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>n in m n i i 11 i i i ii ??? THE CITADEL EMBKOGLIO. j A STATEMENT FROM COLONEL JOHN P.THOMAS. He jiecitcs the Circumstances Constituting liis Reasons for Resigning the Superin tendency. ( From the News and Courier, Avpu*t 7.) As late Superintendent of the South Carolina Military Academy, justice to myself as well as to the cause of sound discipline in the State?s military school constrains me reluctlantly to break my reticence in connection with my reisgnation and to place the facts before the public tribunal. The case is best stated in the logical order of the following communications: 1. Under date of July 5, 1SS5, ColThomas, Superintendent, wrote as follows to General llasrood, Chairman of the .Board of Visitors: "The Executive Committee of the Board of Visitors having on a recent occasion declined to investigate a report made by me as Superintendent, of combination of serious character among the cadets oftliis Academy, and having further excused a meeting of said cadets, boldly held without the previous knowledge or sanction of the Superintendent, both eases involving, as I hold, principles vital to discipline 1 take leave to slate that I feel that I have nol been sustained, and that the Executive Committee has not given to my office the consideration due to it under the law of the Academy. ' Iience I have the honor, agreeably to Article oth, Regulations, to give the required notice of resignation." Soon thereafter I applied to the Chairman for his consent to my making public this notice of my resignation in order that the issue made might be distinct and disconnected from"subsequent developments. To this the Chairman, on ground of good of the Academy, declined to assent. 2. Under date of August 2, 1885, Colonel Thomas, Superintendent, wrote as follows to General Iiagood, Chairman Board of Visitors: "My communication of July 5, 1SS5, contains the immediate grounds of my resignation. Desiring tire Board of Visitors to understand fully my cause of action, I have the honor to req' jst that you submit to that body the reports .Xos. 1 and 2, enclosed herewith which the Executive Cominittc of the) Board did not deem it expedient to investigate. "While the serious differences of opinion growing out of a grave question of discipline, and some discord! in general between the Board of Visitors and the Superintendent, make; my retirement from my offices imperative and irrevocable, let me here ex-1 press the sentiment that moves me of unimpaired devotion to my alma inciter Connected for nearly twenty years with the old Academv and the new, and thus bound to both tby strong ties and tender memories I shall continue to maintain with unswerving loyalty the cause of the Citadel. No longer serving the Academy under the Board I shall be found in the ranks of the citizenship of the State doing all in my power to magnify South Carolina's j school ofarts and arms,an institution absolutely indispensable to the full development of the mental andjmoral forces of her youth. No longer the executive of the Board, I shall be its ally and its champion in every wise measure of its future administration. J "Allow me to close with the expression. heretofore made three vears a<ro. of my appreciation of i he confidence of the Board of Visitors in calling me to the work of reestablishing this school, of reluming! the tires on the academic altar. In my sphere [ have sought, God knows how earnestly, to lay the foundations broad and deep; to make the scholarship of the Academy thorough, accurate and polished; its soldiership industrious and genuine; its code of ethics high; in fine to cast it in a mould as lofty as I could fashion. This'has been my firm purpose. How far I have eflected it, and to what extent I am myself responsible for my unrealized ideal, I shall leave to the public judgment. But this I know, and will declare, that | I builded the best I knew how; that I have tried to comprehend my trust | and to keep faithful to it with singlencs 01 aim. "That the Board of Visitors has sought the good of the charge committed to it I have never doubted; and my prayer is that its administration may be blessed with the largest and best results for the Academy arid the country. "When the time shail come for me to relinquish mv trust, I congratulate myself upon the fact that I shall be enabled to turn over to the Board of Visitors the Academy in excellent working order, and without one dollar's indebtedness." 3. On August 4, 1SS5, when the Board of Visitors sitting at the Citadel were on the eve of adjournment sine die, Quartermaster White, saying that he had been directed so to do, handed me the paper annexed, signed S. B. Jones, Secretary. It came without previous consultation with the Superintendent and was a surprise to that officer, because he had been led to conclude from the individual views expressed to him by a member of the Board that the finding of the Court of Inquiry would be the end of the Schirmer matter, and that mv promotion of Cadet Scirmer would not be called in question. [Extractsfrom Minutes.] "Cadet Schirmeivs Cask.?When the recent Court of Inquiry was convened the Board of Visitors reserved to itself to inquire, beyond the charges and specifications presented, into the fitness of Cadet Schirmer for the office to which he was appointed. Having dis-1 charged this duty, 46llesolved, That, considering all the circumstances developed, while