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ALMOST SLAIN BY BLFALOES.
Tuo Hunters Suddenly Contronted by a Herd
They btampede the Beasts and Escape
Death--A Montana Adventure.
In the summer of 1879, while stationcd
at one of the fiontier forts in the Yellow
stone Valley, Spotted Eagle's band of
hostiles, a fragment of Sitting Bull's
great camp, were brought in as prison
ers of war. Orders were received to
send them to Standing Rock Agency,
and it fell to my lot, writs :1 lieutenant
in the regular army to the Philadelphia
Times, to escort them across the couu
try. My detachment numberedt thirty
men, mounted on Cayuse piICs and
well armed and equipped. The next
morning. with our prisoners under
guard, we struck out boldly across the
country, in the direction 'of Standing
Rock. It took us sixteen days to make
the journey, which was full of interest
ing incidents and adventures, for the
country was a wild and, so to speak, un
explored region as yet, with hostile
Sioux and Chevennes scattered all
through it. The plains of Moitana were
pretty full of bufflo at the time I write,
and it is of an adventure with them I am
going to speak. About the third day
out we were in the midst of thousands of
bison, and as it was no fun to kill them
with a rifle or to still hunt, by reason of
numbers, I proposed to have the rare
sport Gf hunting a few with the revolver
and from horseback. Next morning I
was up before break of day, and telling
my orderly to accompany me we started
ahead of the command to hunt our
game, each with a brace of Colt's "forty
five" revolvers and 200 rounds of ammu
nition apiece strapped across our per
sons.
We came in sight of one herd as day
was breaking, and immediately gave
chase. The bison fled before us, we
tearing after them like mad; but in a
few minutes the herd scattered, and so
we selected a certain bunch, which we
followed up. I had gotte'n pretty close
upon my quarry, when, whisk! out of
s iht they went, and in a moment I had
folowed them. They had gone over a
bank into a creek so suddenly that, not
observing it, I followed close upon their
heels; and there we were, buffaloes,
pony and myself, uninjured, but flound
ering and swimming about in deep
water. By the time I got to the oppo
site bank and secured my pony the
buffaloes were gone out of sight, scamp
ering across the prairie to join the main
herd, and my orderly stood on the bluff
behind where we had just tumbled. from,
laughing at my predicament. He had
luckily checked himself and steed just in
time to save both from following us. In
half an hour matters were straightened
out and we rode to the top of a neigh
boring knoll to get a view of the sur
roundings. Our original herd was dim
in the distance, a cloud of dust on the
horizon telling where they were still
going at full speed. While regretfully
watching them my orderly suddenly ex
claimed:
"Look, Lieutenant, here comes anoth
er herd across the country, and making
straight for us."
Casting my eyes in the direction indi
cated, sure enough another tremendous
herd was pointing in the direction of our
knolland coming directly at us like a
thunder cloud. No use to fly, for there
was no place to fly to. One solid black
masn was sweeping toward us like a
whirlwind, and it became necessary for
us to do something, and do it quiikly,
too, or have the life trampled out of us
in a few minutes.
"Dismount!" I cried; "sling the bridle
over your arm, and, when I give the
word, fire as rapidly as you can."
We both dismounted and, drawing our
four revolvers, opened fire on the solid
phalanx at long range. The great drcve
of animals were plunging dildly forward
with their heads down, almost sweeping
the ground, and consequently did not
see us. Our hope was to attract their
attention, and by so doing to frighten
them and endeavor to throw them out of
their course. Had they seen us in the
first place they would probably have
halted or turned their course to one
side. As it happened they kept madly
on until our bullets began to sting them,
when the leaders looked up and seeing
the strange sight in front of them,
actually paused, or attempted to do so,
but it was at their peril, for the foremost
were immediately trampled beneath the
'feet of the rushing, crushing multitude
behind. The pile of bodies was our
salvation, for it served as an impelliment
to those in the rear, and together with
our rapid fire sort' of stampeded the
whole outfit. The pile became higher
and higher as buffalo after buffailo came
rolling on to the heap, and this blockade
actually caused the tremendous mass to
split and divide, a moiety going each
side of it. The centre had been checked,
but the wings were still sweeping by at
railroad speed. We hurried down to the
pile of carcasses as being our safest
point, and stood there watching the sea
of animals raging and tearing byvlike the
biilows of an angry sea. A "hundred
yards or so further on the wings came
together again, and there we were, in
the midst of that living mass, safe and
free trom harm.
