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ESTABLISHED 18650- NEWB3ERRY9 S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTI~ME .19.-PIE~.OAYA DEATH OF GENERAL BONHAM. A Noble Carolnian Gone to His Reward A Long Life Comes at Last to a Sud den End-Found Dead in his Red at the Haywood White Sulphur Springs-A Brief Sketch of Gov. Bonham's Distinguished Career. [Special to News and Courier.j ASHEvILLE, August 27.-The guests of the Haywood White Sulphur Springs Hotel at Waynesville, N. C., were shocked this morning when it was reported at 6.30 that Ex-Gqvernor Bonham was dead. He left the parlor last night apparently very well, but at about 5 o'clock this morning he was seized with a violent hemorrhage, caused by the bursting of a blood vessel, and died before any one knew of it, which was not until the porter went to his room at 6 o'clock. The night wp.tchman went by his door at 4o'clock and it was closed, but at 6 the body was found lying in the room. His remains were dressed by the hotel authorities and friends, and at 12 o'clock, after the arrival of the Ashe ville train, were embalmed by an under taker. The following escort of gentlemen left Waynesville on the afternoon train with the remains: Rev. Dr. J. S. Cozby, of Newberry, Col. Clifford Lanier, of Montgomery, Ala, Major W. W. String fellow, of Waynesville, Mr. Theron Earle, of Greenville, and Messrs E. K. Palmer, W. R. Mullet, and A. M. Aiken, Jr. Mrs. Royster, Mrs. Singleton and Mrs. Earle furnished beautiful flowers for the casket. The remains will reach Columbia to-morrow at 4.45 P. M. THE NEWS IN COLUMBIA. COLUMBIA, August 27.-It was at 10.30 o'clock this morning that Mr. W. E. Gonzales, private secretary of th9. Governor, received a dispatch Governor Richardson from the p prietor of the hotel at Waynesville, N. C., announcing that- .Ex-Governor Bonham had been found 'd in his bed this morning. Mr. Gon;kes no tifiedsMayor McMaster and Mr. M. T. Bartlett, secretary of the railroad com mission, who broke the news to Mrs. Bonham. He sent a dispatch to Gover nor Richardson at the New York Hotel, New York, and telegraphed Adjt Gen. Bonham, the eldest surviving son of the deceased, who was on his way to -Columbia, the dispatch reaching hi'm at Greenwood. The State and Federal flags on the State House were ordered to be placed at half-mast. In 'response -to, an --inquirY frAm, Waynesville as to what must be d6ne Mr. Gonzales sent the dispach which hasalready been bulletined to The News and Courier. It is very probable that the remains of the Ex-Governor will be brought to Colnmbia on a special train arriving here to-morrow. Governor Boham was 76'years old lst Christmas Day. He had been in -very feeble health for -years past, al though up to the date of his departure for the Haywood White Sulphur Springs, at Waynesville, a few days ago, he was able to give partial atten - tion to the duties of his office as chair man of the board of railroad commise sieniers. PREPARATIONS FOR THE FUNERAL. COLUMBIA, August 27.-The remains of Governor Bonhami will reach Co * lumbia on the Greenville train at 4.40 to-morrow afternoon. Thefisneral ser vices will be conducted at Trinity Church .on Friday, at 10 a. ni., by the R.ev. A. B. Mitchell, and the interment will be in the Baptist Church yard by the side of his two sons. The following gentlemen will act as pallbearers: Honorary-Col. Thomas Taylor, Col. John T.Sloan, Sr. Col. A. D. Goodwyn, Col. Nat Heyward, the Hon. L. F. Youimans, Capt. J. H. Brooks, Mayor F. W. McMaster and Col A. P. Butler. Junior-Wade H. Manning, Col John T. Sloan, Jr. -Col ID. Cardwell, Co]: Wilie Jones, Mr. AlIen J. Green, Dr. Lewis G. Wood, Capt. C. J. Iredell and Mr. D. H. Crawford. Adjt Gen. Bonham reached Colum bia this afternoon. The family are much scattered, but all will be here on Friday. GEN. BONHAM'S FAMI1LY. Governor Bonham had lost two sons and a daughter. The sons, Richard G. and James B. Bonham, were as gallant men as ever graced South Carolina. Mrs. Bonham and the following child ren survive him: Mrs. Bobert Aldrich, of Barnwell. M. L. Bonham, Jr., Miss Annie E. Bonham, Miss Julia Bonham,: Win. B. Bonhamn, Thomas S. Bonham, Miss Petite Bonham and Frank P. Bonhanm. MR. BONH AM'S CH ARACTER. I The news of Governor Bonhamn's death was received in Columbia with deep regret. Every one knew the knightly man upon whom in his prime South Carolina had showered her honors so freely. All knew his courage. his patriotism, his inflexible devotion to principle. Nor were there any who had not recognized in him a type of what was best in old Carolina. Glover nor Bonham's friends were devoted to him. Kindly and warm, of superb courtesy, high in mind and rich in experience, he commanded the aflec tion of young and old. He was a patriot in every fibre and had an unshakable faith in South Carolina and South Carolinians. In the early days of the present poli tical crisis he used to declare that he knew his people and that no matter .what the outlook might be they would in the end hold to their old faith. Few who knew him will doubt that he would have chosen to die as he has done, upon the threshold of a new era in his be loved State, rather than cross it and dwell in a land where old services are deemed a reproach, where there's no room for high aspiration or tolerance for the lofty ideals of the olden days. ASHEVILLE'S TRIBUTE. ASHEVILLE, August 27.