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MHK ^ * IV m . ? ?? ; ? " ' If VOL, XLV. WINNSBORO, S. C , WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1888. NO. 15* I A KISS. Something made or notfc'ng, tasting very * sweet; Ajenost delicious compound, with ingredients i \ ' complete; But if, as on occasion, the heart and mind are sour, It has no great significance; it loses half its power. Cftrrwtwn<? mario e\t Ti<\fch ino-. and never twice the same, BP n Though 'tis known in every country where love has bad a name; B It is clearly meant for giving, though 'tis sometimes bought ana sold, K And, like coffee and potatoes, it is not so good W when cold. It oft appeases discords, when words have failed to please, H Whether bestowed caressingly or given just Bp to tease; For a laugh will often save one from doing something worse, And the lips that taste this sweetness are seldom beard to curse. Tis the strangest,oddest mixture, this some| thing made of naught, Which Is never seen nor handled, although 'tis ofter cauebt: I. will not spoil in keeping, whatever be - the clime, .a "For this something made of nothing will stand the test or time. [Mary E. Buell. TALMAGE'S PLEA FOR ART. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE PKEACHES ON PICTURES BY REQUEST. He Exhorts the Wealthy Men of Brooklyn to Do for that City What Peter Cooper Did for New York and What William Corcoran Did for Washington. Bev. Dr. Talmage delivered an interesting sermon in the Brooklyn Tabenacle Snnday on "The I>ivine Mission of Pic tares." It was an earnest request to tne - "^ysalthy men of Broonklyn to furnish |H ^ ^ke City of Churches with such works B, i V?f art as Peter Cooper did for New York or W. W. Corcoran for Washington. He bitterly assailed the system of exhibiting obscene pictures, and said that all such n?" now posing under the name of "fine j arts" should be confiscated. He took his text from Isaiah, chapter; 2, parts of the 12th and 16th verses: j HL. "The way of the Lord of Hosts shall be Hf upon all pleasant pictures." He said BL that no one had any right to hang (MB offensive or obscene pictures within the UjP walls of their dwellings or in their art L galleries. 'l'ney -were notning more than a burning cratert be said, that would surely destroy all that was good in the human frame and mind. He cautioned all that the farther they stood away from the burning crater the better. That if a man's imagination be despoiled he becomes a meral carcass. "The show windows of English and American cities," he said, "in which the low theatres have sometimes hung long lines of brazen actors and actresses, in style insulting to all propriety, had made a broad path to death for multitudes of people; but so have all other artists been fet times suborned to evil." Ksvia* spoken for some time of the ber m which advertising boards have vexed -with such prints, he said Kpities?and Brooklyn especially? jnfneed of good art galleries that Ms land open every day all the year ^*"UW iO! Hyn what W. W. Corcoran did for Kagton, and what, I am told, John H^oaker, by the donation of De HKacsy's picture 'Christ Before Be,' is going to do for Philadelphia? Where not wealth enough here and BP- enough to do the same for our city? HUt & monument they would leave beHd for future ages to look upon. "Some of the best people' sleeping in hftvft Tin mnnnmp.nt at all, or Wmxne crumbling stones that in a few ^QIH^ears will let the rain wash out name and epitaph, while some here whose death was the abatement of a nuisance have a pile of polished Aberdeen stone * high enough for a king, and eulogism enough to embarrass a seraph. "Oh, the power of pictures I cannot deride as some have done. Cardinal P% Mazarin, when told that he must die, took his last walk through the art gal[" leries of his palace, saying: 'Must I quit all this? Farewell, dear pictures:' Jlust we not all feel as he? "I implore all parents to see that they have in neither books nor newspapers A or on canvas anything that will deprave. Ik /Have nothing that will deprave. Have vu jva! nous out tiiuse sketches made by artists in elevated moods, and rnot any of these scenes wiucn seem tne product of artistic delirium tremens. Pictures are not only a strong, but a universal language. Unlike the language k of which there are as many as the nations of the earth, they speak to all people of p all tongues." Again Dr. Talmage referred to the |T many cases in which obscene pictures * have come before the public, and, having pointed out their bad effect on the morals of the people, concluded as follows: "Under the title of free arts there have fe come here from France a class of pictures which elaborate argument has tried to ^ prove irreproachable. They would disgrace a bar room, and they need to be -confiscated. Your children will carry ^ the pictures of their father's house with tk them clean on to the grave, ana, passing < ? W that marble pillar, will take them through m* * eternity." .Vanderbilt's Purchase Near Anheville. .Ssheville, N. C., October 27.?For , ^Hvday or two Mr. George H. Vanderbilt, .a-grsodson of the late Commodore, has been here looking over his recent purk chases of real estate in the suburbs of p t.hip city, accompanied by a party of friends from New York, whom he brought in his special car, which carried the visitors back to that city yesterday. The lands purchased by Mr. Vanderbilt are just out of the city limits 011 the south, about one mile beyond the k Swannanoa River, and the different K tracts aggregate about one thousand f acres. For what purposes these lands -?axe bought cannot jec ue aeyeruuneu, k but "the rumor is that an industrial and ? mechanical school, charitable in its ft nature, is to be founded there. Civil K engineers and lan dscape gardeners have H been employed to lay off and improve M the grounds. Other paities whose H properties adjoin the tracts already V bought say that they are considering i, propositions of purchase made them by Bb the Vanderbilts. The attorney here, B who represents this New York capitalist is Mr. f. A. Sondley. Tlmt Baby Show. Is marriage a failure? Not in Kar.sas City. Eight hundred infants at the exposition S baby show testified to the fact that marriage in this section-is a blooming success. - .X cl\AwV rHave you ever aueuucu a. uaU; . Have you ever seen 800 household joys on dress parade? Have you ever been thrown among S',0 jealous mothers each of whom is absolutely sure that her child has personal charms far superior to those of any oi the 799 other compettors for that prize?? Kansas City Journe1. When you hear a man say that he has s bad wife, just ask him what he has done to make her a good one. ill - ...A A BIG GRASSHOPPERS. Stories That are Told Concerning Them in the West. (From the Chicago Tribune.) No fiction can approach the trnth regarding grasshoppers in Minnesota when the plague is on. At $1, or even 50 cents a bushel, the grasshoppers have been, at least four years out of the last twelve, a more profitable crop than wheat ever was along the incomparably fe-tile valleys and uplands of the Minnesota River. More than one such a bounty has drained the treasuries of prosperous counties to the last dollar within a week after it was offered. The first visitation of the pest since early in the Ws was in 1S87. In the latter part of June the farmers began to grow anxious, for reports from Dakota were to the eflect mat tne young crop ot : grasshoppers, having devoured every green thing, including the leaves on the trees, were preparing to deluge the East. July 10, the advance of the destroyer ! was heralded from the Big Stone lake country. His path was a desert, with- ! out an oasis to relieve the eye or succor j the famishing. In the afternoon of July ! 