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ESTABLISHED IN 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURS)AY. JANUAR 5 1888. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR SUMTER'S SCARLET STAiN. T.ae Bowman-Keels Fead Ends in a Bloody Aair. Special to the News and Courier. SUMTER, Deceaiber 30.-The Bow man Keels feud, which has been creat ing some ex,itemeut in this county during the past two weeks, reached a terrible and bloody culmination at about 2 p. m. to-day in this city. While a number of the parties in terested were in the omice of Trial Justice Haynsworth this afternoon, preparing to give bond to keep the peace. a shooting and cutting affray was precipitated. which resulted in the wounding in a more or less dan. gerous manner of John R. Keels, awl his "father. D. E. Keels, K. Penning too. P. G. Bowman anD Walter J. Harby, and in the death of Trial Justice George E. Haynsworth. The affair is undoubtedly the most terrible of the kind that has ever oc eurred in this county, and is made doubly so by the high standing of all the parties engaged in it. Your correspondent was absent fro-.n town when the affair occurred. having gone to Bishopville to ascer tain the facts in the shooting affair of last week. He returned, however, a short while after the tragedy and proceeded immediately in search of the facts and circumstances attend ing the terrible occurrence. When he reached the trial justice's ofice, at about 4 o'clock, the parties participating in the shooting had all been carried off by their friends, and the almost lifeless body of Mr. G. E. Haynsworth, the trial justice, was stretched on a pallet on the floor in the front room. He was soon after wards removed to the residence of his brother on Calhoun street, where he lingered until a few minutes past six this afternoon, when he breathed his last. It is impossible to say .by whom he was shot. His death of course was accidental. He was struck just under the right eye by a pistol ball, which it is thought penetrated the brain lodging near the base bf the skull behind the right ear. There was not a man in Sumter County more highly esteemed by every one than the deceased, and his untimely and tragic end has cast a deep pall over the-entire community. He was a graduate of the Citadel Academy just at the beginning of the war, and was the man who fired the first shot of the war at the "Star of the West," as that vessel was seek ing to relieve Major Anderson at Fort Summer. When your correspondent reached the scene of the shooting this after noon the excitement was so intense ] that it was almost impossible to gain any definite information concerning t the affair, and even after the first flush of excitement had died away it was hard to gain anything positive about it. The whole transaction took place so quickly that the gpectators hiad but little time to take in the de tails. Your correspondent visited all of the wounded men this afternoon and got their statement of the affair. WHAT THE ELDER KEELS SAYs. Capt. D. E. Keels was found at his son's residence in bed, although none I of his wounds are of a dangerous na ture. His statement is about as fol lows: He came to town this morning with Mr. K. Pennington, from Lynch. < burg. He went to his son's office, on 1 Main street.. and was there informed I by two policemen that P. G. Bowman was waiting at his office for him with I a gun. He staid at his son's office until about 2 o'clock, and when he was about to go to dinner Sheriff -Sanders, Polipemian J, T. Hurst and Mr. Pennington oanie in and arrested him and his son, John lKeels. for thei purpose of requiring them to giv'e a I peace bond. They left their pistols in the office, and went to trial jus-. tice's. As they entered the ofie Mr. P. G. Bowman was walking up and down the floor, and as he passed him Bowman turned with, a drawn pistol and fired at him three times.1 The first shot struck him in the leg. j- As he rose from his seat a policeman struck Bowman (:n th~e head, knock tug him down. Just then Mr. Wai ter J. Harby, who was standing across the roomn by the fireplace, fired at him. He rushed across at Harby and grasped his pistol, preventing the further use of it, not however be fore Harby had struck him in the "ace with the butt of the weapon. In the excitement and confusion which .foflowed he could tell nothing more that was going on. Mr. Keels says he was unz.rmed the whole time. lie was wounded on the inside of the. left thigh, was shot through the lef't wrist and in the left hand, besides some other severe bruises. 