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;■ i . t i *s to tto* office on bnsinMS «J* • 1. la #flt| , ' rae an< ^ ^ , ° s * Office nddres?. TftnUCr* and communication* »o ’•« bitten en Beparat. be pattUhed aho* of each clearly mdi- •heeu, and the oto^en required, eated by necesaary n^*on should be writ- 3. Articles for pnbli&anJ on only ont ten in a clear, legible hattu,. Bide of the page. ' ents 4. All change* in Advertise,, reach us oq,f riSay. ■0 must Travelers' Guide- South Carolina Railror CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. YOL. II. BARNWELL C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1878. NO. 58. ■ ,* ■ 1 Onelnek.on* imtritm » »< « i hb4>q>] Coalra«tadtBrtlai»f i ter iral insertion i ' No i least the writof, not! but as a guaranty of | Address, tn Chaeuston, March 1,1878. On and after Sunday, next, the South, Carolina Railroad will be run as folk w»: FOR AUGUSTA, (Sunday morning excepted), Leare Charleston . . 9 00 a. m. 7 80 p. m. Ahrive Augusta . . 6 00 p. m. 6 65 a. m. FOR COLUMBIA, < (Sunday morning excepted), Leare Charleston . . 6 00 a. m. 8 30 p m. Arrive at Columbia. 10 60 p. m. 7 45 a. m. FOR CHARLESTON, (Sunday morning excepted). Leave Augusta ... 8 80 a. m. 7 40 p. m. Arrive at Charleston 4 20 p.m 7 45 a.m. Leave Columbia . . G 00 p m. -8 00 p. m. Ar. Charleston, 12 15 night and G 46 a. in. Summerville Train, (Sundays excepted) Leave Summerville 7 40 a m Arrive at Charleston 8 40 * m Leave Charleston 8 16 p in Arrive at Summerville 4,25pm Breakfast, Dinner aud Supper at Broachville Camden ft am Connects at Kingsville d aHRs^Sunday* excep ted) with day paseenggr y-ain to and from Charleston. Passengers from Camden to Co lumbia cah go through without detention on Mondays,, Wednesdays and Fridays, and from Columbia to Camden on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays by connection with Ay passenger train. Day and night trairfs connect at Augusta with Georgia Railroad ahd Central Railroad. This route is the quickest ftn<( most direct to Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville, Cincinnati, Chicago, Nt Lotus and other points in the Northwest. Night trains for Augusta connect closely with the fast mail train via Macon amt Au gusta Railroad for Macon, Columbus, Mont gomery. Mobile, New Orleans and points in the Southwest. (Thirty-six hours to New Orleans. Day twins for Columbia connect closely with Charlotte Railroad for all points North, making quick time aud no delays. (Forty hours to New York.) Tbetrainson the Greenville and Columbia and Spartanburg and Union Railroads con nect closely with the train which leaves Charleston at o00 a m, and returning they connect in same manner with the train which leaves Columbia for Charleston at 6 80 p m Laurens Railroad train connects at Newberry on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Blue'Rhjge Railroad train runs daily, con necting with up and down trains on Green ville and Columbia Railroad. 8. 8 SOLOMONS, • Superintendent. S. I). Pickens, General Ticket Agent. „o y JTt BOB SUTTON AT MEMPHIS. Tdlt Bii nroMtfr u 1'ajik'f Hlaniitt." *, v • ^ ' BT BAM. W. SMALL About “Thtm .Yee, John, I was down that at Memphis, A-'workin’ around at the boats, A-hoavln’ o’ cotton with emphVs An’ a-loadln’ her ontSr the floats. I was comln’ away from ole Tex-> a, Whar I went, yer know, arter the wah— ’Bout It now, I’ll make ri^Jajlexes, But wait tell I git ter ion|RAw. Well, while I was down thar the fever, As yallow an’ pizen as sir. Broke out; an’ ef you’ll beleeve her, Wharever she hit she struck in! It didn’t take long in the hatchin’, It joe’ fa’rly bred in the air, Tell a hosspttel camp warn’t a patchln’. An’ we’d plenty o' corpses to spare. I volunteer’d then with the Howards — I thought thet my duty was clear— An’didn’t look bac’ards, but fow’ards An’ went ter my work ’lthout#*tu\ One day, howsomever, she git me As quick as the shot of a gfln, An’ they toted mo off ter allot me A bunk till my life-race was ruH, Savannah and Charleston Kailroad Co. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. Charleston-, H. C., Jan. 1878, On and after Monday, January The doctors and nurses they wrestl’d. But It didn’t do me any good; An’ the drugger he pounded an’ pestl'd, But he didn’t git up the right food, “ Noblanklts ner ice In the city!” I bear’d ’em say that from ray bed— An' some -cried; “Oh, God! who’ll take . Pity On the dyin' that soon’ll be dead?” Next day, howsomever, the doctor Come in with a smile on his brow; ” Old boy, jest as yit we hatn't knock’d her.’’ \ Raid he, “ but we’ll do fer her now!” Fer, yer see, John, them folks ter the Nor’ward Hed bear’d us afore we(jall’il twice, An’ they’d sent us a full cargo forward Of them much needed blanklts an’ ice!” Well, brother, I’vnbeen mighty solid Agin’ Yankees, yer know, sence the wah, An’agin’ re«onstrucktln’ was ftolid. Not kearin’ for Kongrlss ner law; But, John, I got onder thet kiver That God-blessed gUto’ the Yanks, An’ It sav’d me from fordin’ “.the river," An’ I’m prayin’ ’em ocea> s o’ thanks! I tell yer, old boy, that’s or streak in us Old Rebels an’ Yanks thetis warm— It’s n brotherly love thet’ll speak In us An’ fetch us together in storm. Wo may snarl about “niggers an’ fran- cheese," But whenever thar’* sufTerln’ afoot— The two trees’ll unite in the branches The same as they do at the root! III!.I. AIIP’N SU.MFAY CHAT. train* on this Road v ill !e»ve Northeastern Railroad as follows : 1878,'lie Depot of Futt Moil Daily. Leave Charleston Arrive at Savannah Leave Savannah Arrive Charleston - 3 15 a. m. 9 00 a. m. 6 00 p. m. 11 00 p. m Accommodation Train, Sundays Excepted. Leave Charleston Arrive at Augusta Arrive Port Royal Arrive Savannah - Leave Savannah Leave Augusta .Leave Port Royal , |Arrive Charleston - 8 00 a. m. 6 16 p. tn. 1 60 p. tn. 8 60 p. m. 9 00 a. m. - 7 30 a. m. 10 -20 a. m, 6 30 p. m. Night Patsenyer, Sundays Excepted. Leave Charleston Arrive Port Royal - Arrive Savannah Leave Savannah - Leave Augusta • Arrive Charleston - Fast mail train will - 8 50 p. tn. - 6 45 a. m. - 7 25 a. m. - 10 00 p. ra. - 9 00 p. ta. - 8 45 a. m. only stop at Adams Run, Ycmassec, Grahamville and MontePh. Accommodation train w ill stop at all sta» tionson this road and makes close connoction for Augusta and Port Royal and all stations on the Port Royal Railroad. Fast mail makes connection for points in Florida and Georgia. C. 8. GADSDEN, Engr. and Supt. S. C. Boylston. G. F. and T. Agent. WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA RAILROAD. General Passenger Department, Columbia, S. C., August 6, 1877. The following Schedule will be operated on lind after this date; ag Night Express Train—Daily. GOING NORTH. Leave Columbia Leave Florence . Arrive at Wilmington 11 16 p. m. 2 40 a. m. . G 82 a, m. GOING SOUTH. Leave Wilmington « . 6 00 p. tfl Leave Florence - * • 10 02 p. m. Arrive at Columbia ' . 1 25 a. m ThisTrain is Fast Express, making through connections, all rail. North and South, and waterline connection via Portsmouth. Stop only at Eastover, Sumter, Titnmonsville, Florence, Marion. Fair Bluff, Whiterille md Flemington. V Through Tickets sold and baggage cl , ^ cd to all principal point*, on night trains. Through Freight Train—Da\ly. days.) GOING NORTH. avc Columbia ! Flcrence. . . . ’ . Arrive at Wilmington, . * < Pullman Sh TSie of ti Farmer’s l.ife—The Rien*e of Ikoniiniou— One Thiti" a lYejjro Won't l>o hro. Were ox cep t Sun- fi OOj). tn. 4 30 a. m. 12 00 m. GOIN t BOUTH. Leave* Wilmington, . • * * 2 30 p. m. Leave Florence. * < . . 2 86 a. m. Arrive at Colombia , . • 10 10 a. m. Local Freight Train leave* Columbia Tues day, Thursday and Saturday enly, at 0 a. m. Arrive* at FloreneeatS 80 p. m. A. POPE, 0. F. k 1. f. DEVINE, Superintendent. |IVri(ten for The Constitution.J Seed time ttnd harvest shall not fail.” I used to think that meant the spring and fall of the farmer's J’ear, and I reckon it did In the olden time when funning was in its infancy and folks dldent know much about the na- tur of seeds and plants and guanna and agricultural implements. But now its seed time and harvest time nearly all the year round. We sow oats from August to April, and wheat