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rro aw I .E W B E R RY_ _, S oP I C1 .5 0 A Y EA a ~ T-T NEWBERRY, S. C.. THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1891. -___ THE DUTCH FORK. BY DR. 0. B. MAYER, SR. NO. 2. 4 e o ~at thy<om '3 Again the cruMlad hails shall rise; Lo! as on Evan's bank stand, The past retur::-tbe presel -"es CAyooW CASTL. In history there must be many gap resultingC from contradietions or sile! among the chronicles consulted, wh:c have been bridged over by inferen a fairly drawn from established event and thus the current of narrative hi been made smoothly c-ontinuous. E it is in biography;-and. remarkably in the life and adventures of the fir white man that ever stalked throug the virgin :woodlands of the Dute Fork. I bave gathered many truthfi records which, strewed along his care: like stones in a boggy path, enable i to step from one to another withoi m- hap, and thus to present a narr tive nEo i' highly romantic, bi probably very s tly deViatitig fro the true account. I think, then, that I ma fely b gin the story of this adventu stating that he was born in Wuerte burg, among the Odenvwaid Mountains It will be seen, further on, that the rc mantic admiration of the beautiful at the novel, so -certainly manifested b3 him in his developed manhood, had it origin in the charming scenery tha surrounded the cottage in which h was born. The first out-door object that met his infant gaze were the beau tiful mountains with their acclivitie so gradual that their sides more thai half way up towards ! beir tops wer cuitivated in narrow, alternating red yellow and green strips of various pr ductions, presenting appearances ii unlike Scottish Highlanders,.whom h long after saw, with their plaid wrapped around them. I can fanc; this pioneer visitor of the Dutch For] strolling forth in his boyhood anon the valleys of the Odenwalds, follow ing the murmuring brooks invisibl under the luxuriant grAs overlappin; and concealing their channels; and can admire the eager attention he givE to the old peasants telling him of Si Hubert's chase-St. Hubert who, wit his pack of dogs, often passes throug the air over the mountain tops. "The hunter and the deer a shade," V1 zing imagination wi _his old legen 0 zinb n counting liow often they ha ea aerial chase of the weird monk. Then, no doubt, the boy would sometimes stand after dark before his cottage door, listening to the flight of.a flock of storks seeking their roost, (the true explana ion of St. Hubert's chase), and believe that he heard the phantom monk with his dogs in full bry through the air. He has grown to manhood. Hehas become a stalwart peasant, laboring in the meadows. From time to time he ha4 walked northeastward along the Bergstrasse-the great thoroughfare esignating the sharp line that divides the Odenwald Mountains on the right and from the vast valley of the Rhine on the left. On this great highway did he often look northwestward, be yond the Teufelstein in Rhine-Bavaria, far away into France, and wonder at the wide-stretching Donnersberg, dim ly defined like a misty cloud against the evening sky; or turning his eye di rectly northward have his gaze arrest ed by the conical form of the Melibo cus, forty miles away, and hard by the city of Darmstadt. Then, some Sab bath evening, after spending the morn ing in strict devotion at his church, I follow him to Ziegeihaussen on the Neckar, where he dances like a demon, and fails in love with a dozen rosy cheeked, fat-armied maidens whs shadows cast upon a wall would meas ure eight feet across by dint of the mul *tiplicity of undergarments. -But Germany was in distress. The wave after wave of war, that had for centuries been sweeping over the coun try to satisfy the whims of potentates, left little security for life, property, 0r hearthstone. Vast numbers of people were forced to become soldiers, who, during wart hired themselves to ambi tious princes, and in peace were divided iuto robber-bands who chose their cap tains, and committed depredations upon the unprotected peasants. A ru mor had reached the Odenwald region that mnana (Germans had fled from this -lawlessness to the new countries acros! the great waters. My hero was not long making up his mind. He would go and establish a home in these far-ofi lands. Now, he has left his nativ4 valley, and there he goes, working hi: -way on a timber-raft down the Neckar He enters the Rhine at Manheim; and after toiling day and night for a month he reaches Rotterdamn. His offer is ac Septed, to work his passage to Ameris on a Dutch galliott freighted with Ho] land gin. Forty days is he on the At lantic Ocean, tossed and sea-sick; and he arrives in New York. There, he finds compatriots who tell him that it a country further South, called Penn sylvania, he can find large colonies o Germans. Thither he goes. Wha strange appearances meet his gaze What vast forests! What strange look ing people inhabiting themi! He meet; with the Indians. He becomes fasci ated with their habits,-their endu rance,-their contem pt of danger. Before he left his fatherland, agent came through Wuertemburg, for th purpose of purchasing men