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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
New Process for Iron and Steel.

4 revolution in the iron and steel
making industry seems at hand. Mr..
John w. Bookwalter has made some
important improvements in a French
process for preparing iron and steel.
The new method is long step in ad-
vance of even the Bessemer steel pro-
cess. One great advantage is that Mr..
Bookwalter's plan can be applied to
the production of both iron and steel.
Its essential feature is 4 powerful blast
of air across the horizontal surface Of a
mass of molten iron. The metal is kept
constantly in q swift rotary motion.
The blast of air thus blows the impu-
rites in the metal to the farther side of
the "converter." BY Mr.. Bookwalter's
invention can be produced at pleasure
pure iron. low or high steel, and every
grede of this metal used in the arts and
industries.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
The Experiment Farm Building Burned.
lRepister. July 18th. I

l4eSSiotS11 ooAJ AceAt.
At little after one o'clock yesterday
morning the farm buildings at the
State Experimental Station, about
mile and a quarter from the city, were
discovered to be on fire, and with the
most of their contents were soon de-
stroyed. Captain Gaillard, the super
intendent of the station, was notified of
the fire, but at his arrival on the scene
found the fire under too great headway
to be checked.
The fire was evidently of incendiary
origin, and as it had been started at a
point directly in front of the stalls
where the stock was tied, it was found
impossible to save any of the animals,
and horse, a COW and two mules
perished in the flames. The total loss
is about $4,000, on which, for some un-
accountable reason, there was no insur-
ance. The large barn and scale build
ing, both of which were burned, were
valued at $1,000; the machinery and
farm implements destroyed amount to
81 800 in value, besides 500 worth OF
fertilizers in the barn, $50 bushels OF
corn and large lot of forage was con-
sulned. Onlya moving machine and
one cart were saved. Suspicion
as to the parties who set the fire is un-
derstood to rest OH two negroes, who
have been employed on the farm, but
there is no positive evidence as yet as
to their guilt.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
RUNNING UP THE PENSION LIST.
Corporal Tanners Effort at Reducing the
Surplus.

WASHINGTON, July 4. Corporal
Tanner presented a demand to the
Treasury Department yesterday for
$4,000, 900 out Of the amount appropri-
ated for pensions for the fiscal year
1890. 1t is understood that most of this
money will go to the payment of pen
sions due in June, but for which there
was no money available. Tanner has in
three months managed to get ahead of
the appropriations by his generous
policy to this extent, and it is not atall
improbable that before the Fifty-frst
Congress is assembled he will have dis
posed of the appropriation so rapidly
that he will see his way clear to def
cheney appropriation of S3O,000,000 or
$4,000, 900. All he wants, according to
his own talk, is a ghost of a reason for
spending more money than any of his
predecessors. Wherever there is a doubt
he will settle it OH the side of the appli-
cant, and pension the soldier on the
beneficence of the government.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
She Wanted Her Heel.
| From the Detroit Free Press.


A dapper little man stepped into a
Woodward avenue car, and as he did
so picked up i tiny pyramid of brown
leather. "Now, look at that" he said,
with several infections>to to his voice, as
he showed his treasure trove to the
gentleman next to him. ats the heel
from some fool womau's shoe. Now
try to think how she must have wob-
bled-for she could not have walked
on that French heel. I'd give some
thing to see her getting home without
it,
II suppose the effect depends on the
size Of the foot" said the other, hand
ing it back; "that looks as if it came off
pretty neat shoe, hey, old follow?"
cts barbarism-a wicked shame
to wear such a thing" retorted the
other, Indignantly. "Why, the doctors
say that more cases of curvature of the
spine are oc-"
"If you have no further use for it
I'll thank you for my heel" said a
sweet voiced, pretty little lady op-
posite at this moment.
The indignant individual had just
dropped itin his pocket, but he plunged
in after it and gave it up, and talked to
his companion about the weather.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
Il FURNITURE FACTORY.
The Latest Enterprise Inaugurated at the
Capital OF South Carolina.

