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B?ST A LISHIE) D1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1891. PRICE $1.50 A YEAR THE DUTCH FORK BY DR. 0. B. M-AYE1, SR. No. 2. e' at thy commaw], Again the crumbled hails shall rise; L*! as on Evan's bank we stand, The past returns-the present ties. CADYOW AsrTL.. In history there must be many gap resulting from contradictions or silen< among the chronicles consulted, whic have been bridged over by inferenc( tairly drawn from established event! and thus the current of narrative hs been made smoothly continuous. : it is in biography;-and remarkablys in the life and adventures of tbe f1r. white man that ever stalked throug the virgin ;woodlands of the Dutc Fork. I have gathered mny truthft records which, strewed along h is caree like stones in a boggy path, unable m to step from one to another withou mishap, and thus to present a narr tive not only highly romantic, bi probably very slightly deviating fror the true account. I think, then, that I may safely bt gin the story of this adventurer, b; stating that he was born in Wuertem burg, among the Odenwald Mountain It will be seen, further on, that the rc mantic admiration of the beautiful an4 the novel, so certainly manifested b; him in his developed manhood, had it origin in the charming scenery tha surrounded the cottage in wbich 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 their tops wer cultivated in narrow, alternating red yellow and green strips of various pro ductions, presenting appearances no unlike Scottish Highlanders, whom h long after saw, with their plaid: wrapped around them. I can fauc this pioneer visitor of the Dutch Forl strolling forth in his boyhood amonl the valleys of the Odenwalds, follow ing the murmuring brooks invisibl< under the luxuriant grass overlappinc and concealing their channels; and . can admire the eager attention he give. to the old peasants telling him of St Hubert's chase-St. lubert who, with his pack of dogs, often passes througl the air over the mountain tops, "The hunter and the deer a shade," impressing his young imagination with this old legendary superstition by re counting how often they had beard thi aerial chase of the weird monk. Then, no doubt, the boy would sometimei stand after dark before his cottage door, listening to the flight of a flock of stork! seeking their roost, (the true explana tion 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. He haE become a stalwart peasant, laboring ii the meadows. From time to time he has walked northeastward along thi Bergstrasse-the great thoroughfar' designating the sharp line that dividei the Odenwald Mountains on the right hand from the vast valley of the Rhin4 on the left. On this greatt highway did he often look northwestward, be. yond the Teufelstein in Rhine-Bavaria, far away into France, and wonder al the wide-stretching Donnersberg, dim lv defined like a misty cloud agains1 the evening sky; or turning his eye di reetly northward have his gaze arrest ed by the conical form of the Melibo cus, forty miles away, and hard by thi city of Darmstadt. Then, some Sab bath evening, after spending the morn ing in strict devotion at his church, follow him to Ziegelhaussen on tih Neckar, where he dances like a demon and falls in love with a dozen rosy cheeked, fat-ai-med maidens whos shadows cast upon a wall would mes ure eight feet across by dint of the mu! tiplicity of undergarments, But Germany was in distress. The wave after wave of war, that had foi -centuries been sweeping over the coun try to satisfy the whims of potentates left little security for life, property, o: hearthstone. Vast numbers of peop!~ were forced to become soliers, who - during wars hired themselves to amnbi. tious princes, and in peace were divided into robber-bands who chose their cap tains, and committed depredations upon the unprotected peasants. A ru mnor had reached the Odenwald regiom that many Germanrhad fled from this lawlessness to the new countries across the great waters. My hero was not long making up his mind. He would go and establish a home in these far-of! lands. Now, he has left his nastive valley, and there he goes, working his 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 cepted, to work his passage to Americe on a D)utch galliott freighted with Hol 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. Whal strange appearances meet his gaze \What vast fo rests! \yhat strange look ing people inhabiting thenm! He meet with the Indiaus. He becomes fasci uated with their habits,-their endu rance,- their con temn pt of danger. Before he left his fatherland, agent: came through Wu;ertemnburg, for th< purpose of purchasing men not les: thau sevenl feet high fur the giant regi muent of Frederic William !, King u Prussia. My hero escaped forcib! enlistment bjy ju eight inches. Whei he saw t he herculean men of t he forest in Pennsylvania lie thought