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I known by th uutrkr! iillritl t
i. A fooling of weariness nnd pains in th
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SL-tBad breath,' had tasto in the mouth.
Oonnipatinn, witb occasional ftttarkfl.
of diarrliaa.
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Headache, in tlic front f the' head '
nausea, (Uz?ineH, and ycltownexu of
Bkin, ;
6. Heartburn, loss of appetite.
6. Distention of the stomach uul towels
by wind.
7. - itepremion of Rpirit, and Rreat melan-
rboly, with latitude and n dinpoxltlon
to leave everything for to-morrow. .
A natnrat flow of tHl from th Llvr
la amUal ta gaol hltb. When tbia
la olwtriKUd It xcirfta in .
BTXI0USI7ESS,
which, if neglected, soon load toseriona
diseaac. Simmons I.iverKeKUlatorexerta
a moxt felicitous influence over every kind
of biliousness. It restore Hvet to.
proper working order, regulate th wcre-
tlon of bile and puta thoti;rfHtlve organa
in auch condtt ion that tlieyean do their
best work, Afteriakin thmnedjeine u'
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"I have been ilject tovere'upeUt of 'Can-'
gpstion of the Liver, and have been in the habit of
taking from 15 to 20 grains of calomel w hich gen
rally laid me up for three or four days. Lately I
have been taking Simmons Liver Regulator,
which gave me relief without any interruption to
business." J. Hugo, Middlcport, Ohio.
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The most charming LrF'E- OF CHRIST KVKU
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in le tu va six tn mths. ihdiy we are recelviajf re-
; ports sli'ivvlmt from 3 to iW s tlesfer week..
j li t wre sold in Wilmington Is tUy.
t Is a h. of vivid interest. Is e larked Uy tke
le idlnf men of the South. One aest kLs euatrae
ted to sell aaio copies la les tb ia a year. S3nJ
fun-a brtatlrvlly- illustrated circular of the book
and V 't a eat ilojue of othsr pabllc.Uiuas. We tve
exclusive territory.
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nlet c y of Hie b.olc In best bin ling.
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! A New Discovery,
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Great Southe rn Remedy.
1 Haying been from
childhood a great
offerer, the result
of: protracted., chills
and iudigestion, terminating in diseases
of INer, K4ir and I'rl nary Organs,
and having tjfca irianyj remetlies known
J tti the profession with only temporary
relief, I have finally succeedeTd in discov
ering a combination of vegetable reme
dies, whU'h combinalion has proven a
remedv for diseases of all the internal
j organs superior to any known in a life of
t suffering' nnd practic of nearly fifty
yfars. As by it I nave oeen resioreti
from what seemed to be inevitable death
to perfect health without taking a dose
of any other medicine in nearly two
years past.
iFof further particulars apply to your
drumrist. or JNG. F. FOARD, M. D.
Olio, Iredell county, X. C.
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A Picture of the oM Honesteai
A lady stflhds within a mansion grand,
Where? wealth hui left on every side
. trace
She holds a. faded nicture in her hand
A painted sketch done with artistic
grace. -She
look ou it with eager earnest eyes
A glance which seems 'of pleasure yet
of pain:
She gazes Ions with smile and then with
siuhs :
ThU picture brings her ehildhood back
agaiu.
ghe sees an humble farm -house, hare and
. brown, '
. Sheltered Iteneath a canopy of green;
Great elm and willows drop their
' branches down,
yhile lilacs grow at will un trimmed
1 between.
The grma Is louj. and tangled, and the
flowers
In hidden nooks and bj the fenee trow
I Iwird-:- ; "
And rose-viiiea clamber upon the leafy
bowers:
It is the home she lived in when child.
Upon the unlatched gate there swings a
t Whose scanty dress shows feet and an-
: kies bare,' "'V ,
Whose locks, half in disorder, half in curl,
Float, as she swings, far out upon the
air. r r
" And which is I?" she asks in murmurs
low, 'r
" The woman I am now, so worn and
ri wise?
Or this wild nut-brown maid of long ago,
, Who lived as free an the bird that flies?
And which U home?
My heart is tel-
ling me :
This humble farm-hotise is
my home
i truth;
And wheu in dreams my
fancy wanders
free,
It never turns to this dear
home of
youth.-'
The lady looks with earnest, yearning
gaze; ...
' She smiles with pleasure, then she
sighs with paiu ;
Then turning sadly, sighiug still, she
lays
The picture buck among the rest again.
