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y ll? I jr M. .Wi ^ ititi* LAURENS C. H., S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST If), 1885. NO. 3 GAMBLER RANSOM. tlow Ile Bared a Man from Kain ana Matt? m Family Httppy. "I could ro?ate hundreds of atones r" about his lifo," unid a sinning light of tho N. Y. Athletic Club sneaking to a re porter of tho N. Y. Mail & Express about tho well-known snorting man CharlGV Hansom, who died recently. "There is ono story about him which the papers have not published yet Charley and I roado tho acquaintance of wliat wo thought to be a very wealthy man at tho Monmouth Beach raco-courao two years ago last summer. Ho was introduced to us by a*prominent oflicial of polico headquarters. After tho races woro over, all three wont over to Long Branch. Charloy and I came up to this city on an carly train, leaving our new acquaintance bulli nd. I never saw him after that, but Charley one day met him on Broadway, near Twenty-third street They went to thc Fifth Avenue hotel to ffct a drink. 1 don't know exactly how t was, but that samo night both sat down in tho room of a neighboring ho tel lo play draw-poker. I do not wish to disclose tho gentleman's name, be ciuiso ho is a good father now and be cause such indiscreetness on my part might hurt his present fair chances; but ho was a confounded ass for his own sake. Charley was an honest fellow, however, ami he played a square game. Our new friend dropped $376 that night, all lie had in his possession. Ho mado an appointment for thc next ovening in the hope of getting cvon, but ho again quit a loser. Tills timo he throw up his hands to tho tune of $1,200. They kept playing every odd night until tho mid dle of the following December. Our gay friend by that timo was minus, ac cording to ins own calculation $18,900. Charley wanted him to give up poker half a dozen times boforo bo lost this amount, but in each instance ho refused. Tho fellow commenced to drink like a fish and Charley confidentially told mo he'd lio hanged'before he'd sit down with him again. Ho never did play af ter that, although tho fellow accused him of being afraid to render satisfac tion. 'Ono morning about 10 oclock Char ley foll in wita tho would-be sport on Sixth avenue. He was partly intoxicat ed, and his dissipated appcaranco de noted ho had not seen a bed for several nights. Charley endeavored to get away from him on tho plea of business, but lt was useless. Our friend held on to thc lapel of his overcoat and insisted that they repair to a room aud indulgo in a gamo. But thc devil could not have altered Charley's fixed determina tion and he said so. While both were talking a little boy of about 12 years came up and touched tho log of Char ley's foolish friend. There was a little snow on thc ground, and tho little fel low's foot protruded from a brokou pair of boot?. Ho had ncithor overcoat nox mittens on, and ho really looked tho Jncturo of misery. Turning around, oui riend saw thc boy, and Charloy often told mo he turned deadly white. 'What are you doing here?' ho finally asked the lad. 'Oh, papa,' stammered thc boy, moving backward, as if ho was afraid, 'I have been looking all over foi you. Aunt and mamma sent mo to find you.' This drove the fellow almost mail, and he broke out with frightful oaths, winding up by bidding tho boy to get homo or he would kick him al! over tho street. The lad departed with out a word, but before going ho cast a mait significant but affectionate look at .the man he called father. ..Charley had had enough, and break ing away from the man's grasp he walked in the opposite direction to that Kaken by tho boy. The father, after a moment's hesitation, went into a gin mill. When ('harley saw him disappear from view he turned on his heel and with a quick gail started after the lad. Ho overtook him al Twenty-fifth street. Tho boy Would not talk for some time, but finally ho broke down and told all; Informed him how his father was fast ruining a good business down town; how he hud mortgaged tho house they lived in, on- -well, never mind what street, how mother, sister, and self wera being neglected, abused, and starvod. ami how their once comfortable hon? wns Lust going to piceos. Well, tho omi of that business was thut a sober mat entered his home that night, and r weeping wifo embraced him. Tho) wero tears of Joy, I assure you. Th?, mortgage was paid off thn next day, ? good business Was revived, and a mar who not long before wished to be t sport, sat down lo dinner with his fami ly in his cozy dining-room. No mattel how the thiiig was managed. I prom isod a dead friend I would never tel :any ono about it, but I could not keep t ,secret, for ho was a good fellow. H? ?may have been a sporting man; maj ,havo earned a living ny oards, and maj jbavo associated with some rough poi sons, but I'll warrant thcro neve walked along the path of lifo a bettoi man than Charley Hansom. Tho time-honored story of Goldsmith' arriad by Ma landlady and Johnson' Hll If of the Vicar of Wakefield" seem to j, a in ?onto danger. It is impossibr that t"*d* account, received from John ion hiroshi ?hoald not bo substantial!, true* vot N M'' introduction to Mi Amok's new 'ac-similo of tho first edi "on Austin Doft?M?i shows that it wil have to bo leonerd with certain ir convenient facts, flo ?rov?j th.t tb book. I??, early as Oct. 28. 