not les tta seven feet high for the giant regi ment of Frederic Williami I, King Prussia. .My hero escaped forcib! enlistment by just eight inches. Whe: lie saw the herculean men of the forest in Pennsylvania he thought that he] ,,uld be the place for -the Kingr Prussia to procure his men. He felt twi that he would be willing to return once his more to Germany, to see five hundred eleN s--ven feet Mohawks, exasperated by the tyrannical C,ipline, tear off five bun- by dred scalps-one of them the King's- stel and go leapiug through the streets of dir Beilin, brandishing their hatchets and mi yelling war-whoops. par Among the Indians there was a Ind young chief, between whom and the the eGerman adventurer there began an in- I h timacy that grew rapidly into the by warmest friendship. T->ey were al- shc 3, ways together, sharing each others fare Mil L and lodging. At last they betook cro themselves to wandering far from their dov 0 h;mes, and were sometimes absent for tra t weks. In one of these expeditions an the G- nian saved the life of the young sm h clief. It is impossible to conjecture Cri w! iat was the character of this rescue; but that it was signal is proved by the cou 0u in:ense friendship which not only the pr a tribe to which the young chief belonged, we 0e - but all the adjoining tribes or encamp- th t ments, manifested to the strange whIte an r m..n. The danger- from which the th! young chief was rescued was so great, mi e- that his father would not permit him the e,e Saga AQ of w oigrthan one day. But this con fined life did not suit the adventurous squi - spirit of the German. He made known and to the extensive colony of his compatri- the ots, that he would take his dog and Pas gun, and wander towards the South,- to t t having heard that there was some- and where in that direction a colony of P' 5 white people, among whom were some wo - Germans; and that the name of the top 3 colony was Georgia. imoc I When the Indians became aware of the this determination on the part of their to white friend, a conversation not unlike whi the fo:!cwing must have ensued be- to t"rer. !im and the old chief. Const CO e quences resulting from such a conver- righ s sation did certainly take place, as will Wh ' soon appear. fatb a "Wid left ear to sunrise and right ear on 9 tosunset you go long way?" asked the Rh old chief. tho e "Yes," replied the German," I go hin South." as t I "You big fool," rejoined the chief. con ' "What go for?," moi L The object of ihe journey was ex- and h plained; and after it was very plain Ne that no dissuasion would be of any the avail, the Indian re.umed: wa "If you go sure, den wait ten day." strL h "Why-must I wait ten days?" in- par bo: - quired the white man. br .-You see, may be, in two day, after the as h e yo-i "e," was the reply. -by The adve r r remained among his ing countrymen and h dian friends ful- Hu ly two weeks longer, and i he set neN out on his solitaryjourney. That da I bl departure caused throughout the colony t deep sadness to which, no doubt, many Tb a maiden gave her contribution of a mou tear; and there was one, I must think, surr who many and many a day sighed and was 9 sobbed as she sat at the buzzing he se spinniug wheel, and drew out and caus twisted the woolen or the fiaxen thread. land Many se- .ments of European peo- retux pie lay along his way, but he avoided knox them and sought out the Indians. The be II mystery of the "ten days'' was, as the of s old chief pr'odieted, explained on the him, second day of his journey. He must the r ave been a man of very remarkable the I appearance. I have a child's recollec- tain tiou of two'of his sons, in their old age, dim whom I frequently saw, sixty years the ago. They were singularly tall, gaunt, no ti broad-shouldered, long armed men, seen with features ex pressive of much kind- smeeO ness, combined ,vith obstinacy of pur- thro pose. Their father, the pioneer, must persi have had some prominent traits, by a spni description of which he could be easily yielc recognized; for the first Indians he en- eacb countered, which was on the second dipp day after his departure, ran forward to Suel meet him, as if they had been expect- cami ing himi; and they showed him their abot willigness to serve him in every possi- was ble way. It was easily perceived that the old chief had requested him to tarry yet ten days, so that he could S send messengers before him, to secure be for him everywhere kind reception and ms service. Trhis message preceded him, Hav from tribe to tribe, from encampment youx to encampment, all along his route, as aheec he experienced it, up to the day when GoIc he stood on the top of the eminence as known as Ruff's Mountaiu,-the very tor, first white mani that ever viewed the in surrounding landscape, from this ele- war: vated point, and I have no facts to guide me in follow- is a ing the pedestrian through Maryland,i Virginia, and North Carolina. When B he entered South Carolina he followed T Broad River on its eastern bank, under the guidance of Catawba Indians. Many years ago--not less than forty-- 0 I visited a friend near the small village a fa of Monticello, in Fairfield. The