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VOLCANOES OF Til Ii WEST INDIES Au Eruption on the Isluud of St. Vincent-Details of the Culunilty. The foarful disaster at St. Pierre, in the island of Martinique, whore 40,000 Uvea wore lost by a volcanic eruption, was quickly followed by a similar disaster on the island of St. Viuceut, one of the Dritish West In dies, which was threatensd evou be fore the St. Pierre calamity. The cor respondent of the Now York Herald, writiug from tho island of St. Viuceut, gives a graphic description of the situ ation as follows: Admonitory rumblings und earth quakes in the vicinity of Soufriere came two weeks ago. On Monday, May 5, the lake in the old crater be came greatly disturbed. On Tuesday at 2 o'clock in the afteruoou iho moun taiu began a sories of voicanio efforts. Severe earthquakes accompanied these terriblo noises and detountions suc ceeded quickly. At 7 o'clock in the evening an immense column of Bteam issued from the crater and lasted un. til midnight. Torriblo explosions followed on Wednesday morning, ami at 7 o'clock there was another sudden, violent es cape of steam. This ascended for three hours, whon other material was ejecte?. At, noon three craters ap peared to open and began to vomit lava. Six streams at oace ran down the sides of tho mountain, making an awful scene. Tho mouulaiu laboied heavily for half an hour al ter the ap pearance of lava. Fire (lathed around the edges of tho crater, and there were tremeudous detonations iu suc cession, rapidly merging iuto a contin uous roar. Th?s lastod through Wed nesday night and until Friday morn ing. The thundorings of thevc'uano were heard throughout the Car' beau sea. The eruption began Wednesday. A huge cloutl iu a dark aud dense col umn, charged with volcauic matter, rose to a height of 8 miles from tho mountain top. Darkness liko mid night descended and the sulphurous air was laden with tine dust. A black rain followed, a rain of favilla scoriae, rocks and stone. Theie were bright Hashes, uumerous aud marvellously rapid. Thetm with thundering, the mountain shocks, the eartbquukc roar, the lava aud falling stones created a sceue of horror. Large areas of culti vation have been buried beneath the volcauic matter. On the Windward coaal seven planta (ions are totally deatroyed. Sixteen hundred and twenty deatha are already reported. There are 107 cases in the hospital at Georgetown under treat ment. The deatha have been cauaed chietly by suffocation by the sulphu rous gas, aud burning lava masses. A few of tho cases m the hoapital are likely to recover. A new crater is reported formed on the Richmond ea tate near the aeanhore. The country districts on the W indward coast nre lit tered with dead bodies. Kingston, the capital, and the whole population are aafe. There have been no accidents or deatha. Clouda of dust are blowing over the city, how ever. The royal mail steamer, Wear, is transporting food and water to the Leeward coast, Bailing veasels proceed to the Windward coast on the aamo er rand. Doctora and nurses have gone to the scenes of distress. The major ity of ihe corpses being found are cov ered with ashes, decomposed and hard ly ap; "oacbable. The dead are being burleu in trenches, thirty in each. A dispatch from the island of St. Lucia, dated l.'Uh inst., says: " The Soufriere volcano on the island of St. Vincent is still in destructive erup tion. The terrillc cannonade can be heard a hundred miles away. Tho re ports are followed by columns of smoke, rising miles in the air. Im mense ball* of colored iiro alao issue from the crater. Lightning is playing. Uorcely in the upper sky and the whole northern part of the island is one rnaaa of travelling (lame. It is impoasibie to reach the district by land or sea, and there is no means of eati mating the destruction wrought to life and properly. Kingston, the capital of St. Viucont, is still safe, though showers of ashes and pebbles are con tinually fslling. The volcano itself is Invisible." The governor of the Windward Is lands, Sir Robert Llewellyn, telograpbs to ibe colonial ofllce in London from ?the island of St. Vincent, under date of May Kl, as follows: ?? I arrived hero yesterday and found the state of affairs much worso than had been stated. The administrator's reports show that tho couutry on the east coast, bclweon Itobin Hock and Georgetown, was apparently struck and devastated in a manner similar to that which dostroyed St. Piorre, and 1 fear that practically all living things in that radius were killed. Probably 1,000 persons lost their lives. The exact number will never be known. Managors aud owners of estates with their families, antl several of the bet. ter class of people, have beeu killed. A thousand bodies have been found and buried. One hundred aud sixty persons are in the hospital at George town. Probably only six of this num ber will recover. The details of the disaster are too harrowing for descrip tion. ??