1762, beean) tho property of three PfT>Qf. ?T.c whom was Heniamln Collins, the Salli bury printer. This relioves Mm. Flerr ingi, UohUinlth's Islington landlady from ber traditional reputation fe asperity, OS Goldsmith at tliot date hs not gone to Islington; and lt-fixes son. time anterior to October, 17?,.WTW comiKwition of tho book-a point hlthoi to obscure. Mr. Dobson also glv< muoh now information as to the Un publication of tho "Vioar," and short t Lat it* oarlj popularity and sale wei by no means so groat as gonerauy sn] nosed. A St Paul, Minn, dog watches tl trough directly under the ice che Sore the beor kegs are placee, ar when tho trough becomes lilied wlui tl beer he will lap it up. Ho rom? water, and drinks beer rooming, not and night After drinking heavily 1 will go to sleep, and the first thong ?ra waking op seems to be of beer, se feet directly to tho trough and setlsti Ki? feta* Will You Do It? Tho nursery is over-crowded, Thoro aro throo little one? in il, of two. six and eight yean of age, beside Jane, tho nurse girl, who sloops in tho bed with tlic six year old, ami yet you go to your room, oh, mothar, night after night from your party, or lecture, or receiving at homo, too tired or careless to think of anything but your own personal fa tigue. Whon thc baby frets ami grows wliito and hollow-eyed, yon wonder why it is that your children disappoint you so as they grow up. He was a healthy, chubby little fellow, but he is becoming spindling like the rest, and losing all his good looks, and (Mara, tho six year old, is listless and acts moro like an old woman than anything else, while Ethel is ero., and quarrelsome to that (logree you aro novor sure of her, and have got ten over the habit of calling her down to tho reception-room to sec visitors. There is precious little comfort to be lind out of all of thotu, you cry. Now let us whisper a hint Take Ethel out of tho nursery, and put her into that room at the end of the. hall, and opening into yours. "V\ hy that is my dressing-room," you ?av. Wo know it, but we are going to have it for lier. Very well, so far, so good. Now comes thc greatest difficulty, what to do with Clara. There is no other small room for her connected with the family rooms, ami she ls too little .to bc shut off by herself. Ah! we have it; you may take back your dressing-room. The large Square room across the hall, tho ono with three windows, is just the thing. Now put two small beds in it, and givo it to tho two little sisters for their very own. "Hut that is Tom's room; ho is devo ted to that place, and would never give it up in the, world. It is Iiis para dise.'' Ile will soon have another that ho will like much bettor, for you know you never allowed him to invite tho boys into this room, or to do certain things in it, as it has so many nice furnishings in it, and it is so sightly at the head of thc front stairs it must always be in per fect condition. Lut us have that largo open room in tho upper story. "What! my lumber closet?" Tho very same. Now if you will look over your accumulation of used-up, broken, or unfashionable housohold ar ticles that ure allowed to be stored there, you will easily SOO that just one-third of thain is all you will care to retain. These can bo packed up snugly in that smaller room just back. The next step is to prepare the now empty room, using all the taste you have, for a hoy's occupan cy, and invite him up into it. Our word for it, the lirst thing he will say will 1XJ "Jolly r "Well; you have turned our house up side down with a venganool" Never mimi abusing us. Will you do Ul-Margaret Sidney, in Good Jlougo keeping. Tho Woman who Translated New ton's ''Principia." Other women, whose names aro less known, wrote, on astronomy during tho seventeenth century. We uinv cite Maria ('unit/, daughter of a Silesian doctor, who published astronomical tables in 107)0; Jeanne Punie, who in 1650 wrote a book defending thc Copernican sys tem against "scientific" attacks upon it. Of more modern date was Madame Gabrielle Emilie do Brotoull, Mnrquiso du Chatelet, who was for fifteen years tho constant friend of