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BY CLINKSGALES & LANGSTON. ANDEBSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOBNING, JANUABY 24, 1894._VOLUME XXYIII.-NO. 30 SULLIVAN HARDWARE COMPANY'S Special Oiler: BLACKSMITH BELLOWS, BLACKSMITH COMPLETE OUTFITS. No sucii Piicee, No such Goods, _ Ever offered before. BABBED WIRE--50)000 pounds. POULTRT and GARDEN FENCING.. ÄGRICULTU RAL HARDWARE, AND IMPLEMENTS. EVERYTHING TJSEFTJL. i&* PRICES down with any market in the United States. THIS is to certify that Messrs. TODD & EVANS are sole Agents for Leo's Indian Medicines for the City of Anderson, S. C. FEED. LEO. P. s. WE have received a. .limited supply of DR. LEO'S RENOWNED LINIMENT and BLOOD PURIFIER, which will be sold at the same prices charged by Dr. Leo. TODD & EVANS. TO SEE US! In our New Quarters, 15 South Main Street, Broyles New Building. In order to close out our Stock of CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS, AT ONCi; we.offer every article in this department at a SACRIFICE Don't feil -to see the Stock. You certainly need some of our Bargains, $mh Don't buy a pair of SHOES until you see our Stock. Our Motto: 15Best Goods for Least Money." TAYLOR & CRAYTOM, LADIES' STORE ! BEGINS A GRAND CLEARANCE SALE I OR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS WE WILL SELL OUR ENTIRE STOCK--" AT AND BELOW COST*! In order to be ready for a large ''Spring Stock/' We are determined to have a clean Store to begin the Spring with, so we propose to give our Goods for COST. All who want BARGAINS can have them by calling early with the CASH. r / This is a bona fide offer. We..invite all to come and see for themselves, and be convinced that we mean just what we say. With thanks for the liberal patronage you have bestowed this season, We are respectfully yours, MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS. OF NEWARK, N. J. AMZI DODD, President. Assets : Market Values, $51,395,903.59. Paid to Policy Holders since Organization : $124,558,722.^6. Surplus : Massachusetts Standard, $3,661,250.01. Policies Absolutely Non-Forfeitable after Second Tear. IN case of lapse the Policy ia continued in force as long as its value will pay for ; or, if preferred, a Paid-up Policy for its foil value is issued in exchange. Alter the second year Policies are incontestable, and all restrictions as to residence and occupation are removed, v Cash Loans are made to the extent of 50 per cent, of the reserve value, where Valid assignments of the Policies can be made as collateral security. Losses paid immediately upon completion and approval of proofs. ' WEBB & MATTISON, Managers for South Carolina, Anderson, S. C. SEED BARLEY AND RYE, FLOUR, HAMS, LARD, And a Fancy Line of Canned Goods, For sale at Low Prices by D. S. MAXWELL & SON, NO. 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE. 160-acre Farm to rent. ONE MOMENT. PLEASE! We. may be able to Save you some Money, provided you need any kind of Groceries. IF you ever expect to buy FLOUR CHEAP, now is the time to buy, as a man don't usually stumble on Bargains like we are offering more than once in an ordinary life-time. FLOUR! FLOUR!! FLOUR!!! Juat received a big lot of Bine Ribband Flour.the best Flour on top of dirt for £4.00. Don't forgot the brand. Remember, too, that you can only get this Flour from JOHN A. AUSTIN & OO. It is the nearest'approach to the $5.00 article to be had. We have had a nice trade, indeed, for which vre return our sincere thanks to our friends: but we wantm larger trade, and to get it we will make special inducements in all kinds of Groceries. AUSTIN <fc CO. is the place. Call on us and we will give you a cordial welcome, ¦ PALACE GROCERY. J« At AUSTIN & CO, BILL JLBF'S LETTER, Arp Still la Florid* Where There are Plenty of Visitor* and Good Fishing. Atlanta Constitution, I saw two fishermen unloading a cargo of salted fish from their boat at Tampa. The barrels were all marked for Charleston. I interviewed these fishermen and they told me they caught as many as 70,000 in a week down at Sarasota bay. Now I am done with fish stories. I left my folks fishing at Clearwater, but they are not so wild about it now and will soon get tired. I saw a girl hang an enormous trout and she held him and played him around until he got tired and a boat was sent out to secure him. I guessed he weighed fifteen pounds and others guessed twelve and ten, but when he was put on the scales he came down to nine. An old fishi.-man remarked that it was a sin to weigh a fish, for they always fall short. Tampa is lively. The hotels are filling up, trade is good and money circulating jut like it used to before the panic. M >st of this money comes from abroad and is quickly scattered around. Every other house is either a hotel of a boarding house. The StrangerB come from everywhere up North and many from Georgia and Tennessee. I came down with a man ,and his wife, who were from north Michigan, and had never been South. It'entertained me to see their amaze¬ ment, for he said he had just put up 180 tons of ice before he left home. They are delighted with the country and with the people. He said every* body was so kind and naborly and that he had no idea of finding such good people down South. I think that his wife was almost afraid to come, but she is in bad health and she had just as well risk the rebels in Florida as death at home, and so she came. She has improved much within a week. The Tampa Bay hotel, where the millionaires congregate, has not yet filled up, but will be by the middle of the month. It is a magnificent house and so bewilders me that I feel solemn in its beautiful apartments and don't dare to talk in my usual tone of voice. Everybody else seems to feel so too, for it is not like a hotel. While you are walking on velvet carpets that cost $5 a yard, or sitting ou chairs that cost $50 apiece, and see paintings on the \t ails that cost from $100 to $5,000, and the whole building in a blaze of heavenly lights and delicious music charming the ear and delightful odors perfuming the air and the servants all in livery, a common man feels like the old woman at the circus for the first time in her life. When the grand procession of beautiful horses, with their riders in spangled garments, caxie marching in, she said: "John, John, it's more like the kingdom of Heaven than anything I r ver expected to see in this world." Now, with all that, I was invited to lecture in 4he music hall of this grand structure, and I did it. It was just large enough for my audience, and I am pleased to say that I was able to conceal my embar¬ rassment. Not that I was afraid of the people who sat before me, but somehow I never feel at ease in a house that is so much finer than nine own. It is art, not nature, that makes me timid. Mr. Plant muet be a won¬ derful mau to plan such a grand sys¬ tem of railways and hotels and parks and steamship lines and yet he makes no great noise in the word. For years and years he has been perfecting this system, and every branoh of it moves along like clockwork. Thousands of men are employed by him and his en¬ terprises have already added many millions to the value of property in Florida. This beautifuL city of Tampa is a monument to his genius. More than half a. century ago Richard Henry Wilde wrote a little poem, be¬ ginning "My life is like the summer rose," and the last verse was. "My life is like the prints that feet Have left on Tampa's desert strand, Soon as the rising tide shall beat, All traces vanish from the sand, Yet as if grieving to efface All vestige of the human race, On that lone shore loud moans the sea, But none, alau 1 shall mourn for me." Mr. Wilde was an Irishman, who came over here after Emmet's untime¬ ly death, and settled in Augusta, and I suppose he had some reason for pen¬ ning such sad, sweet verses. I wish that he could see Tampa now. I wish that Rev. Frank Goulding was alive to see it, for it was here that he lo¬ cated that terrible devil fish that car¬ ried the boat and his children ("The Young Marooners") far out to sea. There is no desert strand now ; no lone shore; no devil fish. Lakeland is a little gem of a town and I have not found a better hotel in Florida than the Tremont. It is just fine enough and good enough for any¬ body. It overlooks one of the pret¬ tiest lakes I have yet seen, and the town is surrounded by many others. This is quite a railroad center and might have been a city if Tampa was farther off. It will be a city yet, for such beautiful locations and surround¬ ings are not common, even in Florida. As old Father Dobbins used to say, "The Creator has quit making land, but He keeps on making people," and Lakeland will be found out before long. I have been to Bartow, the center of the phosphate region. Thirty compa¬ nies have orgauized within the county and millions of dollars invested in land and machinery. There is capital here from Boston, New York, Balti¬ more, Richmond, Pittsburg, Charles¬ ton, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta. But all is not gold that glitters. Of these thirty companies only sixteen are in actual operation, Of these six- teen only seven have made any money. There is phosphate enough, but every¬ thing depends upon management and location. I visited one plant six miles in the country that is being op¬ erated by a receiver. What a busi¬ ness this has got to be I The receiv¬ er ! There ought to be a book upon it just like the books for lawyers and dootors and other professions. It should be made a textbook in the schools. I think I would name it "The Lawyers' Harvest, the Creditors' Grave and the Stockholders' Funeral." But this phosphate business is yet in its infancy and improved methods of mining and washing will soon be in¬ vented. The Peruvian Islands are exhausted, and now nature unlocks another storehouse in Florida that seems sufficient for centuries to come. "What is it ?" I asked. "Is it ani¬ mal, vegetable or mineral?" It is a mixture of all, they say, but chiefly mineral. I found some sharks' teeth. They abound in all of it.sharks' teeth from one-fourth of an inch to four inches in length. Some of those an- tidiluvian monsters must have been as large as young whales, but how in the world did they all congregate on this peninsular when the great convulsion