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LOCAL AND SPECIAL. Reduction in shi e. Now iln No. 1 at $2.40 per thou;ani. tf F1.M: & .EK i'o; M AS. Call Meetiug of Aiuance. There will be a call meeting of the County Alliance to be hei in tih Court House at 11 a. n., Fri.iav. Septen ber 8th. Each sub-Alliance i, tarni,stly requested to send up a iu;I 6iieeg:tion, as business of imlportauct will Le transacted at the n :ting. WV. F. L AI,Peien C. F. Boyd, Seeretary. Thousands of rnen deLire to thow o' the Tobacco, Opium, or Drink ll::it, but lack tb: wil!-;ow-r. Hall's Clo ride of Gold Tablets are pleu:ant, urm less and work a Miii i cure. Try them and release yourseit om -:.lavery which is slowly destroying your inind and wrecking your nervous svstema. Now i?i ti-1 inte To get good Shingles eezip at tf. FULM ey S rMAN. Rearined. Capt. George Bizhop, v ho has been with the C. :. & L. RAilr,ad from the running of the first trains, and has worked himself uP from a train hand to an efficient conutuetor, has resigned. He was a good eanductor, attentive to his duties and at the same time court eous to all with whom he camie in cou tact. The Herald anod News regrets his withdrawal fro:i the road but wishes him success in wvhatever lie may undertake. Still in the shingle rarket. No. I shingles now selling at S2 4oi ptr I,otlf). tf FUL ltR & TOCKMAN. Hill's Chloride of Gold Tablets cure the Tobacco or Opium liait. Ask your druggist for them. The Jamem 1). Nance it a tip. There will be a regular neeting of this Camp at Newberry on Monday next. The new consutution will be submiteed for adoption. There will also be an election of delegates to at tend the reunion at Dirruinginai, Ala. A full attendance of all the ieiners is t-arnestxy desired. Ali iiembers who have not paid the ten cents will please bring the same or send it to the nieet ing on Monday. Good slingles Now on haud and for sale at low down prices. Give us a cail. Ef. FcULEIt & STOCKM A N. Bring $12.50 to SaL th k Wearn aiid get one of those suits worth :Z:15.00, $16.50 $18.00 and 0.00. The Old Quhker (ratveyard On Bush River has been fenced in. Mr. W. 1. Herbert wants all those who are interested to niwet hirn, or send hands to work, on WedneMday, Septeml her. 6. He desires to have it cleaned up. Those who are interested and prefer can send the money and Mr. Herbert will emphy the hands. Those who come to work are rtquested to bring hoes, maddocks, and axes. Seed Barley and Eye, ftr sale by 4t. 1. N. -AIm N. Two No. t .rik Cows-, With young calves for sale by L. J. JON ES. July 18, 189:;. tf. The Circuit arsonraie. The stewards of the New berry Me thodist circuit have decided to enlarge and improve their p)arsonage on Cor nelia street. The present building will be sawnr in two and a hallway will be put iin. Then four ro->ms upstairs will be added. Trhis will make it a roomry and1( con v.:nient house, and, as it occu pies one of the best sites in town, it will be a very desirable res ience.-(iserver. iEreadi. The best Breadl ever bren in New berry. at J1. 8. Rutisel's every (day. Also Fruit Jars amti J1 livly Tmlers at lowest prices by J1. S. Ru er~i . lyv. That is the score of the baseball game between Newberry arid Wiun ires at WVhitmirres oin JTuesdlay. The feature of toe game wasi New berry's battery work, laitche-r Carl isle s:inking out 18 men. Glasgow niade a beautiful running catch of a fly. The batteries were Carlisle and Liv ingstone; Davis. Riser and Ardiey; Umpire, Dr Laws on. The Newberry t>oys are!loud in praise of the handsomze mannier they were treated by the Whitmires team. Many of the fair sex graced the field by their presence.--Observer. Specimen Cases. S. H- Clifrord. New CastlJe. wvis.. was trou bled with Neuralcia and lIih,umism it. his stomach was dlisortlerecd, his I.iver was atreet ed to an alarmninrig;rve, apitet ite rtei away. and he was terrib'ly reduic.l int ric-h awt strengt>i. Tnree bottles of E1ecrie. 1itters cured him. Edward Shepherdl. IIarrisburg,I Il. had1 a rnnning sore on his 19:g or ,i:.:ht year' 4tanti ing. Used thrce buttle, of* Elecri hitte.rs anid seven boxes I reklirns .\rn:a~ alve, and his leg is sound an! wvei. Joim spaker, en tawba, 0.. hadI rive~ arg.- Fever sores on hris leg; doctors said lic was inceurable. On'- bot tie Electric Bitters and one' box Iucklen' .\r nicaSalve cured laun eniirei3 . .so ld by Robert son & bilder. Children's Suits at New York Cost at Smith & Wearn's. Collings, thbe Jeweier, kr-eps tne latest styles in Jewelry, and his pirices are made to suit the timres. tf Joe Rufr lron;glht nack. It will be remembered that somne time last year Joe Ruf. c-olo,red, broke into Ward and Peatrson's store arit was arrested. Mir. Thos. Neel wen nt on hris bond buit a few days before court Joe pulled out for parts unknown. His case wr's tried in his absence and a verdict of guilty renidered anid a sealed sentence was left to await his retlurn. But Joe did not returnt. A bout a week ago it was learned that Joe was ar rested in Atlanta. Mr. Nee! got Pollee man Franklin to go over and bring Joe *back. -He had no recitusition papers ani-nad somc li te d ti--ulty Ii n ge tting ;dh-e Chief of police of Ar lant a to let himi have the prisoner. The Chief of At Janta claimed that there was a reward of $100 for Joe arnd tic wantedl the rm-o ney before hre de!i veed thie p risonier. He had him mixedl, possily, with Lang Bowers, for whrom there is a re ward ofSln00. And iinally Mr. Frank lin had to pay $-?. Mr. Franklin reached borne withI is prisoner on :Sunday and .Joe will have to wait :n jail untIl court before lie can know his~ sentence. $100 I:ewadrd, Stoo. The readers of this ptaper w ill be pleased to lear n 1h a t t here is at least oneI dreaded disease that s(ie:nce hasi been ab!e to cure in all its aats and that is Catarrh. Hall's (atarrlr (tre isth -only positive ene nitw known to thre *medical fraternity.