Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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tlj ~J~ NEBEI Y S. C.. TIUSDY O VEBR7 89RIE$.0AYA nt of theil hundred re 125'revolvers and several ridges, and loading the n wagons, started for the feud. While at suppei ear the farm house of Mrs. , born Hatfield, the party t from an ambush. Tb urned the volley, but it could not see with whal Blumfield, their leader d, and after firing Mrs ound lying dead in he] through her neck t here is intense, anc will be asked to senc r be a hazardous under militiamen, ~however, t< the fastnesses of whiel -ng, and which are s( rri ' g factions. It is Ha fields and Blum m action at leasi * EPORTED. v.1.-A bul a man ha Linc on Count3 ' " .eBlurr. -again out, and battle was in progress He thinks several must illed. The Blumfield s creek is in a state of credited for the reason eld, of Lincoln county, gton yesterday and left of revolvers and repeat. which to arm his asso IN THE DARKNESS. ovember 2.-A specia] Milton, W. Virginia of another battle be tfields and McCoys have Friday night a party o1 of the McCoys cam( umfield camp in the sxi miles from Greer *bands were bound for were 'heavily armed. Whiin the licCoys discovered theii enemies they sent out scouts and dis co.ered that there were about a score it camp They crawled up through the dense.nnder brush.and poured a volley on. tlier sleeping Joes. In an instani itwasetrnecyand the Hatfields, al though taken" by surprise, were s< much, better armed than the McCoys having repeating rifles, that they soor put them to flight. One volley fired by the McCoys did terrible execution Half a dozen men were wounded and two were slain. John Blumfield, one of the leaders of his faction, was in. stantly killed. By his side lay Wil liam Brown, son of the woman wh< was shot in the farm house at Fudge's Creek. Two bullets had gone througl his body~one piercing the heart. Sis other men were wounded, one of them whose name is unknown, being fatally hurt. After dawn the Hat fields found tw< more dead men and four desperately wounded men were captured. Some of the wounded McCoys must have been carried off by their friends, for the trail of their retreat through the woods was marked by blood stains The prisoners captured are C'harle Lamibkin, John Cain and Peter McCoy The names of the dead are unknown Cain, whose first name was not known was so badly wounded that his corm rades left him to die where he lay, bul the other three were oompelled t< dHatfield headquarters whiehtthey reached about noon yester day. As soon is the story~ of the attacd and capture was told a sort of court martial was held. The prisoners werE not allowed to speak in their own de fense, and after a short deliberation vote on their life or death was taken The result was unanimious and thE three men will be tied to trees anc shot to-day. Nothing cars 1save then unless the McCoy's cart defeat tl.q entire Hatfield party arid effect a res cue. This is not likely as they are out numbered two to one, and the Hat field's are better armed. Thle co,urie: who brought this news was shot al twice from amkbah while ridinit through Lincoln coRunty. THE3v.In IN K EN'l UK Y. PINEvILLE, KY., Nov. 1.-New: rehed here last night by reliable par ties that Judge Lewis camte up witi Howard anid his gang Wednesday <I Martin's Fork, and killed six of the Howard gang without losing a mran Three of the men killed were namxet Hall, one by the name of WVhitlock the other two names were not learned Judge Lewis and fifty well armet men took dinner ntear the camphl of J P. Meyer & Co., on thbe Louisville an< Nashville extension, about thirty mtile: beyond Cumberland Gap, last Friday Men whos spoke with the Judge say: he is determined, and will never quri his chase until Howard and his gran; are-killedor driven from the courty Both parties are being reinforced daily and more bloodshed is expected. It is thought that Howvard has gorn to Virginia, but is expeeted to return The best citizents of Harlan County ar Oi Lewis, and with such: leader there is no doub order party will come ou nd break up th]e gang thn rror to all Easterni Ken last twventy-five years. SAS. ist Church in ,Mlnister Out of Mayor Calls rMilitia. A, KANs., October 31.