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The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-10-21
An Irrigation Experiment.

The great drouth from which 80
many parts of the State are suffer
ing render an experiment, probably
the first in Mississippi, with irriga-
tion peculiarly interesting. 1t is
being made in Clay county, near
West Point, by a farmer on ten acres
of land. The waste water of an
artesian we'll is used. The drouth
prevails in that section, but these
ten acres look up like an oasis in the
desert. He planted cotton and corn
and used moderate amount of fer
tilizer, and the result is marvellous.
Conservative estimates place the
yield at considerably over bale of
cotton and over one hundred bushels
of corn to the acre. This, too, is on
ordinary land, and not on prairie
land. So pleased is he with the re,
suit that be proposes to make reser-
voirs of several valleys by damming
them and store up the spring rains,
with which to irrigate about two
b,,lro1 ooroc of cotton land newt
year. With much of the land in
Mississippi irrigation would be im,
practicable, but there are many
streams that could be utilized, and
valleys that could be converted into
reservoirs, which would render the
lands contiguous independent of the
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-10-21

sible to write a correct, scientific &C
count of the defence. Pity. Mill
tary science has lost much. Louis
Napoleon so highly esteemed Beaure-
gard as ii military engineer that he
offered him. at the close of the war,
marshal's baton in the French
army. But the great Louisiana Gre
ole loved bis country, bis home and
his friends too dearly to be enticed
away by foreign honors.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-10-21

Col. D. +. Boyd, in the New Orleans ic-
ayune.
He was a sweet man in his family
devoted to his wife and children,
and devoted, too, to his circle of init
mate friends. The public generally,
even the people of New Orleans, mis-
understood him. They thought his
keeping aloof from them due to cold
ness and indifference to them and to
their concerns. This was not so; it
was due to his modesty and natural
reserve, Fond as he was Of military
parade and ceremony, but not of pa
rading himself personally. l remem-
Der once, at banquet Of Confeder-
ate soldiers in New Orleans, that be
was called on to respond to toast.
He attempted it, broke down, and
could only say that he would rather
face battery than face an audience.
Nor did he often attend such meet
ings. His difidence kept him away.
In this respect he was like Jackson.
Hoping that the military student
might have the benefit Of full and
detailed account of his defence OF
Charleston, I asked him one day II
he intended writing it. He replied
that just before he was ordered to
Petersburg, in 1864, to ooppose Butler,
he had thought that the operations in
Charleston might be of interest, and
that he had instructed two of his EN-
cineer staff to begin the selection of
the necessary data, but that some
how the war department at Rich
mond had found out what they were
doing, and ordered them to desist,
and that as his records had been sur
rendered and scttered at Washington,
it would be, he feared, almost lmpos-
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1896-10-21

Il bad chronic diarrhoea for ten
years." says L. W. Kichlein, ajustice
of the peace at South Easton, Pa:
mo remedy afforded me real relief
until I was induced by Chas. L. Kill
ian, the druggist, to try Chamber
lain's Collie, Cholera and Diarrhoea
Remedy. 1t cured me and for a
year have had no return II the
trouble" It has also cured many
others, among them old soldiers who
had contracted the disease in the
army and given. up all hope OF re-
covely. For sale by
J. Z. Kaufman, Lexington.
F. w. Oswalt, Barre's.
Oswalt e. Son, Irene.
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Can You Count a Billion.

The following remarkable calcula-
ton on the length of time which it
would take one person to count
1,OOO,O0O,O0O recently appeared in an
issue of the English Mathematician:
What is billion The reply is
very simple. In England billion is
a million times a million. This is
quickly written and quicker still pro-
nounced. But no man is able to
count it. You will count 160 or ITO
q minute. But let us suppose that
you go up as high as 200 a minute
hour after hour. At that rate you
would count 10000 an hour; 288,00O
a day, or 1O5, 10000 in year. Let
US suppose now that Adam, at the
beginning Of his existence, had be-
gun to count, had continued to do so
and was counting still. Had such a
thing been possible he would not
have yet finished the task Of count
ing billion.
TO count billion would require a
person to count 200 a minute for q
period of 9,512 years, 542 days, B
hours and 20 minutes, provided he
should count continuously. But sup
pose wo allow the counter IL hours
daily for rest, eating and sleeping.
Then lie would need lS,o25 years, 319
days, 10 hours and As minutes in
which to complete the task!
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a Bird in Hand.