| gol, at St. Lucia, a coasting steamer, which is running up And down the leeward coast with water wod provisions. Twenty-two hundred per sons have rcc ived relief. I have asked for medical aid from Trinidad and Grenada. All the neighboring British colonies are assisting gener ously. Every effort is being made to giapple with the awful calamity. All the best sugar estates In the Camb bean country are devaslod and tho cat tle are dead. The eruption continues, but is apparently moderating. Anx iety la still felt. All the officers and residents are co-operating with me. The ladies are making clothing." Sir Alfred M. Hodgson, the govern or for Harbadoea, has forwarded the colonial ofllce the report of the colon ial secretary, who has jnst returned from a visit to St. Pierre, Martinique, which confirms the worst accounts of the disaster. The secretary compares ?the ignited matter, which destroyed everything within an area of ten miles long by tux wide, to buruing sealing wax. He adds signiticantly, that the services of doctors aro not re quired as there aro no wounded pri sons. Governor Hodgson estimates that two million tons of volcanic dust fell on tho Island of liarbadoes. In the destroyed city of St. Pierre, tho work among the ruins is being con tinued in an unsatisfactory manner, says a Fort de France dispatch to tho Now York Herald. Tho doad aro being burned, tho py res being fed with potroloum ami tar. Great ilros are kept going, which at night light up the entire island, aud which, beiug scon at St. Lucia, led to tho bolief that Fort do France had burned. Although thousands have been burn ed, many still remain to be cromated. Searchors, while walking through the ashes, oftou stop upon what nppoars to be charred a pillar of stone, only to learn as it yiolds gruesoincly under foot, that it is the trunk of another un. fortunate. Some of the walls of tho houses that still stand, crumblo and fall at touch. Some idea of the terrible heat that pourod down from Mont l'olee may bo had whon it is known that the iron rollers of the l'rinolle sugar mills wero molted as though thoy had been put through a furnance. The island of 81. Vincent is one of the British West Indian group, lying one hundred miles west of the Barba does, and between St. Lucia and tho Grenadines, it i* seventeen miles long hy about leu indes in width, and its area is 182 square miles. Through the island, from north to south, stretches a ridge of high, wooded, vol canic hills of subordinate, irregular massus, which extend to tho sea on either side. The volcauo called tho Soufrierc is in Ihn northwestern pnrl aud tremendous eruptions have re curred in it. It rises to a height ol tbr e thousand feet above the sea level. Iis crater is three miles in cir cumference and live hundred feet deep. Whilo the climate of St. Vin ceut is exceedingly humid, tho average rainfall being nearly seveu feel, it is not unhealthy. The soil of the valleys is a rich loam, and sugar, rum, molas ses, arrowroot and cotton arc produced in abundance. St Vincent has a local government subject t that of tho Windward Islands. Kingston, the capital, is near the southwestern ex tremity of the island, it had a popu lation of 41,000 ton years ago. Prof. Henry S. Williams", professor of geology at Yale University, in dis cussing the Martinique horror, said: M Tho iron bit; at Martiuique was un doubtedly of volcauic origin. It might have been associated with earth quake energy, as the-two sometimes occur together. The thuuder and lightning which accompanied the erup tion are not uncommon at such times. They were produced by tho tension in the atmostphore. " The volcanic explosions were duo to water getting into the caviticB in the earth and coming in contact with the heated rocks. These explosions are frequent in tho vicinity of tho sea or riveis. The ashos spoken of were really not ashes, but fragments of rock thrown out." 44 How far down in the earth are these disturbances?" the professor was asked. 44 At various depths. Usually they arc pretty deep iu the earth and may be several miles down. The mnlter thut. (lows out after an explosion is uot real lire, but molten matter. It is red hot and Hows down the mountain like water and gives the impression of Are. Gases are emitted, and taking lire pro duce the tlame which is often soen. The molten matter sets (Ire to any thing in its course. The theory is that the matter in tho interior of the earth is under very great pressure, which keeps it from becoming molten. Hut as soon as it is thrown up, then it bo comes molteu matter. 44 Earthquakes aro produced by a sliding away of masses of rock and then there is a settling of the earth. At the Charleston earthquako the criu-k in the earth was several miles long. Tho earth Bettled only a few inches." THE SLEEPING PREACHER. Au Interesting; Subject fur the Scientist*! and Lovers of Ctt? riosities* Saluda County baa an extraordinary freak in the person of a negro who proaches admirable sermons while he is asleep, and last week a test was made by leading citizens with a physi cian and stenographer at hand, which seems conclusive thai ho is not a fake. The Saluda correspondent of the News and Courier gives the following ac count: The 14 Sleeping Preacher " was here Thursday night and a large crowd wont out to hear this strange man. "Major Perry," for that is the preach, er's name, was in the charge of Messrs. li. i\ Boukoight and J. P. Bodie, two of this county's most reliable citizens. Perry has been living with Mr. Bouk night, a few miles below this place, for twelve or fouiteen years and, with tho exception of a few nights, he has nover failed to preach a sermon on going to sleep during this long poriod. 