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i. J, W; yourwlf with To! BMtaMal»i tDB 7j »■ . ;. ■ ■ ; ■ i***: : ".> ■ 1 gasBeae gag good mooch to prorido joar toothor dtuation bj thk daj •o wm Auricula Pendham; and th*> only happy person concerned in the int-laoe transaction was Master BU Parks, who was the scamp who had '-4 Net sloii« nSl'tborBS tomake thssi btsed— 5?!!ar«."risiixs* ww - Bis sunny bead Witt ctSSS wsaw— Mew, standing by that ItWeRrivs Where la sad eat the pasrtnffysois Weave tapestries of frees sad fold, 1 smile, remembertnf ay tears. 1 lay wyfray head oo the mosnl Keep] toes, with a substantial Bread pu | to follow, out tumbled a flat, paper .a^wb~iM!SEL“ erh “ r ‘ at So it was there all the time! she thought How could I have possibly mimedUf • • - »Death r K PRACTICAL JOKE. BY IIBLCB FORREST GRAVES. Miss Auricula Pendham was neith er young nor beautifuL In the world’s eyes she was long past the age of romance. But in the heart of a true woman there is always a soft spot where youth and ,hope bloom eter nally. She lived in a little hall bedroom, in one of those great, un-home-like boarding houses, where people are packed together like sardines in a box, and worked for Mademoiselle Vicini, the fashionable milliner of Playport. She had a speaking acquaintance with Mrs. Bloo^the plump widow, who sat opposite her at the table; Kitty Supple, the pretty shoo-girl on her left, who despised homely people, and thought no one ought to to live after she was past thirty; and Mr. Mills, the foreman in the printing office of the Playport Eagle, who sat at the corner beyond, and that was all. . During the day she worked hard at the store ; in the evenings she sat at a window, with a shawl across her shoulders, and mended her clothes and read her Testament, and crocheted on a black worsted mat, which had been on hand for a year at least, be cause Kitty Supple generally had beaux in the parlor, and audibly de clared she thought old maid bad no business to be peeping and prying! 1 upon tne whole, it was not a second-story ibt And upon very lively life. Mr. Mills, up in his front, was as solitary as she, no doul But he was a man. He could go out to theatres, reading-rooms, chess clubs. Miss Pendnam was tempted to wish at times that she was a man. There was such an utter loneliness in her heart, that when Billy Parks, the landlady’s little boy, brought his mittens to ner to mend early on the morning of the first of April, she was glad of the chance to talk to some body. 1 say, Miss Pendham, observed this this artless youth, why don’t you get married. Miss Pendham colored. Or was 1, the reflection of the red yarn where with she was threading a slender darning-needle. Everybody doesn't get married, Billy, said she. Yes, that’s true, remarked Billy Mother, she says she wishes shed never gone and got married, when father goes on a spree. But Miss Sup ple she savs, you d have got married to old Mills long ago, if y< have caught nim. Misa Pendham was silent a moment. She was used to these satirical stings of Kitty Supple’s vivacious tongue; but all the same they smarted. Miss Supple ought not to talk so, said she. Sne knows that Mr. Mills is nothing to me. Mother says that Miss Supple wants old Mills herself, says Billy. I don’t like her. I wouldn’t marry her, not for a hundred dollars! She told moth er about the comic valentine I sent the parcel of lace from Kit- ; as she stopped momt In at the window of a the ty’bpheket ly to look in taken instantaneous Litre eht said Billy to himsel was in hopes that it was her young man’s photo. But I’ll settle her. When Kitty Supple took her parse from her pocket, at dinner time, as she sat down at Mrs. Park’s table, well spread with beef stew and baked pota dding She opened it, surreptitiously, while the green eyes of Master Billy, gorg ing his noontide meal, were glued to the men ing his n< her face. It was filled glue with coarse, common cotton batting. And in that one second Billy Parks tasted the sweets of unlimited re venge, truck all of a heap! said he to Well, I guess we’re even Mi comic her, and mother gave me a lick! But I’ll be quits with her yet April-fool her, see if I don’t! Did you ever get April-fooled, Miss Pendham, when you was a girl? Or April-fool other folks? Sometimes, said Miss Pendham, a moisture blurring her vision as she re membered the great fragrant barti at home, and the slim girl—could it he possible that it was lierself?