A Dry Cyclone. On Sunday evening last at. G.Iar nett, Kansas, was witnessed what the Kansas people are pleased to term a "dry cyclone." wircfh threw the whole city into a fever of ex citement. A special, describing it says it was plainly visible from the town For a period of nearly half an hour. It was so plain that tlie p)hotographers took good views of it from the city. A correspond ent of the Kansas City Times says it hai the appearance of a large rope, black in color and as large as a hogshead, extending all the way from the earth to the clouds. It was almost perpenidic ular near the earth, but leaned northward at the to) until it reaeh ed the clouds, when it stretched alimost horizontally through them for at great (istan(Te. Your corres pondent visited the scene and found that is was a dry cyclone, no water falling with it. It form ed near Westphalia., 17 miles west of Garnett and passed northeast .a distalee of 8 or 9 miles. Three m1iles Tiorith of Westphalia it caugh-lt Da.vid 'Methieney driv-ing' home Oi a loa(.1 of lumiber. It - ar ied i him a coisideable disttanice inl the air and dropped him. Al t bigh no bInes were broken, he sustai ned such severe internal i Jiiries that it, iay prove fatal. 'His w%agon and huiiher were scattered all over the township and his horse's c.arrie(l 60 feet anld the har ness strij)ped from them. Its ,ouirse Was over an open stretch of prairie, else it would hi ave done 'great damcare. It broke just north of' Ca ltain Reppert's ha im, t h roumgh Which it passed. It left a zigzJag track about twenty feet wide il moved wondeftully slow. At Rep )eIt's fiarn it cireled arounmd he t ween his house and barnl , destroy ino' his garden annmd barnyard fene es. It was not reinirkable for the 1ge cauised but for the excite ment it, cr'eated, or' all the people in Alnderson an1d Co fley counlitty mu 1 tist have seen it plainly for' fully half' anm houri.-I- olla ( Mo.) lier A N AliA nAurA 1R~MANe K:.-TI hte Selmna ( Ala.) Times tells this sin e'lVIa r story:v "Mir. Isaae Fran k, a whiiite muan, wats indhicted by the hi1st granmd j ury utnder' the charge of Jiving in unlawf'ul wedlock with - a niego' wma. rs Mary Ann' l''ran k, wife of' thle accuitsed, was present; also her' aleged mother, L ucinda Weaver, colored. Lucuin dha was sworn atnd. putt upon the wit ness stand. I ler testimuony brew new light upon01 thme case and c'aused a little flutter of excite iienit and surpr'ise among those prIesenlt. She spoke'in a straight oiutmnner'. Notwithstanding Lu 4.ind(a has always been known as he mo(ther' of Miry, it turnsfl. out t hat the young woman's p)arcultage is purlPy w hite. Lucind~a testified ti hat shte was not the mnother of Mirs. Marzy Frank,.,*nd.that Mr's. F'rank wps givyen to her when an ~it'anit thr'ee~danys old. thait a pror4I inen t gentleman otf Skuth . Caroli ua brne3iht the young child and~ presente~d it to Lucinda, request ing that she raise it as her own. She stated further that the child was the illegitmiate offspring of i an aristocratic woman, and it was her brother who gave the infant to 1 the old negress to shield his sis- k ter's reputation and conceal her shame. The old negress brought her charge to Alabama, claiming her as a daughter, and the real1 truth of matters very probably never would have been uncovered to the world but for Mary's mar riage to the white man and the in dictment issued against him. Mrs. Frank, now grown into mature wo manhood, has light straight hair, fair complexion, and clear blue. eyes, and doesn't bear the remot est trace of African blood. A num ber of gentlemen visite(I her re cenltly, coIversed with her', and decided that she was hevond doubt a white wonan. A 1,ev Lucinda's testimony was heard, Solicitor Fitts agreed to the ver(lict of not guilty, and the happy twain de )arted in peace. THE SI vo BE SwAINiTo ny Tjil.EA I(TI.--There is good reason for beli(.ving With Se1onan, La MAeunier, Frankland and Sterry Hunt, titat in the remote future of the eart h the wateIs of t Ite se will be withdrawn into(1 her ilteri or. The Irocess of witli(rawa.l is in reality takinig place even) now. Enter any cavern., such as Kent's lole in Demvoireic. (m the d"ielst and hottest day, on even after weeks of dry weather, and you will find the roof wet with witers which have been slowly muaking& tleir way fron the surface, where! they fell il tle way of, raill mont hs )eflore. Thoughout the whole t cruist, of, titc, (,a11rth, ex.ellt. inl : few%, spots whe- re rainl netver. falls, the ' sme1( Pro'eSs is going Oth al the time. Only a. portion of the wa- - ter, which thus fialls on the eartlh, ever returns to the surface in the 1,orin o spI ingrs. A rtesiann wellsI show how slowly so'ne of the stra ta (if the earth )eirmit water which hus t hiuis reah(led them to pass through; hut they show also how a large port ion of the earth's wa ter's are already b)eneath the sur face. * * it may well he said thrat~ t.he amon' t ntnial ly withdrawn - fromn the sea surface in this~ way, anid niot restored, dIoes not prodluce a change of level of more thana foot in a thousand years. Still (een t hat wouldl involve a very im portant alteration in the aspect of' the earth in such periods of time as belong to a. planet's history. A million years would reduce the, sea level by a thou sand feet, arnd in a period of time which cannot he reckoned long when compar ed with the heaven and earth speak to us, every trace of water would have disappeared from the face of the earth.