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The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
Women and Baseball.

We are always glad to chronicle 8,
new idea, especially when it i3 possessed
Of such great merit as that which is
now presented 10 usin the August num-
Der Of Demorest's Family Magazine,
which has just arrived. One Of the
leading articles is game of baseball all
played out on PAPER by means of finely
executed illustrations with explicit
descriptions of each move. Those who
have attempted to explain the game Of
baseball to sister, wife, or w:fe-to-be,
know what an almost hopeless task it
was. Now here is the whole thing
done for you, and 80 cleverly and clearly
that after reading it a woman will be as
anxious as any one of the other sex to
see match, and she viii never again
say, "Weil! what is there in baseball,
anyhoww The article will save ycr
hours of explanation, and shows the
enterprise of this progressive Magazine,
which strives to give the public just
what they want. This August number
is certainly very attractive. "A Happy
Day at Cairo" with its beautiful illus
tratfons, gives splendid idea of home
life in Egypt; Summers Bird" is one
of Olive Thorne Miller's charming
papers; "The Game of Lawn Crooketfa"
describes then wpast me that isalmost
as fascinating as tennis: there are alb
sorbing stories and beautiful poems; all
the numerous departments are over.
flowing with good and seasonable
things; and in addition there are over
two hundred fine illustrations, includ-
ing beautiful 71ater-color of 'tSwal-
lows" It is published by w. Jennings
Demorest, at Is East 18th St, New
York. Price % cents; or $2per year.
Any of our local newsdealers viii be
glad to supply it.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13

saw there would be trouble, so l
ordered the officer Of the guard to go
out and get four of the best men of the
guard with outside arms and have
them report to me at once. A few
minutes afterward four stalwart SOL
diers made their appearance. 1 said
"Men, wish you to take Mr.. Davis,
with as little force as possible, and
place him on thYt cot, and hold him
there till the smith is through with his
work"
AS the men advanced Davis struck
the first or foremost man, but all four
instantly closed on him and showed
him on the cot. Davis showed unnat-
ural strength ; it was all the four men
could do to hold him while the black
smith riveted the clasp around his an
kle, his helper holding a,sledge ham,
rner. The other clasp was locked on
with brass lock the same as is in use
on freight cars. 1 ordered the men to
their quarters, and as they passed out
Davis lay perfectly motionless. Just
as I was going out Davis raised from
his cot and threw his feet on the floor,
and with the changing of the chains he
gave way. I will say here that it was
anything but pleasant sight to me to
see man like Jefferson Davis she'd
ding tears, but not one word had he to
say.
Two hours after I called to relieve
the guard and found Davis lying on his
cot. I said: "Mr.> Davis, you can't
rest well that way ifyou will give me
your word of honor that you will give
no more trouble in this matter will
unlock the shackles so you can take
off your clothing" captain, I assure
you there will be no more trouble. l
then unlocked the shackles, he taking
off his clothing, and locked it again
himself. JEROME TITLoW,
Late Captain Third Pennsylvania
Regiment, Artillery.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
A Fish Line Made of Women's Hair.

LAMBERTvILLE, August 5.-James
Thorne, the village barber, has just
completed a novel fishing line. It is
composed entirely of woman's hair of
every color and shade. Whenever
customer with particularly long hair
came to have her hair dressed he would
beg of her a few silken threads, which
he would carefully lay away and work
up at his leisure.
This has been going on for five years
until now twenty-five sections, fifteen
inches long, have been completed. Each
section contains 100 hairs. The sections
are so nicely joined that it all appears
to be Of one shade. The line is surpri-
singly strong and light and will hold
as much weight as any frst-class line.
Thorne exhibited the line to some
friends yesterday for the first time.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
HE DIED FOR LOVE.
The Agent of the G., C. &N. r. r. at Fishdam
Takes His Own Life.
Register, It'll

