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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-06

MYSTERIOUS MANIFESTATIONS IN Lam
CAsTER.-Says the Lancaster Ledger: The
rumbling sounds in the earth and the rising
of hot steam from crevices in the earth over
in Chester and Fairfield counties about a
year ago will not compare to the rain OF
rocks which is now creating such sensation
in this county. In tenant houses on the
plantation of MIR. R. t. Dunlop, about SIX
miles fom town, live Quarter Reese and
Reese Posey. Theya are quiet, good negroes,
and they have never, so far as known, done
anything to provoke the Almighty's wrath
or the wrath of their neighbors; but, never
theless, the very rocks of the earth seem to
rise up to fall on them and their houses.
This wonderful phenomenon Of rocks falling
has been going on in that locality at inter-
walls for more than ten days, and people from
five, ten and fifteen miles around, gathered
there to witness it. The rocks are flint, and
vary from the size of an egg to the size of
ones head. A peculiarity about them is
that they have fallen on several persons
without giving any hurt or pain to them.
Numbers of white men who hooted at the
idea have visited the place and come away
convinced that the rocks do fall. After this
the negroes thought it was somebody rock
near by, but they could see no one. At last
they concluded to put outsentinels, but find
ing the rocks dropped all the time, they re,
ported it to people in the neighborhood, and
now mostany time you 60 to the place you
can find large crowd of negroes and few
whites gathered to see the rocks fall. A
number of gentlemen of our town rode out
on Monday to witness the phenomenon.
They found about thirty or forty negroes as
sembled near the house, wonder struck at
what they had seen. They were not there
long before sound on the shingles notified
them that rock had fallen. 1t was picked
up and found to be quite hot. Itresembled
flint and had something on it which resem-
bled SCOT. The people marveled much. A
very honest looking old darkey told the
party that he saw rock rise up from near a
peach tree and 60 straight up in the air, SO
they must 60 up and fall down. They are
taken away by visitors about as fast as they
fall The negroes get them and will not
part with them. The matter should be in
vestigated.
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continue until the mans skin becomes who'll
ly black, or rather, very dark brown. The
physicians who have examined the case
pronounce the affection to be one of which
there is no record in medical treatises. A
singular feature about the malady is that
Hemming's general health is in no way i'm
paired.
The county Jail at Baker City, Oregon,
was burned on Wednesday morning of last
week, and five prisoners perished in the
flames. A sixth was severely scorched.
One of the prisoners complained of feeling
sick. The jailor stepped across the street to
the drug store to get medicine. \ moment
later an alarm of fire was given. The build
ing was of wood and the fire spread rapidly.
The doors were broken open, but the flames
and smoke drove the crowd rapidly back.
With great difficulty Fred Winkleman, the
half Witted-murderer of Allen Rivers, was
dragged from his cell insensible and badly
burned. Five other prisoners in jail were
abandoned to their fate. The names of the
victims are Lewis Miller, George Plumb,
Samuel Brown, William Lamb and John
Cooley, the confessed murderer of James
Lovery. Every appearance Indicates that
the iail was set on fire by Winkelman,
doubtless to make his escape during the
excitement.
A Little Rock, Ark, dispatch says: !:
Adyices from the Cherokee nation say that
the Indians are greatly excited over the
proposition to sell their lands west OF the
ninety-sixth meridian to the United States
Government. The matter has been intro
duced into the canvass now in progress Tor
the election Of members OF the CheroKee
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Freaks of Insanity.

A lunat'c at the Morris Plains, On.
J.) Asylum was mute for five years.
Even the physicians thought he had
lost the power of speech. One day he
caught two of his fingers in a washing
machine and they were horribly
mangled. To the astonishment Of
everybody who heard him he exclaimed:
by the great and jumping Moses. a
devil is better than an inventor That
was three years ago, and he has not
spoken since. Another patient. boy
in the same institution, is a lightning
calculator, and the most intricate prob
lens are solved by him in fractions of a
minute. The boy believed that bis head
is filled with little blocks with figures
upon them, and that they instantly fall
into different positions and work out the
problems He thinks his brain. in fact,
is multiplication table. His insanity
seems pardonabIe, for only few sane
men compete with him as mathema-
tician. Every day he soaks his head in
water to prevent the blocks from rat
Ting, and occasionally he begs for oil
to put into BIS ears so that the imagin-
ary squares MI slip upon each other
more easilJ.-N Z. Times.
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PUN0ENT PARAGRAPHS.

