The Darlington news. (Darlington, S.C.) 1875-1909, September 15, 1892, Image 1
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VOL. XIX, NO. 37.
DARLINGTON, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1892.
WHOLE NUMBER 920.
LKAL L1C0SIIS,
MATTERS IN AND AROUND PROS
PEROUS DARLINGTON.
A Column of News, Persons I and Oth
erwise, of Interest to Our Many
Readers.
The Cleveland House is now
open for the reception of guests.
Misses Bessie and Emma Wil
liamson returned home last
week.
The Confederate monument
will shortly be removed to the
Court House park.
Mr. R E. James is buying
cotton for Messrs E. H. -Lee A
Co., of Raleigh N. C.
The Misses Fountain have re
turned from New York with a
new stock of millinery.
Mr. J. T. Sumner, of Doves-
ville, lost a very fine cow from
hydrophobia last week.
Mr. Clarence A. McCown is
clerking for Messrs West &
Honour, where he will be glad
to see his friends.
Mr. McKenzie, of Monroe, N.
C., has located in Darlington.
He is buying cotton for J. M.
Fairley of Monroe.
Mr. J. J. Sheppard, proprietor
of the “Racket Store”, nas re
turned from New York with a
large and desirable stock.
Rev. W. A. Guerry will con
duct services in St. Matthew’s
Episcopal Church on Sunday
evening next, beginning at 8
o’clock.
We wish to call the attention
of our readers to the new adver
tisements of Brunson Lunn &
Co. and Woods & Milling ap
pearing in this issue.
The subject for the meeting
of the Y. M. C. A. on Sunday
afternoon next is, “The sincere
inquirer will find the truth,”
John III, 4-18; VII, 17.
Mrs. J. H. Gandy, of Harts-
ville, has an advertisement in
this issue in regard to the new
stock of hats, bonnets, etc for
her millinery establishment.
Four additional deacons of
the Baptist Church were elected
on Sunday last. They are Mes
srs E. C. Lide. John Douglas,
E. R. Cox and J. P. Coleman.
The Florence tobacco market
was opened on Tuesday. A
large crowd was present and a
number of sales were made.
Several Darlingtonians were
present.
Mr. S. Muschel.of New York,
the new merchant, who is locat
ed in the Early building makes
his announcement to the people
of Darlington and vicinity in
this issue.
Dr. W. B. McGirt, the popu
lar dentist, will be in Society
Hill next week to allow persons
in that neighborhood, who de
sire to do so, to consult with him
professionally.
The Darlington Guards will
hold their first fall meeting on
Wednesday evening next, Sept.
21. Business of importance is
to be transacted, and a full at
tendance is requested.
Mr. D. S. McCullough has
commenced work on his livery
stable on Main Street, on the
lot formerly occupied by Mul-
drow’s blacksmith shop. He
expects to be ready for business
in a month.
The attention of our readers
is called to an article on another
page from the pen of Dr. W. J.
Alexander. It is a criticism on
Dr. Bogg’s recent baccalaure
ate address on Ethics to the
graduating class of the South
Carolina College.
is pr
nth
The News office with a fine
printer’s brush made from the
root of the palmetto. Brushes
made of the palmetto have no
equals for durability and Mr.
white keeps in stock all kinds
of these brushes sutable for
every purpose.
The county Democratic exec
utive committee has been call
ed to meet on Saturday next for
the purpose of considering the
Contest of J. N. Parrott for the
nomination for Clerk of the
Court. Thisis a very important
matter and it is imperative that
every mdmber of the committee
attend the meeting.
The popular play, “the Colon
el,” will be rendered at the
opera house in Florence this
(Thi
com
run
lington returning after the play
and a number of people from
these places will take advan
tage of the opportunity to see a
good show.
On last -salesday J J. Ward
Esq, purchased as agent the en
tire property of the Darlington
Light, Water and Power Com
pany, A new company will be
organized on Saturday and will
be called the Darlington Light
and Water Company. A notice
concerning the books of sub
scription is published in anoth
er column. By means of the
new company Darlington will
soon again have electric lights.
IN FANCY COSTUMES
The Young People Make The Evening |
Merry.
A pretty fancy party was
given by the young men on
Tuesday evening at the resi
dence of Hon. Geo. W. Dargan.