( Catarra bteinrg a conistitu tionral dI -':S', re''Iunie a coni stitutional treat,rnt-. Hltl's (Catarrh Cure is taker initernali., -n--ig <inreet -ly upon the bloodtt andt milbOnS surfaes ofthesysteml, threreby tiostroyVing thre foundation of the disease, arid givimg ithe patient strength by bin!ting uip the constitution and aissistli in-g natre *in doing its work. The .proprietors have so much faith iut its curative owers, that they offer One' }{ndred DlIars forany e:te ihat it fails to cure. send for list of Testimnfiak. Address, F. J. CHE'S EY & (:0, IToledo, 0. > Sold by Druggist, 7c VARIOUS AND ALL AHOUT. Mr. Thos. Cook is now with Suummer .M r. John Grillin is tv -v the conduc tor on i het. N. & L. fre:ght. ir. V. I. Oxner desires the at ten ti(IT of tMe CouEny Commissioners. 'hat is a remarkable story of Major 'erry published on the first page. There wi:1 he no preaching in the Lutuv:an e.i6rch nextSunday. Mr. Plik B,uknight captured some of the straj water fowl on Bush river. There was a colored excursion party in Newberry fra Greenville last w Veek. Next Monday is saleday but there w iii be nothing to sell by the olticers <fanort. M r. B. B Davis has aceepted a posi 10ii as 1i eien on the C. N. & L. fre ih t. We ask attention to the announce nt-nt or, Iavenvort & leuwick in an otlhr coiuin. Read the story of Major Perry. His se!uon Ia ituch truth in it. It is a very strange CaSe. "A Tale of Troy," a portion of which appears ou the first page was written -y _Mr. David Jones, of Ohio. The Lutheran parsonage is being re painted. A little paint would help :lMuy residences in town. There will be a public exhibition of the Central Academy near Powaria on Septeniber 7. The public is invited. The annual meeting of the Newberry Building and Loan Association will be held next Thursday the 7th instant. Rev. 1). G. Phillips preached several very ftie sermons in the Thompson street church on Friday, Saturday and Sunday of last week. The streets need cleaning and work. It is best to spend a little money keep ing things clean than run the risk of iiaking sickness by a lack of it. "To live and let live" is a good motto and that is what Messrs. Matthews & Cannon propose to do. They will be ready to serve their friends and cus tomiers in a few (tays. Mr. Jesse E. Prince, who has been running as route agent on the C. & G. road, stood his second examination a few dys ago and made 100. In con sequence he has been promoted and is now on the run between Atlanta and Cl.arlotte on the Air Line. Our Mr. Houseal must be lost in Chicago or he is economizing on stamps or he issoenchanted he has forgotten to write that letter he promised to send. \Ve have heard never a line from him since he left Asheville, N. C. We hope he is not lost, strayed or stolen. He pulled in yesterday just before we went to press, safe and soun.l, and will be heard from next week. 2Mr. W. J. Smith had a mule he was riding to tall through a bridge over Indiau Cr.,ek on Sunday the 20th of this mouth. He was considerably bruised about the face and the ..ule got everal bruises. The planks.on the brid:.e were rotten. It has been in this (oiditiLon for some time. The bridge, we understand, has been fixed. Georgiana, wife of Stark Giles, died last Thursday evening of paralysis. She had been ill a long time but recov er'd under the treatment of Dr. Kibler and was up and about when the stroke of paralysis caused her death. Georgi ana was a good and worthy woman and was respected by the whit. and olored citize2s alike. She leaves hus band and a son and daughter to emu late her virtues. A United States Deputy Marshal nme to New berry ane day last week to arrest a party who had been violating the revenue laws. He found his man and while here waiting for the train to return they both feit like they needed something for the nerves' sake, and there was no alternative but the dispen sary. The Deputy being a stranger the prisoner identified and vouched for him and. they both went off and en joyed themselves. According to Ed. Bar:et t Hon. Fitz hugh Caldwell, of South Carolina has his calling and election sure. He says: Hon. Fitzhugh Caldwell, of South Carolina, filed an application to-day to be made minister to Italy. He is the first applicant from that State who has the endiorsement of every member of the legislature. Even Senators Butler and Irb'y stand jaw to jowl on it. Mir. C!evelaud has promiised an important foreign consulship to the State when ever both factions meet to recommend any one man. If he does,not land there some other equally good place will be foundl for him, according to Mir. Quin ey.