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?were ragged, shoeless and starving. The mountaineers who joined the old captain were as poor as his own men, and the mountains had been stripped o? supplies by the army under Zoilicoffer, who was then pushing north to tibe field where he was to meei death and his overconfident troops to suffer the first and most complete defeat of the war. It was midwinter. The mountains were covered with snow, and the trails, rough or indistinct at the best times? were no guide or aid to the brave men. pushing north. For 72 hours they had marched night and day, and during that time they had been without food, while nearly every man left a bloody track in the frozen snow. On the afternoon of Jan. 1 they were brought to a halt on the banks of the swollen Cumberland. There was neither bridge nor boat in sight, and behind them the enemy, who had followed them night and day tram Tennessee, were in sight. At anytime in these 21 days and nights of marching, shivering and starv? ing, if Captain Beatty had halted and agreed to surrender he and his men would have been treated as prisoners of war or given the choice of entering the Confederate army. A professional sol? dier, realizing the terrible odds against hi*n and the certainty of destruction if he kept on, would have asked for honor? able terras and given up, but from first to last the thought of surrender never entered the old man's mind, though the thought of death was never absent from it These mountaineers are not good swimmers, but Dan Beatty, the old man's son, who had spent some years over on the Holsten, where his wife's folks live-they were McCoys-was an exception. While the captain and the others were throwing up a defense of logs and rocks in the direction of the enemy, Dan took a survey of the black, swollen river. That morning they had learned from a mountaineer that * 'Wool ford's First Kentucky cavalry, a-fightin fo' the gov'ment, by G-," had been seen on the south bank of the Cumber? land and "a-makin fo' Raccoon springs. " If these men could be communicated with, , escape might be possible. If not, death by hunger or bullets was inevita? ble Dan Beatty came back from the river and told his father that he was going to swim across. "I can't take no weapons, dad, "he said, "but they wouldn't be much use nohow, but if so be I make the other side I can find the Union crit? ter regiment and bring 'em to our help. " The old man called his friends about him and had Dan repeat his proposition. The general opinion was that "no mor? tal man could swim that thar river without havin his blood friz to the heart afore he got half over." But Dan thought differently. After all, there was a hope in the effort, while to re? main where they were meant death, and what mattered it whether a man was drowned in an attempt to save his friends or shot in an effort to kill the enemy? Dr.;: B.atiy kicked off the old boots, soaked with the blood from his wounded feet, and said something to his father and his brothers to be repeated to Jen? nie, "back at the crick, " in the event of his net being seen again; then he looked np quickly at the black clouds, as if in? voking aid from that direction, and plunged into the black river. The old captain and all his men not watching for the enemy from the south gathered along the Cumberland and shouted encouragement to the brave fel? low battling with the swollen and icy current Now and then the men on the southern bank gave way to despair as the flood bore the daring swimmer down. If he sank, then three of Hugh Beatty's " sons would be gone, sacrificed for the Union, soldiers of a cause to which they had as yet taken no oath of allegiance, but all the more patriotic for the duty done without any pledge. The old man was the coolest of the (crowd as he watched Dan. "I'd have taken the boy's place if I could," he said to rae a day or two after, "for I could feel my heart a-gittin colder ez I watched Dan a-pushin his way through that black water, and could hear at the' same time the hollerin of the d-d rebs away behind us, and our boys a-poppin away so's to show 'em 'twasn't healthy to come nigher to we uns even if we uns was a-burnin up with hunger and all our ammunition was nigh near done giv' out " Dan