that her, Prussia to procure his men. He fel that he would be willing to return onc more to Germany, to see five bundred seven feet Mohawks, exasperated by tyrannical discipline, tear off five hun dred scalps-one of them the King's and go leaping through the streets of Berlin, brandishing their hatchets and yelling war-whoops. Among the Indians there was a young chief, between whim and the e German adventurer there began an in timacy that grew rapidly into the warmest friendship. They were al. ways together, sharing each others fare and lodging. At last_ they betook 0 themselves to wandering far from their 0i1 homes, and were sometiazs absent for weeks. In one of th6se expeditions the G, rmai saved the life of the young chief. It is impossible to conjecture what was the character of this rescue; r but that it was signal is proved by the e intense friendship which not only the t tribe to which the young chief belonged, but all the adjoining tribes or encamp t ments, manifested to the strange whIte uan. The danger from which the young chief was rescued was so great, that his father would not -perwit him F again to absent himself from his tent, longer than one day. But this con fined life did not suit the adventurous spirit of the German. He made known to the extensive colony of his compatri ots, that he would take his dog and gun, and wander towards the South, t having heard that there was some D where in that direction a colony of white people, among whom were some - Germans; and that the name of the 5 colony was Georgia. When the Indians became aware of this determination on the part of their white friend, a conversation not unlike the following must have ensued be tween hit nd the old chief. Conse quences resulting from such a conver sation did certainly take place, as will soon appear. "Wid left ear to sunrise and right ear tosunset you go long way?" asked the old chief. "Yes," replied the German," I go South." "You big fool," rejoined the chief. "What go for?" The object of the journey was ex plained; and after it was very plain that no dissuasion would be of any avail, the Indian re-umed: "If you go sure, den wait ten day." "Why must I wait ten days?" in quired the white man "You see, may be, in two day, after you gone," was the reply. The adventurer remained among his countrymen and his Indian friends ful ly two weeks longer, and then be set out on his solitary journey. That day of departure caused throughout the colony deep sadness to which, no doubt, many a maiden gave her contribution of a tear; and there was one, I must think, who many and many a day sighed and sobbed as she sat at the buzzing spinning wheel, and drew out and twisted the woolen or the flaxen thread. Many settlements of European peo pie lay along his way, hut he avoided them and sought out the Indians. The mystery of the "ten days" was, as the old chief predicted, explained on the second day of his journey, . e'ust have been a man of very remarkable appearance. I have a child's recollec tion of two of his sons, in their old age, whom I frequently saw, sixty years ago. They were singularly tall, gaunt, broad-shouldered, long armed men, with features expressive of much kind ness, combined with obstinacy of pur pose. Their father, the pioneer, must have had some p)rom1inent traits, by a description of which be could be easily recognized; for the first Indians he en countered, which wvas on the second day after his departure, ran forward to meet him, as if they had been expect ing him; and they showed him their willingness to serve him in every possi. ble way. It was easily perceived that the old chief had requested him to tarry yet ten days, so that he could send messengers be:fore him, to secure for him everywhere kind reception and service, This message preceded him, from tribe to tribe, from encampment to encampment, all along his route, as he experienced it, up to the day when he stood on the top of the eminence knowvn as Ruff's Mountain,-the very first white man that ever viewed the surrounding landscape, from this ele vated point. I have no facts to guide me in follow ing the pedestrian through Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. When he entered South Carolina he followved Broad River on its eastPrn bank, under the guidance of Gatawba Indians. Many years ago-not less than forty I visited a friend near the smnal! village o Monticello, in Fairfield. The site of that gentleman's residence was a v-ery high ridge, and his back piazza com manded an extensive view towards the southwest. I looked from a win dow in the second story across the valley of Broad River, and saw Ruff's Mountain more than twenty miles away. The line of the horizon formed by piney woods was as level as the ocean, and in the center of the view Ithe little eminences constituting Ruff's Mountain gently broke the continuity of this horizon,'and were condensed by distance into a delicacy of outline as