The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, July 31, 1883, Image 1
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WATCHMAN, Established April, IS50.
"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 Jane, 1868.
Aug. 2, 1881.1
SUMTER, S. C, TUESDAY, JULY 31, 1883.
New Series?Vol. II. No. 52.
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OSTEEN, .
Business Manager.
dear w lfe stands,
Sower of all,
slender, snow-white
tjf^petaled blossoms fall.
jr^gbt pales,
in the setting
rine-^reathed' porch she
when the day is done.
love-Ht eyes,
:h sordid pelf
life's most precious
simply for?myself j
r
lairest flower of"all,
^amxfr'i snow-white
blossoms fall.
CALAMITY.
browned Near
. .""-iV ~:r '.s?l
llieifej; July?.]
. Jjeen visited by an
which has caused
ap of the
some forty years
gepGsbion party com
^J^lbe congre
;=*f^?rpus Christi
pleasantly
Grove, near
fourteen miles
, and bo leaving the
4*0 hundred people
end of the pier wait
re <m' the barge to
The pier was old
?/aid the weight of some
on the outer end
way, percipitating
persons into the
smy-M? were
> barge Cockade City bad
jm#, and those who
the day at tbe
man eager de
?*e; J Be* W. E.
tbe choreb, and Jacob
>ba Connor, tbc gate
requested tbe people
Lagarn to keep back, but as
'cases their cautious were
merrily, happily, and
rebodfcgs that death lay
throng pressed forward to
IpHpnssro, and id an instant
fes.ef. the v terrified specta
..-Itf lWre.-pier was seen to
-and a wild cry of agony was
noforranate persons i
into the water with tbe !
It^^7 This wild cry was |
relatives and I
and wbo j
;*e*eral sports in which j
horrified at the j
& presented to them. 1
0?' the broken pier were j
" A nomber were rcn- i
by injuries from tbe i
??^cier, others from fright,
B of those thus thrown
water struggled desperately
lives. Many sank into
from, exhaustion ; others were i
down by those who were drown- |
the efforts of their friends
on . were rescued and ,
ly to land. Herman
expert young swimmer,
women and children, and
ere, whose names are not
bard in rescuing the j
in bringing in the bodies of j
into the grove. As each body j
ht to the shore there was a j
Strong men were wild j
as wife or ebild was bid at j
and mothers wept with that i
all other earthly j
_ Biotber's lament for ber j
Women fainted here and i
d were ministered to by kindly |
d there were children crying j
their parents who bad per- |
Iteir -sight The exenrsior- |
'irer^^Tonndly affected by the j
acones of sorrow pre- j
'hand* and these who j
at Hblly Grove yesterday will j
efface from their minds tbc rccol- j
of *he honors of last night. !
some bright contrasts to ;
f scones of grief presented when j
sad child who had been rescued |
F^ad given op each other as
restored safely to each other;
scenes were so filled with
to intensify tbe feelings
the excitement of the
-five bodies were within
taken from the water,
whom were placed on
by side, and brought to
barge arriving at Hen
at.2 a. m., and the spec
was a piteous one.
men and women, youths
rare lying side by side, in
?osotenaoee* exhibiting
and their clothing torn
a number
i i
and friends of the
io be ^ond-all
ot-per
mm
of the barge, fearing from it not re
turning at the usual hoar that some ac
cident had occurred. When the fact
was known to them a scene of intense
excitement followed and the crowd
rushed on the boat and eagerly scanned
the faces of the dead. Some few
recognized the countenance of a friend,
but the majority of the relatives and
friends of the deceased were waiting at
Light Street wharf for the return of the
barge, and did not hear of the calamity
until morning, when they proceeded to
Henderson's wharf and another scene
of sorrow and grief commenced, which
lasted for some hours, until nearly all j
of the drowned had been identified and
claimed by their families. Several bun-1
dred excursionists remained at Tivoli j
to continue the search for more bodies, j
Mr. Frank Debilius, manager of
Tivoli, states that the accident was
caused by persons crowding too closely
toward. the gate at the end of the
wharf, although he and his subordi
nates had done all in their power to
keep them back. He did not think the
wharf was weak or rotten, as great
crowds had gathered on it before. He
was much distressed, and says the
scene presented when the people went
down with the broken pier to darkness j
and to death was too harrowing to be
described. There was but little light
at the time from the ordinary lamps in
use, but immediately large fires were
built on the bank, at which the rescued
dried their clothing and by the light of
which the work of rescoing the living
and bringing the dead to the shore went
on. Several persons were brought to
the land who died shortly after.
Mr. W. A. Taylor, who witnessed
the accident, says that at 10:30 o'clock
the gate nearest the shore was opened
and the wharf soon became crowded.
The barge was being made fast to the
wharf, and gave a jar, which caused
the platform to fall. About three hun
dred persons feli into the water, which
was from 8 to 11 feet deep. The rail
ing of the bridge and stools and benches
were at once thrown overboard to save J
the drowning. The tug attached to the J
barge was brought around and rescued
most of those who were 8aved. Patrick
Bea'ty jumped overboard and saved
several persons. "The scene was a
terrible one," said another eye-winess.
