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TROY'S TOPICS.
Watches and Fires-Wedding Bells
Synod-welcOme Hands-Baies OF
Cotton.

SVktVAs
Troy. 8. C., Oct. 8, 1894.
The patrons of the Troy High School met
this morning to decide as to What teacner
they would get bnt nothing definitely was
dg1s. Asithisvas the third meeting we nope
&ragoel W: Lites. OF Greenwood, was in
Virgil slbert, daughter of Mr.. G. NJ. sibert
News ~ reached here that there are several
cases OF typhoid fever In the Bellevue neigh
borhood, among the sick are j. L. Kennedy,
There he's been 375 bales Of cotton sold here
this seGsoR, II brought Ills Saturday.
Cotton ssed Is on a boom. There are hye
seed buyers In town. they readily sell at ID
Rev:G. 81. Burton moved In town last week.
We give bfBs a welcome hand and hope how
long be may stay IN S1ssbUod our town; was IN town
Mr.. q. G. Bradley will open drug store this
week. This something is badly IN IN peed o.. t.,
his gin house last Wednesday, Oct. 8, by fire.
It isf&ought q, match was the cause. he was
insured 70 the smountof $780, bis losses are
Mr.. L. 8. Beauford's gin house caught fire
last Thursday, but by good work IL was put
Rev. T. W. Sloan was on the sick list last
Mr.E B. Reagan is Improving the looks Of
We saw In your last Issue from East End
that Ninety-Six can boast Of the most pretty
babies Our town has few that Is hard 70
beat. Let Nlnety+Six and Troy have oaoy
show.
Mrs.J. P, Pitts will leave Troy this week
for Lancaster where che will make IL her
home. w
Syn,,d will be here in two weeks and then
Weddings bells Will chime the rest Of the year.
Miss Lois Davis left for Due West Female
College last week.
Miss jamie and Miss Ettie Robinson spent
Saturday night In town.
we can almost smell the sweet fragrance
from the orange blossom among our country
neighbors, but keep still our sweet to0th ls
ready so we will keep still awhile. NICK.
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RAILROAD RACKET.
Items Of Interest to Railroad People
and Their, Frfends-Pieked mp
AInog the Road and About the

Mr. Tom Capehart. a clever and campetent
Young railroad man who has been tagging
on the Cd C. C. soaSussor nj Pase ssss
Captain Pat Murphy Is back on MS run
Engineer.Claude Jones has been quite sick
with fever for the past week.
Engineer A. 7. simmons Is still confined to
Engineer A. l.. Garrison is still on the sick
lis, and Spabs 6.Ios for duty ang Anderson
two new engineers, have been employed ny
the G., c. & N, and are now learning the
Englneers Hall and Shannon, with their
firemen, TObe Felzer and j. @. Butler, were
In town Sunday.
MIR. g. W. Geer. who recently came to the
G., c. & N. and has been employed rs nag
Atlanta. last Friday afternoon, while doing
switching by having his loot caught IN
guard rail and being knocked down and run
man, having ran on the F.. c. 4 ?: for guile
awhile. His remains were brought to Athens
and sent to his old home near that city;
Mr.. Sam Clay, who was Mr.; >; y. Ucker- se,,
sons stenographer while located at this point,
has gone to Atlanta to do the typewrlting and
shorthand work In Mr.. Dickerson's new
office.
In the Superintendent's office at Raleigh, n.
c., will come to Abbevile TO fill the same po-
siiion In Trainmaster Busbee's Office.
WIN wan dPPoihtSo w
fill the Trainmaster's office made vacant by
the promotion Of Mr.. Dickerson, has taken
| charge.
Mr. jeff McCloskey, who at one time was
located at this point, has been promoted 10
yardmaster at Howells.
Mr.. Joe Dickerson, who was CHIEF clerk 10
the Train masters Office at this point for quite
a while, goes to Atlanta as chief cler X In Su-
perintendent OF Transportation Urkerson's
office.
Mr.. ]. NJ. Wallace. who has held the posi-
tion OF yardmaster at Atlanta for quite
while, has been promoted to chief clerk In
ITraininaster Busbee's office at this point.
Mr.. c. ]. Terrell who was train dispatcher
on the d., e. & n. when the road was first
opened, was In town the past week. Mr.
Terrell Is now representing the Tarboro N.
c., Gum Company
II is said the first train ever brought into
Atlanta was by old Uncle Mike Sullivan,
from France.
Engines 10 and II. recently sent to the g.,
G. e. N, IS now In freight service.
Mr.. w. ]. Hartman, the Seaboard Air Line
brake expert, was in town Sunday und Mon
day, looking after air brake matters At this
point.
Telegraph Lineman Biney Austin is at
present overhauling the telegraph line Oh the
south end OF the g., e. & n.
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Unclaimed Letters.

