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bjjtr ? T*T_*? . .- _;_ B jW?pfK? WAtCa?A?, KitabrJahed April, 1850. feifeolidated Ans. 2. 1881.1 .Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aim? at, be thy Conntrys, thy God's, and Truth's.", SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 31, 1883. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jone, 18G6. New Series-Yoi. il. No. 38. 7 ~.-^-.TV - i]titry Tuosday, -mr TH* r a?u? Southron Publishing SUMTER, S. C. ?lim jlr tnnnm-in advance. A-.0 V a R T TS X MISTS . : insertion................,.$1 Od st insertion.................. 50 :three months, or longer will _ueatiens which subserve private j^Kbacbanred for as advertisements, and tribntes of respect will be * notices and notices of deaths pub or \j^worJc^ contracts for advertising It^Wmtdkmm arti Sov&ron. or ?.ooly at O?c^'w * .:.?>.'QSTESS, " v : ?ias:ne?8 Manager. . -COLUMBIA AND AUGUSTA B. R. j CO&BEKSEI* SCH KD CLE. i TRAINS t? OING SO?XH. -?wv$,l?2 I Ne. 48, J F-Daily. I No. 40 Daily. 9 50 pm 1H? * I 05 am 150 - 43* " 0 40 f lt 10 pm 12 10 - 2 04 am 245 - TR KISS QOIN? NORTH. j No. 43, ? Daily. Ko. 47, Daily. : Mark? - . -" Flemington.-^ 112 55 pa * 140^ 354 ? 525 10 00 pm 12 f? * 1 50am 2 40 ? 4 50 " { 6 20 u ? 43 .sops ajt ?ll Station*. 4Ssr?ad 47 ?epa onlr ?: Brinkley'?, ~ u: wFtwuiiij(i.a, Fair Bluff. Marion. Ti?men?vHle. Snater, Canuten June tevwr fm- Columbia and ali points on JL?? C^jCt*. Ai - R. R. Stations, i^ttciniu. and ail points beyond, should > Se. 4$ Night Expret?. Separate PoBmatf S?esper? for Charleston ':? fbr Aago?t* oo train* 4 S *n? 47. on 40 .?an take 4$ tr?in from A-cgtuta and Georgia tm X?tf amma?* A&trewvrua to]vd between Charle* to- and ton. ; Jtg^F.DIViKS,.General Sup't. ?on.<3*a??enger Ag'u STERN R. R. iQTJPBS?NTEISrBEN PS OFFICE, I?. ?MtTHBASTfi?N RAILROAD CO. I ^.4BltSa?M?K SBf- 3C?5? " Jinr- 21, 1882. I iOm?s? after this date the folio win5 Sehe ! dftte will be run, Sundays included : Kttana^^arjrstoo. Arrive Fiorecce. 9MW *fc?0 1. Jt-:-12 25 . M. &^&?&'fjrt?_~ 4 20 F M. ? S 3W??rjw:.??vw... .vr? 120 a. ?. .ba?..2?^.^ , Arrive Charleston 2- 5C a. X.-~?_6 50 A. K. 2 ?i&?''kU W. ? -rr. ? ? ~.?.8 44- A M. - ?^:^/3B^'ifcv.^;. -4 15 p.. if. . .' TiAtpev?ng Florence at 2 50 A. M. will mT&t?^ Mondes Comer. Train leaving Charleston at 12 00 m. wi? atop ?ply at Soucis Corner, Lanes ano* Kingstree. - ~ SUNDAYS EXCEPTED. Arri? attenter. ..12 00 m 2 50 p m ........ ?. 5 50 p m Leave Sumter...... ,*?fUtfa?:_ Arrive at Charleston. T. H . EMERSON, tieVr Ticket Agt. ........ 8 45 a m -12 30 p m 4, 15 p m J. F. DIVINE, Geni Sept. /Senti Carolina Railway Go, ?rt<?M^$NCn?O" f<bro?ry 4th. 1883*. Pas ' \j Jaeger Tra?na niU ran a? fol to WK until fur* thor nation. (No traine are run oa Camden /Uranna 00 Sunday* > TO COLOXMA. ; Sheave Camden-....... 0 45" a m 4 30 p m Leave C&mdeo Jonc?m... SOKan 6 3?}>re g? Arrive at Columbi *-11 28 a m 10 35 p m ra?M COLOMBIA Leer? Calamina........ ... 8 00 a zn... 6 5$ p m Arrive Camden Jcjr?etimj..H 35 a ?... 8 48 p m Afaire ac Caifldr?._:J. ! 40 p ra... !0 12 p tn TO CBAKLCSTON Lea re Ca mien ?. .6 45 ?rn 43 Op? Leam Camden June'- 8 00 * m 6 35 p m Arrivent Charleston...... I 00 p tu 11 30 p m rnnX ?HACLEftTwff Leave Charterten-7 00 a e.... S 35 a m Arrive Canden Jone'...!! 35 a m... 8 4$ pm Arrivent Camden 1 40 p ci...10 12 p tu TO arenarA '-Leave Caanlen . .6 45 a ia 4 30 f m Leave CamdcV: Jane*? ?-.'-S 09 a m 6 3? p m Arrive at Aogas?*-2 00 p m 7 13 a m I? * raox a nonar A Xeavw. Anfoita_~ 7 05 a m...9 00 p m Arrire ,Ctmden June'.-48 p m 10 35 a m ; Arrive Camden-_10 12 p ? 1 40 p m ?03 , ctiKjrjtcnoaa. CondeeMon?rands st Columbi* with Colam bta and GreetrrrUe Railroad both way*, to ana iroesa^potnt? on that Road and on the Spur tat?bevg, Uaien and Col a mb ?a and Spartanburg and. A*bvil?3 Ra?lroad.<. ?i*v with tbe Cbar IviUK Colombia and A agu nx Railroad to and from all pointa North by .-raine leaving Camden nt 0 45 a m, and arriving at 10 12 p m. Conacet?JoS mad- at Aognata to all Pointe /Weet and Sooth; ?Iso at Charleston witii fteamert JetTKew York-on Wednesday* an<l ^twrdaya. Ai*o with Charleston and Savannah Kaii?av for Savannah and ali point* South. Connection* made at Blackville with Barn t well R. ii. tenod^rom Barnwell by all trains on Acgarta Dlvixton. On Sa?ordnya-R??ND TP.IP TICKETS are .old t? rind , fm flt all Sutton* ?t one firat CIUSK fare for .he r^and trip-ticket? being g'ol til) .Monday noon, to return. Excursion ticket* geed SOT 10 day* are regularly on to and ttom all *iariaae at $ cents uer mile fvr round ^_THROU6II TICKETS to all point?, can bc Tft?fb&sed bj applying to Jame; Jooei?. Agent ICaedM. i>. C. ALLEN, General Pasaenger and Ticket Agent. JOHN B. PECK. General Manager. : .*4 ^ Charleston, S. C SAfl?LERrl?fflI HARNESST E FINEST LEATHER ON HAND Ready i H\ be-avorked cp ai the lowest living of the latest style and of m j owa workmansb;p, at my shop to sell. I mm prepared to do ali kinds of Jobs ia nf line of basinets. All Orders received will be promptly attended to, and with tb? greaiett care. < --A foil line of READY ? A DE HARNESS, > - SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS, MARTIN? GALES, and EVERYTHING ELSE pertaining toa First-class Harness Shop. OLD HARNESS made to look as good aa NEW. COVERING and REPAIRING Old TRUNKS -A SPECIALTY. AU WORK in my line GUARANTEED to give SATISFACTION. T a WR0TEN, bj flrp nh rire J Strenta Xarebis, uti. ij -Jr j; O NFEDERATE MONUMENT. Tbe Executive Committee would respect, fully represent to the pub He that they bave all the marble for slabs and shields ; have had the inscription slab cut and inserted, and the four shields ready to be inserted-and here the fonds have given ont, and the work must stop unless we can procure $225.00 to complete the monument. This amount will be required to cut the names of over 400 Confederate Dead of the District of Sumter upon the three slabs, and insert the same in the Monument. This will complete the work-in fact was the object for which the work was begun. We now earnestly appeal to all who desire to perpetuate the names o f Sumter's illustri? ons Dead, and particularly to those to whom such names are most dear, to aid us- by giv? ing such subscriptions as they can afford. Subscriptions can be paid to Judge Fraser, Treasurer of the Monumental Association, or to either member of the Committee. J. D. BLINDING, Chairman. L. P. LORING. E. W. MOISE. H. HARBY. GUIGNA RD RICHARDSON. TAX ?OT?CK -o OFFICE COUNTY TREASURER, SUMTER COUNTY, APRIL 16. 