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k . - ' : - ' w-f y fi- . - . , THEMYSTERIES OF A DAY. 6TUANGB, CURIOUH AND STARTJ.INO Til UN US OCCURRING ABOUT U? SpoiMl of the Wind?IJcct 8n#i?r ? In the Pantomime?1The Kleetrlo Wlre-Wkit u of LigbtuiDK I)IU, Elc.i Elc> { ' An old theatrical manager says that the memory is taxed more by a pantomimic role than by an oral one, and" he instances Marie Zoo, who for,years was the leading' "French Spy" of the AmeriTk? r ,l. ..... p.u^v. iuu |fvuui iuuuui; ui llic dumb girl was always a hard strain on Iter. The pantomime, .with its requisite nicety of movement and expression, was more exhaustive to her brain than the heroines of Shakespeare to a tragedienne. She was compelled a few years ago to retire because her mind was affected, and now she has been taken to an insane asylum. Her shattered intellect knows nothing but the "French v, Spy," aud she is almost constantly going through with its scenes. The combat with the Arab is fought over and over, without weapon or antagonist, but with * zest and vim of pantomime that starties her attendants. Agricultural statistics in Ireland for the year 1884 have been published and show an extraordinary condition of af fairs. The area under cultivation has decreased CH5,9.*57 acres in twelve months since 1883. At the end of 1884 there were 79,072 acres less devoted to the growth of cereals than at the end of 1883, while even of potatoes, the standard crop, 7,515 acres less were grown in 1884 than in 1883. So on through the list, Hiding with the decrease of 8,060 acres in .cabbage, lt155 acres in small roots, md also a decrease in twelve months of -.5,718 acres planted in flax. The area of woodland has, on the contrary, increased by 701 acres, while 30,703 acres more ire devoted to meadows than 1883, and I "?4,421) acres more are planted in grass. The ouly encouraging feature of the report is the reclamation of 90,050 acres of itog laud during 1884. In New Orleans a lot of boys, from 18 lo 21 years of age, gathered around the (vorks of the Electric Light Company ?ud played with the wire. They had , seen in the habit of taking a wire from . v iround a broom, tying a stone to the end ( >f -it, throwing it over the electric wire, tud making it fast to a gate knob. , When the current was turned on, the ^ ooys would take hold of the small wire j ind feci a 'tingliug sensation. The other j iveuing liichard Emile Alirens became j aolder than the rest of Hie boys and put ^ ais tongue to the wire. The shock went f jhrou<rh and prostrated him. and his Brother cxclaimcd : "My God, he is tilled!" At these words Ahrens got up juid : "No, I am not yet dead." He had ? iardly spoken when lie fell back a ;orpse. j They appear to have a matter-of fact 1 oiethod of dissipating religious superst i- i (ion in Italy nowadays. The peasants of t Cora no declared they saw the Madonna f ippear from a bush growing in a place ( ?vhere, in the last century, a statue of r aer had been destroyed. The place was ( won crowded with pilgrims, several of 1 whom, owing to the nea^ and to re igious excitement, gave such signs of < mental disorder that they had to be placed under restraint in the asylum, I The Syndic promptly had the bush dug ip. Thirty thousand people were t present.' * v A British mechanical newspaper, in j. giving the speed of the wind, makes a ( gradation from a gentle breeze, at five ?ilcs an hour, to a hurricane, at eighty : miles an hour. This may be the speed j] ?f a British hurricane, but it is not much a df a wind