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~ ESTABLISHED 1865. __NEWBERRY, S. C., TIIURSDAY, JAINUA 1.18.PIE$.0AYA A MID WINTER CYCLONE. Horrible Loss of Life in Pennsylvania Cii -Wind Whi2h Crushed Brick Wall Like Egg Shells. PITTSBURG, PA., January 9. 12.30 to-day during a heavy storm wind and rain the new four-story bui ing on Diamond street, near Wo< and in the rear of Rea Bros.' and 'W don & Co.'s, on Wood street, fell w a crash that was heard for ma squares. The force of the falling bui ing was so great that the rear walls the two other buildings -mentior were etushed as if they had been ma of paper and their front walls fell up the pavemeat on Wood street, bu: ing several people in the debris a mingling some horribly. Of these t were a girl and a boy and one a m unknown, all of whom were taken a patrol wagon to their homes or t police hospital. The falling wa crushed in buildings in Diamond Stre occupied by Geo. Freaxter, barber, a W. C. Thomas, dealer in shoe fir ings, and badly damaged portions the buildings occupied by Jose Etchbaum, on Fifth Avenue, and R. Wadon & Co., book sellers, and R Bros., stock brokers, on Wood Stre The catastrophe created intense exci ment and in a few minutes the stre4 sur-ounding the fallen buildings we blocked with people. Hundreds willing hands, heedless of the dama to themselves, went to work te ext cate the victims of the terrible accidei Up to 4. p. m. 42 persons have be taken from the ruins of the Diamo Street building. Of thee four we dead and several so badly injured tb recovery is almost impossible. A lar number are still buried under the i bris. Martin Hiller, just taken out the barber shop, said "there are fo more in there" and then became u conscious. The storm last about thirty minul and was the heaviest known in ti section for years. The wind blew hurricane while the rain and hail f in torrents.. A number of other buil ings were damaged by the,high win A portion of the foundry of Mclntos Hemphill & Co., on 130th Street, w blown down but as fi,r as known , one was killed or injured there. PITTSBURG.-LATER.-Lp to t, o'clock to-night forty-three persons h: beeitaken from the rums, and there no doubt that others are still bnrie All were promptly carried home or hospitafs, so an exact statement c not be made, but the facts seem to that eight were kilted outright or dil shortly after being removed and thirt five others were injured, a number them fatally without a doubt. READING, P.-A cyclone pass over this city this evening doing co siderable damage and causing hea' loss of life. A silk mill in which 2 girls were employed blew down ju before the hour for quitting wor Everything is in confusion. Abo the same time there was an explosia and fire in the same neighborhood 1 which eight men were biurned death. . READING, PA.- LATER-The stor was a cyclone, and its track was on two hundred feet wide. The explosie referred to in a former dispatch < -curred in the car shops of the Readii Railroad Company. ~In the paint sho 'were nine passenger cars ready to out. Their gas tank, a building brick, was demolished. The cars ove turned and some of the gas chambe exploded and the gas took fire. 0th gas chambers also exploded. The ca were burned and all that the storm it was burned. Thirty'men were caught in the ruir Four of these were burned to death at the remainder crawled out, some them badly hurt. The silk mill when struck by tl * storm cloud crumbled as though bu of children's toy blocks. Up to t: * present writing the extent of humt injury there is not known, but it aalling to contemplate. A gre 1vother buildings were demolish< ohole or in part, and other casut re reported to human life; but ti mg. I,er at the silk mills dwarfs ever tal. T'g else at present. If pNny, Pi.-At 5.30 this eve ng a rain and wind storm came on;uddenly and blew over one of tI hlfstacks of the Sunbury Nail Mill. TI ~1mill is situated between the Readi, 0 and Pennsylvania railroads, on t1 r outskirts of the city. The first is ) puddling mill having six furnact ''Stack No. 2 was thrown over on ti . roof, dropping with it stack No. They crashed through the slate ro< ~completely demolishing the puddlii epartment of the mill. Thirty-eig: ren were employed in tnis departmer ahdhalf of them were buried in tl YAbris. The fire alarm was sounded ai ->on hundreds surrounded the mi e mien were cart ied out half nak< uid men are at work yet as it ist su posed severatl others are in the ruir Trwo men were taken out dead, nil are seriously injured and four are mie ing, supposed to be dead in the rui: of the mill. D)RF 'iDIE'L DETAILS OF THE CALAI AT READING. R EA DING. Pa.. January 10.-The lo of life by last night's disaster is no placed at over one hundred. There a many still in the ruins, and the won men are actively engaged in removit the debris and rescuing the victims. During the day the mayor issued proclamation appealing to the citize: for aid. The hospitals and underta ing establishments are filled with ti victims. The physicians are all bus opened for the accommodation of the injured. ** The story of the storm is ringing in all ears. It appears that it had been raining very hard during the early part of the day, the water coming down in At sheets, but athalf-past three everything " pointed to a complete cessation of the Id- storm. 