, and I think be thought (lie most of me, although be never told nra ^ for be alwavs did lia\e a way of concealing ins a f Tcction from those tie loved. Father fliougiu there was Uipre outcome in Alf tljffn in anv of us, bui brother Jim, w7m> invented that gun of wbiid, you -have heard, is the smartest. Alf always Vw a keen one. You may be sure ho oould work a schraiC a* well as any body. I’ll tell you an InUttept o! hia manhood p Inch illustrates Ids b«,y hood. When i*e ?v>s running for tbe Legislature there waa » big Baptist role which l»e wanted aud wanted badly. One day he went to a baptis ing. The proaeber bad ft number oi converts lu tbe crook, Alf, ftft big it life, stood among the people on lb* •bore, singing ter dear lift.} As fiat aa a perron was baptized and started for the shore AM would wade into the creek ftnd, sieging as he advanced with bis byinn-boog in o»s band, he would extend (lie Giber to the dri Prince Louis Napoleon is in America. bBrtuf arHviad at Ban Fraadaeo.-’ Knulban is at Varoa »wailing enters aa towhstherhe shall remain or return to Run- Official circles in Berlin continue hope ful <d an amicable settlement of the Bul- gariA question. The Rev. Augustus Stopford Brooke, au eminent Unitarian preacher, of Dublin, Ireland, has gone mad. A twe-tongurd girl lately arrived from SwitzcrluHl. She wanted to go to Utah and joio the Mormons, but they wouldu t have her.- In response to tlje appeals of Mesars. response . Parnell and Fitzgerald, Augusta, G»., ba* eged attempt to sssas- r Miskewitz, a Polish sulwcrtueu $800 as a first installment tp the anti-cvictlon fund. The wife of General Pickett, tbe widow of the Confederate General, baa been ap pointed te a position lathe Department of the Interior. Secretary lamai announces to his friends that his marriage to the widow Hdlt. of Macon, will take place betyre® 0 November 7 and the convening of Congreas. Eating onions is said to insure sleep. It may in the fellow who eats them, but how about the other poor chap who tries to sleep with him? The missing steamer Auchoris arrived at 8t. John's, Newfoundland, st 3 o’clock yes terday morning in tow. All on board were well. She broke her shaft when five days out. Intense excitement prevails among the Polish residents of the South Bide. Pitts burg, Pa., aver an allej sluate tbe Rev. Father priest. At the State University at Chapel Hill, N. C.. Jacob A Freese, a student, wav shot through the heart and instantly kiled, and another student named Fleming wounded, by a negro. . Frank Hamilton/aged 7, of Waynct- burg. 111., an inmate of the Ohio institu tion far the deaf and dumb, was scalded to iteatii Sunday through the carelessness of au attendant. The official report of the medical cx|icrt* appointed to' investigate tbe insmity of King Olio has beeu made. It tsys the King's disease i* incurable paranoia, which does not effect the duration of life. Thus. C. Stewart, managernf the Mobile Western Union Telegraph office, has twen mt*4ng Mi net- Monday and bis accounts are ft 1,4*10 short. He leaves n wife and family, and is supposed to have gone to Mexico. Lord Iddealeigb, Foreign ttecretary, had a pioloagud interview ^Thursday with the Uar<n do Btad. Uusainn ainlwssador. It U undertlood that the crisis in Bulgaria has reached an acute stage. 