The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, February 25, 1879, Image 1
'11VE_EKL_Y EDI1I0N.} WINNSBO.RO. S. C. TUESDAY, 1'EBLIUAR Y :25, L8hI ; V.,
Ak R.!ated by a Per on Who Was a
F"ien( to :oli Truth.
'The) hitad be tallkingt about the
romarkable performances of Dr.
Carver, the mai'rksman, who shoots
with a rifle glass balls which arc
sent into the air as fast as a man
can throw them. Presently Abner
B3yng, who was sitting by, said:
"That's nothing."
"What is not.ling ?"
"Why, that shouting. Did you
ever know '1:oun Potter ?"
"No."
"'ell, Potter was the best hand
with the rifle I ever saw ; beat this
1mn Carver all hollow. I'll toll
you what I've s3en this man Potter
do. You kauw, amylb}, along there
in cherry re :son \irs. Pott.er w.,uld
want to pr e(ervu some clieheri:rs, so
Tom woul:d pick 'em for her, and
how d.> vo: tinklc he'I stono 'emi?"
"I don't kno.v. H{ow ?"
"Why, he'l fill his gun with bird
shot and get a boy to drop half a
bushel of cherries at one time from
the roof of a house. As they came
down he'd fire and take the stone
clean out of every cherry in the
lot ! It's a positive fact I He
might occasionally miss one, but
not often. But he did bigger
shooting than that when he wanted
to."
"\Vliat did he do?"
"Why, Jim Miller-did you know
him ? No. Well, Tom made a bet
once witii Jim that he could shoot
the button ol hi.i own coat. tail by
iaiming in the opposite direction,
Ind Jim took him up."
"Did he do it '?"
"Do it! He fixed himself in a
position and aimed at a tree in
front of himl. The ball hit the
tree, caromed, hit the corner of a
house. caromed, struck a limp-post,
caromed, and flow behind Tom and
nipped the button off as slick as a
whistle. You bet he did it !"
"That was fine shooting."
"Yes, and I've seen Tom Potter
beat it. I've seen him stand under
a fluck of wild pigeons, billions of
them coming like the wind, and kill
'eiso last that the front of the
flock never pissed a given line, but
turned over and fell down, so that
it looked like a kind of brown and
feathery Niagara. Tom did it by
having twenty-three breoch-loading
rifles and a boy to load 'em. lie
always shot with that k:nd."
"You say you saw him do this
sort of shooting ?"
"Yes, sir ; and better than that,
too. Why, I'll tell you what I have
seen Tom Potter do. I saw him
once set up an India rubber target
at throe hun.red feet >nd hit the
bull's- eye twent3-savon times a
Ilnlute with the s tune ball. He
vuld hit the t truget, the ball would
bound right back into the rifle
hatrrel just as Tom1 ha. clapped in a
fresh caarge of powdr, and so be
kept her going backward and for
ward nul at last he happened to
miove his gun and the bullet missed
the muzzle of the gun. It was the
b)iggest thing I ever* saw ; the very
biggest--except one.'
"WVhy, one day I wvas out wvith
him when he was practising, and 'it
came to rain. Tom didn't want to
get wet, and we had no umbrella,
and what do you think lie did 7"
"What ?"
"Now what do you think that
man done to keep dry 7"
"I can't iinagine."
"Weoll, sir, he got mue to load his
weapons for him, and I pledge you
my word, although it began to rain
hard, he hit every drop that camii
down, so th~ it the ground for aibout
eight feet around us was ats dry as
punk. It was beautiful, sir
beautiful."
And then the compsany rose up
slowly and passed out one by one,
each man eyeilg Abner and looking
solemn as lhe wont by; and when
they had gone Abner looked queer
ly foi- a moment and said to me :
"There's nothing I hate so much
as a liar. Give me a man who is a
friend of the solid truth, and I'll
tie to him."
Senator Thurman has just promis..
ed to deliver the address before the
literary societies of the University
of North Carolina at the commence
ment in June. At the same time,
the correspondent of the Raleigh
.News writes. Bishop Pierce is ex
poted to preach the annual sermon
and Hion. Samuel J. Tildeni to
deliver the literary address.
Mrs. Flandra&u, "the Mormon
giant girl," on exhibition at the
American Museum New York, diei
on Mondamy. She was eighteen years
old, and weighed 676 pounds.
