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The National tribune., 1889-10-31
A BRAVE MAN.
The Unfiinching Courage of John Broun's Lieu.
tenant.
TThTadeIyGia prsss

philadelphia Press.1
During the John Brown raid at Harper's
Ferry, while Brown held the armory yard and
cngine-house, he had pickcts stationed nc diff
fercnt points commanding the approaches
John Browns riRht-hand man, Lieut. Stevens
with four men held the end OF the bridge which
crosses the Potomac until they were driven
thence by the citizens OF IIarper's Ferry. They
then retreated toward the engine house, held
by John Brown. Meantime 10 or IL men (cti-
zens) entered the Gait House by means Of tho
rear entrance. and by firing from the windows
and doorway of the bar room Of the saloon, they
were able 10 command the street from tho end
of the bridge 20 the engine. house IA Stevens
and party retrcatcd along this street they wcro
fired upon by the men in the Gait House, and
one of tho men. Thompson by name fell.
stevens did not know this until he reached
the enRine.ho Nothing daunted in the
face OF almost certain death. he returned alone
and tried to carry isis friend aud comrade
Thompson, away. He was fred at and fell
badly wounded. but not before he had returned
the FIRE. He and Thompson were then carried
into the Shenandoah Hotel. Then Thompson
was Immediately taken out on the bridge and
shot. and his body thrown into tho river. Tho
crowd then returned for Stevens. just as they
entered the room Afrs. FouIke. the " 10 OF the
landlord, entered, and with the tender heart
aud tho love OF mercy Of u woman. pleaded
with the crowd 90 spare Stcycns's life. Stevens
surprising they were going to kill him then
and there, with an eiebEt raised himself on his
elbow. and said Gentlemen. have respect for
the lady; do not kill me Ia her presence hut
take mo out and xiii me-" His bravery saved his
life for the time. lie was taken 10 Charleston,
aud afterward tried. convicted aud hanged.
lie mounted the scafIod nrm aud unhinchlng,
with a smile on his cDnnienauce.
The National tribune., 1889-10-31
The American Soldier.
TSurfaunsJJ Rsn,,hJ5..,,,

"Where are your solders2" asked South
American delegate Of Mr.. Curtis ut Holyoke
yesterday, while the party was waiting for the
procession To start. /" On all our New England
tour have not seen soldier in one OF the city
streets" Mr.. Curtis assured him that we did
not need many soldiers in time of peace, and
our small army WIS on the frontier watching
the Indians. But who preserves order?" tho
delegate persisted. f"Well. there is policeman
keeping back the crowd" said Mr.. Curtis,
pointing to buecoat who was motioning with
his club. "But he isn't armed" continued the
inquirer. " In our country about one-tenth of
the abe-boded men are soldiers, and in large
place like this a man stands with u gun on
every street corner. All this Government by
the people is wonderful 4"
The National tribune., 1889-10-31

two hours late instead Of one.
When the Apaches were at their worst-said
they had never made peace aud never would
Army officers stationed at Fort Mcdowell fire.
queutly rode 10 Marricopa more than so miles,
through canous where small parties were often
attacked, and over two rivers, TO meet some
one passing over the road from Gods
country"
Old Ben Hartley, the most trusty Engineer
on the road, rounded the curve just west Of
the station at 10 minutes after IL o'clock.
had gone down the day before, on horse
back, and that morning had relieved the Sta
ton Agent of his duties for "a hours, that he
might visit Tucson.
breathed a sigh Of relief when / saw the
headlight Of the engine cut hole IN the dark
ness. The second culYcrt bridge might have
been washed away in q storm like that, aud
had been nervous at the thought. Everything
made me nervous that night. / suppose the
knowledge Of money package being DUE which
had failed 10 come the day before, had bad
effect upon me. did not like the thought of
keeping $4,000 until the next day, and taking
il with me upon my return ride.
The Qaartermaster had been down the day
before, and if the package had come it would
have been turned over TO him, and would not
have had the responsibility
There was no one st the station that nj ht but
me, aud only two passengers got of the train;
that is, one got of himself, and the other was
carried out Of the express car in a box. knew
The National tribune., 1889-10-31
The Custer battle-ground.

