Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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ten lil k clear, legible hand, and ou only one tide of the page. , \ y , 4. All changes in adrertiseiAents must reach us on Friday. * Travelers’ Guide, teoutli Carolina Railroad. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. V 40»i m 8 40 a m 3 16 p m 4 26 p m VllI.I.OW I'KV IK Kii.xi:. i:\ri% Vivid I>i**criptlon of Tprril»le Mnirerin^ and .lllracuio'is Kp- COverj, .Ch aklkston, March l, 1878. ; On and after Sunday, ncxt, s the South Carolina Railroad will be run as folk ws: rou AUCOSTA, (Sunday morning excepted), tieiiTO Charleston .. 9 00 a. in. 7 30p. ru. Arrive Augusta .•. 5 00 p. m. 0 65 a. m. ron COLUMBIA, (Sunday morning excepted), i.eare Charleston , . 6 00 a. m. 8 80 p m. Arrive at Columbia. 10 50 p. ni. 7 45 a. m. foe charleston, (Sunday morning excepted). t.eave Augusta , . . 8 30 a. m. 7 40 p. m. /Vrrive at Charleston 4 20p.m ‘t 45 a.m. Leave Columbia . . 6 00 p m. 8 CX' p. m. Ar. Charleston, 12 15 night and 0 45 a. m. Summerville Train, (Sundays excepted) Leave Summerville Arrive at Charleston Leave Charleston Arrive at Summerville Breakfast, Dinner and Supper at Bronckville i Camden Tlain bonnects at Kingsville; daily (Sundays exccp- jed’ with day passenger train to and from Charleston. Passengers from Caradcn to Co lumbia can go through without detention on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from Columbia to Camden on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays by connection VHh day passenger train. Day and night trains connect at Augusta with Georgia Railroad and Central Railroad. This route is the quickest, and most direct to Atlanta, Nashville,-Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, St Louis and other points in the Northwest. Night trains for Augusta connect closely with the fast mail train via Macon and Au gusta Railroad for Macon, Columbus, Mont gomery. Mobile, New Orleans and points in the Southwest. (Thirty-six hours to New Orleans. Day trains for Columbia connect closely with Charlotte Railroad for ail points North, making quick time and no delays. (Forty hours to New York.) The trains on the Greenville and Columbia and Spartanburg and Union Railroads con nect closely with the train which leaves Charleston at 600 a m, and returning ihey connect in same manner with the train which leaves Columbia for Charleston at- 6 30 pjn Laurens Railroad train connects at Newberry on Tuesdays,.Thursdays and Saturdays. , Blue Ridge Railroad train runs daily, coij'- peeling with ftp and down trains on Green ville and Columbia Railroad. S. S SOLOMONS, . Superintendent. 8. B. Pickens, General Ticket Agent. J ~ , . . ~~ f Savannah and Charleston Railroad Co. *r ' CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Charleston, S. C., .Tan. 5, 1878. On and after Monday, January 7, 1878, «hc trains on this Hoad vOl leave Depot of Northeastern Railroad as follows : /bit Jfuil Daily. Leave Charleston - - « - 3 1’> a. m. Arrive at Savannah - - - 9 0(1 a. m. Leave Savannah ... - 6 00 p. in. Arrive Charleston • - - 11 00 p. in Accommodation Train, Sundays Excepted. Leave Charleston . . - - 8 00 a. m. Arrive at Augusta - . - - 6 16p.m. Arrive Port Royal - - » 1 60 p. m. Arriw Savannah - - - - - 3 50 p. in. Leave Savannah - - - 9 00 a. m. Leave Augusta - - - 7 30 p. m. Leave Port Royal - * 10 20 n. mi Arrive Charleston - - - 5 30 p. m. Jiighl Patienytr, Sundays Excepted. [Corresixmdcncvnrthc Detroit Evening News.] Ni^w Orleanb, July 12, 1878. Eheu 1 I beglo to realize that I havo aoraethlng to do with this world’s af fairs. My nurse. Mrs. Delaney, has just stepped out, and my glance falls on somq.cumbers of the Picayuno ly ing on her chair. By a mighty optical effort I try to read the telegraph head ings on the corner bent up on the back of a chair, but everything becomes blurred and I relinquish the vain at tempt. The door opens without any preliminary knock, and an intelltectual looking young mulatto, arrayed In a spotless white suit, approaches my bedside. He has studied at