r/ - JUJUU1 WELL'S FLEA FOB PEACE, tt A FiHOBTRBVlBW OF THE WOQK d) OF tBB LEGISLATURE. " + * ni T v tb The Appeal of the " Forty " Should he In Met In Oood Fnilh?Time will Show fe Whether their Professions are re Earnest. V . * ? ^ ' J . A Reporter for ,The News a?d bH Courier opllod op SoDator J.'Vi' Born* fo JjfWOtl With Hi Pi?" ** to keep a 'watch upon general leglala- tb< V? tion. th Something over four hundred bills n? had been acted on by the Senate, of a j which about three hundred bad come I1'1 before the committees on tiu^udiciary and on incorporations, of which ho was of. a member. Work usually l?egau at 10 f?i o'clock in the morning with the sitting ,,0i of one or other of these committees, J)e< and was continued until 11 o'clock. ,st when the Senate met and continued in session till shortly after 2 o'clock. Tho |)r? judiciary committee mot every day at i"1 4.30 and somotimo9 sat for over two cos hours, and on ono occassion until tho wo meeting of tho Senate at 8 p. m. Tho Senate met nearly every night at 8 and j: continued in session till about 10 and sometimes up to 11 and 12 o'clock. . , There certainly was no waste of time ' ^ in the Senate. No set speeches wore o delivered and there was no member on either side so far as he could see who ^ wasted time in spoaking. He did not a 8 hesitate to any that ho believed tho nla Soutl Carolina Legislature was tho hardest worked legislative body in tho * ? world. Under its unwritten law it ad- ^ journod at Christmas and to do so re- U8t quired unceasing labor. Of course there was a> mass of legislation which *'us was mere routine, such as the incor- ^'1C poration of towns or amending their aer charters, or tho incorporation of rail- ,on roads and the many local matters con- '' !'c corning county government. W11( Under the present Constitution every "f . bill must relate to one subject, and . 11 consequently it was impossible to have ln e ono bill or two bills incorporating in l)0iV one Act a large number of companies, I''01 as was tho practice prior to the present ^l'l Constitution. This Legislature hud 'u' adhered pretty closely to the rule that 00,11 no charters should be issued which could be obtained from the Clerk of the Court or tho Secretary of the 8111,1 S*;ate : but the number of Acts of in- 8001 corporation which cannot he so oh- ,un' tained is considerable and many of a??' these it is scarcely possible to see a l)ua' _ way to granting under any general ^l011 \ Charleston has ulWliyw & ver^ large p*4 mass of sueh legislation to bo got [roM through with, and he pitied the Sena- 'mfi tor who over had to do this work alone. aca' E^sry person interested in a charter wishes to know exactly its progress w"? through its two bodies, and the Senate is amused sometimes to see the tele- 'M, grams rushing in upon the Charleston p'1 Senators. Personally ho was treated 1 by all of the Senate, its oilicers and y employees with the utmost courtesy, t?11"' and he had the pleasantest recollee- *'1 tions of his intercourse with them. lie tore did not believe that the errors in no?' noting amendments made by the 'ulVl Senate were the etl'eet of design. In f.arn fact he might say that he knew they ''??* wore not, inasmuch as they sometimes PrCf; occurred in bills in which no one could Cori be interested in making them. fie *''s stated this as a simple matter of justiee to the presiding oilicers and the ()f 11 clerks. In the tremendous rush to- L'um wards the end of the session and in the ^ron late hours which prevailed it was won- linc^ every ono connected with tho I to form and faction would never bring any good to bec| tho State. He advocated no sacriliee was of principle, no profession of belief as Hoi to tho wisdom of acts which they had was boon condemning, but he did think " .h that time should not he expended in Hoi sighing over the past, but instead the die bost efforts of everyone who eared for bintho State should be bent towards the out 'uturo and towards doing away with uIni II le animosities and bitterness of the 0 at four years. The dootrino of unfing hate was not sufficient nuriah- TJ ent to8upportany political party, for appi!y for all olviLlzoa people tore were not sufficient numbers M any community who cherished such < eiinfs. Provided there was no sur- 1 mder of conviction, or unworthy ricnowledgement of mistake, it should aD perfectly possible and honorable to ov rtfefc party differences and act wt gether for the gCod of the State. pi, He did'not for an instant say that an ch a cou.