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KBenPRICE $1.50 A YEAR ESALSE N1865. NEBRY .C,THURSDAY, OCTOBER2,18._______ .IOVUS!ALISHi AND OI'FICE. Henry Watterson Tells Why He Would not be United states senator. From the LCuiscille Sunday Argus. Sin: I am not insensible to the confidence and honor implied by the suggestion of my name for the Unit ed States Senator, and, if I have fail. ed to respond to your nomination, it has been because of a belief that my opinions respecting holding office are so well known as to require no par. ticular repetition. It was not until my return to Kentucky, after a pro. tracted absence, that I learned of your continuous and most flattering urgency, and, Pince -our remarks call for an answer, it w3uid be uncourt eous to withhold, I wili say again. what I have often said in public and private, that there is no position within the gift of the government or the people the acceptance of which I would even consider. I had this question to decide when some years ago it presented itself more tangibly-if you will allow me to differ from you in thinking-than it does now, and deciding it in the negative, I decided it for all time. The examples of two eminent members of our profession, whose contentions in the field of practical politics embittered their lives and dwarfed their usefulness, and tar nished their fame, and the tragic fate which each in his death encountered made an early and deep impression upon my mind. When I accepted a seat in the national House of Rtepre sentatives it.was accompanied by the statement/that-the holding of office had entered into no plan or scheme of~mine, and was coupled with the refusal to serve longer than the spe cial purpose and occasion, which, at a monent of extraordinary public danger, called me into the people's branch of Congress. My experience ihere was a verification of my pre conceptions and predilections. For all the good I was able to do I might as well have stayed at home. I think, with Phillip Van Arte velde, t4at Men in their places are the men who stand. I am, and have been all my life, a journalist, and a working joure ist -equal to the duties which yield me a sufficiency, happy in my associates, and proud of my calling. I set it neither above nor below that of other men. It is simply, like the choice of the swain in the immortal pastoral, -mine own." As such, for good or ill, I shall abide by it to the end. But I will give it, through you, the tribute that may be found in the con fession that I never knew what pure selfishness means and squalid de pendence is until I found myself an atom of that class in which, more than in any other on earth, it is ev ery man for himself and devil take t-h~e hindmost. I thank you sir, for your great good will, and for the phrases of comn lliment in which you have couched it. I am exceedingly susceptible to such expressions from my profes sional comrades. They seduce me in this instance to a garrulity dispro portioned to the subject; because I am of tl.'e opinion that the Democrats of Kentucky have already deter. mined that anothe' than myself shall - represent them in the National Sen ate, and, in my judgment, they have * determined very wisely, and and al together for the best. I am, dear sir, your obliged fellow 'eitizen and f,.low worker, HENRY WATTERSON. Courier Journal Office, Oct. 1; '87. Progress of the Three C's. .Sp,cial to the Ncas and Courier. .CAMDEN, Octoher 12.-Col. R. A. Johnson reached here last night and .will leave for Charleston, so as to at tend the annual meeting of the Cbar leston, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail road Company at that place tomor row. H e met the county commission ers and with their attorney have taken a trip) up the line as far as Hanging Rock, twenty-one miles above here. Trhey will return this afternoon. The rfirst ten miles of the roadbed north ward- has been completed, and part of it is laid with rails and ties. Six miles of the next ten miles of road bed are ready, and the remaining tour miles ~will be completed in a short time. Col. Johnson asks that $100,000 of bonds be executed and placed in the hands of the Deposit Company sub ject to the order of the county dom mnissioners, and that an order be giv en (the first ten miles has been work ed according to the contract) at once for 50,000 to be delivered to the comouanv. He also asks that an or der be given in a few weeks for the other $50,000, when the other ten miles will have been finished. This is fair enough and will probably be accepted by the commissioners. Col. Johnson says that the subject of a direct line to Charleston is being discussed, that is whether it would be best to run a line straight to Charles ton from Camden, or to Sumter and then to Charleston. This matter is still un:der consideration, no decision iiaving been arrived at. By the beginning of the next sea son the Three C's Road will compete for the travel to Asheville and other resorts in Western North Carolina. as the road will then be ruuning to Marion, N. C., and arrangements have already been made for -running the Three C's cars, both passenger and freight, on the Western North Carolina track by January 1. Fer tilizers from Charleston will be haul ed by this road to Lancaster, Rock Hill and Yorkville. The cars will be ran to Lancaster in a very n>r while. This will carry a large amount of new trade to Charleston, besides giving' a more direct route to passengers for points North and Northwest. When asked whether shops would be built at Camden, Col. Johnson re plied that he coulH not give away the plans now, but that be would say that all promises made would be car ried out to the letter. The following is a copy of the telegram upon which Camden bases her hopes for the shops. It was received last year a few days before the election alluded to: "BosToN, MASS., March 2Q.