came that upheaved it ? Verily the world is full of mysteries, and we know nothing hardly. Fortunes have been made here by the few who are shrewd and bold and who had good judgment and foresight. George W. Scott has sold part of his holdings for fabulous sums. He owned miles of phosphate lands on Peau River. Mr. Codling1 ton, the genial, energetic Yankee Mayor, of Boston, bought largely at from $5 to $10 an acre and sold for ten times that amount. I waB his guest. "I fit again you," said he, "but have come down from Michigan to lire with you and I found a cordial welcome. If the railroads would reduce trans¬ portation to 1 cent a mile thousands of good, hardy people from the North would come down, first to see, and then to stay, and the result in a few years would be perfeot harmony be1 tween the sections." What every town in the South needs is a leader.a man of nerve and enter¬ prise. Our people will follow, but they fear to lead. Mr. Codlington is a power in Bartow and will soon have waterworks and an electric plant and street cars and another railroad. He has been a great traveler and lived some years in Peru while Henry Meiggs was building railroads there for the Government. He designed and built a gas plant near the apex of the Andes mountains for the sole pur¬ pose of lighting the tunnel that Meiggs bored for his wonderful rail¬ road.a road that cost $25,000,000. That gas plant is 16,000 feet above the sea level. Everything for the railroad and the gas plant was carried un cliff roads on the backs of mules.300 pounds to the mule. Just think of it ! Yankee genius, yaukee pluck was behind it all. They are a wonderful people. "When a Yankee is goo#he is very good, indeed, but when he is bad he ia horrid." And that is what they think of us, I reckon. I Baw a skunk yesterday as it cross¬ ed the road a few miles out of town. It was a beauty. Our dog tackled it forthwith, and then.but you must ask the dog for futher particulars. _Bill Asp. Bitten by a Battler. Chattanooga, Tenn., January 12. .H. C. Clark, who has been seen in the role of snake charmer, in all the large museums of the country under the show name of "Harry DeLong," was bitten this morning by a huge rattlesnake. He came here recently and blasted two rattlers out of the rocks on Lookout Mountain. While in a room in the midst of highland moccasins, China snakes, spreading vipers and rattlers, he attempted to wash one of the mountain rattlera and plunged it into a basin of hot water. Then it buried its fangs in his hand. One of the deadly prongs he sucked out and then swallowed a quart of whiskey. Three hours afterwards he fell to tie floor as if dead. Medical aid was summoned and the poison extracted. His arm was swollen to twice its or¬ dinary size, and at one time the heart ceased beating. The charmer's wife, Cora, died from a moccosin's sting while exhibiting in Fond du Luo, Wis., five months ago. Clark showed a season with Cole & Migdleton's five museums the largest of which is stationed at Chicago. He will recover. m _How's This! We offer One Hundred Dollars Re¬ ward for any case of Catarrh that can¬ not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Proprietors, Toledo, O. We the undersigned, have kuown F. J. Cheney for the last 15 years, and believe him perfectly honorable in all business transactions and financially able to carry out any obligation made by their firm. West & Truah, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, O. Waldino, Kinnan & Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Tole¬ do, O. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter¬ nally, acting directly upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the system. Testimonials free. H^Sold by Druggists, 75c. . Two New York surgeons mistook a case of skull fracture for drunken¬ ness and refused to admit the patient to the hospital. They must have thought it the "pop-skull" brand of whiskey. THE HERO OF SOEBJtS ISLAND. Why tbe Magazine of Battery Wagner was not Blown Up. Five miles from Charleston lies Morris Island, facing the broad Atlan¬ tic to the east, and divided from James Island by a wide marsh and a winding channel. It is a bare, desolate track of barren land, scarcely rising above the level of the water. The wind sweeps over it, whirling the sea sand into ever shifting hillocks and hol¬ lows, like the deserts of Arabia, but without the attractions ascribed to those wildernesses by the poet Moore, for down those slopes spring no "sil¬ very-footed antelopes" and nowhere does "the Acacia wave her yellow hair." Only a few stunted shrubs grow on the western side of the island, near the creek, affording a scant refuge to the little sea birds whioh build their nests among the wind- tossed branches. The only inhabi¬ tants are an oyster gatherer and a few men who attend to the light house. If human vision could reach so far one might stand on the beach and look across the intervening space to the continent of Europe, but as this is impossible, and we can only gaze at the waBte of waters, there is nothing to awaken fancy or enlist anyone's attention, and a stranger would merely consider this low-lying island to be a Lopelessly desolate and utterly insig¬ nificant part of the surface of the earth. Yet the waves that break heavily along the shores seem to murmur the sad refrain of the prophet of old,. "Is it nothing to you, all ye that pasB by ?" while the wind replies mourn^ fully, "Nothing," for, strange as the statement may appear to be, during the months of July and August in 1863 that parched and sterile island was the most impoitant spot of ground in the State of South Carolina, and was the point of interest to which all our hearts turned. This was the out¬ post of Charleston, and under the burning rays of the Bummer sun our best and bravest soldiers were fight¬ ing in defence of this old city. When .friends met in those days the first question asked was: "What is the latest news from Morris Island?" The shells could bo plainly heard in town, of course, an for weeks they oontinually swept like a hail storm over that inland, while on our side the artilleriuts at Battery Wagner and Battery Gregg replied loudly, and the guns of Sumter andMoultrie joined in the awful concert, keeping up and un¬ remitting fire, day and night, upon the enemy'b camps, assaulting col¬ umns, working parties and the fleet. The fighting for Charleston, which was to continue . without cessation until *he evacuation of the city, almost at the close of the war, began at the southern point of Morris Island July 10. Then Bcttery Wagner was repeatedly assaulted by infantry until the enemy wa3 obliged to abandon the hope of ever captujing this work by force of arms, and their engineers un¬ dertook the task of obtaining possession of the much coveted fort. This they did by steadily advancing their lines of earthworks closer and closer to ours until they effected by their skill what the infantry and artillery com¬ bined had not been able to do by valor. The canon of the enemy were of much heavier calibre than ours, and tore down our parapets, which could not even be repaired by night towards the end of the struggle, because the Yankees mounted a calcium light which threw an illumination almost as bright as day upon our defenoes. On the 8th of September an attack was made upon Battery Gregg by bar¬ ges from Vincent's Creek, but our signal officers had been clever enough to read the enemy's signals, and we were therefore prepared to meet their advance, our entire force at Battery Wagner, except the artillerists, having been temporarily transferred to the point where the assault was expected ; so when the barges approached they were surprised, instead of our men, who received them so warmly that they soon withdrew in confusion. Col. Keith, the Confederate com¬ mander on Morris Island, having re¬ ported Battery Wagner to be no longer tenable, a council of general officers was held, and it was decided that Morris Island must be evacuated. Battery Wagner had held out fifty- eight days, but the end had now came, and this fort was, at last, to be aban¬ doned. The evacuation began at 9 o'clock on the evening of the 7th of September, the wounded being taken to Comming's Point, and embarked first. After their departure the infan¬ try was taken across to Fort Johnson, on James Island, next followed the artillerists, then the rear guard, which was composed of a small detachment of regulars from Battery Gregg and Battery Wagner, and, last of all, three officers and a sergeant, who re¬ mained to deceive the enemy up to the moment when Major Huguenin lit the fuse which was expected to blow up the powder magazine. They moved about from ang|j^to angle firing off rifles as fast as.they could load them, so that the Yankees might not be aware that our troops had departed, and that all they had to do was now to walk in and take possession. This was a very trying ordeal to the three remaining Confederates, for at any moment an attack on our shattered lines might have been made and this minute garrison have been captured or killed. One o'clock had now come and the moon had risen. The doors of the powder magazine were opened and the fuse ignited; then they hastened down to the beach to take their places in pur last boat. "Hurry I" shouted the sailors who manned this barge, for the enemy had discovered that something unusual was taking place and had sent their barges forward either to make another attack on Battery Gregg or to discover our movements. They had intercepted two of our boats and captured forty- nine men. In obedience to the Warn¬ ing summons the little squad of offi¬ cers hastened on, but Major Hugucnin had been twice struck that day by fragments of shells, which had explod¬ ed near him, and was so lame that he could not advance rapidly. "Go on," he said t,o his comrades, "and I will overtake you." But when lie reached the beach he found, to his dismay, that in the darkness and confusion they had gone off and left him, sup¬ posing him to be on board. His posi¬ tion was now truly a melancholy and precarious one, for the guns of the enemy's batteries and those of the fleet swept the open beach, as the tide was out, and if he returned to Battery Wagner he would find no refuge there, as he hoped every instanj, to hear the explosion