From gentleman who came down
on the Asheville train last night it was
learned that when the train reached
Fishdam the people were found to be
in considerable excitement by suicide
that had just taken place. Mr.. S. R.
Lewis, a young man about 25 years of
age and ageut of the Georgia, Carolina
and Northern Railroad, had been pay
ing attention to young ladyan made
her proposals of marriage. Her refusal,
couple with the jeers Of some of his
young friends, so preyed on bis mind
that at last, yesterday afternoon, he
went into his Office and shot himself in
the head with his pistol, death result
ing almost instantly. No further par
ticulars were obtainable last night, but
the above are no doubt the main facts
of the tragic occurrence.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13

gone; and that under the exposures
made, not only by his enemies within
the Alliance, but also by the still more
dangerous admissions made by his
friends, his inconsistency, and unrelia-
bility, if not corruption, has been more
widely published all over the country
than ever. No wonder then that the
Doctor is mad.
AS the natural consequence of this
exposure, together with the visionary
financial schemes of the Alliance and
its tendency to the suppression of free
dom of thought and action among its
members, we see the formidable revolt
against Macune's leadership in Texas,
where he is best known. We see Mis-
sissippi, after an unusually thorough
canvas on both sides, carried over
whelmingly against him. We see an
officially annou4 ICED falling off in Alli-
ance strength here in South Carolina,
where Stokes and Talbert have under
taken to "out-Herod Herod." We see
whole sub-Alliances throwing up their
charters, and abandoning the organiza-
ton in disgust. We see big Alliance
meeting at Prosperity the other day
carried overwhelmingly by Senator
Butler against that ridiculous humbug
invented by Macune-the so-called sub
treasury scheme; and that too in spite
of the efforts Of both Stokes and Talbert
to sustain it. These, and many other
signs of the decadence of the Alliance,
we see all over the country as the result
of its most unfortunate control of such
tricky politicians as Macune, who have
"bamboozled" the over-credulous farm
ers and wormed themselves into its
leadership. It will have to shake off
such leadership, or its days of useful
ness ale over. CIVIS.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
THE STATE ALLIANCE EXCHANGE.
Manager Donaldson Denies the Rumor
That 1t Has Sold Out.
Especial to the State.

GREENvILLE, S. c., Aug. IA re-
porter to-day interviewed Hon. NJ. l..
Donaldson, manager of the State Alli-
ance Exchange on the report published
in the Cheraw Reporter that the ex-
change had been sold out at the Spar
tanburg meeting to the Union Cordage
Company, of New York, the organiza-
ton which is trying to gobble the busi-
ness of the Southern Alliance ex-
changes. He said there is no truth in
the report, and that the South Carolina
exchange is in no way connected with
or obligated to the Union Cordage
Company, or any other mercantile con-
cern. He was asked about the Rev. J.
A. Sligh's recent sly visit to New York
and said that Mr.. Sigh had not done
anything except what he was author
lied to do.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
Grover Cleveland.
Elephant, in n. C. HERALD

Elephant, in n. C. Herald.l
Amid the upheavel of the political
elements Cleveland stands silent and
alone. Cold and Indifferent to every.
thing, base must even that partisan
opponent of hisbe:who has..not q hearty
and stout admiration for him. The
solitary grandeur of his frmness, his
calm and imperturbable integrity are
study for friends and foes alike; and
more thought should be given to his
position by every sensible and honor
able citizen.
To say he is stubborn is the heightof
foily-it is not worth notice. To say
he is mistaken is almost an egotism-
for Carlisle says he sides with the crowd
as against Cleveland only on accounted
political necessity"
Yes, alas, it Is political necessity
that by far too many prominent public
characters will bow before; and they
will trim their ssils to suit the breeze of
popular clamoc. He has been charged
with bigotry.
Who made that charge? Chas. a.
Dana. II the world was ransackssS
find to peer Of Mr.. Dana in some thing
his equal would never be found. For,
reckless and enVious assertion he ranks
foremost among the editors of this:
planet.
Time will vindicate Cleveland and
don't you forget it it. He is the only
Independent politician in America.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13

stead Of buying securities or loaning
their money out. They would look to
rents or to cultivation on wholesale
plan to pay them profits on their pos
sessions and the small independent far
mer would become a thing of the
past.
Nevertheless, Colonel Keitt's idea is
a long step away from the sub-treasury
and toward sounder and more demo-
cratic principles, and we are glad to
see it.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
death were due to the gambling hells Of
Augusta.