—filling the hens’ nests with empty egg shells and deceptive china eggs, to deceive the laughing little broiners who were dead and gone long ago. Wasn’t it fun, tnougl)? said Billy, with a chuckle. I mean to April-fool everybody in the house. Thankee, Miss Penaham!. And snatching the mittens from her hand, he scampered cheerily down stairs, three steps at a time, flnjahing up with a prolonged slide down the banisters. ~ While Miss Pendham tied on her bponet, arranged her little grey shawl and went to, ICademoiselle Vicini's with a bandbox in her hand, which contained Miss Helena Montrose's we4ding bonnet—a marvel of white tulle, orange-buds and point-lace— upon which she had worked late the preceding ulght. And Kitty Supple, who was late at the store tripped after her with fluffy, brown fringes of hair escaping from under her turban hat, and blue eyes sparkling with mischief. But she had a pale, frightened look when she got to the store. Of. course I didn’t mean it, said Kit ty; and I don’t suppose it signifies anything. But the parcel was just slipped m under the string that tied the bandbox, and it was tne easiest thing in the world to pull it out. I couldn't help laughing to think how astonished she would be to find it gone. And I opened it and peeped in to see what it was. Elegant point lace that must have cost five or six dollars a yard! Aqd I put it in my pocket; and when I next felt for my pocket handkerchief it was gone. Now I’ve walked twice over the road, and asked every one I met if they had seen a wrapped in brown paper and 1 wish to goodness 1 hadn't touched the old thing. But Miss Pendhaia will never know who took it—that’s one comfort And Kitty Supple cried at intervals behind tne counter. The joke as she had all day had not proved so jooqse imagined it would be. Gone! Shrilly shrieked Mademoi selle Vicini. That point-lace! Mias Montrose’s elegant Point d’Alenoon, imported directly from Paris for her wedding hat—gone! Of course you know, Miss Pendham,that I shall hold you responsible for the twenty-five dollars which thoee five yards of lace were valued at Nor do I careto re tain in my service a young person so exceedingly unreliable as you have “ to be. You will be SI himself. nowl J . ^ But the piece of lace had not ful filled its mission yet When Mias Pendham went up to her room she found a letter under the door, out she had no spirit to open it It’s one of Billy Park’s April jokes, she thought, as she pushed it aside with her foot Oh, dear—oh, dear! I wonder if I shall ever laugh again? Twenty-five dollars to pay? for that lace, and I have twenty-five cents when my week’s board is settled and my pew rent paid I And discharged from Mademoiselle Vicini’s, . too. What is to become of me? It was growing dusk now—a sweet, purple, April dusk, full of faint scents and sounds of spring even there in the city streets. She lighted her lamp and sat down with her head resting on both hands. Just then there came a soft tap, tap, at the door. Come in! said Miss Pendham. The door opened, its hinges revolv ing with a diffident squeakiness. I hope I don’t intrude? said Mr. Mills. Dear me, Mr. Mills, is it you? said Miss Auricula. Are you ready? asked Mr. Mills, hovering on the threshold, like a re spectable middle-aged genius. Ready? faltered Auncula. For the concert,explained Mr. Mills. We had some tickets sent to the Eagle office. I thought perhaps you would enjoy the music. Didn't you get my A TOTE QH FREE SILVER. THE NEW YORtfc MERCURY CON DUCTS AN INTERESTINQ CONTEST. TIm f-Mpi* Vat* By Majority to Faror Ftm Daelara tfcat tfea Uaitad thair Owm It away. It was regarded all over the United States as a very daring, even toolbar dy, undertaking, when The Mercury announced on the morning of June 24 that it propoeed to test the sense of the people of New York and Brooklyn upon the queetion .