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EMPSON MILUS. ?Htcr Hipp Lo YOL. ?. LAI KENS C. LIM S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 28, 1886. big job of Clothing _Baltimore Fir?. THE FAMOUS DK ATI I VALLEY. t un ri: Alt\I<\TI HOI K MUN ri>o rn?; I.O.Mi LOHT MI KUM. Tholr WWffOai Hlirlveted und Jltrir Water lin-. roi? Hum!-YIUMIM I'orlnhlDg llrivru lin? M . > 111111 ; I H .> YVrru lt t-uclieil. Los ANOKI.U.H, Oal., September 27. There uro now in tin's city three im n who hit ve recently crossed end recrossed the fumons Death Valley of Southern Cali fornia, and who bavo succeeded in solv ing a mine of mystery which has bullied tho most daring and skillful prospectors for many years. Thc Gunsight placers were located in Mil, but afterward lost, und though repeated attempts have been nindo to lind them, most of tile ie.cn en gaged in tho effort have perished. About six weeks ugo when A. [.', ,1 nil son, A. D. Spring and Boriioy (.'niter an nounoed that they woro going alt r the Gnnsight trnil, 'their friends tried to disuado thom, and chance acquaintances laughingly bude them good-by forovor. No ono ever expected to see them again, .and when they set cut confidently oil their mission they were given upas dead mon might have been. So many such expeditions had left this mid other towns only to moot death in its most horrible form that this ono was regarded us es pecially foolhardy. ' About a week ugo tho three mon re turned. They ?carno in by rail, ragged, emaciated and feeble, and ono of thom, Curter, sick abed. Jlut all were enlim' siastic over their achievements, and each had in his pockets nuggets to ?nove his assertion that tho Gunfight minc had been found. The .story of their trip would be incredible wen? they not herc as living witnesses to its truth, their bodies bearing all too plainly tho proofs . of tho sufferings which they have under .gone. Knowing that tho discoverers of tho 'Gunsight mines crossed tho Death Val ley, these adventurers sought, if possi ble, to make the same trail. Once through the Mojave desert, they soon came to tho dazzling white Bandy plain whore no life can oxist. Almost at the first stop they wen? prostrated by the berco heat, from above and below. Their feet swelled so that they wno compelled to rio open their shoes, and tho goggles . willoh they had prepared Wei e but feeble protection for their eyes. The nico hud two wagons, inch drawn i;y two horses, and in theco vohteles they carried water in barrels and other sup pin ??? After an hour or two of tho most painful locomotion, the heat becoming juiorc wtolornble at every step, tho party paused a few minutes for red and ro frcslunont. Tho poor beasts fairly groaued in .their agony, and thc nu n ??ueniftelvoB did not dare loo!. at caph oti.er lest they would rea l in each other's eye? thc despair which all knew was set tling ripon them. On every hand they beheld tho whitened skeletons pf men, of horses and of burros, in some places they found the remains of what npporcd to have lunn an expedition-?ruined vehicles, with tile skeletons of horses ami mon lying about. Vultures swooped down upon them with angry c:!is, und tither hirds of prey circled high above their heads, following them as they progressed. When night came they followed the north star,Oro man trying to sleep while tho others drove. At daybreak tlicro was nothing to relieve tho eye. All iiro'und them was the glcoinipg sand; OVOr?'dd tho brassy sky, and far uwov the roc.^y sides of mountains on which no voge?'?ble life was ever found. Wearily they pressed'oh, confident that tho worst was liver, but when almost in sight of thc eaot MlJgO Of tho Amargosas, to which they WOre bound, the blasting heat played them n merciless prank. The soon hing which the nu n and boosts were enduring with reasonable fortitude were too much for tho water barrels and their wagons. J in- wood of which they wore made flhratik and shrivelled until they fell to pieces, first vho wagons and thon .tho'barr?is, AH ?AtiVUipU ti) keep them together were -nsehvs.' With the water gi no the party was VJ??J1 uigh i? defcjmir, but when the wagons, too, fell to pieces there was a juimito when all recognized tho proba bility that another expedition was to bo added to the long Hst ot those which hud gone into that aliodo of death never to bo hoard ot again. When things pp. neared at their worst, Carter spied soun ding in tho white, ?iud a rods away, taut, Hurrying toward it, found tho piece.i of a wagon which hfid belonged to s '4?er whose skeleton lay close ot hand. Wood never decays i" that at' Biosphere, awl of tho three wrecked wayons the men were able lo gear up /ino vehicle that would ronvcy their re -MiWnhig supplies and their tool*. . Ti';is delay came very near lioipg fatal 'teal! txon0orricd- ?no how died bartie**, Carter was prostrated so .comidetely ?bat for a time his life was despaired of. Toiling painfully along, now without water nud with no hope of any until they could dear the desolate valley, Judson and Hpviug wero at length compelled ifi their agony to dig deep into the sand in the hopo ol And ing moisture with,which to queneh tjowr intolerable thirst. A t'a depth nf a f?? foot they ?une upon water, but it waa wdt. Tlioy drank of it, bot ? on\y Hefved te in?rense their trttthiring, ftml ? vdu'ii tliey gavu some of it to their horses ! jtho hea*te rofused to swallow it. Willi, a firm determination to presa od to the utuiost limito! their atrongth, tho naen <>oiiti 'med their journey, and, at lougtb, moro ovad than alive, they emorged from the valley and bogar* the ascent of tho mountains. Ucre they foninl ?