Beatty made the other side, and weak and dripping and nearer to death than his friends imagined he sat on a drift log and waved his ragged hat to them, while they answered with a cheer, which the enemy to the south i 2 heard and wondered at My troop, under Captain Owen, had been ordered to scout from Raccoon Springs to the Cumberland, and on the night of Jan. 11 was with the advanc? ed vedettes in the direction of the river. It was a bitterly cold night, but as there was no danger of an attack from Zollicoffer, who was near Somerset, 40 miles below, we lighted a fire by which to cook and keep warm. A half mile to the west of the fire was an advanced j t He sat on a drift log and waved Iiis hat, picket post, and about 12 o'clock that night I rode down with the relief. I was repeating tho instructions to the men about to go on picket when we were all startled by hearing a shout down the road and in the direction of the river. .'ITho Union! The Union, d-nyou!" Our purpose was to iielp the refugees now swarming np from east Tennessee, and I inferred from the shout that the cry came from a friend, but as it might be a foe we made no response, but drew back from thc road and waited Within a few minutes an unarmed man reeled into view and called out: "Who's you uns?" "The First Kentucky, " was the re? ply. "A-fightin fo' the guv'ment?" "Yea. Who aro you?" "Dan Beatty of Tennessee. Bin ont a-nuntin friends, for dad and the rest of the boys over thar on the Cumber? land needs em d d bad. " The man fell as he spoke. His ragged clothes were covered with ice, and there seemed to be a death rattle in his voice. At that time in the war whisky was served as a regular ration, but even if it had been prohibited, as it subsequent? ly was, the Kentucky troopers, good sol? diers in every other respect, would have set the order at defiance. A half dozen canteens were pushed at Dan Beatty, and i if whisky ever had merit it was then. The poor fellow drank, but before he would touch the food, for which he was actually dying, he told ns of the condi ! ti on of the men he had left on the south bank of the Cumberland, about six miles away. Dan Beatty was mounted and sent back to the fire, and at the same time a man was sent to Captain Owen with a note reporting the condition of our friends. There was not a boat, nor a dugout, nor a raft on the Cumberland above Mill Springs that the First Kentucky did not know all about, and they knew all the milk cows and chicken roosts, for they were and continued to be, as every old western trooper will remem? ber, "the dandiest foragers in the Army of the Cumberland. ' ' By daylight the next morning two ferry scows, with 50 men in blue on board, made shore at the point where old Captain Beatty and his handful of starving men were holding their posi? tion against a regiment of the enemy. I was in the first boat, and I recall that, as we leaped ashore and ran like hounds in the direction of the firing, we passed a number of dei id men and not a few who were sorely wounded When we reached the breastwork, which we did with a wild yell and a terrific fire from our carbines, I saw the old captain standing erect in the center of his little band and loading as coolly as if he were .preparing to shoot at a target When I [told him that his son was rafe, and that it was through him we had come to the rescue, the old man's voice trembled, and he said huskily: "I couldn't think the good Lord would a-took all my boys afore we got back to the old flag. Andy and Hugh was kilt back in Tennessee. Last night Mart was shot, and now thar's only Dan and Tom left But the good Lord gave, and the good Lord took away. Blessed be his name, if he thinks" that's all right! But I tell you, my friend, hit's d-!