*8e would be successful. The m( ne may not have arrived yet when e party in power may be willing to ^ rronder a particle of its grasp upon ice, but every effort Bhould be made fa convince the people all over the fN ate that the opposition were not an nply ruled by the hope of victory or wfl eedwor office. ho: it bad been said by the Administra- we in leaders In the Legislature that e immense potvers ftestowed* Upon for 0 Governar and his Cabinet would t bo misused. Time would show, aud comparatively short time, whether ,in, is would bo the ease, if the uow j>0 filtration allowed under the terms ut, the Aet calling the Convention was 0fcj rly conducted, so us to bo a real 8t,r jistration aud not a mere mockery, !l88 sple could tell whether the Admin- on ration, or in fact any other of the a ^ form party, were in earnest in tlioir sou >fessions of fairness, or whether they OX| ended to keep themselves in power, mo t what it might. A very short time folJ uld decide the matter. wo tEAL ROMANCE IN ATLANTA. leg and New Sensation lor the Gate City? . iGirl Is Pursued and Persecuted 1,1 y a Persistent Lover. Oth horilT Barnes, of Atnluta, Ga., took ?ot light hand in an unexpected ro- f..j, uee on Christmas Eve; the details c^a which are curious and interesting. cai. s account given is as follows : Fp to a week ago one of the bright- two and most popular students at the Wilj livan & Criehton Business College jjol? \ known as Miss Corinne Maddux. amj s was a pretty little thing of 1(1, and a ? fellow students regarded the atattentions paid to her by Gilmore y,aj eman, a good looking young fellow t)f j, ) came to the school every day to jn ^ k home with her, as but a natural t.am ig. Although contrary to the rule i,oa ases of young love, the girl ap- p, red to bo terrorized rather than -Jap tsed by the devotion of her lover. . r.v?l mrently lie exercised some power- ),is influence over her. So fur as her \j pa 11 ions saw, she made no attempt p00i rebel Freeman's attentions, but lm>s, ic most intimate with her were |o'u sfied that the yirl was really per- tunu ited by her lover. They did not, qq tjver, guess the secret, and a week stre , when Miss Corino failed to ap- jn p r at the school as usual, and in- s;irv y by her companions at her board- ' * .-house elicited ..the information ; nor nu*oStio tifiTH oim? opem-cu \ i there as unceremoniously as she | Pari left the school, there was a good ;l.r<> of surprise. The girl had she had no relatives to che m she 'might have gone, and her [jrui panions could not believe that she ham accepted Freeman as a Christmas ,.um . This theory was quickly proven that he appearance of Freeman himself kort io school searching for the missing ioiniiiy uiicr- mul a while he was arranging things to then 0 a pleasant Christinas with his cutii ily, Freeman appeared at the of- 'p I After introducing himself he slnd lented a writ of habeas corpus for .Just nne Maddux. Ho told the shoritT of t,) j. lovo for the girl, and hack A'od a marriage license as his proof mon lis intentions. Ho related the eir- mas stancos of the girl's disappearance sent 3 her boarding house and school, Wei his search for her. This search, bein old the shoritT, had been rewarded big ho discovery that she was being five 1 a prisoner for immoral purposes into a house kept by her own mother, men name of the woman appears in bis writ of habeas corpus as Jennie mor mens, a woman well known to the son, ce. jail. rmod with the writ, the slieriIT A t to the Simmons woman's place, our finally found the girl locked in a men n. The Simmons woman admitted and i the girl was her daughter. For crow een years, she declared, she had and, her brought up in a respectable thin ily, nobody knowing her mother's the mo. Freeman, however, learned Cap* and used his power over her to the e her to marry him, but to prevent men from carrying out his design, fore eh would have made the girl's life told to he used for the founding of the Mr. neob Washington Franko Lutheran chu spitai and Home.." Mrs. Franko enc< il last week and?tho terms of her ocei iband's will are now to bo carried ont . The hospital anil home will get aus| nit $so,(mM). trie HB10TMA8 CRIME AND CASUALTY. \ IE RGOORD^SyUTH CAUOurilercrs, ijkMaAAMries and Liynehbn Are ?11r the Holiday Union, j>e?