site of' in 1( t.at gentleman's residence was a very two high ridge, and his back piazza com- attr manded an extensive view towards nev -the southwest. I looked from a win- bec~ I dow in the second story across the mer Svalley of Broad River, and saw Ruff's The iMountain more than twenty miles age -away. The line of- the horizon formed by I f by piney woods was as level as thie d~or t ocean, and in the center of the viewT !the little eminences constituting Ruff's -Mountain gently broke the continuity s jof this horizon, and were condensed by A -distance into a delicacy of outline as nea - pleasing as the tracery of the third evening's new moon -uxpon the sunset he s sky. I do not think that a stranger,an e one undred and forty years ago, couldap s have travelled along the highland uponti i,.which Monticello stands to-day, with. if out catching a sight of what is now T e known as Ruff's Mountain. I can tim a figure to myself my wanderer pausing cor' s upon this ridge with his Catawbaguide, Q e and gazing towards the blue eminences, the f Afte a moment he smites 'himself $ ee or thrice upon :iis breast with open hand, points to the distant rations, and, in his inability to speak Catawba dialect, makes a gesture .hro.ing fo-ward both- hands and ping firmly one step in the same -ction, to intimate by such panto ne that he desired to reach that t of the country. I can hear the ian grunt his acquiescense; and y start off. t is said they crossed Broad River stepping from rock to rock in the als at the place where now is Frost's Is. They became satisfied after ;sing, that they had gone too far rn the river. They therefore rr ed their steps on the western bank, 11 they came to the mouth of the l stream, at this time known as M's creek, near which the town of k is now situated. Here they en ntered an incampment of Indiarq bably Cherokees-by whom they re instructed to follow the stream on bank of which they were standing, I taking every left-hand branch, the rd one would lead them within a te of the desired point. So they take ir way along this. legsant vater ---Z n munder heavy festoons ild grapevines,-watching the gray rrels skipping along the branches, the spotted fawns flitting among trunks of the c,untless tress. They through the very heart of what is ie the Dutch Fork in_ after days, at short distances the wanderer es, to admire the- beauties of the ds. The sun is now near the of the trees westwardly, and the in nearly full is appearing above forest towards the east. Suddenly, he surprise -of the Indians, the te man halts,-turns around, so as ok 'bac upon the course he has e,-and gazes alternately upon the t hand and then upon the left. at does he he see? He sees his erland;- the Odenwald Mountains iis right hand, and the valley of the re on his left. Truly is it so, igh in miniature. There, before were the gentle hills, known now, he Stone Hills of Lexingtou, that Id not fail to remind him of the intains among which he was born; stretching away into what is now vberry were fiat lands that rec illed valley of the Rhine. So impressed he with the resemblance, that he ick his camp tnere for the night, hed his Indian corn grains, and iled the savory venison. Deep in night, he was aroused from sleep unearthly shrieks and wild halloo in the air; and he tho.ught that St. bert had been following him to his country. It was the flight of the e cranes (herons) from the Saluda to 1 hees Shoals, in Broad River. Sne,ft dy, f the fun itain, ascended it, and viewed the g unding country. At nightfall, he b Lgain at his camp. That spot.did s< lect for his permanent home, be- t; it so forcibly brought his father- s, to his remembrance. He soon 1F ned to Pennsylania, and made y in his discoverj; and it will soon t y pleasing task to make mention ia >me of the many who followed t -among whom, no doubt, was y aaiden that sighed and sobbed at a pinning wheel. My friend, Cap- t George Epting, can point out his i grave, a few hundred yards down '] streama from his old mill, though ace of any dwelling house can be e at this day. It has not been long s I and my friend nade our way t igh brambles to the crumbling t mmon tree, at the foot of which the j g g'of the daring first settlers still t ss good water, of which we took c a memorial sup by means of ai r improvised withi a poplar leaf. II was the first white man that everc Sto the Dutch Fork. It was a it the year 1735-40; and his namei OHN ADAM SUMMER. no Nat,ure is a Good Book.keeper. ee don't let us stay long in her debt eewe settle for what we owe her. gives us a few years' grace at-the , but the reckoning surely comes. e you neglected a cough or allowed blood to grow impure without ig the warnings? Be wise in time, get the world-famed Dr. Pierce's Len Medical.Discovery, which cures eli as promist s. As a blood-ren'ovs 1 a. lung-healer, and a cure for scrofu taints, it towers above all others, lympus overtops a mole-hill. To -ant a commodity is to be honorable above deception, and a guarantee symbol of ionest dealinog. You get .th every bottle of the "Discovery." rhyy Some arriages Are Faiuares. [From the Somerville Journal. 