Gen. Dandy, Of the Qnartermaster's Depart.
ment who II on tour Of inspection Of the Ma
tional Cemeteries. has recently visited the Gus
ter battle-ground, aud finds tho spot in good
condition. AS the battle was fought on high
ridge, it has been cut into gullies by storms
and many bodies have been exhumed. The
monument Is standing, but has been good
deal Clipped off by tourists who annually over
run the ground. Gen. Dandy will recommend
a $4,000 appropriation for tho purpose of put
ting an iron fence about the memorable spot
where so many of the 7th Cav. and its gallant
Colonel laid down their lives.
The National tribune., 1889-10-31

Mr.. John L. jolly has left at the off &C of the
Anderson GA httelligencer relic of the war
which he prizes very highly. II is ~.
pound cannon-bal, and was tho first ball red
from Fort Sumter by Maj. Anderson Of the I'm.
ion army at Fort Moultrie, which was In charge
of the Confederates. The ball was picked up
by Mr. Manson s. Jolly, who was on duty at
Fort Moultrie at the time. He sent the ball
home. aud IL has been kept in the family since
that time.
The National tribune., 1889-10-31

]. Le StourgeOn. Co. q, 18th H., Floresyille,
Tex. wants some comrades to join him In de-
vel0ping fine water power which is on the
San Antonio River, so miles southeast of his
city and l25 miles from Corpus Christi. IL ID
on tho line of the San Antonio & Arkansas Pass
Railroad. The water-powcr has unusual nd
vantages and can DO developed into fine prop
erty.
The National tribune., 1889-10-31
Too Late 10 Mend.

There Is a point beyond which medication can
not go. Before it IL too late To mend persons of n
rheumatic tendency inherited or acquired should
uso that benlsnant defense against tho further
progress OF the approximations maady-rheumn-
tsnI. The name Of THIS proven rescuer II Hostel.
ters Stomach Biers. which, il should "a so be reool-
iected cures dyspepsia, liver complaint, fever and
HEue debility aud nervousness.
The National tribune., 1889-10-31
MYSTERIOUS MESSAGE
A Thrilling Adventure with Road
Agent.
By MAJ. w. II. MILLS.
lie evening train over

He evening train over
the Southern Pacific
Railway from San
Francisco, via Fort
Yuma, Cal, due at Mar
ricops Wells. A. T., at
1907 p. M, was an
hour late. For moro
than IL hours a terri
bic storm had ragged,
and instead of showing
signs of breaking the
rain poured in tor
rents, lightnings fash
cd aud thunder re-
verberated from an
inky sky. The wonder
was the train was not
The National tribune., 1889-10-31

Haze you done your duty in getting one more
subscriber for THE M 1I0NAL TRIBUNEr
You should do this, for 1t Is the best way to help
your comrades.
The National tribune., 1889-10-31
A GIFT for Yoni

We have 10000 warranted watches to give
away. DO you want oue7 II will cost you
nothing at all II you will send us "A club of only
tea yearly subscribers 10 The NATIONAL TRIB-
HsE
The National tribune., 1889-10-31

"Go, my son, aud shut the shutter" this
heard mother utter. Shutters shut" the
boy did mntter. " can't shut tany shutter"
The National tribune., 1889-10-31

Comrades: II you wish for profitable bust
ness, we refer you to tho advertisement OH
page 3 headed Better than u Pension"
The National tribune., 1889-10-31
I STRUCK HIN A CRUSHING BLOW.

that opened into the frcght-room. Now that I
was thoroughly myself ] found 1t easy enough
20 shut out the sight Of that ominOus oblong
box. it WAS not until the clock struck again
~ that ] made up my mind 10 20 TO bed. All
this time tho storm ragged, although the
thunder had begun 10 rumble more distantly.
threw off my coat aud slippers, put out the
light in the ticket-oiiice, and turned that In my
sleeping-room down 10 low fame Then /
drew the money package from under the mat
tress and tied 10 securely inside my WOODEN
shirt aud butt0ned my vest. That done, and
with the table so placed that could reach both
the lamp aud the pistol ] opened the door into
the freight-rOOm three or four inches and
threw myself onto the bed Just as my head
touched the pillow tho instrument, which had
quoted down by that time, clicked off for the
third time, loudly, distinctly slowly, its
words of warning:
WATCH THE Boxl"
That time the warning was unnecessary, but
blessed the mysterious source from which il
came all the more for the interest shown In
me aud mine, as ] thought OF the loving wife
and two dear boys at the Fort
had not gone TO bed to Sleep bat for the ex.
press purpose Of watching the box. Standing,
as IL did. with the head near the door, and,
therefore close TO the box itself, the bed ef-
The National tribune., 1889-10-31

u is a duty gou one 10 your comrades 10 get at
least one HcaD subscriber for THE NATIONAL
TRIHUNR
The National tribune., 1889-10-31