Oberlin, Is a graduate of medicine in France, and an assistant to my physician, who has a large practice, which has swollen to immense proportions during the last three months. I talk about my illness, my prospective restoration to complete health, my desire to write letters, and he answers me by a deprecating smile and a wave of his tapering brown fin gers. But I insist that I must do something, and he finally consents that I shall dictate short epistles to my friends. “ We don’t want to lose you now, after all our trouble iu getting you round. Why, Dr. Choppln is telling about your case all over the city. That is the reason you have had so tnany medical callers.” I look at the young doctor stolidly while my brain Is slowly evolving ideas which are only expressed in words like these ; ” Oh, unparalleled egotist, to harbor for one moment the Idea that these groups of keen-eyed men were philanthropists whose hearte were touched by your frightful sufferings and unhappy fate. Bah I What a fool you are ! The mother who - Imagines the doctoi loves her sick child has the excuse of maternal interest and femi nine weakness fot her ridiculous ego tism. But you, poor, dilapidated, yel- low-visaged wreck, without home, family or relatives lu this plague- stricken city . I mused thus with closed eyes. When I opened them the doctor had ; departed, and Mrs. Delaney, with her antediluvian straw ttotlyicg where she j had placed it on my trunk, was busy I measuring out another of those horri- 1 bie modicums of execrable physic | which are considered the correct thing | for my present situation. “Mrs. Delaney!” "Gloiy bo to G,od, but yer voice is as loud as a bull!'’ she ci!»d, getting over a little start. “ I want to write.” “ Yet z can’t do It.” “ I want some one to write for me.” “ lecz can’t do that ayt her.” “ But the doctor has allowed mo to dictate, and you wouldn’t bo so ” “ What docther—the young wan ?” “ Yes.” “ I don’t care a schnap what ho says. Ah ! well, yeez needn’t cry now. Sure, an’ I mane it for the hist. Yeez must when something like a cricket bat struck mo on the back, and I felt a terrible decrease In vitality. Why do I say a cricket bat? Because It felt as though a light pleco of wood, fash ioned like the flattlsb, rounded blade of a cricket bat, had struck me square ly, but not very hard, across the back several Inches below the shoulder blade. I sink into the chair. A dull butovermosterlng pain shoots through my head ] my limbs trem^o. I stare with pertinacity at the game, however. My favorite player has an apparently impossible shot. lie looks at the sit uation of the balls and whistles depro- cailngly as he chalks hi* cue. With a swift motion, as if ho had made up his mind for a coup difficile, he shoots his ball against the object sphere. His Ivory globe spins swiftly round the table, making one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight cushions, twice round the table, and carroms. The spectators hum applause. An enthu siastic, swarthy-faced Creole pounds his stick on the fioor. My head be* o*mes oppressed with a load of pain, and cold chills shoot up my back. . * * # * # * “Where do you live?” asks ■the swarthy face. I look half yacantly In his face and gurgle, " No. — Baronne street.” The billiard room, cromled a moment before, is empty. w . My landlady is an old north of Ire land woman, and she has kept board ing bouse in New Orleans for thirty years. Her husband died of yellow fe ver during a bad season before the war, and she manages her extensive business with the help of her unmar ried daughter. My room Is In a build ing rented by her across the way for single men’s • qpartmems, and the roomers In that house come across the way for their meals. “ Don’t be afraid, now,” said the old lady; “I’ll get Mrs. Delaney for yo, and we’ll get you through. The doc tor will be round In a little while.” “Give me some lee water,” I cry and gums. My tqngtte is swollen, and there are raw fissure In It and also In my gums, and streams of blood issu ing all the time. Afto* a while my nose contributes a blood} stream, apd