List of uncalled for letters remaining In the
postoffice at Abbeville c. H., $. G., Oocteoer
q, 1884:
A-John Ash.
B-Miss Dillie Beard, Rev. X. r. Bryant,
Henry Brown.
C-Miss ELLA Carter, G. M. Clumn.
G-Mrs. Annie Gray, Miss Martha CAN'T,
Miss Lula Greene, Eddie Gass.
HI. T. Hammick, Please Harris.
J-Guss Jackson.
K-Miss Emmer Keller.
M-Danlel Martin, Miss Mary McMorris.
R-A. b. Riessels, j. A. Robertson.
S-W. d. Smith, +. l.. Stewart.
T-Frank Talbert.
Il. N. TALBERT, T. NJ,
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Mrs. WILLIS F. ROLAND. left Monday for
Raleigh. N. C., where she will spend several
weeks visiting parents.
THE Standard Oil Company is erecting a
warehouse near the Southern depot.
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Ifyou want to incur large debt to be paid
ventlon.
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Mr.. F. L. MORROW left yesterday to attend
Presbytery at Mount Carmel.
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The State of South Carolina,

COUNTY OF ABBEVILLE.
PROBATE COURT.
John q. Edwards, as Administrator, &C.,
Plaintiff,
Caroline Smith, ct al, Defendants.
Complaint to sell Land to pay Debts, &c.
l. WILL SELL. AT PUBLIC OUTCRY AT
Abbeville Court House, on SALEDA1 IN
NOVEMBER next, for the payment of debts
the following described real estate belonging
to Lee q. Smith, colored, deceased, situate In
said County and State, to.wit: The balance
Of the Barr Place, not devised,
One Hundred and Fifty-fve
1861 Acres,
more or less, bounded by lands of Sarah
Smith, NJ. Davis, Martha Weir, Mrs. f. Gil
mer and Others
TERMS.-One. half cash, the balance on
credit Of twelve months, with interest from
day OF sale, the credit portion to be secured
by bond of purchaser and q mortgage OF the
premises or purchaser may have option OF
paying all cash. Purchaser to pay for papers.
81 Sold at risk Of former purchaser.
]. FULLER LYON,
Judge Probate Court.
October 3, 1894.
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and the more they discussed it the
greater was their astonishmen. Final.
ly a Manchester engineer determined
to figure out just what that cats en-
durance amounted to. He consulted
the time't table to find the speed OF
the train, and got the dimensions of
the car wheels from the company's
officials. Then he started his tlg-
urng.
Surprising the wheels to be feet
6 inches in diameter and the dis
lance from the terminus at St Pan
cras to Kettcring to be scyenty-two
miles, he found that the pussy-cat
must have performed "a, $50 revou-
tions in one hour and twenty-seven
minutes, which is a job that only Il
very big, powerful and exceptionally
determined ten-pound cat could hope
to tackle with any hope of success.
Then the engineer had recourse to
u diagram Of the cat slung to the axle
to aid him in his further calcula-
tons. Pussy's center Of gravity, he
figured, would fall about twelve
inches from the center of the axle,
and at a speed OF sixty miles an hour
it would reel Off the mere bagatelle
of $50 revolutions per minute, the
velocity of her center Of gravity
meanwhile being fifty feet per sec
ond. He then foun1 that there had
been something like seven hundred
weight thrown upon the leading
claws when travelling fat full speed.
The engineer then made personal
examination of the cat, taking exact
measurements Of her toenails, and,
as a result Of more calculations Of a
very fine nature, he found that Pus-
sys resistance to centrifugal force
was equal to seventeen tons per
square inch Of claw section. There
were other factors to be considered
in really exact solution Of the mat
ter, such as wind resistance when
passing through the top centers, But
the engineer thought he had gone
about far enough
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Man. Horse and Elephant.

