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ESTABLISI1ED 1865 . NEWBERRY, S. C., T IL=ISDAY, MARC 7 80 RG 15 SOME FLx AT .2 WEDING;. Amusing Stories Related by Clergymen The Bothersome World "Obey." [From the Boston Herald.1 One Sunday afternoon in midwinter, said a Boston pastor to the writer, two sleighs drove to my door in a snow storm and two "couples" came in, stamping off the snow. After the cere mony I asked the young man who had "stood up" with the bridegroom to come up to my study to sign the cer certificate as witnesses. With an eye to future opportunities I said to him as I was writing: "Well, sir, I suppose your turn will come next." "Well,' he replied, "I supposed this one wa= going to be mine. I had been keeping compai9 with her. But to-day slhi paired off with the other fellow, and I didn't know what they stopped here for till we got in the house. I expected to marry her myself." "Well," said I, as he wrote his name to the certifi cate of the girl's marriage to another man, "you had good grit to stand up there with them." "Yes, it rathc took me back; but perhaps her sister, the girl who stood up wita me, is just as good. I shan't cry about it," he said, as he tried to swallow the evident lump in his throat and went down stairs to meet the "other fellow's' smiling bride. Another Boston clergyman tells the following amusing story: "A friend of mine was seated in his study one day when a back drove up in which a couple were seated-dressed in the latest style-and apparently in good circumstances. Of course, the minister expected a good square fee. After the ceremony was over the couple took their departure, but the groom did not forget to hand the parson the custom ary envelope. 'When the party had driven away the minister or his wife opened the envelope, expecting, of course, to fir'd a generous fee. They were just a little disappointed and an gared to find simply a piece of paper with this writing on it: 'We request your prayers.' " A Boston minister who has now gone abroad, told the writer that a couple once came to his house to be married and had no marriage license. The groom said to the bride, "0, yes, I gave you the license just before we started." The lady admitted this, and said it was in her cloak pocket. Search was made, but no license could be found. The groom reprimanded her and more r search was made, but no license was forthcoming. Then followed a sharper reprimand and further search, but no paper was revealed. The groomu raved, declared the bride to be "exasperating ly careless," and wondered "why in thunder she could not take care of the paper?" Then the lady wept. The groom assured the minister that "it was all right," and that he should rmarry them without a permit. The minister remained firm, and the couple departed, the groom swearing and the bride weeping. The clergyman said he hoped the lady would back out be fore a new periut was. secured, and vowed that .S1,000O would not induce him to marry the mnan. A South Boston pastor narrated the following incident which camne under his observation in St. .John, N. B.: Two people in mniadle life sought out 9 an aged and wvell knlown clergyman to tie the connubial knot. His ad vanet d years had brought hlim a treacherous memory, and, with this uncertain quantity to deal with, he began the ceremzony. There were luckilv no witnesses to the amusing scene but the --eirgyman's daughter-in-law and grandson. The preliminaries over, the rinlg was asked for. The grroomn was exceedingly nervous andi could not find it. He searched in all his pockets, shook his sleeve, ran his .hand dlown the side of his right leg in fear of a h<,le in his pantaloons pocket, felt of his sock, and repeated the process, in creasing in nervousness as heC certainlly did in blushes and awkwarnelss. Fi nally, the old geInlanl sat downl, while both witnesses assisted tile par tially masrriedl couple to fin~d the mliss ing symbol of their union. Down on their knees they got, and turnled up the corner of the rug, and( peered und(er the sofa, and altogether made a mos0t i: dicrous mighlt. MeanltimeIt thec clergy man' mnIlluemnicI facunltv failed hiim. He forgot where lhe was, and crouldi not be made to understaind the mlissionl of the strange lady and genltlemla!. it ought to be adde.d that he0 was also vet y deaf. F'ear-ing Comlplica:tionls. his dauIghl ter-in-law sent tile grand(sonl for the regular minister of tihe parish. A t last the ring was found in an obscure cor ner, whither it hlad r.dled., and the~ parties to the suspendicied cotract tried to look resigned inder tuhe aggravating~ circumstances. The mlinlisterial gen tiemian waked out of his reverie, and said to the lady of thle house: "Whoc is this couple?" Tile answer was almost a shout, after which lhe subsided a mnoment, and t hen continued: "H-ow * long have you beent marriedy' Th~ey * really didn't know ho0w much they~ were married, but stannne1lred out a re ply that was comnpletely lost On huim.i for, in a miinute or so muore, lhe capped the conversation by inq'uiringz: "H-ow many children hlave you gwot?'' This was too mnuchi, anId wvouid have coni v-ulsed the suIffering victims 11ad( not the regular minister arrived and com-. pleted the service. The largest fee I ever received, said North Enld clergymlan, was $2' for at tending