Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850. "Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's. THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 186?; i 2, 1881.1 SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1883. Sew Series-Vol. II. So. 42? - - ? OT Tas Publishing l^^^^g^-stofl^ & c. v'7- : .^^^^^afere pw aunara - in advance. J^toe^^^three months, or Tonger will :\ ^^j^gyVwiii?i, liions which subserve private iTl^^War^PS^ibaxited for as advertisements, ?ga?en and tributes of respect will be ^^S5tap*0tiect and notices of deaths pab : ? ?jS&?j^99**1 or contracts for advertising mt?&?mmb&?Wulriman tend Southron, or apply a; HgaljgH^jD N. G. OST KEN, j^BBP^?^ '. ' :_Btt?r -ss Manager. ; i^^B?raeroN, COLDMB?A AND ^'^^^^^^<C- 3i6 pm 152?m ; ' ?^fel^ H? 43 ?tans at ?? Stttwm. -:5^S^W^TjHW?o?ivilk, Seater, Camden June far Cahnabia and all points on xt*A. R. R. Stations, ^Jsa, sad oB points beyond, should .?t IRgHt Kxprew. Steepens for Charleston trains 48 and 47. on 48 ea n tat? 48 train from . CoU?abi?, Angosta sad Gooroo* irCoinjnhia~ -t rn Solid bet voes Charleston ?nd toa. /- .' JOHN F. DITINE, Genera] Snp't. Gen-Passenger Ag't. ^ > -.^^^^^Mt^S. a, Maj 13, I883! ~xX&itr? altar this date the following Sebe .od* w?Ti be run : * XenseChu rleatoa. Arrive Florence. r.s.y|a^-gpE;.?.3 00 p M. ./ 0 3? Pv"'?"?...;-120 A. X. t^ai.?^--7 00 p. K. >. Le?are Jfocenee. Arrive Charleston. V ].% ?: A.- ^."?.^"6 20 A. X. 1.40.p. xT^....^-.6 30 P H. ll sa P. M.~"~^-8 00 a. M. TYein ieoviag Florence at 2 25 if M. will .top ooij M K5Dgstree^MKr-Man*ks Corner. SCHEDULE. 10 55 a ra 1 15 p m 5 50 p m 8 45 a m 4 05 p m 6 30 p tn J. F. DIYINE, Gen? 1 Sept. Railway Co. jfVMUlSMeUiG February 4th, 1383, Pas V/ snarer Trains will run as foliow?. until fur ^*j?':.4tor ???eSw (So train? ara ruo on Camden Braatsn. on Sondey* ) TO COLOMBIA. f*lTS CramSeo-6 45 & ni 4 30pm .7 .'.??mvn Caradeo, Jnoe?on^. $$ta ra ? p m ^ Anm tt Cyinmbta-1 t 28 a m lo 35 p ra : ; ? PBoM COLOMBIA Lents CoraraMa. 8 00 a m... 6 SS p m Arrive Caatde* Jsmrtfon.l I 35 a ra... 8 48 p m Anis* st C*m?*T_. 1 40 p m..JO 12 p tn - TO CB A St. ESTO 5 Laoaa Caradeo-_ . 0 45 a ra 4 30 p rn ' <ss*?Craulas Janet_... 8 09am 0 35 p m Arrivant Charleston...... J ?9 pia ll 30 pm nm cnancssTon Laave Chariest un_ 7 uti a m... 8 35 a m - AmV? Caraden Jene'-II 35 a a... 8 48 p m ;M Anisa ??<:*??J?J"-? 49 p ra... W 12 p m TO ACGCSTA Isnve Csmdeo -_g 45 a m 4 30 p m Le**? Camden Jone^_809 ara 6 35 p m * ' Arrive ti Aogu*U-" 00 p m 7 13 a m -^teff- * - ROM ACS CST A ^|flK&* Aagosta-T 05 s H1...S 00 p m Mire Camden Jano'.-.^..8 48 p m 10 35 a m v AxrUe Camden r_-..IO 12 p ra 1 40 p m cojfsncvioxs. Cusnoufnras Js at Columbia with Colum (.sand Greenville Railroad both war?, to ana Jrora all puiota on that Road and on the Spar tanbar;. Union sad Colombia and Spartanburg ' Sad Ashville Railroads, also with' the Char latte, Colombia and Angosta Railroad to and -" ?rara all potete North by traine leaving Camden v~ at S 45 a at, and arriving at 10 12 p m. - Connection* rasde at Angosta to ail Point] ".'.?tfsat sad Sooth; abo at Charleston with ?eaojers for Keir York-on Wedoesdsye end \J Sxtmt?xTM. Also a ii h Charleston and Savannah Ba??aay for Savannah and all points Sooth. . - Cooa?don* made at Blackville with Barn. ; rae? R. to and from Barnwell bj all train? jt^On^e^ays SOUND TRIP TICEKTS ar? ??Sid ta and from all Stations at ooo first cl?ss gjjWS^ar taa taaad trip-Sekets being good till BKandajr coon, to reruru. Rxenrsion tickets ?Mead for 10 day? are regularly on sale to aod y trara all staJlena at 6 oenu per mile UT round ?S^feB?fJ?M TICKETS to all poin?i, eon U E pll limn il hy applying to James Jones, Aged I ? deaden. i>. C. ALLEN, f ' 6enerel Passenger and Ticket Agent. M JOBS B. PECK, General Manager, f ; Charleston, S. C. WHEW AND HARNESS. -0 np?r? FIKEST LEATHER Ol? HAND Read; v JL to be worked op at the lowest living - HARfelteiS of the latest style and of my workmaosh ip, at my s h op io se 11, I Massacred to do all kinds of Jobs ic - say tine of business. AH Orders received ^^Jwproraptly attended to, and with UK ??A fall line of B?lJ>T-yADS HARNESS, SADDLES, BRIDLES, COLLARS. MARTIN? GALES, and , EYEBYTH?5G ELSE pertaioiag ton First-class Harness Shop. - OLD HARNESS randa to look ss good ?OT?R3NGArad REPAIRING Old TRUNKS <?