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ESTABLISHED 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1891. PRICE 81.50 A YEAR THE DUTCH PORK. B >Y iR. 0. 1. MAYIZ, SH. NO a. :it thy com:an'l Agtain the eru:bled hans haill rise; Lo! as on Evan's b:l>lk we stand. The past returns-the present flies. ('A)Yow CASTLE. In history there must be many gapz resulting froi contradictions or silence among the chronicles consulted, which have been bridged over by inferences fairly drawn from established events, and thus the current of narrative has been made smoothly continuous. So it is in biography;-and remarkably so in the life and adventures of the first white man that ever stalked through the virgin :woodlands of the Dutch Fork. I have gathered niany truthful records which, strewed along his career like stones in a boggy path, enable mne to step from one to another without mishap, and thus to present a narra tive not only highly romantic, but probably very slightly deviating from the true account. I think, then, that I may safely be gin the story of this adventurer, by stating that he was born in Wuerten burg, : -tiong the Odenwald Mountains. It will ' een, further on, that the ro mantic admiration of the beautiful and the novel, so certainly manifested by him in his developed manhood, had its origin in the charming scenery that surrounded the cottage in which lie was born. The first out-door objects that tmet his infant gaze were the beau tiful mountains with their acclivities so gradual that their sides niore than half way up towards their tops were Cultivated in narrow, alternating red, yellow and green strips of various pro ductions, presenting appearances not unlike Scottish Highlanders, whom be long after saw, with their plaids wrapped around theni. I can fancy this pioneer visitor of the Dutch Fork strolling forth in his boyhood among the valleys of the Odenwalds, follow ing the murmuring brooks invisible under the luxuriant grass overlapping and concealing their channels; and I can admire the eager a ttention he gives to the old peasants telling him of St. Hubert's chase-St. Hubert who, with his pack of dogs, often passes through the air over the mountain tops, "The hunter and the deer a shade," impressing his young imnagination with this old legendary superstition by re counting how often they had beard this 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 tion of St. Hubert's chase), and believe that he heard the phantom monk with his dogs in full bry tl:rough the air. He has grown to manhood. He has become a stalwart Peasant, laboring in the meadows. From time to time he has wvalked northeastward along the Bergst rasse-t he great thoroughfare designating the sharp line that divides the Odenwald MIountains on the right hand from the vast valley of the Rhine on the left. On this great highway did he often look northwvestward, be yond the Teufelstein in Rhine-Bavaria, far away into France, and wonder at the wide-stretehing 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 MIelibo cus, forty miles awvay, and hard by the ('ity of Darmstadt. Then, some Sab bath evening, after spending the morn ing in striet, devotion at his church, I follow him to Ziegelhaussen on the Neckar, where he dances like a demon, and falls in love with a dozen rosy cheeked, fat-armed maidens whose shadows cast upon a wall would meas ure eight feet across by dine of the mutl tiplicity of undergarments. hBut G3ermiany wvas 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, or hearthstone. Vast numbers of people were forced to become soldiers, who, during wars hired themselves to ambi tiotus princes, and in peace were divided into robber-bands who chose their cap tains, and committed depredations uponi the unprotected peasants. A rn mior had reached the Odenwald region that many G ermns had tied from this lawl1essne.ss to the new- countries across t he gr-eat waters5. My hero was not long making up his mind. He would go and1( establish a home in these far-ofi lands. Nowv, lie has left his native valley, anzd there he gos working his way on a timtber-raft down the Neckar. Hie enters the Rhlinie at M[anhei::and, after toiling day and night for a month, lhe reacbes lRotterdam. His ofl'er is ac eepted, to work his passage to America on a D)utchgalliott freigzhted with Hol land gini. Forty days is he on the A t-1 lantic Ocean, tossed and sea-siek; and le arrives in New York. There, he iindt's conmpatriots who tell limi t hat in: a c-outtttry fuzrth'er S)u thi. cal led Penn sylvania, he enna ild large~ colonies of Ge;,rmanus. Th itifer he go es. What< trange appeatranee~s meet his gaze:1 What vast forests: What strange look ng people inhabiting thiemi! He meets with the Inians1. lie becomes fasei nated with their habits, -th ir end u rance.