TILE LBLACK DEATH.
It is estimated that not less than
52,000,000 persons fell victims to
the black death in Asia and Europe
toward the middle of the foirteentih
century. Of those 15,000,000 arc
supposed to lavo perished in
Europo, 24,000,000 in Asia Minor,
India, and tho adjacent countries,
and 13,000,000 in China. One his,
torian writes concerning the appear..
ance of the plague in Europo :
"Terriblo omns in tho haeavens
overwhelmed the nations with dreatl.
In 1337, a large comet appeared
in followieg years came iimense
mult:tUdes of locusts ; but in 1348
the end of the .world s'eemaod at
hand. An earthquake dev:tstaated
Cyprus, Greece. It-dy and the Alpint
valoys. Mountains eavo;.I in. In
the )t ovince of arn'ttithon, in Au tri;,
thirty viill ges and a town w.-i
ut.erly d( struyed. The atmosphere
bee-uine tiick, fetid and cotlfa:.ing
Wine turbid in the bar res. Fiery
meteors illumunlatud the sky. A
pillar of flames was sen Over thc
Papal palace at Avignon. Tihese
terrors were followed by a murder
ous plague. It originated in China,
was carriel through the whole of
Asia, and in Germany received thc
nno of the "Black De:th," because
it covered its victims suddenly with
black pustules, and oftou killed
them instantaneously. It spread
over the whole of Europe, and it is
said that it did not rage nost viru.
lently in Germany. Nevertheleas
14.000 persons died in B.tsle, 1(,00C
in Stra.,burg and the same numbei
in Erfurt. and they perished in al)
other places in simiir proportions.
In Osnabruck only seven families
are said to have survive 1.
For twenty-five years the awful
opilemic maintained its annihilating
sway, while at the same timc
droughts, famines, floods, and
earthquakes destroyed city and
country, and vast s warms of locusts
everywhere inflicted the direst rav
ages. Meantime the whole ordo, o
nature seemed reversed. In mid
winter the severest rains wort
eXperieicod. and in summer long
continued frosts, and volcanoes thai
had been long thought ext.inct open
ed their craters anow. Sote have
attibuted the orign of the epidemic
to the atnotplheric changes produc -
ed by the convulsions of the earth
combined with the decay of organic
mattor---the mvrads of locusts and
unnumbered bodies of men ani
animals.
Some have also attributed thai
frightful epidemic to the then re
corded atpproaclh of several planets
to the sun. Inasmuneh as four plan.
ets enter the perihelion in 1881, we
have at least this similarity between
the present time and that dr'eadfu
period ; and this circumstance, com
bined with the suddcn outbreak of
the plague that is reported fron
Europe, may give rise to the fears
that the coming platnetary ploximnity
to the sun is perhas to have an evi
import for poor humanity.
POISONING THE1 Por-A report
wvas emtrent in Paris some days aigc
of the attemnpted p)oisonlinlgof th<(
Pope by Jesuits. The rep)ort was
telegraphed by theC Papal Nuns
cio in Paris to Cardinal Nina,
and numerous inquires were mnade
of the Pope's phlysicianl on the
subject. On his Holiness being
informed of the story, he is said tc
have calledl his private chamberlain
and said :"Thank thle visitors, and
announce also mn the antechamnbei
that I am foeling quite well, and that
thO p)oisonling is only for tihe prLesenit
aL pious desire-," Accordin to ther
Pall Mall Ga~zitte, the report seems,
hoawever, to havo mad ;an enraol:Lrdi
nl:iry impreOFsion aut the Vatican, and
food introduced and coo)ked is ox
amined with scruplulons rigor.
Speaking quietly of the matter, the
Pope observed ;"'he Jesuits are
too wise. Were they to attemptf
and succeed, they knowv thlat the
crime must be traced home to themn
'rhe Jesuits have, meanwhlile, pro,
sented their ultimnatumu to the Pope,
demanding to be reinstated in thleir'
old1 position, and to have their share
in the government of the church,
pointing out the benefits to accrue
from their support and tile damage
they are still capable of doing. The
Pope yields not an iota. He says :
".Let friars act the friar, and not
meddle with mundane affairs."
