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as we nr1ernma ijy E F-- ~ f .wcm~r~JV NEWERR, S C..THRSDY, AY ,-191 PRICE $1.50 A YEA R THE DUTCH FORK. Ily DR1. 0. i.tA A,sit. No 2. at *"v( Again the crumabled ial I hanl riNv; Lo! 1.i on Ev;,,* bank we stand, The past returns- 'he present Ilies. In history there iiust be niany gaps, resulting from 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 many truthful records which, strewed along hi: career like stones in a boggy path, enable me 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 Wuerteni burg, among the Odenwald Mountains. It will be seen, further on, that the ro mantic admiration of the beautiful and 66 the novel, so certainly manifested by him in his developed manhood, had its origin in the charming scenery that surrounded the cottage in wbich he was born. Tihe first out-door objects that met bis infant gaze were the beau tiful mountains with their acelivities so gradual that their sides ruore than half way up towards their tops were cultivated in narrow, alternating rea, yellow and green strips of various pro ductions, presenting appearances not unlike Scottish Highlanders, whom he long after saw, with their plaids wrapped around them. 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 attention 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 (leer a shade,'" i!mpressing his young imagination with this old legendary superstition by re counting how often they had heard 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 tl,r roost, (the true explana tion of St. I ubert'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 has become a stalwart peasant, laboring in the meadows. From time to time he has walked northeastward along the Bergstrasse-t he great thoroughfare designating te sharp line that divides the Odenwald MIountains on the right hand from the vast valley of the Rhine othe left. On this great highway did be often look northwestward, be vnd the Treufelsteini in Rhine-Bavaria, far away into France, and wonder at the widestretching 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 eus, forty miles away, and hard by the city of Darmstadt. Then, some Sab bth ev ening, after spending the morn ing in strict devotion at his church, I follow hinm to Ziegelhaussen on the Neckar, where lie dances like a demon, and falls in love with a dlozen rosy checked, fat-armed maidens whose shadows east upon a wall would meas ure eigh t feet across by dint of the mu! tiplicity of undergarmtents. Isut Germiany was in distress. The wave after wave of wvar, that had for cetuie.een sweeping over the coun tytstify the whims of potentates, left iittle sectirity for life, property, or hearthstone. \ast nttmbhers of peop)le were foirced to become soldiers, who, during wars hired themiselves to ambi I ioUS princes, andl in peace wvere divided ito robber-bands who chose their cap t ains, and committed depredations upon the unprotected peasants. A in mnor had reached the Odenwald region that mianv (GIermians had tIed from this la wlessness to the new countries across the great wvat ers. My hero was not long making up his mind. He would go and establish a home in these far-ofl lands. Now, lie has left his native valle*y, and there he goes, working his way on a timber-raft down the Neckar. Hie enters the IBhine at Manheimi:and, aifter toiling day and nighlt for a month. he re-achies Itotterdam. His ofl'er is ac ecjpted, to work his passage to America on a Dutch galliott freighted with H-ol land gin. F'orty days is lie on the At antie O-cean, tossed and sea-siek; and 'lhe arrives in New York. There, lie finds co'mpatriots who tell himt that iin a cotuntry futrt her . iuth, called Pen ni sylvania, lhe eaut t:nd large colonies of G ermanis. Thtithlen he goes. W\hat st range aLppearantces meet his gatze: WVhat vas forests: Whnat strange look in:g people in hab iting themi! Hie meets with thme Inmdian ~s. He becomes fasei niated wvith their habits,-t heir endu -rance-'their conlitmpt of danger. B,.efore he le-ft his fat herland,. agents camec troughl Wuertemiburg, for the purpose of t prchias-itni en not less ti-an see feet., high for die giant regi .mnt of~ Fredei~rie Williami I, King of P'ru-ia. My~ hero escap'ed for'-ible en listmrnent by ju nt eight incites. Wh len lie samw :he herculean men] of the forests n IPennsvlvania lie thbought t hat here Prussia to procure his men. He felt that lie wou!d be willing to return once more to Germany, to see five hundred seven ftet 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 iatchets 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 warmest friendship. They were al ways to_ether, sharing each others fare and lodging. At last they betook themselves to wandering far from their homes, and were sometimes absent for weeks. In one of these expeditions the G- rnan saved the life of the young chief. It is impossible to conjecture what was the character of this rescue; lut that it w.