I faintly ask Mrs. DelaApy If I am going to blfcod to death. " ; no danger of that. Bleeding is n ijood sign,” she says. I swallow limp water and cal cined magnesia, wiifca 1 am informed prevents black vomlt.T My eyes, which have been aching terdbly, now become fiercely Inflamed and seem to be ready to start out of my head. Toward eve- plug I sign to my nurfco to hand me a| small mirror vAiich Utuinglng against th<iwall. She refuse^ I insist. She persists. I become txaspenited and jump out of bed, and jvith a firm stop walk up to the wall^ i^cend tfio*ohair ami take it down. “ Yer so ptlrty, ye u^ust see yeraelf,” says Mrs. Delaney, s»|iri«ally. I can but Inadequately describe the expression of my face. It was never a good-looking coun4tnanoe—nay, It Was always homely. The criticisms I have heard on ray physiognomy might bo summed up iu thoHvord|i “ stern ” and “scur.’’ Still It In a very, very largo crow^*.^ Bpt this— this is the face of a dem(ftl‘L r My fore head Is corrugated; eyes are glar ing and blood-shot; py swollen lips are bloody and cracked, aud my dis colored teeth, set fast nud expressing murder and destructiveness, are a combination and a form indeed to give the world assurance of a fiend 1 I try to mitigate the expression by an at tempt to smile, aud produce—a hyena. On tho fourth day I suffer indescri bable torture, nud my mind is filled up with frenzy and horrified imaginings. Tho central delusion is that I am con demned to whirl, in thf name manner as a water wheel, over a measureless chasrp, /or just one Ynillion years. Phantasmagoria, in t!-|e form of end less processions of men, women and ,-beasts, each looking and luting at mo and mocking my sufferings, pass along huskily ; “ quick, for the loveof God !” in endless array. I kflbw it is the re- 8he answered that oho would* Dur ing every half lucid moment in the next four days, when my stout, impe rious, kind-hearted Irish nurse gave me, at excruciatingly long intervals, a spoonful of ice water, and sometimes a piece or Ice the size of a hazel nut, I raved and cursed at my landlady. She was vile, eho was atrocious, she was infamous ! The recollection that she had promised me ico water and suit of opium given to deaden tho ter rible torture In my abdomen, but tho drug does notaueoecd in yiitigating it to any extent. Next day, so my nurse now Informs me, I ask her moro than a thousand Unit s “ What have I done, to be thus punished?” The paius t which in,the first stages had been^emeo hat ob tuse, now become acute, and t shout aloud in intolerable agony. The pain - 8 , 6 50 p. m. 46 a. m. • 7 25 a. in. - 10 00 p. in. ■ 9 00 p. Hi- - 8 46 a. m. Leave Charleston Arrive Port Royal - Arrive Savaunalt Leave Savannah Leave Augusta • n Arrive Charleston - . Fast mail train 'will only stop at Adams Run, Yemassce, Gralmmvillc and Montei’h. , Accommodation train will stop at all sta tions on tnis road and mnkos close connoction for Augusta and Port Royal and all stations on the Port Royal Railroad. Fast mall makes connection for points in Florida and Georgia. 0. 8. GADSDEN, Engr. and Supt. 8. C. Botlston. G. F. and T. Agent. jWttMINGTON, COLUMBIA AUGUSTA RAILROAD. AND Gsneral Passenger Department, Columbia, S.C., August t>, 1877. The following Schedule will be operated on ted after this date: Sight Express Train,—Daily. GOING NORTH. Leave Columbia Leave Florence Arrive at Wilmington 11 15 p, m 2 40 a. m. . 5 32 a, m GOING SOUTH. Leave Wilmington . . (5 00 p. m. Leave Florence - • • 10 02 p. m. Arrive at Columbia * . 1 25 a. ni . ThleTrain i* Fast Express, making through Connections, all j-ail, North and South, and W«ter line connection via Portsmouth. Stop only at Eastover, Sumter, Timmonsvfile, Florence, Marion, Fair-Bluff, Whitcville and Remington-. , Through Tickets sold and baggage check ed to all principal points. Pullman Sleepers on night trains. Through Freight LeavatColti ve Flcr Train—Daily, except Sun- days.) GOING NORTH. 4, , . ) ^ » olumbia . . . . 6 CO p. m. LteveRcrence. ..... . ' . 4 80 a.m. JuTive wt Wilmington. - , * . 