of the magazine, and Moul- trie and all of our batteries had been instructed to ooncentrate their fire upon that work as soon as the signal of our having evacuated Morris Island was given. To surrender himself a prisoner was also dreadful. «Just as these fearful alternatives presented themselves to his mind a boat, which was apparently going out to sea, swept by. He hailed it and was informed to his joy that it was a ten-oared Confed¬ erate barge which had turned back to escape capture, and was going round by Sullivan's Island. The officer in charge, in reply u Huguenin's earnest appeal, "For God's sake, take me with you," replied, "The Yankees arc too near to stop, but wade out and we will take you in." So the last Confederate soldier who ieft Morris Island waded out breast high in the water, and was hauled aboard as the boat shot by. They reached Fort Johnson at about 3 o'clock in the morning, and found that Col. Yates and a detachment of the 1st South Carolina regular artillery were about to set off for Morris Island to make an attempt to rescue him, but the effort would probably have been vain. A report that Major Huguenin had been killed preceded him to the city, and when he reported himself at about 8 o'clock at Gen. Ripley's headquar¬ ters the greeting given him by the General was very characteristic. In his bluff military manner he said: "Is that you ? Why, I thought you were dead. I am glad to see you." It appears, therefore, that in South Carolina, as well as in Scotland, "short greeting serves in times of war." Gen. Beauregard was much disap¬ pointed at Batteries Gregg and Wag¬ ner not having been blown up. Why the zealous and reliable officers who were deputed to do this failed to ac¬ complish their design was because the fuses they were ordered to use were defective. As soon as Major Huguenin was told that the duty of blowing up Bat¬ tery Wagner was assigned to him he cut off several pieces of the fuse and touched them off to ascertain if this important factor was in good order, but he soon found that it was worth nothing. In some parts the fire died out after being kindled and in others the powder flared up so quickly that it was anything but a slow match. He, therefore, went to Col. Keitt, and said: "This fuse will never explode the magazine. It was brought here in an open rowboat, and probably got wet, for it is useless ; but, if you will allow me to use my discretion, I will guaran¬ tee such an explosion that where Bat¬ tery Wagner now stands there will soon be a creek. We have two barrels of resin here. I will put them into the hospital, which adjoins the pow¬ der magazine, set them on fire, and open the doors of the magazine, so that the flames may soon ignite the powder, and if the Yankees take pos¬ session of the fort one minute after I leave it, no mau will be found bold enough to venture to go in to try to extinguish the fire." Col. Keitt called a couucilof officers to consider the question, but they decided that, as the commanding gen¬ eral had said "a fuse," nothing else could be used. So the letter of the order was obeyed, while the important object in view was lost sight of. The fuse was accordingly lighted the night of the evacuation, and after burning awhile the fire died out. Neither Battery Wagner nor Battery Gregg consequently were blown up, and the enemy quietly took possession of them uext morning, and mounting their guns upon our parapets, proceed¬ ed to batter down Furt Sumterat their leisure. . Claudine Riiett. Bucklens Arnica Salve. The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises. Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores. Tetter, Chapped Hauds, Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Erup tions and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refund¬ ed. Prise 25 cents per box. For sale by Hill Bros. . A 22-year-old man of Bangor, Me., learned for the first time, a few days ago, that he has a twin sister, alive and well, in Providence, R. I., where she is married and has a family. Their mother died when the twins were five months old. Two Bangor families adopted them, and the oue taking the girl moved out of the State shortly thereafter. The boy's father and fiie brothers and sisters kept track of the boy but never told him of his twin sister, and it was only hy accident he learned of hqr existence. Some Bit« of the History of Cotton Cul¬ ture in Sonth Carolina. Cotton wag early sold in Charleston. The packages in which it was put up varied in weight from one to thirty pounds. In 1787 the fleecy staple was taken to the City by the Sea from Orangeburg, Newberry, and, perhaps, from Union, and sold at two pence a pound to the merchants, who resold it. mainly to the ladies to make "^patch¬ work bed quilts." About the year named two or three bags, each weigh¬ ing near a hundred pounds of seed cotton, were packed in the store of Wadsworth & Turpin by Samuel Mav¬ erick and Jeffrey, a half-blood Indian. (This Maverick, by the way, claimed to he the first person that made sugar in South Carolina. About the year 1800 he planted some ribbon cane, purchased in the Havanna, in his lot to the cast of the present orphan house. It yielded 300 pounds. The cane was pounded in a mortar and the juice boiled in iron pots.) These bags were sent to England as a sample and an experiment. The parties to whom they were sent wrote that the article was not worth produc-. ing, as it could not he separated from the seed. In 1794 Dr. James Otis Prentiss planted cotton for market near Orange- burg Court House. Either in that year or the next Col. William Thomas, the Revolutionary soldier, planted cotton to sell at Bellville, in St. Mat¬ thew's parish. In 1796 cultivators of this crop appeared in several parts of the State. Among them was Sam¬ uel Felder, of Orangeburg. John May- rant and Asbury Sylvester first grew cotton in the high hills of Santce in the year 1798. A year later Gen. Wade Hampton introduced the plant into Richland District, gathering over 600 bags from 600 acres. Gen. Hampton was the first man in South Carolina to use water as the propelling power of Whitney's cotton gin. Fifty years ago Col. Wade Hampton wrote Whitemarsh B. Serr- brook: ?'When Whitney's gin was exhibited in Georgia none but women were permitted to enter the room. An ingenious young mechanic at length introduced himself into the apartment iu woman's apparel, and, by a minute examination of the ma¬ chine, satisfied himself that he could not only imitate but improve on its construction by making it more effi¬ cient. This discovery was communi¬ cated to my father by Gen. Gun, who spoke so confidently of the capacity of this individual that my father was induced to visit him at his residence in Georgia. This visit resulted in a contract for three gins, applicable to a large scale of operations and they were unquestionably the first ever driven by water power." It has been written that Gen. Hampton's gins were furnished by an ingenious artisan of Georgia, assisted by William Munso'n, -of Richland. These gins were roughly constructed, still they were models for others made in 1801 by William Munson and James Boatwright, of Columbia. These were the first of the new machines of home manufacture. Gen. Hampton was not, however, the first to use the Whitney gin in South Carolina. Capt. James Kinkaid, of Fairficld, put up one near Monticello in 1795. How to dispose of the cotton seed was a perplexing problem to some of the early spinners. It was considered worthless and carelessly thrown on the ground like sawdust. The hogs ate the seed and died. Then it was put up in pens like shucks. The pigs got the seed out through the cracks and soon went the way of their elders. As a last resort and hoping to get rid of the "nuisance," the seed was dumped into the creeks, but in time of low water an odor was generated which was so offensive as to create a strong feeling of prejudice against the further culture of the crop. The fear of "overproduction" is no new tiling. Ninety years ago an opin¬ ion prevailed that the supply of cotton would soon exceed the demand. A planter of St. John's, Collcton, look¬ ing at his first crop, the produce of a few acres, after it had been housed, exclaimed: "Well, well, I am done with the cultivation of cotton ! Here is enough to make stockings for all the people in America." These items. Mr. Editor and kind reader, are taken from an essay on the cotton plant, written two score and ten years ago, by an Edisto Island plauter, "Whitmarsh TJ. Seabrook, afterwards Governor of our State, whose very words and sentences have been freely used. W. S. M. Clan son College. S. C. -.a > . Farming for a LlTing. . Secretary Morton reminds the croak- crs that only about three per cent, of all the merchants escape failure; whereas, hardly three per cent, of the fanners fail. The statistics really show that agriculture is safer than banking, manufacturing or railroad¬ ing, taking all things into account. There is no fanner of good sense and good health anywhere iu the West, Mr. Morton declares, who cannot make a good living for himself and family, and that is as well as the majority of men are doing in any other pursuit. The man who owns a farm and sticks to it is certain to profit by it in the future. There is practically no more land to be added to tlu» area of culti¬ vation. The supply of agricultural products has reached its limit in the United States, and must now remain stationary, while the demand will go on increasing every year. This im¬ plies a gradual improvement in prices and a steady appreciation of the value i of farming huiu.