The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, May 29, 1883, Image 1
WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850.
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THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established Jan?, 186?:
SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1883.
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:S^WjjSN^1!j? lift ossiBo, Sumter; Camden Junc
Cohnabia and all points on
~* C. A A. B. R. Stations,
ts beYond, should
tate Pwllasa Sleepers for Charleston
1 Augusta on rraios 48 sud 4?.
Mgwr* OB 49 ean fake 48 train from
E* fer Cotaabia, Angosta and Georgi*
Tin Ccdambia
Eales rea ?did feet seen Charleston and
jjjgff F. DIVINE, Ceeeral Sup't.
.Gen. Pasrenger Ag*t.
?TBN B. R, CO.
OFFICE,
RAILROAD'CO.
S. C., May 13, 1883.
tbs following Scbe
Arrive Florence.
3 .00 P H.
I 20 A. M.
~~m. 7 00 P. If.
Arrive Charleston.
-6 20 a. M. .
..6 30 p. M.
.....8 00 A^jf.
Tfeain leaving Florence at 2 25 k. M. will
. Ciof? only at nungstree aetr-tf?Deks Corner.
"'ISRSTB?L KATTrrtOAII SCHEDULE.
> ? - > S??H>M5 EXCEPTED.
-A^glip?atSik?ter--... .,.;.,,..?., 5 50 p m
' ; 'SwD^r.-S-r.-L. 8 45 a m
'^'-"i.fl?^^???^?^ 4 05 p m
* Af*r^'? to 6 30 p m
|?g??&;ltB36SRS9N, J. F. DIVINE,
|^1^i3^TK*et AgX - ; ? Gen?I Sept.
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^tOaM&?CLNG February 4th, 1883, Paa
:7> s-A? Testes wat nm as follows, until fur
. ..?sr ??t?oe. <?o tr?bf are ruo on Camden
Brasset co S?t*?j# i
TO COLVBBIA.
f<SQ^?too>ion................ 6 45 am 4 30 pm
JiOSf ? Casadea Jacetion^. 8.? a m 0 35 p m
Amvoai CutamUa_lt 28 am 10 35 p m
V _ ' ' '"r ?K?S COLUMBIA
~s5s?fO Criasse**--8 00 a ro". CiSpui
Arrive C?a*d?? Jn?rtK?o..?l 35 & m... 8 48 p m
Arriva Et dmden_ 1 48 p ia..JO 12 p m
"**?'- TO CBABLCT?TO*
LOOT? Candes-_. 6 45 a m 4 30 p m
^^-*E?*W CaaWwi June*--8 00 a m 0 35 p m
Arrive at Charterten-_ I ?3 p m ll 30 pm
?OW CffAKUSTO*
leave Cbarieatun7 00 a m... 8 35 a m
- Agare Caadee Jauc'^U35 a m... 8 48 p m
ArdwatCajuden-..^ I 46 p m-JO 12 p m
TO ADCCJITA
>V Ljajs jfwifcn .-..".3 45 a m 4 30 p m
' Leos? CfeuxUu Janc'^ -8 00 a a 6 35 p m
* " Ams* at A?g?ita.__-2 00 p m 7 13 a ut
K- - PS?? APC CST A
AagMta .... 7 05 a HU..9 00 p m
Camden Jaao'-8 48 p m 10 35 a m
AtriTe Camden .-..IS t2 p m 1 40 p m
_ 4?&w~ conajcciioKs.
CaonsuclWS ssado at Coin m bia with Col um
AH* -d OraoBT?le Haiiroad both way?, to ana
' fross sltyiiinrs oo that Hoad and on the Spar
_ laoborg. Union and Columbia and Spartanburg
a?d AdmO? Kail roads, also with the Char
wBEgg** Columbia zad Augusta Kaiiro&d to and
?oss al? peiett Noith by trains leaving Camden
' Ot 6 45* ax, ?sd arriving at 10 12 p m.
Coaooetiossmao%9 at Angosta to ali Points
S:v "Wos; and Sooth; also at Charleston with
- gttiotsrt fer Hew York-oo Wednesdays a od
*t? ft NTiejAlso obb Charleston and Savannah
[ ^ ?a?l-cajr for Savannah sod all points South.
. CooOoetes mod?at Blackville with Earn
ti woU E. R. to and from Baruwell by all trains
??^?O^^Jaya HOUND TRIP TICEKTS are
tfi and from all Stalioaa at one first cUt3
? bGuwior the round trip-finke's being good till
aHpfefeds/ coon, to return. Kx cars ion tickets
?PytOd fer 10 days are regularly on sale to nod
IT^fesoT ott stattsas at 5 cents per mile for round
Bfe^Sl?dggH TICKETS to all points, can he
K -p?^tmdby Applying to James Jone?. Agent
M?nent Passenger and Tiekec Agent.
K JOH5 fe. PECK, General Manager.
1 .'. Charleston, S. C.
SAifflifRf AND HARNESS.
FINEST LEATHER ON BAND Ready
to Iw worked np at the lowest living
-.. r^A?NESS of the latest style and of my
fm workmaoship, at my shop to sell.