The merry participants were
gaily bedecked in fancy cos
tumes. All of these costumes
were quite pretty and some
THE CHARGE AGAINST A YOUNG
NORTH CAROLINIAN.
He also Sells a Horse and Boggy Which
he had Borrowed and Finally Comes
to Grief.
On Saturday night a man,
calling himself James Chat-
were, indeed, very handsome. | hams, was arrested in Darling-
The entertainment was contin
ued until quite a late hour and
was a happy occasion for all.
The following are the names of
those present, together with the
characters they represented.
Misses Clara Ward, Maid of
the Mist; Emma Williamson,
Forget-Me-Not
ton for abduction and larceny.
He is charged with stealing a
horse and buggy and a little
girl in North Carolina. The
horse and buggy belonged to
one F. C. Watson, of Chatham
county, North Carolina. The
„ , Bessie Ervin,!
Spring ; Margaret Ervin, Swiss * s about fourteen years old
Peasant Girl; Ella McCall, Au- and is also from that county,
tumn ; Edna Dargan. “All’s i Her miinn
not Gold that Glitters Edith
Law, Bertha Travis; Marie
Lide, Golden Rod ; Sadie Dar
gan, Madame Necker ;01a Rast.
Pink of Perfection ; Corrie Law,
White Rose of York ; Ida Law,
Blue Bell ; Carrie Mclver, Ceres;
Maggie Law. Flora ; Eliza Dar
gan, Little Dorrit.
is Mattie Philips.
The girl while in Darlington
gave the following story:
Chathams, on Sunday of last
week, took the girl to ride, car
rying her to see her uncle. Af
ter visiting her uncle they
Apples, onions, lemons, pota ab £ ut
Ar Hnnnnr F years of age. He
again took a ride.
~ Messrs T. E. McCullough, I ® 0I r etime he told her that they
Capt. Kidd ; H. H. Rast, Ivan- had ,08t their wa y> b,l t h e kept
hoe; Harry Smith, Clown ;Fred ?. n dr,v l n 8 towards South Caro-
Law, Country Dude; Charlton * i J i n . a i an( l reached Darlington on
Law, Newman Nuggs; E. B. Friday. Fortunately for the
Dargan, Charles VIII of France ; K irl she found relatives and
E. M. Wells, Knight of the Gar- friends at the Factory and to
ter ; Henry Dargan, Sailor Boy ; these she told h,i r story. The
Walter Griffin. Skipper; Lawton inil tter was reported to the au-
Dargan, Uncle Sam ; Walter thorities and Chathams was ar-
Edwards, Knight of the XIX rested on Saturday night
Century. j Chathams sold the horse and
I buggy in Darlington. He is a
about twenty-two
says that he
I borrowed the horse and buggy
from Mr. Watson and that he
did not intend to steal them or
to runaway with the girl. He
got lost and when he reached
Darlington, he had no money
and he sold the horse and bug
gy to enable the girl to get back
home. He knew, he said, that
as soon as he could obtain em
ployment he could pay Mr. Wat
son for the horse and buggy.
On Monday Mr. Watson came
to Darlington and recovered the
horse and buggy from the par
ties to whom they had been sold.
He wanted to take Chathams
back to North Carolina, but of
course, he could not do this.
Chathams will have to remain
in our jail until the North Caro
lina authorities secure him
through the regular channel of
a requisition. The girl has re
turned to her home.
toes etc. West & Honour.
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Harvest your pea vine and
other forage with McCormick
mowers and hay rakes sold by
Welling & Bonnoitt 4t.
THE CONDUCTORS' FESTIVAL.
Eorthe Benefit of the Sick of the
Worthy Order.
The Palmetto Division of the
Order of Railway Conductos in
Charleston, will give a fair in
that city on October 10, the
proceeds of which will he de
voted to the sick and burial
fund of the order. There is no
class of men that is more worthy
of the people’s attention than
the conductors and as their fair
will be given for a noble pur
pose the liberal assistance that
has already been given it is not
surprising. But there is room
for more assistance, which our
people should freely give. A
handsome gold watch will he
presented to the man who is vo
ted the most popular conductor
on the three roads that run into
Charleston. Capt. W. G. Webb,
the well known conductor on
the Atlantic Coast Line, has
been put in the race by his
friejids and he stands a good
chance of winning the watch.