-Adj't Roberts received a telegram to y notifying him of a riot at Axtell, Marshall County. The telegram was from the mayor of that city, and asked that a detachment of militia be sent to quell the disturbance. The adjutant general at once ordered out Company G, of the 3d regiment, located at Marysville, and left on the first train for the scene of trouble. As yet only meagre particulars have been received. Axtell is a town of about seven hundred people, and is set tied largely by Roman Catholics. On Wednesday a methodist minister. named Johnson, from the eastern part of the State, arrived there to hold re vivals. He had quite a large congre gation in the evering at the Methodist church, and in the audience were a number of Catholics. Soon after be ginning his remarks-the minister made an attack on the Catholic church. He became so abusive that one of the Cath olics present called him a liar; he con tinued his remarks, and the Catholics present became enraged, and four of them rushed to the pulpit and taking the preacher by the collar threw him down. In a moment the pulpit was sur rounded by an angry mob and a gen. eral row ensued. Although the Catho lies were in the minority they were too much for the Methodists, and suc two others out of the church. The whole town was soon up, and the four Catholics who had assaulted the minister were arrested and put in the city prison. This so enraged the Cath olic population that they organized this morning to assist their,imprisoned associates. The town of St. Bridget, a few miles distant, is settled entirely by Catholics, and it is reported that the whole town is organizing to go to the rescue of the Axtell men. The mayor says he is powerless to control the mob, and he fears a conflict between the two ele ments. The adjutant general will not reach Axtell till 9 o'clock this evening. What a Woznan Can Do. ["Bab," in St. Louis Republic.] What can .a woman do? She can laugh with her lips-make a man think she is the merriest cricket in the world, while her eyes are full of ushered tears and her heart is beating as if it would burst. She can forgive a -great sin like an angel and nag a man about a petty vice like an importation from the lower regions. She can fix over old frocks and wear them with. a cheerful heart that she may help somebody, and she can spend the first money that she really feels that she can use for herself in going to a matinee and on sweets, when she needs a new pair of shoes. She can quiet a baby with one or two reassuring pats, when a man might almost knock the life out of it, give it a whole bottle of soothing'syrup, and it would still be open-eyed and aggres sive. She can employ a whole day looking for a pair of braces for Jack, and yet in the time of trouble, she could buy a mourning outfit in half an hour, and her needle would fly as if guided by electricity in sewing on a bridal gowvn, or a shroud for somebody's baby. She can cry out her troubles on a man's shoulder and feel a relief that is only possible from masculine help, and ten minutes after she can laugh in that man's face and wonder what men were made for. She can be brave in time of mental trouble; she can stand by and hold the hand of some one who is suffering from physical trouble, and yet she will scream as if she were about to be killed at the suggestion of a mouse or beetle. She can smile over a dinner of bread and butter and tea, when that's all she can get, and later on, when prosperity is to the fore, she can turn up her nose at any gave below canvas back duck, and wondering at people caring for the best brand of Burgundy.. What can't she do ? I will tell you. She can never wear trousers with any grace, and she will never be able to re sist either the man or the baby who has gotten the love of her heart. -Failure in Chiarleston. CH~ARL.ESTON. Nov. 1.3-Judge Ker shawv to-day appointed A. M. Lee re ceiver of the firm of Klinek, Wieken berg & Co., for the last half century engaged in the grocery business in this city. Liabilities $70,00) and assets nominally large. ST.ArE OF OHIro, CITY OF ToLED)O,1 ILcas CotrNTY, S. S. ? Fnaxx JN . (CH ENEv makes oath that he is~ the seniior partner of the firm of F. J. Cheney & C'o.. doing business in the (City of Toledo, county and State aforesaid,adtt said firm will pay LA-RS for each and every case of CATA,Ran that cannot be cured by the use of H ALL'S CATARRH CU~RE. FRANK J. CHENEY. Sw ~orn to before me and subscribed inmy presence, this 6th day of D)ecem-. ber, A. D). 18S86. A. W. G LEASON, [seAL) Notary Public. Halts Catarrh Cure is taken inter nally and acts directly on the blood and~ mtucus suirfaces 'of the system. Send for testimonials, free. t F. J. CHENEY & CO., - I Toledo, Ohio. HE SOLD HIS WIFE. The Husband of a Christian Scientist Dis poses of Her. [From the St. Louis Republic.] ST. PAUL, Minn., Oct. 1S.