2e reason why marrir-i is so often lure is that the avei sg man falls ve with a woman because she has or three of the qualities which he ibutes to the ideal woman, and er gets over blaming her afterward .use she doesn't have the rest. Wo dodn't make any such mistake. y don't expect to find in the aver man any of the quzalities possessed heir ide'al, an<d they are very sel Sdisa. .tedi. Liree Years Eenses for a Quarter. rom the Front Royal Gazette.] ustin Daily, a rich farmer, residing r Humbolt, Tenn., asserts that he Spet?ieisii threyearfsshn >egan to get a "start" in the world,I that cents of $hat was spent for 'cket comb. Mr. Baily is now es. ated to be worth at least $100,000. he value of a remedy should be es ated by its curative properties. Ac ling to this standard, Ayer's Sarsa ia is the best and .most economical )d medicine in the market, because most pure and concentrated. Price Worth a bottle. ASYLUMI INVESTIGATION'. Dr. Griffn RepUes to the Charges of th, Committee-He Alleges Bad Faith on its rart. CoLUMBIA, April 29.-The reply o Dr. Griffin to the committee of inquir; had been submitted to the board of re gents of the Lunatic Asylum and copy was sent to the News and Courie bureau this evening. Dr. Griffin begins by stating the con ditions under which the testimon: concerning him was taken, as follows The committee sat with closed door in the rooms of the board at the Asy lum. Of their proceedings I had n knowledge at that time, except fron the fact that most, if not all, of the offl cers and attendants, some of the po tients and a few former employees wer examined on oath. During the exam nation I was called before the commil tee. No statement of any matter c complaint was made to me, and m, explanations were directed to nattsm as to which the committee chose t) ir terrogate me. From these questions was authorized to infer...t.hat charge 1.eCre ,VSf6plarid~against mr7*adw_i stration, and I then protested that f any charges are to be made I ould like to have specifications. To his the Governor replied in these ;vords, quoted from the stenographer's -eport: "The committee would say here that issoon as the testimony has been taken Fou can cross-examine witnesses on Iy points you desire. We do not care to have any feeling displayed in the investigation. We are simply to in guire into the condition of the institu tion, and we shall give you or anyone else an opportunity to show that wit nesses have or have not been telling the truth." To this most satisfactory assurance I answered: "I could not possibly ask for anything more." The investigation was concluded without notice to me and without op portunity to cross-examine witnesse who had or bad not been telling the truth. The testimony during the examina tion was not submitted to me. Noi was there any information given me o: any matter of censure developed dur ing the investigation. Instead of thi. on a purely ex-parte inquisition I an arraigned by the committee in their re port to the Governor upon most seriou. charges of negligence, misfeasance an< incapacity in the conduct of my ofile affecting me personally as weK as pro fessionally and officially. These charge bear the date of the day when the ex amination of witnesses was concluded The board d,> not need to be in forme< that a copy oe the testimony takei mnotm beei iven to me, but that I have from the Dard, through their courtesy, access to >me e.,, Ay pages of manuscript con ining portione of the testimony of me of these witnesses such as the ,gislative committee chose to select, !hile, as I am informed, the large r por on of the testimlony taken during the ivestigation hias not been'furnished to ae board, including whatever evidence may have been given by any of the ritnesses tending to exculpate me from hese charges. This meagre amount of aformation was not availab:e to me till 'uesday last, the 21st instant. This statement is submitted without omment. I have fault to find, and rish to express through the board to be committee of investigation and to e Governor all due deference, but I ave the inherent right to say that jus Ice has been denied me. I am con emned without the opportunity of lea and defence and without semb ance of trial, without knowledge of harges and specifications preferred gains.t me, without place for confront og the accusing witnesses, and with aut right of testimony in my behalf. Jder such singular and .untoward onditions I can have no adequate an wer to submit to the board save that fa general denial, and my demand for fair and impartial investigation of he charges according to the approved orms of trial. .VDr. Griffin states that in the manage nent of the institution he followed the nodern doctrine of non-restraint, and me quotes Dr. Hammond's treatise on sanity, in which are described the nethods of Pinel and Connelly, giving eory and practice of non-restraint, mnd also the practice In the more im sortant nstitutions in this country md Europe. The principle on which Dr. Griffin lays stress is this, from Dr. Eammond: "Restraint is never necessary to se ure the lives or the comfort of others, Ld when used it should be with all he safeguards against abuse which sound policy and humanity