- Shall the United States Government the free coinage of its mints to the ver without waiting for with Great Britain or any other Euro pean nation, and at a ratio of If to 1? Such stalwart advocates of the re habilitatioa of silver at the Atlanta Constitution in the South and the Cin cinnati Enquirer in the West thought that the result of such a ballot must be disastrous to the cause of free sil ver. But the editors of these journals, and of other newspapers throughout the a—;«» rdV * country, did not know the people of New York and failed to appreciate their undemanding of the evils that have been brought upon them through the demonetization of silver. No one can read the letters which have been published daily in. The Mercury, under the heading, “What the Voters Say,” without oecoming deeply impressed with the way in which the working men have grasped the situation, and the inteUigenoe which they have shown in advocating free silver coinage as the first thing to be accomplished for their relief. The Mercury has not solicited a sin gle vote upon this question. The votes, which have been sent in by tens and fifties, and in some cases by hundreds, have been gathered to gether by men who werejnterested in theca letter? I slipped it under the door, cried Auric £ Oh! cried Auricula, suddenly stoo ing for the neglected envelope, whicl still lay under the table. I oia see it, but I thought it was one of Billy Parks’s April fools. But you’ll go, won’t you? pleadec the foreman in the Playport Eagle office. I should like it very much, said Auricula, feeling henelf color to the roots of her hair. And, speaking of April fools, slow ly added Mr. Mills, fumbling in his pocket, when I was on my way to the office this afternoon, one of our dev ils—I beg your pardon, Mira Pend ham; that is an entirely metaphorical apellation—told me that mv coat-tails were festooned with something white. I didn’t mind it much, because I had three different labels pinned on my back this morning; but when I capv to look, it seemea very nice lace. Per hape you can use it for something. I’m sure it is of no service to me! Thus speaking, Mr. Mills drew from his pocket the five yards of poini lace, which matched Mira MpnifOfe's bon net Mias Pendham a smothered le clutched at the shriek of jojr disorderly usrcel. Oh, Mr. Mills! she cried. I never was so glad of anything in my life. Oh, Mr. Mills, how good you are ? v - And with sobs and tears she ex plained to him the history of that piece of lace. ^ x - They took it at once to Mademoi selle Vicini before they started for the concert; and somehow this little inci dent seemed to establish a mutual un derstanding between them. I always thought Min Pendham was a superior young woman, said Mr. Mills. Ism more than ever con vinced of it now. \ y vir. Mills is really very sensible and neeable, thought Auricula. After , there is something in the printer’s ' profession that broadens and dnlarges \e mind. So Master Billy Parks succeeded in April-fooling everybody to his heart’s Kiuj - tty Supple sne bean] breathed heard that the prac- content, an more freely when point-lace was safe. But I’ll never play any more tical jokes, she thought. She turned up her pretty little nose when she heard of Muls’s engagement to Miss Auricula Pendham, a few weeks later. Two old things like that setting up or lovers! How utterly ridiculous! she said. But Miss Kitty Supple had yet to earn that life’s blossoming time does not always come in April.—Saturday Night. • The Clearing of a Mystery. Washington, Aug. 1.—A letter re ceded at police headquarters this morning from the superintendent of constabulary at Glasgow, Scotland, apparently cleared up the mysterious disappearance of the Rev. Dana Day The letter stated that on July , young man was found lying on tne racks of the Caledonia railway at a town five miles from Glasgow. He was badly injured and died on that day. He was able to say, however, that he was Dana Davenport, and a medical student of Washii ngton A. The body was interred By the Cal- N.S. edonia railway officials. A descrip tion of the deceased given tallied with that of the missing young minis ter, excepting his clothes were not the ones he wore when he left home. Young Davenport’s father has little doubt that the man killed near Glas gow was his son. Dana Davenport was evidently demented. He was 28 years old and has had charge of an Episcopal church at Harrisonville, Baltimore county, Md. He was last seen on July 5, when he left his real- dence in Harrisonville, for Baltimore, and called upon a friend there. When he left the house that night, all traoe of him disappeared. cause, subscribers to The Mercury, who saved each day’s paper so as to secure the vote of a friend upon the ballot printed therein. The Best testimony to this statement is following, from Mr. F. L. Hatha way, of Clinton, N. Y.: The ballots for free coinage in your contest are