..' m. '¦>- farm; water power, - - -ahd." MACHDJEEY; FOB SALE. will sell (if not sold previously)' at An- ;';:4dOTgon,S.-c.t>on Salesdayin Novem- "'ber^at tho usual hours of. sales, 50 acres of ^^plÄd;r^lth"'Qrist; Saw and Sorghum Mill, |gs^GÄ^ overshot wa¬ ter wheel;10i to :12horse power, all In good ^^^rjanmng "orderi^situated; 8.' miles, west of \ Aiiider8onj2T!niIes. west of Denver,-adjöin- v^s^Dg'-Ianda of'Ji-B'. Douthit and others. Terms of Sale.One-tbird; cash, balance i -. one and two years, equal installments, with : 10 r^ricönt:iüter(5s^iand mortgage of the .vv Lpla^totswure purchase money. K" ;v Pox-information see J". W. Bowden at ^^g3D^hver,;Qr:tBe undersigned at Anderson, i^^m^ucbaser to pay extra for papers.. ^ <^ ÄV. &tict II; 1888 ..:. ." 14 .' 4.-.-/ SHERIFFS SALE. " SJA^vO?-SOUTH .CABOLDTAi >; CODKTT OF ANDEBSON. Wv-WiHumph^^ >5i;V Strickland. : .. n/bbedtedcato jt-Judgmen£of Forecles . p^-tjre;in the above entitled action,T will sell at Anderson O. E., S. C., on Salesday ;ih November next;Vtbe.naortgaged premises ¦below described, .to wit: * ."'.' .SV All that Tract of Land, situate in Hall ^.Tbwushii>,"of .Anderson- Ctormty, S^^aÄ- ^^o&ing:huidsV ofcJames Thompson; Lent {-Hall and others^ and known .as-the Robert i;aai^act^'4h&'Uäte B. A- Btricklahd, : deceased, containing 73 acres, more or less. ..--rjjTaaa» of Sale.One-half $asä, änd'the amainder on- a credit of twelve months, ih'uitexeäfcfjximrday of sale; to be secured ... : bohd^andmortgage.of the premises, withltwe^foiahtid^ at any oitimei.^-pafcshaser-t6 pay extra for, papera.- w. l. B0LT> v Sheriff Anderson. County; , ,Oct 11; 1838 ,-. ^14 .-- \. '.. .4 ^^THE; STA^;;Ö^S0UTH; CAROLINA, i AHDXBSOS" COUBTY. £Wv Nancy J. Strickland. .:; ^ :obechenc8' to: 'the* Jndgment of Fore- Li~.closure;made byhis Honor Judge J. J. "orton in the above entitled action, I will H^atTAndersmr G. H., Si C, ;on Salesday: 'November^ 1888; the mortgaged premises Iow describedt'to wit:'-, ill that Tract of Land, situate in Hall wnship^jolning- lands öf Jas. Thomp- Lent Hall ana others, known as the wai;Tjräct ";öf;the; late'B. As Strick-J ih^ased, containing 166 acres, more ;;;Teims of Sale^ne-halfcash'i and bal- ¦aace on a credifc.of twelve months, with in- 5tera^#CÄ'dayof sale,; to;be: secured by a .; bond and mbrtgageof the premises, with leave to anticipate payment !at any Ithne. " jer'tbipaycaxkri for papered ¦¦- WJf. jl^BOLT, ,. Sheriff Anderson County. ^rj^^l8887.^-:-;/. ^14 ;. V-^' ^ttASTER>S :SALE> Estate of sotjth .carolina, " l&V" '>:.'".'. .;..> A^e^on^CooirrY.: In'the Court of Common Pleas. " ^fVmia^^Tali, et ah tts. Margaret E.;Hall; '>-;. et al.Partition. IWN. obedience to the order of sale in the above entitled action I will sell at i^'dersbdi c.Hv, 8: on Salesday in Nc^' vember next, tho lands below described as SiB^Seal-Estate.bf Fenton S. Hall,' doceas-' ^d, towiti: '1 ^';Tract Noi l^situatoin Anderson County, iand icontaining107: ai^es,-adjoining No. 2 :'^^Baid--EstiA^';Mra.^Water8j. J; H. Young ^i^uid ethers.; ; TTa,cfe:No;^2,Tsituate in Anderson Countjr, :i0''-.-B:.<^'^täS^j^tß.aa^. more or less, adjoining No. li J). H. Hall, and others, a ^^^.Jjsr^^.ofcSale-rOne-th^ of the; pnr- chasft' money Jand-^'-tlie;^ costs/to' bo paid in cash; the "remainder on a credit- of one tf^ahdtwoVyearsi^with ^intei^-froial'däir: of ^^Baje,{with-leave to' anticipate payment, se-. h^^-cmed>y bond and a mortgage of. theprem- jtees?r!Purchasers to pay -extra for all ne- ^ W.^atlMPHREYS, Master. ^t'vOct 11^1888,7 ,-. 14 .; , 4 .-- : -.-.... vMASTER^S SALE, STATE OP. SOUTH CAROLINA,. ^^^^K'r¦'r"..':"-AspEBSOK CpUHTr..) ^^^p^^S jln ike Co^'Oommm Pleas. ;rrTh^mas A. S^eoaud and Thomas A. Sber- j^^^:'?Asa^ee, 'vsi 3, ^B. Newton and ^pffiira Newtony-Action to Foreclose Mort-' ^gage»";y^;-' -¦ \- \''r |SpTJBSDANT to-the Judgment of Fore- closure made by his Honor Judge Norton in the above entitled action on -3rd ^ärch;i888,1 will sell at"Anderson C.-H., ^rS.' Cm on Salesday in November next, the mortgage premises below described, to wit: All that Tract of Land, situate in Ander-* Mo^Cojatity, 8.~C.f cohtainmg 100 acres, 'more or lessj'adjbininy lands, of J. G. Hall, John Spearman, Ellas Spearman, and oth¬ ers. :#{Tehn8 of Sale.Ona-half cash, and ihe : balance on a credit of twelve months, with /^interest from day of sale, to be secured by :' bond :ärid- mortgage of the premises, with Cleave to anticipate payment. Purchaser K^pav extra for papers. - W.: W. HUMPHREYS, Master. ^jOctll, 1888 - : 14 i MASTERS SAIiE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, coukty of' A n de eso k. In the Court Common Pleas. "eth Smith vs. Louclnda Shirley and '¦' *'''".'. .' Others* f0XJRSUANT to-the order of sale made 'Jt iri:theabove stated case, I will sell '-/at*Anderson O.cH., 8. 0-, on,Salesday in '5:>iNovember-ne^t; the I<and below described^ Wm Real-Estate of Mrs. Mary Ann Brock, deceased, to wit: ;. .-' All that Tract of Land, situate in Ander¬ son County, B: C, containing 98i acres Mm'öre^OT less, -adjoining lands of Joel Smith;-'Samuel Ragsdale, A. B. Shirley, ^ga&'d'Others, ^ß^ßiäämJot Sale-rOne-half cash, aud the baiance on ;a credit of twelve months, with Interest from day of sale, secured by bond öad.mdrtgage'of,the premises, with leave J". 1x> anticipate payment; Purchaser to pay extra :for papers; :' W^W. HUMPHREYS, Master, etil, 1888 14 .4;.;:'.-:. MASTERS SALE. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, > v .' Akseb^oit County. . In.tive Court of Common Pleas. ^-Joseph N. Brown vs. J. W. Rogers, etal. }.-.".^TrjfUBSfJANT.to-the order of sale made ¦X--'Jl-- v in the above entitled action-by his. ^ >-HonorJudge Norton, on 4th of May, 1888, I will sell at Anderson C. H., S. C., on *8a1e«day in November next, the premises '*OW;describedT to wit: All. that Tract of Land, containing ^and one-fourth (60}) acres,' more or ..Jßtialüe-in.Anderson County, 8. O.y on waters of Little Beaverdam Creek, adjoin- ^.ing lands of B. C. Martin, Mary J. Rogers, ^.^H^-lloJgers and Others. w:"v'2.vAlso, all thatrTract of Land, contain- Üg elghty.nine and three-quarter (89J) facres, more or less, on waters of Beaver¬ dam Creek, adjoining lands of .Alexander 'Jordan: j^^T^aihspf Sale.Cash. Purchasers to pay %eitra for papers. cJ-l" Wv W- HDMPHREYS, Master. v;';.';.'Oct 11V.1888 ;. :.; 14 4 MASTERS SALE,. STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, ¦'l.-':\:\:-Pp-::'' COUHTY OF AhDEBSOK. ^v.V7 >.;/» the Court of Common Pleas. ' .C. C. Reed, Assignee^- vs. J. D Burton. Foreclosure. ,TN obedience to the Judgment of Fore- ' JL .closure in the above entitled action, -rl;;wiliiBell . at Anderson C. H., S. C, on ;^Säe^äy: in November" next, the mortgaged premises below described, to wit: &tAll that Tract of Land, .containing 106 Pitcres, more or less, adjoining lands, of i^esse^CannV H.' J. 'Burton, G. P. Barton j^ind-ethers, situate in Andereon County, SSonthiCaroIina. :l-.Terms of Sale.One-third cash, and the 'balance on a credit .of twelve months, with, ^t^est/rom day -qf'sale,- secured by bond ^aSd^origsgeiof the-pfemisBS,- 'with leave ^^äöclpate' pay men t. Purcbaser to pay StUMPHREY8, Master: S & LANGSTON. THE AND EVERYBODY FOR TELLING PRICES GOME Am) SEE JOUR LINE OF DRESS GOODS, Embracing.alltbe New Fajland Winter Fabrics, in 3II the various new shades. [ Greens; from Myrtle to Reseda; Mabog- onys, Terra Cottas, Gobelins, Greys, and an endless .variety of Stripes, Plaids, Checks, Etc.; all the new imported Cloths, fresh from the foreign looms. Henriettas, Rayeitines, Alma Cloths, Imperial Serges, Cashmeretts, Raye Stripes, Foules, Etc Oar line of Drees Silks, Vol vets. and Flushes is complete. IN MILLINERY We. begin with nice Felts at 50c to $2.00. Straws from 25c up. Ribbons, Moires, Glaces, Gros Grains^ Failles, Vel vet and I Ombres. The largest, cheapest and toniest stock of .Ribbons to be found any .where, w Velvets, Plashes, Persian Goods, Cashmeres, Silks, and, all the Beautiful Novelties that delight the eye this season. With.: especial pride we request the in- spection of oar Pattern Hats, the result of weeks of careful study and almost endless research among all the leading importing bouses of the great Northern cities, so as to find something becoming, and to suit' the. pocket book of each of oar many friends and patrons. ' OUR TriTTiTniTig Departnient Includes -Passementeries,: President Braids, Guimps, Milanaise Trimmings, Fur and Astrakans, Bandeaux, and an elegant assortment of " Dress Linings, Buttons, &c, to suit the different shades of Dress Goods. i#?ä Ladies' Underwear. The cheapest, most stylish and elegant line of Ladies' Underwear possible. Also, Gloves, Hosiery and Handker¬ chiefs, from the cheapest to the finest. Remember, we take special pride in this Department, and with the aid of .polite and efficient Sales-ladies it is always'a pleasure to show our Goods to everyone. Dress MaMng. MISS MALLÄLIEU has returned and taken charge of the Dress Making Department, with skilled assistants. We bought oar immense Stock of Goods direct from Manufacturers and Importers for the Cash, and the idea of any house in the country underselling u- is simply ridiculous. We will guarantee our prices in any line at least as low, and in many instances, much lower than other., houses. The crop prospect was very promising while we were in the market and we overloaded ; but if there is a particle of truth in the old saying, "Goods well bought arc half sold," ours are as good as seven-eighths gone already. Don't be tempted by any so-called bargains until you have seen our Goods and beard our prices. Onr plan is not to sell one or two articles away under value as leaders, and then make up the loss on something else, but to give the full worth 0* your money every- time, whether you are posted or not. We have an eye to the future more than to the present,* and propose to merit the con¬ tinued confidence and patronage of the people. Very respectfully, R. S. HILL, Anderson, S. C. HILL & CO., Pelzer, S. C. ' R, 8, HILL & CO., Hartwell, Ga. A BILL ARP. On the Good Qualities of. the Old Fash '¦ loned Negro. Atlanta Constitution. If there is any better invention than a good old fashioned home-made darky I don't know it. It is a great treat at our house when Tip cornea over to see us. He is looked upon as one of the family who has strayed off like some of our other grown up children. He was born my wife's property and grew up in her family and played and frolicked with her brothers and was always faithful aud kind and good. Tip brought his bride with him this time.bis second wife.a good looking old fashioned middle aged woman, for Tip has got sense aud judgment and woulden't tie himself onto a spring chicken in his old age. He was dressed in a black frock coat and white vest, and Btruted around like he was going to Sar¬ atoga on a bridal tour. One of my wife's brothers was here, and Tip was unex¬ pectedly happy, for he haden't Been him for years. "Howdy Mars Charley; howdy Mies Tavy; howdy Mars Randolph ! I is so glad to see you. How does you all do ?" and he then took all the children by turns aud they were as glad to see him as if he was a brother. That night the children wanted to know-how Tip got his little short name, and their mother told them as how old General Harrison fought a great battle with the Indians away back in 1811, and bow it was fought near a little town^ called Tippecanoe on the Wabash river and the Indian chief was a brother of Tecumseh and was called the prophet and General Hamsoo whipped them and scattered them so bad they never rallied, and so this victory gave him great repu¬ tation and made him President in 1840, when he ran against Van Buren. The political war cry was "Tippecanoe and Tyler, too," and as our Tip was born about'that time and wanted -a name, his mother named him Henry, but the boys named him Tippecanoe juBt for fun, and so Tip is his every day name and he keeps Henry for Sunday. A nick name is very hard to get rid of. I know some boys who are very close kin to us who are still called Fits and Tuney and Isham and Pat and Snooks and Dock and Jake, but these are not their real names. Some of the old time negroes had very classic, stylish names, such as Csezar and Pompey and Virgil and Jupiter and Juno or such Scripture names as Moses and Aaron and Noah and Solomon and Dinah. The masters generally named the young negroes. "Papa, did you ever whip Tip when he was a boy ?" asked Jessie. "No, my child, no. Tip never needed any whipping. Tip was just as good as he could be considering that he was always trotting around after our oldest boys and had to. do what they told. him. I had to whip them sometimes, but Tip was the best in the lot and never did anything worse than get up a dog tight. No, I never whipped Tip, but I had to whip some of the other servants occa¬ sionally, for the old boy gets into, negroes sometimes just like he does into white folks. He is no respecter of persons or colors, and had just as leave burn a black man as a white one. But I will say this for cur negroes.they were all mighty good to our children. They nursed seven out of the ten and watched them by day and by night. Frances.and Mary loved them and would have fought for them like a tigress for her whelps, and the children loved their black mammy better than tbey did their mother. Many a time have I seen your mother try to coax her child to come to her from the nurses' arms. "When the yankee raiders.rode into Covington and took everybody by sur¬ prise your mother and six children were there and Frances was out in the street with the youngest in her arms and they stopped her as she ran and said to her, 'You black fool you, what are you car¬ rying that white child for.don't you know you are free ?' 'Don't keer ifI is,' said Frances, 'I is gwine to carry de chile.chile can't walk.' 'Whose chile is it ?' said the yankee. 