**Wben the pier gave way and the
crowd went down the unfortunate peo
ple struggled wildly in the water, the
strong pushing aside the weak. We
an the barge threw overboard chairs,
stools, planks, buckets, Hfc-preservers,
ind everything we could lift or tear .
away from the boat. Several of those
who fell through the wharf had their
beads cut and their limbs injured by
the broken boards, and were dead be
fore they reached the water. The
wharf was said to be weak, and it could
be felt shaking as a person walked over
it."
The Eastern police force removed
.he bodies from the barge to a ware
house on the wharf, and the work of
dentification proceeded amidst much
sdSgment^At ^n^if^XtrW^Sn^hn^
lie ose crowa^t^persens were present
looking for their loved and missing
Mies. Terrible .scenes of grief fol
lowed, and one lady who became
frantic on recognizing the body of her
shiid, who started like the others hap
pily from home yesterday in expecta
tion of a day of picture, was placed
in a carriage and driven to her home.
Most of the victims were women, and
in nearly every case young girls iu the
lush of maidenhood. But in their gip
pearance there was ample evidence
the death in horrid shape which they
bad endured. In many instances their
Paces were discolored, bruised and
blocdy, and clotted blood oozed from j
mouth, nose and cars.
When carried off the boat the bodies j
were laid side by fide in the shed to the j
left of the warf at the entrance, which
is known as the storehouse. The faces
were covered with cloths and the hands
were crossed on the breast and tied
together. The feet were also tied.
Heartrending scenes were enacted by
the score in the dead-room, where the
bodies jay wet and sodden. One of the
xaddest things was the recognition of
Wdj. Garmer, of No. G5 Strasburg
street. His aged father came in eariy
this morning and inquired for him say
ing that his son had gone on- the Cock
ade City aud had not returned. The
faces of the dead who still remained
were uncovered, and the first face he
gazed upon was that of his son. The
corpse was that of a young aud hand
Bome man. Kis face was discolored and
blood was oozing from his mouth,
while his cheeks were bruised and his
nose swollen, as though a heavy piece
of timber had struck him.
Every few moments this forenoon
anxious inquiries were made of the
officer at the door of the dead-room.
Two young women with streaming
eyes asked for their father who had
gone down alone on the excursion.
No one could tell them anything, aud
they turned away sad enough.
The Cockade City left at 4 30 a. m.
for thrt scene of the disaster again. It
had left many bodies there and about
200 of the excursionists. Those left be
hind were io large part women and
children, and they passed a terrible
night mostly in the open air. A large
b're was built, and around this the
shivering ones gathered to dry their
clothes. The scene was a weird one, |
and boats around the peir were flitting i
to and fro with laterrs io the search for
the dead yet uorecovered. Many of
the men were busy in this work, .insist
ed by people living near and the em
ployees of the barge and the resort.
h seemed as though the number of the
dead would never atop swelling a3 the
search continued through the night of
horror.' Thirty one bodies were
brought up by the night boat, and by
8 o'clock this morning thirty one more
lay side by side on the pier.
The boat left there at 8.30 o'clock
this morning, bringing the 32 dead
bodies'and 200 of the passengers who
bad been left at-the place all night.
Itarrived at Henderson's wharf at 9.30.
Women were weeping, and friends who
met them joined in their waiting and
lamentations.
The bodies were first removed to the
lead-house. Deputy Marshall Frey
baking charge, aud were sent away as
fast as conveyances could be secured.
?^jOritwasdono as quietly as possi
ble, bat amid violent expressions of grief, j
The bodies lay in two rows upon the j
floor, and as fast as one was identified
a note bearing name and address was
pinned to the wet clothing.
The streets leading to the wharf,
upon the arrival of the boat at 9.30
were thronged with an excited crowd.
The police officers of the Eastern, North
eastern and Middle districts were sta
tioned at the entrance of the wharf,
and were required to use considerable
force to keep baok the crowd of curiosi
ty seekers, who had assembled to wit
ness the arrival of the bodie?. At
the dead-house the scene was beyond j
description?fathers, mothers, sisters j
and brothers were assembled in large
numbers, anxiously inquiring for their
friends and relatives who had gone on
the excursion. One gentleman recog
nized his child and immediately took it
from one of (he o?cers in charge and
carried it out to a wagon.
One woman had been in the neigh
borhood* since 7 o'clock this morning j
inquiring for a relative who was sup
posed to have been missing, but the
body had not been recovered at 12
o'clock. A number of gentlemen were
waiting to identify the bodies of persons
supposed to be have been drowned.
The parties resided in almost every
section of the city being members of
Catholic churches in different localities.
Coroner Merfit began an inquest this
evening. Jacob Sonnet, a policeman,
testified that the crowd on the wharf
numbered at least seven hundred per
sons and that three hundred persons
fell into the water. He had seen larger
crowds on the wharf. The flooring
had been repaired this spring. He ex
amined the place where the break oc
curred, and found the timbers pretty
rotten. The Rev. Mr. Starr testified
that the wharf was a mass of patching
from one end to the other. John Con
ner, a policeman said the timber of the j
wharf appeared to be very good, though
there was some dry rot. Frank Deb
lins, proprietor of Tivoli, said he had
the wharf examined every year before
the excursion season, and he supposed
that it was in good condition.