15, the farmers along the river bottom 1 in Nicollet and Blue Earth counties saw the sun go out like a candle suddenly extinguished. . "Grasshoppers!" That was all they said. The cornplow was stopped where it was; the scythe engaged in mowing a swarth through the weeds around the now never-to-be-harvested wheat field dropped from the farmer's hand; totter larm operations were purposeless? everybody abandoned all other pursuits and watched the approach of the ominous gray clouds. The fro:at edge of the cloud passed over Nicollet county, and the centre of the gray, granulated, swirling mass hung, ] seeming undecided, a mile above the earth. Then half a dozen fat, insolent , fellows, with paunches distended with Dakota good living, dropped down and folded their wings. Now it began to pour. ; Never did the heavens precipitate a more j disgusting, disastrous torrent. People j fled to their houses and shut the doors 1 and windows. The grasshopper is a . nasty pest. He lives upon sweet green }; uuaues ui wuicat> auu. auu cAyonw- ^ rates tobacco juice upon the slightest provocation. Half an hour of the storm aDd the destroyer had arrived. During the remaining hour before sundown a thousand acres of waving wheat had disappeared utterly the third day the most beautiful sight fertile western farms afford?luxuriant, undulating fields of corn?was transformed into a scene of utter desolation; only the ragged stumps remained. The meadows, tame and wild, went next, and then the leaves on trees and shrubs disappeared. "Now," said the farmers, "we shall be rid of you; there is nothing left for you | to ear, and to eat is your one mission on I earth." * But the farmers had forgotten that the grasshopper has two missions on earth; the other is to propagate and multiply hi3 species. It is a duty he is nrond of a nd never neglects. If the , verdure of locality he is infesting dis- ' appears before Jie hgg^eached the prop- ' "j 5 ^o'- g^jilj rr fe^5saaiwai<i . and fulfills his other mission. The two , missions do not interfere with each other; when he is ready to devote himself to the business of raising a family, he stops eating?whatever he puts forth ( his hand to do he does with a will. The Edmunds bill does not apply to , the grasshopper. He is a monogamous pest, but his helpmeet is the acme of ! fecundity. An inch below the surface ' she leaves an egg fully an inch long . and as large as her own body. It is more than an egg?it is at least 100 eggs, each ' the size ana. much the color and shape 1 of a grain of rye, packed snugly together j in a tough membranous covering, which defies the elements. A dozen days of aunnhine in the following May J and these eggs increase the pest fifty-fold. If a blade of wheat or a stalk of corn ' escaped the parents no remissness of the , Kind will remain a reproacn to me crnidren. Until they have flown to other fields not a green thing will appear on the surface of the earth. A hundred little grasshoppers, scarcely bigger thai a flea, will watch for the appearance of each blade of wheat, and to each hill of corn there will be a thousand. The field in time is as black as the plowed fields of October and swarms with a pest that cannot be fought or destroyed. To prevent,~if possible, the visitation of young grasshoppers, it has been the custom to offer bounties on old grasshoppers before the eggs sire laid. In 1876 Nicollet and Blue Earth counties offered bounties of $53 per bushel soon after the pest arrived from Dakota. That amount did not look large at first. There are 1 lilf/v Of I AAA /? Wrt A^\V\AW1 PVIUPiimu^ J JJkC auum 5JLOOOUV in a busheL Who would undertake to devote himself exclusively to the destruction of {grasshoppers for a consideration of less than ?3 per 20,000? That is the way it looked to the county officials. < On the third day after the offer was made 3 they changed their minds. 1 German { drove up to the front door of the Nicollet 1 county court house at noon with his 1 farm wagon loaded with sacks of some- 1 thing. It was not wheat, for the load 1 had a horrible smell. The sacks were 1 drenched with an offensive brown liquid, * streams of which trickled through cracks ? in the wagon box. It was a cargo of 1 grasshoppers. There were thirty bushels < of them. The German drew ?90 in cash 1 from the treasuer and drove home in a < gallop to set all his children and hired \ men "to catching grasshoppers. Inside * of a week more than ?30,000 had been < paid out, notwithstanding the bounty 1 had been thrice reduced-to ?1 50, then 1 ?1, and finally to fifty cents a bushel. J It was simple enough. One man with 1 a scoop made of a bag of cotton cioth ) stretched on a barrel hoop could walk ( through a meadow or wheat field and catch grasshoppers at the rate of a bushel ' an hour. The most popular method of capture, iiowevcr, vitta ikj xxjuc iuq xuuci arc of a wheeled wire fcooth hay rake ! with cotton cloth and drive at a trot : wherever the grasshoppers were thickest. When the cloth was covered with four ; or five bushels of the pest, the rake would be lifted suddenly, leaving the grasshoppers writhing under a neat winrow of cotton cloth, from which they would be easily transferred into sacks. Numerous instances are known where two men with such an appliance as this have captured fifty bushels of grasshoppt r> in a day. There is no room for where grasshoppers are coliCcruvd. The strip of country known as "No Man's Land" will hold an election^ this fall, with a view to organizing a Territory. This strip has been divided into seven counties of twenty-four townships in eajh county. It is believed tbe 1 majority of the people of "No Man's Land" want the Springer Oklahoma bill passed. bradfield's female regulator will l cure all irregularities or derangements ; peculiar to women. Those suffering