18S3. NOTICE IS RKREBY GIVEN THAT tb ev office of the Treasurer of Sumter County will be open at Sumter Court House from the FIRST DAY OF MAY, 1883, to the FIRST DAY OF JUNE, 1883, for the collection of Stare. County, School, Poll, and Special Taxes for the Fiscal Year commencing November 1, 18S2. The rate of levy on all property assessed for taxation is as follows : For Stute Purposes-Four and three fourths mills on each dollar of the valuation of tbe property represented on the Tax Daplicare for the said Fiscal Year. ? For Ordinary County Purpose? for said Fiscal Year-Two and one half mills on each dollar of ?aid valuation. Fer Special County Parp?se*?-to wit: For Deficiencies in the Fiscal Year commencing ! November 1, ISSI, one fourth of one mill; and one and one-half mill for funded indebt? ed* ts? prior to November, 1ST9. For School Purposes-Two (2) mills on encb dollar ol said valuation ; also Poll Tax of one dollar on each taxable pol!, to wit : of ea<-h male citizen between th? ages of 21 and 50 years, except auch a? are exempt by lan. The said Tax?** are to be paid in the following feuds, and no-other, viz: Gold ar-d Silver Coin, United State? Currency, National Bank Notes, and Coupons which shu li -become payable during the year 1SS3,OE the Valid Consolidated Bonds of this State, known as "Brown Bonds" and on the Bonds of this State known as tte "Deficiency Bonds,"-and Jury Certificate.--, and the per diem *>f State witness in the Circuii Courts, for County taxe?, not including School taxes. The said taxe? are payable in two install ment? ; one-half from the first day of M?y, to the*Brst day of June ISS3, the other half from the lath of September to the 20th day of October. 1SS3. aud it is optional with any tax payer to pay the whole or one-hali* of said Taxes at the time first mentioned , but if one half thereof be not theo paid, a penalty of fire per centum will be addsd thereon. W. F. B. HAYNSWORTD, April 16 Treasurer Sumter County. ?N6INE FOR SALE. -o ONE FIRST CLASS 25-fiORSE POWER Portnble Engine, in good order. Will be sold on reasonable terms. A pp; v to Apr IO C. T. MASON, Ja. FOB SALE FOR CASH. 4 FINE, MEDIUM SIZE MULE, IN J\_ good order a?d a good second hand two-horse ?ag?n and body. Apply at this Office. March 13 FOR SALK TWO HOUSES AND LOTS, ON WASH inton Street. Titles guaranteed. Ap? ply at Sumter Book and Varietv Store, to - W. G. KENNEDY. -ALSO A Horse and Buggy, Apply as above, to March 13 W. G. KENNEDY. APPUCATION FOR CHARTER. THIRTY DAYS AFTER ?ATE HEREOF, the undersigned will apply to W. H. Cu ni no, Esq., Clerk of the Court for Sumter County, for a Charter, incorporating them? selves and their associates, under the name and titleof the MAYESVILLE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION, as provided for by (he Gen? eral Statutes, sec lions 1,376 ?nd 1,377. J. R. Ma ves, S. W. Wilson, J.W. Dennis, W. J. McLeod, Jr., J. C. McKinney, J. H. Garland, J. A. Mayes, N. G. Du Bose, F. J. Mayes, J. W. Hudson, J. E. Atkins, T. D. Foxwortb, J. B. Cochrane, J. E. Maves, H. H. Wilson,; J. J. Muller, G. O. Wuaeler, E. M. Cooper, J. B. Trimnal, and others. April 5 lm THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS are wasted on physicians' fees by the dyspeptic, the rheumatic, the billions, and the nervous, when a dellar expended on that unapproacha? ble vegetable tonic and alterative, DR. SIM? MONS' HEPAT?C COMPOUND, or LIVER AND KIDNEY CURE, would in every C;ise effect a radica' cure. NO REM ED i IN THE WORLD EVER SO FULLY WON THE CONFIDENCE OF MANKIND AS SIMMONS' HEPATIC COMPOUND OR LIVER AND KIDNEY CURE, For the cure of Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Constipation and all Troubles arising fruin the Liver, Kidneys and Bladder. Taken two or three times a day it prevents Fever and Ague. .Malarial Fever, Diphtheria, Scarlet Fever and Cholera. OH, WOMAN ! "SS: Why will you allow yourself to be prostra? ted, your system enerv&ied, your health com? pletely destroyed by the gaunt strides of those insidious and oft times fatal diseases called "Female Weaknesse ." when yon can be entirely cured by using SIMMONS' HE? PATIC COMPOUND, lt will remove Pimples and Blotches, purify yur Blood, and make your Skin clear and healthy. For sale every /here In Sumter by Dr. A. J. CHINA, Io Mayesvil?e by Dr. F ' MAVES. In Bishopviile by Dr. R. 1*. Mcf.EOD. DOWIE k MOISE, Proprietors, Wholesale Druggists, Charleston, S. C. Oct 17_ Be????e Ce?toi Mg Cc. COTTON BATTING PREPARED IN ROLLS FOR COMFORTS, QUILTS AND MATTRESSES. SOLD AT THE FACTORY AND BY merchants in Sumter at 10 cents per pound. 4 Liberal discount to the trade allowed. 