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VOL. I. NO. 32.
COL. rose's
LI BUY PRISON.
HOW I'.MO.V PRISONERS
tl'XXEL.
DUG A
the F.capc of Over One Hundred
Captives Giapli really Related
JO O.ie of Them V Work
ot' Great Hardship.
The re ally historic portion of the
-ui!ding in Richmond once known as
! ibby pris-on, i it .-r used as a tobacco
v .ivL-howsc, was the tunnel by which
'. Thomas F. Hose and 103 other
i mim soldiers escaped. The story of
iie tumid is well tkl by Frank E,
M'nu. in the cv- ?.;
Cld Libby, as will be seen by the ac
coaipnuirtg cut, is, and was, a'dctached
br;:hi:ug( ;uid thus eay to guard by
i-?itrie. The plan of tunneling out was
rite i re, tion of one brain, that of Thomas
1'. Rom-, Colonel of tbe 7 th Pennsyl
va:iia Yo'unteers now a Captain of the
J':lh United States Infantry who wa? !
taken prisoner at the battle of Chicka
Niauga, September CO, 1 (.'-. On his way
b'u-bvnoud lie cscup-od from his guards
s-t YVeldou, X. but after a day's wan
dering b.ut the pine forests with a
ui oroKen loot, was retaken by a detach-
.... .... .i uim.mi.nv titim ;uiu seni IO
F.ibby pi ison, where he ai rived October
1, t SO::.
TTu pwtoiiers were not allowed on the
iiTouM 1 ior except in the da v time, so
ih Rose and his co l iborers had first to
ut h i "S" shaped hole from au access
H le room through a t'oor or intervening
wall to one below, a chamber to which
'i-y had no nccc?'"-. Their only tools
mto nn old chisel and some jack knives.
5 hose, coablned with a rope and a box--pittoot,
formed the sole plant for carry
ji - vi th ir stupendous undertaking.
J"il1ir early everts were attended by
r:ig Lads and a ttho'e army ot np-
aivntly insuperable difficulties, and
i! aily half : dozen times bands tint had
hi. n foimcd. of the other prisoners to
;'-sclf : omc apparently feasible plan
v -'jj; . lissolvtd in despair.
". tie work had been largely in sewage
-oke.l i', the earlier projects having
"lit mpl ited escape by means of sewers
liad'nvr to thi' adjacent canal. This
h .d t be abandoned when it was found
!!i t the couhiit in (juetion was too
' .now to admit even the slimmest of
party, and was in addition lined
Mthoak planks, which their worn-out
te !i reins, el to make any impression on.
A previous effort to reach a six-foot
m.-wi 1 ;sd resulted in the flooding of
their vik by canal uaer and the nar
iv escape of Rose from drowning.
p to th s time, says 3Ioran, thirty
iiine nights had been spent in the work
"t excavation, 'i he men now made a
' i t l'u! examination of the northeast cor--:er
of the ceilar. at which point the
' n ;lis sui face outside the prison wall,
bi in ;r cij,-ht or nine feet higher than at
Mn: -an:il or south side, atlorded a better
-N.ie to dig than the latter, being f:ee
iom water and with clay-top enough to
sup; o: t itself. The unfavorable feature
of this point was that the only pos ible
t( riniaus of a tunnel was a yard between
th.' building; beyond the vacant lot on
th taU of I.ibby. Another objection
vai th u ivei wl'.en the tunnel should be
made to lb.it point, the exit of any es
caping par y mt Ij: made thiouh an
a tii ! wagon-way tin !er the building
that f.:ced ti e street on the canal side,
a: d i very man nui-t emerge on she s'.de
v.dk in .--'ght of the s-eutinel on the
M-uth sitie of the priso.i, the
iiitervc'iing space l.icingia the full glare
of a gus lamt). It was caitfuily noted,
li avi ver. by llov.-, long bcfoie this, that
t l.o wet er.'l of the bed of the nearest
ntinel was b twee l lifty mid sixty feet
f i in the oint of egress, and it was con
c !;i li-l that by walking away at the ma
nii::t the se:itinil commenced his pice
. i -twa d, on-.- would be far eaough into
the hadow to ma'e it impossible that
:h - rolor of his clothing could be made
tit by the sentinei w h n he faced about
to return toward the e stern fmd of his
1 at, which terminated tin to fifteen
liit e s. of the prison wall. It was
f Mb r c :isb. red tin: as these sentine's
h d for their spicial du'y ti.e iruarding of
t.he uri: on th-y wiuid not be e; ger to
bur-fen them - e-. with the duty of mo-
-ti::g crsons m-v-i i i the vicinity out
s le of their jurisdiction, provided, of
c urte, that the letreating forms mrvay
ot which they must cei t.iinly see wete
nit rtvogniid as Yankees. All others
they nvght propcriy leave for the thai-
nuil examination of the
d who patro'ed the straets
p ovo-t iru
of liichino;
The j arty now coasi-ted of Col. Thos.