pleasing as the tracery of the third evening's new moon upon the sunset sky. I do not think that a stranger, one hundred and forty years ago, could have travelled along the highland upon which Monticello stands to-day, with fout catching a sight of what is now known as Ruff's Mountain, I can figure to myself my wanderer pausing upon this ridge with his Catawba guide, Sjand gazing towards the blue eminences. f Af.e a mommet he smites himself twice or thrice upon his breast with his open hand, points to the distant elevations, and, in his inability to speak the Catawba dialect, makes a gesture by thro.ving forward both hands and stepping firmly one step in the same direction, to intimate by such panto mime that he desired to reach that part of the country. I can hear the Indian grunt his acquiescense; and they start off. It is said they crossed Broad River by stepping from rock to rock in- the shoals at the place where now is Frost's Mills. They became satisfied after crossing, that they had gone too far down the river. They therefore rv traced their steps on the western bank, until they came to the mouth of the small stream, at. this time known as Crim's creek, near which the town of Peak is now situated. Here they en countered an incampmen t of Indians probably Cherokees-by whom they were instructed to follow the stream on the bank of which they were standing, and taking every left-hand branch, the third one would lead them within a mile of the desired point. So they take their way along this pleasant water course,-ereeping under heavy festoons of wild grapevines,-watching the gray squirrels skipping along the branches, and the spotted fawns flitting among the trunks of the countless tress. They pass through the very heart of what is to be the Dutch Fork in after days, and at short distances the wanderer pauses, to admire the beauties of the woods. The sun is now near the tops of the trees westwardly, and the moon nearly full is appearing above the forest towards the east. Suddenly, to the surprise of the Indians, the white man halts,-turns around, so as to look bac c upon the course he has come,-and gazes alternately upon the right hand and then upon the left. What does he he see? He sees his fatherland;- the Odenwald Mountains on his right hand, and the valley of the Rhine on his left. Truly is it so, though in miniature. There, before him were the gentle hills, known now, as the Stone Hills of Lexington, that could not fail to remind him of the mountains among which he was born; and stretchig away into what is now Newberry were flat lands that recalled the valley of the Rhine. So impressed was he with the resemblance, that he struck his camp there for the night, parched his Indian corn grains, and broiled the savory venison. Deep in the night, he was aroused from sleep by ~unearthTy~shriersaUrWg aROo ingein'the air; and he thought that St. Hubert bad been following him to his new cou3try. It was the flight of the blue cranes (herons) from the Saluda to the Cohees Shoals, in Broad River. The next day, he found the little mountain, ascended it, and viewed the surrounding country. At nightfall, he was again at his camp. That spot did he select for his permanent home, be cause it so forcibly brought his father land to his remembrance. He soon returnedI to Pennsylania, and made known his discovery; and it will soon be my pleasing task to make mention of some of the many who followed hi,-among whom, no doubt, was the maiden that sighed and sobbed at the spinning wheel. My friend, Cap tain George Epting, can point out his dim grave, a few hundred yards down the stream from his old-mill, though no trace of any dwelling house can be seen at this day. It has not been long since I and my friend made our way through brambles to the crumbling persimmon tree, at the foot of which the spring of the daring first settlers still yields good water, of which we took each a memorial sup by means of a dipper Improvised with a poplar leaf. Such was the first wbite man that ever came to the Dutch Fork. It was about the year 1735-40; and his name was JOHN ApAM SUMrMER. Dame Nature Is a Good Book-keeper. She don't let us stay long in her debt before we settle for what we owe her. She gives us a few years' grace at the most, but the reckoning surely comes. Have you neglected a cough or allowed your blood to grow impure without heeding the warnings? Be wise in time, and get the world-famed Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical.Discovery, which cures as well as promist s. As a blood-renova tor, a lung-healer, and a cure for scrofu lus taints, it towers above all others, as Olympus overtops a mole-hill. To warrant a commodity is to be honorab'e and above deception, and a guarantee is a symbol of honest dealing, you get it with every bottle Qf the "Discovery." By druggists% Why So:ne Miarriages Are Falluires. [From the Somerville Journal. One reason why marriage is so