1. JAMES WINN, Sept 19-ly President. - HAIL LOVELY SPEING. ^7 The bumble bees are bumbliog, And tbe waters bright are tumbling, In crystal beauty through the meadows green, The smelling flowers are smelling, The swelling buds are swelling, And the mother sheep the sheeplets try to wean. All o'er this land of freedom, As fast as mortals need 'em, The busy hens supply us all with eggs, The balmy zephyrs zephyr, And the sad-eyed brindle heifer, Switches at the gaunt mosquito on her legs. In heathen lands o'er yonder, The elephants do wander, In fragrant tropic grasses to their knees, The shaggy lion rambles, Through the serpent-haunted brambles, And the little monkeys monkey through the trees. Then gentle spring we hail thee, And before the world we sail thee. As the bossest season of the present year, Would an age without once stopping, I could praise thee without dropping On myself-but then my muse i3 out o' gear 1 {Duluth Tribune. His Last Court. A Story of the Sternest Judge that Arkansas Ever Had. Old Judge Greyson, a JustLe of the Peace, was never known to smile. He came to Arkansas years ago, before .carpet-baggers' began their reckless sway, and year after year, by ihe will of the voters he held his place as mag? istrate. The lawyers who practiced in his court never engaged inf levity. Every morning, no matter how the weather might be, the old man took his place behind the bar, which, with his own hands, he had made, and every evening, just at a certain time, be closed his books and went Lome. No one ever engaged him in private con? versation, because he would talk to no one. No oue ever went to his home, a little cottage among the trees in the city's outskirts, because he had never shown a disposition to make welcome the visits of those who lived even in the immediate vicinity. His office was not given him through thc influence of electioneering,' because he never ask? ed any man for his vote. He was first elected because, having been once sum? moned in a case of arbitration, he ex? hibited the executive side of such a legal mind that the people nominated and elected him. He soon gained the name of 'bard Justice,' and every law? yer in Arkansas referred to his decis? ions. His rulings were never reversed ly thc higher courts. He showed no seutiment in decision. He stood upon the platform of a law which he made a study, and no mao disputed him. Several days ago a woman, charged with misdemeanor, was arraigued be? fore him. *The old man seems more than ever unsteady,' remarked a lawyer as the magistrate took his seat. 'I don't see bow a man so old can stand the vexations of a court much longer.' 'I am not well tG-dav,' said the Judge, turning to the lawyers, 'and any cases that you may have you will please dispatch tb im to the best, let me j add. to the quickest of your ability.' Every one saw that the old mau was .unusually feeble, and no ooe thought of a scheme to prolong a discussion, j for all the lawyers had learned to rev? erence bim. .Who is this woman Y asked the Judge. 'Who is defending her ?' *I have no defense, your Houor,' the woman replied. 'In fact, I do not think that I need any. for I am here to cou fess my guilt. No man can defend me,' and she looked at the magistrate with a curious gaze. 'I have been ar? rested on a charge of disturbing the peace, and I'm willing to submit my case. I am dying of consumption, Judge, aud I know that any ruling made by the law can have but little ef? fect on me;* and she coughed a hollow hacking cough, and drew arouud her an old black shawl that she wore. The expression on the face of the magistrate remained unchanged, but his eyelids dropped and he did not raise them, when the woman continued ; *As I say, no man can defend me. I am too near that awful approach, to pass which we know is everlasting death to soul and body. Years ago I was a child 01 brightest promise. I lived with my pareuts in Kentucky. Wayward and light-hearted I was admired by all thc gay society known in that neighbor? hood. A man came and professed his love for me. I don't say this, Judge, to excite your sympathy. I have many and many a time been drawn before courts, but I never before spoke of my past life.' She coughed again and caught a flow of blood on her handkerchief which she pressed to Ler lips. *I speak of it now L cause I know that this is the last court on earth before which I will be arraigned. I was fifteen years old when I fell in love with the man. My father said he was bad. but I loved him. He came again and again, and when my father said that he should j come no more I ran ? "ay and married j him. My father said should never come home again. I bad always been his pride, and had loved him so dearly, but he said that I must never agaiu come to his home-my home, the home of my youth and happiness. How I longed to see him. How I yearned to put my h cati on hts breast My hus? band became at1 licted to driuk. He abused me. I wrote to my father, ask? ing him o let mc come home, but the answer that came was, 'f do not know you !' My husband died-yes, cursed God and diud ! Homeless and wretched and with my little hoy, I went, out into the world. My child died, and ? bow? ed down and wept over a pauper's grave. I wrote to my father agaiu, but he answered : 'I know not those who disobey my co- m and men ts !' I turfed away from that letter hardened. I turned my teachings. Now 1 am here.' Several lawyers rushed forward. V crimson tide floweu from her lips. They leaned her lifeless head back against tho chair. Tne old magistrate had not raised his e^es. 'G.eat God I' sa i J a lawyer, 'he is d' ad !' The woman was bis daughter. The Great Storm. Reports of Damage from Different Quarters. NEW ORLEANS, April 23.