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WATCHMAN, Established April, 1850.
"Be Just and Fear not-Let all the Ends thou Aims't at, be thy Country's, thy God's, and Truth's.
THE TRUE SOUTHRON, Established June, 186?;
i 2, 1881.1
SUMTER, S. C., TUESDAY, MAY 29, 1883.
Sew Series-Vol. II. So. 42?
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; ' ?^fel^ H? 43 ?tans at ?? Stttwm.
-:5^S^W^TjHW?o?ivilk, Seater, Camden June
far Cahnabia and all points on
xt*A. R. R. Stations,
^Jsa, sad oB points beyond, should
.?t IRgHt Kxprew.
Steepens for Charleston
trains 48 and 47.
on 48 ea n tat? 48 train from
. CoU?abi?, Angosta sad Gooroo*
irCoinjnhia~
-t rn Solid bet voes Charleston ?nd
toa. /- .'
JOHN F. DITINE, Genera] Snp't.
Gen-Passenger Ag't.
^ > -.^^^^^Mt^S. a, Maj 13, I883!
~xX&itr? altar this date the following Sebe
.od* w?Ti be run : *
XenseChu rleatoa. Arrive Florence.
r.s.y|a^-gpE;.?.3 00 p M.
./ 0 3? Pv"'?"?...;-120 A. X.
t^ai.?^--7 00 p. K.
>. Le?are Jfocenee. Arrive Charleston.
V ].% ?: A.- ^."?.^"6 20 A. X.
1.40.p. xT^....^-.6 30 P H.
ll sa P. M.~"~^-8 00 a. M.
TYein ieoviag Florence at 2 25 if M. will
.top ooij M K5Dgstree^MKr-Man*ks Corner.
SCHEDULE.
10 55 a ra
1 15 p m
5 50 p m
8 45 a m
4 05 p m
6 30 p tn
J. F. DIYINE,
Gen? 1 Sept.
Railway Co.
jfVMUlSMeUiG February 4th, 1383, Pas
V/ snarer Trains will run as foliow?. until fur
^*j?':.4tor ???eSw (So train? ara ruo on Camden
Braatsn. on Sondey* )
TO COLOMBIA.
f*lTS CramSeo-6 45 & ni 4 30pm
.7 .'.??mvn Caradeo, Jnoe?on^. $$ta ra ? p m
^ Anm tt Cyinmbta-1 t 28 a m lo 35 p ra
: ; ? PBoM COLOMBIA
Lents CoraraMa. 8 00 a m... 6 SS p m
Arrive Caatde* Jsmrtfon.l I 35 a ra... 8 48 p m
Anis* st C*m?*T_. 1 40 p m..JO 12 p tn
- TO CB A St. ESTO 5
Laoaa Caradeo-_ . 0 45 a ra 4 30 p rn
' <ss*?Craulas Janet_... 8 09am 0 35 p m
Arrivant Charleston...... J ?9 pia ll 30 pm
nm cnancssTon
Laave Chariest un_ 7 uti a m... 8 35 a m
- AmV? Caraden Jene'-II 35 a a... 8 48 p m
;M Anisa ??<:*??J?J"-? 49 p ra... W 12 p m
TO ACGCSTA
Isnve Csmdeo -_g 45 a m 4 30 p m
Le**? Camden Jone^_809 ara 6 35 p m
* ' Arrive ti Aogu*U-" 00 p m 7 13 a m
-^teff- * - ROM ACS CST A
^|flK&* Aagosta-T 05 s H1...S 00 p m
Mire Camden Jano'.-.^..8 48 p m 10 35 a m
v AxrUe Camden r_-..IO 12 p ra 1 40 p m
cojfsncvioxs.
Cusnoufnras Js at Columbia with Colum
(.sand Greenville Railroad both war?, to ana
Jrora all puiota on that Road and on the Spar
tanbar;. Union sad Colombia and Spartanburg
' Sad Ashville Railroads, also with' the Char
latte, Colombia and Angosta Railroad to and
-" ?rara all potete North by traine leaving Camden
v~ at S 45 a at, and arriving at 10 12 p m.
- Connection* rasde at Angosta to ail Point]
".'.?tfsat sad Sooth; abo at Charleston with
?eaojers for Keir York-on Wedoesdsye end
\J Sxtmt?xTM. Also a ii h Charleston and Savannah
Ba??aay for Savannah and all points Sooth.
. - Cooa?don* made at Blackville with Barn.
; rae? R. to and from Barnwell bj all train?
jt^On^e^ays SOUND TRIP TICEKTS ar?
??Sid ta and from all Stations at ooo first cl?ss
gjjWS^ar taa taaad trip-Sekets being good till
BKandajr coon, to reruru. Rxenrsion tickets
?Mead for 10 day? are regularly on sale to aod
y trara all staJlena at 6 oenu per mile UT round
?S^feB?fJ?M TICKETS to all poin?i, eon U
E pll limn il hy applying to James Jones, Aged
I ? deaden. i>. C. ALLEN,
f ' 6enerel Passenger and Ticket Agent.
M JOBS B. PECK, General Manager,
f ; Charleston, S. C.
WHEW AND HARNESS.
