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________"c_ ' _,__ mTrnn T A T\ A ufo T>"D/^T)T)TT7rrAT> TCDiTEFT??JJ). S. CL THURSDAY. MAY 18. 1893. VOL. LVIII. NO. 1G. ALL ABOARD THAT'S ?. ARRANGING A STRAW RIDE TO A DARKY BALL IN RED BANK. Sid C?melos Proves a Grasping: . Monopolist-His Load of Merry Colored Folks Leaves Him They Return at a Reduced Bate. ?ow York Sun. There vas going to be a great darky ball, or "dance," as the col ored folks called it, at "Texas," which is a part of Red Bank, and the colored folk of the whole country side from Oceanic to Long Branch were stirred up by the fact. A great many of the Long Branch darkies were wondering how to get lo "Texas." Some decided that they could afford to take the cars ; some, women ashwell as men, de teimined that tt?ey must walk, and others gloomily concluded that they must stay at home. When the eventful night came the news ran among all the negro quarters that Sid Cornelus had borrowed a hay wagon and a load of straw, and had hired two horses and was going to get up a straw ride to the ' ball. This news proving true, and it being understood that "Brother" Cornelus would wait at the "upper pole" of the village for his load, ' there was a quick alteration of everybody's plans. Those who were meaning to take. the cars, those who had no better hope than of being obliged to walk eight miles, and those who had con cluded not to go at all, united in declaring that they would take part iu Cornelus's straw ride. There was no further disappoint ment, and no change of plans. The hay wagon loaded with straw and the bony lethargic team were at the Upper Pole. Furthermore, Sid Cornelus had constructed a slender and uncertain ladder and had leaned it against the hind end of the frame of the wagon as a help to the colored ladies to mount to the soft, elastic straw on which all were to sit. By 8 o'clock in the evening there must have been at least forty darkies around the wagon. This was twice as many as could find places in it, but half of these were old "mammies" and still older "uncles" and little folks in their early childhood. The bloods and the belles who were really intending to go to the ball were easily distinguished from the others. The men were smoking cigars in a holiday spirit, which they .would have characterized as "puffeckly reckless." and were clad in their best clothes. These best clothes did not at all appear worthy of that classification, for some of the trouser * were frayed at the bottoms, some of the coats were patched with cloth unlike the garments, and some of the waist coats had lost their buttons. The elles were far more presentable. h *ew of them had on gowns were only of calico, they, i. Reless, were whole and neat look*. But others were extrava gantly drebded, with all the bright colors of the rainbow in their gar ments. "Come, get a move on-those that's going," shouted Cornelus. "Ef we gwine to get to the bank 'stime we sasshayed." "The bank" is what all the Mon mouth county people call Red Bank. * "Am de bullgine gwine fer to start?" was asked by one of the friskiest of the party, a lantern jawed, long-limbed young man with a necktie as red as a grate fire. "Yes,'? said Cornelus, "an' any coon what don'want to get lef had better boost his lady up de ladder, fer I'm a-blowin' de whistle, I am, and dis yer train of one Pullman am a gwine to hustle.' Then there was a boisterous time around the tail end of the wagon. One or two selfish men without! sweethearts clambered up by' means of the wheels and secured ! the first choice of seats, but the majority gathered in a bunch by the ladder and saw the women safely up in the straw. Such a giggling, such coquettish timidity as to the safety of the ladder, such hallooing and loud langhingas the men indulged in, would all be very difficult to describe. "Dar you is, honey; git der bes' fifty-cent seat dere is." "Torm, you, jest hoi' down my dress while I climb dese yer golden stairs. Never you mind ef I got a VJ J. JAJLJJJ J.V7JLL. hole in stocking or not, Sam ?1 berson; hold my dress Torm." "Say, Bill, Inf go o' my gal, there. You look after you' own bunch er calico or I'll pull my razor, d'ye see?" With such remarks, and a hun dred like them the wagon load was at last made up. Then there was a'paufe while the load got settled, and while Brother Cornelus pre pared to have every passenger also settle with him for the fare. There was much talk about the money that was needed, and the most as tonishing disclosures of the finan cial condition of the passengers were made. Some of the men did not hesitate to borrow of their fe male companions. "Liz, you know you got to put up der spondulix. I ain't got a dam cent to my name." "Whar's Maria? Maria, you done got to lend me ten cents, or else I don' see you to no ball to-night. I only got forty cents." Whether these men blushed or not it was impossible to see. This was partly because it was a dark night. There were many calls to Brother Corne lus that he must trust this one or that for fifty cents, but those were