-Many years ago, George Welkoff took unto himself a wife. Years rolled on, and George went to work in the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul shops at South Minneapolis. Both husband and wife by this time were past the prime of life. They resided in a comfortable dwelling house in the vicinity of Fort avenue and Lake street. The husband continued to ply his trade, and his wife finally joined the ranks of Christian Scientists. Soon she practised Christian Science healing. She became so imbued with the spirit of the doctrine that after much delib eration she found that her husband was not her "soul's affinity." At first the exact whereabouts of her kindred spirit did not become revealed to her, but not for long was she allowed to grope in darkness. As a light from heaven, the truth flashed upon her, and she found her "soul's affinity" in the peuon of one Henry Bratsch. Henry is no longer a youth, having passed his fortieth year. By trade he is a machinist and works alongside of George Weikoff in the railroad shops of South Minneapolis. He is well-to-do and isreputed to own property valued at $40,000. Most of it lies within the city, limits of St. Paul. He boarded at 3028 Fort street, South Minneapolis, with the Weikoffs. Henry had passed the age of senti ment, but his fellow workman's wife, -- ' 'ces in the name of Henrika We'ik.off,ca ep Science over him and he fell victim to her wiles. He became a believer in tiis strange doctrine. The truth suddedy 1awed upon him that Henrika had the other half of his soul. The truth had not long been revealed to them before they became "two souls with but a single thought." The only difficulty in the way of the consumma tion of their faith presented itself in the inoffensive husband. But now this trfle has been removed and they are free to practice their belief as far as. George, the husband, is concerned. Henrika Weikoff owned a house and lot on Fort street, and to satisfy her husband she mortgaged this property for the sum of $900, $500 of which she paid her husband, he agreeing to sign a deed of separation, releasing her from all matrimonial control in considera tion of the.sum -above -mentioned. Henry Bratsch paid over $00 to Weikoff yesterday, and all the neces sary papers were drawn up by a well known attorney of this city. As security Bratsch took the mortgage on Mrs. Weikoff's property. All parties are now happy: The two living souls can yearn to their heart's content without the interference of a husband. Mrs. Wei koff has two grown-up children. One of them is a young man and a promi nent officer of a secret society. Shortly Mrs. Weikoff will institute proceedings for divorce from her legal husband, and the climax of this strange story will occur when the marriage bells ring on the occasion of the marriage of Henry Bratsch and Henrika Weikoff. All the parties to the affair were interviewed this afternoon and admitted its truth. NEW ENGLAND MOVING SOUTH. Capitalists who Know a Good Thing when They See It. BALTIORE, Md.,October 30.-Satur day's Manufacturers' Record will show that great enterprises are crowding one on another very rapidly in the South. There are reports of the organization of a greater number of gigantic enterprises than ever before made public in one week. One of the most striking features is the heavy investment of Eastern and New England capital, which is pouring into the South as it formerly did into the West. A number of Philadelphia capitalists have just returned from Florence, Ala., where they invested heavily, including, it is reported, $300,000 towards a $500, 000 carpet mill. New England excur sionists to Fort Payne and Denison left, it is said, over $500,000 in these two towns last week. A $5,000,000 company has been organized, with all the stock subscribed, by leading New England bankers and others, who have purchased 2,000 acres of land adjoining Chattanooga, where exten sive enterprises will be established, and a purchase is reported to have been made by a $3,000,000 Northern com pany of 300,000 acres of'land in East Tennessee, the enterprise being in the hauds of the wealthiiest members of the Prohibition movement. In Chatta nooga a $1,000,000 bank will open for business shortly. Two companies, one with $300,000 and the other $600,000 capital stock, have been organized in England for gold mining operations in Georgia. Birmiinghamn has organized a $1,000,000 coal mining company. Centre, Alabama, a $100,000 iron company to repaiir and operate an 01ld furnace. Dadeville, Ala, a $500,000 company, Mobile a $500,000 paving company, Kentucky a $5300,000 contracting com pany. In Louisiana sulphu'r mining property has been sold for $20)0,000. Laredo, Texas, has secured a $50,000 foundary and machine shop. In Vir ginia there have been about a dozen big enterprises, including a $200,000 town company, S50,000 lumber comn p any and $200,000 iron company. At Graham a sale of iron property on Cripple Creek for $100,000 for the de velopment of a town company. At Max Meadows $1,000,000 manufactur ing company. A t Richmond $1,000,000 land and investment, and $500,000 land company at Roanoke, with many other enterprises being actively worked AN OHIO WIDOW IN LUCK. About to Wed John Jacob Astor and a F< tune of 6150,000,000. [From the New York World.1 According to what appear to be tru: worthy