from September to January, and it takes most all winter to gather iu the cotton. There is no time when a tired man can set down and be easy—no rest for the wicked in this world and not much I reckon in the next. It looks like we farmers would have no thing to do now but to gather in the fruits of our labors and be thankful and happy, but what with pulling and hauling corn and picking out cotton and turning under the grass and weeds and sowing oats and wheat and strip ping and cutting and topping the sor- gum and hauling it to the mill and getting up the winter’s wood, its the bueyiest season of tbe year. It does seem almost impossible to carry it all on at once in a felicitous manner con- siderln the uncertain weather and the scarcity of transclent labor durln the cotton season. A fool nigger had rather pick cotton at 50 cents a hun dred for the next two months and per ish all the rest of tbe winter than take a good home now at 8 dollars a month. It takes a power of work to realize from anything on a farm, and if any body thinks th® craps grow without sweat and toll and jump irom the field into the crib of their own accord, just let him try it awhile and see. It looks like a bushel of meal dident cost much to make It, but even after the corn Is Tlpe you've got to pull it, and git your feet wet In the dew, and then you must haul It home and throw it out and slntck it and shell it, and take it to the mill, and all this requires a wagon and team and greasln the axils and fussin ith the infernal mules. And if you want to sell 25 or 30 bushels and hav’nt got any corn sheller, by the time you’ve shucked It and shelled it by hand, and hauled it to market, your Angers will be worn down to the quick and your hand blistered, and you’d take five dollars a bushel for it if you could get it, and feel no tare of conscience. Well, its just so with most everything made on a farm. Ita all bard work. I sent a load of wood to town wad sold for seventy-five cents, and I thought that If those city folks shout Borne who stepped out of their offices some cold day and Jewed a poor woed haul er on his load, knew how much hard work it cost him they wouldn’t do it. Grinding bis ax, making the maul, ta pering down the gluts, cutting down the tree, cutting it up and splitting it, straining the grunts out of him when the timber is tough and knotty—load ing up the wagon, straddling a sharp edged stick for a cushion to ride on, stalling In a mud-hole, prizing and sometimes cussin out of It, paying .DUdjPrfcdl, bunting round for a buyer, \elng Jewed like you was a common swindler, getting Rome again at^y after dark aiM living to fee^aW waehrtfp awcWPr a bite of supper and go to bed and «et up in tbe morning to do the same thing over again. I wouldent yke that, would you ? But farmisg alnt that bad, though fts all hard work and constant work, and It looks like you don’t get more than half enough for your corn and Vour wheat. But there Is a heap of solid comfort and independence In hav- Inga plenty of all these products about you. I like to feed the hogs an’ see ’em enjoy it and grow fat. I like to peruse the cattle and see the milk cows cdrae up so slow and dignified with their udders all on a strut. I like to see the calves and the pigs and the sheep a gambelin’ around. It makes a man feel patriarchal to have so many lovely creatures a lookin’ up to you and followin’ you about with the bas ket on your arm and dependin’ upon you like little children. It gives a man the same sort of comfort he used to feel when he owned a paesel of darkeys and the little nigs was a hangln’ around wafehio’ bis movemehts as he went to and fro, and hither and thither, and bearin' ’em say, “dar goes Maas Wil liam—dar.