"Well," he said to the minister, at
the conclusion of the ceremony
show much do I owe you ?"
"Oh! I'll leave that to you, was
the reply, 'you can better estimate
the value of the service rendered.
Suppose we postpone settlement
then, say for year. By that time
I will know whether I ought to give
you $100 or nothing"
mo, no." said the clergyman, who
is married man himself, 'make it
So now"
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Hard to Locate Him.

"Cheer up" said the preacher Of
the Crossroads circuit, "vour loss is
his gain" But he didn't gain a bit, "
replied one of the mourners: "he
commenced ter lose the fust day be
tux sick, an KEEP on a-losin' ter the
last" ''Bnt he died in the faith,
didn't he?" mo, sir-in the bed"
Il mean," exclaimed the preacher,
"that be died in triumph" "Well,
he mout died thar ef he had been
thar, but as he warnt thar, he died
in Jimville-right here whar yon'se
a.standinT'-Globe- Democrat.
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A Life Saved.

Jamestown, Tenn, October Is, 1891
My daughter tried physicians and
nearly all remedies for Female irreg-
ularities, but received no. relief or
benefit whatever. We had nearly
despaired of her recovery when we
were induced by our postmaster,
Mr.. A. A Gooding, to try Gerstle's
Female Pauacca, and after using
four bottles she was entirely cured,
for which feel it 10y duty to let it
be known to the world and suffering
humanity, for believe she owes her
life to the PaDacca.
A. J. MACE,
Sheriff of Fentress County, Tenn.
For further informstion call on J. Il.
Kaufman and get free, pamphlet
entitled, "Advice TO Women and
Other Useful information
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An Echo From Shiloh.