-A ugusta Chronicle. If You Will Ask your Physician, he will tell you that there is niothiing better for the Liver Blood and Kidneys, or Rheumatism than the Harris Lithia Water. tf. Personals. MIr. Z. F. Wright has returned fr om New York. Mir. H. H. Evans has returned from Washington. Mir. J. WV. Chapman left yesterday for New York. Hon. Geo. S. Mlower Icaves to day for Gleun Springs. Rev. and Mirs. Dr. FOX have gone to Lincointoin, N. C. MIiss Lilian Glenn is visiting friends in Lexiu'tton, S. C. Mir. J. .J. L-mne has gone to Chicago to) the World's Fair. M1r. J. F. J. CaId well has returned fromi Washington. Associate Justice Pope returned-yes terday from Ctesar's Head. MIiss Hattie Leavell returned from a visit to Anderson yesterday. 3Irs. Geo. A. Wright has gone to visit her parents at Johnston. Mir. and airs. J. P. Pool have rn turned from Hendersonville, N. C. 3Mrs. A. Coke Smith, of Norfolk,Va., is on a visit to relatives in New berry. Mirs. D)r. G. B. Caldwell visited re latives and friends in Newberry last Rev. J1. H. Wyse, of Pomnaria, left yesterday for a short vacation in Vir gimia. MIr. and Mirs. N. G. W. Walker, of Barnwell,were visiting Dr. S. G.Welch ast week. M1iss Alice Miazyck has returned fro:ao a visit to relatives and friends in harleston. MIr. Foster MIartin and sister, Miss anie Martin, left yesterday for the World's Fair. Mirs. Dr. Perry of Augusta, is on a isit to her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. . Livingston. MIr. Wmn. ID. Nance, of Greenwood, ,as in town yesterday. He had not een here since 187G. MIisees Eva and Leno Riser have een on a vis.it to friends and relatives n Edgefield County. Mr. E. F. Strother and Mr. J. W. itbell, of Batesburg, spent a few avs~' at Dr. S. 0. Welch's last week. Me.ssrs. Eugene Greneker, and Pierre avek, of the South Carolina road, wir 'been home on a visit for several j>rof. Edward B. Setzler left yester Lv for 31t. Pleasant, N. C., where he as a professorshiip in North Carolina oike loc:ated at that place. 3lts. 3Minnie Lee Sims, of Valdosta, a , arnd daughter of tihe late Capt. asil M. Blease, of Newberry, is on a isit to relatives in New'berry. MIr. J. R. Timimerman, of Edgerield, was in New berry a few days stie p)ast veek on a prospecting tour. He wants t' go ini businet.s and was much leased with our town but the difli ulty was to get a suitable building. XV hope he may come among us. Highest of all in Leavening ]Po AB5OLW Reunion of Company G., 13th Regiment. The annual reunion of Co. G., 13th Regiment, was held at prosperity on last Saturday. This is the anniversary of the date of the Connany leaving for the battlefields of Virginia. It had been thirty-two years since they shoul dered their guns and went to tight for the cause they believed to be right. Many of their number were left upon the battlefields of Virginia and other places,and many have gone to join their friends since. Some of those who still survive bear marks of having bcen in the thickest of the fray. Of the coin pany there are still forty survivors, many living in other States. There were present at the meeting twenty-six, being tbo-:e living in this county most ly, though Hon. J. H. Counts, of Lex i ngton, was present and made a speech, recounting many of the plee-ant inei dente of camp life. Mr. Lever, of I*x ington, was also present, and Mr. D. H. Taylor came all the way from Beau fort to be present at this meeting. A sp -oeh was, also, made by Captain John F. Banks, the last Captain of the company. Aa org%nization of the survivors ol the crmpany was effected four year ago. One by one the survivors are paes ing over the river to join their comradei on the other shore, and every meeting since the organization some death hai been reported, except the one held lasi Saturday. During the past fear nC deaths have been reported. The following officers were re-elected for another year, and in fact they were the officers elected at the organizatior four years ago: J. B. Fellers, President; J. H. Counts, Vice-President; John F Banks, Secretary; J. M. Wheeler, Trea surer. These meetings are pleasant and profitable and it would be a good idea for other companies to form similar organizations and in this way we can collect and preserve the true history ol the greatest struggle of modern times A Leader. Since its first introduction. Electric Bitter hats gained rapidly in popular favor, until now it is clearly in the lead among pare medici nal tonics and alternatives-containing noth ing which permits its uqe as a beverage or in toxicant, it is recognized as the best anc purest medicine for aailments of Stomach iver or Kidneys. It will cure Sick Headache Indigestion, Constipation. and drive Malarif from the system. Satisfaction guaranteed witl each bottle or the money will be refundee Price only 50c per bottle. Sold by Robertsox & Gilder. If it is too hot to wak do wn streel send to the Ice House for delicioni bottled Soda Water and refresh your self. Ice cold and 5c. per bottle. ly CHILLS CHMNLY CURRD! One bottle of Pelham's Cer. tain Chill Specific will cure any ordinary case of Chills and Fever. Guaranteed tc cure or no pay. GliGiven free with every bottle, one box Pelhamn's Live: Pills and one medicine glass Only 50 cents a bottle. .Masonic Notice. A regular communication of Amit.1 Lodge, No. 87, A. F. M., will be helt next Monday evening at 8 o'clock, a Masonic Hall. The M. M. Degree wil be conferred. oTT'o KLETTN ER, W. M. J. H. M. KINARD, Sec'y.. Don't forget that Smith & Wearr are selling 75c. and $1.00 Straw Hats