5T.4TEMENT OF THE JUNIOR MIt, KEELS. Mr. John R. Keels, who is in the bustody of tne police, was seen at the city Guardhouse, Hle received a slight flesh wound in the left arm. Eis statement was substantially the1 same as that given by his father. Hie said that when arrested he ob -.jected to going to the trial justice's ofliee unarmed, fearing an attack. but the sheriff insisted on his giving up his arma and he acquiesced. WVhen they reached the office of the trial justice P. G. Bowman was walking up and down the floor. A fter a 'no ment or two lhe turned suddenly with a pistol already drawn and at a distance of about five feet fired three times at D. E. '-Keels and once at him, J. R. Keels. Somebody then -knocked Bowman down and the de ponent ran out of the ottice to his ,own office and came nack with four pistols, but was stopped before lhe had reached the scene of the shooting, and was armeted, P. G. BOWMAN'S ACCOUNT. Mr. P. G. Bowman was found a his residence suffering considerabl3 from his wounds, the most serious of which was a scalp wound, the othei two being in the right hand. Mr Bowman's statement was about a follows: '"I had heard of threatf that Mr. D. E. Keels had made about making me bite the dust the next time he came to Sumter, and this morning, as I was standing on Main street in front of my office, Keels rode up the street in an omnibus, glaring at me in a most threatening manner as he passed. I walked across the street to my office steps and was standing there when Mr. Keels and Mr. K. Pennington came walking up the street very hurriedly.; I stepped down on the sidewalk, expecting an attack. but he turned into his son's tlice before he reached me. About half an hour after th;s I was arrested and taken to Trial Justice Hayns worth's office, where I was told that I would be required to giva a peace bond. While the bond was being prepared Sheriff Sanders brought in Mr. John R. Keels and his father, D. E. Keels. As he entered the room be fixed his eyes on me and put his band in his breast. There were sev aral persons standing between us, and he waited until the way was lear and then drew a pistol. With. )ut awaiting any further develop. rents I drew my pistol and com nence I firing is rapidly as I could. [ was anticipating "trouhle, but did ot want anyone else in it. I would ]ot let brother (W. A. Bowman) go o the trial justice's armed. He was resent at the shooting altogether inarmed." WHAT 1R. HARBY sXYS Mr. Walter J. Harby was met on he street late this afternoon with is head bound up. He had received ,everal cuts in the affray, but none iertous. Harby said that when the hooting began Penningtoi drew his )ietfil and opened on Bowman. He was standing near Pennington, .. -ushed on him and grappled wit... iim. Pennington turned with a knife n one hand,a pistol in the other. Har )y then drew his pistol and com nenced firing at Pennington, who losed on him with a knife, .utting uim on the head and neck. D. E. eels then closed on Harpy, press ng a pistol against his body. Harby aught the weapon and turned it iside as it went off. He was holding Pennington off when they were dis irmed by the police. EVIDENCE OF EYE-WITNESSES. Other particulars of the affair were )rocured from Sheriff Sanders, dessrs. G. C. Bacon, J. A. Schwerin, Lnd others who were eye witnesses to he shooting. It seems that Sheriff >anders was standing by the door as ln R. Keels ran out. As Keels assed the sheriff he wrenched the atter's pistol from him, and running ut of the door, fired up through the lash of the east front window twice. Ut whom these shots were directed, Lnd whether they took effect or not, t is impossible to say. Mr. J. A. Schwerin, the trial jus ice's deputy, was the first person who reached Mr. Haynsworth after e was shot. He says he, did not ~ee him fall. Policeman Sam Hurst lays i e fell right over on his face. le was struck while sitting in his ~hair. His last words were addressed n Messrs. Bowman and Harby, who rere being put under peace bond. le had then prepared the neces ary papers and turned and asked: Gentlemen,. are you ready.?" Just Lt that moment the promiscuous firing >egan. Hie was totally unonscious, Lfter being shot, until his death. Eenningtonu could not be round to night. He was shot thrGugh the >ody, but fortunately without any erious effect. All the parties en-. aged were arrested this afternoon. '. G. Bowman and W. J. Harby w-ere released on giving bond to keep be peace in the sum of $1,000 sach. ['he other parties will probably be >ailed out early in the morning. EHE mTsUoPVIL4LE sHOOTING A4FFAiRi. Vursuant to instructions your cor. espondent went to Bishopville yes. erday to ascertain the facts in the Bow:nan-Keels shooting affair of the 9th inst. He visited Mr. P. G. Bowman, Jr.. the wounded mian, who ave the "'ollowing statemnent, which s corroberated In all points by~ the -Ion. W. 1). Scarborough, Messes J. ). Shaw, S. H. Kilgore, F, P, Mc Lane md other eye-witnesses: Mr. Bowman said that he had )eard of threats which Mr. Jon R. Keels had made against him and had repared himself for a difficulty, al ;hough he intended to avoid it if :>ossible. On the 19th of D)ecemiber. SIr. D. E. Keels came to Bishopville "arly in the morning., and his son John Eeels came up later in the day [rom Sumter. About 2 o'clock Sam H. Kilgore and( T. P. McLane :ame in his store and told him that hbe Messrs Keels were in town, and isked him to walk out on the -street ~o let them see he was not afraid. He h)ereupon walked down the street and met John R. Keels about thirty feet from his store. Keels advanced n him saying, you, I have seeii looking for you and