- signal is proved by the intense friendship which not only the tribe to which the youngcbief belonged, but all the adjoining tribes or encamp nients, manifested to the strange white man. The dauger 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 Ahe German. Hemadeknown 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 where in that direction a colony of white people, among whom were some Germans; 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 ..od the old chief. Conse queuces 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 plaiued; 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 bit countrymen and his Indian friends ful ly two weeks longer, and then he set out on hissolitaryjourney. That day o departure caused througbout 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 mia lay along his way, but 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. He must have beeni a man of very remarkable appearance. I have a child's recollec tion of t wo 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)rominent traits, bya description of which he could be easily recognized; for the first Indians he en countered, which was on the second day after his departure, ran forward tc meet him, as if they had been expect ing him; and they showed him thei; willingness to serve him in every possi1 ble way. It was easily perceived that the old cbief had requested him tc tarry yet ten days, so that he (could send messengers before him, to secure for him everywhere kind reception and scrvice. This message preceded him, from tribe to tribe, from encampment to encamnpnment, all along his route, as he experi 'need it, up to the day when he stood on the top of the eminence known as Ruffis MIountain,-t he 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 pedestriani through Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina. Whet he entered South Carolina he followed Broad River on its eastern bank, un de: t be guidance of Catawvba Indians. MIany years ago-not less than forty' I visited a friend niear the srmall village of MIonticello, in Fairfield. The site oj that gentileman's residence was a very high ridlge, andl his back piazza coml mandcd an extensive view toward: the southwest. I looked from a win dow in the secondI story across the valley of Broad River, and saw RufP: M1ountain miore than twenty miles away. The line of the horizon formed by piney wo4ods wvas as lev'el as the ocean, and~ in the center of the view the little eminences constituting Ruff Mlountain gently broke the continuit' of this horizon, and were condensed 8' distanee into a delicacy of outline m pleasing as the tracery of the third evening's new moon upon the sunsei sky. I do not think that a strangex one hunidre'd and forty years ago, coult have travelled along the highland upot wvhich . loitieello stands to-day, with. out catchinig a sight of, what is nov known as Rlufrs M1ountain. I car tigure to imyself my wanderer pausini upon this ridge with his C'atawba guide and gazing towards the blue eminences 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 sing forward both bands 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 rok 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 r - traced their steps on the western bank, until they came to the mouth of the small stream, at this time known as Crin's creek, near which the town of Peak is now situ!ted. Here they en countered an incampment 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,-creeping under heavy festoons of wild grapevines,-watebing 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 Mauntains 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 stretching 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 unearthly shrieks and wild halloo ing in the air; and he thought that St. Hubert had been following him to his new country. 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 returned 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 him ,-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, "sw 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 white man that ever came to the Dutch Fork. It was about the year 17340; and his name was JoHN ADAx SUMMER. 