Comrades: If you wish for a profitable bust
ness, we refer you 10 the advertisement on
page 3, headed Better than Pension"
The National tribune., 1889-10-31
Address Registered Letters containing
NEW ORLEANS NATIONAL BANK,

.R EME1IBER, that The payment o. Prizes "a
GUARANTEED BY FOT,R TAFT0TAE,
BANhS OF SeT Orleans. and the Tickets are sisRsd
by the Fl SsicEt % Institution whose Chartered
rights recognized in the highest CartE tbsrsfar
beUare OF al limitations or anonymous schemes"
ONE DDII4A Il is the price of the sruIlISt part n
fraction Of n ticket ISSUED By u in any DraEinZ
Anything in offered for less lhau Dollar IL
swiudle.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
A Boston Girls Bluff.

The proprietor of 4 fashionable West
Eud hotel does not receive young ladies
who are unaccompanied by chaperons,
even though they hail from the United
States. The other day saucy young
damSel from Boston went bowling along
Piccadilly in high spirits and a spick'
and-span new hanson. The fetching
combination pulled up at the - hotel.
She bounced in and asked if she could
have a room for the night. Before the
clerk could twist smile with which to
decorate his regrets that every apart
ment in the house was engaged, the
young lady snapped out: my mamma
will be here tonight from Liverpool.
I've teleeraphed for her"
''Oh, very well; in that case you can,
perhaps, be accommodated gently Sug-
gested the clerk. The new arrival went
on, in a voice tremnlous with irrita-
ton, perhaps you'd like me to send
for my father, too, and M sisters, and
nv cousins, my aunts, and grand
father or two" Mamma will answer
the purpose nicely" the clerk replied will
serenity. "Oh, I'm glad to knox that, "
replied the Boston laSsie With toss of
the head. Because, if it will appeaSe
YOUR suspicion as to who am, l can
show You my visiting card, a certificate
of my birth, the pedigree of my family
for three generations back, and the
vaccination mark on my right arm.
The clerk bowed humbly, and the young
lady trottcd off to her apartment.-Lon-
don Illustrated NeWS
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
Rain Gambling.

A system of gambling in Calcutta on
rain is carried on in compound" off
the Burra Bazaar, whore, when rain
cloud crosses the sky, crowd collects
of eager, excited men; some rush about
frantlcally, others perch themselves
high on adjoining roofs and gesticulate
wildly to friends below, while all gaze
anxiouslv at the sky. These are the sattta,
or rain spectators, and the system, as
explained by the lessee of the compound
in which it is carried on, is extremely
simple. On the roof of his office is a
ditch which will hold eight s,lrs of
water. If a rain cloud bursts and the
fall exceeds this amount, the overflow is
discharged into the compound by a
spout. This decides all the bets, those
who wagered it would rain winning.
The bets are entered by the proprietor
in book, the commission being Ole
p,ce per rupee, and the transactions be-
ing all settled at 10 o'clock the following
morning. A defaulter is hardly ever
known; the gamblers are mostly money
lenders, men of substance, and we'll
Known to each other They are class
by themselves, and the stakes are usu-
ally inconsiderable, whereas in Bombay
it is not unusual to have thousands of
rupees on the rain. The system has one
advantage-rain clouds cannot be ma
nipulated; they cannot be loaded like
dice, or "faked' like horses; there are
no haudicappers, no starters, no owners
and no Jockeys Times Of India.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
Catholicism and Temperance.

The following, says the New York Her.,
aid, is significant as showing the drift
of Roman Catholic opinion on the sub
iect of temperance. 1t is from the
Catholic Universe, published in Cleve-
land, Ohio, and is the most radical opiu
ion On the subject we have seen in print
for long while:
The saloon at night is the pandereI
of ninety-nine hundredths of the crime
and vice of a large city.
''Close the saloon at night!
LET the city OF Mexico plan be fol-
lowed in our large cities-six a. N. to
six p. m.-and give the father and hus.
band an opportunity to make the ac-
quaintance of his family. The saloon
ist ought to himself work for that oppor-
tunity and make his calling more re-
spectacle and less odious.
Draft a bill closing saloons from SIX
D. m. to six a. m., with imprisonment
and penalty that will dismay offenders;
closing saloons on Sunday; making the
license no less than $1,000; furnishing
with Imprisonment and fine the adul-
teration IF liquor or sale of adulterated
liquor.
.'Then, organize your committees; go
to Columbus and push this legislation.
Let bishops, priests and ministers throw
their open influence into the scale of
this moral movement"
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
Fight Between Deer and Snake.