Poets in the olden times used to
spend whole week on single line. It
would be good thing for the public if
the modern versifierS had kept up the
honored custom.-M Y. Post.
Judge - ''How old are you,
MADAME" Witness-"I have no per-
sonal knowledge of my age. and hear
say testimony, | understand. is not ac-
cepted in this court. Boston Beacon.
A man in Luzerne County has had
aportion of his brain removed. Should
he recover, his friends fear he win be-
come dude; but the fact that he has
some brain left should dispel that ap-
prehension.-N -NorriStoWn Herald.
PA, who was Shylockp" Pater.
familias with look of surprise and
horror )-"Great goodness, boy; you at
tend church and Sunday-school every
week and don't know who Shylock WASP
Go and read your Bible, sir. Ram
bier.
doctor, I'm worried about my
husband! Do you think him seriously
ilI?" ITO the best of my Judgment,
madam, he is suffering from gastritis. =
81 knew it. told him his trouble was
from fooling with that gas meter yes
terday. y lonkers Gazette.
If you have been moving and can
not find the blacking brush, dom spend
your time in looking in this corner and
that, but 60 directly to the box where
you keep your white neckties and you
will find it. Ii you can't find your white
necktie, look in the blacking case.
These rules always hold.-BoSt0n Post.
An Irishman tried to shoot spar
row with an old Queen Anne musket.
He fired. The bird. with a ehirp or
two, flew away unconcerned in the fore
ground, and Pat was swiftly and noise
lessly laid on his spine in the back
ground. Picking himself up, and
shaking his fist at the bird, he ex-
claimed: BE jabers, you wouldn't q
chirped if you'd been at this end of the
gun. Chicago Tribune.
"A gentleman visiting in town was
much pleased with the appearance of a
| lady to whom he was introduced, and
asked several questions in regard to her.
Upon being told that she kept shoot
ing gallery he was much surprised and
shocked. After he had given vent to
his astonishment in several interjec-
tons, his informant told him that she
only meant that she was a school
teacher and taught ''the young idea
how to shoot. y Laurence Mass. }
| american.
young gentleman, said the lect.
urer in chemistry, ''coal exposed to the
elements loses ten per cent. of its
weight and power. This is due to the
action of the alkili constituents Of
"But what if there is a dog sleeping
near the coal, professor?" None OF
your levity, young man; this is a seri-
| Gus matter" THAT is what dad
thought when seventy-two per cent. Of
his coal pile disappeared during three
nights of exposure. Then he asked my
advice as q student of chemistry, and
told him to buy dog. He bought a
dog with bay-window teeth and the
spring halt in the upper lip. and now
we don't lose one per cent. of our coal
month. That's the kind of practical
chemist am. Now go on with your
theory. Chicago Herald.
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A PARTICULAR WOMAN.
An Appetite that was Stronger than Her
Conscience.

An Appetite that was Stronger than Her
Conscience.
What curious people one meets on the
trains. The gush of down East
woman in buffet car on the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad, the other day, was ludi
crOus.
"Waitah, she chirped, ''what haav
you foah lunch?n
almost anything, ma'am."
''Coffay?n
.'Yes, ma am"
'sLet me have eoffay."
''Bread and butter, ma'am?"
LET me have-ah-hot mullins.
mo hot mullins"
mo hot mullins? How provokeeug.
Let me have bread-and say. watah,
let me have-ah oysters, and-ah :
chicken salad, and -ah-some boned
turkey, and, ah-
She got them. She smacked her lips,
but not for pleasure. She was mad.
'sWaitah,h she snarled yiciously, as
the startled porter answered her ring
''waitah! What do you mean by giving
me such beastly cofayF 1t is nothing
but grounds - nothing but grounds,
And the oysters! Say, waitah, where
did you get them oysters? Them aim
no fresh oysters. They are canned.
The porter shrugged his shoulders.
"I'll change them, f" said the porter,
meekly.
He changed them, and she thanked
him with grimace.
Five minutes after the train had LEFT
Harrisburg the porter rushed through
the car in white sweat.
"She's gone" he gasped.
"WhoPn
"The old woman with the heavy ap
petite, he groaned.
What of it?n
"Nothing-only." he seemed to sweal
with an inward swear word only sh'
left at Harrisburg without paying TO
her lunch
The woman from down East wa
sharper than she looked. - Psttsburg
| Chronicle Telegraph.
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SCHOOL AND CHURCH.
There are $4,000 English-speaki