a 50 cts., $1.25 Straw Hats at 75 cts., an< $1.50 and $2.00 Straw Hats at $1.00. If You Will Read the strong testimonials of persons whi have been cured by the use of the Mar ris Litbia Water, you will be convincei of its efficacy. tf. Buist's New Cro1 For Sale Cheap At Robertson & Gilder's Drug Store. FRUIT JARs! FRUIT JARS! A full line of Mason's Fruil Jars in Half Gallons, Quarts and Pints. Also Jelly Glasses and extra Rubbers for Jars. For sale cheap at. ROBERTSON & GILDER'S. Bottled Soda Water at Ice House in three flavors. Cold and refreshing. ly Smith & Wean are selling an.y Spring Suit, worth $15.00, $16 50, $l8.9( and $20.00, at $12.50. When you want anything in the Jew elry line go to C. W. Collings. He will give you satisfaction. tf Jewelry and Watches repaired and guaranteed by C. W. Collings. tf P3PPERMINT CORDIAL, A safe and pleasant remedy fox all affections of the Stomach and Bowels. Manufactured and for sale at ROBERTSON & GILDER's Drug Store. If Any one Will Use a case of the Harris Lithia Water and is not benefited, the money will be re. funded. tf. Bncklen's Arnzca Salv. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts. Sores Bruise, Ulcers Sat Rheum, Fever SoreaTet a.ll Skin Euptions, and positively cures Piles or no pay required. It is guaranteed te rive perfect satisfaction, or money refunded rice 25 cents pe box. For sale by Robert anl A- ldera, ,cr.-Latest U. S. Gov"t Report. Powder ~ELY PURE A TERRIFIC HURRICANE. It Passed Over Newberry Sunday Night Trees Uprooted-The Cotton Mills Unroofed - Crops 1rjure-di 18 Hours of Fearful Wind and Storm. One of the most terrible wind btorms known in this section in years, vi-4ited Newberry on Sunday. Ominou, clouds began gathering late in the aftrnooo from the Southeast. The wind began blowing early in the night and con tinued ince nantly throughout the en tire night and until about noon on Monday. Together with the wind storm there was a heavy downpour of rai. Many nersons were very much frightenea and sat up most ot the night expecting the house to be torn to pi-,ces. Large and strong houses were made to shake and quiver as a Teed, and tall oaks and stately trees that had stood the storms of many winters were torn up by the roots. The wind came from the Northeast and blew a regular hurricane for fully eighten hours without cessation. The day closed with a beautiful sunset foi lowed by a calm and ,eautiful moon lit night, the wind having shifted to the North and then to the West. COMMUNICATION SHUT OFF. The telegraph wir^s were down in all directions and we could neither bear how the storm was elsewhere or tell others how it raged here. The i trains from Columbia and Greenville finally got in but we could hear noth ing from Charleston and the coast country. THE DAMAGE TO THE COTTON MILL was probably the greatest of any in the town. The roof on the east side was rolled up and the rain was given free access to the machinery and cl:tb b low. The machinery was all soaked and much cloth was more or less dam aged. A new roof will have to be put on one side and the mill will be virtu ally shut down for several days. Mr. McCrary said he could not tell just what the damage will be but it will amount to several hundred dollars be sides the loss of time. A great many other houses ALSO SPRUNG LEAKS, and were more or less damaged. Among these are not only to be counted the store buildings with flat tin roofs but many private residences with new a shingle roofs. The streets were almost LITERALLY COVERED with trees and limbs of trees. Several fences were also blown down. The street force will be busy for sev eral days gettine the streets cleared. A large oak blew down across the street in front of Pool's stables and Mr. B. 1?. Lovelace had to cut his way out of his house. The large mulberry that stood In his yard was blown right in his front piazza. Many other trees wre up rooted in different parts of the town. Large trees in Helena and several places in the county fell before the fury of the storm. THE CROPS INJURED. The crops will be more or less in .jured. Some corn and cotton patches are badly damaged. The plants are tangled and brought on a level with the ground; the fodder shattered and the open cotton whipped into the soil, r and toe fruit much damaged. We have I not been at>le to hear from all parts of t the county, but such places as we have I heard from indicate that the storm was general. Mr. D. A. Ruff had the top of his barn blown away, and Mr. J1. J. Gallman had his barn blown down. The daily papers report pretty much i the same condition of things through-, e out the State, as the storm was gen eral. We regret to learn that the wind played havoc with Columbia's beauti futl shade trees, which were the pride of the State. IT CAME FROM THE EAST. A s evidence that it was a continuatinn of the storm that recently raged on the Atlantic, several sea birds were picked up or caught here in Newberry. gulls, Mother Carey's chickens, etc., having been brought hither from their watery home by the fury and-force of tbe winds, and by which turbulent ele ment many a little English sparrow lost his life. HIGH WATER. During the prevalence of the storm an immense amount ot water must have fallen. Scott's creek was full and reports say that the larger streams were much swollen on Monday and still ris ing. The Journal of Monday said that the Congaree was very full and rising at the rate of two fret an hour. There will be much damage to crops on t he river bottoms, if they are not entirely destroyed. The Calumbia Journal of Monday published the following incomplete ac count from Prosperity. Incomplete oe cause thbe wire broke before the opera tor finished sending it: PROSPERITY, S. C., August 9.