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VOL. 1l1. IANNIN(6., (LARXE'NDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, PJANUARX Y 87 O5 A LETTEkt FROMI CAPT. TII.LMIAN. He Givey Hi" Views O'u Certou1: Thinq . Doune b the Iegilture ul th- !:et:zt Session. To the Editor of the News a:!d Couri er: Your editorial in the The News and Courier of December 24, headed "The -a3 1 ITrouble, is in the aitin jut ,priate. but at the sane time : 17- -ing. For instance, speaking of th'bills emanating from the Farmers' Convention, and which have been either postponed, amended out of all shape or slaughtered outright in the Senate, you sav: "Who is responsible we neeL n .t - The Senators will be prepared, ->f coure, to explain thcir action to tneir con stituents when the proper tinme comes, and they will doubtless be giv; the (p portunitv. But whatever their reason, good or bad, the fact remain.- that the quarrel of the farmers, if the, have any, is with their own representatives. The non-agricultural members of tho General Assembly have been willing and ready, as they have abundantly shown, to grant every request and adopt every plan which the farmers should agree upon for the advancement of their peculiar inter est, and to give to them the control of their peculiar affairs. The failure is chargeable to the men whom they have selected and ekhcted to carry out their plans, and the settlement muo, be had with those who are responsible for the failure." You may rest assured that they will be "given the opportunity to explain" and that "settlement will be had" with some of them when again the farmers get a chance. If the "farmers' move ment," which has created such a stir among the people, is really a demand of the masses for reform and the correc tion of abuses, and an expression of a desire to see our rights as farmers re spected, it will continue to grow and spread, rather than dwindle and die, and will have much to do with shaping the future policy and politics of this State. But let that be as it may. I only set out to show you that, while correct as to the House, your editorial is calculated to mislead when you say the farmers in the ' Senate are alone to blame. And in order to make this Ckax I will show the complexion oi our present Sen ate as regards occupation. It is com posed as follows: Lawyers ............ .... . ....... . 15 Farm ers .... .. . ......-.-.-. - -.-.. 12 D octors .................. . ..... 3 : Preachers ............-. -. - ---- . Editors and printers .--.-...- 21 Merchants.................... 1 Total .............. ..... . -of whom 20 are new Senator; and 1~ are old ones, two of the new ones serv ing unexpired terms Now, the bill of all others in which the farmers were most deeply interested, and which they desired to have passed 1 most was that enlarging the board of agriculture and reorganizmng the agricul tural department. This the Senate post poned, by a vote of 21 to 14, on the flimsy pretext, as voiced b, Senator Yonumans, that they -wanted more time to investigate tis important matter."' The April Convention had deianded it. The November Convention had demand ed it. The matter has been thoroughly discussed for a year or more in the press, and charges of extravagance and of incompetence, or neglect o0 duty on., the part of the board, proven. But these Senatorial lawmakers alone needed "more time to investigate." Well, we : hope they wili improve the two years eleven of them have got beore the next I election to study the matter and be pre pared to give good reasons for theirj votes when asked. If, indeed, your re-1 porter be correct in saving the "Agri cultural Senators were influenced bya determination not to submit to Tillman1 dictation," it will be a pitiful excuse for having refused to comply with the wishes of the farmers of the State; and an acknowledgment of having. allowed personal motives to govern their action rather than a desire to legislate for the public good. No member of the Gen eral Assembly, either Senator or Repre sentative, can truthfully say that. I was either obtrusive or dictatorial im pre senting to them the measures asked by: the two Farmers' Conventions, and it wiul be left to the farmers all over the State to resent in a proper way the imputation that Tillman alone constitutes the "'Farmers' movement." But if the agricultural Senators re sented "Tiilman dictation," what influ enced the other Senators? I will now proceed to show that the farmers in the Senate are not aloue to blame for de ferring this bill. My ddi friends, the lawyers, took advantage of tie fuss kicked up by Messrs. loumans and Wofford to plant a sly dagger in Till man's side and slap their agricumtural constituents who have joined the farm ers' movement in the face. This is shown by the vote, as follows: Messrs Bell.. .. .. ..Farmer. Biemann. ...... .. .. Mer'nt a hotel keeper. Black..... .. .....Doctor. Byrd..... ....Doctor. Frvin ............ armer. Hemphill . Lawyer. Howell... .....Lawyer. Izlar...... Lwer Kennedy...... yr MoMaster .avr Moore . ayr Munro ....... ar Patterson.... Laer Bh ame...... Lwe Reynolds..... ay. Smiith. .iazn SmytheLay.r Wingard ...... 'rr W ftbrd........ Ear. V~iliani.... .Lawyaer. preaher nd oe isawern. garcy o lawer.Lafwer 1in'~ tura memers f th ae evnt. r- in.t s.Farma. uponlias . '. . Prahr -ofa ur ofel who eleven are layr, peer Seand' c'oei - meeht.. grcyt of ~ lawyrs"....w.m... ave spoken ofl ntaen heeore. dd it? tuirl me'ber w io the a e dg:. :tS upon farmes- nei-ert 'to - t hde contri to the firtentne 'o n~ reor ofean igr ey have any manhood and a proper sense ( resentment: if they are not the 0h-_s they are taken for, they will, when th time'comes, see to it that die men vo thus contemptuously put this in dtignity upon them are properly reward ed If we cannot reorganize the agri cultural department, we can reorganize the Senate. The farmers of the State are fast siuking to the level of serfs hewers of wood and drawers of water for others. An efficient and representative board of agriculture, together with an agricultural college to act as a pioneer in mapping out the new system of farming we U. compelled to pursui. er" we can ex'pect nuy change f'r the better, could ilo much to aid and assist them to re cover their lost prosperity. Eut these six agricultural Solons and their fizteen professional associates say to theni in etfect: "You don't know what you want. We will continue to tax you to support a department of agriculture which you do not feel is bencticial to your interests as now conducted, because we like it. We will vote your money to support the South Carolina College and Citadecl be cause we think those schools are all we need; but your Agricultural College is a humbug. We know it. 'Wisdom will die with us.' So we will not even spend your own money to investigate the mat ter and let a commission report so we can act intelligently." It may be said the farmers in the Sen ate were divided, as they were six for and six against the bill. Then if the professional men in the Senate had needed light as to the wishes of the farmers of the State. if the actions of two farmers' convention had no weight, the almost unanimous vote by which the bill passed the House, composed largelv of farmers, should have made tAem hesi tate to postpone it. But 1 have my own opinion as to how this thing was brought about. I visited Columbia three times during the recent session of the Legislature. I kept my eye and ears open. I learned a great deal that would be of value to the peo ple if I had time to tell it, and I will, when occasion offers, let out some of the "true inwardness" of what I saw and learned. I could tell why and how the hopes of the people as regards reforms and reduction of expenditures, &c., re sulted only in the cutting off of a beg garly thousand dollars-the Lieutenant Governor's salary. I could show that once an abuse is planted and takes root in South Carolina it is harder than nut grass to get rid of. But just now I will only give my belief as to why the Senate postponed the bill to reorganze the agricultural department. Of course some of the Senators voted against it because of their resentment against "Tiliman dictation," for Mr. Gonzales says so; some voted-two at least-be muse they never vote against one of the Senators from Charleston, so I am told; Ahers voted against it because I am redited with having had much to do with the slaughter of the Columbia anal and the Ring wanted revenge though, to tell the truth, I am totaly innocent in that matter. Some voted qgainst it because farmers and "farmers' movements" stink in their nostrils. But the real cause, though many Senators lo not know it perhr.ps, is that the phosphate interests of the State are con trolled by the department of agriculture, and the Coosaw Mining Compny is too well satisied with the present manage ment of that interest to allow a change if it could prevent it! Why a board of agriculture should bave anything to do with collecting mining royalty, farmers of ornary i telligence cannot understand. We do not see the connection between the two, but perhaps some of those who started i this thing, and some of those who keep| it up, can give us light. This board of agriculture, which is liked so well, has, spent $170,000 since its creation in 1880, and we would like some one to tell us what benefit it has been to us farmers, who pay for it alone. Will some Senator, "agriculturalist" or otherwise, answer? Or will somc member of the boardt tell us? B. R. T1LM.. Rloper's, S. C., January 1, 1887. ANOTIIER HAPPY JEHiU. A (on'necticut Coachman Elopes With isk Employer's Dau;ihter. The village of Rledding, Conn., is! greatly excited over the elopement of, Miss Eunice Hill, daughter of the most romins?t and wealthy citizen of the lace, with her father's coachman, Fred erick Hicks. Hicks is twenty-seven years old and is said to be a very dis agreeable looking young fellow. It appears that Hicks had been in the em ploy of Mr. Hill for about ten months during which time Miss Hill fell desper ately in love with him. The young lady, who is accomplished in every way, of faultless form and very beautiful, was not only the belle of the village, but of all the neighboring towns. She taught a class in Sunday school in her father'sI church and had many admirers. Some months a'go the conduct of Miss Hill' and the coachman caused much village gossip and it finally reached the father's ears. He was highly