^?JJL'4*iQft o more the igel of death^BtAatit his shadow er this little fpu. The citizens >re startled last rfight by ten or twelve stol shots in rapid succession apd other life is cut off without a jment's preparation. Tho particulars as far as I can learn a about as follows: Last evoning, p. Kay Gregory and Mr. Jack Craw d bad been imbibing a Jittlo too lely, and became boisterous, driving jund over tbwn. They swore they ?uld. not be arrested, hut they were th arrested and put in jail. They re released shortly ou hail, when yf name up town Apparently looking some eno, as they looked in several res. It seems that they camo ough an alley near tho postoilice, J as they did so they met Chief of lice T. li. Culp on Main street and once opened fire upon him. Three ler policemen were just across tho eet and they went at once to the istunee of tho chief and opened (ire Gregory and Crawford. There was reuera' fusilade of shots, which tided like a pack of lire crackers iloding. Gregory foil to tho pave- ! nt and Crawford ran olT. It was nd that Gregory was mortally iindeu and that he was dying. Mr. [p was found to havo a wound in his and was taken to the drug store j i tho wound dressed by Dr. .lohn ] vson. The ball passed through tho ' 3k part of tho thigh and struck the * er leg, breaking the skin. I, was some time before the doctor * to Gregory ; his pistol was found ig near him and the coroner took rge of it. lie was picked up and 1 riod into tho postoilice. When the V tors arrived tln'^y found that ho had 1 shots in the buck just above the 51 at, both balls entering tho same v j, one between the shoulder blades two in tho head, one of which was ^ lancing shot. i\ Crawford ran on to L)r. M. T. 1 th's residence, who took charge im. Crawford had received a i)all is back, which went through and 1 ic out in front, one ball glanced his W d and another went into his ley. jlicemau Vinton said one of tho is grazed his hat and l'oliceinan ns said one ball passed so close to head that he felt the wind of it. r. Croyory lives near Santnc ; his ? )le were notified last uiylit by a ' sonyor and they came to town about *~ "clock. It is a very sad and unfor- e ite affair and is royretted by all. ^ lere was more drunkenness on tho l'J et last eveniny than has been seen ^ Tnion in many a day. Tho disnensold over $400 worth of whiskey, *S U ial to t?ie News arid tr'YTTtA ^ icsviilc. S. C., says : About a week w Mr. Bert Cheatham's store house P contents were burned while Mr. atharn was at supper. Mr. Tom w tison, who was visitiny Mr. Cheat- Cl , saw the fire, and saw a tioyro d liny oil. It was discovered later A the wall of the buildiny had been e isened. v l last Wednesday niylrt Mr. Nick 11 vn's dwelliny was robbed and fired, 'l re neighborhood of Blum Branch, P the parties wore arrested. One of Jl n, a neyro girl, confessed, impliiy several other negroes. 2:3 ie yirl was brought here yesterday, tl made her statement before Trial i-l ice Brunson, who committed her B Lib .liiflirn ItriinMon Ilm trii-1 Is ; to lMuin I {ranch, but some of the k claw abiding citizens, hearing that J' ked white men were congregating, t< the girl, in churge of Mr. Will h Is, to l'arksville to keep her from a g lynched. Armed men were scour- tl the country from the creek to the ' r, and Mr. Wells came near falling k die hands of thirty or forty armed a , hut dodged them, and lay out with il prisoner all night and soon this tl ning delivered her to .J ustieo Hrun- C who hurried her olT to Kdgelield ^ ripple of excitmeut was created in a town last night. Two of our young (< had been out calling on the girls, h as they were coming in they met a 'A . d of young men who were blacked, j t not suspecting their purpose, and l f< king them armed negroes, aroused ! h citizens and the lieutenant of the 1 p ers Light Infantry, who hurried to ; v armory for their guns. In tho ] H ntimo the leader of tho armed y summarily dealing with those 1' had confessed their guilt. Fortu- li ;ly for the girl the young man in t go