1: 47 Dr. E. C. Wetherall, who suffered f el. the loss of a broken arm by being f struck with a flying brick, said to-day t 1Y that at four o'clock he concluded to go i1 Id- out, thinking the rain entirely over. t off Suddenly heavy, black clouds became I * noticeable in the west, a tremendous de gale sprang up, and in less than five j on minutes the whole force of the storm d ' struck the town. Out in the country a ad houses and barns were unroofed, farm b vo housesand barns were overturned, and v an destruction spread in every direction. u in The track of this destructive element he was not more than two hundred feet ii ls wide, and it is lucky that it only touch- A , ed the suburbs of the city. It came d from the west, but passed along the v d' northern border of Reading. First, it y of touched the M. T. Penn stove works, si Ih ripping the roof off. Then the storm- h - cloud scurried across some fields, took n ea off a portion of the roof of J. H. Stern- n bergh's rolling mill, and a number of ' dwellings were unroofed, The storm ts ha ried across the property of the Read- ir re ing railroad company and crossed- the h of railroad. At this time it was almost as i 6e dark as night. d ri- Nearly alongside the tracks of the ft Lt. Reading road was situated the paint- e an shops of the Reading railroad company, I: id a one-story building about 60 by 150 b re feet, where th ty men were employed r at in painting p gercars. There were C e eight or nine of ese in the building. rE .e- The building was struck square in the fs of middle and bricks scattered as if they b ur were playthings. Cars were turned V n' topsy-turvy, while the men were buried tl under the debris. li es There was a considerable quantity of 1 s gasoline in the building, and this added a a fuel to the flames shot heavenward n with the roar of musketry. Some e d- twenty of the men had a chance to ti d. crawl out of the debris, but four of their E h, companions were enveloped in the em- G as brace of the flames. They were quickly t< 30 roasted to death, and the fire from the tE passenger cars lit up for miles around. a 'n In the meantime, the fire department tl .d was called out, but its services were un- 1 is avail'ng. The building and cars were il d. consumed in fifteen minutes, and noth- v t ing left but blackened, smoking ruins. T Ln The loss to the railroad company is ful- C Sly $75,000. i While this was all going on the S S' storm was traveling forward with fear- si of ful rapidity. It struck and unroofed a tj dozen private residences. Huge sheets of sI timber were carried half a square away. p - Then the storm proceeded in its fury. Y Directly in its path, at the corner of n 'Twelfth and Marian streets, stood the it st Reading silk milL. Here about 27.5 b kgirls were working. The size of the G ut building itself was nearly 300- feet in 3 m length and about 150 feet in width. It it Iwas surmounted by a massive towe', I* tO fully 100 feet from the ground. The as funnel-shaped storm cloud struck the C m building di:ectly in the center on its fc ly broadest side, which faced the west. It a: m fell to pieces as if composed of so many a C" building blocks. Nearly 200 human it Sbeings went down in the awful wreck. p P5 The wall gave way, the floors fell down. It oone on top of the other, a ad carried n of their g:eat mass of human beings to the c] r bottom.y rs Girls with blackend faces, b:uised t] er and broken limps, their clothing tat rs tered and torn, dragged themselves ti ft fromi the ruins. At some places the C bricks were piled twenty feet deep, t< s. and underneath these arc probably ce d lying human bodies by the score. tl of About 250 gi.ls and youag women are C usually employed in the mill, but at ec le4 o'clock about eighty were relieved b .t from duty for the day. They returned h ie to their homes before the stormi came. b hn The most reliable estimate places the ti is number in the building when it went o: at down in the neighborhood of 17.5, and it yas before stated, 100 of these.were res- o al- cued by friends and dragged themselves ie out immediately after the accident. s< Y The alarm for relief was immediately ai sent out, and in a short time thousands 11 0- of citizens arrived to help get out the tI 'P dead and dying. 