Voltaire, and in her retreat at Ci rey devoted her wholo life to tho sciences. Sho it was who first inado known to France, then dovotcd to scientific Cartcsianism and the doctrine of elementary vortices, the masterly work of Newton. This was a titlo to glory which might have made tho fort uno of more than ono scientific man, and it fell upon a woman. Mademoi selle de Broteull had received a very careful education, but her natural taste for study and serious occupations did not prevent her from sinning brilliant ly in tho society of thc courts of tho Re gency for some yoars after her marriago With M. du Chatolot. Ono of tho best ovidonecs of her gonius that wo havo is in tho bearing toward her of Voltaire, who had no respect for any mental gifts. Ho had returned from Great Britain full of enthusiasm for English science ?nd philosophy, aud occupied with the dream of making Nowton known to his countrymen and dethroning Descartes nt tho Academy, lt may appear singu lar that ho selected Madame dn Chate let for his work; but tho choice wns not extraordinary after all. Sho had al ready made some progress in mathe* matioal studies under the direction of Mauportlus and Clairnut, and Voltaire was looking for tho assistance ho noeded to some ono outside of the official scion? tlic circle. Tho translation of Newton's "Pi i nei j >ia" would be. the bc.it mean t of making known in France the English geometrician and the admirable simpli city which this theory of attraction lent to tho study of the movements of stars. This work Madame du Chatolot did well. But she did moro than make a simple translation. The alg?bralo com mentary which follows the translation is in largo part tho work of this Indy, although it was oomposod under the direction of Clairaut and revised by him. "Wo havo wltnossed two prodi ?cs," said Voltaire in his historical in odnet ion to tho "Principia1'-"one that Nowton should havo composed this work, and the other that a woman should have translated and elucidated it"-From "Women in Agronomy," by K. Lagrange, in Popular Science Monthly for February. On Hlghbrook Rond, Mount Desert, "Mossloy Hall," the now cottage of Mr. Blaine, is being erected. The site ls a very pretty one, being well ele vated, and commanding an excellent view of Frenchman's Bay, with its numerous islands, tho villas on tho other shore, and tho lovely grounds of several shore-cottages located near by. At the western side, from the upper windows, a good view is had of tireen Mountain and other points of Interest. Tho main building ls 61x28 feet, with a wing 82x!M toot. The main entrance is ou the west side, and to the left of the vest?bulo ls tho reception-room, 11x14 feet Th? hall is 18x1? foot, ?nd to th? right? on the east side, ls located the dining-room, which is 17x29 feet, while on th* left ls the parlor, of the sam? dlDfjiaiono. Melville'* ,\ nihil ion. "IPs a terrible thing lo laj cold," said Chief Engineer Melville, of the United States navy, at the rooms of tho United Sorvico elah, "but it is more terrible to sufi'cr tho pangs of hunger, to crawl on hands am! knees on the iee, as 1 havo done, that my comrades might bc saved. It was not for myself? but for my coun try and my fellow-man." Engineer Melville, who looked tho picture of rosy health, was surrounded by distinguished officers and ox-oOlcors of tho army and navy as he read his in teresting paper ot? Arctic exploration. Among them were (ion. Joshua T. Owen, Capt Richard C. Collum, Pay Director Kn ?..?oil, and Col. Nicholson. In his opening remarks Mr. Melville said: "When I returned from Siberia 1 promised myself and the whole world that I would never lecture on thc trials and sufferings of Arctic explorations that I would never coin money out of tho blood and bones of my dead com panions." Continuing ho said: "For more than 300 years some of tho best blood and brains of tho world have boen devoted to solvinjr the problem of tho far north, lt was lor a grand and noble purpose tho benefit of man, that we may have knowledge, which is wealth, power and happiness." Mr. Melville spoke of the peculiar ab sence of scurvy In tho later American expeditions, particularly those of tho Polaris. Jeannette, anti Creely party, while Sir George Nares' exploring party were terribly afflicted. Ile thought it was a matter of food, clothing and woll ventilated quarters. Ile had fre quently been askod how bo hoped to es cape, the fate of those who had gone be fore him if lib attempted lo roach tho polo. His answer was that thc bitter school of experience led him to believe that the pole could bo reached safely, nut! thnt tho proper route was by Franz j Joseph Lani!, tho southern cud of which j was accessible ovary year. ! Mr. Melville then described the Arctio