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Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-01-06
Letter from Texas.
LANrER, CAss COUNTY, TEXAS,
DECEMBER 18th 1880,

Editors Keowce Courier:-As nm now
in Texas aud got through safely, 1 will
drop you note for publication in your
valuable paper Gf you can honor it with
spacc,) for tho satisfaction and benefit of
my friends back in tho old Palmetto State.
I left tho Westminster depot On the $50
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
Washington Gossip.

The Yorktown Centennial Commission have
formally accepted the model for the proposed
monument, which will cost 100000. Work will
begin at once.
Revenue Commissioner Raum estimates the
revenue receipts for the fiscal year ending juno
80 at S135, 100000, al increase of $4,000, 600
over last year.
A letter was received at the dead letter Office
on the 30tL ult. which was from Germany and
addressed in German to "Herr Garfield, Presi-
dent of the Union, Washington Virginia. The
letter was held month by the postmaster at
Washington, Rappahannock County, Virginia,
and had been advertised and afterwards sent to
the dead letter Office.
The President has appointed r. S. Foster U.
S. marshal for the district of Indiana, vice
Dudley, appointed commissioner of pensions,
and Robert G. HolIey, of Vermont, U. S. consul
at Barbados, vice W. III. Polley5, suspended.
Candidates for the speakership of the next
house are getting to be numerous. Robson,
| of New Jersey is the latest recruit.
| Numerous changes about to be made in vari-
GUS departments, keep the clerks in constant
! state of anxiety.
The fiscal year 1881 ended on the 30th ult.,
and the exhibit is most gratifying. The sur
plus revenues are 800, 100000, which, applied
to the sinking fund satisfies it for the first time
i'll many years. The public debt has decreased
over $780, 00, 900, the interest account S11 000,
000 and the expenses have been 81, 600, 900 less
then last year. The receipts increased $50, 00O
| coo and the customs receipt show q gain of
81, 900, 600.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
A Clergyman's Congregation.
from Chambers Journal

lrroH CuduoeTs JOuruat.
The following anecdote is related as
having actually occurred not many
months ago in large northern seaport
city in England, and we have no reason
to disbelieve it:
1t was a Sunday, and it was raining as
it never does rain but in the vicinity of
mercantile shipping on the first day of
the week The docks boosted a little
church or Bethel, which hoisted the
union jack every Sunday morning in
token that service would be held there,
chiefly for sailors. The clergyman who
officiated weekly at the Bethel happened
to be rather later than usual on the Sun
day morning in question, owing to the
difficulty he had in getting cab, the rain
having caused those vehicles to be in
great demand. He arrived, however, q
few minutes before II, and hurriedly
bidding the driver wait for him until
service was over, he entered the sacred
edifce to find himself alone there. Pos
sibly sea-faring people were not more
prone to church going in wet weather
than their fellow sinners who live ashore;
anyhow, every seat was vacant. The
clergyman was a jealous man, so he re-
the chance of some waif or stray turn
ing up. His patience was not unre-
warded; for after the lapse of a few
minutes, one very wet man came slow
ly in, and seated himself with some hest
tation on one of the back benches. Even
he, probably, had only put into that
haven under stress of bad weather out
side, I'll the public houses and other con-
genial places of shelter being closed
Now, our parsOn was not only a Jealous,
but conscientious man-not always the
same thing-and he resolved that had he
but one solitary unit instead of con-
gregation, he would pursue the service
in full to the bitter end for that units
benefit-at least as long as the unit would
bear it-and he proceeded to do So and
accomplished it. At the end of the
liturgy, touched probably by the patient
endurance of his auditor, he condescend-
ed to address him personally, telling him
that since the inclemency of the weather
we are not III receipt of information on
the point, but we fell sure he said in
clemency-had prevented the usual at
tendance at the church, he would forego
the sermon he had prepared, and would
content himself with making a "few re-
marks" This, however, his nearer beg
ged him not TO do, and expressed great
desire to hear the sermon; SO, pleased
with this evidence of intelligence among
the lower orders, and gratified by the
effect his eloquence was producing, he
took the victim at his word and let him
have it. The text duly chosen, bios
somed into firstly, secondly, thirdly,
fourthly and lastly; SIN conclusion y
was followed by Zone word MORE" and
still the unit sat on undismayed.
After it was all over, the preacher
came down and shook hands with him,
thanking him warmly for his attention;
his qualification being somewhat dimin-
ished when he discovered the enraptured
listener to be his cab man, the sum total
of whose " half crown an hour for wait,
ing" had been materially augmented by
the length of the worthy divine's dis
/ course.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
MlrGerOuS Deeds.