County Treasurer Utterback Recalls
His Experience on the Battlefield.
From the Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Iowa.
County Treasurer A. Utterback,
of Glenwood, Ia, has long been one
Of the leading citizens of Mills Coun-
ty, and since the days of his service
for the Union cause has labored in
dustriously at his home in Rawls
township, with the result that he has
not only surrounded himself with
almost all the comforts heart could
wish, but has grown into the esteem
of bis fellow men. His popularity
and standing, therefore, made his
election to the County Treasurership
easy. His work as County Treasurer,
however, was confning. Coming
as he did from an active outdoor life
on the farm to the close and conGn-
ing duties of the treasurer's Office, he
quickly began to run down in health
and to visibly fail in strength and
energy. The Deputy Treasurer, Mr..
Lon Sawyer, is a great believer in
the efficacy of DR.. Williams Pink
Pills. His constant advise to his
employer, MIR. Utterback, was to the
effect that he should use these pills.
Finally Mr. Utterback consented,
and now after having used several
boxes he is able to make the follow
ing statement to your correspondent:
"Have I used Pink Pills? Yes, sir,
and I. shall continue to use them just
so long as they benefit me as they
do now. It is rarely that I use pro-
prietary medicines, but my deputy
was so enthusiastic over this particu
lar medicine that consented to try
it, and I can assure you the benefit
has been great.
Il was member of Company F,
18th Iowa Infantry, and saw my first
days service in the battle of Shiloh.
The campaign before Corinth and
later the Siege of Vicksburg were
important events in the service as
seen by our company, and as you
can readily imagine we were greatly
exposed and at times but poorly
cared for during those awful days.
In my case, army diarrhea was the
result. It has been the burden of
my life for over thirty years, but at
last I have found something to con-
quer it. The Pink Pills are success
in my case, I have no doubt they will
be with all who will use them
The reporter afterwards called
upon VIM. Skilicorp, the popular
druggist, and from him gained the
Information that DR.. Williams Pink
Pills have reached a most surpris-
ing sale in this community. But
of all the cures" said pharmacist
"that OF Treasurer Utterback is the
understandable and, at the same
time, the most gratifying"
DR.. Williams Pink Pills for Pale
reople are now given to the public as
an unfailing blood builder and nerve
restorer, curing all forms Of weak
ness arising from a watery condition
of the blood or shattered nerves.
The pills arc sold by all dealers, or
will be sent post paid on receipt OF
price, so cents box or six boxes for
S2 so (they are never sold in bulk or
by the 1o0), by addressing DR.. Viii.
liams' Medicine Company, Schenec-
tady, n. Y.
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curers had to stand back and see
them burned to death. There could
be no more horrible thing than that
for friend to see another slowly
roast to death. The fire was beyond
control then, but the crew never
wayered in its attempt to save other
property. With all their work the
baggage and express car, the mail
car and the second class passenger
car were destroyed.
Flagman Ulmer was standing be,
tween the second class car and the
baggage car. He has not been found
and is supposed to be buried in the
burned debris.
The northbound train was not
badly injured except The demolition
of the engine. As soon as the COLI
sion occurred. Mr.. L. G. Farmer,
express agent, jumped. He received
an injury of the leg, but nothing Sc.
rious. With him was a new man
named Price, who was making his
first run. He jumped with MIR.
Farmer and received a bad break in
the back of the neck, but nothing
serious resulted.
So far as can be learned the acci-
dent was owing to the misunder-
stading of the orders by the crew Of
No. 35, or the southbound train. It
appears that they received the word
Swansea" for ''Sweden," and went
pass the first named station, and thus
the collision occurred. From what
can be learned the Southbound crew
is at fault for the collision. Con
ductor Taylor and Engineer Petite
seem to be responsible for this mis-
understanding of orders. Couduc
tor Perkins son and Engineer Bell
seemed to have been running accord
ing to orders.
A special car was run from Colum-
bia yesterday morning and the mail
and passengers were transferred.
They arrived here at twelve o'clock
yesterday.
Fireman Nickel tells q thrilling
story of the death Of Messenger
Lines. AS soon as the accident oc-
Cured Fireman Nickel rushed to
the rescue of those who were about
to be killed He went to the rescue
of Lines and Thomas. He found
Lines alive and he cut his way to
him, but could not save his friend,
the fire being too hot. Lines begged
and encouraged his friend as he dug
on to save him from a frey death,
but as the flames got too hot Lines
said: "Good bye, old man." and suf-
fering agony he expired.
The pecuniary loss is placed at
about $4,000; including the engines
and cars. The track has been cleared
and traffic on the road has been re-
sumed.
The inquest developed the fact
that Engineer Petite was at fault,
he acknowledging that he had mis-
read the orders given him, but could
not explain why he did so. Only
after the wreck had occurred did he
see that he had read his orders wrong.
Conductor Taylor cleared himself of
all blame and showed that he did all
in his power to prevent the accident.
That after the train passed Swansea
he repeatedly tried to stop the train by
pulling the bell cord that hangs in
the centre and that which hangs on
the side of the car, and checked the
speed of the train by putting on the
emergency brake in the sleeper. The
verdict was that the three men came
to their death in a collision, no blame
being attached to any one.
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She had married Joseph Alston, one
of South Cardinals best citizens, and
who afterwards became governor Of
tho State.
Burr was the vice president of the
United States when he killed Ham
ilton. After this he conceiveda great
political scheme to found a limited
monarchy in the southwest, with
New Orleans as the seat of govern
ment, and he was to be the monarch.
His reasonable designs were discoy
cred, and he was arrested and tried,
and barely escaped conviction. The
odosia saved him through her plead
ings, her devotion and her fasciuat
ing beauty. But such was the pub
lie temper that he had to exile him
self and escape to Paris, where he
lived for several gears under the
assumed name of Arnot. When he
dared to return he resumed the prac-
tice of law in New York, and soon
became entangled in many scandals
and intrigues. When he was seven
ty years old be was still handsome
and engaging, and so beguiled
French countess of great wealth
that she married him. He wasted
her money so lavishly that she sep
parated from him in a short time and
she was lert penniless. His few
friends abandoned him and he died
degraded and disgraced at the age
of four score years. In his last days
he read the Bible anew-read and
pondered, and with sadness and con-
triton said: There is the most
perfect system of truth the world
has ever SEEN"
What life, what record, what
q wreck of great talents, and all be-
cause he forsook the teachings of his
noble Christian ancestors and became
a scoffer, an infdel, a Chesterfield.
What bitter memories-what an
guish he must have felt in his last
days-his last hours, when he beg
ged to be buried at Princetonby the
grave of his father. Verify it seems
like Providence followed him with an
avenging hand and heaped misery
upon him all his life.
And my old friend Carnochan saw
that man and heard him talk and
felt magnetized by his presence
and he was old enough to vote for
Jackson for president and since then
has voted for seventeen, presidents.
What world of memories the old
man has. You can't alarm him with
fears of the nation going to ruin
through the currency question. He
has heard the cry ofruin too long and
two often It makes him smile to hear
the boys talk ruin now. l. is the
same old tocsin that pealed the alarm
in Jackson's days when the United
States bank was demenetized, and
he remembers that. It was a bigger
fuss than this, he says, through
there wasn't so many people nor so
many newspaper to make it. The
old man came South in his early
manhood and rode on the first and
only railroad of any length that had
been built. He is a concordance, a
chronology, an antiquity. There are
some older men, but not many who
are as bright, as genial, as contented.
His long life Of industry is an object
lesson to the rising generation, and
I hope they will see it and think Of
it. He has done no big thing togive
him fame or fortune, but he has
fought good fight and set a good
example. Peace to you, my old
friend. May you keep on living until
you are tired and then depart in
peace.
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If you smoke or chew try the fine
brands of cigars and tobacco, at the
Bazaar.
Alaska costs the United States
government two cents per acre.
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Ayers Cherry Pectoral
Highest Honors at Worlds Fair.
Cleanse the System with Ayers SarsapaHilla.
TERRIBLE DEATH.
Three Good Men Meet Horrible
Ends in the Flames.
A Head End Collision on the Florida,
Central and Peninsular Railroad.
Three Men Burned While Rescue