. l*?I*?parcd to do all kinds of Jobs in
mj lt*? of business. Orders received
wifi^ ooneomptly attended to, and with the
? A foll line of
READY-SADE HARNESS,
- SADDLES, BRIDLES,
COLLARS, MARTIN?
GALES, and
/ EVERYTHING ELSE
portaioing toa Flrst-elus Harness Shop.
< OLD HARNESS made to took as good
tOTEBISGAod REPAIRING Old TRUNKS
. ^ '^r-^&mkAhlY*
WOS*5a ?r rino GUARANTEED
THOUGHTS ON "A PASSING
FANCY (?)"
To Mies
"A passing fancy," is it so ? . v
All things are transient-this I know.
If nst love too, pass away ?
The earth, itself, with heat shall glow
And vanish, like fast melting snow
Beneath the sun's hot ray.
Yet though this world must pass away
When breaks eternity's long day,
It is not lost, not gone ;
'Twill bod again, and by God's hand
Revivified; at his command
Break forth in endless song.
The rose will then not wear a thorn,
And cloudless be the sky each morn
That wakes the new-born world.
Only the bitter, not the sweet,
Tho chaff, and not the golden wheat
. Into oblivion hurled.
Then tell me not the sou l's best gem,
Its crowning joy, its diadem
M nst fade and I still live.
Ah no : my sou 1 would view this love
As given by the God above
Who naught but good doth give.
And ever with the tenderest care
I'll guard this love so pore and fair
From every evil thought ;
I'll prize it more than life is prized,
Or ever loved a bird the skies
When by some huntsman caught.
Bot ah ! the bitter, bitter thought
That sometimes comes with madness fraugh t,
And makes the hot blood start :
What if some one more blessed than I
Should find more favor in thine eye
And win thy gentle heart !
Then often wiil my thought look back
Across life's lonely, desert track,
And mourn o'er blighted love ;
O'er love so geotle, tender, true,
So stro. g, so earnest, lasting, pure:
Love i all my heart's best love !
O dearest one, give me thy heart,
And bid nc more'my love depart ;
'Tis 5xed, 'tisstayed on thee.
Mine be the lot thy life to cheer,
To banish from thy path each care,
And with true sympathy to share
Each joy, each grief you see.
. * ? ?
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bers. The proprietors have purchased The
Southern Farmer'* Monthly, and by this act
have absorbed the only remaining rival in
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unequalled by any. As usual. Thoughts for
the Month and the inquiry Department are
full of standard advice to the Southern farm?
ers, and if the Cultivator contained only these
it would be well worth the subscription price.
But to these are added very many other fea?
tures of interest and importance, embracing
the subjects of Truck Farming, Laws for the
Farmer, Sheep Husbandry, Fertilizers, Letters
from the Field, Dickson's Letters on Intensive
Farming, The Patrons of Husbandry, Jersey
Cattle Notes, the Poultry Yard, the House?
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Price, per annum 51.50. Address Jas. P.
Harrison <fe Co., Atlanta, Ga.
The following interesting picture
comes from Washington of the domestic
life of Bell, the telephone man : "Prof.
Bell and his wife are both very food of
flowers, and when oa the 28th the Lite?
rary Society met at their boase had it
most elaborately adcrued with flowers,
especially cot roses with long stems,
which Mrs. Bell made into loose bou?
quets and preheated each lady with one
as she left. Though born a deaf mute,
Mrs. Bell has been taught to speak by
.he new process and cao understand, by
close watching the motions of the mouths
of those who speak with her, ail they
say to her. Consequently few who are
unaware of her affliction notice it at ail
in talking with her, and she receives
and entertainscompaoy with perfect ease
and grace. It is said her husband
taught her to speak before their mar?
riage, aod that their courtship began io
that way. She and ber sister have
been considered among the most beauti?
ful women in Washington since they
removed there.'
*Say, Mister Causey, did you see a
yaller dog come by here that looked as
if he were ayear, or a year and a half,
or two years old?* 'Yes, he passed
about an hour, or an hour and a half,
or two hoare ago; and is now a mile, a
mile and a half, or two miles a head ;
and he had a tail about an inch, or an
inch and' a half,~"br two inches long/
That'll: do ; you're into me a foot, or
foot and % half, or two feet.' The
reiemd to ?bowe is tho same one
That Bad Boy
His Own'Ma Deceives Him.
'Give me ten cents worth of saffron,
quick,' said the bad boy to the gro?
cery mau, as he came in the grocery
on a gallop, early one morning, with
no collar on, and no vest. He looked
as though he had been routed out of
bed in a hurry, aud had jumped into
his pants and boots, and put on bis
coat on the run.
'I don't keep saffron,' said the gro?
cery man, as he picked up a barrel of
axe handles that the boy had tipped
over iu his hurry. 'You want to go
over to the drug store on the corner,
if you want saffron. But what on
earth is the mat-'
At this point the boy shot out of
the door, tipping over a basket of
white beans, and disappeared in the
drug store. The grocery man got
down on his knees on the sidewalk
and scooped up the beans, occasion?
ally looking over toward the drug
store, and just as he got them picked
up the boy came out of the drug store
and walked deliberately towards his
home, as though there was no par?
ticular hurry. The grocery man
looked after him, took up an axe
handle, spit on his hands and shouted
to the boy to come over pretty soon,
as he wanted te talk with him. The
boy did not come to the grocery till
towards night, but tho grocery man
had seen him running down town a
dozen times during the day, and once
he rode up to the. house with the
doctor, and the grocer surmised what
was the trouble. Along towards
night the boy came in in a dejected
sort of tired way, sat down on a bar?
rel of sugar, and never spoke.