when compared to an Aineri- jj can hurricane, such as has been experienced on several occasions this sum- v oner. Our hurricanes have been gauged ?p to 120 miles an hour, but when they v exceed that velocity the gauger generilly moves his instruments to a place of j , salety, if he can. j ^ * A Manitobian farmer was sharpening i H \ stake with an axe, when a flash of ^ lightning, accompanied by a single clap :l of thunder, came from the only cloud ? visible, a small one immediately over- n tread. The bo it struck the head of the S axe, splitting it into two pieces and n breaking tije,handle. The farmer was knockcd to the ground insensible, but speedily recovered, and upon searching about- found the fragments of his axe lorded deeply into the grouud. v b Tub discovery has been made that Mormon missionaries do not let their ^ foreign converts know of the poly- g( /'JCatnouM doctrines of the Latter Day oaintM until arrival in Utah. A full ^ set of Mormon, books and tracts, used in j'. i^tu-jaud by a preacher, contained no ^ tilClltioil of nllirillifv nf wiiroa tinrl o * f . ~ " r." "V " | c marriage service m one publication ineluded the familiur proviso of one wife ' / lo one husband. ^ A bavinuh hank in Portland, Oregan, 1< faaa a twenty-dollar gold piece which 1 was takeu from the stomach of a slauglit- h cred cow, and found to be worth $1(1.25. b The milling is worn off the edge, which ri s smooth and rounded, but the designs ti upon the sides remain visible. The date of (he coin is 1870, but how long the o cow 1'iHiTtfcen digesting the 58.75 no one w can tell. t] A 8TOHV is told by the Presbyterian a of a New York women who was asked ? to add lier name to a subscription list c tor a charitable purpose. "1 cannot," n was t^o reply; "I did all I could afford ^ to do for charity during the winter. I went ^to the charity ball, the kirmess, and attended a number of private 0 theatrical entertainments given fur fconcvolence." ' It in considered so unlucky in Florida 11 to be (he first person buried in a cemetery j-( flint, thi* frinnH? of llin fln/>iiii(ii?l ?i>riuin whose body was destincji to meet thut j ' fate averted it by burying a log of wood ! In advance of his interment. In fh? . tother Slates of the Union it is considered J1 unlucky to be buried at any time. Fuank Jamics, the Missouri bandit, is far gone in consumption. He says that ? he has received hundreds of offers from n showmen, but that he is too old and k feeble to lehrn ,l:ow to act in a dr una v IHustniting hi# exploit?, as frequently fl proposed, and he. is too proud to be- c come an oihibit in a museum. ,, ;Vs; s HHHHBBMHK''' f v t ' :/ :> -?v": /JyV/> v . v ft SAVED BY A CHINAMaN. Heathen ('IiIiir Leo I)or? a Rlont Tbor. ouKhly Clirlntian Deed. [From tho Donvor N<;wa.] The dark days of the riots came on. Celestials were hiding in ever}' concciv able place, some of them breaking for the prairies and open country or seeking refuge at the ranches of farmers within j a dozen miles of the city. Among the fugitives was Ching Lee, with his place of business sacked and destroyed and a howling mob hunting him down. lie sought a hiding place in the wagon of a farmer living near Golden. Fearing almost to breathe, the terrified Celestial lay flat in the bottom of the wagon until the barn of Goldsmith, the ranchman, was readied. The latter, all unsuspecting of the living freight he had brought from town, unhitched, fed, and cared for his horses, and went into the house. Ching lay very quiet, listening to the retreating footsteps of the