There will also be an “Atlantic
Coast Line” table at the fair
and any contributions for this
table will be greatly appreciated
by the friends of that line. All
contributions should be sent to
Mrs. W. G. Webb, 215St. Philip
St., Charleston S. C.
Buy a suit of clothes from the
handsome line just in. Black-
well Bros.
See our line of new crockery
just in. West & Honour.
GRAND DEMOCRATIC RALLY.
Welling & Bonnoitt carry a
full line of repairs for McCorm
ick mowers. Buy these ma
chines and save delays in har
vest season 4t.
Found, Sept. 10, 1892, that
on and after this date best bar
gains can be had on goods at
Blackwell Bros.
WORK OF THE FLAMES.
A NEW TAILOR.
A Popular Columbia Tailor Removes
his Establishment Here.
John Pugh, a highly respect
ed colored citizeu of Columbia,
has removed to Darlington. He
is a tailor and one of the very
best in the State. He proposes
to follow his calling in our town.
Darlington has long needed a
genuine first class tailor and
we can assure the people that
one is to be found in John
Pugh. His work has alwajs
given satisfaction to the people
of Columbia. We need no lon
ger to send off for tailor made
clothes for we can now have
them supplied at home. But a
man must have work to live
and Pugh’s residence in Dar
lington, affording the people
the advantages of a first-class
tailor, depends upon the peo
ple’s appreciation of his valua
hie services It is to our inter
est therefore to patronize him.
He comes with letters of recom
mendation from Mr. W. C.
Swaffield, Columbia’s popular
and well known tailor, and
Prof. E. S. Joynes, of the South
Carolina College. He may he
found in Mr. F. E. Norment’s
building on Exchange street.
Go to Welling & Bonnoitt for
McCormick mowers and hay
rakes 4t.
—» —
Two lb can corned beef, 5 cans
for $1. West & Honour.
OCCASIONAL SUBSOILING.
1
A Work that Brings Great Advantage
to the Farmer.
[American Cultivator.]
Probably no work on the farm
1 pays so well as that done with
j the subsoil plow on land that
i has been well nnderdrained.
The advantage of suhsoiling is
| that one operation lasts a num
ber of years, and if the drainage
is perfect, the land never loses
the porosity which the subsoil
1 plow gives it. If new land were
I drained as soon as the forest
were cleared from it. subsoiling
would not be needed. The de-
! cay of roots of trees in the sub
soil makes a natural drainage
way through which superfluous
or stagnant water can pass.
But in 99 cases out of 100 drain-
a* e is not resorted to until the
! compacting of soil and its ina
bility to carry off water makes
drainage necessary. Then af
ter the underdrain is down it
takes years of freezing and
thawing and clover growing to
establish the old water courses
again, or rather to make new
ones. The subsoil plow helps
this work amazingly. It should
follow the drain, and it will do
good to repeat the subsoiling
every few years, thus enabling
the soil to hold more water with
out being saturated, because the
surplus must always pass off
wherever an outlet is provided
for it.
THE mm NEWS.
ASHLAND.
Our pea crop will he very
FROM ALL SECTIONS AS TOLD BY
OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
Philadelphia Matters.—A House De
stroyed by Fire.—Personal Para
graphs
Mr J. N. Parrott went to Col
umbia last week on business.
The weather siill continues
dry, affording ample opportun
ity for the farmers to gather
their short crop of cotton.
Mr. M. N. Graj’has purchased
a twelve horse power engine to
which he proposes to attach a
saw after the ginning season is
over.
Mr. C. II. Decker’s business
has increased so much that he
has had to employ Mr. Laury
Lawson as an additional clerk,
who will prove very acceptable
to his customers.
A h a w k a few days ago
swooped down into Mr J. w.
Wadford’s yard among li i s
young fowls and on missing his
game flew into the house
through a window, whereupon
Mr. Wadford caught him alive.
Mr. A. R. Garner has just re
turned from Charleston, where
he has been purchasing a full
stock of goods to fill his store at
Syracuse, which he has enlarg
ed. He took advantage of his
trip and made a few days visit
to John’s Island.
Mr Madison Windham, who
lives on the McCall place, had
the misfortune to lose his dwell
ing by fire on Thursday. Al
most the entire contents, includ
ing about five bales of seed cot
ton, which he had stored in the
house, were destroyed. The
cause of the fire was a defective
flue to the kitchen stove. The
loss falls very heavily on Mr.