^ho.” I Alippftee that thte love of dominion Is ntftlfa’t to all peo ple, and a man don’t mind belongin’ to’ another man so much if eomebody or something belongs to him. In slavery times there was but one thing a darkey could own that didn’t belong to his master by law, an’ that was a dog, an’ a dog he was bound to have if he was allowed to keep him. Weil, I don’t see much difference In the darkeys between now and then. There’s a few of ’em stuck up by edu cation In the big cities—just enough to control the masses of ’em politically and religiously, but most all the race are the same niggers they used to be— they can't get along without a master, and they don’t. They have to be man- sged just like little children. Our Northern brethren call ’em the nations’ wards ; but you see the guardeen is so poor off he can’t do them any good, i and so we are p!ayin substitutes and | can do ennything in the worlej with paratlve comfort and safety, which they did when off duty, during that never-to-be-forgotten siege by every man who participated therein. In one of the bomb-proofs on the extreme right of the Eighteenth South Carolina Volunteers, and Just to the left of the mine, Lieut. Willard Hill, company E, and Sergt. Greer, compa ny A, Eighteenth South Carolina Vol unteers, Laving been relieved from duty an hour before, were sleeping. The first they realized of it was the shock, then a deep darknees, then a consciousness that the min® had been sprung, and that they had b+eu burled, how deep they could imagine. Their first impulse was a diep Indes cribable despair — heart - Sickening, heart-rending hopelessness, that left them powerless for a time. U3ut what could they do ? They had nothing to dig out with but a bayonet Mtat Sergt. Greer had In his belt, and there was but a canteen of water in thj cep. But what was going on above th«#u ? Grant had consummated tbe most diabolical of all deeds of a terrible war. I was within 180 yards of It on my morning visit to my regiment, and ft was just at that time of day—twilight—that even trees can look like ghosts, that added to tbe weird scene of death. Simultaneous with the d«t'p, dead sound and quiver of the earth, there arose in the airs cloud of dust and smoke, and timbers, menanq muskets, and ail manner of shapes and frag ments were flying in every direction— and then for a moment a stillness—and ’em we want to but vote ’em. We Democrats can’t do that. They won’t vote for anybody but a Republican if they know it, and every one in my na- borhood Is a Felton man for that rea son and nothing else, and you can’t make ’em believe he is a Democrat. I’ve got their confidence in everything else but that. They won’t believe me, and the fact is they seem so ceitain that he ain’t a Democrat, I sometimes think may be they know more about it than I do. But I’ll tell you what’s a fact, and you may tell it to the doctor, if he’ll make a speech In this nabor- hood and tell tbe darkies he’s a Demo crat and is opposed to the Republican party, I’ll bet anybody a hat he don’t get narry nigger’s vote that hears him —and Its the same way all over the district. Ax Harris if he thinks its morally correct for a preacher to cap ture the votes of the nation’s wards in that way. Don’t it look like as if one of the elect was deceivin’ the elect to be elected ? Yours, Bill Arp. n on the od loose through ents of plowing bs from ltd of war tb® sound was of sweetest music that had ever greeted his ears. At last the cry of victory rose high abovs every thing else. They knew that somebody was vsaqulsb«d, and that somebody was vletor, who they know not. They emerged from their awful retreat, weak, worn In body, and with minds almost crazed. They knew not how long they had been there. They did not know even their old comrades. Nor oould they realize that It was the same day they were burled. They were brought back to me at the field hospital, more dead than alive, for strange as It may seem, they were the most sadly changed men that I ever beheld. Both were fine-looking soldiers before ; now they were weak, with sunken cheeks and eyes. Lieut. Hill, whose hair tweoly-feur hours be fore was black, without a single gray hair in it (as he was only thirty years old) was now almost as white as snow. Whether It turned from horror at his condition, or the heat of his subterra nean bed, or both, I do not pretend to say. I simply give tbe facts, not as I heard, but as I saw them, and he still lives to verify that this Is no romance, but one of my experiences in a war whose first gun I heard fired and last gun of which sounded the requiem of the lost cause when I was at my post on duty. Hugh Toland, M. D. John llrown*s Raid Brongfct to Tnke Yonr fsnnrjr Bind. .