*,.Selected. Profitable Pork Making. Pig-growing formed tho subject of some recent questions and answers be¬ tween a Tennessee man and Waldo Brown, in the New York Tribune. Said the former: "I have a farm of two hundred acres, keep from forty to sixty acres in grass, and a fine brook runs through it. There is always a ready sale for hogs on foot, and they arc about the only thing we can pro¬ duce for which we do not have to look for a market. We wish to improve our stock. What shall wc buy, Berk¬ shire or Poland China ? AVe think of buying a sow in pig, and a boar not akin, registered stock, for a start. What would I have to pay for a pure¬ bred stock, and on what terms is it sold ?" The answer came thus : For several years past I have been impressed with the fact that to the man who would manage intelligently a money-making business could be established in the production of pig pork. The best success would be attained by keeping a dairy and selling butter or cream and feeding the milk to the pigs> but I have proved by repeated experiment that fine, thrifty pigs can be put on the market at six months old without milk by feeding on slop made of bran and oatmeal. I sold pigs in 1892 at months old, averaging 110 pounds, that had been raised on this food. The brook running through the pas¬ ture is an advantage, providing it does not become a source of contagion ; but if cholera prevails in the locality the virus is likely to be carried by the water to farms below. As to breeds, I have been familiar with most of the leading kinds and have lived for forty-five years in the Miami Valley, where the famous Po¬ land China hogs originated and proba¬ bly no other station in Ohio has ship¬ ped so many breeding hogs as Oxford. I believe that as now perfected there is no better breed of hogs than this in Ohio or in the United States, and if I was starting in the business of pig pork production I should certainly use thoroughbred Poland China sows, but would use a Berkshire sire. These crossbred pigs must not. however, be used as breeders, as their offspring will not be uniform in character; but brood sows can be kept for five years or more, and thus a new lot procured. For early maturity use old sows and young sires. Teach the pigs to eat by the time they are four weeks old,'and wean at eight weeks, by which time they will be eating so that they will not miss the mother's milk. Breed the sows for two litters a year, and feed them well so as to keep them in good flesh, but never winter brood -sows on corn. Feed roots largely if you can grow them. Beets are best, but turnips will answer, and I believe sweet potatoes could be profitably grown in Tennessee for this purpose, feeding the culTs and selling the better ones, but if roots cannot be had feed bran mostly. If a sow is bred for her first litter to be dropped at one year old, do not breed her soon again, but let her have that year for growth and drop her second litter at two years old. After that breed regularly for iwo litters each year as long as she does well. You must have good fences to control these old sows, for there is no animal more likely to break through a fence than an old sow in heat. I hardly know what the cost would be of registered pigs, but think good ones could ba bought at from $20 to $25 each.this for pigs six months old. There would be a saving in ex¬ press, as well as first cost, to ship pigs socn after weaning.say at ten weeks old. Headlight of the Future. Baltimore, Jan. 11..While sev¬ eral railway companies are experi¬ menting with improved headlights, the Georgia Southern and Florida is one of the first, if not the first line in the country, to use electric light reg¬ ularly in operating its trains. In a letter to the Manufacturers' Record Receiver W. B. Sparks writes as fol¬ lows : "We have eight electric headlights. They cost about $375 each in place on the locomotive. The co$t of main¬ tenance is not greater than the oil light. An old headlight will not throw its light on a very dark 'night more than 150 feet, and it is impossible for an engineer to slow up his train in that distance, even with the emer¬ gency brake. The electric light throws its light from a half to three- quarters of a mile. Obstructions can be easily seen at that distance, and some uf our engineers claim that a switch disc can be more easily de- teeted by it at night than in the day- time. These lights do away with switch lights, which is quite a saving to roads that use them ».o any great extent. "Railroads, such as ours, running through the pine lands of the South, kill a great many cows. During on.* rainy season the lauds along the line of road become very wet; iu places they are entirely covered with water and the cattle come upon the track seeking some dry spot on which to sleep. Wc have killed, when we used the old headlight, as many as thirteen at one time, and our claims for stock killed per month have sometimes amounted to over $1,000. The engines using the electric headlight have never killed a cow, and I am confident that the saving in stock claims alone will more than pay for the lights within the next two years. Chronic coughers arc stupid bores and should be forced to use Dr. Hulls Cough Syrup, the only infallia- blc remedy. AH Sorts of Paragraphs. . St. Augustine is the oldest city in the United States. . Every thousand years the human race grows an inch taller. . Spain has more daily papers tha any country in Europe. . Latin is used all over the world for physician's prescriptions. . Some mahogany trees in Hondu ras are worth from $5,500 to $6,000 e:.ich. . Last crop year Minneapolis flour ing mills ground 9,347,615 barrels of flour. . Over 3,000,000 women in the United States earn independent in¬ comes. . A baby always helps to make home happy.particularly when the baby is asleep. . "Woman is a powerful weak crea¬ ture, but she can move the biggest kind of man without touching him. . All our city fathers say: Use Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on earth for pain, for rheumatism nnd neuralgia. 25 cts. . Workmen boring an artesian well in Louisiana struck a maple log in a sound state of preservation 540 feet below the surface.' . Mrs. Kenneth McLeo<", of Cross- well, Mich., has celebrated her cen¬ tennial. She was 20 years a maid, 40 years a wif?, and 40 years a widow. . Tommy : Paw, what does it mean when a man runs on a ticket as a laboring man ? Mr. Figg: It means-' that he has got tired of working for a living. . An eastern doctor says too many people die from sleeping^ with their mouths open. There may be a good many, but it would be hard to prove that there are too many. / . "Is it true that a woman always has the last word in a quarrei ?" "My wife always has it; but then, there is nothing mean about her. She is always willing to give it to me." . Timothy : Say, Ma, did our baby * come from heaven ? Ma: Av coorse he did. Timothy: Well, he was a dum fool to leave heaven for a place like this, and then run the risk of never gitten back again. "Paw, is there any difference between a cold and a mfluenzy ?" "EF the doctor calls it a cold the bill is about $4 ; if he calls it influenza, i about $18. The difference is $14, m son.''' N . In the four years endint the re were 15,947 murders in the Hi ted States. But only 1,050of the mur¬ derers were ever called to account for" their crimes, and of these 410 were hanged and 640 lynche^. j A family named Walkejr, livingj in .Mitchell County, North Ciirolina^ consists of seven brothers jknd flÄ sisters, all of whom arc over 6 ft&^L^ height. One of. the brothers is said to be 7 feet 9 inches tall. . His Mother: Why don't you play with your Christmas toys^Tom^- my ? They're just as good as new, and you've had them 10 days. Tommy: That's just it. They're no good. Willy Nabors got some that he bust'in no time. . She : I am so worried about my auut. She is at the point of death. He: Is that your wealthy aunt ? She: Yes. He: Well, never mind, dearest. You have my love, which is greater than ever. . It had been over four months since they were engaged, and as they read the evening paper together he said: "See, my dear, only $20 for a suit." "Is it a wedding suit?" sue asked, sweetly. "No, abusinesa^uh." "Well, I meant business," she an- swered. . Some co-educationalist young man is clamoring for admission to Vassar College. \Yhy not ? The wo- f men are now admitted to Harvard, Cornell, Columbia and other colleges for men, and it's a poor rcJe^hjit^- won't work both ways. But Vassar says she won't., and if a woman won't she won't and there's an end on't. . Less than 125 years ago the little plant known to the botanists as Lepa- chy's Columnaris, was onLy known to inhabit a small section of country in the very southern portion of Lou¬ isiana. Some time later it was report¬ ed as occurring sparingly along the Canadian River; and, later still, on the Arkansas. Since that time it hau slowly spread north, west and east, even to the very source of the Mis¬ souri, over into the British posses¬ sions, and is now said to be creeping along the Saskatchewan towards Hud¬ son Bay. How a plant which origin¬ ated in a warm climate could accustom itself to such changes is another of nature's mysteries. . Some three hundred and odd cats arc maintained by the United States Government, the cost of their support being carried as a regular item on the accounts of the Post Office Depart¬ ment. These cats are distributed among about 50 post offices, and their duty is to^keep rats and mice from eating and destroying postal matter and canvas mail sacks. Their work is of the utmost importance wherever large quantities of mail are collected, as, for example, at the New York Post Office, where from 2,000 to 3,000 bags of mail matter are commonly stored away in the basement. For¬ merly great damage was done by the mischievous rodents, which chewed holes in the sacks and thought nothing of boring clear through bags of letters iu a night. Troubles of this sort no longer occur since the official pussies keep watch. Each of the Postmasters in the larger cities is allowed from $8 to 'fiO a year for the keep of his feline staff, sending his estimate for "cat meat" to Washington at the beginning of each quarter.
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BY CLINKSGALES & LANGSTON. ANDEBSON, S. C, WEDNESDAY MOBNING, JANUABY 24, 1894._VOLUME XXYIII.-NO. 30
SULLIVANHARDWARE
COMPANY'SSpecial Oiler:
BLACKSMITH BELLOWS,BLACKSMITH COMPLETE OUTFITS.
No sucii Piicee,No such Goods,
_
Ever offered before.
BABBED WIRE--50)000 pounds.POULTRT and GARDEN FENCING..
ÄGRICULTURAL HARDWARE,AND IMPLEMENTS.
EVERYTHING TJSEFTJL.i&* PRICES down with any market in the United States.
THIS is to certify that Messrs. TODD & EVANS are sole Agents for
Leo's Indian Medicines for the City of Anderson, S. C.FEED. LEO.
P. s.WE have received a. .limited supply of DR. LEO'S RENOWNED
LINIMENT and BLOOD PURIFIER, which will be sold at the same
prices charged by Dr. Leo.TODD & EVANS.