COLUMBIA, S. c., July 5.-The direc-
tors of the Columbia Furniture COM
pany met tonight and received report
from the committee appointed to secure
information with reference to the busi-
hess proposed to be carried on. AS a
result OF the report, it was determined
to Immediately inaugurate operations
by the erection Of saw mill, the pur-
chase of machinery, therefore, and at
presentto confinc the business to prepar-
inc lumber for the market. The inten-
ton is to establish L furniture factory
later. The capital stock of $4,000 has
all been subscribed and the following
officers elected: Directors - W. A.
Clark, DR.. James Woodrow, W. H.
Gibbs, w. H. Lyles, Andrew Crawford,
w. b. Lowrancc, w. G. Childs, and
Charles Hooper. Mr.. Clark is president,
Col. John 7. Sloan, Jr. solicitor, and
Charles Hooper superintendent.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18

that it must be administered by one Of
their communion to be of any avail.
They reject the Old Testament entirely,
and receive only such portions Of the
New Testament az suit their purpose,
rejecting any passages that are opposed
to their peculiar beliefs as uninspired.
THE SABBATH DAY.
''They claim that the observance of
the Sabbath was abrogated along with
the Levitical law, and hence reject
Sunday as the day to be observed in
the worship of God. They perform
ordinary work on Sunday or engage i'll
any sports that they desire, and have
been seen dancing on that day. They
believe in the damnation of the infants
of unbelieving (non-Boylite) parents
who die in infancy. They believe in
the social equality of the races. Just
what else they believe in am unable to
say. They flourish around Marshall's
church in east kershaw circuit ana
churches of their own in some portions
Of Kershaw county.
IGNORANCE WHERE THEN RULE.
"tAs a rule dense ignorance prevails
where they flourish. [ heard man
say not long since that he once taught
school in the neigllhorhood where they
now claim a majority of the people as
their adherents, and that only two out
of sixty pupils in his school knew
their letters when they first came to
him. Generally they will not permit
a minister of the Gospel to read the
Scriptures or engage in prayer in their
houses, and if they concede that much
to him they laugh and talk while he
prays and pay no attention whatever to
him."
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
Melons by Lightning.
News and C0urier.l

One-of the fastest" runsn yet record
ed in railroad circles of 4 melon train
was made last week by special from
Ealdosta, Ga, to Boston, Mass. The
special train was made up of twenty
cars loaded with watermelons. At 2.25
o'clock on Tuesday morning the train
left Valdosta over the Savannah, Flor
ida and Western Railway. It passed
over the Charleston and Savannah
Railway and the Atlantic Coast Line
safely and very rapidly, and reached
Boston at 1926 o'clock on Friday morn
ing. 1t was a very rapid "run." The
entire distance from Valdosta to Boston
is 1926 miles, and the special travelled
over the route in fifty-cight hours. The
fastest time made during the trip was
over the Atlantic Coast Line between
Wilmington and Weldon, when the
train went at the same rate of speed as
the regular passenger trains.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
Talking Sense.
durham Sun. |

The Charlotte Chronicle, in most
sensible article, has this to say con-
cerning "Write-ups of towns" which
we commend to the people of Durham.
It is wholesome advice. It contains
the germ and policy Of having first
class papers. Durham will be stand
ing very much in her own light if she
does not heed the advice-indeed, she
will throw very great shadow across
her pathway. Read these words, fel-
low citizens, and then HE you to the
Sun office with liberal advertise
ment: blowing helps a town, if it
has anything to blow about; but the
best advertisement any town can have,
is live thriving paper, crowded with
well-written advertisements of every
business in the place, from doctor to
blacksmith. The reason advertise
ments in the local paper make good
advertisement Of the town is that the
world knows that advertising pays;
and people know that where all the
business men of q town advertise, they
must be prosperous, because prosperity
is the inevitable result of liberal ad-
vertlsing.
"There are some towns whose citi-
zens will give liberal amoants to see
the town written up glowingly in a
paper in a larger town, while the home
paper inevitably and unanswerably
gives the lie to the fulsome and paid
for puff by its own meagrely patronized
advertising columns.
"Advertising in the home paper
brings immediate results from home
patrons, and it brings collateral profits
from the benefits that every town
derives from local paper crowded with
home advertisements.
A column puff in q foreign paper
does not equal a oncs.nch advertise
ment in the poor at home weekly, in
immediate or in collateral results. If
you want to build up your own trade,
advertise in your home paper; if you
want to build up your town, build up
your town paper"
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
Death of Mrs. Tyler.

