The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, October 18, 1888, Image 1

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-a tbif) be., R ESALIHD185 NWERY .C. HUSA, COBR1, 88 PIE-15 AY WHAT'S UP WITH THE THREE C's. Some Disquie:3ng Rumors from Columbia Talk About Combination with the Seabord Air Line. LSpecial to News and Courier.] COLt1nmA, October 10.-Col. R. A. Johnson, general manager of the Char leston, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail road, with his private secretay, Mr. Geo. A. Fr'ch, Major John F. Jones, superiotendent, Major James F. Hart and Col. John G. Black, also of .he road, have been at the Grand Central Hotel for several days. Whenever Col. Johnson arrives in town something is expec'ed by the reporters, and after a stay like this, the fraternity usually get something of interes.. The corre spondent of the News and Courier has been unable to get anything definite from any of these gentlemen, but it has been evident that they have been dis cussing someth-ng of int erest. To-night Col. Johnson goes to Char leston to attend the annual meeting of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company, at the Charleston Hotel, to-morrow. After that, with his private secretary and Major Jones, he will go over the l:ne of the Three C's on a tour of inspection of the road, and proposes to improve the existing, or add wherever necessary new facili ties for handling the business already developed. While nothing has been obtained from Col. Johnson, it is rumored, and the rumor comes from a quarter where the actions of Col. Johnson should be known, that the object of the meating in this city was to make arrangements for a big deal with the Robinson sys tem, known as the Seaboard Air Line. It is stated in suppo-t of th;s surmise that at the Catawba Junction, a few miles south of Rock Hill, where the Georgia, Carolina and Northern Rail road makes connection with the Three C's, preparations are being made for a larger exchange of business between these two roads. The Georgia, Carolina and Northern is a branch of the Seaboard Air Line, and has just been completed from Mon roe, N. C., to Catawba Junction. At Monroe it connects with the Carolina Central, which runs direct to Wilming ton, and at Hamlet connects with the main line of the system running tc Norfolk and Baltimore. It is claimed that this will give a new and com peting line from Augusta, Columbla and Charleston to Wilmington, Nor folk aid Baltimore, but it is alsc claimed that if the above mentioned "deal' is effected it will draw much o, Charleston's cotton now going over the South Carolina Road and take it ovei the new line to the other ports. It i understood further that the manage ment of the Three C's is not pleasee with the manner in which the wealthy men of Charleston have ignored thiu trunk line, and tha.t they wish to seeli some other "seaport town." It i; further claimed that the new line would be of great benefit to.Columnbia Now, the representative of the News and Courier does not propose to voucl for the rumors he has reported. It ap pears to him that when some ont knows so much indefinitely ther< shouid be a little known definitely But Charieston can dravr her own con clusions and decide as to whether thes< -krumors caught floating around here are based upon fact, or whether they art set going for he: especial benefit. MORE ABOUT THE NEw DEAL. [News and Courier, 12th.] The annual'meeting of the Three C' Railroad Company was held at th< Charleston Hotal yesterday. A larg< majority of the stock was repi'esented TIhe meeting was adjourned withou the transaction of any business unti November 1.5, when it w'il be held ir this city, and the regular board o directors for the ensuing year will b< elected. Among the prominent men con nect ed with th's great enterprise in the city yesterday was Col. Ri. A. Joh uson geueral manager of the road. An efT'or was made to ascertain from him whba truth there was ia the rumors pub - lished yesterday taamv en is oi widl be perfected with the Seaboar< system. Coi. Johnsoa refused to say anythin; upon the subject, but it was lenarne< from an entirely trustworthy soul-c that sevemni in erviews had been hell between the officials of both systems a well as the officials of the South Carc lina Railway Company in regard t the proposed connection of the tw systems, which wi!! also include th Souih Carolina Road. These meeting were for the purpose of arranging basis for t:afiic rates. It isknowa tha Coi. J. B. Peck, the general manage1 Mr. J. H. Aver'it, the super-intenden1 and Col. S. B. Pickens. the geners freight agent of the South Carolin Road, went up on a special car over th Three C's Road to Catawba Junctio: yesterday, where they were to met Mr. John M. Robinson, the presideni Major John M. Winder, the genern manager, and Traffi Manager Clark< of the Seaboard system, for the purpose it is said of com]pleting the negotis tions which have been in progr~ess fc some time. It is claimed that under the new as rangement with the Seaboard syster the interest of the Three C's Road wi lie to the ports to the north of Charles ton, and it is not improbable that mue of the cotton which was expected 1 come