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."Cw - a - t d'Z- - - -. -. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, MAY 2. 1889. PRICE $1.50 A AR ESTA LIS ED 865 __ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ __ __ ___ ___ _ __ ___ __ ____ __ __* THE RUSH FOE"OKLAHOXA. The New Country Swarming with Inhab itants at Nightfanl-New Towns to Exist To-Morrow in the Wilderness of To day. LBy Telegraph to the N. Y. Herald.] ARKANSAS CITY, April 22, 1889. The long waiting-by no means pa tient-of the Oklahoma boomer is over, and to-night he is spread numerously all over the Territory, which until noon to-day was forbidden ground. His troubles are not over, by a great deal. He is likely to have lively and in some cases, perhaps, deadly experiences with shotgun and revolver, and in due course of time more or less business with lawyers and the courts, but on rA. the whole he is happier to the extent that any creature is who, having been held within unwelcome bounds, finds himself at last released. It has been evident since the cer tainty was established that Oklahoma -opened to settlement that _many intending settlers were doomed to disappointment. The area of the Territory is very far from commensu ''ite with the demand the on-rushing %armies of pioneers makesupon it, and , stbe days, weeks and months to follow - ill prove how far supply is below de mand and how necessary further con cessions may be to avert disorder bloodshed and other conditions but little short of anarchy. A MEMORABLE DAY. The history of this day will for ever be memorable in frontier annals, and will leave behind a heritage of lit. igation which will be fruitful to land sharks and claim attorneys, but be de structive to the claims of poor and bon est settlers. The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad began running its > = sectional trains out of Kansas City last night and picking up cars at almost every station along the route. Hun dreds of people were waiting at every depot, and if the cars, all of which were filled before the border line was reached, could have made a train miles in length. The crowds were composed of specu lators, adventurers, sightseers, thieves, gamblers and a sprinkling of the demi monde. The farming element was not largely represented, as all of the home steaders have gone on before. There were men in the cars from every great city and important point in the coun try, and there was not a State or Terri tory in the country which did not have its representatives. They filled - ccupied all of the the aisles and fi'led Helena at about 5 o ween the coaches, afternoon. Mr. A. . ae n banistersan * was run over by the La n banister and sofearfully injured tha o covered from the sha brought home to Newbei% vigilant in the carand died in about two cerin that :- ,.,.went through left thigh was broken cloenthog hip, and the thigh bone e th .us n . . ~ ocamnpaign. -iknee, and his right leg horr hated below the knee to the anging~ in . . care to He was seen sitting against th Okla ter house at Helena before the t started, and- said he was going'. Laurens, but was not seen to get~ the train. As the train moved oflf, hly was found lying across the track, andit 1the nature of his injuries was ascer -tained by Drs. Welch and Garmnany, who were near at hand. 're I want-your patronage. I~aa e satisfaction. C. A.FLOYD. N Samples of piece goods in great va riety. Suits made to order, fit and finish w guaranteed to be unsurpassed. Harken 1a tothe cry of your own prophet for once and mark the result. e tf. WRIGHT & J. W. COPPOCg-d5 naof Remember that Wright *y en pock-give a discount of e pastiveek; from regular prices on~ men carrying xeteori~i~T psacks and parcels Meant --' and impossible ide . Hundreds of boomners and on ers in their impatience to get sudd~r rushed en masse to the yards Sattempted to force an entrance into rs,all of which were securely locked. -D.ELLRIUM OF EXCITEMEWr. The-exeitement may be judged from the fact 'that~ a large number of coach windows were broken out by people who were anxious to secure seats. A strong guard of railroad men was de tailed to protect the company's prop erty, and they had a contract of unusual was panic stricken. After, waiting so many eventful days and nights for the hour of action to come men were seized with a sudden fear that- they would be left in the lurch, and that fear served to mae them like a drove of stampeded cattle. There was a vain attempt at good *humor in the struggle which concealed the grim purpose behind, and there was *no guarter-shown-iaherush for place. -It was -a wild West crowd headed toward a new fieldef enterprise-and ide velopment, and no one who has never -seen such a thing in action can have the remotest conception of it. A CHEERFUL BOOXEE. An amusing and at the same time pathetic incident of the early morning was acattle trairrlyinlg on a side track loaded with a boomen his horse, wagon and a cow, wife and children and all js little household 6ffects. He was a ,merry fellow and guyed the crowd un *mercifully for not going through, as he i expressed it, without change of cars, to sf vod therush. 