outfits necessary for explorers, and tho mistakes made in making them too heavy. Ho said; "I have .slept comfort ably on toj) of a sled in a sleeping-bag, with the thermometer 100 degrees nelow tho freeling point of water. Tho Arctic sleeping-bogS, he explain ed, were worn with tho hair inside, thus reversing nature, ll was tho only fur clothing worn that way. Ho thought tho very Idea of unlimited appropriations ! by congress caused an Arctic expedition I tt? he loaded down with tho worthless rubbagu of every crank in Ibu laud. His sleoping-bag weighed cloven pounds. Thu Creely expedition bags weighed twenty-two pounds -"elegant things to sleep in, but death totllOSO who attempt ed to carry them." In conclusion tho chief engineer said that with his know ledge, born of exp?rience, he expected at some future day to conduct a party in safety to tho Arctic regions, and to find a grand, public-spirited citlr.cn of vast means who would aid him in solving tho problem of a commercial pole. Thc road waa one of trial and tribulation, but tho object was attainable and the scientific world would not be satisfied until it was reached.-Philadelphia 2Vm?. The Universality of Inventions. We do not often stop to think how little man lins or enjoys that is not the fruit of invention. Things which man has long had we cense to think of as in ventions, and wo are ant to apply that term only to modern things-to things tho origin of which we know, i i)t it will bo hard for any of us to natue any thing which wo use or onjoy which ls not an Invention, or tho subject of an invention, in its adaptation to our uso. Tho air wc breathe and thc water wo drink are provided by Nature. But wo drink but very little water except from a cup or vessel of some kind, which is a human invention. Even if we drink from tho shell of a gourd, wc aro using a tiling which, in thc shane we uso it, is a human contrivance, and thc contriv ances which man has devised for obtain ing water and distributing it have been among tho most wonderful and Ingeni ous ofany which have occupied tho hu man mind. Bountifully as Nature has provided water and pluced it within tho reach of man, yet wo do in fact get or uso but little of it except by thc aid of inventions. Tho air surrounds us at all times and wo cannot help using it if wo would; but, if wo want it either hotter or colder than wo find it, we must resort to somo invention to gratify our want. If we want it to blow upon us when it is still, wo mu9t set it in motion by somo contrivance, and fans among other things havo been invented for that pur pose A largo amount of human in genuity has neon expended upon dev .ces for moving air when wo want it moved, upon fans, blowers, and ventilators. How small a part of our food do we tako as animals do, in thc form provided by Nature, and how vory large a sharo in some form contrived by man! Wo drink infusions of tea or ooffeo without thinking that tho compounds aro human inventions. How largo n placo tho milk of tho cow has in the food of man, but how little of it could wc have but for a multitude of contrivances! We think of butter as wo do of milk, that it is a {i rot lue lion of Nature; and so it is, but ts separation from milk is an invention which has been followed by a host of in ventions to effect tho separation easier or better. Sugar is a production of Nature, but little Known a fow hundred years ago. Separated form tho plants in which it is formed, it is an invention of man. Tho savage who first crushed somo kernels of wheat between two stones, and separ ated the mealy interior from tho outer skin, invented flour, and tho human mind has not yet ceased to be excroiscd on tho subject of improvement-Chaun cey Hmith, in I'oputar Scienee Monthly for February. A State street merchant put a hand some plaster figure in his store window and prepared himself to enjoy it with bis customers. Along in the afternoon the wife of an artist came in and notic ed it at once. "Ah, Mr. B." she said, "that's a handsome figuro in your win dow." "Yes," replied the- merchant, "I call it so myself, I do." "Your taste is excellent," pursued the adv, "and I'm glad to see a lovo of art developing in commercial circles. Wi at is tho fl -Hebe?" "O, no, maWi; it's p ol paris."