- -^^kS&Bmt?JSY^ jffl WOfSK'la-.tny Rna ?0ARANTEJBD THOUGHTS ON ??A PASSING FANCY (?)" To Miss "A passing fancy," is it so ? . v All things are transient-this I know. Mast love too, pas3 away ? The earth, itself, with beat shall glow And ra Dish, like fast melting soow Beneath the san's hot ray. Tet though this world mast pass away When breaks eternity's long day, It is not lost, not gone ; 'Twill bad again, and by God's band Revivified; at bis 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, The chaff, and not the golden wheat . Into oblivion hurled. Then tell me not the soul's best gem, Its crowning joy, its diadem Mast fade ead I still live. Ab no: my soul would, view thia love ' As g ?ven 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 ; TU prize it more than life is prized, Or ever loved a bird the skies When by some huntsman caught. But ah ! the bitter, bitter thought That sometimes comes with madness fraught, And makes the hot blood start : What if some one more blessed than I Shou' d find more favor in thine eye And win thy gentle heart ! Then often will my thought look back Across life's lonely, desert track, And mourn o'er blighted love ; O'er love so gentle, tender, true, So strong, so earnest, lasting, pure: Love 1 ali my heart's best love I O dearest one, give me thy heart, And bid no more my love depart ; 'Tis fixed, 'tisstaved 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. . ? * * MAGAZINES, &c. Golden Day*.--This weekly publication, which bas so quickly attained a large circu? lation, discloses, in the bound volume ol 1882, good reasons for its success. For th( healthy, active boy and girl who inclines tc expression of strong vitality and entertain? ment a judicious selection of articles bas beer made. Taste and inclination have been recognized and submitted to in all sorts o proper ways. Its entertainment includes noi only amusement, but the cultivation ol strength and skill, and of a general aptitude to do things correctly. Education, however, is not neglected, although made subservien! to entertainment. Stories, poems, indooi and outdoor games, puzzles, facts of usefu knowledge, bow objects are made, and hov to make them, etc., comprise the contents o each number. Golden Days for 1883 prom ises to be even better than during 1882. It i: unique in its field, and deserving of grea favor. Subscription price S3 a year. Ad dress James Elverson, Philadelphia, Pa. The Biographer is a promising venture it monthly periodical literature. It gives i large number of concise, bnt by no mean,1 dry, biographical sketches of men and womel . eminent ia all departments o? activity. Sub jects are chosen with the view to gratify tb public curiosity for particulars of the life ant career of people whose names are appearing ii the public prints. These sketches are aol; written, and their interest is heightened DJ accompanying well executed portraits. Ii quality of daper tind printing and tasteful ness of appearance, The Biographer is arnon] the best periodicals. It is sent to any addre at 25 cents a copy, or $2.50 a year, New York 23 Park Bow. The Southern Cultivator for May. This po pu lar and sterling agricnltoral journal is agaii on our table. An examination of its content shows it to be fully equal to previous nu m bers. The proprietors have purchased Th Southern FarmerMonthly, aud by this ac have absorbed the only remaining rival ii their particular field. The Southern Cultiva tor stands in the very front rank of agricul tural papers, and for the South is certain]; unequalled by any. As usual. Thoughts tb the Month and the Inquiry Department ar full of standard adrice to the Southern farm era, and if the Cultivator contained only tbes 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 th Farmer, Sheep Husbandry, Fertilizers, Letter from the Field, Dickson's Letters on Intensiv Farming, The Patrons of Husbandry, Jerse; Cattle Notes, the Poultry Yard, the House hold, Children's Department, Fashions, etc Price, per annum $1.50. Address Jas. P Harrison ? Co., Atlanta, Ga. The following interesting pieter comes from Washington of the dornest! life of Bell, the telephone man : "Prof Bell and his wife are both very fond o flowers, and when on the 28th the Lite rary Society met at their boase bad i most elaborately adorned with flowers especially cut roses with long stems which Mrs. Bell made into loose boa qaets and presented each lady with om as she left. Though born a deaf mute Mrs. Bell bas been taught to speak bj tho new process and can understand, bj close watching the motions of the mouth of those who speak with ber, all thej say to her. Consequently few who an unaware of her affliction notice it at al in talking with her, and she receive and entertains company with perfect eas? and grace. It is said her husbant taught her to speak before their mar Hage, and that their courtship began it that way. She and her sister ba vi been considered among the most beauti ful women in Washington since thej removed there/ *Say, Mister Causey, did you see ? yaller dog come by here that looked a if be were a year, or a year and a half or two years old?' 