now T've got you, and struck at him. H-e warded off the blow and struck Keels, whereupon the latter drew his pistol. Bowman immediately drew his, but A. S. Barrett took Keel's pistol, and he gave his up to S. H. Kilgore. Keels then agreed to fight. it ont fair and advance on Bowman. who, with. nit advancing, struck him back three Limes. At the third hlow Keels drew a second pistol and fired twice, one ball taking effect in Bowman's left hip. Mr. D. Keels jerked Bowman's pistol from Kilgore as the firing be. gan. Bowman was rquarmed and una ble to defend himself. Public senti ment at Bisbopville is very much against the course pursned by Keels. - as the people consider that he took an undue advantage of Bowman in attacting him with a pistol when the latter was unarmed. The sequel of this affair, however. which occurred in the Trial Justice Court to-day, eclipses in horror the above narrated happenings. all in terest being centred around the last scene of the dread tragedy. The Most Beautiful American Woman. From the Cincinnati Gazette. WASHINGTON. Dec. 19.-When the snow began Mrs. Cleveland was shopping on the avenue. She was walking from store to store with one of her guests, whom she.always takes along to make a contrast with her own prettiness. She is a fast walker, and made her friend trot to keep up with her. She was plainly dressed in a tight-fitting suit, with -small, modest hat and no *raps. In the gown and jacket her beautiful figure st owed off to perfection, and even with her slender waist and girlish contour one seeing her upon the street can hardly believe her own statement that she weighs 170 pounds. But she is a large woman, and taller than her husband, and when with him looks taller from her erect carriage and well proportioned figure, and his enormous girth and general wealth of adipose tissue. Once Mrs. Cleveland- paused to enter into business negotiations with an urchin selling peacock feather ornaments. She handled the differ ent bunches, and asked the prices. Her friend became nervous ba cause of the gathering crowd and startling eyes, and said, "Come on, Frankie; don't you see what a crowd you are collecting ? "That's all right' was the cool re ply. "-I can't help it." She selected a bunch, paid a dime for it, taking the money from a gold ornamented alligator-skin pocket. book as long as a policeman's club, and the two ladies sloped into a sad dlery and horse millinery store, and began examining horse blankets, stir rups, and bits, while the crowd slow ly melted away. When they were all gone, Mrs. Cleveland and her friends again ventured out upon the street and walked until another crowd gathered. and then they took final refuge in a- jewelry store. From there, as the snow began coming down faster, they took a herdic to the white house, and Mrs. Cleveland passed up her fare to a colored man to deposit in the box. Neither the colored man nor any body else in the herdic had any idea who the young lady was,' but the whole party becnie very wide awake as to her identity when she and her companion alighted at the white house and scampered up the broad walk through the fast falling snow. Mrs. Cleveland at once made things hvely in the white house. There was ringing of bells and hurrying of servants and grooms, and within half an hour the big old white house sleigh, which has been stored away unused ior several years, was brought out, with horses and bells and robes, and Mrs. Cleveland and party jumped in and started out on a gay trip to Oak View and Grasslands, just as the sky cleared and. the new moon sho~ne forth. To be young and healthy, and pretty and wealthy, and the first lady in the land in the foremost nation in the world, and 'at the same time to take .a sleigh ride with soft robes, gliding runners, musical bells, and the silver cresceb.t of a new moon showing happily over her right shoul der, is not given to many women in this life. Yet, the Lord bless her, the people, whether they take kindly to her husband or not, are glad to see so much happiness condensed into one young and innocent life. Gireenville Votes a Subscription of $200,000 to the Railroad. GREENvILLE, December 28.-The restult of the election in this county to day on the question of county sub scription of $200,000 to the Carolina, Knoxville and Western Railroad, was a grind victory for the railroad. The city voted solidly for the sub scription, the total vote in the city being 2,445, of which only forty-three were against. the subscription-and mnost of these were by voters from the country, who came in the city and v-oted. Reports received to night from most of the townships in the .onnty for the subscription is not less tb in 3,000, and probably more. Ther is great rejoicing in the city to-night at the result. The contract for grading the entire lin~e from here to Knoxville has already been signed, and it is understood that the work will commence next month. The building of this road will make the railroad facilities of Greenville complete. The Coast Line Vestibule Train. Thie famous '-vestibule train" of the Atlantic Coast Line is now ready