astonishingly numerous, considering the fact that you have not resorted to the usual methods to get votes. If some one in each of country towns of New York had taken even the little trouble I have gone to in asking people to vote, your total in this State alone would easily have been greater than it will now be for all the States in the Union. Sixty-five qualified voters in this town have pei son&lly written their ballots for fre coinage, and the same have been for warded to you. Every man is s voter and an intelligent citizen, and quite a number of leading merchants, manu facturers and farmers. I think I may well say well done, Clinton! anfi.adt that ex-Collector Magone did, not speak rightly for Clinton, at when he told The Mercury th Democrats in Northern New take no interest in the silver question. But by far the largest proportion of the votes have come in one at a time in an envelope, with a two-cent stamp on the envelope, sometimes accompa nied by a letter, but generally not. So far as space would permit we have published these letters from day to day, following the announcement of the vote, but when so many were received, some had to he left out. The Mercury beheved that it voiced the demands of the people in advocat- ing the free coinage of si diq, not know it until taken. The result is astonishing when it is remembered that no effort was made to indisne Very few people realise how greatly the tobacco culture industry has grown in South Carolina in the last few yean. In the Pee Dee country it is fast supplementing cotton and farm- ess find it more profitable than th® fleecy staple. Darlington County was the pioneer, bat Florence, Ramter, Clarendon and Marlboro Counties are rapidly following her lead, and in other counties farmers are ready to renounce their allegiance to the erst- most wonderful religious prodigy to white king, cotton. The Dnriinrton be found in Houlh Carolin« i» now to NcwilSBVhmd figure* lo.Aow toftterf-O-w. nM» what a marvelous advance the tobacco industry in Darlington has made since lest year. It is a record of which Dar lington County may well be proud. Tne following table, prepared from the News, shows the numbei* of seres ted In tobacco in the various of Darlington in 1824 and in 1888:" Townships. 1884. Antioch. • •••••••••••*•• .38 Cypress •«*«.••««««•«... • • * Darlington..*•»m......117 Lamar. Lydia eweeneeaaeeeoaa taraa** Mechanicsville..........200 Hartsville.. — Palmetto.. •.. . .Ill 1895 148 300 559 310 410 vwwW'tatHpw- • ow-e • s • a a e e Stokes Bridge.... Society Hill..............53 Philadelphia...... ......,,20 Lea vensworth 85 235 250 200 185 200 270 • Total 829 3,575 Tha following table shows thenum ber ofi various tobacco barns in the various townships in 1894 and in 1895 Townships. ' 1894: Antioch ...................6 Cypress — Darlington ..26 Lamar. *......... .......17 Lydia ...1 Mechanicsville .35 Hartsville............... Palmetto. ..»•.. * ..20 Swift Creek. .1 Stokes Bridge — Society Htil. 18 HighHai 11 Philadelphia 4 Les vensworth 11 1895: 22 45 29 91 62 50 21 27 43 41 39 30 36 38 575 m the silver, but it this ballot was e people to It is more fencing the editor of the Citizen to nay astonishing that so few people voted a fine of 82,50 and be imprisoned in in the negative. / ^ i Here is the result of five week’s vot ing on the silver question: Question: Shall the United States Government open its mints to the free coinage of silver without waiting for cement with Great Britain or any er European nation, and at a ratio of 16 to 1? Ye*. No. New York City and Brook- lyn. 396 New York State ...4,892 247 Connecticut 161 Massachusetts ...1,574 103 New Jersey 158 Pennsylvania. ...3,119 167 Maryland.............. 48 Washington, D. C...... ... 573 116 OhiO. • e e • •« e.w.e* a #• e .... 690 59 Gfaoorgi& • • • • • # #.• . ..1,032« 37 Tennessee. 31 • • e e e e e« a a a e e-a ... 593 17 "V irgmifta ea^eeeepeee awa ... 604 21 Arkansas 13 Kentucky 19 Mississippi..... 6 Louisiana 2 Indian a. - • 13 Illinois 22 West Virginia 3 F londa #• ••••••#«• • • ... 113 4 Nebraska ... 271 7 lOWfte aeeeeeeisaaeee e e e a e ... 382 11 Michigan. ••••••#•••#••• ... 121 3 Minnesota 5 Kansas 18 California 5 Washington............ 2 Oregon 1 Delaware 3 New Hampshire 11 ^CaillC. aaeeeeeeeeeeeae a ... 38 6 Texas ... 124 2 Wisconsin 3 Vermont *. 8 Rhode Island 7 Missouri 4 North Carolina 2 South Carolina... 2 Idaho......... 