The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, June 13, 1889, Image 1

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tSA H tbeRR SI C. ~ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1889. PRICE $1.50 A Y FRAR THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD. Water Subeldes Ion Scenes of Desolation A Tale of Woe Told in Bitter Tears. (From the New York World.] w JoHNsTowN, Pa., June 3.-I am now writing on a slab of fire-brick in a lit tle windowless stone house, gazing down through a gap in the wall at the wreck of a city of 10,000 people. It is not a ruin; it is a desert! A wide area of river sand, obliterating the street lines, is cut into islands by half a dozen 'roaring streams. This desert has an easis of wreckage in the centre and is fringed with a debris of human bodies. Here and there are piles of burning boards and smoking ruins. Men with stars in their breasts are looking for 2and finding bodies-300 to-day, it is said but no one can tell exactly, as the reffefad search has not yet properly organized. The salutation citizens no longer is - "Good 'but "How many have you lost?" of the houses in what remains of ty have been turned into hospit als Every large building left on the Ig banks Is a morgue-twenty dead shes in all. It is utt rly impossible -...stmate the number of the dead. 'fe Citizens' Committee which has Sbeen formed can give no information. They say that 30,000 people lived in this valley hereabouts, that the city is 'irped away and so they conclude that at least one-third, 10,000 people, have been swept to death. They con ot tell now how many bodies have been recovered. Your correspondents have witnessed many scenes of suffering, but nothing like this. It can only be told by tears. !here is suffering everywhei '-lack of food, of clothing and, for present, .ot exactly a lack of organization, but of .eager workers among the people them selves. They seemed dazed and help less.. Strong men sit on the hillsides with dry, callous faces and gaze down blankly on the valley. There is some attempt made at keeping a police line,, but.it is necessary to issue passes to near ly every one who asks that they may look in the ruins of former happy homes for the bodies of their beloved. THE LOCALITY FOR A DISASTER. Johnstown was the arena of an am phitheatre of high hills-mountains al most-shutting her on all isdes save where the rivers had cut their way thropgh them, giving views of higher and still higher hills away in the dis Th rough one of these- gorges coaes down the Conenaugh, a small, contemptable stream, and through an other, the Stony Creek. These water eourses met on one side of the arena and flow off through another gorge till they fall into the Alleghany, miles away. Johnstown lies between the an gle formed by their confluence, and a string of little boroughs were its sub urbs, stretching up and down the three valleys. THE LAKE OF DEATH. Away back up the Couemaugh gorge was the reservoir, in reality a lake three miles long and from eighty to one huudred feet deep. The recent rains had raised all the streams far above the highest point ever reached before. On the memorable Friday afternoon all the unemployed people in the city was standing on the banks of the two streams watching the rising torrents. It was 4.30 o'clock. There 'was a roar up the Conemaugh, a great white wave, crested with wreckage, was seen coming and before there was a chance to flee almost it was upon the city. The dam of the reservoir had given way and the three-mile lake, with the impetus of a nine-mile flow, swept over the city. This great wave parted as it met a mass of brick buildings. One stream flowed on with the Cone mnaugh and the other tore diagonally across the town and entered Stony Creek. Thus was formed the oasis of wreckage in the centre of the plain. This is probably an old story in New York, but The World correspondent has not heard anything recently of the o tide world. The condition of this i wn is what arrests attention. The stiought of why or how the accident ~~hnrred does not amonu t to much in i age case of the crying sorrow and the ~voe on all sides. DEATH EVERYWHERE. fTo give the reader an idea of how heaD human life is felt to be in the Spresence of this calamity, it will do to 4 say that just as the former paragraph was being written the body of a woman Swas exposed to view in some burning -rrnear by on which a company of Pittsburg firemen are playing water. .There is -quite a crowd near by, but ~only a few persons, possibly five, go over -slowly to look at it. She was "picked up and borne away to a pile where two other bodies are lying awaiting their turn to be carreid to the morgue. On all sides coftins are seen. They are piled up in the yards before a school-house high up on a hill. On the way into the city, across the moun tain, no less than sixteen farmers' wag ons were met, bearing a rough browni stained box. These were friends off those who have homes as far East as Bedford, fifty miles away in the mioun tains. I can only give imp)ressions anid tell what I see. A drizzling rain has been falling all day on the happy dead --happy that they cannot see this place. SORROWV TOO DEEP FOR TEARES. The roads all about the city ar.d d.ghiat