-thteir con);tempiht ot danger. Before he left hiis fat herlanrd, agents camne thIirough Wu ertembuharg, fo r the purpoVSe of I purchasingmi men not less t 'an seven feet hi::h~ for the giant regi mentt of Fredlerh- Williari 1, King nfj< Prussia. M\v hero escaped forcib:e enlist mien t by just eighit iches. WhI en1 he saw thet her.uean mien of the forest, in Pennsylvania hte thought that here: wctil be the nlace for the King of. PrusSia to procure his men. He felt that he would be willing to return once more to Germany, to see five hundred seven feet Mohawks, exasperated by tyrannivai discipline, tear off five hun dred scalps-one of them tie Kin's and go leaping thrILugh the streets of Berlin, brandishing their hatchets and yelling war-whoops. Among the Indians there was a young chief, between whom and the German adventurer there began an in timacy that grew rapidly into the i warmest friendship. They were al ways together, sharing each others iare and lodging. At last they betook themselves to wandering far from their hones, and were sometimes absent for weeks. In one of these expeditions the (0- rinan saved the life of the young chief. It is impossible to conjecture what was the character of this rescue; but that it was signal is proved by the intense friendship which not only the tribe to which te youngchief belonged, but all the adjoining tribes or encamp ments, manifested to the strange whlte nian. The danger from which the young chief was rescued was so great, that his father would not permit him 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, having heard that there was some I w here in that direction a colony of white people, among whom were some Gernans; and that the name of the 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 him and 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 tbe chi.f. "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 resumed: "If you go sure, den wait ten day." "Why must I wait ten days?" in quir- d the white man. "1ou see, may be, in two Cay, after 3 gone," was the reply. The adventurer remained among his countrymen and his Indian friends ful ly two weeks longer, and then he 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 sobbe*d as she sat at the buzzing spinning wheel, and drew out and twisted the woolen or the flaxen thread.I Many settlements of European peo pie lay along his way, but he avoided themx and sought out the Indians. The miystery of the "ten days'' was, as the old chief predicted, explained on the seecnd day of his journey. Hie must have been a man of v-ery remarkable1 app-earance. I have a child's recollec tion of t wo of his soins, in their old age, wvhom I frequently saw, sixty yearst ago. They were singularly tall, gaunt, I broad-shouldered, long armed men, a with features expressive of mu ch kind- E ness, combined with obstinacy of pur- t pose. Their father, the pioneer, niust I have had some prominent traits, by a - description of which he could be easily 3 recognized; for the first Indiai:s he en cou:ntered, which was on the second C day after his departure, ran forward to meet him, as if they had been. expect- C ing him; and they showed him their 2 will.ngness to serve him in every possi- 3 ble way. It was easily percei'-ed that the olid chief had requested him to tarry yet ten days, so that he could send messengers before him, to secure for him every where kin d reception and service. This message preceded him, j fron: tribe to tribe, from encampment .y to er.campment, all along his route, as he ex;perienced it, up to thbe day when he stood on the top of the eminence a known as RufPs MIountain,-the very t first white man that ever viewed the b~ surrcunding landscape, from this ele-a vatedl point,. I have no facts to guide me in follow- i ing thle pedestrian through MIaryland, \'irg uia, and North Carolina. When be er. tered South Carolina he followed P>roadl River on its eastern bank, tinder the guidance of (Catawba Indians. M1any years ago-not less than forty [ visited a friend near the small village a >t M1onticello, in Fairfield. The site of 'M :hat gentleman's residence was a very t ?ligh ridge, and his back piazza com- a 'inanded an extensive view towards n :he southwes~t. I looked from a win- b .low in the second story across the n~ calley of Broad River, and saw Rufls T~ \iountain more than twenty- miles a~ (way. The line of the horizon formed b >y piney wvoods was as level as the it )cean, and in the center of the view he little eminenees constituting RufPs f'ountain gently broze the continuity )f this horizon, and were condensed by listance into a delicacy of outline as n lieasing as the tracery of the third evening's new moon upon the sunset h ~ky. I (do not think that a stranger, ne hundred and( forty years ago, could a myve travelled along the highlan -I upon vhich M(onticello stands to-day. witl --t >ut catching a sight of what is now nowni as lRutrs M1ountain. I can ti igure to myself my wanderer pausing C< iponi this ridge with his Catawbaguide, P md)( gaizing towards th)e blue eminences. ti Xfe a no,nent, he so,ites himserf twice or thrice upon his breast wit his open hand, points to the distai elevations, and, in his inability to spea the Catawba dialect, makes a gestui by tbro Ning forward both bands