-d hard on the old man," and he coughed and drew his coat sleeve across his eyes, and I bad to turn away to hide my own tears, for I was a boy at that time. There were nine dead men within the rude inclosure. These we hurriedly buried, marking the graves as best we Could, for the old man said: [ "They ain't agwine to rest here for? ever. First chance we has to go back under the flag we'll tote the bodies to tiie ole homes in the shadder o' the mountains, wear their kin's buried, and wharwe uns'll someday lie down aside 'em." We carried over the survivors and sent the wounded on to London in our wagons. Captain Owen, who lived near the latter town, wanted Hugh Beatty to go on there and stay till we were ready to move into east Tennessee, but the old man replied: "I can't do hit, cap. I'm a' ole man, with three sons and two grandsons dead, all a-fightin to git through to whar you uns is a-standin ap f o' the flag. I mayn't be spry ez I was 50 years ago, but I kept up with the youngest in the march, and I reckon I can bold on in the same way. I left home to fight fo' the Union, and I couldn't sleep ef I hadn't a hand in the good work." The old hero had his way. He was sent on to Camp Dick Robinson, and how well he and the remnant of his lit? tle band did their duty I shall endeavor to telL [TO BE CONTINUED.] From Tbe Daily I fm. MANGLED TO DEATH Slr. James King of Florence Meets With a Most Horrible Accident. FLORENCE, S. C., Nov. 8. About one o'clock last uigbt, Mr lames King, a white switchman on thc florence jard was crushed to death by hp switch engine The supposition is ] c bat young King was in the act of cross on the track in front of the engine, and vbile so doing got bis foot fastened be w tie II the rail and the frog. Before he .?ould get his foot out, a box car iu frout >f the engine struck him, thus mau? ling ina body in a most horrible mau? ger j Mr. King is a Dative of Ebenezer, mt for the past few months bas been a witchman on the Florence yard. He sas a member of the Florence Base ! l' 3all team and will be remembered by ! o he Sumter boys. j tl It is with regret that we croDicle his . si mtimeiv death. ! r< Two grammarians were wrangling j p he other day; one contended that it; tl ras only proper to say, "My wages is j d ligh," while thc other insisted that the ' it orrect thing was, ' My wages are ? c< ligh." !K Finally they stopped a day-laburcr, ! ti nd submitted thc qucstioo to him. i p "Which do you say, 'Your wages is ? S igb.' or 'Your wages are high V " j h "Ob, off wid your nonsense!" he ! a> aid, resuming his pick ; *'yer nayther j S f you right ; me wages be low, bad j is ick to it." jw THE ELECTION. The Latest .Reports Prove the Democratic Defeat to be Even More Disastrous Than Thought. The latest retaros show that the Re publ?caos have made eveo greater gains than was claimed y es tar day. At present it is estimated that they will have 239 members io the House of Representatives, while the Democrats have lent correspouiogly. The Popu? lists have beeu almost completely wiped out. Nsw YORK, November 7.-Not since war rimes haye the Republicans swept the Eastern States as they did at the polls yesterday. The size of the victory grows ac* fuller returns come in. In uo State ai.d tu no city have Democrats beeu able to check the stampede of voters to the Republican standard bearers. In rock-ribbed Republican S'ates like Pennsylvania enormous pluralities have been piled np, and in Stares like New York and New Jersey, which are usually classed in the Demo? cratic column, Republicans have made cleau sweeps. The latest estimates from Pennsylvania indicate that the plurality of Geu. Hastings will exceed 210,000. L?*vi P Morton ha* carried New York State by close to 150,000, de? feating David B Hill, after a phenome? nal cample The Congressional delegation, which s?ood nineteen Dem ocrats to ti fi f i II Republicat h in thc 53 i Congress, will b.i twenty-uii.H Repub? licans to five Democrats iu 54<b Cou gross. The State Assembly will staud 104 Republicans to twenty-four Demo? crats. The Coostitufioual amendments framed by the tate Constitutional Con? vention b?ve beeu carried by a big ma jority. In the Middle and Eastern States the Democratic Congressmen seem to have al m os t entirely disappeared. In six New England States there is appa? rently only one Democrat elected to Congress, Fitzgerald, of Boston. New York has five and Pennsylvania two, a total of eight out of one hundred members. In Connecticut and Delaware big Republican gains have been made. In West Virginia William L. Wilson, chairman of the ways aod means com? mittee, has apparently been defeated, but the Democrats do not admit this. Even Tennessee is 6aid to have gone Republican and Governor Turner is said to be defeated by Hr. Clay Evans, (u New Jersey the State Legislature, with the exception of four Democrats, ippears to have been captured by the [iepublicaus and John R. McPherson will be succeeded by 'a Republican io he United States Senate Camden, Democrat, of Went Virginia, will als?? >ave a. Republican successor. The lext Senate as well as House will be Republican. NEW YORK.