<??"? bunoh graaaon ^rhieh their hort*/ /wisted, und n spring of water, oopious draughts of which soon revived tho entire party. Tarrying nt this spring for a day or two fdr ibo pur pose o? reouporatnig, the men finally poshed on, prospecting the country] closely as they wont. For a week no| i trace of gobi or the iirdvious pm?ewco of *nan waa found, but on tho eighth, A??t as they were digging tor water, they IOUN npon gravel abounding in Coarse ot the faxtfOAJed Gunfight placora, and another datf'saovostigation brought thom upo^ tl? voit rfipinid where m*irly vcars ago the mines had lieon ?biked ont. Procuring many ano apoeimona, ?hp men re^rned by a roundabout tray, and on arriving kore made known their discovery. Tho dilapidated appearance of tho adventurers and tho magnificent specimens which (liny laid with thora brought plenty of friends to their side, and already preparations aro in progress for an expedition which is to have for it? object tho opening of Hie mines. Tin's caravan will bo supplied with wagons with steel wheels, and it will curry water iu barrels made of sheet iron. The experience of tho party hos convinced them that wooden vehicles and reservoirs are useless in tho parching at mosphere of Death Volley, and they w ill run no further risks with them. It is expected that a start will bo inade in about two weeks, tho company this time being larger and going prepared for a w inter campaign. WHAT Tl IK RIKI.tX lilli. WAKM Bramos, N. c., September 2'2.-~ Sitting on tho broad pia/./.a of tho hotel herc, away from tho promenaders, I lis tened last night to a passionate, earnest justification of kukluxism in Louisiana and other Southern States. The story of wrong and outrages, tho violation, ruthless and rough, of all that men hohl most dear and sacred, as it came pouring in binning words from the lips of ono of New Orleans' most eloquent divines, was in striking contrast to the perfect peace that wrapped tho valley in deep silence. Thc moon was shining with a brilliancy seen only in Southern climes, and the clearly defined mountains were patched with alternate light and shadow as the clouds drifted by. The conversation had drifted on Southern topics, and as the preacher, whoso faith is a firm belief in tho fatherhood of God and the brother hood of man, warmed with his subject his physical ills for tho time were for gotten, and the mentality that has stirred many a congregation w ith its lire bumed and glowed like molten iron. "Was kukluxism justifiable?" he said, in answer to a question. "Yes, sir, and if the doe trine that "the end justifies the means' was ever correct, it was ?luring the reign of terrorism in the Southern States when kukluxism was rampant. Remember, sir, that at tho close of the '.var and dur ing tho Reconstruction period the whit*: men in tho South were disarmed, and it was penal offenso for them to have tire arms in their homes. Tho negroes, how ever, wi re armed; our streets and high ways wen- patrolled by ncgr . soldiery, who were but a set of barbarians and savages, worse than are thc savages to day in thc interior of Africa, lt gol so that a white woman dare not cross the threshold of her house lest she be as saulted by one of these brutes, while white men had to abandon the ronds to the negroes and make their across the held as best I hey might. To appeal to tho law was useless, for the judges were carpcl-1 niggers and .sustained thc negroes. "lt was this state ol' affairs, whi n we saw our civilization, and all tho rights and privileges ol society being swept away, and our dear ones exposed to a fate worse than death, that gave birth to kukluxism. Self-preservation is a 'ali mentai law, and recognizing that na ;ht but heroic measures would quell thc growing ovil, the whito men quietly or ganized, and in armed bodies began the lidless of the wrongs from which they wer. Bullering. Do not imagine thal tho kuklux wcro recuited from tho criminal classes. Such I know is the prevalent Northern idea, but it is absolutely false. The members of the K. K. K. wi re gen tlemen of line education, struggling manfully to retain and sustain their man hood, and give to their children usu heritage of tuc war a higher civilization than perhaps they themselves had on joyod. 