jests, and Cornelus knew it, for he paid no heed to the suggestions. The seating arrangements were peculiar. One girl declared she would sit on her man's lap. "I 'shamed?" she asked; "I ain't 'shamed o' nothin' so long as my conscience is clear." One of the men folded his girl in his arms and acnounc?d that he waa going to love her all the way to Red Bank, at which she fought and writhed for freedom like a cap tured cat, and said that if he didn't "leave off his foolishness she'd jump out of der wagon." Except for her display of temper, all were as merry as a chime of marriage bells. There was one fellow, he with the red necktie, who kept crooning one line of a song in the way that is peculiar to negroes. Some folks say dat a preacher won't steal. This line he kept chanting monotonously, evidencing perfect and complete happiness. It rose above all other sounds, sharp and clear, in a high falsetto tone. Once another darky took up another line of the same song and repeated that again and again. The effect was like this : "Ann Maria,,is dat you' leg or is it mine?" Some folks say dat a preacher won't steal. "You know whose 'tis, an' you better look out for yo'self." "Well, then, I can't find e'ny one of my legs." Lord G6d knows dat a preacher won't lie. In the course of time Mr. Sid Cornelus mounted the ladder, and surveying the almost solid mass of passengers on the straw, cleared his voice and made the following announcement: "Ladies and gentlemen, please fork out yo' seventy-five centses. De fare am a-going to be seventy five cents." "Wha-a-a-t?" from a dozen throats. "Dat's what it am," said Mr. Cornelus. "Dis yere ain't half a dollar side show. Dis am seventy five cents or walk." There was an instant and pre cipitate scramble for the ground. No words were wasted. The men leaped over the sides of the wagon, some of the women threw them selves off the straw and into the men's arms, and others came la boriously down the ladder, front ways as women will with their skirts clinging to the frame behind them and being pulled higher and higher to their knees. No one of the colored folks seemed to see the humor of this sudden and general scramble. -To the white lookers on it was almost unendurably funny. At one moment the wagon was heavily loaded with twenty light-hearted persons going to a ball. The next moment no one was going to the ball and th? wagon was empty. A raise of a qur.rter of a dollar in the fare had occa sioned the transformation. It was evident that fifty cents was the general limit, and that if all had gone Cornelus would have had to charge nothing to bring the dancers home or all would have had to walk back. The astonished merry-makers drew off ' in knots. All talked earnestly and out loud. Above all the uproar rose the refrain : Some folks say dat a preacher won't steal. But ia the strain of the moment another line of the song escaped a merry woman's lips, and she flung it back at the songster with tl fed necktie : But I caught on? in my corn fiel'. "I ain't got no mo' money "Say, Cornelus, you better tal half a dollar; yo' better tal what yo' kin git." "Oh. let hil go with the blame ol' wagon. Sa; girls, I'm a-goin' home," (thi was from a woman). "Ain't Co: nelus got a cheek! My sakes some skinflints 'spects to get bloo out uv a stone. Let's all go home. A dozen voices caught up the cr "Let's all go home." Nobod moved, but Cornelus was alarm?e He weakened. H<3 hustled abou and let it be known that he woul rather take a half a dollar thai have his speculation fail so utterlj Then came another movemen back into the wagon. It was a sudden as the movement out o the wagon had been. But it wa more remarkable. The man with the red neckti started, apparently without pre arrangement or consultation witl any one else. "He don't git n< half a dollar out of me. I hain' got it. I've got 35 cents and it'; all I got. All's is willing to rid< to de ball for 35 cents, skip righ in an' let's be moving." There was a scramble for thi back of the wagon. Cornelus wai astonished and excited. He saic 35 cents "wouldn't see him out o de woods." He'd got to have mor< in order to make any money. Th< darky with the red necktie paid nc heed to him, but kept yelling "Gi' your girls aboard. Hop up, skij up ; ef you can't git up chuck you: money up. Dis yer's a 35-ceni racket. So help me God, it's all ] got. The ladder broke down undei the weight of two women at once and after that the men got up or. the straw and reached down anc literally hauled the women up scraping them against the wheel ? and the wagon frame, but pulling ahead just the same, as if the j would pull the arms out of thc women's bodies. When the wagoe was filled again Mr. Sid CorneluE climbed up to collect his fares. He had become reconciled to the extraordinary reduction of the rate, and seemed only intent upon getting the 35 cents, which each passenger owed to him. Soon all the money was collected and the wagon was started. Tho darky with the red necktie now sang a whole verse of -his favorite song : Som? folks Bay dat a preacher