to this port over the Three C system will under this arrangement 1 directed to Wilmington or Norfolk< Baltimore. It is aso estimated ths brought to Charleston from Augusta and intermediate doints by the South Carolina Railway under its agreement with the Three C's Road and the Sea board system now be shipped from Au gusta to Branchvile, thence to Cam den Over the South Carolina Railway, and thence to Catawba Junction on the Three C's Load, from which point it will be distributed to its d.estination at either of the three termini of the Seaboard system. In a word-if the arrangements between the three roads or systems of roads mentioned, are completed, Charleston will no longer be the terminus of the South Carolina Road. Under its agreement with the Three C's Road and the Seaboard sys tem, it will obtain what it has never had in the past, free and uninterrupted connection with the Northern markets. It is said that by this combination the South Carolina Road, operating its Lugusta business by way of Branch ville and Camden, will be able to give a shorter haul for its Western business to Norfolk and Baltimore than by any present route that it can control. The rail connection between the Three C's Road and the Seaboard sys tem ot Catawba Junction has already been made. Extensive warehouses and other buildings are being erected at that point for the accommodation of the business of the lines. It is said that the terminal facilities of the Sea board system at Norfolk and Baltimore are sufficient for the handling of all the new business that will go to this line by the new combination. It was suggested last night that the combination had not been completed so far as the Three C's Road is con cerned, and that it was a momentous question whether such a system as the Three C's Road will be, when it is finished, is not worth saving for Char leston. As is well-known, the Three C's system would connect Charleston with the Ohio Valley and the great Northwest. A through line from the ocean to the lakes would place Char leston above the reach of hostile syndi cates. The subject, in all its relations to Charleston, is well worth serious consideration. SLAUGHTERED BY THE GODDESS. Five Hundred Birds Fel Victims to Her on Sunday-Night Last. [New York Sun.] Sunday night was an unfortunate time for birds flying southward in this vicinity. The great electric light in the torch of the Goddess of Liberty on Bed low's Island lured hundreds of them to their death. Last year great numbers of birds were killed during their migra tory flight, but this fall so far the record of the numbers killed is much greater. A Sun reporter stood on the wooden platform under the Goddess at about midnight, when the statue was sur rounded by a perfect cloud of birds of many var:eties. The electric burners placed in the angles of the old fort for the purpose of lighting up the pedestal formed a circle of lights after entering which few of the birds were able to escape. Many were dashed against the copper statue or the granite pedestal, and many exhausted themselves fiut taring helplessly against the granite -wall. Comparatively few flew against the glass bull's eyes in the torch. A strong northeast wind was blowing, which probably accounted for the fact that nearly all of the birds fell on the north and east sides of the statue. A fter daylight on Monday morning, when the lights were extinguished, the birds were collected and counted. They numbered over 500, and twenty-five dis tinct species were counted. Nearly all of the birds were small, and most of them "yellow birds." The largest found we:-e a red-headed woodpecker and t wo catbirds. e the lighthouse keeper clamber edup into the torch to replace the burned-out carbons in the leghts, he found it filled with birds, over fifty of which had flown in through the yen tilators under the platform of the torch, They had to be caught one by one and removed, as they were too dazed by Sfright to fly out through the open doors of the torch. Five hundred is the greatest number of birds killed during any one night ,since the statue was erected. Last fall a newspaper contained a sensational article in which 3,000 were reported as Skilled, but 200 was, in fact, the greatest number killed in any one night of 1887. Last Thursday night over 4C3 birds were killed. Among the birds killed on Sunday enight were eight English sparrows, the first birds of this kind to become vic tims. Bitten by a Rattlesnake. [Camden Journal, 11th.] I On Wednesday morning of last week a Mrs. John Croft, of the Antioch section e had just swept up the kitchen, and 1i stooped to move some wood from a t corner when she was struck by a snake , that was under the wood. The fangs Ll entered the hand between the thumb , and forefinger. She immediately gave , the alarm, and help came. The snake - was killed and it had five rattles on its r tail. A doctor was summoned and on his arrival he found Mrs. Croft in ter -r'ble agony. Antidotes were adminis itered, and it was with great difficulty 1 that her life was saved. At last ac ~counts the arm was still swollen up h badly, but it is thought that she would o be all right in a week or two. e SHILOH'S VITALIZER is what you rneed for