0 Colorado 0 Wyoming N’orth Dakota ... 5 0 0 South Dakota 0 Nevada 3 0 Utah 0 Arizonan a a a a n a a,« w « ere w e o Totals 32,052 1,783 If any newspapers in this town ! [uestions the genuineness of this vote et it start a similar vote and give a ’air count—New York Mercury. A Boy Mardorod. Charleston, S. G., Aug. 1.—A spe cial from Summerville, S. C., to The 'Jewsand Courier says: Rumors are current here of a white boy having Men foully murdered by a negro near Mount Holly. The boy’sdothee. which found in the poeeasion of his sus pected murderer, have been brought here, f out here. Searching parti to find the boy’s body and capture the nought trying ly and alleged murderer, who, it is stated,has taken to the swamp. Total..................150 In one year the tobaccco acreage Darlington has increased over 406 per cent, and the number of tobacco barns nearly 400 per cent If that pace is kept up for a few years more. Darling ton city will become one of the impor tant tobacco centres in the United States. As the ind houses will increase iustry grows, M inDarlinet ware- plants for the preparetioi lor the market will be est ’lingtonand n of the weed established add ing materially to Darlington’s busi ness. fay J. R Murphy A .TimMtrial Tyrant. Ashville, N. C., July 27.—In the se of H. G. Ewart, Judge of the Criminal Court, against Frank E. Robinson, editor of the Citizen, for contempt, the editor appeared today 8. Adams, Lock Craig, J. D. and Judge Chas. Moore, prominent members of the Ashville Bar, who had volunteered their vioes to defend the editor. The answer of the Citixen to the charge of contempt was that the edi to rial complained of did not represent the proceeding of the court unfairly, The criticism was made in pursuance of the rights of the prea under the Constitution of the United States, ahd North Carolina as well. The editor further denied that he Intended any contempt of court, and, under deci sions of the Supreme Court of North Qarolina, it was believed by all the at torneys that this purging of the de fendant settled the matter. „ To the surprise of all present, how ever, Judge Ewart, after a long deci sion from the benen, during which he displayed great feeling, ended by aent- the common jail of Buncombe county lor thirty days. Bail was fixed at 82,000, and in a few minutes the bond was made up by the leading citizens— bankers, merchants and others of the city, and the editor was released from the custody of the court. An appeal was at once taken to the Supreme Court of North Carolina. The case will be fought by the best talent in the State. A RELIGIOUS PRODIGY. negro oirl NINE YEARS THE GOSPEL. OLD PREACHES Im Hm Had Vary Uttl* Education, But Sha Uaaa Good uud Haa Made Maay Coaratia—Wagardad With Awa. Columbia, 8. 0., July ^9.-The It has been calculated by the math«| matician, Tacquet, that one thousand million writers, in Qnethousau^™' 1 Hon years, could not write out all the combinations of the t^enty-sixletiars of the alphabet, if each of them were daily to write out forty page* of them, each page containing different orders | of the letters. -■ AT FACTORS Claretta Norah Ave: and she will be ten years old on September 18th, but for something less than three years she has been doing what she calls “working for God” amongst the members of her own, the negro, race. During the past few weeks she has developed into a wonderful preacher, and all who come within thensound of her voice are amazed at her utter weresu voice a ances. In the very conservative section in which she has been working for the past two weeks there was much oi ntion to her at first, because chik sed to have a “place,” and y girl children to “bq. seen and not heard.” And there existed decided conviction that “women should not spekak out in meeting.” But before she had ended her first ser mon, in the words of one of her audi tors, the whole congregation had come to the conclusion “to let God’s busi ness be as He would have iL Claretta Avery has been preaching reeks, and in Marlboro county for two weeks, I she now numbers ner converts among both the white people and by the score. At first she preached only to negroes, but, after a few nights, her audiences were composed ofBoth races, and her simple, straight forward, practical sermons appealed squally to theologian and layman. She was born in Washington, D, C M 18 ih September, 1885. Her father was s minister in