1 he remains of 160 Confederate soldiers of Texas and Mi-absiinpi. buried in un ■parked grave*, at Hopkinsville. Kr., will lie buried in a beautiful u metery given by tbe City Council l.v'ualiiu It. Carova wssarreatedin Wash ingtoo Wednesday night oa requeue of the Florida authorities on fuapklon of having (ommiitcd a mitrder in St. Augustine. Fin., six upjnthy ago. f Mr. Abram B ILaiu baa agreoi tunc- cejK the Tammany nomination lor ¥>50®. and has wrUleu a letter anoouming that fact. Mr. Hewitt stiuuiates. however, that the liiknts- of the ticket shall ba satisfac tory lo him. Th« report of the Cot loo Araociatioo •hows that the uAloo crop of Egypt i» fully up lo the axerage Worms have diaap- (aart-d. Tire yieki U mtimated at ft, 100.000 van tare. The arrival of the new crop shovs U lo b? of »iq>erior quality. S uater Utah* bai. V'ritteo a letter to Hou. W. A. (Nmnemo. rtatod liolhpra, Loudon, Beptembcr W, in which be ex prt-rcs profound >v mpathy for the peonir of ( barlcslou. and eudoaed a check for be used for their benefit. On liig Cmm. -y*, Ooosten. Mo , on Friday morning last’ whfli- Mr., WU lianiM, the bride of Halpb Williams, waa b in- asleep by the side of her husband, some aakc^wn person entered the bedroom and placed a |»Wt«a *• ixr forehead and aunt a bullet thnrugii her brain. The couple had l«en married two months. . A at^rial from Ashland. Wis., dated the 14th, says. "Tw« m-n entered Wilmarth s hank about 10 o'clock this morning ftnd compelled Mr. WUniarth to enter the vault »t the muzzle of thdr revolvers. While he was in tlr vault the robbers se cured ft4,000 cash from a tesaaj] safe and thdr'eacapc. -tZ, ♦..nth cqoL4 in all manner of ways Herr U * cunou* Hsftbnon- case: Daniel Wilbclp'fi lifflS daugbfer digij of diphthe ria Movcral days ago. s*4 the itr bf tire casket where she had lain waa Jfi The Pretty lhate he will not Auoocod.il wMoni rnfiltilrcit * What in it that a nun with two cyaacan not sea with noe? T’other eye. Wonder if the see ssrpeet could swallow all the stories that ate told about him I The question of the hour to always one of great moment. Why wu Eve like Sunday? She was the first of thixwcak. _____ Tlie tics formed at nodablei sometimes lead Id matrimonial knots. Tf everybody would mind kto own bust- Qia.vwo wonder how a layryw would live. ' The following words, tf sprit backwxid or fm-ward, are the same: “Name no one What wHi be tha ruling fancy of the season? In other words, what will take the place of progressive euchre? A Western paper says there are pretty tough nuts in Ihe army. Does It refer to the kernels? The man who has mada his own meat and bread is tbe man who carries home the money when hia cotton is sold. There is frozen music in many a heart that the beams of encourageaoent would melt into glorious song. Now for the “sear-and-yellow-lcaf” poet. He may approach, but with the under, standing that we keep a club. It isn’t always the man who knows the most that wins, but the man who can apply whst he does know. A man of short statue gives as a reason for his stunted growth that he wu brought up when a child ou condensed milk. It is a little singular that a journal for the blind shoatd get so excited as to prints scathing article against low-necked dresses. We know the summer is over ppiug peui. ih« reed. Tha ann of Frank tent and escort bin or uer to_tiMJ m m shore. Alf got the vote of e» ery (1st in the district. That’s tbe sort of fellpw he was,” and in this gay baiul- inpge the tftmrtg passed. , While Th re la Life TheVe is fjiqte. Many of tlie diseases of this eeaMMi of the rear can be averted bv a small amount of rare and at little cost, by the timely use of Ewbanx's Topaz CutcuoNA Cordial. t It cures Diarriia«a, Dysentery, Chid- era Morbus and like complaints. Afo traveler should be without a bottle, as It will prevent any disease that would no doubt arise from the change ot water, food aud eiituote, without its use. Tbe most valuable ned^ojue in the world, contain? all tbe best