streets are left are ankle-deep in mud, but the place is crowded. R~e draggled women, their shoes covered with grime, wander aimlessly about. Their hair is unkempt and their gar ments are dripping. Their cheeks are are bard and sullen. In a house this afternoon I saw (for the doors are all open) a woman wi,h two children about her, simply gazing into vacancy. The children, too, have ceased to cry. This feeling everywhere is not hard ness of heart. The universal so-rrow has been so great that all individual woes seemed dwarfed in comparison with it. A workingman and his little girl, four years old, stood idly in the street. I spoke to the child and she looked at me with wide staring eyes and said nothing. "She was born where that sand pile is," said the man, pointing to a mound from which some bits of wood protruded, "and her mo ther and two brothers are underneath it." He said this coldly, without ap pearance of feeling. IN THE MUDDY STREETS. Even in this valley of the shadow of death there is laughter. Big, strap ping country boys have ridden in from all parts of the State and are greet ing each other with loud boisterous ness. In one house there is a trim, neat looking woman with dark eyes, a gaudy dress and enamelled cheeks, but nobody notices her or takes offense at her public appearanee. At many of the gates to the public buildings wires are stretched across, and a detail of uniformed militia is on guard. At others men in their ordinary clothes, with muskets or shotguns, are on guard-a tin star pinned to their coats. The rule is that no one shall be allowed to enter the town unless he is in search of relatives ; but it is so easy to lie that the town is overrun with visitors who drift away as darkness falls, for there is no accommodation for them here not enough even for those who are forced to stay. THE TO GOVERNMENT. The city is unfortunately governed. It is in reality not a city. It is not even a village. Johnstown is a collec tion of boroughs, the main mass of houses itself being divided into sepa rate little boroughs. So, when this calamity fell there was no one to take immediate charge and rule things as a dictator until order would be restored. They have some sort of an official called a Mayor, who wears a blue coat and brass buttons, and seems to fill the office of a Chief of Police. He isa good man, but all power has been taken from him by the Citizens' Committee, and be seems rather glad to be relieved of the responsibility. All day long a stream of woe-worn women and sad eyed boys have been surging in and out of the Committee's rooms, but they never seem to he sure of what they want and so generally get nothing. A crowd has been there all day-peo ple anxious to get passes to look for their missing friends-and in this case, "missing" almost certainly means "dead." So those may not be far wrong~ who assert that at the lowest estimate 10,000 people have been lost. ONLY FOR THE DEAD. In a little side street an office has been opened, and all those who have survived are asked to register in order that the number of the dead may be learned. As to the damage to proper ty, no one thinks of it. After ail, bur man flesh and blood is not held so cheap, for no one is thinking of any thing but searching for the thousands of corpses and helping the needy. Gen. Hastings' principal effort to day has been the thorough organiza tion of the police force in Johnstown proper. He has placed several squads Cambria Iron Police in charge of the officers of the Pittsburg force. These are divided into squads of eight, whieb are assigned to duty in various districts formed yesterday, Garrett Crossan has charge of the district in which the morgue and provision head quarters are located. The men in the squad are kept exceedingly busy. These buildings are located on the hill side above the site where Johnstown's principal streets once were. Company H, Fifth Rega~nenmt, is also on duty here and the members have all they can do. Thousands of persons visited the Fourth Ward school-house d uring the day, in which building the bodies are placed for identification. The scenes ab:;ut this building have been de scribed, but to-day they were sadder than ever. Long lines of women, children and men pass in and through the large rooms constantly. Trhe thirty five undertakers and assistants who arrived from Pittsburg and Allegheny are nearly all at work. Some pf the so-cal led assistants have scrupl~ulously absented themselves from that locality and have spent the day in viewing the ruins and the deadi, the latter from a distance. To every corpse that is iden titied and taken awvay six new ones arrive. The work of taking the dead from the ruins has begun in earnest, and men with stretchers on which rest the bodies of the poor victims are seen approaching the morgue from almost every part of the surrounding ruins. A singularly sad and striking feature is the weary and heart-rending vigil of those who stand about watching for the fresh arrival of victims. These comprise the many hundreds of sor rowing friends who have not yet re ceived the bodies of their lost ones As each corpse is carried through the gatet leading to the school-house yard, the anxious watchers flock there in crowds, each hoping yet