-0
np?r? FIKEST LEATHER Ol? HAND Read;
v JL to be worked op at the lowest living
- HARfelteiS of the latest style and of my
workmaosh ip, at my s h op io se 11,
I Massacred to do all kinds of Jobs ic
- say tine of business. AH Orders received
^^Jwproraptly attended to, and with UK
??A fall line of
B?lJ>T-yADS HARNESS,
SADDLES, BRIDLES,
COLLARS. MARTIN?
GALES, and
, EYEBYTH?5G ELSE
pertaioiag ton First-class Harness Shop.
- OLD HARNESS randa to look ss good
?OT?R3NGArad REPAIRING Old TRUNKS
<?- -^^kS&Bmt?JSY^
jffl WOfSK'la-.tny Rna ?0ARANTEJBD
THOUGHTS ON ??A PASSING
FANCY (?)"
To Miss
"A passing fancy," is it so ? . v
All things are transient-this I know.
Mast love too, pas3 away ?
The earth, itself, with beat shall glow
And ra Dish, like fast melting soow
Beneath the san's hot ray.
Tet though this world mast pass away
When breaks eternity's long day,
It is not lost, not gone ;
'Twill bad again, and by God's band
Revivified; at bis command
Break forth in endless song.
The rose will then not wear a thorn,
And cloudless be the sky each morn
That wakes the new-born world.
Only the bitter, not the sweet,
The chaff, and not the golden wheat
. Into oblivion hurled.
Then tell me not the soul's best gem,
Its crowning joy, its diadem
Mast fade ead I still live.
Ab no: my soul would, view thia love
' As g ?ven by the God above
Who naught but good doth give.
And ever with the tenderest care
I'll guard this love so pore and fair
From every evil thought ;
TU prize it more than life is prized,
Or ever loved a bird the skies
When by some huntsman caught.
But ah ! the bitter, bitter thought
That sometimes comes with madness fraught,
And makes the hot blood start :
What if some one more blessed than I
Shou' d find more favor in thine eye
And win thy gentle heart !
Then often will my thought look back
Across life's lonely, desert track,
And mourn o'er blighted love ;
O'er love so gentle, tender, true,
So strong, so earnest, lasting, pure:
Love 1 ali my heart's best love I
O dearest one, give me thy heart,
And bid no more my love depart ;
'Tis fixed, 'tisstaved on thee.
Mine be the lot thy life to cheer,
To banish from thy path each care,
And with true sympathy to share
Each joy, each grief you see.
. ? * *
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The following interesting pieter
comes from Washington of the dornest!
life of Bell, the telephone man : "Prof
Bell and his wife are both very fond o
flowers, and when on the 28th the Lite
rary Society met at their boase bad i
most elaborately adorned with flowers
especially cut roses with long stems
which Mrs. Bell made into loose boa
qaets and presented each lady with om
as she left. Though born a deaf mute
Mrs. Bell bas been taught to speak bj
tho new process and can understand, bj
close watching the motions of the mouth
of those who speak with ber, all thej
say to her. Consequently few who an
unaware of her affliction notice it at al
in talking with her, and she receive
and entertains company with perfect eas?
and grace. It is said her husbant
taught her to speak before their mar
Hage, and that their courtship began it
that way. She and her sister ba vi
been considered among the most beauti
ful women in Washington since thej
removed there/
*Say, Mister Causey, did you see ?
yaller dog come by here that looked a
if be were a year, or a year and a half
or two years old?' 'Yes, he pass?e
about an hour, or an hour and a half
or two hours ago; and is now a mile, ;
mile and a half, or two miles a head
and he bad-a tail about an inch, or ai
inch and a bailor two ?Bches long.
.TbsVB de ; you're into mo a foot, o
'io*****-*, fe***, er Mro feet/ Tnt
Mtm? to?bov? ia tho same om
raJgftSldfr tfrot Mee or twits
That Bad Boy
His Own'Ma Deceives Him.
'Give me ten cents worth of saffron,
quick/ said the bad boy to the gro?
cery mau, as he came in the grocery
on a gallop, early one morning, with
no collar on, and no vest. He looked
as though he had been routed out of
bed in a hurry, aud had jumped into
his pants and boots, and put on bis
coat on the run.
'I don't keep saffron,' said the gro?
cery man, as he picked up a barrel of
axe handles that the boy had tipped
over in his hurry. 'You want to go
over to the drug store on the borner,
if you want saffron. But what on
earth is the mat-' I
Al this point the boy shot ont of
the door, tipping over a basket of
white beans, and disappeared in the
drug store. The grocery man got
down on his knees on the sidewalk
and scooped up the beans, occasion?
ally looking over toward the drug
store, and just as he got them picked
np the boy came out of the drug store
and walked deliberately towards his
home, as though there was no par?
ticular hurry. The grocery man
looked after him, took up an axe
handle, spit on his hands and shouted
to the boy to come over pretty soon,
as he wanted te talk with him. The
boy did not come to the grocery till
towards night, but the grocery man
had seen him running down town a
dozen times during the day, and once
he rode up to the. house with the
doctor, and the grocer surmised what
was the trouble. Along towards
night the boy came in in a dejected
sort of tired way, sat dowu on a bar?
rel of sugar, and never spoke.