1"I tave in my special coach," said .e, "like,a railroad prine" I You'll get there too late," yelled omebody-in the crowd." "Never mind," replied the boomer. "Il get there all the same." FIGHTING FOR SEATS. It had leaked out during the wakeful hours of the night that the press special coach would be a part of the first train to move out. The railroad manage ment had succe ed well in keeping this fact a secret. No one but represen tatives of the press were informed of the fact or knew of the location of the coach or the time of its departure, but it is impossible to keep such informa tion from people who sit up all night to find out the shortest and easiest way of getting into the promised land. The result was that when the newspaper coach was backed up at a point below the depot the entire crowd charged upon it. The newspaper men were ranged in a solid phalanx, but had to fight for ac cess to the rear platform of the car. There were rustlers there who had been fighting along the border for years and who had a death grip on the iron rail ing and expressed a determination to go in that caI. These were not easily disposed of, but after them came a swarm of men with bogas credentials, presuming to represent every great newspaper in the United States. Nearly every correspondent was called upon to discredit some of these assued journal ists and scores of others failed of identi fication or recognition and had to fall back with more of precipitancy than good order. As the coaches which were to be at tached to the newspaper special were brought out of the siding, every,car brought up to the line was greeted with tremendous cheers and there was a simultaneous rush of two or three thou sand men toward them. They were filled to overflowing in less than half a minute and a countless throng was struggling for a place on the steps. ALL ANXIOUS TO BE FIRST. It was in vain for the officials to say that trains would run in sections, fifteen minutes apart. Every man there wanted to be fifteen minutes ahead of everybody and not fifteen minutes be hind anybody. The first section made up consisted of nine coaches, the news paper coach and one caboose. It pulled out at 8.45 railroad time, drawn by en gine 266, in charge of Captain G. H. Cooper, who has been on the Santa Fe line for eleven years and is one of the oldest and most trusted engineers in its employ. Trainmaster Foukes was in charge of the entire train. This a as the first train that ever ran out of Kansas loadedfor Oklahoma with settlers, and even those who were dis appointed in getting aboard of it joined in the wild ehthusiastic cheer which rent the Kansas air as the first step to ward the realization of hopes and dreams of years and the reward for the sacrifices of the past was taken. The train ran slowly, as there was great danger of misplaced rails and switches orobstructions of various kinds placed there by those gone before and who wanted a corner on the best lands in sight. It was twenty minutes to ten when the sign which marks the State line and the dividing line from the Cherokee strip was reached. It was greeted with a cheer which rolled from the news car in front to the rustlers' aboose behind. It marked the depart ure from a State government toward a country where government is yet to be 'reated and established. S SULKY INDIANS. O Pitill the Cherokee country lay be Exen them and the rainbow. There illL'j. no Indians to be seen until after ~rlow Springs was passed, when a wagon load of bucks of the Poncha tribe passed upon the trail, and responded to the shouts of those on board the train with sullen looks and gesticulations of defiance, as not evidently pleased at the coming of the pale face. Among the Pawnee trail the train also passed caravans of boomners' wagons, many going South, but some returning toward Kansas.. Between Willow Springs and the Poncha Agency somebody in the news paper car discovered a man riding on the trucks beneath the coach. Immiedi ately an effort to open negotiations with him were miade, but they resulted un successfully until the train stopped at Poncha, when the adventurous boomer was taken up into the car and furnished with refreshments,~- which he drank with relish and enthusiastic applause. He gave his name as Henry Saddler, and said he was born in England, but had been in this country for nine years, and had come all the way from Seattle, W. T., to get a foothold in Oklahoma. He was elected as the mascot of the new city of Guthrie, and to make the bargain sure it was agreed he should have one of the best lots in the heart of the city. At the last station outside of the Okla homa territory there was a great crowd of boomiers who had forsaken their teams and hoped to get in quicker by rail. There being no room inside, they climbed to the top of the coaches and the entire train, from one end to the other, was lined with them. AT THE LATE DEAD LINE. What was lately the dead line be tween the boomers and the promised land was reached about five minutes after twelve 6'clock noon. Before the line was