-To Col. Thomas E. Mattson, Chief En gineer C. C., and C. R. R, Camden, S. C.: You can state for the compa. ny that if vote is carried we shall make Camd( n a junction and put our shops there. Strong efforts to induce us to go direct from Lancaster line to Sumter. Guarantees offered. Our charter permits us to go any where. -R. A. JOHNSON." The owner of the track-laying ma chine is daily expected to put it in working order for Taylor and El more, who have not the time to fix it up so that it will work. There is no doubt about its having worked suc cessfully. ANNUAL MEETING OF STOCKHOLD ERS AT CHARLESTON. News and Courier, 14th. A meeting of the shareholders of the Three C's Railroad was held at noon yesterday at the Charleston Hotel. Col. Frank Coxe, of Phila delphia,, presided, and Mr. R. A. Johnson, of Boston, general mana ger of the Massachusetts and South ern Construction Company, was re quested to act as secretary in the ab sence of. Mr. H. K. Baker. The shares represented either in person or by proxy numbered 13,035, the number of shares of record being 21, 414. The object of the meeting was to hold the annual election of directors and a president according to the by law which prescribes that such meet ings shall be held annually on the second Thursday in October. The number of directors being fixed at thirteen for the ensuing year, an election for the same was held and the following gentlemen were chosen: Frank Coxe, Philadelphia, Pa.; Richard Dozier, ieorgetown, S. C.; M. C. Butler, Edgefield, S. C.; Jas. D. Blanding, Sumter, S. C.; Henry K. Baker, Springfield, Mass.; J. T. Wilder, Chattanooga, Ten.; P. P. Dickinson, New York city; Peter J. Sinclair, Marion, N. C.; H. D. Lee. Shelby, N. C.; W. L. Roddey, Rock Hill, S. C.; Damon N. Coats. New York city; E. S. Brewer, .Hartford, Conn.; Wm. F. Callender, Spring field, Mass. The foregoing directors are all re elected officers. . The directors subsequently met and elected Col. Frank Coxe presi dent for the next year. * Mr. Johnson was seen yesterday, after the adjournment of the meeting, and said that his mission here is to get the people of Charleston in terested enough in the enterprise to co-operate with the company in the building of an independent line of railway from the Ohio Valley to Charleston. By an "independent" line he meant, he said, one that will not depend for its connections with this city on either the South Carolina Railway or the Atlantic Coast -Line. Propositions. he said, had been made to his company looking to the use by his road of the Camden branch of the South Carolina. Railway, or the Sumter-Lane's section of the Atlantic Coast Line to reach- Charleston. It was, however,he said,the policy of the road at this time to come to Charles ton on its own merits, though the line would run from Camden to Sum ter, and thence independently to Charleston. Mr. Johnson said that of the forty miles of the road between Camden and Lancaster seven miles have been laid with rails and that the remain ing thirty-three- miles had been laid with crossties and were being com pleted at the rate of about one mile per day. From Lancaster the grad ing was finished to the Catawba Riv er and by the time the track readhes the river the bridge over the Catawba will have been built From the Ca tawba River the road had been grad ed through Rock Hill to Yorkville with the exception of about t wo miles within and around the town of York ville. The Elyton Land Company. No story in the history of modern progress presents more charming features and Alladinlike incident3 than that relating to the Elyton Land company. Its history has become universal and forms probably the greatest factor in the new era that has dawned upon the South since the war. While others are doing much for Birmingham, the Elyton compa ny are still progressing, and have authorized the placing of.$2,000,000 within a year in public enterprises, $1,.000,000 of which will build a huge rolling mill. TIhe entire history of their work in expending money on Birmingham reads like a romance. Starting with only $100,000 cash a few years ago, they have grown to enormous wealth, and are now worth not less than $15,000,000. How many millions they have paid out in dividends to their stockholders would be hard to estimate, but lucky indeed is that man who owns only a few shares in a corporation whose stock is now worth $4,000 a share, $109 being the par 'value of the shares. Their work has been always conserv ative, but eminently progressive, and the end is not yet. They are not by any means a monopoly, but their every movement has been marked by that broad liberality which has tend ed to build Birmingham into one of he fuaue grat cities of America. THE 1)ILLARI FORTU.E. V Rich Wirdfall that Seems to be Hard to Find. Special to the ?1ewes and Courier. AsiiEvILLE. N. C., October 12.