for its initial trip and will start from New York for Jacksonville. January 9. It will pass Ashley Junnction at 8.40 A. M. on the 10th an'd reach Jacksonville at 3.45 P. M. the same day. That trip will be the first of the regular trips from New York. This train will make the southward trip every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Returning it will go north on Tuesdays, Thurs lays and Satur days. The train is said by the northern papers to be the finest eter not on a rilwnw' A STRANGE CAREER. A Cherokee Who Fought Under Robert E. Lee-Exciting Experience. Olympus Monroe Wilson is the heterogeneous name of an Indian who has been in Nashville for several weeks, says the American. le has been connected with some or the most stirring events in the west dur. ing the early days when settlers car ried their lives in their 1ands. IIe was horn fifty-eight years ago, near Tahlequah, the capital of the Chero kee nation, the son of a full blooded Cherokee woman and a halt-breed. He has since his twelfth year, when he enlisted in the Texas rangers, been scout, soldier, trapper miner, and now in his old age, has turned his face from the lone star State to the far-away home of his youth in Indian territory. He has been three times married, has buried each wife and five cliil iren, and now seems to want to live nly till he can once more see his nly son in the forest where he was born. He is afflicted with heart dis ease and realizes that he may die any moment, but his fortitude never deserts him, and although suffering from a terrible wound re ceived in battle furty-five years ago, tnd from other injuries which kept him in a hospital four years stripped in recent years of the small prop rty he had acquired, he bears bis misfortunes with the characteris ;ic Indian stoicism. He is not slo venly or dissipated, as the popular mind pictures the Indian redeemed to partial civilization, but a fine look. ing, sober and remarkably intelli. ent man. When a young man he went to California as a gold miner. One day a heavily-laden wagon ran over his body, and he was con ined for years to a hospital. His life was despaired of. but the con stant attention of an English physi :ian who became interested in him inally restored him to partial health. During his sickness his kind nurse aaght him to read and write, ind for years he has read a treat deal, as his conversation shows. When a mere lad he fought the Com. mnche Indians who depredated on he Texas border and served under Ben McCullough, who afterward be ;ame a federal general. The Chero cees were the first Indians with whom the colonists became ac luainted, and since the founding of lamestown. Va., have been the. most ractable of the Indians, so that t was scarcely to be wondered it that this young son of the ribe, who had white blood in is veins, should have been found in cliance against the Comanche ma Lauders. The first battle with them n which he took part was in 1844, >n , the spot where San Antonio now tands, and fifteen red skins bit the lust. At one time he fought under Robert E. Lee, who was then colonel >f the Second United States dragoons. Lee was in pursuit of a hand of Comn iches who had committed serious lepredations, and caught them on a ributary to the Colorado river. The ngagement was sharp and brief, Lee orcing the Indians to the lills and illing over t.hirty. His f<,tree was sixty men, while the Indians out aumbered him ten to one. Wilson aid to an Amnericain reporter that he 'emembered Lee distinctly, that lie was even then, a young man, remark ibly self-possessed in battle and Inick to execute plans, fearless and intiring, qualities which were four locades signally displayed on many m battl'efield. Wilson is ripe in Indian los and aa evidently been a calm studenit of ~heir history in recent years. lie -emarked in illustration of the rapid lisappearance of the Indlian. "War, estilence, and whisky are pursuing ;heir deadly work with astonishuing ffect. In 1843 there were 20,000 3manches, the last census shows mly 2,500. In fifty years I do not delieve that there will be an organ zed Indian tribe in the country. The paches are about the only wild In ians. You can find the red-skins in ill of the territories, but the tendency a to collect in Indian territory, or as we call it, the Four tribes. In 1832, hat region, then a part of the -terrn ory of Arkansas, was made the property of the Choctaw, Cherokee, Dhickasaw and Creek indians. and so it has remained." In defense of Mr. Cleveland, who da been charged with inconsistency in removing stockdealers from the Arapahoe and Cheyenne reservations. and allowing the Kansas Stock comn pany to continue to use that of the latter tribe had many years ago, in sonsideration of $300.000, given the Kansas company this right, while the raders were on the Arapahioe and heyenne lands through illegal con tracts made by government agents, nd which Mr. Cleveland has justly sat aside. Anal.yzed Hecr. Harper's Magazine. A negro man went into MIr. E- -'s >ffice for the 1aurpose of instituting a divorce suit against his wife. 3Ir. E- proceeded to