reports John Jacob Astor, t elder, is engaged to be married to M: Bowler, of Cincinnati. This story coin from the other side of the Atlant where both Mr. Astor and Mrs. Bo ler now are, and from the fact that 1 Astor is a very domestic old gentleim and has paid Mrs. Bowler devoted : tentions for a year or more, society inclined to credit the semi-official a nouncement which has been mac Mrs. Bowler has been in Europe f some months with her two childre and John Jocob Astor during the pa summer has taken two trips abroa presumably in order to have the plea ure of %ing in her company. Mrs. Bowler has been a widow fi or six years. Her late husband was nephew of George H. Pendleton, Ohio, who at one time was the Vi Presidential nominee of the Democral party, and was minister to Germnia during the Cleveland administratic Mr. Bowler inherited a handsome f< tune and invested it judiciously in ra road properties. At his death he w a large owner of the securities of t Kentucky Central Railroad, of whi that excellent railroad man, M. E. I galls, was one of the early presiden Some fifteen years ago he married M Williamson, one of the belles of Ci cinnati society. She is a very han some woman now, very bright and i tellectual and a charming conver tionalist. She is well known in N< society, and it was -here that 37 first met ' ie has been test at the house of Henry . many tunes during the winter seas< just passed and has also'-visited oth homes in New York. John Jacob Astor, who, according announcements already made, will set down by Thomas G. Shearman the November issue of the Forum the richest man in this country, ha ing control of about $150,000,000, and about 68 years of age. He is tall, han some and vigorous and bears his yea well. In society be is regarded as ti finest specimen of manhood the Ast family has ever put forward. The Eclectic. The November E-lectic has a nur her of excellent articles,-some of the being of much current significance. T] Progress of Co-operation, by Geort Jacob Holyoake and M. Millerand, te us the latest facts about a most impo tant movement in labor reform, ai discusses the question with high inte ligence. W. S. Lilly gives us a vigo ous and thoughtful paper cast in tl form of a dialogue, entitled, In Sear( of a Religion, which is of great int< est. Mr. Graham Sandberg's visit the mysterious city of Lhas,, the i ligious Mecca of Buddhism in Centi Asia, is a fascinating record of travi An article, supposed to have been w'r ten by Mr. Gladstone, treats the rel tions of Italy in the Tripartite Allian in a way which foreshows the Liber policy, when the English Home Ru party gets into power. This article hi made a great sensation in Europe. Ti paper on Fastern Women, by Hora Victor, is very racy and entertainin Published by E. R. Pelton, 25 Boi Street, New York. Terms $5 per yeai A Cruel Uncle. [Special to Augusta Chronicle.] COLUMBIA, S. C., Nov. 1.-Thomn Kennedy was to-day committed to ji by Trial Justice Miller for assault< his nine-year-old nephew. The assault consisted in tying t1 lad to a fence and beating him brutal with a strap with a buckle on the en The cause assigned was that the be had failed to perform the whole of ti task set him at cutting hay. The boy was so terribly whbipped th the flesh on his back lay in welts ai he has been unable to move abo much since. The evidence presented showed it be a case of the most inhuman cruelt A Fearful Accident in Glasgow. GL,Asoow, Nov. 1.-The gable wi of a building that was being erect alongside of Templeton's carpet facto on William street was blown down day. An immense mass of debris fell< the roof of the weaving department the factory, crushing it in. Fifty girls and women employed the weaving rooms were buried. It is probable that forty of thc buried are dead. Gov. Lee Denounces Mahone. WAsHINGTOx, N%ov. 1.-Govern Lee of Virginia, who has been spendi a few days in this city, denounces t efforts of Mahone to raise the cry fraud against th'e Democrats in the V ginia campaign. Governr Lee < clares that everything is open a: above jeqrd and that Mahone a surely be wiped out of Virginia polit forever by an adverse majority about 25,000. Can a Man swallow a Cannon Balli Well, "that depends." He can if I throat is large enough and the canne ball not too large. The question real seems worthy of some consideration view of the size of some of the pills tlb are prescribed for suffering humanil Why not throw them to "the dogi and'take Dr. Pieree's Pleasant Purg tive Pellets? Small, sugar-coatt purely vegetable, perfectly harmless, gloas and alway fresh. COLORED MINISTERS TO HAYTI. r- The Report that the Haytien Govermnen Prefers White Ones is Incorrect. [From the Boston Herald.1 ae For the last couple of months a stor: .s has been going the rounds that th es people of- Hayti were not in favor