indignant and threatened to kick his coachman from his premises. But Miss Eunice begged him not to, as it would create a sensa tion, and she finally succeeded in having the servo'ut retained. Recently Hicks's conduct toward Miss Hill was so objec tionable that the girl's father said he must go. The coaehmian secured a situation in a livery stable, but kept up a communica tion with Miss Hill. Laist week he came to Mr. Hill's residence and begged that gentleman to take him back into his ser vice. Tihis Mr. Hill refused to do. While the tw'o men 'were in conversation Mliss Euinie quietly stole out of the hoQuse and got into her l over's carrige, *s pe arrangement. The couple drove ct once to Brev ster~ 'a neighbgiing vil !ge, where they were married without delay. The father of the gir! is greatly enraiged over the affair. Another '"mammoth cave" is reporte~d, tiis time in Missouri. The first explora ton w::s only a partial one, but took in sevral chambers and was prosecuted for a distance of a quarter of a mile, and still othe'r chambers anid labyrinths of ptass ges' 1ay eoind ini several directionls. Tesee' is reported to be indesrib iv'. beauiu, the abundant stalactites miu stialtes assm~tning all sorts of fan ,i-'m eom. Pnle overni-bt. INDUSTI-Y OF THE T H. iss s--I [urpan"e ,:y Year. Ev e of tihe In its annual review oi the iudustrial a progress of the South, the Idtimore' Manufacturers' ivcord says that 1886 y was the most remarkable year in manyC respects in the history of 'the iouthern States, and more accomplished for the prosperity and progress of the whole South than ever before in any year. This is shown in the enormous invest ments of capital in industrial enterprises and in the growth of contidence among0 Northern and European investors in the 0 stability of the Souti's ironi and other ' manufacturing interests. a The amount of capital, including the. eapital stock of incorporated companies, repres nted by new manufacturing and th mining enterprises organized or char- d< tered at the South during 186, includ ing the enlargement of old plants and the rebuilding of mills, aggregates S129, 226,000, c'36,S12,000 in 1885, divided . among States, as follows: 1 States 188. 15s. w Alabama ..... 19,S48,000 z 7,41,0010 W( Arkansas. 1.524,000 1,220,000 co Florida... . . 59, 000 2,09,010 ea Georgia. . , . 9.000 2,0A0,001 or Kentucky ... . 2t8,404,000 11;.:30:,200 Louisiana . ... 2,240,000 :, ,00 br Maryland. .,765,000 6.013,$00 fr< Mississippi . . 774,000 761500 bl N. Carolina. :307,0,00 :12,000 fu S. Carolina. . . 1,208,000 .5 ,'000 TI Tennessee.. . 21,240,000 2,692,000 by Texas ........ 5,694,000 :%3.2,000 un Vir '. .. ... 8,514,000 ::',314,0"0 W irginia.. 8,365,000 12,056,000 mi Total.... $129,226,000 $66,812,000 MI The development of iron manufactures j lo employs the bulk of this new capital. fai Other interests as well as iron, however, are being rapidly developed. Included in the list of new enterprises organized in the South during 1886 were: 2S iron furnaces, .50 ice factories, 68 foundries and machine shops, many of them of T large size; 1 Bessemer steel rail mill, 2 miscellaneous iron works, including iron a pipe works, bridge and bolt works, etc.;, 6 stove foundries, 24 gas works, 34 ec- at tric light companies, 11 agricultural im plement factories, 174 mining and quar no rying enterprises, 16 carriage and wagon lea factories, 9 cotton mills, 23 furniture th< factories, 42 water-works, 58 tobacco s factories, 92 flour mills, 448 lumber ! mills, (not counting small portable saw I mills,) including saw and planing mills, in sash and door factories, stave, handle, shingle, hub and spoke, shuttle-block thi factories, etc.: in addition to which there fo was a large number of miscellaneous en- be terprises. One of the most gratifying features of the South's industrial progress, says the Manufacturers' Re-no cor<, is a wide diversity of new indus tries that are developing all through that m section. A BE';UILINi PROSPEITY. the (From the News and Courier. fir It is exceedingly gratifying, of course, ho to read the statement made by the Balti- agi more Manufacturers' Record in evidence 'T of the wonderful development of mann- elg facturing in the Soutn during the past'my year. The total increase of investments yo' m all kinds of enterprises in the South ern States during 1886 is shown to be toc nearly $63,000,000, and it is claimed with truth, upon the basis of these str figures, that the year which is now closing has been the most remarkable in str many respocts in the history of the 1; South. aw It will not escape attention, however, go: that the development of iron muanufac- to. tures is creditedl with the employment mc of the bulk of the new capital, about 36,000,000 of the total increased invest- oul mnt being divided among the three ab< States of Virginia, Tennessee aad Ala- tio bama, while a decided falling off is air shown in the States of West Virginia noi and Florida. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis- Lo sissippi and North Carolina barely hold ate their own. There is much ground for I e gatification in view of the development an of the iron industry in the States where eff it has taken such a hold, but it would beha far, far better for the South if the devel- Wil opment were more general and more:m equally distributed. The impetus given bu to the iron busineas, it is conceded, p comes from without. and the profitr> Isu< from that business will largely go out of the South. While a good deal of moneyw has doubtless been made by Alabamians An and Tennesseeans, for instance, in dis- ti posing of their lands, the bulk of the t profits has gone to speculators 'who .wa bought up the lands in large blocks and Lc at nominal prices. The control of the' dn~ lands, moreover, has passed forever out sh< of the hands of the people who live on an< them, and the enterprises which have as been founded by small home capitalists h in the mineral districts are rapidly pass- Ie ing into the possession of outsiders, as oi has been reported in severaleconspicuous1 up instances, he' Another and certain result of the great luti rapidity with whi'eh the production of Ipe iron in the South irs inereasing is that for the production of The same metal in the ph North must be ehnapeiied enormously, W1 or else the South will eventually monop- wi olize the iron inat"strv. It is too much wh to expect that the iron manufacturers of Pennsylvania, for instance, will consent sel to have their business crip~pled in either tic way. It is pro'oable, therefore, that sta these will soon come forward and ask It for lower duties coal to enable them Iwi to compete suec'uliy with the South-' wi ern districts; (i5 vhen the demand is be ma-le, the J4 7ites and other Pro- en tectio JA ste no longer about sil sti 481 , o at the Alabama ter and j- ..-)alia. d iron mines and'th< iroa mnunay. Lahan they would ga hesitate now to aestroy the sugar in- far dustrv of Louisiana, if the votes of the in Louisiana Represen'ztives were not wlI courted by their sclhish allies. Idr< The very prosperit.y of the iron ini ler dustry at the South, 'i short, is fatal to inj its continuance. tune, it passes into the thi hands of Northern owners, and the new-! ly converted Protectionists in the South- w ern iron-producing States wili Iindl in let the end that they have sold out the true fa: interest of the South and of the country ett for a prize that will crumble in their e hands, or pass into the hands o f nou residents as soon as it become:, worth c the. taking. Michael Davitt has traveled ov.er ten au thousand& miles, delivered forty-eight la speeches, and been married, :dl in n; beiod of less than ten weeks. it eneral A-exanrte rt ie hn w attle of (ettysburt iin January CenI ry. In the January number of the Century 7e articles on the third day's tight at ettysburg, by General H. J. Rant and . P. Alexander. From the latter's ac >unt of Pickett's charge we quote as ilows: "At exactly one o'clock by my atch the two signal guns were heard in lick succession. In another minute ery gun was at work. The enemy was >t slow in coming back at us, and the and roar of nearly the whole artillery both armies burst in on the silence most as suddenly as the full notes of L organ could fill a church. The artillery of Ewell's corps, how er, took only a small part, I believe, this, as they were too far away around e town. Some of them might have mne good service from positions be een Ill and Ewell, enfilading the tteries fighIng us. The opportunity do that was the single advantage in r having the exterior line to compen te for its disadvantages. But our line s so far extended that all of it was not J1 studied, and the officers of each rps had io opportunity to examine h <itr's ground for chances of co eratlive work. "Th- eemy's position seemed to have ken out with guns everywhere, and m lound Top to Cemetery Hill was izing like a volcano. The air seemed 1 of mis.siles from every direction. e severity of the fire may be illustrated the ualties in my own batallion der Aiajor Huger. "Before the cannonade opened I had te up my mind to give Pickett the ler to advance within fifteen or twenty nutes after it began. But when I )ked at the full development of the my's batteries, and knew that his in itry was generally protected from our I bv stone walis and swells of the mnil. I could not bring myself to give Sword. It seemed madness to launch antry into that fire, with neaily three arters of a mile to go in the midday ly sun. I let the fifteen minutes pass, f twenty, and twenty-five, hoping nly for something to turn up. Then rote to Pickett: "If you are coming all you must come at ouce, or I can 1 give you proper support; but the amy's fire has not slackened at all; at st eighteen guns are still firing from cemetery itself." Five minutes after Lding thai message, the enemy's fire Idenly began to slacken, and the guns the cemetary limbered up and vacated position. 'We Confederates often did such ngs as that to save our ammunition use against infantry, but I had never| ore seen the Federals withdraw theiri as simply to save them up for the antry tight. So I said, 'If lie does run fresh batteries in there in five' autes, this is our light.' I looked) ciously with my glaws, and the five autes passed without a sign of life on deserted position, still swept by our , and littered with dead men and cses and fragments of disabled carri Then I wrote Pickett, urgently: )r God's sale, come quick. The liteen guns are gone; come quick, or ammunition won't let me support i properly.' '1 afterwards heard from others what .k place with my first note to Pickett. 