K. Hose, iith I'ennsylvania; Maj. A. G.
liamiitou, lHh Kentucky; Capt. Ter
raace Clark, Tfth Illinois; Maj. George
H. Fitz-immou. Jit'th Indiana; Capt.
ohn F. Gallagher, id Chio; Capt. W.
H. 1'andall, Cd tdiio; Capt. John
Lucas, r.th Kentueky; Capt. I. N. John
son, tth Kentucky; Maj. B. B. 31c-
LIBBT PRISON IN 1865. '
tcskej
Donald, 101st Ohio; Lieut. N. S. 3rc
Ktan, 21st Illinois; Lieut. David Car
bett, 7Tth Fennsylvania; Lieut J. C.
Fislar, ?th Indiana Arti'Wy; Lieut.
John I). Sim -son, lOtH Indiana; Lieut.
John 3Iitchell, 7fth Illinois, and Lieut.
EH Foster, 30th Indiana, this parly
was divided into three reliefs, and the
work of breaking the cellar wall was
Successfully done the first nighc by Mc
Donald and Clark.
The earth was very densely compressed
sand, th-U offered a strong resistance
to the broad bladed chisel, which
wa? their only eiTecti e instrument,
tmd it wa; clear that a long turn of
hard work must bti done to pen
etiate Under the fifty-foot lot to the ob
jective poi-at. The lower part of the
tunnel was about six inches above the
level of the cellar floor, and its top about
two and a ha'.f feet. Absolute accuracy
was of course impossible, either in giv
ing the hole a perfectly horizontal direc
tion (r in preserving, uniform dimen
sions; but a fair level v. as preserved,
aud the average d:ameter of the tunnel
wa; a little over two feet.
Usual I v one
man would elig and till the sp tto-.m
with earth; upon the signal of a gentle
pull, an assistant would drag the load
into the cellar by the clothes-lines fas
tened to each side of this box, and then
hide'it under the straw, a third constant
ly fanned air into the tunnel with a rub
ber blanket stretched across a frame, the
invention of the ingenious Hamilton; a
fou.th would give occasional relief to the
last two, while a fifth would keep a
lookout.
"When the opening had been extendeel
nearly across the lot some of the party
believed they had entered under the
yard which was the intended terminus;
and one night when McDonald was the
digcer, so confident was he that th-j tie
sired distance had been made that he
turned his direction upward, and scon
broke through to the surface. A g'ance
showed him his nearly fatal blunder
against which, indeed, h; had been
earnestly warned by Hose, who from the
first had carefully estimated the inter
vening di-tau e between the east wall of
Libby and the te: minus. In fa;t, Mc
Donald suv that he had broken through
in the open lot which was all in full
view of a sentinel who was dangerously
close.
The last effort was made by Rose alone
one Saturday night. H was not custom
ary for the Confederates to visit the ope
rating cellar on Sunday, and he de
termined to make the most in his power
of the now pre-ious time. He therefoie
( aused all the party to remain tip stairs,
directing them to keep a close watch
upon the Confederates from all available
points of observation, and await his
return.