Windham as there was no in
surance on anything.
NEW PROVIDENCE.
a good season last
Mr. J. J. Gandy Again
Fire.
Yesterday morning about day
light Mr. J. J. Gandy, who lives
! near Palmetto, had two build-
; ings on his place destroyed by
fire. One of the buildings was
I used as a pack house for tobac-
|CO, and in this building he lost
about twenty-eight hundred
| pounds of the best tobacco he
i he had. The other building was
used as a storehouse and the
I cont< uts, consisting of one
J thousand pounds of fodder, and
plows and a number of other
Hon. Adlai E. Stevnerson, Our Next farming implements, were des-
Vice Preaident, Will Speak. troyed. The total loss is esti-
A grand Democratic rally will mated at $550, but Mr. Gandv
be held in Fayetteville, N. C., bad insurance on the pack
on Wednesday next, Sept. 21.’d 1 ®. 1186 aad to bacc °- Mr. Gandy
a Sufferer by j Evaporated codfish, s»me
thing new. West& Honour.
Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, Demo
cratic nominee for Vice Presi
dent of the United States, will he
the chief orator of the day.
thinks the fire was of incendi
ary origin. The loss falls partic
ularly heavy on him, as only
about two weeks ago he had a
Hon W. 0. Ewing, of Chicago, barn and about a thousand
will also speak. A number of :P ounds °f tobacco destroyed by
attractions will also add to the, dre -
pleasure of the day. Fayette
ville is not far from Darlington a “Reynolds” shoe and a
and if our people sliow a dispo- ' “ilk hat, found only at Black
sition to attend,''sufficient to
warrant it, the railroads will!
run an excursion. This occa
sion affords an opportunity not
given this section in half a cen-1
tury, namely, to hear an ad- j
dress from the next Vice Presi
dent of the United States.
well Bros.
Good Rio coffee, 6
West & Honour.
lbs for $1.
THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
Next Session Will Begin on 26 Inst—
Schedule of Examinations.
Can salmon, $1,50 per dozen.
West & Honour.
THE COLORED FAIR.
An Attractive Programme Arranged for
the Fall Festival.
The annual fall fair of the
Colored Industrial, Agricultural
and Mechanical Fair Company
will be held at the grounds of
the Darlington Agricultural and
Mechanical Fair Company
(white) on October 26 to 28. The
company has provided premiums
for all varieties of exi'ibits in
the agricultural, mechanical,
industrial and art departments
and has also arranged an attrac
tive programme for the occasion.
This is the second year of the
company’s existence and we
hope that an institution like
this, which cannot fail to be
beneficial to the colored people,
will have many years of useful
ness.
A notice concerning the next
session of the Darlington Public
Schools is published in another
column. It will be of interest
to all who contemplate entering
the schools at the approaching
session. The session will be
gin on September 26. The
schedule for examinations for
all pupils who have not received
grade tickets and all new appli
cants is as follows :
Mayo School, children under
10 years of age, Monday, Sep
tember 19; children over 10
years of age, Tuesday, Septem
ber 20. Factory School, Wed
nesday, September 21. St. John’s
school, children under 10 years
of age, Thursday. September
22; children over 10 years of
age, Friday, September 23.
Members of the High School
should meet the Superintendent
on Saturday, September 17.
Wheeler & Wilson No. 9 and
New Home found only at Black-
well Bros.
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STATE NEWS.
Gathered From Our Exchanges, And
Put in Paragraphs.
The Tillmanites of Sumter
| have abandoned their contest
and the full Conservative coun
ty ticket has been declared nom
inated.
A handsome monument will
he unveiled in Greenville to-day,
with imposing ceremonies, in
memory of the Confederate
| dead of that county.
Last week the News and
| Courier published an admirable
| trade review of Charleston for
i the past year. It showed that
! the city did solid work, despite
the hard times.
W. B. Boyle, a Sumter mer
chant, shot and killed D.
W. Chandler in his store
on Wednesday of last week.
Chandler had been employed by
Boyle, hut was discharged, and
the killing grew out of this.
Two negroes were hanged in
Spartanburg on Friday for mur
der. Two other negroes, one of
them a very little girl, were to
have been hanged on the same
day, but the Governor respited
them until he could look further
into their cases.