of her evaded tho would he w :hers, and started her on her way o lie Ldgefield jail. V h.UMUIA. December-7.?A special s ?ho State from Fort Mill, S. ()., : A race riot occurred last, night s 'actory Hill, growing out of an at- t pt of four policemen to put an end c negro festival which was held on j t Hill in an empty store room, and I v ch was disturbing the people in | 'I , vicinity. The negroes became | fi roperous and it is said that one of r r number tired the first shot and i the fusillade began. Forty or shots were tired, and the result (j one negro was killed almost untly and W. W. Johnson, an oHiwounded in the arm. Great ex- ^ meat was occasioned by the alVair , more trouble luus been expected. } inquest, wad lit-1ii over nm nouy 01 i ik'.ml negro t?-ilny and tho usual } v liot. in such cases was rendered, 11 the negro cam . to his death at the ds of parties unknown. ^ inway, Dec. lio.?Infor.nation was '' sived here today that at ai Christ- 'J tree ontertaininentaitSaindy I'lain 1 irch, near (JailIivault's Kerry, in this a nty last night, quite ai serious cut; scrape occurred., It seems that ? Henry Crantham was at tho 11 rch considerably under tho inllu of liquor, and interrupted tho prolings. Mr. Floyd, the superintend- ai of the Sundaiy school, under whose fi dees the entertainment wais held, h d to restore order. Mr. Crantham h Sate. STARVATION IN NEBRASKA. , as w.clvjih?? the suffering increases ev?d xe bbydav. illyxput ? pa'ties The Farmers Are Reduced to a Strmirn Pitiable Condition of Poverty?Not a Stream of Water or a Living Spring 1,1 aWh?lo County. isuujties The suffering among the inhabitants of the drouth-blasted part of Nebraska, including three-fourths of the residents iristtnas live counties, is becoming more in>n, but a tense daily, and immediate action is lytown." uocossary to prevout many deaths by k Fiolds starvation. Threo years ago the farm, and in ors of these drouth-blighted districts hot and t'aisod a very light crop, and the past ball on- two yoars tho crops have been almost ally was total failures. Many families haven't ns were enough provisions in their homes for ^ .n be as-* one week's sustenance and no money to riuking.; purchase the necessities of life. Many ^ aplored,1 ?f the merchants here feel that they ( thought buvo aideu the poor farmers to the oxtent of their ability and are unable to do any more for thom or to sell them" ?n ?Henry goods credit. Tho sufferers cannot Ly with obtain employment, and unless they T1!1 "fximax receive aid very soon it is the general bis gun, opinion that many will starve to death, r" und re- UI,d should the weather turn /cry cold P.c upposed tuany will free/.o to death, as it is a pf iianyon fact that many aro barofooted and r1 md shot have scarcely suhiciont clothing to J1.8 uld tire, cover their nakedness. r le right A mother and her two children were \s5 ,ed the four>d dead in their little cabin last jv week, it is supposed the mother had J1 been continod to her bed by sickness Kitchen u|ul she and her two little ones starved Wigfall to death. Tho stomachs of tho childi of tho ron were opened and not a trace of :rl ;amo of feed could be found. Kitcheu There is not a stream of water in e" the au- Perkins County nor a living spring. }V1 "Wells run from GO to 200 feet deep, tho J1?' << 1 became very abusive and made At the conclusion of the oxer Mr. Floyd camo out of the ehu difficulty culminated in u frc He was cut on both checks a where. Grantham was liten to pieces, it is said, and other also received knife wounds, to say no ono was killed, and the parties are thought to bo ously wounded. No other ct ro ported. Darlington, Dec. 2d.?ci passed off quietly at DarlingU tragedy occurred at "Kell near Hartsville. Joe and Fran had a row with Hayne Kelly the disturbance Kelly was s killevl by F^auk Fields. The tered v.he frontal bono, and K( stauding so-aear that his brai blown o;it* No u. urticulars ca certained *11 three were di The rjfuirMs greMti.v v. h. d< as ail wVfc whlletnou"awci will i of. HoneA Htii, Dec. 25.Lomax, colored, had u diflicull W. C. Branyon this morning, got drunk this afternoon, took went to Branjon's residence ; newcd the difficulty with tue si intention of killing Branyon. 