death were due to the gambling hellso Of
Augusta.
he said he had lost $500 since Satur-
day, and $400 besides in the past month.
He mentioned four gaming houses in
Augusta at which he had lost money,
and advised his wife to employ q law.
yer and recover it, as the law was rigid
against such gaming houses, and she
could get back the money, which world
greatly help her in Citing along.
He had intended to be better man
and live right if he could have gotten
through his present trouble, but he
could see no way out of it out in death.
A PRAYER AND A WARNING:
I hope God will take care of you, and
forgive me for this rash act. IhaYe
asked my drummer friends to help you
to run boarding house. I pray God to
save my soul.
The letter closed with the words:
"Let this bes warning to all young
men, and that they never touch 8,
card"
The coroner's jury, after hearing the
evidence and the letter, returned a YER
dict that the deceased came to his death
from a dose of morphine, and that it
was suicide.
His body was then taken to the train
and carried to his home in Johnston,
S. c., for burial.
MI. Crouch was 50 years of age, born
and raised in Johnston, s. c., and was
well known in Augusta. Hewas adark
brunette, weighing, perhaps two hun
dred pounds. S.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
A Pointer

that would guide, unerringly, into the
heaven of health, all that are on the
troubled , of impaired womanhood!
tits nothing less, nor could be nothing
more, than DR.. Pierce's Favorite Pre-
scription-fraii females faultless friend
-time-tried and thoroughly tested.
Internal inflammations, Irregularities,
displacements, and all ill-conditions
peculiar to woman, controlled, cor
rected and cured, without publicity,
by this safe, sterling specific. Purely
vegetable. Only good can come from
its use. The only remedy of the kind
a0otrranted to give satisfaction, or money
refunded.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13

CHARLESTON, S. c., August IL
Hendrix McLane, the organizer of the
White Republican League in this State,
left here for the North to-day. He said
he was going on in response to an invi-
tation to meet some prominent white
Republican leaders. He expressed him.
self as being much gratifed with the
success attending the movement thus
far. Mr.. McLane's trip is surmised to
be concerning the next delegation Of
South Carolina Republicans to the Ma
tional Convention, and may mean the
arrangement of a combination of the
two of the wings Of the party in this
State.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13

Much injury is done by the use of ir-
ritating, gripping compounds taken as
purgatiyes. In Ayers Pills, the patient
has mild but effective cathartic, that
can be confidently recommended alike
for the most delicate patients as well as
the most robust.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
The Biggest Engine IN tho World.
from the Philadelphia Press.l

From the Philadelphia Press.1
= It is not strange a: al that the big
gest engine.in the world is exercising
its'ponderous strength in Pennsylvania.
'The President" as it is called, is con-
stantly at work pumping water from
the zinc mines atFriedensyille, Lehigh
county. Its enormous power is that Of
5000 horses, or as it is computed, Of
$1,000 men. In the came county there
is still preserved at Hokendauqua tho
first engine ever used in Lehigh, AMI
set up at Allentown by Eli Sager In
1888.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
"Look me in the face, My name is
'Might-have-beenv

N4l&4E-11ofS-DSsC4s
I am also called .No-more,' Too-late,'
'Farewellr"
The poet who wrote the above, must
haye been in the last stages Of consump-
ton. Perhaps be had only learned, for
the first time, that if he had taken DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery In
his earlier illness, he would never have
reached his present hopeless condition!
What can be more sad than keen re-
alization Of what "nlighc have been?1
Physicians now admit tnat eonsnmp-
ton IS simply scrofula in the blood att
tacking the lung-tissues. It Is never
safe to allow the blood to remain in1-
pure, and it is especially reckless, .zhen
such a pleasant, harmless remedy as
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
will drive every taint Of scrofuia or inn
purity from the system, causing cur
rent Of healthy, rejRYenating blood to
lead through the veins.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13

Mrs. Jones hasn't gray hair in her
head and is over so. She looks as young
as her daughter. The secret of it is,
that she uses only Halls Hair Re-
newer.
The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1891-08-13
sHAcKLING JEFFERSON DAVIS.
The Officer Who Did It Describes How 1t
Was Done.