won't steal' But I caught one in my corn fiel'. He said he was prayin' where noone was nigh, Lord God knows dat a preacher won't lie. The song proved catching. AE the creaking, bumping, swaying load turned a curve in the road the air to which the verseB were sung came pleasantly back upon the wind. The merry-makers were all in good humor, and each was 15 cents better off than he or she had expected to be. One of the largest farms this side of the Rocky Mountains, ac cording to a recent bulletin of the West Virginia experimental sta tion, is to be found on the foothills of the Blue Ridge in Jefferson county of that State. In 1887 Becker Brothers set out 33,000 peach trees, since which time eight adjoining tracts have been added, until the fruit farm comprises 2,400 acres in one body. The plant ers have not stopped with peaches alone, but they have a large area in grapes, quinces, and cherries, besides American and Japanese plums, apricots, Japan persim mons, nectarines, English walnuts, Italian chestnuts, with paper shell almonds. A girl residing in a Lake Michi gan town has recovered $500 dam ages from a steamboat company for naming a boat after her with out asking her permission. An exchange says she took offence at a marine item stating that "Kittie Marshall, having been thoroughly scrubbed, painted, refitted with canopied stern and new boilers, will hereafter serve as mail carrier and poke her pretty nose into the lake business for all that she is worth." A crop worked a few days be fore it actually needs it will al ways produce the best results. A good farmer will direct and control his work and not be driven and harassed by it. Those who tried plowing one side of a row at a time last year were pleased with the results. That enables one to reach his crop every seven to ten days with his plow. It keeps down tho grass and keeps the"corn and cotton in good heart. ANOTHER FIEND.HM. HE ATTEMPTED TO RAVISH A YOUNG SCHOOL-GIRL Other Negroes of Similar Height, Color and Appearance Were Dressed Like Him and Taken Before the Girl, hut She Said They Were Kot the Bight One. LAURENS, S, C., May 10.-Yes terday afternoou, near Chestnut Ridge, a.young negro man assaul ted a daughtes of Capt. James Wham, on her way from school. After a heroic resistance, the scoundrel was repulsed and fled. This mornsng he was overtaken, carried before the youug lady and fully identified. In the presence of several hundred citizeus he was quietly and decently hung to an oak tree. FULLER DETAILS. LCURENS, S. C., May 10.-Hey wood Barksdale concealed himself in a bunch of woods,through which Wham's two eldest daughters pas sed from school. On attacking them and being foiled,he threaten ed that he would get her the next time. Her father being away from home, no search was made for Barksdale until this morning. He was easily found. Every precaution was taken to have him clearly identified. Several negroes of similar size and appearence were dressed like him and brought before the girls in sucsession. As soon as Heywood was seen at distance, they cried: It's him." A determined band of near a hundred neighbors gathered and decided that immediate punish ment be given, although several prominent proson* urged midier measures and begged for the law. to t ake its course. They plead in vain. Barksdale was brought near the scene of this attempt and swuug to a stout limb, ; ^ The body hangs lonely and^ Coroner Sloan will hold the in quest. Mr. Billtops's Dog Story. "Pop," said little Franky Bill tops, "tell me a story.,' "Well. Franky," said Mr. Bill tops, "once there WBS a little boy aDd he had a little dog. It was a very nice little dog and everybody liked it, but after a while it began to get old. It didn't get cross. If anybody stepped on it it would stand up and hold its tail down as low as it could and wag just the end of it, and look np as much as to say, 'I don't mind boing stepped on, if you don't mind my getting in the way.' But it got sick and sort of miserable, and this little boy's father and mother thought that it might be better if they should put it out of its misery altogether. But they didn't actually do anything about it, and pretty soon something happened which made them forget about it; the little boy fefl sick. "And Franky, he was dreadful sick, and for quite a spell they didn t know whether he would ever get over it, but one day the doctor said that he was going to get well,and he did ;'he kept on get ting better all the time, and pretty soon the docior said that when it should come a bright, warm, sunny day. they might take him down stairs. "That was a great event, for you see the littlo boy had been sick and shut up in his room for weeks ; and when the time came and his mother-she wouldn't Jlet anybody else touch him-bent over him to lift him up she didn't know whether to laugh or to cry, Finally she laughed a little, but not very much ; really she felt more like crying, she waa EO glad. She lifted him up and wrapped the blanket around him and started down stairs. After her came the little boy's