~ t Quite an agreeable sensation was pro-! luced here some weeks ago by the ,nnouncement in the local papers ,hat the two children of our fellow ownsman, Geo. W. Dillard, had ieen left each a legacy amouuting in t ,he aggregate to over a million and half dollars. Mr. Dillard decided o remove his children from Laurens, >r Pickens, S. C., their present resi fence, to this city. ' As soon as this was determined ipon two wealthy and prominent ;entlemen of this city, after consulta ion with Mr. Dillard, filed-applica. ions for letters of guardianship. some incredulity existed in the minds >f many in regard to the legacies. But the attorney for one of the ap >licants stated that he had given the natter an investigation and that here was no doubt about $1,600,000 t )eing left to the two children by a ich uncle in California. Placerville was the town at which be was al eged to have lived and where he was eported to have died, and his name was James McCurry. The Daily Citizen is in receipt of t i letter from an attorney by the name >f W. A. Curtis, of Rabun County, 3eorgia, where McCurry's relatives 2ow live, stating that at the instance )f these relatives he investigated the natter, writing to the clerk of the ,ourt .at Placerville, El Dorado Jounty, California. He eifclosed to he editors of the Citizen a copy of ,he letter received in reply. The >urport of this letter is that the will )f no such man has been preserrted or probate; that ti e clerk has not seard of such person dying in his ounty, and that so far as he knows 20 party of that name lives there. The letter itself is not sent to the Citizens, but only a copy, as stated. 3o that the whole matter it seems, is fet involved in doubt. A special dispatch in regard to this 6IcCurry estate and the Dilliards has one out from Atlanta. purporting to 1 rive an accurate and full account of he Dillard windfall, and stating, imong other things, that Geo. W. 1 Dillard is an old planter in Rabun 1 Dounty and that two of his sons re ently passed through that city en oute to Placerville. Mr. Dillard is 2ot old, not a farmer, and does not ive.in -Rabun Cmnty. He has but >ne son, who is only 14 years old. The whole special, frequently repub lished in different Southern papers in ;he last week or so, reads like a ro nance and is almost totally wanting I .n truth in any of its statements. Curing Pea Vines. A correspondent of the Journal of Agriculture says: Several years ago [ noticed a South Carolinian stack .ng. vines around a pole in which 3oles had been mortised and bars ~un through projecting in every di ection; those near the ground long j nd shortening near the top of the3 >ole. My plan at the time was to C auild a rail pen about a foot high, I nake a floor on top of the rails (the ails in floor laid about a foot apart,) I ~hen build the pen eighteen inches I 2igher, fill pen with vines, lay on an- I yther floor, build pen eighteen inches igher, fill again with vines, and so I >n all the way up. The vines were >ut in perfectly green and cured upt 2icely, but it was too much trouble t ~o feed. These two modes suggestedC ,wo poles instead of one with bars ighteen inches apart, with bottom I mars ten feet long, projecting five feetC sach side of pole; next bars eight I mnd one-half feet long; third bars seven feet; fourth, five and one-half ~eet; fifth bars four feet; sixth and ast bars two and one-half feet long. Set the two poles in the ground sot ,he bottom bars, or floor, will be bout one foot from the ground so bhat pigs can go under and get shat ~eredI peas and vines. Set the posts aine feet ap.art with bars parallel ~see that bars are same distance apart at each end) so a rail ten feet long will reach from the bar on one pole to the bar on the other. See that the poles are set perpendicular. Take a strip from top of one pole to top, oft the other to hold in place. Set short blocks under ends of bottonr bars to keep them from sagging and hold the stack in shape. Now lay a floor of1 rails, as in pens, on the bottom bars; pile on vines until .level with top of second bars; l'ay on another floor of rails, then more vines until third bars are reached; then another floor and more vines until the top is reached. Now capping must be done with straw. Vines will turn.,water, but] will drain it off if top or cap is, all right. The vines in each tier should hang down over the tier be)- I low. Rake the stack down with pitch fork as in other hay. Thue stack can be madle any length by setting simni [ar poles with bars at either end of the one up, one endl of the floor cani rest on the bars in first stack.' If lasting timber is used the same poles will last many