It was a strange, remarkable sight
one which I never expect to see on earth
again. My head turned dizzy with so
'much motion all about me, but both
myself and the orderly had sense enough
to' blaze away incessantly directly in
front onb which had the effect to
throw tlieccessive leaders in still more
confusion, and no doubt was the means
of saving us from. being trampled to
death. After this tremendous herd of
bison, going at about twelve miles an
hour, had passed, which consumed some
forty minutes of time, we found our
selves among the scattered tail end of
the herd. Here was our chance. Quick
ly singling out an animal, I was soon
ashing alongside of him and pumping
cold lead into his bosom from my re
volver. My pony, well trained to such
sport, never left his side until the poor
brute staggered in his tracks. When he
rolled over on the prairie, in the last
throes of death, I singled out another
big fellow and was soon pouring leaden
p-l into his shaggyo hide also. I had
dropped an even dozen before my little
Cayuse or I became winded. Then I
looked around for my orderly, but he
was no where to be seen. I anxiously
scanned the horizon to catch a glimpse
of him, and rode back over my trail 1n
til sunset in hopes of finding some trace
*of him; but I saw no sign or indication
of his presence, and so regretfully had
to give up the search for a tune. Taking
my landmarks I struck out for campi,
wchI reached about 9 o'clock that
night. The orderly's pony had already
come into camp ahead of me,. which leit
the conclusion that the poor fellow had
been unhorsed, or perhops had received
some accident; and possibly he might at
that very moment be lying helpless on
the prairie awaiting assistance fremn us.
I immediately started the whole com
mand out in search of himn, with orders
to scour our back trail even as far back
as our last camping place. I myself
want along with one party. About mnid
night we heard a single shot fired far
ahead-in the darkness, and, listening in
tently, had about come to the conclusion
that it was a mistake, when again faint
lv in the distance the shot was repeated.
There could be no mistake now, for the
signal was repeated at regular intervals
of ten minutes, which led us to the spot,
where we found the poor fellow trudging
along, tired and worn down with fatigue,
but in good spirits and entirely un
harmed. His horse had gotten away
from himn somehow, and left him alone
and afoot on the prairie. He immediate
lv struck across the eountry in a dirce
tion that must carry him across the main
trail, which he did really discover before
darkness set in. He had been following
it ever since and tiring his revolver as
described until found by us. All the
relief parties came up in an hour or so,
havingben attracted to the spot by. the
signal shots, which had served to bring
us to the sane place. Mou: ting the
orderly on his horse, brought along
especially for the purpose, we once more
turned in the direction of camp, which
we reached just as the sun was coming
up over the eastern hills.
WASiINGToN LETTER.
W~Asu:x4;vox. 1. C.. All::31, 1 .
One (.,f the busiest delart uwnts uder
the aovermnent is the Patent ()lice. The
:unount of werk that is done by this
deprtmient can be apprceiatedl o- ily 1-y a
trip through the l-4ice and an exphnation
of the details. In the past twenty-tive
years the granting of patents has grown to
an extent that is astonishing, and indicates
wlhat progress is being made in the
sciences by Young America. For the
first fortv-six vears after its organiza
tion the number of patents issued averaged
oniv two hundred and fifty per year. but
the like is now Issuin:, patents at the rate
of tive hndred a week. or twiec as mim
in o-:e week as it formerly issued in a year.