often a alr sta h vrg man falls in love with a woman because she has two or three of the qualities which he attributes to the ideal woman, and never gets over blaming her afterward because she doesn't have the rest. Wo men don't make any such mistake. They don't expect to find in the aver age man any of the qualities possessed by their ideal, and they are very sel don disappointeq. _ Three tear's Expenses for a Quxarter. [From the Front Royal Gazette.] Austin Daily, a rich farmer, residing near Humbolt, Tenn., asserts that he only spent 2~5 cents in three years when he began to get a "starV" in the world, and that 15 cents of that was spent for a pocket comb. Mr. Baily is now est timated to be worth at least $100,000. The value of a remedy should be es tirated by its curative properties. Ac cording to this standard, Ayer's Sarsa parilla is the best and most economical blood medicine in the market, because he most pure and concentrated. Price a1 Worh $.s a bottle ASYLUU INVESTIGATION. Dr. Griffin Replies to the Charget of the Committee-He Anlegeos Bad Faith on ita Part. CoLUMBIA, April 29.-The reply of Dr. Griffin to the committee of inquiry had been submitted to the board of re gents of the Lunatic Asylum and a copy was sent to the News and Courier bureau this evening. Dr. Griffin begins by stating the con ditions under which the testimony concerning him was taken, as follows: The committee sat with closed doors in the rooms of the board at the Asy lum. Of their proceedings I had no knowledge at that time, except from the fact that most, if not all, of the offi cers and attendants, some of the pa tients and a few former employees were examined on oath. During the exanii nation I was called before the commit tee. No statement of any matter of complaint was made to me, and my explanations were directed to matt'rs as to which the commi!tee chose t! in terrogate me. Fron, these questions I was authorized to infer that charges were contemplated against my admin istration, and I then protested that if any charges are to be made I would like to have specifications. To this the Governor replied in these words, quoted from the stenographer's report: "The committee would say here that as soon as the testimony has been taken you can cross-examie witnesses on any points you desire. We do not care to have any feeling displayed in the investigation. We are simply to in quire 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 cou:d not possibly ask for anything more." The investigation was concluded without notice to me and without op portunity to cross-examine witnesses who had or had not been telling the truth. The testimony during the examina tion was not submitted to me. Nor was there any information given me of any matter of censure developed dur ing the investigation. Instead of this on a purely ex-parte inquisition I am arraigned by the committee in their re port to the Govdrnor upon most seriot.s charges of negligence, misfeasance and incapacity in the conduct of my office teeztmgmeri5oiIlTylastweli1 a pro fessionally and off.e Ily. These charges bear the date ot :... day when the ex amination of witnesses was concluded. The board do not need to be informed that a copy of the testimony taken before the committee has not been given to me, but that I have from the board, through their courtesy, access to some eighty pages of manuscript con taining portions of the testimony of some of these witnesses such as the legislative committee chose to select, wile, as I am informed, the larg r por tion of the testimony taken during the investigation has not been furnished to the board, including whatever evidenEe may have been given by any of the witnesses tending to exculpate me from these charges. This meagre amount of information was not available to me till Tuesday last, the 21st instant. This statement is submitted without :omment. I have fault to find, and wish to express through the board to the committee of investigation and to the Governor all due deference, but I ave the inherent right to say that jus tice has been denied me. I am con :emned without the opportunity of plea and defence and without semb lance of trial, without knowledge of ::arges and specifications preferred against me, without place for confront ing the accusing witnesses, and with out right of testimony in my behalf. Under such singular and untoward :onditions I can have no adequate an swer to submit to the board save that >f a general denial, and my demand for a fair and impartial investigation of the charges according to the approved forms of trial. .nr. Griffin states that in the manage ment of the institution he followed the modern doctrine of non-restraint, and be quotes Dr. Hammond's treatise on insanity, in which are described the methods of Pinel and Connelly, giving theory and practice of non-restraint, and also the practice izn the more im portant institutions in this country and Europe. The