1 \ rry is f>4 years of age, of medium size, copper colored and wears a flow ing beard. He was raised in Fairfleld County, but not by a Baptist preacher, as has bteu said in explanation of this strange phoaomenon. Mr. Bouknight has been in the com munity whore Perry was born and raised and lived until 14 years ago, and emphatically states that Perry diu not belong to a preachor. The placo of his birth was near tho present town of Btdgeway. Ono of the peculiar things about CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Und Yon Have Always Bought Bears th? Perry's sermonizing lies in the fact that his preaching dates from tho time of bis being paralyzed ou tho loft sido iu 1888. Ho was never known to preach beforo theu aud ho has novor failed to preach a sermon every night siuco then save occasionally on Fridny night. A test made by your correspondent revealed that Perry is very illiterate, being scarcoly able to spell out the simplest words, oveu with book iu hand. He is extromely reticent on tho subject of his nightly preaching, aud if pressed will resent too close ques tioning. Another pccularity notico ablo is that Porry can go to sloop sur rounded by a curious crowd as readily and as quickly as a babe iu its mother's arms. Thursday ovoning Porry's wifo ar ranged a bod in tho school building here aud at 11.40 tho strange man un dressed aud " turned in," apparently, for the night. In lifteen minutes, amidst the gaze aud hubbub of tho crowd, he was sound asleep. Four minutes later ho commenced to siug iu low aud measured tonos au old hymn, beginning " Come, yo that lovo the Lord." After "limngout" and sing ing two verses he slowly turned on his right Bide and reverently repeated tho Lord's Prayer, making but one change in it, vi?, inserting the word '1 all" be fore tho words " our trespasses." He followed tho lord's Prayer with an ex temporaneous potition, the logic and language of it being us good as that of the average while preacher. At tho conclusion Perry turned on his back and after a moment's pauso, staled that tho text would be found in tho 12th chapter of Matthew aud 28th verso. 'I'hin ho quoted aud a compari son of tho quotation with the original shows that he repeated tho words ver batim. His discourse lasied forty-live minutes and the roading of a Stenogra phie ropoit mudo by Air. Tadlock shows a closely reasoned (with some excep tions) (S >spel ?ei mon, instead of being n senseless negro harangue. Few grammatical errors were made and many of his citations from tho Jliblo wore substantially correct. At times he was really oloquout. For tho most part he spoke iu a smooth, conversational tone but oc casionally ho became impassioned and made the welkin ring. Twico during the sermon ho had something like convulsions, and when ever seized by one of theso ho im mediately loft oft speaking, his heart und pulse ceased to boat and, except for the strange movement of his mus cles, one would sqpposo life extinct. These convulsions lasted but a minute and as soon as ovor be would com mence his sermon just whore he loft off aud in the same tone. An cxnniinatjftu. of .thcajtea whilo preaching showed tho pupils motion lens and a bright light placed close to his face whilo the lids were pushed hack did not cause him to move or flinch. During his preaching period it has always been found impossible to wako him. Pins have been stuck into los flesh, burning acids have been put about his e\es, hut all to no effect, save that he suffered from these experi ments on awaking. Perry is particularly severe in his criticisms Of tho present -day preachers. He stated that " we are told there wore twelvo disciples or teachers, and ono of these was a devil. But to-day I think about eleven and a half out of twelvo are dovils." In elaboration of this statement he referred to tho "man sent preacher" and " tho self-sent preachor" anil " tho money-making preacher." Perry made no gestures at all, but when under tho impression that ho was reading from seme book in the Bible would run tho lingers of his right hand across the bed covering as if Fol lowing the lines. Ho closed his sermon with an enrnest exhortation and when the ond was reached lay porfectly still and slept quietly until awakened by a physician, Who closely watched him throughout. On being awakened ho appeared frightened for the moment. Although he had groatly exerted himself soveral times during his Bermon, ho stated that he did not feel tired or at all exhaust ed; yot his pulao beat rapidly and Ids breath came quickly. Whatever else may be said of tho strange " Bleeping preacher," tho per formance iB no fake. Time after time various citizens in this county have gone to Perry's home after night and secroted themselves to detect the fake, as they supposod, but Invariably after watching him through the cracks in his house go to bGd, and giving him time to go to Bleep, ho would sing a hymn, offer a prayer, announce ois text and preach a sermon. Ffe nover uses the same toxt and the body of his discourse is always different. He rarely ever fails, however, to give the preachers "Hail Columbia." The effect of this strange pheno menon on a spec' .tor cannot be im agined. Perry's father is Paul to he a whito man and he has Indian blood in him also. This he shows unmistakably, as docs Inn wife, who of late years always uccompanies him to prevent the cruel experimeuts which were at first prac ticed by some in trying lo awaken her husband while in the midst of a ser mon. Men of a scientific turn of mind have an interesting subject in the "sloeping preacher," and Baluda Coun ty in his person possesses ono of the raystories of the now century. Tho pearl industry of Arkansas lins reached a point of prondneuto now among the enterprises of the State. Not only are the pearls valu able, but the mussel shells are being utih/od in newly established button factoiics. ^he valley button factory o2 Newport, .mk., has been chartered, and will soon sjart a factory of 100 saw capacity, jmploying about thirty men, fourtoeu of whom have already been contacted for In Iowa and Illi nois. The capital stock of the com* pany is $50,000, and it is backed ex clusively by home men. OABTOXIIA. Signatar? If BIL.L AKP WANTS APOLOUY. KoohcvcICh KeinurkH About Je He thou DuvIh Were Wronjf. Atlanta Constitution. ? 