-A terrific gale from the east-or rather east by north-raged here the whole of last night, doing immense damage to tia young corn and the cotton crop. Trees are uprooted in every direction, store sig'ns and window shutters are smashed, and dwelling houses and stores drenched. A large portion of the tin roof from Moseley Bros.' ware house was torn off and the storage goods drenched. 0The force of the wind was so great as tkilmany little birds, fifteen or twenty lie now in front of the Pros perity Hotel. The gale raged with in tense violence. SULLIvAN 'S IsLAND. The Augusta Chronicle learned from Mr. Arthur Buist, a passenger on the South Carolina train from Sullivan's Island and Charleston, that neither place has been wiped out but the storm did great havoc. At its worst the wind blew at the rate of one hundred and twenty miles an hour on Sullivan's Is land, which is a wreck. The island was covered with water to the depth of three or four feet, and over sixty houses and cottages destroyed. Three lives were lost. Two negro men and an old white lady. It was with great difficul ty that the ladies and children were conveyed from the insecure houses to the fort, hotel and other large and firmly anchored b'uilaings. STORY OF THE HURRICANE IN THE CITY BY THE SEA. At 3 o'clock this (Tuesday) morning the following particulars of the great storm in Charleston were received over the wires of the A'sociated Press: CHABLESTON, S. C., August i8. While the record of the terror and the mui wrought by the great disaster of 1885 remains unbroken, Charleston has again stood in the track of a cyclone whbich has shaken the old city to her foundation stones. The damage to property cannot now be told, and the loss of life is unknown. The citizens awoke this morning and gazed upon innumerable evidences of the hurricane which swept over the city yesterday afternoon and last night -uprooted trees, fallen roofs, broken fnncesLnd, in the lessubstantial parts dif the town, at wrecked sheds and shanties f,)und everywhere. The cyclone, with all the terrors wbieh the word has for the people of thi- section, swept tip the Coast and across Charleston vesterday. Early Saturday morning the dreaded signal was run up, and the city held its breath, hoping that the storm might pass us by. Saturday night a heavy gale started shortly after !Ltidnighr, and blew for several hours, but as a partial lull had preceded the dawn and con tinued throughout the early hours of the morning, it was hoped that, after all, the city would not :'all within the track of the cyclone. But the weather looked exceedingly dirty yesterday, and the wind rose again to a gale and came in fitful, an gry gusts out of the northeast. A heavy canopy of clouds, which during the forenoon drifted rapidly across the heavens, began to settle down upon the city. It had that muddy tinge which suggested the belief that there was plenty of wiud and rain behind it. Seaward a heavy .mist thickened until it became a wall of cloud. There was no longer a dou bt that the dreaded cyclone was to desced upon the city in all its iury. The crafts lying at anchor in the bay were first to take alarm, and from all quarters of the harbor they came hurrying in. All that could do so found moorings along the wharves, and others less fortunate moved higher up the river and made the best anchor age they could. The largest vessels, no less than the smallest craft, sought protection from the angry tempest. Fortunately there are very few large ships in port just now, else the damage done might have been multiplied many times. By I o'clock a special bulletin from the weather bureau, posted in front of the News and Courier building, warned the citizens of the impending disastar. The few people who were out in the storm congregated about the board, and having read tbedispatch, anxiously inquired for further and fuller particu lars. For the most part, however, the people had kept to their houses through out the day. The attendance at the various churches was small. and few people who are not compelled to do so, ventured beyond. their doors. But the inquiries for. further details of the hurricane were anxious and end less. The special dispatch had simply stated that a cyclone was central in Southern and Central Florida and that it was moving north by northwest. The velocity was estimated from forty to sixty miles. There was nothing for it but to calmly await the bursti:-g of the storm. It did not come suddenly, but af er the warning increased steadilu but per ceptibly in force and fury. ' he wind strengthened, as with an increasing purpose, from a gale to a hurricane, until, before the darkness finally fell, it was howling in fury over the houses and strewing the city with wreckage and debris of every kind and descrip tion. It continued to come in those sullen, angry gusts wbich mean so much to people familiar with the terrors of such disasters. Tiling went flying in every quarter until it was unsafe to walk the