The communicition for which
the Grand Duke Nicholas, ot Russia,
son of the Grand Duke Constantine,
has been exiled to Orenburg, was a
pamphlet in favor of the speedy
construction of the Orenburg &
Tashkind Railway by way of Rara
Turrgal and Sir Darga river in order
to force England to abandon her
reshsancn to Ruanin.'s nastern. palicy
CULREN' OPINION.
Philadelphia Times: "There was
nothing naughty in the Ilepubliean
cipher telegramths, theroforo they
were burned up or otherwiso in,
capacitated for future service."
New Orleans Picayune: "To put
an end to the wholo business of
paying Southern claims will be per
f(ctly satisfactory to thu Mass of
the industrious people and of the
commercial classes of tho South."
Boston 'est: "I'he conversion of
Ha) e to the lonosoimo cause of Z.
Chandlor is boliuve-.1 to be owing to
compunctions of conIScience. The
c.so is fully explained by a perusal
of the telegirns which reveal what
Chandler did for Hayes' olection,
so-called."
Albany A rgus: "The Ropublicans
have alro.Idy proved that, the Presi
doIney, to be laid lat all, had to bo
bo,ught, and that thi Democrats
did not buy it from 'ho Republi
cans, wilt) offered it to them. That
the Republicans, who finally got it,
bought it, goes withot t saying."
St. Paul -Pioneer-- Press, Rep.:
"There is one featule n this Cihan
dier-C1jristiaicy exCht go of offiees
which I':s not been go Crally con
inento( upon. Was i high -toned
civil servico reform :ttesnanshi1p
for Cliristiancy to ace it a 810,000
iSsiol as an inducel ut to get
out of Chandler's way3 The re.
putted trador and macinist appears
inl quite as favorable a light in this
transaction as the juclicial paragon
or the executive who otors him the
indu cem ent."
St. Louis Post and Dispatch.:
"In 1876 G,-antw:ts Presidnt ; Zaclh
C handler, Soeretary of the Interior;
Don Cameron, Secretary of War ;
Rtobo on, Secretary of the Navy--a
set of Iuost daring and dangerous
dorperaddoes. But how absurd to
compare in 1880 the feeble and
theorietical Hayes and Schurz, Ol
Thompson and obscure McCrary to
the determination and desperate
daring of their predecessors
Grant, Chandlor, Cameron and
Robeson? No, no! Whatever else
may be possible, the repetition of
the frauds of 1876 is not possible
at least not by the Republicans. If
the Democratic candidate shall re
ceive one hundred and oighty.-fivo
dlectoral votes he will be inatugu
rated as surely as there will be a
fourth of March, 1881."
New York San: "But the groat
and almost solo point of public
interest in the matter is ho%v
Samuel J. Tilden will emerge from
the inquiry. He. too,. is to be
judged justly. He is not to be hold
accountable for the acts of any other
person, unl'ss those acts were atn
thorized or approved by him. The
sentiments of the American people
are too elevated ; their love of jus
tico is too sincere ; their resol"e
that the right shall provail is too
determined for thon over to consent
that one of their chosen leaders
shall be shoved asido for acts which
weenot, in any sense, his. If' the
evidenced destroys Mr. Tilden, de
trydho will be. if, on the other
hand, in a fair, careful, intelligent
judlgment, the evidlenco acquits him,
he will occupy a place in tihe regard
of the peopile warmer than ho ever
bold before."
Philadelphi4 iman: "It is wvorth
whlile to call President H{ayes' at
tention to the fact that he has ap
p)ointed1 to a posnition abroad one of
t,he men who wvas most activo in the
theft of the despatches from the
committee room. T1hat is Bullock,
foirmer messenger of Morton's comn
mittee, but now United States
Consul a t Cologne. If ' the Presi
dent knew of Bullock's erime he is
as guilt,y nai Uullock ; -if ho did not
knowv it, then he will make himself
guilty by permitting his continu
ance in oflice as a representative of~
this government, sincee the sworn
confession of the assistant post..
mastor general makes Bullock but a
thief. Ho should be summarily dis
missed if the President is to 1)e
respected. It would seem that
there has already been quite enough
of this nort of business to satisfy
the ambition of an Administration
which started on a reform basis."
Chicago means "Wood Gone" or,
"No Forest," says the World. This
is a mistake. The word Chicago
comes from the Cherokee language.