a marrnage at 3 a. mn., and driving six miles into the bargain. V The smlallest wvas notinig-hat ab us, far suggesting tihe poossibility of forgzet. promise of "a barrel of apples in the fall." The groom was 87 and the bride 47. My wife, however, received from the groomi's pantaloons pocket a cake of maple candy-"the pure thing," said he. President Hyde, of Bowdoine, tells a good story of the first marriage cere mmony at which he officiated while oc eupying a pulpit in Jersey City. It seems that the bigger half of the inter esting couple was rather timid and nerv>us, one of those men whose differ ence is in danger of leading him into some awkward blunder. The bride, on the contrary, was remarkably cool and self-possessed. As the cnupla pre sented themselves before President Hyde there seemed to be some misun derstanding in regard to the side on which the lady should stand. The groom hitched about nervously, but the bride was equal to the occasion. Quickly changing places with her iappy fiance, she remarked confi dently: "There, I am sure this is the side on which I have always been ac customed to stand." This solved the difllculty, and the timid groom and the widow, who knew all about it from experience, were speedily united. A popular Boston clergyman related this occurrence: "A man called at my house one afternoon and asked: 'Will you be at home at S o'clock this after noon to marry me?' I replied: 'Yes. Have you a certificate?' He took one from his pocket, but it was such as the minister make out and gives to the married parties. I said: 'You can't get married with that certificate. It will be necessary for you to call on the city clerk for one.' Whereupon he re monstrated, saying: 'I guess that is all right. I paid twenty-five cents for it.' After remarking that it would make no difference if he paid one dollar for it, and adding certain explanations, lie decided to postpone his wedding until the following day, when he came with a proper certificate." I suppose, continued the clergyman, that you have heard of the man who, when the minister said, I pronounce you one, asked "Which one?" And of the man who asked the 'minister how much the bill was, and upon his replying that the law allowed $1.50, took from his pocket .50 cents, and, handing it to the officiating clergyman, said, "Take this, and that will make $2." The question is, how to get the $1.50 from the law? The following occurred in a village in the western part of Massachusetts: A couple came into town on the train to be married, with evidently but 50 cents in their possession. They went to a grocery store and bought 7 cents worth of crackers for their dinner. They then proceeded to the minister's and were married, and then the groom passed out the remaining 43 cents and asked if there was to be any change - to comec back. The minister made them a wedding present of the 43 cents, and they went away happy. A well-known pastor of this city re lates the following: "The contracting parties of the first marriage ceremony I ever performed were young, thorough ly educated, and in excellent standing in society. The groom was in good business for himself, the bride was the only child of rich parents. Her father wvas somewhat peculiar, and thought his daughter too good for any man, and consequently did his best to break uip the mat ch. They were to be married at 4 o'clock p. mn, on a certain day. That morning he offered his daughter ten thousand dollars cash if she would rect her lover. The young man, thinking he might increase his off'er tenfold and thereby injure the prospectI of his winning the object of his love, persu;aded her to meet hini at her aiunt's home at 11 o'clock a. m. instead of 4 p. mn., as wvas first contemplated, anid at that tinic in presence of a few friends the young couple were joined in holyvwedock. So great was tihe haste anid excitement, so earnes~t and pirofuse were the congratulations tha:tI they forget to pay the clergyman for his services. But before sundown a tren othe groom came riding faster than (ilpin with a largie and generous manvrriag~e fee. One dayv, said a popular Boston crgyman,rri an aged lady called at my st udv andO asked if I remembered at tending~ the funeral of her son-in-law, Mr. J--. I replied that I did, upon i ch she saidl that during the service sh manide tip her mindl( that she would h1e roe perform thre marriage cre many' o' h'er younrgest boy, who was living~ wih her at that time. After her boy was mi iarriedl he ha~nded me a $5 bi'l, saying:' "This isi a small fee, but I w ill do better the next time." On one occasion, saidl a Presbyterian pastor, I married a gushing middle aged wvidow to a bashful country chap, and-as they were bidding mue good-bye she said to) rie in a very p)leasanit way: "Is there anything el we can do for y'ou, sir'? to' which I replied: ''Call again. 