passed the great transportation scene was begun and was plainiy visi ble to the watchers from the train. Fist came in. view the white topped wagons gathered together in groupes in the level prairie or in the little valleys which diversify the face of the country. It was at one noticeable that the teams were not to be -seen in any of these camps, and it was plain they had been taen out of the harness to be ridden across the border by the hard riders, who were to locate claims. A little further on and this conclusion was proven to be the correct one, for the en- i tire face of the country as far as the best field glass could carry the sight was overrun with horsemen galloping to the Southward. Their fleetest horses had evidently been picked for the work and they were i carrying their riders rapidly to the longed for goal. Rides of fifteen or twenty miles were made in an incredi- i bly short time by old boomers familiar I with the country and who knew where desirable lands were located. The day l was cloudless, and far away on the horizon both to the east and west clouds of dust could be seen ascending from the hoofs of hundreds of horses rushing toward different destinations I in most cases, but some of them toward I the same. HARD RACING. One race for a goal could be easily I distinguished. The riders were appar- < ently evenly mounted; they were neck i and neck for a mile or two along the trail as far as they could be seen, and their eager and intense looks and mer ciless slashing were sufficient evidence of the prize they were running after. One saddled but riderless horse was seen galloping along the trail, an omin ous sign of some accident or fatality which had befallen the rider. Some men were in charge of the horses and were evidently riding relays toward the goal. Out of the dust which arose toward the east could be seen, after the train had reached the summit of a high ridge, a wagon caravan fully two miles in length and which was being sped to the utmost speed of its horses. These caravans were plainly outdistanced by the horseback riders, and after several miles of the territory had been tra versed it was sean that the best riders were winning the best prizes ONE OF THE PRIZE WINNERS. One homesteader, who had secured a magnificent quarter section of rolling land, had dug a hole two or three feet deep at that corner of it where the sur veyors' section was located and where he had driven his stakes. Not looking upon these evidences of possession as sufficient to confirm his title he fired his Winchester as the train run by and then emptied his revolver, yelling like a cowboy or a Comanche Indian all the time. Not only the yells, but the shots were responded to from the train, and a volley went up into the air from the entire length of the section, which proved conclusively how well the party was armed in expectancy of what might happen a few miles the other side of the line. AMONG THE SOLDIERS. The train stopped at a military post. where the white tents of the soldiers and the officers' tents, surmounted by the national colors, were a gratifying evidence of a power sufficient to main tain order. Troop D), of the Fifth regiment of cavalry of the United States army, was quartered there, and the officers said that at the sound of the bugle at high noon there had been a movement among the boomers camped along the border which had extended across tbe ettire frontier line, and that the din had been fast and furious ever since, some of the prospectors running to Guthrie to file their entries. THE MAD RUSH FOR LISBON AND THE SCENE THERE. LIsBON, I. T., (by Courier to Fort Reno, I. T.), April 22, 1889.-At noon the bugle call has sounded. Away in the distance rings out the report of a canron. A low cloud of dust becorpes visible toward the north. Increasing in volume one hears the steady stroke of hoofs on the springy turf of the prairie. Presently, out of the dust cloud the forms of racing horses are seen. On comes the mad crowd of rushing horsemen. The cloud of dust sweeps along. Several riders have fallen and horses generally have stampeded. Nearer and nearer thun ders the cavalcade until at last, straight down Chicago avenue,,.a mad crowd of excited men, teeth set and plying whip and spur, rushes into the new-born city of Lisbon. Half an hour ago a patch of prairie with a few Lents and one wooden shanty, it is now a teeming, excited camp of thousands of people. CARRIED TOO FAR. There are many disappointed men in the multitude. Unable to control their horses in the wild charge they were swep)t past the claims they had in view for weeks, and all their plans are overturned. Broken bones and heads abound. Looking in every direction over the hills and plains, the boomers are thicker than the locusts were in Egypt. Thousands still rush along. The race from the line-one mile and a half-has been~ made in four minutes, and behind, fast closing up the rear, comes the trailing mass. The settlers further up along the line are indignant because they have been held back. They feel that those who have come from the West have stolen a march