'What is it, a boy or a girl, ?" said
the grocery man, winking at an old
lady with a shawl over her head, wbo
waa trying to hold a paper over a
pitcher of yeast with her thumb.
'How in blazes did you know any?
thing about it V said the boy, as he
looked around in astonishment, and
with some indignation. 'Well, it's a
giri, if you must know, and that's
enough/ and he looked down at the
cat playing on the floor with a pota
toe, his face a picture of dejection.
'0, don't feel bad about it,' said
\ the grocery man, as he opened the
f door for the old lady. 'Such tlrngs
, are bound to occur But you take my
\ word for it, that young one is going
to have a hard life, unless you mend
, your ways. You will be using it for
a cork to a jug, or to wad a gun with,
f the first thing your ma knows.'
t . 'I wouldn't touch the darn thing
f with the tongs,' said the boy, as he
? rallied enough to eat some crackers
and cheese. 'Gosh, this cheese tastes
[ good. I hain't had nothing to eat
p since morning. I have been all over
j this town trolling for nurses. They
. think a boy hasn't got any feelings.
r- But I wouldn't-care a gol darn, if ma
hadn't been sending me for neuralgia
j medicine, and hay fever snuff all
t winter, when she wanted to get rid
of me. 1 have come in the room lots
of times when ma and the sewing girl
were at work on some flannel things,
1 and ma would hide them in a basket
1 j and send me off after medicine. 1
5 was deceived up to about four o'clock
1 this morning, when pa came to my
" room and pulled me out of b?? to go
e over on the west side after some old
. woman that knew ma, and they have
1 kept me whooping ever since. What
' does a boy want of a sister, unless it's
f a big sister 11 don't wan't no sister
1 that I have got to hold, and rock, and
" hold a bottle for. This affair breaks
? me all np,' and the boy picks the
8 cheese out of his teeth with a sliver
? he cut off the counter.
'Well, how does your pa take it,
" said the grocery man, as he charged
i the boy's pa with cheese, and saffron,
s and a number of such things.
'0, pa will pull through. He
t wanted to boss the whole concern
t until ma's chum, an old woman that
i takes snuff, fired him out into the
- hall. Pa 6at there on my hand sled,
. a perfect picture of despair, and I
r thought it would be a kindness to
r play it on him. ? found the cat asleep
? in the bath room, and I rolled the cat
- up in a shawl and brought it out to pa
} and told him the uurse wanted him to
. held the baby. It seemed to do pa
. good to feel that he was iodespensa
l ble around the house, and be took the
; cat on hie lap as tenderly as you ever
i saw a mothor hold an infant. Well,
i I got in the back ball, and he couldn't
? Bee me, and pretty soon the cat be
. gan to wake up and stretch himself,
, and pa said, 'S-h-h-tootsy, go to sleep,
now, aud let its pa hold it,' and pa he
rocked back and forth on the hand
sled and began to 6ing, 'By, low,
! baby.' That settled it with the cat.
: Well, some cats can't stand music,
anyway, and the more the cat wauted
' to get out of the shawl, the louder pa
sung, and bimeby I heard something
rip, and pa yelled 'Scat, you brute,'
and when I looked around the corner
of the hall the cat was bracing his
self against pa's vest with his toe?
nail*, and pa fell over the sled and
began to talk about the hereafter like
the minister does when he gets excited
in church, and then pa kicked up the
sled and seemed to be looking for me
or the cat, but both of us wa6 ofiul
scarce. Don't you think there are
times when boys and cats are kind of
J few around their accustomed haunts ?
Pa don't look as though he was very
smart, but he can hold a cat about as
well as the next man. But I am sor?
ry for ma she was just getting ready
to go to Florida for her neuralgia, and
this will puta stop to it, cause she
has to stay and take care of that
young one. Pa says I will have a
nice time this summer pushing the
baby wagon. By the great horn
spoons, there has got to be a dividing
line somewhere, between business
and pleasure, and I strike the linc at
wheeling a baby. I had rather catch
a string of perch than to wheel all the
babies ever was. They needn't pro
I cure no baby on my account, if it is
j. to amuse me. I don't see why babies
i can't be sawed off onto people that
r need them in their busines^^?rt
j folks don't need a baby aAd B
j you nee^g safe, aad tbqjj
would it be to take the baby so
night and leave it on some old bael
lor's door-step. Il it had been a bi?
cle, or a breech loading shot-gun,
wouldn't have cared, bvt a bab
Bah ! It makes me tired. Pd drutl
have a prize package. Well, I ?
sorry pa allowed me to come hon
after he drove me away last week,
guess all he wanted me to come ba
for was to humiliate me, and eend 1
on errands. Well, I must go and s
I if he and the cat have made up.'
And then the boy went out and f
up a paper sign in front of the sto
'Leave your measure for saffron te
The Best Cattle and Shee
A correspondent of of the AugU!
Chronicle writing from Atlan
says :
Meeting my old friend, Col. Ri<
ard Peters, on the streets the ott
day, I asked him about Jerseys. I
is the oldest stock raiser in Georg
and oue of those practical men whe
sense and enterprise have made the
pioneers and leaders in valuable
dustries. He knows more abc
thorough-bred stock than any man
the South, his experience runni:
back half a century and coven";
every kind of cows, sheep and ho?