streets. Pedestrians venturesome enough to weather the storm found themselves drenched with rain, their umbrellas turned wrong,,ide out and themselves almost swept off their feet. The rain did not set in until about 2 o'clock, but when it did start it came in torrents which deluged houses and flooded the streets. With every gust of wind, it went in slanti-ng sheets from which there was no protection.. The terrific force of the-storm iforced the water in through .the..cracks and crevices of windows and in such quanti ties as to drench the furniture in sev eral houses, and in some instances they flooded floors to the depth of an inch (r more. It wvas impossible when night came to keep the gas jets burning. A few - feeble rays from sha.atterless windows and the faint glow of a full moou were the only raysof light which relieved the perfect darkness. So far only one death is reported. The Battery is a complete wreck, and several fine residences are in bad shape. The water front is badly damaged: likewise East Bay. Colonial Lake and Rutledge street and avenue have caught -it too. The bridge is completely carried off. The Charleston Lead Works have been seriously damaged, and property in the neighborhood of Charleston is injured to the extent of $1,000,000. In the city none of the business houses are open this' morning. Half the str'eets are impassable. Serious fears are entertaine~d .for the inhabitants of Sullivan's Island and the coast. The -fo'rmser place was last heard from Sunday. Communication is now -suspended. THE STORM IN SAVANNAH. SAVANNA H, Ga., A ug. 28.-A burni cane struck Savannah, the wind blow ing fifty-four miles an hour during Sunday, and Sunday night reaching seventy-six miles an hour. The baro meter fell to 28 31. A large number of buildings were unroofed, and many trees uprooted. Seventeen lives were lost on the river, Hutchinson's Island and Tybee, so far as heard from. There is believed to be more. One of them is C. A. Ulmer, assistant cashier of the Central Railroad Bank. Two others were whbite men and the others negroes. The names of the white men and ne groes are not yet known. One mar was killed by a trolley wire in Sa van nab. AROUND A UGUSTA. AUGUSTA, Ga., Aug. 28.-The storn which came from Florida and followec the Atlantic coast yesterday has done incalcuilable injury to the farming inter ests of the Southeast. No telegraphic communication.has been received fromr Charleston, Savannah or Jacksonville since yesterday afternoon. Augusta suffered no loss beyond the breaking of th eerph, telephone and electric lightwires by falling trees, but the damage to crops cannot be computed or estimated upon for some days. FLORIDA STORM-SwEP'T. JACKSONVILLE, FIa., A ug. 28.-This city has been cut off from conmmunica tion with the outside world since3 o'clock Sunday morning. The cyclone which the weather bureau foretoid last Saturday struck Jacksonville y-ester day, and rapidly increased in force and fury up to 4 o'c-lo',k p. mn. It traveled in a north westerly direc tio)n fromi the WVest Indies. ~It first struck the Florida coast at a point isouth of Jupitar Inlet. Its course was !still north westerly, and it traversed the whole eastern portion of the peninsula, damaging property more or .*less in a path of forty to fifty miles wide from the coast line westward. Clvi. on the FInancial situation. To the Editor of The Herald and News: The proposition before Con gress, introduced in the Senate by Mr. Voorhees, chairman of the committee on finance, to permit National banks to issue currency to the full exten t of their deposits of Government bonds instead of only ninety per cent. as heretofore, is a most important one just at this time, especially for the South and WVest. It would at one stroke give the country an increase of ever $20i(i,00) in its currency, and that, too, of the very best and most desirable currency we have, with not a shadow of taint or suspicion attached to it. Nor would it cost the government a single dollar to secure this large increase in its circula ting medium; w hereas under the Sher man law it is costing it in gold the full market value of the silver bullion pur chased month by month to secure about $4,000,000 of suspected silver tainted treasury notes. This increase would come too at a most opportune moment to assist in movingr the cotton crop of tie South and the grain crop of the Vest and would no doubt make a material difTerence in the price of those artdeS. And yet, does it not seemi pas-Ainix strange that the very parties who are making the most noise, anl literally rendinlg the air with their complaints, about an insufficient supply of cur renvy in the country, and are most vio lently opposing the repeal of this ob noxious and evil bearing Sherman law, on the pretense that it will put a stop to the increase of the currency? I say, does it not seem strange that these are the very parties, who are in every way possible obstructing the passage of a measure that would afford such prompt and immediate relief? Not content with fighting it fairly and squarely on its merits, which indeed they do not pretend to do, they resort to trickery, and try toJoad it down with vicious amendments that they know its advo cates will not accept. The Populists have their plan for overloading it, and we find our junior Senator Irby joining them in it. But at this