1 was too quick for the negro ti him twice before the negro eoi Dne ball struck the negro in tl breast and the other penetrat left thigh. 1 Ho will recover. WiLLisroN, Dec. 25.?Dan J shot and Killed instantly Jim ihis afternoon in the outskirts own. They quarreled over a j :krds. All wore negroes. J las not yet boon caught, but -horities are in pursuit of him. Laurens, Dec. 25.?Alf c iolorod, shot and ' killed one :olorcd, at Clinton yesterday. < s in jail and claims'Rilli: icc'.dental, but rumor nas it tin vas a conspiracy. s IKNATOlt HITLICK'H PARK le Closes His Political Career Dinner lo His Colleague) The Washington correspom ho New York Morning Ad\ 'ives the following account of a endured to his colleagues by S lut'ler, of this State. In reh ho familiar story of the Butl 'umcron ulliunce, the correal alls into au error as to the give f the original Senator Iiutle id such a good turn for old lamcron. It was Judge Andre ns Butler, who represented Carolina between 1850 and 1800, ufereuco to whom Senator ( umner made such a furious oni s to provoke a caning from i . Brooks, who was a nephew oi Eutler. It was Col. Pierce AI. Will'*1.. iLT. * j Palmettc ar, and he was also u UGtO resent Senator : senator miner 01 oouui mi 'hose Senatorial career is oming to a close, gave a fs inner to a number of his eoll t the Country Club to-night. S lr. Butler will be a great loss, ery popular in the Senate, am lost cultured member of the ailing from the South. But arently is without political pre ud as he is comparatively poo jenis nothing for him but rei outh Carolina and vegetate, he Tillmanities in the asce here is no chance for him at Sutler has been a strong anti tnil man, so he cannot expeci \ken care of by the adminisl t would be a nice thing for Ck ) overlook the fact that Scnat sr has honestly differed fror nd provide some dignified pli he chivalious South Can towover, the President is m ind of a man. Mr. U.u$I?x "ligl show with a Republican Pr Bon Cameron had any intluc liere arc several places like lnt lommissioner that have to be li iemocrats. '* The dinner of Senator But; very lovely affair, and tin moling that Don Cameron dis 1 a speech was said to be all 'he remarkable friendship fc laracron and Butler, which 1 erred to at to-night's dinne egun in rather a dramatic waj resent Butler's uncle, Pierce ho was one of the leading mei en ate in the lifties, and old hnneron .vere great friends, liinon had been elected to the ver Col. John VV. Forney, and .... r i> . ..i ;.. .... wi I n \v V.? 1 I VilliJ * dilliV VJ II d to contest Cameron's rijfht eat. Col. 1'ierce Dutlor, wh< huneron, j?ot up and objected keystone State washing thei inen in the Senate, and rnovi ho whole subject be laid on th rhich was agreed to. Dutlor ver to Oiimeron immediately oird and said: "Simon, you 01 end me a bottle of whiskey 1 troko.' " 'By jovo,' said Cameron, end you a barrel,' and he di his ?food turn Don Cameron, \s eeded his father in the Sonata o seat the present Sutler w ? as contesting for a seat in the 'hus the son paid the debt atber, and the present Senatoi eeeivod hi.; seat by a Kepublica ? Mr. .1. He try Davis, of Co lied in the hospital on Christn lino-. Mr. Davis was Iifty-si> f ajfo and caui'S to Columbia roni Wilniinotoa,\Del. lie was kji" of the (lov.^mor'a Cuards he war. At the eort'ineneeraei var hoenlisted In tho Hampton ,nd served thoughout it with tl nand. and although of Norther ilr. Davis was, such an arde ederate it is reflated of him tli ie was taken pi\isonoi',?^^^Ut I i mm- wiic, no lou- u uniBiiiiiH! i ofuaeil to t:iko trV?* otUft *f alio ml his iui|)risoiiiir."^Hi p, pre ovoral months lon;.^H,vcr " " therwiso havo hcci^H i0 ho lany hardships in c.