1 n many instances that was thc only legacy they had to give, for all else hail been swept away in thc storm ol' shot and shell that had for four years been sweeping over the land." "How did the bands work?" "Negroes, like sheep, require a lead ear, and the bands quietly noted Un loaders and where they lived. At nights they visited their cabins, and called thc men out. The most brutal were cither shot or hung; others thoroughly w hipped and ordered to leave the country. In thin way a reign ot terror was created among tho negroes, and the white men gained control. Why, sir, even thc Fedora] troops that were sent down b> suppress kukluxism refused in many in stances to interfere, and in some cases actually aided. They knew that it was not a condition of crime and anarchy, but a necessity born of negro insolence and intolerance." ?'What about tito Ford-Murphy mur der in New Orleans?" "Now Orleans is and lia? been since (hp days of Warmouth cursed by ring rule. The Spectacle of a judge adjourn ing his court and deliberately going out ana shooting a mnn to death ab' one would a wild beast was simply disgrace ful, and is a blot on the fair fame of tho Queen City that will not soon be effaced. The ring did all in it? power to save the Murderers, and |>erhaps would have suc ceeded Jind it not been for the efforts of the Rev. R. A, Holluud, of Trinity Church. Hu not only published letter after letter in tho Picayune, demanding their punishment, but also publicly and from bis pulpit denni in le-1 their execu tion. His lifo was frequently threatened by members of tho ring, but he perse vered and won. Hod those men been pardoned they would have been lynchod within ?ifppty-four hours. So determined wero tlio mcibbcrs pl Trinity parish, the wealthiest!!! New Orleans, to rid the city of the scourge, that J00 of p.oni organized secrotly for the purpose of lynching tho murderors. Among the members of Ulis band were numbered some of the most respected citizens of Now Orleans, and their counsel was their pastor, in many respects the ftiv, R A. Holland is a remarkable mab. H.ois ,i Kentuckian by birth, and nit hough of .small physique, is all pluck, and doe? not hesitate to raise Ids voico in denun ciation of wrong-doing and in favor of a higher civilization, From his pulpit ho fought tho frond in tho exjpu*tjoii man agement, and alono was tho moau* of skipping the bull fighting on the exposi tion grounds- You may know how de voted ho bi to principle whou I toll you tho ?ion ho fought in tho exposition wer<> among th" wealthiest members of his church. Ho ic strongly intellectual, pud lina most pronooneqij yjpws, whiob ho never hesitates to oxpress. -A ooopor in Exeter, Canada, built a largo tank in tho shop and then bad to i tear down the whole front of tho shop ' I oforo ho could get it out. MU. CLBV?LAND'g KKW lIOL'bIS. The Villa on Fennallytown Head IH Not Vel Ready 1er Occupancy- What Moy he Seen There New. (W khinglon Loiter ' > Pittsburg Disi>-u li.) I went out to tho President'? cottage on the Tonnollytown road 11 xi-? afternoon to learn tho exact condition of the novel residence of thc chief executive ol' tho United States and his brido, .lt is novel because no President lia? yet purchased n house and taken up a residence at his own individual expenso outside of the Executive Mansion, where expenses ai o paid out of tho publie purse. President Grant and President Hay? s lived for weeks and months in summer at the Soldier's Home, but they lived nt the expense of tho soldiers of the regular anny, out of whose pay is deducted twelve cents a month each for the main tenance of the house. The meat, they consumed wns furnished by the private soldiers, the milk they drank, the new laid egg? they ute, the garden truck that whetted the royal appetites, the vcr, Howers that were placed at the plates of tho distinguished guests were produced by tho aged and decrepit soldiers, or were paid for from the slender purses of thc enlisted men of the army. it was left for a Democratic President, to purchase a private residence in tho suburbs of the national capital out of his own purse, where he might live with his wife as any other American gentleman might, at his own expense and pay for the roof that shelters his private guests and for the food and drink wherewith he entertains them. The residence and its improvements will cost Mr. Cleveland in thc ueghborhood of $50,000, and to keep it up with the expenses incidental to the position of its owner not less than $10, 000 and probably $15,000 to ?20,000 a year. President Hayes went ont of omeo with $100,000 or more, or a saving of half his salary. President Cleveland will not save any money out of his Presi dential salary. He evidently believes that salary was given by the government to enable the President to live like a gentleman and pay his hills, and tho cost of entertaining such guests us ure worthy of the honor. His purchase on the heights above Georgotowu includes twenty-two and one-half acres of land. There was an old square stone house of the cold, old fashioned typo on this plot of ground, it lies or lay back from the pike about five hundred yards, a strip of forest trees along the road hiding all but a glimpse ?d' the manion from the vulgar eye. To the southeast lies the capital City, the great white dome of the legis lative halls arising above the horizon of green, and the sharp outlines of the Washington Monument appearing against the blue sky. Only a slight dip of the great city is exposed between a bird's eye view down thc wooded gorge. To day, under the fierce heat of thc sun of expiring summer, the white dome is whiter, the monument outlines arc sharper, mid the green is a greener green, 'l im old stone house hus been metamorphosed into an artistic residence of the colonial style, the very grounds have changed, the roads and drives ap pear where none wen; before; nothing Bavo tho prospect remains, and that no art can beautify and no money can make more lovely and picturesque A myriad of workmen are