Constipation, Loss of Appetite, Dizziness, and all symptoms of Dys Ltppsia. Price 10 and 75 cents per bot FEARFUL RAILROAD ACCIDENT. rhe Horror of Chattsworth Eclipsed h Pennsylvania-Sixty-One Persons Killed and Twenty-Two Injured. WILKESBARRE, Pa., October, 11 .bout 10 o'::lock last night a dreadfu Leideut on the Lehigh Valley Rail oad was rumored to have taken place Lid further report said thewrecked trai sas a section of an excursion train re urning from Hazleton. Nearly 6,00( Luzerne and Lackawana people ha< ,one there, and no one knew just whi iad returned. The railroad official vere mute ; they knew nothing. Grad ially the stories took a terrible form [t leaked out that Superintenden diteliell and others had gone down the -oad .on a special engine. Then a pri rate telegram arrived, saying an acci lent had occurred at Mud Run, on ection of the excursion train runnin nto another. Forty persons were re >orted killed. The people were in agony, and th :rowd at the depot swelled to hundreds still the officials were mute. No dis )atches could be gotten over the wires fany well known citizens were seen a he depot wringing their hands, th aces tearful and pale with dread Vomen thronged the depot, with terror tricken countenances, sobbing, crying r silent and trembling with dreadfu incertainty. Still the railway official )reserved their terribly cruel silence leclaring that they knew nothing ivery means was taken to get infoi nation, but all to no purpose. Th Sew jersey Cenral train finall; >rought news to the effect that eight, were killed, and the excitement gre% ntense. All the White Haven phys :ians had gone to the scene. There were seventy-eight cars fror Wilkesbarre to Hazleton, the numbe )f passengers being about 5,5C). Tb 3ections were all crowded to suffoca :ion, furnishing a condition for terr )le loss of life in case of wreck. Throughout the night the depot wa thronged by hundreds of persons, suffe. ing-untold agony uncertainty. Tb throng was loud in its denunciation a the company for refusing all informs [ion and causing needless suffering. At 3:30 a. m., the report was in ci: culation that arrangements had bee made for the receipt of a large numnbe :f wounded at the hospital. The rumc was soon confirmed. The officials wei mpecting twenty-five of the victim With such a list of wounded coming i this direction, the. public pulse stoo till over the horrible possibilities, an a thousand fainting hearts quivered i dread. Many persons wanted to get to th scene of the disaster, and endeavored t charter a locomotive. The Rev. Fathe Moylan of Scranton offered to pay cas for any expense in that direction, hi the favor could not be obtained, owin to the absence of Superintendent Mitcl eli at the wreck. Many persons, after waiting durn the long weary hours from 10 to 3i the morning, took the South boun train, which passed here at :3:10, an went to the scene of the appalling di: aster. It was there learned that tL third section of the excursion train ha stood on the track a few hundre yards from Mud Ruu, waiting for tt section ahead to get out the way.. flagman, some say, had been sent bac with a lantern to guard the tral from the rear. Suddcnly the pa sengrs on the rear platform saw train approach at a high rate of speed Several of these passengers who sa the danger jumped and escaped. I an instant the flash of the headligl illuminated the interior of the ill-fate rear car. There was a frightful eras] and the engine plunged her full ]engt into the crowded mass of humanit: The shock drove the rear car throng the next one'for two-thirds of its lengt] and the second car was forced into ti third. Not a single person escaped froi the rear car. The second was crowde with maimed and bleeding bodies an the third caLr had but few passenge who escaped uninjured ; but the terro stricken passengers of both trains mnat their way out of the cars, and on goit to the telescoped engine and cars, an cars, the full horror of the terrible di aster dawned on them. The shattered engine was pourir forth streams of scalding steam at. water, which hid from their eyes tI fullest measure of the horrible seen while the hissing sound deadened t1 shrieks and groans of those injured the wreck. Ghastly white faces peered into tI wi~ndows, to be greeted by faces f more ghastly. Some of the dead s pinioned in their seats, erect as in lif staring open-eyed, as if aware of the horrible surroundings. As the steam and smoke clearcd fro the rear car, its awful sights were r vealed. The timber were crushed at wrenched, while on all sides hung ma gled bodies and limbs. The few bodi which were not mangled were burn< and scalded by the steam, and little I mained in the car which bore hums semblance. When the shock of the first crash hI in a measure subsided, the uninjuri began to do what could be done for the unfortunate companions. The fe light tools on the train were called i~p requisition, but proved feeble instr ments indeed. The St. Francis Pione Corps, who were on the train, pli with zeal the'r broadaxes, which we meant for holiday occasions. Th were, however, but little adapted work, and were soon rendered usele In the meantime the windows of t carsa were smashed in; -bhave