'Not many men know hows to be have when they give a minister his fee for marrying them," said the Rev. Ribert (ollyer recently. "It seems to emblarrass them for some reason. I re miember once, out in Indiana, that a nrm whom I had just tunited in mar ri:'ge to a v'ery comely young woman gave me $lt0 for the fee. As he did so lie blushed arnd stammered. Then he sail, with perfect candor: 'I would like to give you more, dotr n-n 1 wvill next time.' His bride overheard hinm anid looked at him in a queer way, but lie evidenitly did not realize whiat he hal said in his embarrassment.'' The doo r-bell rang at a minister's h"use oae evening. He a.nswvered the call and was greetedl by a young couple man asked: "Does the Baptist parson live here?" The clergyman did not embarrass the young man by asking him "if he wished to turn his young lady out to grass," but politely re sponded "Yes," married them, and sent them on their way rejoicing. A Universalist minister married a couple in the vestry of his church. On being asked his fee he replied: "I never make any charge," and was go ing on to say he left it to the circuni stances and generosity of the groom to decide. But when he got as far as "I never make any charge" the grateful groom broke in. "You are very kind, sir; I am very much obliged to you; good morning." Said a Baptist pastor to the writer: Once a couple "stood up" with two friends-young man and maiden-and after I began the ceremony, the young man said that the right girl did "not stand nxt to him." I was obliged to change the girls. One pastor replied to the request for some incident from his experience that he did not call to mind anything unique or peculiar; but, said he, as to fees, they are usually so small in this district that to publish them would en courage hasty marriages and lower the scale of remuneration for pastors whose wives rely on the fecs for their pin money. Twice I have been engaged for the marriage service by the lady, said a popular Hub preacher, and in both cases paid by her. AN ALLIANCE ADDR:ESS. The State Alliance Presidents Assembled in AtIanta Itenew the War on Jute. ATLANTA, Ga, March 19.--The Na tional Alliance delegates in session here give out at a late hour to-night the following for the press: Whereas. at New Orleans, in Septem ber, ISS, a conference was held be tween prominent representatives of cotton-growers of the South and mem bers of the cotton exchanges in the United States, and an agreement was entered into which was to take effect the 1st lay of October thereafter, fixing the tart on cotton covered bales at six teen pounds, and of jute covered bales at twenty-four pounds, which was satisfactory to the Alliance men; And whereas, we invited the cotton exchanges of this country to a con ference on this subject, at St Louis, on December 5th, 1889, which they refused to notice by letters or otherwise: And whereas, our president, Col L. L. Polk, recently urged upon parties to express their wishes or plan for the adjustment of this question, at a meet ing to be held in Atlanta, Ga., March 19, r9r, and only one reply was re ceived with encouragement and that from Mr. James Tobin, of Augusta: And whereas, after careful considera tion of the whole subject in allits phases, we, the president, and repre sentatives of the State Alliances of tihe cotton section, in conference assemnbled in Atlanta, M1arch 19, 189)0, unanimous ly reafim the equity and justice of our demands on tile subject, and we do, therefore. Resolved, That we urge Alliance men of the Cotton States to stand by the action of the St Louis Supreme Council on the use of cotton bagging or any other fibre than jute, and that each Alliance man be and is hereby in structed to deposit said cotton covered bales in ware houses to be provided, and with as liberal advances as can be had thereon, and to allow said cotton covered bales there to remain until the demands made shall be conmplied with; Resolved, also, That our national and State officials do hereby pledge their utmost ability and unceasing efforts in behalf of the people to obtain fuill and fair facilities fo'r mnarketing their cot toni. Signed: L. L. Polk, p)resident, N. F. A. anld L. WV.; W. S. Morgan, A rkan sas; S. M. Adams, Alabamna; W. D). Mason, Georgia; T. S. Adams, Louis iana; (3. S. D)imes, Missouri; S. B. Alexander, North Carolina; E. TI. Stackhlouse, South Carolina; S. D). A. Dunncan, Texas; R. W. Coleman, Mississippi; J. P. Buchanan, TfenneIs south Carolina P'ostm,asters. [From the News and Courier.] WXAsmINGTON, March 19-In tile long list of Presidential nomiinations senit to the Senate to-day there wvere two South Carolina postmanslers-Miss Maggie L. Casnat Aikenanth Rev. .Joshua E. Wilson at Florence. There has been a lively anid protracted strug::le over these two appointmrIents, anId the seleetions are regarded as the best that could have beenl made under the circumstances. Miss Carson wa.s strongly endlorsed for the Aiken aflice, but she hIad several competitors. The Rev. Joshua Wilson has the distine tionl of being the first colored man to receive a Presidential postmastershipj in Soulth Carolina, and hIs appoint mient will b)e acceptable to Repub-li canls generally, and many of the Denm oerats of Florence and' vicinity pre ferred im to some of th~e other canldi dates for tile oflice. .1 Non-suit in a Ss,ooo Damage Case. GREENvILLE, March 19.