-A Wes? son.. Mississippi, special says a fright? ful cyclone passed over Wesson and the town of Beauregard, a mile above, I about 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon. Thc wind for the past three days bad i been blowing a gale and lowering j clouds indicated a storm. Its ap ? proach was known for some minutes I by deep, rumbling 6ounds, windows ia dwellings shaking with violence, 1 and many people thought it was an ! earthquake. Thunder roared and ! lightning flashed with alarming force aud vividness. It was awful in its character. As soon as the storm had somewhat abated and the people began to look about, loud peals of the church bells were rung out and the people were seen running in all directions toward West Wesson. The rain, meantime, j was pouring in torrents Reaching ? Peach Orchard streeton indescribable ; scene was witnessed. This street is I lined with a large number ot houses in which operatives of the Mississippi mills are domiciled, and here the greatest destruction occurred. Peo? ple were seen on all sides sobbing, and the groans of the wounded be? neath the ruins were perfectly appall? ing. Dwellings were torn to atoms. A pine forest just beyond was blown out ol existence. The work of re? moving the dead and extricating the wounded from the ruins has begun. Calvin Reed, living in the vinciuity died from excitement. Doctors were soon upon the- scene and did all in their power to relieve the suffering of the wounded. The number killed is twelve. Two or three children are missing. 150 or 200 dwellings were blown down. The number o? people with broken limbs is estimated by the physicians at 75. The wounded were removed as fast as possible to houses which escaped injury. Several of the dead lay out in the violent rain for more than an hour after the storm. The dead are now al! laid out and coffins being made for them. Beauregard was visited last even* ing. It is only a mile above here and lay in the direct path of the cyclone. The scene is absolutely appalling. Beauregard is no more, lt is in truth a mass of ruins. It is with d iffi culty that one can ride through, so thickly ate the trees strewn across the road. There is not a house of any character standing in thc placo Two brick stores, trie largest in the place, are swept away. Timber is scattered lor miles around. Even out in the country 2 12 miles, dwe-Mings were swept away. The list of the dead and wounded is, killed 13 ; wounded 13. I A special from West Point, Miss., says 'a terrific gale from the north? west struck our town at 1 :20 o'clock I yesterday afternoon, accompanied by torrents of rain and the largest hail ever seen here. The couit house, lawyers row, Central Hotel and many stores weie unroofed and materially damaged. Fences and trees were j prostrated and considerable damage was done. No lives were lost.' A special from Eastman, Ga., says ? a cyclone passed over that town early j that morning doing great damage. John Register shouse was blown down and his two children killed. Samuel HassiV house was demolished and his wife and children badly injured. JACKSON, Miss.-On the Natchez & Columbus Railroad, the town of Tillman was destroyed and several persons killed and wounded. On the Vicksburg & Meridian Railroad, the town of Lawrence suffered terribly. Reports from other places and from the country show that the storm was wide-spread and very destructive. Telegraph Hues were blown down for miles. CHATTANOOGA.-A terrible storm swept over tho city yestetday and t did fully ten thousand dollars damage. j The depot, dwellings and stores were unroofed, fences thrown down and trees uprooted. Reports from the surrounding country show the storm to have been very destructive. The surrounding mountains pro i teot< u this city from the great fury of e storm, but reports of serious damage to towns in North Alabama have reached here. LATER. EIGHTY-THREE PERSONS KILLED AND THREE HUNDRED WOUNDED-THE LOSS OF PKO PERTY UNPRECEDENTED. NEW ORLEANS, April 24.-Reports from sections of Mississippi visited by the cyclone Sunda}', state that ; eighty-three persons were killed and J about three hundred wounded ; many dangerously. The loss of property is unprecedented. A despatch from Beauregard says : All is bustle and confusion. Gangs of men were ut work getting out goodrf !Vo;.i wrecked store?, and scores of ox teams were hauling rc j covered properly away. The home I less people had gotten together their ! remaining effects, and were moving ! them :n wagons and carts, and a con? struction train was engaged receiving the debris of the broken box cars. The relief committee, headed by L. G. Bridewell, was actively and sys ter...itically at work, issuing rations I and distributing clothing. Tho Times I Democrat physicians, Dis. Lehman j and Fitch, are also assisting the 1 w< .uded. Assistance also came i from Jackson. Utica, and other points. '. In making rounds anion^ the vound ' ed very Had scenes were witnessed, and groans and moans were heart j .ending, bat particularly touching j was it to see little children, numbers I of them scarcely moro than babes, ! who did not understand it all and i with pain and mystification had got beyond their years and were heroic. Scarcely a murmur was heard from the little ones and none complained. But one little girl of 3 years wanted its mamma to 'tome and fix my arm' a poor, battered liiile arm. No one could iix It but mamma, and mamma was in the next room all unconscious of her baby hurt unto death. There \va& a five-year-old boy whose face j was bruised and battered and whose i j head was gashed by an ugly wound, j ! He was unconscious, but, even with j ; his brain clouded and not knowing- ! ! where he felt pain, he moaned md j j rolled in bed. Ile and the little girl j were the only babies the correspond j dc/tt heard to murmur or make com ! plaint. A little boy was still uncoil ? scious to-night. THE DETAILS AT WESSON ! WESSON, MISS., April 24.