-The remains of Gen. Bonham were brought here this afternoon by the committee of South Carolinians and citizens of Waynesville They were carried to an embalmer, where they will stay until to-morrow I morning. A message was wired to the Hon. C. D. Blanton, mayor of Asheville, by the mayor of Waynesville, inform ing him of the death of Governor Bon ham, and that his remains would be sent home by way of this city. As soon as practicable Mayor Blan ton conferred with Major W. E. Breeze as to the manner of paying Asheville's tribute to the distinguish dead. Itwas decided to appoint a committee of prominent people to accompany the re mains to the South Carolina line. Mayor Blanton accordingly ap pointed the following committee, who will act as pallbearers: Mayor C. D. Blanton, chairman; Gen. Theodore S. Davidson, Major W. E. Breeze, Col. Frank E. Cox, Col. Edward Croft, Capt. V. E. McBee, Gen. T. L. Cling man, Col. L. M. Hatch, H. E. Wright, T. Rawls, Gen. Pierce M. B. Young, Capt. E. P. McKissick, R. M. Furman, J. P. Kerr and the Rev. Jarvis Burton. Profound regret is manifested here at the death of the old hero, and many reminiscences are being related here to night of his noble deeds in war and in peace. E. P. M'K. A BIOGRAPAICAL SKETCH. The citizens of Charleston, as of all South Carolina, were grieved to hear of the.sudden death of Gen. Milledge L. Bonham at Haywood, White Sulphur Springs, yesterday morning. The very mention of the name, to those of piddle age, brought a flood of sad but jorious recollections, for Gen. Bonham played a distinguished part as citizen and soldier in South Carolina before her foreign or domestic reconstruction, when she was the peer of the proudest of the States. And outside of the State the fame of the Bouhams does not rest entirely on the millitary and Congres sional services of *him whom South Carolina now mourns, for his brother, one of the great trio, Crockett, Travis and Bonham, will be remembered until the heroic defence of the Alamo is for gotten. Milledge Luke Bonham was born in Edgefiqld district, South Carolina, May 6, 1815. He received a classical educa tion, graduating at the South Carolina Co1L64&1is&h: 21 swithdhe ae ond honors 'of his class. Singularly enough, Charles P. Sullivan, who took the first honor, was afterward defeated by Gen. Bonham in an election for Representative in the 35th Congress. Young Bonham began the study of law, but was interrupted in 1835 by the Seminole war, in whieh he immediate ly volunteered, rendering efficient ser vice as an aide to Gen. Bull and as Ad jutaot General of the South Carolina brigade. The war over, he returned to his law studies, was admitted to the Bar in Columbia in 1837, and comn menced practice at Edgefield Court House. He was eminently successful in his profession, which he prac ticed with honor and profit until the breaking out of the Mexican war in 1846. He served in that war with dis tinguished gallantry, commanding.the 12th regiment of United States infan try and having Winfield S. Hancock as his adjutant. Resuming the practice of law he was soon elected solicitor for the Southern circuit, which he filled from 1848 to 1850. Meanwhile he had become major general of the State mili tia, had served four years in the Legis lature and was steadily growing in public favor. In 1856 he was elected Representative in the 35th Congress as a "State's Rights Democrat," receiving 1.600 majority over Charles P. Sulli van, and was re-elected to the 36th Congress without opposition, serving from December 7, 1857 until he with drew with the other members of the South Carolina delegation December 21, 1860. Gen. Bonham served as a commissioner from South Carolina to Mississippi and took a prominent part in the secession movement. At a mass meeting for the discussion held at Abbeville, then one of the great centres of political influence in the State, Gen. Bonham made perhaps the most eloquent and effective speech of his life, which went far towards con vincing those few who were still doubt ful of the expediency, for none probably then doubted the right, of secession. Upon the secession of South Caroli na, Gen. Bonham was detailed as major general to command the South Carolina troops. At the first call to arms he hurried on to Virginia, and was ordered by Governor Pickens to report to Governor Letcher, Virginia, who detailed him to report to Gen. Lee. He was appointed brigadier general, and was placed in command of the 1st brigade, 1st corps of the then army of the Potamac, consisting at Bull Run of Kershaw's 2>d, Williams's 3d, Bacon's 7th and Cash's 8th