'Yes, he pass?e about an hour, or an hour and a half or two hours ago; and is now a mile, ; mile and a half, or two miles a head and he bad-a tail about an inch, or ai inch and a bailor two ?Bches long. .TbsVB de ; you're into mo a foot, o 'io*****-*, fe***, er Mro feet/ Tnt Mtm? to?bov? ia tho same om raJgftSldfr tfrot Mee or twits 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 in his hurry. 'You want to go over to the drug store on the borner, if you want saffron. But what on earth is the mat-' I Al this point the boy shot ont 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 np 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 the 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 dowu on a bar? rel of sugar, and never spoke. 'What is it, a boy or a girl, ?" said the grocery man, winking at an old lady with a shawl over her head, wbo 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 giri, 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 f door for the old lady. 'Such tlrngs , 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, f the first thing your ma knows.' t . 'I wouldn't touch the darn thing f 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 p since morning. I have been all over j this town trolling for nurses. They . think a boy hasn't got any feelings. r- But I wouldn't-care a gol darn, if ma hadn't been sending me for neuralgia j medicine, and hay fever snuff all t 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 on some flannel things, 1 and ma would hide them in a basket 1 j and send me off after medicine. 1 5 was deceived up to about four o'clock 1 this morning, when pa came to my " room and pulled me out of b?? to go e over on the west side after some old . woman that knew ma, and they have 1 kept me whooping ever since. What ' does a boy want of a sister, unless it's f a big sister 11 don't wan't no sister 1 that I have got to hold, and rock, and " hold a bottle for. This affair breaks ? me all np,' and the boy picks the 8 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 i the boy's pa with cheese, and saffron, s and a number of such things. '0, pa will pull through. He t wanted to boss the whole concern t until ma's chum, an old woman that i takes snuff, fired him out into the - hall. Pa 6at there on my hand sled, . a perfect picture of despair, and I r thought it would be a kindness to r play it on him. ? 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 . held the baby. It seemed to do pa . good to feel that he was iodespensa l ble around the house, and be took the ; cat on hie lap as tenderly as you ever i saw a mothor hold an infant. Well, i I got in the back ball, and he couldn't ? Bee 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 6ing, '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 shawl, 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 does 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 wa6 ofiul scarce. Don't you think there are times when boys and cats are kind of J 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 stop to it, 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 linc at wheeling a baby. I had rather catch a string of perch than to wheel all the babies ever was. They needn't pro I cure no baby on my account, if it is j. to amuse me. I don't see why babies i can't be sawed off onto people that r need them in their busines^^?rt j folks don't need a baby aAd B j you nee^g safe, aad tbqjj would it be to take the baby so night and leave it on some old bael lor's door-step. Il it had been a bi? cle, or a breech loading shot-gun, wouldn't have cared, bvt a bab Bah ! It makes me tired. Pd drutl have a prize package. Well, I ? sorry pa allowed me to come hon after he drove me away last week, guess all he wanted me to come ba for was to humiliate me, and eend 1 on errands. Well, I must go and s I if he and the cat have made up.' And then the boy went out and f up a paper sign in front of the sto 'Leave your measure for saffron te The Best Cattle and Shee A correspondent of of the AugU! Chronicle writing from Atlan says : Meeting my old friend, Col. Ri< ard Peters, on the streets the ott day, I asked him about Jerseys. I is the oldest stock raiser in Georg and oue of those practical men whe sense and enterprise have made the pioneers and leaders in valuable dustries. He knows more abc thorough-bred stock than any man the South, his experience runni: back half a century and coven"; every kind of cows, sheep and ho? He told me, among other things, t following : 'The Jetsey business is increasii very rapidly over the South. Th suit the climate and are