aud most curative properties of all other Tonics, Bitters, etc., etc., being the, greatest Blood Purifier, Liver Regula tor and Life and ileaJth-liestoring Agent in existence. For Mniftria, Fever aud Ague, Chills and Fever, Dyspepsia, Indigestion, hick Head ache, Nervous Headache, Chronic Rheumatism, etc., etc,, it is truly a Herculean Remedy. It gives new life and vigor to the aged. For ladies in delicate iftaltb, weak and sickly chil dren, nursing mothers. See circulars wrapped with bottle. Cbarlestox, 6. C., Sept I, 1885. H. B. Ewbakk, Esq., President of Tha Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., Spartanburg, 8. C.: Dear Sir—I have used a case of your Topax Cordial in my fkxnlly, and as • Tonic and Appe tizer I can cheerfully recommend h to all who are suffering from Debility aud lack of appetite. My children, especially, have been inach benefittea by its use. Respectfully, - Hutson Lbe. your druggist for Ewbanx’s Topaz Cinchona Cordial and take i grow up.” “How a tfuchem. when we pick up the papers now we don’t see columns about how tbe girls look in their hulling suits. Oeorgie: “Do you know, Ethel, old Smokes had a perplexity fit the other day?” Ether' "A perplexity fit? You mean a parallel stroke." “I’m very food of Utile boys;" »he mid, as she tripped on a string stretched acrom the pavement. “1 feel ■■ if I could eat a couple of Ibem this minute, raw.” Tbe floral bell is getting to ba stale for marriage ceremonies Why should not some enterprising couple be married under a pair tree? A Chicago minister preached on “What can I do to be saved?” It would seem that about the first move would ha to get out of Chicago. ’ Mother.' said a little girl, “1 believe 1 U lie a duchess whea I grow up.” do you expect lo beroira daughter’' “Wby, by marrying a Dutch man. lo be sure.” The lawyers and doctors of Ellsworth Me . went out in cold blood the other day and attempted to play base 1*11 The law yen woa, but ihe doctors will eventually get the bast of tha A young man who has a good deal of •pan- time oa hia hands wishes to learn of something that will keep him occupied We can Ihlpk of two things right off-get ting married and Upping Orara beehive A little girl lately wrote to her friend “Yesterday a IHllc babywiater arrived, sod papa to on a journey. It was but a ptecr of luck that mamma wan at hoam to take care of it.” Whan a wife runs away having a bus band and nine children, aa a Tenia woman did tbe other day, the poor might almost ba excused for wishing he bad never seen her. Give a boy addrraa and accouriishmeat and you give him the mastery of' sod fortune wherever be may go. He nut the trouble of earning or owning than; they aoUrit him to enter aad , Tha gjx! who never acrenma when she •renaannkeUnTamtegiritomarry. With her calm, cool, collected, unexdteble die position she would bit where she with the roilingpin every lime. A contemporary asks. “How women carry their yuoea lo frustrate the ibfevesr Why. carry them empty. Noth Ing frustrates a thief mors than to snatch i woman’s purse, after f(Blowing her for a mile, and then gnd tfi«djt coctmna only a in crearion to a lOo’eioek lina?” .aftjfanr line in question fro ^ “ mouth of the Miami River through Indiana. northwest to cede some territory to the whites. It eras a small mattar, hut it was ft big oo- oaaion with the savages. Everything w randy. The surveyor had htt comps and telescope and had mounted them on aJripod: The head man of the tribe up, looked ateadflyKat the inatru meat for a while, grunted and returned to the.aide.mound the enudiJLce. Not a word was spoken. Boon another Indian wot tip, walked sedately to