men ent ed and released those least hurt or lea entangled. In one car they found John Lyn< of Wilkesbarre hanging from the ro by one leg. His cries brought friend who, to relieve his suffering, stood up( wreckage and held his weight up< their backs until l was released fro his terrible position. A young lady was found caught 1 the lower limbs. One of her limbs w quickly released, but the other cou not be freed, and an unfortunately mi directed blow of an axe severed it fro her body. She heroically bore her t< ture, and, -taking out her gold watc she handed it to an acquaintance as gift toa friend at home. She was p on board one of the trains and given possible care, but she could not survi her terrible injuries, and died in t arms of friends on board the car. To free the bodies in the car t trainmen :attached the locomotive the wrecked engine and started to pi it from the wreck. The first mot ment of the shattered wreck broug from the wounded such awful cries distress that surrounding friends ordi ' ed the engineer to desist on pain of 1 life. They did not wish to see t e mangled forms still further mutilatt The few houses about the spot w thrown open to the suffering, and bc fires were lighted to aid in the work 1 relief. s Passengers on the train state ti they saw the train ahead when down the road. They sprang from th seats and started in wonder and si prise that the train did not slacken speed. Suddenly their engineer a Y fireman were seen to jump. Tb came the shock. Engineer Hai Cook and Fireman Hugh Gallagi sustained slight injuries. The firem 2 subsequently stated that he saw a i r light, informed the engineer and th e jumped. Passengers gave many different counts of the probable cause of t accident. Some attribute it to ne gence of the flagman in not going ba with a red light. Others say the foui e section, which ran into the third, b no air brakes. After news was received at the hos tal confirming the worst fears, I scenes at the depot were heart-rendi a indeed. Several hundred persons r sembled as the report spread. tha train was approaching; then a ru e was made for the platform. A line -" policemen and railroad employees w, drawn up to keep back the crowd. was then reported that the wound were 6n board, and were to be taken to Mill Creek, near the hospital, a there to be transferred. e One desperate man, hearing ti 0 sprang forward, and, with an awful i r precation, declared his family were the train and that any attempt to kE t him from them would cost a life. gwas learned a little later that Lwounded were on board. As the train drew up it was found gcontain many from Pleasant Vall n and Minook, who had left dead frier d behind. As they alighted and met d quaintanaces their shrieks and w: i-were pitiful to hear. One young womi e moaned that her father and sister w d dead; another a brother, and so it we d The crowd became wild with exci e meut. G raduaily the facts narral Sabove were gleaned from the more cc n A sad incident was the presence 3~ the platform of Michael Whalen a Pleasant Valley. Up and down he w I- dered, questioning each one as to " two boys, aged respectively 12 and n years. Finally one of the passeng Lt remembered that one of the boys y d hurt. The strong man groaned. ] 2 informant hurried away and told a h porter that he thought both boys wv -dead. h The report getting abroad in Scrn b ton, a number of persons who I e friends on the train hired a special tra on which they came down to this ci n They were desirous of going on to1 d scene of thewreck, but were reful d permission by the company. They w 3 indignant at the treatment received. r- A special train of three cars, in cha: le of Dr. WV. Trimmer of White Haven, g rived here a't 5 o'clock this morni d from the wreck with 24 injured perso s- They were placed in care of Dr. WV. Weaver of this city, who accomnpan g themi to the city hospital. Dr. Trimt d reports that many of the injured me badly burned by the mass coming fr 3, the engine stack. me The list of identified dead now fc n up sixty-one, and the number of jured twenty-two. Two of the inju te brought here died to-day in the hosi ir al, and five or six more are likely to< it The number of injured is surprisin , small in proportion to the total cast ir ties. There still remain a numibem unidentified bodies. f1 WILL COST H{ALF A MILLION DOLLA e~ WILKESBARRE, PA., October li d All the injured and dead by the 3 2River accident, with the exceptiom aone of the former, have been remo d from the scene of the wreck. Miss C e- non, of Hyde Park, had her back I n ken, and she can not be removed. Pm Kline an Terry Sullivan diedi d morning. This makes sixty-nine d tims. The surgeons at Wilkesbi ir hospital say at least half a dozer w their patients will die. to The town of Pleasant Valley, wti u- twenty-one of the dead made t] er homes,. presents a mournful app ad anee. On one square on Chest re street, nine of the dead find resi ry places. The houses are close toget] to and on the front door of each is hi s. crape. Le The dead will be buried to-mor st ter makes fifteen widows and thirty four orphans. It is estimated that the :h accident will cost the Lehigh Valley of Railroad Company half a million dol s, lars