upon them. There was no other way in which it could be done. wORK~ OF THE TROOPS. The troops have simply done the best possible. The Land Office men art being watched like hawks and no one fears any attempt to secure by favoritism any advantage over another. Surveyors are at work with their in struments;' Lines are being run and in an hour the town will be settled, sur veyed anid every one of the thousands of lots taken. THE FIEST SETTLERS. The first to stand on the town site was James H. Culver, of Mead Centre, Kan. The first man on the north- I I western quarter of section 22 was A. M. ,olson, a banker of Caldwell, Kan., A nounted on a powerful brown htrse, which led the race by a hundre:i yards. ['he next quarter was reaihed by Frank Fisher, of Hoxie, Sheridan County. A SI soIored man named Ed Thompson, of victoria Colony, Kan., was also a win ier. Mr. Miller, of the Rock Island Hotel, ir ays he got eighteen lots. He was nounted on a gray mare that leaped he gully with a grand eflort. This ,ully, half a mile west of Kingfisher, roved a Waterloo for many. Here was the most scrambling. "My claim, my claim !" shouted very one. e On every lot-a shingle or stick shows he claimant. Forty men were hurt, ut only one so far has died. s w NO ROWS. Not a row has occurred. One old fe 'ellow wandered out on fnot to the bor- A ler of one quarter, when a horseman ol eached there. The old man claimed it. h "Old man," said the horseman, "you b .re on foot, I am on horseback; you h an't run fast enough to heat the fastest borse in Wichita to the land office?" ti The old man gave it up. h Contests by the hundreds will ensue. s Wet, streaming horses are being tender- t} [y cared for. Hot and panting, the sl poor beasts in the yellow glare of the tl soonday look like those in Verestcha- v ,in's pictures of the East Indian wars. bi LISBON'S FIRST WOMAN. a] The arrangements for preserving 'h peace have so far,been a success. The a and offices will try to keep open this f ifternoon. The town is not half an C iour old, and fifty stores and two hun- P Ired tents are already up. The first st .ady on the land near here was Mrs. Roberts, from West Plains, Kan. h, That Interview With Cleveland. ii [Charleston World.] ti Some time ago there appeared in an )bscure little North Carolina weekly, n. what purposed to be an interview with x-President Cleveland. In the inter- si view Mr. Cleveland was made to say It that he would positively not accept the Democratic Presidential nomination in h L892; that his public life was at an end, n tnd that he regarded the New York p World as a Republican paper. To a member of the editorial staff of le the Charleston World, who forwarded d ,he clipping from the North Carolina d weekly to the ex-President, Mr. Cleve and has written as follows in regard to it this particular matter: w I think it is very unprofitable to at- e tempt to run down the errors and mis- n representations of a newspaper inter- et view. I return the clipping you send me 0 purporting to contain a part of an inter- h view with me during my recent trip to L Florida. You ask me to say whether s< yr not it is correct-.t I shall content myself in this case with hereby saying that the report of t] the interview containedi in the clipping, u is very inaccurate and misleading. it Yours truly, GROVER CLEVELAND. a1 In the light of the recent prominence t which has been given to Mr. Cleveland h in New York, and the continuous link-e ing of his name with the p)residenltial omination in 1892, we regard as strik ingly significent this denial on his part af the truth of an interview in whichn accurs the positive statement that he ec would not accept a nomination to the b Presidency four years hence. The Doctors of the state. - p) -- ft [News and Courier.] ri The South Carolina Medical Associa tion, which is now in session in this c' :ity, is one of the oldest and most use- n Eul organizations in the State.s In war and peace, in seasons of sick- t: ess and of disaster, when destruction t has wasted at noonday and pestilence c bas walked in darkness, these men S bave been faithful among the faithless, ~ and are entitled to the lasting regard of a heir country. South Carolina may well point with pride to Simis, and e 'homas, and Chisolm, and Dickson, P md Darby, and Kinloch, and Ged dings and a score or more of others who have won distinction by their services to suf Eering humanity. Next to the doctors whose mission it is to save the soul, stands the doctors whose mission it is t save the body, which is the temple t >f the soul. The Medical Association of South Carolina has good reason to be proud af its achievements, and for congratu-b lation that it is now in at position to ccomplish umore than it nas ever ac nmplished for the elevation of the pro Eession and the improvement of the re U Lations existing between physicians md patients and physicians and thee tate. The Association includes among h its members most of the prominent physicians of the State, and its memn-t bership is steadily increasing. Its in auence upon legislation in recent years as led to the improvement