Taking McDonald with him, he went
clown through the fire-place before day
light on Sunday morning, and, bidding
Johnson to kecr a vigilant watch for
i intruders and McDonald to fan air into
I him, he entered the tunnel and began the
j forlorn hope. From this time forward
i he never once turned over the chisel to a(
I relief.
j By midnight he had stiuck and passed
' bevond a post which he felt must be in
! he yard. During the last few minute
be Lad turned nis course upward, and
j to relieve his cramped limbs he turned
. upon his back. His strength was nearly
gone; ihe feeble stream of air which his
comrade was trying, with all his might.
to send to him iy means ot a tan nom
a distance of fifty-three feet could no
longer reach him through the deadly
stench. His senses reeled ; h? had not
breath nor strength enough to retreat
backward thtough his narrow grave. Id
the a;ony of suffocation he dropped the
dull chisel aud beat his two fists against
the roof his grave with the might of de
spair when, blessed boon! the crust
gave way and the loosened earth show
ered upou his dripping face, purple with
agony; his famished eye caught sight of
a radiant star in the blue vault ato e him ;
a flood of light and a volume of cool,
delicious air poured over him. At that
very instant the sentinel's cry rang out
like a prophecy : "Half-pist 1, and all's
well!"
Kerovering quickly under the inspir
ing air, he dragged his body out of the
hoTe and mafic a cartful survey of the
vard in which he found himself. He was
uudr a shed, with a board fence between
him and the east-side sentinels, and the
gable end of libby loomed grimly
against the blue fky. He found the
Wagon-way under the southside building
closed from the street by a gate fastened
bv a swinging bar. which, after a geiod
many ellorts, he succeed in opening.
This was the only exit to the street. As
soon ns the r.carest's sentinel's back was
turned he stepped out and matle a
minute examination of Libby from all
sides.
He retraced his steps to the yard,
hunted up an oid bit of heavy plauk,
crept back into the tunnel, feet first,
5rmr ihe nlank over the onnuinsr to con
GOLDSBORO, N.
ceal it, and crawled bacK.-" wcuonaiu '
was overjoyed, and poor Johnson almost
wept with delight as Rose handed one
of them his victorious old chisel and
gave the other some trifle he had picked
tip in the outer world as a token that the
underground railroad was open.
On Tuesday evening, February 9, at 7
o'c'ock, Colonel Rose assembled his party
and waited till the last man had de
scended. They all made the passage in
safety, and, awaiting their opportunity
left the vicinity singly.
The plan agreed upon for the pro
gramme by which the other3 should es
cape was frustrated by information leak
ing out among the bulk of the prisoners.
There was a mad ru-h for the tunnel,
fhis was followed by a panic and equally
wild stampede for the upper floors.
Moran was thrown to the floor in the
confusion and severely bruised, but
finding himself a'one he decided to make
the effort, and succeeded in making his
escape, only to be recaptured, as was
Colonel Rose, when in sight of the
Federal outposts and returned to
Libby. Of the fifteen men who
dug the successful tunnel, four
r.re dead, viz. : Fitzsimmons, Gallagher,
Garbett and McDonald. Captain W. S.
B. Randall lives nt Hillsboro, Highland
County, Ohio; Col. Terrance Clark at
Paris, Edgar County. Illinois; Capt. Eli
Foster at Chicago; Col. N. S. McKean
at Collinsville, Madison County, Illinois,
aud Capt. J. C. Fislar at Leviston, I. T.
The addresses of Capt. Lucas, Simpson
and Mitchell are unknown at this writ
ing. Of the 103 who get out that night
fifty-nine reached the union lines, forty
eight wete rtcapturnd and two were
drowned.
Tlie New President of Ecuador.
Don Antonio Flores, who ha3 just been
elected President of the Republic of
Ecuador, is the son of General Juan
Jose Flores, founder of the Republic of
Ecuador and its first President. Don
Antonio has been Minister to Peru, Chili,
the United States, France, England, the
Holy See, Germany, Spain, Portugal and
Belgium.and forthe second time (in 1884)
he was sent to the United States. He
has been in the Senate of Ecuador, and
served under his father at the first taking
of Guayaquil, in 1800, where he was
wounded. In 1883 he commanded &
DON ANTOXIO FI.ORES.
brigade at the siege and attack of Guay
aquil, and was one of the first to enter
the town, contributing greatly to the
success of the undertaking by his per
sonal bravery and daring. The National
Assembly rewarded him with one of the
four medals distributed after the cam
paign; the other three were given to
Generals Salazar, Darquea, andCaamano,
the retiring l'rfijideut Of Ecuador.