-The first i place reached hy the cyclone on Sun ' day was Georgetown, a small village on ! the Pearl river. Many residents of j that place and vicinity were assembled j iu the Methodist church, the quarterly j circuit being io session. The cyclone i struck the church, aud one of the side j ! walls fell in upon the congregation, i j The minister, Kev. II. B. Lewis, had j j his skull fractured, and his chances for j recovery are very slight. Mr. Savage, j who rushed out of the church, was in I stantly killed, a falling limb of a tree j striking him and breaking his neck, j Joe Horncathing was slightly injured, ! as was also Miss Steele. Mrs. Allen ; was seriously hurt. The large congre ! gation bad a most wonderful escape j with the exception of those above i named, for as the cyclone struck thc ! church, as if by inspiration they'fell j j upon their knees, and the benches shield- j j.ing them, they escaped with trifling io i junes. A negro church near by was I also visited by the tornado and was ! destroyed. I Three of the worshippers were killed j outright and eight or ten others were j injured. A number of residences and I a store were leveled with the ground, j John W. Crawford, his wife, daughter, j grandchild, and a servant were instant- j ' ly killed. Mrs. Crawford was blown j I 300 yards, and all of the family were I i so crushed aud mutilated as to be hard ! ly recognizable, presenting a terribie j appearance. The children nf John I Beasely and those of Mrs. Ryan were j instantly killed, as were also three j grown daughters of Mrs. Fowles, j Mrs. Fowles was carried 150 }ards by ; the force of the wind and was caught in ? ? tree. From this tree she was blown | j into another one, sustaining such j severe injuries that she has just died i from thc effects of them. Ali of the j stock io the path of the storm was kill j ed by being crushed to death by flying j timbers. Billy Parker, his wife, and j child, and a daughter of William Royals I were also killed. Opposite George ? town, io Sampson county, the residence j cf James Bass was demolished and one ; member of his family was killed. j - I- MM About Tornadoes. [National Republican 25th.j j The terrific tornadoes that lately de j vasted parts of Iowa, Mississippi, aud j North Caroliua accompanied the storm ' which started ou thc uincteeth instant j j from thc coast of Oregon, and, passing j ! in a sout beast ward ly'direction, blew out j to sea off the Carolina coast on Mou ; day night. This storm was accompa ? oied everywhere east of the Rocky , mountains by high winds and heavy j rains, and iu several localities, far ; apart fruin each other, by these dcstruc ! tive tornadoes. i Inquiry at the signal office failed to j determine a definite cause of these tor I uadoes. They are usuaily noticed iu ! coujuuetion with a heavy rain tail and ? diverse winds, or auy similar pheno . mena which set up a violent whirl iu ! the air A partial vacuum being forin ! ed, and atmospheres of unequal tem j perature rushing in to fill it from di ? verse points, of course there is formed j an ingathering of the air, a cylonic suc ! tion which spreads with fearful velocity ? and force and wreaks its destructive in j tensity upou whatever comes within its j paths. ! There are at present no means of de ; finitely predicting the formation of j a tornado. They arc local atmospheric { disturbances of vast energy. They do not j advance like the ordinary storm-they j develop. The hurricane ur cyclone is j a storm of terrific violence, passing over j very extended areas, and characterized | I by a spiral motion of the wind In the j uorthern hemisphere tjo winds usually i blow the storm center in a direction ? contrary to thc hands of the watch. In j the southern hemisphere the winds ! usually blow itt the coutrary direction. I In the tornado the winds blow fre j quently in both dLectiorjs, aud j the consequent disturbance is thus i seen to be inevitable. What the mael I strom o? thc Loffoden islands is to the j ocean of water the tornado is to the oceau j of air. The tornado is described as being j caused by the contact of unequal tem? peratures. This, howe/er, does not at j all accouut for the pecuiiar iudividuali ! ty, the semi-intelligent maliguity, the ! appalling stealth of approach, and the j whole diabolical character of the torua ! do. Its violence aud intensify are plaiu enough matters. But there is something generic about the tornado which science fails to accouut for. j Another feature of the tornado is that it is local. It appears soddenly, almost without warning, preseuts a fieud's as? pect, does a devil's work with diabolical eucrgy and uiagligoancy, and disap? pears as suddeuly as it came. Its rise cannot be formulated ; its termination is equally obscure ; only its effects are unmistakable and plain. The most marked indications of its coming, us described by scientists, are a sultry, op? pressive conditiou of the atmosphere, a peculiar stillness that cannot, fail to attract thc notice, with thc appearance of singularly-formed clouds in tin* north- i wer t and southwest. These clouds ap-j preach ear!; other, coalesce, and from j their union comes t ii o great, funnel-: shaped tornado cloud, the lower end of, which traces out like a gigantic and ? spectral tinner the track ol' the devasta- i ting whirl wind. Ou the nineteenth instant an aroa of low barometric pressure was developed on the Oregon coast a little south of the Columbia river. Its center passed slowly southward and eastward, until S",riday afternoon, the twenty-second instant, it was c-Mitral in Mi>KOuri south of Jefferson City. The baromet? ric depression at that time extended over ali the United States east o?' the Rocky mountains. On Sunday after iu\)u the winds north of tho central point of lowest pressure in Missouri were blowing from the east and northeast ; south of it, frooj the west and