A gentleman narrated to your cores
ponGent fight he had witnessed some
time back near Cisco, Texas, between a
deer and a rattlesnake. He saw the
dear some distance from him engaged
in cutting up peculiar antics. He could
not understand what it meant, but upon
creeping near he heard the rafting of
the snake ard understood that fight to
the finish was in progress. He waited
and watched. The deer would run for
ward, jump off the ground, throw Its
four feet together and come down with
all its force in one place, then bounded
from the ground as if a rubber ball, re-
treat, snort, ruffle up its hair and return
again to 90 through the same proceed
ings. This was kept up for some min
utes. In the meantime the snake was
rerceptibly weakening. Finally the deer
cautiously approached the snake, raised
one foot aud paved it until satisfied the
snake was dead. After the battle was
over and the deer gone, the ground was
found to be beaten down, the grass de-
stroyed and the snake paved almost to
pieces.-T. L0atiS Republic.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
Sea Oats-A New Industry.

The Savannah Neacs mentions the
fact that shipments of sea oats from
that place to New York and Europe
have begun. The plant cannot be found
anywhere but on the South Atlantic
coast from Virginia to Florida. 1t
grows in the greatest abundance in the
vicinity of Wilmington, but we doubt if
any one here knew that it had a market
value. The Neao< says: 1T is growing
immensely popular in the North and
West and in Earope. Ten years ago
Mr.. Gardner went North and carried a
sample of the oats, and be readily got
as many orders as he could fill The
oats retailed there as high as 25 cents a
pound. The New York houses which
purchased, exported them to Europe,
and there trade was opened. Orders
are now being received direct from
Europe by Savannah firms. The West
has grown very fond of the plant and
large orders are being received from
that section. Over 10000 pounds could
have been shipped from Savannah this
year if the facilities had been sufficient.
The price of the oats has decreased con-
siderably since they were first shipped
North, but there is a good profit now.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
IMMERSED IN BOILING OIL.
The Inhuman Method Of Examining Sus-
poets Praticed in Ceylon.

The District Judge at Kalutra, in
Ceylon, had before him recently three
persons, including village headman,
charged with causing grievous hurt to
four others by requiring them to plunge
their right hands into a caldron of
boiling oil. The medical evidence
described the hands as being in "a sod
den, suppurating condition" the fingers
being in some cases deformed. In
all cases the injured persons were
unable to follow their ordinary avoca
tions for about d month. The facts of
the case, as stated in the judgment,
were these: A woman in the village had
some plumbago and rice stolen from
her; a headman made inquiry, and,
failing to obtain clue to the theft, an
nounced that it would be necessary on
the third day to hold an ordeal with
boiling oil. This appears to be not
uncommon custom in remote parts of the
country, and the formalities are as
follows:
Some oil from newly gathered king
cocoanuts is manufactured by one of the
friends of the complainant; this is
poured into caldron and heated to a
boiling point. Each of the suspected
parties is supposed to dip his hand into
the vessel of boiling oil, and is at liberty
to sprinkle as much of the hot oil as he
brings up with his fingers on the person
of the complainant, who stands close at
hand. Any exclamation of pain OIL the
part of the suspected person is construed
into an admission of guilt. If no such
exclamation is made the innocence of
the party is supposed to be established.
In the present case the evidence estab-
lished that the pressure on the accused
was not merely moral; they were forced
to dip their hands into the burn
ing oil. No force appears
to have been used in bringing
them TO the scene of the ordeal; they
collected there in response to the orders
of the he;.dman, who, seated on a
platform opposite the vessel of oil,
appears to have acted as the presiding
Judge. Each of the compla!nanis de-
| posed to the fact that they were re-
| luctant to submit to the ordeal, but
were forcibly dragged up to the caldron
! by the other two accused and their
hands plunged into the boiling oil.
They had sufficient self-controi to ao.
stain from calling out, except a boy OF
II, who cried out Justify, and was there
upon pronounced the guilty one. The
Judge took the fact that it was Gus
tom into account, but refused to dis
miss the prisoners with warning, as
suggested by their counsel. He fined
them 100 rupees each, with the alterna-
tive of rigorous Imprisonment for ten
months
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
Died on Her Wedding Eve.