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 our 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-renovi - tor, a lung-healer, and a cure for scrofu lous taints, it towers above all others, as Olympus overtops a mole-hill. To warrant a commodity is to be honorable and above deception, and a guarantee is a svnmbol of honest dealing. You get it withb every bottle of the "Discovery." By druggists. Why Some Marriages Are Failures. [From the Somerville Journal. One reason why marriage is so often a failure is that the average 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 domn disappointed. Three Year's Expenses for a (2uarter. [From the Front Royal Gazette.] Austin Daily, a rich farmer, residing near Hunmbolt, Ten n., asserts that he oniv spent :.3 cents in three years whben he began to get a "start" in the world, and that 15 cents of that was spent for a pocket comb. Mr. Baily is now es itimated to be worth at least $10,0004. The value of a remedy should be es 1tiimated by itsecurative properties. Ac cording to this standard, Ayer's Sarsa parilla is the best anid most economical blood medicine in tbe market, because the most pure and concentrated. Price f w1. Wot . a bottle. ASYLUM INVESTIGATION. d Dr. Griffin Repljei4 to the Charges of the 1 Cotmittee-He Alleges Bad Faith on Its Part. COLUMBIA, April 29.-The reply of it Dr. Griffin to the committee of inquiry P had been submitted to the board of re gents of the Lunatic Asylurm 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 h concerning him was taken, as follows: e( The committee sat with closed doors a in the rooms of the board at the Asy- a] lum. Of their proceedings I had no knowledge at that time, except from a the fact that most, if not all, of the ofli- al cers and attendants, so,-ie of the pa- h tients and a few former employees were do examined on oath. During the exami nation I was called before the commit- S tee. No stateme:it of any matter of U complaint was made to me, and my do explanations were directed to mnattrs as to which the committee chose t> in terrogate me. From these questions I V authorized to infer that charges were contemplated against my admin istration, and I then protested that r if any charges are to be made I Li would like to have specifications. To la this the Governor replied in these r words, quoted from the stenographer's a report: - "The committee would say here that el as soon as the testimony has been tAken t you can cross-examine witnesses on A any points you desire. We do not care aj to have any feeling displayed in the qi investigation. We are simply to in quire into the condition of the institu- b tion, and we shall give you or anyone else an opportunity to show that wit- w nesses have or have not been telling the c truth." To this most satisfactory assurance I r answered: "I cou:d not possibly ask for anything more." The investigation was concluded t without notice to me and without op- at portunity to cross-examine witnesses who had or had not been telling the P1 truth. S The testimony during the examina- u tion was not submitted to me. Nor at was there any information given me of d. any matter of censure developed dur- tt ing the investigation. Instead of this 0 on a purely ex-parte inquisition I am 0 arraigned by the committee in their re port to the Governor upon most serious A charges of negligence, misfeasance and tc 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- al amination of witnesses was concluded. L The board do not need to be informed that a copy of the testimony taken t before the committee has not been w given to me, but that I have from the b board, through their courtesy, access to C some eighty pages of manuscript con taining portions of the testimony ofn some of these witnesses such as the legislative committee chose to select, while, 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 evidence0 may have been given by any of the tl witnesses tending f o exculpate me from these charges. This meagre amount oft information was not available to me till 1 Tuesday last, the 21st instant. ti This statement is submitted without ' comment. I have fault to find, and wish to express through the board to t the committee of investigation and to P the Governor all due deference, but I Li have the inherent right to say that jus- a. tice has been denied me. I am con- t demned without the opportunity of h plea and defence and without semb- b lance of trial, without knowledge of tI charges and specifications preferred e: aganst me, without place for confront- ci ing the accusing witnesses, and wit- 0 out right of testimony in my behalf. Under such singular ana untoward r conditions I can have no adequate an swer to submit to the board save that A of a general denial, and my demand for a fair and impartial investigation of the charges according to the approved forms of trial. "r. Griffi states that in the manage- P ment of the institution he followed the is modern doctrine of non-restraint, and " he quotes Dr. Hammond's treatise on p insanity, in which are described the F methods of Pinel and Connelly, giving s' theory and practice