regiments South Carolina volunteers; of Shield's and Del Kemper's batteries, and of several companies of Virginia cavalry under Col. Radford. Gen. Lee writes him on May 22: "I need not call the attention of one as ex perienced as yourself to the necessity of preventing the troops from all inter ference with the rights and property of the citizens of the State, and of entorc ing rigid discipline and obedience to or ders. But it is proper for me to state to you that the policy of the State at present is strictly defensive. * * * Great reliance is placed on your discre tion and judgment in the application of Gen Bonham acted with rare judge iment and conspicuous gallantry at thE battles of Blackburn's Ford and Bull Run. Gen. Lee's "great reliance" on his "discretion" was not displaced, and Gen. Beauregard, in his official report of the battle of Bull Run, returm thanks "to Brigadier Gens. Bonhan and Ewell and to Col. Cocke and the officers under them for the ability shown in conducting and executing the retrograde movementson Bull Run, directed in my orders of the 8th of July-movements on which hung the fortunes of the army." Of the conduct of his nien Gen. Bon ham thus reports of Gen. Beauregard: "I shall find it difficult to do justice to the fortitude, the patriotism and the steady courage of the officers and men composing my command, though their hard labors of several weeks in the trenches at Fairfax Court House; the falling back from that place to Bull Run and their occupation of the trench es for four successive days through all changes of weather, much of the time without food and entirely without cov ering; their readiness to meet the foe at any odds at Fairfax and the willingness to encounter him at all times at Bull Run command my highest admira tion." Gen. Bonham was in turn called thence to received the highest office in her gift-that of Governor of South Carolina. At the expiration of his term as Governor, in 1864, Gen. Bonham re turned to the Confederate army, in %%ich he was reappointed brigadier general, and served to the end of the war. Broken in fortunes but not in spirit he resumed the practice of law after the war, served in the Legislature in 1865 and 1866, and in 1868 was elected a dele gate to the National Democratic Con vention. His valuable services to the State as railroad commissioner, which office he held at the time of his death, are well known and need not be dis cussed here. Among the most conspicuous figures at the recent ceremonies at the unviel ing of the Lee monumedt at Richmond was the tall and soldierly form of this .veteran so'dier and civilian of the dead Confederacy, and very warm was the greeting he received from his old Caro lina comrades and his many distin gushed associates of the Confederate Congress and the Army of Northern Virginia. The witchery of his courtly manners, the warmth and loyalty of his friend ship,. his ardent patriotism, his legal sented that type of South Carolina gen tleman which is associated mainly with the past, but which it Is to be hoped will still survive elsewhere than in man's memories and - the novelist's page. These virtues and graces were eminently characteristic of Gen. Bon hamn, and endeared him to his intimate friends, while they commanded the respect and esteem of the multitude. How to Place a Pin. [The Railway Age.] If it is a sin to steal a pin it is still worse to cause other men to curse by reason of getting pricked in handling papers carelessly pinned together. Evidently this is the opinion of Mr. Carlton Hillyer, the well-known audi tor of the Georgia Railroad company, for he has the kindly thoughtfulness to send out to his correspondents a printed slip headed "How to pin pa pers together in such- a manner that any person handling them may es cape injury from the pin," which reads as follows : Remember the golden rule : "Do un to others as you would that they should do unto you." The point of the pin should be cov ered. The best place for the pin is the upper left hand corner of the papers. The pin should point downwards to the perpendicular at an angle of about 45 degres.. Take care that the point of the pin does not come out either on the under side of the papers or on the upper side. The point of the pin should always be between the papers. Making a hold use of language ,ve might say : Put the pin in the north west corner, pointing to the southwest with its point covered. Degrees Women have Taken. M. Bourdeau, a Paris correspondent writes, has caused a list to be made out of the number of women who have taken degrees at the schools of the different faculties since 18636. The total is 202, and includes 35 in medicines, 69 in mathematics and other sciences, 67 in classics and belles lettres, 10 in both classics and sciences, one in pharmacy and one obtained the degree of L L.D. Of these degrees 102 were obtained in Paris and 102 in the provinces. The first degree obtained by a woman in France was given in 1866 to Mlle. Daubie, who had passed the examina tion for it in 18.50 at Lyons. Light and Easy. Warden : "We generally try to give our prisoners work of the sort to which they are used. What was your busi ness?" Prisoner : "I was understudy for 'Hamlet' in a travelling company." Still Weaing His Last Year's Suit. Tomdik: "They say there is very little change in gentlemen's clothes foi the coming fall." McClommy : "WVell, mine are a trifh the worse for wear. That's all the change there'll be in mine." OATHS AND BLOWS. An Ugly Scene Enacted in the Nationa Congress. [Augusta Ch ronlcle. j WASHINGTON, August 27.