The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, August 31, 1887, Image 1

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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?. MYSTKIUOUS SOUNDS. THU Cl* lt IO I ?< I I IK I.-; TH KY IllVK TON THK .MINDS or sinn; l-EUSONS. Tin' I : i Minni I?'-.? l ear I'\|ici ii m i d li 'II 11 fill ? li;; ol A |i|MU i ni Iv llicxpll.tll.il! NuWi "--Tin- Origil! of M Pl ll I Kl> I RoillltlN CSoiiornlly to bu Trimed li? Atmospheric I lllllHinCOHa Tho client of certain Bolinda upon tho mind ?B often vory curious. Wo do uol allude to the ordinary phcuouioua ol speech, Binging and uui&io, where thc sound-producing apparatus is tolerably familiar, and it i dist nice from tin: biurot oat inuit ed with a uc.ir approaol) to UOCil racy. Tho effect in only "mysterious"' when there is any doubt us to wher thc sound comos from, and h ov it was originated; tho imagination thou begins, and works itself up to very aingtliill 1 >:iI - luoiuations. Night, or darkness with? out night, has much lo do with thin mat ter. When wo cannot soo tho sound' produoing agont, conjooturc ia apt U> run wild. Ghost stories ofton depend on no better foundation than tiiis. Tor in stance, certain sounds niny frc.pn.nlly bo beard ai night coming from ibo air above, but from an iuvistblo source-a kind of whistling or prolonged cry, tho producers of li'hioli are known ill coil tin parts ot' langland ai "whistlers.'' Kimo legends make it ont that thoso whistlers are ghost.", some evil spirits, .some. V. m doringJows. But tho truth is that tho sounds proceed from birds, snell as vild geese or plovers, which are in tho habit of Hying in Mocks by night, either for tho purpose of reaching distant reeding grounds or dilling their annual migra tions. Tlic cry which is usually uti. red by tho "loader" during these uocti uni bird-flights has, from iguoranc ? I it: cause, been regarded as woird and i iyi . tcrious by superstitious folks, who ; M - ciate it with impending ovil. Many a supposed "man in tho ho i . " turns out t" bc only tho noisu ot porno door, possibly nflcctcd by gin tutti changes of temperature, forcing ?bell open. Many a glios! story would re coivo ita solut ion by a litt le at tent io to tho sounds resulting from tin cspamdon aud contraction of wood-Work, sue J i as panels, wainscoting omi articles ot furni* turo. Heard at bight, wbou all is ttill, the sudden cn ie.it ? of luriiilar. m a room is apt lo bo somowhat startling, until ono comes lo know that it is sin ply duo to tho "weather." .Sound, being gouotnlly mi ro au libio at night than in tho daytime, is often exaggerated by tho-v who overloi c Ibis fact. Humboldt specially aol I Lit in winn listening lo thc cntiirnots ol tho Orinoco, and traced il to dill'cronces iu tho humidity i i tho air. A little mys tery is also due to tho fact thal wo si mo timos know thal an object visible to ur is producing sound and yet wo on tnt ol bearii. Th? chirp of tho aparro? ? in aiidiblo to som? persons; others, - ho etui bear this sound, cannot, bear thc Sn, lt oak of a bntj ami ail of us are ut Mic morey of u kool ol lemo deafness (analo gous in some degree to Dr. 1?.! ou'f color blind ni is) iu regard to si II H of acilto pitch. A singular ease i I vi '>ii but inaiid{'dn drummingocoi ri il during the Ann ci War of Independence, KuglisU m morican troops wore di nv it np on opposite sides of tho rivi r; Hie outposts wore mutually visible; and tin l.llglisb could seonu American druminoi belting bis tattoo, althoilgli no sound could bc beard. This ia attributed lon kimi of tono opacity which II floe ted tb?, air over the ii\cr ill a particular sta. ol temper dure and humidity. There is, to mi st of os, much myslorj in souiub; w in n louder than wo cxpi oteil to find them. A well at Carisbrook! ('asile, Isle of Wight, has water al tin bottom, and wboii BO small au objoel a pin is dropped into tho wal r, Hu sound can bo beard above, althougb tin well is more that) two hundred feet ii' 11 At St. Albans Cathedral, it used tobi i uid, tho tick of a watch could bo hoard frot? end to end of that very long build ng. Whether tho recent rcstomtioiu nave intel fen d with Ibis phenomenon, we do not know, lt is a well-knowr fact that sound.'- can bo beard o\ -r watei at a grouter distance thau over lan i, Dr, Hatton beard a person reading uti distance ol' ono hundred and fortj fool on Uio Thames, whereas ho could 011b, hoar bini seventy feet away when Ol the slime. Sound eau be hoard ovoi ice, also, more easily Hunt over li lld When Lieutenant foster WHS wiutei ll] in tho arctic regions, he fouud lu coull converse with a man a tulle and a qtiar tor distant, both being on tho ico. Hu human voice, it is assorted, bas bcoi heard ton miles oft' by persons at (libral tar-*-over tho water of tho strait, wo i re BUmo. The Whispering gallery at ist Paul's is always a mystery to visitors; i whisper often becomes audible at (lu opposite'side of the gallery, but dot a intermed?ate positions. Tho late Chark Wheatstone once made a OliriollS ob? rva timi on sound at tho Oolossoum lu th ltogcut's Dark, recently pu d down I'lacing himself close to tuc tipper pur of tho interior vail a circle ono hun drcd anil thirty feet in diameter li found thal a spoken word was repe.ite. many times: that an exclamation up neared like a pea! >f laughter, and Ilia tho tearing