an stepping firmly one step in the sam direction, to intimate by such pant< mime that he desired to reach tha part of the country. I can hear th Indian grunt his acquiescense; an they start off. It is said they crossed Broad Rive by stepping from rock to rock in tb shoals at the place where now is Frost Mills. They became satisfied arte crossing, that they had gone too fa down the river. They therefore ri traced their steps on the western banl until they came to the mouth of tb small stream, at this time known a Crim's creek, near which the town o Peak is now situated. Here they en countered an incampment of Indians probably Cherokees-by whom the, were instructed to follow the stream or the bank of which they were standing and taking every left-hand branch, th third one would lead them within E mile of the desired point. So they tak4 their way along this pleasant water course,-creeping under heavy festoon. of wild grapevines,-watching the gra3 squirrels skipping along the branches, and the spotted fawns flitting amonj the trunks of the countless tress. The5 pass through the very heart of what i. to be the Dutch Fork in after days and at short distances the wanderei pauses, to admire the beauties of thf woods. The sun is now near th( tops of the trees westwardly, and tb 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 z upon the course he has .ome,-and gazes alternately upon the right hand and then upon the left. What does he he see? He sees his atherland;- the Odenwald Mountains >n his right hand, and the valley of the Rhine on his left. Truly is it so, .hough in miniature. There, before hin were the gentle hills, known now, is the Stone Hills of Lexington, that -.uld not fail to remind him of the .nountains among which he was born; ind stretching away into what is now Newberry were flat lands that recalled ;e valley of the Rhine. So impressed vas he with the resemblance, that he itruck his camp there for the night, )arched his Indian corn grains, and )roiled the savory venison. Deep in he night, be was aroused from sleep )y unearthly shrieks and wild halloo rig in the air; and he thought that St. alubert had been following him to his iew country. It was the flight of the )ie cranes (herons) from the Saluda to he Cohees Shoals, in Broad River. The next day, he found the little ountain, ascended it, and viewed the urrounding country. At nightfall, he vas again at his camp. That spot did i select for his permanent home, be ause it so forcibly brought his father and to his remembrance. He soon etu rned to Pennsylania, and made snown his discovery; and it will soou >e my pleasing task to make mention >f some of the many who followed hiim,--among whom, no doubt, was he maiden that sighed and sobbed at he spinning wheel. My friend, Cap ain George Epting, can point out his irm grave, a few hundred yards down he 'etream from his old mill, though L tiace of any dwelling house can be een at this day. It bas not been long ince I and my friend made our way brough brambles to the crumbling iersimmon tree, at the foot of which the pring of the daring first settlers still ields good water, of which we took ach a memorial sup by means of a ipper improvised with poplar leaf. luch was the first white man that ever ame to the Dutch Fork. It was bout the year 1735-10; and his name ias JOHN ADAM SUMMER. Dame Nature is a Good Book-keeper. She don't let us stay long in her debt efore we settle for what we owe her. he gives us a few years' grace at the most, but the reckoning surely comes. ave you neglected a cough or allowed our blood to grow impure without eeding the warnings? Be wise in time, nd get the world-famed Dr. Pierce's tolden Medical:Discovery, whbich cures 3 well as promist s. As a blood-renov: - r, a lung-healer, and a cure for scrofu us taints, it towers above all others, s Olympus overtops a mole-hill. To -arrant a commodity is to be honorable rid above deception, and a guarantee a symbol of honest dealing. You get with every bottle of the "Discovery."' y druggists. Why Some Marriagea Are Failures. [From the Somerville Journal. One reason why marriage is so often failure is that the average man falls love with a woman because she has vo or three of the qualities which he tributes to the ideal woman, and ever gets over blaming her afterward sause she doesn't have the rest. Wo en don't make any such mistake. hey don't expect to find in the aver e man any of the qualities possessed their ideal, and they are very sel >mi disappointed. Three Year's Expenses for a Quarter. From the Front Royal Gazette.] Austin Daily, a rich farmer, residing ar Hum.bolt, Tenn., asserts that he 21y spent 2.3 cents in three years when Sbegan to get a "start" in the world, id hat 15 cents of that was bpent for poket comb. Mr. Baily is now es mated to be worth at least $100),00I. The value o,f a remedy should be es mated by its curative properties. Ac irdirng to this standard, Ayer's Sarsa rilla is the best arid most economical ood medicine in the market, because Ie mLost pure and concenutrated. Price h . ASYLUM INVESTIGATION. Lt -- k Dr. Griflin Replies to the Charges of the Committee-He Alleges Bad Faith on 'e its Part. d.. e CoLUMBIA, April 29.