the Board have acquitted Cadet Schirmer J in the Court of Inquiry of the charges affecting his character as a gentleman,! yet in their apprehension the academic career oi* the Cadet does not exhibit qualifications enabling him to discharge the duties of an officer usefully to the Academy. The Superintendent is, therefore, directed to revoke Cadet] Schirmci*'s appointment as a Sergeant of the corps.' Immediately upon its receipt, invit-1 ing the Chairman to my office, 1 respectfully but briefly notified him that, deeming the order illegal, I did not; intend to execute it. "lie replied, in suostance, tnat tnere was nothing more to be said, and the interview ended. I here state, in vindication of my soldiery chai-acter, that I stood on these grounds: the regulations of the Acad cmy makeup the code of the Academy and stand to the Board of Visitors and the Superintendent in the relation of army regulations to officers and subordinates. The regulations of the South Carolina Military Academy, though made up by the Board of Visitors, .. under the authority conferred in the Act passed December 2, 1S42, and entitled "An Act to convert the Arsenal at uuu um ^luiuut aim .wujjuzine in ami near Charleston into military schools," are binding: equally on the Board and on the Superintendent. Art. 3, Regulations S. C. M. A., reads: "The Superintendent will have immediate government of the Academy and be held responsible for its correct management." Art. 72 reads thus: "The cadets t -. | of the Academy shall constitute a mil:* I tary corps-, and shall be subjected to I mrlitary discipline under command of the Superintendent." Art. 92 contains the following special points: "The commissioned or non-commissioned officers shall be appointed by the Superintendent from 'those cadets who have been most active and soldier like in the performi ance of their duties, and most cxern| plary in their general deportment.'" j Again: "Cadet officers, of whatever ! rank, are required to be loyal to their | trust and do their duty with courtesy, | but at the same time with firmness ; and entire impartiality. Any cadet I officer who neglects his duty and betrays tke confidence reposed in him will bo reduced to the ranks," &c. It is not stated, be it noticed, that the cadet officer must of necessity be popular with his comrades. Being summarily called upon, without previous conference on a delicate matter, to revoke the appointment which I had made under the law?in which appointment, as to its wisdom and propriety, I have been authorized by Major Cain, Lieut. Weaver, U. S. A.t and Capt. Lyman JIall, of my late ^Military family, to state,if I deemei. it contributory to my vindication, that, although not originally consulted by me in the making ot it, they folly concurred with me ? I could not hesitate as to my duty. To revoke Cadet Sergeant Sehirmer's appointment was to reduce him to the ranks, to put him under ban without cause and without trial?to deny him the rights and privileges accorded to other cadets. That, in my judgment, was the plain English of the order that came to me. As the Regulations state that a cadet officer can bo deprived of his office only when he neglects duty or betrays confidence reposed in hitn I held that the order of the Board was clearly illegal, and 1 felt as a man and soldier absolved from any obligation to obey said order. I could not and would not serve at the altar of what I deemed illegal sacrifice ?illegal as to the written law and the R filiations and also as to the unwritten law or common justicc. 4. Subsequently, the same evening of August 4,1 sent to the Chairman the following formal notice: "I have received the order of ihe Board of Visitors directing me to revoke Cadet Schinner's appointment as Sergeant of the corps. Without entering into the question of the legality of the order, I have the honor to decline to be the instrument, in my official position as Superintendent, for doing what I regard a serious injustice to a worthy and deserving cadet by inflicting upon him that punishment which, by the regulations of the Academy, is especially appropriate to the case of a 'cadet officer who neglects his duty and betrays the confidence reposed in him,' neither of which offences Cadet Sergeant Schinner has committed." The JY'eics and Courier of August 5, by authority of "some member or j members of the Board of Visitors," as the Chairman subsequently informed me, announced that my resignation had been accepted, to take effect, as I had proposed July 28, on October! liext. This was my first notice of action on my resignation, although I had on July 15 and on July IS urgently but unsuccessfully asked leave of the Chairman to make the fact of said resignation public. 