TO SEE US!In our New Quarters,
15 South Main Street,Broyles New Building.
In order to close out our Stock of
CLOTHING AND GENTS' FURNISHINGS,AT ONCi; we.offer every article in this department at a SACRIFICEDon't feil -to see the Stock. You certainly need some of our Bargains,
$mh Don't buy a pair of SHOES until you see our Stock.
Our Motto: 15Best Goods for Least Money."TAYLOR & CRAYTOM,
LADIES' STORE !BEGINS A GRAND CLEARANCE SALE I
OR THE NEXT SIXTY DAYS WE WILL SELL OUR ENTIRESTOCK--"
AT AND BELOW COST*!In order to be ready for a large ''Spring Stock/' We are determined to havea clean Store to begin the Spring with, so we propose to give our Goods forCOST. All who want BARGAINS can have them by calling early with theCASH. r /
This is a bona fide offer. We..invite all to come and see for themselves,and be convinced that we mean just what we say.
With thanks for the liberal patronage you have bestowed this season,We are respectfully yours,
MISS LIZZIE WILLIAMS.
OF NEWARK, N. J.AMZI DODD, President.
Assets :
Market Values, $51,395,903.59.Paid to Policy Holders since Organization :
$124,558,722.^6.Surplus :
Massachusetts Standard, $3,661,250.01.Policies Absolutely Non-Forfeitable after Second Tear.
IN case of lapse the Policy ia continued in force as long as its value will pay for ;
or, if preferred, a Paid-up Policy for its foil value is issued in exchange.Alter the second year Policies are incontestable, and all restrictions as to residence
and occupation are removed, vCash Loans are made to the extent of 50 per cent, of the reserve value, where
Valid assignments of the Policies can be made as collateral security.Losses paid immediately upon completion and approval of proofs.
' WEBB & MATTISON,Managers for South Carolina, Anderson, S. C.
SEED BARLEY AND RYE,FLOUR,HAMS,LARD,
And a Fancy Line of Canned Goods,For sale at Low Prices by
D. S. MAXWELL & SON,NO. 5 CHIQUOLA PLACE.
160-acre Farm to rent.
ONE MOMENT. PLEASE!We. may be able to Save you some Money, provided you need any
kind of Groceries.
IF you ever expect to buy FLOUR CHEAP, now is the time to buy, as a man don'tusually stumble on Bargains like we are offering more than once in an ordinary
life-time.FLOUR! FLOUR!! FLOUR!!!
Juat received a big lot of Bine Ribband Flour.the best Flour on top of dirt for£4.00. Don't forgot the brand. Remember, too, that you can only get this Flour fromJOHN A. AUSTIN & OO. It is the nearest'approach to the $5.00 article to be had.
We have had a nice trade, indeed, for which vre return our sincere thanks to our
friends: but we wantm larger trade, and to get it we will make special inducements in
all kinds of Groceries. AUSTIN <fc CO. is the place. Call on us and we will give youa cordial welcome,
¦ PALACE GROCERY.J« At AUSTIN & CO,
BILL JLBF'S LETTER,
Arp Still la Florid* Where There are
Plenty of Visitor* and Good Fishing.
Atlanta Constitution,
I saw two fishermen unloading a
cargo of salted fish from their boat atTampa. The barrels were all markedfor Charleston. I interviewed thesefishermen and they told me theycaught as many as 70,000 in a weekdown at Sarasota bay. Now I am
done with fish stories. I left my folksfishing at Clearwater, but they are notso wild about it now and will soon gettired. I saw a girl hang an enormoustrout and she held him and played himaround until he got tired and a boatwas sent out to secure him. I guessedhe weighed fifteen pounds and othersguessed twelve and ten, but when hewas put on the scales he came down tonine. An old fishi.-man remarkedthat it was a sin to weigh a fish, forthey always fall short.
Tampa is lively. The hotels are
filling up, trade is good and moneycirculating jut like it used to beforethe panic. M >st of this money comes
from abroad and is quickly scatteredaround. Every other house is eithera hotel of a boarding house. TheStrangerB come from everywhere upNorth and many from Georgia andTennessee. I came down with a man
,and his wife, who were from northMichigan, and had never been South.It'entertained me to see their amaze¬
ment, for he said he had just put up180 tons of ice before he left home.They are delighted with the countryand with the people. He said every*body was so kind and naborly and thathe had no idea of finding such goodpeople down South. I think that hiswife was almost afraid to come, butshe is in bad health and she had justas well risk the rebels in Florida as
death at home, and so she came. Shehas improved much within a week.The Tampa Bay hotel, where themillionaires congregate, has not yetfilled up, but will be by the middle ofthe month. It is a magnificent houseand so bewilders me that I feel solemnin its beautiful apartments and don'tdare to talk in my usual tone of voice.Everybody else seems to feel so too,for it is not like a hotel. While youare walking on velvet carpets that cost$5 a yard, or sitting ou chairs thatcost $50 apiece, and see paintings on
the \t ails that cost from $100 to $5,000,and the whole building in a blaze ofheavenly lights and delicious musiccharming the ear and delightful odorsperfuming the air and the servants allin livery, a common man feels like theold woman at the circus for the firsttime in her life. When the grandprocession of beautiful horses, withtheir riders in spangled garments,caxie marching in, she said: "John,John, it's more like the kingdom ofHeaven than anything I r ver expectedto see in this world." Now, with allthat, I was invited to lecture in 4hemusic hall of this grand structure, andI did it. It was just large enough formy audience, and I am pleased to saythat I was able to conceal my embar¬rassment. Not that I was afraid ofthe people who sat before me, butsomehow I never feel at ease in a
house that is so much finer than nineown. It is art, not nature, that makesme timid. Mr. Plant muet be a won¬
derful mau to plan such a grand sys¬tem of railways and hotels and parksand steamship lines and yet he makesno great noise in the word. For yearsand years he has been perfecting thissystem, and every branoh of it movesalong like clockwork. Thousands ofmen are employed by him and his en¬
terprises have already added manymillions to the value of property inFlorida. This beautifuL city of Tampais a monument to his genius. Morethan half a. century ago RichardHenry Wilde wrote a little poem, be¬ginning "My life is like the summer
rose," and the last verse was.
"My life is like the prints that feetHave left on Tampa's desert strand,Soon as the rising tide shall beat,All traces vanish from the sand,Yet as if grieving to effaceAll vestige of the human race,On that lone shore loud moans the sea,But none, alau 1 shall mourn for me."
Mr. Wilde was an Irishman, whocame over here after Emmet's untime¬ly death, and settled in Augusta, andI suppose he had some reason for pen¬ning such sad, sweet verses. I wishthat he could see Tampa now. I wishthat Rev. Frank Goulding was aliveto see it, for it was here that he lo¬cated that terrible devil fish that car¬
ried the boat and his children ("TheYoung Marooners") far out to sea.
There is no desert strand now ; no
lone shore; no devil fish.Lakeland is a little gem of a town
and I have not found a better hotel inFlorida than the Tremont. It is justfine enough and good enough for any¬body. It overlooks one of the pret¬tiest lakes I have yet seen, and thetown is surrounded by many others.This is quite a railroad center and
might have been a city if Tampa was
farther off. It will be a city yet, forsuch beautiful locations and surround¬ings are not common, even in Florida.As old Father Dobbins used to say,"The Creator has quit making land,but He keeps on making people," andLakeland will be found out beforelong.
I have been to Bartow, the center ofthe phosphate region. Thirty compa¬nies have orgauized within the countyand millions of dollars invested inland and machinery. There is capitalhere from Boston, New York, Balti¬more, Richmond, Pittsburg, Charles¬ton, Savannah, Augusta and Atlanta.But all is not gold that glitters. Ofthese thirty companies only sixteenare in actual operation, Of these six-
teen only seven have made any money.There is phosphate enough, but every¬thing depends upon management andlocation. I visited one plant sixmiles in the country that is being op¬erated by a receiver. What a busi¬ness this has got to be I The receiv¬er ! There ought to be a book upon itjust like the books for lawyers anddootors and other professions. Itshould be made a textbook in theschools. I think I would name it"The Lawyers' Harvest, the Creditors'Grave and the Stockholders' Funeral."But this phosphate business is yet inits infancy and improved methods ofmining and washing will soon be in¬vented. The Peruvian Islands are
exhausted, and now nature unlocksanother storehouse in Florida thatseems sufficient for centuries to come.