When an express train stopped at Brighton
England, on the 28th, man found in one
of the carriages badly wounded. The presence
of several bullets in the woodwork and the in
jured mans story caused search to be made
in Balcombe tunnel, where the mutilated corpse
of a retired business man of London was
found, his money having been taken. The
wounded man Is young newspaper reporter,
and will be charged with the murder.
Jackson Eastman, prominent business man
of Norfolk, Va, died from a stab from peck
ct knife in the hands of Thomas Donald.
In quarrel near Concord, n. c.. Ford Knox
killed Lewis Steele, sutor for the hand of
his sister, against whom he had strong preju-
dices.
Jackson Eastman, prominent business man
of Norfolk, Va, died from stab in the abdo-
men, inflicted by Thomas Mcdonald.
In the heat of a dispute at Loda, Ill, on the
2Sth inst, Clark Vansickle killed his brother
in-aw, VIM. Green. The murderer surrendered
himself, claiming that the deed had been COM
mitted in sef-defense.
Unknown assassns murdered Maurice Haley,
fireman for the Dunbar furnace company at
Cornellsville, Pa, on the night Of the 9th.
Striking miners dlsavow eli connection with the
murder.
Frank jenkins killed Jefferson Carroll with a
shot gun at Kingston, Ark, on the 9th. Cause,
an old feud.
A disagreement in some trivial matter caused
J. r. O'Neill to fatally stab Samuel Desmuke at
Magnolia, Ark, on the 9th.
Capt. Benz. Eisler had a dispute with hack
driver named John d. Schumacher on the 9th,
and shot him fatally in the neck.
James Anderson, while ploughing in field in
Clark township, Pike county, Ark, was asSas-
sinated by unknown persons recently.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
Twenty Dollars Reward.

4 gentleman in Convers, Ga, offers
the above sum to any person who viii,
on sight, read the following without
mispronouncing a word: Zone morn
ing [ found myself in queer locale
amid vast area of burning sands. To
my relief [ deserted an oasis, but alas /!
it turned out to be a mirage l could
see, as [ thought, geysers, and gewgags
indescribable. When | complained to an
Edowite of such deceptive land, the
untoward fellow treated me with con-
tumely. 1 was only saved by the time
ly appearance of channels from the
puissant bows of the nuisance which
leaped up from the root of pyramidal
cypress, at which he fired his fuse. This
preverse creature was so maddened by
my escape that he committed felo-de-se
He was the protege of the king, and had
been for some time his employee in de-
ciphering cruciform inscriptions, and
may have been Chaldean. Though
clearly dressed, he was not clearly.
Now seeking a recess by a stream filled
with animalcules, l wrote an exquisite
essay, drawing on my fertile brain,
which | read each alternate day for a
week, and then wrappedit up and placed
il IN an alcove for safe keeping"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
A Monster Sugar Refinery.

The greatest sugar refinery in the
world (writes q California correspond
ent) is now under construction ON tide
water, San Francisco. The brick build
ing, facing deep water in South San
Francisco, will be 400x150 feet, and IL
stories high GAO feet. A salt water
supply of 5000 gallons a minute is
drawn from the bay, by tunnel, for the
monster condenser. By March next it
will be finished, at cost of 81, 250,000
Its yearly capacity will be 10000 tons of
refined sugar. Claus Spreckles is the
master spirit. He got congress to make
treaty of reciprocity, by which Sand
wich Islands raw sugars are admitted
free of duty. He promised, also, to
quiet all the opposition that was arrayed
against the treaty, and he has done 80.
He has now thirty vessels employed Gall
built here) plying between the islands
and San Francisco. He has planted
sugar cane on a large scale on islands
hitherto wild and uncultivated. He has
tapped the mountains, and every acre is
irrigated. He buys all the native pro-
duction.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
Overwhelmed by a SQuaII.