from the Leavenworth Times.
The following letter was received by
an employee of the Times from his
father, an@ is of such interest that we
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24

THE barbaric desperation of the de-
feated and hunted Balmaceda in taking
his own life to avoid falling into the
hands OF his enemies is proof that he
looked for nothing but death at their
hands. His judgment was undoubtedly
correct. The ferocious JOY of the pop
ulace when the news OF his death
spread shows that the people would
have been satisfied with no clemency
on the part OF the junta de gobierno.
even if it had been inclined to show
clemency, which no one can accuse it
of. Considering that they are Spanish
Americans, to whom defeated foe is
but an object for the wreaking of Ven
geance, the junta has shown greater
indulgence than was expected, because
it has not killed all OF the citizens who
sided with Balmaceda and confiscated
their property. That is generally the
fate of the vanquished in South
American revolution.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24

not working an injustice to the settler. is
certainly rendering his chances for holding
his claim very dubious. For instance, un-
der the provisions for opening the new
lands the usual clause which requires the
filing OF a non-mineraI affidavit was de-
clared of, and any one could file on claim
without ever having seen the land in queS-
ton. In trying to avoid the killings and
county litigation which marked the cele-
DRAFTED opening of two years ago, the pres
ent course OF the government in the opinion
OF most people has precipitated crisis that
can only end in hopeless legal fight.
When the signal shot was fired it was ex-
actly u O'Clock, according TO central stand
ard time. The crowd ha ranged up as
closely as possible to the line until they
looked right into the
EYES OF THE SOLDIERS.
who were there to see that no one got in
ahead of time. The tall young lieutenant
galoped along the line of waiting settlers
and tod them the signal for starting would
soon be given.
When he arrived at a point near the CEN
ter he drew his revolver and rapidly fired
his six loads into the air.
The first report had no sooner rung out
than the great crowd commenced to move.
1t was Derby that is simply beyond de-
scription. There were bloOded Kentucky
racers, Texas broncos, mules. and OK
teams. Every body applied the whip and
spur. and many were the catastrophes, al
though none of them We're serious. It was
race that few men want 10 undergo mora
than once, and the man who reached q
claim and found it unoccupied was lucky
indeed.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
MRS. JEFFERSON DAVIS.

Mrs. Jefferson Davis has brought
suit against the Bedford publishing
company OF Chicago for $4,000, that
being the amount due her on royalties
on her husbands History OF the War.
The publishing company do not deny
the debt, but plead their inability TO
pay it.
II is said that Mrs. Davis is feeling
the pinch of hard times very severely.
Her husband left her nothing but q
nortgaged homestead and the royalties
on the sale of his book Bad manage
ment has so resulted that she has not
received a cent from these royalties,
when there is $4,000 due her. She is
without means, and is pushed to ex-
tremities.
When President Grant died, after
having lost a fortune given to him by
his grateful eountrymen, he left his
Memoirs" which are said to have
yielded to Mrs. Grant in royalties half
4 million dollars. Notwithstanding
the receipt OF this large sum, which it
seems should have relieved her from
the pressure OF want, she has had
forced upon her much financial aid
from the Northern people.
The people OF the South are not SO
wealthy as those of the North, and they
are not so able to lavish money upon
the objects OF their esteem, but they
are not so poor as to see the widow OF
their civil chieftain in want without
an effort to relieve her. The friends
OF Airs. Davis, if they would make an
appeal to the men OF the South, would
find them as generous with their money
now as they were with their blood in
ISEJ
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
TWENTY YEARS AGO.