-The following is the otal vote of New York city for Govern? or : Hill 126,554, Mortou 123,759. Wheeler 3,787, Matthews, People's, L530, M atienen, Socialist, 4.977, baldwin, Prohibition, S34. The vote or Lieutenant Governor, with twenty tine election districts missing, is : jockwuod, Democjat, 129,428, Saxton, lepublican, 119,600, How6eu, Peo ileV 1,583, Steer. Socialist, 3,446, biller, Prohibition, 486. The total correoted vote for Gover >or in New York State, Sullivan bounty out, stanch as follows : Hill 514. ?73, Morton 667,419. Wheeler 27.108. lotal 1.208,600. Morton's plurality .53 356. Morton's majority 126,238. BROOKLYN, N. Y.,-The entire lepublican city ticket was elected by a tlurality ranging from 20,000 to 30, 100. The voting was against con olidation with New York by about 1,000, and the apportionment was lost ty about the same vote. TRENTON. N. J -The Republicans nade a cleao sweep of the Coogress oual delegation in this State, elected j B he 6 State Senators, and 56 of the 60 i B Assemblymen The next Senate will | jj tand 17 Republicans and 4 Democrats. L ?be House will stand 56 Re-publicans L nd 4 Democrats. The Republican ma* ^ ority on ballot will be 65. This will * ?sure the return of a Republican succ? essor to John R. McPherson in the Jnited States Senate. BOSTON.-Greenhalge's plurality in lassachusetts is oearly 70,000. All he Republican candidates for Congress hosec, except Fitzgerald in the 8tb, | J rho has 2,200 plurality. The Legis- ? Mure will be overwhelmingly Repub- j can. Boston complete shows : G reen alge. 29,998, Russell 33,023, against ? pl 9,327 and 39,042 last year-a net ! Lepublicans <*ain of 5,690 1 j] CHICAGO -A survey of the returns of ? estcrday'g election this morning con- j el rois the hasty estimates aud partial re- 1 iros of last night. lu the West, thc ? bi lorth-west, and ou the Pacific coast j a ie Republican landslide seems to bc ? verwhelming, aod in the South-west I W ie Republican gains reported are of j ach magnitude as to suggest almost a J m ?volution. j A The only exceptions to thc rule ap- j ear to be in California and Nevada. lu la ie former State thc Democratic candi- ! ate for Governor (Budd) ?9 apparently ? tt 1 advance of Estee, his Republican ; mipetitor, although the rest of the republican State ticket seems to be cer- i lin of election. In Nevada thc Silver | arty, which exists as a party in that tate only, has to all appearances eaten the Republicans, Democrats ? ad regular Populists, electing its j tate ticket and Congressman. There! alto au clement of doubt in Nebraska, ! b< here the election of Majors, llepubli- i c*n, over Holcomb, Populist-Democrat, ' ia by no in? ai).?, assured. VVith this ? xi:ep?ion, however, the j tide of Republican success appears to be overwhelming. Ohio h ai given the ! largest Republican majority in it? his- i tory, wiping out not only the McKin- j ley plurality of So,OOO, but goiug above the high water mark set by John Brough io 1863 of 101,000. It is thought that the official returns will show a Republican plurality of 140,000 to 150,000. Colorado bas repudiated Populist doctrines and swung back into the Republican column, electing a full Republican ticket and both Congress- | men. Kansas, too, baa returned to the Republican faith, aud Jerry Simpson is buried under the landside aloug with other Populist candidates. Wiscuneiu baa reversed ber verdict of two years ago and bas elected a Republican State Government and uine out of ten Congressmen of the same political faith. Ia Illinois the Democrats have met crushing defeat. Not only bas the State showu a preference for Republi? can candidates as expressed by some 40,000 or 50,000 plurality, but the Congressional delegation bas been turn? ed over almost bodily to tbe Republi? cans, Wm. M. Springer going down with his party in the 17th district. The city of Chicago, too, ba* cast 25,000 plurality against the Democrats. The Legislature is Republican on joint ballot, and the result of the balloting is a complete reversal of the political si.uaiiuu. THE RESULT IN THE STATE. COLUMBIA, Nov. 8.