to settle with the relatives of the >n dead and injured. >n ;ngineer Cook, whose engine ran m into the ill-fated train, now asks for a c suspension of judgment. He has pre- a >y pared a statement for the coroner's as jury. He denies that he was asleep in Id the cab, and his fireman, Gallagher, is- was not asleep, and he did not see the in danger signals. r- A squad of police left here to-night for h, Pleasant Valley to preserve order there ?' to-morrow morning when the funeral ut of thirty victims takes place. The r ll church will not be near large enough to ' ve accommodate all. Bishop O'Hara will 1 ae sing the Requiem Mass. The bodies will all be interred at the same time. t ae Father Crane, pastor of the Cathollc 3 to Church of Pleasant Valley, has received 1 ill contributions of $10,000, with the fol e- lowing note appended: "Bury the dead Lit and succor the sick." 3 of r- The Number of the Stars. t is - Lie [Professor E. S. Holden, in the August d. Century.] re The total number of stars one can see n- will depend very largely upon the of clearness of the atmosphere and the keenness of the eye. There are in the at whole celestial sphere about 6000 stars ar visible to an ordinary good eye. Of air these, however, we can never see more ir- than a fraction at any one time, be its cause a half of the sphere is always be ad low the horizon, as easily as in the en zenith, a half of the whole number, or 'r 3000, would be visible on any clear er night. But stars near the horizon are an seen through so great a thickness of ed atmosphere as greatly to obscure their en light, and only the brightest ones can there be seen. As a result of this ob he- servation, it is not likely that more he than 203 stars can ever be taken in at li- a single view by any ordinary eye. ck About 2000 other stars are so near the th South Pole that they never rise in our I ad latitudes. Hence, out of 6000 supposed 1 . to be visible, only 4,000 ever come with- i in the range of our vision, unless we he make a journey towards the equator. J ug As telescopic power is increased, we 1 s still find stars of fainter and fainter a light. But the number cannot go on sh increasing forever in the same ratio as of with the brighter magnitudes, because, are if it did, the whole sky would be a It blaze of starlight. If telescopes with powers far exceeding our preset ones on were made, they would no. doul9t show nd new stars of the twentieth and twenty first, etc., magnitudes. But it is highly probable that the number of successive m- orders of stars would not increase in the same ratio as is observed in the eighth, ep ninth, and tenth magnitudes, for ex It ample. The enormous labor of esti Smating the number of stars of such classes will long p)revent the accumula to tion of statistics on this question, but ey this much is certain, that in special ds regions of the sky, which have been ac- searchingly examined by various tele-' ls scopes of successively increasing aper antures, the niumber of new stars found is re by no means in proportion to the in tcreased instrumental power. If this is te- found to be true elsewvhere, the conclus dion may be that, after all, the stellar; msystem can be experimentally shown to be of finite extent and to contain only on a finite number of stars. In the whole; of sky an eye of average power will see $~ about 6000 stars, as I have just said.1 as With a telescope this nu mber is greatly 14 increased, and the most powerful tele ers scopes of modern imes will show more -as than 60,000,000 stars. Of this number, IL not one out of one hundred has ever re- been catalogued at all. . . . In all re 315,92( ,tars, from the first to the 9. magnitudes, are contained in the north em- sky; or about 600,000 in both hemis ad pheres. All of these can be seen with i, 3-inch object-glass. ;he s1,000 Prize for the Four Coidest Days. are The Detroit Journal offers to pay $1.000 in gold to the person who shall -ge name the four separate coldest days ar- between December 1, 1888, and MIarch ng 15, 1889, on which the thermometer at 's the U. S. signal station in Detroit shall G. register the lowest temperature. The led guesses or predictions must be written on 1er postals cards one guess to a card, and are must reach the office of the Detroit am Journal before December 1, 1888. Gen eral A. WV. Greely, the chief of the U. ots S. signal service, wvrites to the Detroit in- Journal that the coldest weather will red occur between January 14 and 24, but >it- but this is by no means certain, for heI ie, predicted that July 14, 1.5 and 16 would gly be the three hottest days of 1888, and al- these days were exceptionally cool. of Although over 6,000 separate guesses were sent to the Detroit Journal in Rs. competition for their $500 cash prize for _~ the three hottest days, the actual result [ud of the contest was surprising, not one of c'guessers named the three correct days. red The Detroit Journal, however, came awithin one-half a degree of having to pro- pay the sum of $5300 to S. L. Epperson, ~ter 144 .Jones st., Detroit, who guessed June his 17, July 11 and August 3. This guess i-held good from Friday, August 3, till Lrre Mfonday, Angust 27, when it was found of that on Sunday, August 26, the ther mometer at the United States signal ere station in Detroit had registered 91 de meir grees. The three hottest days of the mar- summer at D)etroit were: June 17, 94.2 nut degrees; July, 91..5 degrees; August 26 ing 91.0: er, M!r. Lesesne Will go A broad. ak WASHINGToN, D. C., October 30. The Senate has confirmed the nomina ro tion of Jas. P. Lesesne, of South Caro n- lin, tn be onsn1 eneal at Melbourne. AN OBNOXIOU.S BEAU. AO Ny Advises a Young Lady What to do. BosTol, September 27, 1888. MR. NYE.