dictate." The next part of the paper deals with the system of caring for the patients, th number of attendants, duties of the physicians, etc. Replying to specific points Dr. Griffin says: The killing of Dr. IKershaw by an ather patient named Denare was deplo rable. Denaro was permitted by an attendant, contrary to orders, to wan der from his ward to another, and while the attendant of the other ward was in the presence and within touch of Dr. E~ershaw Penaro suddenly struck his victim, I'erhaps the-utmost Sof Dr. E(ershaw's attendant1 could not have avertn e i?a uen Certainly the smperintendent could not provide provide against it unless the rules and regulations presoribed by the board had been abrogated and th4 method of treatment changed to thai of close and mechanical custody of~ all patients liable to fitful, dangerous Speaking of Milne he says: "In this instance my desireto reduce discipline to the minimum of restraint * may have caused me to err. In rela tion to every patient this discretion must be exercised, and I submit that fIit is cause of congratulation that in a r population of about nine hundred per sons so few errors of this kind occurred. I repeat that I was not informed of r Milne's having this key until after the assault on the attendant, and when in formed I caused it to be taken from him. To my great regret I have deem ed it my duty to subject the patient to a close custody, which renders his case almost hopeless to cure." Dr. Griffiu says he visited the wards and made inspections at intervals and . at times to the best of his judgment. . he also says, speaking of the culinary department, that an inspection was . made in 1889 by a committee of which . Senator Hemphill was chairman, and f that the committee exonorated that department from adverse charges. s Speaking of keeping patients at the - Asylunbwho should not be there, Dr. Griffin says: "To this abuse of the public charity - the superintendent and the board of ;gents have regulary asked the atten tion f the Legislature. Under the laws the vil is beyond our power to remedy. Thi 9 ss abuse of a most magnificent charity t referred to by the legislative committee, .thougt evidently under the impression that f the fault is with the officers of the- s Asylum, the defendants who were ex- ( amined before the committee made fre- 0 quent reference to it." ( The state ment of Dr. Corbett is very I brief, touching only the subject of ill- a treatment of patients. He states that whenever there have been instances of cruelty the attendants were discharged. v Dr. Thomson makes the reply for the I recent case of suicide. He says: "As far as I can judge the only com plaint which might reflect on me is t that the attendants were not instructed t at the time she wa3 admitted of the j suicidal tendency of the mind of the patient who recently killed he'rself. She was admitted on the 24th of Jan nary, 1891, and was then too feeble to attempt to commit suicide. Hence we i did not instruct the attendants as to 1 the matter. She was immediately put I on treatment, and ir the course of three or four weeks had improved a great deal, both physically and mentally. About this time she expressed a wish to be changed, as she wanted to go in a ward where the patients took the meals in their own wards, asigoing to the general mess hall made her nervous, and she would rather avoid a crowd, especially as they were noisy and bois terous at times. She was removed to the old. building and put in a quiet ward, as she was when in the new %uilding. She remained here until she committed suici ' Dr. 0. Thompson says that e . 'id not know that Milne had a key to the m female department until after the row tbn with McCowell. di The following is the letter of trans- til mittal to Governor Tillman: A "To his Excellency B. R. Tillman, in Governor of South Carolina: In giving te the defence of Dr. Griffin and his assis- as tants to the world we feel it due to y them, to ourselves and to the State at sa large, whose servants we are, to say hI that in a constant official intercourse fi with him of ten years we have always y, found him a polished and refined gen- v< teman, an accomplished and skilful lo physician, a kind, humane and atten- B tive superintendent, and and officer at ol all times ready and apparently anxious ti to do his entire duty as conceived by T him. Accidents may have occurred, ri but as to the general management of (G this institution by him we confidently G3 challenge a comparison with the re- u cords of any insane asylum in any State p of the Union. By order of the board. "B. WV. TAYLOR, President." ti THlE ALLIANCE PLAN OF CAMP1AIGN, 0 An Army of Thirty-Five Thousand Lec 0 turers to Take the Field and Plead h for the Cause. h e NEW YoR1g, April 29.-President a Poik, of the Farmers' Alliance, hasjust t< issued a proclamation to the order, in a which he-sets forth the plan of cam- b paign which the National Executive h Board has adopted, and counsels the l1 suballiances to cease internal bicker- o ings and to get rid of disloyal mem bers. -. The plan of campaign consists of lec- d tures, by which an army of 3.5,000 lec- a turers will plead for the cause. It is o also stated in the proclamation that r arrargements are being made for the holding of two or more grand Alliane mass meetings in each of the Alliance States during the year, or as many .4 more as the brotherhood may desire. An Armny Offeer fQr the F. M. T.