5. Abont o p. m. August 5, General Walker, acting Secretary of the Board of Visitors, sent me the following paper: (Extract frovi the Minute* of tit Board of Visitor' S. C. it. .4.) August 4, ISSo. The resignation of Col. J. P. Thomas as Superintendent of the Academy was received and accepted by the Board, to take effect October 1," 1S85, and the following resolutions were adopted: "Resolved, That the Board of Visitors in accepting the resignation of Col. J. P. Thoma?, Superintendent South Carolina Military Academy, desires to express its sense of the zeal and earnestness with which he has discharged the duties of his office, and that in retiring from the institution he eariics with him the best wishes of the Board f?r his future welfare'.' August 5, ISSo. On motion, the action of the Board relative to Colonel Thomas's resignation at the meeting August 4 was reconsidered and the following substituted therefor: "Resignation of Colonel Thomas was submitted. llesolved, 1. That Colonel Thomas's resignation as Superintendent be ac* cepted to take effect- to-day. 2. That the senior officer present for duty is placed in command and will discharge the duties of Superinf av>/lont rmfil fnvthov ai*^ai*c My refusal to revoke his appointment, and to reduce Cadet Sergeant Scbirmcr to the ranks, explains the change of action by the Board towards me. My resignation was based upon the failure of the Executive Committee of the Board to sustain discipline on the occasion of (wo serious violations of the special law of the Academy, formally and regularly reported by the Superintendent and ignored bv the Executive Committee of the Board. As to the circumstances under which my resignation of July o was finally acceptcd, I am content to leave the matter at issue with the tribunal before which, with as little comment as I could afford, I have placed it. Until dissatisfaction of cadets with the promotion of Cadet Schirmer mot encouragement from those in authori ty, my wont in esiaousmng me oouui Carolina Military Academy upon a sound basis and putting it upon a successful career had not been questioned. If I have retired from my post, after arduous service, without the commendation of the Board of Visitor?, I can at least hope for that higher reward, the approval of the people of the State, for whom in this work 1 have labored. John F. Thomas. A Card from General Johnson Hagood, Chairman of the Ii ard of Visitors. Barnwell, August 21, 1SS5. To the Editor of the Columbia licrjinter: At its late session in Charleston the Board of Visitors of the State Military I Academy, with a full attendance of its | members, had toaeal with complicated and delicate matters affecting the welfare of the Academy as well as involving the rights and feelings of individuals. I-hev acted upon the issues presented, giving to the public at the time in as brief terms as possible the results at which they had arrived; proposing also to themselves in due course to lay before the Legislature, in their annual report, a full statement of the facts and reasons upon which their action was based. This is the usual course in obedience to the mandate of the Act of Assembly establishing the military | school, that the Board shall "in each j and every year make a minute and full | report of the condition and manage-, j ment of said school to the Governor, j to be by him laid before the LegislaI ture." Another consideration inducing ihe reticence of the Board at the time of its | action was a sincere desire to avoid ! wounding the feelings of individuals | by giving unnecessary notoriety to i what had been done in the conscien j tious discharge of painful duty. Fiuallv?Newspaper discussion con| temporary with the exercise of disci p' line must, however temporally coni ducted, injuriously affect a military j institution. A standing order of the ! Academy forbids it to officers and i cadets while they sustain that relation; and should the Board voluntarily embark on such a course and the discussion by possibility involve these persons, there would be presented the ungenerous spectacle of its criticising in the public prints those who by it I were forbidden to reply through that n channel. a These considerations,in which I fully d concurred, were conclusive to the d j Board, and determined the position it n j took. c Since the adjournment of the Board, t: 1 Tinx-r* crntm frv fhr> nrncc b ! from individuals affected, or from their b i friend?', which, with the meagre state- r 1 ment officially made by the Board, t: | have been made the basis of widespread s | discussion.. t This discussion appears to me to be t based in part upon a misapprehension b of facts, and I know it to be without 1< full kuowledgc in the matter. ^ The Chairman, while the executive t officer, is only one member in seven ! of the Board, and they are gentlemen t j of individual record and the habit of t ! individual assertion. lie must carry a out its policy as indicated to him until b the Board sitting as such itself changes u it. The body necessarily meets to pass s ! upon applications for the beneficiary J i vacancies in the Academy in about t I fin'on trnoL*e Ft tlinn Ka nnon fn ,1 >T 11 *? ill WV V|VV.ii IV ? them to dccide whether to retain their first position, or, under present cir- a cumstances, to give to the public, in u advance of their report to the Legisla- ( turc, a full statemont of the facts and a reasons which controlled its action in matters which have been so generally s commented upon in the press of the C State. Whatever conclusion is reach- 11 ed will be dictated by the interests of o | the Academy as they see it. !1 Let inc add, in conclusion, that the t Board of Visitors, individually and r collectively, feel the gravity of the t duty with which ihey have been in- o trusted in the management of one of fi the chief educational institutions of the n State; and they recognize, to the fullest t extent, their responsibility to the (1 people of South Carolina for the wis- h dom and fidelity of that management. rJ In reporting to* the Legislature they o obey the law under which they are ap* 11 pointed, and report to the people <1 through their representatives. They fc i shrink 'from no critism. If just, it v | must redound to the benefit ot the a ! Academy, which with them is above d personal consideration; if unjust, they iiave confidence in the sobriety of s<wtrtri thnnvhf innkn vonnvnt inn. IL is not the itirst time as sons of tiic State that they have been called upon to do their duty duty to her irrespective of consequences "to themselves. Jonnson* IIagood, , Chairman. 