CeQtral anu Z E6uluSuiar ISallIOdu.
Three Men Burned While Rescue
Was in Sight.
Columbia Register, C,tober Is.
One of the most terrible railroad
wrecks to be recorded in South Car
olina occurred yesterday morning on
the Florida, Central and Peninsular
Railroad whereby three men were
burned to death and two more in
jured by reason of head end COLI
sion which occurred on that railroad
at FIVE minutes after three o'clock
Wednesday morning.
No. 35 running south, it appears,
was, according to orders, to meet No.
SO coming north, at Swansea. The
crew of No. 35, misunderstanding
orders, went past Swansea, and as
the sequels prove to death and de-
struction but few miles below that
station.
No. 35, the southbound train is a
connection of the Southern Railroad.
It waits in Columbia for the South
ern train and left yesterday morning
one hour and forty-fve minutes late.
It ran on orders and one of the or
ders was that it should pass No. 36,
the up bound train, at Swansea. But
the order was misunderstood and
the collision resulted with loss of
life.
As a result of the misunderstood
ing three men are dead, and horri
ble death they met with.
From what could be learned the
men met death bravely and courage
ously. Though they pleaded for their
lives, yet, seeing that rescue was
impossible they met their fate like
men.
When the trains came together the
engineers jumped and saved their
lives. The fremen did likewise and
none Of them received any injuries.
When the two trains came into
collision, running at high rate of
speed, naturally it was a case OF a
great collision.
The tender of the southbound
train telescoped into the baggage
and express car and completely de-
molished it. In this car were mail
agent L. A. Thomas and express and
baggage agent ". D. Lines. These
men were not killed, nor indeed does
it appear that they were fatally hurt
by the collision, but they were shut
in by the debris so that they could
not get out.
The uninjured soon saw the diff
Guilty in which their friends were put
and the crews of both trains soon
began the work of rescue. The
flames were rapidly spreading and
the uninjured worked with might
and main. Thomas and Lines, pin
ioned by baggage and express, were
not dead, but as the flames gradually
grew towards them they pitieously
cried for their rescurers to hurry.
These worked with might and
main and cut through the car SO
much as to be able to catch Thomas
hand. They tried to pull him out
but could not do it. "For Gods sake
save me-" the poor man cried, but DC
all they could the rescurers could not
get him out. The fire was burning
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seasons. This trial of irrigation,
which has gone beyond the stage Of
experiment, may revolutionize farm
ing in many parts of Mississippi.
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Beau regard at Charleston.