On Tuesday, the 26th inst, yachting party
from New York were overtaken by squall off
Bridgeport, Conn, which swamped their craft
and drowned all but two of those on board.
VIM. r. Palmer, one of the excursionists, and
Michael Tompkins, sailing master of the yacht,
were rescued by a schooner after having chung
to floating ice box for several hours. Palmer
made desperate effort to save Miss Campbell,
and did not desert her until she persisted from
cold while floating on the surface during a pelt-
ing hail storm which followed the squall. Palm
when that sunk he 1lOated himself by hanging
to the floating yawl. But even this support was
drawn from under him when the vessel reached
the length of the line to which the boat was
attached, when he fortunately seized the ice
chest to which Tompkins was also clinging. The
names Of the lost are: II. NJ. Johnson, aged
20; VIM. Seaiey, aged Il; Herman L. Eddy,
aged 20; VIM. EdmondsOn, aged 18, and Miss
Fannie Campbell.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
Rampant Elements.

The torrid wave which enveloped the country
for very brief period was supplemented on
the 29th ult. by violent atmospheric commo-
tons and from all over the states come reports
of damage by wind, hail and water, accom-
panied in several instances by loss of human
life. AT Vernon, Iowa, the daughter of the
station keeper was struck dead by lightning and
at Manson, in the same state, where Metho-
dist church was wrecked, four or five lives are
reported lost. Great damage was done at
Franklin, \. H., where large Catholic church
was moved from its foundation and twisted,
freight cars thrown from the track, chimneys
swept down, trees uprooted and the country
deluged. Hal stones measured one inch Ill
diameter. At Ripley, o., Mrs. Kinkhead's
house was struck 10y lightning and the lady
partially paralyzed. ThrougEou Ohio the
storm proved very destructive to all kinds of
property and also TO the growing crops. At
Lancaster the Hooking Valley Manufacturing
Company s works were uprooted and at Column
bus Simm's car works were uncovered and
Pan Handle round house badly wrecked. Two
men were killed at NARROW, IL, and at Austin,
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
Work of the Flames.

Russell, Averill & Carpenter'spaper mill at
Minneapolis, Mimi, was destroyed by fire on
the Both ult. Loss estimated at $4,000.
The packing warehouse of Colemans Mustard
works, Norwich, Eng, burned on the Seth.
Damage G30,0 900.
A loss of $25,OO was inflicted upon the At
lantic mine at Houghton, Mich, by the burn
ing of the engine and shaft houses.
During the storm of Friday night fire destroy
ed a row of business houses at Alexandria, Ia,
the loss being $32, 900.
A fire at Grass Valley Cal, destroyed the
works of the ScbastoDol mine, causing loss of
$4,000.
The village of Valois Switzerland, consisting
of about 300 houses, was entirely destroyed by
fire on the 9th inst
The friedrich works at Clearfeld, Pa, valued
at $50, 600, have been destroyed by fire.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
Terrific EXnINSinnS.

A boiler in saw-mill near Grant City, Mo-,
was scattered over a mile of ter1itry by an ex-
plosion. The engineer, A. B. Williams, was
shockingly mangled.
Spontaneous combustion of tonite powder de-
molished Zeckendorf's powder house at Tucson,
Arizona. Two cars of English gun cotton and
tonite powder were in the structure at the time.
There was no loss Of life, but the conclusion
damaged all the buildings in the town. The
damage is over $780,
The steamer Phaeton exploded her boilers a
short distance from Maysville, KY, on the 28th
inst. Six persons were killed and large num-
Der wounded The steamer was valued at S15
900 and is a total wreck
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
weeks. The vitality of the germs of this
disease is remarkable,