There are $4,000 English-speaking
Ep' 'scopal clergymen in the world.
MIR Moody has associated with him
In his evangelistic labors Mr.. ID. b.
Towner, late chorister of Union Chapel.
Covington, KY. The engagement is for
five years.
President McCosh, of Princeton,
said recently that the age of nine or ten
was the time for learning languages.
Then the child can acquire more in this
department than man of twenty-five.
-Ex-President Mark Hopkins, Of
Williams College, although over eighty
two years old, preserves his mental fac
ulties unimpaired. He recognizes with
ease the faces of men who were his pu-
pills half a century ago.-1roV Times.
Hampton Institute, Virginia, had
enrolled this year 548 negroes and 127
Indians. The Butler" primary day
school, taught by the institute teachers
and graduates, had $50 little colored chill
dren. More than one thousand pupils
have been instructed on the institute
grounds. Chicago Times.
Mrs. A. I. Stewart has signed an
agreement to pay $4,000 annually to
the support of the institutions recently
transferred by her to the corporation of
Garden City, L. l., and has executed a
penal bond in the sum of $500. 900 to Sc
cure its payment in perpetuity.-M y
Sun.
The question whether women can
sit as delegates in a religious conVen-
ton was decided adversely by the South
ern BaptistS, who met recently in Au-
| gusta, Ga. Two women representatives
were accredited from Arkansas, but
their admission was opposed so strongly
that they voluntarily withdrew.-Chi-
cag0 Herald.
DE Candolle, the distinguished Par
| isian scholar, has spoken good word
for the children of the clergy. He shows
that the hereditary effect of religion on
intellect for the last 200 years has been
good. And he gives long list of cler-
gymen's sons and daughters who have
risen to eminence.
The Hungarian Episcopacy is one
of the richest in the world, but the con-
dition of the lower clergy in the king
| dom is most miserable. The Magyar
Minister of Worship, Treport. has ad-
dressed circular to the Archbishops
and Bishops calling their attention to
this contrast. The Prince Primate and
three Bishops have answered saying
they are considering how to improve the
lot of Their poorer brethren.-N. T.
Tribune.
The University of Strasburg,
founded in 1867, was reorganized in
1871, and is thus in certain sense q
monument of the new political condi
tions. Since the reorganization ovel
$3,500.000 has been expended for new
buildings, etc, and there is an annua
appropriation of nearly $250.000 for it
support. Its new editices are a serie.
of magnificent palaces, and its library
contains 100000 volumes. No other in
stitution in Europe has so rich provis
ion for higher education. 1t now ha
seventy-three ordinary and nineteen ex
traordinary professors. Last year there
were 858 students.
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4 CRANK.


Not Always Safe to Conclude = Man Ts
One Because He Wears His Hair Long.
There was long-haired man in the
smoking car and some Of the younger
passengers were making sport Of him-
They called him crank.
Tut, tut, boys" said an elderly
passenger; don't call man crank
simply because he has long hair. Let
me tell you a story. / owned farm
many years ago down East. One day
noticed long-haired man walking
around my place in very queer way.
I asked him what he was doing and he
said he was just looking around little.
But he was there again the next day
and the next. Finally insisted on his
telling me what he wanted, and he
said: Well, farmer, there's buried
treasure under your farm, and I've been
trying to locate the best place to dig for
it. I've found the place, and now I'll
make bargain with you. You do the
digging and we'll divide the treasure
equally between us. / agreed and
went to digging where he told me 70.
l spent AL the money | had on earth
putting that hole down, notwithstand-
ing that the neighbors laughed at me
and called the man long-haired
crank"
"You were bigger fool than took
you for" laughed one of the younger
passengers.
There you go again." said the old
man. 'You youngsters Judge by ap-
pearances and think you know it all.
You"
But you never found any buried
treasure, did youP"
"Yes. l did; hundreds of thousands Of
dollars worth.
What kind?r
Goal. The long-haired man was q
geologist "-C Chicago Herald.
The commercial traveller who, II
was alleged, few days ago. was ar
rested at the Windsor Hotel, in Topeka
and fined ten dollars and costs fol
drinking whisky out of his own privats
1 flask, appears to have been the victim
/ of sharpers who represented themselvei
| as officers of the law. Let the humiliat
ing intelligence go forth that there is a
| least one instance on record wherein
drummer has been taken in and don
for. .'-Atchtsors Kan. Globe.
/ "A wise publisher. in publishing I'D
vertisements. has an eye to his subscrik
ers' wants, as well as to his own poch
ets.-K n. G, a. WGtcbnsG's.
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SPANISH VENDETTAS.
A Striking Instance of the Intensity of
Family Quarrels in Spain.