44 Once more unto tho broach, good friends?ouco more." I would like to know about what time Prusidout Koosovelt is going to retract what ho wroto about President Davis. It has uow beou proven by the olllcial records at Jacktjon, Miss., that Mr. Davis never was Governor, nor was he ever a mem bor of the Legislature of that State, and in a public addross made after the act of repudiation, be declared ho was opposed to it and the debt ought to be paid, aud this amateur historian de nounces him iu his book as au arch traitor and repudialor. Mr. Davis fought in Moxico for tho honor of the flag; won tho victory al Huuua Vista; was desperately wounded and for flvo years walkod with ctutchcs; married tJouernl Taylor's daughter for his llrst wifo and didn't run away with her, either; was secretary of war under Franklin Pierce, reniodolod ihe curri culum at West Point and it stands to day as he framed it; was a meinb.r of the United Slntos Senalo whon his Stato seceded and, like Goneral Leo, ho wont with his people. He did not seek tho presidency of the Confederacy and insisted thut auothor he chosen. [Now all this has long since boon established, and if Mr. Roosevelt did not know it ho could have known it. He certainly knows it now, nnd if he in a gentleman he will retract it and apologi/.u to Mrs. Davis and the family and to the snintcd shade of Miss Winnie aud to the pooploof the South. He called him an arch traitor and arch repudiator, and compared him to Benedict Arnold, and that slanderous libel is in print in a book of so called history and has poisoned the minds of all tho fools, fanatics aud idiots who havo read it. When is he going to ro. tract? Tho I )iio nulidiiitl Cyclopedia, edited by distinguished professors of Colum bia University and Dartmouth College, says of Ah. Davis: "Ho was a ripe scholar, a vigorous writer, a splendid orator, a brave soldier, a true gentlo man, an accomplished statesman, a sturdy champion, a proud, true patriot, a lover of liberty, a Christian hero? this is tho .IclTerson Davis that history will cherish." Genoral Leo was his hosom friend aud couiidant and yet this Bo-called historiau, this rough rider and boat huutor, praises Lee while he defames his friond, a man influitoly his superior in every moral attribute and every noble emotion. But maybe ho will retract aud apologize, though Tom Moore, says: " But faith, fanatio faith, once wedded fast To somo dear falsehood hugs it to tho last." Mo hud belter retract, for aomo of our old soldiers are very mad about it. They are talking about suing him for slander and garnisheeing tho govern ment for his salary. Killing beurs in the wildorness won't save him nor will that little brush we had in Cuba. That 18 perhaps the biggoat little war we have ever had, and every small politi cian and stump orator who wants an olllco jumps up and aays we are all brethren now. Wo fit and fout and bled together at San Juan und Santiago, and then we crossed the wide ocean to whip out somo niggors and we will soon all bo on the pension roll. An old veteran said to rao, " That little Spanish war reminds mo of tho follow who was drowned at Johnalown, and when be knocked at tho gate St. l'etcr didn't recognizo him and refuaed to lot him in. 'Why, my dear air,' aaid ho, 'I am one of the .Johiibtown sufferors. I was drowned in that Hood.' So the good saint relented and let him in. Ho wandered about heaven, looking at the beautiful things and aftor awhile came across an old man and said, 'Good morning, old gentleman; glad to soo you. Been bore a long time, I reckon?' The old man aaid nothing. 41 am one of tho .lohn si own sufferers. 1 was drowned in that great flood.' The old man did not reply, but turned and walked slowly away. So tho fellotv wont to St. Deter and asked who that old man was. 4Ho would not speak to mo.' said he, 'though I told him I was in the groat flood at Johnstown.' And St. Peter ropliod, 'That old man, air, is Noah and ho had a flood of his own to think about." And now we read that all tho hor rors of our civil war are being repeated in the Philippines. In our war it win tho white Yankees who made war hell for us, but now they are making it hell for the negroes in tho Philippines. We were trying to smother what our people suffered, but they won't let us and now boast that General Sherman I omul it the best way to shorten the war. No, wo old man aud women cpn't forget, and I hope that our chil dren and grandcbildron will learn it all in some Southorn history. The civil ized world has not forgotten Herod nor N?o nor the Duke of Alva nor the massacre of St. Bartholomew, where 30,000 ProteBiants were bulch erod in a night. But when wi c, Teddy repent, rotract and apologized He has got It to do sooner or later or go down in history as a malicious de tainer of ono whose shoes he was not worthy to unlooso. He and Miles will get together some timo and some where. Now, why does not Teddy consider the feelings