thein- strumenV gravely examined, men grunt ed and in ftienoe returned to his place by the fire. TSaxerample #m followed by haM a dozen other buckxT Then they hod a short oonmfltatum, and the head ■ arose and came ovar to the white ‘That what Indian know.’ he drawing a small oirale on the with a stick; that what white man Knew, he continued, drawing a larger circle around tha first; ‘this what nobody know,’ he concluded, pointing to aU without the last circle. ‘White men know that,’ pointing to the instruments; Indian no Know it Indian knew the Him never cheat Him always Him throw shadow. Indian give white man land one aide shadow aad heap other aide.’ After a big pow-wow it waa decided that a line drawn in the IT .'Ulireotion of the son would oast a shadow 'from an agreed point at 10 o’clock which should be the boundary of the concession, the white man taking the land on the one aide and the Indian keeping tw on the other. The other boundaries of the oonecesion were those of the original territory of the tribes supplemented by water courses and other natural objects. These lines were frequently used and known as ‘10 o'clock lines. For four nights the people of Bran ford. Conn., enjoyed a real old-faaiuoned “oahthumpso," something very rare in those parte. Thomas Gear, a widow and an old resident of the tows, I Wednesday evening married a widow named McQueroj, and hall an hour after the ceremony a crowd of men ant boys surrounded the house and made a much of a racket as posable. The newly wadded couple, armed with cord wood, charged upon them and drov e them off The next night the sereoaden returned again, with increased number* and mor drums, boros and tin pan*. Gear am hia bride charged them again, but w driven back. Then the groom offered hia rioton $3' to go away. They fused his offer, and then demanded half a dollar mom. The parties dioagm-d, aad for two hours n^ht was made hide ous again. The Cshthumtan* returned on the following night, and the racket waa worse than ever. Gear stock to bis offer, and the arowd would not lower their demand a cent. Last night half the team turned out to see the fun, and the hora-hiowaai and drummers fairly drove Gear wild, but he held out until threats w< remade to add tbe town can non to the orchestra. Then he yielded and gave the crowd $2.60. They kejit thair bargain, got something to drink, anti Bftanfonl to once more at peace. M m ’t UUOOD. JMSkon XM»«n- months toissto. tti—mot t-y f Tbe Dread of i rfed lines oawnmrar. Take ao acker. MaSeoalrbr BtteWN CUJKICAL CO-. BALTIMORR, Ml*. ■as* Book- of prime for i - -< IMMM U» lllteutt. note.: ran I ps’UsL*; danger to life of both at t'rootittr *Wi ohild, UKi No.Hore Danger! ) eaves the mother in a condition highlT fa- /- votable to speedy ra- „ 2 eovery, snd far Iras Mother or Child, liable to flooding, cpi. vulsions, and other jalannhtg sy tn pt ou s .Incident to slow or painful tabor. Hs , tnily wonderful effica- • Motherhood cy in this respect en titles It to be called Trinsformed to THE MOT H EiFB FRIEND and to be H A i B Wirauked as one of the II K Pi life-saving remedies “ • •" of tlie nineteenth ccn- •nri * U ?rom the nature of tbe case it will of -w—r- course be understood I | | v that we cannot pub- ,1 \ / T , llsh certificates con- ^ -a “ f Jcenting this Remkdt .. . without wsunding the ‘ del icac y of Hie wnfeft. _ . , . Yet we have hundreds Safety ana Ease 0 f SUC h u-stimenials on file, and no mother —to— who has once used it ,wilf ever again be Sufftrillff Woman Without It In her time r ' of trouble. A prominent physician lately remarked to the proprietor, that if it were admissible ta nuke pubHc toe