RICHMOND, Va, July 10.-Mrs John
Tyler, wife OF Ex-President Tyler, died
at the Exchange Hotel this evening
from congestive chill. Mrs. Tyler had
only been at the hotel since Sunday
evening, having come from visit to
her soil, Lyon q. Tyler, at Williams
burg, and was to have left here Monday
on visit to another son on the James
River, but feeling unwell she kept her
room. Tuesday at II o'clock she was
taken with chill. DR.. Edward Nc
Guire was sent for, and he was soon
joined by DR.. Hunter Mcclure; but
medical skill proved of no avail, and
she died at l0:l5 o'clock this p. m.
Mrs. Tyler leaves four Children
Lyon G...Tyler, President of William
and Mary College, Virginia; Caroline
G. Tyler, who lives in Charles County,
Va; Dr. Lacklan Tyler, of Washington
city, and Mrs. William Ellis of Mont
gomery County, Md. Her children
have been telegraphed for, but it is
doubtful ifany OF them will be able to
reach the city tonight.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
You Were Once Beautiful, Madam

but your glass tells you that you are no
longer so. Why is this' 1t is because
you are suffering from functional de-
rangenent. You may "paint an inch
thick" as Hamlet says, but you can
not conceal the ravages of disease. No
wonder you are low-spirited. Rut why
suffer any longer: DR.. Pierce's Favor
lie Prescription will restore the bloom
to your cheek, the sparkle to your eyes,
the old-time lightness to your step. 1t
will make u happy woman of you
again. 1t cures all those weaknesses,
backaching, bearing-down pains pecu-
liar to your sex. The only medicine
sold by druggists. under positive
guarantee from the manufacturers, that
it will give satisfaction i'm every case or
money refunded. See guarantee on
bottle wrapper.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
WOMAS'S HONOR.
Is Shotgun Law it's Best p, tections.
| Atlanta Constitution.

Atlanta Constitution.
When Sam Jones told Mississippi
congregation that it was all right to
shoot the destroyer of a woman's honor,
some people were shocked, and an in
dignant writer in the New Orleans
Times Democrat declared that Southern
women did not need the protection Of
the shotgun.
The Memphis Avalanche sides with
Sam Jones. In a recent issue it said:
1.-THE practice of retailing scandalous
gossip is becoming entirely too common
in Memphis, and if it is not stopped
somebody is going to get badly hurt.
The time was here when men would
have been ashamed to indulge in such
talk, and when breach in women's
character was usually patched with
death-dealing lead. IT, seems that in
getting from traditional Southern
customs we are also laying aside the
Southern ideas Of honor and respect for
woman. A harmless word or act Of a
woman may easily be reported on the
street corners in such away rs to cast
suspicion upon her, and a woman once
suspected is half-damned. The outlook
at present promises a first-class killing
or two in the near future, and when
the time comes and and the blood is
split every right-mindcd man and wo-
mon in the community will say it was
well split. Notwithstanding our "pro-
gress," the punishment for slanderer
Of women in this country is still death.
\ number of more or less prominent
men and dudes will do we'll to make a
note Of the fact"
Our cotemporary's bold talk will no
doubt be endorsed by many Of its read
ers. 1t is All unpleasant fact that as
people learn to value life more they
learn to value honor less. Before the
war in this section men had to control
their tongues or suffer the penalty. In
those days we had no Washers, and the
slanderous freedom Of speech now oc-
casionally tolerated was almost entirely
unknown.
The old-fashioned Southerner never
thought of appealing othe uncertain
methods Of the law when a man dealt
deadly blow at the honor IA female
member of his family. Something Of
the old spirit still survives, but there is
difference, and the Memphis paper
sadly recognizes it. Despite all the
talk of the Northern press about South
ern lawlessness, the shotgun is rarely
appealed to these days. Men conceal
their grievances 90 to law.
1t may be doubted whether we have
made any substantial gain by this
change. We have made human life
more secure, but we have also thrown
safeguard around every scoundrel
who feels disposed to become scandal
monger.
The subject is. a difficult one to deal
with. One thing, however, is certain
we need a public opinion that will be
as powerful a moral regulator as the
shotgun was a generation ago. If we
must suppress deadly weapons, we
must find way of suppressing deadly
tongues.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
The Cotton Seed Oil Industry.