Near Bowder Springs, Ga, Monday
last, what was to have been wedding
proved to be funeral The daughter
of Col. John McFadden had met Mr..
Edward Smith of Charleston at Tallulah
in the early summer The couple soon
became lovers, and the young lady re-
turned home before the season was out
to prepare for her wedding, which was
set down for Monday. Her father, who
is one of the leading planters of Cobb
County, resolved to make the wedding a
grand social occasion. The bridal
Irosseau was ordered from New York,
and young ladies were present from
several States to act as bridesmaids.
Sunday night the bride eNpectant ar
rayed herself in her robes for the in
spection of her friends. For few mo-
ments the greatest hilarity existed, when
suddenly Miss McFadden put her hand
to her forehead with a scream and fell
to the floor. She was dead. The body,
arrayed as it was for the wedding, was
laid out for burial, and when Mr.. Smith
rode up at 2 o'clock Monday afternoon,
which was the appointed time, he found
he was at funeral instead Of wed
ding. He was So overcome that he
could not 60 to the burial, which took
place at 4 D. m.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
The Virsinian Gets There.

Speaking about mint juleps," said a
we'll known Board of Trade man to a
Kansas City Times man, Il attended a
barbecue down in Kentucky once where
they made it in tubs and placed cane
rods about five or six feet long III them,
so that the audience could walk up and
take suck Of the fragrant stuff al h6t-
tan. That's what | cali the lap OF lux
urt."
"Humph, that's nothing" said Marion
Knowles, the genial travelling passenger
agent of the savannah, Florida and
Western, who is native of Richmond,
Va. "Last year l visited a fine old gen
tleman living in Georgia. He had eight
sons, and lived in fine old plantation
house. Standing on the broad veranda
one could inhale the fragrance Of ten
acre field Of mint that stretched fal
away from the foot OF the lawn. l re-
tired early and arose at sunrise and
stepped out on the veranda, where my
host and sons were awaiting me. AS
soon as I appeared the old man shouted
to colored man who was doing some
trivial chores on the lawn:
"Hy, there, John; take that scythe
and 60 down into the patch and NOV
enough mint for breakfast
That's what l call true hospitality, y
added Knowles, and silence prevailed for
the space of an hour.-Vicks6ug Her.
| aid.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
A Carolinian in Russia.

Mr.. Thornwell McMaster OF this city
has lately received a letter from Mr..
John S. Scott of Marion, who last Janu-
ary went to Russia to act under the Rus
sian government as an instructor in the
art of raising cotton in Central Asia.
Mr.. Scott, when he wrote, was in Mos
cow, to which place he has returned
after spending some time in the Russian
provinces in Central Asia carrying ont
the object of his mission, which was to
introduce there, so far as possible, the
methods of the cultivation of cotton IN
vogue here. Mr. Scott writes that he
found agriculture there carried on
mostly by irrigation, and that while he
found some things in Europe to excite
his admiration, be found many things
in the Orient to excite his pity. He has
been granted leave of absence to return
to this country, if he can return by
January next, and will endeavor to come
to South Carolina in time to attend the
State Fair.-C0lunabia Register.
The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-09-18
Things a Woman Can Do.

The Boston Times in a spirit Of fair
ness admits, and even proclaims, that
there are some desirable things a
woman can do. Here is sample batch:
She can come to a conclusion without
the slightest trouble of reasoning on it,
and no sane man can do that.
Six of them can talk at once and get
along first rate, and no two men can do
that.
She can safely stick fifty pins in
her dress while he is getting one under
his thumb nail.
She is cool as cucumber in half
dozen tight dresses and skirts, while a
man will sweat and fume and growl in
one loose shirt.
She can talk as sweet as peaches and
cream to the woman she hates, while
two men would be punching each others
head before they had exchanged ten
words.
She can throw stone with curve
that would be fortune to baseball
pitcher.
She can say "no" in such low voice
that it means Eyes"
She can sharpen lead pencil if you
give her plenty of time and plenty OF
pencils.
She can dance all night in a pair OF
shoes two sizes too small for her and en-
Joy every minute of the time.
She can appreciate a kiss from hel
husband seventy-fye years after the
marriage ceremony is performed.
She can 60 to church and afterward
tell you what every woman in the con-
gregation had on, and in some rare in
stances can give you some faint idea OF
what the text was.
She can walk half the night with
colicky baby in her arms without once
expressing the desire of numbering the
infant.
She can do more in minute than g
man can do in an hour. and it better.
She can drive a man crazy in twenty
four hours and then bring him to para
disc in two seconds by simply tickling
him under the chin, and there does not
live that mortal son of Adams misery
who can do it.