-The reply of Dr. Griffin to the committee of inquiry had been submitted to the board of re e gents of the Lunatic Asylum and a copy was sent to the News and Courier bureau this evening. r Dr. Gritin begins by stating the con 0 e ditions under which the testimony S concerning him was taken, as follows: r The committee sat with closed doors r in the rooms of the board at the Asy - lum. Of their proceedings I had no knowledge at that tine, except from i the fact that most, if not all, of the offi S cers and attendants, some of the pa f tients and a few former employees were - examined on oath. During the exami - 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 ratt,:rs as to which the conimittee chose t> in terrogate me. From 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-examine 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 Governor upon most serious charges of negligence, misfeasance and incapacity in the conduct' of my office affecting me personally as well as pro fessionally and officially. These charges bear the date of the 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 seloct, while, as I am informed, the largi rpor tion of the testimony taken during the investigation has not been furnished to the board, including whatever evidence may have been given by aniy 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 comment. 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 have the inherent right to say that jus tice has been denied me. I am con demned without the opportunity of plea and defence and without semb lance of trial, without knowledge of charges 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 conditions I can have no adequate an swer to submit to the board save that of a general denial, and my demand for a fair and impartial investigation of the charges according to the approved forms of trial. .)r. Griffin states that in the manage ment of the institution he followed thei modern doctrine of non-restraint, andi 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,i and also the practice in the more im portant institutions in this country and $urope.. The principle on whicht Dr. Griffin lays stress is this, fromi Dr. t Hammond: "Restraint is never necessary to se cure the lives or the conmfort of others, and when used it should be with all I the safeguards against abuse which sound policy and humanity dictate." I The next part of the paper deals with the system of caring for the patients, the number of attendants, duties of the physicians, etc. Replying to specific points Dr. Griffin says: "The killing of Dr. Kershaw by an other patient named Denaro 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. Kershaw Denaro suddenly struck his victim. Perhaps the utmost vigilance of Dr. Kershaw's attendanit could not have averted the tragedy. Certainly the superintendent could not provide provide against it unless thee rules and regulations prescribed by the board had been abrogated and thue met bod of treatment changed to that I of close and mechanical custody of all patients liable to fitful, dangerous moods." Spe.king of \Milnie he ,avs: "In this instance my desire to redu< discipline to the minimum of restraiE may have caused me to err. In rels tion to every patient this discretio must be exercised, and I submit tb 1 it is cause of congratulation that in population of about nine hundred pe sons so few errors of this kind occurre< I repeat that I was not informed < Mine's having this key until after tb assault on the attendant, and when it formed I caused it to be taken fron him. To my great regret I have deer ed it my duty to subject the patient t a close custody, which renders his cas almost hopeless to cure." Dr. Griffin says he visited the ward and made inspections at intervals an( at times to the best of his judgment he also says, speaking of the culinar; department, that an inspection wa made in 1889 by a committee of whicl Senator Hemphill was chairman, an< that the committee exonorated tha department from adverse charges. Speaking of keeping patients at th( Asylum who should not be there, Dr Griffin says: "To this abuse of the public charit3 the superintendent and the board o regents have regulary asked the atten tion of the Legislature. Under th( laws the evil is beyond our power t< remedy. This gross ab:ise of a most magnificent charity is not referred t< by the legislative committee, although L;idently under the impression that the fault is with the officers of the Asylum, the defendants who were ex anined 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 suicide. 