The otai number issued up to tis date is
:'4,(21. The oihice, after paying its own
expenses., has a balance to its credit of $2,
9-15.405.4S in the Treasury. it is the only
branch of governxent that pays us own
exp(-nses, and is not a burden to the people
by way of taxation. A inan with a
niechanlil turn of mind could intensely
enjoy weeks and nmonths among tle
50o000 models anl drawings so conve
n l arranged and displayed in this im
mense department. George Washington
and T homas Jefferson both received patents
on -iaproveients in plouglhs.
In a frmer letter I alluded to the friend
ships tiat are so often abruptly broken
among the ollicials. No matter how
patronizing and humble an applicant may
he, the moment he gets in he assumes all
the dignity ant importance his position is
entihled to, and brooks no in~iuations.
Abo;ut the time Congress adjourned Sena
tor Harris, of Tennessee, went up to sce
the President about an appointment in his
State, which some of his constituents were
interested in. Ile stated his case, and the
President replied: Well, it seems to me
that you have a good deal of assurance to
conie here asking for an appointment when
vou voted aainst my man Yatthews."
'fie SCator got hot in a secon(l. "I'll
have you know Mr. President," he said,
" that it is none of your business what I do
or do not do in 'the Senatc. I am the
master. sir, of my own actions there, as
vou ::re here. I didn't come here asking
any favor of you on any personal grouuds.
The peeple of the State of Tennessee.
whom I repttsent. asked meto dothis, and
that is why I came here. You can do as
you d- please, sir, about the matter: but,
sir, I want it (istinetly understood that
what 1 do as a Senator is beyond your
juri*diction.'' and the irate Senator left in
a hurry and declares he wll never speak to
the Prsdent again.
Tr-asury ollicials are having considerable
quiet fu1 gro".-ing out of the recent bond
c 'a . . -s ll Known abotut the depart
me th-at Treasur-er .Jordan, who is now
-t the Arkansas Hot Springs, is violently
opposed to bond calls on general principles.
anu. in a recenit letter to a personal frieud
he fairly howled because so much of the
surnlus has been ordered out of the Treas
ury. At the present rate of redemption of
bowls. S35,0{,-.000 per month, the redeem
able part of the public debt will be wiped
out ini abou~t seveni months, the'.rc being hut
$1700.0 of three per cent. houds yet
outstainding and subject to call.
In one of the aippropriation bills passed
at the last session of Congress is an item of
$14 for pay to the Fourth Regirnent of
Vermiont 31ilitia for services att the battle of
Pavsburgh. (war of 181?,) Rather tardy
just ice, but better late than never. H.
While Tim re is Life There is Hope.
YAny of the .diseases of this season
of the year can be averted by a small
amount of care and at little cost, by
the timely use ot' EWBANK's TOPiz
CiNclioNA CORDIL.
It cures Diarrhea, Dysentery, Chol
era Nobu and like complaints. ,No
tra ce/cr should be without a bottle, as
it wvill prevenlt any disease that would
no doubt arise from the change of
water, food and climate, without its
use. The most valuable medicine in
the worlId, contains all the best and
most eurative properties of all other
Tonics, Bitterns, etc., etc., being tile
greatest Blood Purifier, Liver- Regula
tor and Life and llalth-Restor-ing
Agent itn existence. For Malaria,
Fever and Ague, Chills and Fever,
Dyspepsia, Indigestion, Sick Head
ache, Nervous Hleadache, Chr-onic
Rhenmatism, etc., etc., it is truly a
Herculeau Remedy. It gives new life
and vigor to the aged. Fot- ladies mn
deicate health, weak and sickly chii
de:t, nur-sinmr mothers. See circulars
wrapped with bottle.
CaU\RLESTos, S. C., Sept. 1, 1885.
H. B. EwBANK, Esq., President of
The Topaz Cinchiona Cor-dial Co.,
Spatanburg, S. C.: Denar Sir-I have
used a ease of your Topaz Cordial in
my family, and as a Tonic and Appe
tizer- 1 can cheerfully recommend i: to
all who are stuffering from Debility
and lack of appetite. My children,
especially, have been much benefitted
by its use. Respectfully,
JIUTrSoN LE E.