The two young men who start
ed on a trip across the continent
on bicycles, from Charleston to
San Francisco, have abandoned
their venture, because their
wheels broke. They had reach
ed a point beyond Augusta
when the accident happened.
A brick pavement is being
placed in front of Moorhead
Cox & Co’s store.
New mackerel in kits, W. & H.
short
Mr. James
right sick.
Gardner is
Garfield Park, a race course
in Chicago, was raided by the
S ol ice on Tuesday of last week.
ames Brown, a wealthy horse
owner, refused to surrender.
He killed one policeman and
badly wounded another. Be
fore he could escape, however,
the wounded policeman killed
him.
Since the primary
add
has passed
and the muddy waters have be
come settled we do not hear so
much of the Columbia Register
and its smart editor. He will
have a good rest until the next
election and then he will have
another opportunity to praise
I the dear farmer and quiety scoop
in their dollars in the way of
subscriptions. But we are un
der the impression that Editor
Gantt will not have such a pic
nic two years hence as he had
this time.
Our cotton is opening very
rapidly and the crop will be
much less than a full one.
Those who sowed peas after
small grain have had nice weath
er to save their hay, and most
of them have a real nice lot of
it already housed
Ashland Chapel, the new
Adventist church near here, has
secured the services of Elder W.
D. Grantham and have preach
ing the second and fourth Sun
days in each month. There are
Sunday School exercises at the
Chapel every Sunday.
Dr. Rutledge, who moved
from Clyde to this neighborhood
last winter,has proven to be one
of the most successful and effi
cient physicians that has ever
practiced in this section. His
practice has been remarkably
successful. He is well qualified
for his profession; besides he is
very attentive to business, and
universally popular among all
classes. We feel that we have
been very fortunate in securing
his services as a M. D.
JASPER.
We had
week.
Mr. H. J. Nettles started his
! gin this week.
Mr. Willie Ham has removed
from Mr. C. D. Player’s to Dr.
T. E. Howie’s.
Most of us are well pleased at
the result of the primary elec
tion and wish our opponents
well.
Didamus Kelly will oblige H.
T. Jones greatly if he will send
him his address. This will he
important both.
Some of us were desirous of
attending the protracted meet
ing at Black Creek Baptist
Church, hut were too busy to
do so.
The writer was in the lower
part of Chesterfield county a few
weeks ago and the farmers were
complaining of short crops of
cotton.
A hot supper will be given at
the residence of Mr. J. W.
Coker on September 27 in the
interest of the New Providence
Baptist Church.
On next Sunday all who have
been lately baptized and all who
wish to unite with us by letter
will be received into full fellow
ship in t h e New Providence
Baptist Church.
Mrs. W. C. Gandy died on the
j 8 inst. Her remains were the
first interred in the New Provi
dence cemetery. The deceased
often predicted that she would
(de at the age of forty. Htr
fortieth birthday was on the 7
inst and she died on the 8.
section has been finished.
Nelson Jeffords died on the
evening of the 11th. inst., from
an attack of typhoid fever.
Mrs. C. M. Wilkes had a wat
ermelon vine that furnished six
teen melons of delightful flavor.
Mr. T. H. Sanshury has a
child that is quite sick with ty
phoid fever, though at last re
ports it is better.
Mr. E. L. Stephens has return
ed to his home in Louisiana,
where he will take charge of a
graded school on October 1.
The farmers are gathering
their short crop of the fleecy
staple. It will not take them
long to do this. They will then
take the cotton to market and
realize small money.
We are happy to say that we
are having some rain, for it had
become quite dry in this com
munity. Garden vegetables
were suffering, especially the
late or winter varieties. We
failed to get turnip seeds up.
CLYDE.
Mrs. J. D. Dixon has been
quite sick, but is some better at
present.
Our boys have saved a nice
lot of fodder and will, if the
weather permits, save a lot of
peavine hay.
idgi
Mr. D. D. Johnson’s is being re
paired and will soon be put in
good condition.
Mr. W. T. Goodson recently
found on his place a curious im
plement which it is supposed is
an Indian tomahawk.
Mr. M. S. McKinnon has re
turned from his trip to the
springs and has resumed his po
sition with Mr. McNair.