of a piece of paper was iik tho pattering of bail, lu tho Collu dru ot uirgenti, Sicily, b w! lisper can b heard the w bolo length ol tito baildini if tho whisperer places himself in tb focus of tho semi circular nose at on end. A story is told that long ugo confessional-box was inadvertently place* just at thc spot mur tho entrance to th church, and thal tho authorities lirst Ix came cognizant of this awkward fact b a forment arising ont of one particuhi confession. Thorn is no doubt ol it, the fear . \pt neild ii by mmiy persons, ?.?spociall women, Op bearing some of Huso "myi tenons sounds" is groundless, and ozao in tti' u nearly always proves it. Tili fear is largely prevalent among the fi malo w x. Win n alone they uro apt t attribute each creak of tho door to som midnight nssass, , each rattle of tl window-pano to un incautious borgia This fear is greatly augmented by tl imagination, whick makes murderers < rat? and ghosts of oockroaehes at thc glide about during tim silent watches < t,bo night. Again, some pomona hal HU incessant horror of ticing olutohcd in I tho dark by sonic cold, olaminy bi ing j who hos tho remarkable, superhuman I power of coining in upon thom through tho keyhole, Thoy livo iu con: taut dread, thoy toss upon their couche:-, und should thoy awake ia tho darkueia of tho Dight and leur tho sighing of tl ie wind, imagination weaves tho sound into the breathing of Home ghoulish visitor, and drawing Hu covering over Ihoir heids, thoy await with bated breath and list'lliUg em their coining doom. H. is n siHy fancy, un unnatural com p nation, that produces such (trend. Wc ure m t living among viper.", whoso poi sonous fangs are drawn to strike upon OVcry side; nor ure wo surrounded by opi..s, w lu so dark scow 1 amt murdo, ons leer ure indicativo of tlic trade of death, whoso dirks ure ever clutched to plunge t's in odo the flesh cd brothom, whose fingers ure aching to clutch t me unsuti peeling victim. Nor is this n Nihilistic country, where treason lurks in the very air, where In-other inspects brot lier, whore to doy you ate laval liing in se curity and to-morrow the seal of death is upon you. Such, thank (?od, is not the e ise. Civilization is nt its grui dost height, the world is becoming socialized, , and tlc- induct.ces of t ue law aro tending i to remove tho dread of mau for mankind. , keen, ics aro not going to pounce upon you nt every tut ti, nor assassins hover over your slumber. So, ye fearful antici pators, go to your rest, unmindful of detriment, undisturbed by the meaning of the wind. ru Kt ii;: r i II i lt A UV. \ Hold ?':.?<? ol ll. uti.-.-. Desertion l?y Tn? Unknown Women. ii rom ito- Atlanta Constitution.) Mator Jaokson and Mary Jackson, his wife, live ut lol Mailgum street. They aro both almost jet black negroes, but! into their home came a while biby early yesterday morning, a beautiful, blue eye 1, golden-haired boy. Tho pan nts of the child are tiukui Wll. Soon after .hickson lett his home for; his doy's work his wife hogan elei'iiiugl up tho dishes, and as she was in '.he; midst of the work a kimi knock on the i front door attracted her attention. At! lin door she noticed two white women i neatly dressed. Ono of them carried ni small bundle lu her arms, und as she en- ; tend the hon. e tlc- negro woman taw that lt was a baby. Ono of liie women j protended to bo stok, and gave her ill-j ness, which she claimed wits very t mi lden, us an excuse f >r entering tho house. [ j Tho old womail quickly provided (bein ; both with chairs, ami as they sat dow j, ; one of them said: "Auntie, please toko the baby a! minuto." The old woman took tho child aud bs-. ! gun can - sing it. "Sit down, pleuve," t>aid ono of the' Winnen. The old negro sal down. "That is tho sweetest, prettiest baby in t'a world," remarked tho woman who hud been doing nil the talking. "V s, ma'am, he ceil only looks dat way," s aid tho negress, glancing ut ibo' child's face, which she had uueovored, "lie certainly is, mut ho is just as g md and sweet ns ho ia pretty. Youl I must take mighty good caro of him while ' you have him, foi yuti will bc well paid ; ' for youl ti on bl<, "Oh, diu ain't no Hubble,'' answered j I the old woman, I "Oh, bister, pion c gol mo a drink of' water," remarked tho woman who had j not spoken. "Canyon got mo a glass of water, auntie," said the olla r WOmuU. "Sartinly," said thc negress, arising with the baby in her arms ami advancing i towards the won.un. "Just lay it on tho bcd Unie," su id j the woman poi:.ting towards tho bed. The old negro laid tho child on tho bcd tenderly, and started into tho yard to draw a bucket of water. Shu waa gone three or four minutes, and as she re-entered tho room, was surprised to I lind the two women gone, dancing towards tho bcd, however, she noticed tho child lyiUg as she had placed it. Tho old woman could not understand | tho situation, ami hurried towards tin-, front door to ask it from the women. As she reached, the doer i lu saw one of them enter a carriage, in which tl:, other was sitting, just us tho drivoi touched his horses with the whip. Tho oi l woman called upon them to stop, hut tho horses sprang away Swiftly, und und wore soon out ot sigh, around Ibo corinr. Tho ourringo wu? tho om- in which tho women cuiiic with the b.d.v. - lt hud bien left beside thc sidewalk, when they entered tho house, but tho old woman