-It is yet im? possible to give anything like an exact i report of tbe election in tbe Slate, j Thc returns are either abiioim?liy slow in comiog in or are held back for a pur- , pose. ( Charges of fraud, aod well supported ?o, continued coming last night, and 1 ibis morning there are more of them. Dr. Pope says that bc bas tbe best , evidence that at least 30,000 men wbo wanted to vote for bim were denied the ] privilege by the ring managers. He is letermined to push bis contest to the t wurt of iaat resort in tbe effort to ch? ain justice aud unearth tbe frauds of \ bc ring. ( lt is reported, though,not vouched for, bat Gen Leroy F. Youmaus bas been g imployed by Dr. Pope. j Thc Reformers laugh at Dr. Pope ( iud bis charges of fraud, Chairman s j by saying that so fair an elec iou was never held in thc State. 3e has not received complete re- \? urns, but is satisfied that the \? uajority of Evans is in the neighbor- t lood of 30.000. The majority in favor p if the Constitutional Convention he t mts at 3,000. Gov. Tillman is not having much to j, ay. Last night be said that this "was fl be last expiring gasp of Haskillism, as a fell as of the whiskey ring.*' 0 The leaders are detenuim d to wreak j? 'eugeuce opou Charleston tur breaking p he pledges made in tbe primary, and |, re reviving the talk of a metropolitan a lolice measure for the especial beuetij { f Charleston. It is almost a settled a act tbat the appointive offices will be D i veo to Reformers and be -nominees 0 f the primary turned do wu. s< Tbc tabulated returns as made up at t lute hour Tuesday night n Convention Counties. Evans. Pope. Yes. No. ? abbeville. 1,128 239 912 * 566 " liken. 1,144 ? 231 1,090 312 n Anderson-. 1,407 347 1,288 543 r trowell. 597 186 574 203 leaufort. 500 . ?erkeley. 400 . 170 . n Charleston. 576 1,350 469 1,707 c bester. 765 490 735 697 t| Ibesterfield. 800 400 . 50 . llarendoo. 699 152 597 192 " olleton. 1,152 315 660 G55 ? ?arlington. 298 402 21 318 0 lakefield.. 1,600 400 1,400 600 g airfield. 500 . 500 . lorence. 168 200 159 241 J leorgetown. 185 537 34 580 8i Greenville. 336 1,750 450 1,047 y lampton. 835 198 688 319 5 lorry. 673 982 112 602 ;ershaw. 423 613 270 854 'c ancaster. 128 514 1,056 747 0 aurena.-. 1,117 142 961 337 h edington. 766 522 610 606 ?t larion. 800 . 200 . Marlboro. 802 189 672 626 C{ ewberry. 1,090 771 957 928 Ci Oconee. 757 455 552 560 it rangeburg. 2,044 344 1,397 588 w ickens. 876 490 680 686 icbland. 452 1,311 312 1,318 partanbarg.... 1,684 [,081 691 2,046 II Sumter. 857 474 574 1,209 ai moo. 1,300 520 800 950 ? Williamsburg .. 1,090 771 957 928 . York. 1,228 356 831 1,256 n Totals. 29,367 16,631 21,471 22,532 ol ?Complete; others without asterisk incom- a lete. t| In the First District returns give llliott a majority of 2,637. ti In the Second District, Talbert is re- \^ ected without opposition. d< From tbe Third returns are meagre, w at Latimer is undoubtedly elected by la large majority. The Fourth District gives Stanyarne ic filsou a majority o,27b*. pi The Fifth District gives Strait a ai ajority of S28 over both Davie and re lexander. Thc Sixth District gives McLaurin a th rge majority. to From the Seventh District the re- j pt irns are as follows : Stokes, Johnston, j W Sumter.1,139 673 ! ra Colle'.on. 800 . j Urangeburg.2,514 394 Lexington.1,500 300 ' Richland. 457 - Berkeley. 40 29 10 Totals.5,993 1,853 j co It will be several days, perhaps, | ?^ ifore the returns are completed. j t0 John Gary Evans gave the Herald ' *" correspondent the following sraremenr by request ; * Grover Cleveland is alone respon? sible for the death of the Democratic party. BU odious vanity, bis belief that he wa.