as easily ke asa common cow ; they bring from pound to a pound and a half of butt a day on the same amount of foi given to village cows. The majori milk up to-the time of calving. Th? come into profit very young, anothe great advantage. They will cal when about two years old. There a several cases of cows having calv at 14 12 months old. This is t< young. In the United States at pi sent there are about 19,000 register) Jersey cows and heifers and 9,01 Jersey bulls, io 1866 there we probably about 1,000-Jersey cov and 200 bulls. The large proporti< has been bred in America, fully i per cent., and the experienced m< believe the American are superior the imported cows ; that Americj breeder is a more scientific breed than the foreigner. The tendency present is to breed to families whoi butter making qualities have been e tablished, and whose prepotency the male has been tested. The fan ly that is most rapidly rising now known as the 'Signul/ family. Th family, on the male side, started fro a bull named Jerry, numbered 15 the Herd Register, imported by Wi B. Dinsinore in the year 1868. combination was made with Lac Mary, a cow imported by T. J. Kam the present secretary of the catt club. Another celebrated importe cow, 'Pansy, No. 8,' was brought b fore and combined with the blood i Jerry, the bull Albert being the be known to breeders of the decendan of Jerry and tin's combination. Out of the 19,000 cows and 9,000 bul there are probably, 1,500 cows and c bulls that have been brought into notic by testing the production of ^butte and they may be considered the heat of the rising families. These coi 8ist mainly of the descendants i Jupiter aud Rhea, known as the A phea and Bomba family. The Coi massie family of a recent importatio are rapidly coming into notic* There are several others that claim t be rising stars, but at present tl three mentioned are foremost. Recently bulls have been sold J $5,000, and from that to $8,000 an one or two not well established sale at ?10,000 and $12,000. The ownei expect to gel their money back b using the bulls for stock purpose* The demand in Georgia is far beyon the supply, the main trouble being i obtaining acclimated animals. Si? nal sired but 14 heifers, 12 of whic gave butter records running from 1 pounds to 22 pounds 1 1-2 ounces week. Pansy had 39 deceudau? showing a weekly average of 1 pounds 7 ounces a week.' A number of years ago, when was editing the Atlanta Constitution when thorough bred stock raisin: was in its infancy in Georgia, I visit ed the beautiful stock farm of Col Peters, in Gordon county, and wrot several letters giving his stock ex peden ces with sheep, hogs and cow for thirty years. At that time he ha< settled upon the Jerseys, after a lui test of Durhams or Short Horns, De vons, Ayrshires and Brahams; aai upon the Merino sheep, after a test o the Virginia, Prolific, Cotswolda Southdowns, Leicesters and New Ox fordshires ; and upon the Berkshin hogs, after test of Poland Chinas Jersey Reds, Essex, Chester Whites, and Yorkshires. I gave, fully, for tin Constitution, his testings of thes< breeds. At that time the Durham o Short horn breeds of cattle, the South down and Cotswold breeds of sheej and Poland China hogs were the mos popular North and We6t and hun dreds of our Southern farmers wen beginning to take interest in tho roughbred 6tock, and were looking t( these favorite breeds for int rod uc tion into the South. Col. Peters hac found to his great cost, by actual ex p?riment, that neither Durhams, Cots wolds nor Southdowns suited oui Southern climate. They had toe mud) flesh and wilted under our heat The Jersey and Merino had prover in his trial to be the best breeds foi the South. These letters, giving hu valuable Dractical 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 Petere received myriads of letters of inquiry and request for advice as to the bes! 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 me, that the informa? tion of the fitness of the various breeds to our Southern climate, given in this ! circular, has saved ?pjuih?rn farmers ja million of dollars that %pnld have ??taw>eji^nexDerir^ un H Ire beeri 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 fc>r Southern raising, has es? tablished its unqualified supremacy for Southern use. [From the Darlington News.] Economy m Manures. This does not consist in not using commercial manures, or in stinting the 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 paving 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 be supplied by us to make good crops, were Potash, Phos? phoric Acid and Ammonia. That the other organic elemeuts, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen were supplied