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Travelers' Guide-
South Carolina Railror
CHANGE OF SCHEDULE.
YOL. II.
BARNWELL
C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 10. 1878.
NO. 58.
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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.
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BOB SUTTON AT MEMPHIS.
Tdlt Bii nroMtfr u
1'ajik'f Hlaniitt."
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' 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;
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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.
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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.
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[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 ‘'