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Death.
Leaves have their time to fall.
And flowers to wither at the north wind's
. breath,
These have their seasons all, but thou.
Thou luurt all seasons for thine own O
leath!
Jtfrs. Hetmam.
Freaks of ths Caribou.
I H )W ITOONTK-tTS AN ICE FIELD IKTO A
WIKTEK 1 PL.IY6BOCND PROVING
BY MAX ONLY.
' ' Unlike the solitary moose, the cari
bou delights in the company of its
kind. IVday it will act as it almost
afraid of its own shadow, and display
a keeuness of eye, ear and nose, and a
vigilance in their use which render an
approach within ride-shot next to im
possible; to-morrow it will stand the
hre of the hunter, like one of the Uid
Guard, facing him at short range while
in the paroxysms of the buck fever he
misses shot after shot, and nhlil either
the pumping m achinery of his repeat
ing rifle sucks dry or fortune bestow
upon him one of those smiles which
it is wont occasionally to favor the in
experienced. To-day it will follow for
miles along u trail over which a man
has passed not twenty- minutes before;
to-morrow one sniff, of the tainted
track and it will not break .its ruu for
five minutes.
It is as fond of the ice as a school
bov. and full as readv for a frolic. Af
ter the ice has formed in November,
it is soon followed first by snows and
then by thaws or rain. The latter
converts the snow into slush, resting
on the firm ice beneath. Jvow, any
sensible creature would keep away
from such a mess. But not so thecar-
ilou. for to it this makes the very gala
time of the year. The herd go out
upon thejee in single file, then scatter,
and each one falls to pawing up the
slush with its forefeet. After they
have tired of this performance they
fall upon their knees, and seem to lap
the ice with their tongues. Why they
do this is, its far as the writer has lieen
able to learn, a mystery. It certainly
is not from thirst, since they have
crossed a doscen open brooks in their
morning ramoie. remaps, to use one
of those slaug expressions so happily
indefinite in leaving unbridled liberty
of detail to the imagination of the
hearer, "they do it for, grandeur."
This is the most simple, and indeed
at t imes seems the only ex4attation of
many of t he vagaries of t his most sing
creature. After a while one will MisuUtr
pend operations, seem to think things
over generally, then go gravely over to
where smother has mined down to a
place of ice of extra flat and prod
and poke it with the utmost vigor.
The assaulted' party rises to its feet and
meekly resign its place to the intruder,
which immediately drops upon its
knees and continues the operations of
its predecessor, while the ousted either
passes along the complement by rout
ing out another, or proceeds to dig a
new spat for itelf Then perhaps, all
will lie dowu foe a while, stud, though
one ! w. uld thfokJ the bed about
lis congenial 'as the inside of an ice
cream f reexerv chetr the cod in .appar
ently the acme of bovine comfort.
Next, ouq will slowlyriae to its feet,
round hp its Ixick, and stretch' ' itself,
survey its comrades to select the one
j which seems iuo?t comfortable, ami
then.-pasted by that perversity qI
I
!
hsp.)sitiou wei so .often ,?e and una
iieui itize in the hum r early riser,
,.-ctvd to stir it up w.th hotif and
1 ni until it, U) , gets upon its legs
iid j iiits iu ihe gime. 'Soon all are
mi their feet, .ii t, fat iit g in one be
i;ud tiic ..th. r. oove tor the woods in
single-file, headed by the leader, always
a bull, though not invariably the larg
est in the herd. They move off at a
walk, their heads hanging down pre1
cisely like cows driven to pasture.
Suddenly one will - becoine possessed of
a devil and breaking from the ranks
with a hop, skip ami a jnmp, charge
through the line ugain and again until
it is thrown into complete disorder.
Then it will as suddenly fall into place,
as demure as a cat, sayiug, as distinctly
as an attitude can speak,' What ! you
do not mean to charge this untimely
disturhanrr . ta-tne.5o , j,ttu2!.The
march is then resuuled,. and alh- nuiy
disappear at the meekest kind of a
walk in the surrounding forest ; or
without the slightest apparent cause,
the herd will break into, a. run at a
pace so keen you almost fancy you can
hear them whiz as they cleave a pass
age through the air. This burst of
speed may last for a hundred yards; it
may be kept up through thick and
tiiin for five miles; the oiie is about as
likely as the other. -Htrper for September.
The Panther's Scream.
Forest and Stream.