'Whatis it, a"boy ora girl, ?" said
the grocery man, winking at an old
lady with a shawl over her head, who
waa trying to hold a paper over a
pitcher of yeast with her thumb.
'How in blazes did you know any?
thing about it V said the boy, as he
looked around in astonishment, and
with some indignation. 'Well, it's a
girl, if you must know, and that's
enough,' and he looked down at the
cat playing on the floor with a pota
toe, his face a picture of dejection.
'0, don't feel bad about it,' said
the grocery man, as he opened the
door for the old lady. 'Such tlr'ngs
are bound to occur But you take my
word for it, that young one is going
to have a hard life, unless you mend
your ways. You will be using it for
a cork to a jug, or to wad a gun with,
the first thing your ma knows.'
. 'I wouldn't touch the darn thing
with the tongs,' said the boy, as he
rallied enough to eat some crackers
and cheese. 'Gosh, this cheese tastes
good. I hain't had nothing to eat
since morning. I have been all over
this town trolling for nurses. They
think a boy hasn't got any feelings.
But I wouldn't-care a gol darn, if ma
hadu't been sending me for neuralgia
medicine, and hay fever suuff all
winter, when she wanted to get rid
of me. 1 have come in the room lots
of times when ma and the sewing girl
were at work ou some flannel things,
and ma would hide them in a basket
and send me off after medicine. 1
was deceived up to about four o'clock
this morning, when- pa came to my
room and pulled me out of b?? to go
over on the west side after some old
woman that knew ma, and they have
kept me whooping ever since. What
does a boy want of a sister, unless it's
a big sister ? I don't wan't no sister
that I have got to hold, aud rock, and
hold a bottle for. This afiair breaks
me all np,' and the boy picks the
cheese out of his teeth with a sliver
he cut off the counter.
'Well, how does your pa take it,
said the grocery man, as he charged
the boy's pa with cheese, and saffron,
and a number o? such things.
'0, pa will pull through. He
wanted to boss the whole concern
until ma's chum, an old woman that
takes suuff, flied him out into the
hall. Pa sat there on my hand sled,
a perfect picmre of despair, and I
thought it would be a kindness to
play it on him. I found the cat asleep
in the bath room, and I rolled the cat
up in a shawl and brought it out to pa
and told him the uurse wanted him to
hold the baby. It seemed to do pa
good to feel that he was indespensa
ble around the house, and he took the
cat on his lap as tenderly as you ever
saw a mother hold an infant. Well,
I got io the back hall, and he couldn't
see me, and pretty soon the cat be?
gan to wake up and stretch himself,
and pa said, 'S-h-h-tootsy, go to sleep,
now, aud let its pa hold it,' and pa he
rocked back and forth on the hand
sled and began to sing, 'By, low,
baby.' That settled it with the cat.
Well, some cats can't stand music,
anyway, and the more the cat wauted
to get out of the shaw], the louder pa
sung, and bimeby I heard something
rip, and pa yelled 'Scat, you brute,'
and when I looked around the corner
of the hall the cat was bracing his
self against pa's vest with his toe?
nail, and pa fell over the sled and
began to talk about the hereafter like
the minister do*?s when he gets excited
in church, and then pa kicked up the
sled and seemed to be looking for me
or the cat, but both of us was offul
scarce. Don't you think there are
times when boys and cats are kind of
few around their accustomed haunts ?
Pa don't look as though he was very
smart, but he can hold a cat about as
well as the next man. But I am sor?
ry for ma she was just getting ready
to go to Florida for her neuralgia, and
this will puta 6top toit, cause she
has to stay and take care of that
young one. Pa says I will have a
nice time this summer pushing the
baby wagon. By the great horn
spoons, there has got to be a dividing
line somewhere, between business
and pleasure, and I strike the line at
wheeling a baby. I had rather catch
a string of perch than to wheel all the
babies ever was. They needn't pro?
cure no baby on my account, if it is
to amuse me. I don't see why babies
can't be sawed off onto people that:
need them in their bu
folks don't need a baby
would it be to take the baby son
night and leave it on some old bach
lor's door-step, li it had been a bic
cte, or a breech loading shot-gun,
wouldn't have cared, bv?t a bab)
Bah ! It makes me iired. Fd druth
have a prize package. Well, I a
sorry pa allowed me to come hom
after he drove me away last week,
guess all he wanted me to come bac
for was to humiliate me, and eend n
on errands. Well, I must go and s(
if he and the cat have made up.'