*.greater than bis narry and ht? financial policy, which ha? bank? rupted the farmers and merchants dependent upon them, bas brought distrust, hutiiilianoo and defeat upon honest Defuo-rttic bodies who hav? been fighting under a leader win has intrigued with the enemy The Demo? cratic party was pledged to free silver and a tariff for revenue only. We were given instead a protective tariff and a siogle gold standard, force*4 through Congress by the corrupt inter? ference of the President. "Our parry bas beeu placed before the eyes of the nation as incomp?tent to deal with the great political question of the day and as unworthy of the con? fidence nf an hooest, raxriddeu con? stituency. This should not be Jar tri? buted to the party, but is simply the narara! jesuit of placing a wolf to guard the sheep fold The Democratic party will )et be victorious and this lesson will not soon be forgerton. ? trust the prophetic word? of South Carolina will be i eine in be red and in future none but true and tried Democrats will bc trust? ed with leadership ANTI OPTION*(ToNV?NriON Delegates From South Carolina On invitation from Governor Stone of Mississippi, Governor Tillman has appointed the following delegates to represent South Carolina in the anti optiou cobveution to be held in Vicks? burg on the ?Otb : First district-J. Adger Smyth, Charleston, and J. H. Averill, Beau Fort Second district-Maj Hirry Ham? mond, Beech I?land, and Gen. Johu ion Hagood, Barnwell Third'district-W L. Durst, Green? wood, and W A. Courtenay, Newry Fourth district-W. J Murray, ind L P. Walker, Spartaoburg. Fifth district-W. J Roddey, Rock [lill, and Leroy Springs, Lancaster. Sixth district- C S. McCall, Ben lectsville, and J. E. Kl le roe, Marion. Seventh district-J. H. Aycock, Sedgefield, and J. W. Summers, Jrangeburg. State at large-Altamont Moses, Sumter, T. R. McGahan, Charlesion. i. P. O'Neill, Charleston ; J. A Crawford, Columbia and Geo. Corne? ou. Orange h ure In their address the committee says : "The preseut condition of the Hatch ?ill is such, that with the proper efforts iy its friends in the agricultural Sta ros. here can be little doubt of its being assed and receiving the signature nf he president. "in this appeal to the people to aid ? suppressing this great evil which has asteued itrelf on our commerce and griculture, we can only refer to a few fits worst features. 'Future gamb ing ' as it is universally termed, bas ?t res? ut the proteo t iou <>t soute of our argest trade bodies, lt is backed by u uukowo and vast amount of money t bas invaded banking, commerc? and griculture to such au extent that it is 0 exaggeration to state that more jouey is employed in gambling in ome of the exchanges in the cities ban is employed in legitimate corn? ie ree "Its pernicious effects are so serious jr felt that it is a matter of grave doubt thether the law of supply and demand egulates the price of leading agricultu al products. To illustrate this we rou ld oo ly refer to one exchange. For lauy years the New York cotton ex hange has done little except to bet on lie price of cotton. At tbis exchange 1 a single month the sales (bets) of ctitious cotton have reached the total f thee average crop of the United tates. 8,000,000 bales, and iu one ear over 50,000,000 bales, while the iles of actual cotton during the same ear at New York were only 193,000 ales and the net receipts of actual cot >n at that port 107,000 bales. Such ets cannot possibly aid in the rapid andling and delivering of ootton and i securing its manufacture and sale to Dosamers. On the contrary the effect in be nothing but evil, and thc longer is permitted the greater the extent to hieb the evil will be carried. "There is but a siogle illustration, f there was any way of presenting the stual statistics of future gambling in )ttoo, wheat, corn, oats and other ag cultural products in New York, bicago. St. Louis, New Orleans and ber cities, the showing would be such one as to arouse the people all over ic republic. "The people are masters of the situa on but they must unite and act. Then there is no longer reasen to jubt the sentiment of the people their ishes will be enacted intojlaw, and that ,w will he executed. "In view of the foregoing we hereby ivite all persons in sympathy with the irposes of this convention to attend, id it is desired that all communities be presented. "Senators and repensentatives from iis and other States who are favorable the movement are invited and ex? ited "Arrangements have been made ith transportation lines for reduced tes." Constitutional Conventions cost great ims of money, and should not be gone as long as there are no question in )lving constitutional changes which moot be settled by the usual method submitting tbe proposed amendment the votes of the people-Savannah eic*. I [t is ?ard to fiod a mao who d ies sot I pur the blame of bis misfortune upon j hi? wife. j "Speak, and yon are a dead man." The pistol barrel gleamed under the ouse of the patierjt-looking party who wa** reclining on the combination sofa. "Do your wont!