years. We only wait: for vines to wilt after they are cut before stacking. Be certain to stack1 same day cut. D)ot't put in cocks1 pr leave in dew or sun. Vines thus cured wil>be as green: in March as when cut. The green pods will not shrivel or mould, but 1 will heal up the same as cut cof-n. If: properly done there will not be a par ticle of mildew, dust or waste. We put stack five feet from lot fence (fence is straight;) make rack by set. sing rails at an angle of forty-five de grees across the lot fence three feeti fomn the ground; let the fence come1 up two feet above where the rails1 coss to ndso of rails in lot; the ottom being deep enough in the Ti round to hold them firm. Shelter an be put over rack if desired. To Tb eed with pitchfork, commence by aking out bottom tier (floor can be emoved as the vines are fed;) then he next tier above, and so on to the op. In this way the stack furnishes Di ts own shelter until all is fed. . Pigs in, hould have access to the stack to mE :ather up shattered leaves (.r pods. ha ines should be cut just as first pods wc urn yellow (not ripe) If cut at this tul tage, and there is any season the en 'ines will sucker out and give a good ge oat to turn under in the fall. The ea ess vine (or more of a bunch pea) na he better; long vines bang on ev- tic rything, and are hard to handle. sit lunch peas sown thick in drills are at iest. ca - _ . - ral Attractions at the State Fair. pri -- Ar Special to the News and Courier. D! COLUMBIA, October 13.-At a fui neeting of the board of trade Fair ve ommittee this morning it was de lin ermined to engage two or three wi ands for Fair week, the intention plh oeing to have them play.every night no n Main street during the Fair. One rill be secured here, and the others se ither in Charleston. Charlotte or ar xreenville. The committee prefer ye o have the German Artillery Band f Charleston. W The contract for the fireworks dis olay, which will cost $500 and be 'ery fine, was received to day from )etwiller & Street, the well-known ne yrotechnists. It will be given on Ci Chursday night of Fair week. The c1 34 colored globes for the six gaslit re rches on Main street are being pro pr ured. thi The committee have secured over Ti 1,200 from citizens to defray the ric xpenses of providing these features. Pi' Che expenditures, as far as deter. in. nined on, will reach $1,100 or wi i,200. de 'Crashed in the Shafting. COLUMBIA, S. C., October 12.-A In :olored boy, twelve years old, met on rith a horrible death yesterday at tu] ChomasjAgnew's ginhouse, at Hop. co :ins station. The shafting of the Pr nachinery extends outside the build- on ng, and the boy had been for- some dr, ime accustomed to amuse himself pr y throwing a crocus bag over one lo nd, and hold it with one hand, and ha et it wind round, letting go at the Pr ast moment. He had been warned f the danger, but yesterday be re- M >eated, his band caught in the ma- re, hinery and in the twinkling of an lit ye his limbs were wound around m he shafting, clogging the machinery. gi n freeing him he had to be unwound pr ike a piece of string, and it was sP ound that both arms were broken, co me leg crushed and his whole body Pic nangied. lie died in a few minutes thi fter being released. be . __ . - we The Wallace House. l up Special to the News and Courier. CoLuMnrA, October 8.-The anna- hu .1 reunion of the Wallace House will sh ie held on Wednesday night of Fair is reek, in the large room of the agri- tre ultural building, which was used tin ast. winter as a Senate chamber. of Ir. John S. Verner, a member of the by tistoric House, will after the business neeting deliver an address on "The ph ise and progress. of South Carolina(n ince 1876." Judge Wallace is pre- of maring a history of the House over Pr rhich he presided, and it is probable all hat it will be read at the reunion. tai 'udge Wallace is the presiding offi- an er of the organization, Mr. John T- rei iloan is secretary, and State Treas- m< irer Bamberg is chairman of t.he of ommittee on arrangements for the toi eunion. M: Vrit of Habeas Corpus Granted In the T Virginia Cases. WAsIIINGTON, October 12.-Upon Er be re-assembling of the United ;tates Supreme Court to-day Cbief ustice Waite announced that the Jourt had decided to grant writs f habeas corpus in the cases of At; ean orney General Ayres and the two er 3ommonwealth's attorneys *of Vir- in ~inia, who are now in prison in Rich-.i nond for disregarding the order of y rudge Bond in the "Coupon crse"be itigation. The writs are made re- a urnable on Monday next. The ffect of this decision will be to bring t he case of the imprisoned State of- de icers to this Court for trial uponin beir merits without unnecesnary de ay.st * it Knoxville's Railroad Boorn. is KNOXvILLE, TENN., October 8._ ish ['en thousand people this afternoon 0o vitnessed the breaking of ground on ?owell's Valley Railroad. Speeches bu vere made by prominent citizens. ag i. daughter of Mayor Tuttrel broke hi he earth with a silver spade and V~ hovelled the dirt ?nto a silver. n~ nounted wheelbarrow. The new se oadl will extend from Knoxville to ro