o having any more colored men sen -. there to represent the United States r. They preferred to have a white man mn This report has been a very bitter mpr - seI for the colored people of the Unite< is States to swallow, and the Haytien r. have been severely criticised for takin, e. such a pusition. D. The Rev. Solomon Porter Hood, o n South Carolina, who is in Port-au st Prince, says: "The statement is d, libel upon the Haytiens, who are th S. most self-respecting people among col ored people that I have ever met .e They are a people who appreciate lib a erty, and who will maintain their inde of pendence if it costs the lives of ever: ee male citizen from 15 to 60 years of ag ic on the island. Such a people, witl y every officer, from President down, n. negro, every department of the Stat r- controlled and directed by negroes ii- with generals and armies of thousand s in which not a white face appears le with a negro's vignette on their post h age stamps, and a negro girl's picturi n- on their money, would not be likely ti ?. desire a white man in preference to ss negro representative. I am in a posi n. tion to know something of what are d- the ideas of Gen. Hippolyte, the presen - provisional President. While he is man of too much judgment and com w mon sense to make any request of thi r. United States as to what the color o a their diplomatic representative shoulh ii be, I am sure, if he has any prefereno " c ' hat he should be like th ,n at a ,a ?r men who now surr-n ' dm up his provisional Governmen - r. groes. >e "Not only have the pgst negro repre n sentatives been well received anc is highly respected by Haytien, authori. - ties, but Mr. Thompsoi, our late min. is ister, from the very important stand l: d- has taken, first, of neutrality, and last rs when called upon in arranging terim ie of reconciliation, has caused the pro or visional Government to be under deel obligations to to him. We know fror personal contact with some of the mosi influential men that a white represen tative is not preferable, though whiti n- men, be they who they may, Govern rn ment representatives, admirals, cap ie tains,- merchants or private citizens e are very different beings here in thi. Is black Republic than we ' have fre r- quently seen them in the United States id They feel the influence of their sur l- roundings, and govern themselves ac r- cordingly." ie SOMEBODY IS SOUR. What "a South Carolinian" Says of Somni alBcenat Appointments. a. NEw Yong, Nov. 1.-The -Post to se night contains the following fron al Washington: "If President Harrisor le had tried his worse to ruin his chance a of building up a wvhite men's party it le South," remarked a prominent Souti ie Carolinian who is often quoted on Re . publican movements in this State, "hi d could not have hit truer to the marl than when he made his appointment of postmasters at Columbia and Ander son, S. C. They are two of the mos important offices in the State, and should have been filled by Riepublican as in good standing. Instead of that Mr ~l Harrison went out of his way to snul >n his party by taking a couple of "Inde pendents," as they 'eall themselve 1e down there. y "Whatever advantage the appoint d ments might have brought to his ad >y ministration, he has deliberate]: e thrown away, because the men he ha named have no standing in politics. N< a President can afford to throw away thi id good will of both the great parties ir at his efforts to placate one that has n< recognized existence, and whose repre to sentatives are without a following, or: Y claim upon one." LI KILLED BY KEROsENE. An Infant who Drank Kerosene Onl Comei oto an Untimely Death. mLNews 'nd Courier, 2nd.] ofQuite a sad and peculiar death oc in curred yesterday morning at the resi dence of Mary Mitchell, 47 King street Her little child died in the agonies o convulsions, caused by drinking kero sene oil. The circumstances of th< case, as far as could be learned, are a follows: or Thursday evening the mother, Mar' a Mitchell, was working in her kitchei he and had her liltIe one-year-and-a-half of iold child toddling around her. Th ir- child went oft and was playing unde e- a table. The nmothuer's attention wa 3d called away, and in a few moments sh llooked around and saw her child sneez s ing and noticed that kerosene oil ha< o' been spiHled on the floor. She was no long in learning that her child ha< swallowed some kerosene, and gavei lard and oil, but without the desire< ~*effect, however. As the child seeme< .to be getting along very well a physi ly cian was not called. in Yesterday morning when the chil< twoke up it was suffering very much and shortly died in a convulsion. Thb achild is said to have been very preec cious, and could walk and talk witl PROFITS IN PRISONERS. t The Annual Report of the State Peniten tiary. [Special to News Courier.] CoLUMnIA, November 1.