farmer. These had hardly died away before i his quick ears caught other sounds evi- | dently coming from the corner of the barn. Ching had pretty well mastered the English language, and understood only too well the meaning of a whispered conversation evidently between two men concealed in the hay-loft. "Sh!" said a voice, "he is not in the house." "Do you think he brought much money back with him V asked another voice. ' 'Yob, he took a great dial of stuff in town, and, besides I heard him say that, on account of the riots, he would draw his money out of the bank, as it would be safer at home." Cowering down in the wagon, the Chinaman never moved until he saw in the dim twilight the figures of two men stealthily making their way through a small door cut in the large barn door, 1 which they softly closed behind them. 1 No sooner were they out of sight that | Ching leaped quickly from the wagon, 1 and noiselessly passed through the little j wu-K.fl, weeping, nowevcr, in tiie shadow of the barn; then crawling on his hands and knees across the open space, he arrived at a chimp of bushes near the house. lie saw one of the ruffians slowly raising one of the lattices, while the other stood behind him with a loaded revolver cockcd and with his linger on the trigger. Lying on the ground near him Ching saw a piece of heavy wood, evi- J iently used as the handle of a pump ivliich was near by. Seizing this witj> L>oth hands, he rose from his crouching position and dealt the robber nearest iim a terrible blow on the head, felling lim to the ground. At the same moment there was a flash and a report, and 4 ;lie second robber fell to the ground .vith a groan. For a moment all was juiet; then the back door of the house vas opened, and the farmer cautiously ipproached with the still smoking pistol n his hand. Seeing Ching in the moonight, which now illuminated the scene, . le covered him with the pistol. At this I noment he caught sight of the two prosrate robbers. "Who arc you, and what lo you want ?" he asked, addressing filing. "Me Chinaman. Ead Melican nan killec you and take money." said filing, pointing to the men, who were F >cginning to show life. 'How did you get there?" asked 3old?niith. ' Me hide in your wagon; come from )e iiver. Gradually the situation dawned upon ^ he farmer, and, seeing the club, which jj bras still grasped by Ching, and its terri>le effect 011 one of the ruffians, he real- ? zed that the Chinaman had largely con- , ributed toward saving his property, and crhaps his life, as it was the blow from lis club and the cry from his victim as ie fell which had attracted his attention nd caused him to shoot at the other mrglar. With the aid of Ching the two men m /era securely bound, it first having T icon ascertained that neither of them -I as dangerously wounded. They were nken to the city, and in due course of 1 ime tried, convicted, and sentenced to en years in Canyon penitcntiay. Goldinith offered in his gratitude a home to f hing, who, tired of the persecutions nd terrors of the city, accepted the ffer, and is to-day one of the best and lost experienced farmers and fruit ;rowers in the country, being a penna> ent fixture at the Goldsmith ranch. Didn't Go to Get his Faco Washed. ^ At the down- town end of East Broadray, says the New York Sun. is a larcre arber shop in which boys, and someiuies an engaging Italian woman, lather j>j lie face, and a barber scrapes off the Dap and bristles. Yesterday all the hairs were occupied but one, and all the ? arbers and most of the boys were enaged, when a man in need of a shave T* . ent in and threw himself into the empty hair. The disingagod boy lathered him npiously, and looked around for a bar- J er, but every barber was busy. 80 the oy went over the man's face again, and nt the soap half an inch thick upon it. 