in the earth and air, and the inorganic, such as soda, lime, magnesia, &c, were iu sufficient quantities io all soils, or else were supplied in the compounds of potash 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 I 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 ammoniated fertilizers come in opportunely to our aid. ?They cost money-they smell strong-they analyze well-^they accu? mulate princely fortunes to the tricky and unscrupulous proprietors and if they fail to benefit thc 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. Aoi 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 wc 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? table ; but it is cheaper and better to buy these elements in their purest form and do the manipulating ourselves. They may cost us more money in the outset, but we save iu thc freights on worthless material, in disappointment 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 wc 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 an 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 o? the routes he travelled. He said on one occasion he was riding along at the rate of a mile an hour, bis horse sinking 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 he lifted it and saw a luau'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 in the road and had immedi? ately sunk so rapidly that he was una? ble to extricate himself. Tho 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 you think of my mule? I am on a mule.' This happend about Ked Hill in Sen? ator Butler's county and this occur? rence, which is vouched for, will con? vince any one that the Senator is in earnest in his efforts to improve the conditiou of the public highways. Columbia Correspondent of Augusta Chronicle. A German at a hotel the other day had some Limberger 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 Sad affairs: While putting on a clean shirt a Hartwell, Ga., man fell overea, trunk and broke his collar-bone. utBtots be's going to try '>h 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 nortu eastern portion of the city, demolish? ing 150 houses and barrie 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 TO degrees. To? wards 6 o'clock heavy masses of clouds again gathered in the west, portending a storm, and the air wa? oppressively warm. The cyclone was announced by the breaking of the clouds, and it struck 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, and 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 before 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 columns of water, and no ship that encountered this mon? ster of the air could by any possibility escape destruction. STAUNTON, 111, 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- j chards injured. A construction crew g? about twenty-five men, on the Springfield and Illinois Southeastern Railway were camping near Oleiu's house, some of them sleeping in a large barn. All were seriously in? jured. Mr. Cantwell, contractor, and Alva Berrie were instantly killed. A little giri, aged eight, canuot re? cover. 1 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 Clintou 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-FIFTY-FO?K 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 uumbcr 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 ali 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 al Kansas City -Ruin 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 skies had grown darker and across their 6ullen surface torn scraps of clouds in fantastic shapes scudded with a velocity that told of the presence of vaRt 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 and lasted for some moments. Just then a gigantic cone-shaped cloud, the point toward the earth, appeared in the Northwest. Those win? noted the time saw thal it was exactly 4:30. The cloud rushed into view so quick? ly that it was impossible to tell whether it was boru 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? dreds of 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. identical in size ana snape, appea at about the point where the first seen. This cloud can be likened nothing so much as a partially lapsed balloon with the neck ei mously elongated and twisting ab< The color was reddish yellow, tinctly relieving it against the dar background. This extraordinary parition of the skies moved dire< toward the city, not very fast ap rently, but springing up and dowr an uncanny dance. As it came n< er, one could see that every tinn touched the ground it swept it cle carrying up the debris and dropp it as it passed. A few moments a: its appearance it struck West Kan City, barely touching, however, i its damage