* ( [Special to the State.]) ANDERSON, April 30.-Col. John B. 2 Patrick received information from the a War Department to-day that Second 1 Lieutenant. Donaldson, Seventh Cjay- t aIry, U. S. A., had been detailed as professor of military science and tactics for Patrick M'ilitary Institute, Ander A Lady of $8 Swears O1r. A lady in Islesboro, 88 years old, who had used tobacco all her life, has dis carded the weed this winter. "Ayer's Hair Vigor is a most excel lent preparation for the hair. I speak of it from experience. Its use promotes the growth of new nair, and makes it glossy and soft. The Vio'or is a sure cure for dandruff.-.1. W. ?fowen, Edi- I tor Enguirer, McArthur, Ohio. LIEUT. TOTTEN AND THI! 31ILLE'N Xlux. Curious Calcrlations in Chronology Vased Urn the Scriptures. N%w HAvEN, April 14.-The wide spread excitement of the North Ameri can Indians a few months ago over the expected coming of a Messiah for their I race by a curious coincidence had fol- < lowed closely upon a marked revival of - the discussion of the millennial doc- i trine in various parts of the country. I Now we have an interesting contribu- ] tion to the subject in the calculation o just made by Lieut. Charles A. L. Tot- i ten, Fourth Artillery, which fixes the date of the Second Advent for March, 1899. Lieut. Totten, who is detailed as professor of-military science and tactics at the Sheffield Scientiflc School of Yale University, has for several years made remarkable applicatio2s of math ematical s-ience to the Scriptures. Recently be fixed upon the exact date when Joshua commanded the sun to stand still; and be has also made curi ous calculations to show that the fun damental dimensions of the Great Pyraraid are fpataid on distances in the solarmycsem, and employed the inch un,of m&ear,ra knows to our En glish sterm of long meas . He has furtbade studies to show hat Anericans are the lost tribeft" - . It is not'impossible that - , one :rm or another, there ay be a con iderable revival of millenarianism. )ne of the last noteworthy agitations s( f the subject was that of Dr. John d umming, who had fixed the begin f, ing of the millenunial period for about , quarter of a century ago. But a quar- h er of a century before that a far more videspread and famous excitement vas caused in the United States by b Villiam Miller, who bad predicted the econd Advent for 1843. But more or a ess important predictions and agita- T ions can be found during many cen uries. The grades of belief on the sub ect have varied from that of an ap )roaching destruction of the world at a ixed hour to that of a coming in of the b olden Age without any physical rash. In various countries there have een sects that have held from time to ime that the millennium had already . egun, and that they were enjoying its c M t] )pening years. Perhaps the greatest eriod of modern millenarianism was :he one between 1600 and 180, but luring the first and second centuries t was a very generally accepted tenet. C raking together the Book of Daniel d the Revelations, the endeavor to and in curreit evente the fulfillment, yr a tendency to fulfillment, of the prophecies there made, was then almost aniversal. The last decade of years of the pres ent century, on which we have now entered, is likely to turn speculation anew in this direction; and presumably the twentieth century will see it still are - and gaining in intensity as e year 2000 , roaches. A learned vine os the Dominio - has for some ne fixed upon that date for t .Second vent, arguing that the greates crises human history have occurred ' rvals of 2,000 years from the creation, suming this last to be about 4,000 ~ ars before the Christian era. Thep me date has been fixed by those who co. ld that the s.a days of creation signi d or typified six periods, of 1,003 h nrs eacb, in the world's history, de- w ted to toil and endurance, to be fol- n wed. by a seventh of blissful rest. ut what is most singular is the variety W texts and calculations adopted by co towho deal with this subject, Lieut. re* ch tten, for example, finding all thec aterial he needs in a chapter of the PE ospel of St. Luke and anot'hier of the E ospel of St. Matthew, without resting be pneApocalypse or the earlier b rophets. The expectation that the last day of e world would come in the year 1000 . D. was widespread, as zhe history that perion shows. Thi approach the year 2000 is likely enough to see istory repeating itself in that particu r. The millenarian doctrine, how- st: ver, is obviously quite distinct from ny such foreboding, since by its very bi arms it gives the world another thous- he ad years of existence, and under far it appier conditions than any it has ever C< nown. Lieut. Tfotterf if he is correct reported, does not look for the end b f the world sooner than a million e ears; and in any case the conception a f a millennium, assuming, as it is not t ifficult to do, that the period is not [ready running, is not to be con funded rith that'of those who look for theC ear approach of the world's end. ti AGAINST TIME. .Canadian Pacige Train Racing Across the Continent. WINEPEG, MAN., April 30.