BALTIMORE, July 10.-The Manufac-
turers' Record says: There has lately
been unprecedented activity in the
building Of new cotton seed oil mills,
most ofwhich are independent of the
Cotton Oil Trust, though the Trust has,
it is generally reported, recently virtu-
ally secured control of the Southern
Oil Company, with its eight large mills.
The Record published this week conf
plete list OF all the cotton seed oil mills
in the South, showing 2l3 mills, with
an aggregate capital of about S2o,o00,-
coo, against forty mills, with a capital
of $4,000 in 1850.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
HE'S A TRUMP ANY WAY.
Why q Western Democratic Editor D"esnt [
Want to be Postmaster Any More.

The following document has been
received at Washington from the edi-
tor-postmaster at Mount Carmel, Ill.
MOUNT CARMEL, June Z, 1859.
To Hon. B. Harrison, President, Etc.
S1R:By the grace of God and Grover
Cleveland I am postmaster at Mount
Carmel. My official term will expire
January Goth, 1890. In addition to ed
iting the mails of this city | am also
the editor of the Mount Carmel Regis
ter, live, local Democratic newrpaper,
established in 1889, and published at
Sl.25 a year, cesh in advance discount
of twenty per cent. to ministers and
Presidents.
While the office has agreed with HE,
and have in the main agreed with the
office, and while l might reasonably
entertain the hope OF holding Oh Tor
eight months longer, yet feel 1t my
duty to tender you my resignation.
Being a Democrat, have preached
that "to the victors belong the sroils. "
I feel disposed to practice that which /
preach.
Your immediate predecessor hoped
to build up his party by keeping the
opposition in office. You are proba-
bly, aware, if you are at all familiar
with the vocabulary of true and trlte
sayings, that his nameis is now Dennis.
lam moved further to tender you my
resignation because of the anxiety OF a
barnyard full of patriots to succeed ME.
I believe that a tariff is a tax. They
do not. Therefore they are of your
own kith and kindred, and lie who
provides not for his own household Is
worse than an intidel. I ain told that
you are not built that way.
Bnt to resume the thread OF my dis
course: The boys who are anxious to
be my successor are very hungry they
have been feeding OH shucks and icicles
for four long, weary years the official
calf is fat and they yearn to taste Its
tender joints. They fought (among
themselves,) bred (at the nose,) and
are willing to die for the G. o. 2.
When 1 asserted that you were the
Chinaman's candidate and ate rat tail
soup with chopsticks, they swore by
Dudley and Foster that it was cam
paign canard, and threatened to detail
blocks of five to fry the fat out OF me.
Fortunately for me their threats were
never carried into execution. They
carried torches, drank with the coons,
"Granpa's hat will just fit Benny" and
did divers and many foolish things,
none of which would they have been
guilty of doing had they not scented an
aroma of postoftice on the crisp morn:
ing air. And the p;eans Of praise which
they sounded when it became evident
that you chad got there, Eli," will
never be Sahara in my memory.
For these and other reasons unneces-
sary to mention, tender you my resig-
nation, with the hope that my snc-
cessor will be animated by similar
spirit IN 1873. If he is, your Demo-
cratic successor will be spared the pain
full necessity Of stunning the rascal
out" 1 am respectfully yours,
FRANK w. HAvILL, p. NJ.
n. B.-I would rather be right than
be postmaster.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
HE FELL1,20O FEET.
The Terrible Drop of an Eronaut Who
Lives to Tell His Experience.