The Coroner's jury brought in the
following verdict:
We find that Louisa Swearer and
others came down to thier deaths by
drowning by the breaking of the bridge
at Tivoli, and that the authorities of the
place did not- use proper care and pre
caution to prevent the occurrence.
THRILLING SCBXKS.
Mr. James Roach, who resides on
Biddlc near Cathedral street, stated this
morning that he had gone down cn the
2 o'clock boat yesterday afternoon in
company with Miss Mary Hamill, aud
that between 10 and li o'clock last i
eight had left the grove, and was upon
the broken pier. Mr. Roach states 1
that he had hold of Miss Hamill, but !
the crowd was so great that he had to :
release his hold and she was lost.
When within about forty feet of the end
of the pier and while engaged in talk
in^to the young lady he was horrified
toseelh^ftf^essaiiu^
and a struggling mass of human beings
hurled into the water. The scene he !
states was beyond description, men, '
women and children were clinging to 1
each other and no doubt added to the *
list of drownings by their wild excite- '
ment. When the peir gave way he and
the young lady went down with the j:
rest of the large crowd. He used i 1
every effort to su*ve himself and Miss ; j
Hamill, but the excitement was so in- j 1
tense at the time that women and chil-! \
dren grabbed hold of him, and it was '
with force that he freed himself and 1
succeeded in getting out of the water, j 1
Among those who were saved were j
Misses Ma. and Ida Miller, sisters |5
residing at . William street; ?uiss is
Maggie Sheeman of 2sro. C Gimstead j
lane, and Miss Bridget Sheen, residing !
on York sreet, near William street.
These four ladies, accompanied by 1
some gentlemen friends, formed a party 1
together. When the time for the \
departure of the boat drew near t::ev j;
hastened down the pier, and took their I
stand near the edge to get aboard ear- js
\j, so as to secure seats. Jliss Mary i'
Miller thus continues the story : 'Pco- j
pie were standing all around us, and, j i
like ourselves, seemed to be enjoying
themselves in laughing and talking. <
I noticed, now that I think of it, that 1
there were quite a number of mothers !
with their babies in the arms and chil- 1
dren at their sides, on the pier, and !
what became of the poor things the Lord
only kuows. All at once I felt the pier 1
shake, and before I could give it a 1
second thought there was a crash. The '
next thing I remember is that I was 1
struggling in the water. !
'Very fortunately I felt a log, and
on top of this I managed to scramble j1
in some way. There I stayed until a J
young gentleman came to ir.y rescue
and carried me ashore. Ti.e time seems '
an indefinite period while I was holding '
on that log. Every minute l ean recall
some event?seeing somebody go down, !
my helplessness to save them, hearing
some familiar voice crying out in dis
tress. I shall never forget that night.
Sometimes it seems that I can hear
some of the shrieks and moans resound
ing in my cars/
The experiences of the other mem- :
bers of the narty were similar to those i
of Mary Miller. Her sister Ada,
struggled in the water for some time, .
and was carried under by some one
falling on her shoulders. She had be
gun to give up all hope of rescue when
she saw a boat approaching, aud was
picked up by it and earned to the
shore in an exhausted condition. She
is still quite sick, an-'i yet scarcely able
to comprehend her narrow escape.
Miss Maggie Shoenan was the most
unfortunate of the party. She sank
twice and was unable to help herself as
the water was so filled with struggling
people. Her clothing was torn frum
her, and some valuable jewelry was
lost. A young man by the name of
Joseph Don rescued her.
All these young ladies relate the
awful and horrifying experience they
endured while on their return to the
city. They were obliged to stand du
ring the whole trip w!:hin a few feet of
the pile of dead bodies.
At 51 Hamburg Street lay the corpse
of Miss Jessie Sum wait. Her body i
was received last night and conveyed to
her late residence. She was 21 years
of age, and her appearance in the coffin
leads to the belief that she was a beau
tiful woman. She was accompanied by
her father, John Sum wait; her sisters,
Misses Venia and Nellie, and Mrs.
Skull and her husband and infant two
years old. All escaped but Miss Jessie
and the little baby. The house was
filled with friends and relatives of tbe
family, all of whom were overcome by
grief. Many stood on the sidewalk
and were unable to gain adenssiou.
The father Lad retired to an upper
room, where he sat with bowed head
and apparently unconscious that such a
terrible tra^cdv had been enacted.
In a back room sat Mrs. Skull, tbe i
young mother, bitter!? moaning her I
harsh fate. She at length partially I
composed herself, and between her uu- j
controllable sobs she related an account
of the disaster. "We were standing,"
she said, "near the centre of the pier
waiting the boat. I had my child
in ray arms and she was quietly sleep
ing." Eere the mcther could no longer
restrain herself, and barst forth into
an uncontrollable fit of weeping. Again
composing herself, she continued: "I
beard something breaking under my
feet and all at once I -as thrown into
the water. My husband was at- my
side in an instant, and together we
struggled. He got me out some way.
When I first went down my baby was
washed out of my arms. I recovered
her when I came up, and my husband
began to pull me toward the shore. I
went down again, and my baby was
again washed awav. but I found her.
I don't remember much else. Some
how our little baby was again washed
out of my arms, and I could not find
her. I" was then completely exhausted."