'Pickett took it to Longstreet. Long et read it, and said nothing. Pickett 1, 'General, shall I advance?' Long et, knowing it had to be, but unwill to give the word, turned his face y. Pickett saluted and said, 'I am ng to move forward, sir,' galloped off, his division and immediately put it in tion. 'Longstreet, leaving his staff, came alone to where I was. It w'as then >ut 1.40 p. m. I explained the situa a, feeling then more hopeful, but aid our artillery ammunition might ;hold out for all we would want. ngstreet said, 'Stop Pickett, inunedi ly, and rep>lenish your ammunition.' xplained a ~t it would take too long, the enemy would recover from the ~et our fire was then having, and we 1, moreover, very little to replenish .h. Longstreet said, 'I don't want to e this attack. I would stop it now t at General Lee ordered it and ex :ts it to go on. I don't see how it can :ceed.' - listened but did not dare offer a rd. The battle was lost if we stopped. inaunition was far too low to try any ng else, for we had been fighting -e drys. There was a chance, and it s not my part to interfere. While ngstreet was still speakmng, Pickett's ision swept out of the wood and >wed the full length of its gray ranks 1 shining bayonets, as grand a sight ever a man looked on. Joining it on left, Pettigrew stretched farther than ould see. General Dick Garnett, just Sof the sick ambulance, and buttoned in an old blue overcoat, riding at the Ld of his brigade, passed us and sa ed Longstreet. Garnett was a warm ~sonal friend, and we had not met be 'e for months. We had served on the ins together before the war. I rode :h him a short distance, and then we hed each other luck and a good-bye ich was our last. 'Then I rode down the line of guns, ecting such as Lad enough ammnuni n to follow Piekett's advance, and rting them as fast as possible. I get, hink, fifteen or eighteen in a little ile, and went on with them. Me-an ile, the infantry had no sooner de uched on the plain than all the amy's line, which had been nearly mt, broke out again with all its bat ies. 'The eighteen guns were back in cemetery, and a storm of shells be-! a bursting over and among our in trv. All of our guns, silent as tihe antry passedCt b.etweenl them, reopened en the lines had got a couple of huni a yards away, bat t he enemy'~s artil y let us aloue and tired only at the antry. No one could h-ave looked at ~t advanc. - without feeling proud of it. "But as our supiport1ig guns advanced pssed many a poor mangled vietim I in its trampled wake. A terrific in arndir as now opened upon Pick , adaconsiderable force of the e'my moved out to attack the right ui-'of his ine. We halted, unlimber .and openerd lire upon it. Pickett n never alt d, but opened rea .r:aiee. swarmed over the fenes d among ihe enem's guns, were swal ,ed up in suioke-aind that was the i of them. The co dmiet hardly seeme'dI melted away. and only disorgauit stragglers were coming back pursued b a moderate fire.. Just then Wilcox' brigade passed by us, moving to Pickett'. support. There was no longer anythinu to support, and with the keenest pity al the useless waste of life I saw them ad vance. The men, as they passed us, looked bewildered, as if they woudered what they were expected to do, or Why they were there. They were soon, how ever, halted and moved back. Story of a Georgia Towi. True but Terri ble. I was recently in a small Southern vil lage; the county was Auti-Prohibition, and of the four stores two were bar rooms, or whiskey shops. It was no common sight to see staggering men and crowds going and coming from these shops. On court days, for the county court house was there, many men instead of eating geod wholesome food for din ner, would go to the bar and drink thei dinner. Just think, a dinner of this vile burning poison; wero they fit men to judge their fellow men? a thousands times no. But while I sojourned at this place, I knew three bright promising lit tle boys. aged four, five and six. Then there were two others, little ones, seven months and two years, each having a nurse, young colored girls. One day at dinner we were at the hotel, the oldest boy said 3ama, "Mr. Barber-shop man, (the pronrietor of the barroom also cut hair) called us and gave us all some cider. Liz took Clyde and the baby too, and he made every onc drink even the little baby. The Mamna said, I will punish you and your brother for going. I strictly for ade it. The little boy said Liz, (the oldest nurse) said come on, your ma won't care for sweet cider, and 'Mrs. Max lets Mr. Walter go. Mr. and Mrs. Max were all present: and I'll not forget the look of horror these words bought to IMr. Max's face. He was a strict Presby terian minister, Walter, their one little lamb; he turned to his wife and said, Edna is this true; do ;ou let Walter go to this drink shop? She replied, he went there to get his hair cut, and brother Ralph said he was too young for any harm to come of it. He Faid, why don't 1,ou see even the baby is not too young. The man know- his part well. He begins with the tender young