-In tile Common Pleas Court to-day the case of W. R. Hale, administrator of the estate of B. W. Wehrle, against the Columbia and Greenville Railroad Compa ny for S20,000 idamages for the death of WXehrle, was non-suited on the ground of contributory neglect on the part of the deceased. THE FARMERS' MOVEMENT PRIO Len Tilhnan Declared to be Out of th< Iace for Governor-On!y the' Ileatd of a Ticket and a I'iatformu to I. Arranged in March. [Froin the Greenville News, 2ith. In view of the present state ofatain: in State polities, the presene in thI city yesterday of C-tpt. U. Wash shelt of Laurens, chairman of the Farmers' Association and sinr of t. now famous "Manifesto" and Cali foi the March convention, could not ft(I attract sonic attention and Set specua tion to work in loeal politica ciicles Captain Shell caine up in the mornin;, and returned on the afternoo:i train. While in the city, he was iii on frence, at the office of the State Alli.ane Ex change, with Manager Dioadt!son,, the Exchange, Chair mn L na rd Williams, of the County Vari. Association and miembers of tlie h gation to the March Conven;ti-n. i it during Captain Shell's visit there wa: a talk in regard to the Mar-h ('onve: tion was ascertained from conversat i: with gentlemen w.-ho iiet hint. but further than that the geitleien : nothing to say. Referring to a statement whicb h been repeatedly nitde in regard to ihn original call for the March convention. Captain Shell stated in the p,res-iee of several gentlemen that Bei Tilhian positively had nothing to do with ti preparation of that call and that Ie knew nothing beforehand of what ii contained. Captain Shell also exlresser the opinion that a majority of the un instructed delegates to the March c,;!n vention will vote for nominations. Apropos of the coming farmers' coii ventlon,. a reporter for the Daily News learned yesterday that a letter has leen received from Capt. Ben Tillman by a gentleman in the city who had written to him regarding his candidacy for the governorship, in which Captain Till man earnestly urged upon his corres pondent not to allow his name to he presented to the convention as a candi date for Governor and declaring that he was not a candidate. Captain Till man went on to state that he was con scious that there were other men in the State whose conservatism itself made them much better qualified for the place than himself. He declared that the action of the Edgefield conven tion in nominating him had been directly against his wishes and that the mention of his name by the Laurens mass meeting had been brought about by Captain Shell entirely without his knowledge. There have been numerous predic tions as to what the March convention will do. There is one plan of action which -has been talked of in a quiet way among the men most proiinent in the March convention movement and which has been received with thec greatest favor by those who have con. sidered it, so much so that it is not altogether guess work to say that mlhe convention will, in ail prob'ability, iadopt it. There are the best of reasonis for believing that the plan has receivedl the sanction of the active workers in the convention movemuent in different sections of the State. Information of 'the scheme, of which nothing has been said publicly heretofore, comies indirect ly but from a :source which stamps it wihauthority. According~ to this r gram, the conv-entioni caltled ini toinmi bia on the 27th inst. will meet, and, first of all, adopt a stronig and( out1 spoken platform. It will then nommi nate candidates for Gov'erno-riand Lieutenant Glovernor. N\o other inmi nations will be made, the rest of tI Iticket being left blank. A comit tet Iwill then be appoinitedl to plan a cam: pagn arranging for mass mecetinlgs ii all parts of the State at which tli convention's choice for Governor anl Lieutenant Governor and caniduate: for0! other State otiles who may puresen1i themselves will speak. Th is camipaigir will be in course, and will be with view to securing the endorsenit o the nominees of the March convyentior by the August con ventioin. It is argued in behalf of this plan thal it would overcome the strongest oibjue tion urged against the nomination of: complete ticket by the March mieeting in that insteadI of arraying in oppositiol the strength oIf the numrerous candi dates for positions on the Stt ticket, 11 would bring to the support of the Far mners' Movement platform and nomli nees the full strength of all the canidi dates for the places left blank onihi ticket. A fter the (departure of Captain Shel from the city yesterday, one of th' Greenville delegation to tihe Mare! c-onvenition said: ''You can rest asaurer that Ben Tillmnan wil not he the nomi: niee of the March convention, if any body is nominated.'' Tra.gedy on a Train. Montu-.:, AL.A., March 20.--E. IB. Me Curdy, conductor on the Souithi houmIi Louisville and Nashville ro:ad, wa shot and seriously wVoun ded by ai ner< nameid JTake Daniels, and in turn th< conductor shot andt killed the -negr' This happened on the train this after noon while it was near Bay Mlinette Ala. The negro refused to pay th rate of fare demanded by the condue ton, and the latt er tried to ehject him but the negro resisted, drew a piste and fired, hitting the couductor in thm right breast. The conductor then firue four times, hitting the negro each time and then stabbed him with a pock' knife. The negro died almost instantl.y The conductor was b)roughit to this eit for ir.atmnent_ Ti!::EPUiLICAN COHORTS. iakin,., l ady to Take Advantage of Any Ii..aiection in the )ellocratic Ranks. Co,m a,- March 19.