Jumberland Gap. where it will con- Cc iect with the Louisville and Nash. da rille Railroad and the Norfolk and M Yestern Railroad. The city of ar Knoxville subscribed two .undred of ud twenty five thousand dollars of d he stock of the new road, which is pr o0 be completed in twelves months. he ['he Powell's Valley Road will give r {noxville access to fine coking coal 1c0 It Cumk-erland Gap. Work will also >egin this month on the Knoxville tb southern Railroad. r _______tr' Mutually Productive. gr -- tit Binghamton Republican. g It has been learned that extremely an ight lacing produces softening of TI he brain. It has long been known pi hat softening of the brain produced he ixtrmeiy tig-ht lacing. te [E OLD FARMERS AT THE FAIR. e Railroads will Give Free Passes to Three from Each County. Special to News and Courier. COLCMBIA, October 14.-President ncan is pushing his plan for hav. , during the Fair, an experience eting of old planters, men who ve planted forty years and who uld like to discuss purely agricul 'al matters and compare the pres with the past. His plan is to three of these old planters from ,h county, and he wishes to get the rmes of applicants for transporta n on this account as soon as pos le. Col. Duncan may be addressed Union. It is essestial that appli its shall send their names and the lroad stations from which they >pose to start. General Passenger ;ent Taylor, of the Richmond and mnville system, has promised to -nish free passes to such of these erans as will leave points on his es, and the oficers of other roads 11 doubtless follow his good exam 1, adding by their assistance a vel feature to the Fair. Col. Duncan's first applicant is renty-six years old, has been stew. I in his church for forty-seven irs, has never been to Columbia. bat the President Saw on Hii Way to Memphis. tE31BIs, October 14.-The jour y of the President from Kansas y has been devoid of striking in lent and afforded much needed it. Members. of the party have served good health and all rose s morning in excellent spirits. e floral trophies of this forenoon's ,e are one little bunch of golden rod mned in a piece of pink-tinted paper icribed for the President and his re. It was handed to the Presi nt by a tow-headed miss of 13 at a ter tank stopping place. At half a dozen points this morn have been gatherings of froin e to three hundred people, whose nultuous greetings have been most irteously acknowledged by the esident and Mrs. Cleveland. At e point a company of lancers was Lwn. up in line with arms at ,sent, and at another where the :omotive was coaled the natives 1 an opportunity to shake the esident's hand. the line from Hoxie to West mphis lay in t typical Arkansas ion. There were half 'a - dozen ,le frontier villages, but for the st part groves of blasted forest Lnts, of living oaks, gums and cy. ss bounded the view. Inter rsed were openings for corn and ton fields, in the latter of which king operations were going on and re were casual saw mills and lum yards. The prevalent dwellings re of logs and boards, in front of ich blonde youngsters were drawn in line for review, and around. ich in default of flags and banners, og the family wash. Hogs of dowy p)roportions, armed with :redible snouts , glided between the es, and wild turkeys were some es scared up. Seventy five miles this region is subjected to overflow the Mississippi. rhe first sign of approach to Mem is was the appearnce on the train > one knew how 'they got there) handsome lithographs of the asident and Mrs. Cleveland, the egorical bordering of which con ned figures in the costumes of the :ient Eyyptian Memphis, with rep entations of the industries of its dern namesake. Later bouquets flowers, surrounded by snowy cot bolls, made their appeirance on s. Cleveland's table. [E FIRST LUTHERAN CHURCH. ected by Dr. Muhlenberg in 1743, ,d Standing To-day just as it was Finished TRAPPE, PA., October 5.-In this cient German village, in Montgom County, 154 years ago, the first agregation of the Lutheran Church America was organized. Nine are later the great apostle of that th, Dr. Henry Melchior Muhlen rg, came to Trappe from Germany, d began his historic work of ;ablishing the doctrines of the Lu. tran Church. Until his coming the nomination had no place of meet. i except a small log building a few les above this village, Hie built a mne church at.Trappe, completing in September, 1743. That church standing to day just as it was fin. jed 114 years agd. both inside and t. It is not used for church ser e, the Trappe Lutherans having ilt a large new church some years o, but is sacredly preserved for its itoric associations. The Pennsyl nia Synod of the Lutheran Church, w numbering fifty-five parishes and rentyeight churches, will to-mor & meet in Trrappe for their annual nfere which will last three ys. Onz October 6, 1787, Dr. ihlenberg died, and his ,remains Sburied in the ancient graveyard tihe old Trappe Church. On Fri y, the centennial of his death. in assive memorial services will be Id, in which many of the dignita s of the Lutheran Church in Amer .will participate. The old Trappe church is one of