'My chile, whose chile do you rec'on it is,' and she drew the little thing still closer to her bosom. And during the war while I was in Vir¬ ginia Tip was with me and waited on me like a brother and took care of me when I was sick, and the negroes at home helped your mother to manage and to get so met hi ug to eat .and to wear, and wood to burn, for Confederate money woulden't buy much of anything, and it took close management to get along. The old clothes, had to be patched before and behind or ripped up and made over, and by aud by .when the coffee was all gone Mary parched some rye or dried sweet potatoes and parched them and made but like it was coffee, and when the sugar gave out she hunted up some sor¬ ghum for sweetening, and when the salt gave out and there was no more to be had she boiled down the dirt in the smoke¬ house that the meat bad been dripping on for years and made salt out of it and clarified it and dried it in the sun, and it was as fine and as white as any table salt you ever saw. It was nip and tuck then with everybody, but they never com¬ plained. Just before the war closed we run out of most everything. Your mother gave a ten dollar bill for a tablespoonful of castor oil, and twenty dolllars for a pound of- sugar, and a hundred dollars for half an ounce of quinine. I paid a hundred dollars for five bushels of corn and had to-send, twenty miles to get it, and I kept it bid out five miles from town for fear some of the tramps and deserters would rob me and get it. I had it ground into meal half a bushel at a time, and it was more precious than gold. In December, 1864, I gave three thou¬ sand dollars for a little chunk of a cow, just to provide milk for a sick child. Th re was not more than a half dozen in the County then. "Some of you children never saw any candy or nuts or raisins until you were several years old. I remember that after the war was over Mr. Snooks came to Borne with a nice little stock of fancy goods, and he gave your mother some raisins for the children, and she took them home and they were afraid of them, and asked her if they were bugs. Mr. Snooks was mighty clever and kind to our little rebs. He is the same man who has grown so rich in Atlanta selling fur¬ niture, but he hasen't cut his old acquaintances yet, and I don't reckon ever will. "Well, what made Tip leave us all," said Carl. Why because he had a large family of his own to look after. Tbey diden't belong to me.old man White, a good old Scotchman, owned them and sup¬ ported them, and now that they were free and he was dead, Tip had to knuckle down to it to maintain them, and he did it. Tip had a good trade and was handy, and everybody liked him and so he has prospered. When General Sherman run us all out of Borne, Tip took charge of the runagee business. He left his wife and children for a time and went with us to Atlanta, and T then sent him back to see after bis folks, and the yankees took him up under suspicion and made him join a company, and be got detailed as a cook, but he diden't like their sort of folks, and so one dark, rainy night he parsed the guards and swam the Oostanaula river and went down the Alabama road about ten miles and swam the Coosa, and he hid out by day and traveled by night, until he got back to us again. Then he run with your mother and the children away down below Columbus and hid them out in the piney woods, but the yankees got so thick and devilish, they rqn again and NDERSON, S. C, TB got round to Covington and thence to Sladisc-D, and then took round an ce on the yankees and flanked the whole con¬ cern and settled down away up on the Ohattahoochie. You see, I was on duty in Macon, and so Tip had to be general manager and foot scout for the family. Your mother had as much confidence in him as she did in me, and maybe more, for he had belonged to her about ten years longer than I had. We ran away from Borne about midnight; that is we started to run, but got blockaded on the street and couldn't go forwards nor back¬ wards, nor sideways for the soldiers and the army wagons. We never crossed the bridge until day was breaking, and all this time old Sherman was tossing his shells over in town just for bis own amusement. We burned the bridges behind us and felt easy for awhile, and jogged along down to. Silver creek church, and stopped to make coffee and take a bite of cold victuals, and while we were thanking the good Lord for let¬ ting us get away, some scattered cavalry came galloping along and said the yan¬ kees had crossed the Coosa down below Borne and were coming to head us off. So we let the hot coffee burn its way down, and we eat the cold victuals on the run and never stopped any more until we got to Euharlee creek, We stopped to rest, and from labor to refreshment, and felt thankful, but Tip bad hardly unhitched the horses before some cavalry came charging by and said the yanks were not more than five miles behind. We bounced the big road again and Eu¬ harlee bridge fairly danced as we flew across just behind Bill Ramsey, and we never slacked up until we got to Mr. Whiteheads at the foot .of the mountain. Your mother and Mrs. Anderson and the girls all bunked in one little room in the house, and we men and boys tried to sleep in a great, big wagon body under the wagon shed, but the fleas everlast¬ ingly eat us up alive, and we took to the bushes and threshed the fleas out of our clothes and then laid down in the piazza. Next night we made a camp not far from old DeFoor's ferry on the Ohattahoochie, and Tip went to a house near by for water, but the bucket was gone and the folks said their well woulden't furnish water enough for everybody that was running from the yankees. But Tip begged enough to do us, and after while went back there to borrow a skillet and the old woman was washing her feet in it, and said he could have it when she got through. Tip seemed to be in a hurry apd couldn't wait, and so he cooked our meat on the coals.. That night after we had laid down the little boys took on so .about their flea bites that your mother told me to rub them with some sweet oil that nvas in ber basket, and so I fumbled around in the dark and found a bottle and rubbed them all over wherever they scratched and next morning found out it was syrup of ippecac. But it is good for flea bites, sure. Yes, we bad a high old time running from old Sherman, and we beat old Joe Johnston a fair race to At¬ lanta. "Papa," said Carl, "was it right for you to own negroes and make them work for you." "Of course it was, my boy. I would pwn some right now if I had my way. There are lots of them who ought to have a master. Don't I own you. But I woulden't own them as they used to be owned. When they are old enough to take care of themselves and behave themselves, and live by honest work they ought not to be owned any longer. They ought not to be sold nor their families separated. I never separated families, but I bought negroes to get families together. The negroes owe to the white people all the blessings they enjoy?- It was slavery that civilized them and trained them to good habits. Their an¬ cestors were all barbarians. They ate raw meat like dogs and eat human flesh. Some years ago I was in Columbus, and saw some of the native Africans that were brought over io the Wanderer. Colonel Mott had. them working in his garden. He was teaching them to work with tools and to speak our language. They looked more like babboons than human beings. In a year or so they became civilized and made good servants and were contented and happy, and their children grew up like decent folks. It was a blessing to them and their children that their parents were stole away from Africa. It is the very best way to civil¬ ize them, and if I was a fanatical fool like Borne of our Northern brethren and wanted to do the negroes all the good I could I would abolish the laws against the slave trade and get every one over here that I could. It would beat all the missionary work that has ever been done. But we don't want any more down South. Let our Northern brethren try it awhile and see how they like it. Why, these negroes here ought to send or go over to Africa and bring a lot every year and own them and put them to work and civilize them. No, my children, there was nothing in slavery that you need be ashamed of so far as my part of it was concerned. The truth is, I belonged to Tip about as much as Tip belonged to me. He was one of the family and that was all. But if 1 bad my way and was to come across a barbarian I would do like Bobinson Cru¬ soe did his man Friday.I would take charge of him and take him.yes I would. Bill Aep. Water Boars and Bushes. Raleigh, N. C, September 29..A great sensation prevails at Whiteville, county seat of Columbus, over the discov¬ ery of an underground river. The sound of the roaring and rushing of water be¬ neath the ground at certain spots can be plainly heard, and hundreds of people are visiting' the spot. When in the vicinity of the supposed stream it can be heard without. difficulty, but when a person puts his ear to the ground the phenomenon becomes really alarming. The sound indicates that the water is not any great distance down, and that it is not a small stream but a large river that is coursing unseen in the bowels of the earth. Vehicles passing over the ground where the phenomenon "exists cause hollow echoes to come from below, and the earth in the vicinity for a great distance around seems to be cavernous, judging from the sounds, that follow sharp blows. The Whiteville people are possessed of a very morbid curiosity about the matter. Some say there is no telling how soon the bottom may fall out of the whole town..New York Berald. . Every wife and mother in the country should know the great value of Ayer's Sarsaparilla, as a blood purifier. Its gives tone, health, and strength, to the vital organs, corrects all irregulari¬ ties, and expels impurities from the sys¬ tem. Young an old ubo it. Price Si. . Dr. W. F. Carver yesterday perform¬ ed the most remarkable feat in shooting at the Exposition park ever witnessed. Dr. Carver had made a bet of $100 with Adam Forepaugh, Jr., that he would break six glass balls thrown into the air simultaneously before they fell to the ground. The shooting was done with a Spencer repeating rifle in the presence of a few invited guestB. Dr. Carver had not the slightest trouble in performing the feat, repeating it four times in suc¬ cession. The Doctor was not satisfied with this, but threw up seven balls at once, all of which he perforated before they fell to the ground..Pitfsbnrg Dis¬ patch. . Why suffer with that aching bend when you may be cured with Ayer's Ca¬ thartic Pills? Send a two cent stamp to Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass., for a Bet of their attractive album cards, [UKSDAY MORNIN( TOE WIZARD OP MENLO PARK. Ediston, the Inventor in Poverty and Pros¬ perity. New Yoke, October 5..The newspa¬ pers have recently announced that Thomas A. Edison, the inventor, is now worth several million dollars, most of this large fortune^ having been made out of his electric light interests. Every one who knows Edison personally hopes that the report is true, and some people won¬ der whether riches have made any change in the most unassuming of famous men of the day. Perhaps I can best answer the last question by describing a recent visit I made to Edison at Orange, and contrasting his present surroundings with his way of living ten or twelve years ago, at the time be began work upon the in¬ ventions which have chiefly helped to give him fame and fortune.the electric light and the dynamos which bear his name. I remember going to see Edison soon after it was announced that be had boast¬ ed of having solved the electric light problem. In his search for a better material than platnum for the loop which gives out the light in a glow lamb, Edi¬ son tried 3,200 different materials, arriv¬ ing finally at a kind of South American bamboo of remarkably close fibre. This wood, when carbonized, gives a loop of great tenacity and durability. For two years the inventor worked at the glow lamp before bo dared to say that it was a commercial success. In the winter of 1879-80 be announced that his lamp would last long enough to make compe¬ tition with gas possible. It may be remembered that the' announcement caused a storm of ridicule. One socalled expert, connected with a well known college, declared that Edison's lamp could never enter into competition with gas, but would remain a curiosity and possibly a luxury for rich men. This was at a time when Edison was inviting peo- f>le from all over the country to see the amp work at his Menlo Park laboratory, and so angered him that he declared be would some day erect a statute to his critic, light it up with Edison lamps, and make the inscription read: "This is the man who said the Edison lamp was a failure." There were many dark days that winter. After making one batch of lamps which burned splendidly and lasted for weeks, burning night and. day Edison found to his dismay that the second batch, made in exactly the same way, so far as he could find out, and of the same materials, failed completely. Instead of burning for weeks, the lamps went out in less than an hour. For three days Edison work night and day trying in vain to find the trouble. Then he took to his bed, seriously ill, while his exhausted assistant took a rest. Edison bas had the good fortune to attact and retain a number of devoted men who for the last ten years have shared in his trials and successes. When the inventor believes that he is on the track of something important he completely forgets bis meals and his sleep. ' He has been known to work for forty-eight hours at a stretch, without leaving his laboratory, and with no food except crackers and cheese, which he ate as he pondered over a knotty point. He cannot understand that other men need rest, and is indignant that any one should think of meals or sleep while the result of some interesting experiment is in doubt. The Edison lamp was not per¬ fected without many such incidents. HOW EDISON GOT 2IARMED. Nothing batter illustrates Edison's pertinacity than the incidents of his first marriage. In 1876 his friends urged him to marry, hoping that a wife might make him keep more regular hours, and eat his dinner at least once a day. Edison replied that he had no time for courting, but that if some decent girl would marry him he had no objection. He ended by picking out a young woman in tis work¬ shop, who readily agreed to become Mrs. Edison. Edison's intimates say that the jcourting was confined to Edison's simple inquiry as to whether she would marry him. She said "Yes." Edison fixed the day himself, and nothing more was said. Upon the appointed day some of bis friends bad to go to the laboratory to remind bim that he was to be married at noon; be was hard at work, and had forgotten all about his marriage. After the ceremony the bridal couple took a carriage for the station in order to make a wedding trip of forty-eight hours. IT fortunately, the road passed the labora¬ tory. The site of the building set Edison thinking, and before the carriage reached the station he ordered the man to go back, in order that he might give one last word of direction to his assistant. The new Mrs. Edison waited for two hours in the carriage for Edison to say his last word. Then he sent a messenger to her to say that something important needed his attention for a few hours, and that Mrs. Edison would do well to wait for him at home. Like a dutiful wife, she went home to wait. Edison got home the next morning after daybreak. His assistant's entreaties could not tear him away from the experiment in hand until it was finished. I would not like to vouch for the truthfulness of this story, but I have beard it upon several occa¬ sions from people who ought to know, and I have never seen it contradicted. When euch a man becomes discouraged, it means sickness, and after searching in vain for the cause of his failure to make a second batch of lamps as good as the first, he took to his beo. THE TALL, GAWKY STRANGER I have mentioned that Edison had no time for courting, and this was strictly true. Moreover he was never much of a ladies' man. If it were not for the in¬ fluence of his wife and daughters to-day, the great inventor would never look as if his hair had been combed for a month or his boots blacked. Even as a young man he was too intent upon serious things to "waste" time upon his clothes or his looks. A friend of mine, a telegrapher, who often met Edison during the early days of New Yorfc life, gives me this ac¬ count of his personal appearance and of his debut in an Eastern telegraph office. "One day there appeared in the office a gaunt Westerner who wanted employ¬ ment. We were short of good operators, and from bis own account of himself the applicant was an expert. I can picture Edison just as he looked that day.a lean, tall fellow with unkempt hair, shabby clothes several sizes too large for him, clean but ragged linnen, shoes