of our sani-a tary laws and the adoption of measures which are strangling the life out of 0 mpiricism.f Tn ability, in patriotic devotion to the al best interest of the State, in earnest t idvocacy of all measures looking to the well-being of society, the physicians 0 af South Cerolina stand ever among t the foremost of its citizens.g Don't Hawk, Spit, Cough suffer dizziness, indigestion. infiamma- * ion of the eyes, headache, lassitude, in- a bility to perform mental work and in- n disposition for bodily labor. and annoy ei and disgust your friends and acquaint-a ances with your nasal twang and offen ive breath and constant efforts to ~ elean your nose and throat, when Dr. 1m Sage's "Catarrh Remedy" will prompt- c ly relieve you of discomfort and suffer ing, and your friends of the disgusti ngD and needless inflictions of your ioatheb mo' eseae? p [DN'T KNOW THE WAR WAS ENDED. C: -- de Portion of Missouri Twenty-five Years Behind the Time. dc st A few days ago an old man made a m uall purchase of William Cook, who indles a butcher shop at No. 2,201 TI lark avenue, and tendered in payment hE hundred dollar bill Confederate te oney of the issue bearing a litho- Sl -aped picture of Jeff Davis, says the Louis Globe-Democrat. Mr. Cook o anned the bill a moment, and then I ie stranger, wondering what the man Leant. At first it occurred to him that th a was dealing with a counterfeiter er id started to call an officer. On-se- m mnd thought he considered that the an was insane or that something other ax tan fraudulent intent actuated the u ranger, as the very face of the bill nE ould betray it across the street. Go g back, he studied his customer for a w minutes, and this is what he saw: ?j n old, diminutive man, dressed in the nE d fashioned homespun butternut,with s: ickory shirt, neat but slightly thread ire, and one of tne real old kind silk bi ats, with the nap well worn away. si There was a luxuriant growth of hair, ( iat had grown down to the neck, and ad started back up ngaij, forming a a rt of trough, met at the front sides by di ie ample whiskers, so dense that the >ring sunshine could not penetrate tc tem. That of the countenance let; sible was somewhat shrunken by age, h it had the smoothe, milk and wate. bl )pearance peculiar to an old man who bi ad never been exposed to the weather id cultivated 'his countenance-in .ct, it was one of those faces which at arlyle characterizes as being so su remely healthy that the dirt will not ick to them. "I'd like my change, mister, finally Lid the old gentleman, unaware that c e was being utilized as an object lesson w i physiolognomy. "I'm sorry," replied Mr. Cook, "but U iis bill is worthless." The old gentleman ~stared in amaze ent and proffered no reply as the bill as handed back with the remark, "No, r, that is a Confederate bill, and value- d ss. E Finally he reached out a delicate r and for it and :ald:-"You must be iistaken, sir. There's Jeff Davis, own a icture on it." B "But the Confederate money is use ss now. Ever since the South surren- al ered there has -been no chance to re- fe eem it and no one would take it." ti "The South surrendered_.I don't :ai uderstand," and the old gentleman w as more nearly dumfounded than st er. "Why the South, man?" he re- n iarked after a pausd. Then he explain- w I that he had just got the bill aniong tl hers in exchange for a farm which he ad owned about forty miles back from incoln, Mo. He had been teaching hool, he said, for thirty-five years in B 1e back country there, from one "dis ict" to another, and he had always ndersood that the South had gained s point. He had sold his farm, got d art of the money in Confederate cash, id would have taken all, he said, but lat he wanted to go to St. Louis, and aving understood that it had been ided to the Union, took some United tates gold, as he wanted to make a v rand tour on the cars, which he hada ever seen. "Haven't you read how the war osed in the newspapers?" queried the utcher-. "Law, me, I haven't seen a news aper for nigh thirty years. You're b >oling about that bill-it must be all ght." Sergeant Worcester and a patrol offi 3r were standing on the opposite cor- c er, and to themi Mr. Cook referred the c :hoolmaster, saying he would abides ieir decision. The stranger accosted iem, and they recounted to the inno- b ant pedagogue a synopsis of United b tates history for twenty-five years. he old gentleman had to lean against b brick wall for support. He was so ank, and evidently so unsophisticat 1, that they let him go his way in eace after he had paid the bill in gold. [e left munching a piece of bologna. t( Kother Bickerdyke"' and Gen. sherman. From Mary A. Livermore's new book, "My Story of the War."] Of hundreds of women who devoted iemselves to the care of the sick and -ouded of the army, Mother Bicker- b yke stands pre-eminent. I was inti- la tately associated with this remiarka- p le woman during the war. Others se -re as heroic and consecrated as she, o0 Sunwearied in labors, and as unsel- a sh and self-sacrificing. But she was se niqu'e in method, extraordinary in tI geutive