As a politi ian, Minister Flores has
been the subject of a rema-kable
"study" by Torres Caicedo, in his "Bio
graphical Essays.'' The eminent critic
comments on the ana'ysis of the Consti
tution of Peru published by Don Antonio
in the Ikcista d? Lima, and decides that
the Minister belongs to the "Free Con
feervative School."
As a parliamentary orator Minister
Flores was applauded even by his ad
versaries, because by his eloquence he
caused to be set at liberty those vho
rebelled against the ( 'ovcrnment. Among
these was Santos, who pretended to be a
naturalized American.
Don Antonio Flores is Corresponding
Member of the Royal Spanish Academy,
and ammg his works must be named:
"El Gran" Mariscal de Ayacucho," of
whi-h a second edition was published in
New York in 1833; "Naturalization in
the Unite I States," etc. Frank Leslie's.
That Settled it.
Mr. Hawthorxe Hedges "Run
away fioin hom?, way off in Michigan!
What for, my good bjy?"
Johnxv Akkok "Michigan make3
more shingles than any other State, sir!'
Pad.
Silver lit nn t3 His Cloud.
A smart farmer in Missouri, when he
recently learned that the grand jury waa
about to indict hiai for working on Sun
day, didn't try to evade the charge. On
the contrary, he had his four sons sum
moned as witnesses against him. He
was fined 1 and costsr- a total of $3.
But as the mileage aud witness fees of
his sons amounted to $10.4!), the family
cleared. $5.40 on the transaction.
It is asserted by those who profess to
know, that the entire surface of Raleigh
couutv, AV. Ya., is underlaid with coal
from four to twelve feet in thickness.
C, THURSDAY, APRIL 12, 1888.
LADIES' COLUMN.
Women Advancing in Medicine.
Women physicians are receiving honors
on all sides. The Masachusetts Medical
Society, which so long refused admission
to women, sent Dr. Grace Wolcott to
the recent Medical Convention at Chi
cago. Mrs. Scharlieb, M. B. and B. S.,
who took the scholarship and gold medal
in obstetric medicine and honors in all
the other subjects at her examination
in 1682, has just been elected lecturer in
forensic medicine at the London School
of Medicine for Women. Dr. Fanny
Dickinson, of Chicago, who is an oculist
of repute, is the first woman to be ad
mitted to the International Medical Con
gress. She attended a recent session at
Washington. Chicago Tribune.
The Latest English Fad.
Near the close of the reception at the
White House last night, writes a Wash
ington correspondent, a group of ob
servers stood at one side criticising the
late visitors. A lovely and fashionably
dressed young lady, as she was presented
to the President, made a most awkward
and sigular bow. She suddenly stooped
her body and ducked her head, as if de
siring to pass beneath the President's
outstretched hand. When presented to
Mrs. Cleveland she repeated the same
unique performance, which prompted a
bystander to re nark that the must be
from some uncivilized portion of the Far
West.
"You are mistaken,' said a gentlemad
up in all matters of etiquette; "that bob
and duck is the latest English fad, and
that young lady is one of the most cul
tivated belles of Boston." New York
Tribune.
Mrs. Cleveland's Costnmcs.
A lady who hasher form divine built
upon that uninteresting fragment of
man's anatomy, a rib, embellished by th?
hand of art wielded by the same fashioner
anel maker of fine toilettes as employed
by Mrs. Cleveland, says according to a
Washington correspondent of the Albany
Jorrna, that the distinguished lady is
very particular and critical about the
material, style and make of her robes.
She designs them all herself, and simply
uses Mine. Elise, the Fifth avenue mod
iste, to fill in the details and draperies
and contribute the needlework and other
mechanical parts of constructing such a
fine work of art as a grand toilette. Mrs.
Whitney, who wears finer dresses and
more of them, on different occasions, of
course, than any lady in Washington,
employs Mme. Donavan, of New York.