A Striking Instance of the Intensity of
Family Quarrels in Spain.
About year ago a gypsy named
Morals was assassinated at Zerza, in
the province of Caceres, by one of his
comrades named Silra. The latter was
in due course tried and condemned to
death, but his execution did not satisfy
the vengeance of the victims family.
There had been ill-feeling between the
two families for three years, but there
had been no open quarrel until the muir
der of Morals. Soon after the execu-
ton of the murderer, which took place
last month, the two families met on
their return from fair near the town
of Caceres. They had their mules and
cattle with them. There were about
fifty on each side, including women
and children. A regular pitched battle
ensued. revolvers, knives, and sticks
being freely used by the men, while
the women employed their nails with
considerable effect, and the children
threw stones indiscriminately. The
result of the struggle was that the
heads of the two families were both
killed, two of the women, and several
of the children. There were ten OF
twelve wounded, and the bodies of the
dead were horribly mutilated. If the
mounted police had not interrupted the
fight, there would have been many more
lives lost. Several of the mules were
killed, and the baggage of the two
families was strewn about in such dis
order that the road for nearly half q
mile looked as if large army had
beaten retreat along it.-Madrjd Let.
| ter.
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DOWN TO THE SEA.

yknow not what its course may be
nown from the mountain to the sea:
,rna snrine | know, alone and still,
where bubbles forth a little rill.
Tho clear. brown streamlet well know,
And how its hurrying waters dow.
At first the grasses turn to make
a softer runnel for its sake;
The careless buttercup looks down
And sends petal to the town,
AZ whispering to the happy day,
The brook sets forth upon its way.
Farther, bright pebbles line its bed
And CLEAN and glance beneath its tread
If rushes through the alder shade
Nor loiters for the open glade.
Down swift cascades it flies and singe-
shakes the white spray in airy wings;
Then. piunging, with deepened roar,
Through the cleft rock its waters pour.
The solid basin far below
Is followed wide beneath its flow.
Here for space it stops, to gain
New volume for the open plain.
At length, full-swelling, broad and free,
II sets sereneIy toward the sea.
Beside the green, dark pool wait,
Stayed by thy warning hand, o Fate!
may not follow, though hear
The sirens song within my ear;
Nor NAV, for me, the motion stay
That rolls the river on its way.
] only know its path must be
Down from the mountain to the sea.
The brook that lightly sped away
Lies weltering ocean-wide to-day.
The child, whose days were bound with mir
Is tossed and torn on life's cold brine.
ID. III. r. Gooddte, IN ". 7. Independent.
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The fashionable craze for Wild
flowers which made. the florists sur
prised last year has declined this sea-
son. but apple blossoms and daisies are
considered of value as decorations. =
Chicago Times,
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A scientist has advanced the theory
that the Esquimaux has lived in the
polar country since that hot period. be-
fore the region became ice-bound. This
theory tends to explain why human be-
ings ever sought residence in that
part of the world.-M z. Mail.
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An inventive Australian has de-
vised an arrangement by which the doors
of railway carriages are closed and kept
closed while the train is in motion by q
lever worked by the motion of the car
riage axle. When the train stops the
device ceases to work and the door may
be opened.
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What this great throbbing public is
yearning for is scientists who viii dis
cover woman willing to acknowledge
that any other woman's dress does not
hang Ike rag Boston Post.
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"A wise publisher. in publishing ad-
vertisements. has an eye to bis subscrib-
ers' wants, as well as to his own pock-
ets.-K M G, a. WatcbmGS.
The Florida agriculturist. [volume] (DeLand, Fla.) 1878-1911, 1885-03-11