-4f?r?Aati< Traveler. Tho Model Tor a Marble Hand. After tht? restoration of Louis Philippe to tho French throne, many of Napol eon's soldiers wero loft in comparative poverty. Ono of them, a famous Gen eral, had a beautiful daughter whom ho w?8?icil to marry rici), but who fell in lovo with a poor young man-an under secretary or something of that kind. Sho married at lier father's request a rich Count, but rofused at tho redding ceremony to allow thc ring to be placod upon her left hand, upon widen sho woro a ruby, put there by lier lover. Her jealous husband was not long in finding out what was the matter, and, Intercepting a letter In which tho ardent ?oung lover claimed Matilda's hand as is, he determined upon an awful re venge. One night as tho celebrated surgeon Lisfrance was returning from a profes sional visit, lie waa captured by a party of mon, blindfolded anil taken to a dis tant palace, and led through a labyrinth of passages and rooms. At length Iiis conductor, stopping, said: "Doctor, wo have arrived; remove your bandage." Tho doctor, whoso fears had given placo to a restless curiosity and a vague ap prehension, obeyed, and found himself in a small chamber furnished with re markable luxury, ami half lit by an alabaster lamp hung from tho ceiling. The windows were hermetically sealed as well as the curtains of an alcovo at the end of the room. Hero the doctor found himself alone with one of Iiis abductors. He was a mau of imposing height and command ing air, and his whole exterior of the most aristocratic stamp. His black eyes gleamed through tho half mask that covered the upper part of his faco, ami a nervous agitation shook his color less lips, and the thick black board that inflamed tho lower. "Doctor," said he, in an abrupt, loud voice, "prepare for your work-an amputation." "Where is tho patient?" asked tho doc tor, turning toward tho alcove. Tho curtains moved slightly, and hu heard a stilled sigh. "Prepare, sir," said tho man convulsively. "Hut, sir, I must sec the patient." "You will see only tho hand you aro to cut ofl'." Thc doc tor, folding his arms and looking firmly at thc other, said: "Sir you brought me hero by force. If you need my profes sional assistance I ?hall ?lo my duty without caring for that or troubling my self about your secrets; but if you wish to commit a crime you can not force mo to bo your accomplice." "Bo content, sir," replied the oilier, "there is no crime in this," and leading him to the alcOVO he drew from the curtains a band. "It Ls this you aro to cut off." The doctor took thc hand in his; his fingers trembled at tho touch. It was a lady's hand, small, beautifully molded and its pure white set off by a magnifi cent ruby encircled with diamonds. "But," cried tho doctor, "there is no need of amputation; nothing is-." "And I, sir! I say," thundered tho other, "if 3-011 refuse I will do il myself," and, seizing a hatchet, ho drew the hand toward a small tublo and seemed about to strike. Thc doctor arrested his ann. "Do your duty then, doctor." "Oh, but this is an atrocious act," said tho surgeon. "What is that to you? It must be done. I wish it; madam wishes it also; if necessary she will demand it herself. Como, madam, request thc doctor to do you this service." Thc doctor, nonplused, and almost fainting under the torture of his feelings, hoard from the alcove, in a half-expiring voice and an inexpressible accent of de spair and resignation: "Sir, since you aro a surgeon -yes-I entreat you- let it bo you and not-Oh, yes; you! you! in mercy!" "Woll, doctor," said the man, "you or I." Tho resolution of this man was so frightful, tho prayer of the poor lady so full of entreaty and despair, that tho doctor felt that even humanity com manded of him compliance willi tho appeal of the victim. He took his in struments with a last imploring look at tho unknown, who only pointed to tho hand, and then with a sinking heart bogan tho operation. Tor the lir.d time in his experience his hand trembled; hut the knife was doing its work. There WLS a cry from thc alcove, and then al( wat. silent. Nothing was heard but the horrid sound of tho operation till the hand and tho saw fl together on the door. Lisfrance wore the ruby upon his watch-chain, whore it was seen by tho young lover on his return to Paris, and out of it grew a duel that led to the. dis closure of tho infamous crime. Tho morning after tho young lovor's arrival at tho capital ho was presented by a man ?in livery with an ebony box. Opening it ho discovered a bleeding I hand, Matilda's, and on it a paper with those words: "Seo how tho Count of keeps his oath." After the duel tho you ne man fleed to Brussels, where tho bleeding hand was transferred to can vas. Iuirt seeing tho painting copied it In marble.