weeks. The vitality of the germs of this
disease is remarkable.
Most farmers, probably, believe that
the great bulk of the constituents of
their crops is derived from the soil.
This is a very great mistake. Take,
for instance, a hay or pasture field.
The carbon, hydrogen and oxygen of
the plants are derived from the atmos-
phere, the nitrogen and mineral matter
from the soil. This would be equiva-
lent to 80 per cent. of dry hay being
derived from the atmosphere and only
eight per cent. from the soil. From
this it may be seen that the farmer,
who has all these ingredients locked
up IN his manures, which he might 1p-
ply to his land for plant food, by let
ting it be scattered until decomposed
and wasted, sends off go per cent. of it
to feed the plants of other lands, per-
haps of farms a thousand miles away.
THE American Cultivator does not
favor the plan advised by some farm
ers of sowing sorghum for fodder. 1t
says: "We could not recommend any
one to SOW sorghum for fodder. Double
the quantity of fodder can be raised
from common western corn than from
sorghum, and pound for pound, the
former viii produce nearly as good re-
suits rs the latter Sorghum is from
week to fortnight longer in growing
aud is more woody than corn stalks.
Sweet corn surpasses it not only i'll
quantity per acre, but in such qualities
as to induce the cattle to eat it up
cleaner. Corn fodder will produce as
much milk as sorghum. Sorghum as
fodder crop, according to our ex-
perience, has been very much over
rated. For New England we have yet
to find the fodder crop, take it all in
all, which will supersede common field
and sweet corn.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09

A MANUFACTURER Of ice-cream in New
York told Sun reporter what it costs
ga quart of pure cream costs 90 cents.
l can buy cream for Is cents, but it
isn't pure. -Four fresh eggs cost eight
cents, half-pound white standard sugar
five cents, fiavoring three cents, ice and
salt three cents. Total 80 cents. This
will give little over quart, and | gen.
orally put the actual cost of quart at
about 30 cents, or S1.20 per gallon, leav-
ing margin Of 80 cents profit. The
fact Is, no wholesale manufacturer can
produce pure ice-cream at 81 a gallon,
and therefore they have to put glue into
1t IN order to make a big profit on their
sales"
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09

SUIT for S101, 100 has been brought by
man IN California against the Central Pacific
railroad for the loss of his horse. wagon and
tivechildren. The company, he charges, careless
ly built covered bridge near the road crossing
and planted trees, so that travellers could not
see or hear the approach of a train; and the
five children were travelling on the highway in
a wagon, valued at $500, drawn by a gentle
horse valued as 500. Defendants train came
dashing along at the rate of IS miles per hour,
without ringing bell or blowing whistle, and
ran into the wagon, killing all the children and
the horse aud destroying the wagon. The
plaintiff has sustained great damage, to wit:
First in the loss of the services of the five chill
dren, and the loss of their society, and by rea-
son.of great mental anguish and suffering oc-
casioned by the death of said children, in the
sum of 100000; second, damages in the sum
of $500, which was necessarily expended by
plaintiff in and about the burial of the children:
third the sum of $500, the value of the horse
and wagon killed and destroyed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
Suicidal.

A New York clerk named Charles s. Martin.
accused of appropriating $685. 600 of his employ
ers' funds, committed suicide at his home on
the Goth ult
W. E. Lee wealthy planter of Sewer county,
Arkansas, took down a rusty rifle ON the 28th
put his foot on the trigger and blew into the
barrel. His brains were scattered in all direc-
tons.
Walter Wilson, of Little Rock, Ark, failing
to reconcile his estranged wife, blew his brains
out in her presence on the 28th ult
Rev. Sidney NJ. Strong, who was expelled from
the ministry at Glenn Falls, n. Y, on the 18th
inst, for shooting his wife at Warrensburg or
Lake George. n. y, and for adultery, suicided
at Kansas City by drowning. His body was re-
covered.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
Miner NishaDS.

Lawrence Mahoney, bridge carpenter on
Wabash road, was burned to death in a tool
car at Monticello, ILL.,: on the 27th The car
and all its contents were destroyed.
Mrs. Jane Miller and her little SOD were killed
by lightning on the Goth at Sturtevant station
Ala.
While examining self-cocking revolver at
Laramie City, on the 9th, Robt. Wilkins acct
dentaly shot f. N. Stroh.
The wife of Rev. Ephrsim Anthony, of
Shelbyville, Tenn, fatally shot herself on the
9th.
A man supposed to be Charles Faber and a
boy were killed at Burlington, N. j., on the
9th by the cars
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09

is furnished by this years experience in the
Adirondacks Says the New York Tribune:
"The number of victims this season to an ex-
aggerated belief in the curative properties of
the Adirondack region has been unprecedented.
Sixteen persons during the present month have
died in the woods or en- route, and their bodies
have been carried back through Plattsburg.
All these died in want of the comforts and con-
solutions which would have surrounded them at
home, and in many instances, no doubt, death
was fastened by fatigue, deprivation and home
sickness. And stil the mournful procession to
the woods goes on, and still people are found,
well-meaning or otherwise, who are willing to
take the responsibility of stimulating a false
hnnen
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09