-The follow inz aIddress was issued this afternoon i. .. i ri:i:s OP'rIE REP i1U.TC aY .rr: ir:x :ciriv1: (ooMM :TEE. iOLCMI:1A. S. C., larch is:189J.) It is important that immnediate, en ergetic and systematic efforts should be miade to have all the Republican v"itcers in the State properly registered. The supervisors of registration have recently been appointed. The State law requires them to be present on the first Monday in each month up to next .July to atteid to their duties, and the law of the United States makes these ofiiials liable to a forfeit of 500, to be recovered by the person aggiieved, if they hinder, delay, prevent or obstruct any qualified voters from being prop (rly registered. All unregistered Rtepubiiccan voters, and those who have lost their certifi cates of registration or changed their residences since their registration, should apply to the supervisor of their enuoty on one of the prescribed regis tratioi days to become qualified to vote. This urgent duty should not be delayedi, but should be atiended to on the first registration day possible, so as to avoid the uncertainty of the last day. Should the supervisor be absent, or purposely delay obstruct or defeat the right of registration, or unjustly discririnate against any voter or class of voters, the fact should be noted with all particulars as to time, place, circum stances, etc., and report to the county chairman with a view both to the pros (eetion of the officer and to enabling t he voters excluded from their registra tion rights to acquire the ,legal right to cast their ballots. And on the final day of registration all who are present offering to be registered and entitled to have issued to them proper certificates, who are unable to obtain them from any cause that is not their fault, should at once make affidavit of the fact, as prescribed in :ection 2.007, Revised Statutes of the United States, which declares that the supervisors cannot defeat the rights of the voters by any failure to perform their duties. These affidavits are given by law all the force and effect of registration cert:ficates, and managers of election and required to receive and count the ballots of those voters presenting them. The law also provides for the ap pointient of supervisors to guard and scrutinize the registration upon appli cation of ten citizens of any county nmade to the United States Circuit Judge. Blanks for this purpose can be obtained from the clerk of said Court, .1. E. Hagood, Charleston, S. C. As a potent .agency in effecting a complete registration of voters it is ad vised that one or more clubs be formed in each precinct. Through this means those entitled to vote can be enumer ated and a systematic plan adopted of ascertaining who are not properly reg istered and steps taken to qualify them to vote. Tihese clubs shonld be organ ized unlder tile auspices of the National. Republican League, and then they will he plamcd ini a posit ion to send club delegates to District and State League conlventions anxd thus place themselves in close andi regular connection with the National League organization. As vice- presidenlt of the League from tis State [ aml emp)owered to author ize the organlization of these clubs, whlich are intendled to be p)ermanlent, andI when formed uplonl being reported toi meI I will have tile clubs duty en rolle!d. There is a good prospect of Congllress passing a national election !wanitis the duty of every Repub lieanx to qualify hiimself to exercise his rgt of franichise and take advantag~e ot iuch lamw if enacted. Chbairmatn. News1 ort the Rairoauds. [' rom the News and Courier.] (oeneral ianager Ward and Col. S. h. Piekens, genleral superintendlent and pass~enge~r agent (of the South Carolina, hauve recently made an inspection of the conlstruicted part of the Columbia, Newheirry and Laurenxs Railroad,whieb extemnds froml (olumibia to Irmio, a dis tunee( of about eleven miles. These enutlemxen were accomipanietd ly Presi dent Childs and Directors Morner and 11ittle and Engineer Ellis, of tile C2o 1lumbiam, N ewberry anxd Laurens. Tile brach as penxed upl for b)usiness. Col. P'ickens saidI vest erday that he re rded.u thei part now inl operation as fi,ne!v Lilt anxd ill excellen t condi w'' '14N Tuli.: wVontF ON Tr TrilRai-E C's. Mr. W. F. Marshall, the soliciting agent of the Threne C's Road, is in the city in the interest of that corp)oration, whichl is ('onlfiden tly believed to be favorab)iy ikposed towards ChIarleston. IMr. Marshall sail that tile company had .inst let (lut tile conltract for the bu!ildin1g oft ihe line fromi Blacksburg to Augusta. Mr. Marshall stated that the p.ople axt Blacksburg :whichm is now on a greaxt blig hloidm and thlose living all mIling the lIne are lookingr to Charles ton as tile (outlef for their products. They are j ''ust ..ow'i <seussing the East Shore Termxinal ma!ntter and look upon it ver' yorably. -They Downed the Tiger. AU(.t:STA. G.a., March 18.-The tiger iwhich has bceen at large in Bullock County for several months, destroying t prop'rty and frightening everybody, wais killed yesterday afternoon by a ~party of fifteen farmers, all of whom claimi to hlave fired the fatal shot. THE BLAIR BILL KILLED. Rejected by the Senate by a Vote of 37 to 31-The South Carolina Senators Support the Measure. WASINGToN, March 20.