should use it. Sold by all druggist. \ s THIS BRAVE BELLES OF EKIX. They Hesitate Jfot to Brave the Storms and Arduous Labors of Life. (Woman's World.) The women of the Irish coasts and islands are as skillful as the men in handling the oar and radder. They know every sunken rock and dangerous current of the intricate channels between the great island of Aran and the mainland, and take boats in and oat in all weather. For many years a Grace Darling of this western coast, the daugh ter of a pilot who lived on J&ignts Island, went out ?n storm and darkness with her father, never trusting him alone, as she knew his weakness for the whisky. This brave girl never flinched from facing the wildest gales, fearing that disaster might befall her father and the vessel it was his business to guide to & safe anchorage if she were not at the helm. Many a ship's crew beating about between Aran and Owey owed its preservation to Nellie Boyie. Two sisters have taken the postboat into Aran for many ^ears past, their father, John Nancy, being now old and infirm. The beetling clifis and echoing caves of the dangerous coast have a weird charm of their own, and the simple people born within the sound of the Atlantic surges cling with a surprising tenacity to their thatched and roped cottages, sheltered behind huge, round-backed WAAIVM ?? U All/\yrTft TTrlM/iVl iV* ATT flfl'/MTT in tiic avuuno v/i vlivj ?>*.vr?v their patches of potatoes and stunned oats and barley. The number of these dwellings, starting up out of what, from afar, looks like a stony desert, both by the sea and for miles inland, is startling to us who reflect upon the possibilities of subsistence afforded by this so-called land. The unfailing bob affords ample fuel, it is true, and the potato crop, when as good as now, will last throughout the winter. In a good season such as this the oats have a good chance of getting stacked before the equinoctial gales begin to blow. Well it would be if these oats, ground into meal, might form a larger part of the staple food of Donegal. Strong tea, boiled in the "weep pot" beside the turf embers, with baker's oread, have aow taken the place of the wholesome bone-making porridge on which the janny Scot still lives. To bny groceries money is needed, ind we wonder how this can be earned here. Kelp or seaweed, burning used io bring them money; and this year, too, ;hin pillars of blue smoKe are rising all round by the sea, showing, let us hope, shat trade in iodine is brisk. The fishing )ught to be a fruitful source of prosperity jO the natives, but on this subject a resident writes in 1884 as follows. "To the north of Aramore, stretching iway to the northwest of Tory, there is i fine flashing bank where ail kinds of Eish might be caught every day in the pear with suitable boats and gear. In rery fine weather our small cratt often ;o out from four to sis miles off Aran Eeads. Next day they all come back aden, and after such a take all the other Doats in the neighborhood will go out. [t may be that a breeze springs Hp, the sea rises in the middle of a" goodcateh, ien all have to run for homeor shelter. Large, well-fitted fishing smacks could stav out there for days, and make plenty rf money, too,Tfm:laeiira5g<*l|^ti^iy at and sale of fish there are How the Dashing Cleburne Died It is not generally known that MajorGreneral Pat Cleburne, of the Confederite army, died in my arms. I had enlisted in St. Louis in Capt. Pat Flanagan's company E. Twenty-fourth Missouri infantry, and had been detailed is clerk in the quastermaster's department. During the three days' battle of Cwa-nVKi-t atii? onnnlv t-raina TX7ArA 1. JLaUA^LU V Hi 3loser to the front, and Captain Flanagan sent me on horseback to so advise General Aiien, chief quartermaster on General Thomas' staff. While passing over the field of battle ray horse was wounded and I dismounted. At the moment I heard the voice of one calling for lid. I approached and found a man wearing the uniform of a Major General Df the Confederate army. He was langeronsly hart even dying. I sat down t>y his side, lifted up his head and held it on my left arm. i applied my canteen jO his lips and he emtied it. Ho turned lis eyes toward me and asked who I was md how I happened to come to his assistance. As the dying General spoke a ioldier who knew him came up. He, x>o, was a Confederate, and like the officer, was wounded. I asked him who ;he man was whose head I held, and he mswered: "That is Pat Cleburne, of Mississippi." By that time the General yas unconscious, and he died within half m hour. His last words nobody heard snt mvself. Thev were faint but distinct: "Hurrah for the Confederacy!"?St. Louis Globe. A New York Girl who Is Clear Grit. Miss Cornelia Morley, of Brooklyn, X. was the heroine of quite an exciting episode at Bieman's hotel last Saturday aight. A'>oi?t # oSclock Miss Morley, on joing into her room, saw what appeared )0 be the feet of a man lying under her oed, the body being entirely hid from riew. She quietly closed the door and X)ok her stand just outside to await derelopments. In a few minutes the thief, i burly negro of about fifteen years, attempted to make his escape through ie door, but just as he was making his ;xit, this bravest of women seized him 3y the collar and led him down to tbe )ffice in the hotel and delivered him up ,o Mr. Bieman. He confessed his theft md delivered up all the stolen property, jonsisting of a silver watch and other valuables. He was then taken in hind oj several men, carried down to the livery stables and a good old fashioned shipping was administered, after which ae went his way. His name was Stepney r? TT .... /^1 urreexi.?j\kuwco vuiuiui, Th? Sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade. A number of the survivors of the Battalion of Sharpshooters of McGowan's Brigade have concluded to hold a reunion in Columbia during Fair Week. It is therefore requested that all surviving soldiers of that Battalion meet in the liichland Court House on Wednesday, the 14th November, at 10 o'clock A. M. It is the desire of those who are arranging for this reunion to perfect a permanent arganization of the survivors of the Battalion, and it is hoped, therefore, that there will be a fell attendance. A telegram has been received from Capt. W. S. Dunlop, saying that he will surely be present ut the meeting during Fair week. XX JU UVA/UiitU 01 uug uuoouc hospital at Yankton, D. T. Monday afternoon by which one man was instantly killed, and three others were more or less injured. The disaster was the result of the caving in of the vralls of one of the wings of the hospital now under construction. Twenty-seven of the forty-eight Alderman of Chicago are accused of forming a conspiracy to give a franchise to an elevated road in the city