12 00 m. GOING SOUTH. ’Wilmington, . • • 2 SO p. m, (we Florence . . • . . •. 2 36 a, m. iv* M Columbia . . » 10 10 a. m. Lood freight Train leaves Columbia Tues- I Thursday sad Saturday only, at tia. m. iat Florence at 3 30 p. m. , ¥ A. POPS, U. F, AT. A. [ fi DEVINE, SuFtrlntcadehu filled me with tempestuous Indigna tion. Oh ! If she hud given me that cooling drink I would have been well. I would not have been tho fiery fur nace that I am. It would have choked off tho demon of thriat which is now consuming my vitals. Now I can drink tho whole water supply of the city ! What ecstacy to be one of the 42-inch pipes of the Detroit water woiks! I wish tho Mississippi flyer to flow down my throat! Oh! give me the ocean itself, with my persona! orifice somewhere in tho Arctic seas near tho frozen pole ! The long night slowly flits away, and the blazing sun again scorches the plague-stricken city. Mrs. Delaney, by kaf>e quiet. No, don t be so spoukey ' a fortunate chance, has been secured, mo fix yer pilley. I’ll bring | Her last patient, a Northern business had heartlessly gone back on hot word ) in my head feels as though there was an iron frame on it, which was crush ing iu the 1)0008, till my tortured eyes seem Hound to jump out of their sock ets. The bloody discharge from my mouth and nose continues, and a glance at the mirror on a chair at my bedside shows that my features havo acquired a striking resemblance to an enraged yellow gorilla. " If ye git the bloody sweat, yer gone,” says Mrs. Delaney, with charm ing sympathy. I learu from her that a fatal symp tom of yellow jack is a universal bleed ing from the pores of tho skin, and that when this makes Its appearance the patient may as well throw up tho sponge. I tell b8r boastfully that an’ let Johnny, aud yeez can tell him what to write. Bad luck to him ! It was his faut ye’re dowu as ye are now.” Johnny comes according to promise. Ho has all tho physical and mental characteristics of tho Irishmab’s American son bom and bred in a largo city. Johnny Is sharp, fairly educated, but a confirmed hoodlum. He is nine teen years of ag6, freckle-faced, strong ly built and rather a good-looking youth. With all his hardened disre gard of tho conventionalities I can easily see that he respects me because lama newspaper man. Ho l§ an ar dent lover of tho horrible and tho ex citing. He comprehends that the mid night murder, Iho awful r.eeident, the tragic suicide,, the criminal trial, the big sporting events of tho day, from a prize fight or a regatta down to a game of base-ball, are all witnessed by newc- paper men, and he looks up to me as an authoritative source of golden In formation. Will he write as I dictate? Of course he will. Is he not afraid of catching the fever? No; he has been there. All right. / * j It is six weeks or rather more since I lounged into th* billiard room of the St. Charles Hotel and looked at the fiyjng Ivory spheres as they were being manipulated by two local.crack play ers. There Is yellow fever in the city, though the newspapers aay nothing on the subject. One of the players, as he .chalks bis cut?, makes a jesting allu sion on the arrival of “ Bronze John.” I have been feeling an Inexplicable sensation growing over me, enveloping my limbs, covering my back, and swathing my chest with a garm^t of shuddering uneasiness. I didirt^ke the player’s remark. I inwardly wish* od that his opponent might beat him that game, and I strode toward one of the -seats against tho %oil. I was about turning around to sit down, man, had died. Mrs. Delaney does not pretend to be very sorry. She is slx- ty-one years of age. but moro iioijye than many a young woman of twenty. She knows her business thoroughly, aud Hhs no vain sentimentalism In her composition. In the intervals of my restless tumblings about the bed I commune with Mrs. Delaney. Her first experience with yellow fever was many years ngc£-in the bad season of 1837—when her first husband was a victim to tho plague, and she was left alone with a baby to fight the ^battle of life. She married again, she tells me, and her second husband is not dead