principle on which Dr. Griffin lays stress is this, fromi Dr. Hammond: "Restraint is never necessary to se oure the lives or the comfort of others, and when used it should be with all the .safeguards against abuse which sound policy and humanity dictate." The next part of the paper deals with th system of caring for the patients, the number of attendants, duties of the physicians, etc. Replying to specifie points Dr. Griffin says: "The killing of Dr. Kershaw by an other patient named Denaro was deplo rabl. Denaro was permitted by an attendant, contrary to orders, to wan der from his ward to anotl,er, and while the attendant of the other ward was in the presence and within touch of Dr. IEershaw Dlenaro suddenly struck his victim. Perhaps the utmost vigilance of Dr. Kershaw's attendant could not have averted the tragedy. Certainly the superintendent could not provide provide against it unless the rules and regulations presoribed by the board had been abrogated and the method of treatment changed to that of close and mechanical custody of all patients liable to fitful, dangerous moods." ekngn of Milne he says: "In this instance my desire to 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 it is cause of congratulation that in a population of about nine hundred per sons so few errors of this kind occurred. I repeat that I was not informed of 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. Griffin 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 that the committee exonorated that department from adverse charges. Speaking of keeping patients at the Asylum who should not be there, Dr. Griffin says: "To this abuse of the public charity the superintendent and the board of -regents have regulary asked the atten tion of the Legislature. Under the laws the evil is beyond our power to remedy. This gross abuse of a most magnificent charity is not referred to by the legislative committee, althougb, evidently under the impression that the fault is with the officers of the Asylum, the defendants who were ex amined before the committee made fre quent reference to it." The state ment of Dr. Corbett is very brief, touching only the subject of ill treatment of patients. He states that whenever there have been instances of cruelty the attendants were discharged. Dr. Thomson makes the reply for the recent case of suicidi. He says: "As far as I can judge the only com plaint which might reflect on me is that the attendants were not instructed at the time she was admitted of the suicidal tendency of the mind of the patient who recently killed herself. She was admitted on the 24th of Jan uary, 1891, and was then too feeble to attempt to commit suicide. Hence we did not instruct the attendants as to. the matter. She was immediately put on treatment, and in thecourseof 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 a-t rz vwn,rur, wgomUgmY me - 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 building. She remained here untilshe committed suicide." Dr. 0. Thompson says that he did not know that Milne had a key to the female department until after the row with McCowell. The following is the letter of trans mittal to Governor Tiliman: "To his Excellency B. R. Tillman, Governor of South Carolina: In giving the defence of Dr. Griffin and his assis tants to the world we feel it due to them, to ourselves and to the State at large, whose servants we are, to say] that in a constant official intercourse with him of ten years we have always found him a polished and refined gen tleman, an accomplished and skilful physician, a kind, humane and atten-] tive superintendent, and and officer at< all times .eady and apparently anxious to do his entire duty as conceived by him. Accidents may have occurred, but as to the general management of4 this institution by him we confidently challenge a comparison with the're cords of any insane asylum in any State of the Union. By order of the board. "B. WV. TAYLOR, President." riHE ALLIANCE PLAN OF CAMPA1GN, An Army of Thirty-Five Thousand Lec turers to Take the Field and Plead for the Cause. NEW YORK, April 29.-President Poik, of the Farmers' Alliance, hasjust 1 issued a proclamation to the order, in which he sets forth the plan of cam-1 paign which the National Executive] Board has adopted, and counsels the] sub-alliances to cease internal bicker. ings and to get rid of disloyal mem bers. The plan of campaign consists of leo tures, by which an army of 3.5,000 lec turers will plead for the cause. It is also stated in the proclamation that arrangements are being made for the holding of two or more grand Alliance mass meetings in each of the Alliance States during the year, or as many more as the brotherhood may desire. An Ar:ny Officer for the P. M. 4. [Special to the State.) ASDERsos, A pril 30.