of our people in his appoint ments to Southern offices? Why did be Dot give Havo.nn.ah a white man for a collector ? Appointment* ol negroes to ho postmasters and revenue collec tors are au insult to us, and he kuows The?Won* s Greatest fore for Jiaiaria x kW all formt of Malarial poison ,ng Uke John?.?n'a Chill ami Psvse l'onk # A taint of Mslnrial poison j?t Wi yoir bioorl meansmisery and fnlliire. Illoori inerilctnescftn'tr.ur? Malarial poisoning. Th? sntldoU for 't U JOHNSON'S TONIC. Bet a bottle to-day. tat? 5t Cuts If It (im. it If ho has such affectionate regard f >r those in sjroes why not givo thorn I ii place at Washington or Albany or I Boston or a con* ut ship at 11?) ti or Sau D uuingo? These ollices are (he nearest of ?II i<> our people. The poatoftioe is our trysling place, a kind of Meccu. aud the poatiunsler our confidant. That I oflicer should above nil olhers be ac , coptablo to the majority of tho pooplo. Tho collector has tho commerce of a city in his hands and under his control, and that coinmerco is all white?none of it comes from tho ne gro race. What excuse cnn ho give for such appointments? None, and when is he going to retract and apolo gize for that slander of Mr. Davis? Echo answers whon? Hi.. Akp. MACHINE COTTON PICKINO. A New Invention Thnt Gives Promise of Successful Work in the Field. Manufacturers' Record, May 15,190*2. For several years an inventor of a cotton-picking machine has heen try ing devolopmo nts of his invention in , the Mississippi Delta. Two years ago the iuvontor, Mr. Angus Camphell, aud his backer, Mr. F. R. Morris, used the inacbino to pick cottou in such a way as to impress the spectators with its success. The two goullomeu, how over, were not satisfied with tho ma ch ino iu every respect, and since then they have neon remedying whnl they thought to bo its weak points. Hav ing perfected the machine, they signed last month contracts for five machines to pick 2,000 ncres of cotton in ihe Delta next fall. In a letter to the Manufacturers' Hocord Mr. .1. S. Weiss of Greeuville, Miss., writes : I have watched very closely for the past five years the cotton picking ma chine patented by Mr. Angus Camp bell, which is owned aud operated. by the American Cotton Picking Co. of Pittsburg, Pa. I am perfectly satisfied, beyond any question of a doubt, that Mr. Campbell has solved tho question of picking cot tou with his machine, and it does even better work than is claimed for it. On tho 15th day of last October I saw tho mnchiuu in operation at Cob ouol Morgan's place alSheppanht iwn, I a-.IIon; County, Mississippi, aud saw tbe machiue pick 93,7 por cent, of cot. t mi that was open on tho row, without destroying tho leaves, bolls or stalks in any shape or manner. 1 have also seen the machiue at work beforo frost, nover a grceu leaf, boll, bloom or square boing hurt. Ono could not tell that the machine had boon in tbe Hold, excepting that the lint was missing. Strange as it may seem, tho machiue only tukos tho lint, but of course if thoro happens to be a pieco of a dead leaf on an opou boll it takes it along just as one does picking it by hand, which, of course, is cleaned before the cotton is ginned. 1 think 1 am safe in saying that the farmer*, of this great Delta only har vested about 7/> per cent, of their ciop I this season, aud I think it is a question of a very short timo when Mr. Con* *v bell will have bis machiue at a point where ho will got 100 per cent. As 1 before- Btatod that the machine picked 03.7 per cent., however, the other (i.y per cent, does not go to waste, as the planter can gathor it if he so chooses. 1 dod't think the machine will work in very hilly land, but it does the work to perfection in flat and low lands. The machine will pick at least three bales per day, and has already picked as high as live. Every planter with whom 1 have talkod and who has seen tbe machine work is more than pl.iasod with it. In ray estimation tho cotton farmers of the South are about to receive their greatest boon. It goes without saying, as, to ray mind, the question has been Bolved regarding the harvesting of cotton. Tho signing of the contract indicates a faith in the efficiency of the machine, which, if realized, means almost a revolution in agriculture and industry in the South within the next few years. The substitution of machinery for man in gathering the cotton crop has long been a dream, with most substantial ren- ons why it should become a fact. Agnin and again an invention to that end has been announced, only to bring disappointment without destroying the hope. The success of the Campbell picker must result iu an enormous ecoi.omy in bringing tho cotton to the gin, one estimate being that it will neat ly halve the expense, in the encour agcroeut of more scientific methods in cultivating cotton, thereby permitting a gi eater area of land and greater hu man energy to be employed in the raising of other crops. Of special im portance, though, is the promise in the invrutiou of tho release from the cot ton Holds of a great mass of labor into other lines of industry requited for the full development of Southern re sources, and a wonderful change for the better from present conditions, in which i lie. opening up ot a timber tract, the extension of a railroad, the starting of a cotton mill or the development of a coal or iron mine draws often at the most inopportun?) moment needed help from the fields, or a sudden rise in tho price of cotton tends to attract