question him as to his grounds for complaint. No ricing that the man's voice failed him, Mr. E-looked up from his papers, nd saw that big tears were running down over the cheeks of the applicant for divorce. "Why," said thie lawyer, "von seem to care a great deal for your wife. Did you love her ?" "Love her, sir ? I jest (Inalyzedl her ?" This was more than professional dignity could withstand, and MIr. E. --laughed until the negro, ofiendecd, SATTl E WITIE A %EA IONTE. A Finbaek Whale Kills Three of the Crew on a Whalin:rgteamer. I row the Boston Globe. The whaling steamer "Lizzie N.," Captain West, which has been en gaged in the finback whale fishery on the eastern coast this season, on Oc tober 6, when about fifteen miles east south east from Sequin islan3, off the coast of . 'aine, a large lone whale of that species and attempted its capture. A boat was lowered and manned with Captain West, his mate and four seamen. Captain West, with a large heavy whaling gun in which was an explosive bomb lance, took the breach of the boat, while the mate steered. Upon approaching the whale it was seen that he would be an ugly customer to deal with, as be showed no inclination to run, but kept slowly milling around, evidently WAITING TO BE ATTACKED. When the boat was near enough to warrant a shot, Captain West fired the gun, but as the sea was rough the motion of the boat destroyed the ac curacy of the aim. The whale was badly wounded, but not in any vital part. The whale then made for the boat, and in passing under it struck it with his flukes, throwing it some thirty feet into the air with its crew, throwing the men out. As the boat descended the whale again struck it with his tail and completely demor alized the boat, killing one of the crew, Jacob Klock. cutting him com pletely in two. The whale then com menced to bite and strike with his tail at the pieces of the boat, killing two more men, Neil Oken and Chris Johnson, who were supporting them selves on pieces of the wreck. While the whale was engaged in destroying the boat, Captain West, the mate and one fortunately secured an oar apiece and swam away from the place. On board the steamer the mishap was seen. ANOTIIEIR BOAT WAS LOWERED and *the three men picked up and taken on board much exhausted. Nothing daunted, Captain West re solved upon capturing the fish. Every thing was got in readiness; two guns were loaded, each with the explosive lance, Captain West taking one and his mate the other, and taking their positions in the bow of the steamer, word was given to go ahead. The whale in the meantime was tying still among the debris of the wrecked boat, occasionally throwing his flukes into the air. As-the ship neared the monster, he left the wrecked boat and made for the steamer, with the evident in tention of striking her on the port how. By a quick turn of the rudder the steamer cleared him by a few feet. but with no chance for a shot. The whale then turned and again made for the steamer, coming down fr9rm the windward for about mid ships of the vessel. Captain West saw that the whale evidently intend ed to breacii on to the vessel, and word was given to go ahead at full speed. So the whale REARED ITs HULGE HEAD) AND BODY into the air, the little steamer sprung ahead, and the whale fell into the water with a terrific noise, and just cleard the steamer's stern by a few feet. When the whale struck the water it made such a heavy swell that the men were unable to stand on the deck. Seeing that it was impossible to get a shot at the monster without, great risk to the steamer and crew another plan was resorted to. A large, strong water er.sk, holding about 250 gallons, was emptied of its contents and then bunged tightly. The steamer was once more headed for the fighter, and as she approached him he agaiD came to the attack. The cashm was thrown overboard to attract his attention and the vessel retreated to a safe distance. The whale in stantly went for the cask, throwing it high in the air with his flukes, but such was its strength and buoyancy no darnage was done to it. After several futile attempts to smash the cask with his flukes, he commenced to swim slowly around it, occasional ly striking it with his head and at tempting to bite it. evidently forget. ful of the ship, which was WATCHING Ils EVERY MOVEMENT closely. This was Captain West's chance, and silently but swiftly the little steamer glided up behind him at a short distance from his tail, and be fore he was aware of its approach he received the contents of both the whale guns, the bomb lances explod ing in his lungs. The steamer sheer ed off to a place of safety, the whale forged ahead about 100 yards and commenced to break and lash the sea into foam in its frenzy and dying struggles, throwing high in the air large quantities of blood, showing that he bad received his death wohnd. A fter about five minutes' struggling, he commenced to slowly mill around, and finally giving one last breach into the air, came down on his side dead. The steamer then went alongside and fastened to him with harpoons, and strong ropes and chains secured