-Ther was a genuine riot and rough and turn ble fight in the House to-day. Indeed, the scenes on the Republicar side of the House were never equalle( even in a beer garden. It came about early. Mr. McAdoo of New Jersey (Democrat), criticiset Mr. John Cannon severely for his reso lution of yesterday. Mr. Cannon re, torted in the VILEST, FILTIIIEST LANGUAGE language which no decent paper would print. Indeed, i; was so dirty that mer blushed with shame and women fied from the galleries. Mr. Enloe asked that the language be taken down in order that M. Can non might be censured. Mr. Ree%l ruled him out of order. Mr. Enloe ap pealed and the roll call was ordered. MASON CURSES CANNON. At this moment Mr. Mason, an Illi nois Republican, who has been leading the fight against the lard bill rushed down the aisle to Mr. Cannon and said, sotto voice, that his family was in the gallery, and none but a dawned dirty tramp would have used such lan guage. Mr. Mason was itching for a fight, and Mr. Cannon fearing him, retired without a word in reply. CONFIRMED THE EPITHET. Mr. Wilson, of Washington, (Repub lican), turned to Mr. Mason and told him he should not have used such lan. guage. "Yes, he should," said Mr. Beck. with, of New Jersey, another Republi can, "Cannon is nothing but a damned lying tramp. He put my name on his black list and I was here." "If you were, it was the first time you have been in your place," retorted Mr. Wilson. "LIAR" AND BLOWS. "You are a liar," blurted out Mr. Beckwith. "You are another," cried Mr. Wil son. "You are a damn lying Washington - - -," yelled Mr. Beckwith. With this Mr, Wilson hit out from the shoulder and landed a blow on Mr. Beckwith's breast. Mr. Lehlback tried to *part tbem. Mr. Williams, of Ohio, rushed down the collar, when Mr. 13eckwith let into him. Mr. Williams threw up his hand and cried, "Stop, I am only a peace maker." DEMOCRATS ENJOY IT. For a few moments it looked as though the fighting would become general. The Democrats were laughing and shouting. It was fun for them, but the Republicans were fighting and scram bling like dogs. Mr. Reed called out the sergeant-at arms, who, with his mace, soon re gained order,. and the fighters retired from the floor. A DEGRADING SCENE. It was a scene of the mo'st degeadina character all through. Mr. Reed was sustained, and Mr. Cannon escaped censure. The lard bill, however, did not pass. It is yet pending, and the Southerra men are making a gallant fight. They have hopes yet. A Female Bull Fighter. The heroine of the hour just now ii Lisbon is a German girl, Fraulein Jo hannah Maestrick. Fraulein Maes trick was born near Berlin, but wen; with her parents as a child to Portugal When she was seventeen an imupres sario, struck with her size and beauty offered to train her as a female bul fighter. The agent sent his pupil, wh< is not yet twenty, to compete at the show of female beauty which tool place this spring at Lisbon, when shi carried off the first prize. The adver tisemnent proved an excellent one, fo: ever since the impressario has beei bombarded with letters from all classe wishing to know when the beautifu "torera" is to make her debut. Shi has not yet appeared iD an arena, bu last week she came out in a trial figh at Oporto. A huge crowd coilected t< see the unusual sight. The young lada quickly laid two bulls in the sand an< strode off, followed by a band of music amid thunders of applause. Crowds of people collected before the window: of the hotel at which the "torera" wat staying, and far into the night she wa: obliged to appear on the balcony ii response to the calls for her. Against Ingaill. ATCHISON, Kansas, August 26.-Thi Farmers' Alliance and Knights of La Ibor of this city met as the people's con vention yesterday and nominated thre Democrats and one Republican fo county offices and one Democrat an< one Republican for the Legisoture The convention unanimously adjptei the St. Louis platform and the fo1low ing resolution in addition: Resolved, That it is the sense of thi convention that nominees for the Legis islature stand pledged not to- vote fc the return of John J. Ingalls to th United States Senate. Hard Lot of the Greenback. "It's awfully hard," said the Fiv Dollar Bill, as lhe was borrowed for tb hundredth time, "to go through lifeer tir a loan." FOOL THE PEOPLE. I Bill Arp Says That It Is the Motto of the Politicians. [Atlanta Constitution.] Another howl from the