Squaintest and most interesting cs of the early days of this coun in existence. Its walls are moss awn and worn by the ravages of e, but are still firm and apparently od for another century. Its odd d angular architecture is striking. iere is no steeple, and its steep ~ching roofs are double. The avy arched vestibule door is fas ae by a pnderous lock, and the great key that unfastens it is yellow and eaten with rust. The interior of the church is exactly as it was on the first day services were held in it in 1743, except that the high, straight-backed pews show the marks of a hundred years of occupancy by generations of worshipers. The curious oaken pulpit, hanging high against the wall at one end of the room, and reached by a fight of stairs, is the same from which the I great pioneer theologian of the Lu theran faith in America delivered the eloquent disicourses. wbich are a part of the Church's literature to-day. Above the pulpit is the sounding. board that aided in carrying his words to devout hearers. A gallery ot hewn oak timber, with wrought iron braces and supports, extends around three sides of the room. Paint never touched the interior of this old sanctuary, and it was never heated in the coldest weather. Over the door of the church on the outside is a tablet, on which a Latin inscrip tion could once be read, but the rude letters have been so obliterated by time-that they can no longer be de ciphered. The inscription, it is said, was cut on the tablet by Dr. Muhlen. berg himself, and the church records have it recorded as having been as follows: Sub remigo Christi has sdes soci tati Angnstane Confess. Dedita dedicatus ex ipso fundamento ex truxit Henricus Melchior Muhlen berg uga cum sensoribus I. N. Cross mano, F. Marstellero, H. A. Heil mano, I. Mullero, H. Hasio, et G. Kebuero, A. D. MDCCXLIIL There are many old and time worn grave-stones in. the Trappe- church yard. Besides the remains of Father I Muhlenberg, those of his son, Gen. Peter Muhlenberg, an officer in the American army during the Revolu tion, are buried in the ancient grave. yard. Both graves, are marked with I simple slabs. The Cholera in New York Bay. WASHINGTON, October 14.-Sur. geon-General Hamilton to-day re- t ceived a telegram from Health Offi cer Smith, of New York, as follows e "Eight cases of cholera were taken from the Alesia on her arrival. Twen- I ty-six cases developed at the quar antine of observation, but none since the night of the 7th. Eight deaths ] from cholera have occurred at the' t hospital, and two from other causes. Watchmen guard the- quarantine.of j observation day and night." Keeping the Cholera from New York. NEW YORK, October 12.-Another death from cholera occurred at Swine- i burne Island to-day. It was that of f a child 18 months, who came from t Naples on the steamship Alesia, and < whose recovery was hoped for yes- I terday afternoon. Nine patients still remain on the island. President i Bayles, of the board of health, has called a meeting of the board for this afternoon to take step)s toward pre venting the landing of the Alesia's passengers on the mainland until the germs of the disease have been thor oughly destroyed. His Hearthstone 8till Warm There is a man livi'ng near Dan bury, N. C., who, forty-five years ago, married and determined that so long as he lived his hearthstone should never become cold. To this deter mination he has adhered with a per sistency amounting almost to super stition. He has never slept from home a single night, has never tasted food from any other board than his own and never, at any time, had a match on his premises. The fire-bas never been permitted to burn out in his fireplace, nor has he ever used a gill of kerosene oil, bought a pound of candles or anything else for the purpose of lighting his residence, which boasts of only two windows, or rather two holes cut in the body of the lo'gs of which his house is built, about 8 by 10 inches. The roof is of boards and has only been replaced three times during the forty five years. IIe has been three times mar ried and is the father of fourteen children, all of whom are living and all married but three. He has great. grandchildren. IIe is still in vig orous health.. Fooled by' an Acrostic-31aker. *CmIcAo, October 5.-A practical joke in the nature of an acrostic was perpetratedi upon the Daily .News, when that enterprising paper pub lished this morning, in its special edition devoted to glorifying the President, the following poem enti tIed, '-In Illinois :" Here ini this land of promise, Under the glorious sky, . Reaching awide o'er shore and tide Ruler and bride, do) thou abide; And heart of the West, beat high. Forgetting the dismal ranco Of years that should be dead. Railly we all f rom cot and hall, Blessing our Nation's head. Long life thou, 0 Ruler, And to your gentle wife ; In prosperous ways God guide your days Nor count them past till you at last E ojoy the endless life. The first letters of the lines, read downward, make, "Hurra for Blaine." 31arriage of Editor Todd. Special to the R?egister. ANDERsoN, October 14.