had (aid but little attention to it. After tho carriage had driven away the old woman ro-ont rod tho house, ami, lucking up tin; babe, began looking at it. A glance showed that it was pretty. Its clothing WM m at, though not line, but there was no murk about it to lodi cute whence they came. The old woman WILS considerably muddled, and in her dilemma sent for au office Ed Cu sou, of thc mounted department, responded, and from tho old woman heard ibo story. The two women were described to the officer, Both were apparently thirty years ol ago, and both wort; dressed in black. One of them-the ono who asked tor tho water -was closely veiled, while the other had no veil at all. 1'hc carriage waa not a street back, and Officer Cusen could not truce it far. The old winnini manifested a reluct ance to give uptboohild whonthe officor suggested taking charge of it, and prom iscd to care for it and give it up when needed. Triumph of ? Widow, A pretty Nebraska widow who had ensnared tho affootions of many respect able farmers living nour Wyman wan re cently ordered to leave the county by a band of "regulators" under penalty of a cont of tar and feathers. Nothing daunted by the threat, the widow bought a double burrel shotgun and awaited de velopments. When tho "regulators" approached the house to carry out their luroata tho sight of a loaded shotgun pointing from one of the windows de terred them, ami one of the number, in iidmtiation of tho woman's pluck, ad vrtiicid under a ting of traci', proposed iiinrriago mid w.ia accepted on tho spot. Phi n a parson was called in, the mar ringo was celebrated and tho night womel up with a round of festivities. -Boston liorald. UK WAS ONO I' 11 \ SGKI) DlarvoloiiA KSftanc I,I ? "Vvgro From II I), lill on Itu- (lill lo W M. t (Kram lim Worcester Telegram.) ?oatorday uftcrnoou a colored mau was Uikeii ?il on tho common, ami would have fallen but for tho timely assi; ?anri et two bystanders. Tho man lani hoon wandoring about tho common sincu morning, and had horn noticed on ac count ot' tin- peculiar way in which be ; carried Iiis head. lt lum:' toward his right shoulder, and ho seemed to take ? no pains to pull it into thc position in | which people commonly carry their bends. Ho was respectably dressed iu i clothes that had evidently not bet n made for him, and Ida boots looked a < tl' he had walked a considerable distance. Whon lu; had been assisted to a .'eui he fainted, ami when he regained coi: soiouNiK'ss lu- clutched at his throat, toro away his collar and said appeal i ug ly, "No, No! My God! Not again !" Hus embarrassment when he looked about hint wes marked. One of tho gentlemen w ho hud assisted him to a seat li ft when the colored man hud reCOVi nil. int Hi-, other remained and questioned him as soon as he bini recovered his composure. lb-did md bolong in Worcester he -aid, and ho had UOVor been hero before. Ho bad walked from Now Haven, beg ging shelter and food as bc went, ard had only cot to this city in the early morning. He had no friends and ho said he was not able to work. Tho mau j seemed Weak and lluriied by his faultless ami the humane person who had rcmaim d hy his side took him to a res taurant ami saw him properly fed. lt was in a l.urst of gratitude ned confi dence nt being so well treated that the colored man told ti tale so utterly mar vcloua as to bo utterly unworthy of credence were it not corroborated by known facts. lt was sitting in the common after hu lani dined that he saul: "I have had trouble with my neck and laen subject to tainting spells ever since I was hanged IU Arkansas.'' Thc expression was .startling enough , lo make anyone think thc mai. was crazy; but hu was circumstantial ?c. to details of tune ntld place, und it is it well known fuel that a negro was legally ' hangul three years ugo in Arkansas lor assault on u w hite woman aud afterwards i ecovored consciousness. I he case attracted touch attention at i tin tune. As published the i.'ino was , su *p< tided lor Ul) inmutes niter tn . drop of the "id fashioned platform gallows foll ami thu body wailgiVou o,v thc sheriff lo tin-father ol the young mun t.ho, with sOhie friends, was waiting ii ir by I with tho wagoii. ll wita thc intention to lake him to tho Kottiemcnt where he I formerly lived mid biuy itmthore. This settlement wa.-. IJ mil' s from thc county scut, at which thc bunging took pice, and was through a lonely pit ce i f coun try. When tim wai; >n was nearly ut home thc father of thc supposed corpse and his friends wer.- startled by groans coming from under tho tarpaulin, thrown over tho supposed dead man, nud his . tr i. ?los to get from nuder it. As soon as lin y hud recovered from th? ir fright they went buck to tin- wagon, from which they had tied, and helped the ? legally dead man up, gave him a drink from the omnipresent jug id' whisky ami took bini home. Instead of leaving I ho settlement nt one, tho hanged min stayed around Iiis old home, and tho superstitious colored pee plo demanded hts rearrest and tho completion of the hanging. Tin' case was taken l ' I!, governor, and ponding discussion as to tho right of tin- authorities to t tko cognizance of tho oxistonco of a convict who had been pronounced legally dead, the man lied ttud hos bein a wanderer ' evi r since. Tho story of tlie negro coincided with the case as recalled, and lucie was no room to doubt that ho really was tho Arkansas culprit, I; was only alter repeated urging, H wei tolled with promises of help to feavo the city in comfort, that bc told his story in tho dialect ol' a Southern Hold hand, somewhat Paupered by residence ni tin North. Divested ol' its quaint dialect, nis tale is weirdly and perhaps morl nd ly inti resting. "I was locked lip," In tai,I, "more than six mouths, but 1 uovor thought I was going to bc hanged until thc night before. Thou l knew tho gallows was up and I got seated. 