And then the boy went out and pi
up a paper sign in front of the stor
'Leave your measure for saffron tea
The Best Cattle and Sheej
A correspondent of of the Augus:
Chronicle writing from Atlant
says :
Meeting my old friend, Col. Ric
ard Peters, on the streets the otb<
day, I asked him about Jerseys. B
is the oldest stock raiser in Georgi;
and oue of those practical men whos
sense and enterprise have made thei
pioneers and leaders in valuable ii
dustries. He knows more aboi
thorough-bred stock than any man i
the South, his experience runnin
back half a century and coverin
every kind of cows, sheep and hogi
He told me, among other things, th
following :
.The Jeisey business is increasin
very rapidly over the South. The
snit the climate and are as easily kef
a? a common cow ; they bring from
pound to a pound and a half of butt?
a day on the same amount of foo
given to village cows. The majorit
milk up to-the time of calving. The
come into profit very young, anothei
great advantage. They will calv
when about two jrears old. There ar
several cases of cows having calve
at 14 12 months old. This is to
young. In the United States at prc
sent there are about 19,000 registcre
Jersey cows and heifers and 9,00
Jersey bulls, in 1866 there wer
probably about 1,000-Jersey cow
and 200 bulls. The large proportio
has been bred in America, fully 8
per cent., and the experienced me
believe the American are superior t
the imported cows ; that America
breeder is a more scientific breede
than the foreigner. The tendency a
present is to breed to families whos
butter making qualities have been es
tablished, and whose prepotency c
the male has been tested. The farni
ly that is most rapidly rising now i
known as the 'Signal,' family. Thi
family, on the male side, started fron
a bull named Jerry, numbered 15 ii
the Herd Register, im purled by Wm
B. Dinsinore in the year 1868. 1
combination was made with Lad.1
Mary, a cow imported by T. J. Hand
the present secretary of the catth
club. Another celebrated importe*
cow, 'Pans}', No. 8,' was brought be
fore and combined with the blood o
Jerry, the bull Albert being the bes
known to breeders of the decendant;
of Jerry and this combination.
Oat of the 19,000 cows and 9,000 bull;
there are probably, 1,500 cows and 5(
bulls that have been brought into notic<
by testing the production of'butler
and they may be considered the headi
of the rising families. These con
8ist mainly uf the descendants o
Jupiter and Rhea, known as the Al
phea and Bomba family. The Coo
massie family of a recent importalior
are rapidly coining into notice
There are several others that claim tc
be rising stars, but at present thi
three mentioned are foremost,
i Recently bulls have been sold al
$5,000, and from that to $8,000 anc
one or two not well established sales
at ?10,000 and ?12,000. The owners
expect to get their money back bj
using the bulls for stock purposes.
The demand in Georgia is far beyond
the supply, the main trouble being ir
obtaining acclimated animals. Sig
nal sired but 14 heifers, 12 of which
gave butter records running from 14
pounds to 22 pounds 1 1-2 ounces a
week. Pansy had 39 decendauts,
showing a weekly average of 16
pounds 7 ounces a week.'
A number of years ago, when I
was editing the Atlanta Constitution,
when thorough bred stock raising
was in its infancy in Georgia, I visit?
ed the beautiful stock farm of Col.
Petera, in Gordon county, and wrote
several letters giving his stock ex?
periences with sheep, hogs and cows
for thirty years. At that time he had
settled upon the Jerseys, after a full
test of Durhams or Short Horns, De?
vons, Ayrshires and Brahams; and
upon the Merino sheep, after a test of
the Virginia, Prolific, Cotswolds,
Southdowns, Leicesters and New Ox?
fords!, ires ; and upon tho Berkshire
hogs, after test of Poland Chinas,
Jersey Reds, Essex, Chester Whites,
and Yorkshires. I gave, fully, for the
Constitution, his testings of these
breeds. At that time the Durham or
Short horn breeds of cattle, the South?
down and Cotswold breeds of sheep
and Poland China hogs were the most
popular North and We6t and hun?
dreds of our Southern farmers were
beginning to take interest in tho?
roughbred stock, and were looking to
these favorite breeds for introduc?
tion into the South. Col. Peters had
found to his great cost, by actual ex?
periment, that neither Durhams, Cots?
wolds nor Southdowns suited our
Southern climate. They had too
much flesh and wilted under our heat.
The Jersey and Merino had proven
in his trial to be the best breeds for
the South. These lei tors, giving his
valuable oractical costly experience,
had a wide circulation in the press.
Being known all over the United
States as the most prominent South?
ern stock breeder, Colonel Peters
received myriads of letters of inquiry
and request for advice as to the best
breeds. Ile had the Constitution ar?
ticles printed in circular form, and re?
plied to all letters by sending his cir?
cular. He estimates from reliable
data, as he tells mo, that the informa?
tion of the fitness of the various breeds
to our Southern climate, given in this
circular, has saved ScmLh?rn farmers
a million of dollars that %puld have
?|^^enUnexDerim^^jtevith un*
Kve been^
Every stock opinion advanced ten
years ago has been confirmed by the
experience of our stock men and
farmers. The Jersey, then declared
to be the cow for the South, has be?
come our butter stand-by. The me?
rino sheep, then asserted to be best
suited f<>r Southern raising, has es?
tablished its unqualified supremacy
for Southern nse.
[From tbe Darlington News.]
Economy in Manures.
This does not consist io not using
commercial maoures, or in stinting tho
quantity applied, but in the use of
those absolutely essential to plant
growth and in the proper application of
the same.