-X- The Vlaryland Duellists. AYYAI.S OF THE WAR. A Terrible Story of the Crater. \lte [Jacksonville (Ala.) Republican ] In your Issue of the 17th instant I notice an article, the first sentence of which asks the question, “Can a per son’s hair turn white within a short time ?” Having seen such an instance, and one that can be authenticated'be yond all cavil, by persons now living, I will give you and your readers the circumstances as they occurred, when, where, and who they are. When Grant sprang the “ mine,” or “ blow-up,” as many call It, In front of Petersburg, Va., at twilight on the morning of the 30th of July, 1864, the point immediately over it was occu pied by a Virginia battery. The ditch es on the right immediately next to the battery were occupied by the Twenty-second South Carolina Volun teers, Col. Fleming. On the left of the battery tbe ditches were occupied by the Eighteenth South Carolina, Col. W. H. Wallace (now Judge Wallace, of South Carolina), of which regiment I was surgeon. All along our lines our soldiers ha4 dug out small bomb- proofs, as they called them. These bomb-proofs were generally about lour feet broad, three high and eeveo feet long—large enough for two or three men to crawl into nod sleep with com' it seemed as if every whole Federal line was upon our lines. Shells shrf the air, musket balls and shell fell In every direct! up the earth.end cutting trees that the relentlesk had spared. Then came the charge. Negro troops in front with splendidly caparisoned troops of the Federal army behind, driving them, as it were, to the front like sheep to slaughter, with the battle-cry of “Remember Fort Pillow,” and the few, the very few, that survived no doubt remember the crater of Grant full as well High above all the confusion and smoko and dust aud groans of the wounded could be beard the |>nttle-cry of the Fedexals, aud woids^t^ncour agement of gallant officers—the few that are left of the Eighteenth and Twenty-second South Carolina Volun teers, aud of those brave Virginians whose battery was buried in a com mon grave with nearly every soldier who manned it. But the Confederate lines were broken in twain. Federals and negroes had made breastworks of the boulders that were blown up by tbe explosion. But they were not to stay there. Soon came Gen. Mahone with reinforcements; and, after one of the most gallant fights of all the war, he carried the works, and the crater turned to a grave for its captors. I had heard of pools of blood—it was thertfT saw them. Then silence reign ed, that painful silence which always follows on the battle-field after death has held high carnival. Then came the sad duty of counting up the cost. My brigade had suffered severely, the Twenty-second South Carolina had lost its gallant Colonel Fleming and many a brave soldier. My regiment lost one hundred and sixty-three men. Two whole compa nies, A and C, Eighteenth South Caro lina. had not a man left who was on duty to tell the tale. One hundred and one of my men, including Capts. Mc- Comich and Blrdgis, were dead—buried in the crater or scattered along the works—and sixty-two were missing. Among the missing are Lieut. Hill and Sergeant Greer. We left them In their almost living grave ; Greer dig ging with his bayonet, while Hill pass ed back the dirt, with all the despera tion of despair. They hear not, heed not, the battle that is raging above them, but toil on. Often hope would spring up in their hearts to cnly give way to despair. Hill has often told me how, when he awoke to a conscious ness of hla condition, the thoughts that flashed through his brain like light ning ; how If he could only see one ray of light, or breathe the fresh air, once again ; that if he could only let his wife know where he died, that death would be a relief to him. Almost suf focated for fresh air, they worked on ; at last it seemed