1When the people arrived, everything S tewas enveloped in darkness. Fire com- a: ug panies left the burning paint shop and K. ie assisted in the rescue of the dead and b a dying. The entire police force was call s ed out, ambulance and relief corps, and ie a thousand people were among the T 3- debris, carrying out bricks, pulling faway timbers, and assisting wherever ig they could, all at the same time, but it their work was slow compared with the t, demand for the rescue of the victims of q ie the disaster. One body, noticed as it c idwas dragged out, had its head cut off. si L. Others were in various postures; the y, d living all suffering from most terrible ft P wounds, and some almost scared to jy s- death- it re In one ,part of the basement five s- jbodies of young girls weie lying close bh 2 together, pinned down, and it was cl impossible to get them out. They were C 'i dead and beyond human aid. t The silk mill was built about four eo syears ago. The builders were Reading c<E w capitalists, and the cost of putting it up tl rewas $60,000. The mill was than leased te kto (rimshaw Bros., of Patterson, N. J-, a Iwhere they operate similar mills, and it Ithey have been running it ever since. o a The machinery cost $45,000, and this is n ia total loss. hstan wea C'ATA RanI CURED, helhadswe ie breath secured. by Shiloh's Catarrh fr 7Reinedy. Price .50 cents. Nasal In- c< jector free. DEATH OF A FATHER IN ISRAEL. he Rev. Wm. Martin, the Oldest Metho dist in South CaroUna, Gone to His Re ward-A SkeLch of His Long and Use:al Career. rSpecial to News and Courier.] COL311:u, January 10.-There will e pain, in many homes far distant -om Columbia when the news which )Ilows is read, for he who passed away -day was a pioneer in his Church, a mng and patient worker in all good !ings, and an example in blameless ving to the thousands who knew him. The Rev. William Martin, the oldest fethodist minister in South Carolina, ied at his home in Columbia, shortly Iter 1 o'clock this afternoon. He had een se: lously ill for three week, but it ,as not thought that death was near ntil the last hour arrived. Mr. Martin's life work is summed up i the minutes of the South Carolina .nnual Conference for 1883. ".Joined Conference in February IS2S. 'as five years presiding elder, eleven ear3 on stations, ni,e years on mis ons, twenty years in college service, ospital service, etc., one year super umary and four years supernumerated, taking sixty years in all of connection ith the Conference." Mr. Mat tin was bo: a March 9, 1807, Mecklenburg County, N. C., where is ancestors had been signers of the [ecklenburg Declaration of 1ndepcn mnce. Members of his family had ught under Braddock and served in rely subsequent war in this country. i his semi-centennial sermon preached fore the South Carolina Conference on ecember 12, 1887, and printed by the' onferenc., are found interesting miniscences of Mr. Martin's life. His mily we"e Presbyterians, but having en converied while a lad, at a ethod'st camp-meeting, he joined at church in 1823. He was soon censed to exhort, and on December 1, 27, became a preacher befo,e he had tained his majoriiy. He was recom tended to the South Carolina Confer ice at Camden, and was admitted on ial and appointed for 1828 to the road liver circuit, now the North eorgia Conference. In 1829 he went an Alabama circuit, with headquar rs at Columbus, Ga., a town then ithout a churc . Thence he visited e Asbury mission in the Creek ation. In this year he aided in ciear g the ground and settling up the ooden pillars for the first church in albotton, Ga. Returning tooguth arolina Mr. Martin was, in January 130, ordained a deacon by Bishop rule. His long and varied service bsequenly cannot be described in de 1, but one fact will show how great a >ace of time his ministry has encom issed. In 1S28, when Mr. Martin was ad itted to the South Carolina Con rence on trial, that Conference em aced the States of So,uth Carolina, eorgia end Florida, a large section of orsh Carolina, and the~ Creek Nation Alabama. Some of the works of r. Martin were the following : He sisted in building every 3iethodist burch in Columbia. He was the 'under of the famous Wayside H ospit ,where so many Confederate soloiers ere tended, and devoted himself to s charge. He was for three years the resident of the Columbia Female Col ge, for one year chaplain of the Lu itic Asylum, and for eight years 2aplain of the Penitentiary. Eight ears he spent in mission service among ie negroes. After the destruction by Sherri1an of ie Washington street Methodist hurch. Mr. Martin lal ed for years >raise funds for its rei tiding. Be yllected and paid out es y dollar for 1e erection of the Ms on Street hiurch and fouaded th Columbia ty mission, which is now the Assem y Street Church. Fo,r fifty-two yeais e has been indeotified wit Column a, and in all these yea:s he has illus ated in his blameless life, his labor-s love and charity, his broad benevo nce, the hightest qualities of the man 'faith and religion. M1. Martin leaves a widow, a >n and a daughter. His eldest son as one of the first victims oZ te war, dying in Fort Moultrie at te very inception of hostilities. On Saturday, in the Washing,on breet Chu:ch, where he was ordained id married, the funeral services of r. Martin will be held. and he will be 2ried in its churchyard. KEEPING IT OUT OF THE~ COURTS. We Soumh CarolUna Railroad will Proba bly Pa.I Tn.'ough-Arrang'ng for Money to Settle Old Scores. [News and Courier, 10ti.] A gentleman, who is intimately ac jainted with the affairs of the South arolina Railway, but whose name is ppressed for obvious reasons, said ~sterday that there were good reasons r entertaining the hope that the Old eliable would be able to pull through s troubles. "I have received letters from a nium uding President Tat,r,:age, Mr. John Calhoun, and others, which lead me believe that we will be able to settle ~r troubles