He told me, among other things, t
following :
'The Jetsey business is increasii
very rapidly over the South. Th
suit the climate and are as easily ke
asa common cow ; they bring from
pound to a pound and a half of butt
a day on the same amount of foi
given to village cows. The majori
milk up to-the time of calving. Th?
come into profit very young, anothe
great advantage. They will cal
when about two years old. There a
several cases of cows having calv
at 14 12 months old. This is t<
young. In the United States at pi
sent there are about 19,000 register)
Jersey cows and heifers and 9,01
Jersey bulls, io 1866 there we
probably about 1,000-Jersey cov
and 200 bulls. The large proporti<
has been bred in America, fully i
per cent., and the experienced m<
believe the American are superior
the imported cows ; that Americj
breeder is a more scientific breed
than the foreigner. The tendency
present is to breed to families whoi
butter making qualities have been e
tablished, and whose prepotency
the male has been tested. The fan
ly that is most rapidly rising now
known as the 'Signul/ family. Th
family, on the male side, started fro
a bull named Jerry, numbered 15
the Herd Register, imported by Wi
B. Dinsinore in the year 1868.
combination was made with Lac
Mary, a cow imported by T. J. Kam
the present secretary of the catt
club. Another celebrated importe
cow, 'Pansy, No. 8,' was brought b
fore and combined with the blood i
Jerry, the bull Albert being the be
known to breeders of the decendan
of Jerry and tin's combination.
Out of the 19,000 cows and 9,000 bul
there are probably, 1,500 cows and c
bulls that have been brought into notic
by testing the production of ^butte
and they may be considered the heat
of the rising families. These coi
8ist mainly of the descendants i
Jupiter aud Rhea, known as the A
phea and Bomba family. The Coi
massie family of a recent importatio
are rapidly coming into notic*
There are several others that claim t
be rising stars, but at present tl
three mentioned are foremost.
Recently bulls have been sold J
$5,000, and from that to $8,000 an
one or two not well established sale
at ?10,000 and $12,000. The ownei
expect to gel their money back b
using the bulls for stock purpose*
The demand in Georgia is far beyon
the supply, the main trouble being i
obtaining acclimated animals. Si?
nal sired but 14 heifers, 12 of whic
gave butter records running from 1
pounds to 22 pounds 1 1-2 ounces
week. Pansy had 39 deceudau?
showing a weekly average of 1
pounds 7 ounces a week.'
A number of years ago, when
was editing the Atlanta Constitution
when thorough bred stock raisin:
was in its infancy in Georgia, I visit
ed the beautiful stock farm of Col
Peters, in Gordon county, and wrot
several letters giving his stock ex
peden ces with sheep, hogs and cow
for thirty years. At that time he ha<
settled upon the Jerseys, after a lui
test of Durhams or Short Horns, De
vons, Ayrshires and Brahams; aai
upon the Merino sheep, after a test o
the Virginia, Prolific, Cotswolda
Southdowns, Leicesters and New Ox
fordshires ; and upon the Berkshin
hogs, after test of Poland Chinas
Jersey Reds, Essex, Chester Whites,
and Yorkshires. I gave, fully, for tin
Constitution, his testings of thes<
breeds. At that time the Durham o
Short horn breeds of cattle, the South
down and Cotswold breeds of sheej
and Poland China hogs were the mos
popular North and We6t and hun
dreds of our Southern farmers wen
beginning to take interest in tho
roughbred 6tock, and were looking t(
these favorite breeds for int rod uc
tion into the South. Col. Peters hac
found to his great cost, by actual ex
p?riment, that neither Durhams, Cots
wolds nor Southdowns suited oui
Southern climate. They had toe
mud) flesh and wilted under our heat
The Jersey and Merino had prover
in his trial to be the best breeds foi
the South. These letters, giving hu
valuable Dractical costly experience,
had a wide circulation in the press,
Being known all over the United
States as the most prominent South
ern stock breeder, Colonel Petere
received myriads of letters of inquiry
and request for advice as to the bes!
breeds. Ile had the Constitution ar?
ticles printed in circular form, and re?
plied to all letters by sending his cir?
cular. He estimates from reliable
data, as he tells me, that the informa?
tion of the fitness of the various breeds
to our Southern climate, given in this
! circular, has saved ?pjuih?rn farmers
ja million of dollars that %pnld have
??taw>eji^nexDerir^ un
H Ire beeri
Every stock opinion advanced ten
years ago has been confirmed by the
experience of our stock men and
farmers. The Jersey, then declared
to be the cow for the South, has be?
come our butter stand-by. The me?
rino sheep, then asserted to be best
suited fc>r Southern raising, has es?
tablished its unqualified supremacy
for Southern use.
[From the Darlington News.]
Economy m Manures.
This does not consist in not using
commercial manures, or in stinting the
quantity applied, but in the use of
those absolutely essential to plant
growth and in the proper application of
the same.