Borne of our boys are visiting
frequently the Union neighbor
hood and we anticipate enjoy
ing turkey in the near future.
Mr. J. A. Smith’s little son,
Luke, is quite sick, hut under
the treatment of Dr. Wallace
we hope to see him well again
soon.
THE WORLD S NEWS.
CYPRESS
Mr. C. W. Harris left on last
Tuesday for Nashville, Tenn, to
i enter the medical college in that
city.
We had a fine shower of rain
| on Sunday night last and a cool
spell set in as soon as the show
er came.
Messrs Edwards, Norment &
Co are to be congratulated on
securing the valuable services
!of Mr. Charles E. McLendon.
A colored woman was badly
hurt on last Sunday morning
by a mule running away and
throwing her out of a wagon.
The farmers are very blue
over the short cotton crop and
the low prices. Good judges say
that about sixty per cent of a
crop is a fair estimate.
A temperance society has been
| organized at this place with a
good membership which is con'
tinually increasing. We hope
it will meet with success.
Try the roller pa
“ ‘ ell
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM EVERY
WHERE.
What the Outside World it Saying and
Doing.—The Happenings of aWeek.
Three negroes were lynched
together in Texas last week.
Each member of President
Harrison’s cabinet will make
four or five speeches during the
present campaign.
A railroad accident occurred
near Boston on Saturday night
in which seven persons were
killed and forty injured.
John Greenleaf Whittier, the
famous uoet, died at Hampton
Falls, N. H., on the 8 inst., in
eighty-fifth year of his age.
Thos. Rooney, of Plymouth,
Pa , having lost all his property
and money on the recent Sul-
livan-Corbett fight, committed
suicide on Thursday.
An engineer on a train near
Altoona, Pa., disobeyed orders
on Thursday and as a conse
quence a collision occurred and
eleven men were killed.
During the street parade of a
circus in Mayesville, Ky, on
Thursday, a man who was rid
ing in the cage with a tiger was
suddenly attacked and killed by
the beast.
Deaths still occur at a great
rate at the quarantine in New
York, hut the government is
taking such careful precautions
that the disease will hardly
spread in this country.
The census of 1890 gives the
Methodist Episcopal Church,
South, a membership of 1,209,-
976. There are 12,687 church
edifices and the total church
property is valued at $18,775,-
362.
LYDIA
Cotton picking seems to be
“all the go” in this community.
Miss Kate Carnes, of Bishop-
ville, is visiting Mrs. Dove Pate.
Ernest and Lida Harrell who
have been quite sick with fever
are improving.
Messrs Eugene Harrell and
John Skinner paid a flying visit
to friends and relatives at this
place last Sunday.
Rev. Mr. Bethea and wife,
who have been visiting relatives
in Marion, returned nome last
week accompanied by the form
er’s mother and tne latter’s
niece.
latent flour for
$5,50 at Blackwell Bros.
III> Ultimatam.
“MmU-llne, will you marry me?"
Hi» voire bail a hunky, appraliut; aouud,
hie heart thumped audibly and hia kueea
hail got beyond his eonrml.
“No, Horace, I will U)L”
“This—this Is your Anal answer, la It,
Madeline?"
“It is. Horae*. I am sorry I cannot”
“This Is the and of all my fond bopea, the
waking from the dream I have been dream
ing, and the winding up of the fool’* para
dise in wbiah 1 bare dwelt for the last
three months Is it?"
“I—I suppose It is, Horace, bat do not be
utterly cast down," said the young woman
aooUiingly. "Time aoftena all our griefs
and turns sorrow into Joy. In tha future,
Horace, when the pain of this refusal shall
have”
"Miss Hhuekers," he exclaimed, rising
with dignity, as became a man who had
received a temporary backset but had ra-
covered himself, "talk not to me of tha fu
ture. It may have its consolations, its
joys and its repose, but it cannot reawaken
old delusions, rienct forth, Mias Shuck-
era,” he added, reaching for his cane and
bat and moving with anrufflad self pos
session toward the door, “I can never be
anything more to yoa than a brother.”—
Chicago Tribute.
During a storm in Austria
last week a house, in which sol
diers were quartered, was struck
by lightning and set on fire.
Eight soldiers were killed and
their bodies cremated, while
seven others were seriously
burned.