of nton-restraint, it and also the practice in the more im- be portant institutions in this country and Europe. The principle on which ti Dr. Griffin lays stress is this, from Dr. ti Hammond: a. "Restraint is never necessary to se- a: cure the lives or the comfort of othe: ,, h and when used it should be with all n the safeguards against abuse which 8 sound policy and humanity dictate"' n 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:1 "The killing of Dr. Kershaw by an other patient named Denaro was deplo rable. Denaro was permitted by an a 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 attendant could not have averted the tragedy. Crtainly the superintendent could not provide provide against it unless thee rules and regulations prescribed by the board had been abrogated and the method of treatment changed to that hi of close and mechanical custody of all ~ patients liable to fitful, dangerous moods." c Sa:ngn of Mine he says: t "In this instance my desire to reduce L scipline to the minimum of restraint ay have caused me to err. In rela on to every patient this discretion ust be exercised, and I submit that is cause of congratulation that in a >pulation of about nine hundred per- s ms so few errors of this kind occurred. e repeat that I was not informed of e ilne's having this key until after the r sault on the attendant, and when in- -1 rmed I caused it to be taken from t im. To my great regret I have deem- t I it my duty to subject the patient to close custody, which renders his case t most hopeless to cure." jL Dr. Griffin says he visited the wards t id made inspections at intervals and d times to the best of his judgment. p , also says, speaking of the culinary p partment, that an inspection was a ade in 1889 by a committee of which 3 nator Hemphill was chairman, and e at the committee exonorated that e !partment from adverse charges. Speaking of keeping patients at the y sylum who should not be there, Dr. s riffin says: "To this abuse of the public charity d te superintendent and the board of I gents have regulary asked the atten- tl mi of the Legislature. Under the il ws the evil is beyond our power to g medy. This gross abuse of a most fL agnificent charity is not referred to A r the legislative committee, althougb, ,idenLly under the impression that fc e fault is with the officers of the si sylum, the defendants who were ex- C nined before the committee made fre- o ient reference to it." The state ment of Dr. Corbett is very n -ief, touching only the subject of ill- a eatment of patients. He states that t< benever there have been instances of w -uelty the attendants were discharged. w Dr. Thomson makes the reply for the N1 cent case of suicide. He says: S "As far as I can judge the only com- le aint which might reflect on me is ti at the attendants were not instructed ti the time she was admitted of the je icidal tendency of the mind of the p ttient who recently killed herself. fl e was admitted on the 24th of Jan- G try, 1891, and was then too feeble to c: tempt to commit suicide. Hence we b d not instruct the attendants as to ti e matter. She was immediately put b i treatment, and in the course of three o ' four weeks had improved a great p al, both physically and mentally. tj bout this time she expressed a wish d be changed, as she wanted to go in a it ard where the patients took the meals T their own wards, as going to the a neral mess hall made her nervous, fi id she would rather avoid a crowd, o pecially as they were noisy and bois- p rous at times. She was removed to u e old building and put in a quiet ard, as she was when in the new e iilding. She remained here untilshe e immitted suicide." a Dr. 0. Thompson says that he did t :t know that Milne had a key to the n male department until after the row t ith McCowell. d The following is the letter of trans- t ittal to Governor Tillmnan: "To his Excellency B. R. Tillman, i~ overnor of South Carolina: In giving t ie defence of Dr. Griffin and his assis- a nts to the world we feel it due to y em, to ourselves and to the State at s rge, whose servants we are, to say b lat in a constant official intercourse fi ith him of ten years we have always y und him a polished and refined gen- 5 eman, an accomplished and skilful 14 iysician, a kind, humane and atten- I ye superintendent, and and officer at o I times ready and apparently anxious t ido his entire duty as conceived by '] in. Accidents may have occurred, u .it as to the general management ~of ( uis institution by him we confidently ( iallenge a comparison with the re- u >rds of any insane asylum in any State 1 the Union. By order of the board. "B. WV. TAYLOR, President." t I:IE ALLIANCE PLAN OF CA MPAIGN,^ C n Armny of Thirty-Five Thousand Lec- C turers to Take the Field and Plead 1 for the Cause. l e NEW YORK, April 29.