south west ; east of it, from the south and southeast, aud west of it, from the u or tb and northwest. At various places the point of contact of these winds was developed by the aid of mys? terious local causes in the tornadoes. Thus the cold northwesterly winds blowing down the valleys of the Arkan? sas and Ked rivers, meeting the warra southerly winds from the Gulf of Mexi? co over Mississippi, were the first or provoking causes of the terrific torna? does that developed in several distinct localities in Mississippi, producing a devastation at Beauregard, Wesson, Macomb City, Johnsonville, Columbus aud Aberdeen. In the same way the contact of the northeasterly and south? easterly, winds in Iowa were followed by the tornadoes there. The storm center's advance guard of winds met currents flowing over Cape Hatteras just inside the Pamlico sound, and there ensued the devastation around Moorhead City. Agaiu probably pro? voked contact of the northeasterly and southerly winds iu Georgia the destruc? tion around Americas in the southwes? tern part of the state, was terrific. To summarize : The storm was gen? eral, with more or less severity, over all thc United Sates east of tho Rocky Mountains. For some reasons not yet kuown, tornadoes were developed at distinct points over that vast area with? out apparent connection with each other, and each disappearing as suddenly as it came. The storm itself passed out at sea, its center sinking ir the ocean off the Carolina coast. The tornado in Iowa was distant more than 700 miles from those in Mississippi, while the latter were considerably over 100 miles apart. Americus, Georgia, and Aber? deen, Miss., are more than SOO miles from each other. And Moorhead City, N. C., is in rouud numbers 500 miles from Americus, the nearest point where thc tornado 'ripped and torc' There seems something mysterious about these local disturbances, and science, with all opportunities an?! ail her efforts, has not yet succeeded in wresting from the rumbling mouth of the tornado the se? cret of its origin, 'whence it comes and whither it blows.' That Bad Bey His Pa Bargied-The Grocery Man Sein a Trap for the Boy-The Youngster Ahead as Usual. 'I hear you had burglars over at your house last night,' said the gro? cery man to the bad boy, as he came in and sat ou the counter right over a little gimlet hole, vt ?tere the grocery man had fixed a darning needle so that by pulling a string the needle would fly up through the hole and run into the boy about an inch. The grocery man had been laying for the boy for two days, and now that he had got him right over thc hole the first time, it made him laugh to think how ?he would make him jump and yell, and as he edged off and got hold of the string the boy looked unconscious of impending danger. The grocery man nulled and the boy sat stiil. Ile pulled again, and again, and finally the buy said : 'Yes, it is reported that we had a burglar over there. ?, you needn't pull that string any more. I heard you were setting a trap for me, and I put a piece of board inside my pants and thought 1 would let you exercise yourself. Go ahead, if it amuses you, it don't hurt me.' The grocery man looked sad, and then smiled a sickly sort of smile, at the failure of his plan to puncture the boy, and then said, 'Well, how was it. The policeman didn't seem to know much about the particulars. He said that there was so much deviltry going on at your house that nobody could tell when anything was serious, and be was inclined to think it was a put up job.' 'Now lets have an understanding/ says the boy. 'Whatever I say, you are not to give away, lt's a go, is it? 1 have always been afraid o? you, because you have a sort of decayed egg look about you. You are a peck of potatoes with the big ones: on top, a sort of a strawberry box with the bottom raised up, so I have thought you w<<uid go back on a fellow. But ifyouwoirt give this away, here goes. You see, I heard toa tell pa to bring up another bottle of liniment last night. When ma corks herseli, or has a pain anywhere, she just uses ' liniment for all that is out, and a pint j ! bottle don't last more than a week, i i Well, .1 told my chum, and we laid for pa. This liniment ma uses isofful j hot. and almost blisters. Pa went to the Langtry show, and did not get home until eleven o'clock, and me and ray chum decided to teach pa a lesson. 1 don't think it is right for a man to go to the theatre and not take his wife or his little boy. So we con? cluded to burgle pa. We agreed to lay on the stairs, and when pa came up my chum was to hit him on the brad wit'o a dried bladder and I was tu stab m.!? on the breast pocket with a slick, and brea-, the liniment bottle, ami make Lim think he was killed, lt ? couldn't have worked any better if we had rehearsed it. We had talked j about burglars at supper time, and j got pa nervous, so when he came np j stairs and was hit on thc head with j tin* bladder, th? first Urn g he said was 'burglars by mighty,' and he \ started to go back, and then I hit him ? oti the breast pocket, where the bottle j was, ami then we rushed by him, j down stairs, and I said in a sta.-.oj whisper, '1 guess he is a dead man.' j and we went down cellar and up the ! back sta*!sto my room and undressed. I J'a hollered to ma that he was mer-j dried, and ma called rue. and 1 came ! down in my night shirt, and tho hired 1 girl she came down, and pa was on j the lounge; and he said his life blood ? was fast ebbing away. He held his ! hand on the wound and said he Could j feel the warm blood trickling- clear | down to his boots. 