yet. Slid remarks in a crisp voice that she doesn’t know where he is, and she doesn't care. We change the subject. I find tjint I cannot possibly die to day. This is tho second and conse quently an ete-n number of days. I may die to-morrow, which Is Wednes- dey, tho third day, or I may become defunct on Friday, the fifth day, or I may shuffle off this flsry, superheated coil on Sunday, the seventh day, or I may lingo* in agony till tho following Tuesday, the ninth day, but I can scorch, and burn, and gnsp, and yell on any of-the intervening days with out fear of death. I study this theory overdn a wild, unconnected way, and think it odd. Ifiood sweat or black vomit has no ter rors for mo; I would just us soon havo both of them together. She says “ Shut up !” but says it softly, aud en deavors to arrange the sheet in which my tortured/orm is partially enwtap- ped. Tho contact of the mere cloth on my abdomen makes me shriek, with agony. I rise from tho bed frantically aud approach the windpw, and my burning eyes are saluted fry a funeral procession, preceded by a hearse with nodding plumes. Shocked, in spite of a recklessness born of fierce pain, I He down again, but no position gives mo comfort. The fiery heat which con sumes my abdomen Is supplemented with horrible pains In my loins, thighs, calves, knees and ankles, and even toes, which feel as thopgh scraped by a razor and^then gnawed by a dog’s sharp teeth. The pain la my head be comes moro intense, and so does the agony in every part of my lK>dy. No position gives ease. My stomach and bowels have aLurning boat, as though scalded by boUhtg water or burnt by coals of fire, and I shriek and, blas- phetqe and curse my nurse and land lady for not adequately assuaging my thirst. I He on my back or side, with knees drawn up, aud objurgate God and man. Then there slowly comes a change. My skin, which during the first three days was hot and dry and afterwards, on the fourth day, slightly moist, now perspires freely. Worn out, come ou an odd day, and t have always found it so meellf,” says Mrs. Delaney. “Can ye spit?” Thd^change of sub ject is too abrupt, and I stare at her vacantly. '“Spit In that. Humph! Is yer mouth sore? It is ; well, that’s good. Ye’ll lose a power o’ blood out of yer moult.” Neat day the doctor decides that I am afflicted with qpL°taxla (I don’t know whether I havo spelled it right). It is blooding from Lhu mouth, tongue The docthers say the croisis mtu# I He gasping and groaning and still af flicted with pain and thirst. The doc tor Is summoned and comes with his brown, genteel assistant, and says he rather thinks I will be all right fn a few days. He looks pleased, so does his assistant. Mrs. Delaney Is cool and unmoved. As night approaches she lights the gas (the light does not hurt my eyes at all (aud lets down the the night curtains, and, seeing that I armtolera- alive and bly quiet, asks If she can leave me for for half an hoar. I groan assent, while my heart jumps with expectu- L.u^L*,iV * r---V - ■ Ucn. Her toilet Is easily made and she is gon?L Now or never. I rise with difficulty and peer wuncl for tho water pitcher. Curses on her, she has taken it away I fall Ibacty In profound despair. lo the silence of the night I hear the noisy exclamations of card-players In the little coffee house on the corner across tho way. A wild idea crosses my brain, aud I deliberately elide out of bfd an I Ho prone on the carpet. Then I roll slowly toward the door, tacking round the table and my nurqe’s chair sb as to save exertion. Then I turn the han dle, ami tho door opens toward me. No fear of being discovered 1 I and my nurse are the only occupants of the house, and she is out t I am at tired iu a simple costume, consisting of 6nly one linen garment, while around my neck is a cloth stained with blood from ray mouth. I descend tho stairs which lead to tho side door in tho primitive manner of a child of ten months, and unlock the door leading to the side of the house- Across the narrow street—It is scarcely twelve feet iu width—Is tho one-story coffee house. Tho saloons