made for comfort instead of style. He had yet nothing of the nervous look of hurry which years of excitement afterward gave bim. As be stood waiting to bear what came of bis application he looked as little like making a stir in the world as any man I have met with. His soft felt hat, which he twirled in his hands, was ap¬ parently even older than his clothes, for there were several holes in it, burned by acidp| used in experiment, as I found out later. From one of his trousers' pockets a bit of wire projected, and from the ' other a foot-rule and a bit of string. He said be could keep up with any operator in .the country and he was given a chance at a desk. In those days it was customa¬ ry to astonish country gawks with the terrible speed of a New York office by pitting them against the fastets 'sender' in the office. The wire at which Edison was placed as 'receiver' was supposed to come from Boston, but in reality ran only to the other end of the office, where our fastest man began to outdo himself in sending off message after message at the top of his speed. The newcomer was coolness personified. He wrote a pecu¬ liar hand, something like print, but how he could turn out page after page of^it! The whole office watched (lie beginning of operations with the expectation that at 'the end, of five or ten minutes Edison 5, OCTOBEE 18, 188 would give up and beg for some easier wire. He sat with a toothpick in his mouth, listening to the click of the soun¬ der before him and scribbling away. Five minutes passed-with Edison still leading. The five minutes lengthed into ten, gradually a dozen or more of the best operators in the room gathered near to watch the contest, and there were sup¬ pressed exclamations of amazement over the speed. The other man was getting 'rattled every burst of speed was taken by Edison as cooly as if a tyro at the business was 'sending.' Finally, amid some laughter at his end of the office, the 'sender' gave it up and signalled to Edi¬ son that he was done. Edison threw his bundle of work on the managers's desk with the remark: 'That isn't much of a sender they have got on yonr Boston wire; he can scarcely keep a man awake.' At which, of course, there was a roar all over the room at the expense of the 'Bos¬ ton sender,' who joined in heartily." HOW EDISON MADE A*''SOUNDER." Soon after that Edison's mechanical skill became so noted in the office that he was made superintendent of the repair shop. It was not long before the value of his services was fully shown. The several telegraph companies then in exis¬ tence.the Franklin, Bankers' and Bro¬ kers', Southern and Atlantic and Pacific .were using the page sounder, the sole right to which was claimed by the Wes¬ tern Union Company. Owing to the Western Union's success in a patent fight over the* Page sounder, there came a time when an injunction was obtained silenc¬ ing all sounders of that type in the hands of rivals and practically putting a stop to our business. Edison wascalled into the president's office and the situation ex¬ plained. For a long time he stood chew¬ ing his tobacco, looking first at the sounder in his hand and then falling into a brown study. At length he picked- up a sheet of tin used as a brick" lor mani¬ folding on thin sheets of paper, and began to twist and cut it into queer shapes; meanwhile we stood aronnd looking on. Not a word was spoken. Finally, Edison tore off the Page ''sounder" on the instru¬ ment before him, and substituting bis bit of tin, began working. It was not so good as the patented arrangement dis¬ carded, but it worked. In four hours a hundred such devices were in use over onr lines, and what wonld have been a ruinous interruption to our business was avoided. IN THE LOW GROUNDS OF FAILURE. Coming down to. later years, I got out Menlo Park one snowy day in February, 1880, to find Edison in- bed, the laborato¬ ry idle and his assistant-i taking a rest. One of them showed roe one of the lamps of the first batch which burned so satis¬ factorily and those made later which failed entirely. There was an air of des¬ olation over the whole place. The little laboratory.a long two-story shed.was cold and comfortless; apparatus was strewn around in all directions. Upon every side were signs of strict economy. The assistants were young men who were glad to work for little or nothing. The houses in which Ediaon .and they lived were unpretentious little cottages. - Prob¬ ably the whole Edison establishment at Menlo Park.laboratory, engine house and dwellings.bad not cost more than $25,0.00. Nevertheless, it was there that Edison worked out the problem before him. He discovered that not one part of the lamp would have to be better, but all parts needled strengthening. Expert glass-blowers were brought to the village, the air pumps were made more perfect, the carbons more durable. All this took time, during which outsiders freely pre¬ dicted failure; the stock in the Edison company went down to such a point that it was hard to raise money for the main¬ tenance of the laboratory. It was argued by experts that Edison had really dis¬ covered nothing new ; he bad attempted to do what a dozen famous men had tried before him, and he had failed. The quotations of New York gas stocks, which had fallen at the time of Edison's first announcements, rose again. Meantime Edison worked away, trying to forget the incidental troubles in bis way. I remem¬ ber well having a long talk with him in the early spring of 1880, when people had become skeptical as to the outcome of his work. "I will succeed," said he, "but it may take me longer than I at first supposed. Everything is so new that each step is in the dark; in order to in¬ troduce the electric glow lamp.to New York I have to make the dynamos, the lamps, the conductors in the streets and houses; the matters and the thousand and one details that the outside public knows nothing about. At the same time I have to think about the expenses of my work. My one ambition is to be able to work without reference to the expense.of course within reasonable limits; what I mean is that if I wane to give up a whole month of my time and that of my assirtt ants to finding out why one form of carbon filament is slightly better than another I can do it without having to think of the cost. Another luxury would be a laboratory more perfect than any¬ thing we yet have in this country. I want a splendid collection of materials. every chemical, every metal, every sub¬ stance in fact that can possibly be of use to me. I want all this right at hand within a few feet of my bouse. Give me these advantages and I will gladly devote fifteen hours a day to sold work. Such a laboring would give me more pleasure than horses, yachts or luxuries of any kind. I want none of the rich man's usual toys, no matter how rich I may become." HE HAS PLENTY OF MONEY NOW. Iu the last ten years the success of the Edison light has been pretty well de¬ monstrated. It has not been the gold mine that was at first expect^. It bas not driven out gas by any means, and there are many other electric light sys¬ tems in the field. But it has grown to be an immense business, from which Edison has reaped a share of the profit?. Ac cording to one who ought to know, Edison owns about one fifth of the stock in the different New York companies which bear bis name and work bis inven¬ tions. His chief income is derived from the sale of his lamps and bis dynamo, both of which go all over this country and to Europe. There are no less than 132 towns in this country where the Edison light is used, which means a tremendous consumption of lamps. At present the main factory in Newark turns out 5,000 lamps a day. For the first few years it was uphill work, for the last five years there has been a large profit. To¬ day Edison may not be a millionaire, but he probably has the income of one. He has not swerved from his old time plants. He has built for himself a lab¬ oratory costing a quarter of a milliou dollas, and fitted it up in a manner which makes it the most perfect workshop of the kind in the world. Pesonally he is just the same unpretentious fellow that he used to be when he worked ;for the Western Union Company at forty dollars a month, being the fastest operator on the St. Louis circuit, and pondering im¬ provements in the apparatus while he worked. Edison's beginnings an; almost too well known to need recaliug. In 1870 he was a telegaph operator fond of wasting his time in experiments. He was several times reprimanded for upscting the office by these same experiments. His first invention of value was the duplex Bystem, which doubles the capacity of a wire for telegraphic service. For this he received enough to relieve him from drudgery. Then followed other telegraphic devices, the barbon telephone and improved dyhamo, the phonograph of 1875, the lamp which hears his name and electric motors of various types. The tremendous activity of the man U shown in a big room of the new labratory 8. at Orange, filled with glass cases contain¬ ing more than three hundred intricate pieces of machinery or apparatus, all made by the inventor himself, or under his eye, during the last twenty years. He is a big, gaunt fellow, with a slight stcop, clean shaven face and a low voice. Since he became Blightly deaf, a few years ago, he talks but little. He dresses like a workman; his hands are always soiled with oil or machine grease, and there is always a cigar in hi3 mouth. H. H. H. A LETTER FROM RET. J. W. WOLL- ING, Homo Life In Brazil. Southern Christian Advocate. For some time I have been thinking it might not be amiss to write you something on the important and substantial subject of what we eat and what it cost; for, though we are engaged in the high spiri¬ tual employ of winning souls for Christ, you will understand that we do not dis¬ dain such carnal "practices as eating and drinking. However, it is no constantly recurring question: what shall we eat or what shall we drink? for, by grace Divine, we seek primarily, the kingdom of God and the blessed righteousness which there reigns, and this having done, we have the unfailing promise that all these things shall be added. And then under this general promise we have the particular fact that a strong, sympathetic Church at home has not only our being, but our well being, at heart; and while the object, primary and most important, aimed at, is the advancement of the cause of Christ, the means to this end is the preservation of the workmen in the field. So, whatever may be said about the im¬ portance of this subject, it is literally a substantial one and of daily occurrence. As in all countries, so bere, there is a slyle of subsistence on a very cbeap scale. Those who live on rice and beans and fruit can live for very little, and this constitutes the living of a large part of the population. The universal drink is coffee, and the very plainest per-on in the humblest home can set before you such coffee as I do not remember ever to have in the United States. As to the.price of these things.rice, beans, and coffee. they cost just about what they do in the States. You will understand that these are grown in Brazil, and in the rural parts cost nothing more than to pel the seed in the ground and give the crop one hoeing. As you may suppose, foreigners cannot live upon .these things. As Dr. Sane, an American physician in San Paulo, says, to a stranger in the climate rice is considered moonshine, the beans are so strong that only working men can digest them, and for a couple of years most of the fruits can only be eaten by new-comers at great risks to health. So you can see that strangers, are reduced to the necessity of seeking their provisions from abroad. Let us take a breakfast of oat meal, ham and eggs, hominy, bread and butter and coffee. The oat meal comes from Germany, and is quite expensive ; hams, until of late, came from Bussia and Eng¬ land, and cost 65 cents per pound .; cow they can be gotten from San Paulo and cost 35 cents per pound. Eggs in Bio de Janeiro cost 50 to 60 cents a dozen; in the interior, 25 to 30 cents per dozen. The corn and flour comes from Russia and the United States, the flour costing from $15 to $18 a barrel, the corn higher than in the United States: the butter from France, and costs 75 cents per pound; the coffee from Brazil, and costs 15 cents per pound. If you go to furnish a house, it is the same* thing. A dozen, small ordinary chairs cost $35, and if anything nice, $90. A plain bedstead, made in a shop here costs $20, and e straw mattress to put on it $10 more. A handsome parlor set costs $500 and upward?. From my personal experience I can say that $450, or, at the most, $500 in South Carolina,. will go further in ordinary expenses than $1,000 in Brazil. These figures will give you some idea of the prices of things in this country, where everything is brought from abroad, and paid for with cafe. Some things ^are cheap. To day I bought beautiful oran¬ ges two for one cent and bananas at the same price, but apples are'brought from Portugal and the United States, and cost from ten to fifteen cents each. But these prices of no concern to the majority of these people who live in bouses very scantily furnished, arrayed in thin cotton clothes, with slippers on their feet, and eat few things brought from abroad. I ought to Bay that the horse, which is used very much in this country oversleep narrow roads, where only a horse or mule can go, can be bought from $35 to $50. They are not fine looking, but tough and sensible, and many of them finely gaited. Such are some of the facts of our every-. day life out here, where, after all, our greatest privation is to be away from the friends and many associations of the home life in the United States. But the world must be won for Christ, and no doubt all will be right and congenial in the home above. Piractcaba,' Brazil. Paris Siinpkins on the Stomp, The G. O. P. had a Harrison and Mor- t >n ratification meeting at Aiken last week. Among the speakers was Paris Siinpkins^ of Edge-field; and ijmay serve a good purpose at this time to give a portion of his speech, which we find in the Aiken Journal and Review. ''If they would adopt a more concilia¬ tory policy I believe many of you would join the Democratic party. The day is coming when you will see a different state of affairs in this country. If the Democrats don't give it to you, the day is coming when we" will get it. ("Ap¬ plause and cries of 'Tell it'.) We nave told the Republicans of the North of the condition of affairs with us, and tbey have failed to believe us. That was a long lime ago. But they believe us now. Just as soon as the Republican party gets in power again they will right all wrongs. How will they change the present status of affairs, do you ask ? They propose to pass a bill in Congress' changing the basis of representation of Congressmen and the manner of electing them, and they will pass laws protecting presidential and congressional boxes." He said he noticed a feeling of unrest in the Democratic party in this State. They arc rebelling and clamoring for office and they are only kept together by a free use of the party lash. But they will go to pieces and divide up, and then they will come to yon and pat you on the back, and ask you to help them. "But my friends let us never help them to put a ticket in the field. But let us do this.let us ally ourselves with that party that offers us the best terms, and I tell you the side we throw our strength to will win." . One of the three finest collections of butterflies in the world.the two others belonging to the British museum and a Paris institution.has been made by Mr. Berthold Neumeogeon, of the New York Stock Exchange. It contains 100,000 specimens, and has cost twenty years in lime and $35,000 in money. Livingstone, Stanley, Schwatka and other explorers have contributed to it. Uczeinn, Itchy, Scaly, Skin Tortures. The simple application of "Swayne's Ointment," without any internal medi¬ cine, will cure any case of Tetter, Salt Rheum, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores, Pimples, Eczema, all Scaly, Itchy Skin Eruption, no matter how obstinate or long standing. It is potent, elective, and costs but a trifle. 