Grand Arniv of the Republic. They had a great gathering in Bostou last week, and nearly all the speakers yelled for more pensions, and bigger ones. The speak ers were all politicians, and the old sol diers and all their kinfolks have got votes and want money. A politician will ride any hobby to catch votes. I don't believe that the solid people of the North. the business men and taxpayers, favor this pension plunder, but they can't stop it. These annual meetings of the Grand Army of the Republic may have a little patriot ism, but are mainly for politics and plunder. More than half the Grand Army were foreign hirelings and sub stitutes who fought for the money and nothing else, and these are the fellows who are drawing most of the pensions. They were hospital rats and camp followers and teamsters, and got sick easy, and have played sick and dis abled ever since. Their numbers prove what a set they were, nearly 3,000,000 against 700,000, -and they have 600,000 pensioners still alive and kicking. Sam Jones told them up in Missouri that if our boys bad have known how bad we were whipping them they would have fought on until now. "You fellers," said he, "are drawing all the pensions, and that's right. You fought for money, and you ought to have it. Our boys fought for patriotism-for love of their country, and they've got that yet. You never conquered it out of 'em, and you .never will. So it's all right. Every soldier ought to have what he fought for. That is very fine sarcasm, but still I am not happy as long as some of that pension money comes out of me. If the war is over how many years must the South pay out $40,000,000 to Northern soldiers and draw none for her own? If we could pick out the patriots who really needed a pension we wouldn't say a word, but 'it's a Northern outrage to continue this business. It is an outrage on the North as well as the South, and if the Alliance don't stop it, it Won't be stopped.- The Alliance can do some big things if they will. The nation can't stand this ex-. travagance. How can the tariff be re formed and reduced with an empty treasury?. Mr. Cleveland left it fu'l, but it's empty now. Where is -te money 'to come from to build ware houses and advance 80 per cent. upe a buys $100 worth of goods in a year ' sides his meat and bread. Of that $1; he pays $40 in tariff to the governme:t at Washington but does not pay more that $5 in tax to his own State govern ment. Judge Wright was once a meir ber of Congress and told me in a whis per that if the farmers of this co'untry knew how much tariff they paid cui their hats and shoes and clothing and axes anid hoes and plates and knives and forks and paper and pens and lamps and kitchen ware and every other ware they Would rise up to a man and shoulder their muskets and sweabr by.the eternal they wouldnt stand it. He said it wouldn't be safe to let them know it. Judge Wright is on the side of the toilers-the bread winners and the farmers. I wish it was so that he could join the Alliance, for I know that his heart is with them. I believe he would join if it wan't for that oath of secrecy. A man told me that he had joined and was writing thunder and lightnIng for the Alliance paper, but I reckon he is mistaken, for I remem ber that about 35 years ago, when the know-knothing party wvas about to take the country, the Judge took me out behind the house and advised me, as a friend, to keep out of it, for it was contrary to the princij:les of a free gov. ernent to have a secret, oath-bound -politics organization. I didn't take his advice, but like a young fool joined themi, and was sworn in one dark night in the top loft of Chambers' millhouse, five miles from town, and never got home till after midnight, and told my wife a story about pressing business de taining me down town, but next morn ing she got up before I did and found flour and cobwebs all over my clothes, and I had to tell her the truth, and how we were going to keep any more foreigners from becoming citizens of our great Republic, and our motto was that of Washington, who, the night before a great battle, said, "P-ut none but Americans on guard to-night." But Aleck Stephens and Judge Wright took the field against our party because it was secret, and they gave us hail Columbia, and broke it up. It must be some other Wright-but not "our Gus." Our Gus is an old I"settled" man. I like that word "set tled." Uncle Sam says folks ain't much account till they get "settled.' He said he would hunt us up a settled 'oman for a cook, for these young f1y up the creeks dident know their owr -minds and wouldent stay anywhert long at a time. Judge Wright is a set StIed man. But it don't matter about the secrecy if the farmers will reform things. We want them to turn the rascals out o. office everywhere and begin a systen of economy in government. Reforn the tariff and educate the people so tha they will know exactly what the tarif r is, and howv much it takes out of thei e pockets to protect the manufacturer and