Ask your dr-uggist for EWISANK's
TorAZ CINCHONA CORMDAL and take
no other.
THlE TOPAZ CINCITONA CNrDIAL. Co.,
*Spartanburg, S. C., U. S. A.
War in the Ea,-:.
PIuxi, September 2.-The publicatiotn
oft he cor-resondence betwecen the Czar and
Prin e Aexander has created a g-reat sensa
tion in otc-al circles here. The Czar's
mncng r-eply- to the Prine's submissive
epg israrded by diplomats as ensuring
Alxnersadication andl~ Rutsa's occu
pad >n of lgiar-ia. It is feared that svar
wil ensule unless Uismark intervenes.
B:m. ,Septetmbecr 2.-Private tele
ermsreeitved here this evening~ from
Soti:: state that a battle took pihice at Rado
iia, Eastern Rotumelia,. between regimients
lov ii to Prince Alexander and reilmtents
saing wit h theC revoiutionists, and that tie
lttt< were defeated with heavy loss.
Naval Eq.upnents.
N:aval equiipiuient costs vastly more
'asi it didt thirty y-ears age. In 18853
the Duke of \ve'1ington was the most
powerftul ship in the British navy. The
cost of its cannon and warlike stores did
Inot exceed $S5,000. The Benbow, just
addedI to the British fleet, is armed with
cannon costing $700,000. To fire one
charge from its 110-ton gun costs $765,
while the charge for the Wellington's
GENERAL NEWS ITEM,.
Facts of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.
The world's visible supplv of cotton is
1,152.226 bales.
The fourth Louisville Expositioi was
opened onl Saturday.
Eiglaud is expectid to take the lead in
restoring ordler in Bulgaria.
Kene Bros., dry goods. San Francisco,
Cal., have failed fo'r
T wo little boys, brother-. were drowned
near Lancaster. Penn., on Saturday.
h'll( threat of an insurrection of negroes
in Laurinburg, N. C., is not believedl.
New York tanks now h old i ,t.907.150 in
reserve inl cxccSs of leg-A renuirement.
A Socialist hms been nominated for (on
gres in the Second Connecticut Distrhit.
Rusan newspapers still aIvi-C Prince
Alexander not to resume the Bulg-arian
throne.
Lawrence Donovan, a young pressman.
jiumped the Brooklyn bridge to win $300.
ile was unhurt.
N -ar Vickshurg. )iss. a negro bov killed
the wife of his employer. le was imme
A wild s-teer ini Bridgeporl, Il., 1-1red a
miani in1 the nose, Satu'day. ia!iicting ijIu
ries w hich may prove f:tal.
Sundav evening there was some tiring of
pistols and throwing of stones, and a few
persons injured in Belfast.
Three ier were fatally injured by ihe
fall of a bridge over the Elm fork of Trin
ity river, near Dalas. Texas, on Friday.
Two ladies were drowned in the surf at
Jacksonville. Fla., on Saturday, and a trav
eling man at Poala beach, near same place.
In a railway collision at Madling, eight
miles from Vienna. seven persons were
killed and twenty-two woundcd.
Mtrs. Elizabeth Rodgers has been ap
pointed 31aster Workman of Di-trict As
ernbllv No. 24, Knights of Labor, Chicago.
The President has appointed Judge IMan
ning, of Louisiana, as Minister to Mexico.
to succeed Gen. Jackson. resigned.
Alabana has over 32,000,000 acres of
land, and a little over 5.00o,.O are under
cultivation. There is room in the old land
yet, it would seem.
The national debt statement, issued Tites
day, shows the decrease for August to be
$191,069,002; cash in the Treasury, $474.
270,C51.74.
An article contributed by Miss Cleveland
to Septemer iderary Life will be on "Va
cation Reading." Miss Clevelad will do
justice to her theme in a unique style.