13 VOLUM] A LETTER TO GEN. LON'GSTREET, FR05I AN OLD VETERAN. Showing the StuflTour Boys Were Made Of. Gainesville (Ga.) Eagle, Feb. 10. We are indebted to the General for the privilege of publishing the follow¬ ing letter, which is only one of many that he daily receives from the poor "boys in grey," who followed his gallant lead through scenes of carnage on many a bloody field, and who endured suffer¬ ings as great, while tramping barefoot over stony mountain roads without food or shelter, in obedience to the orders of their gallant commander, as when being cut almost literally to pieces by minnie balls on 'the field of battle. To Jasper's memory will be erected a statue of brass, at Savannah soon, for deeds no more glorious.for sacrifices not half so great as were made by thousands of Confeder¬ ate soldiers, who, like this poor man, will die unwept, unhonored and unsung. While not intended for publication. merely an expression of kindly feeling and remembrance of a gallant soldier to his old chief.we publish it, hoping that the yonng men of the South may read it and gather patriotic inspiration from its simple and unaffected recital of what a true patriot will do and suffer for a cause which he believed to be right: Piedmont, S. C, January 26, 1888. Gen. James Longstreet: My Dear General.Thinking you would like to bear from one of the P. S. S.f who followed you for four years aud suffered with you in the lost cause, I embrace the present to let you know that you are still loved and respected by a South Carolinian. I will name several places where we were together, so you may call me to yonr mind. I was the private whose gun was shot in two at Gaines's Mill and kept on' till a comrade fell aod could get another. I was the private you sent to the front at Seven Pines to see what the Federals were up to, when J. £. Johnston was wounded. I am the private that clubbed his gun and rescued the colors of the Palmetto Sharp Shooters at FrazeHs Farm, arid brought them back and took command of his company and carried them on.every commissioned and non commissioned officer being killed or wounded. There my right arm was broken by a minnie ball, but stayed with my boys until the enemy retreated. I am the private that went over Lookout Mountain barefooted, in the night fight, 28tb of October, before yon started through Tennessee. For that act of mine you had me detailed and sent with your baggage as a guard to Atlanta, and I rejoined you at Strawberry Plains, in. Tennessee. I am* the private that lifted you up in the Wilderness the time you and Gen. Jenkins were both wounded. I received a wound the same day in the mouth. I was wonndfd five times, had my thigh broken at Fort Harrison, and my leg is now four inches short. I have managed to keep soul and body together by the help of our Great Crea¬ tor, but I have never saved up any money. I have a little piece of land which is a home for me and my wife. Our only boy is married arid has two boys. I have plenty of provisions for myself and family. I killed three hogs this winter, Weighing respectively 374, 1~1 and 195 pounds.the two last six months old. So dear General, if you'll come o«er to Anderson County and stay with me awhile, I will board you and Mrs.Longstreet, too. My dear General, our Heavenly Father has spared us for some wise purpose. We cannot see in the future, but we can try to live the balance of our days so tbat we may be ready to cross over the Great River and rest on the other shore in perpetual bliss and happiness. May our God direct our ways, so' that if we never see each other again we will meet in Heaven around the throne of our blessed Savior. Your obedient servant, Richard L. Williams, Private Co. L., Palmetto Sharp Shoot¬ ers, Jenkins' Brigade, Longstreet's Corps, A. N. V." His Mo(her>in>Law, Not His Bride. Lock Haven, Pa., Oct. 4..The vil¬ lage of Mercy's, in Forest Connty, is terribly shaken up over a most extraor¬ dinary social sensation. Ralph Baily, proprietor of Baily's stick works, where thousands of umbrella handles, walking sticks, and similar goods are turned out daily for New York and Philadelphia manufacturers, was a widower of 60, and is a grandfather. His son Charles is the superintendent of the stick works-. In the office of the concern Miss Amelia Coar, daughter of a well known and prosperous lumber dealer, has had charge of the books for several months. Miss Coar was 18, very pretty and vivacious, and young Charles Baily fell in love with her. She promised to marry him, and the wedding was set for last Thursday night, at the residence of the bride's parents. A large party had been invit¬ ed, and all were present. It had been noticed and commented on tbat the father of the groom, Ralph Baily, was nnt among the wedding guests. The hour for the ceremony, arrived, when the news broke on the assemblage like a thunderclap that the bride was nowhere to be found. A note was found on her dressing table addressed to her affianced. What its contents were has not been made public, as young Baily tore it into fragments after reading it, and announcing to the company that there would be no wedding, left the house. It soon became known, however, tbat Miss Coar and the father of the man she had promised to marry had Sloped. Word has since been received that they were married in Buffalo, and have gone on a wedding tour. What caused the young woman to throw over the son for the father is not known, as no inti¬ macy was ever known to have existed between the bookkeeper and her em¬ ployer. Baily has grandchildren older than his bride. A peculiar circumstance connected with this strange case is tbat the shamefully jilted son returned to his place in the factory on Friday morning I as if nothing bad happened, and is at¬ tending to his father's business with all bis usual faithfulness and care. . A professor in the University of Vienna, long a sufferer through poison in the eye, was completely cured by having a rabbit's nerve attached to the old nerve. Dr. Gersuny, the assistant to the great surgeon of the world, Dr. Bilrotb, performed the operation..Bos¬ ton Budget. . Are you made miserable by Indi¬ gestion, Constipation, Dizziness, Loss of Appetite, Yellow Skin ? Shiloh's Vitaliz- er is a positive cure. 3 . An umbrelh trust.Every time you lend one. . Why will you cough when Shiloh's Cough Cure will give immediate relief. Price, 10.cts., 50 cts., and Si. . There is a granite house in Rowan county, Va., built in 1766, aod is still owned and occupied by the descendants of the man who built it. The fireplace is 8 feet wide, 5 feet high and 5 feet deep ; the house is in a good state of preserva¬ tion. . . The Rev. Geo. H. Thayer, of Bour- bon, Ind., says: "Both myself and wife owe our lives to Shiloh's Consumption Cure." For sale by Hill Bros. . "Something new in flannels".the new baby. . Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy.a posi¬ tive cure for Catarrh; Diphtheria and Canker-Mouth. 3 XXIV.- -NO. 15. AH Sorts of Paragraphs. . This year's cottoD crop is the lar¬ gest one ever grown in the United States. . The centre of population of the United States is near Louisville, By. -' . The most valuable pearls in the' United States are said to be found in the limestone streams of Kentucky. . More than half the cheese now con- sumed in Great Britain is produced in the United States and Canada. . Europe has about 94,000,000 in wheat, with a little higher average yield per acre than the United Stales. . It is estimated that the annual egg product of this country is 451,000,000,* or about forty-five eggs to each fowl. .::: . Toronto, Canada, with 150,000 in-' habitants, has no Sunday paper, on open saloon, nor street cars on the Sab¬ bath. . The Indians cultivated 227,265 acres.- of land last year. They own over 1,000,- I 000 sheep, 40,471 swine 111,407 cattle " and 358,334 horses and mules. . A man of 85 and a woman of 78 ^ were remarried the other day in Phila¬ delphia, after having been divorced fifty|| years. Verily, this is a year of re union. . The largest guns now nsed' oa} shipboard are calculated to penetrate.-/ thirty-six inches of iron, .ten to twenty u of granite, and seventy five feet of earth". . Peaches have been selling for ten cents a bushel in Barry county, Kansas',: . yet they continue to rot on the fruit §§ stands in the large cities, at about ten cents ; each. . Four men were convicted in the Court of Buffalo, N, Y. for aiding and m abetting.a prize fight between two women. One of the women and three of the men - -. were sent to prison. . The heavy disbursement made dur- iog the past week from the United§$ States Treasury, amounts to the sung little sum of $78,000,000. There, is hope : for that surplus, yet. . The latest returns of the various^.- branches of the International Snnday^V: School union make the number of Sunday school teachers in the world to be 1,504,- 613 and the scholars 12,680,267. ' ;.,-. . The whole wheat crop of Minnesota and Dakota, now harvested, appears to fall at least 36,000,000 bushels below:ifi>;?£ yield of last year, and not less than 25,000,000 bushels below the yield of tbo'^ preceeding year. ' '}if>> . The fine barn^and' stables of Mr,^ Samuel Jeffries, of Union County, werec*"*- entirely consumed by fire last Saturday ! night, together with eleven mules, two horses, two fine milch cows and a large; quanity of other personal property. . The New York Evening Post says: "Some one wrote to Horace Greeleyiin*'"^ quiring if guauo was good to put orjr]&S potatoes. He said it might do for thoee whose tastes bad become vitiated with, tobacco and rum, but he preferred gravy r':£ and butter." . Bubies have kept on steadily rising._j,i in favor and value for the last ten years.-, r - A stone of eight or nine carats is now worth from twenty thousand dollars to thirty thousand dollars. A diamond of that weight would not cost more than three thousand dollars. . Senator Blair may be considered a philanthropist by.proxy. If he is as liberal with bis own funds as he is witK;^ the government money, he will bave'itiSS monument yet. His latest proposition,j^^^ whittle down the surplus is to pay Engjjgfij land $800,000,000 for Canada. . Sailors beliave religiously tbat.'tjrol^^ frigate birds can start at'daybreak with;:->; the trade winds from .the coast of Africa]*® and roost the same night upon the American shore. Whether or not this isy'-Z a fact has not yet been conclusively. '. determined, but it is certain that the bird is the swiftest of winged creatures and.is able to fly, under favoring condf* tion, 200 miles an hour. . English antiquarian zoologists are .: enchanted at present with a live toadJjjS found in the .course of railway excava-affl tions at Greenocb. The toad is from||£| 20,000 to 30,000 years old, as the stratum of clay in which it was found certainly^S dates from the glacial period. Its mouth^ffl is sealed up. ,It breathes slightly throughflW the nostrils, and though the eyes are'.; '-; quite expressive it does not seem, to see;'£4 . It is currently reported in the neigh- ' borhond of Gaffney City, that a youhgjgH man by the name of Pennington, founa^B a pot full of gold coins buried In tboajB ground not far from Mountain in the upper corner of Union County. As. evidences of this, pieces of the soapstone::;:;r^ pot have been exhibited. Some of the - people believe he found some money, ¦.>¦ while others do not believe that there is any truth in the report. . Three months ago M. H. Wi son,-of Marquette, Mich., was shot, the ball.;-? passing clear through his neck, tearing .' ; -, out a portion of the vertebra and causing complete paralysis of the body below the .'.*..>. neck. The doctors don't know what to H make of him. He can't feel pins stuck- any where in his body, but retains his <v£i flesh and his appetite, and can talk änd v read. His flesh below the neck isde-.;;r; scribed as "white as alabaster and nerve¬ less as a sponge." . While the train on the Florida- :v Southern, which was returning to Palatka with a party from Tavares, was coming out to Micauopy Junction on Wednes¬ day night, the engine struck a black ¦¦ object which at first the engineer thought^1 to be a man. When the engine bad been, stopped an investigation proved it to be an alligator twelve feet I wo inches longl:.^ The engine struck the saurian just back r of his head, almost severing the head from the body..Savannah News. . A toad has been found in England which is puzzling the scientists. He' was discovered some scores of yards' under the earth's surface, imbedded in>|| clay. His limbs were perfectly limp,-^ and he was stone blind. The locate savants could not guess its age accurate- <: ly, but reckoned it somewhere between -ri 20,000;and 30,000 years. This toad was; ^ tired of living in the days before Adam i got tired of living alone in Eden, and it t^ is just possible he heard the rain come ;: down during the flood. . Yesterday a prominent New York j: lawyer arrived in .Washington for a 6j! consultation with, an attorney of thia'äj city regarding some patent cases. Dur¬ ing the conversation a match to light a ;;| cigar was lacking, and the Washingtonian remarked that a piece of ice would do. The New Yorker laughed and was in-^ credulous, and a wager of a chairpagne supper was made. The Washingtonian l \ took a piece of clear ice about an inchv r; thick from the water cooler, whittled it>*gj into the shape of a disk, and with the :~ palms of his hands melted its two sides > convex, thus giving it the form of & double convex lens or burning glafsi-^"--- With it he focused the sun's rays on the end of his cigar, thus lighting the cigar. While smoking the weed he enjoyed the; chagrin of the New Yorker, who prompt- J-| ly paid the bet.. Washington Star. Ladies* In delicate health needing a gentle jefo*: effective laxative will find the California ; liquid fruit remedy, Syrup of Figs, pleaa-^ ing to the taste, acceptable to the stomach. ~1 and perfectly safe in all cases. It is the»>J most easily taken and pleasantly effective . remedy known to cure and prevent cos- tiveness, to dispel headaches, colds, and;"; fevers, and strengthen the kidneys, liveir£f and bowels, and is therefore a favorite remedy with ladies. For sale by Simp--r mi Keift fi'Cb.
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farm; water power,-
- -ahd."MACHDJEEY; FOB SALE.
will sell (if not sold previously)'atAn-;';:4dOTgon,S.-c.t>on Salesdayin Novem-
"'ber^at thousual hours of. sales, 50 acres of^^plÄd;r^lth"'Qrist; Saw and Sorghum Mill,|gs^GÄ^ overshot wa¬
ter wheel;10i to :12horse power, all In good^^^rjanmng "orderi^situated; 8.' miles, west of\ Aiiider8onj2T!niIes. west of Denver,-adjöin-v^s^Dg'-Ianda of'Ji-B'. Douthit and others.