-At th< r meeting of the Penitentiary direc tors to-day the following, amonl other statistics, were presented by thi t superintendent and adopted by th board for their report: The cash receipts from convict liir - and other sources for the fiscal yearend ing October 31, 1889, were $88,564 33 The indebtedness brought over fron the fiscal year 1887-88 is $14,162 49 The disbursements for the fiscal yea 1888-89 were $73,298 32. The total in debtedness and disbursements amoun to $87,460 81, which deducted from th receipts leaves a balance November of $1,104 52. The actual earnings of the year it money were $15,267 01. The resources of the institutior November 1, 1889, are stated as follows Due from contractors, secured by bond $16,776 08. Cotton unsold, $13,000 Total $29,776 08. Notwithstanding the damage b3 high water, the leased farms produce< this year as the share of the State 344 bales of cotton, 7,200 bushels of corn 6,100 bushels of oats, 636 bushels o wheat, and other crops of value, thi aggregate being worth $30,265 50. Superintendent Lipscomb expect: within sixty or ninety days to pay bael into the treasury $15,000 or more of th4 $25,000 advanced by the Legislature foi the support of the Penitentiary it 1886-87. 2 This is a splendid showing, and de inonetrates what can be done by con vict labor applied to agricultural pur poses when the crops are protecte< from floods. It is astrong argument it favor of the purchase of a big and safi arm, which will be.recommendec by the boar . There are to-day un 'ntence ti the ,Penitentiary and under the trol of the institution 884 prisoners, against 894 on the same day last year Of these 884, 56 are white males, wlaite females, 780 colored males and 45 colored females. The cost of sus tenance in the institution during the year has been 20} cents per capita per day. At their meeting to-night the Peni tentiary board recommended Messrs. Thomas Anderson and J. G. Guignard, of their number, to be appointed by the Governor as delegates from the South Carolina to the meetingof the National Prison Association, to be held in Nash ville on the 16th inst. The board refused several applications for hands -to dig phosphate rock, as at present they have none to spare. Theii annual report will recommend the adoption of a system of electric lighting for the Penitentiary, oil being defective and gas objectionable, and urge that they be allowed to build a hospital, as the present building has been pro. nounced very defective by the State Board of Health. -FORTY CITADEL CADETS SICK, Made So by Eating Spoiled Salt Mullet. -[Special to The Register.1 CHAERLESTON, Nov. 1.-Rumors have been prevalent to the effect that alarge number of the Citadel cadets had been poisoned. These rumors proved to be true to this extent: About forty cadets have been on the sick list for the past forty-eight hours. The surgeon of the Academy states that they were pois oned by eating salt mullet out of a barrel which was partly spoiled. About forty of them were make sick, but all have recovered, and thc entire corpe attended the "Mikado" performance at the Grand Opera House to-night, the opera being presented by the Cadet - Gle Club. Surgeon Parker exonerates -the bursar and cook of the Academy. He says that some of the fish in the barrel were spoiled, and that the acci dent was unavoidable. AJl the sich cadets are up again. A Florida Land Sale. .JACKsONvILLE, Fla., .Niovember 1. One of the largest transactions in land ever conisumnmated in the South has recently been perfected and was made public to-day. All the unsold lands in Florida of the Plant System of railroads and steam ships, of the Florida Southern Railroad, of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West System, including the Florida Southern Railroad, and of Florida . Commercial Comxpany have been con solidated under the name of the Asso ciated Railway Land D)epartment o: f Florida, with the headquarters of the - syndicate at Sanford, under the man agement of Col.1D. H. Elliott as general agent. T be former land headquarters of the two corporations first named were ir Sanford, those of the Jacksonville Tampa and Key West at Jacksonville, and those of the Florida Southern and Florida Commercial Company at Pa, latka. Over six million acres of land are consolidated under one manage ment by the formation of this syndicate and the entire business pertaining t( their improvement, sale and lease wil be transacted in Sanford. This consolidation is the outgrowtt t of negotiations begun last spring. Ii w ~as not until October10, however, that the compact was finally sealed, in Neil - York city, by the representatives of al: parties in interest. Since that time officials have been engaged in the per ,fection of the legal papers necessary, Sand getting matters into shape fom - beginning business under the new Smanagement. The new arrangemeni goe. int en ffect to-day. It Produces Nothing but Seed Withom the Lint.. [From the Augusta Chronicle.] CHARLETON,- S. C., Nov. 2.