-Col. John B. Patrick received information from the War Department to-day that Second Lieutenant Donaldson, Seventh Cav aIry, U. S. A., had been detailed as professor of military science and tactics for Patrick Military Institute, Ander son. A Lady of $8 swears OT. [Lewiston Journal.] A lady in Xslesboiro, 88 years old, who had used tobacco all her life, has diis carded the weed this winter. "Ayer's Hair Vigor is a most excel lent preparation for thbe hair. I speak of it from experience. Its use promotes the growth of new hair, and makes it glossy and soft. The Vigor is a sure cure for dandruff.-J. WV. B3owen, Edi tor Enquirer, MeArthur. Ohio. LIEUT. TOTTEN AND THE MILLEN NIUM. Curious Calculations in Chronology Uased Upon the Scriptures. NEW 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 race by a curious coincidence had fol lowed closely upon a marked revival of the discussion of the millennial dJoc trine in various parts of the country. Now we have an interesting contribu tion to the subject in the calculation just made by Lieut. Charles A. L. Tot 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 Scientific School of Yale University, has for several years made remarkable applications of math ematical science to the Scriptures. Recently he 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 dimensioLs of the Great Pyramid are founded on distances in the solar system, and employed the incl. unitof measure knows to our En glish system of long measure. He has further made studies to show that Americans are the lost tribes of Israel. It is not impossible that now, in one form or another, there may be a con Biderable revival of millenarianism. One of the last noteworthy agitations of the subject was that of Dr. John Cumming, who had fixed the begin ning of the millennial period for about i quarter of a century ago. But a quar er of a century before that a far more widespread and famous excitement was caused in the United States by William Miller, who had predicted the econd Advent for 1843. But more or ess important predictions and agita :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 Jolden 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 >pening years. Perhaps the greatest eriod of iiodern millenarianism was he one between 1600 and 1860, but luring the first and second centuries t was a very generally accepted tenet. n e ee ati , he eavor to ind in current events the fulfillment, >r a tendency to fulfillment, of the )rophecies there made, was then almost niversal. The last decade of years of the pres nt century, on which we have now ztered, is likely to turn speculation new in this direction; and presumably he twentieth century will see it still nore rife, and gaining in intensity as he year 2000 approaches. A learned ivine os the Dominion has for some ine fixed upon that date for the Second advent, arguing that the greatest crises a human history have occurred at in ervals of 2,000 years from the creation, ssuming this last to be about 4,000 *ears before the Christian eraL. The ame date has been fixed by those who old that the six days of creation signi ied or typified six periods, of 1,003 -ears each, in the world's history, de roted to toil and end.-ance, to be fol owed by a seventh of blissful rest. lut what is most singular is the variety f texts and calculations adopted by hose who deal with this subject, Lieut. Cotten, for example, finding all the aterial he needs in a chapter of the sospel of St. Luke and another or'the sospel of St. Matthew, without resting ipon the Apocalypse or the earlier >rophets. The expectation that the last day of he world would come in the year 1000 k. D. was widespread, as the history f that perion shows. The approach >f the year 2000 is likely enough to see listory repeating itself in that particu-' ar. The millenarian doctrine, how ver, is obviously quite distinct from ny such foreboding, since by its very erms it gives the world another thous ~nd years of existence, and under far lappier conditions than aniy it has ever town. Lieut. Totten, if he is correct y reported, does not look for the end f the world sooner than a nmilliou rears; and in any case the conception >f a millennium, assumiug, as it is not lifficult to do, that the period is not dready running, is not to be confunded 'th that of those who look for the iear approach of the world's end. AGAINST TIME. L Canadian Pacific Twin lia'ira Acrosa the Continent. WINNEPEG, MAN., April 30.-The Janadian Pacific flyer, whbich is racing cross th co'ntinent, passed here at 11 . m. General Manager Van Horn mad party are on board. The train ias averaged thirty milles an hour from he Pacific coast to this point, which remarkable time, when the heavy grades crossing the mountains are con ,idered. The train is racing to catch the En. tiish mail steamer, which leaves New ork on Saturday night. On the level oad bursts of speed up to fifty miles per hour for long stretches have been 'requent. From Brandon to Winni peg the 13.3 miles were covered in t wo ours and a half. Sing Hi in the Right Place. [Froml the Bostoni Herald.] A Chinaman named Sing Hii has aken the position of t,enor in . Dor Ahes?nre hoir. HUSTLING OUT THE HEBREWS. Rupsia's Cruel and Suicidal Policy of Ex pu'Lion-- Heartiess Treatment by the Rusian Police. ODESSA, April _S.