against the protest of the propety owners along the line. UNIFORMITY IN TEXT-BOOKS. Action of the State Board of Examiners, Intended to Secure that End. The following circular of instructions from the State Board of Examiners hag been sent to the school authorities in the several counties, and is of especial interest to teachers, parents and guardians: At a regular meeting of the State Board of Examiners held on September 4th and 5th, 1889, the following resolution was adopted: Kesolved, That the peculiar condition of affairs in this State by reason of which, not only in each county, but in each school district, there are teachers and pupils of different classes and races, possessing different cap^ities to teach, learn and purchase books, it would be injurious to educational interest to adopt a single list of text-books for the State. That in order to secure flexibility in the system, aud to meet the varying nrontu r>f cf?1-inn1a and ftf. fhfi time, to prevent frequent changes in text-books in a school, which impose vexatious and unnecessary expense upon parents, the State Board of Examiners hereby adopts the following rules and regulations to govern the use of textbooks in the public schools of the State: The list of text-books to be adopted by the State Board for use in the pnblio schools shall be elective in character. On or before Thursday, October 25, 18S8, the County Board of Examiners in each county shall, from said State list, adopt a single series for use in the public schools of their respective counties, provided that upon application from the teacher and Trustees of any school, within thirty days after said countyadoption, or thirty days after the establishment of any new school, on good and sufficient reasons being shown, the County Board may allow the substitution in said school of any other book on the same subject from tho list adopted by the State Board. A corioc r>r r\u shall not be changed during the period of adoption by the State Board -without permission from the said Board. This shall not, however, prevent the use in schools where the same may be needed, by and with the consent of the County Board of Examiners, of two series of Headers on the State list to be used alternately, or of proper supplemental reading. The series adopted shall be put in force according to the commencement of the schools, not later than the fall of 1889. All resolutions by the County Board ' of Examiners pertaining to the adoption of text-books shall be recorded by the Connty School Commissioner in a book k*pt by him for the purpose, and copies of the same forwarded by him, within thirty days, to the office of the State Superintendent of Education. Any teacher who, while receiving public school funds, uses text-books in the course of study prescribed for public schools that are not on the State List, shall forfeit his pay from the public school fund for the time he uses them. Any teacher may refuse to teach any pupil who is not supplied with the textbooks prescribed lor said school. Pupils passing from one school to another, must conform to the list adopted for the latter. - Tho Trustees, or, in their default, the jjoaid of Examiners, shnll enforce these provisions. The County School Commissioner shall withhold approval of pay certificate of any teacher not conforming thereto; and the teacher persisting in violating the same shall be deprived of his certificate of qualification. It is advisable that there be adopted, as far as possible, the same books for schools of the same class and grade within the county, in order to secure, as far as practicable, county uniformity. It shall be the dntv of the Countv School Commissioner to report to the State Board any attempt on the part of of any publishing house, whose books are on the State list, to induce any change from the list regularly adopted for any school. As these provisions are in the interest of economy, parents are requested to cooperate in securing their enforcement. Girls Who Smoke. Cigarette smoking is increasing very rapidly among young women, and not among young women alone, but among married women as well, who move in good society. Baltimore is no exception to the rule, says the Herald of that city. An estimable lady, who resides in a fashionable residence on Charles street, told the writer confidentially the other day that she had been so addicted to the use of nicotine that she did not enjoy a meal any longer unless it was followed by a cigarette in nor oouaoir. Young ladies usually purchase their cigarettes through their maids, who are in honor bound not to disclose to the tobacconist the name of the person for whom they are making their purchases. But maids will be garrulous and names are often revealed, so that a cigar dealer on a well-known street is able to point out to his friends girl after girl who indulges in the seductive cigarette in the secrecy of her private apartments, unknown to grandmamma or doting papa. There are cases, too, not infrequent either, where the fair sex are supplied with their cigarettes by wicked young dudes, who are told that the only purpose in view in the minds of the dear creatures is to make a collection of cigarettes, binding each with a dainty piece oi ribbon, sna amxing to it a cara marked with the name of the giver. When the latter becomes a bore his cigarette is smoked by the fair recipient, who, with mild superstition, thinks that his attentions, already wearisome, will thereby become less frequent.?Chicago Herald. The BlRgrut PaMsenjrer Engine Yet. There is a locomotive now nearly completed by the Hickley Locomotive i n-rt A lVianTT ofrOAf. ia fnt^rnl ed to far surpass anything and everything in the railroad line" in the United States, if not in the world. This wonderful engine was designed by G. S. Strong of the Strong Locomotive Co., of New York, and is expected to make the lightning speed of eighty miles an hour with ten passenger cars on an ordinary road. It is the largest passenger engine ever built, and will run on the Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe road, between Chicago and Fort Madison. The first thing that would strike the observer is the singular position of the engine's cab. It is perched on top of the boilerabout tlio centre, and is occupied by the engineer alone, as another cab is built behind the boiler for the fireman. The engine alone will weigh fifty-five tons and with the tender, which is built to ride like a passager coach, will weigh eighty-five tons.?Boston Advertiser. fViA Via VAr? r?f Naw York have decided that if the price of flour continued to advance the loaves of bread must shrink in that proportion, but that no advance shall be made in the price of the loaf. The recent raise to 6 cents on 5-cent loaves and to 7 cents on 6-cent