Charlie Bierman accidentally shot and
killed Victor Butler. of Aigusta, Ga., on
last Sunday morning, while both were
hunting near that city.
A colored woman and her two children
were burned to death six miles from Au
gusta on this side of the Savannah River
on Saturday.
Six hundred lives were lost and. a thou
sandl persons injured by the earhquake in
Greece. At least six towns were entirely
and a score partially destroyed.
A magnetic storm raged all the morning
of Wednesday at Rochester. N. Y. The
swaying of heavy magnetic needles for the
detection of earth currents was very great.
Zankoff and Grueff, conspirators against
Alexander, have been sentenced to death,
and their co-conspirator, Clement, to im
prisonment for life.
Mrgaret Meagher, over 40 years old, of
New York, drove her husband to suicide
and allowed her baby to starve to death
while she indulged in a protracted debauch.
A firedamp expliosion occurred at Fair
Lawn, near Scranton, Pa.. on the :0th.
Seven dead bodies have been recovered, and
it is reported that ten men are still in the
mine.
*W. K. Terry, who was shot in a street
fight in 31artinsville. Va., 3May 17, died last
night. IHis brother, .J. K. Terry, was
killed in the tight, and B. K. Terry was
shot through the bc-dy, but recovered.
Prof. W. J. MIeGee, of the Geological
Survey, has left Washington for Charles
ton, to make a scientiltte studyv of the elfect
of the earthquske at what now appears to
have been tile centre of disturbance.
Fifty thousand Socialists, workmen aind
idlers met in Trafalgar sqtuare. London,
Sunday and adopted a resolution dlenounc
ing the tyranny of the police and action of
the athlorities in imprisoning the Socialist,
Williams.
It is stated that the Russian Prince D~ol
gorouki's journey to Bulgaria to restore
order has been postponed because of a re
port that the revolution in Bulgatria huad no
lender, and was initiated without any gular
antee that the whole natioxn approved it.
The Treasury Department has decided
that cotton ties cut from bales in foreign
countries and returned to the United States
cannot be admitted free of duty. als they
are not "returned in the same condition as
exported," but being Cut must be regarded
as 01(d scrap iron.
The captain of a steamer just arrived at
M1alta says that on August :30, when the ship
was fourteen miles to the northl of thle
island of Galita, off Tunis, in the M1editer
ranean, he noticed that the highest peak on
the eastern endi of the island was in a state
of eruption, ejecting smoke fronm the crater
like M1ount Etna.
A dispatch from Wilcox. Arizona. dated
August :30. states that Colonel Wade has
rounded up all the Chirachuas and Warm
Spring Apaches, numbering 4:20. H~e has
thlemt under gtuard, and will, unless some
accident occurs, carry out General M1iles's
plan of moving them out of Arizona.
The bark Lena. from Aspinwall for
Phiiadelphia, is off the entrance to thits
port. Sheo had lost one of her crew with
fever on the passage uad hats seven more
down aw.ith it. Shte was seeking assistance.
The Board of Health officer ordered a
steami tug t) tow the vessel to Ship Island
q1uarantine.
Reports htave gone out ft-om Augustai,
Ga.. that the race feeling ag~ainst Chinanmen
had prompted an attempt to assassinatte
thenm with dlynamilte. It is trtue that an
attempt waus made Sunday night to blow up
Charlie too Chong, in thle heart of the
city, but the investigation shows that the
motive .was revenge by a negre for a fan
cied personal wrong, and itot the outgrowth
of race prejudice. Tile attempt proved
futile and the perpetrator was arrestedl.
ButtTalo Bill is the claimant of property
valued att u$15,000,00)0, situated in the heat
of the city of Clevelad. There are four
hundred 'defendants to the suit, including
MIr. McAndrewvs, of the Slanldard Oil Com
pany, whlo built a mangnitcent mansiona,
w~hich1 is plaedt half on the ground now
claimed by Cody. Joe Jefferson also ha~s a
mantsion on tile grounds. The sluit is pentd
ing in the United States C'outs. ('ody's
grandfather bought nealrly two hundreU
I -ires of hlanl which a son deededl to out
si(e part its. forini. it is chargeld, his
father's signature. ()liers oi comupronuise
have bet-n made but declined b y the great
Indian tighter.