1 told pa to stuff! some tar into the wound such as he j told me to put on my lip to make my mustache grow, and pa said, 'My boy, this is no time for trifling. Your pa is on his last legs. When I came u;~ stairs I met six burglars, and forced four of them down, and was going to hold them aud scud for the police, when two more, that 1 did not know about, jumped on me, and I was get? ting the best of them, when one of them struck me over the head with a crow bar, and the other stabbed me to the heart with a butcher knife. I have received my death wound, ray boy, and my hot southern blood, that j 1 offered up so freely for my country, j in her time of need, is passing from j my body, and soon your pa will be ? only a piece of poor clay. Get some ! ice and put on my stomach, and all j the way down, for I arr. burning up. j I went to fhe water pitcher and got a j chunk of ice and put inside pa's shirt, j and while ma was tearing up an old I skirt to stop the flow of blood, 1 asked j pa if he felt better, and if he could j describe the villains who had mur- ! dered him. Pa gasped and moved j his legs to get thom cool from the j clotted blood, he said, and he went j on, 4One of them was about six foot | high, and had a sandy mustache. I j got him down and hit him in the nose, j and if the police find him, his no6e j will be broke. The second one was I thick 6et, and weighed about two j hundred. 1 had bira down, and my j boot was on his neck, and I was I knocking two more down, when 1 j was hit. The thick set one will have j the mark o? boot heels on his throat, j Toll the police, when I am gone, j about the boot heel marks.' By this j time ma had got the skirt lore np, j and she stuffed it under pa's shirt, j right where he was hit, and pa was j telling us what to do to settle his | estate, ?vhen ma began to smell the j liniment, and she found the broken i bottle in his pocket, and searched pa j for the place where he was stabbed, j and then she began to laugh, and pa j got mad and said he did not see as a I death bed scene was such an almighty j funny affair, and then she told him he j was not hurt, but that be bad fallen j on the stairs and broke bis bottle, and i that there was no blood on bim, and | he said,'do you mean to tell me my 1 body and legs are not bathed in hu- ! man gore, and pa got up and found it j was only the liniment. He got mad j and asked ma why she didn't fly around and get something to take ; that liniment off his legs, as it was i eating to the bone, and then he saw | my chum put his head in the door, j with one galius hanging down, and j pa looked at me and then he said, ; 'Lookahere, if I find out it was you j boys that put up this job on me, I'll I make it so hot for you that you will j think liniment is ice cream in com- j parison." ? told pa it didn't look1 reasonable that me and my chum j could be six burglars, six il-ot high j with our noses broke, and boot heel j marks on our neck, and pa he said for j us to go to bed alfired quick, and give j him a chance to rinse off that liniment, j and we retired. Say, how does my: pa strike you as a good single-handed j liar V And the boy (vent up to the j counter while the grocery man went j after the scuttle of coal. In the meantime, one of the grocery ? man's best customers, a deacon in the i church, had come in and sat down on | the counter, over the darning needle, j and as the grocery man came in with j the coal the boy pulled thc string, and \ went out door and tipped over a \ basket of rutabagas, while lite deacon \ got down off the counter with his : hands clasped, and anger in every j feature, and told the grocery man he ! could whip him in two minutes. The grocery man asked what was the j matter, and the deacon hunted up the j source from whence the daming nee- ? die came through the coujter, and as j the boy went across the street the j deacou and the grocery man were ? rolling on the floor, the grocery man i trying to bold the deacon's fists while j he explained about the darning nee- | die, and that it was intended for the i boy. How it came out the boy did not wait to see. j The Best Fish. The German carp is making rapid progress as a great food product. The Industrialist, published at the Kansas Agricultural College, says in relation to the drawing off the water? front their pond : The carp have de? veloped into magnificent specimens averaging some 16 indies in length and weighing by actual test on the scales from 2 l-l to 3 pounds each. As showing how rapidly these fellows gain we remark that these fishes, with the most ordinary care, and, for the most part, no care at all, have doubled in weight since last April. Our carp raising so far has been a great suc? cess, except this : our fishes do not iu- ! crease in numbers as we had hoped, j so far we have found only a single ? carp in all of our examinations of the ponds. Perhaps our fishes, which ? are only 11-2 years old are too young i to breed, or it may be the crawfish, ; which are quite numerous, consume ; the eggs and young. The Hern County (Cal.) Gazette/, says : There are two carp ponds of ! small dimension near Bakersfield, in ? each of which the plant was made last spring. The fish are doing well,. and there are to be seen great ?um- ; hers of young fish, lt cannot be long before this market will be well sup- j plied with this excellent ii*h. lt would bo well for every fanner who ? has halt'an acre of ground titted for j a pond, with a certain Slippry of j water, to raise these fish for thc house- ! hold alone, as they raise their fowls, j Tito foothill Tidings tells of Kev. J. j W. Brier, who ts breeding carp some ; three miles from Graes Valley. Ho ' linds that 1,000 caro *'\\\ live and j grow finely upon what one hog will in both cases from birth to two years old. At this .