The clay banks of the lake near
Chicago, being constantly undermin
ed by the waters, continually broke
and fell into the lake. Thus the
'Indians called tha place "Chick-ago"
or "Broken Banks, ' and the name
has proved so appropiate ever since
that there has been no 4oeire to
chango it .. P'roo /M
E WS OF THE DAY ]
Yellow fever is increasing at Rio
Janoiro, Brazil. The deaths range
from five to ton a day.
The counsel for Kate M. Cobb,
convicted of poisoning her husband,
have withdrawn the motion for a
now trial.
Gen. Chester A. Arthur, rocontly
deposed its collector at New York,
has been unanimously elected chair
man of the Republican central con.
mittee of that city. This action is
con.,truod as a robuko to President
Haves
'11w Senate Committee on For..
eign Ielations will recommend that
$7,000 be paid the widow of Bayard
Taylor. Tnis sum, it is understood,
will not be more than safficient to
pay the obligations for house rent,
&c., incinred in Berlin by Mr. Tay
for while minister.
The Philadelphia jury in the case
of Arthur Chambers, John C. Lark
and John King, churged with cone
spiracy to arrange a prize fight in
Canada,, returned a verdit of acquits
tal. Notwithstanding the verdict
the judge held the accused in $1,
000 bail to keep the peace.
The funeral services over the
body of the the late Right Rev.
Bishop Foloy, of the Chicago dio,
cease, last Friday, were most im,
pressive. The Cathed:al of the
Holy Name was the scene of the last
rites, and was visited by twenty
thousand people during the day,
including all the public officers of
the city.
Oliver -,erguson, a school teacher
in Derry Town ship, Pa., had trouble
with a .scholar, and disussed him
from school. On Thursday last
the pupil attempted to force his way
into the school house, and the
teacher resisted. In a scufel which
ensued, the boy ceized a poker and
struck the teacher over the head,
killing him instantly.
George Washington, the negro
ravisher,.was hanged at Louisville,
Ky., on Friday. t n thousand per
sons witnessed the execution, aimong
whom wore hundreds of women.
At 11.45 a. im. when the drop fell
the rupo broke short off at the top,
and the crowd yelled and booted.
Another no.so being arranged at
11.50 a.m., tue trap was again sprung,
and Waaslhingr.on, being then uncons
scious from the first fall, died with
out a murmur.
Claiborno Smith, tfie third negro
tried for the murder of John C.
Lacy, in New Kent, Va., a few weeks
f;ineo, has been convicted of murd.r
in the second degree and sentenced
to the penitentiary. Two other
negroes, Pa,t Siitth and Judas
Chiiitain, have already been con~
victod, and sentenced to be hanged
March 25. The fourth and last of
the murderous gang will be tried at
the next term of the Circuit Court.
The two doomed to hang are confin
ed in Henrico county jail, in Rich
mioni d.
The large iron safe known as the
"Cent ennial Safe" which was on
exhibition at tihe late Centennial
ex hibhi ln, eontining autographs1)
and pho~tograp)hs of distinguished
men oft the country of 1876, was
cluosod at noon on Saturday, in
Statuary Hall of tile capitol at
Washington, in the presence of a
large unber of spectators. Sena,
tor' Fayc, who plresided over the
Senate after the death of Vice
President Wilson, represented tile
late admmin istration, and Private
Socr etary Rodgers the present
administration. Mr. Nicolay, Pris
vate Secretary to Lincoln, was also
prese~nt. T1hie safe is to remain
closed one hundred years and then
to be opened.
SET TRs TH AT GAmdCD.-Mrs5.
Sallie Isabella McCullough B3rignoli,
of Columl>ia, who made her debut
as a prima donna seome yesrs ago,
has .inst prern red a divorce from
Brignoli on the ground of maritdl
infidelity. Brignoli was met at thme
wharf, w b:en departing on a singing
tour in Europe, with thme docree of
divorce, a claim of $118 for alimony
and another execution for $585.
He will remain in Europe. Mrs.
McCullough, as she now calls her
self, is now a guest in tihe family of
the lady in New York whose daughs
ter married Max Strakosch, where
she is persuing her studies. As she
was blameless, thme Court permits
her to marry again.