FIGURES are given showing that since Lord
Lorne has been governor general of Canada an
average of 5000 persons have been entertained
each year at Rideau Hall. When allowances
are made for duplicates, the probability is that
the representatives of about 1000 families have
been yearly honored with invitations to enter
tainments at the hall. That is, throughout the
whole dominion there is about one family in 600
which has had admission to the hall by the
front steps, and no doubt these favored ones
think Canada would go to rack and ruin if there
not yice-regal court to hold it up.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09

THE month of December next has been fixed
fixed for the sale of the celebrated Sunderland
library, which consists of the collection formed
by Charles, third Earl of Sunderland. in the
early part of the eighteenth century. The total
number of volumes is about $4,000, most of
them being in fine old morocco bindings, and
many printed on vellum. Among the chief
rarities are first and early editions of Latin
classics and of the great Italian and French
authors; a superb collection of early printed
Bibles in various languages, including a copy on
vellum of the first Latin Bible with date; many
extremely scarce works relating to America; a
series of Spanish and Portuguese chronicles; Q
series of English and French works relating tc
the political and religious events of the six
teenth and seventeenth centuries, etc.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09

DR.. PRESS KENNETH, a western physician
who has been travelling in the south, in re-
cent interview in st. Louis states that "there
is yellow fever already in Galveston, Texas,
and Vera Cruz, Mexico, but they are keeping
this quiet. In Mississippi and Tennessee they
are making preparations to prevent another
visit" In reply to Il question as to the SAM
tary Improvement of Memphis, he said:
"While many think that Memphis has had
general overhauling in a sanitary way, this is
far from being the case. The building of sew
ers as not been general, only three or four of
the prominent thoroughfares being touched
The alleys in Memphis are as filthy as ever they
were, while the same may be said of the back
streets" According to DR.. Kennett, the fever.
if it become epidemic, will make its appearance
in the latter part of July or early part of Au-
gust. Other reports from Memphis do not ap-
pear to substantiate the statements of DR..
Kenneth. Visitors in, and correspondents from,
claim that the sanitary improvements that have
been made are many and excellent. Almost all
of the old wooden pavements have been torn up
and replaced by others, sewers have been laid
in many of the streets and the drainage has
been greatly improved. The officers of the
taxing district claim that there is no reason to
fear an epidemic of yellow fever there this year.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09

THE total eclipse of the sun of May II, 1882,
is awaited with much anxiety by astronomers,
for it is hoped that then the question of the ex-
istence of a large planet within the orbit of
Mercury may be settled. Prof. Watson be-
lleved that he saw such body during the
eclipse of July 20, 1878. The search is attend
ed by great difficulty and liability to error. as
it can only be conducted during the exceeding
ly brief interval of totally, which in the case of
the next eclipse amounts to less than two min
utes at any point on the earths surface, while
IN localities accessible to scientific expeditions
it Is scarcely more than one minute.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
From the Arctic Sea.

Secretary Window has received letter from
Capt: Hooper, of the revenue steamer Corwn,
dated Ounaiaska Island, May 20, 1881. The
letter states that he made the voyage from San
Francisco in twelve and a half days. lie ex-
pected to leave for Seal Island on the 22d of
May, and after reaching that point to proceed
north along the Siberian coast in search of the
Jeanette and the whalers Mount Wollaston
and Vigilant.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09
The Sultan,s uurderers>

The court at Constqntinople hiss sentenced to
death the three pashas and six servants con-
cerned in the murder of Abdul Aziz. Two
other pashas are to undergo ten years of penal
servitude.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-07-09

THE supreme court of Rhode Island has rem
dered decision in the long contest over the
will of the Gen. John Alfred Hazard, who be-
queathed his property, valued at $3.50, 900, to
the Newport Hospital. 1t was claimed on be-
half of the widow that undue influence was
used. The case was tried in Newport last No
vember and the jury found for the will. The
full bench has now granted a new trial with a
change of venue.