babe, bringing them up, cultivating a taste for it, bait ing them for his own aim. I am horrified that in this fair village there is such vile, black crime, and our beautiful boy, Oh! I shudder; I wished to say when he be came a man, Walter has never set foot in a dram shop, and now I cannot, little did I dream of this, so young. Why, I'd let his haii CTow long upon his shoul ders, and I'd punish him severely if he knew it was a whisky shop. Edna, I am surprised at you, his mother, nearest to him on earth; you who should be ever so wary and watchful of this evil. I am leeply stirred within me. Walter, never set foot in this man's shop again, and never taste or take any thing he offers you. If I hear of you doing so, I shall punish you severely. The other two mothers showed equal distress for their boys. The mother of the babe especially, to think, as the good minister said, he was bringing up even the babbes to love is drink. Her father drank away reason and life, under this same man's inifluence, ind her only brother on the verge of nanhood; dh! she trembles to thin!z what will be his fate. Is this fitful gaiety, his bright bloom upon his young face, he bloom and gaiety of youth? She rembles and prays God it may be, and aot the fatal poisoning bloom and gaiety >f strong drink. Edna, God watch and piide your fair boy. And the widowed nother of the other two, the two oldest, nay she never experience the deep sor ow of seeing her boys intemperate. Ohi! ilage, Oh! county, banish alcohol from rour land, from your people, and you anish these fearful crimes that are now acing you with deep distress, then o ill see progress and prosperity, where; iow is dilapidation and non-progressive ess. Whisky is your curse; tremble ~or your children, tremble for their uture. Do you recognize this true pic are? It is as it really occurred!-Georgia ['emperance Advocate. Waste in the Kiitche.-, Waste in the kitchen is very often greatI ~rom apparently trivial sources. i cooking meats, the water is thrown ut without removing the grease, or the grease from the dripping p'an is thrown away. Scraps of meat are thrown away. Cold potatoes are left to sour and spoil. Dry fruits are not looked after and be ome wormy. Vinegar and sauce arceleft standing in it. Apples are left to decay for want of sorting over." The tea canister is left open. Victuals are left exposed to be eaten by: mee. Bones of meat and the carcass of tue Key arc thrown away, when they could >e used in making good soups. Sugar, tea, coffee and rice are care essly spilled in the handling. Soap is left to dissolve and waste in he water. Dish towels are used for dish cloths. Napkins are used for dish towels. Towels are used for holders. Brooms and mops are not hung up. More coal is burned than necessary by ot arranging dampers when not using, he fire. Lights are left burning when not ussd. Tin dishes are not properly cleansed tnd dried. Good new brooms are used in scrub-* iing the kitchen floors. Silver spoons are used in scraping ettles. Cream is left to mold and sp~oil. Mustard is left to spoil in the cru:-:c :tc. Vinegar is allowed to staud until the in vessel becomes corroded and spoied. Pickles become sp Jed by the leaking mt or evaporation of the vinegar-. Pork spoils for want of salt, and b e ,ecause the brine wants scalding. Hams become tainted or filled with~ ermin for want of care. Cheese molds and is cateni by mice or Tea and cofTee pjot: are injured on the tove. WXoodenware is unseaided and left t arp and cick. All apJpree.ious iouchling th- safet 1 stoves usn gaLsoline for fuel are set a? resrt by the.. imorovemenits observable nt the Fro.nt Vapur moe. For fim-ther to see a man who drinks .perform an act that other men could appaud, unless he commits suicide. THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS. What the State of South Carolina Hui Done for their Support. South Carolina furnished more soldiers to the armies of the late Confederacy, in proportion to her white population, than any State in the Confederation of seced ing States, which is, however, only natural, considering the fact that seces sion had its birth in her borders. She has also done less toward relieving:her maimed and wounded soldiers than any Southern State. This is, perhaps, owing to the fact that the State was longer un der the control of the carpet-bag regime than other States and that she was prob ably the worst-plundered State in the South under that plundering regime. Soon after war, when the first Legisla ture met under Governor Orr, and be fore the enfranchisement of the blacks, an Act was passed providing for the fur nishing of artificial limbs for those of her soldiers who had lost a leg or an arm in the service. Under this Act dis abled soldiers received from $100 to $200 each, the necessary funds being appropriated annually. It is to the credit of the carpet-bag Government that this appropriation, about $10,000 annually, was never withheld. When the Government reverted to the whites by the revolution of 1876 an at tempt was made to provide pensions for the disabled Eoldiers, but the State was too poor, and the one-armed and one legged Confederate soldiers in the Leg islature were always the most strenuous in opposing the measure. Every year since 1876 half-dozen or more Acts have been passed appropriating specific sums ranging from $25 to $200 to maimed or disabled Confederate soldiers, each Act being, however, a specific appropriation for an individual named. No general pension Act has ever been passed. At the recent session, which closed on De cember 24, an Act was passed enlarging the provisions of what is known as the Artificial Limb Act, and extending its benefits to persons who have resided in the State for ten years, whether they were natives or not. This is about all that has ever be en done for the maimed soldiers of the State. THE HAND OF GOD. A 3laphemer Curses His Creator and is Stricken with Paralysis. DoarGLAS, GA., January 4.