dreading~ that the form of the dear one is there. Then follows the march, the solemn miarch ot the long, silent line which passes oy the newly gecupied slab, while each gazes on the cruelly bruised visage. If some near and dear relative is recognized and is identified by one of the marchers, the wail of anguish fol lows and the air is filled with grief stricken lamentations. These scenes were enacted during the entire day, and will continue all to-night and to morrow and for weeks. IE HAD TwPNTY-NINE RELATIVES DEAD. One man, well known to every resi dent of Johnstown, William Huffman, was drowned, and so were twenty-nine of his relatives. These were himself, wife and ten children, his brother, Gottheb Huffinan, wife and eight chil dren, his sister-in-law, Mrs. H. Huff man, and five children, Peter Huffman, another brother ; Mrs. C. H. Huffinan's little daughter, aged eight years, was absent from the house at the time of the flood. This poor child was at the Morgue to-day accompanied by two ladies. Seeing the badge on . The World's correspondent's coat lapel the child thought he was an official of the Morgue, and said : "Oh, mister, do please tell me if my mother is here. I want to see her. I am Lizzie Huffman, and all my brothers and sister have gone down the river." The body of poor little Lizzie's mother has not yet been found and I could not grant her request. THE TRUTH BAD ENOUGH. The stories of misconduct and threat ened violence on the part of the Sla vonians is greatly exaggerated. The Huns behaved very badly in Cambria City and elsewhere last night, but a few examples and club arguments by members of the Citizens' Committee effectually- cowed them. They have been as peaceable as lambs since the police and militia got here. This may be attributed to sheer cowardice but the devil should be given his due even if he has the form of an ignorant Italian or a slave and cannot speak English in his own defense. Many of them have rendered aid and humane service. Adjt-Gen. Hastings, in command here, has advised Gov. Beaver in a tele gram to Harrisburg that the number of dead at Johnstown is between twelve and fifteen thousand. He also wired that the rescuers are experiencing much difficulty, the stench from the dead bodies having become a formidable obstacle effbrty, THE GREAT LAKE DRAINED IN ONE HOUR. JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 3.-Messrs. 'Harry Singer and R. Hussey Eims, of Pittsburg, relatives of members of the South Fork Fishing Club, have arrived from the broken dam. They all had friends or relatives at the lake and, be ing very anxious as to their fate, they made a daring break through the flooded district. "We left Pittsburg on the day ex press Sunday and got to Sang Hollow about 1.20 o'clock," said Harry Singer. "We walked up to Johnstown, but could not get across there. We went up Stony Creek a couple of miles and got a man to ferry us across aind took the Frankstown road around the hill to the lake. It is about ten miles from Johnstown to the lake by this road. We reached the club-house about 6.30 o'clock, worn out by the tramp. We found that James Clark, son of Charles J. Clark, two Shay boys and Lewis Aaron had started from the lake Satur, day on horseback to go to South Fork station to take t;e train to Altoona. They got no further than Altoona, owing to washouts, and and are still there. Ther'e was no one at the lake when we arrived except the custodians of the building and some wvork men. A. J. Keating and George Wilson arrived) last night about 11 o'clock. The lake is completely dried out. The dam broke1 in the centre at 3 o'clock Friday after noon anid a44 o'clock it was dry. That great body off water passed out in one hour. MIessrs. Park and Van Buren, who are building a new draining system at the lake, tried to avert the disaster by building a sluiceway on one side to ease the pressure on the damn. They had about forty men at work and did all they could without avail. The water passed over the dami about a foot above its top, beginning a.t about 2.30. Whatever happened in the way of a cloud-burst took place during the night. There had been but little rain up to dark. When workmen woke in the morning the lake was very full and was rising at the rate of a foot an hour. Iti kept on rising until 2 o'clock~ it first began breaking over the (lain and undermining it. Men were sent three or four times during the day to wvarn people below of their danger. THEI LAKE IS NOW A MUD-PUDDLE. "When the final break camue, at 3 o'lock there was a sound like treir.en dous and continued peals of thunder; trees, rocks and earth wvere shot up) into the air in great columns, and then the wvave started down the ravine. A farmer who escaped said that the water jumnpedi on his house and beat it to fragments in an instant. He was safe up on the hillside, but his wife and two childr~en were killed. At the pres ent time the lake looks like a cross be tween the crater of a volcano and a huge mud-puddle with stumps of trees ] and rocks scattered over it. There is a< small stream of muddy water running through the centre of the lake site. The arn is seventy feet high and the break 1 is about twvo hundred feet wide and there is but a small portion of the dam left