'lie customer ttreailied very hard as the id looked about him onco more, and eckoncd to another boy who carefully ^ nbbed all the Boap off with a rough jwci) anu pui on anouier coat. I < The shave was apparently as far off as ??. yer when the woman bustled u^, looked ' ith an eye of indignant contempt at lie second boy, and in a twinkling had 11 the soap off and a third layer on. tut still no barber was ready, so she ailed the first boy, and smilingly lade a remark in Italian to the victim, igain the soap was rubbwl <>0* by boyish and*, and another lull whs about so ;> be put on when the ou.i ,...?< r.struggled ut. R( "By thunder." lu-: a;;],?"If you think ca""? h'-re to < t iny face washed you're m: . lie wentu:;sh;vve?l into the street, [? luwco by the protestations of five bar-i " hiuidculy disengaged. Chickens.-*-Thc latest charge Against n v.baior hatched chickens comes from lie coola of the?Saratoga Hotels, and it " iiut they are tough and stringy. Th? icubator brood# are fed upon corn meal """ nd boiled potatoes instead of theii l. atural diet of grubs and worms, and are opt in contracted and dirty quarters, T ;hi< h is held to account for the inferior uvor. Accordingly hen-raised chicken* onnnand a premium in the Saratoga mrket. ij.--:. " . Vv"-'' -T^-T T' r-T' ' *v-'- v'"\f / ' ' ' * ' " $}' # ?? I Palmetto THOS. McCETTII of tho largest SAIjOON in ihj up-conntry, don' advertisements. Tho half is not mentioned ii prepared for fall trade. Tho Palmotto House is ' Foreign and Domestic the beHt the market affords. He has yot Rye and Corn, Irish an Apple, Peach, California and French Poi He can cheerfully recommend his poods tc mixed drinks with all the DELICIOUS bEVERA I'ERATE DRINKS. His specialty is a large sto GENTLEMEN'S EESOET.NI and you will not forget again. A Good Line of Tobacco ai Beer a Spe CUNNINGHAM & HAVE IN S' Their Large and Well FALL AND WIN Consisting ir Foreign and Dome: NOTI< HATS, HATS, HA1] BOOT ffAnnwinr. HAflnwi uauviiaMAJi uauiv ill Grroceries, Groceries, G Crockery, Or At Lower Prices than they were Ever Offcre PAVILION HOTEL, CIIRLESTON, 8. C. . EN] SCE irst Class in all its Appointments. PBJ RATES, 92.09, $2.BO. Ind Excellent Cuisene, large airy rooms, Otis ?m asseiitfer Elevator. Electric bell and lights. Qi .eated rotunda centrally located. * Oct. I, V4-tf 21 Be ____________ D< CENTRAL HOTEL, ~ J Irs M.W.THOMAS,Proprietress Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. 49 EXCHANGE HOTEL, * < ll -a Greenville, S. U. ' he Only Two-Class Hotel in the World. W. R. WHITE, Proprietor, f ^EW DINNER HOUSE, Qj Greenwood, 8. C. Kept by Mrs. F. G. PARKS. Cheap rates irst-clnas fare. June ISth, 1882 tf. Ill i p. TnOMSON. J. w. THOMSON. Norl THOMSON & THOMSON, Attomeys-at-IjrtW, j Abbeville, S. C. ^Office in rear Mr. Lee's. I Al< June 8th. i tSS-tf. 130 . In ff > 1ALHOUN & MABRY, Attorneys and Counsellors at Saw, Abbe villi* O. H., S. C. Peri ffioe formerly occupied by Judge Thomn. > tf-60 ?Th Horn >bt. 11, nHMPHIHi. WM. P, CALHOUN. ^ TEMPHILL & CAT.HOim 1 ' Attorney s-at- Law, j'at Abbkvii.LK, S. G. . . Aill practice in the Courts of the State. M nod _ o2 W. PBRBIN. T. P. COTHBAN j^] JERKIN & COTHRAN, Att< Attorneys0 at-Law, SI Abbwilia S. 0. 62 M1&1- < '?