The ladies sing "in the sweet
"buy"'and "buy" we will meet in
that beautiful store," and we cer.
tainly canu raise no objection. But
rememiber tile little ones at home
and do not leave the nurse wit,hout
a bottle of Dr. Bull'si Bahv Svenn.*
PErsa Coorl:u's Ciza an:. -"ln tlho
days," Continue'd Mr. Cooper. Hmil,
ing as thih. remombrance came to his
mind, "wo kept no ervatLs as they
! do nowadays. and ray wife and my -
self had to do all that was to he
do.o. After our first child was
born I used to come into the house
and find my wife rocking the cradle
and I relieved her from that while
I was there. After doing that for
a few days I thought to myself that
I could make that t.ling go of itself.
So I wcnt into my shop and made a
p"ndulous cradle that, would rock
the child. Then I >ittached a musi
cal instrument which would sing for
it, and at the same Limo the machine
would keep the flis off. '1ho latter
was very simple ; by hanging some
thing to the cross bar, as the cradle
swung under it, backward and for,
ward, it would create wind enough
to drive away the flies. The machine
was wound up by a weight and
would run for nearly half an hour
without stopping. I took out a
patent for it, and one day a poddler
came along with a horse and wagon
as they do in the country, and saw
the craUo. He struck a b.rgain with
me and bought the patent right for
the State of Connecticut, giving for
it his horse and wagon and all the
goods he had with him. They
afterwards inado some there, but
notbin^ as good as mine. It was a
be-utiful piece of furniture," said
Mr. Cooper regretfully, as he
thought of it as a thing of the past.
WAR! WAR!
-AGAINST HIGH PRICES.-~
'W ITH light rent oind little expenso,
I sell cheap for cash. Look:
Five Cans Fresh Salmon for $1.00.
Fivo Cans Fresh Peachea for $1.00.
Seven Cans Fresh Tomatoes for $1.00
Six Boxes Sardincs for$1.00.
Seven lbs. Fresh Cheoso for $1.00.
Everything in the grocery line low in
Prtirtion at the storo of
feb 7 W. IL DONLY.
J. M. BEATY & Co.
Have in stock all kinds of Steel Plows.
Also Hool Bolts, grass Rode, Traco
Chains,
I'low Lines,
Back Bands,
Plow Bridles,
Fiow Volds,
Swede Iron
for laying Plowr,, &c.
LIVES ARE OFTEN LOST
BY the usu of oheli Keroseno. Got
onOO of our safet.y Lamps in which
even the most dangerous oil is safe.
$20,000 Saved Yearly to Fairfield,
When our farmers learn to puirchaso
Chemicials and make their own fortilizora.
Call and got a book tohing how it, can bo
doc08 MoMASTE2R&BItCE.
THE BURLINGTON
$1,000 IN THRIEE PREMI,UMsa.
W~ TE will pay the agent sending m. the
VVlar gest list at subsjor cre beforom
March 1, 1870, onie first-classi 71 octavo,
rosowood or walnnmt, NEw RCALE, UTIconT
1'IANo, $850.00. Tihisi list to be at least
850 names,
For the second list,- not to be~ less
th'rn 200 inme, $100 in gol d.
For thme third list,, not, to be0 loss t,han
100 names, $50) in gold.
For $I3.l0, at one time, we will send
ten copien one year.
For $7.00, at one timme, we will send five
copiesC 0ono year.
F or thron namesic and $6.00 we will
send thme Companion tScroll Sawv and
Drill, value $3. 50. as5 a 5lpeial proiu tm.
For iivo nameis anid $10.01 WII Sill send
thme Companion Scroll lHaw, Drill, and
Lathe, value $5.00, na a s4pociaml prom-im.
We will send THEzm IlAwEYg, and "G LAN
1Nos yon -ruE CUamous". to agents at $3.0
and return $2.0'), i f the beok is not wanito.l
on examinntion, for its retutrn, pIost-pid,
if returned at, once. Address
HIAWREYE P'UBLISIllNG COMP'ANY,
doe 6 Burlington, Tbwa.
D)ISSOLVEDl BONE..
-j- oN'T buy Guano, but got D)issolvedl
LJkolmo to mmnix wit,h foutr Odmnpost
hoes, Etiwan D)issolve'd Brone for usalo
by McMASTEBi & BIU,
feb 13
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