-President a oik, of the Farmers' Alliance, hasjust t sued a proclamation to the order, in a hich he sets forth the plan of cam- j lign which the~ National Executive y oard has adopted, and counsels the I ib-alliances to cease internal bicker- c gs and to get rid of disloyal mem ers.t The plan of campaign consists of lec res, by which an army of 35,000) lec- a irers will plead for the cause. It is s so stated in the proclamation thatr :rangements are being made for the olding of two or more grand Alliance ass meetings in each of the Alliance tates during the year, or as many . ore as the brotherhood may desire. An Arixny Officer for the P. M. I. ( [Special to the State.] A ND ERSoN, A pril :30.-Col. Joh n B. a atrick received information from the ~ Var Department to-day that Second I ieutenant Donaldson, Seventh Cav-t ry, U. S. A., had been detailed as rofessor of military science and tactics e >r Patrick Military Institute, Ander- 2 A Lady of 88 swears Ofr. [Lewiston Journal.] A lady in Islesboro,88S years old, who f ad used tobacco all her life, has di. irded the weed this winter. "Aver's Hair Vigor is a most excel rut preparation for the hair. I speak f it from experience. Its use promotes ie growth of new hair, and mxakes it lossy and soft. The Vigor is a sure ure~fo,r dandruff.-J. WV. Bowen, Edi- t r Enuirer, McA rrhur. Ohio. I IEUT. TOTTEN AND THE MILLEN NIUM. urious Calculations in Chronology Based Upon the Scriptures. NEw HAVEN, April 14.-The wide pread excitement of the North Almer an Indians a few months ago over the xpected coming of a Messiah for their ice by a curious coincidence had fol )wed closely upon a marked revival of ae discussion of the millennial doe -ioe in various parts of the country. 'ow we have an interesting contribu on to the subject in the calculation ist made by Lieut. Charles A. L. Tot n, Fourth Artillery, which fixes the ate of the Second Advent for March, 399. Lieut. Totten, who is detailed as rofessor of military science and tactics t the Sheffle!d Scientific School of 'ale University, has for several years iade remarkable applications of math matical science to the Scriptures. ecently he fixed upon the exact date 1hen Joshua commanded the sun to 'and still; and he has also made curi us calculations to show that the fun amental dimensions of the Great yramid are founded on distances in ie solar system, and employed the ich unitof measure knows to our En lish system of long measure. He has irther made studies to show that .mericans are the lost tribes of Israel. It is not impossible that now, in one >rm or another, there may be a con derable revival of millenarianism. ne of tL-. last noteworthy agitations the subject was that of Dr. John umming, who had fixed the begin idg of the millennial period for about quarter of a century ago. But a quar r of a century before that a far more 'idespread and famous excitement 'as caused in the United States by ;illiam Miller, who had predicted the econd Advent for 1843. But more or ss important predictions and agita ons can be found during many cen iries. The grades of belief on the sub et have varied from that of an ap roaching destruction of the world at a xed hour to that of a coming in of the olden Age without any physical ash. In various countries there have .en sects that have held from time to me that the millennium had already gun, and that they were enjoying its ?ening years. Perhaps the greatest riod of modern millenarianism was ie one between 1600 and 1860, but aring the first and second centuries was a very generally accepted tenet. aking together the Book of Daniel ad the Revelations, the endeavor to nd in current events the fulfillment, a tendency to fulfillment, of the rophecies there made, was then almost niversal. The last decade of years of the pres at century, on which we have now itered, is likely to turn speculation ew in this direction; and presumably ie twentieth century will see it still iore rife, and gaining in intensity as le year 2000) approaches. A learned ivine os the Dominion has for some me fixed upon that date for the Second dvent, arguing that the greatest crises human history have occurred at in ~rvals of :2,000 years from the creation, suming tbis last to be about 4,000 ears before the Christian era. The tie date has been fixed by those who old that the six days of creation signi ed or typified six periods, of ',003 ears each, in the world's history, de oted to toil and endurance, to be fol )wed by a seventh of blissful rest. ut what is most singular is the variety f texts and calculations adopted by iose who deal with this subject, Lieut. 