busily engaged on house und grounds. Under the trees near the entrance is a vacant chair, und, in the absence of the watchmen, your correspondent drives up tho winding roadway unchecked. A man in brass buttons rushes hastily down the hill from the house, waving his hands frantically, but it is too late, the correspondents are up on the dur side before they can bo intercepted, Thc man reaches us and saya we must go out, we are not permitted there. We tell him wo are there anyhow, and hope WO don't intrude. He says it is against strict orders from tho White House to come within tho grounds. Wo innocently say that wo are only two newspaper men looking for an item. This sots tho man wild. Newspaper men aro especially prohibited. Wo ask to bo allowed to walk around and look at the outside of tho house. The guardian of the place turns fairly white at the idea. Couldn't wo look at tho oily-surely we couldn't hurt tho city, what we would sec of it from this lull, by looking at it without a poss. Hut the niau is inexorable. Then we ask him how ho is getting along. "What you see in the newspapers is nonsense," says he. "The house isn't near completion. See the workmen out Hide?" We saw the workman outside. They were swarming on the unfinished verandas, and spread out among the half finished drives about the grounds. "Thoro are aa ninny as can he ad vantageously employed," continued thc superintendent, "inside they lia ve just begun to lath. Tho house will not bo ready for occupancy before the 1st of November, though tho President lins boen pushing us all summer." And things in Hight bore out this ?.tat.-m.-nt. A dozen laborers wcro grading the now drive up to the porte Cochero; out in tho rolling field another driveway was being built, leading to Woodley laue, a lovely road tliat leads at right angle? from tho turnpike down into tho Hook Creek gorge, ' while the sound of the hammer inside and out of thc mansion woko tho echoes of the hill.,. Thore waa another gang of men with carts pecking away at a gravelly knoll which lies by nature a little higher than tho foundation of tho house, and in direct line of vision between tho veranda and tho domo of tho Capitol, four miles away, l'art of tim. hill lias already been carted away, the gravel being deposited to build tho roadways. Along Woodley S ; i ?i,' on tho south luiotber gang of men are at work on a high barbed wiro fonce. It is six feet high nt least, mid appears to lie especially designed to keep nows paper mon out. No pair of journalistic pantaloons eon ever stand that climb. We took a hasty glimpse of all these signs of preparation and turned our dog cart toward tho road again. From Wood ley hmo a finer view of tho mansion is obtained. 'J'!"" irregular high pitched curving roof bf rod tilea )f) the main artistic feature of tho now house, though it is the broad verandas over whioh this roof extends whioh give tho air of oom f or I to tho place. Tho workmen look nt us suspiciously as wo pass, but go on v, it h the hammering and digging and grading sud iGrfpHng, at whioh we leavo ?hox? to (\\}\ jiilo lii? gorge. P? eypry side aro great yellow niid white signs in big black letton announcing "Villa sites." Tho names of real estate men I crown every elevation and linc every picturesque vide, and tho seductive title? ure enough to make the mouth water. Bvory hare knoll covered with weeds and bowlders, every clump of 80rub oak lined with golden rod und every rock ribbed run luis been gobbled up ?md ?fl ou suie by speculators. THU LA HOI! PLATVOHM. Platform Adoptod by tito Wot kinsmen ol' ?Vow fork-Mr. Henry Ueorga tho Nominee lor Mayor. (l-'rnm tili h.\!t.iiiore Sn-".) It has aiready been announced in tin Sun that tho labor campaign in New York city waa opened Thursday ovoning by the adoption of ii platform and the nomination of Mr. Henry (?iorgo for mayor. Over 400 delegates were present, representing, it is claimed, 0,000 organ ized men. The following ia thc phi tfo rm, which was adopted with groat uuauimi ty: Tim PLATFORM. The delegates td Hie trude und labor organizations ol' the city of New York, in conforenco assembled, mako this declaration : Holding that the corruptions of this government and the impoverishment of labor result troiu neglect of the self evident truths proclaimed by the found ers of this republic, that all men ure created equal ?md ure endowed by their Creator with inalienable rights, we aim at. the ubolitiou ol' tin1 system winch compels men to pay their fellow crea tures for the use of (led's gifts to nil, and permits monopolizers to deprive lid.or of natural opportunities for em ployment, tims Idling tho hind with trumps and paupers and bringing about ?ni unnatural competition, which tends to reduce wages to starvation rules and to make tho wealth producer thc indus trial slave of those who grow rici, by his toil, Holding, moreover, that the advan tages arising from social growth and im provement bolong to society ut large, we aim ut tho abolition of tho system which makes such beneficent inventions as rail road and telegraph ii means for the op pression of tho pcoplo and tho aggran dizement of an aristocracy of wealth and power. Wo declare tho truo purposes ol government to bo tho maintenance of that sacred right of property which gives to every one opportunity to