of New Orica* are generally called coffee houses, and a number of them keep the fragant de coction of the bean of Yemen always on hand. This coffee house Ukelmply a tenth-rate bar-room, frequented principally by “ dagos,” which generic title takes in all men of Spanish ex traction engaged In fishing or bringing frt*it or vegetables to market from points ou the river. Tlio landlord, a villainous-looking “ dAgo,” with a dark, pallid face like a Lascar, U playing cards with three of his customers with all the heat and noise peculiar to gam- blurs of tho Latin race. I see them through a stationary wooden blind which partially conceals the nhabby bar and the array of bottles and de canters reflected iu a cheap, dirty mir ror. I make my way over tho pave ment on my hands and knees. I pause unobserved under the veranda of the groggery aud gaze with feverish de sire on Something whtoh stands on the counter. My head burns fiercely with my unwonted exertion. Finally, with a supremo effort, I stagger across the room to the bar, lift up the battered pewter ice-pitcher to my lips and com mence drinking, To'my dying day will declare that draught^ho sweetest ever drank by man. The next moment there was a hurried movem^t. Two of the men ran out with a howl of hor ror. Tho landlord euatched tho pitch er from my lips, and his companion seized mo in his arms. These " dagos” aro not afraid of yellow fever. I caught a sight of a yellow-faced demon in the mirror at tho same time, and then all was dark. * * 4**4 “ I don’t care, doctor, I won’t do nothing for him. Ho can die.” “ Well, I think you had bettor stay. You have no right fb leave him.” “What could I do? Sure, Johnny had been arristed for batin’ an Eng lishman, an’ I only slipped down to see him and give him money to pay his lino,” * * * * • Ninety-nine doctors out of a hundred will tell you that a relapse moans death. Two weeks to a day after my first attack I felt, an ovejjpoweriug nausa in my stomach, and ray mouth filled. My nurse said not a word, but turned deadly pale. As I saw an Inky substance before me in the basin, I said lightly : “ This is the black vomit, isn’t it?” No answer. I repeated the question, and Mrs. Delaney put up her apron, like a true Irish dame, and took refuge In tears. “ Bah 1” said I with a sinking heart, though feeling singular- free from pain, “ The black vomit can’t kill me!” Mrs. Delaney, after a few sobs, strikes a bell on the table twice and- slips down to tho door. A Httle darkey from over the way receives her mes sage, aud In a little while my landlady comes Id. Then comes a cle^al-look- Ing personage, with Dundre^y whis kers and blue eyes, who says that he understands the brother belongs to the Presbyterian faith. The doctor also makes his appearance, and brushes every body aside, touches ray fore head and assumes a perfunctory ap pearance of attention. I Incline to the belief that these people think that I am a “goner,” but I exult In the idea that they aro all mistaken. Tho doc tor, being privily advised thereto by tho clergyman, tells me that I must die. When? Well, by morning. I don't Believe It. Ho reiterates the statement, and I reiterate my unbelief. The clergyman kneels and prays and the doctor retires. Jhe clergyman follows about an hour alter oad the ttfo womoo sit up with me. The vom- Mrs. Belaney. “Is It possiblel” he ejaculates, and he forgetsAIs profes sionally quiet tread aud walfci b to my bod. Every day I have numerous visits from physicians. Fielding to the gen eral wish, ruy pt^jlticlan has drawn np a formal report of my case, and It lies on my table, and Is carefully read by every medical man who codNteinto my room. I am as yellow as a dirty lemon, but I am ffpinlng. I have lost half my weight at least, every rib sticks out as plain as a barrel hoop,every section of my vertebras sttinds out lu bold relief ike a walnut, and ray legs are like walking sticks, but I still live. I have survived the twin events of, a relapse and black vomit In yellow fever, and I propose, as sfton as I get well, to adopt Mrs. Dulaney for my mother. i Tin; 1»RI.WCK«W ALICE AftTF.lt. ms. Details of the rthocklag; Occur* reuce—TliC Y>mkcI ftluk* With r.ight Hundred l*cople ou llourd. ; < . [News and Lwurk-t ] London, September 4.