The object in manuring is or ought
to be, to put so much and no more than
is necessary to make a paying crop. If
we do that with our limited means, we
do well. To make land rich with com?
mercial manures is an easy matter, if
we have the means to farm regardless
of cost ; but to live and support a fami?
ly on a one or two horse crop and buy
with the extra proceeds of it, manure
enough to keep up, or increase its fer?
tility, is a more difficult problem to
solve. It becomes, therefore, a very
important matter to know what and
how much is essential, and how to ap?
ply it so as to get full benefit from it.
I have heretofore, in numerous ar?
ticles in this paper, endeavored to show
that three essentials to plant growth
which were soonest exhausted in natu?
rally fertile soil, and which are in a
great measure lacking in our poor pine
land and has to bc supplied by us to
make good crops, were Potash, Phos?
phoric Acid and Ammonia. That the
other organic elements, carbon, oxygen
and hydrogen were supplied in the
earth and air, and the inorganic, such
as soda, lime, magnesia, &c, were iu
sufficient quantities in all soils, or else
were supplied in the compounds of
potasb and phosphate which we use.
If this be so, then economy in manur?
ing consists in supplying these three
elements in the cheapest and best pos?
sible form. How to do so is the ques?
tion. The most simple and the best is
the Peruvian Guano, if it were what it
used to be when I was a boy.
But the Chincha Islands are exhaust?
ed and ? hear the red clay hills about
Baltimore are nearly all gone, so that
we have to look to auother source for
our supply. The numberless com?
pounds under the name of atnmouiated
fertilizers come in opportunely to our
aid. ?They cost money-they smell
strong-they analyze well-r-they accu?
mulate princely fortunes to the tricky
and unscrupulous proprietors and if
they fail to benefit the farmer aud pay
in the increased production of crops,
why-the fault is his-the lazy shift?
less cotton planter, who don't know
how to apply them or is too lazy to cul?
tivate his land as it ought to be. Am
moniated fertilizer-we have had
enough of them. We have spent in
them money enough in our County to
pay every dollar of its indebtedness and
a large part of the State debt, and for
what purpose ? We make cotton to buy
manure and we buy manure to make
cotton.
It is necessary for us to buy some
manure, our land is wanting in all the
clements that go to make farming profi- j
table ; but it is cheaper and better to
buy these elerneuts in their purest form
and do the manipulating ourselves.
They may cost us more money in the j
outset, but we save in the freights on i
worthless material, in disappointment I
and trouble enough to more than pay
the cost. Poor human nature is very
weak, and one of our greatest weak?
nesses is to gouge our neighbor, pro?
vided we can do so under the cover of
law. The temptation to adulterate is
too great for us, io fact we live in the
age of adulteration. We eat adulter?
ated food, we drink adulterated drinks,
we wear adulterated clothes, and last
but not least, we waste our money,
time, spirit and strength on adulterated
manures. Can we save our morals and
manners pure in such an adulterated
atmosphere? Let us commence reform
by beginning at the ground-use no
more manipulated guanos, raise all of;
our own home food and only cotton
enough to pay for the absolute necessi?
ties of religion, law and society.
[To le Continued.]
A Good Edgefield Anecdote.
The recent agitation of the public
road question reminds me of au anec?
dote that a mail carrier, who rode be?
tween Augusta and Longmires iu Edge
field county, used to delight in telling,
to show the average condition of the
routes he travelled. He said on one
occasion he was riding along at the rate
of a mile an hour, his horse siukiug to his
knees at every step, when looking some
distance ahead of him he saw a small
black object moving about in the mid?
dle of the road which he at first suppos?
ed was a bird. As he drew nearer he
saw that it was a black hat and when
he got within reach be lifted it and saw
a man's head just far enough above the
mud for him to breathe. The mail
courier asked him what was the matter;
he replied that he had struck a very
soft place io the road and had immedi?
ately suuk so rapidly that he was una?
ble to extricate himself. The courier
said, 'well my friend, you are certainly
in a very bad fix.' The stranger re?
plied 'well, if you think I am in an un?
pleasant position, what do ynu think of
my mule? I am on a mule.'
This happend about Ked Hill tn Sen?
ator Butler's county and this occur?
rence, which ?9 vouched for, will con?
vince any one that the Senator is in
earnest in his efforts to improve the
condition of the public highways.
Columbia Correspondent of Augusta
Chronicle.
A German at a hotel the other day
had some Limbergcr cheese sent to him.
A little boy who sat beside him turned
to his mother and exclaimed, 'Mamma,
how I wish I was deaf and dumb in my
nose.'
Sad affairs: While putting on a
clean shirt a Hartwell, Ga., man fell
overea trunk and broke his collar-bone, j
A Wild Western Wind.
RACINE, WIS., May 19-The first
cyclone in the history of this city
struck Racine at 7 oclock last night
passing through the extreme north?
eastern portion of the city, demolish?
ing 150 houses and barns and killing
about 20 persons, besides injuring
100 otheis more or less seriously.