^H Jonci ? Tim way to re^BO"1 the oroajjo in tho Sout h ' <' tho nctors to onlariro t.)H tmsim amllo a man's ^rainH> rej is cotton H;.. majority being 150 to 200 fcot. Tho larlislo, if watered, raises good erops; if . .lames, Qot it bakes into a solid mass. Tho ?. Carlisle t'oads and much of the prairies resemble ng was asphalt, so hard packed and smooth !nt itthero are they. Well diggers sa\- that the soil is a solid mass 150 foot down, so hard that pieks have to be used to j WKIiIj i,)0sun it. Over this smooth surface j Jvt the never ceasing winds blow from \ With a ?very direction. They arc filled with minute sand particles and almost re- 1 l\ dent of listless. d ertiser t'lc ''Olief work in Dundy County is ; dinner ^le 'iantl? ?f a committee appointed f Senator ^y citizens, with the approval of the j^H oarsing county commissioners. Itev. J. M. *?fj or and an^ Oscur Callahan, banker, have ' a] ,ondont been the most active in systematizing ai. n name the work. Mr. Callahan says : 'l]y ,.. who Thore is much suHering, but tho Simon uhicf need is for fuel and seed. Wheat - ] w Pick- will be needed for seed, and corn will 11 South i)C Hooded for sued, and eorn will also al this year. Many have asked , f.Judge for coal, but the majority are able to Butler l,fty tho miners' prices, if transporta- {m > Kegi- tion can be donated. Tho Grand Army h?[ rt>;- UuU tbe Itepntyie mei] in other narts w. coal to?bo given to the needy members 1 .rolina here. The pensioners in this county "lu rapidly aro nble with their money to get a r'.V ire well little coal, and they aro managing to . leagues &'ot al?ng. ?i" ocially, " I don't mean to give you tho imHe is pression that the county does not need ' 1 io the help. Every one almost needs seed Jne it lx>dy h)r tho spring, but in tho meanwhile I | ' ler ap. believe we can keep our people from ^ aspects" absolute destitution. Tho committee r there '8 giving aid only where it is positively 8m turn to needed, and then only in the lino of With U?o necessities of life. We huvc got in ' ndancy i,wo cttr loads of coal here and there j rei home. a,'? *'x nioro on tho track at Calvert, j -Clove- The churches have got in some relief j .n,?L to bo supplies, and the Aucient Order of ; /?. .ration. United Workmen and other benovo- j "J?. sveland f011^ societies have distributed some . 1 or But- among their members. .There seems n him. to ho a general disposition to help one *rr ice for anothor among all classes of people, r , jlinian. which is very commendable. Most of >fc that cho people hero are free from mort- : j\u< lit have f?affC8^ an(l if it had not been for two | _ esident successive crop failures won Al be com- c nee, as fortably well off.'1 .erstate The county is out of debt, but had ! _ 1 illod bv f?w available funds for the relief of I kuu jn/v?i . aiuaii nui iaui/9 ail; ikjiij^ , ler was drawn for Hour, and one or two citizens ma deon lirc aiding the really destitute to got c^! splayed coal. Dundy County has raised some ' footing. dno crops in its time, and its people rej" >etwcen havo been as frugal as the average J jl was re- community. Hut the strictest frugali- ; ,l sr, was ty can hardly sutliee to earry a farmer ; ,. r.' The ?ve'' two almost complete failures of I a Butler, tho land. I J 1 in the 1 here are two largo ditches off the | . , Simon Itcpuhlican river at Haigler, which Old cost$50,000 and irrigate several thou- ^ Senate sand acres. Near Benkleman there ;^( Govor- ar0 three or four small ones. Upon deavor- this irrigated land was raised tho only to tlio g''ain and vegetables grown in the te ;> liked county. There is some timber back 'V* to tho from the river to which tho people r dirty have helped theinsoves fo?* several J"!11 ,d that years, although it is private property. I r, e table, ;^t least two or three hundred families ! walked bavo left tho county, aud deserted I 111:1 r after- f?''in houses aro seen from every coun- I J1.01 ight to try road. Hack in tho county, twenty ' ? 11 or that miles or so from the railway, persons n aro found who are very nearly at tho 1 'I will end of their stock of provisions. Fuel ul} d. For 's much needed and bard to got. ?.n ho sue- J '10 pensions drawn by the old . 5, voted soldiers constitute about all the income hen he tho farmers have and living is more ^ Senate, than economical?it has been reduced J"1 of his J* 1 most to tho verge of beggary; but Butler not quite, for those veterans and their . 1 n vote." s?ns aro prtud and spirited fellows, . J who would sooner starve than beg. It .)C| is hard, though, for the mothers and P? lumhia, children to live on such fare as is 'u las eve- general. Many have not much better .