>)V* A' ? '* "4 Va* VK : *'' ->v - AA*% / :, /' -Wi/ii' ^'wv' a,;>* ': ' ' .4 ' - . ' ? " ' - - .. '; : . I . , ?' 4 . * ' Salooni ______ * * CAN, Proprietor t intend to dupe hin cnatomerR by fnlso :i tho throe Abbeville ptipnrs. Hoih w?1[ well stocked with everything in tbo liua of Wines and Liquors, Liquors nino years old. Good old d Scotch Whiskies, Brandies, ter, Ale and Fresh Lager Beer. > the public for MEDICINAL UJSE, nnd iGESof tlio scvihon. Alao COOL, TE34ok of PUKE GOODS. Call at tho 9.4 WASHINGTON ST. THOMAS MoQETTIOAN. id Cigars. Budweiser >cialty. 47 TEMPLETON TORE elected Stock of iTrn nnnnct iicn uuuud, i l3art of* stic Dry Goods, >NS, rs, 8 -A-ISTD SHOES LEF, HAEDWABE, irroceries, ockery, Crockery. d Before 1 -fcf-22 3SRSED BY $88 BETTER LD mum AS CHEAPER T2A iCTICALLYliipHfe A1T7 estrnctilile STO'uE. /er 500 SmiVI 8$' Sond foi >autiful f wMiI Wtt!Price salens. Circulars MANUP^CTimKD BY MONUMENTAL brtONZE COMPANY BKIDOEPCliT. COKir. AT TIIE nntnnninl Onlnnn siiiGiunai oaiuuiij For this year will be found Absolutely Pure Jplrlta, h Carolina copper distilled Corn, Finest brands of Kentuoky Rye, from 82 to 80 Per Gallon. orteft Cognac tranfly a Specialty. ALSO 38, Porter, Champag nes, &c ict all the popular and standard goods that can be obtained. Together with an assortment of Tobaccos and Pine Cigars that can not be excelled in quality. ons needing: such Roods vronld not be hnmbngKed by buying from them, te place is second door from Ooart ?e. DJHNELL & CUHNWGHAM, Proprietors, ABIIEVILLE, 8. C. i 14-tf 2 liL the new shades in IIa*s ana Bonnet^ with Ribbons, Bird*, Flower*, Hatins Velvets to malc i. R. M. HADDON & COJGENE B. GARY, ' i 3rney and Counsellor-at-Law, Abbxyllla, fl. C. " <" ? i I GOODYE Carriage Re CAN F>E FOUND THE LARGEST STOC I'luofon* Ttono (.'arts, Plantation Waeons fn" Hnracs* Saddles. Btdtine, Icsithor of nil kinds, Wn thirty day* I will OFFHR SPECIAL BARGAINS II GIES :?t loss tlrin Manufacturers' Prices. Those K em TCikes: wltieh I will sun ran toe eqnnl to the bee vince yourselves that tlioy ore absolute bargains, A- H. GOOD (Succcssor to R. H. May & Co.,) OPP i AUGUSTA, ft] DAY & TA^ I Are Now Receiving a Fi CARRIAGES ANI I FOR THE SPRIXv r AT 1'IUCES TO SUII And Never Before Attained in th< We :\rc enabled to ^ivc our customers every i at the cicsrs' possible cash prices. Call and be Children's Carriages i i :i!? imiv't !. .? >!unci:' cr HANDBAGS and Sj THI NKS WHIPS :u.?l UMBRELLAS. TilK WILSON, CHILD'S & CO.'S PHILA. ' 'I ICN NESSEE W A (JONS. 1,2. and 4 Horse. DAY ."c TANNA HILL'S ONT. AND TWO EXPRESS AND DELIVERY WAGONS. Avics, Spring, HiiIm. Spokes, &c. Rubber lloYT'S LEATHER BELTING. The best LACING, RIVETS, Kir. OAK AND HEMI CALK AND LINING SKINS. LASTS, TIIR HARNESS aND SADDLES. WE CALL OH I; HARNESS DEPARTMENT, IN WHICJ PRICE. DAY & T ?3 WHITE BR' Would cull tho attoiion of buyefrs to a Fe^ up JtC/ 3E3 S3 S5 C l-i hirirnnnd nltriplivp. They have the c ti.i\ * otl?r?vi. 'I liny Iiiivm also Home handsome m?iin.out wf IdiiMk :?nd Colored V ELVETEENS for a u ?*? Sinn of Wool l.aneR iu all colors, the Intent th Tlu?ir ?to<"k ?>f IUjACK OASIIMERE cannot be si cni?> io Hutnoloclioii of lliesn yoods. and are HRcnrei ijn'iiily iuuI prion. \ irootl line of JERSEY JACK1 li would a-itoninb any one to how very cheap F *eiiM>ii J?ay?;iH in (his lino would do well to examii WHITE JBtt CAR F'KTS mro v??ry obonp to be in the roaol PETS and ILIM ;s luio l>e found at the storo of WH Tl.'c n'?ove are only a few lino* in whic Special Bn Tl.c- Oenoiul Slock of Kail and Winter Goods now wiiite nit c 8i; 'l.p'lv?