to them that some thing had crushed them; they had dug through the loose boulders, and the light burst upon them. They both, overcome with the sudden transition from their suffocation and despair to light and hope, fainted. How long they remained there they know not. When they awoke from their swoon the first sound that broke ou their ears was the clash of arms and the quick rolling roar of the battle as it rqged around and above. Almost in stupor, trying to realize that they could again see the light of heaven, and hear tbe voice of a living creature, they lay still until they recovered their minds enough to know what waa going on. Hill has often told me that when he Baltimore, September 25 —The Im pending duel between S. T. McCul lough and State’s Attorney Aisqulth, of Annapolis, continues to exoitemuch interest here, and the opinion is ex pressed to-day thaWa hostile meeting cannot be averted without leaving the principals with a tarnished record, as considered from tbe standpoint of the code of honor. To-day’s developments have complicated matters. Mr. Mc Cullough left here for his home at An napolis this morning. Last night Mr. Aisqulth fled from the venerable State capital In a buggy, closely pursued by a constable armed with a warrant for bis arrest. An Annapolis dispatch says that on Tuesday night State Of ficer Thomas Basel made oath before Justice Gassaway that hs had reason to Relieve that a certain Henry M. Ala- quith was about to flgh^a duel*wtl!i one 8. Thos. McOolkwgb. ~ trate thereupon issued the warrant and the officer started to arrest his man, but was too late. AUquith had been informed of the magistrate’s ac tion and left Annapolis behind the fastest team he could get. Sheriff Wtlls and the constable lost no time In securing a fast horse and followed the fugitive, but after a chase of fourteen miles to Odenton Junction, the officers abandoned the pursuit and returned. Mr. Aisqulth boarded a tiain and reached Baltimore early this morning. Mr. McCullough has reopened his law office at Annapolis, and has not yet been served with a warrant of arrest. It is not yet known who will make the next move. The friends of both men seem to think that they have done all that la required of them, but the gene ral public are impressed with the be lief that a little more fighting and less talking and newspaper gush would have been tbe correct thing. Mr. Maddux, Aisquith’s second, In an Interview to-day, said: "We de sire to controvert Mr. McCullough’s statement that it was his intention to have given Mr. Aisqulth full satisfac tion, and that, while arranging to meet him outside the State as expeditiously as possible, he was amazed at learning that Mr. Aisqulth had made the affair public. The facts already adduced at test the utter absurdity of this posi tion. For eight days, at great incon venience and expense, Mr. Aisqulth held himself in readiness to respond to the slightest move of Mr. McCul lough looking to the acceptance of the invitation that had been extended him. At the end of that time I was forced to admit that the correspondence con ducted by me did not yield the faint est indication that Mr. McCullough had any intention of retracting or apologizing, or of settling the matter in any other way. As was my bounden duty* I then requested my principal to return to his home. I must add that, In all my experience, I have never known a case before where a gentle man refused to retract, admitted his willingness to accept an invitation for a meeting, and then pleaded as many excuses as did Mr. McCullough, only to cap the climax by charging his ad versary with bad faith because be would not wait an Indefinite time for an Indefinite day to be appointed, with out any reasonable excuse given for the delay.” Mr. AiSquith, in an interview to-day, reiterates bis former charges against McCullough. . —.■■■-si rwp~r4iO*'-"-v .