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 'nstruct the attendants as to the matter. She was immediately put on treatment, and in 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, as going 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 building. She remained here until she committed suicide." Dr. 0. ThomrQon eays 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 Tillman: "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 ready and apparently anxious to do his entire duty as conceived by bim. Accidents may have occurred, but as to the general management of this institution by him we confidently u-allenge a comparison with the re aords of any insane asylum in any State >f the Union. By order of the board. "B. WV. TAYLOR, President." FHE ALLIANCE PLAN OF CAMPAIGN, a.n Army of Thirty-Five Thousand Lec turers to Take the Field and Flead for the Cause. NEW YoRK, April 29.-President Poik, of the Farmers' Alliance, hasjust ssued a proclamation to the order, in vbich he sets forth the plan of cam >aign which the National Executive Board has adopted, and counsels the ub-alliances to cease internal bicker ngs and to get rid of disloyal mem The plan of campaign consists of lec ures, by which an army of 35i,000) lec urers will plead for the cause. It is dIso stated in the proclamation that LrraIagements are being made fo'r the olding of two or more grand Alliance niass meetings in each of tihe Alliance states during the year, or as many nore as the brotherhood may desire. An Army Officer for the P. M. I. [Special to the State.] A NDERsoN, A pril :30.-Col. .Joh n B. 'atrick received information from the Nar Department to-day that Second ~ieutenant Donaldson, Seventh Cay Iry, U. S. A., had been detailed as rofessor of military science and tactics or Patrick Military Institute, Ander on. A Lady of 8s swears Of. [Lewiston Journal.] A lady in Islesboro, 88 years old, who mad used tobacco all her life, has dir. arded the weed this winter. "'Ayer's Hair Vigor is a most excel ent p)repartion for the hair. I sim-ak f it from experience. Its use p~fromotes lhe growth of new hair, and muakes it lo.svy and soft. The Vigor is a sure urc~for dlandrut.-.J. W. IBowen, Edi or- E11uibr, 11e-rthur_ Ohio. e LIEUT. TOTTEN AND '-HE MILLEN t MUM. Curious Calculations in Chronology Bape Upon the Scriptures. a NEW HAEN, April 14.-The wilt spread excitement of the North Atmeri can Indians a few months ago over th f expected coming of a Messiah for thei e race by a curious coineiden'.:e had fol lowed closely upon a marked revival c 1 the discussion of the millennial doe trine in various parts of the country ) Now we have an interesting contribu t tion to the subject in the calculatiol just made by Lieut. Charles A. L. Tot ten, Fourth Artillery, which fixes thi date of the Second Advent for March 1899. Lieut. Totten, who is detailed : professor of military science and tactic at the Sheffield Scientific School o Yale University, has for several year made remarkable applications of math. ematical science to the Scriptures Recently lie fixed upon the exact dat( when Joshua commanded the sun t< stand still; and he has alsu-made curi ous calculations to show that the fun damental dimensions of the Greal Pyramid are founded on distances in the solar system, and employed tht inch unitof measure knows to our En glish syster. 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 siderable 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 a quarter of a century ago. But a quar ter of a century before that a far more widesfread and famous excitement was caused in the United Stai s by William Miller, who had predicted the Second Advent for 1843. But more or less important predictions and agita tions can be found during many cen turies. The grades of belief on the sub ject have varied from that of an ap proaching destruction of the world at a fixed hour to that of a coming in of the Golden Age without any physical crash. In various countries there have been sects that hare held from time to time that the millennium had already begun, and that they were enjoying its opening years. Perhaps the greatest period of modern mil*enarianism was the one between 1600 and 1860, but during the first and second centuries it was a very generally accepted tenet. Taking together the Book of Daniel and the Revelations, the endeavor to find in current events the fulfillment, or a tendency to fulfillment, of the prophecies there made, was then almost universal. 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 me;e rife, and gaining in intensity as the year 200 approaches. A learned divine os the Dominion has for some time fixed upon that date for the Seconal Advent, arguing that the greatest crises in human history have occurred at in tervals of 2,000 years from the creation, assuming this last to be about 4,000 years before the Christian era. The same date has been fixed by those who hold that the six days of creation signi fied or typilied six periods, of 1,000 years each, in the world's history, de voted to toil and endurance, to be fol lowed by a seventh of blissful rest. But what isnmost singul ar is the variety of texts and calculations adopted by those who deal with this subject, Lieut. Totten, for example, finding all the material he needs in a chapter of the Gospel of St. Luke and another of the Gospel of St. Mat thew, without resting upon the Apocalypse or the earlier prophets. The expectation that the last day of the world would come in the year 1004) A. D. was wvi'espre-ad, as the history of that perion shows. The approach of the year 2t000 is likely enough to see history repeating itself in that particu lar. rrhe millenarian doctrine, how ever, is obviously quite distinct from any such foreboding, since by its very terms it gives -:he world another thous and years of existence, and under far happier conditions than any it has ever known. Lieut. 