- New ciomes from Spartanburg, one of th best cotton growing counties in thi State, of a new cotton plant' which, i it's as claimed, will riesa .enderfe revolution in the agricultural and cot ton oil interests of the -nation. T. Ferguson, an experienced cottoi planter, claims to have bred a cottoi plant which will produce nothing bu cotton seed without the lint. His statement is briefly, as follows He claims that there are male and fe male cotton plants,' the male beini designated, helbizTks, bY the-red stalks The seeds are virleoteied, - the sha le being generally blue*green and white and, of eourse, eantdt:- be distinctl: specified. Given this fact-Ferguson commence< some time ago.to pick out' the ial4 plants and with the seed extracted fron them planted another pat b separately When this crop was-ready- foi pick1ni the male plants were again seleetei and their production of seeds plautec separately again. This process of selecting nzale planta is kept up until at last the lint refuse to germinate, and nothing is left in thi bolls but a large amount of seeds. The amount of seed contained in tb, boll is more than equal to the weigh of the lint and seed found in the aver age sized boll of cotton. Ferguson claims that he can produe four hundred bushels of seed to thi acre by this new discovery where onl; thirty-five bushels are now, gathered with the lint. He has been very careful in produc ing the results given above to obliterat all vestiges of lint from a boll of cottoi and has succeeded in a most remarks ble manner. Other experienced ia been shown Fe an - struck wit was shown t 'ba boll has the appea exterior and in the interior of .a boll of cotton after the lint has beer picked out. The seed are a little larger than the common seed and are perfectly free from any semblance of lint. The bolh are filled with -these seed which are a numerous as okra seed in a pod of okra The revolution that will be effected by this new cotton plant, If It can bi cultivated.suceessfullyr wil be beyoin calculation. THE "SILENT CITY." The Wonderful Mirage Oeeasionany Wit nessed in Ald1s. CHICAGo, October 30.-Mr. L. B French, who has recently returnec from Alaska, saw the wonderfulanc much-written-about mirage which hai been named. the "Silent City." It i: occasionally visible in the summe: season from certain points in Glacie: Bay. He describes it as follows: "About 5 o'clock on the afternoon o an early July.day- suddenly perceivec rising above the glacier over in the di rection of Mount- Fairweather whal at fist appeared to -be a thin, mist3 cloud. It soon1 became -elearer and we distinctly saw a spectre city mov ing towards us. We could plainly sei houses, well-defined streets, and trees Here and there rose tall spires ovel huge buildings which appeared -to be ancient mosques or cathedrals. 11 was a large city, one which would contain at least 100,000 inhabitants.] have seen Milwaukee miraged ovel Lake Michigan, and this city appearei considerably larger than that. It di' not look like a modern city-more lik4 an ancient European city. I noticed particularly the immense height of the spires. "Of course we were much excited The Indians who were with us wern overcome by their superstitious fear and ran away. We both had camerasi separated in order to take it -fronr different points of view. By the tim4 we reached points of vantage It hai grown fainter, and s oon disappeared I should say the spectacle.lasted aboul twenty-five minutes." Big Lumps of Gold Ecently Found in Na cochee. ATH ENs, GA., October 24.-The Ban ner says that a few weeks ago an En' glish company, which is working ii Nacoochee mine in Georgia, took out nugget weighing 1,300 pennyweights The largest lump of gold ever found ir America came from the foot of Roar Mounmain, N. C., and weighed 1,50( ounces. Three men were killed over iti possess:on, and to-day the nugget re mains in the Government vaults wait ing a ~egal claimant. NacoocheeVale3 is one of the richest gold-mining see tions in the South, and a great deal o this mineral property belongs to Atheki ians. Messrs. Childs & Nickerson havi leased out a mine that returns a hand some revenue. Dr. W. M. Willing ham, of Crawford, also owns som< splendid property here which wil some day bring him a foh'une. An En glish syndicate is trying to buy up al the mining interests in that section and are making large investments. -r.r Days of Balm. BLOO3fINGToN, 'ILL., -Nov. 2.