maybe they will stop it withou the shotgun. Let every schoolbo: know how much less his pocketknif' would have cost him and he will rais< e a racket before he can vote. L- The politicians are making a big fus aoutn the monand snayn the gonvern inent must expand the circulation. Make money cheaper by making more of it-sorter like we did during the war when it took $10 to buy a bunch of yarn and ,2ol) to buy a pair of cotton cards. In January, 15 I paid $3,000 for a little o!d measly cow that gave about a half a gallon of milk a day; but that was enough for a poor little half starved war-born baby, whose mother's milk had dried up from anxiety, while running from the everlasting yankees and dodging their hirelings like a scar ed rabbit dodges the hounds. They say we must have more money, and they make the people believe it will be divided out among them whether they earn it or not-another case of forty acres and a mule. Fool the people that's the idea. They are raising a big fuss because the national banks are not allowed to lend money on farm mort gages and I hope they will have that law repealed for it is of no consequence. No bank is fool enough to lend money on a mortgage. Will Howard is a big banker in town-a private banker-and he is a not prohibited but I'll bet$10 he hasn't got a mortgage in his vault. Banks lend money on business integri ty with a goqd endorser or a collateral that can be converted into money in thirty days. It takes eighteen months to foreclose a farni mortgage, and if the farmer dies it takes a year longer. George Truit, of Troup country, has made a grand success at farming. The State Alliance visited his farm the other day and George said he began with nothing since the war and has made all that he has got at farming, and that economy and diligence and constant care and watchfulness will do more for the farmer than all the legislation that can be devised. You can pick out farm ers here there and in every county who have by hard work got ahead and pros pered while their neighbors have been waiting on the Lord or luck or on the politicians. There isn't a country upon earth where the farmer is so surely re warded for his industry as he is right here. They had a big camp meeting up at Pine Log last week, and just such. a spread of good things as the farmers 'took there every day was never seen before. Such a wealth of chicksns and chicken pies, and roast pig, and mutton, and kid, and potatoes and pies and cakes and jellies and pickles and wine, and all were home-raised and home made. Will the good Lord make us all thankful for what we have got and in cline our hearts to quit grumbling. BILL ARP. HARRISON NOT A WINE-BIBBER. This is Called the Dryest Administratiqs Since Hayet. LFroin the New York World.) CLEVELAND, 0., August 25.-There has been some controversy among the vari6us temperance organizations over the question as to whether President Harrison was a wine-bibber. Some of the disputants have stated that the quantity of wines censumed in the White House was disgraceful. In order to get at the true inwardness of the matter Mrs. Ellen J. Phinney, of this city, Prisident of the Non-Partisan Na tion W. C. T. U., recently addressed a letter to Mrs. Lydia H. Tilton, Presi dent of the District of the of Columbia branch of the Union, asking her to furnish the bottom facts. Mrs. Tilton has replied that "while jit is true that wine has been furnished at State dinners by the present Ad ministration, and by every other ex cept during this Administration fur nished wine the example of the Har risons, Wanamakers, Windloms, Mil lers, Proctors, Huistons, Hepburbs, Dorchesters, Fosters, Morgans and many others have a restraining in fluence. Scarcely any of the men selected by President Harrison as his advisers ever take wine. Blaine is now a total abstainer. President Harrison does not take wine at any of the recep tions, and Mrs. Harrison never under any circumstances anywhere takes wine. Never since the days of Mrs. Hayes has so little wine been taken at public official receptions in Washing ington during the present Administra tion." The New South. [From the Railroad Record-] The Atlanta -Southern Industrial Record's compilation of new Southern industries for the first six months of 1800 shows a total of 1,808 and great activity throughout the whole South. One hundred and eight cotton and woolen mills were established during the past six months, Georgia leading with twenty-three North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama and Texas followed with eighteen each. INinety-seven flour and grist mills were established. Ninety-four foundries and machine shops were established. Tennessee and Alabama leading with eighteen each. Thirty-five iron blast furnaces were established: Georgia, eight; Alabama; ten, and Tennessee, eight. Seventy-eight mining companies, fif teen potteries, sixty-five cottonseed oil mills, sixteen rolling mills, three hun dred and seventy wood-working estab lish ments, and many