on either side. "No danmage was don eto any of the buildings belonging to the Club. The whole South Fork is swept with not a tree standing. Thereare but one or two smiall streams showing here anithhere ini the lake. A great many of the work men carried off baskets full of fish which they caught in the mud." IS TIIE FISHING CLUR LIABLE FOR DAM AGES? It is reported that the Sportsmen's Association, which owned the South Fork dani, was required to file an idemnity bond of3,000,000 before their charter was issued. When the bill granting them these privileges was before the Legislature the represent.: tives from Cambria and Blair counties vigorously opposed i:s passage, und only gave way, it is said, upon condi tion that such ideinnifying bond wt..s filed. This bond was to be filed with the Prothonotary of Cambria County. Father Boyle, of Ebensburg, said the records at the county seat ha<t no trace of such a bond. He found the record of the charter, but nothing about the bond..Tony Keating and other mem bers of the Association went to EJbenk. burg yesterday to examine the records, As the Association is known to be coii posed of very wealthy people there is much talk here at their being compel led to pay atleast a part of the damages, JOHNSTOWN HAD A PAUL REVERE, A nameless Paul Revere lies sonime where among the dead, Who he is may never be known, but his ride will be famous in local history. Mounted on a grand, big bay horse he came riding lown the pike which passes through Conemaugh to Johnstown shouting his warning; "Run for your lives to the hill4! ul to the hills!" The people crowded out of their houses along the thickly settled street, awestruck and wondering. Nobody knew the man, and some thought he was a maniac 4nd lallghecl. On at a quick pace he rode, and ?hr4'lly rang out his cry. In a few moments, how ever, there came a cloud of ruin duwn the broad streets, down the narrow alleys, grinding, twisting, hurling, overturning, crashing, annihilating the weak, and the strong. It was the charge of the flood, wearing its coronet of ruin aud devastation, which grew at every instant of its progress. Forty feet high, iome say-thirty, according to others was this sea, and it travelled with a swiftness like that which lay hidden in the heels of Mercury. On and on raced the rider, and on and on rushed the wave. Dozens of people took heed of the warning and ran up the hills. Poor, faithful rider. It was an unequal contest. Just as he turned across the railroad bridge the mighty wave fell upon him, and horse, rider and bridge all went qut intg chaos together. The hero had turned neither to right nor left for safety for himself, but rode on to death for his townsmen. How one Dog Coue to His End. [Statesville Landmark.] Dogs have many ups and downs in this couptry and don't live long, even if somebody don't kill them on the :-barge-of being "mad." But few dogs bare the honor of meeting death in the rnanner of the one I am going .to tell about. A certain minister of tie M. F. Thurch, not many years since, was on bis way to preach at one of his churches. Hle stopped to spend the night with me of his- flock. After supper, the preacher read a chapter and he and the hmily knelt in prayer. A very small log was in t,he roon1 anufgoing Ip in a few feet of the preacher comm,enced a furious barking. The preacher, with iplifted face, continued his prayer. rhe dog being unused to such proceed ings, continued to protest. The preacher leaned forward, ani "gragged the log by the throat, gradually tightened his grip until the dog become quiet.. Lhe preacher did not release his grip .mntil he finished his prayer. The little loggie never barked again. The preacher says that he did not intend to gill the dog, btit who kpows* A nderson Coming to the Front. The Detroit Free Press of last week 'nentions the followving in the p)ro seedings of the Lime Kiln Club: The secretary then gave thc follow nig verbrationi Anderson, S. C'., May 20th, 1889, A. D). to Bro. gardner: deer Sir we has Re 3rgunize the Society of Joy & Rejoice k our tex is united we stan Pervided ye donte Fall-our Race is a conin to he front mister lawrence Jones is now NIaile agent & WVe hopes 'to git more; W\e Wood like to no If wye can git Reekessition frunm the lime kill Club We aimnes to git the Han cuff offen The P>raine as mirjeff Webb says. tore cristian Brother, James Green leef Section master of Joy & Rejoice. "Ize seen wuss," observed Brother lardner as he scanned the letter, "but le mran who writ it died de nex' day. D)e first thing dat club wants to do, if t.hopes fur recognition, ar' to p)urv'ide tself wvid a jogerfy and' l'arn how to ipell. De seackertary will anser to dat effeck." Deafness Can't be Cured >y local application, as they can not -each the diseased portion of the ear. L'here is only one may to cure deafness. mnd that is by constitutional remedies. Deafness is caused by an inflamed con lition of the miucus lining of the eus .achian tube. When this tube gets in lamed you have a rumbling sound or mplerfect hearing, and when it is en .irely closed deafniess is the result, and mless the inflamation can be taken >ut and this tube restored to its nor nal condition, hearing will be des. royed forever: nine cases out of ten re c.aused by catarrh, which is not h ng but an inflamed condition of theI nueus surfaces. Wt.e will give One H undred Dollars or any case of deafness (caused by :atarrh) that we can not cure by tak ng HallPs Catarrh Cure. Send for cir :ulars, free. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, 0. STONEWALL'S WAY. General Jackson's Plan of Fighting the War-Approved by General Lee but Opposed by Mr. Davis. [Special to the Baltimore Sun.] CHARLOTTE, N. C., June -.-To day's Charlotte Chronicle publishes a historical sensation of Stonewall Jack son's plan of conducting the Confeder ate war, which, it is claimed, was ap proved by Gen. R. E. Lee, but opposed by President Davis. The information comes from General Rufus Barringer, a brother-in-law of Stonewall .Tackson, and who resides here. He obtained the information in a war conference with Jackson. General Barringer, after reading the article in to-day's Chron icle, told the Sun's correspondent that it was'absolutely truthful and exact in detail of facts. The following is the article: "The article by Lord Wolseley has attracted great attention in the South to the war policy. For the first time the Chronicle is able to lay before the world at some length, In sufficient de tail and with absolute authority, Stones wall Jackson's broadest and fullest plans as to how the Con federacy should have conducted the civil war. "Mrs. Mary A. Jackso-1, widow of the immortal Stonewall. who resides in Charlotte, is engaged in writing a life of her famous husband. She has been at work on the book now nearly a year, and it is thought that it will b' fully months before the last pages are writ ten. She leaves Charlotte to-morrow for her brother's home in the country, that she may hayp perfeOt quiet and secl p;lon, so that she miay more closely devote her time and attention to the writing of the memoirs. It was not Mrs. Jackson's intention to treat at all of General Jackson as a soldier. She merely intended to write of him per sonally ard on his relations as son, husband and father.. "It happened, however, that there were matters brought out, indefinitely or unsatisfactorily alluded to in Dab ney's 'Life of Jackson,' that she de sired to amplify for the purpose of throwing full light upon them. Among these more or less obscure points is Jackson's idea of how the war should have been conducted. it is treated of in the beginning of chapter XV on the 'Battle of Cedar Run,' but in an incom plete, inacurate and erroneous way, The chapter sayo that Qeneral Jackson had an interview with Hon. A. R. B3oteler in the former's tent, where the Ueneral comurnicated his views of the futt}re cgndgct of the war, and begged that on Mr. Boteler's next visit to Richmond he would impress them on the government. Jackson told Mr. Boteler that the Cunfederates should -carry the horrors of invasion from their own borders to tho:e of the guilty as sailants.' "Dabney closes the paragraph with this sentence: 'What weight was at tached to it is unknown, but the cam paign soon after took the direction which he (Jack-son) had indicated." "Gen. Rufus Barrlnger, a resident of this city, who was a brother-in-law of General Jackson, has been able to furn ish Mrs. Jackson very valuable infor mnation on this very point, obtained in a council held with Stonewall Jackson in the latter's own tent and at his own request. Instead of the subsequent campaign taking the direction which he (Jackson) had indicated, it wasjust the opposite to his plan, and made Sharpsburg anmd Gettysburg disastrous and actualities, "General Barringer now possesses the letter, in Jeb Stuart's handwriting, di rected to the former's Colonel, telling him to send (then) Captain Barringer to the headquarters ofiGeneral Jackson, a;s the latter desired to confer with the Captain on matters of Importance. Al though Captain Barringer and General Jackson, having married sisters, were brothers-in-law, they had not met since the opening of hostilities, and as the Captain had always resided in North Carolina, while General Jackson had been a residlent of Virginia, they had seen very little of each other, and were by no means on intimate terms. Trhe cause of the complimentary sum mons of Captain Barringer was the gallant stand his company had made in a disastrous retreat at Willis' Chiu rch. Jackson had apparently for gotten his brother-in-law, for he asked Stuart: 'Is Barringer a thorough (is ciplinarian and tactician 7' Stuart re p)lied that Barringer was a thorough soldier, and ap)precialted to a nicety drill and discipline. Jackson said: 'All the better; I like a civilian with pirac tical sense and an idea of discipline. Thbe old army men are apt to b'e marti nets, unsuited to commaniid and get the best service out o,f untrainied volun teers.' Strange language that for a gradluate of WVest Point, but who shall be able to refute the great Jackson's opinion? "When Captain B3arringer appeared at General .Jackson's tent the com mander's greeting wvas entirely devoid ofsentimient. The General was busy, as usual. H-e wa at the door of his tent, giving command. As the Cap tain app)roached, the General said, with an inquiring yet welconming intona tion: "Captain Barringer, I have sent for you on business; you will stay in