without the aid of the utrts. In fact, that is the one thing at the friends of the road desire to do, prevent its falling into the hands of receiver. To this eu-l we are direct g all our efforts to k"ep the road out the courts. It is possli e, in fact, I ight say probable, that we may be le to raise money enough to settle atters, but I don't think it will come omn the stockholders nor from the in >mne bondholders. "Yn, I am not ableayat o this time who it will come from. The one thing needed is money, and this we hope to raise. The South Carolina Railway is T very closely allied with the Three C's Road, and the two combined will make a strong combination. If the road goes into court it will go into the hands of a receiver, and that will involve the ex penditure of a laige amount of money, t< which neither road can well afford at e, this time. as "So our efforts a.e directed to effect th some arrangement by which the road E can be continued without having to go , through the Courts." ra -- h Marriage of Dr. J. A. Miles and Miss Butler. [Special to the World.] COLUMBIA, January 10.-This after- th boon at 5.15 o'clock Trinity Church c< was the scene of a very prettymarriage 1 ceremony. The groom on this happy Ic occasion was Dr. J. Allen Miles, of c< Charleston, and the bride Miss Fan- n nie R. Butler, of this city, daughter of a the late Henry Butler, Esq. Attend- e ing the chief actors in this pleasant and b important little drama was Mr. Sam h G. Stoney, of Charleston, accompanied P by Miss Cornelia Coppock, of New- lil berry. d To the "concord of sweet sounds" li which pealed from the organ, the bi;dal party entered the church. First came the ushers, MSess's. B. B. Mc- 6b Creery and James H. Adams; Dr- b( Miles, the groom, with Mis. Butler be moiher of the bride; Mr. Sam G. w. Stoney, the "best man," with Miss n Cornelia Coppock, of Newberry, and st then the bride with her brother, Mr. St. John Butler. The party made their 1 way to the altar, when the Rev. A. R. he Mitchell, pastor of the Church of the Good Shepherd, performed the cere mony, making Dr. Miles and Miss But ler man and wife. d Dr. Miles is thoroughly known in do Cha.'!eston, where his talents have ta placed him in the front rank of his e profession, that of dental surgeon. All At those who knew Miss Butler are cog- W n'zant of the fact that the gentleman to who has just wedded her displayed un- 10 usual taste in the -selection of one to sR share with him the fortunes of life. h She is both brilliant and beautiful, and m' in this pleasant and happy epoch has a the best wishes of battalions of friends. ' Although-ic is not generally possible 8 to correctly forecast what the "noon of w a bright moroing" will be, yet in the 0 case of this young couple who have in just assented to the marriage vows, it c seems safe to predict for them a futu:e B wherein happiness and prosperity will dominate. T F'om the church the br;dal couple th were d ::en di-ectly to the depot, be where tney took the ai ernoon t.ain an for Cha, leston ,1ir future bme. How to D;ga';y the Mechanlcal Arts. it iProf. Thos. Davidson in the Fo."um.] li: We have seen how the literary-edu- h cation, which we now consider so es- c senUAaJ. was rega'ded in old England- a1 s usgentiemianly. It is not so long ph sce the physicin of leech was, as ai Hal 1am says, "an inexhausiible theme P of popular i idicule." The barber's si pole, so common in our streets, recalls a h time, not so long past, when the bar- sr ber practced blood-letting and other' medical arts. It is within our own II memory that the dentist stood on a d level with the barber; ind3ed, the two al were often the same person. How is it that all this is cha aged, that litera- ti ture, medicine, and dentistry have be- h come gentlemanly occupaitions? Sim- p ply, I think, because they are now g taught scientifically, and institutions have been established for that purpose. It may be laid dow n as a general rule, gy that whatever is taught in school will ~ soon become respectable and gentle- h manly, while that which is picked up ~ in the home or the workshop will al ways be regarded as menial. t Why she Took Lessons. y ti (New York Sun.) it Julius Eichberg, the well known y, Boston musician, tells the story of an S: eadly experience: One day a lady sc somewhat advanced in yr came to ci make arrangements for taking private h lessons in singioag. At the end of the B second :lesson the teache'r felt con- R strained to tell her that her ear was not 01 true. She received the remark very coolly, and at the next lesson sang as it badly as before. "I am ;afraid," said ts M -. Eichbeig, "that you can never w learn to sing in tuce." "Oh, it doesn't ai matter," was the surprising answer. tI "Doesnt matter!" said the astonished ai teacher. "No," said the pupil. "I ai don't care anything about music, but g< my doctor said that singing would be ai the best thlag for my dyspepsia, and o' so I decided to take lessons." at _ - te Thought He Could Stand It. [Chicago Tribune.] E "You would be sorry to lose your .f'o sister, wouldn't you, Johnny?" asked fi the v isitor suggestively to the little boy pl who was entertaining him in the draw- a