letters we receive, the “Mothers’ Ericnd” would outsell anything on tlm market. (»kntlkmk.n:—During my career in tbe raftin' "f medicine 1 nsec, your “MOTH- IU’S FRIEND" in a treat number of cases, with the happiest results in every instance. It makes labor easy, hastens de livery and recovery, and issuuna sapBTT TO BOTH MOTH Kit AND CHILD. No Woman ran be induced to go through the ordeal without It after once using it Yours truly, T. K. PENNINttTON, M. D. Palmetto, Ga., June 10, IMi. Send fur our Treatise on “Health and Happiness of Woman,” mailed free. BitADriiw.D KnouLATon Co., , Atlanta, Gg. iC BrJtSHDIGERS AUBMffil yg^fURE SToaVcH 1 ^ 1 >QWSL»: raraa n nwth* HftT ALr TiRATivift and nuniriftft or TNI >. and Is A VALUAfttik TONIC. BLOOD. •TADICER’9 MvSBlBte AURANTII •1.00 P BUY THEM AT HOME. ar.ffTADiOKM, Proprietor, O. PSONT ST.. HWSs Tha Aalhar Rla« T<. There is perhaps not one perron in s hundred but to familiar with the poem “Curfew hhail Not Ring To-Night.*’and yet these to not one of tne hundred who can tall the name of tha author. The nineteen year* ago by reoeq>t for spiced the a emptied loti) sk Harper, of of the ice and w Hampden, picked up some il from the effect#of which, til*said, PQW lylag fiangcrously ill with the MMC giteata lirnUh rarried off his little playmate! Dealraerit# Murm*. ^ iiicAi.o, crctoucr by a driving rain, pretailing here md«o dftriy this The storm tore through tlie Ums n* other. Aft ■Topaz Cinchona Cordial Co., 11 ~ Spartanburg, 8. C., U. 8. A. Thai i sT a Tvwa la PMJMylvaaU Palllac Suknasdoau, Pa., October 13.—Early this morning a girl named Hennessey, re i West Coal street, went Into the of her house, opened the door sod nsif standing oh the brink of n feet in diameter nod 100 feet ottora of the bnssment the workings of thn Oak j iuCAt.o, Octobci 1 '4.—A high wind, driving rain, bax been morning. through tlie Uws at f)Mg lass. GnrfickI and Humboldt Parks witL the fury qf a hurricane. The soft maples jyvJ sapling* were twisted off close to their root*-aud f,urjed over tlie tops of large tree* Two real estate agencies’ buildings ou Madison street, near GarMd ParJj. Vjprc picked up by the .wind and pounded to pieces on the prarie*. The reports show that the storm extends over a very wide a.’ea but no particulars can be obtained as (be leiegrjpi; wires are down in almost every direction. ... A fearful storm prevailed jn«t of Toledo, O., yesterday, wrecking thousands of dollars' worth of hoascs, windows. Ac ( Sevcr*l strain cars were blown from the track, freight cars demolished and six yachts riding at ftRchor broke loose and were smashed to piece*. * A dispatch from Fort Wayne, »mi., states that a terrific gale from the south psagi-d over that city yesterday, unroofing the Odd fellows’ Temple, Cantiver’s brew ery. Hake's bottling works, the Adams Ex press office, together with topic of the principsi business buildings. A lire broke out just before the gale, which spread rap idly, destroying many houses. A hard wlntf storm prevailed throughout tbe State ot Kentucky yesterday, but n6 special damage is reported. Tub Old, Old Btobt.—Why do we hear so much shoot dyspepsia? Simply beeaoss so many people jhavs it why peojAe tailring - * ” A veritable sea serpent was seen at mouth of tbe Ptoataqua river at • o'j Wednesday morning by Augustus Fs and Hiram To bey, of Kitterv, as thsy puiliug up m thair dory from FernakTs weir, off Pocahontas Point. Their atten tion was first ellracfefj be iffrinf what they fora few 'foomenta supposed*to be a long string of floating seaweed, but upon ■ short Mta they ascertained the string of kind of a firing crea ture, tohicji hold Its'’beau about four feet above water. ‘ ty'hc'n first few him (or her or H) be was |Ntffiag r ov£i' Wood Island bar and making his way rapidly sea ward. lie appeared to ba about 73 fBet t, V—« Ihet ami when they Were nrarra* him west net over 900 feet sway. They iomewm^Of^ fu t^ rrorintity j illustrious vafiTstof PIN »Mr ustily for tbe short.