him to the vessel, by which means he was towed into the harbor, where crowds collected to see the monster and congratulate Captain West on his skill and daring in capturing tbe whale, this being the first one brought into that place. The whale is upward of sixty feet in length, and would probably weigh between seventy and eighty tons. It is one of the largest of the species ever captured, and would yield about thirty barrels of oil. FARXING THAT PAYS. d Fifty-nine Bales of Cotton from About Fifty-one Acres. e Aiken Journal and Reciew. h Mr. M. T. Holley, Jr., a most e successful young farmer of the r Levels, at our request has given us e for publication the result of his farm y ing operations this year. His farm lies about two miles south of Aiken, - on what is known as the Levels. He r planted in cotton last spring, using the Peterkin seed, between fifty and fifty-two acres, manuring with fertil izers, compost and cotton seed, and , off this he has gathered fifty-nine f bales averaging 467 pounds of fer a tilizcrs, and compost and 30 bushels s of cotton seed to the acre, and from a this he gathered twenty-four bales, e which goes to prove that heavy ma e nuring pays, evon on our uplanda. On the balance of his cotton land be t put only about 300 pounds of fertili zers and 15 bushels of cotton seed. e With the exception of four bales , which Mr. Holly still holds, this cot e ton has all been sold to the Granite a ville Manufacturing Company, where a doubting Thomases, should there be any, can verify these figures. both as t to the number of bales sold and their 3 weight. Mr. Holley is a firm believer in the use of ferterlizers, and next year he proposes to reduce his acreage and increase the quantity of fertilizers, s thus backing up his judgment by s his actions. 0 In addition to this fine yield of cot s ton, Mr. Holley has made all the corn and fodder that will be necessa ry for him to run his farm another year. D What has been accomplished byMr. n Holly can be accomplished by others. His lands are no better than bun D dreds of acres that surround him, but he used manure freely and pushed l his crop instead of letting his crop push him. He has made money, and e we wish we had his permission to D give his net profits on his farm this year, but that we have not, although the figures are in our possession. Suffice it to say that with him farm ing pays. A New Departure. s The South Carolina Methodist Conference resolved that "an attend dance upon the theatre circus, or any professional'or in r aramat ic or impersonating exhibition, is in a consistent with the obligations of a Christian profession to renounce the world, the flesh and the devil." "This," says the Augusta Chronicle, "is a pretty wide scope of condemna 9 tion. The theatre and the circus have been the immemorial targets for f ecclesiastical censure, but the con ference adds all forms of dramatic or impersonating exhibitions, whether professional or. amateur. According ~to this, a dramatic reading or a tab leau, even by amateurs, is equally .the child of sheol with the clown and r the ballet danie'. What is to become of school May-day cantatas, where one little girl represents the lily, another the rose, a third a violet, and f so on? This is an 'amateur imper n sonating exhibition.' What, again, d of the tableaux, where pretty misses e represent Faith, Joan of Arc. the 3. Genius of America, etc? These are i, exhibitions, and impersonating exhi i. bitions at that. We at first thought , the good brother who wrote this reso ll lution inadvertently drew it too r, strong, and that the conference un d advisedly adopted it just as it came , from the committee, but a second . resolution makes it appear as if the . reading, the'- cantata, the tableau, s even for church purposes, must go. 31 The resolution says: "We will dis e countenance and discourage a resort ,to all questionable means of raising -. money for church purposes by other means than a straightforward and ihonest appeals to the sense of reli gious obligation.' The church fair .1 must, therefore, go as well as the tab. leau and cantata. Farewell to the ~, fish pond. and grab-bag, and postof ,flce, and Rebecca's well, and the .chicken-salad made out of antedilu vian rooster. A long and glad fare well." The Razor-Back Hog. . Tobe Hlodge, in American Magazine. f "Evolution : They are great travel ~, ers, and always go in a trot. Their .t quadrupedal locomotors are in some e way connected with an internal grunt rI ing arrangement. This capability i- for locomotion, and their innate sin s fulness, scientifically explain their existence in West Virginia and their e ancestry. There is no authority for t even supposing that all the swine e historically described as going down t into the sea or lake with devils in e them were drowned. The Sinaitic, f Vatican and Alexandrian MSS. say a "choked"; so I stake my scientific e reputation upon the assertion that -the Razor-back Hogs of West Vir I ginia are descend from the survivors 'of those owned by the A. D. I. pork. , raiser.', for the reason that they have e more deviljin them than can possibly a be compressed into modern pork, h ave cloven feet, a long tail, and e never miss an opportunity to upset a , bucket, eat a week's washing, of .