-I have enjoyed all your rritings in the Globe so much, and noti ing that.you have given a great deal of dvice free, I thought possibly you rould tell me the best method of getting id of an impertinent young man, vhose room is much preferable to his ompany. Hoping that I do not int rude on your aluable time. Yours truly, You do not say why you wish to get id of the young man, nor do you state vhat is the matter with him; whether Le is a poor conversationalist or too luent in that line; whether the first wo joints of his finger and thumb are ellow with cigarette stains, or what his eading characteristics are. Possibly he ias fatty degeneration of the thinker. However, you say he isan impudent oung man, and I infer that you have ,one through the preliminaries of gen le scorn and such things as that. Now, vhat shall we do to make him fully un lerstand that you do nat want him to emain. Perhaps you have such a thing as a rounger brother about the house. If so, >ring him in and let him toy with the roung man a few hours. You can ex :use yourself while you ostensibly put n your other dress, and if you delay ong-enough you can cause the young nan a great of intense suffering. You :an take the right kind of a younger >rother, with inflammatory hair and vhite eyes, warts on his nose and season racks in the backs of his hands, and if rou properly "sick" the boy on his prey nd fasten the door securely you can ome back in an hour and do anything ou want with that young man. I now this to be true, for I have been he young man myself. I have also been the boy. OTHER INDIGNITIES. I have known a young man who in ested a house that way to be eradicated >y means of very sad music. They do aot die in the house. Another plan would be to avoid aughing at-his funny anecdotes. Wait ill he gets through with his anecdote md looks up in your eyes for a twinkle )f merriment. That is the time to re brain from twinkling. Wait till he gets to the nub of the joke, as it were, 3nd pricks up his ears to listen for a wild burst of silvery laughter. That is the time to haig -bn to your silvery laughter. It will give him a painful expression of countenance, and you will see him soon after look at his watch. When he completes his story, sudden ly wake up and ask him if that is all, Few men can endure this for over two weeks. Of course there are other and more radical methods of accomplishing the result you wish, but these are the ones more common in the best society. I naturally supposed that you wanted the methods used in the best society, or you would have gone elsewhere in stead of coming to me. Should you finally wish to be more ievere, however. you can invite ayoung girl to be p:'esent during the young man's stay. 1 would suggest that this young girl be a fluent talker on the subject of clothes. If you both keep the talk going pretty well while the young man looks at the album or gazes with a fixed stare through a stereoscope that hasn't any pictures in it, you will soon have his pachydermic pclt on the rence. A BlARE POSSIBILITY. But there is a bare possibility that bhe young man is in love with you, and would think it humorous even if you were to fill him full of fine shot. In that case I do not know what you ought to do. Love is a strange missive. It goes where it is not sent and refuses to go where it is sent. If you could get him away by him ielf, it would be well enough, perhaps, to ask him if he loves you. That's the way I would do. The quicker a mat ter of that kind is disposed of the bet ter. Ask him in a manly way if such is the case, and if he really does love you, and has reason to think you were paying attention to him all this time, you cannot in honor desert him now. Do not be discouraged. Let us know how you get on with the suggestions I have made above and I am confident we will succeed. Have you ever tried wearing a large, tall hat with a stuffed bluejay in it to the theatre and sitting in the seat just in front of him? Try it if you have not done so already, and if you do not get rid of him, as well as a great number of law abiding citizens, write me and I will suggest something else. Yours, truly, BIL.L INYE. Organizing Knights of Labor. [Carolina Spartan.] John O'Keffe, of Rhode Island, sent out by the central committee of the Knights of Labor, addressed about 150 to 200 people at Gaffniey City last Tues day, and spoke in the court house at this place Thursday night to 250 to 300. He has nothing to say about politics, and he uses no incendiary language. He advises the laboring men to organ ize for self-protection. He made the usual arguments against national banks, convict labor, contract immi gration, monopolies and trusts. There