nobody is sur pri:ed, for nothing hetter was ever ex pected of him. The silver fanatics have their plans for loading it to death, but this, too, was to be expected, for with them it is a question of rule or ruin. But what does surprise us, and not a little, is to find our senior Sena tor, Butler, virtually acting with the same crowd; for his attempt to tack on his State bank bobby to this proposi tion can hardly be regarded otherwise than a plan to overload and kill, or de lay it indefinitely. He well knows that his pet measure cannot be adopted wit hout a long and fierce struggle. He knows that the friends of sound money in his own State are, to say the least, not united in favor of the rehabilitation of the State. banks of issue. He is doubtless familiar with the language of his illustrious predecessor, Mr. Cal houn, who said on a memorable occa sion in the United States Sanate: "I there be any one point fully established by experience and reason, I hold it to be the utter incompetency of the State banks to furnish of themselves a sound and stable currency." He is familiar, too, with the wholesale ruin brought on several States by the "wild-cat" cur rency of State banks in times past, thus full. confirming the judgment of Mr. Calhoun. What guarantee can we have that they will be any better in the future, especially here in Soutb Carolina under our present "dominant elemient?" But if our Senator has such confidence in the merits of his State bank scheme, as a panacea for all our fneancial woes, let him bring it before Congress as a separate and independent measure, and have it duly considered and acted on. His party has a good working majority in both Houses ol Congress, a President in the Executive mansion, and the Democratic National platform pledged to - ie repeal of the, to him, obnoxous tax. The way, then, wauld seeni to be open to the accom plishment of what lie has so much at heart. Why, then, should he attempt to delay or load down a measure that would afford such prompt and effica cious relief as the one in question? Be sides, it does not seem quite the right and proper thing, either to try to force ,o important a measure through Cou gress by tacking it on to some other meritorious measure, or to use it as a dead-weight to kill such measure. Let each stand on its own individuAl merits. Indeed it seems to me that the friends of sound money in South Carolina, who are numerous and who have been atmong Senator Butler's chief support ers; can hardly be otherwise than some what disappointed at his recent action, bothb in opposing the prompt and un conditional repeal of the Sherman law, and at his attempt to overload and kill this perfectly sound and safe measure for securing so considerable an increase in our currency, which we hear se loudly called for on all. sides. Does it never occur to our distinguished Sena tor that he might possibly forfeit the confidence of this element of his con stituents, and- lose their active support just when it might be of most impor tance to him? Or does he hope, per haps, by a game of fast and loose ot the financial question to gain over more from the Tillmian-Alliance faction than he may lose among the friends of sound money? CIVIS. VL MOWRrS ~O U 7a p'C Mowr' ATTENTION COUNTY COMMISSIONERS' The Irl4l=e Ac-ag Enoree River in a D)angerous~ Cnmdition. NIR. EDITOR:-PleaSe allow mespace in your paper to call the attetition of our County Commissioners to the con dition of the bridge over Enoree River on the road leading from May binton to Newberry C. H. This bridge has not been safe for heavy loaded wagons to cross on for the last twelve months and it was so reported to the out-going commissioners, who had a few braces placed tinder it, which in our opinion, added very little to the strength or support of the bridge. The fact is the builder failed to run his braces far enough back over the piers to keep the weight of the bridge from pulling itself down. It's own weight has caused it to droop very considerably in the middle of the suspension and it will so contiaue to sink down until it finally tumbles into the river, unlessit is made secure by being properly fixed. A few weeks ago the same engire that caused the bridge at Whitmires to give way crossed back on this bridge and caused some of the cordage over head to show signs of giving way. The last time I crossed over the bridge I saw very perceptibly how much more the bridge had given down since the crossing over of the engine than it was before, and I assure you, Sir, that I crossed over with great fear and tremb ling and I promised myself that if I had to go to Newberry again soon I would go round by flat crossing. It would not surprise me to hear any time of some wagon, mules and teamster going crashing down in Enoree and perhaps some good man's life lost, by the fault ofsome one'sjudgment. Now Mr. Editor, I am not a perpetual grumbler, or a fault finder, and do not care to so appear to others, but I would like to know at whose door to lay the blame of bad bridge building. We have two comparatively new bridges over this stream not exceeding twelve miles apart that have given way and are in a dilapidated condition. Now we want to know who is responsible for this waste of public money. Certainly not our present toard of commissioners for the bridges were built before they came into office. I