other industries were established Fifty-three electric light works, Georgia leading with twenty-five; fifty ice factories, one hundred street rail way companies, forty-five water works, and very many sewer and other muni cipal improvements on a large scale were instituted. The Fartner Aroused. The manwith the hoe is cultivating a new field this year, the political A COLORED CAMP MEETING. Remarkable Narrative of the Fate of Pha raoh and His Hosts by the Earnest Presiding Elder. [New York Herald.] MOUNT HOLLY, N. J., August 22. The regular camp meeting of the col ored people, which is held every sum wer in the Tirmbuctoo woods, began last night, and it promises to be a howling success. It is one of the few camp meetings of the original pattern left, and this alone gives it an interest that it would not otherwise have. Many of the modern camp meetings are run for revenue only, and the col lection basket is passed around every time a hymn is sung, but this is not of that kind. Its object is the conver sion of the -wicked. The collections are a secondary matter, and as a rule but little money is receivEd-hardly enough to pay the preachers. But this does not lessen their zeal a particle. The pulpit is a rude structure built of rough boards, and resembles an im provised eating stand more than any thing else. To the left is a beacon fire of logs on a platform ten feet high., which throws a weird light on the scene. The platform is covered with earth to prevent the boards from tak ing fire, and in this way the grounds are illuminated.l. The feature of the camp is the sing ing, which i- led by an elderly man with a sonorous voice. H under the ippitAei$g the crowd, which is composed of hundreds of col ored people of all ages and conditions, who have come from miles around in wagons and on foot to attend the-camp meeting. Many of them remain for a week or more, lodging with friends in the score of cabins in the vicinity of the grounds. THEY MAKE THE FOREST RING. The services begin with singing, and all participate. Refrains are always popular, and when the time comes the crowd join in with a vim that makes the woods ring:- A popular one was: Didn't old Pharaoh git lost? Git'lott! gitlost! Didn't old Pharaoh git lost? In de Red Sea. "You 'member 'bout Pharaoh broth ering, I suppose?" said the "Presiding Yelder," as he is called, flourishing:his arms in-the air and looking confidently at the audience. .He- is tall, slender and very black, and -has a way of ex pressing himself that pleaces his hearers and at times stirs them upto the high est-pitch of enthusiam "You 'mem Hit will show you dat hit doan pay to play smart wid de Lord. Some of you han't converted yit. Yousitstilliasin and misery, but you think you is all right 'cause you feels well; but when de sweat of wraf breads out onter you, den look out ! Dat's de way hit was wid -Pharaoh. He was a livin' high down dere in Egypt land, wearin' his bes' close on week days and loafin' 'round seegyar .stores all de time. When Sunday come hit made no d.if ference to Pharaoh. He jis.. geared:out his hos add went de same ole lick. He thought he was hot. He thought no body couldn't head him off; but de Lord did. Well, Pharaoh he giss run things to suit hisself. He call.ed de prophets by,. dar nicknames,4frowed stones at de chillen .of Isrul, and when dey come to wote on 'lection day he challenged 'em cause dey, didn't have dere papers. If anybody. wanted a bilU changed dey had to go to Pharaoh; hE had all de money dere was outside de banks, and be'ownedall de open ground and woods, and-had notices up warnin de people from gunnin' on him. No. body had no show. He was so strong in politiks aat nobody could break hi:i holt. He rode free on de kyars, and never paid no tole on de road when ht was dritin'. So you kin see how pow' ful he was. When he got on -de tickel nobody dared to run agen him. He had everything his own way. Dis is d4 way de Lord lets sinners do sometimes jiss so He kin make a bigger fool of 'eli at de end. PHARAOH'S BIG CoKTRACT. "Well, one day Pharaoh he got di contrast to make a big lot of bricks foi de gov'ment for to be uzed in buildin some big pos' offis. Pharaoh he madi deal wid de odder bidders, and when hi got dere figgers he done went undel dem an' got de job. Next day he wen1 ter Moses, who was in the brick busi ness, an' says:-'Mose, Ise got a big joi fer you and de chillun of Isrul, an' ] want you to give a bond dat you'l hustle and git it done.' "Moses said he would and afore di werk was out him and de children was doin' dar bes'. , Purty soon dar wai trubble. Pharaoh found fault 'causa dar wasn't straw 'nuf in de bricks t< make 'em hole dar shape. .Moses saih he was puttin' in as much straw as any body was, but Pnaraoh wasn't satisfied so de chillun of Israel went on a strike Pharaoh wouldn't pay 'em no mone3 for de work dey had done and dea couldn't git work in no odder yart 'cause dey didn't belong to de union and dey couldn't get no trust at d4 stores. "So Moses he