--Lexington (Ky.) Jitter to Cincinnati Enquirer. One of the daughters of Mrs. Eliza beth Cady Stanton give* an amusing account of the way her mother ana Miss Susan B. Anthony work togother on their "History of Woman Suffrage." Mrs. Stanton is a stickler for tho philo sophy of tho suffrage movement, and MIKS Anthony is punctilious about dates. Tho ladies often get into excited discus lions over their subject, and dip their p. n-. into their mucilage-bottles and their tmicilagc-brushos into thoir ink bottles in thoir excitement over their work. Thoy sit at opposite sides of a large doublo desk in Mrs. Stanton's library, and occasionally they find each other so persistent in opinion that they .it Lack and ?taro at ench other in a sil ence that is very near anger. Onco in a while they will march out of thc room by different doors, mid there seems like lihood that their friendship of forty years is about to be broken, but after a while they will bo found peaceably at work again together. "Wasn't that Mr. Talkaway to whom you int induced mu this morning an old college chum of yours?" askod Mrs. Gusher. MYea," replied her husband. "Then why didn't you invite him to dinner*" "I was afraid he'd como." Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmen ls still ft frequent visitor to tbe Old Cornor Book store. GKNICKAI, NBWS ITEMS? Facts of IntoroHt, UntlioroU from Various QuarttirH. -.Representative Randall is suffering from tho gout. -Moody and Sankcy arc meeting with success in Atlanta." -Tho revolutionists in Buenos Ayres have been completely defeated. -Statistics show that in Europe thc women have a majority ot 4,009,000. -Europe is stated to have an avail able military force of 9,000,000 sol diers. -Thousands of negroes in Alabama will refiuirc active help for many weeks. -Thc captured'Apaches have been sent to Kort Marion, .St. Augustine, Florida. -Poker playing in thc Kimball House, Atlanta, has been broken up by thc authorities. -If thc weather is favorable, a grand naval review will come oil at Pensa cola on Wednesday. - Kocheforl and several of his French Badical friends have been arrested oil charges of inciting riot. -The naval evolutions at Pensacola, on Tuesday, were very successful and were continued several days. -Hon. Wm. E. Forster, Chief Sec retary for I relam? under thc previous Gladstone Ministry, is dead. -The steamer Mountain Hoy was turned over at Owensboro, Ky., by a gale and three men were drowned. --The Bland silver bill was defeated in the House ot Bcpresentativcs ott Thursday, by a vote ol' 102 to 126. --W. C. Ackerman, the celebrated "boy preacher,'' attempted suicide in New York. Disappointed in love. -Thomas A. Thatcher, Professor of Latin and Literature in Vale College, was found dead in his bed last week. -The Mexicans are down on the Chinese. Au Anti-Chinese demon stration was recently made at Mazat lan. -The (icm (Mtv Mills, Quincy, III., the largest Hour mills in that section,! were burnt last week; loss neath $200,000. -Several prominent. Mormons have been arrested in Salt Lake, City, charg ed with unlawful cohabitation. The> gave bail. -The people in portions of Labra dor arc suffering for food and aie con suming their dogs. Actual starvation is imminent. --Dr. Lucy C. Waite, of Chicago, has been admitted to thc Univorsary of Vienna on equal terms with the male, students. - Beprcseutalivc. Honk, of Tennes see, is a hopeful man. He actually supposes the Republicans may elect a Governor there ! -Thc past winter has been very severe and disti nctive to birds in Great Britain. Large numbers have died from want ol' food. -Harvard's 260tli anniversary occurs next October, and the students want to celebrate it, but the faculty re Ulai ll silent on thc subject. --Witnesses before the telephone in vestigating committee last week were not public men and (he testimony was of no general interest. - The Kine ot Greece and his Min isters have decided to abandon war preparations, as Prince Alexander has yielded to the powers. -Gen. Pope left San Francisco on his journey into retirement in a special train. Time was when he was glad to retire with ins baggage train. -Tlie Republicans of Cincinnati carried the municipal election by an overwhelming majority, thc Demo crats being kept home by bad weather. -A Paris paper states that twenty five cases of cholera have appeared in the town ol' Audlcrne, in Fiulstcrre, and that one of them han proved fatal. -Dr. Printon H. Warner, a well known physician of Baltimore, (lied Of hydrophobia, on Tuesday. Mo was bitten bjf a small dog Christinas day. - Four wild trains on the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad came imo collision on thc outskirts of Beloit, Wis. Three persons were bailly in jured. -Secretary Manning continues to improve. Ho was permitted to get out of lied and sit up a short time on Thursday, thc first attempt since his attack. -Ex-Senator McDonald denies hav ing a griovanco against thc Adminis tration and say? he has expressed no opinion as to tho eiTects of Cleveland's policy. -Ploting has been renewed in East St. Louis and thc polico had to bring their Winchester rifles to bear on the crowd before they could bo made lo retire. -Tl - ii ?lights of Labor have issued an