1 hey pia-ed with mo all the time and tried to Koop mc from thinking ol it, hut I didn't hear what they prayed about. 1 was loo excited. I didn't go to shep all tho night before, and when thoy cunio to fetch me I w as so weak I couldn't stand up. Tho sherill'gave me a drink of whisky mid then tied my elbows behind my book and took mc ulong. I know lucre waa crowds nroiiud when I w ent to Iii.? gal lows, but I didn't seem to seo 'em. I hoard somebody singing and I joined in. Then they pushed nie up on thc gallows, mid I HftW tho rope and got cared again and tried to laing back, bul they pushed i 1 mo along and made me stand up ?straight. I recollect their putting thc I1OOS0 on my neck and drawing it up ?tight, but 1 was thinking of whether tin y were g ung to hurt mo and nil at once I dropped. I hud .'dint my eyes ' WhOD they pulled a piece ol cloth over my face, but I opened them then and tried to get my bunds Up to tear the cloth o tl'so I could sec; but all ut once 1 ; thought some one hit ino a terrible Mow ' on the head anti I lost my sciimvs. When i 1 woke np I thought BO Dla one was : choking mo and tried to got loose, hut I , couldn't. Then lt scorned as if my head j waa bunting und 1 saw awful lights ht j fore my eyes, nud my feet and hands : seemed tm be so heavy 1 couldn't stir them. Then great rings of all sorta of bright colors began at, my eyes and WOUt further and further oil', growing biggei and fainter until 1 lost them. .Sly head felt, prickly all over und so did my band.' and Pet, ami 1 couldn't breathe and thou i fainted, Once 1 knew 1 was be ing banged, but it waa only for a second. "When I woke up in tho wagon I was woree scared than before, and when 1 got out from under thu tarpaulin 1 thought I bud been dreaming. Then, when my neck got to hurting mo so, 1 knew what was tho matter. For trooka afterwards I could hardly swallow, und 1 couldn't turn my luau], and 1 cen't now very much. Tho cords aro all still on one side and drawn down." The man told ina story in almost com mon place fashion, but when ho spoke of bis life ainoe it affected him. i "I can never go homo again," ho said, "and I o?in m vor BOO or boar ?if my folks again. Thoy woro going to catch mo and do it all ovor again, BO I l'on away. Pvo been knocking around ovor Binoo, principally in (/anuda, Now Jersey, Now York ami Pennsylvania, but now I thought I'd eomo nj) lu re where 1 might gel . onie light, work I could do." I In- lunn did not .seem like the brute be must have been, and, in fact, he bud tho appearance of ordinary intelligence at least. According to bis own st? ry, ho has dono lillie work in his wander ings, aid lias begged both food and shelter and clothing. "Some* hues," he mid, "I have wished that I bad never come to life again. That's been v. hen I've been nearly frozen and starved. I never go near colored pcoplo, for it was my own color that tried to have ni" hanged over, and I bate a block fae." Asked if bc wasn't afraid of hoing arrested for the old crime, he said: '-No, boss; I don't think they'll ever look fer me a long as I stay away from thcro, ond I'll never go bttek to Arkansas." '1 lie ( 'ol l on V o vol tu-iil. 'Hie New York Financial Chronicle, in it.- review of the movement of the cotton ero)) for thc week ending on the night of August I V, says that the total receipts have reached .1,(518 bales, against 7,270 balm last i !:. 1, ?'.Kl bales the \ re v lons week, ai ..I J,".si bales thin H weeks -nice; making Hie total receipts since thc Isl September, 188(1,5,223,007halos, against 5,387,0l?S bales foi Hie same period ol' INS., (i HIIOW inga decrease si ncc Sontombor I, 1880, ot l l 1,521 bahs. Thc old ii i irior stocks have di creased during th.' wei k 1,018 bales, and were, Friday night, 22,001 bales less than at Ibo same period last year. Tho receipts at thc same tOiVllS have been 80S bides less thin tin- same week last j ear, and ? ince Septcmbi i 1 tue receipts at all the t iwiis a 7"I,'-!~IS bales less than for thc same time ni 188C ti. The tohd sales tor forward delivery for the week are ?112,000 bales. For im mediate delivi ry Ile total sales foot up L),2.V.) bides, including 1,185 for export, *>,tb"i fm- lu tue consumption. Tho exports for th" v.. ck n ach a total ni 27,171 l?ales, ot which 2-1,050 wen to (?n at liritnin, 150 to Finnco,and 2,1)71 lo the rest of thc continent. The imports into continental ports ;'. r tho week have been lo,non bales. These ligures indicate an increase in tho cotton in sight of 72,700 bales as compared with the tame dale of 1880, nt increase of 50,027 bales as compared With thc co;responding date of 181S5, jud u decrease of ?117,800 halos as oom pared with 188 I. Tho total rccoiptj) from tho plantations duce September I. 1880, aro fr, 108,020 bides; in I8H5 0 wi r 5,000,810 bales; in issi 5 were 1,7-10,000 bales. Although the rccciptti