PROVIDENCE, R. T., July 4.-One OF
the most trightful experiences ever had
by an ;eronaut was that of Prof Wal
borne Allen this afternoon. Allen ac-
tually dropped from the clouds a dis
tance of POO feet, but tonight he lives
to tell the tale Of the remarkable fall.
His air ship What Cheer, new balloon,
proved to be a treacherous carrier. The
ascension was made about 4:30 O'Clock.
The balloon rose 800 feet, when it was
caught in current of air going directly
opposite from the way in which it had
set out. This surprised the spectators.
Suddenly the balloon veered again and
set off to the North. Then reaching an
altitude ofabout l, 200 feet, current Of
air from the West swept the balloon
towards East Providence and over to-
wards the big Willesbarre pier. For
moment the airship seemed to stand
still and waver. Suddenly the balloon
collapsed. 1t reeled and turned bottom
up and then it rolled around once more
and the basket lay out horizontally
from the envelope. Then it fell rapid
ly.
The terrified spectators next saw the
gas bag on top once more, and fast
nearing the earth. They saw a form
Chamber up into the ropes and towards
the big letters which made the words
"What Cheer" This form was that of
the youthful professor. Only for a Sec
ond did the bottom stand erect. 1t
rolled completely over again, and the
drag rope made a complete circuit of
the air ship, and was whipped about
violently. Whipping out his knife, AL
len pierced rent in the canvas, and
the balloon spread Out like a parachute,
and shot downward Ikea disabled bird.
and landed in a lot. The conclusion
threw the ;eronaut out. He was picked
up semi-unconscious, badly shaken up
and very pale, but was not seriously in
jured ....
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18
The Sewers of Paris

are one of the modern wonders of the
world. That marvellous network ofun-
derground streams, over which the
tourist can travel by rail and in boats,
constitutes the bowles of the gay capi
tai. This labyrinth of streams is kept
with scrupulous care; for any obstruc-
ton in the flow of the sewage would be
attended with serious results to the
health of the inhabitants of the city
above. The sewers Of the human sys-
tenn are the liver and bowels, and i'll
order to keep disease out of the wonder
full city of which they are a part, they
must be kept always free and unob-
structed. DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Purga-
tive Pellets are the best laxative and
cathartic known for the purpose. Tiny,
sugar-coated granules, in vials, always
fresh.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-07-18

The current number of The Eclectic
comes tous with various taking and
timely articles-''The Prototypes of
Thackeray's Characters" throws light
on matters interesting to all of the
great novelist's readers. The artist
author, w. w. Story, contributes a
very suggestive discussion Of art prob
lens in his "Conversation in Studio"
''The Poet of Portugal is a paper on
Camoens, the national poet of Portugal
and the author of "The Lusiad." The
Countess of Jersey tells us about the
everyday life of Hindostan in bright
and entertaining way. Lord Justice
Fry discusses the value of imitation,
one of the main primitive instincts, as
force in civilization. Professor Hux-
ley has another powerful paper on
"Agnosticism." E. Strachan Morgan
discusses "The Roman Family" and
the conditions of social life in Latin
times, and Sonora Bazan tells about
"The Women of Spain" W. T. Stead
has a reliable article on Boulanger
under the title of MADAME France and
her Brave General" Apropos Of the
centenary Of the French Revolution,
there is a striking contribution from
RlackWood's. Other interesting articles
are "In Tippoo Tib's Country" and
"The Spiritual Future of the world"
There are several short articles and
poems of interest. AS this number
begins new volume it is favorable
time for new subscriptions.
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