Terms of Sale.One-tbird; cash, balancei -. one and twoyears, equal installments, with
: 10 r^ricönt:iüter(5s^iand mortgage of the.vv Lpla^totswure purchase money.K" ;v Pox-information see J". W. Bowden at^^g3D^hver,;Qr:tBe undersigned at Anderson,i^^m^ucbaser to pay extra for papers..
^ <^ÄV. &tict II; 1888 ..:. ." 14 .' 4.-.-/
SHERIFFS SALE." SJA^vO?-SOUTH .CABOLDTAi
>; CODKTT OF ANDEBSON.
Wv-WiHumph^^>5i;V Strickland. : ..
n/bbedtedcatojt-Judgmen£of Forecles .
p^-tjre;in the above entitled action,T willsell at Anderson O. E., S. C., on Salesday;ih November next;Vtbe.naortgaged premises¦below described, .to wit: * ."'.'
.SV All that Tract of Land, situate in Hall^.Tbwushii>,"of.Anderson- Ctormty, S^^aÄ-^^o&ing:huidsV ofcJames Thompson; Lent
{-Hall and others^andknown .as-the Roberti;aai^act^'4h&'Uäte B. A- Btricklahd,
: deceased, containing 73 acres, more or less...--rjjTaaa» of Sale.One-half $asä, änd'the
amainder on- a credit of twelve months,ih'uitexeäfcfjximrday of sale; to be secured
...: bohd^andmortgage.of the premises,
withltwe^foiahtid^ at anyoitimei.^-pafcshaser-t6 pay extra for, papera.-
w. l. B0LT> vSheriff Anderson. County;
, ,Oct 11; 1838 ,-.^14 .-- \. '.. .4
^^THE;STA^;;Ö^S0UTH; CAROLINA,i AHDXBSOS" COUBTY.
£Wv Nancy J.Strickland. .:;
^ :obechenc8' to: 'the* Jndgment of Fore-Li~.closure;made byhis Honor Judge J. J."orton in the above entitled action, I willH^atTAndersmr G. H., Si C, ;on Salesday:'November^ 1888; the mortgaged premisesIow describedt'to wit:'-,ill that Tract of Land, situate in Hallwnship^jolning- lands öf Jas. Thomp-Lent Hall ana others, known as thewai;Tjräct";öf;the; late'B. As Strick-Jih^ased, containing 166 acres, more
;;;Teims of Sale^ne-halfcash'i and bal-¦aace on a credifc.of twelve months, with in-5tera^#CÄ'dayof sale,; to;be: secured by a
.; bond and mbrtgageof the premises, withleave to anticipate payment !at any Ithne.
" jer'tbipaycaxkri for papered ¦¦-
WJf. jl^BOLT, ,.
Sheriff Anderson County.^rj^^l8887.^-:-;/. ^14 ;. V-^'
^ttASTER>S :SALE>Estate of sotjth .carolina,
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l&V" '>:.'".'. .;..> A^e^on^CooirrY.:In'the Court of Common Pleas. "
^fVmia^^Tali, etah tts. Margaret E.;Hall;'>-;. et al.Partition.
IWN. obedience to the order of sale in theabove entitled action I will sell at
i^'dersbdi c.Hv, 8: on Salesday in Nc^'vember next, tho lands below described asSiB^Seal-Estate.bf Fenton S. Hall,' doceas-'^d, towiti: '1^';Tract Noi l^situatoinAnderson County,iand icontaining107: ai^es,-adjoining No. 2:'^^Baid--EstiA^';Mra.^Water8j. J; H. Young
^i^uid ethers.; ;
TTa,cfe:No;^2,Tsituate in Anderson Countjr,:i0''-.-B:.<^'^täS^j^tß.aa^. more or less,
adjoining No. liJ). H. Hall, and others, a
^^^.Jjsr^^.ofcSale-rOne-th^ of the; pnr-chasft'money Jand-^'-tlie;^ costs/to' bo paid incash; the "remainder on a credit- of one
tf^ahdtwoVyearsi^with ^intei^-froial'däir: of^^Baje,{with-leave to'anticipate payment, se-.
h^^-cmed>y bond anda mortgage of. theprem-jtees?r!Purchasers to pay -extra for all ne-
^ W.^atlMPHREYS, Master.^t'vOct 11^1888,7 ,-. 14 .; , 4
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vMASTER^S SALE,STATE OP. SOUTH CAROLINA,.
^^^^K'r¦'r"..':"-AspEBSOK CpUHTr..)^^^p^^S jlnike Co^'Oommm Pleas.;rrTh^mas A. S^eoaud and Thomas A. Sber-j^^^:'?Asa^ee, 'vsi 3, ^B. Newton and^pffiira Newtony-Action toForeclose Mort-'^gage»";y^;-' -¦ \- \''r|SpTJBSDANT to-the Judgment of Fore-
closuremade by his Honor JudgeNorton in the above entitled action on -3rd
^ärch;i888,1 will sell at"Anderson C.-H.,^rS.' Cm on Salesday in November next, themortgage premises below described, to wit:All that Tract of Land, situatein Ander-*
Mo^Cojatity, 8.~C.f cohtainmg 100 acres,'more orlessj'adjbininy lands,of J. G. Hall,John Spearman, Ellas Spearman, and oth¬ers.
:#{Tehn8 of Sale.Ona-half cash, and ihe: balance on a credit of twelve months, with/^interest from day of sale, to be secured by:' bond :ärid- mortgage of the premises, withCleave to anticipate payment. PurchaserK^pavextrafor papers.
- W.: W. HUMPHREYS, Master.^jOctll, 1888 - : 14 i
MASTERS SAIiE.STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
coukty of'Andeesok.
In the Court Common Pleas."eth Smith vs. Louclnda Shirley and
'¦' *'''".'. .' Others*f0XJRSUANT to-the order of sale made'Jt iri:theabove stated case, I will sell'-/at*Anderson O.cH., 8. 0-, on,Salesday in
'5:>iNovember-ne^t; the I<and below described^Wm Real-Estate of Mrs. Mary Ann Brock,
deceased, to wit:;. .-' All that Tract of Land, situate in Ander¬son County, B: C, containing 98i acres
Mm'öre^OT less, -adjoining lands of JoelSmith;-'Samuel Ragsdale, A. B. Shirley,
^ga&'d'Others,^ß^ßiäämJot Sale-rOne-half cash, aud thebaiance on ;a credit of twelve months, withInterest from day of sale, secured by bondöad.mdrtgage'of,the premises, with leave
J".1x> anticipate payment; Purchaser to payextra :for papers; :'
W^W. HUMPHREYS, Master,etil,1888 14 .4;.;:'.-:.MASTERS SALE.
STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,> v .' Akseb^oit County. .
In.tive Court of Common Pleas.
^-Joseph N. Brown vs. J. W. Rogers, etal.
}.-.".^TrjfUBSfJANT.to-the order of sale made¦X--'Jl-- v in the above entitled action-by his.^ >-HonorJudge Norton, on 4th of May, 1888,
I will sell at Anderson C. H., S. C., on*8a1e«day in November next, the premises
'*OW;describedT to wit:All. that Tract of Land, containing^and one-fourth (60}) acres,' more or
..Jßtialüe-in.Anderson County, 8. O.y onwaters of Little Beaverdam Creek, adjoin-
^.ing lands of B. C. Martin, Mary J. Rogers,^.^H^-lloJgers and Others.w:"v'2.vAlso, all thatrTract of Land, contain-Üg elghty.nine and three-quarter (89J)facres, more or less, on waters of Beaver¬dam Creek, adjoining lands of.Alexander'Jordan:
j^^T^aihspf Sale.Cash. Purchasers to pay%eitra for papers.cJ-l" Wv W- HDMPHREYS, Master.v;';.';.'Oct 11V.1888 ;. :.; 14 4
MASTERS SALE,.STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA,
¦'l.-':\:\:-Pp-::'' COUHTY OF AhDEBSOK.
^v.V7 >.;/» the Court of Common Pleas.'
.C. C. Reed, Assignee^- vs. J. D Burton.Foreclosure.
,TN obedience to the Judgment of Fore-' JL .closure in the above entitled action,-rl;;wiliiBell . at Anderson C. H., S. C, on
;^Säe^äy: in November" next, the mortgagedpremises below described, to wit:
&tAll that Tract of Land, .containing 106Pitcres, more or less, adjoining lands, ofi^esse^CannV H.'J. 'Burton, G. P. Bartonj^ind-ethers, situate in Andereon County,SSonthiCaroIina.:l-.Terms of Sale.One-third cash, and the'balance on a credit .of twelve months, with,^t^est/romday -qf'sale,- secured by bond^aSd^origsgeiof the-pfemisBS,- 'with leave^^äöclpate'paymen t. Purcbaser to pay
StUMPHREY8, Master:
S & LANGSTON.
THE
AND EVERYBODY
FOR TELLING PRICES
GOME Am) SEE JOUR
LINE OF DRESS GOODS,
Embracing.alltbe New Fajland WinterFabrics, in 3II the various new shades.
[ Greens; from Myrtle to Reseda; Mabog-onys, Terra Cottas, Gobelins, Greys, andan endless .variety of Stripes, Plaids,Checks, Etc.; all the new importedCloths, fresh from the foreign looms.Henriettas, Rayeitines, Alma Cloths,Imperial Serges, Cashmeretts, RayeStripes, Foules, Etc Oar line of DreesSilks, Volvets. and Flushes is complete.
IN MILLINERY
We. begin with nice Felts at 50c to $2.00.Straws from 25c up. Ribbons, Moires,Glaces, Gros Grains^ Failles, Vel vet and
I Ombres. The largest, cheapest andtoniest stock of .Ribbons to be found any.where, w Velvets, Plashes, Persian Goods,Cashmeres, Silks, and, all the BeautifulNovelties that delight the eye this season.With.: especial pride we request the in-
spection of oar Pattern Hats, the resultof weeks of careful study and almostendless research among all the leadingimporting bouses of the great Northerncities, so as to find something becoming,and to suit' the. pocket book of each ofoar many friends and patrons.
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OUR
TriTTiTniTig DepartnientIncludes -Passementeries,: President
Braids, Guimps, Milanaise Trimmings,Fur and Astrakans, Bandeaux, and an
elegant assortment of"
Dress Linings,Buttons, &c, to suit the different shadesof Dress Goods.
i#?ä Ladies' Underwear.
The cheapest, most stylish and elegantline of Ladies' Underwear possible.
Also, Gloves, Hosiery and Handker¬chiefs, from the cheapest to the finest.Remember, we take special pride in
this Department, and with the aid of.polite and efficient Sales-ladies it is
always'a pleasure to show our Goods to
everyone.
Dress MaMng.MISS MALLÄLIEU has returned
and taken charge of the Dress MakingDepartment, with skilled assistants.
We bought oar immense Stock ofGoods direct from Manufacturers andImporters for the Cash, and the idea ofany house in the country underselling u-
is simply ridiculous. We will guaranteeour prices in any line at least as low,and in many instances, much lower thanother., houses. The crop prospect was
very promising while we were in themarket and we overloaded ; but if thereis a particle of truth in the old saying,"Goods well bought arc half sold," ours
are as good as seven-eighths gonealready.
Don't be tempted by any so-calledbargains until you have seen our Goodsand beard our prices. Onr plan is not
to sell one or two articles away undervalue as leaders, and then make up theloss on something else, but to give thefull worth 0* your money every- time,whether you are posted or not. We havean eye to the future more than to the
present,*and propose to merit the con¬
tinued confidence and patronage of the
people.Very respectfully,
R. S. HILL,Anderson, S. C.
HILL & CO.,Pelzer, S. C. '
R, 8, HILL & CO.,Hartwell, Ga.
A
BILL ARP.
On the Good Qualities of. the Old Fash'¦ loned Negro.
Atlanta Constitution.If there is any better invention than a
good old fashioned home-made darky Idon't know it. It is a great treat at ourhouse when Tip cornea over to see us.He is looked upon as one of the familywho has strayed off like some of ourother grown up children. He was bornmy wife's property and grew up in herfamily and played and frolicked with herbrothers and was always faithful audkind and good.Tip brought his bride with him this
time.bis second wife.a good lookingold fashioned middle aged woman, forTip has got sense aud judgment andwoulden't tie himself onto a springchicken in his old age. He was dressedin a black frock coat and white vest, andBtruted around like he was going to Sar¬atoga on a bridal tour. One ofmy wife'sbrothers was here, and Tip was unex¬
pectedly happy, for he haden't Been himfor years."Howdy Mars Charley; howdy Mies
Tavy; howdy Mars Randolph ! I is so
glad to see you. How does you all do ?"and he then took all the children byturns aud they were as glad to see him asif he was a brother.That night the children wanted to
know-how Tip got his little short name,and their mother told them as how oldGeneral Harrison fought a great battlewith the Indians away back in 1811, andbow it was fought near a little town^called Tippecanoe on the Wabash riverand the Indian chief was a brother ofTecumseh and was called the prophetand General Hamsoo whipped them andscattered them so bad they never rallied,and so this victory gave him great repu¬tation and made him President in 1840,when he ran against Van Buren. Thepolitical war cry was "Tippecanoe andTyler, too," and as our Tip was bornabout'that time and wanted -a name, hismother named him Henry, but the boysnamed him TippecanoejuBt for fun, andso Tip is his every day name and hekeeps Henry for Sunday.A nick name is very hard to get rid of.