"What is it ?" I asked. "Is it ani¬mal, vegetable or mineral?" It is a
mixture of all, they say, but chieflymineral. I found some sharks' teeth.They abound in all of it.sharks' teethfrom one-fourth of an inch to fourinches in length. Some of those an-
tidiluvian monsters must have been as
large as young whales, but how in theworld did they all congregate on thispeninsular when the great convulsioncame that upheaved it ? Verily theworld is full of mysteries, andwe knownothing hardly. Fortunes have beenmade here by the few who are shrewdand bold and who had good judgmentand foresight. George W. Scott hassold part of his holdings for fabuloussums. He owned miles of phosphatelands on Peau River. Mr. Codling1ton, the genial, energetic YankeeMayor, of Boston, bought largely atfrom $5 to $10 an acre and sold for tentimes that amount. I waB his guest."I fit again you," said he, "but havecome down from Michigan to lire withyou and I found a cordial welcome.If the railroads would reduce trans¬
portation to 1 cent a mile thousandsof good, hardy people from the Northwould come down, first to see, andthen to stay, and the result in a fewyears would be perfeot harmony be1tween the sections."What every town in the South needs
is a leader.a man of nerve and enter¬
prise. Our people will follow, butthey fear to lead. Mr. Codlington is a
power in Bartow and will soon havewaterworks and an electric plant andstreet cars and another railroad. Hehas been a great traveler and livedsome years in Peru while HenryMeiggs was building railroads therefor the Government. He designedand built a gas plant near the apex ofthe Andes mountains for the sole pur¬pose of lighting the tunnel thatMeiggs bored for his wonderful rail¬road.a road that cost $25,000,000.That gas plant is 16,000 feet above thesea level. Everything for the railroadand the gas plant was carried un cliffroads on the backs of mules.300pounds to the mule. Just think ofit ! Yankee genius, yaukee pluck wasbehind it all. They are a wonderfulpeople."When a Yankee is goo#he is very
good, indeed, but when he is bad he iahorrid." And that is what theythink of us, I reckon.
I Baw a skunk yesterday as it cross¬
ed the road a few miles out of town.It was a beauty. Our dog tackled itforthwith, and then.but you mustask the dog for futher particulars.
_Bill Asp.
Bitten by a Battler.
Chattanooga, Tenn., January 12..H. C. Clark, who has been seen inthe role of snake charmer, in all thelarge museums of the country underthe show name of "Harry DeLong,"was bitten this morning by a hugerattlesnake. He came here recentlyand blasted two rattlers out of therocks on Lookout Mountain. Whilein a room in the midst of highlandmoccasins, China snakes, spreadingvipers and rattlers, he attempted towash one of the mountain rattlera andplunged it into a basin of hot water.Then it buried its fangs in his hand.One of the deadly prongs he suckedout and then swallowed a quart ofwhiskey.
Three hours afterwards he fell totie floor as if dead. Medical aid was
summoned and the poison extracted.His arm was swollen to twice its or¬
dinary size, and at one time the heartceased beating. The charmer's wife,Cora, died from a moccosin's stingwhile exhibiting in Fond du Luo,Wis., five months ago.
Clark showed a season with Cole &Migdleton's five museums the largestof which is stationed at Chicago. Hewill recover.
m _How's This!We offer One Hundred Dollars Re¬
ward for any case of Catarrh that can¬
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure.F. J. CHENEY & Co.,
Proprietors, Toledo, O.We the undersigned, have kuown F.
J. Cheney for the last 15 years, andbelieve him perfectly honorable in allbusiness transactions and financiallyable to carry out any obligation madeby their firm.West & Truah, Wholesale Druggists,Toledo, O. Waldino, Kinnan &
Marvin, Wholesale Druggists, Tole¬do, O.
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter¬nally, acting directly upon the bloodand mucous surfaces of the system.Testimonials free.H^Sold by Druggists, 75c.
. Two New York surgeons mistooka case of skull fracture for drunken¬ness and refused to admit the patientto the hospital. They must havethought it the "pop-skull" brand ofwhiskey.
THE HERO OF SOEBJtS ISLAND.
Why tbe Magazine of Battery Wagner was
not Blown Up.
Five miles from Charleston liesMorris Island, facing the broad Atlan¬tic to the east, and divided from JamesIsland by a wide marsh and a windingchannel. It is a bare, desolate trackof barren land, scarcely rising abovethe level of the water. The windsweeps over it, whirling the sea sandinto ever shifting hillocks and hol¬lows, like the deserts of Arabia, butwithout the attractions ascribed tothose wildernesses by the poet Moore,for down those slopes spring no "sil¬very-footed antelopes" and nowheredoes "the Acacia wave her yellowhair." Only a few stunted shrubsgrow on the western side of the island,near the creek, affording a scant
refuge to the little sea birds whiohbuild their nests among the wind-tossed branches. The only inhabi¬tants are an oyster gatherer and a fewmen who attend to the light house.If human vision could reach so farone might stand on the beach and lookacross the intervening space to thecontinent of Europe, but as this isimpossible, and we can only gaze atthe waBte of waters, there is nothingto awaken fancy or enlist anyone'sattention, and a stranger would merelyconsider this low-lying island to be a
Lopelessly desolate and utterly insig¬nificant part of the surface of theearth.Yet the waves that break heavily
along the shores seem to murmur thesad refrain of the prophet of old,. "Isit nothing to you, all ye that pasBby ?" while the wind replies mourn^
fully, "Nothing," for, strange as thestatement may appear to be, duringthe months of July and August in1863 that parched and sterile islandwas the most impoitant spot of groundin the State of South Carolina, andwas the point of interest to which allour hearts turned. This was the out¬
post of Charleston, and under theburning rays of the Bummer sun our
best and bravest soldiers were fight¬ing in defence of this old city. When.friends met in those days the firstquestion asked was: "What is thelatest news from Morris Island?"The shells could bo plainly heard intown, of course, an for weeks theyoontinually swept like a hail stormover that inland, while on our sidethe artilleriuts at Battery Wagner andBattery Gregg replied loudly, and theguns of Sumter andMoultrie joined inthe awful concert, keeping up and un¬
remitting fire, day and night, uponthe enemy'b camps, assaulting col¬umns, working parties and the fleet.The fighting for Charleston, which
was to continue . without cessationuntil *he evacuation of the city,almost at the close of the war, beganat the southern point of Morris IslandJuly 10. Then Bcttery Wagner was
repeatedly assaulted by infantry untilthe enemy wa3 obliged to abandon thehope of ever captujing this work byforce of arms, and their engineers un¬
dertook the task of obtaining possessionof the much coveted fort. This theydid by steadily advancing their linesof earthworks closer and closer to ours
until they effected by their skillwhat the infantry and artillery com¬
bined had not been able to do byvalor.The canon of the enemy were of
much heavier calibre than ours, andtore down our parapets, which couldnot even be repaired by night towardsthe end of the struggle, because theYankees mounted a calcium lightwhich threw an illumination almost as
bright as day upon our defenoes.On the 8th of September an attack
was made upon Battery Gregg by bar¬ges from Vincent's Creek, but our
signal officers had been clever enoughto read the enemy's signals, and we
were therefore prepared to meet theiradvance, our entire force at BatteryWagner, except the artillerists, havingbeen temporarily transferred to thepoint where the assault was expected ;so when the barges approached theywere surprised, instead of our men,who received them so warmly that theysoon withdrew in confusion.
Col. Keith, the Confederate com¬
mander on Morris Island, having re¬
ported Battery Wagner to be no longertenable, a council of general officerswas held, and it was decided thatMorris Island must be evacuated.Battery Wagner had held out fifty-eight days, but the end had now came,and this fort was, at last, to be aban¬doned. The evacuation began at 9o'clock on the evening of the 7th ofSeptember, the wounded being takento Comming's Point, and embarkedfirst. After their departure the infan¬try was taken across to Fort Johnson,on James Island, next followed theartillerists, then the rear guard, whichwas composed of a small detachmentof regulars from Battery Gregg andBattery Wagner, and, last of all,three officers and a sergeant, who re¬
mained to deceive the enemy up to
the moment when Major Huguenin litthe fuse which was expected to blowup the powder magazine. They movedabout from ang|j^to angle firing offrifles as fast as.they could load them,so that the Yankees might not beaware that our troops had departed,and that all they had to do was now towalk in and take possession. Thiswas a very trying ordeal to the threeremaining Confederates, for at anymoment an attack on our shatteredlines might have been made and thisminute garrison have been captured or
killed. One o'clock had now come
and the moon had risen.The doors of the powder magazine
were opened and the fuse ignited;then they hastened down to the beachto take their places in pur last boat.