The author of "Travel and Advent
ure in Southeast Africa" Mr.. f. G.
Selous, had the great good fortune,
one day, to come unexpectedly upon
a herd of more than one hundred
and fifty elephants, He wounded a
big bull and then, with charge to
one of his men to finish that job,
took up the track Of the herd. Be-
fore very long, in rocky pass, he
found himself face to face with one
of the elephants, large COW. She
saw the hunter at once, and raising
her head and spreading her ears,
charged him at full speed, screaming
loudly.
/ turned my horse and made for
the rocks, but the stallion would not
put out any pace, and l could tell
from the screams that the elephant
was rapidly gaining on me,
Hastily turning my head saw that
she was very near. At that rate she
would soon catch me- / determined
to dlsmount and run for the rocks.
My stallion was in some respects, a
perfect shooting horse, and the in
slant ! leaned forward and seized his
name he stopped dead still,
In another instant | was Oft and
in front Of him, running for the
ks, which were not twenty yards
away. AS got round the first rock
l turned, and this is what saw:
The horse was standing absolutely
still, with his head up and his fore
feet planted firmly in the ground, as
If carved in stone, aud the elephant
which had now ceased to scream, and
was making curious rumbllng
noise, was standing alongside Of him,
smelling about with her trunk.
In front of my saddle was tied a
leather coat, and ! suppose the ele-
plant must have touched the horse
with her trunk, as he suddenly gave
a jump round throwing the coat into
the air. He then walked slowly to the
rocky ridge behind him, and stood
stillabout fifteen yards from the ele-
plant.
/ had been afraid to fire, lest /
should exasperate the elephant and
cause her to kill the horse. Now,
however, determined to risk 1t. But
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AImost IA Miracle.

Lieutenant Van Hohnel narrates
with considerable junction. the story
of his recovery from fever and dys,
entery In the wllds of Africa. Ho
had been growing worse and worse,
compelled meanwhile to travel, and
deprived Of everything like suitable
food, till at last he gave up the fight.
closed my weary eyes, convinced
that l was falling into my last long
unconsclousness. j woke again about
4 o'clock the next morning, but 1t
was long before 1 realized that was
still alive. Again and again asked
myself, "Where am l? Am | really
not dead yet?"
Then | remembered that Count
Telell had stood beside my bed the
evening before, asking me how ]
felt and / had answered, all hope
had left me, that / was near my end.
After that a gray veil had shrouded
everything from me, and | had died.
How was it now? Had / indeed
walked In eternity? Surely that was
a cockcrow l heard Was ito live
after all?
For long time I could not believe
it, and yet when | called to Chuma
he appeared. kept repeating "Boyl
in doubtful manner, and he replied
"Bwana," so that / began to feel IT
must lie true and 6ot dream.
Convinced at last, began to hope
/ might yet recover. For weeks /
had scarcely taken food or drink.
Now ] had fancy for eggs, II was
to take anything.
And the eggs CatLe!--in such an
unexpected manner and so in the
nick Of time, that could not help
looking upon them as a gift from
heaven. One of the men found an
ostrichs nest containing eleven fresh
eggs, enough to feed me for twenty
days. Never before nor after did we
meet with anything Of the sort.
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Ancient Trees.

The age Of the DO tree Of Auura-
jahpoora Is a matter Of record. IL
was planted 2SS years before Christ.
Its conseryancy has been an object of
sollctude to several dynastles, and
the story Of its ylcissitudes has been
preserved In series Of continuous
chronicles, among the most authentic
that have been handed down by man
kind. The yew trees OF Fountains
Abbey are believed to have fourlshed
there 1900 years ago; the olives In
the Garden OF Gethsemane we're full
grown when the Saracens were ex-
PEELED from Jerusalem, and the cy-
press Of Soma, In Lombardy, is said to
have been tree in the time Of julius
Caesar. yet the DO tree is older than
the oldest Of these by century, and
would almost seem to verify the
prophecy pronounced when 1t was
planted, that it would Flourish and
be green forever"
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the big plantations was, it is true,
mostly work During the blu y season,
which of course depended upon the
CROP the hours were long and the
work severe, but at any other time the
slaves were not as rule overworked,
nor indeed during even the busy sea-
son was their labor much more arduOus
than that of the construction games
now employed in building a railroad.
In the field work, whether hoeing or
picking cotton, cultivating the corn or
sugar cane, both men and women took
a hand, the latter frequently doing
quite as much as the former.
The entire Plantation was under
the supervision of the overseer, who
was usually white man. The
owner rarely troubled himself alb ut
the details of the plantation work,
leaving all these matters to his
overseer, who was supposed to
carry on all the business pertaining to
the plantation, to keep the books, to
preserve an account of the expenses
and the income, and, in short, to be
the business agent and account keeper
of the plantation. He, and not the
master, tame in direct contact with
the slaves, and to him they looked for
their orders. If the overseer was
honest and carable the plantation bust
ness frequently prospere1: if he was
the contrary, the plantation soon ran
down and not a few plantation owners
went through the unpleasant expert
ence of every year being compelled to
sell off piece of land or few slaves
to make b tn ends meet.
While the overseer was the princi-
pal g ecutive oil Ger of the plantation,
he fire. ,uently, however, delegated a
portion of his authority to subordi-
nate known as a driver" The plan
tation driver was commonly an old and
trusted negro man, who, by many years
OF faithful service, had acquired a
claim to- his masters consideration.
He was often preacher, and thus had
&C uired over his fell WIS an ascenden-
CIV which caused him to be respected
as in every way their superior. His
official position in plantation etiquette
was next TO that OF the overseer. and
he was even occasionally intrusted
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LANDSCAPES WHILE YOU WAIT.
A Lightning Artist Who Keeps Up with
the AuctIoneer.


