The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1878-12-03

! hOhSE AMI LOCOMOl1PE II "hC1NG.
Tho following incident, noticed in
! Prof. Blackie's work Oh railroads.
illustrates in striking manner the
progress in events:
"In 1880, ut the time when Mr..
George Stephenson, the inventor,
WAS introducing his first locomotive
in England, the active mind of
Peter Cooper WAS also busy solving
Il like problem in this country. Flo
had constructed Locomotive thut
was to outrun horse. Tho Coop
or engine could hardly" be callol
more than u working model, as the
whole weighed only Il ton, and was
of about one horse powcr. The
boiler, about the size Of q modern
! kitchen boiler, stood upright, and
was iittel above the furnace, which
occupied tho lower section. Tho
! cylinder was only 81 inches in
diameter the wheels were moved
by gearing. In order to get the
requis.ta pressure of stpam in 80
email O. boiler, u sort Of tblower or
bellows was provided, a@hich was
kept iu action by means Rf q drum
attached to one of the Sar wheels.
over which passed dord which
turned a pulley, which i inssturh ss work
! ed the bellows.
"Nhen all WAS ready the trial and
test of the engine ,igalnsS tho horse
; took place on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad, and resulted in a
victory for the horse. Tie horse
won tho race, not by fookug OH tho
one side OF Soil on tho other, but
by an eccidont-,tho slipping of the
cord that moved tho bellows.
"Mr. Cooper, who was his own
engine driver, struggled hard end
marfully to replace tho dora with
out stopping his engine, but before
he could do SO the horse, had won
tho race. There was! however,
enough done to provo that the
locomotive could outrun the horse,
because tho former was akoad Of tho
horse when the accident occurred"
Th.s was nearly fifty yonr9 ego,
o''Aa oiC hlah ~ho tlS ~ 'Stil 1lftfo
among us, still active, honorod and
respected by all.
A RsVoLUr1oN INpEED.-During
slavery owned one Of thS blackest
as well as lneanest negro men in
South Arkansas. He was known in
the neighborhood as Grow SAM. I
used to thrash Sam about twice a
wcol. Stoal he'd stoal from him.
self and then deny it. Woll, when
tho war cAtne on ho was ono of the
first to turn against ne. lie went
into the army and served till the
surrender. After peaco was made T
moved over in an adjoining county
| ind Went to work, trying to repair
my broken fortune. One day q
negro that I had working for, mo
knocked down one Of myhorses, which
so onra9ed mo that I struck him
several times with my oane. He
went away and returned with C.
constable who summoned me to
appear next day before Il magistrate.
! Officers were not quite SO ,nlmo--
rous then as now, and the magis-
trate's Office WIS several miles away.
We'll, sir, when 1 got there who
should ! SEQ on the bench but old
! Grow Sam. He was fat and greasy
and hal Oh IN cnp, nous pnir of spec.
tacles. When everything had been
made ready court was opened, and
old Sam, giving mo searching look,
remarked .,r,.,.
=" Pears thatI've seed you afore.
"Lool here, Sam, I said, II don't
like to be mixed up this way. Try
to settle this affair without malice" .
DE law is gwine to hqb its
dirock course," said Sam, '"Things
hab kinder changed since We WAS
in business togedder, but the prin-
ciple of.do nigger havnt revolutcd.
Dis nigger 10 as big o rascel as I
used to be, so. Mars John, I'll-dis-
charge you and fling dis black ape,
in de cost. "-Little Rock (Ar6.)
Gazette. -.u ..fryy .,..s.
ONE MISTAKE OF WILHELMJ.-We
have heard but one adverse. criti-
cism on Wilhelmj since he reached
4 l.