-.? ?? ! '?*? ni?-orLed, and more attractive th flctf in al; jcpa*tnioul?. k THE HUMAN EYE AN JOSEPH ! ojptic: l.i .my <?Mi?r m nun, ofitiftrnntml in ripcorfla ?.( r? in IIim |i/<"iili>u form tif h CIINI'AVIi-Cd t> . il-< .iijHim i.f i.ij'l.l, ?ii;d |ieififctly natural to tl.e I^ ft,.. i.?,n. , i-nou fwnr invui.lL'J: J SILVER ?sa" \f' l-i <j if tliifl litro fbronshont tho State o Ljimtrn 11 i? n*i11 at till* sumo lim l.i:' vpi-cta-^f.- lmvn lifon t*ind thny are Kpokon of in tOitMtfjriiMix will vorlii'y; iltn original nnd ninny o! rooiii-1 II'-' :il Mm nil inn tiinn wihIhih lo tin un dors loo wltn momly s lis you n pnir of ?la??(<s at iiuvfi Hi*e Mrrain. lie lisii? uHlahlixlifnl in Augusta, at cus*'you -boohl liappon fo losonr broak your ?Iiissp? n - 'ill uniiiiriiil miiiiI, a* il im Ins ntinloin to koep a r? in Uimiw jusi Hh> yon liacn pun-.liasnd iron Sucti meu ;i? JuJ^O I'oltlo, Govern Culquu, lien. C-iui " ?' f!T nTTTTira ) rrnTTTTWd miller Br< r ? "*vJv . , , y r . -/' -'f- ' * * ??a???????^ i r jpository. of carriages, buggies. sizes, 1 to G ho"flp.) Sin;?lo nnd DonbW isjon Material. <fcc.. Ac. For tlin noxt 1 A LOT OF 0"EN A.ND TOP BUG iugP'Oa fire all Fine Northern and East >t. Cull and examine them and con>"YEA.I?, Aga^t* . GEORGIA RATLROAD BANK. fionnil I FACTORY, 703 jOKuIA. I Ellis Stmt INAHILL, ne Assortment of r 9 BUGGIES ra TRADE, ? THE TIMES! i History of the Business idvancltagc by purchasing our good > rnnvnv?/ul n Great Variety. \TCIiELS ever brought to the eit.j WAGONS, all sizes. HORSE WAGONS. Belting nn?I Packing. in the WorM. ,OCIv SOLE LEATHER. EAD, CEMENT, Etc. PARTICULAR ATTENTION TO rl WE EXCEL IN QUALITY ANE ANNAHILL, Augusta, Ga. OTHERS ' Specialties: Tlioir stock of S-0013S iheapest line of BLACK SILKS thej i Coiered SiJkp. They linve a good u* Dresses and Trimraiags. They have iUjj for fine Dross Trimmings. lrpassed. They have bestowed nuasnal 1 thoy aro all ri-jht in rojjirJ to color. JTS, choaper than ever before. 'LANNELS and BLANKETS are thii ue the stock of OTHERS i of all. A good assortment of CARITE BROl'HEUS. ir^nins cau be had. r offered to the public by T II E R Sp t an they have ever carried- It is com sey .30,. 88-">-vim D SPECTACLES. SILVER. EiLBT. wilh the opionce and philosopft) NVliX KUl'SES, admirably adapted eye, afloidiutf the best artificial liolf r \PLI^ITED A KYK tiLASS EMPORIUM LTY OF AGUSTA. f Georgia for the purpose of making c introdncinjj these Lenses. Wherever i tho highest terms, ns the following hers nan be scon and examined at hie id ihat ho is not one of the traveling exorbitant, prices and whom you may present, f>48 Broad Street, where in i. he will replace the snme for yon at ?ui*ter of all lie sell.?, thereby enables i bun. These testimonials are from '.lan and a host of others. Bop.3 J, 188 U! CLOTHING! I ;OOK at the old gent above in a ailtix isn't he with his pants all mggy and no fit? My friends do o? wish to avoid getting into just uch a scrapc? Thou -when you sake op your mind to buy a suit of lothcs come right along to our tore and have your measure taken nd have your clothes made to orIcr by the very best TAILORS IN THE COUNTRY. nd then if they are baggy nnd on't fit, just say to us "send these l^tlioc riitVit hnolc Y rbin't. want. Iicm and wont have them." Morever, wo would not let you keep iiem ourselves if they did not fit on. We are not working for a fall nde, but a trade we can by giving ntire satisfaction hold in the fune. Remember our motto is "no t no pay. We are yours truly, >tliers. .1 v %