Last fall she had sixteen fine dresses
made. They are gems in their line, and
make the well-proportioned form of that
large-hear! ed and much beloved matron
appear in a garb of beauty not even ex
ceeded by the wise saying about the garb
of the lily. ' -
A Vassar Girl Blacked Shoes.
A recent Yassar graduate was comment
ing upon the indisposition of servant
girls in the United States to black the
boots of the men of the family. In
households in England, she said, where
there is only one hired girl, the polish
ing of the men's shoes is accepted by her
as one of her duties. Then auother Yas
sar girl recalled the time w hen a number
of her classmates helped to shine he
boots of a gentleman visiting at the col
lege. He was and still is a trustee of
Yassar. He occupied one of the guest
chambers, and when he went to bed he
left his shoes outside the door as if he
were In a hotel. Some of the girls whd
were up at an early hour saw the boots,
and thought it would be a good joke to
do the bootblack act themselves. They
did, and when they returned the shoes
they stuck in each a hanelsome bouquet
of flowers. The trustee was half abashed
and altogether surprised when he real
ized how he had been honored. Tradi
tion tells his rame as that of Benson J.
Lossing, the historian. Bodon Adccr
ti er.
Fashion Notes. ,
Such is the r.:ga for trimmed corsage?
that every species of fichu, vest plastron
or bretelles has been revived.
Tubular woolen braid is one of the
heavier trimmings which bids fair to b
very popular the coming season.
That exquisite shade of green known
as celadon is again in vogue and will be
worn, it ii hoped, only by the young and
fair.
Elephant and mouse grays ar two
popular shades for spring wear, and are
combined with b!ack and white, or
either.
Galloons of various fancy weaves make
a very conspLuoua addition to many
costumes and render them more dressy
and elegant.
White Henrietta cloth is in great de
mand for fine white costumes and it
promises to be a very popular fabric for
half mourning.
Blue and pink, y combination always
loved by Parisian modistes, is to be seen
in the new materials for summer wear,
and certainly has a soft and girlish
effect.
Tea gowns of some description are in
dispensable to women who entertain in
the afternoon, and bridal trousseaus in
variably contain many varieties of this
popular c7ress.
The grape fringe, of which so much
was said, is utterly and hopelessly dead,
and the few that were bought, mainly
for wedding and holiday presents, will
be kept as curiosities.
The fancy for shaded and mottle!
effects extends even to plumes and tips
whereof two clusters of them are the re
gulation trimming for the hats designed
to comp)rt with rural simplicity.
A Circassian Officer's Vengeance.
Tcherkess Hassan, a Circassian officer,
who was a noted pistol shot, saying to
the doorkeepers that he was charged
with a message to one ot the Ministers,
walked without hindianee into the
Council room and fired two shots in
rapid succession, the first killing Hussein
Avni Pasha, the Seraskier, and the sec
ond Rashid Pasha, the Minister for For
eign Affairs. The other Ministers rushed
to the doors to escape, except the Ministei
of Marine, a gallant old seaman, who had
given proofs of his courage on many pre
vious occasions, and, among others, when
he was blown up in his ship at Sinope at
the beginning of thi Crimean War. He
got behind the assassin aid tried to
pinion him by holding his arms, till he
was wounded with a yatighaa, and be
ing obliged to let go, slipped through a
door into a room where the Grand Yizier
had already taken refuge ; when the two
old men, between thm, managed to
draw a heavy divan across the door,
which fortunately opened inward. Has
san, failling in all his efforts to force the
door, addressing Mehemet Ruschdi, the
Grand Vizier, in the most respectful
terras, said: "My father, I assure you
that I have no wish to hurt you, but
open the door and let me finish
the Minister of Marine." To this appeal
Mehemet Ruschdi answered: "My son,
you are far too much excited for me to
let you in while you are in your present
state, and I cannot open the door."
While this strange collo juy wa? going
oa the unarmed attendants made an
attempt to seize Hassan, but they were
shot do?vn One after another, and it was
not tili a soldier came and ran h:m
through the body that he was effectually
secured. He had brought four revolvers
two in his boots besides those he had
in his hands and with these he had
succeeded in killing seven persons, in
cluding two Mini-ters, and had wounded
eight others, of whom one waUhe Minis
ter of Marine. He was hanged the Kext
day, maintaining an undaunted bearing
to the end. walking, in spite of his
wound, to the gallows, where he he'ped
to adjust the rope rond his own neck,
aod d:ed showing to the end theieckless
courage with which htJ hal car.ied out
the vengeance he had resolved to take.