(n i years food than the chickens or beasts of 111 in IS..J burden. The coarsest and cheapest a mem- ii...... ,.?.i i.it bo fore urtetl. Meal is not to bo had, except in tit itofthe rare cases. Stock had to bo sacrillecd Cc Lotion, and hogs and chickens have lonp since soi at coin- gono where there is bettor feed or i n birth, have iioen killed. Many died from Bi nt Con- want of proper sustenance. One farmer to at after said: "Wo are livinp from hand to so.' lie close mouth, with the mouth away ahead of ye steadily the hand. 1 was hailed out in 1SU2 an pianco, fin(j burnt out in 1 Hit's and IH'.M, and my eii itraeted Hix dollar pension is what keopij us sii ' would from starvation. I have not askeil for -UiTercd anythinp so far, and I shall not." / lie straiphtened up proudly. "VVp-'will j) make out someway." t() cotton ***** pi cotton ?It is estimated that y\ will cost a< jhs. and North Carolina *IH,(HH) t(b $20,000 to hi lulily as make a State exhibit at |tbe Atlanta ta Kx position. V ni / ' m ijpVV^y -pot iijsur^you* Lir at t?e aaiye time. you 1 (? yooi* *SH0ESw aT?? i^oej j l^e Insurance? rfSr f -See tbe V V,^ UrWis Ac cu)^.-nt |t75U7 ASHINGTON NEWS AND GOSSIP. EN foro, t-8ecretary Foster to Aid the indiv Chinese Commissioners-^-The In- ever ;onio Tax and Other Matters. Washington, D. C., Dec. 28.?The want* iployment of Hon. John W. Foster, excel rmerly Secretary of State, to aid this S o Chinese government's plenipoten- from tries in peace negotiations, is not now o first time that foreigners have if a c en called in to assist plenipoten- all, h tries i*i matters like these, as both penss lina and Japau, heretofore, have sessic .d recourse to such assistance. In there e cases of the latter government, it dispe said that the question of facts and dome tail were settled by the Japanese State emsclves, the foreigners)- merely ever, ing present in a legal and advisory shoul pacity. Mr. Foster has lately re- hisnr rned to the United States from a labeh p around the world, during which liable spent Bome time in China. He nor, joys a quite intimato acquaintance sentei th Cang, one of the peace plenipo- perioi atiaries, who was formerly Minister caso 1 the United States. thedf Whether there will be a suspension his ov hostilities pending the meeting of prfceti o representatives of the two govern- easett sots is not known at the Japanese Tim 1 pition here. The" impression seemsj far bo hero that the Japanese troops there 3 concentrating at New-Chwang | H man lic.h the Chinese forces have recep> desire evacuated, and that the victorious stance my will continue its march in foe the St ection of Pekin. * Itiay b Minister Kurine, of Japan, saidto- ehomi y that the published statement that neral Foster's selection as the rejsentative of China in the peace Am potations has the approval of the R. So3 panse government grew out of a mis- Knigh prehension. Mr. Kurine viewg the study ssion of General Foster as a private for th< air, wholly between him and China, limite e Minister docs not think it calls South an expression of approval or dis- ammo proval from himself or his govern- South int. Tl.o Minister says tl.at the counti ection of a private American eitixon ing pi China's advisor will in noway aflfect tive c< j peace negotiations. Japai* has of ind r own purpose and policy, ana will The c >ceed according to the judgmeut of such r authorities without reference to limite o may appear as the representative ing 5 j*ni'teu otatea m mister uobmj ? ,de no demand upon the Chinese reach irernment for satisfaction for tho solves ling of tho two Japanese student makei es as reported, nor is this govern- in my nt in a position to make any such nana, wnicn is usua.iy construea to -ij an an idemnitv. No matter how it of the ns out, however, our government is durinj t> liable to do more than to express 9,000, approval of the line of action pur- cities, id, for the reason that the Japanese fact tl verment itself has admitted that the fast b n were spies and wore properly sur- fore, idered to the Chinese. great Assistant Attorney General Whit- South y has tiled in the District Supremo lation urt a demurrer to the complaint of of the in G. Moore against Commissioner hurna ller of the Internal Revenue Bureau ern er which he asks for an injunction re- with 1 aining the latter from collecting any ot i income tax authorized by the now iff Act. The demurrer is very brief 3 general in its terms, setting forth . * it the complaint has not made such di ase as entitles it in a court of equity ' w.OO the relief sought. purpo Yt tho request -of Mr. Whitney the p1"*1 ies were set for hearing on January Among the government roflicials ot'ier ny express tho opinion that tho . 