The object in manuring is or ought
to be, to put so much and no more than
is necessary to make a paving crop. If
we do that with our limited means, we
do well. To make land rich with com?
mercial manures is an easy matter, if
we have the means to farm regardless
of cost ; but to live and support a fami?
ly on a one or two horse crop and buy
with the extra proceeds of it, manure
enough to keep up, or increase its fer?
tility, is a more difficult problem to
solve. It becomes, therefore, a very
important matter to know what and
how much is essential, and how to ap?
ply it so as to get full benefit from it.
I have heretofore, in numerous ar?
ticles in this paper, endeavored to show
that three essentials to plant growth
which were soonest exhausted in natu?
rally fertile soil, and which are in a
great measure lacking in our poor pine
land and has to be supplied by us to
make good crops, were Potash, Phos?
phoric Acid and Ammonia. That the
other organic elemeuts, carbon, oxygen
and hydrogen were supplied in the
earth and air, and the inorganic, such
as soda, lime, magnesia, &c, were iu
sufficient quantities io all soils, or else
were supplied in the compounds of
potash and phosphate which we use.
If this be so, then economy in manur?
ing consists in supplying these three
elements in the cheapest and best pos?
sible form. How to do so is the ques?
tion. The most simple and the best is
the Peruvian Guano, if it were what it
used to be when I was a boy.
But the Chincha Islands are exhaust?
ed and I hear the red clay hills about
Baltimore are nearly all gone, so that
we have to look to auother source for
our supply. The numberless com?
pounds under the name of ammoniated
fertilizers come in opportunely to our
aid. ?They cost money-they smell
strong-they analyze well-^they accu?
mulate princely fortunes to the tricky
and unscrupulous proprietors and if
they fail to benefit thc farmer aud pay
in the increased production of crops,
why-the fault is his-the lazy shift?
less cotton planter, who don't know
how to apply them or is too lazy to cul?
tivate his land as it ought to be. Aoi
moniated fertilizer-we have had
enough of them. We have spent in
them money enough in our County to
pay every dollar of its indebtedness and
a large part of the State debt, and for
what purpose ? We make cotton to buy
manure and wc buy manure to make
cotton.
It is necessary for us to buy some
manure, our land is wanting in all the
clements that go to make farming profi?
table ; but it is cheaper and better to
buy these elements in their purest form
and do the manipulating ourselves.
They may cost us more money in the
outset, but we save iu thc freights on
worthless material, in disappointment
and trouble enough to more than pay
the cost. Poor human nature is very
weak, and one of our greatest weak?
nesses is to gouge our neighbor, pro?
vided we can do so under the cover of
law. The temptation to adulterate is
too great for us, io fact wc live in the
age of adulteration. We eat adulter?
ated food, we drink adulterated drinks,
we wear adulterated clothes, and last
but not least, we waste our money,
time, spirit and strength on adulterated
manures. Can we save our morals and
manners pure in such an adulterated
atmosphere? Let us commence reform
by beginning at the ground-use no
more manipulated guanos, raise all of
our own home food and only cotton
enough to pay for the absolute necessi?
ties of religion, law and society.
[To le Continued.]
A Good Edgefield Anecdote.
The recent agitation of the public
road question reminds me of an anec?
dote that a mail carrier, who rode be?
tween Augusta and Longmires iu Edge
field county, used to delight in telling,
to show the average condition o? the
routes he travelled. He said on one
occasion he was riding along at the rate
of a mile an hour, bis horse sinking to his
knees at every step, when looking some
distance ahead of him he saw a small
black object moving about in the mid?
dle of the road which he at first suppos?
ed was a bird. As he drew nearer he
saw that it was a black hat and when
he got within reach he lifted it and saw
a luau's head just far enough above the
mud for him to breathe. The mail
courier asked him what was the matter;
he replied that he had struck a very
soft place in the road and had immedi?
ately sunk so rapidly that he was una?
ble to extricate himself. Tho courier
said, 'well my friend, you are certainly
in a very bad fix.' The stranger re?
plied 'well, if you think I am in an un?
pleasant position, what do you think of
my mule? I am on a mule.'
This happend about Ked Hill in Sen?
ator Butler's county and this occur?
rence, which is vouched for, will con?
vince any one that the Senator is in
earnest in his efforts to improve the
conditiou of the public highways.
Columbia Correspondent of Augusta
Chronicle.
A German at a hotel the other day
had some Limberger cheese sent to him.
A little boy who sat beside him turned
to his mother and exclaimed, 'Mamma,
how I wish I was deaf and dumb in my
Sad affairs: While putting on a
clean shirt a Hartwell, Ga., man fell
overea, trunk and broke his collar-bone.
utBtots be's going to try '>h
A Wild Western wind.
RACINE, WIS., May 19.-The first
cyclone in the history of this city
struck Racine at 7 oclock last night
passing through the extreme nortu
eastern portion of the city, demolish?
ing 150 houses and barrie and killing
about 20 persons, besides injuring
100 otheis more or less seriously.