-Rair has fallen heavily and almost withoul cessation for three days. An enormous quantity of .water has fallen and streams are all rising anc the roads are becoming impassable. t Over One million Dollars Given Away, . Henry J. Steere, an Old Bachelor of Providence, B. I. PROVIDENCE, R. I., October 31. The will of Henry J. Steere, one B wealthiest men in Providence,. f died recently, gives away directly in trust a sum total of $1,139,000. was single man and was all his life dis--' tinguished for- philanthropical im pulses. He gives $654,500 to indi viduals directly, in sums ranging t $1,000 to $100,000. The amount given to charitable or _ ganizations, etc., is $340,000. The;". Home for Freedmen of this city gef: $25,0)0; the Beneficent Congregations''-. Church and St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, of this city, gets $50, -$5,000 respectively; the Charitable Fnel Society of this city $5,000, and.the; Rhode Island Historical Soeiety.$10 000. Tabor College, in Iowa, is given $50,000, and Roanoke College, at Salem, Va., $25,000. The executor of the pro -perty is Alfred ~Metcalfe, of this city *ho is- only required to give persdisal bond to pay legacies, etc. A Model Up-Country Farm. [From the Keowee Courier. It would pay every farm in Oconee. to ist Mr. Louis Brandt's farm near town. He is certainly a model farmer and one who makes all -he needs a home. It was a real tireat to us toZu walk over his farm early Wedneada morning and see his fine cotton, peas, rice, potatoes, turnips, &c., all r the best and in the greatest-abundan He keeps eleven head of fine-cattle which he winters on peas, tops anil' hay. From these he makes the m with which he has in a few years ot verted one of the poorest farms in (ko x nee to one of the riciest- He says f -sland and -makes.it feedhi no who wor Cotton Goods for Cottn Groweu [From Montgomery, Ala., Advse . The people of the cotton - their-powerlargely to - demand for cottoa.good For seve montli of eyear - wear cotton clothes; and fy*v to adopt the custom of doing soth e would be a constant running oft } Southern mills now in operation, andar speedy use for a great many: more.It was the custom of many rich planae-.4' before the war to dress- in white esn burgs, and they looked exceeding1 neat. Suppose every farmer.dressed in osnaburgs, the amount now mRde would be an infinitesimal part of what .would be needed. When washed andN perfectly clean, no suit of clothes would look better. The mills could easily be adapted to the makig of a brand that would stand wear and washing, and i another color than white was prefred the mill could dye any shade that was wanted. [Aiken Recorder.} - The peace was broken on the banks of 4he Wando River, in Berkeleyg. 7 County, last week, and an examnpleaf brutality was given more dIsgustieg and degrading than even in.the Sullivan-Kllrain affaii- in Mississippi. It was positively sickening to read the details, as published in the Charleston papers. From the nature of thear. a rangements it was evidently quite.im possible for the Sheriff of Bykeley County to prevent .thedfight, but the question naturally arises, what' Is Governor Richardson going to do? Is ' he going to allow these men and their aiders and abettors to go unpunished? These men have acted the parts of ~ beasts, and have brought disgrace upon our State, and unless they are punished for all the law allows, the de- - cent people of the State will have cause to hang their heads is shame. English Pheasants in Georgia. [From the Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.) English pheasants flourish in Geor gi.The New York dandies who own Jekyl Island imported .127 pbessants two years -ago. Last year over 1,000 brids were raised and tbere are no.w - fully 4,000 pheasants on Jekyl Island. The imported parents of these birds cost $2 each, and they are too rich for the ordinary citizen's appetite. Kicking Against Russell. [Special to the News and Courier] -ANDEESoN, November '2.-I am re .lablyinformed that an official telegram was received to-day from Washingto, statin that the commission of .W. Ras postmaster here, will be ! withheld for investigation. The opposi tion to Russell's appointment-is very general by both Democrats and Rlepub licans, and it is said that the Rpb licans will hold a meeting to-ight in opposition to his appointment. "I find the doctors and the sages . Have differed in all climes and ages." ButlIhave found no difference- of - opinion among the female sages who ) dave used Dr. Pieree's Favorite Pre scription as a remedy for the* weak -nesses and ailments peculiar to their sex. "Favorite Prescription" is a posi tive cure for the most complicated and obetinate cases of prolapsus, weak back, "female weakness," anteversion, retro- - version, -bearing-down sensations chronic congestion, inflammation andi ulceration, inflammation, 'an and tenderness. The only reeyfor such - maladies sold under aguarantee. Par ticulars on bottle-wrapper.. All drug. - giss