-F,ht hundred Aewish families have been ordered to quit Kieff forthwith. The well-to-do have Plready gone. but the poorer classes are in thegreateststruits. Many are arriving on the Austrian frontier in a destitute condition, but the Aus trian offlicials refuse to domicile the paupers. The Kieff police accept no excuse, ra;ding the city with the ut most severity unless bribed to delay action. The daily expulsion for Mos cow numbers from 100 to 1.50. O"n Sun day an exceptional raid was made, when C90 were expelled. The rigor of the authorities frightens away many entitled to permanent resi dence. The effect is felt even in this city, which is the great centre for Jews WiLh permits to engage in business. The emigration of Jews from this city has quadrupled. Permits guaranteed by the minister of foreign affairs, min ieter of finance and minister of interior, any one of whom has power to quash their tenure, are the considered of pre carious value, and the principals of large Jewish firms are placing their business in the bands of Russian agents and are themselves departing. SEEKING A NEW CANAAN. ,LONDov, April 28.-The Pall Mai Gazette give. great prominence to a scheme which is said to have been drafted in order to transport Hebrews from Poland and from the southeast of Europe to an immense tract of unin habited land in Australia or Brazil. Baron Hirsch is credited with having originated this idea, and he is said to have had a long conference in Paris last week with a number of the most able advisers in charitable matters. The Baron, according to the report, then decided to give $15,000,000 himself with which to start the project. Full details as to the plan for whole sale Hebrew immigration are not given, but it is understood that Baron Hirsch will be supported in this undertaking by other opulent Hebrews. It is ex. pected, for instance, that Ihe Roths childs will contribute even more largely thau Baron Hirsch to this scheme The adoption of this plan, it isasserted is greatly due to the fact that the United States are closing their ports to destitute persons. The Pall Mall Gazette adds: -niis nee-sIorremes arawopponu: time for England, for the new United States legislation against immigration of destitute aliens might result in con verting the United Kingdom into a dumping ground for all the Hebrew refugee of Europe. They arrive here already at the rate of 18,000 annually." Successful Skin Grafting. READING, Pa., A pril 25.-A pract'cal pplication of the surgical process nown as skin grafting has just been ade in this city by Dr. John Ege, the hysician who achieved so much celeh rity by the recent skin-grafting.experi ents in which he succeeded in trans lanting white skin on the arm of a olored man and black skin on the leg f a white man. In those experiments e demonstiated that transplanted hite skin spreads and becomes domi ant, wbile t be black does not, and hence deduced the conclusion that mnte must have been the original olor of mankind. Ten days ago be di rected his operations in a more useful hannel by transplanting thirteen pieces of skin taken from the leg of Eddie' Kramer, to the foot of Harry ramer, a younger brother who had been frightfully scalded in an accident. The surface has already healed. A Bovine Mionstrosity. [Special to thbe State.) SUMTER, S. C., MIay 1.-Mr. T..M. ims, of Silver Station, Clarendon ounty, has in his possession a mon strosity iu the shape of a calf with two perfectly formed heads and necks, two back bones and tails, but with but one body and one set of legs. He bought it as a curiosity from a negro namred opelnd, who lives in this county and near Silver. The calf was born dead, but Mr. Mims had it carefully skinned, stuffed and mounted, and it now looks almost as natural as life. He states that the calf had two throats, which lead into but one stomach. He thinks of taking it to Columbia during the entennial and placing it on exhibi The Log Cabin Granlt Built. St. Louis, April 27.--The historic old log cabin in St. Louis county which the late President U. S. Grant erected with his own hands and with logs cut and hewn by himself, is about to be removed from its present site, and' shipped to Chicago, wvhere it will be re-erected for exhibition at the World's Fair. The cabin now stands on a thirty acre tract of land, about ten miles south west of this city and live miles west of Jefierson Barracks. M(ra. Spriggini's Opinion. "This Italian matter is very serious. Mayor Shakespeare must feel rather disturbed," said Mr. Spriggins. *Yes, I should think so," returned Mrs. Spriggins. "He'd better give up writin' plays and tend to business." The Editor Entertaine-d. L[Texarkana Call.]