—Tho excur sion steamer Princess Alice, which was rnn Into and sunk with such frightful results lalt evening, was one of the largest saloon steamers of the London Steamboat Company. She left London at 11 o’clock yesterday for Gravesend and Sheerness, many ex cursionists being Induced by tho fine weather to go for a holiday trip. The vessel left Gravesend on her return trip soon after ft o’clock lu tho even ing, and arrived in sight of the Royal Arsenel at Woolwich about ft*o’ck>ck. Tho Bywell Castle was then approach ing on the opposite course. The two steamers wore near the middle of the stream, just off the City of London Gas Works at Beckton and below Ngrth Woolwich Gardens, almost the precise spot where a fatal collision oc curred between tho Metis and the Wentworth ten years ago. What happened is impossible ac curately to detail. All that is known amid tho maddening excitement Is that the screw steamer struck the Princess Alice on tho port side, near the fore sponson. A scene, which has go parallel on the river, ensued. A few, very few, persons clambered on the other vessel, but nearly all rush ed to the after part of tbs Princess Alice as the bow subsided gradually under water. The shrieks were fear ful, ifnd notbing could be done to save life. There was a doz-ra or more life boys on board, and some boats were swinging In the davits, but, even if they could havo been got at, they would have been of Httle service un der tho circumstances. Within five minutes tho Princess Alice keeled com pletely over, and went down In deep water. Some small boats hastened to tho scene, and the Duke of Teck, an other steamer belonging to the same company, which was also on its pas sage up the river with a party of ex cursionists, went to the rescue: but the river for a hundred yards was full of drowning people screaming In anguish and praying for help, and, as It was growing dark then, not much could bo done to save them. It Is believed that not moro than one hundred and fifty persons escaped out of eight hundred aboard ^he vessel. The Princess Alice was a long and low river steamer, built for excursions down tho Thames, of which the mid dle and lower classes of Londoners are very fond. She had saloons on the forward and after decks and her passenger carrying capacity was un usually large. A large proportion of her passengers last evening were on the upper or saloon deck, and must ii .• *■ On Wednesday ks^ | ty, In tie Talley Pialn occurred an event which nisb the footjkttoTSl story. A yojgiwwwi ousy, deliberately i seriouly, If not i Tim name of the woman shooting was Miss JuHa her victim was a widow by the of Mrs. Leatpn. ' The following Is all thay$£0ll he as certained about the currence; Some time man who bad been paytag Attention to Miss Bryant came to tbls dty with her, and tho couple registered «t en*~. of tho hotels as man and wife haxty this week they returned to tJattbpam In Harris county. On the Wednesday following Miss Bryant met tea- ton, to whom the young mM.t> Bad tV? been showing attention. ThB;AWW women got into a quarrel about their < lover, and during the quarrel j Kteu Bryant shot Mrs. Lea toe with 4ptiU% wounding her severely, if not fnuiiy She was Immediately arrested, and on Thursday had a preliminary examtaa^ tlon before one of the jutthMi of the peace, pt Yallfty Plain* After hearing the case tfce Court ^ bound her over under a $2,000 bend taT * answer the charge of assault wijth fct* tent to murder. She waa taken Into custody by an officer and placed- at* the house of a neighbor until her bond could be arranged. While thus detained she managed, by that shrewd* nesa which generally characterizes the sex in great extremities, to make her escape. She is now at luge, and aw the mA about whom ttyi quanrel supposed to have origthafed, Is also missing, it Is presumed that th* pair m went off together. We have purposely omitted calling the name of the mag supposed to be Involved In thin because the particulars* aa gtvwrto were meagre, and we await a fuller ac count before making public mention of him. The father of mum Bryant to a very respectable and hobeef fendlr of Harris county, tie is a strict mem* ber of the church and highly geteeme^ * by the entire community la which ha lives. - , * . m .A Mystery la Abbeville. Abbsvillb, Sept. l.