The day was ushered in bright and
cool with a fresh wind blowing from
the southeast. Towards noon the
sky became overcast and about 4
o'clock a sharp electric storm prevail?
ed, although but little rain fell. The
sun again came out for about an hour
during the afternoon, the tempera?
ture being about TO degrees. To?
wards 6 o'clock heavy masses of
clouds again gathered in the west,
portending a storm, and the air wa?
oppressively warm. The cyclone was
announced by the breaking of the
clouds, and it struck the eartn with a
noise which might be compared with
the roar and rumbling of a thousand
railroad trains thundering over a
bridge. The path of the storm is
little over a half mile long and per?
haps a quarter of a mile wide. In
this territory a building is left stand?
ing here and there. Brick and frame
houses alike collapsed, and their sites
are marked only by heaps of debris.
Many occupants of houses escaped
by fleeing to the cellars and other
places of comparative safety, but
the cyclone came with such light
rapidity that many were killed before
reaching the cellars. In ouly a few
cases were houses moved from their
foundations. Those in the middle of
the storm centre simply fell in ruins
where they had stood. Some nearer
the circumference were turned around
and it is reported that 6ome light
articles, such as wagons, were swept
into the lake. The cyclone, as it
moved from the city out upon the
waters of Lake Michigan, presented
a grand spectacle. Whirling columns
of air were seen as they flew over
the watery expanse, bearing with
them spiral columns of water, and
no ship that encountered this mon?
ster of the air could by any possibility
escape destruction.
STAUNTON, 111, May 19.-At 1
o'clock last night the tornado passed
about three miles east of here, totally
demolishing Livingston's fine farm
residence and dangerously injuring
Mr. Livingstone. Other buildings in
the vicinity were destroyed and or- j
chards injured. A construction crew
g? about twenty-five men, on the
Springfield and Illinois Southeastern
Railway were camping near Oleiu's
house, some of them sleeping in a
large barn. All were seriously in?
jured. Mr. Cantwell, contractor,
and Alva Berrie were instantly killed.
A little giri, aged eight, canuot re?
cover.
1 CLINTON, ILLS., May 19.-a terri?
ble cyclone passed over this vicinity,
last night, doing a large amount of
damage and killing several people.
The wind took a southeast course and
followed up Salt Creek in this coun?
ty, on the line of which many houses
were totally destroyed. About six
miles south of Clintou the wind tore
down a house, killing Peter Clifton,
his wife and an eight-year-old daugh?
ter, and fatally injured another child.
The damages are very great.
THE LATEST-FIFTY-FO?K DEATHS AND
TWO HUNDRED WOUNDED.
CHICAGO, May 19.-From advices
received by the Associated Press
from points in Illinois, visited by the
cyclone Friday night, 54 deaths have
already been reported in the State,
and the number injured is -estimated
at very nearly 200. Owing to the
condition of the wires north of Mil?
waukee, no accurate computation of
the loss of life in Wisconsin can be
made.
MILWAUKEE, May 20.-A Racine
dispatch says the numbers of known
dead is nine and fatally injured twelve
to fifteen. Those who received flesh
wounds and more serious hurts
uumbcr nearly one hundred. Six
people remain unaccounted for.
ST. LOUIS, May, 21.-Two more
deaths have occurred at Stanton, Ills,
resulting from the storm of Friday
night. Additional reports from places
not heretofore heard from, show that
the storm in Illinois was widespread
and very destructive. Houses and
other farm property were destroyed
in ali directions, within the area of a
dozen counties, and many persons
were either killed or seriously woun?
ded.
How a Tornado Looked.
The Fearful Visitation al Kansas City
-Ruin left in Its Track.
KANSAS CITY, May 14.-Before the
visitation of the tornado here yester?
day the air was heavy and the fitful
wind carried sheets of rain hither and
thither.without apparent direction. In
another hour the skies had grown
darker and across their 6ullen surface
torn scraps of clouds in fantastic
shapes scudded with a velocity that
told of the presence of vaRt air cur?
rents somewhere in middle space.
These were followed by dark sheets
as of smoke that rolled up from the
horizon, broke and lost themselves.
The air suddenly grew cold. It is
impossible to describe the weird and
unnatural chill, save that it was icy
and lasted for some moments. Just
then a gigantic cone-shaped cloud,
the point toward the earth, appeared
in the Northwest. Those win? noted
the time saw thal it was exactly 4:30.
The cloud rushed into view so quick?
ly that it was impossible to tell
whether it was boru of a conflict of
thc elements before the eye or came
from some point beyond. Moving
with inconceivable rapidity', and
bounding like a ball, sometimes hun?
dreds of feet above the earth and
sometimes trailing upon it, the
monster passed over Wyandotte,
and paused at the mouth of the
Kaw, where it sucked up tons of sand,
completely changing its color from
dark blue to deep dun, then it zigzag?
ged upward, bounded into mid air and .
disappeared.
identical in size ana snape, appea
at about the point where the first
seen. This cloud can be likened
nothing so much as a partially
lapsed balloon with the neck ei
mously elongated and twisting ab<
The color was reddish yellow,
tinctly relieving it against the dar
background. This extraordinary
parition of the skies moved dire<
toward the city, not very fast ap
rently, but springing up and dowr
an uncanny dance. As it came n<
er, one could see that every tinn
touched the ground it swept it cle
carrying up the debris and dropp
it as it passed. A few moments a:
its appearance it struck West Kan
City, barely touching, however, i
its damage confined principally to
unroofing of houses, demolishing
upper portion of the Stock Exchan
and killiug one man. Leaped i
the air, strinking the bluff near Eei
teenth street, and passing on E
and slightly North for nearly t
miles. In the greater part of t
distance the storm funnel touched ;
ground, and a wilderness of ruin ma
its track.