Reading in the July 16 number of
Forest and Stream a short item about
panthers, by your British Columbia
correspondent, reminds me of a circum
stance in my own hunting days about
thirty-five years ago. I was camping
alone in an open camp near the head of .
Mollychuiikemunk Lake, say about
ten rods from the shore, in the woods,
on a dark And stormy ,-bt in the fall
of the year. I had worked hard the
day before tram pi ug through the
woods, over mountains and through
swamps, tending traps ana aoing some
shooting, being chiefly in pursuit of
fur game. I was very tired, and had
got to camp just at dark, and gathered
in some wood, cooked and ate my sup
per, and lay down on my balsam bed.
and was soon sound asleep. -When I
Came to myself, I was on -ray knees.
with my gun in my hands, peering out
into the darkness, and lie rain was
pouring in torrents. My fire was
nearly out and it was a tearful night.
I knew I had been awakened by some
noise, for I had done the ..aaiue thing
once before, and I was in a frightened
state of mind. On coining to nnself
mv first effort was to start up ray fire;
and as luck would havej it, there were
some dry sticks by my side. While I
was thus engaged there, went out into
the tempest and darkness one of of the
- . m a B
most unearthly screeches or yells l
I 1 I 1 ... 1 L
ever nearci, a proiongeu veueiueiii
howl, sounding as nearly ;is I can des
cribe like a woman iu distress.
My hair straigtened and my hat
eame off, :.nd I jumped back into camp,
and there was lively work kindling
that fire. The anim il, when I heard
him, was on the shore of the lake, not
one hundred yards from me. No
doubt he had screeched, before, which
brought me out of sleep, on to my
gun ready to shoot; but a gun then
and there was about as good a weapoti
as a stick of wood, for nothing could
be seen outside, and a panther would
have crushed me at one " lean had he
started a scrimmige. No doubt he
smelled me, but at the s line time saw
some spark of fire, whitch kept him
backand caused him to give the frighful
veil, lie that as it m ly, I s-.Kin had a
bright tire burning, but there was no
more sleep for me that night, t sat
with mv cun in mv grip ready to fire,
and, as St. Paul wheu he was ship
wrecked, ' wished for day." The beast
made off on to the mountains to the
east, every few minutes uttering his
parting vehement yell, which grew less
and less distinct as he; receded, until
all was still except the dripping of the
ram.
In the morning I went to the shore
of the lake and found the animal's
tracks-v-a large round footprint with
long claws that settled into the sandy
shore as he traveled along, and when
he came tu a brook, which was about
thirtv feet w!d he see.iud to hap it
with the irreatest ease. This was what
I presume to be a large panther.
Woman.
True, he cannot sharpen a pencil,
and, outside of commercial circles she
can't tie a package to make it look like
anything save a crooked cross section
of chaos: but, land of miracles! see
what she can do mith a pin! She can
not walk so many miles around a bil
liard table with nothing to eat, and no
thing (to speak of) to drink, but she
can walk the fretful baby. She can
ride five hundred mi'es without going
into the smoking car to rest and get
away from the eh i Id ren . She can en
joy an evening visit without smoking
half dozen cigars. She can endure
the distraction of a house full of chil
dren all day, while her husband sends
them all to bed before he has been
home an honr. A dar with a sister is
fortunate, a fellow with a cousin is to
be envied, a young man with a sweet
heart is happy and a man with a good
wife Is thrice blessel more than They
all.
Manufactured .everywhere are con
stantly searching for cheap fuel. The
close competition in all industries nec
essitates a reduction of all working ex
penses to the lowest possible point, and
as fuel is one of the heavy items of ex
pense, the demand for cheap fuel is
never fully atisfied. The discovery of
natural gas seemed at one time to have
solved the question, so far as the sec
t ions where ijt is found are concerned,
but it is now evident that the supply
is being exhausted, and mauufacturers
who have depended upon it are now
looking for something to take its place.