'rotten, if he is correct ly reported, dloes not look for the end of the world sooner than a muillion years; and in any case the conception of a millennium, assuming, as it is not dlifhicult to do, that the period is not already running, is not to be confunded with that of r.hose who look for the near approach of the wvorld's endl. AGAINsT TIMIE. A Canadian Pacific Train Itaclng Across the Continent. W1xI.:Ni.:, MAN., April :sn.-The Canadian Pacific tiyer, whiebl is racinzg across the con t.nent, passed here- at 11 a. im. Gehnera. Manage-r Van Horn and p)arty are on hoard. The train has averaged thirty mziles an hour fronm the Paciftic co,ast to this poinut. whichl is remarkable time, when the heavy grades crossing the mountains are con sid1ered. The train is racing to catch the En glish mail steamer, wvhichi leaves Newv York on Saturday night. On the le vel road bursts of speed up to) fifty mtikIs per hour for long st reti-hes have be-en frequent. From rainudon to Winnie hours andi a half. Sing HIt in the I(ight Pliace. [ Fromt the Bostonu Heraid..] A Chinaman named Sing Hii has taken the nosit iin of ttenor, in t I) -r HUsTLING OUT THE HEMEWS. Rmsia'% Cruel and Suicidal Policy of E d pulsion- Heartles- Treatnent by the Rusian Police. - ODEss., April 2.-Eight hunIr At-wish fa:niles have been ordered e quit Kieff forthwith. The well-to-( r have already gone, but the poor, - chIsses are in thegreatest straits. Mar ,f are arriving on the Austrian froiiti, - in a de-tittite condition, but the Au trian olicials refuse to domicile ti - paupers. The Kieff police accept r 1 ex,-use, raiding the city with the u - most severity unless bribed to dela e action. The daily expulsion for Mo cow numbers from 100 to 150. On Sur i day an exceptional raid was mad< s when 690 were expelled. f The rigor of the authorities frighter away many %ntitled to permanent res - dence. The effect is felt.even in th city, which is the great centre for Jev with permits to engage in busines Th emnigration of Jews from this cit -ha quadrupled. Permits guarantee by the minister of foreign affairs, miir ister of finance and minister of interioi any one of whom has power to quas: their tenure, are the considered of pr car--ous value, and the principals c large Jewish firms are placing the! business in the hantis of Russian agent and are themselves departing. SEEKING A NEW CANAAN. LoNLox, April 28.-The Pall Mal Ga2ette give, great prominence to : scheme which is said to have beer dra.ted in order to transport Hebrew: frora Poland and from the southeast o Europe to an immense tract of unin habited land in Australia or Brazil Baron Hirsch is cr--uited with havin; originated this idea, and he is said t< hav3 had a long conference in Pari last week with a number of the mos1 able advisers in charitable matters, The Baron, according to the report, then decided to give-$15,000,000 himseli 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 the Roths childs will contribute even more largely than 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. TLe Pall Mall Gazette adds: "This dec'sion comes atan opportune 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. R EA DING, Pa., A pril 25.-A pr.a'cal application of the surgical process known as skin grafting has just been made in this city by Dr. John Ege, the physician who aebieved so much celeb rity by the recent skin-graftingexperi ments in which he succeeded in trans planting white skin on the arm of a colore?d man and black skin on the leg of a whiite man. In thbose ex periments he demonstiated that transplanted white skin spreads and becomes domi nant, while the black does not, and thence deduced the conclusion that wnmte must have been the original color of mankind. Ten days ago he di rected his operations in a more usefu1 channel by transplat.ting thirteen pieces of skin taken f:om the leg of Eddie Kramer, to the foot of Harry Kramer, a younger brother who had been frightfully scalded in an accident. The surface has already healed. A Bovine Monstrosity. [Special to thbe State.] SUrrERa, S. C., May 1.