On Wednesday of last week a
bank officer was crossing the
Sierra Madre mountains, in
Mexico, with $10,000. He had
five men for a guard. The party
was attacked by brigands, who
killed two of the guards and
captured the $10,000. #
The papers state that peace
reigns in Democratic circles in
New York State and that the
Cleveland wing and the Tam
many wing have flapped togeth
er. It is announced that Sena
tor Hill himself will open the
campaign in Brooklyn the latter
part of this week.
The Republicans last week
carried Vermont by the usual
majority and the Democrats
had a walk over in Arkansas.
In the latter, State there was
much talk of the great part the
Third party would play in the
election, but the result gave
that party a very insignifica t
vote.
John L. Sullivan, for twelve
years the champion pugilist of
the world, was knock out by
James J. Corbett in the twenty-
first round in a prize fight on
Wednesday of last week. The
result was a surprise and as the
bets were heavily in favor of
Sullivan a large amount of
money was lost on the fighi.
Corbett won $35,000 as the prize.
Aged at Nineteen Years.
An important bit of local history has
been discovered at Salem in connection
with a tombstone in the old Charter
street burying ground. In the utter
most corner of this ground is a stone
bearing this inscription:
"Mr. Nathan Mather died October ye
17th, 1688. An aged person that h»d
seen but nineteen winters in this world."
The meaning of this peculiar inscrip
tion has long been a matter for conjec
ture among local historians. In his
"American Notebooks,” Nathaniel Haw
thorne refers to it and says: “ ‘An aged
man at nineteen years,’ saith the gravu-
stone. It affected me deeply when I
cleared away the grass from the half
buried stene and read the name.”
The mystery has been solved by the
discovery in the Essex institute of n
book entitled, "The Genealogy of the
Mather Family." By this book it ai>-
pears that Nathaniel Mather was born
July 6,166V, and was a brother of Cotto:i
Mathei and a son of Increase Mather.
At the age of twelve years he ha
thoronghly fitted for college, and he w;:
graduated from Harvard at the age of
sixteen. At twelve he had read the Old
Testament in Hebrew and the new Tes
tament in Greek, and waa able to con
vene familiarly in Latin. He was dis
tlngutshed not only for his complet •
mastery of languages, bnt for his attain
ments in mathematics, philosophy, hi
tory, theology and rabbinical leamin .
as well. At the time of his gradnatii i
he delivered an oration in Hebrew npo:i
the state of learning among the Jews.-
Boston Journal.
The Celer* *f Amber.
Amber has a wonderful variety of
colon. Some of it is as clear as crystal.
some as yellow as honey, some light
blue and again a transparent green.
Then it is found as white as snow, the
color of cream, and often many of these
tints are blended in one piece. There is
a popular notion to the effect that am
ber has curative qualities for such ail-
i as croup and sore throat, and
thousand necklaces of it an sold
^ _ iBy tor that purpose.-latcrrimr
Perilous Biding on the Iron Horse.
“Did you ever ride on a locomotive!"
asked O. G. Haskins. “I tried it once
and have no desire to repeat the experi
ment. It was ont in Colorado, where
yon sometimes run so close to bottom
less chasms that yon could drop your
hat into them, and make turns so short
and sudden that it nearly disjoints your
spinal vertebrae. The master mechanic
was an old friend of mine and gave me
permission to ride over the road on the
engine o# the lightning express. The
engineer did not appear to fancy my
presence mnch, but treated me civilly.
We wore behind time, the night was
black as Erebus, and a terrific thunder
storm was raging. The engineer was
determined to go in on time, and the
way ho rnshed around those curves and
across canyons was enough to make a
man’s hair turn gray.
"The peculiar thing abont these moun
tain engines is that they do not take a
curve like any other vehicle. They go
plunging straight ahead until you feel
sure that they are clear of the track and
suspended in midair, and then shoot
around and leave you to wonder by what
miracle you have been saved. The
trucks take the curve in the orthodox
manner, but the superstructure is so ar
ranged that it consumes more time in
making the turn. With the lightning
playing abont the mountain peaks ami
half disclosing the frightful gorges and
swollen torrents, the great iron leviathan
swaying and plunging along that slip
pery, serpentine track, I first realized
the perils of railway travel and the re
sponsibility of the sullen man who kept
his hand on the throttle and his eye on
the track. I stood with my heart in my
throat, admiring his nerve, but not envy
ing him his job. At the first stop I
clambered back into the coach and staid
there.”—St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
linight Old Mon In Kmsox County.