At this point of the interview some one
came in from the street and said that a
man was coming with the baby. The
mother caught the subdued words, and
the scene that followed defies descrip
tion. "Oh ! my baby, my baby, my
baby V she frantically screamed and
rushed from the room. Her moans
and sighs were piteous in the extreme,
and many a mother present burst into
tears. No arrangements have yet been
made in regard to their funeral, but
the services will probably take place
from the residence to-morrow morning
at 10 o'clock.
At 206 at Montgomery street were
the bodies of three of the victims of the
disaster, and one has not yet been re
covered. They are Miss Laviuia
Crouch, aged 40; Thomas and Al
baughina Crouch, brother and sister,
aged respectfully 5 and 8 years, and
their mother, Mrs. Kate Crouch. The
little parlor in which the bodies lay was
almost filled with the coinns, and every
available foot was occupied by the friends
und neighbors of the deceased. A po
liceman was stationed iu front of the
residence to keep back the crowds that
gathered on the si Je walk. No particu
lars of the disaster could be learned
With one exception the whole family is
gone.
The aged grandfather of the two lit
Lle children is left, childless and alone,
to bemoan his harsh fate. He sat in a
baclrmtrr^eei?^^ his
surroundings, and of the roany^syl?.
pathizers who vainly sought to con
sole him. The little companions
>f Tommy and his .?ister entered the
room and would gaze upon the l:feic.~c
forms of their playmates who so lately
shared their trials and partook of their
pleasures, and would be overcome by
;rief. Hourly the arrival of the other
Dody was expected, and it seemed al
ready that the fountains of tears of that
household were dried up. The inter
ment will take place probably to-morrow
morning at 10 o'clock.
George Skull, of No. 54 Etamburg
?treet. who lost a daughter, Olivia, j
2 2[ed 10, was found sitting on the wharf !
;his rooming awaiting the arrival of the J
soat bearing the body of his lost child, j
With tears in bis eyes lie told a Day
reporter the story of the accident. '1
tveni down.' said he, 'to spend the day
t?uh my wife and child. There were i
-even other relatives in onr narty. !
When the boat arrived and lay along-!
side the pier, wo all crowded forward i
:nd were talking about the place, and |
wondering why they did not op-: n the j
rite and let us in. There were proba- ;
;!y 2?0 people on the pier, all trying tu
*et on the boat first, and I was one of
;he head ones. I stood close to the
}dge of the warf and had* the empty
iunoh-baskc' in my hand, and my wife
md child were clo3s behind. Suddenly
iho whole thing gave way beneath our
Feet with a crash and we all went down
together, frightened screams drowning
the crash of timbers as they broke, I
jannot describe what followed. My
.vife clung to me ami let the child go in
Eier terror, but she did not get hold of
me until she had sank twice, and after |
that I, who had been under two times, |
was dragged under again by the crowd |
of terrified and sir:;;- gitng people. Ij
anally swam with her to the boat, and j
was pulled cn board by a rope. I was
much exhausted and my wife was nearly
dead.'
'Did you notice anything like a jar
when the boat struck the wharf?' asked i
the reporter. 'Some people say that J
was what started the pier to full.'
No, I noticed tiothiog of the kind;
there was no jar; the whole thing just
gave way.'
Mr. Richard Ticrney, living at 141
Preston street, who was reported
drowned, gives a thrilling account of
the disaster. Mr. Ticrney says the
people crowded on the warf, where they
were unnecessarily detained by the gate
keepers, when, without the slightest
warning, the warf gave way and the'
douse mass was precipitated imo the I
water. The evening was very dark, J
and there we:-1, he say:;, but two dim j
lights on the pier. The shrieks "f the j
victims were awful aud the most de
termined efforts on the part of those in
the water who could swim to save the
drowning persons proved in nearly every
case unavailing. Parties on the boat
threw boards, pieces of wood and any
thing that could be gotton hold of in j
the water, but he did not see a single
life preserved, and, as everything was j
thrown at random, he is confident that j
some lost their lives by being struck by I
pieces of plank aud timber. 31 ins Mag- i
gie Burns, No. 143 Preston street, was j
rescued by Mr. Ticrney, but in the
panic she was carried from him by oth
ers, and before he could again catch
her she was drowned. r
The Bad Boy a Druggist.
HIS EXPERIENCE WITH VARIOUS CUSTOM
ERS, INCLUDING THE OLD MAN?THE
JOKE THE DRUGGIST 1'LAYED UN HIM.
'Whew ! What is it that smells so
about this store ? It 6eems as though
everything had turned frowsy/ said
the grocery man to his clerk, in the
presence of the bad boy, who was
standing with his back to the -stove,
his coat tails parted, and cigarette in j
his mouth. 'May be it is mo thai I
smells frowsy/ sa:d the boy as he put
his thumbs in the armholes of his!
vest, aud spit at the key-hole in the !
d?or. 'I havp gone into business/
'l3y thunder I believe it is you/ said
the grocery man as he went up to the i
boy, snuffed a couple of times, and I
then held his hand to his nose. 'The j
board of health will kerosene you j
if they ever smeli that smell, and .--end !
you to the glue factery. What busi- j
ness have you gone into to make you j
emel! so rank V 'Well, you see pari
begun to think it was time I learned !