ing room. hi "Nope," replied Johnny. "I guess I c< could st and it, Mr. Hankinson. Haw w says I'v got to wear short pants till a after Irene's married." Not Qualifed to Judge.n [Lincoln Journel.] p Teacher-Now, if you stand facing ct the wes, will the north be to your hi right or left hand? a New Scholar-I'm sure I don't si know, mia'am; I'm a stranger in these n Rome girl who went out to hear him just for the fun of the thing: "If that town gal with the green bonnet on her head and the devil's martingales around her neck and his stirrups in her ears, don't quit her gigglin', I will pint her out to the congregation." We have more manners now, though our morals may be at a discount. Living With Others. [Mrs. Angeline E. Alexander in Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine.] A sensible mother once said: "In preference to every other accomplish ment, I shall endeavor to teach my daughter the art of living with others." An art it is, and ond that must be cul tivated with assiduity, patience, and determination to succeed. Home ought to be the nursery of virtue and purity, of happiness and truth; but children should be taught that they need not expect to find the same surroundings, influences and tastes in the other homes that they will in a few years enter. Being forced into sharp contact with the world, will compel us to live and act in a different manner from what we are accustomed in the charmed cir le of home. Let us examine some of the princi ples that govern the practicability of living with others. A thorough convic tion that there are wide differences in human nature and human intelligence must be acquired at the commence ment of social ethics. Out of this knowledge spring nearly all the rules that will apply to the art of living in peace with others. For, after all, peace is the most that can generally be hoped .or in life's intercourse; happiness is a rarer thing, and is often but the se luence of that peace which is gained >nly by concession-not concession hat involves principle, which would :reate a. false and deceitful kind of peace, as evanescent as unreal, but an imiable yielding to the tastes and )pinions of others; a compliance that refuses to inter:ere unreasonably with their pursuits: which will not indulge n perpetual comments upon their ac ions, which looks with tender charity ipon all their proceedings. Anotier principle is, to avoid topics ,hat lead to disputes. Endeavor to .ntroduce subjects upon which all can igree; or, if there be a difference of pinion, let the argumeut be conduct :d pleasantly and in good humor, re nembering that dissensions, like small treams, gather as they flow. Be care ,l not to hint at matters upon which >thers are khown to be sensitive, and ivoid repeating or commenting upon iasi,y or unkind .words. Ah, those ter rible tongues of ours! What affections have been piqued and estranged by eedless expres3ions! What pestilent ,loughs have been stirred with words spoken in a sudden fit of ill-humor! A ineer, a shrug, becomes a poisoned ar row that pierces the heart of one dear to us, who drifts away fromius for ever. How necessary to be on one's guard, to cultivate the tender tone and gentle manner. Not only to do a kind thing, but to do it with good-will. Many a kind action misses the grateful feelings it should win by the lack of gracious ness in the doing. All these are indis pensably requisite to the useful art of living with others. These, however, are but the surface rues. There are still greaLer essentials toward the acquisition of this great boon c life. The know!edge that you may Mn: by an intimate and mutual regarc between yourself and another shou. never be used to betray their little foibles, or wound the sensitive self-love inherent in every human being. Tact in concealing this know ledge will often do more to secure social peace and regard than the greatest 'favors we can shower upon our asso ciates. There is a peculiar form of self commendation that manifests itself in unnecessary criticism, or an assump tion of superior prescience, that will most surely destroy the harmony of the domestic circle. Whether it is by snch provoking remarks as, "Didn't I tell you so?" or, "If you had consulted me," or in elevating the eyebrows or shrug ging the shoulders when others make mistakes, rest assured it tortures them, and they will learn to fear and avoid you. The most amiable and confiding nature will shrink into itself under the microscopic eyes of a self-elected social judge, who is, either by words or ac tions, arraigning every one as culprits. Let us beware of indulging in a cap tious and criticising disposition; where we cannot conscientiously commend, we can at least be reticent. The eultivation of a genial, charitable and Loving spi~it will not injule any of us, and will prove of great benefit in our intercourse with others. There are but few wayfarers on the broad path of life who walk through their journey free of grit in their shoes. Some have the rasping grit of pover ty -that kind of impecuniosity which is the sorrow of those who have to keep up appearances on a little, let what may be the gasps underneath. Instead of moaning