that city, but he died soon after her birth, and she was taken to North Carolina, where her mother had relatives. When eighteen months old she claims to have Seen convei to the Christain religion and si: that time she has feu that she was commissioned to preach the Word of God to her people. Her mother had a struggle to make a living for herself and her children and, up to this time, Claretta has been ablte to go to school very little. She barely can write but she seems to have committed the whole of the New Testament to heart. This she has succeeded in doing by most continually poring over it Since she was three years of age she has never let a Sunday pass without attending church, going two and three times a day whenever she could. She seemed to prefer listening to the min isters of the white people, and man a time she has been found in the gal leries of the white churches alone and listening intently to what was said by the preacher. Her memory was won deful ahd she is now able to repeat a sermon, word for word, after hearing it preached once. Many believe that her sermons are dependent entirely upon the facility with which she remembers the produc tions of others, and that she merely re produces them. If this be true, We desire to Introduce oar Farnl- tare business into every oommMlty in toe ttoatown to imter to do so to toe quicrew ^ concluded to nuke eome veryUbersl offers to bedroom salts to secure st least one customerat every p«t of- floe to the next sixty days, riesse read this advertisement carefully and send at once for one of our spe* 0l Ourgreat offer No. 1 consists of one Solid Oak Bedroom bait with Urje dresser with *)x24 bevel mirror, one luce wsshstand with esse, one 6 ft. • bedstead full width. This salt of furniture Is worth in any furniture store not less than Donot think for once that ittia little cheap •alt for We assure youU Janot,but s luge full size suit equal to anything on the market In order to start the sale of these sol tee and to keep our men busy and introduce our business to your neigh borhood. we agree to ship onf suite onto to each shipping point in toe SouthferIU.00 when toe cash comes with toe order. This advertisement will possibly appear twice to this per, therefore 11 you are Inter** cut this out and send withfl5.00 and PRICES. Every Ginnery should bs equipped with I toe Thomas Elevating and Dlstrfbntlsg Machinery for handling, cleaning, ginning | and packing cotton. \ One stogie continuous Hot floe and eon* | denser for a battery of two or more gins. Revolving double box steam pram, self. I packing. No hands employed except to pat ties on bale. No belts. No pnllles I No screws to give trouble. Saves labor sod insurance, Improves grade of cotton and makes money. We oflet also an ex. tensive line of cotton gins, presses, caoe I mills, corn mills and saw mills. Also Talbott, Liddel, and Watertown (engines. Oar Rice Haller, which prepares rim I ready for toe table or market should be st every mill. £p“.‘ I V. C. Badham, terested ■ toe suite will be shipped to you.,'If ‘ed you may mm and GENERAL AGKNT, it is not just as represent return toe suite st our exj your*] Our ca » at our expense *18.00 will be refunded to; containing many l COLUMBIA, S. C. taiogner trationsofrare bargains and house furnishing upon appl The dal thecal be sent to you don. . - above described is a spe- and does not appear in therefore It Is useless LAND. r „ for illustrations of this suite, rhile you, are delaying writing ne else is getting the bargain. r e assure you tost we will not •hip but one suite in your neighbor, hood st this price. After one suite has been shipped in the neighbor*, hood the price will go to st least *30.00. I* F. PADGETT, 845 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. LAND- LAND. $50 OR $19 Read This! Why not secure s good plantation 7 Wt | make you an offer more liberal than ever been offered to this country. We wll sell you s plantation for ono-sixto balance to five years on toe installment plan. Will further take cotton to pay st 7 cents per pound. no one yet has ever heaisLor read the ons sin on: An Old Man*, Folly. Jacksville, Fla., July 31.