-"I hope that God may paralyze me" were the words spoken by Wiliam Burkett. At once his hands dropped to his side, his legs refused to move and his eyes rolled wildly around. His prayer was answered as he stood parlyzed on the spot where but a few minutes before he was a mag nificent type of physical manhood. He tried to speak, but his tongue would not. move. Half a dozen men, who were' present, were rendered motionless by the evident visitation of the hand of God. When they recovered self-pos session they tenderly moved the afficted man to his residence, a half mile dis tant. When Miss Rhody Burkett saw the plight in which her father was brought home she screamed and fainted, and died a few days later. For years Mr. Burkett had been the ferryman at the Hawkinsville road crosa ing of the Ocmulgee River. He was of giant physique, with long gray locks, d became especially noted because of the brace of revolvers which he kept strapped to his waist. He was a great hunter, and the ferry being in the midst of a swamp, he was convenient to m abundance of game. From those who lived around him it is learned that he was fearfully profane. Whenever he sighted game and was called off from it by an alarm from the ferry he would pour out such a volle of oaths as would nake the flesh of ordiar .men crawl. Lt was while in one of teeprofane spells that he cursed his Creator, and wound up with the expression above luoted. The news soon spread through the :ountry, and scores of people cal to see the victim. He was at first com pletely prostrated, but subsequently was mabled to take a few steps, when he would fall. When spoken to he replies a an inarticulate mumble, and acts in ~he most idiotic manner. The physicians ~an ascribe no natural cause for his ifiction, but admit that it is a visitation f God. The preachers in the neigh borhood have used the incident in their sermons with great effect. A Fearful Railroadi Accident, A dreadful accident occarred near Ui~in, Ohio, at four o'clock on Tuesday morning. The fast train on the 2Balti nore and Ohio Railroad, which lest Slew York about 9 o'clock Monday for lhicago, with five coaches and four sleepers, all well tilled with passengers, :ollided with an eastern bound freight :ain. The fast train was about fifty minutes ate and was running at the rate of sixty niles an hour. Passing Republic, a small station, like a flash, it rushed along ;o a curve one mile west of that town, when suddenly the engineer saw the Ereight train under full headway within >ne hundred yards of him. He at once tpplied the brakes and reversed the en ;ine, but it did no good, and the next .nstant the crash came, telescoping the oaches and piling them up on each >ther. To add consternation to the lorrible scene fire broke out in the imoking car and soon spread to the other mars. Many were killed outright, while >thers, wedged in among the broken :ars, were slowly consumed by the tames. The aomident was due to a nmisunder ,taruding of train orders. Another state aient is that the engineer of the freight rain was drunk. 'The whole number of assengers was 65. The number of killed vas 20, with many wounded. Thomas Stevens. who is making a tour >f the world on a nicycle, and who a few lays ago was supposed to be lost some There in China. Las been heard from at Flong Kong. Hie reports some pretty s~ugh experiences, and expects soon to. e in San Francisco. One of the finest and biggest nuggets df gold ever found in California is on ixhibition in San Francisco. .It is as arge as an ordinary derby hat and weighs thirty-live pounds troy. It is y'orth $20 an ounce and i : anust pure cold. ic;:(:loNS ON TIMIPERANCE. UvT.v lner.t.. 31. W1., of the The growth of our order and the notice taken of I by the press of the land has awakened ta interest in the labor move ient aniong men who have never given the question of organizatioi a thought. Thousands of men are knocking for ad mittance; they are actuated by all sorts of motives. Among the number who would like to become members, I find quite:: few liquor dealers, and I am written to every day to know "if cannot be admitted; it is true lie is en gaged in the liquor traffic, or his wife sells liquor, or he is in some way con nected with the pm interests, but we know he would maze a good member" The decisions of the General Master Workman are now published in book orm. Turn to the pages of that book and you will see decision after decision on the eligibility of those connected with the saloon business. One of my