employ his labor and security that he shall enjoy its fruits; to provont tho strong from op pressing tho weak and thc unscrupulous from robbing tho honest, and to du, for the equal benefit of all, such things 08 can bo better dom; by organized society than by individuals; and we aim ut the abolition of all laws w hich give to am class of citizens advantages, either judi cial, financial, industr ul or political, thai ure not equally shared by all other citi zens. Wo furthor declare that tho people of New Yuri; city should have full control of their own local affairs; that the prac tice of drawing grand jurors from ono class should cease, and the requirement of u propel ty qualification for trial jurors should lie abolished; that the procedure of our courts should be so simplified and reformed that tho rich shall havo no ad vantage over the poor; that thc oOioious intermeddling of tho police with peace ful assemblages should ho stopped; that the law for tho safety and sanitary in spection of buildings should bo enforced; that in public work thc direct employ ment of labor should be preferred to the system which gives contractors an op portunity to defraud tho city while grinding their Workmen, and that in public employment equal pay should bc accorded for equal work without dis tinction of sex. Wo declare thc crowding of so ninny of our people into narrow tenements nt enormous rents, while half thc ?oca ol the. city is yet unbuilt upon, to bo a scandalous ovil, and that to remedy tin. state ot things ?ill taxes OU buildings und improvements should bo abolished, si that no line shall bo put upon tho em ployment of labor in increasing living accommodations, and that taxes should bo levied on lands irrcspectivo <d' im provements, so tho.se who are now hold ing land vacant shall becompollod oithci to build OU it themselves or to give iq the lund to those who will. Wodcdaro furthermore that the enor mous value willoh the pic- once of a mil lion and ii half of people gives to tin land of III?L city belongs properly to tin wholo community; that it should not gi to tho enrichment of individuals am corporations, but .should be taken ii taxation and applied to tho improvomon und beautifying of the city ; to thc pro motion of thc health, comfort, cducatioi ?ind recreation Of its people, and to th providing of menus of transit common surate with tho needs of u great metropo bs. We also declare that existing mean of transit should not bc left in the band of corporations which, while gaininj enormous profits from tho growth 0 population, oppress their employees on provoke strikes and interrupt travel an imperil tho public peace, but should, b lawful process, be assumed by tho cit and operated for public benefit. To elenr tho way for such reforms II are impossible without it, wc favor constitutional convention ; and since til ballot is tho only method by which i our republic thc redress of political an social grievances is to be sought, wc a pecinlly call for such changes in oi elective methods us shall lessen tho ncc of money in elections, discourage briber and prevent intimidations. And since in the coining most imper ant municipal election, independent pi litical action affords tho only hope i exposing and breaking up thc OXtortic mid speculation hy which a sbmdii army of professional politicians corni] tho pcoplo whom they plunder, we ct upon all citizens who desire honest go eminent to join us in an effort to scon it, and to show for once that tho will tho pcoplo may provail oven against tl money and organization of bandi spoilsmen. -A oucumbor hos been raisod in Io' winch measures four fcot in length. -A young man at Neebo, D. T., n< tho Manitoba lino, wanted to marrv girl at Qrotna, on tho other sido, ri parents forbade ber leaving town, so ? stood on thc Manitoba side, and ho tho United . States, and tho minis atood wi^h onii foot' in tho Queen's roe and tho other in Unelo dam's, and I two woro married. The legality of 1 performance now troubles them. OT,l> TIMI: III KL 1 Ili lli ?t r In tho(.'ode- ltn? Hoiiiethlnt: i? v,i> ?rn I lie Duello m H V. ti?. (From tho Nov Yolk St ir ) "Is dueling still popular among gen tlemen?" woe asked by ii Star report the other day of a military litan who has been promiuont in several "affairs." "No, times havo changed marvelously. During Jackson's second tenn tho Dem ?crata, Hushed with victory at the Presi dential election, were rather arrogant, j 1 Many dashing mid gallant yening i i I had been eleetcd from the Western and fi ?Southern States, and conscious ol' tin ir 1 gn at numerical superiority wore sorao- " what disposed to carry matters with a il high hand. Dueling in those days \\; a j much in vogue, and personal discussions v in thu House were frequently brought to ' . an abrupt termination by au intimation ? i that injurious imputations would bo ro- ' sented elsewhere. John M. ration and ? Henry M. Wisc, of Virginia, Bailie I'ay- ' ton, of Tennessee, (?allatin Hawes, of ' Koutucky, Jesse Uynum, ol North Caro lina, ami many other Southerners were i known to bo prompt with the pistol, and , a it was understood that tt call to tho lie!.I i t would follow any damaging personal at- r tack upon distinguished mom bi rs o? the ? ! ruling party. Thc rude demeanor and 1 offensive vituperation by which