confined principally to unroofing of houses, demolishing upper portion of the Stock Exchan and killiug one man. Leaped i the air, strinking the bluff near Eei teenth street, and passing on E and slightly North for nearly t miles. In the greater part of t distance the storm funnel touched ; ground, and a wilderness of ruin ma its track. The passage of the tornado was sudden that people did not have ti to be frightened till il was over, 1 the scene of terror that followed in wake was something that words c not describe, lt cut a clean tri through the city three miles in ext* and irom 100 to 300 yards wi Heavy houses were demolished, sm frame houses were scattered to 1 winds, and trees were twisted fr? the earth as il they were weeds T number of houses entirely demolish is fifty, and the number of more les3 damaged will amount to abc 200. The loss is about $200,01 Three persons were killed outrig and many others very badly injured The Cold Wave. The cold wave which was ushered by the blow of Sunday night bas cc tioued with lower thermometer a general cloudiness Yesterday was ! cold, raw, November day. Su weather is not io memory of the old? iubabitant or almanac makers for t 22d of May. At one time during t I day the clouds banked up with an OD nous chill and there were painful su j gestions of snow in the air. The th< i mometer, towards Dight, fell benea ! thc forties, about half the usual tei j perature for this season of the year,-a as the wind lulled and the moon cai out lhere were fears of frost. Throug out the day the city put on a midwinl appearance. Doors and wi?dows we closed, stoves put on their winter blu and straw hats were put to shame heavy overcoats beneath.- It is thoug that youDg cotton all over the State h been seriously injured. The pla which had commenced to grow off gre and vigorous, has probably been bligr. ed and stunted in many places. Gra has not been affected and gardens a as a rule too far advanced to have fall before this cold soap. The m?xima temperature yesterday was 64 degree minimum temperature, 49; mean tet perature, 55 degrees.-Augusta Chro ide, 23??. CINCINNATI, May 22.-At Munci Ind., the ground was covered by snc last night. At Findlay, Ohio, snc fell several inches deep. At Wapok neta, Ohio, snow was so heavy as break the branches of trees and tl j tbermom?ter fell to thirty-five. i j Hagerstown, Indiana, snow fell fro uooon to night. At Eastoo, Ohi snow covers the ground. At Lim Obio, twelve inches of snow fell, ai the branches of tress broke with i weight. At Bellefontain, Ohio, fot inches of snow fell, and tho thermom> ter fell to thirty-four. At Marysvill Ohio, a blinding snow storm began i the forenoon and lasted all day. CASEYVILLE, ILLS., May 22.-. severe frost here last night, damage all crops considerably, doing more it jury than the cyclones. CLEVELAND, O., May 22.-Col windy weather prevails here, and treei out-bouses and unfinished building have suffered some. Snow is reporte to be five inches deep in Logan count; Most Tragic of Tragedies. A Dreadful Scene Enacted m a Bri dal Chamber in South America. A horrible affair took place recent! at Kio Grande del Sur, near to th Uruguayan frontier. A youug farme was bitten by a mad dog and remedie were immediately applied to tbi wound. Cauterization was resorted to and there was every reason to believe that the virus had not entered the vic tim's system. When the accident oc? curred the young man man was aboui to marry, but in consequence of thc untoward occurrence the ceremony wa.? 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 I ?t of melancholy. One of love's oa ? prices, said somebody. After supper j came the ball, and when this was at its height thc newly wedded couple withdrew from the fes i live scene aud retired to their apart? ment. About an hour afterwards the house resounded with ferocious cries inter? mingled with ?hrieks and groans. As soon as the guests had recov-ed from stupefaction, they started in ihe direc? tion of the cries. They proceeded from the nuptial chamber, The door was burst opeu 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 sudden bound he sprang like a tiger opon the invaders of his lair, and be would have made one or more victims had not a brother of , the dying bride ^^abuJh^^^itBg through the mad i\ews ana irossip. An 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 mouth. Let us therefore he thank? ful that if it does bite it dosea't kick; Though not much of a conversation* alist, a mute might ge? along very nicely in a spoke factory. It is said the cotton crop in Ander? son this year will be the largest in acreage known in the history of the County. The Italians have built the two most formidable iron clad shipr in the world; L They are 13,600 tons and can steam! 