was nothing specially new in his speech, but just such facts and argu ments as can be found in the Knights of Labor papers and pamphlets. He seems to be a well informed man and a very different character from Hoover, who sought to stir up strife HOW TO USE BOTTOM LANDS. .,1. J. Washington Watts, of Laurens, Of- Ji fers a Remedy Against Freshets! [From the Cotton Plant.] I seat myself on this very gloomy S rnorning to write you the long promis- d :d article for your interesting paper. I I iave for a long time entertained the r )pinion that our people would be forced g to give up the bottom land to grass, tl either for a meadow or pasture; and the a late terrible freshet has confirmed me tl in this opinion. And the earlier they P roelize this necessity the better for tl the 21. Many depend entirely on their S fine bottom land for the corn and fodder s4 to feed their stock. If they fail in this, G which they do on an average every fI third year, they have their feed to buy; u when if these lands were well set in Bermuda or Means grass, the crop tl would have been housed before the a rains fell, at a cost of about four dollars P a ton-which would be worth from ten b to twenty dollars a ton, owing to the fi market. An acre of good bottom well b set will yield from one to two tons at a cutting, and often a second cutting can -tl be had. And then the land, instead of o getting poorer by being washed away, 3 would grow richer by holding its own i and catching much of what-would pass c by, by the aid of the grass; and the ( only chance of losing the crop is to be ' caught in the rain while cutting, which t is very rare, for the crop is soon dis- I posed of and put beyond the reach of I rains. We all know that corn is an expen sive crop at best. And, from the length of time it takes to mature, it is exposed to three dangerons seasons, May, Au gust and September; and to lose one in t three is a ruinous drawback on the s profits. But the grass will wait and s take the chance of better weather, and ( costs so much less. And then, when I the barn is well filled the stock are apt to get plenty, which is rarely the case I when the principal food is corn and 1 fodder. And again, all experience t proves that horses raised on grass and hay are more valuable than when rear- I ed on corn and fodder alone. It is a great mistake to assume that i the grasses can not be grown profitably I in our climate. While nearly all kinds 1 do well here, there are two or three < that seem to luxuriate in this State, and as far South as Texas,. which is as far as I have been and no better hay 4 grasses are known to us; and one is I pre-eminently a .grazing grass-I refer to the Bermuda; the other is the Means grass, which yields a fine coarse hay, and yields abundantly, - and is well suited to bottomlinds. In my opinian, it would be better to depend on the native grasses fQr pas ture and to graze these bottom land 4 with all kinds of stock than to continue i the present system, for many an acre i that was originally very fertile has , been so often plowed and then flooded1 that all the soil has gone, leaving it too poor to grow corn. If this land wore, well set with Bermuds 'grass, it migh't in a few years be restored to fertility, and make a pasture that would gladden the heart of any farmer who loves his stock as a farmer should. While writing about the grasses I will put in aplea for the rag weed. Now is the time to cut it; and think as you may about it,~ I know it makes us as good a hay as anything we feed. I don't oxcept pea-vines and clover. I hope a few more will try it, and be convinced. -J. WASHINGTON WATTs. A Relic of the Days of Good Stealing Found in Utah. [New York World.) BOSTON, Sept. 29.-When B. F. Whittemore, of Woburn, Mass. was a resident of South Carolina, some years ago, he was presented with a magoifi cent enamelled gold ring by his friend Hardy Solomon. The ring was appro priately inscribed, and was dated "Co lumbia, S. C.: 73." It was also en graved with various Masonic emblems In 1886 Mr. Whittemore, then a resi dent of Massachusetts, with his family visited Salt Lake City and bathed in the lake. When he emerged from the water the ring was missing from his finger. Last August his friend Solo mon-wroi.e him from Wichita, Kansa" that Christopher Diehl, Grand Secreta ry of the F. and A. M., of Utah, had informed Grand Master Inglesby, of South Carolina, of the discovery of the lost ring on the bottom of Salt Lake by a little Mormon girl named Ann Hughes, 13 years old. While bathing she noticed something glittering on the lake bottom, and diving after it found the ring. His lost ring was re ceived the other day by Mr. Whitte more as good as new. Lighting a Cigar With a Lump of Ice. [Washington Star.) Yesterday a prominent New York lawyer arrived in Washing for a con sultation with an attorney of this city regarding some patent cases. During the conversation a match to light a cigar was lacking, and the Washing tonian remarked that a piece of ice would do. The New Yorker laughed and was incredulous, and a wager of a champagne supper was made. The Washingtonian took a piece of clear ice about an inch thick from the cooler, whittled it into the shape of a disk, and with the palms of his hands melted i its two sides convex, thus giving it the form of a double convex lens or burn ing glass. With it he focussed the sun's rays on the end of his cigar, thus lighting the cigar. While smoking the weed he enjoyed the chagria of the New Yorker, who promptly paid the TAKEN BY THE GOVEBN dicial Declaration Dtssolvin, the. Mor: mon Church Corporation. SALT LAKE, Utah, October 8.