The day was ushered in bright and
cool with a fresh wind blowing from
the southeast. Towards noon the
sky became overcast and about 4
o'clock a sharp electric storm prevail?
ed, although but little rain fell. The
sun again came out for about an hour
during the afternoon, the tempera?
ture being about 70 degrees. To?
wards 6 o'clock heavy masses of
clouds again gathered in the west,
portending a storm, and the air was
oppressively warm. The cyclone was
announced by the breaking of the
clouds, and it 6truck the eartn with a
noise which might be compared with
the roar and rumbling of a thousand
railroad trains thundering over a
bridge. The path of the storm is
little over a half mile long and per?
haps a quarter of a mile wide. In
this territory a building is left stand?
ing here and there. Brick and frame
houses alike collapsed, aud their sites
are marked only by heaps of debris.
Many occupants of houses escaped
by fleeing to the cellars and other
places of comparative safety, but
the cyclone came with such light
rapidity that many were killed beiore
reaching the cellars. In ouly a few
cases were houses moved from their
foundations. Those in the middle of
the storm centre simply fell in ruins
where they had stood. Some nearer
the circumference were turned around
and it is reported that 6ome light
articles, such as wagons, were swept
into the lake. The cyclone, as it
moved from the city out upon the
waters of Lake Michigan, presented
a grand spectacle. Whirling columns
of air were seen as they flew over
the watery expanse, bearing with
them spiral columus of water, and
no ship that encountered this mon?
ster of the air could by any possibility
escape destruction.
STAUNTON, III, May 19.-At 1
o'clock last night the tornado passed
about three miles east of here, totally
demolishing Livingston's fine farm
residence and dangerously injuring
Mr. Livingstone. Other buildings in
the vicinity were destroyed and or?
chards injured. A construction crew
about twenty-five men, on the
Springfield and Illinois Southeastern
Railway were camping near Olein's
house, some of them sleeping in a
? large barn. All were seriously in?
jured. Mr. Cantwell, contractor,
I and Alva Berrie were instantly killed.
A little giri, aged eight, canuot re?
cover.
CLINTON, ILLS., May 19.-a terri?
ble cyclone passed over this vicinity,
last night, doing a large amount of
damage and killing several people.
The wind took a southeast course and
followed up Salt Creek in this coun?
ty, on the line of which many houses
were totally destroyed. About six
miles south of Clinton the wind tore
down a house, killing Peter Clifton,
his wife and an eight-year-old daugh?
ter, and fatally injured another child.
The damages are very great.
THE LATEST-FIFTV-FOUR DEATHS AND
TWO HUNDRED WOUNDED.
CHICAGO, May 19.-From advices
received by the Associated Press
from points in Illinois, visited by the
cyclone Friday night, 54 deaths have
already been reported in the State,
and the number injured is -estimated
at very nearly 200. Owing to the
condition of the wires north of Mil?
waukee, no accurate computation of
the loss of life in Wisconsin can be
made.
MILWAUKEE, May 20.-A Racine
dispatch says the numbers of known
dead is nine and fatally injured twelve
to fifteen. Those who received flesh
wounds and more serious hurts
number nearly one hundred. Six
people remain unaccounted for.
ST. LOUIS, May, 21.-Two more
deaths have occurred at Stanton, Ills,
resulting from the storm of Friday
night. Additional reports from places
not heretofore heard from, show that
the storm in Illinois was widespread
and very destructive. Houses and
other farm property were destroyed
in all directions, within the area of a
dozen counties, and many persons
were either killed or seriously woun?
ded. _ ?
How a Tornado Looked.
The Fearful Visitation at Kansas City
-Euin left in Its Track.
KANSAS CITY, May 14.-Before the
visitation of the tornado here yester?
day the air was heavy and the fitful
wind carried sheets of rain hither and
thither .without apparent direction. In
another hour the sides had grown
darker and across their sullen surface
torn scraps of clouds in fantastic
shapes scudded with a velocity that
told of the presence of vast air cur?
rents somewhere in middle space.
These were followed by dark sheets
as of smoke that rolled up from the
horizon, broke and lost themselves.
The air suddenly grew cold. It is
impossible to describe the weird and
unnatural chill, save that it was icy j
and lasted for some moments. Just
then a gigantic cone-shaped cloud, j
the point toward the earth, appeared
in the Northwest. Those who noted
the time saw that it was exactly 4:30.
The cloud rushed into view so quick?
ly that it was impossible to tell
whether it was born of a conflict of
thc elements before the eye or came
from some point beyond. Moving
with inconceivable rapidity, and
bounding like a ball, sometimes hun- :
dred8of feet above the earth and
sometimes trailing upon it, the
monster passed over Wyandotte,
and paused at the mouth of the
Kaw, where it sucked up tons of sand,
completely changing its color from
dark blue to deep dun, then it zigzag?
ged upward, bounded into mid air and ;
disappeared.
- Scarcely had it made its spectral
identical in size and shape, appeal
at about the point where the first v
seen. This cloud can be likened
nothing so much as a partially c
lapsed balloon with the neck en
mously elongated and twisting abo
The color was reddish yellow, d
tinctly relieving it against the dari
background. This extraordinary j
parition of the skies moved direci
toward the city, not very fast apj
rently, but springing up and down
an uncanny dance. As it came ne
er, oue could see that every time
touched the ground it swept it cleg
carrying up the debris and droppi.
it as it passed. A few moments afl
its appearance it struck West Kans
City, barely touching, however, a
its damage confined principally to t
unroofing of houses, demolishing t
upper portion of the Stock Exchang
and killing one man. Leaped in
the air, strinking the bluff near Eeig
teen th street, and passing on Es
and slightly North for nearly t\
miles. In the greater part of tl
distance the storm funnel touched t!
ground, and a wilderness of ruin mar
its track.