17 knots an hour. This is something 1 the United States have not done, and at present cannot do. A Missourri boy, desparing of aojr orthodox cure for chill and fever; j caught a cricket, which he swallowed alive, and the parents of the boy say he has not been troubled with chills from that day hence. Fellows who cannot swallow a cricket might try a base bali bat. Mr. Jay Gould, with all his million^ and his gorgeous steam yatch that cost so much money, could not buy, force or steam bis 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 his overpowering wealth f 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 thc circulation of the bleed in tty 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 hours after it has been emptied of blood, and even after it has been cut out of the chest? The pulsations of the heart of an eel have been seen to continue for six honra after separation from the rest el the' body, of a torpedo for nine boars, andt of a salmon for twenty-four. A cobie inch of gold is worth $210 ; a cubic foot, $362,380 ; a cubic yard, $9,797,762. This is valuing it at $l? an ounce. At the commencement of of the Christian era there was in -the world four hundred and twenty-seven million dollars in gold. This had dim isbed fifty-seven million dollars tit the time America was discovered, wStli it began to increase. Now the amount of gold in use is estimated' to be six thousand million dol? lars. Probably the limited gold of tnV old days had more purchasing power" than the vast accumulation of thes?~ times. i Some courious?6; ones are found ia' 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 he claims to possess a collection of stones picked up in* Solo thurn which form together a map of the entire canton. The dots are seen to correspond with towns and villages' now in existence, and the lines with' roads now open. Even fords and* mountain passess arc indicated. ' The stones are mostly discovered at inter? vals of about six miles, and at spots' where several road. meet. Mr. Talmage thinks that the great? desideratum is 'practical religion-a re? ligion that will correctly label goods that will prevent a man telling you* a' watch was made io Genera when it waa" made in Massachusetts ; that will keep" the ground glass and the sand out of sugar ; that will sift out the Prussian' blue from the tea leaves ; that will' separate the one quart of water fronf the one honest drep of cow's mil ki* He thinks practical religion will retn?-' dy all this, cast out hypocrisy, %upsetT shoddy, and make decency, honesty and'" truth domaiuant. He is certain it will5 come down with a heavy hand on fash-' ionabl? society, aud correct the iniqui? ties that now exist in it. Among th?se*' iniquities, Mr. Tal m agc asserts, is ttftT not uncommon intoxication of fashion*-' able women. 'Society says she was* taken suddenly ill of the german. The' fact ia she took too much champagne? and mixed liquors and got drunk:' Not long 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 thc same time, some of the carts and drivers got on board of the,' flat, and with them the owner of this mule. When they got about half wajr across the river, be saw ail of bis com-' pauy going over, and ho, being left by himself, concluded he bad better get" over the best he could ; so he delibe? rately walked down into the water un-' til he was obliged to swim. So be went to work swimming, and landed on the' other side, carrying with him his load. When he walked out on the sand-bar, bc shook himself, as if saying to him-" self, *I am over, independently of joni fiat.' ' m From Stuttgart the death is reported? cf a goose well koowa to naturalists alt over the world. This eccentric animal/ when still a gosling, abandoned its flock, dismissed all recollections of Oct infancy, repudiated the convectional views and habits of geese, and boldly marching into the barracks of an Uhlan regiment, stationed itself one day next to the sentry-box. Touched by thia predilection for their corps, the Uhlans* erected a shed for the goose, and for* twenty-three years threats nor persua? sions have been able to separate the' martial bird from its adopted rcgimeni for any great length of time, ft hag" at different times changed quarters with' the corps from Esslingen to Ulm, thence' to Ludwigsburg, and back again tc Ulm. When the Uhlans went to fighf for their country the forsaken and deso? late goose took up for Che time witty # battalion of infantry ; but no sooner* did the first Uhlahs re-enter the (own1 than the goose marched ont to' meet them, and returned with?, them to her* quarters. She has now been staffed.