ai the OtttportS tho past v.iek wore 0,010 bales, the actual move ment from plantations was only 8,008 bali -, the balance being taken from tho -tocks at tie- interior towns. Last year the receipts from the plantations for th" Kamo week were 7,811 bales, and for 1.SM5 they were 8,580 bules. Tin- foregoing shows the weekly con sumption in Europe ia now 110,000 halos .;' lon pounds each, against 188,000 bales ot tho sain? weight at thocorres ponding timi lust year. Tho total spin net .' sr "': i". ( Irent Uritaiu and on tho ooutiuoui have decreased 138,000 bales during the month, and uro nov. 17,000 baku in OX COSH of last season. the Chroniolo says that cotton for fu ture ?h livery at New York has been quiet for the wc k under review. The ab sence ol active influences or rather with iel ive iultucucCH marly balancing each .tiler ha. prevented any wide ll actua tions, l ue dominant spirit of the cot ton CXChnilgO has been bearish; ?ind yet but a small impulse was required to i ause tho "shorts" to cover With some ippcarauco of ea ger noss, it was not, however, until Wednesday afternoon, ?lieu the full business for oxport timi home consumption on that day was re ported, ti'ut tin: bulls showed any degree d' con?diUCO. Then tho continued small recoil *s at interior towns, tho ..m di tock., South, and the rapid reduc tion of supplies in Now York, togothcr with the growing b 'Itel that New Keg inni! spinners aro carrying but small stocks ol cotton, cuttsi i u qt iel; advance, with comparatively free buying for Sep tember. Thursday th?' o was very little uhungo; tho speculation was sluggish, but thc distonl options attracted mon attention. Frilay the market oponed dill', but SOOll became net ive and buoy ant on a bi tter closing at Liverpool am! tho ste..-ig statistical position of oui home markets. Cotton on the spot ha* -bown u good dt grce id activity, tht buying having been quite freo for ex ports us well as for homo consumption (?notations were reduced lo. on Mondai and advanced I-Ide. ou Thursday, Fri day there was again a liberal businos foi export, w ith steady buying for .spinners, and tlie market Closed ?inn at'.? ll-10c for middling uplands. Tho( hroniclo's weather roports, wind ure very full und iieeurute, indicate tba ovei a vory large portion ol Texas droutl hus caused considerable damage, mu that in soi:u sections of other States in jury is resulting through worms, rust ma shedding. I ti thc remaining districts however, and in the Atlantic States ii particular, thc crop condition continue quito satisfactory. Picking is makiui good progress. ll Should lu- l.i-i.?-rally Kimmi Thai thc multitude of diseases of a sen fulotis nature generally proceed from a lol pld condition of the liver. Tin- blood lu comes impure becnUSO tho liver does ni .a;t prop! rly and work elf tho poison froi thc system, und tho certain results ni iiluli Ins, pimples, eruptions, sw ol lingi tumors, ulcers, and tho kindred affection! ir sell I lng upon the bun's and poisonin .lu lr doliente ibsm.*, mitti ulceration, bred ur il AH, and consumption ls establisher Dr, Pierce's . "Golden Medical Discovery will, by acting upon Ibo liver and purify OIL; lin Mood, cure all these diseases. Vu KuMi-iiilr of Prims. ??AMMoNpsPOIlT, N. V., August 84. An epidemic of murders and suicide, lu DroVililcd in this part of Ht?ttbOfJ fount luring IhO I "st f' w dav - A lunn shot h Mle md then himself ut West Frbuni Next a yoting fellow shot himself al Pen Yan because ti yoting haly slighted hilt nd this morning Mrs. .lohn lledncv, i . ?Ufe), died a suicidal death, lt ls suit ..om eidoroform. WUITK SI,A\ i;s IN M ASSACIUM.I I . How Ignoran) t'orelK'ierH uro Ciiptiuvil. Sold liml St lll'VOtla (From tho Now Vork llorakl ) Up in Massachusetts, iu tho COM:',: . of tko beautifid Connecticut Vallo nial on tho slopes of tho green lulls lind shelter it, many farms of llfty, sixty DI ono hundred acres oaoh on now hi i workod by a Btrango pcoph uncouth immigrants, ignorant of tho English tongue and strange to Yank o w v They aro Poles, Hungarians, v Hunes and Swedes, with whoso igiioruuci the farmers put up because they uro cheap, strong and capable of doun laird and steady work on little food ol (he coarsest quality and used to living in tho most squalid quart? rt. Some run away, leaving their sea ly baggage, all they bro ugh I frt m ICur Homo aro wiso enough to stick ont the year, learn all they can ai d make their own terms then, Some don't know what they can do and gu un ii ilidly and sui (only "grinding in t's, pri < ti li use- " A Herald ron > rt . - ? hi ard some of tin m bust week ill thc Coin,' cticilt Valley, and set out to iuvostigato the ?itorit -, to leam how tho immigrant Fr< ?li fi Casi le (?urden got SO s pe?-Oily into Mrts saohusotts, two hundred miles away, and hov those individual farmer i wi o never saw New Vork got tin so nan undi f snell iron-clad contracts. Ho found tittil (he lim old cit\ of Northampton, .Mu-..., whore philanthropy aud education walk hand in baud uudor tho giant . Im trees, waa the placo whero Hie largest jobber in eontruet immigration latia labor known to Ca tie (Jarib n had his "oilier," a so called intelligence oilier. ile is Charles T. Parsons:, a .Maple si net funner, a luge, stout man, \??!h light brown hair und beard, and au ov r shrowd, even foxy, fnco ot a Now Kag lund type. Ile went into tho business seven or eight years ugo, at tho time of tho great hoods in H ungary, when so many men left that desolate region loi this country. But tho authorities of Hie (larden bo onun) distrustful of his methods and work, und for two years they liuvi re fused to have anything ttl do with bini or to allow him within tho Garden. Hi lias in consequence of lato scoured his immigrants in "Little Castle llardo at No. 82 Greenwich street, Pitzpatrh k's intelligence ollico. fitzpatrick secures lu.