I know some boys who are very close kinto us who are still called Fits and Tuneyand Isham and Pat and Snooks andDock and Jake, but these are not theirreal names. Some of the old timenegroes had very classic, stylish names,such as Csezar and Pompey and Virgiland Jupiter and Juno or such Scripturenames as Moses and Aaron and Noahand Solomon and Dinah. The mastersgenerally named the young negroes."Papa, did you ever whip Tip when he
was a boy ?" asked Jessie."No, my child, no. Tip never needed
any whipping. Tip was just as good ashe could be considering that he wasalways trotting around after our oldestboys and had to. do what they told. him.I had to whip them sometimes, but Tipwas the best in the lot and never didanything worse than get up a dog tight.No, I never whipped Tip, but I had towhip some of the other servants occa¬
sionally, for the old boy gets into, negroessometimes just like he does into whitefolks. He is no respecter of persons or
colors, and had just as leave burn a blackman as a white one. But I will say thisfor cur negroes.they were all mightygood to our children. They nursed sevenout of the ten and watched them by dayand by night. Frances.and Mary lovedthem and would have fought for themlike a tigress for her whelps, and thechildren loved their black mammy betterthan tbey did their mother. Many a
time have I seen your mother try to coaxher child to come to her from the nurses'arms."When the yankee raiders.rode into
Covington and took everybody by sur¬
prise your mother and six children werethere and Frances was out in the streetwith the youngest in her arms and theystopped her as she ran and said to her,'You black fool you, what are you car¬
rying that white child for.don't youknow you are free ?' 'Don't keer ifI is,'said Frances, 'I is gwine to carry dechile.chile can't walk.' 'Whose chileis it ?' said the yankee. 'My chile, whosechile do you rec'on it is,' and she drewthe little thing still closer to her bosom.And during the war while I was in Vir¬ginia Tip was with me and waited on melike a brother and took care of me whenI was sick, and the negroes at homehelped your mother to manage and toget somethi ug to eat.and to wear, andwood to burn, for Confederate moneywoulden't buy much of anything, and ittook close management to get along.The old clothes, had to be patched beforeand behind or ripped up and made over,and by aud by .when the coffee was allgone Mary parched some rye or driedsweet potatoes and parched them andmade but like it was coffee, and when thesugar gave out she hunted up some sor¬
ghum for sweetening, and when the saltgave out and there was no more to be hadshe boiled down the dirt in the smoke¬house that the meat bad been drippingon for years and made salt out of it andclarified it and dried it in the sun, and itwas as fine and as white as any table saltyou ever saw. It was nip and tuck thenwith everybody, but they never com¬
plained. Just before the war closed werun out of most everything. Your mothergave a ten dollar bill for a tablespoonfulof castor oil, and twenty dolllars for a
pound of- sugar, and a hundred dollarsfor half an ounce of quinine. I paid ahundred dollars for five bushels of cornand had to-send, twenty miles to get it,and I kept it bid out five miles fromtown for fear some of the tramps anddeserters would rob me and get it. I hadit ground into meal half a bushel at a
time, and it was more precious than gold.In December, 1864, I gave three thou¬sand dollars for a little chunk of a cow,just to provide milk for a sick child.Th re was not more than a half dozen inthe County then."Some of you children never saw any
candy or nuts or raisins until you wereseveral years old. I remember that afterthe war was over Mr. Snooks came toBorne with a nice little stock of fancygoods, and he gave your mother someraisins for the children, and she tookthem home and they were afraid of them,and asked her if they were bugs. Mr.Snooks was mighty clever and kind toour little rebs. He is the same man whohas grown so rich in Atlanta selling fur¬niture, but he hasen't cut his oldacquaintances yet, and I don't reckon everwill."Well, what made Tip leave us all,"
said Carl.Why because he had a large family of
his own to look after. Tbey diden'tbelong to me.old man White, a goodold Scotchman, owned them and sup¬ported them, and now that they were freeand he was dead, Tip had to knuckledown to it to maintain them, and he didit. Tip had a good trade and was handy,and everybody liked him and so he hasprospered.When General Sherman run us all out
of Borne, Tip took charge of the runageebusiness. He left his wife and childrenfor a time and went with us to Atlanta,and T then sent him back to see after bisfolks, and the yankees took him up undersuspicion and made him join a company,and be got detailed as a cook, but hediden't like their sort of folks, and so one
dark, rainy night he parsed the guardsand swam the Oostanaula river and wentdown the Alabama road about ten milesand swam the Coosa, and he hid out byday and traveled by night, until he gotback to us again. Then he run withyour mother and the children away downbelow Columbus and hid them out inthe piney woods, but the yankees got so
thick and devilish, they rqn again and
NDERSON, S. C, TB
got round to Covington and thence toSladisc-D, and then took round an ce on
the yankees and flanked the whole con¬cern and settled down away up on theOhattahoochie. You see, I was on dutyin Macon, and so Tip had to be generalmanager and foot scout for the family.Your mother had as much confidence inhim as she did in me, and maybe more,for he had belonged to her about tenyears longer than I had. We ran awayfrom Borne about midnight; that is westarted to run, but got blockaded on thestreet and couldn't go forwards nor back¬wards, nor sideways for the soldiers andthe army wagons. We never crossed thebridge until day was breaking, and allthis time old Sherman was tossing hisshells over in town just for bis ownamusement. We burned the bridgesbehind us and felt easy for awhile, andjogged along down to. Silver creekchurch, and stopped to make coffee andtake a bite of cold victuals, and whilewe were thanking the good Lord for let¬ting us get away, some scattered cavalrycame galloping along and said the yan¬kees had crossed the Coosa down belowBorne and were coming to head us off.So we let the hot coffee burn its waydown, and we eat the cold victuals on therun and never stopped any more untilwe got to Euharlee creek, We stoppedto rest, and from labor to refreshment,and felt thankful, but Tip bad hardlyunhitched the horses before some cavalrycame charging by and said the yankswere not more than five miles behind.We bounced the big road again and Eu¬harlee bridge fairly danced as we flewacross just behind Bill Ramsey, and wenever slacked up until we got to Mr.Whiteheads at the foot .of the mountain.Your mother and Mrs. Anderson and thegirls all bunked in one little room in thehouse, and we men and boys tried tosleep in a great, big wagon body underthe wagon shed, but the fleas everlast¬ingly eat us up alive, and we took to thebushes and threshed the fleas out of ourclothes and then laid down in the piazza.Next night we made a camp not far fromold DeFoor's ferry on the Ohattahoochie,and Tip went to a house near by forwater, but the bucket was gone and thefolks said their well woulden't furnishwater enough for everybody that was
running from the yankees. But Tipbegged enough to do us, and after whilewent back there to borrow a skillet andthe old woman was washing her feet init, and said he could have it when shegot through. Tip seemed to be in a hurryapd couldn't wait, and so he cooked ourmeat on the coals.. That night after wehad laid down the little boys took on so.about their flea bites that your mothertold me to rub them with some sweet oilthat nvas in ber basket, and so I fumbledaround in the dark and found a bottleand rubbed them all over wherever theyscratched and next morning found out itwas syrup of ippecac. But it is good forflea bites, sure. Yes, we bad a high oldtime running from old Sherman, and webeat old Joe Johnston a fair race to At¬lanta."Papa," said Carl, "was it right for
you to own negroes and make them workfor you." "Of course it was, my boy.I would pwn some right now if I had myway. There are lots of them who oughtto have a master. Don't I own you.But I woulden't own them as they usedto be owned. When they are old enoughto take care of themselves and behavethemselves, and live by honest work theyought not to be owned any longer. Theyought not to be sold nor their familiesseparated. I never separated families,but I bought negroes to get familiestogether. The negroes owe to the whitepeople all the blessings they enjoy?- Itwas slavery that civilized them andtrained them to good habits. Their an¬cestors were all barbarians. They ateraw meat like dogs and eat human flesh.Some years ago I was in Columbus, andsaw some of the native Africans thatwere brought over io the Wanderer.Colonel Mott had. them working in hisgarden. He was teaching them to workwith tools and to speak our language.They looked more like babboons thanhuman beings. In a year or so theybecame civilized and made good servantsand were contented and happy, and theirchildren grew up like decent folks. Itwas a blessing to them and their childrenthat their parents were stole away fromAfrica. It is the very best way to civil¬ize them, and if I was a fanatical foollike Borne of our Northern brethren andwanted to do the negroes all the good Icould I would abolish the laws againstthe slave trade and get every one overhere that I could. It would beat all themissionary work that has ever been done.But we don't want any more down South.Let our Northern brethren try it awhileand see how they like it. Why, thesenegroes here ought to send or go over toAfrica and bring a lot every year andown them and put them to work andcivilize them.No, my children, there was nothing in
slavery that you need be ashamed of sofar as my part of it was concerned. Thetruth is, I belonged to Tip about as muchas Tip belonged to me. He was one ofthe family and that was all. But if 1bad my way and was to come across a
barbarian I would do like Bobinson Cru¬soe did his man Friday.I would takecharge of him and take him.yes Iwould. Bill Aep.
Water Boars and Bushes.
Raleigh, N. C, September 29..Agreat sensation prevails at Whiteville,county seat of Columbus, over the discov¬ery of an underground river. The soundof the roaring and rushing of water be¬neath the ground at certain spots can beplainly heard, and hundreds of peopleare visiting' the spot. When in thevicinity of the supposed stream it can beheard without. difficulty, but when a
person puts his ear to the ground thephenomenon becomes really alarming.The sound indicates that the water
is not any great distance down, and thatit is not a small stream but a large riverthat is coursing unseen in the bowels ofthe earth. Vehicles passing over theground where the phenomenon "existscause hollow echoes to come from below,and the earth in the vicinity for a greatdistance around seems to be cavernous,judging from the sounds, that followsharp blows.The Whiteville people are possessed of a
very morbid curiosity about the matter.Some say there is no telling how soonthe bottom may fall out of the wholetown..New York Berald.
. Every wife and mother in thecountry should know the great value ofAyer's Sarsaparilla, as a blood purifier.Its gives tone, health, and strength, tothe vital organs, corrects all irregulari¬ties, and expels impurities from the sys¬tem. Young an old ubo it. Price Si.. Dr. W. F. Carver yesterday perform¬
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Spencer repeating rifle in the presence ofa few invited guestB. Dr. Carver hadnot the slightest trouble in performingthe feat, repeating it four times in suc¬cession. The Doctor was not satisfiedwith this, but threw up seven balls atonce, all of which he perforated beforethey fell to the ground..Pitfsbnrg Dis¬patch.. Why suffer with that aching bend
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[UKSDAY MORNIN(TOE WIZARD OP MENLO PARK.
Ediston, the Inventor in Poverty and Pros¬perity.
New Yoke, October 5..The newspa¬pers have recently announced thatThomas A. Edison, the inventor, is nowworth several million dollars, most of thislarge fortune^ having been made out ofhis electric light interests. Every onewho knows Edison personally hopes thatthe report is true, and some people won¬der whether riches have made any changein the most unassuming of famous menof the day. Perhaps I can best answerthe last question by describing a recentvisit I made to Edison at Orange, andcontrasting his present surroundings withhis way of living ten or twelve years ago,at the time be began work upon the in¬ventions which have chiefly helped to givehim fame and fortune.the electric lightand the dynamos which bear his name.I remember going to see Edison soon
after it was announced that be had boast¬ed of having solved the electric lightproblem. In his search for a bettermaterial than platnum for the loop whichgives out the light in a glow lamb, Edi¬son tried 3,200 different materials, arriv¬ing finally at a kind of South Americanbamboo of remarkably close fibre. Thiswood, when carbonized, gives a loop ofgreat tenacity and durability. For twoyears the inventor worked at the glowlamp before bo dared to say that it was acommercial success. In the winter of1879-80 be announced that his lampwould last long enough to make compe¬tition with gas possible. It may beremembered that the' announcementcaused a storm of ridicule. One socalledexpert, connected with a well knowncollege, declared that Edison's lampcould never enter into competition withgas, but would remain a curiosity andpossibly a luxury for rich men. This wasat a time when Edison was inviting peo-
f>le from all over the country to see theamp work at his Menlo Park laboratory,and so angered him that he declared bewould some day erect a statute to hiscritic, light it up with Edison lamps, andmake the inscription read: "This is theman who said the Edison lamp was afailure."There were many dark days that winter.
After making one batch of lamps whichburned splendidly and lasted for weeks,burning night and. day Edison found tohis dismay that the second batch, madein exactly the same way, so far as hecould find out, and of the same materials,failed completely. Instead of burningfor weeks, the lamps went out in lessthan an hour. For three days Edisonwork night and day trying in vain to findthe trouble. Then he took to his bed,seriously ill, while his exhausted assistanttook a rest. Edison bas had the goodfortune to attact and retain a number ofdevoted men who for the last ten yearshave shared in his trials and successes.When the inventor believes that he is onthe track of something important hecompletely forgets bis meals and hissleep.
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He has been known to work forforty-eight hours at a stretch, withoutleaving his laboratory, and with no foodexcept crackers and cheese, which he ateas he pondered over a knotty point. Hecannot understand that other men needrest, and is indignant that any one shouldthink of meals or sleep while the resultof some interesting experiment is indoubt. The Edison lamp was not per¬fected without many such incidents.
HOW EDISON GOT 2IARMED.
Nothing batter illustrates Edison'spertinacity than the incidents of his firstmarriage. In 1876 his friends urged himto marry, hoping that a wife might makehim keep more regular hours, and eat hisdinner at least once a day. Edisonreplied that he had no time for courting,but that if some decent girl would marryhim he had no objection. He ended bypicking out a young woman in tis work¬shop, who readily agreed to become Mrs.Edison. Edison's intimates say that thejcourting was confined to Edison'ssimple inquiry as to whether she wouldmarry him. She said "Yes." Edisonfixed the day himself, and nothing morewas said. Upon the appointed day someof bis friends bad to go to the laboratoryto remind bim that he was to be marriedat noon; be was hard at work, and hadforgotten all about his marriage. Afterthe ceremony the bridal couple took a
carriage for the station in order to makea wedding trip of forty-eight hours.ITfortunately, the road passed the labora¬tory. The site of the building set Edisonthinking, and before the carriage reachedthe station he ordered the man to goback, in order that he might give one lastword of direction to his assistant. Thenew Mrs. Edison waited for two hours inthe carriage for Edison to say his lastword. Then he sent a messenger to herto say that something important neededhis attention for a few hours, and thatMrs. Edison would do well to wait forhim at home. Like a dutiful wife, shewent home to wait. Edison got homethe next morning after daybreak. Hisassistant's entreaties could not tear himaway from the experiment in hand untilit was finished. I would not like tovouch for the truthfulness of this story,but I have beard it upon several occa¬sions from people who ought to know,and I have never seen it contradicted.When euch a man becomes discouraged,it means sickness, and after searching invain for the cause of his failure to makea second batch of lamps as good as thefirst, he took to his beo.