needed help from manufacturing undertak ings. This balancing of labor conditions is likely to be accompanied by a balancing | of agricultural ones. The use of cotton picking machines must tend to limit cotton-growing to sections where great areas of land, devoted principally to cotton, .nay be under one management, as the use of suoh a machine by the cultivator of one acre or. ten acres would hardly be economical, if poaai bio. Hence wight be expected in cot ton-growing a radical change similar to that induced by the adoption of ma* chinery in the wide atrolchiug wheat lields of the Weat. This change, though, would injure no auinll cultiva tor ready to adupt himself to it. lie might lose if ho should attempt to coinpeto with hand against tho ma chine, liut if ho should recognize and I tako advantage of the wider market I for foodbtufts and other products created by the conversion of cotton pickers into rniuors, lumbermen, oper atives and mechanics, ho would better himself considerably. The saw gin created i domand for an oxteuaivo cultivation of cotton aud an expansion of slave-holding. It was possible under the old system, fr 'he large cotton-growor to make c ?gh from cotton alono to justify depen dence, upon outside sources for the bulk of bis supplies, though many a well-managed plnntalion was self-con tained. The destruction of the slave labor Hyi,'"ui brought about an acces. siou of whites to tho body of individual cottou-growers, forced, however, for tho while to depart from tho habit of living at homo, and often unable to apply most approved methods to their cotton culture. Tho labor dilliculties led thorn to the invent ion of devices for the improvement of mechanical handling of the crop after it reached the gin, culmiuating in the round haling piocos8. Necessities, too, gnvo an impolus to tho movement for in creasing tho amount of cotton raised per acre, and for u return to the rais ing of home food crops. Tho inven tion of a successful cotton-picker will complete tho chain of machinery, giv ing to the American cotton-grower an ml vantage which may never be emiallcd, permitting him to enjoy nil i. < host results of long experience with the staple, aud yot swelling the rank? of American productive lubor. It is hoped this machine may ho a success. BATTLE ROYALi I N.ATLANTA Trouble Between Ne;v?'o Desper adoes und OillccrH iu a Suburb of the City. In an effort to dislodge Will Rich unison, a negro desperado from his store in Pittsburg, a suburb"' hotweeh tho city of Atlanta and Fort McPher son, in which he bad taken refuge after assaulting aud nearly killing Ex Policeman S. A. Korliu, three police men and ouo citizen met instant death Saturday morning. Three negroes were killed, while four white meu and one negro aro probably fatally wounded. Richardson, .v'th several other ne groes, attacked Korlin Friday night near his home, in Pitt-iburg, and beat hitu nearly to death. Richardson llred live shots at him, but none of them took effect. Tho matter was reported to the county police and they found Richardson in a store at the corner of Me Daniel and Amy streets. Thoy called on Richardson to come out and surrender. He fired on Hu m, seriously wounding Owen Heard, a member of the posse. Tho officers drew off a little, waiting for daylight to rush the build ing. When morning came, the officers made another effort to cupturo tho ne gro, and in a few moments four persons had been shot down by Richardson, who was pumping lead from a Win chester with the accuracy of a sharp shooter, Henry King, who was with Richardson when he shot Owen Heard, came out, and wasforcod by the officers at the point of a revolver, to crawl to the building nud lire it. The house was burned, nnd Richardson's dead body, charred beyond recognition, was found. The crowd which surrounded tho house was immense, and tho negro, firing with tho deadly nccurncy of a sharpshooter, was picking off officers as fast us thoy showed their heads. * Tho officers attomptcd to arrest live ncgroos suspected of having beaten former policeman S. A. Kerlin nearly to death Friday afternoon. Tho no groes resisted arrest by entrenching themselves in a house and the light ensued. The vicinity is thickly set tled with small negro cnbins. There aro outbuilbings and barns and shrub bory over the entire neighborhood which provides such shelter that it was posriblc to escape from house to houso and dodgu boLweon fences without bo dotected. As soon as information of the light between tho negroes ami tho police reached the city, wagon loads of policemen heavily armed were hurried to the scene of action and Gov < 'am! lor ordered out a detachmont of the State militia. The shooting was followed by a speech from Sheriff Nehns, of Fulton County, advising calmness on tho part of the crowd, aud the efforts of officers thereafter wore directed towards con trolling the temper of the white men who were walking the stioets of tho suburb with drawn weapons. O KT AT LS OF OKSPKHATK STRUGGLE, At t> o'clock Sat unlay morning the group of officers who had boon walch iug the house al night approached the place and called upon thoso within to surrender. Thj answer was a volley of shots and County Officer Battle dropped dead. The attacking party retreated some distance and from be hind trees and telegraph and trolley poles commenced dring into the store, in a few minutes the door of the house wa thrown open and Will King, a nogro, ran out and gave himself up to the officers. Inside the house Rich ardson had an unobstructed view in three directions. One block away Po liceman Tom Grant stepped from his shelter to fire into the houso. A shot from the besieged house killed him be fore he could fire. Tbe attacking pai ty sent word to police headquarters and Chief of Police Ball dispatched the reserves to the scene in several patrol wagons. The officers to whom King had j|%?