—A spec ial to the Times-Union from Macclenny Fla., says: The suspection is growing that Mrs. G. W. Craig haa not told all she knows about tire assault on her husband on Monday night, in which his skull was broken. Mr. Craig i& an old man and is considered wealthy. Some months ago he advertised for a wife and the advertisment was answered by a Mrs Bai ley, of Albion, 111. Mrs. Bailey came to see Craig and they were mar ried on the day of her arrival With Mrs. Baily came a young girl, wno, she said, was her daughter. Soon af ter the marriage it was learned that Mr Craig were not living happily. Mrs. Craig was a handsome woman much younger than her husband, and very extravagant, it is alleged. Some time ago Mrs. Craig said she and her daughter were going back to Albion, 111, as the could not endure Craig. The disagreement of the people, to- sther with the queer story told by rs. Craig of the araualt on her hus band. has caused suspicion to be di rected towards her. It is considered very remarkable that she should see of the sermoqs she preaches v. A. J. Streator, of Society Hill is authority for the following: “She preached her first sermon at Releigh, N. C. Then she went to Ox ford, N. C., where, she began a series of meetings in a private bouse, bu . the attendance soon became so. great that the largest church in the tpwn had to be engaged. Here 150 persons professed religion as the result of her preaching. Sandford. N. C., was her next point and here she mad? thirty- four convert*. Then to Vqss, for one day, with ten converts as the result. Then to Wadesboro and fifty converts, and from there to Monroe, and there!. were thirty-nine converts. From there ti> Society Hill, where she made twenty-two converts.” She is now at work at Cheraw, S. C. The Rev. Streator says: “She lays hold of her text with a Herculean grasp, and sways her audience with a gift peculiarly divine. AH who hear her are forced to believe that God has called her to preach the.gospel. I was opposed to women preaching until heard this child, then I decided to let God’s business as he would have iL" She dresses modestly and neatly shows a decided distaste for all nt and jewels of all descriptions. , The negroes throughout the whole section in which she has been regardec her with great awe, and are lavish in their gifts to her. When she believes the donor unable to make the sacrifice she refuses to accept the proffered gift. The superstitious attribute wonderfu healing power to her and remarkable stories are told of cures effected merely by her presence. These stories, how ever, lack confirmation and are be lieved only by the most credulous. She claims to have no unnatural r and her aged husband’s skull crushed at 11 xkat o’cloci night and say nothing about e next morning. Mrs. ,r ' ! and her daughter left the Craig ds the by shei ence and went towards the depot, but riff Ponds they were icy id a e house. Th< was i e weapon and are now at Vith which Mr. Craig was found to-dav concealed in a bar rel of lime. It a large file and and had blood stains hn^it. Mr. Craig is stil His skull was he who alive, but unconscious. trepanned to-day and it is hoped will renin consciousness and tell struck him. London and Paris are said to be suf fering from an epidemic of suicides ten a day in each city being nothing unusual. The most romantic instance, however, comes from Brunn where a young baker and his sweetheart sui cided Decause the former was unem ployed and saw ho hope of being able to marry. A few days after the event lottery ticket found in the young man’s pocket di§W the $10,000 capital prize. Many years ago lieu was stolen bj wretch. the skull of Riche- aome sacriligious A few days ago it was re turned to the authorities and replaced ,n the tomb in the Church of SorBoone in the presence of M. Manotaux, Min or Foreign Affairs and other dig nitaries. power, but merely to be “working for God, ” as she is directed. The most re- as she is directed, ... markable thing about her are her eyes, which are very brilliant, and have a peculiar cast; otherwise her features are normal, and she would pass for a girl of ten years of age. • • ' : Sooth Carolina at th« Fflr. Mr. E. L. Roche, «£outh Carolina Commissioner of the Atlanta Exposi- has issued a circular in whicn he tion, says: “I have established headquar ten in Columbia, and am now to receive aU contributions to the exhibit at the Atlanta Exposition Please advise me what articles may be expected from your county, and the approximate quantities of what will be sent I am especially anxious to re ceive at an early date specimens of woods and minerals, as they will have to be prepared for exhibition. Speci mens of building stones, especially granite, must be large enough to be dressed to cubes of eight inches. 