THE TALL, GAWKY STRANGER
I have mentioned that Edison had notime for courting, and this was strictlytrue. Moreover he was never much of aladies' man. If it were not for the in¬fluence of his wife and daughters to-day,the great inventor would never look as ifhis hair had been combed for a month orhis boots blacked. Even as a young manhe was too intent upon serious things to"waste" time upon his clothes or hislooks. A friend of mine, a telegrapher,who often met Edison during the earlydays of New Yorfc life, gives me this ac¬
count of his personal appearance and ofhis debut in an Eastern telegraph office."One day there appeared in the office
a gaunt Westerner who wanted employ¬ment. We were short of good operators,and from bis own account of himself theapplicant was an expert. I can pictureEdison just as he looked that day.a lean,tall fellow with unkempt hair, shabbyclothes several sizes too large for him,clean but ragged linnen, shoes made forcomfort instead of style. He had yetnothing of the nervous look of hurrywhich years of excitement afterward gavebim. As be stood waiting to bear whatcame of bis application he looked as littlelike making a stir in the world as anyman I have met with. His soft felt hat,which he twirled in his hands, was ap¬parently even older than his clothes, forthere were several holes in it, burned byacidp| used in experiment, as I found outlater. From one of his trousers' pocketsa bit of wire projected, and from the
' other a foot-rule and a bit of string. Hesaid be could keep up with any operatorin .the country and he was given a chanceat a desk. In those days it was customa¬ry to astonish country gawks with theterrible speed of a New York office bypitting them against the fastets 'sender'in the office. The wire at which Edisonwas placed as 'receiver' was supposed tocome from Boston, but in reality ran onlyto the other end of the office, where ourfastest man began to outdo himself insending off message after message at thetop of his speed. The newcomer wascoolness personified. He wrote a pecu¬liar hand, something like print, but howhe could turn out page after page of^it!The whole office watched (lie beginning ofoperations with the expectation that at'the end, of five or ten minutes Edison
5, OCTOBEE 18, 188would give up and beg for some easierwire. He sat with a toothpick in hismouth, listening to the click of the soun¬der before him and scribbling away.Five minutes passed-with Edison stillleading. The five minutes lengthed intoten, gradually a dozen or more of thebest operators in the room gathered nearto watch the contest, and there were sup¬pressed exclamations of amazement overthe speed. The other man was getting'rattled every burst of speed was takenby Edison as cooly as if a tyro at thebusiness was 'sending.' Finally, amidsome laughter at his end of the office, the'sender' gave it up and signalled to Edi¬son that he was done. Edison threw hisbundle of work on the managers's deskwith the remark: 'That isn't much of a
sender they have got on yonr Bostonwire; he can scarcely keep a man awake.'At which, of course, there was a roar allover the room at the expense of the 'Bos¬ton sender,' who joined in heartily."HOW EDISON MADE A*''SOUNDER."Soon after that Edison's mechanical
skill became so noted in the office thathe was made superintendent of the repairshop. It was not long before the valueof his services was fully shown. Theseveral telegraph companies then in exis¬tence.the Franklin, Bankers' and Bro¬kers', Southern and Atlantic and Pacific.were using the page sounder, the soleright to which was claimed by the Wes¬tern Union Company. Owing to theWestern Union's success in a patent fightover the* Page sounder, there came a timewhen an injunction was obtained silenc¬ing all sounders of that type in the handsof rivals and practically putting a stop toour business. Edison wascalled into thepresident's office and the situation ex¬
plained. For a long time he stood chew¬ing his tobacco, looking first at thesounder in his hand and then falling intoa brown study. At length he picked- upa sheet of tin used as a brick" lor mani¬folding on thin sheets of paper, and beganto twist and cut it into queer shapes;meanwhile we stood aronnd looking on.
Not a word was spoken. Finally, Edisontore off the Page ''sounder" on the instru¬ment before him, and substituting bis bitof tin, began working. It was not so
good as the patented arrangement dis¬carded, but it worked. In four hours a
hundred such devices were in use overonr lines, and what wonld have been a
ruinous interruption to our business was
avoided.IN THE LOW GROUNDS OF FAILURE.
Coming down to. later years, I got outMenlo Park one snowy day in February,1880, to find Edison in- bed, the laborato¬ry idle and his assistant-i taking a rest.One of them showed roe one of the lampsof the first batch which burned so satis¬factorily and those made later whichfailed entirely. There was an air of des¬olation over the whole place. The littlelaboratory.a long two-story shed.wascold and comfortless; apparatus was
strewn around in all directions. Uponevery side were signs of strict economy.The assistants were young men who were
glad to work for little or nothing. Thehouses in which Ediaon .and they livedwere unpretentious little cottages. - Prob¬ably the whole Edison establishment atMenlo Park.laboratory, engine houseand dwellings.bad not cost more than$25,0.00. Nevertheless, it was there thatEdison worked out the problem beforehim. He discovered that not one part ofthe lamp would have to be better, but allparts needled strengthening. Expertglass-blowers were brought to the village,the air pumps were made more perfect,the carbons more durable. All this tooktime, during which outsiders freely pre¬dicted failure; the stock in the Edisoncompany went down to such a point thatit was hard to raise money for the main¬tenance of the laboratory. It was arguedby experts that Edison had really dis¬covered nothing new ; he bad attemptedto do what a dozen famous men had triedbefore him, and he had failed. Thequotations of New York gas stocks, whichhad fallen at the time of Edison's firstannouncements, rose again. MeantimeEdison worked away, trying to forget theincidental troubles in bis way. I remem¬ber well having a long talk with him inthe early spring of 1880, when people hadbecome skeptical as to the outcome ofhis work. "I will succeed," said he,"but it may take me longer than I at firstsupposed. Everything is so new thateach step is in the dark; in order to in¬troduce the electric glow lamp.to NewYork I have to make the dynamos, thelamps, the conductors in the streets andhouses; the matters and the thousand andone details that the outside public knowsnothing about. At the same time I haveto think about the expenses of my work.My one ambition is to be able to workwithout reference to the expense.ofcourse within reasonable limits; what Imean is that if I wane to give up a wholemonth of my time and that of my assirttants to finding out why one form ofcarbon filament is slightly better thananother I can do it without having tothink of the cost. Another luxury wouldbe a laboratory more perfect than any¬thing we yet have in this country. Iwant a splendid collection of materials.every chemical, every metal, every sub¬stance in fact that can possibly be of use
to me. I want all this right at handwithin a few feet of my bouse. Give methese advantages and I will gladly devotefifteen hours a day to sold work. Such a
laboring would give me more pleasurethan horses, yachts or luxuries of anykind. I want none of the rich man'susual toys, no matter how rich I maybecome."
HE HAS PLENTY OF MONEY NOW.
Iu the last ten years the success of theEdison light has been pretty well de¬monstrated. It has not been the goldmine that was at first expect^. It basnot driven out gas by any means, andthere are many other electric light sys¬tems in the field. But it has grown to bean immense business, from which Edisonhas reaped a share of the profit?. According to one who ought to know,Edison owns about one fifth of the stockin the different New York companieswhich bear bis name and work bis inven¬tions. His chief income is derived fromthe sale of his lamps and bis dynamo,both of which go all over this countryand to Europe. There are no less than132 towns in this country where theEdison light is used, which means atremendous consumption of lamps. Atpresent the main factory in Newark turnsout 5,000 lamps a day. For the first fewyears it was uphill work, for the last fiveyears there has been a large profit. To¬day Edison may not be a millionaire,but he probably has the income of one.He has not swerved from his old timeplants. He has built for himself a lab¬oratory costing a quarter of a millioudollas, and fitted it up in a manner whichmakes it the most perfect workshop ofthe kind in the world. Pesonally heis just the same unpretentious fellow thathe used to be when he worked ;for theWestern Union Company at forty dollarsa month, being the fastest operator on
the St. Louis circuit, and pondering im¬provements in the apparatus while heworked. Edison's beginnings an; almosttoo well known to need recaliug. In1870 he was a telegaph operator fond ofwasting his time in experiments. He wasseveral times reprimanded for upsctingthe office by these same experiments. Hisfirst invention of value was the duplexBystem, which doubles the capacity of a
wire for telegraphic service. For this hereceived enough to relieve himfrom drudgery. Then followed othertelegraphic devices, the barbon telephoneand improved dyhamo, the phonographof 1875, the lamp which hears his nameand electric motors of various types.The tremendous activity of the man Ushown in a big room of the new labratory
8.at Orange, filled with glass cases contain¬ing more than three hundred intricatepieces of machinery or apparatus, allmade by the inventor himself, or underhis eye, during the last twenty years.He is a big, gaunt fellow, with a slightstcop, clean shaven face and a low voice.Since he became Blightly deaf, a fewyears ago, he talks but little. He dresseslike a workman; his hands are alwayssoiled with oil or machine grease, andthere is always a cigar in hi3 mouth.
H. H. H.
A LETTER FROM RET. J. W. WOLL-ING,
Homo Life In Brazil.
Southern Christian Advocate.
For some time I have been thinking itmight not be amiss to write you somethingon the important and substantial subjectof what we eat and what it cost; for,though we are engaged in the high spiri¬tual employ of winning souls for Christ,you will understand that we do not dis¬dain such carnal "practices as eating anddrinking. However, it is no constantlyrecurring question: what shall we eator what shall we drink? for, by graceDivine, we seek primarily, the kingdomof God and the blessed righteousnesswhich there reigns, and this having done,we have the unfailing promise that allthese things shall be added. And thenunder this general promise we have theparticular fact that a strong, sympatheticChurch at home has not only our being,but our well being, at heart; and whilethe object, primary and most important,aimed at, is the advancement ofthe causeof Christ, the means to this end is thepreservation of the workmen in the field.So, whatever may be said about the im¬portance of this subject, it is literally a
substantial one and of daily occurrence.As in all countries, so bere, there is a
slyle of subsistence on a very cbeap scale.Those who live on rice and beans andfruit can live for very little, and thisconstitutes the living of a large part ofthe population. The universal drink iscoffee, and the very plainest per-on in thehumblest home can set before you suchcoffee as I do not remember ever to havein the United States. As to the.price ofthese things.rice, beans, and coffee.they cost just about what they do in theStates. You will understand that theseare grown in Brazil, and in the ruralparts cost nothing more than to pel theseed in the ground and give the crop one
hoeing. As you may suppose, foreignerscannot live upon .these things. As Dr.Sane, an American physician in SanPaulo, says, to a stranger in the climaterice is considered moonshine, the beansare so strong that only working men can
digest them, and for a couple of yearsmost of the fruits can only be eaten bynew-comers at great risks to health. Soyou can see that strangers, are reduced tothe necessity of seeking their provisionsfrom abroad.Let us take a breakfast of oat meal,
ham and eggs, hominy, bread and butterand coffee. The oat meal comes fromGermany, and is quite expensive ; hams,until of late, came from Bussia and Eng¬land, and cost 65 cents per pound .; cowthey can be gotten from San Paulo andcost 35 cents per pound. Eggs in Biode Janeiro cost 50 to 60 cents a dozen;in the interior, 25 to 30 cents per dozen.The corn and flour comes from Russiaand the United States, the flour costingfrom $15 to $18 a barrel, the corn higherthan in the United States: the butterfrom France, and costs 75 cents per pound;the coffee from Brazil, and costs 15 centsper pound.
If you go to furnish a house, it is thesame* thing. A dozen, small ordinarychairs cost $35, and ifanything nice, $90.A plain bedstead, made in a shop herecosts $20, and e straw mattress to put on
it $10 more. A handsome parlor setcosts $500 and upward?.From my personal experience I can
say that $450, or, at the most, $500 inSouth Carolina,. will go further inordinary expenses than $1,000 in Brazil.These figures will give you some idea ofthe prices of things in this country, whereeverything is brought from abroad, andpaid for with cafe. Some things ^arecheap. To day I bought beautiful oran¬
ges two for one cent and bananas at thesame price, but apples are'brought fromPortugal and the United States, andcost from ten to fifteen cents each. Butthese prices of no concern to the majorityof these people who live in bouses veryscantily furnished, arrayed in thin cottonclothes, with slippers on their feet, andeat few things brought from abroad. Iought to Bay that the horse, which isused very much in this country oversleepnarrow roads, where only a horse or mulecan go, can be bought from $35 to $50.They are not fine looking, but tough andsensible, and many ofthem finely gaited.Such are some of the facts ofour every-.
day life out here, where, after all, our
greatest privation is to be away from thefriends and many associations of the homelife in the United States. But the worldmust be won for Christ, and no doubt allwill be right and congenial in the homeabove.
Piractcaba,' Brazil.
Paris Siinpkins on the Stomp,The G. O. P. had a Harrison and Mor-
t >n ratification meeting at Aiken lastweek. Among the speakers was ParisSiinpkins^ of Edge-field; and ijmay servea good purpose at this time to give a
portion of his speech, which we find inthe Aiken Journal and Review.