Congress | ? has been disgraced for sollie yours past would have been promptly punished forty years ago. Now it excites com paratively little public attention and is I inly mot in Congress by ii retort ill | ? kind." "How do you account for tho decline >f tho dueling mania?" "Tho declino datos from tho lime it ivas mada ancillary to gambling and ' e swindling, or to the Bcttlemcnl of dis- t [Hites between vulgar scoundrels. Since h lieu it has gone out of fashion rapidly. b The gross abuse of dueling has don:' nore to remedy its ow:? mischief than j ^ nora] appeals and legal enactments." M "What do tho Irish think of dueling?" d "(?ration's dying advice to his sons 1' VOS: 'Always be ready with your pistols." n Thc Irish arc often much too ready, h riiere is a trait In tho Irish character ui vhicb is considered by many to bo w intionnlly chivalrous, and that is a gen- w .ral dislike to seek in courts ol' law a n nonctary compensation for honor out-1 ti -aged through woman's folly. lu tins I11 iountry reparation for loss of service is h ionsiderod a thing as correctly i-eclaima- ' ile as loss of profit on a broken contract d or a cargo ol wheat or cotton, while b inning Irishmi n, in nine cuses mil of ai cn, thc man who works upon the weak- " less of a wife, or trilles with thu nffee ious of a sister, is nol subjected t<> an " Lsscssment for damages by n jury, hal (l mullioned to give personal satisfaction." ci Men disinclined to make targets ol' m hemsolvcs ill obedience to a eon vent ion- p il codo of honor havo often got out of ol ho difficulty by availing themselves ol ai he right accorded to Hie challongid to ;|i (boose thc weapons. An old whaling I k inptain not long since declared he would ] ri iglit with harpoons or not at all, an nl-i crnativo declined by his adversary A al dissourian daunted his antagonist by usistiug upon a combat with rawhides, ni imited to half an hour's duration, i louerai Putnam was onco challenged by ol , young olllcer and proposed that each :l hould sit. upon a powder-keg, with n tl ?gb ted fuse in tho bung. As ho would, ai lear of no other terms, the ( lonend had I" tis way. At thc appointed time tho 1,1 iclligoronts took their seal.-, tho fuses wi .'ero ignited, and the veteran watched Cl he progress of tho Hame with unmoved ul ountenanco. Not so his opponent, ?le ook intense interest in tho fast-lessoning natch, and when tho Hame got silggcs-l (|, ivoly near tho bung hole .-bowed his; losscssion of tho better part of valor by umping oil* tho keg and making for thu poll held till arrested by Putnam roar-; ng out: "Hold on, my buy; it's only ilion seed." Two Western editors of opposing v' icwspapers once mado fools ol them- ; ? Ives. It carno about though tho editor P "t il.~ _.i ...l-!_:.. .. i.I - v. b. f one of tho papers declaring in a leader hat the editor of thc other paper was H lignmist, and that gentleman resenting \ t bc calumny by pulling tho libolor's "' toso in tho public street. Tho Mayor ot' 1 he town kindly undertook to arrange ' pr tho diilloulty being settled in a prop r way, and tho two editors were :.u . nscouccd, lille in hand, behind thc i rees in a wood. For two mortal hours IX? hey dodged and peeped, neither e.iring o lire, lest by missing he should leave ' linisoif at his enemy's mercy. Then J he rain came down, and ono ol tho ?' ombatants discovered that it hod Batu- '" ated his powder. .v " ls your powder wet?" shouted ho to j lis rival. "No," answered tho other. ! '." "Mine's beautifully dry," continued ? 1 he iirst. lint Iiis adversary, guessing how mat-1 *' MTS were, came boldly out of cover, with . tis weapon ready to como to tho "pro-' ont." "Stop!'' cried tho appalled niau 'stop! Let's have a purley. You're a ^ urned good fellow. S ppose instead of hooting wc go into partnership." "AU right," replied the other, and J.1 hey returned home together. Of course both editors had to set heinselves right with their subscribers, .Inch they did by telling them thal their ;uns were wet, and wouldn't go off. M ii... i. wu). Three Rye?, A wonderful freak ol nature was seen u a child born in this city a few dur?, ince of respectable parents which dooli." uro hus DO pandie!. When the child ms born it was discovered that it had bree eyes, one of which was set directly n the top of its head. Tho eye was per cctly formed, with lids, and was similar o tho two eves in its forehead, with tho ixceptiou tl * the eye was very large md perfectly blue, while the others wen . luck. The Child was hideously dc 'ormed otherwise, both of its feet hoing jrown togetlior, but were well formed, ['hero was also about two inches of thc 'l mino missing in tho small of its back. Nv tho monstrosity weighed fourteen " monds, but only lived about two boura j, liter birth. -Chattanooga Times. d - - si -A convict in the jail at Athens, (hi., ., (tripped the iron hoops from his cell <] Lab, mado thom into SSW-blodeS, sawed j through an iron bur an inch s<piaromak lng a bolo in thc window fourteen, inohea Minaro, soaped bis n; !.