orange grove and residence; one mile
southeast from Deerfoot Landing on Lake
Beresford. Price s42O.
No. 6s;--S5 acres first quality high pine
ianu, miles sOutn OF Iceland and :
miles from Beresford landings 10 acres
e1o1ee pndded orange grove wears plant
ed ana bearing, acres more cleared. and
nne summit Tor building Will soon
yield : good income on the investment.
I[lce' SO VUU.
NO oa'-o one aDd one,qnarter acre lots,
IL ilillSS "esG OF LELAND, III quantitles TO
sun. rlrsG qtlaIlty hlgh pine lana. GOOD
f e orange grove ana Tesldence-offered
Ior snort tlme TO actual settlers at SID
PEI acre. 100 :,
w. Vf.Iloo acres nIsI quallVy nlgn foFl-
1nE Pine rang one mlie south OF city limits
~ i. VII III pe soi1 III separate tortleS
IL desired at SSo To $33 per acre.
:, N0.Oo-2o acres cholce high pine land ON
y. J. me- west /. miles from business
centeI OF DeLanu, Z acres cleared and
d denced. A comfortable house and stable,
ed. Good neighborhood. Price $500.
East halt, unlmproved except that 81
acIes ere se c H ana Fenced, 81 ,OoG.
no, ooENew mouse and one-fourth acre
twean GroEso ' pIaoa VI IGN loTh aVe- Ye
ward hroad x,aro,,dnS :, or.s.iu 49,
rooms each viii ci"s. =" ,n,co smesi
rasidonoa anI T;oseU, ooI1 oiiGuL ~, Ao5
and ,,l.c4a,aH q
hIinde of,.f s.ao vninl nne an" ntep1aces
we'll p prin eo noo 'oors soou c!stefn ah@
NJ 81 itGSe' 9S.vUo'
five rooms frontins on TndIana ave and
running thIuu1h to N v I'VE Homsa
neatly finished witb Minds and nlo stereS
walls price 50 ioo or nnrtb b.it vi,
Gotta ge 81 70o. South half sf0o For rant
nntil SOLD ~ coo na,. n"ti So0O roi leuC
No. 6S-24 acres and cottage of Z rooms
w
walls, land all cleared and planted with
orange trees; convenient out-buildlpgs.
Convenient To free school and academy.
Rents for SIS per month. Price 81, $50.
Nc. 69-24 acres ABIDING above on the
east, with comfort able cottage of 4 rooms.
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1856
HOW THE pIMPLES CAME.

"How came" asked a little maid,
Those dimples in your cheek?"
And bent my head low down to hear
The little maiden speak.
"Ose dimples in my cheek. 4" she said,
Would 'ou really like to know?
They surely wasn't always there,
An yet they didn't grow.
'"Twas when little girl sat
Beneath g eat big twee,
A little bird tame down an sang
A pretty song to me.
IAN just before he flew away,
He tissed me 'one. two, fee,
An every time he tissed so hard
He left a hole in me.
"But n didn't tare, 'ou know,
1t didn't hurt mite
Wish the bird would tum adm
An sing to me tonight"
james M. adams
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Never let an opportunity to do good
pass by. You may regret it.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-01-21
TELEGRAPHlC TICKS.

A delegation of the national cigar makers
of Brooklyn are abont to proceed to Wash
ington to present an address to the United
States Senate in opposition to the proposed
treaty with Spain.
Final arrangements are being completed
for the opening of the Montreal carnival on
Monday, the 26th.
Hon. Flower Bail, former law partner of
Salmon p. Chase, died in Cincinnati, Tues
day morning.
Temporary Speaker Haines of Illinois leg
lislature has applied 10 Mayor McCreary of
Springfield for police protection, saying he
understood he was in danger of personal
violence. The mayor refused, saying he had
no jurisdiction.
The House committee on naval affairs has
decided to report a resolution to the House
of Representatives providing for the appoint
ment committee to investigate the subject
of hazing at the Naval Academy at Annap-
oils.
The secretary of war has declined to order
a court martial for the trial of Chief Signal
Officer Hazen on charges preferred by Lieut..
Darlington and has decided to take no further
action in regard to the Greedy relief expe-
ditioD.