The passage of the tornado was
sudden that people did not have tin
to be frightened till il was over, b
the scene of terror that followed in i
wake was something that words ca
not describe. It cut a clean tra<
through the city three miles in exte
and iiotn 100 to 300 yards wid
Heavy houses were demolished, sm*
frame houses were scattered to tl
winds, and trees were twisted fro
the earth as il they were weeds Tl
number of houses entirely demolish*
is fifty, and the number of more i
le83 damaged will amount to aboi
j 200. The loss is about $200,00
j Three persons were killed outrig]
and many others very badly injured.
The Cold Wave.
The cold wave which was ushered i
by the blow of Sunday night bas coi
tinued with lower thermometer ai
general cloudiness Yesterday was
cold, raw, November day. Sue
weather ts not in memory of the olde
iubabitant or almanac makers for tl
22d of May. At one time during tl
day the clouds banked up with an om
nous chill and there were painful su?
gestions of snow in the air. The thei
mometer, towards night, fell beneat
thc forties, about half the usual ten
perature for this season of the year,-an
as the wind lulled and the moon cam
out lhere were fears of frost. Th roo gt
out the day the city put on a midwinte
appearance. Doors and windows wei
closed, stoves put on their winter blus
and straw hats were put to shame b
heavy overcoats beneath.- It is thougl
that young cotton all over the State hs
been seriously injured. The piar
which had commenced to grow off gree
and vigorous, has probably been blight
ed and stunted in many places. Grai
has not been affected and gardens ar
I as a rule too far advanced to have falle
before this cold snap. The maxitnui
temperature yesterday was 64 degrees
minimum temperature, 49; mean teni
perature, 55 degrees.-Augusta Chroi\
ide, 23cZ.
CINCINNATI, May 22.-At Muncie
j Ind., the ground was covered by snoi
last night. At Findlay, Ohio, snoi
! fell several inches deep. At Wapoko
neta, Ohio, 6now was so heavy as t
break the branches of trees and th
j thermometer fell to thirty-five. A
Hagcrstown, Indiana, snow fell fron
uooon to night. At Easton, Ohio
snow covers the ground. At Lima
Ohio, twelve ioches of snow fell, am
the branches of tress broke with it
w .ight. At Bellefontain, Ohio, fou
inches of snow fell, and tho thermome
ter fell to thirty-four. At Marysville
Ohio, a blinding snow storm be'gau ii
the forenoon and lasted all day.
CAREYVILLE, ILLS., May 22.-A
severe frost here last night, damagec
all crops considerably, doing more in?
jury than the cyclones:
CLEVELAND, O., May 22.-Cole
windy weather prevails here, and trees,
out-bouses and unfinished building:
have suffered some. Snow is report?e
to be five inches deep in Logan county.
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Most Tragic of Tragedies.
A Dreadful Scene Enacted m a Bri?
dal Chamber in South America.
A horrible affair took place recently
at Rio Grande del Sur, near to the
Uruguayan frontier. A youug farmer
was bitten by a mad dog and remedies
were immediately applied to the
wound. Cauterization was resorted to,
and there was every reason to believe
that the virus had uot entered the vic?
tim's system. When the accident oc?
curred the young man man was about
to marry, but in consequence of the
untoward occurrence the ceremony was
postponed for three months, when the
medical men who were consulted on
the case gave it as their unanimous opin?
ion that there was not the slightest
ground for apprehending any danger
from the bite. The marriage took
place on the farm and was celebrated
with the customary festivities. After
the nuptial supper was over the bride?
groom appeared to be seized with a
tit of melancholy. One of love's ca?
prices, said somebody. After supper
i came the ball, and when this
was at its height thc newly
i wedded couple withdrew from the fes
! live scene and retired to their apart
I ment.
I About au hour afterwards the house
j resounded with ferocious cries iuter
mingled with shrieks and groans. As
j soon as the guests had recovered from
stupefaction, they started in the direc?
tion of theories. They proceeded from
the nuptial chamber, The door was
burst open and a horrible spectacle
presented itself. On the floor lay the
young bride in a pool of blood. She
still breathed, but her body was torn
and bitten as if she had been seized by
a tiger. lu the corner of the
room was the bridegroom, cov?
ered with blood and foaming at the
mouth, scratching, biting and tearing
away at the wall and furniture. With
a sodden bound he sprang like a tiger
upon the invaders of his lair, and he
would have made one or more victims
had not a brother of _the dying bride
News and Gossip.
AR old lady asked at the Sanders
ville Ga., postoffice for * "yaller develop?
ments to do letters up in."
The mosquito has six legs and only
one month. Let as therefore he thank?
ful that if it does bite it dosea't kick;
Though not much of a conversation?
alist, a mute might gee along very
nicely in a spoke factory.
It is said the cotton crop in Andorf
son this year will be the largest io
acreage known is the history of the
County.