loavea. will by maintained. The present weight of a 6-cent loaf is twenty ounces. K LIFE SAVED BY FANNING. What Brought Back to Health Two Yellow Fellow Patients. (From the Jacksonville (Fla.) Metropolis,) "A strange thing occurred the other day," said Dr. Sheitall, of Savannah this morning to a Metropolis reporter, "It happened this way: I was the physician in charge of Charley Clark, the young undertaker of your city, while he had a very bad case of yellow fever. For several days I anxiously watched him and by close attention I managed to break the fever, but it left him so weak that I was afraid that he would die of exhaustion. "However, I was going to do my best and I instructed the nurse to watch him carefully and inform me by messenger if he began to sink, and with these instructions I left the sick man to attend to my otner patients, in aooui an nour ? returned and on looking at the young man I found that he was in a state of collapse and rapidly sinking, and that his lower extremities from his hip? down were cold and covered with a clammy sweat. There was rM^oubt about it, Clark was going rapidiy, an<TT was certain that in about three Sr four hours he would be dead; what io do next? I had tried everything I could think of to rally him, but nothing would bring his pulse above 46 degrees and his temperature was down to 95 and sinking lower all the time. "Matters" were locking desperate, and it was very sad to see the sturdy young fellow, who only a few days previous was a robust athlete, and now his life was slowly ebbing away. Suddenly the idea struck me to fan him. At first it seemed that that such a course would be absurd, as he was cold as an iceberg, but finally I resolved on the attempt, as I knew"it -would close the now open pores, and I determined to try. Calling for a fan, I took off all the covering bnt a sheet, and slowly began waving it over him. In a few minutes I gave the fan to the nurse and watched the result. In ten minutes I noticed a slight change in the pulse for the better, and urged the nurse to keep up the novel treatment. In thi e9 quarters of an hour imagine my feelings when I found that the sick man's pulse had risen to 56 and his temperature to 98. He then fell into a sweet sleed and awoke out oi danger. "I was so impressed that this fanning saved his life that I tried it on a lady patient of mine and with equal success." ''What's her name?" "Well, I don't think that she would care to get it into the papers, but it is true, every word of it. Strange treatment, isn't it?" BANDITTI IN THE PIEDMONT. Confirmation of the Story of a Gang of Kobberg in Pickens Connty--Two of the Klngleaderg Captured. (Special to News and Courier.) Greenville, October 30.?A sensation of a strong dime novel flavor was unearthed here to-day in the unexpected development of the existence of a real gang of robbers organized for carrying on systematic thievery in Pickens and the surrounding counties. Rumors of this nature were wired in these dispatches yesterday, but no confirmation could be obtained until Lafayette Belfrey and Drey fa-a Medlin, two of half a dozen men iu the ffubpwteu gang; Were captured at the house of Sebe Hinson,- near Roper's, Pickens County, last night, just after their unsuccessful attemp to rob the house of Norman Clardy, an old blind man, near Piedmont, on Sunday night The capture was made by a posse of citizens headed by G. W. Griilia and William Hughes. Pelfrey was brought here to jail to-day and Meldin is not expected to live, having been shot in the stomach last night. When he and his companions were surprised, Meldin tired on the would-be captors and was mortally wounded in return. The confession of Pelfrey and the investigations of the posse who ran the gang to cover reveal a regular organized burglar band, in which Pelfrey, an ex-convict, and the Medlins?Drayton, Jason, James and Joe?were ringleaders. In June last they robbed an old man named Trotter of three hundred dollars, near Looper's. Petty thieving went on continuously in the neighborhood, and in September the gang robbed the house of Albert Toney, in Polk County, North Carolina, of $400. Several other attempts to rob old but supposedly wealthy farmw*a*a wo/Ia ir> o/1iAim'rknr CIO TTC1C xuouo AU miUJ uuu uujvujiiMg counties, but they all failed for different causes. The men were all desperate fellows, and went fully armed on their raids. They wore uniforms made of guano sacks and blackened their faces. The gang had terrorized one section of Pickens County, and the capture of the ringleaders by a self-constituted posse is a great relief. Other members of the band are being pursued and will probably be caught in a few days. Sapposed Discovery of a Baud of Robbers, Greenville, Oct. 29.?News of a decided sensation comes from Piedmont, in this county. Last week, the report says, by mistake a letter was delivered to a man across the river in Anderson, announcing the rendezvous of robbers who were to meet and attack the house of an old man liviDg near Piedmont. Getting wind of this a party went from Piedmont and secreted tlipmsplvps nn Snndftv niVht when the attack was to be made. During the ni^ht parties approached the house, but the indiscreet noise of one of the watchers with in ran them away. That night a horse was stolen in the ncighborhoood. It is believed at Piedmont that the existence of an organized band of robbers has been discovered operating in Anderson, Greenville and Pickens counties.?Special to News and Courier. The Whole Gang Captured. Greenville, Nov. 1.?Drayton Medlin, the robber who was seriously shot by the capturiug party in Pickens 011 Monday, KfAn/fl.t */-v ioil f,vr Q?1 fo <T A telegram has been received from Deputy SaerifT J. D. Gilreath, who arrested Jos. Medlin, the only remaining member of the gang, at Gaffney City today. He will be brought here today.?Special to Charleston World. PIAKOH ASD OKUAX8. One thousand Pianos and Organs to close out by October 1. All Organs and Pianos sold at cash price, payable November 1?no interest?delivered to your nearest depot. Fifteen days trial. Organs from $24 up; Pianos from $150 up. All instruments warranted. Send for circulars. Bay now and have the use of the instrument. .Remember we pay freight both ways if the instrument don't suit. Prices guaranteed less than New York. N. W. TRUMP, * si n W*iUM V**?) N/? VI A new novel has lately been published In raised letters for the use of the blind. It is said it evoked a great deal of feeling. Johnnyl cake will become fashionable unless the price of flour declines. The most fashionable stationery is now decorated by hand. It Is not cheap. A German physician is out with an article condemning the eating of oysters in any | but a raw state. j * v i NOVELTIES IN JEWELRY. The Newest Fruits of the Engraver's and Lapidary's Arts. (From the New York Star.) There are not many startling innovations in jewlery. Bar pins are a thing of the past, being almost superseded by the old-fashioned brooch. Clusters are again fashionable in earrings, as well as pins. Diamonds of decided color are the rage this season, and the uncertain pale yellows are not very popular. The rich yellows, cinnamons and pinks are the favorite tints, and are introduced into many ornaments. Most persons are only acquainted with the conventional blue sapphire, but these stones are also of a beautiful rose-color, yellow And green. The alexandrite is almost chameleon - * * ?