-Major A. S. Todd, the handsome and talented editor of the Anderson Journajl, was married yesterday afternoon at 4 o'clock to Miss Ellen Archer, Rev. D. E. Frierson, D. D., ifliciating. Thbe happy couple have gone to At lanta to see the Pied mont Exposition and shake hands with President and Mrs C'l emand. INSULTING MRS. CLEVELAND. !t Scandelous Article In a Minneapolis Paper-Indignant Citizens Burn the Editor In EfRgy. MINNEAPOLIS, MINN., October 13. -The excitement occasioned by the ippearance in the Minneapolis Trib ie, on the morning after President Dleveland's visit, of an .editorial don aining severe strictures on the Ad ninistration, and the manner of con lucting what the Tribune called the 'tour for votes," culminated to night hen A. J. Blethen, proprieter of the Tribune. was burned in effigy by a rowd of indignant citizens. The exceptions taken to the edito -isl were based principally on the anguage used with reference to Mrs. 31eveland and which was as follows: "And it is, exernely hard to re ipect either member of this fanly iow touring for votes. Mrs. Cleve and is a handsome, mature woman, pparently several years older than the is said to be-at least she was )Id enough to have exercised her wn free choice in marrying Grover 31eveland. It is inconceivable that she should have married himrexcept o obtain the position of mistress of ,he White House. Such a marriage would never have been thought of )ut for the astonishing political acci lents which in the course of two or bree years brought Mr. -Cleveland >t of the obscurity which is his proper element, to the highest post tion in the nation. It is hard to iave .respect for a woman who would, iell- herself to so.gross and reputsive man as Grover Cleveland, and one with a private record so malodorous, or the bauble of a brief social ascend ncy. She is now au object of curi. )sity and remark for gaping crowds, Lnd her photographs .sold .almost, if iot quite, as freely as Mrs. Lang ry's. Such is her reward. If she :an secure re-election for Grover,- she will have four years more of gratifi tation which the highest social prou nence gives and of the delight:of mflagging newspaper notoriety.. -Af er that she will simply have to ptap rith being the wife of as insignificant ad obscure a man as an Ex-Presi Lent could possibly be. .One cannot ielp s pang of sympathy for her, but he has chosen her lot deliberately." The effigy burners 'were led by dayor A. A. Ames. After burning he effigy the crowd proceeded to the rribune.building and made -farther Lemostratioas, bat was '4ially dis. iersed by the 'police. Blethen regards the affair as:a joke n Mayor Ames and.the crowd, as mportant business kept him away rom the Tribune office -on Tuesday ight, and he knew nothing whatever f the article till it appeared on Wed esday morning. 'BE TUITION FEE IN THE STATE COLLEGE. t Reduees the Nanmber of Students at the Opening of the anstitution. Special toike News and Courier CoLMBIA, October 18.--In pur ance of the annual custom of this fice, the earliest opportunity is aken of furnishing to the public the tatistics of the opening week of the jollege. The figures have peculiar nterest at this time, inasmuch as the )ollege now charges a tuition fee of ~4 a year, has greatly raised its tandard of admission and has abol shed its sub-collegiate classes. The Leclaration in this correspondence, in the 6th instant, that there,were bout 140 students on the grounds nd that the tuition feature would robably not cost the College more han 25 or 30 students, is fully cor oborated by the following carefully repared statistics: fumber of matriculates October 13...140 )ld students on the grounds comn peting their matriculation.......3 )Id students who have written that they will certainly return iithin the next few days.........5 applicants now on the grounds.......4 Lpplicants to report, this week...2 fumber confidently expected by Oct. 13..........................5 f'umber of applicants rejected to date.................-........--9 kverage number matriculated to October 16 for five preceed ing years...,......................164 Letters received from students ud from applicants indicate that e enrolment for the session will ~each at least 175. The average otal enrolment for the five preced g years has been 195. Of the 140 natriculates to date, 94 are old and 6 are new students. Twenty old and ten new students ave asked for the remission of their uition fees under the tei:ms of the ct passed by the Legislature at its ast session. There are 16 law and 124 academic students, and the number taking the grcultural and mechanical courses will be as large as before. In the ~gricultural department there are bree candidates for degrees in the oll four years' course, which is more han ever before, and there are also bree candidates for the degree of ~ivil engineer, on the full fouir-years' ourse, which is likewise an increase. D course, the candidates for certi cates who. take the shorter courses n these two departments are more su merous. The examinations have been more igid than for any previous year. and *t is probable that a majority of the ine applicants rejected would have een admitted under the less severe 3xaminations of last year. Presi lent McBryde says that the material >f the students is decidedly the best which has been offered since the re >rganization, and he considers the :ondition of the College most en :ouraging. He had not expected an mnalnr1oment of more than 150 under the new conditions, while it is' now evident that it will reach 175. The number of students at present enrotled-from the~ several counties. and States is as follows: Abbeville 0, Aiken 5, Barnwell 2, Berkeley 3, Charleston 6, Chester 3, Chesterfield 5, Clarendon 2, Colleton 3, Dar lington 9, Edgefield 4, Fairfield 8, * Georgetown 1. 