father, and then the little hoy's sifter, and then the nurse; and then Franky, who do you think came next? The dog. "And he didn't seem to be old or sick any more but he was just full of life aud just ae jolly as evei, and he curled his tail and wagged it as hard as he could, and jumped down a step or two and back up the steps again and ?down one side and down the other and back again and all around, as, though he wanted to be at the ? -fr. head, of the procession, and at the end' ^f *the procession, and on both .fides of it all at once, he was so g^^to^see the little boy getting welMncf going down stairs again. '"^11. Franky, the . little boy keptjjn getting better, but it is a singx?ar fact that as he kept on gettiig well the little dog seemed to ggoj^ old again, and when the littlegboy was running about and as lively as ever the little id once more grown quite was lying about just as he |one before. But nobody led of his being in the way id everybody was kinder to ian ever, because of the >n' he had shown for the 5y." it was a nice little dog, asn't it?" said Franky, as its name?' _ , Franky," said Mr. Bill tops| " fey, pop," said Franky, "that's the jSme of my dog." t, Franky," said Mr. Bill tops|^p?ow maybe you can guess e little boy,s Dame was." y Billtops? " Franky al uted: t again. Franky," said tops. %ra Out His Welcome. m a visitor overstays his the people of New ind say," He makes us twice lad when he comes ; glad goes." A worthy citizen of sid, Mass., once put it even Strongly than that to al j|;of the Deweys, of Westfield, ijfledto the Bleck River coun it every fall he was ac-| fifed to bring bis family back f?ja. long visit to his well-to Jives. ?One occasion, after a prolon gecpwy, he was surprised to see g*in the corner, weeping. |y, Cousin Tim," said he, fails you?" . fllnever come down to see J?yjmore!" the host replied. fid?keB, I will, CousiftTim: i'll ^?^?ggme^down next fall.', , "No, you won't.' Som?thing leHr| ma,you won't." "Nonsense!" said the visitor. "What has put such a notion in your head? Haven't we always come down and spent the winter with ye? Come, cheer up, Cousin Tim? Cheer up and tell me what makes you think so?" The grieving host blew his nos wiped his eyes, and turnir 'ais solemn face to his symT :zing guest, said, "Cause you" .ver go away. Sunken eyeB, a pallid com plexion, and disfiguring eruptions indicate the there is something wrong within. Expel the lurking foe to health, by purifying the blood with Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Cures Erysipelas, Eezema, Salt Rheum, Pimples, and Blotches. Bishop Key, of the Southern Methodist Eqiscopal Church, who was recently married at Sherman, Texas, to Mrs. L. A. Kidd, presi dent of the North Texas Female College, the ceremony boing per formed by Bishop Galloway, ia a a little over 50 years old and is said to be tht finest looking of the Southern Methodist Bishops. There is an old miller, 84 years of age, living nine miles from Versailles, Ky., who has been run ning the same mill for about eighty years. He started it before the war of 1812, when but a small boy, and the waters of the Elkhorn Creek have kept it going for him ever since. He can shoulder a sack of grain with great ease, reads without glasses, and his mind ie as clear as it ever was. Hid away in the quiet regions of Elkhorn Creek, he scarcely knew that there was a war raging around him from 1861 to 1865. The mightiness of the little drop of water is again illustrated by the wager which an American has just won in Vienna. He bet a considerable sum with a Vienna acrobat that he could not endure to have liter of water fall drop by drop from a height of three feet up on his hand. When 300 drops had fallen the athlete's face became red and he looked as if in pain. At the 420th drop he gave up, saying it was impossible to boar the pain any longer. The palm of his hand was swollen and inflamed, and in one place the skin was broken open. Happy and content ?9 a home with "The Ho cheBter;" a lamp with the lijfht of the morning For Catalogue, write Rochester Lamp Co.,New York. Governor Tillman Takes Action. Atienta Constitution. The action of Governor Till man, of South Carolina, in ap pointing Solicitor Jervey, of the Charleston circuit, to prosecute the Denmark lynchers is worthy of all commendation. It is an assurance in advance that no guilty man will be allowed to escape. Under all the circumstances, the public will watch with unusual interest the proceedings that. Governor Tillman has inaugurated. Solicitor Jervey is pledged to a course which, if carried out, will make an example of the lynchers. In a public speech at Columbia, shortly after the execution of the negro, he declared that if he were the solictor of Barnwell county he would indict every man who took part in the murder. He also de ck t that he would name Gov ernor Tillman as an accessory be fore the fact. The opportunity which Solicitor Jervey seemed to long for has come to him and his selection as the prosecuting officer is undoubtedly due to his declaration that