0 nplaint has absolutely no case. Tho i cials of the Department of Justice Augui pird tho constitutional question as ton ar tied by a series of Supremo Court sisions. Wl11 b ?apt. Henry W. Howgato, tho ex- - ?< bursin^ oftioer of the Signal Service, s arraigned today before tho Dis- r* t?t Supreme Court on three of the ' lictments against him. His coun- , , Messrs. Jere Wilson and A. S. * S irthington, pleaded irregular pro- ( ' J| idings by tho^tp-nud jury. The ? vernment's demurrer to this plea, ? id by Dristrict Attorney Birney, was t ' I rued before Judge MeComas during ? 1 3 afternoon. Howgate's plea prayed ? M it the indictments bo quashed on , 1 3 ground that tho United States 1 w ind jurors considered statements ? v .lie l>y persons not sworn as witnesses, , ' I ! otherwise qualified to testify, ami it no one of them had any porsonal ' owledgo of the matter considered. , 'mi \n opera bouse is to be erected ? _ on the sito of tho Blaine residenco * ? Layfayotte Square, in which the , 'fal itesmun died, a permit for the buildr having been issued by tho District ' mmissioners to-day. The Blaino , ' operty has boon leased for a term of ? __ ) years to Wood & Lavelle, Chicago. < k io historic mansion now occupying , >mmm 0 ground will bo torn down, tho work ? ? ginning about January I. Theopora 1 L use is to cost $250,000. The now , ' I ilding will be constructed so as toal- > v a roof garden, tho first of the kind w Washington. , ' I ?"Ttirninir on tho I^itrlit" is the Its of it book b.v Ex Postmaster ? ' V moral King, which will bo issued as * fr>n as a publisher is unpaged. It is ' , i dispassionate survey of President < ichanan's administration from 1K(>0 its close," and will contain besides 1 , (rural of Mr. Huchanan's letters not t published, a imus of reminiscences * _ (1 facts touching tho genesis of the ' , "J ;il war and the assassination of Pre- ? Nc IISlAlUAfllilAr* - ( Co ?Dwight Miner, of Miner's bank, ' unkirk, N. Y.. who defaulted in 1885 , ' ' tho extent of $150,000, returned and |jn tve himself up last week. Ho was ' sti Imitted to jail in ftt.OUO. Tho bank , ' is realized about. .fS?;,(MX) on hiues- > " ,to and as most of tho principal wit- ' jssos are dead, he may go froo. ?y??? v e ^,4 J.jO '?? A MS [A a'a) : ydffdk 1? ^>nF|\v ss| V 2 5 30 ' NjJl\ Eg14 r itite 6J>oe. j/ | ' \ ' d of the Jua Traffic.?Hereto- ^ under the dispensary law, any v idual has had the right, when- ^ he saw fit, to go to North (Jaroand buy as-much 4i v all that is eLnged. Hereafter, ^ nan is inclinu to take a toddy at \ o must oiter patronize the disiry or do without. During the >n of tb legislature just closed, was posed an amendment to the nsary 1 w which makes it a misauor it. oring any whisky into the unde any. circumstances whatMoj : than that; if an individual d hereto?ted with any liquor in ssG jion, in other than a properly 3d uspensary bottle, he will be 11? arrest and trial for misdemeafc'd, upon conviction, must be t-jed to the penitentiary for a ' of not less than one month. In ae solicitor should believe that jfendant cannot be convicted in vn county, he has the right to cally change the venue of the > whatever county he may see fit. aw is now practically ironclad. ?- j as the legislators are concerned; TB is but little, if any, objection to V drinking as much liquor as ho ^ s ; but under any and all circum- H I1U II1U31/ Uuy I1IB BUUpilUB ate, in order, possibly, that he fl| e sure that it is 100 proof and IB eally pure.?Yorkville Enquirer. rised to Come South.?Mr. J. I rereign, Master Workman of the its of Labor, has made a careful H of the advantages of the South a laboring man and the man of . HH d means, and in a letter to the a H ern State Magazine writes : " 1 H >re favorably impressed with the than any other portion of our a| y, not alone as the most promisace for the location of co-operaclonics but for the establishment ividual enterprises of all kinds. limate and natural resources are B as to especially invite those of I d means. 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