4, reenville 4, Hamp ton 3, Kershaw 2, Lancaster 2, Lan- 2 rena 2, Marlboro' 1, Marion 3, New" d berry 2, Orangeburg 8, Richland 29,~ Spartanburg 5, Sumter 9, Union 4, York- 1, Massachusetts 2, Florida 1,. Virginia 1. - A NOTED ROBBE.L Liberated from the Tennessee Peni- - tentiary After Years of Confine ment. CHATTANOOGA, Tenn., October 11. -E. H. Johnson, of Chicago, better known as the- express robber -of Memphis, was set at liberty to-day. - In 1875 he was arrested at Memphis for. an express robbery, and sen- - tenced to twenty-one years in the penitentiary. He is a very intelli. gent man, and during 1884 is said to" have framed a bill while serving-his term that has resulted in his liberty. The bill, which became a law, short- -- ened. the .good time allowed prison- . ers. His sentence had already been commuted to sixteen years for ser 'vices- at a fire In the penitentiary. When the good time law went into effect he petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus. on the ground that - his term had expired, and Judge - Frank Reid, of Nashville, released him. He was at liberty eighteen months, during -which the- supreme court reversed the decision of Judge.' Reid, an&Johnson was sent back to the mines at Inman. A. month ago -ie petitioned for a writ of habeas corpus on the ground that the peni tentiary lessee gave him his freedom for eighteen months, and that time abgald count as a part of his term, _ which, if included, would finish his "tm under the old good-time law. To.day'Jtidge Terwhitt, of the circuit court, tendered a' decision to that ef$Zct, setting- Johnson free. The penitentiary issees immediately ap pealed the case to the supreme. court and Johnson was released on $2,000.~ Although a convict for thirteen years, -b#as twieraugt the penitentiary }esseg as representatives of the-State into the .upreme ort::sdefend antL New Text Books for the Public Schools. The State Superintendent of Ed- - ucation, under the date- of October 4th,; has issued to the school officers of the State for their information a - circular. of which a portion is given . ; below, being the resolutions adopted _ by the State Board of Examiners,, the former at a meeting held - Sep- V tember 7th, the latter at one held October 19th: - -Resolved, That there be introduced - into the'course of study in the public schools instruction in physiology and hygiene; that text books on the same will be adopted by the board - aftelfarther conference. Resolved, That the Primer Physi oloy and Hygiene and "The Human Body and Its Health," published by - Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., of New York, be prescribed as text books to be used in the public schools of the State. In addition the board recommend - as a supplemental reading book for , the higher schools and academies, "The Man Wonderful in the House Beautiful," published by the Educa tional Publishing Company of New York.______ _I A Parrot Hidden Near the Coffin. Lynchburg News. The Norfolk and Western train. men tell a good joke on an express. messenger running between this city and Chattanooga. In the -- rush -of loading his car at Chat tanooga a parrot was p.ut in a corner unnoticed by him and a lot of stuff piled up around the bird. In the same car was a corpse. Al'ter the train had gotten some distance from the city and all was. silent the2 messenger was startled by hearing, "rm hot ! Let me out !" The men say the messenger stayed in the car only- long enough to exclaim: "Hanged if you don't get hotter than ., that before you get out," and bolted out on the platform. A Victim of Gas. - -acil to the News and Courie. COLUMBA, S. C., October 13. Mr. A. J. Taylor, of Lewiedale, Lexington County, who was found yesterday morning asphyxiated by gas in his room over Long's stables, - died this afternoon~ about 6 o'clock. He had never recovered conscious ness and the constant and strenuous efforts which had been made to re- - lieve him failed. An Epidemie of Dudes. News and Counier, 15G4 A crowd of twenty-five dudes made King street exceedingly unpleasant to the ladies yesterday afternoon. They assembled in front of the store under the Young Men's Hebrew As- - sociation Hall, and amused them selves by -mashing" the ladies who passed by. Their behavior finally became so obnoxious that the ladies were driven to the opposite sidewalk. - Police ! Snow in New York. - U-rICA;N. Y., October 12.-Snow-..' began falling here this morninlg. It is the #rst of thle seo,