-Mr. T. M1. Mims, of Silver Station, Clarendon County, has in his possession a mon strosity inl the shape of a calf with twvo perfectly formed heads and necks, two back t>onles and tails, but with1 but one body and one set of legs. He bought it as a curiosity from a negro named C;opel and, who lives in thi- county and near Silver. The calf wa born (lead, but Mr. Minis had it carefully skinned, stuffed and mognted, and it now looks almost as natural as life. He states that the calf had two throats, which lead lato) but one stomach. He thinks of taking it to Co!umbia dhurinlg the Centennial and placing it on ex hibi ton. The Log Cabin Grant Suilt. St. Louis, A pril :7 -The historie old log caJin1 inl St. Louis countiy which the late Presid ent 1 . S. Grant erectetd with his own hands anld with logs c~ut and hew n by himsel f, is ao ut to be remioved from its ; -esenit site, and shipped-( to (Chivao. where it will be re-ret.ted fo r ex hibhition at the Worli I' Fair. The cabinl now stands on a inirty acre tract of land, abo ut ten m:ih -sout h we- of this city a::d live mZiles weSt er Jeherson Barracks. Mrs. Spriggin's OpInion. "T'his I taliani mtatter is very serious. \eU., I ,boul. :think .*.' re urnI DI-ASTU.IS FI:E IN CIIATI'ANO0GA. x- Property Coverin :Twnsity .vr ., ot Gro,nd Quart--r qof a .ii ion. er facorv ini I2ne .: ES yand de-t r''yed er . Ir a res of zr.1v;l ( t). s- of which there * a a c of ie $1II,00 . o The losses, as nearly as can now be t- estimated, are as follows: East Tennes y Aee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad s- Company, on depot with contents, and t- fifty loaded ears and twenty-tive empty 3, freight cars, $125,000; Campbell & Co., 2-,n000; G. G. Lilly's new unoccupied is block. ,loO; Peck's warehouse, 315, i- 000: Mjer small buildinis,$20.000. The s newly ereeted Mountain City flouring s mill, valued at $20W 000 was barely ;. saved. y During the fire several carloads of d fireworks and other combustibles ex i- ploded, terrifying the spectators and , those working to stay t*e flames. The b fire department has only three engines and could do but little effective work, if especially as a second fire occurred r while the first one was still in progress. s 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 firemen battle with the flames. In eluded in the property destroyed was a quantity of lumber near the depot and f part of the contents of the Morrison Lumber Company's yard. OLD BUTCH MISSING. The Famous Chicago Wheat Speculator Believed to be Demeuted. CHICAGo, April 29.-B. P. Hutchin son, the veteran wheat speculator, known the country over as "Old Huteh," has been missing since last evening, at which time he bid a friend good-bye .and said he woula never be seen again. He has many heavy open trades, and the many rumors circulated in regard to his disappearance have greatly disturbed the market. His family say he is demented. Hutchinson's liabilities are placed at $2,0,000 to $3,000,000 but his friends are satisfied that his assets will more than meet his obligations. He purchased a ticket last night for the South, and is supposed to be on his way to Florida. "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 sing Boad of Trade man of Chic2go. is now in tbe custody of the chief of police who is awaiting instructions from yc.ng Hutchinson to whom a message has been sent to Chicago. The old man was walking aimlessly. about the streets when arrested, and appears to be entirely unbalanced in his mind. OLD HUTCH'S wHIEREABOUTs. TERRE HAUTE, IND., Mfay 2.--B. P. Hutchinson was located this morning at the Exchar 'e Hotel, where he was joined by a Chicago detective who has instructio~ns to stay with him and bring him home if possible. CHICAGO, Mlay 2.-"Old Hutch" ar rived here from Terre Haute this,even ing, He declired to be interviewe 4.' TO EXPf-ORE THE EARTH'S SURFACF. A Well to Be sank as Far as Human Skill Can Fenetrate. W HEELING, \V. VA., April 24.-An eight inch well which is being sunk near this city by the Wheeling Improve nment Company ln a seareb for oil or gas has reached, after several months of boring, a depth of 4,100) feet. Both oil and gas have been struck through out in paying quantities. It has gone through several thick veins of coal and has traversed layers of gold quartz, iron and numerous other minerals. Professor J. C. White, State Geolo gist, who has watched the drilling closely, has succeeded in getting the government interested in it. The re sult is that after the well has been sunk to the depth of one mile the gov ernent will take up the work, and~ under the direction of two exp)ert offi cers of the Geological Survey drill into the earth as far as human skill can penetrate. The temperature and magnetic con ditions will be- ob)served as far as possi ble, and by means of an instrument constructed for the purpose a cmnplete record of the drilling and all d:scover ies made will be kept. This r(c )rd will be p)lacd in the G;eologicai Sur vev's exhibit at the World's Fair and P'rofe-ssor White andi the gove rnmuuent omleers say this will be one' of the most noe and Ij Iiprtantt exliit s at the fair *ad will at!tr w't thes atte'ntionI of the -(ewntisi ofI the worldl. 'Somzx.-where uponi our unknown shore, WVhe.re the streams of life their waters There sit three sisters, evermore W\eaving a silken thread." Lovers of claussic paintings are famni li:, it h r ih: f:inu= 'roulp. ealle-d the