The passage of the tornado was
sudden that people did not have ti
to be frightened till il was over, 1
the scene of terror that followed in
wake was something that words c
not describe, lt cut a clean tri
through the city three miles in ext*
and irom 100 to 300 yards wi
Heavy houses were demolished, sm
frame houses were scattered to 1
winds, and trees were twisted fr?
the earth as il they were weeds T
number of houses entirely demolish
is fifty, and the number of more
les3 damaged will amount to abc
200. The loss is about $200,01
Three persons were killed outrig
and many others very badly injured
The Cold Wave.
The cold wave which was ushered
by the blow of Sunday night bas cc
tioued with lower thermometer a
general cloudiness Yesterday was
! cold, raw, November day. Su
weather is not io memory of the old?
iubabitant or almanac makers for t
22d of May. At one time during t
I day the clouds banked up with an OD
nous chill and there were painful su
j gestions of snow in the air. The th<
i mometer, towards Dight, fell benea
! thc forties, about half the usual tei
j perature for this season of the year,-a
as the wind lulled and the moon cai
out lhere were fears of frost. Throug
out the day the city put on a midwinl
appearance. Doors and wi?dows we
closed, stoves put on their winter blu
and straw hats were put to shame
heavy overcoats beneath.- It is thoug
that youDg cotton all over the State h
been seriously injured. The pla
which had commenced to grow off gre
and vigorous, has probably been bligr.
ed and stunted in many places. Gra
has not been affected and gardens a
as a rule too far advanced to have fall
before this cold soap. The m?xima
temperature yesterday was 64 degree
minimum temperature, 49; mean tet
perature, 55 degrees.-Augusta Chro
ide, 23??.
CINCINNATI, May 22.-At Munci
Ind., the ground was covered by snc
last night. At Findlay, Ohio, snc
fell several inches deep. At Wapok
neta, Ohio, snow was so heavy as
break the branches of trees and tl
j tbermom?ter fell to thirty-five. i
j Hagerstown, Indiana, snow fell fro
uooon to night. At Eastoo, Ohi
snow covers the ground. At Lim
Obio, twelve inches of snow fell, ai
the branches of tress broke with i
weight. At Bellefontain, Ohio, fot
inches of snow fell, and tho thermom>
ter fell to thirty-four. At Marysvill
Ohio, a blinding snow storm began i
the forenoon and lasted all day.
CASEYVILLE, ILLS., May 22.-.
severe frost here last night, damage
all crops considerably, doing more it
jury than the cyclones.
CLEVELAND, O., May 22.-Col
windy weather prevails here, and treei
out-bouses and unfinished building
have suffered some. Snow is reporte
to be five inches deep in Logan count;
Most Tragic of Tragedies.
A Dreadful Scene Enacted m a Bri
dal Chamber in South America.
A horrible affair took place recent!
at Kio Grande del Sur, near to th
Uruguayan frontier. A youug farme
was bitten by a mad dog and remedie
were immediately applied to tbi
wound. Cauterization was resorted to
and there was every reason to believe
that the virus had not entered the vic
tim's system. When the accident oc?
curred the young man man was aboui
to marry, but in consequence of thc
untoward occurrence the ceremony wa.?
postponed for three months, when the
medical men who were consulted on
the case gave it as their unanimous opin?
ion that there was not the slightest
ground for apprehending any danger
from the bite. The marriage took
place on the farm and was celebrated
with the customary festivities. After
the nuptial supper was over the bride
! groom appeared to be seized with a
I ?t of melancholy. One of love's oa
? prices, said somebody. After supper
j came the ball, and when this
was at its height thc newly
wedded couple withdrew from the fes
i live scene aud retired to their apart?
ment.
About an hour afterwards the house
resounded with ferocious cries inter?
mingled with ?hrieks and groans. As
soon as the guests had recov-ed from
stupefaction, they started in ihe direc?
tion of the cries. They proceeded from
the nuptial chamber, The door was
burst opeu and a horrible spectacle
presented itself. On the floor lay the
young bride in a pool of blood. She
still breathed, but her body was torn
and bitten as if she had been seized by
a tiger. lu the corner of the
room was the bridegroom, cov?
ered with blood and foaming at the
mouth, scratching, biting and tearing
away at the wall and furniture- With
a sudden bound he sprang like a tiger
opon the invaders of his lair, and be
would have made one or more victims
had not a brother of , the dying bride
^^abuJh^^^itBg through the mad
i\ews ana irossip.
An old lady asked at the Sanders
ville Ga., postoffice for "yaller develop?
ments to do letters up in."
The mosquito has six legs and only
one mouth. Let us therefore he thank?
ful that if it does bite it dosea't kick;
Though not much of a conversation*
alist, a mute might ge? along very
nicely in a spoke factory.
It is said the cotton crop in Ander?
son this year will be the largest in
acreage known in the history of the
County.