It did not appear that political condd 'ra
tions, in addition to the grudge which
he certainly bore to the Minister of War,
had in nny way actuated him; but if the
attack was made with th? view of setting
on foot a hostile movement against the
Government, it signally failed of it
effect, forthe first excitement caused by
it almost immediate'y subside!. Fort
nightly Iictiew; -tl--
Life's Brightest Hour,
Not long since I met a gentleman who
is assessed for more than a million.
Silver was in his hair, care upon h'.i
brow, and he stooped beneath his burdti
ol wealth. We were speaking of thai
period of life when we Lad realized th
most perfect enjoymect, or, rather, when
we had found the happiness nearest t(
beiog unalloyed. "111 tell you," said
the millionaire, "when was the happiest
hour of my life. At the age of one-and
twenty I had .saved up 800. t wa!
earning $500 a year, a.d my father diet
not take it from me, only requiring thai
I should pay for my board. At the ag
of twenty-two I hael secured a prettj
cottage just outside of the c'.ty. I wai
able to pay two-thirds of the value dowi
and also to furnish it resrect&bly. I wat
married oh Sunday a Sunday in June
at my father's house. My wi'e had com
to me poor in purse, but rich in tin
wealth of her womanhood. The Sabbatl
and the Sabbath night we passed beneatl
my father's roof, and on Monday mcra
ing I went to my work, leaving mj
mother and sister to he'p in preparine
my home. On Monday evening whed
the labors of the day were done, t wen!
not to the paternal shclter,as in the past,
but to my own house my own home.
The holy atmosphere of that hour seemi
to surround me even now in the memory.
I opened the door of my cottage anc
entered, i laid my hat upon the lit tit
stand in the hall, and passed on to the
kitchen our kitchen and dining-roon
were all one then. I pushel open tin
kitchen door and was in heaven ! Th
able was set against the wall -the even
ing meal was ready prepared by th
hands of her who had come to be mj
helpmeet in deed as well as in name; and
by the table, with a throbbing, expectant
look npon her lovely and loving facej
stood my wife. I tr'ed to sj eak, and j will reassemble in London on April 5.
could not. I could only clasp the wait j The New York banks now hold in re
ing angel to my bosom, thus showing tc ' serve $9,145,557 in excess of legal rc
her the ecstatic burden of my hear 1 1 quirements.
The years have passed-long. long yean Dr. J. Ees-eK the arctic explorer, who
- a ii i.i i a a- , acted as physician on the American 3hip
-and worldly wealth has flowed in upoi .J h dicd at Stuttg8rdt of
me, and I am honored and envied; buj ' , .
as true as heaven I would give il all
every dollar for the joy of the hcui
of that June evening in the long, lon
It is seven hoars and a quarter now
from London to Paris. - .
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TELEGRAPHIC TICKS-
NORTIl CAUOMNA.
In Robinson county, a few nights past,
a dance was given at the house of a
negro named AVilliam HuLt. While it
was in progress a pistol shot was heard.
It was found that a negro named Martin
Campbell had suddenly disappeared.
There was a great mystery about the
whole affair. It has now been terminated
by the finding of Campbell's body in the
woods, a quarter of a mile from the
place where the dance was held. The
body as beside a road, and in one hand
was a revolver. The coroner has held
an inquest, which revealed a remarkable
crime. While Campbell was in the yard
of Hunt's house a white man came up
anel shot him dead. The white man and
some nerroes hastily took the body of
Campbell and carried it to the place
where it was found. They took a re
volver from the pockets of Campbell and
placed it in his hand, in order to create
the impression that it was a case ef sui
cide. The white man concerned has
disappeared.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
The postoflices at Yorkville and Ben
neltsville have been raised to the rank of
Presidential offices.