- oustomen .. force, one might say. His henchmen, lazy, tonguoy immigrants who wotil i rntlier live by their unscrupulous wit than by labor, hung around tin Buttery os tho newly arrived hmnigrunts i-troll out of Castle Garden. These icwcouu r ure loo impatient alter their forced e linemout at sea to wait ti day or two ti!) the Cuber bureau tinda them wo They fall a ready pre-, to tin si rum I who volubly claim lo corni from t; samo province or even Un arno ri i und ovorilow with the milk ? t Iniuaiii kindness as tiny steer them straight wa j to Grconwioh street and land them di x torously in the dismal looking intelli gence ollico. Out conics the contract it is lilied out; tho hapless immigrant hall dazed "touches tho pon" or makes his mark, and ho, with Ins family, if ho has one, is sold out t ight to this jobber in hutu...; labor, to be transferred to tho Mnssnt hu sctts farms, This is tho lt bor contrae! they agn: Nnw Voi.,., -, L'S-. Inconsideration of tho employment furnished us by Charl H T. Parsons, of Northampton, M is.-., aol over six hours' ride distant, wc agree to work for him, or when-ho places us under this con tract, for months, at s -, less ex penses, ? -, pay mont tu bo made nt end of time, excepting vs Ind wo need for necessaries. Understanding further, bagge to be holden for all money ud vauced, and ii wo fail to fulfill this con tract wo do not expect our wages. Tia said employer ulso agrees, if wo do lyell, \t tho expiration of tho limo lo give u Dxtra -. Signed,-. Witness Interpreter, On tho back is printed blank for in ilorscmcnt of tho transfer of tho cou tract to tho effect that "Mr. nc copts tho within contract as made by Hu said Parsons, his agent ' When twenty or thirty people uri picked np and tho ooo tracts nro&quoi KW OS low 08 possible, they al e pucked il? r'ul shipped to Northampton, i'heu tin farmers cull and make selections. I'i.i bdmrers are sold to any purchaser. Tin farmer pays generally ll Ice ol -Shi a heal for hi: help. The agent in this city rc. eeives $2, and Mr. Parsons pays Hu labors r's fare and pocket.-- thc billttllCi about 51, as his fee. Tho farmer, by lu: contract, can mako tho laborer pay it work for the cent of bis transport dion The prices at which able-bodied incl eau bo seeurod vary, but do not execo .SHH) a year. Women need be paid bu $iil) a year, while children work tor the: board and clothe?. As farmers have ,i pay American bauds sis or &20 u mouth they are glad to get strong and health; foreigners inured to hard work for --s 0 less a month. In tho circular winch Parson sen'J out to the farmers in search of custom ors aro these statomonts: "Patience i necessary, especially w hen you want t use them (the green hands) alone, itu host help has been Danes. We, froi choice, mix the difloront natloualtiot Jiemg poor and ignorant of our lungunj: and ways, tiny expect to work cheap; I some this is no disadvantage; in fact, M would rather have them ignorant of th knowledge of our laborers, HOU10 < them, for such wisdom often prove foolishness to their employers. "Price of tho help, about Sid or S! for tho season, $1"> for .lune and .tub $6 for tall and winter, ^.'0 to si- ' year, depending upon cupuoity. Som learn very (puck. "If you have a tenement two roon will generally answer a family is muc thu cheapest, as you eau pay thora Inn thc* farm; they are more apt to sta; wife and children will work in; pru from Sin to S2?; board themselves. . house servant is wanted man and wil are thu cheapest if you have work fi him." If you are looking for a beaut id place to spend the rest of tho suniim with family or friends, you cannot < belter than to visit tho famous All-Hen ing Minorai Springs of Custon could, North Carolina. * Thc Indies will lie interested to know th thc hast lc ls of Persian origin. M . .-i .?'...?..<. 'IM-Ktt MiUHNSMK RIUKMCfJHMfMTMM I M'KI.O ? NU Ul.A4'Klil'A ttl). i\ (l rn ph le i)< ti ?I? pm <'i II WiUaMc 11 H II t - tun :.' < I'IIrmiIKOI (From thu ! ut toil) On liazot to.) Tho island of Ba?lelo, lying ju t with out tho iiU'ttili ol thu Altamaba river, ou tho Uoorgiu coast, in cortuinl; om of tho most beautiful iu tho w hola i ? isl chain of isiuuclu irom tho hay of tho Chesapeake to tho Florida capes, lt occupation ai cl Bottloincut by tho Fri Ill ll liobllih . ; ito I tel; to llt.it ol' St. Augustine, 'i in- lineal descoudants ?o. ?-'.?i in iireei possession of tho island and its oral history, .'?ito!.I fort at its. outer extremity, tin: ruins ot which aro 'till eonspionouj, beat's witness lo the character uni precautionary aud fore sight of its first settli rs. Iwolye milos in length by three iii width, it reaches ulong tho const. A narrow arm of tho , st ?i '??i. ides .r on thc north from Georgia malu, wi,,li its southern shore stretches awaj for miles a showy expanse ol wi ve? wash.od ~ 1 uueipialcd 'his, hy mi*i frequented ?i'?'.