D~o You Know a Maun
Whose wife is troubled with diebility
ntervotusness, liver comlaint or rheumia
tism? Just tell him it is a pity to let
the lady- stl'er thtat way, when Brown's
Iron Bitters will relieve her. Mrs. L.
B. Elgerly, Dexter, :Me., says: "Brown's
Iron Bitters cured me of debility and
nahpitation of the heart." Mrs. 1H. 5.
MceLaughlin, of Scarborough , Me., say s
the bitters eared her of debility. Mrs.
Harding, of Windham Centre, in the
same State, says it cured her of dizzi
ness in the head. So it has ctured thou
--nia of other l/adis *
BRIC-A-BRAC.
if you won't economize you must ago
mze.
Straws show 'which way the cobbler
roes.
The nights have been delightfully cool
for the xast week.
Spare the golden r-. and spoil the sitting ]
1ooM.
Aucti'ee'rs have a nod way of receiving
hids.
The Man who ought to "give you fits"
Your tailor.
A misplaced switch-When the wrong
boy is whipped.
This autumn all the browns are to shade
to yellow rather than red.
Yes. Ella. a policeman's club might be
called a limb ot the law.
Strike while the iron is hot, but let some
other fellow hold the iron.
A lady's declining years are said to be
from eighteen to twenty-five.
We fail to see any difference between a
traveling dress and a walking suit.
There are a hundred kinds of religion,
but only one kind of piety.
Take a cheerful view of everything and
look for beauty in everything.
The smallest kird deed will return with
teider light upon bome darkened day.
To be content is not to be satisfied. No
one ought to be satisfied with the anperfect.
Be loving, and you will never want for
love: be humble. and you will never want
for guiding.
Prudence and good breeding are neces
sary, and most young men suffer from the
want of them.
When the summer resorts fill up it be
comes more difficult for the boarders to do
SO.
Babies cry for the same reason that some
men swear. It's because they don't know
any better.
In what respect might a boy on his way
to the circus be said to resemble a sailor?
In going to see.
No, we can't take time to read a, poem
written by. feflh-w who tries to makeihoime
rhyme with Li.Ikome.
Mere vulgar wealth, without libeTality
and public spirit, is the bane of anv live
and progressive community.
Public opinion can only be relied iupon
to change, but what new form it will take
is always a matter of doubt.
A writer says that "dress Is wom.%n's
great conundrum." It Is hoped that she
will never he compelled to give it up.
In civilized communities they bang a
man on evidence. In less civilized coin
munities they just hang him to a tree.
It would be a relief to the general publif.
to b-e assured that the battle of Gettysbur.g
is actually at an end.
No matter what the water mill may do,
the hand organ man will continue to grind.
the music that is past.
The New Orleans Picayune says a mil
lionaire is miserably poor in the presence
of an assessor.
"I'll just add to the fresh hair fund,"
said the Indian, as he took the frontiers
man's scalp.
If every dog has his day, we wish that
tile dogs to whom belong these days would
be off with them.
A Philadelphia woman has patented a
life preserving corset. This will be a great
boon to women who are "in the swim."
To preserve bouquets put a little salt
petre in the water you use for your bou
quets, and the flowers will live a fortnight.
If we should have a war with Mexico it
is estimated that Missouri alone could fur
nish half a dozen regiments in which every
private would be a colonel.
To be sincere we must speak as we think,
believe as we pretend, act as we profess,
perform as we promise and be as we appear
to be.
Suppose old Dr. Johnson. the lexicogra
phe1r, wvere to stick his head up out of the
grave andl hear somebody yell: "Boycott
the scab'"
The man who was discarded the other
day by- one of our fair maidens told us he
hadl jiust met the author of "the beauti
ful's no."