''If they would adopt a more concilia¬tory policy I believe many of you wouldjoin the Democratic party. The day iscoming when you will see a differentstate of affairs in this country. If theDemocrats don't give it to you, the dayis coming when we" will get it. ("Ap¬plause and cries of 'Tell it'.) We nave
told the Republicans of the North of thecondition of affairs with us, and tbeyhave failed to believe us. That was a
long lime ago. But they believe us
now. Just as soon as the Republicanparty gets in power again they willright all wrongs. How will they changethe present status of affairs, do you ask ?They propose to pass a bill in Congress'changing the basis of representation ofCongressmen and the manner of electingthem, and they will pass laws protectingpresidential and congressional boxes."He said he noticed a feeling of unrest
in the Democratic party in this State.They arc rebelling and clamoring foroffice and they are only kept together bya free use of the party lash. But theywill go to pieces and divide up, and thenthey will come to yon and pat you on theback, and ask you to help them."But my friends let us never help them
to put a ticket in the field. But let us
do this.let us ally ourselves with thatparty that offers us the best terms, and Itell you the side we throw our strengthto will win."
. One of the three finest collections ofbutterflies in the world.the two othersbelonging to the British museum and aParis institution.has been made by Mr.Berthold Neumeogeon, of the New YorkStock Exchange. It contains 100,000specimens, and has cost twenty years inlime and $35,000 in money. Livingstone,Stanley, Schwatka and other explorershave contributed to it.
Uczeinn, Itchy, Scaly, Skin Tortures.
The simple application of "Swayne'sOintment," without any internal medi¬cine, will cure any case of Tetter, SaltRheum, Ringworm, Piles, Itch, Sores,Pimples, Eczema, all Scaly, Itchy SkinEruption, no matterhow obstinate or longstanding. It is potent, elective, and costsbut a trifle. 13
VOLUM]A LETTER TO GEN. LON'GSTREET,
FR05I AN OLD VETERAN.Showing the StuflTour Boys Were Made Of.
Gainesville (Ga.) Eagle, Feb. 10.We are indebted to the General for
the privilege of publishing the follow¬ing letter, which is only one of manythat he daily receives from the poor"boys in grey," who followed his gallantlead through scenes of carnage on manya bloody field, and who endured suffer¬ings as great, while tramping barefootover stony mountain roads without foodor shelter, in obedience to the orders oftheir gallant commander, as when beingcut almost literally to pieces by minnieballs on 'the field of battle. To Jasper'smemory will be erected a statue of brass,at Savannah soon, for deeds no more
glorious.for sacrifices not half so greatas were made by thousands of Confeder¬ate soldiers, who, like this poor man,will die unwept, unhonored and unsung.While not intended for publication.merely an expression of kindly feelingand remembrance of a gallant soldier tohis old chief.we publish it, hoping thatthe yonng men of the South may read itand gather patriotic inspiration from itssimple and unaffected recital of what atrue patriot will do and suffer for a causewhich he believed to be right:
Piedmont, S. C,January 26, 1888.
Gen. James Longstreet:My Dear General.Thinking you
would like to bear from one of the P. S.S.f who followed you for four years audsuffered with you in the lost cause, Iembrace the present to let you know thatyou are still loved and respected by aSouth Carolinian. I will name severalplaces where we were together, so youmay call me to yonr mind. I was theprivate whose gun was shot in two atGaines's Mill and kept on' till a comradefell aod could get another. I was theprivate you sent to the front at SevenPines to see what the Federals were upto, when J. £. Johnston was wounded.I am the private that clubbed his gunand rescued the colors of the PalmettoSharp Shooters at FrazeHs Farm, aridbrought them back and took command ofhis company and carried them on.everycommissioned and non commissionedofficer being killed or wounded. There myright arm was broken by a minnie ball,but stayed with my boys until the enemyretreated. I am the private that wentover Lookout Mountain barefooted, inthe night fight, 28tb of October, beforeyon started through Tennessee. For thatact of mine you had me detailed and sentwith your baggage as a guard to Atlanta,and I rejoined you at Strawberry Plains,in. Tennessee. I am* the private thatlifted you up in the Wilderness thetime you and Gen. Jenkins were bothwounded. I received a wound the sameday in the mouth. I was wonndfd fivetimes, had my thigh broken at FortHarrison, and my leg is now four inchesshort.
I have managed to keep soul and bodytogether by the help of our Great Crea¬tor, but I have never saved up anymoney. I have a little piece of landwhich is a home for me and my wife.Our only boy is married arid has two
boys. I have plenty of provisionsfor myself and family. I killed threehogs this winter, Weighing respectively374, 1~1 and 195 pounds.the two lastsix months old. So dear General, ifyou'll come o«er to Anderson County andstay with me awhile, I will board youand Mrs.Longstreet, too.My dear General, our Heavenly Father
has spared us for some wise purpose.We cannot see in the future, but we can
try to live the balance of our days so
tbat we may be ready to cross over theGreat River and rest on the other shorein perpetual bliss and happiness. Mayour God direct our ways, so' that if wenever see each other again we will meetin Heaven around the throne of our
blessed Savior.Your obedient servant,
Richard L. Williams,Private Co. L., Palmetto Sharp Shoot¬
ers, Jenkins' Brigade, Longstreet's Corps,A. N. V."
His Mo(her>in>Law, Not His Bride.
Lock Haven, Pa., Oct. 4..The vil¬lage of Mercy's, in Forest Connty, isterribly shaken up over a most extraor¬dinary social sensation. Ralph Baily,proprietor of Baily's stick works, wherethousands of umbrella handles, walkingsticks, and similar goods are turned out
daily for New York and Philadelphiamanufacturers, was a widower of 60, andis a grandfather. His son Charles is thesuperintendent of the stick works-. Inthe office of the concern Miss AmeliaCoar, daughter of a well known andprosperous lumber dealer, has had chargeof the books for several months. MissCoar was 18, very pretty and vivacious,and young Charles Baily fell in love withher. She promised to marry him, andthe wedding was set for last Thursdaynight, at the residence of the bride'sparents. A large party had been invit¬ed, and all were present.
It had been noticed and commentedon tbat the father of the groom, RalphBaily, was nnt among the wedding guests.The hour for the ceremony, arrived,when the news broke on the assemblagelike a thunderclap that the bride was
nowhere to be found. A note was foundon her dressing table addressed to heraffianced. What its contents were hasnot been made public, as young Bailytore it into fragments after reading it,and announcing to the company thatthere would be no wedding, left thehouse. It soon became known, however,tbat Miss Coar and the father of the manshe had promised to marry had Sloped.Word has since been received that
they were married in Buffalo, and havegone on a wedding tour. What causedthe young woman to throw over the son
for the father is not known, as no inti¬macy was ever known to have existedbetween the bookkeeper and her em¬
ployer. Baily has grandchildren olderthan his bride. A peculiar circumstanceconnected with this strange case is tbatthe shamefully jilted son returned to hisplace in the factory on Friday morning Ias if nothing bad happened, and is at¬tending to his father's business with allbis usual faithfulness and care.
. A professor in the University ofVienna, long a sufferer through poisonin the eye, was completely cured byhaving a rabbit's nerve attached to theold nerve. Dr. Gersuny, the assistant tothe great surgeon of the world, Dr.Bilrotb, performed the operation..Bos¬ton Budget.. Are you made miserable by Indi¬
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lend one.. Why will you cough when Shiloh's
Cough Cure will give immediate relief.Price, 10.cts., 50 cts., and Si.. There is a granite house in Rowan
county, Va., built in 1766, aod is stillowned and occupied by the descendantsof the man who built it. The fireplaceis 8 feet wide, 5 feet high and 5 feet deep ;the house is in a good state of preserva¬tion. .
. The Rev. Geo. H. Thayer, of Bour-bon, Ind., says: "Both myself and wifeowe our lives to Shiloh's ConsumptionCure." For sale by Hill Bros.. "Something new in flannels".the
new baby.. Shiloh's Catarrh Remedy.a posi¬
tive cure for Catarrh; Diphtheria andCanker-Mouth.
3 XXIV.- -NO. 15.AH Sorts of Paragraphs.
. This year's cottoD crop is the lar¬gest one ever grown in the United States.. The centre of population of the
United States is near Louisville, By.-'. The most valuable pearls in the'
United States are said to be found in thelimestone streams of Kentucky.. More than half the cheese now con-
sumed in Great Britain is produced inthe United States and Canada.. Europe has about 94,000,000 in
wheat, with a little higher average yieldper acre than the United Stales.. It is estimated that the annual egg
product of this country is 451,000,000,* orabout forty-five eggs to each fowl. .:::. Toronto, Canada, with 150,000 in-'
habitants, has no Sunday paper, on
open saloon, nor street cars on the Sab¬bath.. The Indians cultivated 227,265 acres.-
of land last year. They own over 1,000,- I000 sheep, 40,471 swine 111,407 cattle "
and 358,334 horses and mules.. A man of 85 and a woman of 78 ^
were remarried the other day in Phila¬delphia, after having been divorced fifty||years. Verily, this is a year of re union.. The largest guns now nsed' oa}
shipboard are calculated to penetrate.-/thirty-six inches of iron, .ten to twenty u
of granite, and seventy five feet of earth".. Peaches have been selling for ten
cents a bushel in Barry county, Kansas',: .
yet they continue to rot on the fruit §§stands in the large cities, at about ten cents ;each.. Four men were convicted in the
Court of Buffalo, N, Y. for aiding andmabetting.a prize fight between two women.One of the women and three of the men - -.
were sent to prison.. The heavy disbursement made dur-
iog the past week from the United§$States Treasury, amounts to the sunglittle sum of $78,000,000. There, is hope :for that surplus, yet.. The latest returns of the various^.-
branches of the International Snnday^V:School union make the number of Sundayschool teachers in the world to be 1,504,-613 and the scholars 12,680,267. '
;.,-.. The whole wheat crop of Minnesota
and Dakota, now harvested, appears tofall at least 36,000,000 bushels below:ifi>;?£yield of last year, and not less than25,000,000 bushels below the yield of tbo'^preceeding year.
' '}if>>. The fine barn^and' stables of Mr,^
Samuel Jeffries, of Union County, werec*"*-entirely consumed by fire last Saturday !night, together with eleven mules, twohorses, two fine milch cows and a large;quanity of other personal property.. The New York Evening Post says:
"Some one wrote to Horace Greeleyiin*'"^quiring if guauo was good to put orjr]&Spotatoes. He said it might do for thoeewhose tastes bad become vitiated with,tobacco and rum, but he preferred gravy r':£and butter.". Bubies have kept on steadily rising._j,i
in favor and value for the last ten years.-, r -
A stone of eight or nine carats is nowworth from twenty thousand dollars tothirty thousand dollars. A diamond ofthat weight would not cost more thanthree thousand dollars.. Senator Blair may be considered a
philanthropist by.proxy. If he is as
liberal with bis own funds as he is witK;^the government money, he will bave'itiSSmonument yet. His latest proposition,j^^^whittle down the surplus is to pay Engjjgfijland $800,000,000 for Canada.. Sailors beliave religiously tbat.'tjrol^^
frigate birds can start at'daybreak with;:->;the trade winds from .the coast of Africa]*®and roost the same night upon theAmerican shore. Whether or not this isy'-Za fact has not yet been conclusively. '.determined, but it is certain that thebird is the swiftest of winged creaturesand.is able to fly, under favoring condf*tion, 200 miles an hour.. English antiquarian zoologists are .:
enchanted at present with a live toadJjjSfound in the .course of railway excava-affltions at Greenocb. The toad is from||£|20,000 to 30,000 years old, as the stratumof clay in which it was found certainly^Sdates from the glacial period. Its mouth^fflis sealed up. ,It breathes slightly throughflWthe nostrils, and though the eyes are'.; '-;quite expressive it does not seem, to see;'£4. It is currently reported in the neigh- '
borhond of Gaffney City, that a youhgjgHman by the name of Pennington, founa^Ba pot full of gold coins buried In tboajBground not far from Mountain in theupper corner of Union County. As.evidences of this, pieces of the soapstone::;:;r^pot have been exhibited. Some of the -
people believe he found some money, ¦.>¦
while others do not believe that there isany truth in the report.. Three months ago M. H. Wi son,-of
Marquette, Mich., was shot, the ball.;-?passing clear through his neck, tearing .' ; -,
out a portion of the vertebra and causingcomplete paralysis of the body below the .'.*..>.neck. The doctors don't know what to Hmake of him. He can't feel pins stuck-any where in his body, but retains his <v£iflesh and his appetite, and can talk änd v
read. His flesh below the neck isde-.;;r;scribed as "white as alabaster and nerve¬less as a sponge.". While the train on the Florida- :v
Southern, which was returning to Palatkawith a party from Tavares, was comingout to Micauopy Junction on Wednes¬day night, the engine struck a black ¦¦
object which at first the engineer thought^1to be a man. When the engine bad been,stopped an investigation proved it to bean alligator twelve feet Iwo inches longl:.^The engine struck the saurian just back rof his head, almost severing the headfrom the body..Savannah News.. A toad has been found in England
which is puzzling the scientists. He'was discovered some scores of yards'under the earth's surface, imbedded in>||clay. His limbs were perfectly limp,-^and he was stone blind. The locatesavants could not guess its age accurate- <:
ly, but reckoned it somewhere between -ri20,000;and 30,000 years. This toad was; ^tired of living in the days before Adam igot tired of living alone in Eden, and it t^is just possible he heard the rain come ;:down during the flood.. Yesterday a prominent New York j:
lawyer arrived in .Washington for a 6j!consultation with, an attorney of thia'äjcity regarding some patent cases. Dur¬ing the conversation a match to light a ;;|cigar was lacking, and the Washingtonianremarked that a piece of ice would do.The New Yorker laughed and was in-^credulous, and a wager of a chairpagnesupper was made. The Washingtonian l \took a piece of clear ice about an inchv r;thick from the water cooler, whittled it>*gjinto the shape of a disk, and with the :~
palms of his hands melted its two sides >
convex, thus giving it the form of &double convex lens or burning glafsi-^"---With it he focused the sun's rays on theend of his cigar, thus lighting the cigar.While smoking the weed he enjoyed the;chagrin of the New Yorker, who prompt- J-|ly paid the bet.. Washington Star.
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