-The ti sanadian Pacific flyer, which is racing A cross the continent, passed here at 11 at . m. General Manager Van Horn re nd party are on board. The train si las averaged thirty miles an hour from ri be Pacific coast to this point, which IF s remarkable time, when the beavy a rades crossing the mountains are con idered.J The train is racing to catch the En. ish mail steamer, which leaves New fork on Saturday night. On the level 'requent. From Brandon to Winni >eg the 133 miles were covered in two iors and a half. Sing Hi in the Bight Place. [From the Boston Herald.] -A Chinaman named Sing Hi has aken the position of tenor in .a Dor- n :h ester choir. HUSTLIN'G OUTWUZ ~ aia's Cruel and Suicidal Policy of Ex pulsion- Meartleos Treatment by the Ruslan Felice. ODESSA, April 2S.-Eight hundred kewish families have been ordered to 9 luit Kieff forthwith. The well-to-do i ave already gone, but the poorer I lasses are in the greatest straits. ManyI ire arriving on the Austrian frontier n a destitute conditin, but the Aus :rian officials refuse to domicile the paupers. The Kieff police accept no mecuse, raiding the city with the ut -nost severity unless bribed to delay iction. The daily expulsion for Mos yow numbers from 100 to 1.50. On Sun lay an exceptional raid was made, when 690 were expelled. The rigor of the authorities frightens iway many entitled to permanent resi lence. The effect is felt even in this ity, which is the great centre for Jews wiLh permits to engage in business. rhe emigration of Jews from this city has quadrupled. Permits guaranteed by the minister of foreign affairs, min ster of finance and minister of interior, ny one of whom has power to quash hbeir tenure, are the considered of pre 2arious value, and the principals of large Jewish firms are placing their business in the hands of Russian agents 1i nre themselves departing. SEEKING A NIwAXNAN. LoNDON, April 28.-The Pall Mai azette givez great prominence to a heme which is said to have been rafted in order to transport Hebrews q om Poland and from the southeast of urope to an immense tract of unin abited land in Australia or Brazil. aron Hirsch is credited with having riginated this idea, and he is said to T ave had a long conference in Paris .st week with a number of the most ble advisers in charitable matters. he Baron, according *to the report, s< ien decided to give$15,000,000 himself k ith which to start the project. I Full details as to the plan for whole- e de Hebrew immigration are not given, g ut it is understood that Baron Hirsch s4 ,i be supported in this undertaking t y other opulent Hebrews. It is ex- h ected, for instance, that the Roths- g bilds will contribute even more largely fi an Baron Hirsch to this scheme 'he adoption of this plan, it is asserted, S greatly due to the fact that the a nited States are closing their ports to i estitute persons. The Pall Mall Gazette adds: t "This dec'sion comes at an opportune N ime for England, for the new United tates legislation against immigration f destitute aliens might result in con- i erting the United Kingdom into a 1 lumping ground for all the Hebrew efugee of Europe. They arrive here 8 lready at the rate of 18,000 annually." Successful Skin Grafting. READING, Pa., April 2;5.-A pract'cal pplication of the surgical process mown as skin grafting has -just been nade in this city by Dr. John Ege, the hysician who achieved so much celeb - y by the recent skin-graftingeXPpr 'in which he succeeded in trans - bnt white skin on the arm of a ei an and black skin on the legi a whit - n demonstiated that transplanted hi rite skin spreads and becories domi nt, wile the black does inot, and nee deduced the conclus:on that ie must have been the original i or of mankind. Ten days ago he di- 'r( ed his operations in a moreasefuil annel by transplanting thirtseen A ces of skin taken from the legfa idie Kramer, to the foot of Harry' ramer, a younger brother who bad . en frightfully scalded in an accident. ei4 re surface has already healed. A Bowvine Monstrosity. . _ of [Special to the State.] O SMTER, S. C-, May 1--Mr. T. M. oC is, of Silver Station, Clarendon th >unty, has in his possession a mon rosity in the shape of a calf with two ird rfectly formed heads and necks, two Ok bones and tails, but with but one gi dy and one set of legs. He bought ci as a curiosity from a negro naed iW >peland, vho lives in this county and ~ ear Silver. The calf was born dead, t it Mr. Minis had it carefully skinned. er uffed and mnoonted, and it now look.. us most as natural as life. He states ce tat the calf had two throats, which tt ad into but one stomach. He thinks p 'taking it to Columbia during the entenpial and placing it on exhibi- d n ba The Log Cabin Grant Built. r St. Louis, April 2.