Cotton picking is'beginning in earnest.
To the cotton fields arc tramping the great
and small, the stout and tall, and the little
"coons" and all.
A man may read law and become a law
yer: he may study medicine and become a.
'doctor; but if he wants to be a blacksmith
he muist work at his trade.
When the people get out of the clutches
of money changers, who contract the cur
rency and run the government, prospenty
will return.
G3en. Bragg, of Wisconsin, has been
caught in some political bargaining, which
he had reduced to writing. Ignorance is
sometimes bliss.
On October 1, 1886, the postal delivery
system will be extended to all post offices
in tihe country. There will lie free deliv
cry to all places within one mile of the post
office.
The information comes by cable that
Oliver Wendell Holmes has set down to
table with kings and queens. This is in
tere'sting as far as it goes, but how many of
them did he hold?
It is the little things that fret and worry
us. A three-years-old boy may keep a man
in perfect misery, whereas no such trial
would accompany the presence of his
eighteen-years-old sister.
MIrs. Eve and Mr. Adam live in Augusta'
Ga. Mr. Abel used to live in Columbus
and Mr. ('aln in Jefferson county. But
this does not indicate that Eden, Ga., was
the original Garden of Eden by any means.
IHe wais looking for a rich wife and
thotight he was on the trail. "I love you,"
he said to her in rich, warm tones, "more
than I can tell you in words." "You'd
better try figures," she replied, coldly, for
she was not so green as she looked.
The following good one has been un
earthed:
"1)lAR S-rAx-ros: I should like very
much to have Freeze appointed a Colonel.
even at the risk of his not being able to tell
the color of .Julius Ca-sar's hair.
"A. LINCOLN."
This brings tears to the eyes of the aver
age civil service reformer.
The Iron and Nieel Trade.
P ..ntamani, Sept. 1.-The American
Iron and Steel Association has cnmpleted
a new dire'ctory of the iron and steel works
in the United States, showing the extent of
those industries now as compared with two
years ago. The number of completed
rolling mills and stecl works desc'ribed in
the directory for 1884 was 434. with 4
bling, but in tile edition for 1886 only
41i ar'e described, with 1:3 huilding. The
s.lily decreased number' of rolling mills
an'd( steel w''rks in 1886i, notwithstanding
thet great increase since 1884 in the erection
of stee'l plants, is accounted for partly by
the fact that a number of rolling mills
which were btuilt to roll iron rails have
been wholly abandoned, and partly by the
at thait the increasing use of steel rails
tends to diminish the demand for the
produ1cts of iron rolling mills. The annual_
eapacity of the rolling nills in fmnished iron
and steel is virtually the same now as in
ls4. bein'g 7.tj00.tt00 net tons in 1884 and
7,t1:,00 tons in 1886.
An exc hange says that Tom Jones was
shot in the basement at the post oflice by
Jim Brownu, and died immediately. We
are not surprised, for that is a mighty bad
plaice to shoot a person, and it generally
roves fatal.
Foreign News.
Forty-nine arrests have made of persons
vho resisted the police of Portumina in
heir endeavor to evict tenants from the
state of Lord Clanricarde.
Four arrests have been made in connee
ion with the moonlight outrages in Kerrv.
reland. Gen. luller is at (llarney. and
,as made his headquarters at the Rtailway
lotel.
Jules Simon has published a letter in
,vhich lie predicts that France will eventu
iLly become a conservan!ive republic, which
We declares to be the only stable govern
nent for Frenchmen.
Vesuvius is again in a state of eruption.
rhe people of Naples and Bari are tleein..
:o the country or gathering in open spaces
o pray. At Bari the priests proclaim the
martliquakes a visitation of God.
Prince Alexander hnas been warned to
take precautions against possible attempts
on his life by Pan-Slavic fanatics and fol
owers of the Metropolitan. Clement.
whose party has ramifications in the inte
rior of Bulgaria.