-The upreme Court to-day entered a final5 ecree in the Mormon Church.case& ast year the church entered a demur ,r to the bill for escheat filed by the = ; )vernment. The court dia not ie demurrer or the objection to the Ppointment of a receiver. Since then ie receiver has been collectingthe roperty of the church in all parts of ie Territory, and to-day has over L,000,000worth in his possession. Con l of both sides have been for months )nsulting as to an agreed statementof Lcts, and Saturday last a nta ; uderstanding was reached. To-day the court judicially. declared . ie dissolution of the Mormon Churc ! a corporation, and decreed that-al roperty, both real and personal,a a ecome escheated to the gover t >r school purposes in Utah. The cort eld that polygamy was still a tenet of" , le Mormon faith, and therefore denied. ie application of individual membaer fthe church to have the eseheated; roperty transferred to them. These idividuals claimed that as theyba Dntributed the funds for the Morinoit hurch, and as that organization wa ow disincorporated, titey were itled to the funds. The church a eys at oncetook an appeal to-the Tnited States Supreme Court. Quick Temper. [Atlantic Monthly.] A matter not unworthy of remarkis he almost universal claim laid to thih upposed-to-be undesirable quick-temper. "I have a frightf - Luick temper!" is an assertion uade without any sign of regret, vith evident self compracency tow often, when, with intentior o aying something pleasing, we remarU ipon thesweetness of a friend's 5p . ition to the friend in person; are net with the reply, "Oh, you'te q y:' nistaken; I'm one of the quickestem ered people in the world!" given. in i one that does not imply modest e )recationof a compliment, buts d ided sense of unappreciated merit. Now this willingnes - nay even, 'ithout exaggeratie, be ailed-to be convicted of what sa cnowledged to be a fault, strikes one curious anomaly. No one would wer, if told, "You are very 'Oh, up, I'n a constant Dar; omplimented apon en t"= o her own business, would 'On the contrary, scandal-mo ny favorite occupation." At least; >ne would give either of these n the serious way in which the o the possession of a hot temper nade. May there not be, ini 1his inconsistency and explaining it~ nisconcention of the real maning ,ource of-a quick te'mper? To mazy ninds, this undesirable trait seems~to me the outcome of many very amrb iualities. To be hot-tempered es. unferentially, in such mental vocabu aries, to be generous. and lremne, mnd unselfish, and-after a little 1laps f time-forgiving. But I malntain that it means exactly the reverse of all these things. If a man be quick-tem. pered, if he give way to anger ucl.~ md unrighteously (for I leave ontof bhe question entirely that righteous 1 wrath which rises for good reason.ol a,nd is quite a different matter -fromg them), he is not generous, for heshows2 no regard for the comfort of thosieZ around him;he isnot unselfish, for It-'i is safe tosay that in nine cases out og~ ten, if not in ten out of ten, his fury la kindled by some fancied slight to him self; and is allowed to blaze simply as an illumination in honor of his selff' esteem; he is not forgiving beue though he may recover quickly fron his aberration, and soon be pret urbane to the whilom victim of it, th.M restoration is simply forgetfulness, a to forget the injury inflicted upong another by his own hasty words is bfy no means synonymous with forgive-N ness of injuries he himself may have received. Last of all, he is not large-g~ minded. I am convinced that a quick s 'emper is an unfailing indication of Sr limited intelligence and a lack of mn tal quickness. If the mind were large enough to grasp the true relations of things to see how small a point in te universe .this temper-rousing episode'r occupied, and if it could see this quick~ ly-in a flash of thought, the outust would be averted. Work that is Appreeisteds [Greenville News.] The excellent work in caricature of Greenville's talented cartoonist, C. A David, is meeting with practiclap-~ ciation among the very best illustrated publications in the country, Texasr Siftings and other Northern journals, Mr. David is now furnishing somb gems of pictured wit for "Once a Week," the new but already very popular New York literary weeklyf The current issue of "Once a Week" contains a capital negro sketch from. Mr. David's pencil.A Democratie Gains in New Jeruey,. NEWARK, N. 3., Octo6er 9.-The - charter ',lection, held here t-a shows a Democratic gain on thege ' eral ticket of about '700. The RpiR cans elect eight aldermen and rtJ control of the council. Tho emort gain two aldermen-and ten school cm missioners. For the first time in Ir . ty years the Democrats havecal. the city at a charter election to the Presidentialelection.