-.ge the carp will v.vigh ; 4.U00 pounds the average lot. while | the average porker \\ il! weigh 250 ; pounds. At present, prices for the ; two articles of food the tish would bring ?1,000 and the hog ?24. - Bl tl A young Indy recently received the following note, accompanied by a bou? quet of dowers : 'Dear-, I send yon : bi the boy a bokaj of flou-s. This is i like my* luv for u. The nite shade menes kepe dark. Tu<* dog fennil ! menes I am your slave. Rosis re'' and j posis pail, my luv for you shall never I fale.' PLEASANTRIES* THE music of the wild waves is a Nep? tune. FISH notes are scaled for a high rate of interest. BEST two in three-The surviving couple out of triplets. MATCHED may be made in beaven, but tb ey have a most decided smell ti the other pince. A GUN is loaded with powder; a table is loaded with the delicacies of the sea? son. Eotn go off, and. both kflL WHE>- a revolver is aimed at a man ?x the heat of a discussion, he generally looks at it as a pointed argument. Gc iBOLLARD, most candid of philoso? phers, remarks, ""Would that I had 10,000 a year." 44To do what?" "Ta do nothing." "ETIQ?TTTK" writes tous to inquire if, in oin* opinion, it weald bo proper for him to support a young lady if she was taken with a faxnz-ev<_u if he hadn't been introduced. Prober, young man, certai ly-prop her by all means. Cleveland Sun. IN olden iim':z Trlmri poople he*rd Some s'.vi\dIcT hu^< had come to grief, They used a ~o..d o?*? SJXOI? word, And ca*!ed tliat raau z thief." B:it language, pr.oh vm tiiat to-^ay ?~ m too masyp feelings grstoa, Sc ):e >; ie PHLV. aad r?ap*; bay, *. Ile rehypolhecai^j." A CET from the heart: Little Dunce (looking up ouudenly from her history book)-"Oh, mummy darling, I do so wish I'd lived r^der James the IX" Mamma-"Why?" Little Dunce-4?Be? cause I see here that education was very much neglected in his reign !" Punch. A YOUNG wife lately lest her husband, who was about 70 years old. 44 But how did you ever happen to marry a man ox that age?" asked one of her mends. 44 "Why," said ?he young widow, " you see I only had the choice between, two old men, and. of course, I took the oldest."-Paris Figaro. JOSEPH S:?OW, of Indiana, told his wife tc shut her head That was twen? ty-one years ago, and she has not spoken since, though eons'antly living together as man and wife.- New York Times, A Chicago man told his wife to shut her head. That was a week ago, but it is not believed uiat the lump on his head will disapp. ar for several days.-Chicago Tribune. ENTER Jones, the magnificent, with stranger-44 A little surprise for you. Mrs. J1 Let mu introduce !?r. Wig? gins, whem ? havo persuaded to take his chance and come and try pofc-luck with us. And 7" hope you won't starve him, hey, my love?" Mrs. Jones 44 There's no fear of that, Mr. Wiggins ; I got my husband's telegram in time."' ** Tableau, with green fire.-Punch. THE nei vcus mother of a bright little* boy was alarme-i lest he should take the whooping-cough which prevailed in the neighborhood. She talked so much about it and wo Tied over it, that she had infected the child with her fears to such an extent that he would scarcely leave her side. One night after the little fel? low had been put to bed and asleep, a donkey was driven past thc house, aid when just opposite set up his he-haw. With a sliriek the little fellow was oat ol bed, screaming at the top of his voice, "The whooping-cough is coning, mamma; the whooping-cough is com mg. SCHOOLMASTER. -44 Noah had three ! sons-Shem, Earn and Japhet-row. ! answer me, who was the father ot these j gentlemen ? " (Boys silent). 44 Ton ! cannot iel i ? Well, now, let's try again, t You know Mr. Sparkes who lives over ! Che way?" Boys-"Will Sparkes?" j Master-"Yes. surely. Well, then, j Mr. Sparkes has got three boys-Tom ! my, John and Bill. Now, who is the j father ol' those boys ? You Lncw them ! very well." Boys-4 Mr. Sparkes." ! Master-" Very good-very * - boys, ! indeed ; that is q\r ? right. Nothen, i Noah had three so: -Shem, Hr.m and . Japhet. Who-" Boys?-in a hurry j "Mr. Sparkes." TUE WO S XAS. The most mtorestiug statue to us, and I perhaps ins oldest image in Egypt, and, ; if so, in the world, is the Wooden Man, I which was found at Momp?iis. This image, one metre and ten centimetres ! high, stands erect, holding a stall. The ! figure is fuT of life, the pose expresses vigor, action, pride: the head, round in form, indicates intellect. The eyes aro crystal, in a setting of bronze, giving & startling look of lite to the statue. It is no dou^t a portrait 44 There is nothing more striking," c.v-s its discoverer, 44 than this ini'-ge, in a manner living, o' a person who has bocn dead six thousand years." He must have been a man ci mark, and a citizen of a state well civilized; this is not a portrait of a barbarian, nor w?a it csrved by a rude artist. Few artists, I think, have li ved since who could impart move virility io wood. And if the dato assigned to this sta4.r?e is correct, sculp? ture in 2gyi>t attained its maximum of development six ihouwand joars ago. This conclusion will be ivsi*r3d by many, and on d?n?rent ground?. T heard a Clergyman of the Church of Tiglaad say to his comrade, as they wer?: 1? oking at Uris ngure: 41 It's all nonsense;six thottss ?J vears? Tt conlan" be. That's before tlx- cr?*a tion of mm." " We??.*'said Cae otVr, irreverently, "?wrlwps tin's was the ir >dol."-Charle* D?dLy Waru- r. H:: \r. irr..\\:\: k\ic\\ all about doctors?. He said: "How poor are they thal have ito patience 1 ** Tm: laws of Kansas are very favorable- ? to the /armer and st? vk raisej in respect of exemption from execution and sale. He is secure ?a the possession of 160 acres of land, with all improvements of* whatever character; !.ls implements anti machi-;* . iv. o horses, two cows?, ten. . pigs and i- o year's crops.