-43herlff Joneg has been missing since August &S. His office was opened and laves Ligated by his bowmen to-day.He to behind some $2,000, and the whole |g shrouded Ml mystery. In a letter adt dressed to the public, which was found in his safe, he says : “By one hour of neglect I have wrecked my own hap : pioess. I have been robbed* whether through negligence or not I am at a low to say, but such to the fact. I cannot meet my bondsmen, I caanot meet my friends, with suspicion written In their faces. I have raised sufficient money to carry me safely and securely acroes the ocean.” , This letter was written on the night of the jlst ult. A letter received from the fugitive yesterday, postmarked Cincinatti, August 28th, said -that he was making for Canada or England. He is evidently Insane, as he .left suf ficient property to meet all bis liabili ties. He Is due .the sheriff’s office from $1,800 to $2,000, and has left available assets to the amount ot $2,800. * • • ';«f l “A veritable joint-snake’’ has beeto captured In Georgiy The pupil of tto eye Is not oval not tto.head diamond- shaped ; its largest diameter to .about . rr ■T-t ----- V doom, but those la the sterp of the steamer had no warning until they heard the crash and found the pas sengers from the forward part of the veasol runn-sg to the after part. Be yond the fact that the tide was about two hours ebb, which would enable the Princess Alice to ease and stop sooner than the screw steamer, which would be borne on by the tide, it 1s Im possible to discover any of the circum stances Immediately preceding the ooUision. Before the boats came into collision,' there were cries from one to the other to keep out of the way, but as usual in such cases the accident was probably due to misunderstand ing, the one misinterpreting the In tention of the other. AH the rules of salll^; were cast to tho winds la the moment of peril, each taking the wrong course to avoid the other’s blunder. At a late council of the Spanish Mln- Ito continues and I make a rather sick Istry. the question of the young Ting Joke about tho cuttle-flah and Its black vqpiiL I am answered by sighs. The assistant appears and I swallow some medicine. The long watches of Imp away and I W^ble. The black vomit diminishes In quantity and by daylight 4 ceases. The assistant comes about 10 o’clock and to met at the door by .... Alpbonso’s second marriage was, ac cording to report, considered. It was thought that the project might be pre mature, Us apeedy consideration tor am still dynastic reasons was essential. The youngest sister of the late Queen Mer cedes is the lady named, to to bn again discussed at a Ministe rial council early In September. -• LUU OttlWU UU/A/iV, UtUVA UJUOt I 8il8L[ have seen beforehand their impending] h a if an i nc h. to in four pHutj; which, if joined together, would him a total length of about thirty IndMA Above it is brown and regularly spot ted and below white. Thn dfUMonsoc fragments are all “below the Viscera. %ch joint shows six little eCigi od one side oorresponlpg to^x aperturs* on the other, and ths nkin extending to the ends of tt* cogs and ths month of the holes, so when fhe pogs an put In the holes the fit to qiaot. The first and second fragments are each ona and a half Inches tong; ths last, testa- ding the long.” about Bias The President, befc West, signed CoL M<!. but not as consul at Canton, China, ths place to which he was originally spq pointed. The President‘deefctod that 1 :, be would make no nhsngs at - place, but offered Oofc 1 acceptable appointment t which Got Mosby accepts. . — ' ■ ' Thers are 850 churuht*<4 and Its suburbs, TbsrtWtt ebratlon of of theta, * < choral! toSAri 356. - *