The responsible editor of the San
Anlonp Light must have gone around
the corner TO sample anew brew when
this statement got into the paper:
"Whatever the farmer buys is from 10
to 90 per cent. cheaper to-day than it
was twenty years ago, and whatever he
sells is from 10 TO 30 per cent. dearer,
and yet the farmer is not happy"
What is it that the farmer has to sell
to-day that is 10 to 80 per cent. dearer
than it was twenty years ago? Not
cotton, for upland cotton sold in the
New York market in 1871 for Is cents
to p cents pound, and now it is
quoted there at 3-4 to 10 3-S cents.
Not wheat. for wheat brought $l.I5 to
81 then, and it was considered great
squirt in the market a few weeks ago
when that grain went up to S1.13 "a.
Not corn, for corn is quoted at 81 cents
after year OF complete failure Of that
crop, which in 1871 brought 80 to 80
cents, and the year before that s6 cents
to Sl.l5. Not cats, for oats are plenti-
full now at "a cents, while in 1871 they
sold at ~ to 81 cents. Not wool, for
ths wool grower who can get p cents
today is in rare luck, while in 1871 he
sold his clip at 81 to 60 cents. If there
is anything that the farmer grows
that he can get more money for now
than he could twenty years ago, We
.eannot 6nd what it is.
Neither is it true that what the
farmer buys is 10 to 80 per cent.
cheaper than it was twenty years ago.
There has been q considerable reduc-
ton in the price of cotton and wooden
goods, because cotton and wool are so
much cheaper and the wages paid to
workers in the cotton and wooden mills
are so much smaller. H sugar costs
less because the tariff has been taken
of, though he pays enough to equalize
the price in bounties to the sugar pro-
ducers. His coffee, rice, salt, and
such necessities of life, cost ss much
now as they did in 1871.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
THE WORK OF THE ALLIANCE

Senator PETER in public speech: IF
the Alliance should fail in everything
else it proposes, but should succeed in
breaking up the solid South by absorb
ing majority of the Democratic votes
of that section, it will deserve the last
ing gratitude of the whole nation. 1t
will have accomplished what the mana
gers of the Republican party have spent
years of time and several millions Of
dollars in vain to do, and by SO doing
demonstrate its greater potency as a
nolitical djnlOmat"
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24

the influence of more extensive competi-
ton, of which we are now partially de-
prived.
Conclusions-1 An adequate industrial
development is absolutely essential to
individual and state prosperity in its
highest type. a state can never attain the
best condition, nor its citizens experience
the highest prosperity, until, in addition to
proper improvement in other lines, its in
dusttial development keeps pace with pub
lie Requirements.
2. The industrial development essential
to the substantial welfare of state cannot
be obtained with inadequate capital, and
the development accomplished will bear the
some ratio to that actually needed as the
amount Of available capital bears to the
sum required
8. All legislation in state not possessed
of ample financial resources having 4 ten
dency to reduce the volume of none
tary circulation and to render mercy
difficult and expensive to obtai- nen
needed by industrial growth, viii ! in a
partial paralysis of industrial development
and is, therefore, unwise.
4. The alien land law as it now exists
will inevitably have the effect () of parti-
ally destroying competition in the rates of
interest; (2) of driving out OF Texas vast
sum OF much-needed money now in circula-
ton; 81 of barring out foreign money
which otherwise would come into Texas. no
matter how great our industrial needs may
be. Hence by reducing the volume of Cir
culation in Texas, now insufficient) by re-
ducing the amount of available capital below
our present and future industrial needs,
the alien land law will very seriously
cramp the development of Texas,
and by so doing will operate ad-
versely against the interest of the state at
large and against the welfare of the citizens
individually.
Weighed in the balances Of industrial de-
velopment, the alien Ian law as it now
stands must be considered exceedingly in
expedient. Most deplorably so.
LONE STAR.
Fort Worth, Sept. IS, 1891.
Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-24
A Woman Shoots and is Hurt.

At point five miles below Tohee quite a
number of boomers were gathered to make
the race. Among them was one
woman, whose name is not known,
whose impotence got the better of
her discretion. She crossed the line
before the appointed time and one of the
deputy marshnls guarding the party ar
rested her aud forced her back over the
line. Soon afterward she again crossed
the line prematurely, and when the
deputy the second time ordered her back
she drew a revolver from her dress pocket
and opened fire upon him. The marshal
returned the fire and shot her in the left
leg Just below the knee, shattering
the limb and disabling her so
that she was unable to make the race.
When noon arrived the boomers left her
this side of the border stretched under q
tree unable to move A humane hachman
brought the unfortunate woman to this
place, where she is being cared for.