-!. .nong tho south oru coast, save (hat at t''ernandina, ia extent. Heron uiosl beautiful pioluro presents itself. Da tho one hand, thor* broad Atlantic, weeping far out to meet 'l the sky; o;i the other, Inigo live ouk |t ines, gray with ago ?ital banging moss nitiny i' giaui among them staiids, whose arms, utilsirctol ixl low, marks a ciroiim? lore nco of two-hu nd red 1 el and mun ?I between them, as if to guard tigauit't. f 'JU ir nearer approach, lies, thoglisteiiiug ! I band of sand. Here tia .'lcUguo-loug { roller thumb min; On tho beach,"and the 11 ?'moving whisper of hugo tri es' is m ver ending, lien-til-, deep sea turtle conics lo deposit lau eggs, abd lure, then., tl ore is raro sport for tho vigilant on tba ! 1 dark of tho moou. 'l ite diamond-back i tarrapiu is hero, niid to be lind lor ii. catching -less limn willi Delmonico, u ' SiXtoCn dellars a do?O?. ? Beyond, cloSi in, but soparated by n I narrow channel, lies blackboard, xiii.' t island deserves more than passing mon- i tioii. ()nee tho rCndeHivoiti of ll luck board, tie pirate, 'a cohtempoiiiry of I l?.i ? ii Kidd;, hero in is supposed to j' ?e.ve- buried his ill-gotten booty, an;l ? hero, even belo, the deluded treasure? seeker: ' ave tuen with pi , nuil spudo; j' their rewar I .vas as empty au the holes* r they dug. ' ! . ii tho i y i I' ? irs j last,' un 1 I ( . . lei. ' I thron :b i tl itti icmrlh oh salidv rid?*. . s . . i i! ; [is ' mettoeu Und liking ?hesij ridgi B, olbso with 1 14 rc ? : u i ... ? The quarantine si mem foi . hips' t ntor?: . iug Doboy is on this iaiand. J??tt : a - I turu. s ipoln Ll pOsite Di.ill tliis, l?a pe mitions poi .... i ry, fi ting testituontidti to HjO Hov? idle, bul li inimitable .skill _i the Aiuorifjuu ship- ? I builder. The interior o.l Sapelii presoids due I* iuiim u.so plantation interaperuod with j1 live oak grovel and palmetto brakes, and > broken ?it r?gulai' intervals by bmnd ? avenues and sah ways, hued with t.i . 1 lowland pine oi live oak tries. They! J alono romain lo break the sameness . ' the plain ?ital lend killen in : grandeur s to tho scene; the} tell ol the piaidatioi 1 life oma; hen.. A cann' ii..g v.ail i ? t ..tabby" grow a about with roses, marti ' tho ?put where euee Wa* tho ".'iiu'iioniu " hall," wlido around and about ail is .I. - 1 pine forest. Oheu peopled aud cultiv?t . liv eleven linn.ire.) ulavcs, its rich, dark s,.il yielded ii ?told wealth iu sen island I cotton, und all of the coarser produc?s . nccessur*, to lib and living in abund ance. Almost deserted these years past, it has turtled bock upon its. il and r. ' lapsed into solitude un island park ' peopled no longer by mon, but with wild game, both sea island and mainland * deer abound. S?polo is thc Rlcpping-stonc betwoi n ; . lllackbeard and the main for tile ev. t migrating deer, In tho winter of 1883;i ! party ol' ?is of 118, with oh) vc ll do; . after a tinco days' hunt, brought in Jj seven hue deer" ami here lot mo adi!, that during tour bights out, we ?iii slept ? by the camp llro without c< rori'ig ol ; any rori ti.'sol itself .peaka Well for 1 tho nullities of tho winter reason, .-\ ,, tlese-rtcd plant.m.m is tho natural home '. for quail; hete they gather iii grout numbers, tho ''rice bird of tho Car- j lina-" is ..i hand iii tho riooflolds around , Darien, while tho challenge ol tho wi) turi l iv l l iii \t iy echoes unheeded tl.rough tho j swamps bordering tho Ahumaba j to d' er, tho keenest shooting Houth. J Many eariolii i ol liait treepienl thole waters about tho island, While oyster j beds of gre d value luie every creek ami ! estuary leading out of tho Altainaha. ' * Tho Chose peake oyster roan, iii t: veritable pungy, should not longer dola? Iiis coming to tins" shores, where ho maj reap abundantly and with easy toil. What a I tupia lot man', of thoSO wno, Hoeing i ur rigorous Northern climate, sook restful humes ur a winter's sport in tho Sunny South. Surely this beautiful island so easy of approach, presenting such a panorama ut ocean and landscape, with ita waters and woods abounding ill tish and wild ?'ame, with its genial cli mate, its lio.,pliable shores and PCO] i cannot longer romain unnoticed and un sought. i . iinyftoii'ti "M i> l|uenn." \\ e i know? bul if the beautiful girl who died so young had bei n blessed With Dr. Pierce ?> "Favorite Proscription" she ml have reigned on many another blight Mi j day. The Pa v it ltd Prc-ci i pl ion is a Cet lain cure for all those disorders to which females arc liable. No uno should be guilty of travoliog to or from tho mountains of North Car ohna without going at least ono way via tho ( i real AU-lioaling Mineral Spring in Custon county. * A NOTKI? lu?1>Y HONK. Urn. Andrew Jackson, -lr.. Once NiutreM uf tin Wlilt? Hun? . Itteatlieu lim- 1.nut ?it ili<< ARO of t?lglity-ouet NAMIV tua:, Ti l?n., August 28.-Mrs. Sarah .Jackson eli?**I at thc Hermitage to-day, ?ged eighty-one, leaving two children, Colonel Andrew .Jackson, of W est l'oint, who was an artillery ollieer in Hie late war ou thc South' rn .side and made reputation, and .Mrs. Dr. John Lawrence. One sou, Samuel, was killed at Chiokamauga. ?Mrs. Small Jackson, now remembered by tow pooplo, was for four years-or iic.uly tour yearn the most prominent lady of tho land, tho mistress of tho White i lease. About thc commence ncucomeid of General Jackson's second erm, his adopted sou, Andrew .Jackson, Jr., married Miss Sarah Vork, of l'hiln lelphia, a young lady of accomplish ucnts, of good family and great person - o beauty. The adopted son, who was a icphuw of Mrs. Jaokson, brought bia taning bride to the White House, where ibo wau received by tho President , who .vas ;i widower, Nhs. .Jackson having Iii ii at'ti Ins Inst election and boforo . 