my tent all night, we'll have a good time unless the Yankees disturb us. If Pope dosen't, I know MCClellan will not.' That night the brother-in-law general and the brother-in-law cap tain, who later himself becanie a gen eral, discussed at length the war policy of the Confederacy. Already Jackson had seen that the South could not stand having the enemy's armies with in her territnor The mere invasin was sapping the roots of Confederat supplies. He and Captain Barringe conferred at length on the cavalry, it merits, its advantages, and where an( how it could be best used. Genera Jackson announced his em.phatic opin ion in that interview that the continu ance of the defensive policy mean ultimate disaster and ruin. Jackson' plan was, he said. to organize twc four or more interior camps at th more important points in the South and use the best troops as 'light, mov able columns' of not over forty or fift: thousand men each. These must bE made up of the very best men, unde the command of the pick of officers They should be lightly equipped an< prepared for long, quick marches These he would hurl against the enemy as they invaded the Southern territory or use them to make rapid invasions o the North. He would select the best an< least-protected cities, fall upon then without notice, levy contributions o7 them of $50,000 to $100,000 or more, a: circumstances suggested, and destroy the towns that refused the levy. When ever he should find the enemy press ing him in the North he would retrea and fight his way across the line.t..In the meantime, however, one of these 'light movable columfis' would be or the,,way c - -s6ne other unprotected city, perhaps .500 miles away, which wQld be levied on or destroyed. "General Jackson went so far as t< specify the States into which he would send the lightly equipped colnmns. He named Pennsylvania, Ohio and 'Bleed ing Kansas' as constantly exposed points. .It was his intention on these invasions to take no prisoners except high civil officials, whom he would hold for ransom. His idea of taking no prisoners is one that his biographer Dr. Dabney, either was not thoroughl) familiar with or wih he unintention 4lly failed to make -himself clear upon in the 'Life of Jackson.' Genera Jackson, in that interview with Cap tain Barringer, said th4t while h< would take no men of the rank and file prisoners, he would parole them all at the point of the bayonet with the expressed understanding that if ever taken again they would be put to the sword without trii, t iogards the territory of the South Jackson said that his idea was to aban don the less important points, and to put the citizens upon their guard that igoh would be the policy, so that they might be prepared for it. Where necessary he would defend, but his general policy was to strike terror in the Northern territory, and to ,locate the interior camps so that they could easiest obtain supplies and protect the important key points of the South. "Whilst General Lee agreed with General Jackson on the gereral idea of this policy, the former said that cir cumstances might arise before plans for its fruition could be set afloat tha would necessitate prosecuting entire ly different plans of campaign, Be sides1 General Jackson said General Lee knew that President Davis did not share these views. The date of the interview between General Jackson and Captain Barringer was July 14, 1802, after the victories around Rich. mond, when Jackson thou.ght the Con federacy was in a desirable condition to make the changes of policy wvhiebn he had conceived, and which had the sympathy of Robert E. Lee. 'Within a few days after that Pope struck a blow on the Orange and Alexandria Railroad. Jackson whipped him al Cedar Run, and Pope retreated. Gen eral Lee unfortunately invaded Mary. land with his whole army, a misfortune that both Jackson and Lee foresaw. The result was the disaster at Sharps. burg. The whole army was in the enemy's lines, where they had no sup. plies. Under Jackson's plan of cam paign, with 'light movable columns' o1 fifty thousand troops, this could not have happened. Twenty-five Regiments, [W.K B~ ond, in Washington Star.] Of the nearly two thousand seen hundred Federal and Confederate r ' mients the following are the only ones which ever in one battle had over one hundred killed arid mortally wounded) 26 N. C.-Gettysburg,.............8 4 N. C.X-Seven Pines,.............369 6 Alabama-Seven Pines,........333 44 Georgia-Mechanicsville,........335 14 Alabama-Seven Days,......... 32-1 1 S. C. Rifies-Gaines' Mill,.....306 20 N. C.-Gaines' Mill,.............272 32 Mississippi-Gettysburg,........2G5 5 Texas-Second Manassas,.....261 Palmetto Sharpshooters-Seven 7 N. C.-Seven D)ays,..............253 3 N. C.-Sharpsburg,..............253 4 Texas-Gaines' M ill,............252 2 Mississippi-Gettsy burg,........232 29 Mississip)pi-Stone River,........230 18 N. C.-Seven Days,.............224 .57 N. C.-Fredericksburg,..........224 49 Virginia-Seven Pines,..........224 4.5 N. C.-Gettysburg,..............219 4 Tennessee-Shiloh,..............210 48 N. C.-Sharpsburg,..............217 11 Georgia Sharpsburg,........--..217 12 Alabama-Seven Pines,..........21 5 2 N. C.