'I have arranged with the railroad com panies to bring to Columbia, free of all article) icles intended for the Imissioner. Perishable articles, such as fruit, should, however, be sent by express, collect I mail you a package of shipping tags to facilitate you in ‘ Please i your work. Please see that the are properly filled out before shipping, xtremely important that I should. Rise receive full ahd early information as to what your county will do towards making the State exhibit a success, and I will, therefore, be obliged to you if you will communicate with me at your earliest convenience.” Ten years ago there were only six bicycle manufatories in the United States, and in 1885 the' number of wheels turned out was 11,000. Now there are twenty-six manufactories, and it is estimated that 500,000 wheels will be made this year. Mr. Benjamin Beale, Chicago. Dear Sir:—I have, at different times, used three first-class, high-toned and high- priced Sewing Machines. 1 therefore felt rather skeptical aa to a so-called cheap ma chine giving me satisfaction. But after a thorough test of toot new “Superior,” I find myself perfectly satisfied. In no wsy inferior, it is, aa Its name implies, in many roe peels superior. Anticipating all re quirements, It insures excellent work— oombtntog simplicity and nttllty In every detail. Its complete and beautiful stand la a fitting casket for the treasure within, and your reasonable price makes a first- Clara machine a possibility to those by whom it is most needed 1 would like to see a new “Superior” In toe home of every working woman in toe land. Mrs. J. S. Reynolds. '‘We have some four or five plantations 1400 to GOO acres, well Improved and to fine state of cultivation. Also have quite number of places of all sizes from 80 np t 1400 acres. These lands are in toe heart of toe fa mous Piedmont Belt, lying within 2 to 1C miles of the prosperous city of Rock Hill W. L. RODDEY & CO. BOCK HILL, S. C. DB. TIIOS. CAMPBELL’? OPINION. This Is to certify that I hays been fam Columbia, S. C., July 11,1893. liar with Mrs. Joe Person's Remedy fo two yean; have seen it used in a nnmbe The Machine above mentioned, with a | full set of attachments, will be shipped to any address on receipt of Nineteen Do!-1 tore. Write for circular. Metlon paper. of eases which had not been relieved b toe use of the usual remedies reoommeode this and used by physicians. 1 un best taring 1; BENJ. BEALE. recomnit-ud It In all cases of chronic dy 770 wakrkn;ave., pepria with the usual and symptoms accompanying it- I can also n CIIK A(i(), ILL. I commend it iu all cases of scrofula. ORGANS of toe skin, rheumatism and all eases arising from a qisordend unallo of the blood, T. W. CAMPBELL. M. D, Special Sale. Special Price*. Energy, York CO.. S. C., April 10, 1» GREAT special Term., (jj (Strawberry Plant Three CLEARING Hundred SALE. ■nporb S And In fact all kinds of plants can be Parlor d Church Organs, from noted makers, at Prim# Cost to reduce stock. IS k- JSET OUT Must bo sold. Floors hi dull i Can’t carry the: Got too : Ms sldsred. Must unload. Profit i Die terms i monthly. si.so, as, tag •w, we red by buy ’ft Si ^ 1 by using toe McSH^RBY AUTOMATIC TBANSPL ANTES Bargain Sheets Beady. Writ# tor thorn. Mention this adrsrtlsemsnt i A good driver and two children are I toe foree necessary to set frota tone | five acres of plants In a day, and PDEN & BATES, EYERY PLANT watered IS S&Tannak.Gi r i r-n 1 t * MOTHERS READ THIS. THE BEST REMEDY. at the time it Is rat out, and soil is drawn around toe plants so the ground will not bake. No waiting i rain. Set oat yonr plants when they | ready. Get a machine *hd plant for y |neighbors. You can earn enough Mi aaMktnpay for the machine. Rasy | SonA for circulars, prices and testinraota For Flatulent Colic, Diarrhoea, Dys entery, Nausea, Coughs, Cholera. Infantum, Teething Children. Cholera Morbus, Unnatural Drains from toe Bowels, Pains, Griping and all diseases of the Stomach and Bowels SOUTHERN FARM IMPLEMENT O 242 Meeting St, Charleston. 8. C. Mention this paper. PITTS’ CARMINATIVE Is toe standard. It carries children, oyer the critical period of teettttag,. and is recommended by physician* m the friend, of Mothers, Adults and Children. 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