COL D. +. Boyd, in the New Orleans lc-
ayune.
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Bill Arp.
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The Judgment of Gold Bug News
paper on his Remarkable Cam
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-06-13
House Adiourns.

Washington, June 12.-The final ses-
sion of the house was devoid of public
interest. The appropriation bills had
been passed, and the members simply
waited for the end to come. A number
of the members were made happy by
the passage of small local bills of in
terest to their districts. To Gen.
Wheeler, ct Alabama, belonged the dis
tinction OF securing the passage of the
last bill.
Beyond little misunderstanding be-
tween Messrs. Bailey, of Texas, and
Marsh, of Illinois, the utmost good feel
ing prevailed. There was an attempt
by Mr.. Bailey and Mr.. Mcguire, of Cal
ifornia, to precipitate political dis
cussion in the last half hour of the ses-
sion, but the Republicans declined the
gage of combat thrown down to them.
Mr.. Turner (Dem.), OF Georgia, who
was the floor leader during the absence
of Mr.. Crisp, offered a resolution OF
thanks to the speaker, which wa:
adopted by a standing vote. The
speaker closed the session with q
graceful speech, in which he thanked
the members most cordially and fe.
dictated them on the work Of the
| session,
The Progress. (Shreveport, La.) 1892-1900, 1896-06-13
UarVartls in Trouble.

Boston. Mass, June l2-Three thou
sand Harvard men, encouraged by the
phenomenal event Of Harvard veto
~. tough, 1G0 policemen in the streets
Of historic Old Cambridge last night.
!. was the biggest riCt that the unlyeF-
sIty has ever seen.
The moment il was known that ftar-
ward had won there was d rOaT that
SHOOK every window for mile around.
In half an hour there was on foot the
biggest celebration ever known at har-
ward The whole city was blaze OF red
fire. while all kinds Of fireworks squirt
ed in every direction and the evening
VS. made hideous with the blasts OF a
thousand giant horns. A mammoth pro-
cession was formed and marched to
Harvard square. The police, antlclpat-
ing trouble, were out in extra force.
The majority of the Harvard men were
armed with rey0lvers and they kept up
running volley, firing into the air.
While cheering for the individual
members of the team vas going on,
Clay Stone Briggs, a Harvard student
from Galveston. Tex. was arrested. He
had discharged his revolver in the very
face of a policeman. AS the policemen
| were hurrying him off the mob took in
| the situation and there Was a mad rush
of 5000 enraged students to the rescue.
A line of Harvard men jumped on
the backs of the policemen, who still
chung to their prisoner. Arthur I. Pill
ing, a student from Washington, was
the first to tackle an officer. He was
promptly knocked down Godthwaite
Dorr, from Vermont, jumped On an
other policeman. He was also knocked
down. Many Of the students received
wounds Finally the policemen were vic
torious and the three students nameC
were dragged into the station house
and the big iron doors were slammed
in the faces of the angry mob. TIE chie4
and prominent citizens admonished the
students and urged them to disperse
The students paid little attention to the
officers and refused to dispense unit
the three men who were arrested hat
been released on bail. Then they de
parted, cheering as they left the police
station, the three heroes MOUNTED
high on the shoulders Of the mob.