< d ' oily, and thus j. dipped through it, and was thou detect- o sd hy the sheriff. Ho said h? had to get ii (?ut of ins davk cell. I TUB Pl.VMiHTll HOCK MILD. Morry Mr- on ihc OM Boat During Jim I-'IHK'H 'I ?nw. Tho fatuous ulil steamboat Plymouth Huck, xudolcut with uiomoricti of Colonel .hin Fini; in hin palmiest hours, <>f tho grout l'tigu of shoddy ut Long brauch ni 1871, of tlu' famous coaching rivalry if lil; aral rlelinbold, of Jny Gould and ??luck Fr.'"iky, chaaij ''gao and oysters, bun tt a ud Palmer, and mysterious II lits BOUj MMH in giit-odgod state rooms, las becu s ?Mfconcod to death. She was old at mic lion on September to liut or, Clancy aud Co., of Boston, for the um of $5,1 (JO. They sont Captain Riley, . crack st? suuboat skipper, and their luiior parta cr, Mr. H. fitzgerald, here kith a crew . vu take ehurge of ber. This norning at 8 o'clock, in tow of thc big ug Cyclops, tdic will move out to tho astward tin vugh Hell Gato, und bid aroweli to th J bay of New York forever; or when she reaches Huston she will be nuken np am I sold for old junk. She ran lift? toil years on the Sound bo oro Colonel J ail.'OH Fisk. Jr., saw her lid foll iu lovcfi with her. lt was at the imo whoo Fish was in his glory as a ailroad and steamboat manager and tho iropriotor of tho Groud Opera House, lo was ulso Colone] of the Ninth Rogi nent at thc ti me ho formed tho idea of iccoming a c O ni inodoro, and he engaged he rcgimont al band to piny on board ho stenmor. Ho himself used to ap ?car in ber saloon wearing a yachting up heavily trimmed with gold bullion, blue rei 111 ifl jacket with black buttons, ad white tl t -users, .last before reach ilg tho city or Sandy Hook bc would isappenr i:ofc o Iiis utateroom and prcs atly emerge dad in bis street costume. )n tho sumo boat traveled Dr. Helm old, thou fit ll of wealth and ambition ir di.sjnay. ( >n arriving nt the Branch the Doctor 'US alway:} nu lt by bis coach, drawn by ix bay borsci , and whirled to bis spion id mansion i n Chelsea avenue. Fisk ad three co bingos on Ocean avenue, ear Hath UV OUUO. He occupied ono imsolf, while the other tivo wore ton utcd by several beautiful young women ho appeared to bo very wo? J acquainted ith bisk. Tl lese enchanting creatures sod to meet tho gallant Colonel ut tho ?nhl, whither they went in a handsome ?lu?an w ith gc ld trimmings, i.'ruwn by ay horses wita gold mounted harness, isk himself ns t tl to ride in an Ol tormous tay drawn by a crossed team of six lacks and grays. Ile bud a couchman lld a tii.;? i nu tho box and two fo otmon ii tho ramble behind. All tho wealth and fashion of tho ranch, fri on John I Iocy und Cburlt ? J. born to old .Jeremiah Curtis, tho f. ?th . of Mrs. Winslow's 'Soothing Syrup. ld Russell Sage, tho grandfather of nts, culls und straddles, used to travel tithe Plymouth Kock in those duj s-, nd with iii?' music and tho chumpagui s lid tho gilt-edged staterooms with sprint * ic ks, eve ry trip was n pionio, u menage-. ic and a sideshow thrown in. Vf I r ;i checkered oaroor stories got llont that tho vessel was unseaworthy, lld Sceli. ld, who thou owned her, lost unley on ber as au excursion boat. lieu ho built a great platform on ton f her, put an awning over it, called lier iloating skating rink, and ran her up ic Hudson. But she failed to draw, al oil November 12, last year, sin was it up nt unction. Scoriold bought her for ?7,875, and ownod her until she ii-, ?old Ins! week. Her career has nled, lait no boni ovi r had a merrier io of it. -N. Y. Star, Sept. "21>. DOUMAX li. TALKS ol' ?:;.i;\KI.AMI. n Think* Hie Presiden) Will in- denominated ..uni lle-eleclttil. (rVoni tho New York Wor J.) Dormnil F>. Raton, being in town for few day., consented yesterday to toll n 'orld reporter something about his ews on tho possibility and probability "('loveland' - renomination in 1888. "There exists no doubt," be said, 'dbut loveland's worst appointments have < n brought about by the willful deceit thc politicians of Ins party. This has, 'course, hurt him, but in bis position wards Civil Service Reform tao best ementa o? both parties uro certainly in s favor. Hy tho time ' is present term ellice has expired two-thirds of the "teen thousand people who hold ellice aler the Civil Service rules will bc omoemts, whose, interest it will of mrso bo to support him. In addition this, it'tlie Democrats nominated any her man except Clovolnnd, he would .obably bo defeated by the Republican ito; w hereas if Cleveland is nominated .. the Democrats ho would not only irry with him tho Democratic vote ns n litter of policy, but also that of thc idependontsand many Republicans." "The motto ot' tho Democrats," said r. linton, "is 'Better Cleveland for resident with such spoils us wc can get mu u Republican administration and no toils.' The consular service should ?0.0 iind. r tho Civil Service law. That !l<t a splendid chance, too, but it was St. Succeed? ( )t' course it would suc !0tl. Why, Blaine was in favor of this \il s i vice in the consular service, lough 1 haven't nundi OOnfldonCO in laine. Yes, sir, whichever wny 1 look , it Cleveland's renomination scorns to un tiling of some certainty, but not bc IU80 his party wants him, for if eon dorod through n privnto buhot they ould doubtless throw him over, but .cn use it is policy to appear favorable . him. \ Warning \ i.i i a.ni Writing. Henry Clay, who was a neat, penman, MS quito au enthusiast on tho subject of lain handwriting andaras in tho hnbit ? tolling u st? V?MmM"d- about a Cin minti giweTWPmiu ? wanted n lot of nuihorrios .'.