—/VrhstairiA (JY |/\nrr tty vejf) were sotnew ot the oars lustily //.) Chronicle. poem was written nineteen year# ago by Boae Hart wick, a Michigan girl, but did noi find its way into print for three year* afterward. Tha author was not pleased with her own production, and withheld it from publication. It was her first effort, and waa lasd away until one day, in an extremity to fulfill an engagt-in. nt to furnish the Detroit Commercial-Ad vertiser with a certain amount of copy each week, aad not having anything on hand when the demand wu made for it, she took the manuscript down from it* dusty shelf and sent it to the publisher Wtth instruptionn to put it in the waste- baaket tf he didn’t think it worth pub lishing. It was published, however, and in less than a week wae copied into all the leading dailies in the country. Miss Hartwiek ban since married a Mr. Thorp aai nogr Urea at Grand Rapid*. On a recent virif Id ChwxgD tlm Tribune said of her: “She is bright and an tertian ing in manner, and by no means shows her five and thirty years. She has never written anything of note except her ’Curfew,’ but derive* quite an income from ren’a stone*, which she is OkS? CH Alt LOTTE FEMALE INSTITUTE. T HE rumor that the Principal will re-: move to CslumMa, 8. CL t» a mistake. He has purrhaeed the eootrelliag tntevert of the JTIIAKLOTTK FEMALE INST1-1 TUTE: ha# speut ft4,oue In renovating and | Improving the buiktincs, *sd to now task-1 ing more raiuAb.s iiupromueut* tban 1 ever. The building is '.iKhtid with giu, ' warao-d with Uic best of wrouglit-iKai furriaeea, ha* tad and cold water bstb#, sud finticlassappoiutment* a* • Boarding School la every rvspaot No more experienced and acfunqdisheJ , oorp# of Teacio'rs J» to l** fouiul in the i houtli, and the Musk and Art D«'partaieui arejiiiMtrpsraed. Full #r«doo begin# September 1, loan. For Catalogue apply to the Principal Hkv. \VM. K. AlktN.sriN, Aneni^m rhsriotto, N. C. l u Sul ii fryi t Jus." SIM 1001, rmsmwws m i vex. Tux Md Yearly Tkkh begin* Septem her b»U, 18M. For Catalogue, giving full j particulars, addrem, Mij. R. 8IN8HRM, Supt., Bingham School P. 0„ Orange Co., N. C. THE BEST I^IAKES^OF PIANOS AND 0KGANS —BOLD AT- FACTORYJPRICES FOR CASiL -OB- EASY INSTALMENTS. ffi DCL1YEKED TO MKAMffffT wL nrr, fmeiuht »kk*. Writ® lor prices and tenna^to JuneOOUy M. W. TR19IP, _ C wlwhlH, ff,c. tofete suvceM.”—Bt. Patti | ara op many people talking about their cure from miff dreadful disease? Sim ply because they have been taking Brown's Iron Bitters. Thus it is with Mrs. Tay lor, of Lynchburg, Sumter county, S. C., who says: ‘T have used Brown’s Iron Bitters for dyspepsia with moat results. 1 believe this medi- that to represented.” Dya- from neuralgia, eta., should toy it Bail way Gom- —Tha Great Northern BaUway i party employs boys to sarty s]>ecuft| safes about London oa horeshaek. An MSMBfsr boy oa foot now £ dim ot tbs street and hs east F r IHt» ’MC Oeemmmf. Pams, October i$.