after things unatrainable, and lamenting their loss, it would he better for ourselves and those with whom we live to bound our desires by their possibilities, and walk along as bravely as we can, without showing where the chafe is. Another has the grit of disappointment in various forms of the heart, of fortune, of failure in our plans. Whatever our hopes and schemes, disappointment follows like a shadow and shovels grit into our shoes by the spadeful. It has to be borne. Wry faces and loud clamor will not make it easy for us, nor pleasant for those with whom we live. We must bear in mind that the general good of AN OLD-FASHIONED HUSTER. e Colonel with His Cookade Hat and DazzPng Epau-ets--Reviewing the N lita-ettle Drum and Sqaeaky Fr:e. [Bill Arp in Atlanta Constitution.1 An old-rn.shioned musier was equal a modern "Mardi Gras." The gov-' nor. was the commande_-:n-chief, but he could not be person.%y present ie mi.tia were reviewed by proxy. very county had an aide-de-camp ith the rank of colonel. He held his ,nk and title as long as the governor Ad his office, and he was expected.to ller for him anad talk for him and o.m him, and, if necessary, he must :ht for him on a suitable occasion. If ie governor fai!ed of re-election, these lonels had to retire too, and a new set ere appointed, but the old set never at their title, and so the State in urse of time got pretty full of colo ls. On must-r day the colonel wore cockade hat and a red plume and aulets and a long brass swoid and big ass spurs. and horse pietols in the )lsters of his saddle, and he and his rsonal staff rode up and down the ies reviewing the milila, who were awn up in a double crooked straight .e in a great big fie;d.that was full of illies and broomsedge. Some wore as and some didn't; some wore Loes and some did a'; but none wore a:ds, for in those days none wore ards but gamblers. Some we:-e armed ith shotguns sad some with rifes or askets, but most of them car.ied cks and cornstall:s and umb. e~'as, d they stood up or squatted down at easu!"e, and about half the Cme were llering for water. TE COLONEL AND HIS STA7F. The colonel and his staff rode up and wn the lines on fiae horses. that need and pranced lise there were ks under the saddles. The roll of ch company was called and eveev an aawe.ed to his-name whether he is the e or not. Then the - colonel ok a cen ,al posiiion and faced the g audience and waved hisgflitter,ing o:d and - exclaimed:- "Attention, ttalion! Shoulder arms. right face, ach!" Then the kettle drum ra.ed d the fire squeaked and.some guns mt off ba-i cocked, and the mili'a ye three cheers for the coiouei aad e d'sbanded antii ,he neis muster. d man Brooks was the chief musician my day. and would not have ex-. aeged this office w'th the king of Dgiand. He a; ways played "Erooks' aca" for the miihia to locomote by. iey never marcld or kept step by e music, but they got along somehow walking and tror-,og and pacing d fox t o.. g by tu-ns. Old fatber E:ooss played his part ell in the. drama or farce, or whatever was. He magoified his o.ice. He ved mvsic. He said his fife was his 3e and his fiddle was his riddle. On last bed he sent for my father to me and see him. Old and wrinkled id cadaverous, he moLoned to be opped up in b's bed, and then, with inverted chair behind b:s pillow, he in..ed to b's fiddle that lay upon the elf near by, aad i was handed to m. Hugging it to his old bosom he iled amid h's tears and whispered: wish that I cou'.d play you one ore tune." That night the old man ed, with his left hand closed ha.d id , gid a-ound the neck of his violin. After the muster was over then came ~e ho;se rac'og oni quarter nags and rse swapoing, and of cou sa some ~gilistic exercises in front of the ~ocenies. FIST3, SKCLLS AND FINGZIRS. Jim Bowles was the center ofa crowd am his beat. and stripped to the ist he pranced around and popped nsfst in the palm of his hand, and mped up and cracked his heels to ~ther three times before they struck e ground, and gave a wild Injun hoop and exclaimed: "I'm the best an in Pinkneyville district." About at time big Jim Robinson jumped up the center of another crowd and ~lled: "I'm the best man in Ben 2ith's deestrict," and Nick Rawlins eamed like a panther from another owd, and gritted his teeth and shook shair and yelled: "Gentlemen, my tsy Jane says I'm the best man in ckbridge deestrict, and I reckon she ght for to know." It was just like gamnecocks erowing the barnyard, and, like the cocks o of them soon got together and nt to fighting, and everybody stood und and shouted, "Hands off, gen men. Hands oft; let 'em fight fair ad square." And they fought hard d fought long, and when one of them t to be the bottom dog in the fight d hollered "enough," the show was ~er, unless the victor dared to crow ain, and had to tackle another roos . I have known Nick Rawlins to ip three brag men in one evening, d Nick was no bad man either. -erybody liked Nick. He had fit and t and fought until he had lost a ~ger and a snip out of his nose and a ece of his left ear, but he was never d. Nick told me not long ago that never did love to fight, but when he rted Betsy Jane she 'lowed that en