- i a iiise in its aspects, Doing green uy aay and red by artificial light. Uncommonly tinted stones are known as pierres de fantaisie. At Tiffany's is a large pearl of odd shape, looking like a balloon, aronnd which twines a writhing serpent formed of tiny diamonds. An odd conceit is a diamond stirrnp intended for a pendant, and stndded with pearl nail heads A head of Marie di Medicis is carv d from a single large topaz. The proud, regular features of the haughty Italian are admirably depicted. The high ruff is one mass of very small diamonds, and on the head and in the ears sparkle the costly stones. The pretty flower-pins have by no means decreased in popularity. A spray of delicate purple lilacs, with diamond centers, is very lovely. A chrysanthemum of a rich purple makes a very styli.h ornament, with one large, yellow diamond in the center. A blossom of Alpine edelweisa is refined and modest, with a centre of sapphire surrounded with diamonds. It Is not generally known tliat pearls are found in fresh water. Some lovely ones come from the lakes and rivers in Ohio and Tennessee. The stones are often of the pnrest white, bnt more frequently have pink and blue reflections, with an almost opaline radiance. They are not very large, and are set in pins in the shape of squares, triangles, cresents, stars, etc. A bee-shaped pin is formed of one ablong pearl, wit a diamond wings and eyes of burning rubies. The head of a hairpin of amber shell is formed of one brilliant yellow diamond set in a knot of smaller white diamonds; from this ornament springs an aigrette of palest yellow. A most aesthetic breastpin is a dandelion blow made of raw silk sparkled with tiny diamonds. The wires in which they are set are embedded in the fluffy silk, where they scintillate like so many dew^wAr\fi T1 h/\ cnllr Aon UlV^/Ot XJU9 Qim VdU KTSJ VHUiij AVMVHVM when soiled, and the delicate blossom is as airy as its counterpart in nature. A very small miniature is protected by a table-diamond with faceted edges, in lien of glass. A large Briolette diamond is suspended from a twisted golden knot set thickly with small brilliants. An odd and beautiful pin is a single star sapphire, almost an inch in diameter. This stone is opaque and of a hue bordering on. dove-gray. A distinct star in paler tinting is visible on the surface. The stone is surrounded with diamonds and is a rare and beautiful specimen. GRAYDON'S DYNAMITE GUN. An Invention that Shoots Dynamite Pro1 /io Anf Af Av/linoi^v Pannnn. J? VfU? (From tlie Indianapolis Journal.) In 1886, when Lieutenant Graydon of this city returned from China, he began experimenting upon shells loaded with dynamite. The danger of such shells is their explosion from heat or concussion l^efore they leave the gun, thus rendering them more dangerous to the men operating the guns than to the enemy. To overcome this fault of such projectiles he placed the dynamite in a packing of abestos, inside the shell, the asbestos being a non-conductor of heat, and also soft, prevented the premature explosion of the shells, either by heat or concussion. In the summer of 1886 an appropriation was made by Congress for the purpose of testing his invention, and on Aug. 10 of that year, under the supervision of General Howard, in command of the Pacilic Coast Department, a number of experiments were made with the shells. These were so far successful that the committee recommended that further experiments be made by the Govern ment, which was done at Sandy Hook, on [ Nov. 10, 1887, and another favorable report was made. Shortly afterward a company was formed with a nominal capital stock of $5,000,000, which purchased all of the Lieutenant's inventions up to thai date, there being besides the dynamite shell an accelerating cartridge and an explosive called the Graydon high "explosive. Patents were secured on them all in the (Jutted States and in foreign countries. About two months ago a proposition was received from the French Government for the purchase of the right to use the dynamite shell for that nation and her colonies. The figures were $1,000,000, and not $500,000, as has been staled, and the right to this one invention was sold last week to France for that sum. Crime in Baruwell. On Wednesday night of last week John Brown, colored, was shot by Tom McCoy, colored, on Mr. N. Z. Felder's place near Bamberg. A thirty eiglat calibre pistol w:l<5 used. The ball Dassed entirelv through the body. It is thought he will recover.0 They were rivals in love. McCoy was lodged in jail on Thursday under a commitment from Trial Justice Rowe. On Monday night, the 22nd ult., Nelson Eubanks, colored, was assassinated on Mr. Alex Bush's place in Richland Township. He was standing in his door when the shot was fired by the unseen murderer. Warrants were issued by Trial Justice Patterson for Joe. Dave and Henry Mixson aud Henry Scott, colored. They were arrested and brought to Barnwell. A preliminary examination was begun on Saturday and continued on Monday. Jas. E. Davis, Esq., appeared for the State and George H. Bates and Robert Aldrich the defendants. A great mar?y witnesses were examined. The evidence was entirely circumstantial. Scott, alias Dand.idge, was committed for trial and the other defendants were discharged.?People. Medical Survivors Association. The annual meeting of the South Caroliaa Association of Medical Survivors of tlie Army and Navy of South Carolina will be held in this city on Thursday of Fair week. It will be remembered that the Association was organized here during the last State Fair, with Dr. A. N. Talley President aud Dr. J. R. Bratton, of York ville, Secretary. The objects of the Association are to bring the members into closer and more enduring relations, and to afford aid and comfort to such as need it. The descendents of the present members will be entitled to join the organization, which will resemble the Society of the Cincinnati.? Columbia Record, Nov. 1. President Cleveland has appointed I Thursday 29th inst. as a dry of thanksgiving and prayer throughout the United [States. BEAKS DON'T SCAKK HER. A Plucky Girl Who Carrlee the Mall Through