-v?i ho could get u ni cheap i'l^wtKentucky town 0 this end how ' to n customer nt ic place rei pating him to send him DO hundred bushols of cmnborrioa per immens-tho numo of his teamster he writing was so bud that the purty to hom the noto wns addressed could not iake out the word ' .crnnlierries" nt nil ut did conclude that his correspondent id v\un? ono hundred bushels of per immens, which were nt onoo gathered nd forwarded, muoh to tho disgust of lio Cincinnati num.-Bon. Porloy's Now look. .. - Tho nw At toxin y General of Tennessee 1 George NY. Rickie. Ile is generally rc ;ardcd as a w ell preserved man.-K*. Now ot some follow gherkin a joke about hil icing mixed up in family Jars. WOMEN'S .VAM li H. A Himple Device by Which Persaual Mcnilty Moy be Ht'talned. (dunloe Dudley Warner in "TUcir Pilgriuingo.") i Now, however good a woman's naroo moy be, ?she i.s in danger-except, they wiy, in Massachusetts-of losiug it, and commonly in the chungo she blots out nVl traces ol' her former existence and c\ em identity. In royal and noblo fami lies' tiic attempt luis been mudo to pilo so i lauy names upon the female infant that some stick through life, and wo hnvo to seme extent imitated this in our ro ptlbli'o by giving girls two and throo name s sometimesa string ot' very protty appel) ations taken out of novels, and especii vUy if tlic child is jioor will abo bo rich in mimes. Thia is ail very well HO long as Hie (.rill remains Clarissa Elvira Euphemia Hoskins; but when it woidd become ?'Jlurissa Elvira Euphemia Hos kins l'on.d it is too much, and eithor tho surname ? >r some, of the baptismal names have to bo thrown overboard. ^Vll these and no any other inconveniences can bo avoided ami the personal identity of n womat i bo secured through all changes by a v< ry simple device. In tho first placo givo the girl in baptism only one name. She will bo perfectly content with it. Her lover never ro quires, never uses, but ono of her nam? SS, if she has half n dozen. In thc hoigl it of his tenderness ho never says: "A melia Jane, como to my arms!" He simp! y extends his arms and crios: "dane!" In the second place, when tho girl marri cs lot her always keep lier sur name. Tl ion, whenever wo soo a wo man's lunn e we ahull know whether she is married o r single; and if ?lie is married, we shall kn?OW what her family moue is. If she lins earned a reputation as a writer or a d ootor or an LL.D. as Mary Brown, she v . ill carry that with her UH Mary Brown Johnson; and in all cases there will be ? pared an indefinite amount of talk and inq airy as to who she was be fore she was rm '.med. This system L s essential to the "causo" of woman. It i lay bc said that it hicks perfection in tn o respects. We could not tell from tho three names whether the bearer of t? icm might not bo a widow, and it mai'vcs no provision for a second marriage. These are delicate questions. In rejr? ird to tho first, it is nobody's business t o know whether tho woman is or is not & widow, unless abo chooses to make tl'nt fact pi eminent, and then she bas -wa VS enough to em phasize it. And in ti. ie second place it docs not at all matter what becornos of tho name of the lirst h usband. It is tho woman's identity that iii to bc preserved. And she cannot bo required to set un mile-stones all along her lifo. .lohn ami Hit Fight Willi ft'ie IndinnH. A number of years ago a dakota set tler who bad recently como from Mis souri went in a hastily formed company to repel a Sioux outbreak. After n few works a neighbor who bad also gone re turned and informed the man's wife that her husband was dead. "Was he killed during a tight with tho Indians?" asked the woman. "There was a little skir aish going on, that was all." "Yes?," 1 Wo had retreated to one side of a ii *y ino and the Indians were on the oth r. He ventured down into thc open pokoo and was killed." "Do you menu i) he?l me that John crawled out of good over right down where the Indians ould sec him?" "Yes, mu'ui." "I can't loliert" it, sir; lie knew more about lil ian fia 'hiing than that. I don't believo io wool d risk bis ow n life that way, oven I" be kt'OW he could kill un Indian." 'Oh, be didn't creep out to kill Indians." 'What w. us it, then?" "Why, when wo . treated somebody dropped a bottle of diiskoy in the bottom of tho ravine, nd ho we*'t back to get it beforo tho ndians did." "How large was the bot le?" "It M as a quart bottle of good old ? hiskey, ami he got most of it drunk icforc the In diana succeeded in hitting im." "Well, 1 believe you now. John as an excellent judge of whiskey, and rould make almost any sacrifice to get t."-Estollino Dakota Bell. A matchless story-One in which there re 110 weddings. THE LAURENS BAR. . T. JOHNSON. W. lt, RICHEY, JOHNSON At RICHEY, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, )FPICE-? Fleming's Corner, Northwest side of Public Square. LAURENS C. IL, S. C. J. C. OAKLINGTON, ' A TT O BN EY AT LAW, LAURENS C. II., S. c. Office over W. H. Garrott's Store. _-m-_ V. C. BENET, F. P. M'OOWAN, Abbeville. Lamons. BENET & McGOWAN, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LAUREN8 0. H., S. C. . W. FERGUSON. ORO. K. YOUNO. FERGUSON & YOUNO, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, LAURENS C. II., 8. C. t. P. TODD. W. H. MARTIN. 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