she married a man he had to be an all over, inside and out, and so got to fighting on her account. But these old times are gone--gone ver to return. Even the preachers o used to take offtheir coats in the ipit have conformed to more polite stoms. Their sing-song sermons are ~ard no more-nor the nasal attach nts that were something between a uffie and a snort. Old father Dan ily and his wooden leg are dead and is old Barny Pace, who said to the society at large, demands individual sacrifice; and expediency for the many does not lessen-though it may neces sitate-injustice to tle few. With others the shoes of life are well filled with the fine sand of discontent. A position they deemed most desirable, and certain to bring happiness, proves, upon attainment, the very opposite. Things which look seductive in theory have a way of losing their gloss when they appear as realities, with accom paniments that do not belong to the deal, and the fact of living as a mere appendage to happier people is cutting in the extreme. This class of persons deem themselves unappreciated. Their egotism greatly misleads them as to the amount of observation and comment their actions, intellect, and some really good qualities they possess, attract from others. When they find them selves receiving only a modicum of at tention, it frets them, and they take pleasure in distributing their ill-humor among the several members of the home-circle.. But there are those who have to bear the keen and cc arse gravel of sickness. This is hard to reduce to inoffensive dust. Pain is pain, and the grit of anguish remains sharp and angular, ;even under the anodyne of patience. Still we must strive for a spirit that will bear these tearing jags submissively; or our presence will be intolerable to those around us. So varied are the circumstances that surround the lives of human beings, that it is impossible to frame rules that can be applied to all cases and condi tions. Let us cultivate principles rather than emvtions, and walk on steadily, trusting to time and use to wear down our stony obstacles into, at least, prac ticable pebbles. It will be hard, but conquest will come in the end; and our own natire will be all the grander and nobler by the very effort it has cost us; while those by whom we are surround ed will learn to respect and honor us for the courage with which we have so heroically braved our trouble, and exemplied the art of living happily with others. WEST VIRGINIA'S CONTEST. Interest in the Legal Fight Over the G.v eraersbp Grows More and More In tense. C3ARLESTos, W. VA., Jan. 10.-The interest in the. legal proceedings in re gard to the contest between General Goff and Judge Fleming for the Gov ernorship of this State is more intense and exciting than it was during the campaign. Argument on the manda mus proceeding will be heard at 3 o'clock to-morrow before the supreme court. The legislature, whose duty it to pass upon the returns, occupies its time in filibustering, and will do noth ing until the legal question has been passed npon by the courLs. Kanawha county gives Goft a majority of 106 votes in the State, hut if thWs vote is not counted for Goff, Judge Fieming, his Democratle opponent, w:ll have a majority of 1,400 in the State. B:rmingham's Elg Biot. BraM sC HA x, Ala., January 8.-The Coronei s jury which for seve -al weeks has been 'invest'gat'ng the shooting int.o the mob by the Sheriff and b;s posse on the night of December 8, being unable to agree on a verdict. They sub mitted to the Coroner miajority and minority repocds. Four of the juro:s declare the killing to have been unlaw ful and two are or the opinion that it was 'lawful. The repo' t amonaits to notbing and is of lilie inte!est, as the Grand Jury is now investigating the cases. Assignment at Johnston. JoHNS':o, S. C., January 10.-M:-. Joseph Jacobs has made an assignment of his stock of goods to Mr. Charles F. Peshman for the benefit of his credi tors. Poor collecUons were the cause of Mr. Jacobs' fa ilure. His assets will nearly equal his liabilit'es. Mr. Jacobs was a small trader, and his liabilities probably do not exceed fifteen hundred dollars. Sued by a lieporter. FREDERICK, MD., January 10.--At ton B. Carty, one of the propdletors of the Frederick Times, t.o-day eatered suit against Joseph D. Baker, presi dent of the Cidjzens' Nationai Bank of Frederick, for assault and battery, claiming damages. Carty is the young newspaper man who was assaulted and cow-hidad in the public office of the Carlin house here last Tuesday nigt by Baker. Two Men Married to Each Other. [Anderson Journal.] The Rev. A. Durham, of Piedmont, writes to correct a marriage notice sent in by him and published in the Jour nal last week. It was on Christmas day that he was deceived by Robert Dilworth and Franklin Merritt, two young men, the latter of whom was disguised in female apparel. They re quested Mr. Durham to perform the marriage ceremony for them, and he complied without suspecting anything irregular. If we had a marriage li cense law such frivolous levity as this could not readily be indulged in by thoughtless persons. A stab from the Ungo.Hy. LPitt.sburg Dispatch.] The recent