'otten, for example, finding all the aterial he needs in a chapter of the ospel of St. Luke and another of the ospel of St. Matthew, without resting pon t he Apocalypse or ' the earlier rophets. The expectation that the last day of e world would come in the year 1000 eD. was widespread, as the history f that perion shows. Thue approach f the year:2000) is likely enough to see istory repeating itself ini that particu tr. Trhe millenarian doctrine, how en, is obviously quite distinct from ny such foreboding, since by its very arms it gives the world another thous. nd years of existence, and under far ap)pier conditions than any it has ever nown. Lieut. Tfotten, if be is correct y reported, does not look for the end f the world sooner than a million ears; otd in any case the conception f a millennium, assuming, as it is not ificult to do, that the p)eriod is not ready running, is not to be confunded ith that of those who look for the ear approach of the world's end. AGAINsT TIME. Canadian Pacific Train Racing Across the Continent. 'nadian Pacific t!yer, whliich is racing cross the continent, paissed here at 11 .m. G;eneral Manage~r Van Horn nd p)arty are on board. The train as averaged thirty miles an hour from be Pacific coast to this point, which Sremarkable time, when the heavy rades crossing the mountains are con idered. The train is racing to catch the En lish mail steamer, which leaves New 'ork on Saturday night. On the level oad bursts of speed up to fifty m,iks ien hour for long stretches have been requent. Fromi Brandon to Winni >et the 13~3 miles were covered in' t wo otours andl a half. Sing Hi in the Right Place. [From the Boston Herald.] A Chinaman named Sing H-i has aken the posit ion of tenor in a Dunr heter c-hoir. IIUsTLING OUT THE HEBREWS. Zussia's Cruel and Suicidal Policy of Ex pulion- Heartleis Treatment by the Rusian Police. ODESSA, April 2.-Eight hundred Aewish families have been ordered to quit Kieff forthvith. The well-to-do have already gone, but the poorer classes are in the greatest straits. Many are arriving on the Austrian frontier in a destitute condition, but the Aus- ! trian oficials refuse to domicile the p5 upers. The Kieff polic- accept no excuse, raiding the city with the ut most severity unless bribed to delay action. The daily expulsion for Mos cow nunMrs from 100 to 1.50. On Sun dav an exceptional raid was made, when 0 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 with permits to engage in business. Ti; emigration of Jews from this city has quadrupled. Permits guaranteed by the minister of foreign affairs, min ister 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. LoxIoN, April 28.-The Pail Mall Gaz,!tte give;t great prominence to a scheme which is said to have been draf;ed 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,O00,O() 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 te 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. The Pall Mall Gazette adds: "This dec:siou comes at an 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 EANiG, Pa.. A pril 25.-A praet'cal application of the surgical process known as skin grafting has just been made in this city by Dr. John Ege, the physicia~n whbo achieved so much celeb rity by the recent skin-grafting experi ments in which he succeeded in trans planting white skin on the arm of a colored man and black skin on the leg of a whbite man. In those exp)eriments he denaonstiated that transplanted white skini spreadis and becomes domi nant, whbile the black does not, and thence deduced the co,nclusion that wmlte mtust have been the original color of mankind. Ten days ago he di rected his cperations in a moure useful channel by transplanting thirteen pieces of skin taken from 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 the Statc.] Surri-:, S. C. Iay 1.-M1r. T. 3M. lims, of Silver Station, Clarendon County, has itn is possession a mon strosity in thle shape of a calf with t wo perfectly formed heads and nieeks, two back bones and tails, but with but one body and one set of legs. H-e bought it as a curiosity fromi a negro named Copeland. whlo lives in this county and near Silver. The calf was born (lead, but Mir. Minms had it carefully skinned. stuffed and mo)anted, and it now looks almo"st as natural as life. Hie states that the calf had two throats, which lead into but one stomach. Hie thinks of taking it to Columbia during the Centennial and placing it on exhtibi tion. The Log Cabin Grant Built. St. Loutis A pril 27 -The hlistorie old log cabmi l St. L' uis county whieh the late P'rsidlent u. s. Graniit er'cted with his own hands an;d with logs cut ad' hewn byV himrsel f, is about to bie remtoved~ from .its p)rescnt site, and shippedl to Chticag.o. where it will be re-erected fo,r exhibi tion at the WXorld's Fair. Thle cabin now stands on a thirty acre tract of land, about ten miiiles sout hi west of this city a::d live miile we.st of Jeferson Barracks. "This Itadi matter is very serious. Iayor Shiakespeare must feel rather diturbed," .aidl Mr. Sprigg.in-. *Yes, I - hould thlink so.' returned: Mirs. Spriggins. "He'd better give up writin plays and tend to busin:ess. The Editor Entertainh-dt. Te.xarkans~ (all. We hadl at butternd lk su:ppr la-t Inieit nud-r the roof of on:e ofi ,nr le DISASTROUS FIRE IN CHATTANOOGA. Property Covering Twenty Acres at Ground Rurned-Lo3&ee Aggreaating a Quarter of a Mil ion. Cf AT-rAooA, Ti:Nx., April 29.