-squeal when the baby is asleep. 1 A Peculiarity of 1888f -Next year (1888) will be a pecu i liar one-in this respect-that the last ' three numerals which compose it will a be the same figures, a circumstance -: which can occur only once in a cen B tury, or, more strictly speaking, once B in every 111 years. as it will be 111 I years before another "three of a Skind" (1999) will be reached. ONE YEAR AT TiE SOUTH. A Wonderful RIecord of Progress an ProsDerity. BALTIMORE, Decemler 29.--Th Manufacturers' Record will publis this week its annual review of th industrial growth of the South ft 1887, which is in many respects tb most remarkable year in the histor of that section, as more was accon plished for the progress and pro perity of the whole South than eve before in the same length of time. From Maryland to Texas the pr< gress was remarkable, covering a most the entire range of industr3 and there is scarcely a single line c manufacturing or mining business i which the number of new enterprise reported during 1887 is not more tha twice as large as in 1886. Of th fourteen Southern States there ar only four in which the capital it vested in new enterprises was nc double tne amount invested last yeaw While the number of new furnac companies increased from 28, in 188( to 29 in 1887, the number of machin shops and foundries increased frot 68 to 103, and miscellaneous iro works, rolling mills, pipe works, &c from 56 to 71; so that the increase c enterprises to consume pig iron wa much greater than of furnaces to pr( duce it. MISCELLANEOUS FACTOI:IES. Agricultural implement factorie increased from 11 to 25,1flour mill 92 to 135, furniture factories 23 t 55, gas works 24 to 35, water work :42 to 88, carriage and wagon fact< ries 16 to 44, electric light works 3 to 83, mining and quarrying ente: prises 174 to 562, cotton mills 9 t 77, wood-working concerns 448 t 726, ice factories 50 to 95, cannin factories 13 to 82, brick works 53 t 169, cotton compresses 13 to 35, col ton seed oil mills 4 to 18, naturs gas companies 21 to 53, and misce laneous enterprises 419 to 913. Th total number of 1887 was 3,43 against 1,575 in 1SSC. CAPITAL INVESTED. The ainount of capital, includin the capital stock of incorporate companies organized during 1881 was : Alabama $47,982,000, Arkansa $24,466,000, Florida $2,736,000, Geoi gia $15,361,000, Kentucky $40,053 000, Louisiana $8.218,000, Marylan $15,187,000, Mississippi $4,771,001 North- Carelina $9:767;i00,' Sout Carolina $3,895,000, Tennessee $35 861,000, Texas $16,430,000, Virgini $23,255,000, West Virginia $8,766 000. Total $256,298,000 in 1886. COTTON MILLS. In cot on manufacturing there ha been great activ.ty-and seventy-seve new have been projected, many c them being now under constructiol which is the largest number of ne mills ever reported in one year. Co ton mills are reported as havin largely over-sold their productioi and many old mills are being er larged to meet the demand for thei goods. DIVERsIFIED) INDUsTRY. Trhe increasing diversification < Southern industries is illustratedi the fact that Alabama alone secure (luring the year the location of fiv large car-building plants, two at D< catur and one each at Birminghan Anniston and Gadsden. The Ai niston works will cost $1,000,004 employ 1,000 mechanics, and wi turn out twenty complete cars a dal from freight to passenger, parlor an sleeping cars. The entire worl from making the wheels to upho stering. is to be done in these shop! One of ti-e car plants at Decatur being built by the Louisville an Nastiville Road and the other will 12 the large works now at Urbamne Ohio, which are to be removed to D4 catur. In the building of rollin mills. pipe works, machine shops an foundries the same activity is seer while furniture factories, agriculture implement works, flour mills,.gas an electric works, canning factories wood-working establishments. &c are being started all over the Souti Sad and Sudden End of a Congress man's BricIe of a Month. W AsIINGTOx, December 2.-Mrn Eunice Bosworth Taylor, wife c Congressman E. 13. Taylor, of Ohi< died this afternoon of apoplexy i the Providence Hospital, where sh bad been removed on being foun unconscious in the street. Her ident tv was unknown for several hour after her demise. Mrs. Taylor left her late residenc in the i'norning, apparently in perfe( health, to do some shopping. Sh was on her way home, within abou two blocks of her residence when sb fell on the pavement at the corner c Cnnecticut avenue and L. street, i what seemed to be a spasm. Sb was removed unconscious to a neigh boring drug store, and there bein nothing except the word "Bosworth on a handkerchief in her pocket t disclose her idenity, an ambulanc was sumomoned and she was taken t the Providence Hospital. Here, nol withstanding all that could be don for her, she died in about two hours without having r:gained con scious ness. A bout the time her friends bega: to notice her absence they