The Italians have built the two mos?
formidable iron clad ship? in the world; _
They are 13,600 tons and can steam 1
17 knots an hour. This is something 1
the Uoited States have not done, and '
at present cannot do.
A Missourri boy, desparing of any
orthodox cure for chill and fever;
caught a cricket, which he swallowed
alive, and the parents of the boy say he
has sot been troubled with chills from
that day hence. Fellows who cannot
swallow a cricket might try a base bail
bat.
Mr. Jay Gould, with all bis millions1
and his gorgeous steam yatch that cost
so much money, could not boy, force
or steam his way into the Eastern'
Yacht Club of Boston. He was de?
corously, but ignominiously, blackball?
ed. Exactly why does not appear;
perhaps it was because of jealously en?
gendered by bis overpowering wealth j
perhaps the majority of those voting
had once been Wall street lambs.
In warm-blooded animals the heart's"
action cases in a few minutes after the'
destruction of the nervous centers, or
after the circulation of the blood in its'
own vessels is by any means arrested.
Not so with cold-blooded animals, how?
ever, as thc heart of one of them may
continue to beat for many boors after
it has been emptied of blood, and even
after it has been cut ont of the chest.
The pulsations of the heart of an eel
have been seen to con tin ne for six houri
after separation from the rest el the'
body, of a torpedo for nine hoars, and?
of a salmon for twenty-four.
A cubic inch of gold is worth $210;
a cubjc foot, $362,380 ; a cubic yard?
$9,797,762. This is valuing it at $1S
an ounce. At the commencement of
of the Christian era there was in the
world four hundred and twenty-seven
million dollars io gold. This bad dim*
ished fifty-seven million dollars nt^
the time America was discovered, wfceli
it began to increase. Now the amount
of gold in rxze is estimated'
to be six thousand million dol?
lars. Probably the limited gold of toV
old days had more purchasing power"
than the vast accumulation of thes<T
times.
Some courious^iooes are found \tf
many parts of Switzerland. They are
smooth, flat, evidently hand-polished,
and are covered with dots, lines, circles "
and half-circles. In the opinion of
Herr Rodiger, these stones are charts
of the country made by prehistoric in-'
habitants, and be claims to possess a
collection of stones picked up in* Solo
thurn which form together a map of the'
cntir mton. The dots are seen to
correspond with towns and villages*
now in existence, and tbe lines with'
roads now open. Even fords amf
mountain passess arc indicated. - The
I stones are mostly discovered at inter?
vals of about six miles, and at spots'
' where several roads meet,
j Mr. Tal ai age thinks that the great?
i desideratum is 'practical religion-a re
! ligiou that will correctly label goods ;;
that will prevent a man telling yon a4
watch was made in GeneVa when it waa*
made in Massachusetts ; that will keep",
the ground glass and the sand oat of
j sugar ; that will sift out the Prussian4
blue from the tea leaves; that witt'
; separate the one quart of water from*
the one honest drop of cow's milk/
j He thinks practical religion will rem?-"
j dy all this, cast out hypocrisy, %upset"
shoddy, and make decency, honesty and'
truth domaiuant. He is certain it will
come down with a heavy hand on fash?
ionable society, and correct the iniqui?
ties that now exist in it. Among th?se''
iniquities, Mr. Talmagc asserts, is thif
not uncommon intoxication of fashion?
able women. 'Society says she was'
taken suddenly ill of the german. The'
fact is she took too much champagne-'
and mixed liquors and got drunk;'
Not lo D g since, says a writer in" the"
Colleton Press, a mule swam the Edisto'
River at Sullivan's Ferry, with a load-'
ed cart hitched to him. Some travelers"
came to cross the river. As all could'
not cross at the same time, some of the
carts and drivers got on board of the,'
fiat, and with them the owner of this
mule. When they got about half wajr
across the river, be aw ail of bis com-'
pany going over. at. . ho, being left by'
himself, concluded he bad better get*'
over the best he could ; so he delibe?
rately walked down into the water aa'-'
til he was obliged to swim. So be went'
to work swimming, and landed on the'
other side, carrying with bim his load.
When he walked ont on tbe sand-bar,
he shook himself, as if saying to him-"
self, 'I am over, independently of yottf
flat.'
From Stuttgart the death is report?e?
of a goose well known to naturalists alt
over thc world. This eccentric anima},'
when still a gosling, abandoned ito
flock, dismissed all recollections - of ita*
infancy, repudiated thc conventional
views aod habits of geese, and boldly
marching into the barracks of an Uhlan
regiment, stationed itself one day next
to the sentry-box. Touched by this
predilection for their corps, the Uhlanr
erected a shed for the goose, and (of
twenty-three ytars threats nor persua?
sions have been able to separate the'
martial bird from its adopted regiment?
for any great length of time, li has"
at different times changed quarters with!
the corps from Esslingen to Ulm, thence'
to Ludwigsburg, and back again to*
Ulm. When the Uhlans went to fight
for their country the forsaken attd deso?
late goose took up for the time with si
battalion of infantry ; bat no sooner* '
did the first Uhlahs re-enter the foWtf
than the goose marched ont to* meet
them, and returned with them to her*
old quarters. She has DOW been staffed,
and is to be seen in a glass eaae cfc ?? .