. XV ha .a tutrmilk ;tumler li.t DISASTROUS FIRE IN CHATTANOOGA. Property Covering Twenty Acres ot Ground Burned-Losses Aggregating a Quarter of a M:iNon. CHATTANooGA, TiENN., April 29.-A fire, which started at 2 o'clock this morning in Campbell & Co.'s furniture factory on King street, raged four hours and detroyed property covering twenty acres of :round and valtued at $250,000 of which taere is a total insurance of -$150,000. The losses, as nearly as can now be estimated, are as follows: East Tennes see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Company, on depot with contents, and fifty loaded cars and twenty-five empty freight cars, $125,000; Campbell & Co., $25,000; G. G. Lilly's new unoccupied b!ock. $10,000; Peck's' warehouse, $15, 000; other small builditms,$20,000. The newly erected Mountain City flouring mill, valued at $200.000 was barely saved. During the fire severrJ carloads of fireworks and other combustibles ex ploded, terrifying the spectators and those working to stay the flames. The fire department has only three engines. and could do but little effective work especially as a second fire occu while the first one was still in progress. The second blaze destroyed a few cot- - tages on East Montgomery street, with a loss of $20,000. The citizens organ ized volunteer brigades and helped the 1iremen battle with the flames. In cluded in the property destroyed was-a quantity of lumber near the depot and. part of the contents of the Morrison Lumber Company's yard. OLD HUTCH MISSING. The Famous Chicago Wheat Speculator BeiLeved to be Demented. CHICAoo, April 29.-B. P. Hutchin son, the veteran wheat speculator, known the country over as "Old Hutch," has been missing sincelast evening, at which time he bid'a friend good-bye and said he would nevei be seen again. He has many heavy open trades, and the many rumors circulated in regard to his disappearance have; reatly disturbed the market. His ramily say he is demented. Hutchinson's liabilities are placed at 32,000,000 to $3,000,000 but his friends are atisfied that his assets will more than meet his obligations. He purchased a ticket last night for he Sout and is supposed to be on his "OLD HUTCH" IN INDIANA. EVANSVILLE, IND., May 1.-Hutch inson of Chicago has been found here by the police. LATER.-B. P. Hutchinson, the mis dug Boaid of Trade man of Chicago is now in the custody . of the chief of police who is awaiting instructions 'rom young Hutchinson to whom -a essage has been . sent to Chicago. [he old man was walking aimlessly bout the streets when arrested, and ppears to be entirely unbalanced in bs mind. I OLD HUTCH'S wHEREABOUTS. TERRE HAUTE, IND., May 2.-E. P ~utchinson was located this morning4 t the Exchange Hotel, where he wasS oined by a Chicago detective who has nstructiz'ns to stay with him and bring im home if possible. - CHICAGO, May 2.-"Old. Hu ich" ar ived here from Terre Haute this even ng, He declined to be inter eiewed. ro EXPLORE THE EARTH'S sURFACE. L Well to Be Sank as Far as Humnan skHl Can Penetrate. WH EELING, WV. VA., April 24.-An ight inch well which is being sunk ear this city by the Wheeling Improve nent Company in a search for oil or--' as has reached, after several mronths - f boring, a depth of 4,100 feet. Bothr i and gas have been struck through ut $n paying quantities. It has gone i ,rough several thick veins of coal anda as traversed layers of gold quartz, iron and numerous other minerals. Professor J. C. W bite, State Geolo ~ist, whd has watched the drilling ~losely, has suceeded in gettngthe' ~overnment interested in it. The re- - ult is that after the well hlas been - unk to the depth of one mile the gov ~rnment will take up the work, and. nder the direction of two expert offi ers of the Geological Survey dirill into he earth as far as human skill can enetrate. Tbe temperature and magnetic con jitions will be ol5served as far as possI ble, and by means uf an instranment onstructed for the purpose a complete record of the drilling and all discover ies made will be kept. This record will be placed in the Geological Stir vev's exhibit at the' World's Fair and afterwards preserved at Washington. Professor White and the government officers say this will be one of the most ovel and impl1ortant exhibits at the Fair and wvill attract the a'.tention Of the scientists of the world. The MIythologleai Fates. Somewhere up~on our unknown shore, Where the streams of life their waters pour, Lhere sit three sisters, evermore Weavinog a silken thread." Lovers of classic paintings are fai iar with that famous group, called the Three Fates." Fate seems cruel when it deprives w omen and girls of health. But in Dr. Iijerce's Favorite Prescrnp tion they find a cure of untold value for ervous p)rostratIin, .ic~k headache, brigi-do)wn pa.ins . lcating. weak4 tom'liach), aulttev.rsio n, ret roversio n. an al ihose' xe'u*i-tt'in e..lainlts that na-k.- thK , tve' mi,.r,e.. Mt! who use.