Newberry is startled by the announce
ment of the robbery of the Newberry
postoffice by Mr. John Hawkins, assistant
postmaster. Mr. Hawkins left on the
28th of March to visit, as he said, his
mother in Orangeburg, but it was dis
covered in a few days that he hael robbed
the postoffice to the amount of about
$ 500, as far as has yet developed.
A negro man named Guy Rowland,
who was in the employ of Tanner & Co.,
and at work on the Carolina, Knoxville
and Western Railroad, near Greenville,
dropped dead while going to his work.
He was examined by a physician, w ho
pronounced death from heart disease.
A few days ago the wife of William
Sparks, of York countv. was bitten on
the foot by a small black spider. Very
soon the foot began to svell, and there
were very alarming symptoms, compell
ing the lady to take to bed and call in a
physician. At last accounts her condi
tion was serious, but hopes are enter
tained that she will not die.
A negro named Brownlee, who was
acc ielentally shot by another negro named
Ellison at Pclzer, has died at Donalds,
Abbeville count.
The trial of the suit of David S. Foth
eriugham Against the Adams Express
Company and Robert A. Pinkerton, for
$G0,000 damages for false imprisonment
and securing his indictment on false
charges, has begun in St. Louis. Foth
eringham was the messenger of the
Adams Express Company who was robbed
on the St. Louis and San Francisco
Railroad, not far from St Louis, on the
night of October 25, 1886, and was in
dicted for robbery and tried and ac
quitted. Capt. J. W. Brunson, of Spartanburg,
has been appointed deputy collector for
the State at large. The dutie-s of Capt.
Brunson wiil be to look after the illicit
distillers anel wagon eddlers. This aj
oint has been authorizeel within the
past few days by the internal revenne de
partment. The recent troubles in the
Glassy Mountain section of Greenville
county caused the department to deter
mine upon having a larger force in this
State. Mr. Brunson will have the power
to summon pnssees when it may be
necessary to capture illicit distillers or to
make raids.
There is a remarkable outbreak o
measles at the town of Manchester, in
CumlK-rland county. The population
consists almost entirely of factory opera
tives, as some large cotton manufactur
cated there. Nearly every operative is
sick, some dangerously so, anel all the
mills have been forced to shut down. In
many cases the sick K?ople have con
tracted colds, and this makes their con
dition very dangerous. Aid is being
given by the kind people of that section.
Such 'an outbreak of this disease was
never lefore known in this State.
t.EORGl.4.
Algernon Lovejoy, a young man in the
employ of Barnes & Co., was killed near
Humphreys, Clinch county, by a falling
tree.
Mr. O. P. Ritch, of Silver Creek, while
digging arounel for iron ore a few days
ago exeavaed ?n J blasted out a ledge
of ore that welghtd 05 tcm.
A year old negro child d.'sd in Calhoun
from being cirenched with coal oil by
some other negro children, while the
mother was away from home.
Mrs. Michael Dougherty, living near
Rocky Ford, committed suicide by tak
ing strychnine.
The registefeei business of Thomasville
postoffice for the last quarter was greater
than that of Columbus for the same
period. Columbus is a city of 25.000 in
habitants; Thomasville has about 5,000.
A reward of t240 has been'offered by
the citizens of Harrison for the arrest,
with proof to convict, of the murderer
of Bob Jenkins, coloreri, who was cruelly
murdered at that place and the house
burned over his dead body to hide the
deed.
FORTH, EAST ASD WEST
The world's visible supply of cottcn is
2,656,590 bales.
The Hope Insurance Company, of New
Grleans, has gone into liquidation,
ne International Sugar Conference
j Jet:sc Lee nan. cx-agent of the Kiowa,
' Comanche and WicWta Indians in Indian
1 Territory, has been indicted by the grand
1 to the United States. JL11 was appointed
J agent July 28, 1888.
FUN.
Did you ever notice that a man goes
to a lawyer and to a physician for pre
cisely the same purpose to recover. St,
Allan Messenger.
We stop the press to announce the
Etartling news that "tan-colored kid
slippers go with gowns of any color.
Inliinapo'ii News,
Vo'apuk appears to be the last de
spairing effort of Europeans to prevent
English from becoming the universal
language. Omaha World. !