an Oregon Wilderness. (From the Portland Oregonian.) Oregan has a woman mail carrier, Her name is Miss Minnie Westman, and she carries the Uncle Sam's mail from the head of navigation on the Sinslaw River over the Coast Range mountains, following-up the river to Hale's Post Office station, within fifteen miles of Eugene City. Her roaie is twenty miles long and is situated right in the mountains, where all the dangers and adventures incident to such an occupation a do una. one carries we man nignc ana day and fears nothing. She rides horseback and carries a trusty revolver. Miss Westman is a plump little brunette, and is just twenty years old. Hex father and uncle operate a stage line and have a contract for carrying the mail. At Hale's station Minnie meets her father and gets the mail from Eugene City and starts on her route. Miss Westman has never met with a serious jaishap in the performance of her duty! On one of her trips last year she found three goodsized bears in the road, right in front of her. The horse on espying them became frightened, threw his rider to the ground, and, turning around, ran back the road he came. Miss Westman, with great presence of mind, started after the runaway, and, overtaking him, remounted and rode > 1 /vV?+ Hia nntrrtrtrt nn/) xjgiiu uLu.uu.gu Duo oavo^o wiuuu, auu, ! strange to say, she was not attacked Meeting some friends, she told -them of what she had seen, and they went to the place and killed the bears. So far this year, Miss Weatman has met two bears, which did not molest her. A VERY CONTENTED MAN. He Differed With His Wife on a Matter of lieligion, Bat Still Was Happy. (From the Arkansas Traveler) A physician while strolling thi ough the woods near Jacksonville, Fla., heard a peculiar noise, and, looking about him, discovered an old negro sitting on a log, humming a tune. The Dhvsician aDoroaehed the negro and said: "You seem to be happy, old man." "Well, sab, I ain't got nuthin' ter 'plain erbout." * "Do you know that yellow fever is raging all around you?" "Ought ter know it, sah, when I done buried my wife yistidy." "Then how can you sit around here and sing?" **Ois yere is God's worl', ain't it?" "I suppose so." "An* I b'longs ter God, doan' I?" "Yes." "Well, ef de Lawd put it in my heart ter sing, I doaa' see why 1 oughter keep my mouf shet." ' 'Are you not afraid of taking the fever?" "Whut's de use'n bein' erfeered? Ef de Lawd wants me ter take it, I will, an' ef He doan', I won't, dat's all; an', 'sides dat, X ain't gwine ter take it no quicker ef I sings. I lay you mer go round dat town now, an' you'll fid' mos' o' de folks what's got de feber didn't sing er tall." "I don't see," said the amused physician, "how you can feel disposed to sing when your wife was buried only yesterday." "No, sah; dats case yer didn' know dat lady like I did." "Didn" get erlong lergedder ez well ez we did erpart, sah." "What was the trouble?" "Oh, well, sah, I is er Baptis' an' she wuz one o' deze yere blind Meterdis. She bleeved dat flingin' er little dab o' water on er man would do de wuck fur him, when all sens'ble pussons oughter know dat ef he wanter be saved he must be souzed in de bayou head an' years. I tell yer dat w'en dis yere plan o' &alwation comes up, man better not dodge de p'int. Ef John de Baptis' got out in de ribber down at de ferry an' souzed folks under de water, w'y I doan' see w'y folks wanster take de chances by bein sprinkled. "Old man, do you want a job of work?" "No, sab, I kain' say dat I does." "Isn't your name Reuben White?" "Dat's my nomination, sah." "Didn't 1 see you, some time ago, going around asking for work?" "Yes, sah, yer mout." "Why did you want work then?" "Had ter wuck den ter git suthin' ter eat." "Well, but don't you have to work now?" "Yes, but I doan' wuck fur it. Look yere, you reckon I gwine ter wuck w'en de folks all ober de country is sendin' hams an' flour an' all sorts o' 'visions down yere? Is er cat gwine ter w'ar herself out scratchin' roun' arter mice w'en dar's er big piece o' meat lyin' 'side her? Look yere, man, whut sorter flossipher is yer, nohow?" A Big Fire in Shelby, N. C. Shelby, N. C., Oct., 29.?The worst fire ever experienced by Shelby occurred here tonight. The Wray block, occupied by the Southern Express Company, Babington, Roberts & Co, wholesale and retail stationers, printers and binders, Gardner & Quinn, wholesale and retail drugs, D. C. Webb & Son, general merchandise, and the Aurora newspaper, was completely humeri r>nlv r small amount of steck beinsr saved. The lire originated in one of. the printing offices, and the town was without a fire engine. The loss on the building , owned by W. A. VVray is estimated at $10,000, and that on stock at $20,000. Total insurance about $10,000. Several explosions of gun powder and kerosene occurred during the fire, but no one was se riousiy injured. A crowd narrowly escaped being crushed by a falling wall.? Special to News and Courier. Crushed to Death In a Saw Mill, Lake City, Oct. 29.?5Ir. Eligie Sauls, who has been attending to the ginning and machinery of E. E. Sauls & Son, at Cade's, six miles below here, on the Northeastern Railroad, met with a fearful accident on last Saturday. While crossing over the shafting his clothing became entangled, whirling him around rapidly and mangling him in a honlb'e rracner. His right leg"was broken in two places and his left leg in one place. His right arm was also broken in two places. His body was badly m?nor1f?d Rp received also severe internal injuiics. He lived only about six hoirs, when death relieved him of his suffering. ?Special to News and Courier. 3Ira. Chapin Still Sick. The friends of Mrs. Sallie F. Chapin in this State, and the soldiers of the temperance crusade everywhere, will be sorry to learn that she is still very seriously ill at the residence of Mrs. Georgia Moore de Fontaine, at Bergen Point,"New Jersey. In a letter to the Isews and Courier, under date of October 29, Mrs. de Fontaine writes as follows: "Will you kindly correct the statement made in the papers to the effcct that Mrs. Chapin spok<; at the Couveution. She is still seriously ill, confiued to the bed most of the time. Her condition eauscsus much anxiety."