got down in de mouf He went to Pharaoh to let him off or de contract, so he could work summeri else, but Pharaoh wouldn't do it. Arte awhile Moses agreed to Pharaoh-d< bill for de work he had alreddy done so he let him off. Next day Mose and de chillen of Isrul packed dar kit and started fer home. Soon as dey wa gone Pharaoh was mad 'cos he'd beel so easy wid dem,, so he calls out d troops and started after dom wid: warrant fer bein' disorderly pussons, "Mose thought he'd be follered. sa he hurried up to de Red Sea, where de Lord made a road fer him ter go through wid de chillun of Isrul. Pha raoh followed him, and when he got haf way 'cross de sea de dam broke and de whole gang was drounded. Now is der anyb<.dy here dot would like Pa raoh? If dar is let 'em stan up." NOBODY WISHED TO .BE LIKE PHA RAOH. After pausing a moment and seeing that-no one arose he continued: "Now if dar is anybody would like to be like Moses let 'em stan' up. Several among the audierice aroe, whereupon the congregation sang: Wben Moses smote de water, De chillun all pass over, And drown all Pharaoh's army, Halleloo! In a few minutes the mourners' bench in front of the pulpit was filled with seekers after salvation, while the woods resounded with: Put on de golden stockins, Dey's bound to fit yo feet, You won't have no rhoomatics When you walk up de golden street. The sable singers shouted this unsil they were tired. Then a fervent prayer followed, after which an old man stand ing besides the beacon fire started the familiar hymn: Ef you want to git over Jerdin Don't fool along de way. Ole Satan is quick and de wa When you git near d e Dry LoWN&aSlowed by this: Samuel prayed in de mornin' Samuel prayed at night; He wasn't afraid of de quick or de dead, Little Samuel he was right. CHORUS. Den walk in Samuel's way, Never mine what people De time has come far usto c And walk in Samuel's way. I By this time the beacon fire as burning low. It was near and with a parting prayer the meeting was dismissed for the afght. Force of Habit with a Womia. After shopping for the greater parto a recent afternoon a well known Biao lyn lady, with a letter in her entered . drug store. She and received apostage stamp. "Anything else to-day, ma'am quired-the clerk. "No, I think not," she "please send it to the house U-I beg pard&n, na"am sta mered the clerk, "but what is IV% wish tolave delivered?I - "Why the-4!he- Thenis the postage stamp and walkedet The clerk afterward said h d never seen a better illustration of force of habit. A Boston Girl'a Awfal Fght. [From the Philadelphia Times.} ~ In the excitement ofthe moment-the e,, two Boston girls rushed into the raging - surf, and the amount of garmett~j had managed to get rid of wouldhave struck a ballet girl dumb with envy. "Oh!" suddenly.. cried Miss Besoos- d strete, "what have I done; what wil become of~me? I am so ashamn tat my blushes are beginning' to hesa the water about me." 2 "What is it?" coldly remarkeir-~ companion, who didn't like the ideauf the.other getting ahead ofther wheii any modestyr business, was going on;. "What's got loose?" "Oh, how can I ever live to tlt~ I've come in bathing without m spectacles!" Got Its Board O e of the Log. [Chattanooga News.]. The following is related by Frank Wyatt of Rome, Ga., .who hasbeer visiting relatives at Martindale,-on the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbae4 Railroad, about thirty miles sout Chattanooga. Frank used to attend Sunday school regularly, and* sidered a truthful boy, without much naulhattonism flowing in* his veins. He says: "My cousin owns a watermill, and in removing some obstructions found an immense log imbedded in the stream, which must have been submerged for a number-of years. The log had tobecuen. in two to remove it, and much to our surprise we found it hollow, although it had every appearance of being solid. ~ One of the negroes while examining the log looked into the hollow and thought he saw something moving. He began using his axe, and soon had the log cut into another place. "Imagine our amazement when we discovered a live catfish which had grown to an enormous size and length, - and was so completely wedged in the hollow as to be unable to move except ~ to open its mouth and wiggle its tail.< The fish was very lively and apparent ly mn the enjoyment of excellent health. "The question is how did the fish.get into the log, as the only means of Ing ress or egress we could discover was. a small, round hole not more than two inches in diameter. We surmised that he must have entered into little open ing when no larger than a minnow and grow great in his solitary confine- ; ment." Geergia's Fair Mail Carier. Miss Mattie Hester is the United States mail carrier over the route from Condor, Laurens County, to Lothair, '5 Montgomery County Ga., a distance of forty miles throug a .pseyset- t tied region, which she 'rysstre ' times a week. her own Smail cart, carries anevler d is punctual as the sum aI~seasons sad in all weathers.