he would leave no stone unturned to bring bring the lynchers to justice. Practically, his work is cut out for him, and all that is needed is an energetic prosecution, which Solicitor Jenu v will undoubtedly devote himse._ to. It is a case that practically in volves an entire community. Those who executed the negro and those who aided and abetted his taking off are well known. There was and has been not the slightest attempt at concealment. So that Solictor Jervey's duties are very much simplified. He has an op portunity, too if he choose to take advantage of it, of "naming,' &Gov ernor Tillman as accessory, and the public is therefore .. ,,ified in anticipating developments of a very intelesting character. Tillman on Top. Georgetown Times. When the negro Peterson was recently lynched at Denmark, in -Barnwell . oounfc_??ipm9___?f_ the^ enemies of Governor Tillman, at Columbia, held and indignation meeting, ostensibly to denounce the murder, but really to stir up political feeling. Among the speakers on that occasion was Solicitor Jervey, of Charleston, who boasted of the groat things he would do if he was Solicitor in that county, threatening, among other things, to indict the Gov ernor as "an accessory before the fact." The Solicitor of that circuit now finds himself unable to prosecute these alleged murderers and cut-throats, some of the them being his own kin ?[folks and he has so stated officially to the Governor, and advised that some other law officer of the gov ernment be sent to his county for that purpose. In the coolest and most dispassionate manner pos sible. Gov. Tillman has designa ted and appointed Solicitor Jervey to act, the irony of Fate seeming to point with unerring finger at this doughty champion against what is known as the "higher law." Tillman is like a a Tom-cat with nine lives ; he will catch on his feet every time. Correct You Are. Newberry Observer. The Columbia mass-meeting will have an effect exactly op posite to that expected by its movers. Its animus and purpose are too transparent. Instead of in juring Governor Tilllman in public estimation, it will tend to strengthen him with many people who are convinced that ho has not been treated fairly. People believe in giving even "the devil his due ;" much more the Governor of the State. The incident reminds ua of what General Grant used to say about the Democratic party-that it "could always be depended on to play the fool at the critical moment." Just substitute Co lumbia for the Democratic party. High Ground. Newberry Observer. The Observer takes this occa sion to say that while it would re joice to see a change in the ad ministration in South Carolina, it is not willing for just any sort of a change. It wants a change that promises better things-not a change for the sake of change. It would like to see Gov. Tillman beaten, because we believe his policy is injurious to the State ; but we do not go to the length of "anybody to beat Tillman.5' And we may as well say it : If this mass meeting business is iotended to curry favor with the negro for the sake of his political support against the present administration, the Observer can be counted out. Why He Didn't Shoot. A Cats avenue man, with a wife who has her own way about doing things, catches her now and then. '.My dear," he said the other morning, as ne was dressing, "I think you were right when you told me last night there were burg lars in the house." "Why?" she asked nervously. "Because all the money that was in my pockets when I went to bed is gone." "Well," she said, with an I-told you so air, "if you had been brave and got up and shot the wretch you would have had your money this morning." "Possibly, my dear, possibly," he said gingerly, "but I would have been a widower." She laughed softly then and gave half of it back to him. Improper and deficient care of the scalp will cause grayness, of the hair and baldness. Escape both by the use of that reliable specific Hall's Hair Renewer. The shark [manifests a distinct | liking for certain races, and will eat an Asiatic in preference to a negro and a European rather than either. A lightningrod agent who at tempted to put a rod on the house of Thomas Sailer, a farmer near St. Augustine, 111., against Mr. Sailer's wishes, was brounht down by Mrs. Sailer with a Winchester. The city of Banian, in Great Buchariatj is cut in the side of a mountain. There are 12.006 artificial caveB, some very large, and statues-one 90 the other 20 feet high-each hewn from a single stone. "TL* dowers that bloom in the Spring" are not more . vigorous t?iw-aTe~tho8e^r*^,g"rto r^nfy. their blood with Ay?r's Sar saparilla. The fabled ?lixer Vitae1 could scarcely impart greater! vivacity to the countenance than this wondersul medicine. A curiosito of journalism is established on the top of Mount Washington, the highest peak of New England, where an en terprising printer has built an officer, from which he periodically issues a ne naper named, with much truth, Among the Clouds. 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