-In the Senate, on motion of Ingalls, the edu cational bill was taken up as unfinished business. Blair resented the motion as an in terference (without reference to him self or any consultation whatever) "by one who was not in charge of the un finished '"siness." He said that he "would take notice thereof and govern himself accordingly." Bate alluded to sonie remarks of Blair in his opening speech oa the bill that reflected on the State of Tennessee as a laggard in regard to her educational interests, and asserted that Tennessee was not a laggard, and did not stand in the rear, but occupied a place in the front rank, abreast not only of the times, but-of her sisters in the Union. He said that he had -listened patiently to Blair's speech for five or six days, but that he had grown weary and sought refuge in the House of Repre sentatives, and that it was then that the remarks to which he took excep tion were made. His colleague (Har ris) had also retired to the cloak room. That was the explanation of the re marks not being replied to at the time. He went on to refute the statement made by Blair, and to show the liberal provision which the State of Tennessee had made for common school education and for colleges and universities. In the course of his remarks he spoke of the letter of School Superintendent Moses, of North Carolina, (on which Blair had relief for his statement) as untrue and -standerous. Continuing to speak of the bill itself, he opposed it because it would cause the people to reply on the Federal treasury for the support and management of the public schools. The head of the Interior Department would, he said, dispense national funds un der national laws, and having the keys of 100,000 school. houses hanging at his girdle, that girdle would become as potent in politics as the sceptre of any crowned head. School patronage would be used in the politi cal campaigns of partisan demagogues. The tendency of the bill was dangerous. It fascinated and charmed, but it de stroyed. It wooed to destruction, as a syren of Capri. It would lead to des potism. It was a dagger behind a smile -a serpent coiled beneath a rose. Blair rose to close the debate. He apoligized to Ingalls for the heated re mark which he had made to-day when that Senator submitted a motion which was unusual; but he now understood that motion had not been made from an unfriendly feeling to him (Blair) or to the bill. He did not desire to avail himself of the agreeineet that he was to occupy an hour in closing the debate, but was willing to submit the matter without further discussion. He desired that the question, which was one be tween the children of the country and the'country itself, should be decided on its nmerits. He asked for a vote on the bill and the pending amendments. Hawley suggested that Senators had expected that the debate was not to close till 3 o'clock, and that, therefore, the vote should not be taken before that hour. Blair recognized the propriety of the suggestion, and set to work to fill Up the time by reading an essay which he had prepared oil thle general subject of the bill. Having finished the reaingii of the paper (evidently a lecture delivered to a colored audience) sorne ten minutes before 3 o'clock, Blair occupied tha.t ten minutes in ex temnpore remarks. The Senate theni proceeded to vote on the bill and amendments. Tile first vote was on the three amlenldmlents of fered by Moody of South Dakota toth]e effect that illiterates among the In dians shIall be included in t he calcula tions. Blair said that there wa:s no objec tion to the amiendment. Moody's amendment was agreed to. Plumb offered an amIeiInent to dis trib)ute the fund aimong the States in proportion to the popui tion betw een 10 and 21 y'ears of age. Rejected. The Senate then p)roceeded to vote on the third reading and engrossment of the.bill. When the vote was con cluded, and it was known that it had resulted against the bill, Blair ehlanlged his vote from aye to no, so i's to make a motion to reconsider. The result was theni aninouncedl as yeas 31, nays 37. as follows: Yeas-Republicans: Allen, Allison, Chandler, Cullonm, D)awes, Dolph, Ed nmunds, Eva1 ts, Higgins. H(,ar, McMil Ian, Manderson, Mitchell, Moody, Mor ril, Pettigrew, Plat t, Squirt's, Stanford, Stewart, Stockbridge, Teller, Wilson of Iowa. Democrats: Barbo,ur, Col quitt, Daniel, Gecorge, HIamplton, Hearst, Pasco, Pugh.-31. Nays-Republicans: Aldrich, Blair, Davis, Dixon, Farwell, Frye, Hale, Hawley, Hiscock, Ingalls, .Jones of Nevada, Pierce, Plumb, Saw.yer, Sher man, Spooner, Walcott. D)emocrats: Bate, Berry, Blackburn, Blodgett, Cockrell, Coke, Faulkner, Gorman, Gray, Harris, Jones of Arkansas, K{enua. Morg'an, Payne, Regan, Tur pe Vest, Voorhees, Walthall, Wilson of Maryland.-37. The following pairs were announcod: Butler, Vance, Paddock, Casey. Gib sonl, Brown and Call (who are for thie bill), with Quay, McPherson. Eustik, Ra~nsomx, Washlburn, Beck and (Came ron (who are against it.) Blair made a nmotioui to reconsider, whlich motion was entered; and then, on motion of Edimnds, the Scnate proceeded to the consideration o)fexecu tiv business. POWER OF LOTTERY INTERESTS. The Louisiana Company Confidently Push ing its Schemes for New Franchises. ST. PAUL, MINN., March 16.