iiiiiiruss from St. Louis, signed by three of tho executivo boards, in which it is declared that Jay Gould must bo overthrown. -A juvenile vagabond, who had been convicted of tho murder of a workman on the Champs do Mars, was executed at Paris, last week, with the guillotine. -Every railroad bridge between Nowport, renn., and Asheville, N. C., except the iron bridge near Warm Springs was carried away by the recent floods. -The Gcnoral Convention of the Episcopal Church will bo hold in Chi cago in October. That city has already subscribed $8,000 for the entertain ment of tho body. -A question likely soon *o como lo the iront is tho practicability of tun neling between England and Ireland At one point the distance is less than twenty-two miles. -The lower house of tho Prussian Landtag, by a voto of 214 to 120, adopted a bill expropriating the land of roles In Posen and colonizing the province with Germans. -The Balkan Conference will ap point Prince Alexander Govornor of East Ronmelia for Ave yeara, ignoring the Prince's refusal to accept tbo ap pointment for that term. -Wm. Ellis, of St. Francis, Ark., a bard drinker, who habitually beat bis wife, shot her and her infant fatally with a Winchester rille. Ile was hur ried to jail to avoid lynching. -A fire in tho Central Railroad warehouses at Savannah, on Tuesday, destroy ed forty-tivo car loads of corn and damaged three hundred bales of cotir ii ; estimated loss $25,000. - The Mormons have just closed a four days' session at Proro, Utah, over ten thousand people being in attend ance. They have no intention of emi grating by wholesale from Utah. -Thc boiler of thc British steamship Enchantress, ashore on Frying Fan Shoals off Wilmington, N. C., explod ed last week. Three wreckers were badly scalded-one dangerously. -Thc Republicans have elected the Mayor of Madison, Wis., for tho first time since 1880. Hacine and Kenosha also elect Republicans. The entire Republican ticket was elected at Ea Crosse. -In tho recent municipal election at Fori Worth, Texas, every Alderman chosen was a Knight of Labor and the Mayor leans that way. Incendiary speeches were made at a recent public meeting. - Louis P. Schmidt, of Freeport, Illinois, killed himself-drivon to tho act, it is believed, through dismissal from the Knights of Labor. Ile was charged with divulging thc secrets of the Order. -A lire broke out in a lumber yard in La Crosse, Wis-., on Tuesday, and spread in different directions; Ure engines from adjacent towns had to be called in. Tho loss will reach fully $1,600,000. -Representativo Samuel j. Ran dall's admirers arc talking of him as a successor to Mr. Manning in thc Treasury Department. Counting chicken-, before they are hatched is an old habit of tho sanguine. -Isadore Seidcnhaum, a young man, went into the sleeping room of Annie R?sentele, a pretty girl ot flftcon, in Miluaukic, and killed her and tl.cn himself with a pistol. No causo is assigned for the terrible act. - A strike of colton spinsters and weaver- against the lowering of wages is in progress at. Ensticde, Holland. So tar no disorders have occurred, although the Socialists are urging the strikers to resort to forcible measures. -Dr. Luther C. Rose, of Palmyra, Ohio, claims to hvvu invented a most excorient telephone transmitter. Ina (esl over 878 milos of wiroia whisper was heard distinctly, and abo thc tick ing ola watch held ten feet from the transmitter. -The reitort of thc Royal Commis sion appointed to inquire into the business depression throughout Croat Rritlatl contains some very strong statements about the da in ago io tho trade ol'that country by li i t? i i tariffs in the L idled States. -Tho Chin?se M ?ni-?or was grossly insulted Oil his arrival in San Francisco la.-t Tuesday. The Collector of CU8? toms rofuscd to Iel him laud, without an inspection of his credentials. The affair caused quito a sensation, hut this has quieted down. --The month of March, with its dry winds, has always been a disastrous one in the Uro record. Toe waste for this country and Canada for that monti has averaged $7,000,000. Last yeal tho March losses footed np $9,000,000, and this year they wore $ll>,ii?o,UUU. - R. C. Coylo, a respected citizen o Dalton, Ga., was taken from his bonn and whipped severely by masked mon Two yening females were whipped bj the same party. The whipped Indi vidltals are charged with reporting tin whippers for running illicit distilleries -Sherill' Slatch, of Cochise county Arizona, wont to Cen. ('rook with ? warrant for Geronimo and forty om ".lohn Does.