read i: the evening papers a paragraph de scribing a lady whose name couli not be learned, having been taken ta the hospital, and mentioning th handkerchief with the name of Bos worth upon it. Her husband at onc went to the hospital. hut found hi wife dead. They had been marries nonenn month. The Woolfolk Tragedy Eclipsed. ALBANY, Ga., December 27. News reached this city to-day of a tragedy in Lee County, which almost rivals the Woolfolk tradegy in the number of victims, and eclipses it in that. the criminal added his own dead body to the funeral pile. The scene as described is shockiig in the extreme. Nathaniel Read was always at outs with his family, which consisted of a wife and six children. He was of a sullen nature, extremely jealous, and highly passionate. His wife lived in dread of him, and his chil dren cowered in his presence, and always sought some place where his eye could not rest upon them. On Sunday, according to a I* who staid with the family, Read wa taciturn and angry. He would sit for an hour at a time with an ugly looking dirk in his hand, which he would pass over his other band, as if in the act of strapping it. Whenevier the children would come near him-4e would grit Lis teeth and mumble curses. After dark he feigned sudden sick ness, and told the boy to go for a doctor. The boy ran, and it was several hours before he returned ac companied by a physician. They were astonished to. find the house a mouldering ruin, while the stench from the roasted corpses was unen durable. Not much could be done in the way of investigation until day light, when about fifty neighbors were drawn together. The bloody knife wa9found beside the well. It was evident that Read must have cut his victims' throatst seven in number, as they slept, and then set the house on fire. In the well Read's body was found. A frightful gash was in his throat, which must have been inflicted just as he jumped into the well. The remains were all gathered to gether and buried near by. Great excitement prevails. The Blackwell Railroad. A special meeting of the directors of the Blackville, Alston and New berry Railroad was held at the Ger man Artillery Hall on Tuesday night, President George A. Wagener and the following directors were at the meeting: W.'H. D.ua.n Mke Bow ini5 nn einy .CaptF. W. Wagenec aad Mr.gam Simons, both of whom tare.lrge stockholders in the company.were also present by invitation. It was decided by the directors-to. call for bids. for grading the road.. from Sallyville to the Kaoline mine ' with a view to extending it to that point as soon as possible. Mr. J. H. Averill, the superintendent of the road, was instructed to order two new locomotives and the necessary cars for the passenger trains,. Mr. Crawford Keys, a well-known civil engineer, has also been engaged to select the location and arrange for the erection of several depots and water tanks along the route. Mr. J. H. Riley, of the firm of Sal- ' ly & Riley, merchants at Sallyville, was in the city .yesterday, and re ports that the road will be compled to Sally ville to-night, the track-layers being now within a short distance of the town. This will permit the im- - mediate operation of the road be tween Sally ville and Blackville, a distance of about fifteen miles. Mr. Riley has three thousand bar rels of naval stores, and his firm has one hundred and eighty bales of cot ton now waiting at Sallyville for ~ shipment to Charleston as soon as the road is formally opened by the railroad commissioners. Quinine Will Break up a Cold. It is surprising, says a family physician, how certainly a cold may be broken up by a timely dose of quinine. When first symptoms make their appearance, when a little lang our, slight hoarseness and ominous tightening of the nasal membranes follow exposure to draughts or sud den chill by wet, five grains of the useful alkaloid are sufficient in many cases to end the trouble. But it must be done promptly. If the golden moment passes, nothing suffices to stop the weary sneezing, handker chief using, red nose and woe btegone looking periods that certainly follow. How to Get Rich. - From the Detroit Free Pr-ess. "it's what thee'll spend, my son," said a sage old Quaker, "not what thee'll make, which will decide wheth er thee is to be rich or not." John Jacob Astor used to say that a man who wishes to be rich and has saved $10,000 has -won half' the battle -is on the highway to fortune. Not that Astor thought $10,000 much; but he knew that in making and sav ing such a sum a man acquired hab its of prudent economy which would constantly keep him advancing in wealth. Sherman Will Oppose Lamar. SPRINGFIEL.D, Ohio, December 27. -In reply to a communication from the Buckeye club, of this city, pro testing against the confirmation of L. Q. C. Lamar as associate justice of the United States supreme court. Senator Sherman, in a letter, says: "I take the same view of the nomi nation of Mr. Lamar as stated by . your Buckeye club. You may be sure I shall do all I can to. prevent his confirmation. I regret to say. however, that I fear my efforts will be nsnccessfult"