ability, enthusiastic in devo- ci on, and indomitable in will. After cc er plans were formed and her purpo- p s matured she carried them through -iumphantly, in the teeth of the most $& rmidable opposition. fc Gen. Sherman had issued an order asolutely forbidding agents or nurses any description to go over the road om Nashville to Chattanooga. He , Leged as the reason for this prohibi- ni on that he wished the entire ability C the railroad devoted to strictly ac ue military operations. There was reat distress in the hospitals below J. ashville in consequence of this strin- li ent order, and uneasiness and anxiety the North because of its seemingly b eedless inhumanity. Mother Bick- i dyke found Nashville full of worried ents, and of samtary stores that were eeded down the road and spoiling for E ~ck of trasportation. Her pass from en. Grant would take-her to Chatta oga despite Gen. Sherman's prohi- a ition. Despite remonstrance and op- p wstan, se tnok the next train for gi iattanooga, and madeher unexpected but at Gen. Sherman's headquarters. "Halloo ! Why, how did you get wn here ?" asked one of the General's tff officers, as he saw her enter Sher an's headquarters. "Came down in the cars, of course. iere's no other way of getting down re that I know of," replied the mat r-of-fact woman. "I want to see Gen. ierman." "He is in there writing," said the 6cer pointing to an inner room ; "but guess he won't see you." "Guess he will !" and she pushed into e apartment. "Good morning, Gen al. I want to speak to you a mo ent! Maylcomein?" "I should think you had got in !" swered the General, barely looking , in great annoyance. "What's up >w ?" "Why, General," said the earnest atron in a perfect torrent of words, ye can't stand this last order of yours >how. You'll have to change it as re as you live. We can get along ithout any more nurses or agents, it the supplies we must have. The 3k and wounded men need them, and >u'll have to give permission to bring im down. The fact is, General, after man is unable to carry a gun, and ops out of the lines, yon don't trouble >urself about him, but turn him over the hospitals, expecting the doctors id nurses to get him well, and put m back into service as soon as possi e. But how are we going to make -icks without straw? Tell me that if >u can." "Well, I'm busy to-day, and cannot tend to you. I will see you some other rue." But though Sherman kept on riting, and did not look up, Mother ickerdyke saw a smile lurking in the rner of his' mouth, and knew sbe ould carry her point. So she persisted. "No General! Don't send me away til you've fixed this thing as it ought be fixed. You had me assigned to >ur corps, and told me that you ex .cted me to look after the nursing of e men who needed it. But I should e to know how I can do this if I )n't have anything to work with? ave some sense about it now, Gene 1!" There was a hearty laugh at this, and little badinage ensued, which Mother ickerdyke ended in her brusque way ith, "Well, I can't stand fooling here 1 day. Now, General, write an order r two cars a day to be sent down from ie Sanitary Commission at Nashville, id I'll be satisfied." The orderrwas ritten, and for weeks all the sanitary ores sent from Nashville to Chatta )oga, and the posts along that road, ere sent directly or indirectly through ts mediation of Mother Bickerdyke. A BIG PLUM. ubert P. Porter Appointed Superintendent of the Census with a Patronage of 8G,o0o,0o0. WASHINGTON, April 17.-The Presi mnt to-day named Robert P. Porter >r Superintendent of the Census. Mr. orter was backed by the protective ii T leagues and by numerous republi mn politicians. His statistical ex 3rience has been comprised in his ser ice on the Tariff Commission of 1882 d the preparation of several special atures for the census of 1880. His ap >intment gives another big plum to ew York, in addition to the Cabinet [ace, assistant secretaryships and big reign missions.which have already en assigned her. A respectable lump of patronage goes ith the place. The superintendent's cary is $6,000. He has under him a ief clerk at a salary of $2,500, ten aiefs of division at $2,000 each and xty clerks of various classes in the ivil Service. The superIntendent will a.ve a lump sum of $6,000,000 to dis arse and can distribute it among the tates about as he chooses. There will Ssupervisors in each State, more than 2e in the larger States, but not ex eding 175 in all, who will receive an rerage of about SS--0 each. There will Salso some thirty thousand enumera rs who will be paid according to the umber of names they turn in.. Interes,t on the Debt Due His Mother. [Concord (N. C.) Standard.1 Giles Crowell, of Mt. Pleasant, has sen for two years Superintendent of a rge fiouring mill in the Argentine Re blic, South America. Mr. CrowelP's rvices are so valuable the proprietors the mill on lastChristmas made him present of a $600 check and a fine .ddle horse. And about the same time uis big hearted and tall man sent. a ieck for $500 to his mother, in this >unty, with the 'following note of ex anation: "Dear Mother: Here is a check for 00, the interest on the debt I owe you r raising me." How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars RIe ard for any case of Catarrh that can >be cured by taking H all's Catarrh re. F. J. CHENEY & CO., Props., Toledo, Ohio. We, the undersigned, have known F. Cheney for the last 15 years, and be ave him perfectly honorable in all asiness transactions and finaincially >le to carry out any obligation made r their firm. fEST & TRUAX, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. ALDING, KINNAN & MARVIN, Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, 0. .H. VAN HNEEN, Cashier, Toledo Nat'l. Bank, Toledo, Ohio. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken inter lly, acting directly upon the blood id mucus surfaces of the system. rice 75c. per bottle. Sold by all drug sta. The appointments m in seeping wuu' he President's policy to build up a:pv vhite man's Republican Party in the - south. It was made clear to Mr. Har ison that Mr. Brady had d'eclined ito un on the Republican ticket for the ;tate Senate, and that he had even cratched the local ticket. These- are trong points in the North and Wes ggainst an applicant for office; but ere in the South, they seem to have reight in favor of an applicant. In ther words, Mr. Harrison rather seeks - o encourage the idea of an indepen ent genteel white Republican who is vilhing to fiy in the face.of the negro rote. As the negro vote has rather - ended to defeat the Republican party n the South, than otherwise, the ?resident's policy is eminently practi at politics. y THE STATE PRESS ASSOCIATION. Eiection of Officers-The Invitation to the National Assoclation. - CHARLESTON, S. C., April 25.-The 3outh Carolina Press Association ad ourned to-night after a two days ses iion. M. B. McSweeny, of the Hamp on Guardian, was re-elected president . C. Hemphill, of The News and lourier, first vice president; A. B. Wilhams, of the Greenville News econd vice president; C. H. Prince,o dhe Florence Times, secretary; Franz' Kelchers of the Deutsche Zeitung reasurer, and the Rev. Sidi H. Brown _ >f the Christian Neighbor, chaplain. Three delegates were elected to the= , \ational Editorial Association at De> roit, Michigan, in August to extend tn invitation to the Association neet in Charleston in April next.wben. he State Press Association .-will boldi ts annual meeting here. Henry Wat terson, of the Louisville Courier-Jour ' ial, will be invited to deliver an ress before the two associations here 3en. Rudolph Seigling entertained nembers of the Association very hand. aomely at his residence this eveu ing. Atlanta Struck by a Storm. ATLANTA, April 24.-One of beaviest rain and hail storms e known here began to fail at 4.30 _ vening. It was a veritable eloiod. burst. At the time it began to some numbers of the fire departm were inside the Jackson buildi which was burned on Sunday,and walls of which were still Fire had;broken out amongthe and the men were there to put i The storm burst suddenly, and. befor they ~could get out the Pryor wall fell in upon them, killing Fn W. H. Leach and Harry Howell si.4+ injuring others. Leach's body wa:K found ina short time, but at9 o'eC14 Howell's had not been reached. Bot r firemen were married men and 1 ela fanilies. The Ivy Street Mission building blown down and 'completely ds~oe? The loss is about $1,000. The fene the base ball park was blown and buildings slightly amage u different parts of the city. Troy's Township Bonds. - [Special to News and Courier.) Taov, ABEVILLE COUNTY,p 25.-The town of Troy has unanim y passed resolutions whereby-an- l ion will be ordered to vote bonds iI iid of the Carolina, Cumberland G an Chicago Railroad to theext. 8 per cent of the taxable property. 'hu will give fully $5,000. They also pointed commissioners to canvass townships along the line of said roed Both in Edgefield and Abbeville i ies. From information received fro those in charge of this enterprise, w cnfidently expect to see the trains on~ this road running into Abbeville from. Aiken by the 1st of next January. Poitici=ns Not in Clover. ' [New York H4rald.) President Harrison is trying to d something harder than the "Pigs i Clover" puzzle-namely, to make eC thousand officees go round in a crowdM forty thousand hungry plticians ntwas.Worth 8200 in 1565. - [Laurens Herald.] Mr. J. D. Watts bought another old bale of cotton last week from Mr. Frank Henderson. The bale was 28ysaaold baing been raised In 1861, by Lieutea ant M. H. Henderson, who was klBe&E in a battle near Boonsbore, Pa, th same year.The bale is said to havel 75 or 80 pounds in w~eight and makes the second old bale within the pasttiwo r three years that Mr. Henderson.ha sold, the first being 30 years old. Ther price paid for the last bale was 10 cents per pound. - TTeringaan Line Pars Up. PHILADELPFIA, PA., April 2~ M?essrs Funch, Edye & Co.,- of w York, agents of the Thingvalla -i steamers, to which company this si Danark belonged, telegraphed7 to this city that they have reci able from, Copenhagendietn o' pay tii4bwners of the Atfan port steamer Missouri for the thich the last namied steae soned, for the pu o makMng to accommIodate Danmark' ges A Faiw Trial isall that isaasked for Dr. Piere len Medical Discovery in -l11 aints,. or skin disese-. AN OLD PROJECT REVIVED. - - t The Augusta, Greenwood and Western Now Wants to Tie to the Three C's. [Special to News and Courier.] NINETY-SIx, April25.