-Chancellorsville,.........214 5 Ala bama-Seven Pines.........210 NOTE-Of the 4 highest North Caro lina has 2; of the 25, North Carolina has 10. The 11th, 13th, 27th, 47th, 52d and 5.5th came very near getting in the list. Gobbled by the Stamdard Oil. ST. Loris, June G.-The Standard Oil Company has purchased the plant of the Southern White Lead Co.. pay ing $4,500,000. This gives the Standard full cont,-nl of the white 1lead market. HEALED BY FAITH The Old Lady Who Was Cured by the Fe male Evangelst-A Story Which Seems Truteful Beyond al Doubt. [Greenville News,.th.] "Is there any truth in it?" I donst believe a word of it." and such ejac ulations were heard on thestreets when the alleged healing of an old woman at the meetings of the lady evangelists Monday afternoon was mentioned. No one believed such a thing could happen and most pple expressed themselves as opposed to such meetings and be" lieved all reports of hearing "bosh," as they called it. To determine the truth or falsity of the aliged healing a News reporter de. voted some time yesterday to an irives tigation and gives to the readers of The:J News just what he has seen and heard,< and leaves it to them to-judge-fb4 iatter as best they can. He first saw the Evangelists tem; selves and endeaver to "pump" them, but they answered that the best plan to find out would be to be present at the afternoon meeting when the old wond an would be there and get from her own lips a statement of what happened" He attended the meeting, at which were present about eight or ten people * including the reporter and evange Prayer, singing, reading of chaptem : from the Bible and exhortations fon the two ladies constituted the of the services. The exhortations We delivered in a ealm manner and all words were directed in the same to a belief in the power of healing'b faith in the Lord. Instances were -e,: ted and names and places given :Of people who had been healed by a 'iri; belief in the power of God to anm plish these things. There was iro one present who appeared anxious test the assertions of the ev and as the old woman was not at meeting, the reporter left. He cisoov-r ered by inquiring that her name Mary Ann Hall and that she livednea the Fair Grounds. A VISIT TO THE HEALED. To thatpart of the city he directed,, his steps and by more. question found the place. In a little alIey run= ning north from the Echols the forks of Buncombe and But Streets, was aoottags with four : In one of the rooms was an old is ioned spinning wheel and a s amount offurniture. A youngw standing in the front door saidth "mother is in the backyard," The.i& porter walked around the housen saw sitting on the curbing ofes wel object of his search. She is short:oji' stout, about sixty years of age and w a pair of spectacles that had sh -: down nearly to the end of herude Taking a seat beside her, the eporter proceeded to ask a series of qnest w.... which the old lady- answered i a matter-of-fact way, displaying not great deal of earnestness but tellign detail what had occurred. "Monday evening," she said "Iwn% down street, Ilhad heard of these men folks and as I had been aEgc more than twenty years" withren - tism I wanted to see if I couldbe* ed. I hobbled down wt ytc found the place and wentin. ..hThe men prayed for me and rubbed my~ arms with their hands and, beMERR knew It I too knelt down, a trick tbnS I had not done in fifteen years. I2 I finished praying ~Igot up anda move my arms above my head. Xy& left ear had been deaf for many ym I heard'out of it as good as out of thie other." K "How did you feel when this cha~ took place?" "I felt like something had popped and broke loose. It was so queer, and I shouted for joy. When I went homeI did not need my stick, and the palm my back had gone. I suffered with It every day, but to-day it is well. Iam.-. well all over except a little remaining ~ stiffness in my arms and limbs. But I - don't mind that," she said, as she straightened her arms above her head M as an evidence of what she had said4 "There is a little pain in my left leg 5et and I wanted to go down this evening - and get the ladies to rub it and cure~ -0 too, but it looked so much like rainI didn't go." "Do you feel as if you had been per manently healed?" "Yes, I know I- have, when I could not raise my arms to wash my face and nowlIcan do it easy. The Biblesas,A 'Ask and you shall receive,' and I - know the Lord was good to ine." Numbers of people have stated posi ' tively that the old woman was a d crepit invalid and never walked with ' out the assistance of a staff until the day before yesterday. If the story is correct, and if she was in the feeble coni dition previous to her alleged bealn, and her story carries the evidence of truth with it, there is every indices that a change has taken place. Whee it was wrought by Divine power magnetism;or imagination is a maere to be decided as the reader is inclined: to believe. Happy Honduras. For the present Honduras has an one political party, President having succeeded in uniting all tions. He has just been 1alm~ unanimously re-elected. The revenues of the country-about $2,110 000-are being devoted to mai highways and opening sc town in the country has-a with compulsory attend n '- ~ Chronic nasal catarrah eured by Dr. Sages see.