"Hurry I" shouted the sailors whomanned this barge, for the enemy haddiscovered that something unusual wastaking place and had sent their bargesforward either to make another attackon Battery Gregg or to discover our
movements. They had interceptedtwo of our boats and captured forty-nine men. In obedience to the Warn¬
ing summons the little squad of offi¬cers hastened on, but Major Hugucninhad been twice struck that day byfragments of shells, which had explod¬ed near him, and was so lame that hecould not advance rapidly. "Go on,"he said t,o his comrades, "and I willovertake you." But when lie reachedthe beach he found, to his dismay,that in the darkness and confusionthey had gone off and left him, sup¬posing him to be on board. His posi¬tion was now truly a melancholy andprecarious one, for the guns of theenemy's batteries and those of thefleet swept the open beach, as the tidewas out, and if he returned to BatteryWagner he would find no refuge there,as he hoped every instanj, to hear theexplosion of the magazine, and Moul-trie and all of our batteries had beeninstructed to ooncentrate their fireupon that work as soon as the signalof our having evacuated Morris Islandwas given. To surrender himself a
prisoner was also dreadful. «Just as
these fearful alternatives presentedthemselves to his mind a boat, whichwas apparently going out to sea, sweptby. He hailed it and was informed tohis joy that it was a ten-oared Confed¬erate barge which had turned back to
escape capture, and was going roundby Sullivan's Island. The officer incharge, in reply u Huguenin's earnest
appeal, "For God's sake, take me withyou," replied, "The Yankees arc toonear to stop, but wade out and we willtake you in."
So the last Confederate soldier whoieft Morris Island waded out breasthigh in the water, and was hauledaboard as the boat shot by.They reached Fort Johnson at about
3 o'clock in the morning, and foundthat Col. Yates and a detachment ofthe 1st South Carolina regular artillerywere about to set off for Morris Islandto make an attempt to rescue him, butthe effort would probably have beenvain.A report that Major Huguenin had
been killed preceded him to the city,and when he reported himself at about8 o'clock at Gen. Ripley's headquar¬ters the greeting given him by theGeneral was very characteristic. Inhis bluff military manner he said:"Is that you ? Why, I thought youwere dead. I am glad to see you."It appears, therefore, that in SouthCarolina, as well as in Scotland,"short greeting serves in times ofwar."Gen. Beauregard was much disap¬
pointed at Batteries Gregg and Wag¬ner not having been blown up. Whythe zealous and reliable officers whowere deputed to do this failed to ac¬
complish their design was because thefuses they were ordered to use were
defective.As soon as Major Huguenin was
told that the duty of blowing up Bat¬tery Wagner was assigned to him hecut off several pieces of the fuse andtouched them off to ascertain if thisimportant factor was in good order,but he soon found that it was worthnothing. In some parts the fire diedout after being kindled and in othersthe powder flared up so quickly that itwas anything but a slow match. He,therefore, went to Col. Keitt, and said:"This fuse will never explode themagazine. It was brought here in an
open rowboat, and probably got wet,for it is useless ; but, if you will allowme to use my discretion, I will guaran¬tee such an explosion that where Bat¬tery Wagner now stands there willsoon be a creek. We have two barrelsof resin here. I will put them intothe hospital, which adjoins the pow¬der magazine, set them on fire, andopen the doors of the magazine, so
that the flames may soon ignite thepowder, and if the Yankees take pos¬session of the fort one minute after Ileave it, no mau will be found boldenough to venture to go in to try to
extinguish the fire."Col. Keitt called a couucilof officers
to consider the question, but theydecided that, as the commanding gen¬eral had said "a fuse," nothing elsecould be used. So the letter of theorder was obeyed, while the importantobject in view was lost sight of.The fuse was accordingly lighted
the night of the evacuation, and afterburning awhile the fire died out.Neither Battery Wagner nor BatteryGregg consequently were blown up,and the enemy quietly took possessionof them uext morning, and mountingtheir guns upon our parapets, proceed¬ed to batter down Furt Sumterat theirleisure. . Claudine Riiett.
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. A 22-year-old man of Bangor,Me., learned for the first time, a fewdays ago, that he has a twin sister,alive and well, in Providence, R. I.,where she is married and has a family.Their mother died when the twinswere five months old. Two Bangorfamilies adopted them, and the oue
taking the girl moved out of the Stateshortly thereafter. The boy's fatherand fiie brothers and sisters kepttrack of the boy but never told him ofhis twin sister, and it was only hyaccident he learned of hqr existence.
Some Bit« of the History of Cotton Cul¬ture in Sonth Carolina.
Cotton wag early sold in Charleston.The packages in which it was put upvaried in weight from one to thirtypounds. In 1787 the fleecy staple wastaken to the City by the Sea fromOrangeburg, Newberry, and, perhaps,from Union, and sold at two pence a
pound to the merchants, who resold it.mainly to the ladies to make "^patch¬work bed quilts." About the yearnamed two or three bags, each weigh¬ing near a hundred pounds of seedcotton, were packed in the store ofWadsworth & Turpin by Samuel Mav¬erick and Jeffrey, a half-blood Indian.(This Maverick, by the way, claimedto he the first person that made sugarin South Carolina. About the year1800 he planted some ribbon cane,purchased in the Havanna, in his lotto the cast of the present orphanhouse. It yielded 300 pounds. Thecane was pounded in a mortar and thejuice boiled in iron pots.)
These bags were sent to England as
a sample and an experiment. Theparties to whom they were sent wrotethat the article was not worth produc-.ing, as it could not he separated fromthe seed.
In 1794 Dr. James Otis Prentissplanted cotton for market near Orange-burg Court House. Either in thatyear or the next Col. William Thomas,the Revolutionary soldier, plantedcotton to sell at Bellville, in St. Mat¬thew's parish. In 1796 cultivators ofthis crop appeared in several parts ofthe State. Among them was Sam¬uel Felder, of Orangeburg. John May-rant and Asbury Sylvester first grewcotton in the high hills of Santce inthe year 1798. A year later Gen.Wade Hampton introduced the plantinto Richland District, gathering over
600 bags from 600 acres.
Gen. Hampton was the first man inSouth Carolina to use water as thepropelling power of Whitney's cotton
gin. Fifty years ago Col. WadeHampton wrote Whitemarsh B. Serr-brook: ?'When Whitney's gin was
exhibited in Georgia none but womenwere permitted to enter the room.
An ingenious young mechanic at
length introduced himself into theapartment iu woman's apparel, and,by a minute examination of the ma¬
chine, satisfied himself that he couldnot only imitate but improve on itsconstruction by making it more effi¬cient. This discovery was communi¬cated to my father by Gen. Gun, who
spoke so confidently of the capacityof this individual that my father was
induced to visit him at his residencein Georgia. This visit resulted in a
contract for three gins, applicable to
a large scale of operations and theywere unquestionably the first ever
driven by water power."It has been written that Gen.
Hampton's gins were furnished by an
ingenious artisan of Georgia, assistedby William Munso'n, -of Richland.These gins were roughly constructed,still they were models for others madein 1801 by William Munson and JamesBoatwright, of Columbia. These were
the first of the new machines of homemanufacture. Gen. Hampton was
not, however, the first to use theWhitney gin in South Carolina. Capt.James Kinkaid, of Fairficld, put upone near Monticello in 1795.How to dispose of the cotton seed
was a perplexing problem to some ofthe early spinners. It was consideredworthless and carelessly thrown on
the ground like sawdust. The hogsate the seed and died. Then it wasput up in pens like shucks. The pigsgot the seed out through the cracksand soon went the way of their elders.As a last resort and hoping to get ridof the "nuisance," the seed was
dumped into the creeks, but in timeof low water an odor was generatedwhich was so offensive as to create a
strong feeling of prejudice against thefurther culture of the crop.The fear of "overproduction" is no
new tiling. Ninety years ago an opin¬ion prevailed that the supply of cotton
would soon exceed the demand. Aplanter of St. John's, Collcton, look¬ing at his first crop, the produce of a
few acres, after it had been housed,exclaimed: "Well, well, I am donewith the cultivation of cotton ! Hereis enough to make stockings for allthe people in America."These items. Mr. Editor and kind
reader, are taken from an essay on thecotton plant, written two score andten years ago, by an Edisto Islandplauter, "Whitmarsh TJ. Seabrook,afterwards Governor of our State,whose very words and sentences havebeen freely used. W. S. M.
Clanson College. S. C.-.a > .
Farming for a LlTing.. Secretary Morton reminds the croak-crs that only about three per cent, ofall the merchants escape failure;whereas, hardly three per cent, of thefanners fail. The statistics reallyshow that agriculture is safer thanbanking, manufacturing or railroad¬ing, taking all things into account.There is no fanner of good sense andgood health anywhere iu the West,Mr. Morton declares, who cannot makea good living for himself and family,and that is as well as the majority ofmen are doing in any other pursuit.The man who owns a farm and sticksto it is certain to profit by it in thefuture. There is practically no more
land to be added to tlu» area of culti¬vation. The supply of agriculturalproducts has reached its limit in theUnited States, and must now remainstationary, while the demand will goon increasing every year. This im¬
plies a gradual improvement in pricesand a steady appreciation of the value
i of farming huiu.*,.Selected.
Profitable Pork Making.