A Lightnlng Artist Who Keeps Up with
the AuctIoneer.
The great American desideratum
of speed Is strlkingly illustrated by
painter who has opened a studio and
auction-ro0m on one Of the principal
business streets, apparently to dem
onstrate that Longfellow was entire
ly In error when he wrote "art is
long" says the Boston Transcripts
A man who happened to stray into
the art gallery this morning CHANGED
to speak Of Raphael and was asked
by the painter who Raphael was, and
II he belonged In the 2;30 class Be
fore he could answer the artist had
executed "The Falls Of the Yellow
stone" In OIL the picture had been
framed, sold and the purchaser had
gone out with the prize under his
arm. The lightning colorst had his
paints spread out before him in
heaps on sort of mortar board and
ranged behind him in pals, while on
one side Of him are the thousand
canvas frames that he turns Off be-
fore breakfast Follow him while
he produces a moonlight scene, First
he gets out his whitewhsh brush
without lifelong handle, and, dipping
it In the slate-colored ink, primes
the sky OF evening, But he Is care
full to leave a small circle unscathed
in the center; that Is to stand for
the moon. Then across the bottom
of the canvas the brush Is flashed,
leaving behind 1t heavier trail,
while two big patches Of black paint
at each side form the shadowy hills.
Then, with q narrow brush Of black,
the trees and their bare branches are
located as II the artist we're stripping
the wheels OF an express wagon, An
other dash Of black answers for u
boat, and two irregular touches are
the men propelling II. by this ting
the auctiOneer is crying, "lIow much
for this elegant moonlight scene in
the north woods2 start me!--Bl 05
do | hear9 Sold" And the buyer
gets the colors on his sleeve in put
ting it under his arm. Little boys"
said the auctioneer at this Lolnt.
"you had better go home and give
the old folks a show But, boys, he
cries after the slowly retreatIng
forms, "come down tomorrow I'll
have some nice beds put up here to-
night, so that you needn't 80 home
to sleep" Aad the professor" has
the lead by three pictures on the auc-
tioneer, who begins to point out the
merits Of IAN elegant forest scene"
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master for many hours every dav, and
there we're persons who imagined that
they wore chains such as graced the
limbs of refractory work-house con-
victs or unusually tough members of
the chain gang, The popularity of
"lJncle Toms Cabin" with its vivid
pictures of the miseries of Save life,
was re ponsible for not few of these
mistakes, while legion of limitations
of this really strong book copying its
dramatic and sensational features
without emulating the interest no
character Of its narrative, must be
credited with most of the remaining
mistakes which, even at the present
day. are Cur ent in many nelghbcr.
hoods as to the condition OF the former
Southern slaves. Many Of these mis-
takes, says correspondent of the st.
louis Globe Democrat, were even
grotesque in their absurdity. In some
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CATS WONDERFUL RIDE.