1 imo President. Slie proved to bo \ mos! devoted daughter and loving vife. Gonoral Jaokson was a peculiar nun. Tim loss of ins wifo four years te fore had changed his whole lifo. All iis letters lifters to members of tho amily and friends showing that during iis first term ho wa." grieving over his neat loss. 1 Jut whoa the time expired, lie old General came beek to tho hermit? igo. In lime he died, leaving to his son md tko family a Uno estate. This waa oht and Hie family were in straitened arcnnistanccs. Thc son died in 1 si VT*, md yesterday tho once beaut ?tul bride, lie mistress of tho White House tho ? iii hero's greatest comfort and solace in i'-old age -passed away at the age of ?hty-one. ^ ^ UUTI KN Ol-' A I.ONO-LOST SON. i Voil li-; .lian Wini Weal In War Found A ft or Itoliifi Mourned nil I load. Tont:no, Ohio, August 'Jo.-Hugh Thompson, of the Fifteoiltb Ohio, was a esidcut of Van Wert county, near herc, ic h rc tito war. At the battle of Ckick mauga ho was struck on tho head hy a i iposhot and seriously wounded-his o m rades thought mortally. They laid lim auder a tree, and u few minutes atei wore forced to fall back. Tuotnp ou foll into tho hamls of tile enemy, .nd was never lu ard from until a few eek' ago. During all these years he ms been mourned as dead. Ile is married, is living in Kansas, and thc father of a number of children. le remembers that ho was in the army, ?lit from tin: battle of Clnckamauga to ho gnat Uro in Chicago, all is a blank 0 bim. lb tloet not know where ho ,i- or what be did during all that time. 1 titi i scitenii .it ot tho lire he partially .ogaiued Ins souses, but could not locate iis old homo. Ile went to Minnesota md was married there, an ! went thenco 0 Kansas, where ho look up a claim md is farming for a living; and ho ro ui tobi ri the death of his mother, which nok place when he was thirteen years dd; that bis captain's name was Updo -rove, and that he was in ii Confederate The remainder bf his early lifo 1 a blauk. lint his comrades, many of .i.ot.i live in Van Wert, recognize him, 'he scar made by the grain shot is ou lis hoad. A sear on his right log, mado >y a severe cut by an axe when ho was a toy, is another strong peint in proving iis identity. Ile went away n black mired boy and returns ti gray haired nan, but his father, who is tottoriug ilil li r th. weight of nearly four score rears, ttys it is Hugh Thompson, his eng lost .sou. Money was raised here and sent to "an as to bear tho oxpenso of Thomp m'a trip to tliis place tb attend a regi mental reunion next week, but boforo ho remittance arrived his Kansas neigh ?ors had donated to tho same purpose, nd by their gouorosity lie is at his oui ionic, which he left during the war. 'I lu- PlOHHlirCM ol Hunting. lt those ateto ho believed who, having ?ccu mon? or less hanged, have been re iiscitated ami have narrated their OX icrieuccs, tho muoh-commisorated victim f thc law's extreme penalty is not rholly miserable lt would seem that veli doatll "sus. pei coll." has its meliorating conditions or circumstances. Ino s-nlVcivr in Ult religious cause in 'rance is said to have "complained" 1)0 lailSC bc was calle.1, buck to eonscious icss from au oxporiouco of surpassing lelights, in which ho enjoyed tho pious nc of gazing upon the most beautiful ueiicry. Tin1 immediate seusation of iain ii momentary; and lt would appear mt unlikely that, in our anxiety for the voidanco of nocdloss annoyance to bose wo put to death judicially, wo may ? actually increasing thoir suite-ring and liniinislliug their pioasiiro, The instan ?nicolis deaths have all tho pain and Id - le or mme of the pleasure. Slowly in luccd congestion of the bruin may bo ho least painful; and if only the blood iressuro ho elhVi nally raised at the lontrothat sees, the bottfilliii. 'light and alarming scenery arc enjoyed in the i ?ghost perfection. The subject is a ?rilli one, and WO are not sure that the 10W view of hanging experience tends.to nuke tile death penalty increasingly de eui nt; but it is rigel that both sides of i question which the late Mr. Whalley mee excited tho merriment of tho House .f Commons by describing as "a poor nan's question should bo carefully cou ntered at all costs. London Lancet. An Arru of Proga. John I'ostwiok, ono of the most reha lle citizens of Morgan, came to town bo o thor day. Kn route Mr. Hostwiek mcouutcred a lay out of frogs boforo ,vhich the Egyptian plague pales into nsiguifloaneo. Mr. Lioatwick ostimated bal there was an acre of frogs, and that ich square inch contained six frogs. lu j wi ro all hopping in ono direction. io [lardon Oamp we are Indebted fora palonlntion which showed up 37,'M*?,84l) M for tho single acre. Truly Walton on itv bus beeemo a groat frog stool, so to speak.-Walton, (la., Nows. -??*? i -? "Augustus, dear." said thc gentle girl, tenderly piMhlng bim from ber, os tho moonlight Hooded thc bay-window where Ikey were standing, "I tliiok you bad bet ter try some otliei Imir dye; your mustacho tastes Uko turpon?no."