inquiry started by the New York Herald, "What shall we do in heaven?" has inevitably provoked a discussion which ought to be more per tinent to the editors of that sheet as to what the wil don in the other place. THE SACKVILLE-WEST INCIDENT. The Author of the Famous Murchison Let ter Tells How the Matter Was Made Publio. Los ANGELES, Cal., January S. Mr. Osgookdy, author of the famous Murchison letter, whose identity was revealed yesterday, says he did not, until a few days before the correspond ence was made public, have any con ception of its importance in a political sense. When he did the thought"of its far-reaching effects and the possible consequences to -himself personally rather alarmed him. Finally, however, after a conference with a few confi denLial friends in Pomona, including his two attorneys, P. C: Toner and W. A. Bell, it was determined to make the letters public, and on the 19th of Oc tober the letters were brought to Los Angeles by Bell, acting for Osgoodby. They were placed in the hands of Judge Jeff Fitzgerald. a member of the RepubJican State Central~ Executive Committee, Henry T. Gage, late dele gate to the Republican National. Con vention, and Colonel H. G. Otis, editor of the Times, and these three decided to publish the letters without referring them to any commiittee. State or na tional, or to any other persons, as the campaign was then far advanced, and further delay was deemed impolitic. They were accordingly published on the 21st of Octobez, in the columns of the Los Angeles Times, and soon found their way to New York. Time Wasted w .h Bad Spelling' LProf. F. A. March in the Decepber Forum.] Dr. Gladstone has made elaborate investigations in the schools of Eng land and other countries to ascertain the time devoted to teaching spelling. He finds that 720 hours at least are lost to each cholar, that, an Italian child of nine years will read and spell as cor rectly as English children at thirteen, though the Italian began his lessons two years later. It is about the same with the Germans and Swedes. This : Sextra time is given to civics and useful sciences. The illiteracy of English speaking nations is startling. There were 5,658,144 persons of ten years and over who reported themselves illiterate at our census of 1870, 6,239,958, at the census of 1880. Ihe nearly illiterate are probably as many more. England is worse off than we are. But the otYnr Protestant countries of Europe have almost none, One of the causes of this excessive illiteracy among English speaking peoples is the badness of Eng lish spelling. The reform of spelling is a patriotic and phil'antropic reform. Death of a Nonagenarian. [Manning Times.] Miss Esther Amelia Nettles, oldest sister of Rev. A. Nettles of this place, ded at her residence near Summer ville, S. C., last Sunday,.January 6, in - the ninety-third yea-: of her age, hav- ' I g been born Maich 13, 1796. Abdii\ aJ month ago in -walking across the room she stumbled and fell, inflicting serious i.ajuries from wbich she never recovered. She had from early child hood been a member of the Methodist Church. * Judgment A ma st the R. & D. WAsEINGToN, Jantia-y .-In tt~ Ci'rcuit Cour t, to-day, a judgment of $5,C00 damages was rendered against the Richmond and Danville Railroad Comnany for the accideral killing of* Guisseppe Mosco, in the disaster at what is known as "Fat Nancy trestle," some months ago. A Clergyman of Tact. A Colorado clergyman who was called upon to deliver the funeral ser mon over a victim of Judge Lynch won the admiring gratitude of defunct's friends and at the same time built a towering monument to his tact by choosing as his text the words "The good die hung.' E's Inheritanace Forfeited. NEW YOBK, January 10.-William' R. Foste', the father of Will:em R. Foster, Jr., who robbed the Produce E.xchange Gratuis.y fond some time since of $198.000, and thea decamped for pares unknown. seat to-day a check for 4530,000 for the beaefit of the gratui ty fund. In a nome enclosed the old geatiemnan said that he had intended to divide his fos.un2.e among his chil drea., and had concluded to give his erring son's share to the gratuity fund as a pardial payment of his boy's steal ings. Miaeb-Perseented Mr. Limberger, of New York, Gets His Patronyamic Altered. NEw YORK, Jan. 9.-Rudolh Lim berger of Newark has succeddin re moving the unpleasantness attached to his name. He recently made application to Justice Depue to be permitted to remove the first syllable of his name so that he might be called Bergr . In his petition Mr. Limbr rsaid that he asked for the sake of his child ren, who were driven from school and - annoyed on the street by the constant, references to limberger cheese and the nikname "cheesy." He said also that when he was introduced to a stranger his name invariably caused laughter. An Important Eumor in Spartanburg. [Carolina Spartan.] It is reported that a Boston Com pany have purchased Otts Shoal on Tyger from R. M. Otts, with the inten tion of erecting a cotton milL. With the shoals is included three .hundred acres of land, and for this they are to pay $16,000. WILL You SUFEEB with Dyspeei and Liver Complaint? Shiloh's X ita