-Prof. R. A. Proctor in Good Word. ScdanerrY o1? RAcoN.-The wash out on the Western Atlantic Road is the cause of' the bacon famine whIiich was manifested yesterday about nioon. There is mno supply of this meat in the city, and farmers - who camne lhere yesterday to b~e providIed went away empty hand edl. A number of firms have large shipnmentM on the moad Rfnd it i BUY FINE :LoTIINII SHOES awIIe POII &COB GREENVILLE, S. C. Dec 21-]y leading Drug Store, F. A. W .TIL, PROPRIEOR ., Cor, Main and Washington sts. G / E NVI L L R. S. (. Pure'( Dhrgs, Me-dicines, PaUinlt . Oilk, ye0 Sttf's, Toilet articles, Patent edicinles, the best brands of seg: I.a id Tobacco, Notions, etc., atpne low as can be found in the State. Polite and1( attenitive clerks, with a 11 and select stock of G~oods is our ead~ing I iducemenits for patr*ons. ur line of e&iCP *1?F1CLE rPre'sen ts, canno~t be excell, as we tVe uiseful, as wvell as o.rnamiental ar 'les5, for your wife, husbaud, sweet ~art, child or friend, and all at bot.. mi prices. Don't fail to) give me a 11, and you are sur'e to dlepart ha'ppy. .I am sole Agent for thisConyfr e celebrated - ony 4) WIZARD OIL, e merits of which 'cannot be over-es. nated. Dec 21-tf {ews and Courier, CA ARL ESTrON, S. C. aily $10a year ; Weekly $2 a year. he Leading Paper of the South-East argest Circulation in the Cotton States. Jannary I1 f' Ixpe(cted that their cars will be rin to arrive in a, day or two. The >rice is still 9, cents, not having )een af'eeted by the temporary itringency.-Daily News, 7th. The Registration Law. We give below the provisions of the legistration Law, and urge omi citi sens to see to it that their certifleates tre all right before it is too late : 1st. All persons who have hi good 'aith lost their certifleates of registra ion are entitled to a rencwal thereof 10 days before the general election, ,Vit hout cost 2d. Defaced certificates can be re Iewed 11pon sirreindering the same. 3rd. It) case of a party who has ie noved his residence to another place in lie sIme precinct, he shall notify the )tpervisor. 4th. in ca1sc of the removal of an ,lection from one precinct to anot her ecinct inl the salIe Comity, lie shall lotify ihe Supervisor. i I. Ill case of the removal of an 'lector from one Coulity to another, le shall notify the Supervisor of Reg stration of the County% wherein i he is -egiste red a nd get a c iertiic:ate of trans er to tie Coity to vich he remloves; 1Pon presenltingt which1 to i per-1 AP for that Coliity, he w\ill get ai Cer ifienIte to I here. (Plh. All persons who have ait.tained hI-ir majority Since t le ha. elcetioll in! 882. are entitled to a cei-ilcate. 7th. A lwrsoi (esiring to vote at a icarer poilling plhce i a lrecilnet shall ;oks arf open only n Ihe first Mon hiy of each mon01t h, to am1l illlding(Ps Ie first Monday in JuIly, 1884; exeept it le event of an elector Coming of We be)tween I he 6th of Julv. 1884, ai lie 4t il of November t hereafter, who Ill apply to tle Sipervisor and get a ertilientIe. Any information As to the death or he removal of an elector shouhl be uruishied to the Supervisor Notice. T E will be at Easley's Bridge. over Saltila liver, on the 10th 1ay of May next. at. I1 o'cock, a. m., or the purpose of Itling tie building >f a lridge at said Bridge site. Plais! I Lul speciti(at ions maale known on (ay" )f lettiiig. E lJA S DAY, County Conun'r l Pickens Co. JA MES1 . I L2A KELY, ff.V W C'ounty- ('.:mnm'r (Greeniville (o, if' :pr 18--it .Notice. VR8ONS desiring to raise Jerseyl Leat tle, will be serPved by my Buill, ' E(OWE," at the LOW rates ofli 2.50O insurance, or if any~ prefer' it ti hey may pay $4.0(0 for Hetifer calvesl i und not1hinig for Bulls, providedl they t( mnsex them at 30 dlays old. lHe will probably be onl the Oolenoy tl part of the time. Cash In, Advance. Money returnled f no Calf. DRi. W. TF, FJIL.4. a pr 18--4t* ___________ t JSE~PH WESTO1N, ti Boot & Shoe Maker, Over Wash. Howell's Beef Market, 1ain 1St., G RE EN VAL LAE, S. C. JOS. WESTON and have vonri loots and Shoes made to Order, and ~uaranteed perfect fits. Repairing both neatly, cheaply and >romptly done, for Cash. BLA.CSMITINGM Tr En all its branches, done by L JAMES ROSEMOND. Eadley, S. U. Give him a call and satisfaction wIl. lie given, both a to work andl charen.