-The historic old w g cabin in St. Louis county which v< re late President U. S. Grant erected al ihhis own hands and with logs cut P id hewn by himself, is about to be o: moved from its presen. site, and n< iipped to Cicago, where it will be fi e.erected for exhibition at the World's tl air. The cabin now stands on a thirty ree tract of land, about ten miles south ee of this city and five miles west of" effersonl Barracks. Mrs. Spriggin's OPinion. "This Italian e is very serious. I tayor Shakespeare must feel rather a isturbed," said Mr. Spriggins. it '-es, I should think so," returned [rs. Spriggins. "He'd better give up n 'ritin' plays and tend to business." b The Editor Entertained, a ITexarkana Call.) ii We had a buttermilk supper lact g igh und.r the roof of one of our lead ig citizens ?roperty Covernz Twet.y Acres of Gro Burned-Losses AggregatingA Quarter of a MiUlon. CHATT'ANOOGA, TENN., April 2 ie, wbich started at 2 o'clock norning in Camphel & Co.'s furnif actory on Kingstreet, raged fourhours md destroyed property covering twenty -. tres of ground and valued^at $250,000 ! >f which there is a total insurance o r150,000. The losses, as nearly as can now be stimated, are as follows: East Tennes see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Dompany, on depot with contents, and afty loaded cars and twenty-five empy ,reight cars, $125,000; Campbell & Co 25,000; G. G. Lilly's new uoccnpe alock, $10,000; Peck's warehouse, $15 )00; other small buildings, $20,000. T.e ewly erected Mountain City fiouring mill, valued at $2().000 was bareW ;aved. During the fire s,verat carloads o reworks and other coribustibles ex ploded, terrifying the spectators and those working to stay the flames. The fre department has only three engines nd could do but little efective worki specially as a second Ifire occurred while thefirst one was stAl in prog The secondibIaze&t4Ld_a few tages on East Montgome t __ loss of $2e,000. : nzens o ized volunteerig_mades and-helped th reimeir-f1tttle with the flames. I tuded in the property destroyed was uantity of lumber near the depot art of the contents of the Morriso ,umber Company 7yard. OLD HUTCH MISSING. he Famous Chicago Wheat Specu Believed to be Demented. CHICAGo, April 29.-B. P. Hutchi. n, the veteran wheat speculator, nown the country over as "Ol [uteb," has been missing. since. la vening, at which time he bid a friend od-bye and said he would neverb' en again. He has many heavy ope ades, and the many rumors circulat i regard to his disappearance hav reatly disturbed the market. H,s imily say he is demented. Hutchinson's liabilities are placed 2,000,000 to $3,000,000 but his friends e %tisfied that his assets will more 2eet his obligations. He purchased a ticlOt last he South, and is suposed t ray to Florida. "oL1)HUTcH" A- -Y EvASVILLE, IND., May - nson of Chicago has been found lie iy the police. LATER.-B. P. Hutchinson, the ing Boaid of Trade man of Chi s now in the custody of the che )lice who is awaiting instru rom young Hutchinson to whoz mh nessage has been sent to Chicago ['he old man was walking aimless bout the streets when arrested, andM ippears to be entirely unbalanced IuiC als mind. OLD HUTCH'S WHEREABOUTS. TERRE H AUTE, IND., May 2.-.P ntchinson was located this m t the Exchange Hotel, where he'wa oined by a Chicago detective who hah -hr and tructions t stay wi r home if possible. HICAGo, May 2.-"Old Hutch" ed here from Terre Haute this eve: g He declined to be interviewes. - EXPLORE TH E EARTH'S SURFC> Well to Be Sanic as Far as Entnan SaItJ/ Can Penetrate. WHEELING, WV. VA., April 24. -Aj ht inch well which is being ok arthisity by the Wheeling Tmpo ent Company in a search for oi1o! s has reached, after several mnontbs boring, a depth of 4,100 feet. Bt L and gas have been struck through it in paying quantities. It has gone rough several thiek veins of coal and is traversed layers of gold .quartz, mn and numerous other minerals.~ Professor J. C. White, State G3eoIo-d st, who has watched the drilling nsely, has succeeded in getting the >vernmet interested Iin it. Ther lIt is that after the well has bieen ink to tbe depthb of one mile the gov nment will taike up the- work, and ider the direction of two expert 0em rs of the Geologrical Survey drill into ie earth as far as human skillca metrate. The temperatu.e an.' magnetic con tions wiil be observed as far as pose1 e, and by means of an instrumet ,structed for the purpose a complete ord of the drilling -and all discover s made will be kept. This ricaird ll be placed in the Geological Sur. ey's exhibit at the World's Fair and terwards preserved at Washington. rofessor White and the governmentt~ leers say this will be one of the rfiost r>vl and imnportant exhibits at the ,ir and will attract the attention of ie scientists of the world. The Mytholc-gical Fates. Somewh ere upon our unknown shoreg There the streams of life their waters pour, - L overs of classic paintings are a*. arrwith that famous group, called te Three Fates." Fate seemse deprives women and gir a in Dr. Pierce's Favorite on they find a cure of untold ervous~ prostration, sickh earing-downl pains, bloatin.m a oach, anteversion, retrove o,and LI those exerucisthig compl iUha ak. their lives iniserable, All whouse praise it. 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