«. [From tUeChambrrsbarg UrraM.] While wading In the Potomao river, one day last week, Charles McCarty ran across something on the bottom. It proved to be a Sharp* carbine. On Sunday evening, October 17, 1859, a little band of seventeen whites and five colored men entered Harper’s Fer ry. They seized tbe watchmen at the United States arsenal and at the rail road bridge over tbe Potomac. The inhabitants of the town, as they ap peared, were arrested and confined in the guard-house, and the trains of tbe Baltimore and Ohio road were all stop ped. On Monday morning tbe insur gents had complete possession of tbe town and all tbe Government property. At h&lf-paat 12 noon, a company of militia arrived from Charlestown, and were placed in squads, commanding every place of exit from the town. They charged the Shenandoah bridge, killing an insurgent and capturing one. The rifle works at the arsenal wars stormed, nod five insurgents were driven from it to the Potomac. They plugged in and waded to a rock, where they fought two hundred Virginians, wlio^linefl the banks on both sides. As the'b^ttle raged, two of them fell, kill* >ed*«bjr the bullets of tbe Virginians. Kofi, John Brown’s Secretary of War, wSstone dj tbe killed. Wllnam W. Leeman, one of Brown’s captajn^ plunge^ off the rock, and was followed by scores of the attacking party. He dropped bis carbine, and a Virginian waded after him. to his pursuers be threw uR.his hands and cfled, " Don’t shoot,” butfthe V|t* , glnlan fired a revolver right In his face and blew his brains out. The recap ture of Harper’s Ferry by the United States forces is familiar to our readers and need not be retold. Do The Waveriy Kajatfo* soundest and most pdFoior published la ths ftp discourses on country “ Do tbe city papers ssy regard to yonr own ooontyf Do they contain notices of your meetings, churebeS, imprewsota hundreds of other local matters terest which your own ptptf without pay ? Not an Item, ever say a word calculated to draw tendon to your oodaty ahd aid tti llr progress and enterprisef Note And there are then wh^take such traded views of this Patter fh own paper, thet think they ars getting tbe worth kf their money. reminds us of tbs man who toeii thh largest pair of boots because tbs waa the same as a pair of much that fitted him,*, wjljg A Desperate Fight. [Atlanta OoniHtutlon.] Duluth, September 28.—You gave an account in your last issue of tbe arrest of Langley and Wright for steal ing a steer. Yesterday Mr. Nort Johnson, who lives near Duluth, in Gwinnett county, from whom the steer was stolen, sent Mr. L. B. Etchersoo to T ne ^^™ rnhePrtMner, ‘ 0aW! » « They left the city early this morning, walking, the two prisoners tied to gether. This evening, about 3 o’clock, when about half way between Nor- cross and Dulutb, the two prisoners rushed on Etcherson, threw him down* and tried to kill him. One of the pri soners had him by tbe throat and the other was trying to undo the rope. Etcherson managed to get out his pis tol in the scuffle and fired, shooting Langley through the neck. He fired again in an instant and the second ball entered Langley’s body under the right shoulder. Wright immediately desisted and begged for bis life. A few minutes after the shooting a wagon came jtlong and the murdered man was carried with the other prisoner to Duluth. Dr. R. S. Adams was called to see Lang ley, and pronounced the wounds fatal. He will die without doubt, as he Is bleeding internally, and the doctor has been unable to find either ball. Etch erson was not to blame, for It was a life and death matter with him. Wright is still in the custody of tbe officers and Is secure. When ready for bed eft fiowtf In Pi easy poeltfou, relaxingatliht todeeis* of tbe body, ehd teitbetmtffi fitop fori ward upoftth* breast, a* low it tt wid fall without fordhg it Bit quietly U this way for A few motocots, freeing all the will power offths body, sod » restful drowsy feeiing wili eosoe, which will, If not disturbed, Issd to Srefreahi* tng sleep. If tbe sleepless fit acmes os In th# night one can simply sit up In the po sition described. BUffbess In soy port of the body muatfSesvokled;and It Is Turning L weU to bend tbs body forwnrd after * laying down, rather .than to keep It straight or thrown beek upon the pH* low. The writer suffered seteiai years