~ e How John C. Haskell Lost His Arm. r s [Abbeville Medium.] The Democratic State Executive . Committee met in Columbia last week to elect a member of the National 5 Democratic Executive Committee to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of the late lamented Capt. F. W. Daw son. Hon. John C. Haskell was unan imously chosen for the honorable and important position. No better selec tion could have been made. He is in the full vigor of his intellectual powers, has fine executive talent and is a de voted party man. Col. Haskell is a native of this coun ty and Abbeville is proud of her son. Whatever station he has filled and whatever duty he has been called upon to perform he has always reflected credit upon the place of his nativity L and gained houor for himself. Dur the war he commanded '- ion of artillery and uponrearly every mem orable bate Tield of Virginia the roar or his well-directed cannon emphasized his love of South Carolina and his de votion to the cause of constitutional government. He was with Longstreet and we fought under A. P. Hill. Once when we were hard pressed the "war horse" came to our reliet. We still have in our memory a vivid picture of John C. Haskell as he came upon the field. He rode a fine horse whose arch ing neck and dilated nostrils showed that he was-at home amid the noise of battle. Col. Haskell's slouch hat, en-. circled by a handsome golden cord, and and the cape of his military cloak brought out in bold relief his soldierly figure. The earth trembled beneath his hur;ying guns as they wheeled into position and unlimbered. In a moment his blazing Napoleons had thrown the advanciug hosts of the enemy into eonfusion and turned the tide of victory. Col. Haskell has but one arm. He lost the other at the battle of Gains' Mill on June 27th, 1862. How it was lost may interest our readers. Gen. Lee had crossed the Chickahominy and was advancing on McClellan. The battle of Mechanics ville had been fought on the 26th. Jackson was coming on the field hav ing made connection with Lee's forces. -Haskell was serving on the staff of Gen. D. R. Jones, but being indisposed remained at headquarters for some time after Gen. Jones had gone towaXds the river to observe the enemy. This did not suit him and although scarcely in condition for any exertion at all he mounted his horse and rode forward. He found Gen. Jones and Gen. Magru der on high ground on the south side of the- Chickahominy. Beyond the river in plain view the enemy were hurrying forward in dense columns to overwhelm our forces. From recent heavy rains the river was out of its banks. There was no bridge to cross, but it was necessary to convey infor mation as to the movements of the enemy to Gen. Lee. Col. Hasakell road a remarkably fine horse coe the prop erty of Gen. Turner Ashby and he un dertook to deliver the message. He quickly made his way to the river and soon the noble horse and its gallant rider were breasting the rushing water. A line of the enemy,s cavalry pickets caught sight of the daring rider and opened fire upon him and continued to do so until he reached the North side of the river and disappeared in a body of timber. The message was de livered and Col. Haskell remained with Longstreet until late in the evening he was directed by Longstteet to order R. H. Anderson's Brigade forward. He did so and going to the front he found many men scattered and broken. He collected about two hundred of these and forming on the right of Whiting's Division with a stand of colors in his hand advanc3d with them to within about fifty yards of the enemy's breast works. Here his little finger was shot and broken and his horse was shot and brought down to his knees. He pulled his horse up and spurred him and the animal carried him and the flag right in among the enemy and fell dead catching Col. Haskell's foot under him. For some time it was impossible for Col. i':Thkell, to free himself. As he fell a Yankee Captain dashed at him and attempted to take the stand of colors from Haskell's left hand but Haskell had a sword swung to his right wrist by a sword knot and grasp ing it he struck at the Yankee who by this time had drawn his pistol and fired striking the star from the collar of Haskell's coat. The Yankee kept grasp ing for the colors with one hand and firing his pistol with the other until Haskell freed himself from the horse Just then the Yankee turned and Has kell struck him full on the top of the head bringing him to his knees and as he turned with the pistol still in his hand Haskell ran his sword through him, killing him almost instantly. Haskell then went to the left and came again to the men he had collect ed and found them in front of the twenty-four gun battery which was sweeping the plateau in their front. They rallied to a man around the flag which lhe still held in his hand and he led them forward with Hood's Brig ade as it made its second charge. At the very cannon's mouth his arm was torn into shreds and he fell still grasp ing the colors. There he lagi until night had closed the co)nfiict, when Gen. Whiting passing by recognized him and had him conveyed to the field hospital where the wounded arm was temporarly bandaged and he was sent to Richmond. A few days afterwards he amputation was performed.