a trade or a profession, and he saw a
sign in a drug store window,, 'boy
wanted/ and as he had a boy he didn't
want, he went to the druggist and got i
a job for me. This smell on me will!
go off in a few weeks. You know I j
wanted to try all the perfumoiy in the
store, and after I had got about forty
different extracts on my clothes,
another boy in the store he fixed up a
bottle of benzine and assalety and
brimstone and a whole lot of other
horrid stuff and labeled it'rose gera
nium/arid I guess I just wallered in
it. It is awful, ain't it? It ker
flummixed ma when I went into the
dining room the first night I went
home from, the store, and broke pa all
up. He said j reminded him of the
time when they had a litter of skunks
under the barn. The air seems fixed
around where I am, and everybody
seems to know who fixed it. A giri
came into the store yesterday to buy
a satchet, and there wasn't anybody
there but me, aud I didn't know what
it was, and I took down everything
in the store pretty near, before I
found it, and then I wouldn't have
found it only the proprietor came in.
The girl asked the proprietor if there
wasr/t a good deal ofsewergasin the
store, and then he told me to go out
and shake mvself. I think the girl
was mad at me because 1 got a nurs
ing buttle out of the show case with
a rubber muzzle and asked her if that
was what she wanted. Well, she
told me that a satciiet was something
for the stummick, aud I thought a
nursing bottle was the nearest thing
to it.' 'I should think you would
drive all the customers away from the
store/ said the grocery man, as he
opened the door to let the fresh air in.
'1 don't know but I will, but I am
hired for a month on trial and I shall
stay. You see I shall practice on
nobody but pa for a spell. I made
up my mind to that when I gave a
woman some salt instead of powdered
borax, and she came back mad. Pa
seems to want to encourage me, and
is willing n?- take anything I ask him
to. Ho had Oofc-T^uoafcand wanted
something for % and the L^^ugdst
iold me io put some tai!uT?r^ay i
chlorote of potash in a mortar and j
grind it, and I let pa pound it with a j
mortar, aud while he was pounding it I
I put in a couple of drops of sulphuric i
acid, and it exploded and bio wed pa's
hat clear across the store, aud pa. v.-as j
vhiter than a sheet. lie said he
guessed his throat was all right, and
he wouldn't come near me again that
day. The next day he came in and I
was-laying for him. 1 tcok a white
eedletz powder and a blue one, and
dissolved them in separate glasses,
and when pa came in I asked him if
he didn't want some lemonade, and
he said he did, and I gave him the I
sour one and he drank it. He said it |;
was too sour, and then I gave him ;
the other glass that looked like water, j
to take the taste out of hi-; mouth, j
and he drank it. Well, sir., when j
these two powders got together in j,
pa's stummick and began to sis and ;;
steam and foam, pa pretty near I.
clicked to death, and the suds came j
out of his nostrils, and his eyes stuck j
out, and as soon as he could get his ,
breath he yelled'lire/ and said he j,
was poisoned, and called for a doctor,
but 1 thought as long as wc had a
doctor right, in the family there was
no use of hiring one, so I got a
stomach pump, and 1 would have had
him bailed out in less than no time
only the proprietor came in and told
rnc to go and wash some bottles, and
he gave pa a drink of brandy, and pa
said he felt better. Pa has learned
where we keep the liquor, and he
comes in two or three times a day
with a pain in his stomach. They
play awful moan tricksen a boy in a
drugstore. The first day the}'put a
chunk of something blue into a mor
tar and told me to pulverize it, and
ihen make it up into two grain pills.
Well, air, 1 pounded that chunk all
the forenoon, and it never pulverized
at all, and the boss fold me to harry
up, as the woman was waiting for the
pills, and I mauled it till I was nearly
dead, and when it was time to go to
supper the boss came and looked into
the mortar and took out a chunk, and
said, 'Von dumb fool yoti have been
pounding oM <\:\y on a chunk of India
rubber instead of blue mass I' Wei!,
how did I know? But 1 will get
even with them if I stay there long!
enough, and don't you forget it. If I
von have a prescription von want
filled you come down t-? the store and j
V\\ put it up myself, and then you
will be sure to get what von pay for/
' Yes/ said the grocery man, as he cut
off a piece of limburger cheese and
put it on the stove to purify the air
of the room,'! should laugh to sen
myself taking any medicine you put
up. You will kill some one yet, by
giving them poison instead ol quinine.
But what has your pa got his nose
tied up for? He looks as though he
had had a fight/ '0, that was from
my treatment. He had u wart on his
nose. You know that wart. You
remember how the minister told him
ifothei eople's business had a but
ton-hole in it, pa could button the
wart into the buttou-hole, as he al
ways had his nose there. Well, I
told pa I could cure that wart with
caustic, aud lie said he wouid give me
$5 if I could cure it, so I took a slick
of caustic and burned the wart off, but
I guess 1 burned down into the nose
a little, for it swelled up as big as a j
lob-tor. Pa says he had rather have
a whole nest of warts than such a
nose, but it will be all right in a year
or so.
Summer Sesort Quotations.
'I believe you advertise ?ood fish
icg V
.rr %
'ics, sir.
'Where is it ?'
'Over in the lake. Wc never fish j
on dry land here.'