correspondants asks why I reversed the decision of my predecessor; the decision reads as follows: '22. Men of go od report, respectable and honorable keepers of roadside inns, for the bona fide entertainment of trav elers and their animals, with bed and board for the same, connected with the real interests of the locality in which they live, do not come under the classi fication of saloon keeper and liquor dealer, and may be admitted to member ship under the "law of the ballot." It is true that my decisions are in con flict with the above, but it was through no disrespect to Brother Stephens that I made them. They are as follows: "67. An agent for any liquor estab lishment (be that establishment whole sale or retail, or be he the agent, manu facture or dealer) is not eligible to mem bership." "85. No person can be a member of the Order whose wife sells liquor. He must either get a divorce from his wife or from this organization. The latter can be granted in the shape of an hon orable withdrawal card." "86. Rumsellers CAS NOT be admitted to membership, and an member engaged in the business of rumselling, directly or indirectly, whether by barrel, gallon, quart, pint, or gill, who sells either by himself in person or in proxy, must ap ply for and be granted a withdrawal card; and if he neglects to make appli cation therefor, at once the Re-ording Secretary of the Local Assembly shall notify him of his neglect, and at the next meeting a withdrawal card shall be issued to the brother." "97. If during the interval between the election and initiation of a candidate he engages in the liquor traffic, either for his own purpose or of another, he is disqualitied, and cannot be covered with our shield." "211. The manufacturer of beer (that is, the proprietor or owner of the brewery) is not eligible to membership. 1 The men employed in the brewery are eligible to membership. If you turn to pages 2S.5, Proceedings of General As sembly of 1886, you will get an idea of why 1 oppose the admission of those en gaged in the liquor traffic. Our Order cannot be beneficial to the liquor dealer and the laborer." If the reader will examine No. care fully he will see that if allowed to stand as law it would open the door to every rumseller in the land. The man who keeps a saloon on Broadway, New York, is the "keeper of a roadside inn," and up to the present time no one has heard a man engaged in the liquor business ad mit that he was not "respectable and honorable." Even with the law as it now standsI am pestercd every day with inquiries and appeals from Assemblies here and~ there to give a decision on the advisia-f bility of admitting some one who has anj interest in a liquor establishment. All' sorts of excuses in order to open the doors of the K~nights of Labor to the dealer in spirits. To-day I find the fol lowing on my desk: "Mr -is a good-natured, liberal man, and very favorable to us. One of our members, while in his place spoke rather unreservedly of the affairs of the Order. Mr --has gained a knowledge of our secrets. We are of the opinion that a dispensation from you to allow us to initiate Mr. ---would settle the difficulty." This is my answer to that request. I will never grant a dispensation to any man engaged in a calling likely to bring discredit to the Order. In frequenting this man's place a meniber loseshiis wits. If he gets into the Order he will be in a position to do more injury. I do not car'e how good-natured he may b~e, that belongs to his trade. The spider would be considered good-natured by the per son who saw hum invite the fly into his parlor, but if Mr. Fly could get out of the parlor his testiniony would convict the spider of being "good-natured" for ai purpose. This man may be liberal, but if other men were not idiots he could not be so very liberal on the money they stole from his wife and child to give to hum. Ho may be liberal, but you cannot anbrd to be, because you have given to the saloon keeper your earnings. I am asked if a young man working~ for himself, over twenty-one years of age, may become a member if his father sells drink. I have no ebjections to such a person, but if his presence in the Asebyis likely to lead one person inohsfather's "parlor" who would not otherwise go there, then i am opposed to his coming mn. I It regret to note the narrow interpre tation given to my rulings. I t is not the saloon keeper I object to. it is the influence of rin; anid if I know that th admission of any war. or womain will lead men into saloons, I am of op inion that his place is outside. My decisions were aU made with a view to prot-eig the Order and the cause of 12x.>r. Not only dto I Oopse the~ P-:.n who sells, but 'ithm u~ ho dri' s as w ell. I have no uefra 'm"n when he is drunk, and. ii any one can point OUt to me at heroic .!e~ed, a mauly1. *'ct, a noble achievemeut. perfor1med by' a dirunkeni man. I will gladly1" ap)ologiz for 'lU the hard thinigs i ae sa i of the artnkard. I hae dL od at the moot of the gailows andim hiave s'een the dr'op fall from be' neath the feet of men who were nmv equails in all things~ but one-they' drnk to get drunk, anti while drunk they comn nitted zmurder. Ii have seen murders., theIte. Leglaries', all crimes co~mmitted