Pig-growing formed tho subject ofsome recent questions and answers be¬tween a Tennessee man and WaldoBrown, in the New York Tribune.Said the former: "I have a farm oftwo hundred acres, keep from forty to
sixty acres in grass, and a fine brookruns through it. There is always a
ready sale for hogs on foot, and theyarc about the only thing we can pro¬duce for which we do not have to lookfor a market. We wish to improveour stock. What shall wc buy, Berk¬shire or Poland China ? AVe think ofbuying a sow in pig, and a boar notakin, registered stock, for a start.What would I have to pay for a pure¬bred stock, and on what terms is itsold ?"The answer came thus : For several
years past I have been impressed withthe fact that to the man who wouldmanage intelligently a money-makingbusiness could be established in theproduction of pig pork. The bestsuccess would be attained by keepinga dairy and selling butter or cream
and feeding the milk to the pigs> butI have proved by repeated experimentthat fine, thrifty pigs can be put on
the market at six months old withoutmilk by feeding on slop made of branand oatmeal. I sold pigs in 1892 at
months old, averaging 110 pounds,that had been raised on this food.The brook running through the pas¬ture is an advantage, providing it doesnot become a source of contagion ; butif cholera prevails in the locality thevirus is likely to be carried by thewater to farms below.As to breeds, I have been familiar
with most of the leading kinds andhave lived for forty-five years in theMiami Valley, where the famous Po¬land China hogs originated and proba¬bly no other station in Ohio has ship¬ped so many breeding hogs as Oxford.I believe that as now perfected thereis no better breed of hogs than this inOhio or in the United States, and if Iwas starting in the business of pigpork production I should certainly use
thoroughbred Poland China sows, butwould use a Berkshire sire. Thesecrossbred pigs must not. however, beused as breeders, as their offspringwill not be uniform in character; butbrood sows can be kept for five yearsor more, and thus a new lot procured.For early maturity use old sows and
young sires. Teach the pigs to eat bythe time they are four weeks old,'andwean at eight weeks, by which timethey will be eating so that they willnot miss the mother's milk. Breedthe sows for two litters a year, andfeed them well so as to keep them in
good flesh, but never winter brood-sows on corn. Feed roots largely ifyou can grow them. Beets are best,but turnips will answer, and I believesweet potatoes could be profitablygrown in Tennessee for this purpose,feeding the culTs and selling the betterones, but if roots cannot be had feedbran mostly. If a sow is bred for herfirst litter to be dropped at one year
old, do not breed her soon again, butlet her have that year for growth anddrop her second litter at two years old.After that breed regularly for iwo
litters each year as long as she doeswell. You must have good fences tocontrol these old sows, for there is no
animal more likely to break through a
fence than an old sow in heat.
I hardly know what the cost wouldbe of registered pigs, but think goodones could ba bought at from $20 to
$25 each.this for pigs six monthsold. There would be a saving in ex¬
press, as well as first cost, to shippigs socn after weaning.say at ten
weeks old.
Headlight of the Future.
Baltimore, Jan. 11..While sev¬
eral railway companies are experi¬menting with improved headlights,the Georgia Southern and Florida isone of the first, if not the first line inthe country, to use electric light reg¬ularly in operating its trains. In a
letter to the Manufacturers' RecordReceiver W. B. Sparks writes as fol¬lows :
"We have eight electric headlights.They cost about $375 each in place on
the locomotive. The co$t of main¬tenance is not greater than the oil
light. An old headlight will not throwits light on a very dark 'night more
than 150 feet, and it is impossible foran engineer to slow up his train inthat distance, even with the emer¬
gency brake. The electric lightthrows its light from a half to three-quarters of a mile. Obstructions can
be easily seen at that distance, andsome uf our engineers claim that a
switch disc can be more easily de-teeted by it at night than in the day-time. These lights do away withswitch lights, which is quite a savingto roads that use them ».o any greatextent.
"Railroads, such as ours, runningthrough the pine lands of the South,kill a great many cows. During on.*
rainy season the lauds along the lineof road become very wet; iu placesthey are entirely covered with water
and the cattle come upon the trackseeking some dry spot on which to
sleep. Wc have killed, when we usedthe old headlight, as many as thirteenat one time, and our claims for stockkilled per month have sometimesamounted to over $1,000. The enginesusing the electric headlighthave neverkilled a cow, and I am confident thatthe saving in stock claims alone willmore than pay for the lights withinthe next two years.
Chronic coughers arc stupidbores and should be forced to use Dr.Hulls Cough Syrup, the only infallia-blc remedy.
AH Sorts of Paragraphs.. St. Augustine is the oldest city
in the United States.. Every thousand years the human
race grows an inch taller.. Spain has more daily papers tha
any country in Europe.. Latin is used all over the world
for physician's prescriptions.. Some mahogany trees in Hondu
ras are worth from $5,500 to $6,000e:.ich.. Last crop year Minneapolis flour
ing mills ground 9,347,615 barrels offlour.. Over 3,000,000 women in the
United States earn independent in¬comes.. A baby always helps to make
home happy.particularly when thebaby is asleep.. "Woman is a powerful weak crea¬
ture, but she can move the biggestkind of man without touching him.. All our city fathers say: Use
Salvation Oil, the greatest cure on
earth for pain, for rheumatism nndneuralgia. 25 cts.. Workmen boring an artesian well
in Louisiana struck a maple log in a
sound state of preservation 540 feetbelow the surface.'. Mrs. Kenneth McLeo<", of Cross-
well, Mich., has celebrated her cen¬
tennial. She was 20 years a maid, 40years a wif?, and 40 years a widow.. Tommy : Paw, what does it mean
when a man runs on a ticket as a
laboring man ? Mr. Figg: It means-'
that he has got tired of working for a
living.. An eastern doctor says too many
people die from sleeping^ with theirmouths open. There may be a goodmany, but it would be hard to provethat there are too many. /. "Is it true that a woman always
has the last word in a quarrei ?" "Mywife always has it; but then, there isnothing mean about her. She isalways willing to give it to me.". Timothy : Say, Ma, did our baby *
come from heaven ? Ma: Av coorse
he did. Timothy: Well, he was a
dum fool to leave heaven for a placelike this, and then run the risk ofnever gitten back again.
"Paw, is there any differencebetween a cold and a mfluenzy ?" "EFthe doctor calls it a cold the bill isabout $4 ; if he calls it influenza, iabout $18. The difference is $14, mson.''' N. In the four years endint
the re were 15,947 murders in the Hited States. But only 1,050of the mur¬
derers were ever called to account for"their crimes, and of these 410 were
hanged and 640 lynche^. j
A family named Walkejr, livingjin .Mitchell County, North Ciirolina^consists of seven brothers jknd flÄsisters, all of whom arc over 6 ft&^L^height. One of. the brothers is saidto be 7 feet 9 inches tall.. His Mother: Why don't you
play with your Christmas toys^Tom^-my ? They're just as good as new, andyou've had them 10 days. Tommy:That's just it. They're no good.Willy Nabors got some that he bust'inno time.. She : I am so worried about my
auut. She is at the point of death.He: Is that your wealthy aunt ?She: Yes. He: Well, never mind,dearest. You have my love, which is
greater than ever.
. It had been over four monthssince they were engaged, and as theyread the evening paper together hesaid: "See, my dear, only $20 for a
suit." "Is it a wedding suit?" sue
asked, sweetly. "No, abusinesa^uh.""Well, I meant business," she an-
swered.. Some co-educationalist young
man is clamoring for admission to
Vassar College. \Yhy not ? The wo- fmen are now admitted to Harvard,Cornell, Columbia and other collegesfor men, and it's a poor rcJe^hjit^-won't work both ways. But Vassarsays she won't., and if a woman won'tshe won't and there's an end on't.. Less than 125 years ago the little
plant known to the botanists as Lepa-chy's Columnaris, was onLy known toinhabit a small section of country inthe very southern portion of Lou¬isiana. Some time later it was report¬ed as occurring sparingly along theCanadian River; and, later still, on
the Arkansas. Since that time it hauslowly spread north, west and east,even to the very source of the Mis¬souri, over into the British posses¬sions, and is now said to be creepingalong the Saskatchewan towards Hud¬son Bay. How a plant which origin¬ated in a warm climate could accustomitself to such changes is another ofnature's mysteries.. Some three hundred and odd cats
arc maintained by the United StatesGovernment, the cost of their supportbeing carried as a regular item on theaccounts of the Post Office Depart¬ment. These cats are distributedamong about 50 post offices, and theirduty is to^keep rats and mice fromeating and destroying postal matterand canvas mail sacks. Their workis of the utmost importance whereverlarge quantities of mail are collected,as, for example, at the New YorkPost Office, where from 2,000 to 3,000bags of mail matter are commonlystored away in the basement. For¬merly great damage was done by themischievous rodents, which chewedholes in the sacks and thought nothingof boring clear through bags of lettersiu a night. Troubles of this sort no
longer occur since the official pussieskeep watch. Each of the Postmastersin the larger cities is allowed from $8to 'fiO a year for the keep of his felinestaff, sending his estimate for "catmeat" to Washington at the beginningof each quarter.