--A fire, which started at 2 o'clock this morning in Campbell & C,.'s furniture factory on King st reet. ragtd fou r hou rs and destroyed property covering t wenty acres of ground and valued at $25).000, of which there is a total insurance of .150,00. The losses, as nearly as c-an now be estimated, are as follows: East Tennes see, Virginia and Georgis Railroad Company, on depot with contents, and fifty loaded cars and twenty-five empty freight cars, $125,000; Campbell & Co., '23,000; G. G. Lilly's new unoccupied block. Sin,fx); Peck's warehouse, $l5, 000; other small buildings,$70,000. The new)ly erected Mountain City flouring mill, valued at $200 000 was barely ,aved. During the fire several carloads of fireworks and other combustibles ex ploded, terrifying the spectators and those working to stay the fla:-nes. The fire department has only three engines and could do but little effective work, especially as a second fire occurred 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 firemen 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 3forrison Lumber Company's yard. OLD HUTCH MISSING. The Famous Chicago Wheat Speculator Believed to be Demen.ed. CHICAGO, April 2.-B. P. Hutchin son, the veteran wheat speculator, known the country over as "Old Hutch," has been missing since last evening, at which time he bid a friend good-bye .and said he would 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 S2,000,000 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 hen found here by the police. LATER.-B. P. Hutchinson, the mis sing Boaid of Trade man of Ch2icago. is now in tWe custody of the chief f police who is awaiting instructions from young Hutchinson to whom a message has been sent to Chicago. The old man was walking aimnlessly about the streets when arrested, and appears to be entirely unbalanced in his mind. OLD HUTCH'S wHlEREABOUTS. TERRE HAUTE, IND., Mfay 2.-P.. P. Hutchinson was located this morning at the Exchange Hotel, where he was joined by a Chicago detective who has instructi:'ns to stay with him and bring him home if possible. CrIcAGo, Mfay 2.-"Old Hutch" ar rived here fronm Terre Haute this even ing, He declined to he inter viewe '. TO EXPLORE THlE EARTH'S SURFACF. A Well to Be Sunk as Far as Human Skill Can Penetrate. W HEEI.IG, WX. VA., April 2.-An eight inch well which is being sunk near thiscity by the Wheeling Improve ment Company in a search for oil or gas has reached, after several months of boring, a depth of 4,l00 feet. Both oil and gas have been struck through out in paying quantities. It has gone through several thiek veins of coal and has traversed layers of gold quartz, iron and numerous other mirnrals. Professor J. C. XX hife, Sty.' Geo)lo gist, who' has watched the drilling closely, has succeeded in gettintg the government interested in it. The re suit is that after the well has been snk to the depth of one mile the gov ernment will tatke up the work, and under the direction of two expert oRi cers oif tihe Geological Survey drill into tile earth as far as human skill can penetrate. Thie temperature and umgnetic c mn ditionls will be observed as far as possi ble, and byv means of an instrument costructed for the piurpose a complete record (if thte drilling and] all discov~er is mtade will be kept. This rec:,rd will be p'laced in the G;eological Sur vevs exhib,it at thte Worild's Fair and aftrward' pre-ervedl at WVashintgten. Profesor Whiite andt' tihe go?v4 rumitlir ofieers say thtis will be onie of the mo'st no. vel and' impo ~rtan' t exiit s at t :e ~air atnd wi! attrA t tile attenitionl of the scie'n tiS of thte world. -'Somwhere uponl our unknown shore, Where the streamis of life their waters There sit three sisters, evermore XWeaving a silken thread." Lovers of classic paintings are famri 1ir with that famous group. cailed tihe "hree Faites." F-ate~ seemis cruel when it d.-priv e- womnil and' girls of iheailth. ,ut mn l)r Pit'ree' l-avorito Prescrip tio'n ther~ tirod a (-tie oftld value for nerv.hu pro-tratin. -ick beadache, beaIn - uown. pal .va in. weak allt t~ thos xc ei.'n 4.mlit that make- titeir live, mui-erable. All who use it prai.,e it. It con1tait, n hurtrol ini gredents andi\' /'e'' i. o re