Cholera returns in Italy since yesterday's
report show: Barletta. 10 new cases and 2
deaths; Malfetta, 10 new cases and S deaths:
Ravenna, 12 new cases and 12 deatis. In
five other towns an average of 8 new cases
and 2 deaths.
Prince Alexander has telegraphed the
Regency to announce to the people his in
tention of returning to Soria. The rebel
lious troops there have submitted. and, on
condition that they quit the country, will
not be punished. The revolution was quite
bloodless, and no further opposition is
feared. It is stated that Russia paid the
conspirators. Bendereff and Dempstreiff,
the sum of 400,000 roubles.
The Berlin Vloiche Zeitung. IBerliner
Tagbiatt and National Zeitung insist that i:.
is impossible for Germany and Austria to
tolerate Russian occupation of Bulgaria.
It is stated that M. Nelidoff, Russian Am
bassador at Constantinople, in an interview
with the Grand Vizier, hinted at Russiau
occupation of Bulgaria, adding that if a
hair of one Russian was touched Russia
would be compelled to interfere.
The London Mornig Post says that
henceforth Prince Alexander will pursue
an unequivocal anti-Russian policy. and
will adopt a severe law banishing Russians
from Bulgaria. Russian money will not be
accepted in government offices in Bulgaria,
and even the soldiers' uniforms, which are
now similar to the Russian uniforms, will
be changed.
Disastrons Washout.
A dispatch from Augusta, Ga., under
date of September 1, says:
No trains have arrived or departed from
or to Charleston or Columbia since last
night, in consequence of heavy washouts
in the neighborhood of Langley. The clam
of the immense pond at that place was rent
in twain at the first shock last night, and
the large volume of water rushed out with
such velocity that the South Carolina Rail
way track was swept away for a distance
of one mile. and the Charlotte. Columbia
and Augusta track for a considerable dis
tance also.
The train that left for Charleston at 10.07
last night met with a terrible accident
where the track was washed away near
.Langley. The breaking of Langley pond
caused the dam of the Bath p'nd to give
way also, by the overflow of water from
hi former. These two immense ponds
L ting emptied inundated the entire country
ad jacent, and washed away the' South
Carolina track at Horse Creek crossing,
wh I caused the wreck at that point. The
train was made up of a number of freight
cars and three passenger coaches, and ran
into the washout at the above named point,
overtrning the engine and killing the col
ored tireman. Adam Simmons. Mr. John
Reyno.'ds, the engineer, was badly injured.
but his wounds are not necessarily fatal.
The third car from the engine was loaded
with hoi-ses. This car was completely de
molished, killing some of the stock, while
othes escaped only slightly injured, and
were seen swiminhg about in every direc
tion to .gin a salfe landing place.
The Length of Girls'.Arms.
"That explains a theory of mine," said a
middle-aged man, as he directed attention
to a matron and her little four-year-old
daughter, who, hand in hand, were coming
down Wabash street.
The matron was quite stout, and found
some diffi~ulty in reaching down to hli
the land of the little toddler. The matron
was evidentvy in a hurry, and she waliod
along the street at an ordinary rate of
speed. Hecr little daughter found it impos
sible to keep up with the procession, and
at regular intervals tripped and fel over,
or at least would have fallen but for the
ntervention of the mother. She had dhe
child by the hand, and at every trip she
tightened her grip, and by main strength
jerked the child on her feet. The child's
Left arm was being elongated.
"I have always heard," continued the
peaker, "that a woman's left arm is longer
han her right; that her left shoulder is
aigher than her right, and have been try
ngto solve the problem, or at least explain
t mn some wvay. Seeing that woman drag
ng that little girl by her left arm explains
t all. Mothers usually start out holding
heir children's left hands. Why not boyvs
he same wayy I'll explain that. Boys
un usually run as fast as a woman can
v'alk, even when they are little fellows,
ud so don't have to be dragged. Little
grs trip and the dragging process begins."
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