clInglng TO tho Axle on an Express Train,
Pussy Travelled scventy-two Miles.
Cats have shown wonderful powers
Of coming unscathed out OF perilous
positions, If half the stories which
nave been told are true, and the
latest cat story, which comes from
England, proves no exception to the
rule, The cat In this case lived in
London, butfor some reason perched
itself upon an axle OF one OF the cars
composing an express train on the
Midland Railway, The train is n
fast ONE and did not stop until IL
reached Kettering, seventy-two miles
from the starting point, There the
tralnmen, making their rounds OF
inspection, found pussy still perched
upon the axle, somewhat dizzy and
much rumpled as to fur, but still
ready for more adventures.
The railroad men we're puzzled to
know how the cat could have retained
her hold upon a piece of iron revolv-
ing hundreds Of times every minute,
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at that moment she raised her head
and ears, and came toward the rocks,
screaming like railway engine. She
must suddenly have got my wind.
However, she could not reach me
without going around the rocks; and
as she did so she gave me a splendid
chance at Assistance Of not more than
fifteen yards. ] fired into the center
of her shoulder She stopped scream
ing, dropped her ears, swerved from
her course, and after running a hun
dred yards or so, fell dead,
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employed around the masters house,
who served his table and ate and
drank, with some few exceptions, what
the family did. The working day over
its conclusion being announced by the
bell, the slaves returned from the field
as they went, only with far more of
noisy merriment, for there was ways
a sense of relief at the conclusion Of a
days toll
Evening at the ouartrs was the
mera lest part OF he day. Among SO
many slaves there were always some
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\ New England neighborhoods it was
yhsupposed that Southern planters
Rhitched negroes to plows like beasts of
burden and compelled them to do the
work of en-, nor was this idea com
pletely dissipated by Southern man
explaining its fallacy by showing that
not less than six able-bodied slaves
would be need t0.draw one plow that
six slaves would cost from $4,000 to
$4,000 while m lle which would do
the work much more efficiently, could
be had for less than 800. The notion
that all masters were heartless, that
all overs GERS wee necessarily brutal,
that all slaves were treated with cru
city, and, like Gagged birds, were con-
stantly pining for liberty, became
familiar to the Northern mind, and,
indeed, the prevalence of these mis-
takes and the Indignation felt on this
account had no little to do with BRING
ing on thewar.
/, 1t il true that there were masters n
y the South who treated their slaves
cruelty. 1t is true that there were
brutal overseers, who someti I es in
hicted needless cruelty upon the hap
!, less creatures over whom they were
Z placed in authority, 1t is true that
n helpless negroes were sometimes
DELIGHTFULLY."- maltreated that tami les
R @ere separated and their arious n n
goers sold to different purchasers, to be
taken to different Quarters of the coun-
try. All these things were abuses Of
X the system in idental to it, probably
y inseparable from it. But it is not true
4 that cruelty was the rule, that the
slaves were starved and uselessly beat
en-, for such a rolicy would have been
\ in direct contravention of the owner S
4 interest, and while Southern planters
did not as rule consult their own in
Interests as much as they should have
!, done, they were sufficiently aware of
'the value of their own property not to
, s}snI air it by usele 5 cruelty.
Among the masters OF the South
there were many men who did what
they could to ameliorate the condition
ssbf their slaves, who recognized the
4 fact that the peculiar institution was
among them. not by their own wish or
y act, and that it should be managed in
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age. At the sound of the bell the ne
groes proceeded to tho fields, walking
in struggling line, exchanging gibes,
repartee and comical remarks on sub
iects of momentary interest. Their
labor among the cotton and the corn
plants was enlivened by all sorts Of
Jokes and running fire of witticisns,
which, however, were checked as the
Overseer or the driver came within
hearing. Resting spell were frequent;
indeed were it not for the presence 70
some one in authority, the resting
spells would have occupied the most
of the day, for as not one of the Ia
borers was working for mis- own ben
eft, he seldom cared how little he
did, and for dein1ue. cy always
had ready if not q sufficient excu.e
Viii e the men and women were en-
ployed in the fields the little negroes,
or pickaninnies as they were called,
were left in charge Of some old
nanny, an ancient colored woman
no longer able to do plantation work.
She took care Of the babies, watched
the pickaninnies, to make sure they
got into no mischief and gave the
youngsters their rations. These we're
of the simplest description, pot liq-
uor" being the basis OF the substan-
tials and molasses of the dainties.
Pot liquor was the water in which
ham, beef and ether meats we're boiled.
1t was, in fact, thin soup, but when
thickened with meal or vegetables and
reboiled, it made reasol ably nutri-
tious diet and so highly was it re-
garded on the Southern plantations
that to raise little negroes without
pot liquor" was regarded as q prac-
teal impossibility. Pot liquor and
hominy, "pone bread" and fat bacon,
with molasses, constituted the staple
rations of the slaves the year round,
eXcenk OF those favored few who were