Manufacturers who have used gas as a
fuel are notf disposed to go back to
coal, the superiority of the former, it
is said, being verv great. Various
processes to Ibeet tnedemand for cheap
fuel are begurrritig to claim " public at
tentionva&dij fortunately they are of
such aehartcter as not to be confined,
liketural jgas, to anv one section,
but can be used anywhere. We have
recently givfn an acceuut of the fuel
gas now used b the Distion saw
works, near Philadelphia, the cost of
which, it is thought, will not exceed 5
or 10 cents a thousand feet. In Pitts
burg the Eureka Gas Fuel & Liirht Co.
is making an oil gas which, it is said,
has proved very satisfactory. It has
b.tn tried in the large steel works of
Oliver brothers. & Roberts, supplying
all the heat; required for a Swindel
heating f urnace, heating about 30 tons
of steel billets a day ou the average.
it is claimed that the cost was only
about one-fifth as great a coal at
$1.23 a ton, land very much less even
than what natural gas costs Pittsburg
users. Another fuel to which atten
tion is also being called for forging and
welding is crude petroleum, as used in
a process owned by the Aerated Fuel
Co., of Springfield, M iss., and very
strong claims are made as to its cheap
ness. ' ; ;
This matter of cheap fuel is of vital
interest to the South. Natural gas
gave those who could use it a great
advantage oyer all others, and while
the South has less to fear from com
petition with the manufactures who
used this extraordinarily cheap fuel
than other sections, still it gave to the
natural gas region a great advantage
for manufacturing at a low cost. The
introduction now of fuels rivaling nat
ural gas in cheapness, and which can
Ik used iu ajiiy p.irt of the country,
takes away the advantage in this line
heretofore enjoyed in the natural ga
territory, and places all sections on a
par so far as cheap fuel is concerned,
while all other advantages are on the
side of the South. In all industries
depending upon coal as a fuel the South
is or course rar aiieatt in cneapness,
for the vast coal wealth of the South
affords an unlimited supply of the very
best grades of coal at the lowest cost.
Manufacturers Record .
The New Comet
Prof. Lewis; Boss, of the Dudley Ob-
servatory, Albany, lias completed calcu
. a 'i .
lations of the orbit of the new comet
liscovered by Pr if. Barn an! at the
Lick Observatory, Septemlwr i. Ac
cording to tuese me comet is twice as
! a I J ili i i
far awav from the earth as the sun
is or about lV2,UUU,UUO miles, and is
about 17G,O0!0;Q0O! miles from the sun.
It is moving toward its perihelion, and
indications are that this will be reached
December 10. As the earth and comet
are moving toward each other from op
posite directions, the velocity of ap
proach toward us is something unusual,
about 3,OOt),oyo miles a d av. The
cimet will consequently increase in
brightness, and by the middle of No
vember will be sixty times as bright as
at its discovery. , Subsequently calcu
lations will determine whether it will
become visible to the unassisted ere.
It came into our s61ar system with the
small inclination of 15 degrees to the
plane in which the planetary orbits lie,
and in such a way! a to move in a di
rection contrary tti that of the planets.
The comet clunotreadily be seeii much
earlier than 1 o'clock in the morning,,
but within a; month in the early eve
ning hous, add iii November, will rise
before sunset The physical appear
ance indicates that it is instrinsically
bright antl that itswdl develop a large
tail. Calculation? indicate its nearest
distance to the sun at 125,000,000
miles. Should it fall below this the
comet will be a brilliant obj-ct in No
vember. 1
The Nortli State (Rilicil organ)
says: "The reports of dam ige by rain
and freshens are just appalling. In
the eastern part of the State whole
crops of cotton are ruined, and build
ings are floating around the country.
If Cleveland aud the Democrats don't
get out verv soon there will be noth
ing left. During no national admin
istration since! George Washington
has the Lord; visited our people with
such dire calamity.! Cleveland must
be a very bad man; and we all know
what terrible thing the Democratic
party are responsible for." It has al
ways seemed that the North States
advocacy of Republicanism was a joke.
There appears now to be no room
for doubt about it. Neurs and Obser
ver. An idle man always thinks be has a
rifrhttobe affronted if a busy mm
does not devote' to him i jiitt ai much
time as he himself has leisure to fraste.
Tht Old Stort aal th Vtw.
May we not apply that same thought
of the unbroken continuity of God s
gift to the higher regions of our spir
itual experience ? H supplies of wis
dom, love, joy, peace, power to our souls
are always enongh, forrjur wants. If
ever men complain of languishing vi
tality in their religious emotions, or of
a stinting supply of food for their
truest self, it is their own fault, not
his. He means that there should be
no parenthesis of famine in our Chris
tain life. It is not his doing if times
of ' torpor alternate with seasons of j
quick energy and joyful fullness of
life. So far as he is concerned, the
flow is uninterrupted, and if it comes
to us in jets and spurts, like some inter
mittent well,' it is because our owu evil
has nut some obstacle to choke the
channel and -darn- his spirit from our ';
spirits.