from sleeplessness, caused by sever* pain and nervousness, and was taught tbe above by a physician of great ex perience and ability, and found through it complete reHef. ibay per sons similarly affected within tbd writer’s knowledge hat* tried It, and always with good reanUA ’ The First EecsseeUve. The average citizen wHl be taken bf surprise when told that tbe first U* comotive engine eve* placed on a track in this continent was “teemed and startefTust fifty years ago thefith day of August The trial trip waa made at Hooesdale, Pa, by the Stour bridge Lion, an engine built at Stour bridge, England, and the credit for this pioneer enterprise belongs to tbd Delaware and Hudson Oanal Company. Mr. H. Allen, now 77 years of age, and a resident of South Orange. N. jL, was the man who pulled the first throttle vale on that day. and to whom the charge of building the engine yim In trusted by the company when be was sent to England. The Ball Blrer HwWtarer. London, October 3.—Peter Fromanj tbe self-confessed murderer/from Bolt River, 8. O., was again before the Bow street police court to-day. Extradi tion papers were handed to the Foreign office ou Tuesday, but have not yet reached the magistrate, and Frotnan sue remanded until Wednesday next After hie recommittal Fro man escaped from his cell in Bow street and bis way to tbe roof of the building, when his flight waa observed and bs was recaptoi ed after a desperate strug gle. The Wagoas. But few people are aware that they do wagons and carriages more injury by greasing too plentifully than in al most any other way. A well made wheel will endure common wear from ten to twenty-five years, If care be taken to use tbe right kind and proper amount of grease ; but If this matter Is not attended to, they will be used up in five or six years. Lard should never be used on a wagon, for it will penetrate the hub and work Us way out around the tenons of the spokes, and spoil the wheel. Tallow Is the beet lubricator for wood axle-trees, castor oil for Iron. Just enough grease should be applied to the spindle of a wagon to give It a light ooating; this Is better than more, for the surplus put on will work out at the ends and be forced by the shoulder bands and nut washers Into the bub around the outside of the boxes. To oil an iron axle-tree, first wipe ths spindle clean With a cloth wet with spirlta of turpen tine, and then apply a few dropa of castor oil near tbe shoulder and end. One tablespoonful lifamply sufficient for the whole. Let the fifth wheel of tbe carriage alone; if It grates tighten the king bolt, but keep grease off of It A man who gives his children habits knew and realized that it was a battle, goods. Gotten mills are becoming numerous In India, more particularly In Bombay, and it seems probable that with Im proved machinery, cheap labor, and the saving on freight tfiey will be able to compete suocwsfrTly with English Four negroes were hanged for mur der in DonaldsonvWe, La, recently. Though undoubtedly guilty, they might have escaped ponlshmemaibr their crime but for tbe evidenoaef Dr. Joa Jones, who ascertained by microeoopi- col aud chemical analysis that tbs stains upon >be clothing of one of them were not paint, as he had assert ed, but blood spotA Further, “ that tbe blood was that of a human bebif Who bad Suffered, and wts probably suffering at tbe (moment when tbd blood was abstracted, with malarial or paroxysmal fever.” It was prosed the* Naroiase Amieux, the murdered mao/ had been suffering with intermittent malarial fever. The negroes than con fessed. The late Ool. Kinloch rotary of State for MlasMppI, went from Jackson to Body Springs* hi# native town, to help his Meed* ainl family In their hour of tioublA Hid father died, and then his brother, then he himself wae Striokett. Dri life the deceaaed was a printer, ing the war, by conspteaous f bravery, bs roseti> be, ral oa lha staff v Johnston. After tbewar ] journalist, and i namethailist J mar than by giving them a stock of money. The great number of Indigent tramps and Vine street leaf ars indicate that many fathers gtvs thdr sons ‘'