-»,Thers is a yfvid f ;rowth of war feeling in France. M. otvedon, the military critic, writes to FV- i/a/v that Gen. Boulanger has prepared s well conceived plan, in conjunction with s staff offiepf of high rank, for a continental campalga. “ ‘ * The MHilaire says tbat Gen. Boulanger desires war, not for the purpose of recover ing Alsace, nor to gratify personal ambi tion, but as a step leading to a solution of social questions. The strictest taboo of everything Ger man is being observed. H Lockeroy, Minister of Com more, has ordered the police to prosecute all persons selling boxes ot toys imported from .Germany and con taining a map ot France without Atoace. ——jyw Mailer# Hi Maate*. St. Lou#, Mo, October 14.—A special from 21 Paso, Texas, am that aurtttag rumors ftip afloat here to tha effect that the Mexican government is again struggling to suppress the insumotiooaiy mo remain. A Mexican official said this afternoon that he had positive iaformatiou that over twenty persona bad just been shot st Fres- nillo, s town in tbe State of ZsctecsiLby order of the Mexican goversmeut. The officer also said that he heard rumors that Romero Rubeo, Minister of tin Interior, aad father-in-law of Piwlttofe Diax, hod while out riding hi tbe suburbs city of Mexico, aad that hs was sup to bare bare kidnapped by the insur gents. ,v * . —Pittsburg i uabeia of eoal for fuel In tha % fM rasa 000 A murder was committed on the plaula- tion of Mr. W. H. Steed in the upper por tion of Barton county on the night of the 7th Inst. Joe Wright, colored, was on his way home when he was waylaid, shot and kUied. David Alford, colored, - was the perpetrator of the foul deed. At last ac counts he had not been apprehended. Al ford is a desperate character, having serve! one tefm in thp penitentiary. my \ r • Potash Victim. Cued by A A I CAUTION* Us eei eonfu* mr SptcxJU Urn tp to Mil, mx a* Uoo awn ewHl, tm! tm U* merld of om rmufe. Ah imhstkm U sforas */>yad anti « Ussl, **4 Uo UrtM Ohi* at M*res* Hoalfrom UuariicU vmtialAl. TteetimmmoeSmUi «H* /NmusuNUt fnt. Jhr tab bl oil irerttio. TUX MWJTT SPXCir/C CO., Draw* 0, AttmUe, Os S, S. S, vs, POTASH, PEACE INSTITUTE FOB YOUNG LADIES, KALKHW, NORTH CAROLINA. HE FALL TERM COMMKNC2S Septem mi X the first Wednesday of ON ptember, fill the ctaas Seminaries for Yoang Ladies, unsur- Buildlng heated by everyway any In the ty steam, and In as to equipment, etc., equal to South A full corpsofFirst- Claas Teachers engaged for sraston com- menelog la Septambra. able as any advantages. For oataiogue, containing as to terms, etc. address Kbv. R BUB WELL A SOX, PrMfipals, Terms ss reason- institution offering same ce solicited, full particular# AugllLlm RfeMgh,N.C. L I h»r» hta Mood poison for lea vsnra 1 know I hare taken om bandied bottles of r- iodide of potssh In ttuU Urns, bat it £duo Bo fond. LmS snnwer nr fact, neck, bodr f.ad limbs were covered with sore* sod I could scucelr nse my sms on account of rheo- s iJHfitomm my m nsmssq Itook 8 8 8.. sod It his dooe ms mors food then si I other medl . Clne * 1 , u i ten r **1 f* 1 are perfectly cleu ud dean, and my rhea nmism iff CDtir®ly gonp. 1 weighed 116 pouDdf whffii I bc^crtn the wimdkrifip and I now wriirh ~T~ SHLEY OLUBLE UANO. 'The Solubto'Guanols.Xhlghly concentrated Ammonia ted Guano, a complete High Grade Fertilizer for all crops. - ASHLEY COTTON AND CORN COMPOUND -A complete Fertilizer for there two crops and also largely used by the Truckers near Charleston for vegetables, fee. «ii^ B “J^SIS&‘bI2 c &* B4 -. w 'f n '“? »!P-A»«»hW Its Vines, etc. Crops, and also for Fruit Trees, Grey* ASHLEY DISSOLVED BONE; ASHLEY ACID PHOSPHATE, of fjry High Grades-^for use alone and In Compost heap. v ry mga pS^ s w u !b^cS^SSSSff' ^ wrtM ‘ ,ttt * cU,a “4 Hortau, ™ A ® HLET PHOEPHATB oo, CkMlerton.tSJO. mai— These pills wsrss •r relim all msasi box of pills. Fiadont lyre) fid. Wpffiafere! Ithsassftsfft toffikssiththrelft of aay aster thymsfl rtrfif smta tat t is vsry i LL, f **!