?News and Courier. Karthouake Felt In Massachusetts. New Bedford, Oct. 29.?This city was visited by two well-defined earthquake shocks last night. At the Weld street police station the shocks were felt at 11 25, and were preceded by a rumbling sound, and three distinct oscillations were felt, followed by tremulous movements. Policemen and others who were on the street say that the movement was preceded by two reports not unlike those of a heavy gun or thunder, and theE came a distinct movement of the ground. The shocks were distinctly felt across the Acusnet in Fair Haven. WAS MARRIAGE A FAILURE? A Much-Married Madam Meets Many MUhaps in tlie Matrimonial Market. A weather-beaten woman of melancholy and discouraged mien sat in front of a drummer on a railroad train. She was clad in rusty mourning, and her appearance indicated that her loss was recent. When near Chicago she turned to the J J? -.U.J uruuiuier auu oancu. "What place are we coming to next?" "Chicago, madam." "Lemme see; that's in Illinoy, ain't it?" "It is." "I'd ort to know, but I'd forgot I'd been in Illinoy. I buried my firat husband there 'bout twenty years ago." "Indeed?" "Yes; and from Illinoy I went to Ioway.*" I buried my second man out in Ioway, and T ain't been there since. That was eighteen years ago. Went down to South Car- . liny from Ioway." "Oh, did you? I've been there." "You hev? Ever been to a place called Dutch Fork? No? Well, - Hen Doipoa -- v laya^here." - * "5Vho was IIr. Dobson|' "My third man^and a right smart feller he was. He had a cousin named Hi Daggett. Ever run across Hi?" "I think not." _ "loud know 11 you nad. .Everybody liked Hi. Him and me were married in Georgy, and he is buried cine miles from Atlanty." "0 indeed! And do you live in Georgia now?/ "Land, no! 1 ain't set foot there for more'n a dozen years. I went from Georgy away up to Minnesoty, and 1 met Tom Hixon up there." "Tom Hixon?" "Yes; him and me lived most a year there after we were married; then a blamed old while mule we had kicked Tom so fatally that I buried him one cold day UDder the snow up near St. Paul and sold off and went to Kansas, near Atchison, and tuck up a quarter section o' land jinin' a rale smart man's named DilL" "And you?" "Yes, I married Dill, and he tuck chills an' fever.'fore three months and left me a widder 'fore the year was out. I tell you I've had mightv bad luck." "I should thlok so." "That's what I have There was Ben Barber. After him and me was married | in Californy we got along splendid, and was making money fast, when all of a sudden Ben goes head first down a 900 fcot shaft, and, ot course, I was a widder 'fore the poor man ever struck bottom." "Then you left California?" "Yes. I stayed there eight or nine months, and then Bob he wanted to?" "Bob who?" "Oh, Bob White. He was Ben's partner, and he never gave me no peace till I married him. He is buried in the Black Hills." "Great Caesar!" cried the drummer, "do you make a business of going around the country Jurying husbands?" The "widder" put her handkerchief to her eyes and said, in a keen rebuke: "That's a pretty way to talk to a lone widder that's got her husband's corpse in a baggage car ahead, and takin' him out to Dakoty to lay him aside of his other kinfolks. You'd ort to be 'shamed to be ao onfeelin'!" He Fled for Safety. Spabtanbtjbg, October 30.?Fayette Stewart, the white man who was accused of killing Bert Ooan, at a oorn shucking near Beidville, has come in of his own accord and snrrendered to the sheriff. He is now in jail. The reason why the deputy sheriff could not find him is that he was hiding out from home. Some of the killed negro's friends made such a demonstration, believing that Stewart had done the deed, that he considered it prudent to leave home. A crowd of negroes, the night after the killing, or not many nights after, went to Stewart's house in search of him. It was evident that they had learned their leeson well from the white people, their neighbors, and friends, who have shown great readiness, on two or three occasions, to take the criminal law into their own hands. After searching Stewart's house, they went to the house of Tom Lynch and demanded of him Stewart's whereabouts. Lynch knew nothing of him and could give no information. They behaved in such a riotous manner that Lynch's wife was terribly frightened, J 1 2? .3 1 1? *,1?T wLLLU litjr 1LLLLIU JLUW UWU cumpwuwi BUWLPU by the event Five of the negroes in the crowd were identified and warrants were issued for their arrest. Monday was appointed for a preliminary hearing before Trial Justice Harrison, of Beidville. As a result of the investigation, one of the negroes was committed to jail last night. Look Oat, Girl*. A Pittsburg cooking school is turning out boy cooks that are warranted to be equal, if not superior, to the feminine article anu not half so capricious and uncer tain. The boy cooks are not so likely to branch off into poetry or the fine arts and leave the kitchen to the tender mercies of the green servant girl, who doesn't know what cooking means. The boy graduates of the Pittsburg cooking school will not be the first of their kind, of course, for time out of mind the best cooks have been of the male sex. But the Pittsburg school seems to he the first attempt to turn out male cooks on a large scale and the girls who are taking lessons in cooking in the the public schools are hereby notified that instead of looking for other professions to conquer they will have to stir themselves lively to hold their own even in the domain of the kitchen. Whether this movement to teach the boys how to prepare human nature's daily food is started by some one who believes marriage a failure and wants to provide against the starvation of at least one generation is not stated. But the girl graduates of the skillet and roasting pan are certain to meet male competition on a large scale in their own peculiar province soon.?Philadelphia Times. The Officer* Smiled, but the Tramp Didn't, Tota /vf Ron Htipntin ixrprA stopped by a tramp as they were driving from San Rafael, three miles distant. He made them hand over the proceeds of their shopping tour?a yard of silk, three spools of silk thread, two dress shields and a roll of butter. He also took all the money they had, fifteen cents, and, bowing low said as he departed: "Pardon me, missuses, but folks must take grub where they finds it." A few days afterward one of the same ladies, driving on that road, saw him again, and. turning around, drove back and notified the police. Two of them rigged themselyes in skirts, shawls, bonnet and heavy veils, and, getting into a buggy, drove out on the road. Suddenly a man jumped from the bushes, and, grabbing the horse, said: "Hold yer hoss, me pretties." "All right, my man," said the driver, in gruff tones, and his companion poked a revolver from under his shawl and covered the tramp. It was a complete surprise to that person, but he recovered sufficiently to say that ha thought their check line was loose, and, thinking fchey were ladies, wanted to fix it. The officers smiled. It is shown by insurance statistics that Americans of the middle and upper classes are healthier and longer lived than Englishmen. epicures utxittic mtu cue ui&c* cuuuau caught on the Northern Pacific coast are superior to shad and infinitely better thai) the ordinary cod.