We cannot too firmly hold, or too
profoundly feel, that an unbroken con
tinuity ol supplies of hi grace un
broken and bright as a sunbeam, reach
ing, in one golden shaft, all the way
from the sun to the earth in His pur
port concerning us. Here, in this highest
region, the thought of our text is
most absolutely true; for he who gives
is ever pounug forth his own self for
us to take, and there is no limit to our
reception but to our capacity and our
desire, nor any reason for a moment s-
break in our possession of love, right
eousness, peace, but our withdrawal of
our souls from beneath the Niagara of
His grace.
As long as we keep onr poor vessels
below that constant downpour they
will be full. It is all our own blame
if they are empty. Whv should
Christnin people have these dismal
times of desidness these parentheses
of paralysis ? As if our growt h must be
like that of a tree with its alteration
of Winter sleep and Summer waking?
In regard to outward blessings, we are,
as it were, put upon rations, and that
he gives us we gather. There he
sometimes does, in love antV wisdom.
put us on very short allowance, and
even now and then causes "the fields
to yield no meat' But never is it so
in the higher region. There he puts
the key of the storehouse into our own
hands, und we may take as much as
we will, and have as much as we tike.
There the bread of God is given for
evermore, and he wills in uninterrupt
ed abundance that the meek shall eat
and be satisfied.
A Dozen Good Rules.
We were st. uck lately by the order
ly behavior of a large family of child
ren, particularly at the table. We
spoke of it to their father, and he point
ed to a paper pinned to the wall, on
which were written some excellent
rules. We begged a copy for the bene
fit of our readers. Here it is.
1. Shut every door
without slamming it.
after
you,
and
T. Dou't make a practice of shout
ing, jumping or running in the housj.
3. Never call to persons up stairs,
or in the next room; if you wish to
speak to them go quietly to where they
are.
4. Always speak kindly and politely to
everybody, if you would have' them do
the same to you.
5. When told to do or not do a thing,
by either parent, never ask why you
should or should not do it.
0. Tell of your own faults and mis
doings, not of those of your brothers
and sisters.
7. Carefully clean the mud or snow
off vour boots before entering the
house.
8. Be prompt at every meal hour,
9. Never sit down at the table or iu
the sittinz room with dirty hands or
tumbled hair.
10. Never interrupt any conversa
tion, but wait patiently your turn to
g peak.
1 1. Never reserve your. good manners
for mm nan v. but be euuallv lMilit at
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home and abroad.
12. Let your first, last and best con
fident be your mother.
An old soldier lav dying in a little
town in Pennsylvania one day last
week. "Is there anything that troub
les yon?" asked his pastor, as an ex
pression of grave concern passed over
the veteran's face. "Yes," said the
dying man, "there is. I have not
made one of my opportunities. I was
in the war about four years, in many
battles, and thought I tried to do my
duty. But I never picked up alighted
shell, with its burning fuse sputting
close to the shell and threw it over the
parapet of the fort. I have been a
regular attendant upon 'army re-unions,
and I have read the newspapers
since the war, and find that I am the
only man in the Uuion army who has
not performed that feat, al though I
have had plenty of opportunities. My
life has been wasted "But why,"
asked the pastor, "did you not do it
when vou had the -opportunity ?
"Becaasc'Vsaid the gallant old soldier.
ul wanted tbive the shell.
I always
knelt down and pulled the tusn on.
with mv teeth r and theu the u.b.-
, life went out with a snap
m m . m a
HKc a iric-
ion primer. JSurdette,
Optiaistit Vltv f life. -
Putting aside the qoextion of reveal-
ed religionV poets and' philosophers
have begun to jet aoltgnity in lw- -man
nature, a. wisdom and heantj; in
life as we know it, and to abandon
those dark and dangerous, speculations
which most com monTy lead thought L
in to gloom and despondency. ' TbinW
exist according to fixed laws, some of
wmch we have discovered aud know l,i
be just. We reason, therefore, that
those laws which we haTe not et nen-
etrated, and may never - penetrate.
whose manifestation seem, cruet and
unjust. Would, if Drorjerlv findentrvvT
b$ found equally beneficientv Let u?,'
inererore, obey those Lias which we
compreheiidbesir with ; patieficeif tjrat
wnicn we control, hold, f ast to tU,hap-
pin ess which comes in 'onr war, and
not trouble ourselves too."mncfr-ubout-
the mysteries of our existence. f -'
ivpeciaiiy let as jrecnsnize our
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selves as a part of humanity. Let us on
charitable and sympathetic so that
others will grant ns similar favors and
the sum of happiness be irrcreased.