The Italians have built the two most
formidable iron clad shipr in the world; L
They are 13,600 tons and can steam!
17 knots an hour. This is something 1
the United States have not done, and
at present cannot do.
A Missourri boy, desparing of aojr
orthodox cure for chill and fever;
j caught a cricket, which he swallowed
alive, and the parents of the boy say he
has not been troubled with chills from
that day hence. Fellows who cannot
swallow a cricket might try a base bali
bat.
Mr. Jay Gould, with all his million^
and his gorgeous steam yatch that cost
so much money, could not buy, force
or steam bis way into the Eastern
Yacht Club of Boston. He was de?
corously, but ignominiously, blackball?
ed. Exactly why does not appear;
perhaps it was because of jealously en?
gendered by his overpowering wealth f
perhaps the majority of those voting
had once been Wall street lambs.
In warm-blooded animals the heart's"
action cases in a few minutes after the
destruction of the nervous centers, or
after thc circulation of the bleed in tty
own vessels is by any means arrested.
Not so with cold-blooded animals, how*
ever, as thc heart of one of them may
continue to beat for many hours after
it has been emptied of blood, and even
after it has been cut out of the chest?
The pulsations of the heart of an eel
have been seen to continue for six honra
after separation from the rest el the'
body, of a torpedo for nine boars, andt
of a salmon for twenty-four.
A cobie inch of gold is worth $210 ;
a cubic foot, $362,380 ; a cubic yard,
$9,797,762. This is valuing it at $l?
an ounce. At the commencement of
of the Christian era there was in -the
world four hundred and twenty-seven
million dollars in gold. This had dim
isbed fifty-seven million dollars tit
the time America was discovered, wStli
it began to increase. Now the amount
of gold in use is estimated'
to be six thousand million dol?
lars. Probably the limited gold of tnV
old days had more purchasing power"
than the vast accumulation of thes?~
times. i
Some courious?6; ones are found ia'
many parts of Switzerland. They are
smooth, flat, evidently hand-polished,
and are covered with dots, lines, circles
and half-circles. In the opinion of
Herr Rodiger, these stones are charts^
of the country made by prehistoric in-"
habitants, and he claims to possess a
collection of stones picked up in* Solo
thurn which form together a map of the
entire canton. The dots are seen to
correspond with towns and villages'
now in existence, and the lines with'
roads now open. Even fords and*
mountain passess arc indicated. ' The
stones are mostly discovered at inter?
vals of about six miles, and at spots'
where several road. meet.
Mr. Talmage thinks that the great?
desideratum is 'practical religion-a re?
ligion that will correctly label goods
that will prevent a man telling you* a'
watch was made io Genera when it waa"
made in Massachusetts ; that will keep"
the ground glass and the sand out of
sugar ; that will sift out the Prussian'
blue from the tea leaves ; that will'
separate the one quart of water fronf
the one honest drep of cow's mil ki*
He thinks practical religion will retn?-'
dy all this, cast out hypocrisy, %upsetT
shoddy, and make decency, honesty and'"
truth domaiuant. He is certain it will5
come down with a heavy hand on fash-'
ionabl? society, aud correct the iniqui?
ties that now exist in it. Among th?se*'
iniquities, Mr. Tal m agc asserts, is ttftT
not uncommon intoxication of fashion*-'
able women. 'Society says she was*
taken suddenly ill of the german. The'
fact ia she took too much champagne?
and mixed liquors and got drunk:'
Not long since, says a writer in'' the"*
Colleton Press, a mule swam the Edisto'
River at Sullivan's Ferry, with a load-'
ed cart hitched to him. Some travelers'
came to cross the river. As all could'
not cross at thc same time, some of the
carts and drivers got on board of the,'
flat, and with them the owner of this
mule. When they got about half wajr
across the river, be saw ail of bis com-'
pauy going over, and ho, being left by
himself, concluded he bad better get"
over the best he could ; so he delibe?
rately walked down into the water un-'
til he was obliged to swim. So be went
to work swimming, and landed on the'
other side, carrying with him his load.
When he walked out on the sand-bar,
bc shook himself, as if saying to him-"
self, *I am over, independently of joni
fiat.' ' m
From Stuttgart the death is reported?
cf a goose well koowa to naturalists alt
over the world. This eccentric animal/
when still a gosling, abandoned its
flock, dismissed all recollections of Oct
infancy, repudiated the convectional
views and habits of geese, and boldly
marching into the barracks of an Uhlan
regiment, stationed itself one day next
to the sentry-box. Touched by thia
predilection for their corps, the Uhlans*
erected a shed for the goose, and for*
twenty-three years threats nor persua?
sions have been able to separate the'
martial bird from its adopted rcgimeni
for any great length of time, ft hag"
at different times changed quarters with'
the corps from Esslingen to Ulm, thence'
to Ludwigsburg, and back again tc
Ulm. When the Uhlans went to fighf
for their country the forsaken and deso?
late goose took up for Che time witty #
battalion of infantry ; but no sooner*
did the first Uhlahs re-enter the (own1
than the goose marched ont to' meet
them, and returned with?, them to her*
quarters. She has now been staffed.