-A iandez Joaquin, of Pass del Norte, who arrived in St. Paul on Friday, is a representative of the Louisiana Lot tery, or, to be more exact, of the Grand Lottery Juarez, the Mexican lottery company which has recently been pur chased by the Louisiana. He and six other men are visiting the Northwest to place the Juarez Lottery tickets in the hands of dealers and to establish agencies in all the principal towns of North Dakota. Joaquim said that one million tickets were given out in North Dakota within a very short time, which accounts for numerous prizes being recently drawn by tickets held in that section. The Louisiana is! safely located in Louisiana until 1895, and after that date he asserted that its headquarters will be in North Dakota or some other Northwestern State. "But the bill has been killed in tne Legislature," interposed one of his listeners. "Oh, that makes no differ ence at all," replied Joaquin. "We have them solid. The bill will be passed by the next Legislature. We could have passed it this session had not such a clamor been raised outside, which scared some timid members. But they are still with us and there is no hurry. The next Legislature will be more solidly in our favor, and some of those who opposed the bill will not be found in the Legislature nextsession. The State is poor and hopelessly in debt. It will be in a worse condition financially before another yearis ended, and we can guarantee an annual pay ment of $300,000. The only way the State can be e.xtricated from debt is through the lottery companies, and you can bet on it that the headquarters of the Louisiana Company will be in the Northwest after 1895. "The General Government cannot stop the sale of our tickets. Why, it would take a million men to attend to the prosecutions, and we have money to fight it out.to the end. If a State decides in favor of the lottery the Gen eral Government will not interfere." Mr. Joaquin said that similar efforts will be made to get a foothold in every new State as soon as admitted, and Arizona, Idaho and Wyoming were alluded to as sure to grant franchises to the Louisiana Cmpany. - HEEOISS -IN THE-PULPIT. Bishop Duncan .Gives.. NewJdy Ordained Deacons Sensible Advice. BALTIMORE, March 17.-Bishop W. W. Duncan, who presides over the Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, now in session here, preached the sermon yesterday at the ordination of six deaeons. A part.of the discourse was as follows : "When God calls a man to preach he is not called to a nice church, or some particular locality, but he is called to go where God sends him-out into the. whole world. Brother, leave your calls with God. There is very little hero ismn in serving God in Maryland,even on the eastern shore, or in the mountains. There is not much heroism required to preach here at St. Paul's on a salary of $1 ,500 a year ; there is not much hero ism serving on a good circuit. If that is heroism, how much greater was the sacrifice of young Walters, who went from among 'you as a foreign mission ary to China? How great was the heroism of young Robert McDonald, who was a martyr in Mexico, and whose scarred body his patient, suffer ing wife, with her little babes by her side, saw committed to the ground with a howling mob near by ? "Thank God, brothers, that your heroism is confined to Maryland. De velop all you can here, but let the movement here be in theinterest of the movement in the uttermost parts of the earth. The great Napoleon once called on a drummer boy to beat a retreat, and the boy said he had never learned how to play a retreat, though he had ben at Lodi, the Pyramidt and Tabor, and he started up the call to charge, and Napoleon's soldiers, fol lowing that boy, advanced amid blood and death to victory. Brethren, Meth odists should never know how to beat a retreat, but always to souud the ad vance. Thie command to you is God's comm and to Moses-"Move forward." A story for Young Men. [From the St. Paul Pioneer Press.] There is a moral in the following story ; it is true, and it is applicable to every position in the commercial, lit erary or professional world. It will apply to the most eminet lawyer and to the clerk ini a corner grocery. A young St. Paul man applied to a well known merchant in this city for the Iplace of assistant bookkeeper. He was asked what salary he expected, and re plied: I"Fighteen dollar a week." I"We had decided not to pay more than fifteen," demurred the merchant. "Well, sir," answered the young man frankly, "I need the place, but you mnst remember I should work just as hard if you paid me but $5 a week." - "All right, sir!" replied, the mer chant, with an approving smile, "you are just thbe kind of man we want. Go to work to m-orrow at-$20 a week." I A survival of Paganism. The Judge-What is your Christian name, Johnson ? Mr. Johnsing-Hain't got none, sah. My fust name am Jupiter. SAVED BY A CAROLINA GIRL. Miss Garnett, Warns an Approdlis: Just in Time to Prevent a Catastrophe Near Augusta. [From the News and Courier., AUGUSTA, March 16.