'But. I have been over there all day j
and never had a bite/
'Of course not. If you want to fish j
com here in Jrme. This is July, and |
the fish wont bite. Sorry but you are
a month too late.'
at t3e nearest railroad station.
'How far is it over to Kosebush
Lake V
'Sixteen miles, sir.'
'Why, I was toid that it was only
half a mile from this station ! This is a
pretty state of affairs, I declare ! How
do you get over there.
'I have never been there, sir. I pre
sume ycu can hire a farmer's team or
walk it.'
'It's a dead swindle !'
Well ?'
'And Pm a fool for leaving home!'
'Yes.'
'And FJ1 take the down train.'
'Certainly. Only sixteen hours to
wait for it. Sit down in the freight
house and make yourself comfortable.'
too previous.
'See here, landlord, didn't you ad
vertise an entire absence of flies and
musquitoes at this place?'
'Certainly, sir ; but those advertise
ments were prepared in March, and I
assure you in the most solemn manner
that we weren't troubled in the least
until the last of May. If you had only
come up here in April you would have
had a glorious time.'
an off year. *
'Hot! Why, it's five degrees hotter
here than at home ! I thought this was
one of the coolest places in the coun
try ?'
'My dear sir, this is an off year, you
know ! IS very year but this we have
had to keep up fires in July, and we
shall probably have to next year again. | ?
It in a sort of an extra season, you j rj
see.' * L
But where are these cool breeds you }
advertised ?'
'Oh,- they are over on the other side
of the lake to-day. You see, this is
only one side of the lake, and we can't
expect to monopolize all the breeze
there is. We must divide up and give
the other resorts some of it.*
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If
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came in handy.
'See here, landlord, you advertised a
big, four-story hotel, with a grove, IJ
fountains, bathing, boating, etc., and I j g
arrive here to find a shanty stuck in
the pine wood? and the nearest lake a
mile away. Explain yourself, sir !'
'With the greatest pleasure. The
^?* -/ tue ju'-tej. wag^orjQ-^Tv^^-rrr?
printer's hands, and he worked it in to
fili out the column. I ought to have
mentioned in the advertisement that it
w.-i2 a cut of a hotel at Long Brach, j
but T neglected to. Come right in? j
beautifn! scenery, weeds full of snakes, j?
rates down to ?4 per day and children
charged fell prices.'
dog cheap.
'Landlord, this bill is downright ex
tortion !'
How is that?
'Why, I can stop at the Grand Pa- j
cific for loss than yoa have charged j lT
me V j C
'Yes, sir. but is the Grand Pacific I y
among the hills? L* it surrounded by i >
pines? Has it a boiling spring? Can i o
you wait over a precipice within ?00 j 7
feet of the Grand Pacific ? I charge X
two dollars a dry for tho precipice, an- j d
other for tue h?ls and the spring, and
if twelve shillings a day for hotel rates
are not dog cheap then I don't know
how to please you. Why, sir, if the
Fifth Avenue Hotel was on the brink
: : a precipice 200 feet high, you
couldn't stop there for ?8 a day !'
Ii
Wonderful Progross of a Hu-ja
ral Legislator.
c
The following is an. extinct from a I
letter written by a rural legislator
and addressed to a friend: 'Well, j
I'm gcltiii' pretty well broke in, but j f
I ain't reached a pint yit whar I can I '
take the bit be! ween my teeth au* j
iump the fence. 1 am gettin' nseter j1
the ways of the city an' can cuss a i *
nigger at the hotel with the best of i1
fem, let me tell you. 1 have got so
I can eat oysters. Didn't like 'em at
first, they was so slimy., but I soon
saw that it was expected of me, so I
put one in my mouth, shut my eyes
and sent her home. She didn't want J t
to stay, for the blamed thing was | f
alive, but I hilt her down an' didn't j v
wink. I tried to cat some lumber j I
cheese, but it wouldn't go. You i f
can smell the stuff as far as you can I e
stand fl;it footed and fling a rock. I ; a
went to a show the other night, 1 1
expected to see horses and a trick a
mule, hut when they pulled up a I s
groat painted wagon Iciver thar stood 1
two well dressed fellows. They g
commenced to <alk an' I never see ; 1
men cany on so in my lile. Putty j *
soon a gal come in an' then they j c
bad a devil <>f a time. Well, they j i
jawed around awhile an' then some j 1
fellow let down the wag-on kivor. j t
.After the kivor went up again, two j 1
fellows got to fightitr, an' while they I 1
tit, the gal hopped in an' downed one ^
of'em. They kep'er goin' ou this j j
way till I thought somebody was j i
goin' to git hurt, but finally every
thing came out all right except they
didn't have no horses.'?Albany Ex
press.
Fashionable belle wants to know a
what shade will be the most preferred 11
thip summer. Well, the shade of a big c
elm tree will bo very popular, but at j <
the seaside the shade of a big umbrella j s
wili be much fought after. I <
News and Gossip.
Maurice- Sullivan, of New York, 23
years old and weighing 129 pounds, is
trying to ha7e annulled his marriage
with Mary ITealy, who was a widow,
with five grown children, 44 years old,
md fighting at 200 pounds. He says
she got him drunk and married bim
against his will.
The only lady of the White House
R-ho entered it *as a bride was Mrs.