-' Gen. Crook rep I lei that the Indians are held as prisoner of war uniler Instructions from Wash iligton, and ho would not give then up. --.One of the mail cars attached tc fast mail train No. 4, which left Chica go at .').;5o p. m. on Thursday oil tin Lake Shore Railroad, was burned a Oak Harbor, Ohio. Tho oar contained besides tho mall, a casket in willoi wore tho remains of a mother and he new-born babe. - Illinois Republicans arc plumin; themselves over "patronago" dlsscu siens among tho Democrats in tin Eighteenth Congressional district o that State. Of course thc suggestioi is made that, these will cause Colone Morrison's defeat. Tho same thiiij has been said before -Mas. Foster, wifo of thc lalo Sena tor from Connecticut, who vyas th acting vice-President and President, o tho Senate pro tem. from 18Go-(>7, alto spending- the winter in Washington has gono to Reaufort, S. C., for a visi to tho family of Lieutenant Lyman United States navy. -It seems to bc a general imprcf sion in Washington Mr. T. L. Fortune editor of tho Freeman, thc indcpcml cut organ of tho colored people, woul liko to have tho Rccordcrship of Deed at Washington in case Mr. Matthew is not confirmed. Mr. Fortune friends think ho will get it. -Will. S. Hays, tho noot-authoi docs not want tho Louisvillo Postofllc and has telegraphed to Washington "Toll Prcsidont Cleveland for th Lord's sake not to appoint mo Pos master. I don't want to bo annoye by 100,000 citizens wanting place Pd rather onglnccr a balky mule." -M. Sarrlon, Minister of the Int riot , has ordered all tho mayors ai: prefects of tho country to do thc utmost to dissuado Frenchmen fro emigrating. Tho officials aro instruc cd lo oxpatiato on tho obstacles ai disappointments which await ney comenf in nil parts of tho world, pa tieularlv ill A mci ie.i. -Governor Leo, of Virginia h issued a strong appeal to thc peoplo his State, asserting that tho dobt qm tion can be forever sot tied by t patriotic citizens of tho old Commo wealth refusing to deal in Ihe detest coupons. A call has boon issued f public meetings lu denounce tho m who offer coupons for taxes. -Representative Herbert Im? intro ductl a resolution to appropriate $-W0,. ooo, to be immediately available, to bo expended under thc direction of tho Secretary of War in tho purchase and distribution of subsistence, stores ?. d oilier necessary articles to aid tn thc relief of destitute persons in thc over flowed districts of Alabama. -Mr. (ieorgc Hearst, of California just appointed United States Senator in place of tho late General Miller, is not only one of thc vory rich mon of that State in lands, mines and money, but he is also a public-spirited citizen and a Democrat. Ile has won thc honor at Governor Stonoman's hands, and will (ill the place with credit. -Robert G. Phillips was hanged at Indianapolis last Friday noon for wife murder. Phillips attempted suicide at tho samo time bc kille?I his w ile, hy cutting his throat. Thc wound had never thoroughly healed, and ho has breathed through a tube since June 24 last. His body was taken down in twenty minutes alter the drop fell. - The Government University al Tokio, in Japan, is to bo raised to a higher standard, and celebrated pro fessors will ho invited from difieren! countries. Pour other universities, secondary in importance, are lo be es tablished. Greek, Latin and. some other languages will bu added to thc curriculum of thc Tokio University. -A passenger train over the Fitch burg, Mass., Railroad was thrown from the track down an embankment ol'two hundred feet, near West Deer? Held, Thursday evening. Several per sons were killed ami many others seriously wounded, some ol' whom will die. Thc cars caught lire from thc stoves, and two or three were de stroyed. -The testimony of thc Chicago builders is practically the same as that ?d' those al Washington. Contracts for buildings that would give weeks of steady employment to med?anlos and laborers are being pigeonholed or rejected because tee unsettled condition of industrial matters makes tho accept ance ol a contract a matter of almost certain loss. THE LAURENS HAIL JOHN e. IIA8KELL, N. lt. D?A I., Columbia, s. C. Laurens, S. C. HASKELL Al DIAL, A T T O H N E Y S AT L A W, LAURENS C. IL, S. C. J. T. JOHNSON. W. ll RICHEY. JOHNSON ?ft RICHEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Omer -Fleming's Corner, Northwest side of Public Square. LACK FAS C. H., S. C. .T. C. OAKLINGTON, A TT O It N EY AT LA W, LAURENS C< IL, S. C. O iii cc over W. II. Garrett's Store. W. C. BENET, Pi Pi M'OOWAN, Abbeville. Laurens. BENET & MCGOWAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LAURENS 0. II., S. C. J. W. PEROUSON. CEO. P. YOUNO. FERGUSON ?ft YOUNO, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LAURENS C. H., S. C. R. e. TODD. w. II. MARTIN. TODD ?ft MARTIN, A T T O RN E Y S A T L A W, LAURENS 0. H., S. C. N. .1. HOLMES. iL V. SIMPSON. 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