-Last Frida evening the passenger train of the Port.. Royal and Western Carolina Railroad which left here for Laurens, came nes being wrecked, and the passengiers. were saved from a horrible and untiie lydeath. The trouble was a broken'.. rail at White House, about thirty.ei miles above here, which the train a' only prevented from passing over by the brave act of Miss Garnett, a youn woman who lives near White House. Miss Garnett -discovered the brokes rail and she knew it was about time for the up-train to come along, and shie was greatly alarmed, knowing that it was sure destruction if the train passa that fatal spot. The only thing to be done was to stop the train before It& eould reach the broken rail. Downu the track, around the curve, Mis Garnett ran until she got several hun dred yards from the broken rail. There. he stationed herself on- the track, witww' z watchful eye and lantern in hand, and she commenced waving the lantern . is soon as the shrill whistle of the Locomotive sounded its approach. When the train came speedily rollin )ver the rails the engineer saw tbW 2 young lady from a distance on the track signalling him down as thoug , n distress. The engineer placed his land on the throttle and checked-up -- ais train and stopped when her e the bravegirl. Miss Garnett called.for" the engineer and warned him of the langer that was just ahead. The crew )f the train walked up the track andr he broken rail was pointed out. AU igree that Miss Garnett had saved their ives and prevented a wreck. A colie - ion was taken up among the pssen ers, who were told of their nanow scape, and the sum of eleven dollarl! was raised and was presented by Con, luctor Stuart to Miss Garnett. Assessed Value of Property. - [From the News and Courier.] o CoLUMBIA, March17-o seneral Verner has made the follo % nteresting tabulation of the returnar - south Carolina proerty '.r taxation or each year from 170 to 1888. it se observed that theassessmento state has decreased from $92,000,O . 684,000,000, and of al.p from $46,000,000 to 4,000, ;. - the- assessment of railroad pro been increased from $6, ""' These figures indicate that while rue increase in the value of railrd: property has been represented by t issessments, the assessments of"ot r: -c property have been arbitrarily de reased. The- figures of the statement. is given below demonstrate the faulti-- _ ness of our system of assessments:: Beal Estate. Personal Railroada - Property. 1888........ ~ 4,621 *~,3,9 1,4,7 1887..... . ,3 4I36~ I1,9 1886.8...... 8 - 41,86,145 1.885......86,1142 42,886.288 652,4 1884........487142 47,060,875152,45 1883.......,867,440 48,842,233 128216 1880.........079 45,804,063 W 121,0 1879......... 067 85,592,790 13-7,0 1878......... 76 89,574,a58 7,32,10 - 1877 ..83.270,99s 828646,2.7 1876-...86,86,002 4316,1 667,5 1875..... 86,187,820 4050,376 6.4732 1874.....98 7,218 40,791,005 ,6,9!. 1873.....87,794,05 43,944,. 709.8,7 1872......116,884,757 46,3590,112 10,721,8 1271.11.2.84,148 5.5,096,946 -... 1870.....92,806,417 .46,190;822 %6793ZGI *Railroads included iA .personal property. TOTALs. 1888........................1454) - 18C............................ 14194,7 1883............................104L347 188............................14 0,4708 1884............. ..........4...3 1880.........................5L8 1889..........................16,60854 188..............................., 2,63 1877................................ gran 1876.................... 710,8 1877.................... _............ 12,2,3 1873................................ 6 1872.............................17.,9 1871......... .....................145 9-8 180....................................21 ~ Frank L.eslie's Popular Monthly for April. The current (April) number of Frank. Leslie's Popular Monthly contains fully a dozen elaborately illustrated articles, any one of which is worth buying the magazine for. The Senate and. - it Leaders" is discussed in bright, gossipy style by Frederick Daniel, and nearly a score of portraits and views accomp any the text. Wmi Hosea Ballou des cribes the Tennessee Blue-grass region and its thoroughbred horses, together - with the -historic homes of Pr'esidents Polk and Andrew Jackson. The won ders of Edison's perfected phonograph and graphophone are brilliantly set forth in Artnur V. Abbott's paper entitled "A Voice from the Past," with the best pictures that have ever been published in connrection with this sub-' ject. An excellent account of the Union League Club of Chicago, with its palatial new home, is furnished by Lieutenant Bassett. Alfred H.Nuern sey's series of historical papers on Frederick. the Great is continued, Sophie Worthington gives picturesque " "Notes on Nuremberg"; Andrew S.* Fuller studies "The Domestic Life of Prehistoric Amiericans". in their pot tery-ware; the celebration of the new Constitution of Japan is illustrated and ~ described in an interesting letter; and -. the hist ory of "The Umbrella" is as entertaining as it is seasonable. The short stories and poems of the number are by favorite magazine writers, 'in cluding Lucy Hooper, Ella Wheeler Wiloox, Charles Henry Webb, Franes B. Currie, and others. UNI VEILsITY OF THE SOUTHLAND A Great Methodist College te be Estab lished at Tecumnseh, Ala. TECUM -AL., March 20.-Bluff ton, Ala., a- munificent gift of $500,000 to -Methodist Episcopal Church for t -tion of an educa. tional institut known as the Univer sity of the Son nd. Rev. C. L.Manu . D. D., who has(tin charge, says that $1,500,000 will hp.expended on the - main building, h will be 30e by 300 feet, and se stories in hih with an inner co .0 ets The material to be -swhitemaA ble, granite and saro will be broken April ~~ad~ia' n the building pushed Jy. .