%/%!L powder Absolutely Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesome given liiin-.i 11' up determined to make use of the negro and at tho point of n rille they forced him to walk up to tho rour of the house aud lire it. As soon as the Humes started the olliccrs, ougor to got tho iumuteB of tho house, stop ped out of their shelter iu every direc tion. Again thoro was shot from the house and this lime Ollioor Edward Crabtrce mel death. An instant Inter there was another shot and County Policeman Robert Ozburn fell dead. The shooting had by this time at tracted hundreds of people and nearly every man who came to tho scone car ried a rifle. Tho shooting into the house became genoral, citizens and of iW.are firing together. Gov. Cundler was advised by tele phone of tbo rioting and ordered oul tho Ii ili ia. Capt. \V. W. Barker was oulcred to proceed with lifty men and a platoon gun to the scone of the shooting and co-operate with the city authorities and the sheriff of Fulton County. Chief of Police llnll hurried to the scene on horseback aud was joined a few minutes later by Sheriff [ N eine?. ! The desperado, Hichards.>n, had bee lost sight of. The house burned rnp. idly and a number of inmates were 8cou to run to the store, to a woodshed and to a barn in the next lot. Orders were quickly given to lire these build* ings and in a few minutes several of the buildiugs were hunting. \V. T. Jackson, a street ear conduc tor iu uniform, was one ot those at tracted to the scene by the shooting. As ho was Hearing the house ho was shot iu the right hip presumably by llichnrdson. A negro cabman, driv ing a spectator to the vicinity of the rioting was struck in the hand by a bullet. Officer Spradlin, speeding to the scene on his bicycle, received a wound in the arm. A main sewer which runs through this part of the city was utilized by two of the negroes a? a possible means of escape, but to no avail. The crowd had increased until at least .'{,(100 peo ple, 2,000 of whom were armed, sur rounded the burning area. Milton Roaby, a negro, was seen to emerge from the mouth of the sower. A shout went up and the Hoeing negro WRB-Hdwt-"dead-. --His body v/as sur rounded and was literally shot to pieces. The crowd of enraged citizens had scarcely ti Dished i his work when an other negro was seen coining out of tho sewer. He, too, made a run for life and managed to get into the back yard of one of the neighboring homes where he wus shot to death. Tho lire which had been started by tho attacking parly spread rapidly and soon the entire block of buildings, al most wholly composed of negro houses, was destroyed. The police wore busy arresting the few negroes found iu the vicinity. Two of them, Stave Nisbot and Jim Singleton, believed to be members of Richardson's gang, were arrested. The police had great diffi culty in getting out of the crowd of enraged people with the colored men. A mob of 2,000 surged around the pa trol wagon and clamored for the lives of the prisoners. The officers throw ing their men into the bottom of the wagon, drew their revolvers and forced a passage through tho crowd, Una My lodging their prisoners in safety iu the county jail. In less than an hour the block of Wooden houses was burned to the ground and a search of the ruins im mediately followed. In a woodshed in the rear of Richardson's st< re was found a skull and near to it the steel barrel of a rifle. It is believed that the skull represents all that is left of the negro who did the shooting. This is tho lirst affair of the kind that has over occurred in Atlanta. 1?. was not in any sense a race not, but was the result of a negro defying the law. Notwithstanding that the entire city was much wrought up over the killing of the (.Ulcers, order was re stored with wondorful promptness and the passions of an enraged people were remarkably restrained, I n l, c ii i i.i> fuABON PROBLEM Senator Tillmaii Speaks Out on A Grave ImliiHtriul Ihhuo. Sonnlor Tlllraan baa written thu fol lowing letter to one of his constituents and is dcaiious that it have the widest circulation possible in ?South Carolina: My Dear Mr: 1 liavo your loiter of May 6. Tho House committee hns re jected tho Lovering resolution, look ing to a Constitutional amendment al lowing Co.igress to fix the hours of labor, and 1 am- glad of it. No such amendment should over pass or be come law. Tho people of the respec tive States alono should control such matters and they are. fully competent to do so. Your looking at things from only one standpoint is tho reason why you have been misled into advocating such centralizing and un-Domocratic doctrines. Suppose, tor instance, that Congress, under the ptossuro of or gaui/.ud labor in tho cities, should pass an eight-hour law for all workmen throughout the United Slates? What would become of tho agricultural work ers of tho country? I agree heartily with tho idea of the Smith Carolina legislature being com pelled to prefect child labor in our fac tories, as woll as provont the excessive hours of labor among adults, and 1 shall lend ray