scarcely think that the out going board would will ingly receive work that was not, in their o,pinion, all right, but some how something was lacking in the building of these two bridges, perhaps in one the timbers were too frail for sueh a long suspension, while in the other bridge it may have been another cause. We don'L propose to try to tell the causes of these two bridges giving way, but I hope that our commissioners in the future will be more careful how con tractors put up their work. I believe a bridge should be so strongly built as to cross with safety any portable engine or any thing else that is hauled over our public highways. Now, Mr. Editor, with one more request, Iesides inviting our commis sioners down to inspect the bridge, and I am through with the subject. I am told by reliable parties that the new flat that is being built at Gordons Ferry, the only crossing we have to the S. U. & C. R. R., will be spliced gunnels. I don't know anything about the con tract, but I am opposed to spliced gun nels. I think the commissioners ought 0GREAT BAR All1$15, $16.50, $18 an Suits to be Knocked Dc Children's Suit All Straw Hats worth 75c. an< All Straw Hats worth $1.25 I All Straw Hats worth $1.50 ai Negligee Shirts These Prices Stricti We want the room for delay, but come at once a> as this is the only thingt: the above CUT PRICES. Your SMiTH J PulcSquare, FIRE LIFE ACCIDENT }IN 4 PRO VID We R8pi888nt StroaIm Con illlaar Brokers and Prc Prompt attention given tc __HIPP_& "IT STANDS A gu or E. .H AULL, AGENTr, New berry, S. C. MIMEOIR1PilS ANDS[P] 99978WE WANT ONE I JACK EROS ~ '~'3' Scientific Machine 6 -~ their cost a dozen t A child can operate discounts. - ~ 29 Murr Makes Ice Creal to put us a good Pat in at that point. My o vn knowledge and observatiol of spliced gunnels is that they don't last as long as solid gunnels, and that they soon droop at the ends and thereby be come a dead load to carry over the stream. Hoping that what I have said will not be received at all as ap pearing dictatorial in this matter, I am, Yours for s-ifety, W. B. OXNER. Maybintou, S. C., Aug. 21, 1893. DEATHS. Mrs. Susan Nance, of No. 7 Town ship, died on Friday, the 25th, after a long illness, aged about 70 years. Miss Bee Thompson, .daughter of Mr. J. Y. Thompson, of No. 2 Town ship, died on the 23d, of typhoid fever, in the 20th year of her age. Mrs. T. P. Lane died early Tuesday morning, of typhoid fever, in the 36th year of her age. She will he buried at Rosemont cemetery this (Wednesday) morning, at ]0 o'clock. The Herald and News extends its sympathy to this bereaved and stricken family. Oxford Ties at Reducod prices a Smith & Wearn's. A BICYCLE FREE OF CHARGE. There is now on exhibition in one of my show windows the handsom somest Bicylce ever brought to this city. It's a Rambler Racer, full nickled, cost $175.00 and is one of the best machines on the market. It's not for sale, but is to be given away, and this is the manner in which it is to be be done: If you purchase goods to the amount of $10.00 or more, cash, you. will receive a ticket wbich wll entitle you to one chance in the drawing which will take place as soon as the requisite number ottickets have been issued, notice of which will be given through the daily papers. A duplicate of each ticket issued will be retained, and all of these will be placed in a box, thoroughly mixed and one drawn there from by a disinterested party. The person whose name and number ap pears on the card so drawn will be pre sented with the bicycle. Don't you need a new Suit of Clothes to tide you through the balance of the Summer? Better purchase it here and get the benefit of reduced prices. In order to make room for Fall Stock, which is soon to arrive, I offer for a short time Suits that formerly sold at $10.50 for $7.50, $12.50 Suits for $9.00,. $15.00 Suits for $11.00 and $18.50 Suits for $13.50. There's big value in them, and the sale will not last long. 1 keep constantly on hand a complete stock of Underwear, Neckwear, Gents' Half Hose, Handkerchiefs, Suspenders, Col lars and Cuffs and the latest shapes in Hats. If you do not reside in Columbia, write for what you want. Prompt and careful attention given to mail orders. M. L. KINARD, Clothier and Farnisher, 120 MAIN STREET. GAIN SALE! WEA]i~TS &1 $20 Spring~ wn to -- *IL. U s at N. Y. Cost. I $1.00 Knocked Down to .50 Enocked Down to - .75 d $2.00 Knocked Down to $1.00 GREATLY es Su REDUCED. Marked Down to the LOWEST NOTCH. v Cash to Everybody. our big Fall Stock. Don't id bring the COLD CASH, iat will take these goods at s truly, a WE ARN, BWBERRY CLDTIIERS." UR ANCE.* E}Against Loss of Property. For Comfort of Fami'y. Against Loss from Business. ipani88 and t88 Sat etj and ECaffij. duce Merchants. all business entrustNd to us. SWILSON. T T HE HEAD?" RANIDITY, DURABilITY AND SIMPLICITY. VYER 1C0,CLO IN DAiLY USE [ AS BEEN T HOROUGHLY TEST .ed by the p)ublic for twelve years d the large number in use to-day is a ir an tee to its qualities. )ld Typewriters taken in part payment new Caligraphs. We rent and sell on y terms. C. IRVINE WALKER, JR., & CO. GENERAL AGENTS, 9 Broad Street, Charleston, S.C inEVEY TOWN DELILERS T FREEZER. made on a Scientific Principle. Save imes a year. It is not mussy or sloppy it. Sells at sight. Send for prics and iy Street, NEW YORK. n in 30 Seconds '1 -,,- ~Q'