Essex county, Mass., has been noted
not only for its legal lights like Rufus
Choate, Caleb Cushing, Judge Story
and others, but also for its deputy
sheriffs, some of whom have served
many years.
Of one of these men, Daniel Potter,
many amusing stories have been told.
At one time he entered a newspaper
office in Salem, and addressing the only
scribe who was in sight said:
“I thought I would tell you that to
morrow I shall go where I never went
before and can never go again.”
The scribe, knowing his caller,
promptly “gave it up,” and then Mr.
Potter said:
“It is into my eightieth year!"
Some years ago these old deputies had
a gathering at the home of a certain one
of their number in Gloucester. While
they were roaming about the honse the
host called the attention of his guests to
an old clock, a great favorite of his.
He told his friends of his geeat attach
ment to this ancient timepiece and grew
quite pathetic at certain points in his
remarks, which he brought to a close
by saying in a voice full of emotion:
“Gentlemen, I have wound np that
clock every night for more than forty
years.”
He hail evidently made an impression
on his visitors, when one old deput),-
who had been carefully examining the
clock, turned the tide of feeling evoked
by the story by saying dryly:
"Well, I always did think you were
something of an idiot! That’s an eight
day clock!”—Youth’s Companion.
Where Columbu* Got His Idea.
Mediaeval Europe knew but very little
of eastern and northeastern Asia. Many
of the most learned cosmographers of
the time taught that Asia stretched east
ward indefinitely, and no one imagined
that it bad an eastern coast washed by
the ocean. It was seriously taught that
eastern Asia was a land of vast swamps,
inhabited by monster serpents and
dragons. This was the opinion that still
prevailed np to within 200 years of the
time of Colnmbus.
At this time two Venetian merchants
by the name of Polo went on a vast
trading expedition to the uttermost
parts of Asia. They were gone many
years. Upon their return the son of one
of them, a young man named Marco
Polo, wrote ont a full account of their
travels, described the empire of the
grand khan (the Chinese emperor) and
revealed the fact that Asia was bounded
on the east by a vast ocean. He de
scribed this eastern coast minutely,
with all its vast cities and its wealth of
precious stones and spices.
It was from reading this book that the
imagination of Columbus was fired, and
he conceived the bold conception of
reaching this eastern coast of Asia by
sailing toward the west aronnd the
earth.
So when he discovered Cuba he had
not a doubt that he had landed upon the
coast of Asia, and that he looked upon
the same scenes that Marco Polo had
gazed upon 200 years before.—Yankee
Blade.
The Flouting Weeds iu the Atlantic.
The gulf weed (Fucus natans) which,
with its litle round "berries,” is not un
like the mistletoe in form, bnt of a
brownish yellow color, has been thought
to have lost its property of rooting on
rocks and to have acquired the power of
living afloat. It has even been sug
gested that the sea marks the site of a
submerged continent, apparently the
lost Atlantis. Dr. Krummel holds that
the weed has simply been drifted to its
present position by the Gulf stream and
Its affluents from the West Indian is
lands and the Gnlf of Mexico.
It is now proved that the Gnlf stream
is not a single narrow “river of the
ocean," as Maury poetically described
it, bnt consists of a mnnlx'r of currents,
not only from Hie Mexican gnlf, but the
Antilles. The weed, according to Dr.
Krummel, wonld take fifteen days to
float as far north as the latitude of Capo
Hatteras and five and a Imlf months to
reach the Azores. In the Sargasso sea
It becomes heavy and sinks: bnt the snje
ply is kept np by the Gulf stream.—Lon
don Globe.
A Growing Industry.
Inventive ingenuity of the highest
order is constantly at work to discover
uses for paper, while the manufacturer
and the inventor of paperraakiug ma
chinery are straining every eutr.y to
improve the quality of the prodia d.tn
cheapen production or to provide a i i
grades for new uses. Judging fr .n t.:e
still undiminisbed flood of .an a: as. it
wonld appear that the industry i yet in
its infancy os compared with the influ
ence it is destined to exert on the com
fort, intelligence'end advancement of
the human race. —Engineering Maga-