Old Mother Peter, she went to the
meter to see how much gas she had
burned ; she danced a cotillion when she
read seven million, and her mind was
forever o'erturned.
Landlord "3Irs. O'Hoolihan, I'm
thinkiDg of raising your rent." Mrs.
O'Hoolihan "Begorrali. I'm glad of
that, for I can't raise it myself, at alL,
at alL" Nebraska Journal.
At a 3Iusicale. He "Shall I bring
you an ice while Miss Yellfort is singing?
Pray take something." She (a rival of
Miss Y.) "Thanks, no. If I took any
thing it would be ether. Life.
"Oh, pa! pa!" exclaimed Lucy, as her
father returned to the parlor after throw
ing the young man out, "how could you?
That was my Bill." "Well," returned
the irate parent, "I've settled it." New
York Sun.
He was talking to an Arkansas audi
ence on ihe subject of the tariff. Said
he: Take whisky, for instance," when
every man in the audience arose with the
remark: "Thank you; don't care if I
do," and the lecturer had to stand treat
or die.
Bagley (after the ball) "Did you find
Miss Recherche of Boston as cold as
usual to-night?" Bailey "Cold ? Well,
if that young woman were to go West
and accept the position ot thermometer
in a blizzard she'd be just in her element.
Judg?.
"Well,"ta'd a well-known member of
Congress, as he turned round an!
reached out ot tne beue lotnes lor a gin
cocktail. "They say two heads are
better than one, but I wouldn't h ive two
like mine this morning for a pension.
Ntw York Mtrcury.
The National Burmese Sport.'
The shadows are beginning to lengthen
at last, and the hot sultry day is more
bearable as we return to the village,
where the people are congregated about
the street. A group squats gossipping
here, half a dozen youths are playing
football there, and in a secluded space
between two houses an excited gather
ing is absorbed in the pleasures of acock
fight. This amusement is forbidden un
der English law, and is not much prac
tised in the larger towns, where detec
tion means appearance before, and
fining by, an Englisk magistrate. In
villages, however, the sport flourishes,
for native officials cannot be trusted to
put it down. Moung Daw was a Burman
before he was a Government servant, and
looks with a lenient eye on the doings of
the law-breakers, who are passing the
cool of the day in the pastime they lova
beyond all others the iound of daily life
can afford.
A space ten feet in diameter is densely
surrounded with spectator, and within
the ring squat the owners opposite each
other, preparing their birds for battle.
Each roan is holding a cock between hi3
knees, and the palms of hi3 hands is ruf
fling the feathers of the neck briskly up
the wrong way, a proceeding which ap
pears to have the effect of rousing it
angry passions. Now this preliminary is
over, the owners take their cocks round
the body and swing them to and fro, al
most allowing their beaks to meet at each
advance. Excited by this treatment to
the highest pitch, the birds lose no time
in coming to close quarters as soon a
they are released, with a gentle cast to
ward each other by way f a final hintj
They are not handsome creatures, these
two, but full of fight, and there
fore prized accordingly. No spur
are worn, but the combatant
make terrible use of their natural
Weapon?, pecking, striking end clawing
irioiislv. while their owners, on all
fours, hover round them with chirps and
W9rds of encouragement The furious
Ecuffie, half obscured in a cloud of dust
and feathers, results at last in the
leggiest, shabbiest, most disreputable
looking fowl of the pair gaining the ad
tantage. A bony-looking scarecrow be
fore the fight, his best friend would
barely recognize the victorious champion
now, as his backer?, who have hitherto
watched the bout with speechless atten
tion, relieve their peat up feelings with
loudly-howled scraps of inharmonious
songs and displays of the remarkable
posturing which Burmese prejudice re
gards as dancing. Ihe crowd dissolves
and the owner3 secure their birds,lavish
ing caresses or abuse as their respective
performances merit. Cornhill Magazine.
Says the New York JeieelerU Berlew:
The manufacturing jewelers of Pari
I are subscribing largely on all sides, for
advertising purposes, to reintroduce the
wearing of jewelry. The commissioners
have already collected fifteen thousand
francs ($3000), and the manufacturers at
least another like sum. A certain sum
must be paid to the Parisian journals,"
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