*' be cried, leaping to his feet. "I will speak. I demand to know how in thunder it is yon walk ail through this hou?e without falling . over the rugs T% j But the burglar only laughed mock j iiigly in his face and climbed out of the cellar window.-Detriot Tribune, j Tarring and feathering was once a Ie* gal punishment for theft It is said to be found tn the statutes of both Eng? land and France about the time of the crusades Senator Bill will quietly resume his seat in the Seoa'e and rest and wait for the next thing to turn up. Capt Mary M. Miller, who died in Louisville last week, was the first woman to be granted a license as a steamboat master She received ber commission in 1883 and ber husband served as pilot on the boat, a Missis? sippi steamer Most of Mrs. Miller's life had been spent on tbe river, and she passed her examination easily. She was forty eight years old at the time of ber death. A young American doctor named Nu tall, formerly of Johns Hopkins Universirv in Baltimore, claims tobare been rhediscoverrr of the new diphtheria cure that bears the name of Dr. Behring of Berlin The facts that he did uot patent the serum and make extensive ose ot' the advertising columns of news? papers are evidences against the yankee claim. ' Prof.*' Wiggins, the Canadian weattier prophet who ha* become fa? mous chiefly because be predicts things that never come to pass, has arrived at New York wirb a new earthquake scare. He says the Extern States will be shaken off their basis by an earth? quake in 1904. She Said: Let's Try Hood's And lt Helped Them Both Liver Troubles-Dyspepsia 29 Yrs? "Cl L Hood & Co., Lowen, Mass, t "Gentlemen:-My husband and 1 bare bees taking Hood's Sarsaparilla, and I can truly say St bas helped ns both. My husband had Lumbago Rheumatism. so that he could not stand up straight, and went around half bent over. He had to have a cane to help himself ontcl his chair. He had taken so much medicine that we were discouraged. But I read so much about Hood's Sarsaparilla, I said, Let's try lt My husband has Improved a great deal. His back is much better, and his eyes, which have troubled him a great deal also seem better. Hood's Sarsaparilla has given him a good appetite. I have had liver trouble Hood's^Cures and dyspepsia 29 years, ont since I have been taking Hood's Sarsaparilla my side is better, and I also nave a good appetite. My complexion ls also much unproved, we have only taken four bottles, and are well ?leased with ft" Ma. and HES. Jasa? Cox, Centreville, Wisconsin. Hood's PHIS are prompt and efficient yet easy lu action. Sold by all druggists. 25c "^0 NEED OF A COTTON TRUST! MONET CAN BE HAD ON COTTON ! J ti Reasonable Terms from the undersigned who is prepared to make advances on Cotton ind furnish Storage for the same at Reason ible Rates to any person desiring to bold Cotton. Write for terms to 6. W. EGAN, Warehouseman, ACCOMMODATION WHARF. Oct. 31-lm. CHARLESTON, S. C. Obtained, and ait l'A TEXT JtViflN??S at? tended to tor M O DICHA TI-: FEES. Our office is apposite tne H. s. hiite?tOffice, ai?! we can ob? tain Patents?! less lime than those remote from WASIIIXGTOX, Scud MODEL I'l.'.i WISO or PHOTO of invention. We advise as rn patent ibility free of charge and wc make AO CUARGE UNLESS RATEST IS SE<'dlEl). For circular, advice, terms am', references tc ictoal clients in your own State. Comity. City or fowu, write to .A.. SNOWS Opposite Patent Office. Washington, D. G OSBORNE'S COLLEGE, Augusta, Ga. One cf thc mos: com? iere Institution* i? th ?Sonth. Aetna] Business; College Jnrrency. Many ?rsdnats lt good pnyinjrpositions, "till course, ? months. Shorthand and Typewriting alsc n:cht. Free trias fessons. S:*nd for cir."-'--?-. * PATRICK MILITARY INSTITUTE. ANDERSON, S. C. Seventeenth Session OPENS SEPTEMBER 12TH. &00D COURSE in English. Mathematics, Latin, Greek, German, French, Draw ug, Book-Keeping, and Tactics. Send for Catalogue. COL. JOHN B. PATRICK, Aug. 15. Sunt.