Tyler. Her maiden name was Gardner,
ind she first met the President at Wash
ington in the third year of his term.
The marriage was performed in New
York a few months before the Presi
les. t*s term expired.
It is announced that the recent at
tempt to 'buH' the Confederate bonds
has collapsed. There was never any
basis for the attempt for the Confede
rate seeuriiies are absolutely as dead as
Ihotmes or Scsostris, who have been
mummies for three or four thousand
years.
Enthusiastic Professor of Pysics. dis
cussing the organic and inorganic king-,
iom : 'Now, if I should shut my eyes?
so?and drop my head?so?and not
move, you would say I was a clod ! But
[ move, I leap, I run, then what do
pou call me:' Voice from the rear : !
A clod hopper. Class is dismissed. j
A fellow of the Royal College of Sur- ;
?eons was lately Seed ?10 and costs for
'furiously riding a tricycle.' He was
Iravelling so rapidly that a constable on
horseback had great difficulty in catch
ng him, though it was shown in court
;hat the surgeon had already travelled
sixty miles that day on his machine.
Dr. Neale was once strongly urged to
icrform some service, but he objected,
heading a prior engagement. This:
,urned out to be to have several teeth
extracted. Finally the doctor said, re
erring to the person who desired his
3resence, "Tell him I'll go if he'll take
ny place at the dentist's."
A little girl saw an old drunken man
ying on a door-step, the perspiration
)ouring off his face and a crowd of chil- 1
Iren preparing to make fun of him.
3he took her little apron and wiped his
ace, and then looked up pitifully to the
est and made this remark: '0, don't
mrt him ! He is somebody's grandpa.'
Was not that the better way ?
Twenty-five years ago a youDg lady
if this town had a singular dream.
She consulted a dream book, andlearn
;d that she would have four husbands
>efore she reached the age of thirty.
Phis made her rather independent, and
he is now an old maid of forty-two,
md has never had a beau. Some
Iream book3 are not as reliable as they
aight be.?Korristoic:i Herald.
The report of the United States Fish
Commission for the distribution season
>f 1882, just made out, show's that
.0,331 German leather carp were sent
o applicants from South Carolina
rom the commencement of the season
q October until the close, Jane 1.
i'ive hundred applicants were sent into
.73 Congressional districts and.twenty
ine of the counties in the State.
The Rock Hill Herald cays: On
iaturday last Dr. W. B. Fewoil, of
ibenezer, seined his fish pond and j
aught Ir^^Ka^J^rvjH
orty German carp measuring from
welvc to twenty-two inches in length,
i'his pond was started two years ago
nd was made on land previously
lanted in cotton. Dr. Feweli is so
ncoui*3ged by his two years' experi
nce that he stocked another pond with
his "catch."
There were 140 failures in the
Joited States reported to Bradstreet's
uring the past week, four more than
he preceding week, IG more than the
or responding week of 1882, and 50
lore than the same week of 1881.
Compared with the previous week, the
riddle States had 32, an increase of 2 ;
Jew England States 27, an increase of
:1; Southern States 24, an increase of
: Western States 44. a decrease of 9;
5aei?c States and Territories 13, a
eerease of 18 ; Canada and the Prov
nccs 26, an increase of 10.
Two notable conventions of colored
cople have been held lately ; one, the
ress convention at St. Louis; the
ther, the State Convention of Texas,
n the former convention, by resclu
ion, they asked for co-education, a
air chance in ail the higher industries
nd pursuits: political recognition ac
ording to voting strength, and that
le^ro hereafter be spelled with a big
N.M The Texas Convention con
ratulated both races on the harmony
nd geueral improvement prevailing,
nd advised their race to cut loose
r?m immoral teachers aud preachers,
.hey consider the whites with whom
hey live their best friends. They are
vowed Republicans when it comes to
?olitics.
- mm a n ?~q?
Converted by Lightning. I
Up in Houston County there is a
oung man who has heretofore borne
he reputation of being the wickedest
cllow iu the section where he lived. A
ery interesting revival took place not
ong ago and much iuterest was mani
ested. One of the miuisters approach
d the young man and asked if he had ?
. Bible, and he replied negatively.
Che good man advised him to buy one
,ud take it home and read it. He
aid he had no money to throw away on
>ibles. Then the minister offered to
;ivc him one and he refused to take it.
lc went home and repaired to his farm.
,Vhcn in the field an :;ngry -rain cloud j
ame, and soon vivid flashes of light- |
ling began to play around in the neigh
borhood of the wiche?! young man.
iooa a bolt came along and knocked
tim winding over the cotton rows,
[he failing rain drops in his face re
rived him after a few minutes, and he
jrocceded toward the house, but just
)cfore entering the gate he received
mother shock which laid him prostrate
md helpless on the ground. Reviving
igain, he went into the house and re
nted to hi? wife the ordeal bt '-ad just
)assed through, and how rear he had
ipproached death. Next day he went j
o town, bought a Bible, attended
:hurch during the gracious revival, and
mbraced religion. This is one in
itance where a man got religion by
dectricity.?Montezuma (Ga.) Recofd.
A SAGACIOUS URN.
"How d'ye do?" he asked, with a
grin of familiar recognition. ** Don't
seem to know me, do ye ? X wasin here
last fall and give yer some anecdotes
about some snakes down in my parts.