--An adjourned meeting of the stockholders of the old Augusta, Greenwood and Western Railway was held here to-day, a ma jority of the stock being represented. The meeting proceeded to elect presi dent and board of directors. Mr. A. M. Aiken was elected president, and L. R. Denny, C. L. Kinard, W. S. Allen, E. M. Lipscomb, D. R. Jones, J. N. King, J. W. Fouche, D. T. Kinard and B. F. Arnold directors. By resolution the t president and directors were instructed to proceed at once to have set aside the Act of consolidation with the Carolina, Knoxville and Western Railroad. Major R. W. Shand, of Columbia, and Capt. Urquhart, of the Three C's Road, were present. It is expected that the Three C's Company will make a propo sition to complete the Augusta, Greed wood and Western as soon as the latter company is in position to entertain propositions. MORE ABOUT THV THREE C'S. The Johnson City Comet referring to the recent visit there by General Mana ger R. A. Johnson says: He could not say definitely when work on the Three C's railroad would commence at Johnson City, as there are still some preliminaries to arrange, but he thinks in another week matters will be so adjusted that the time for breaking dirt in earnest can be an nounced. When work is begun it will be pushed rapidly to completion. By the decision of the supreme court of South Carolina. validating the bonds 1 issued. by' several townships in that State in aid of the construction of the road, they will have the use of $500,000 that has been in litigation for some time and has therefore embarrassed the company to some extent. $300,000 of this money is to be spent here and $200,000 is to be used on the Augusta division, which will also be commenced soon. More than 60 miles of that di vision is already graded and an engi neer corps is now being formed to make a new survey, or rather to correct the old survey, of the other portion. As the money matter is settled the princi pal cause of delay in- beginning work here is the water works contraets. Col. Johnson is engaged in the task of ad justing aJl differences in this and other matters and' smoothing the feelings that have been excited. He asks only what he thinks is right. The city and people seem willing to grant him at most anything he asks if they know that what they give him will remain under his management. CONFIDENCE IN SOUTH EN SECUBI TIES. A Big Stock Issue Guaranteed by the Cen tral Taken in Germany-Jump in Louis - vile and Nashvile. [Macon (Ga.) Telegraph.] NEW YORK, April 22.-It was re ported that the Central Railroad and Banking Company of Georgia had just perfected the sale of $8,500,000 worth of five per cent. bonds to the Great Ger man banking house of Kuhn, Loeb & Co. The story created considerable talk and was acknowledged on all sides as the strongest evidence of the established confidence in first-class Southern railroad securities. John H. Hall,.president of the Georgia Com pany, and other gentlemen prominent ly identified with the Georgia Central railroad were seen and asked about the big negotiation, but no one of them would talk. They all decline positive ly to discuss the matter in detail, and in fact refused to either confirm or deny the report. THE STORY TRUE. The Telegraph's correspondent, how ever, is satisfied that it is not a case of all smoke and :no fire. -A negotiation no doubt has been made, but the con tracting parties will not state the amunt of the bonds.involved nor the terms on which they were sold. This impsortant fact, however, has trans pired, the bonds are not of the Georgia Central proper, but of the Savannah & Western Railroad (that is the old Co lumbus & Western) and are simply. .to be guaranteed by the CentraL. LOUISVILLE AND NASHVILLE JUMP. It is rather extraordinary that in addition to this big deal in Southern railroad bonds, another Southern rail road should have cut a conspicious figure on Wall Street to-dy. The Louisville & Nashville led the market on the stock exchange and scored the best of any stock on the list. It sold at 67' the highest point it has touched for a long time, and the~ trading in it was much heavier than usual. The vigorous buying is said to be strongly for foreign account, and likewise by strong friends of the property nearer home. It is whispered around that President Norton will very soon advo cate the resumption of cash dividends. STICEING TO THE POLICY. The President Makna aSignl&cant Appoint ment. [Charlotte Chronicle.] The President yesterday appointed Archibald Brady postmaster of Char lotte. This appointment ends a long local struggle between Charlotte Republi cans. Mr. Brady was opposed by nearly all the party workers here. His backing consisted of a few prominent gentlemen who are Republicans from principle, but who eschew local poll-.