support, with all the oarncstness L possess, to force the next Legislature to relievo tho State of the odium now attaching to it. Tho cot ton mill presidents may clamor for the p ivllego of blighting the lives of tho ?an tho _ ^ The Kind You Haw Always 1 children who work Iu their mills, when thoy should bo at play or at school, and thoy may demand the right to de clare dividends by this cannibalistic process, but unless I mistako the peo ple of our State the issue has only to 1)0 presented fully and bravely to causo the Legislature to do its duty by an overwhelming majority. (Jod forbid that we should .ever have to seek roliof from Congress in that or any other proper reform of a local character. I consider the notion of tho mill owners in Aiken County in locking out their employees ns tho most cruel and iinjuslitiablc wrong I have ever known of. It cannot bo disputed that men have tho right to strike and quit work, uor can it ho disputed that tho owners of cotton mills bavo tho right to closo tboir doors and not givo work, but the elTort to force the King mill people to return to work by punishing all tho operatives in tho other mills, who have uolhing to do with it and living oven in a different State, is something un heard of in tho South. Those mills would never have been built but with a view to employing labor for tho mutual benclit of both the owners and workers, and when the lockout came it was too late for the operative to seek employment on the farm, as no crop could have been planted at that late dnte. I hud rather see every cotton mill in South Carolina burned down and never have another one be built than to have those who own them make slaves of those who work in them. The child labor business is cold-blooded greed. The Aikcn lockout is a pro clamation unspeakable in its infamous cruelty and insolence. The unneees saiy suffering it has produced and tho souse of wrong will cause incalculable injury. There aro men iu Aiken Coun ty who, to my knowledge, have been working faithfully and continually for years and years in tho Horse Crock Valley without the slightest friction, and if all the operatives in that valley could movo away and leave the mills to rot down lor tho want of labor it would be nothing more than just retri bution for this high-banded and out rageous action on the part of the owners. 11. It. Till man. An Unusual Feb.?After a large wedding In Washington the 11 best mau" stalled at hardly an hour's notice for South Africa. On his re turn to Washington, after an absence of some eighteen months, he received the warmest sort of welcome from his old associates. A dinner given in his honor alTorded the tirst occasion sirce the wedding for donning evening dress, and in the midst of the evoning, hav ing occasion to feel in his waistcoat pockot for something he electrified the party by drawing forth a $100 bank note. Where had it come from? Who had put it there? His fellow guests had all sorts of suggestions to offer, none of which seemed satisfactory. Early the next morning tho truth Hashed across his mind. He called upon the clergyman who had performed the marriage coromony. 11 You remember the fact, I sup pose," said the visitor, "of marrying Mr H-and Miss ?-about a year and a half ago?" " Oh, very well,'-' answered tho clergyman. " 1 see them constantly. They attend my church." " Then I hope you will pardon a rather delicate question, asked in strict confidence. How much did you re ceive as your fee on that occasion?" " 1 will return frankness with frank ness," and the clergyman smiled whim sically. "It was the strangest fee that ever caino my way. After the A Curious Statkmbnt.?A London physician of large practice assorts that, owing to his extremely sensitive sense ot smell, he can foretell tho coming of death forty-eight hours. He says that when a patient comes within two days of death a peculiar earthy smell is emitted from tho body. Tbe amell is entirely diatinct aud characteristic and manifests itself irrespective of the age, sex, and disease or personal cleanli ness of the dying person. When tho tatal discaso is slow in its progress tho odor makes its appearance as much as three days beforehand, but when the disease is of the galloping kind tho doctor says he receives much shorter warning. lie attributes the smoll to mortificationi which begins within the tho body beforo lifo is extinct. There are one or two other cases on record of men whose noses were acute enough to detect the coming of doatb in this peculiar way. Dogs probably also have this sense, for hunting hounds have been frequently observed to commence a mournful baying a day or two before their masters dio. Another scheme similar to the ?Cherry Treo" affair has como to ?rief in too State of 1'onnaylvania. Two men under the firm uamo of Van \irk & Wobbios started about two nonths ago, what they called the ? Kudless Chain f .otter." The post otllce department sent a spocial agent; lo Wilkosbnrro to investigate the mat ter, and after the agent made his re port, tho department ordered ail the letters sent to tho dead letter olliooand gavo orders that the businoss must cease. Over 70,000 letters woro sent 10 Washington and they containod ovor 8100,000 iu checks. This con corn was doing business all over the South. A couple married recently in Dan ville, Kentucky becamo acquainted through tho spilling of a bottle of ink by the man on Iho girl's gloves. OABTOIIIA. Bear? too _^ H? Kind Vou Have Always Botifllft Signatar? M