Let us not curse men for faults for
which from the nature of humanity.;
they are not respon id.'.- Let Ua
rather study the causes of those faults
and try if there be remedies, for them.'
Let us consider th t nations'; art only -'
aggregations of single men,' each of
whom is bound by the same limitations
as ourselves. Charles Lot in Hihrrth
in Ante rn-an Magazine.
Marvelous things are to be done, so
it. is said, by a syndicate, of which Mr.
II. Martin. Tremont Home, diicago,
is at the head. This wonderful syndi
cate has, it is claimed. $200,000,000 at
its command to be used in building
short-line railroads from everv town
of 1,000 inhabitants or more in Wes
tern and Southern Missouri, Arkansas
and Louisiana not now on a railnied.
providing they are not more than 2
miles from some leading road. It will
baud gas and water woknr and eisctnc
ight works wherever wanted m towns
of that section of 1,000 inhabitants
and over; build lead and zinc smelt
ing warks, canning factories, boot and
shoe factories, iron rolling uiills,pa-;
per mills, flouring mills, cotton and
jute bagging factories, woolen factories,
manufactories for ptows, wagons and
ill agricultural implements, paper bags.
etc., build a main line of railroad from
Kansas City to some harbor on the
Gulf: run steamships to principal ports
of Mexico, Central und South America
and the W est India Islands, and finally,
rates of transporUtioftwill-4a. placed ' ,
at one-half of the present railroad
charges. Only so much will becharg-
ed as to payoperating expense and- 5
per. cent interest on the cost of con- "
struction." It is well that the com
pany has $200,000,000 on haiid, or -
rather et its service, to be used as re--
quired, for it will tike a pretty goal
portion of it to carry out all theft
schemes. M'lnurfacturtx Record.
The Roanoke RUes 37 Feet, Overflon
in? its Banks.
Norfolk, Va., Sept. 15. The Hrgin-
ian learns from passengers arriving in the
city over the Seaboard road that the Roa
noke has risen thirty-seven feet, and that,
the lowlands along it from Northampton
and Halifax counties, N. i., are covered :
with water for miles around.- The corn
nnd cotton crops are ruined, ami in many
places there is hftren feet jof water over
the tops of the com. Houses and barns
arc floating around promiscuously, and
the dead carcasses of cattle aud sheep
and swine are seen floating everywhere.
The people are disheartened, and many
of them homeless. So far it is not known
that any lives have been lost, but there
are grave tears that such is the case.
Such a flood has never been known .Jy
the oldest inhabitants, who have roauy
times seen the "flighty" river "rise -but
never to such proportions. The heavy
rains which have continued for about
two weeks have caused the overflow End
devastation. The damage is estimated
by some as high as half a million dollars -and
is very great. The farmers living iu
the section have lost their all, and the '
only thing left to deuote where: their
houses once, stood are tlie.tops -of the
trees, which loom up through the muddy
waters. The railroad bridges in that
ftectiou being of iron and stone were not
washed away. At .1 o'clock the rive r
commenced falling, and it is thought,
will resume its normal htate in a few days.
Wilmington Meagr. "- .
The Grandchildren Objected.
ArousrA, Ga., September 20 Quite
a sensation w.-is produced in society
circles here ton! ay -by the marriage o.
Mr. William H. Howard, a, prominent
and wealthy cotton merchant, audMrC
George Hemdell, widow of prominent
manufacturer, and motlier of several
children. The ceremony was perform
ed by Rev. Dr. Adams, of the First
Presbyterian church, at the home of
the bride this afternoon at OtfJOxu-locki
No cards were issued.
Mr. Howard is eighty-two yearsrof
age, and he hiid, it wa supposed, given
up all idea of matrimony. He was a
widower, and his sons and grandchil
dren are opposetl to the match. M r.
Heindell is a beantifnl woman of about
thirty years and has from her husband's
estate a splendid competency. , The ,
groom's present to the bride, it is ru
mored, was a check for $00,000. There
will be no bridal trip. I
The most remarkable figure on tlic
stump this fall will be Anna Dickir,-
s in. bhe has tjeen engageii to make
four speeches a week for Hairwon
and Morton. She will leceive 200
for cac'i speech and traveling expenses.
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