Remember ? "
"Yes," growled the city editor, "I
recollect yon. All your snake stories
were lies, and we got letters from all
over saying so. "What do yon want
now?"
" You don't tell me/' nrminated the
snake man, smoothing his hat softly.
"Lies, was they? Mebbe the parties
as writ to yer knowed more about them
snakes than me. P'rhaps what I come
j to toll yer about my speckled hen with
! a blue hackle is all lies too."
"What has she done?"
" She's done mor'n the snakes, and if
the snakes war lies that hen'3 a whop
per, that's all I can say," and he looked
deeply injured.
"Tell us about her, anyway,*' said the
city editor.
" Yer hearn about the cat that hatched
chickens, I reckon. Well, my old
speckled hen's been dicountin' that cat.
She's hatched four brood of kittens; one
in each brood."
" Oh, go home and sleep it off 1" rec
ommended the indignant city editor.
"Pact! Four brood, and one to the
brood. I seen her gettin' restless and
setten around on things, and tried fer
to knock her out o' the idee. No use.
She'd set onto a hot fiatiron but what
she'd set. -Fust she hatched an qldmilt
pail into tin cups, and then she sauatted
on some dough that was sot to rise, and
I'm slugged if she didn't hatch out a
dozen biscuit and then try to learn 'em
to swim. I seen she was gittin' right
broody, and I says to the old woman,
j says I, ' Mar, sumpin' must be done fer
the speckled hen with the blue hackle.'
Mar tumbled to the idee, and says she,
'Yer bet yer life!' so with that we fig
gered what we'd best do. While we was
?ggerin' she sot on a load o' cord wood,
and 111 eat a grind stun if it didn't come
out all sawed and split. Tin teHin'yer
this so yer won't think the kittens was
unnat'ral. Well, Mar and me figgere%
snd figgered, and while we was figgerin*
the speckled hen was figgerin' too. She
hopped on to bar'l o' scrap iron, and Fm
drunk if she didn't whack out 200papers
o' tacks. We seen that sumpin' had got
fer to be done right off, but before we
hit onto the scheme, ye can lick me if
a tornado didn't take the roof right ofTn
my house. Of course, yer know, we
fergot the old hen fer a few days. Dog
my skin if she didn't set on the pump
handle and hatch it into toothpicks.
Sure's yer born. Somehow my reapin*
machine got under her one night, and
the next mornin' it was railroad spikes.
Yer never seen nothin' like it. She. was
bent fer ter set. Til tell yer. There
was three hard-shell clams out in the
yard, and she sot on 'em and hatched
out lobsters. If she didn't, Fm a nar."
"No doubt of it. Bnt how about the
kittens?"
" Well the men came to put a new
roof on the house; got there just be-.^?
fore- dinner, andledTtheir tools into the
yard. I seen the old hen vatchin' them
tools, but I didn't think no harm. Just
before that?"
"Never mind anything else. Come
down to the cats."
"Just so. While we was at dinner I
seen her explorin' around, aud I didn't
know what had happened the day be
fore?"
"Drop that!" said the city editor,
sternly. " Give us the four broods of
cat, one in a brood."
" WeH, the four workmen was at din
ner, and the old speckled hen with a
blue hackle was nosin' round, and says
I to mar, ?Mar?'"
" Out with those cats quick," and the
city editor took down a scythe.
"Certainly. The tools was outside*
you know, four sets on 'cm, in?what's
this riiey carry their tools in ?"
"Akit?"
** And the old speckled hen had sot on
them four hits, and if she didn't hatch
out four brood o'?"
Parties desiring to exchange a new
scythe for a second-hand one, somewhat
out of repair, will please apply at tiie
Eagle office for two days.?Brooklyn
Eagle.
STEEL KAILS,
That the hardest steel is not the most
durable for railroads appears from an
examination of the wear of some of the
steel rail* on the Great Northern line,
England. Seven of the rails, which lay
ride by side on this road, were taken up
and tested, and it was found in one in
stance that a hard rail had been worn
away one-sixteenth of an iuch by traffic
amounting to 5,251,030 tons, while a soft
rail for the same amount of wear had
withstood 8,402,000 tons. In another
instance the total was 15,531,000 tons for
the hard rail and 33,061,000 tons for the
soft rail, the wear being the same?one
sixtoenth of an inch. Analysis showed
this last rail to consist of 90.475per cent*
of iron and minute quantities of carbqn,
phosphorus, silicon, manganese, sul
phur, and copper.
TOO ISDEPEXDEKT.
There is one boy in Galvesica who
will never be a musician. He is too
independent. Eis teacher was trying td
make him play the right notes, and ke
said to him:
" You mu.-.t not roach way over there
on the treble. That's not right."
" I guess I'il reach whore I please, on
this piano. We own this piano, I reckoj
ni put my feet upon it if I see fit.
?Galveston News.
L M
THAT SyOB, WHITE.
Kichard Grant White has coined "edi
torling, " which moves the Indianapolis
Journal to say that he is a carping, pre
tentious, snobbish fraud. " He assumes
to be the highest living authority in re
gard to style and the correct use of
words, and yet his writsngs abound witia
loose, inexact and ungrammatioal ex
pressions,"