1 ^ v A TALE OF THREE TRAMPS. 1' | The Midnight Encoanter of an Indiana q Farmer. U The residence of Noah Lockabill, on i a farm near Brown's Valley, Indiana, ' ] was entered by tramps on Sunday f night. Lockabill was awakened by i the noise, sprang from his bed and t closed with the one in the room. The | burglar was reinforced by two others, i Lockabill is a powerful man and fiung J the captured burglar against the two a others in such a manner as to bring the three to the floor. Then he went s at them with a club. His wife brought ( a clothes line, and together they bound t the tramps, sat down and waited for * them to recover. When the tramps regained consciousness Lockabill asked t them which they preferred, to be taken c to Crawfordsvilie and placed in jaii, J where they stood the chance of several e years in the penitentiary, ov to be led t out one at a time and receive such I ^ whipping as he would administer. | s They chose the latter, and. the farmer I J took them out severally, tied them to r the gate-post and administered onehun- ^ dred lashes to each tramp with a large c new rawhide wagon whip. Each stroke of the whip raised a huge welt | on the back of the tramp, and when i the operation was completed a pool of e j blood could be seen where they stood, s I Their piteous crics for mercy called in rJ I the neighbors until quite a little crowd t had assembled to witness the castiga- a tion of tramp No. 3. As all sympa-1 c thized with the irate farmer (he per- j I formance went 011 until he had com- j t pleted the hundred lashes. ! t ... i t t Acted Like a Charm. j My little daughter all her life has i been in delicate health. Her blood e seemed to be impovered. She has t taken various preparations of iron, i cod-liver oil, and tonics of many kinds, d which were prescribed by the best t physicians, and while she was bene- f fitted, vet it was only temporary. A i t member of my congregation, who had j c tried it, suggested S. S. S. For about I a year she has had an indolent but 0 stubborn sore behind her cars. After I she had taken Swift's Specific for a li short time the sores grew worse audit began to discharge* This I regarded i c as favorable. In a very short time her ears grew better, and to-day are en- li tirelv well. Her appetite is splendid c and reglular; she is foil of life and I t 'cheerfulness. The change is evident! g to the most casual observer. I ascribe j it all, under the blessing of God, to n Swift's Specific. In view of what it; n has done for me and mine, I can most j C confidently and sincerely recommend j t it to all who need such a remedy.. Let j f the suffering give it a fair trial, and it f will bring hope, health and happiness ^ into ovcrv home. BEXJ. E. HALL, t Pastor M. E. Church, South. I Shelby, X. C., Feb. 2, 1885. 11 Treatise on Biood and Skin Diseases j ? mailed free. Swift Specific Co., Drawer 3, At- [ lanta, Ga. * ^ o An Earthquake in the Blue Ridge. d There were violent shocks of earth- d quake last Thursday in the Blue Ridge b Mountains, in Watauga count}', N. C. if first fhorA vrprf> 1 iIrr? thnndor- ! 2 claps, while the sky was cloudless, then the earth shook and terrible noises were heard. These were felt for many miles, at the height of 4,100 feet, and in Grandfather Mountains, 6,000 feet, people were frightened so . that they fled. The noises and shocks , were felt at Boone. ? ? c Kheumatlsm. h Although a practitioner of near twenty i ^ years, n.y mother influenced me to procure 1( B. B. B. for her. She had been confined to s her bed several months with Rheumatism s which had stubbornly resisted ali the usual j remedies. Within twenty-four hours after commencing B. B. B. I observed marked relief. She has just commenced her third ; ? bottle and is nearly as active as ever, and j ll has been in the front yard with "rake in j v hand," cleaning up. llcr improvement is I p trulv wonderful and immenselv gratifying. v " C. II. MONTGOMERY, M- I>" 0 * Jacksonville, Ala., June G, lS8i. ?The cholera in Spain continues un! abated. The average of deaths is v j about fifteen hundred a day. The t) j plague seeins to be confined chiefly to j 0 the poor, ine only wealthy persons \v ! who have been attacked are the public I ^ I oflicials who are compelled to visit the s I hotbeds of the infection. Many peo-! ^ I pie are returning to the cities, which j r i they consider safer than the provinces. t( j The plague seems to be spreading- in a i France. I ADVICE TO MOTHERS. ^ Mks. WissloWs Soothing Syro* should alj ways be used for children teething; It soothes 0 j the child, softens the sums, allays all pain, v cures wind colic, and Is the best remedy for Y diarrhoea. Twenty-Ave cents a bottle. * [ JulyULtyl S BUCK-EYE POLITICS. iov. Hoadly'a Re-noiiilnation Not a Forecone Conclusion. A Cincinnati special says: The Ohio )emocratic State Convention, which ? to be held at Columbus 011 the 19th itd 20th inst., is exciting no small [egree of interest, and a task of some ifficulty will be is iis hands. It is ot a foregone conclusion that Govrnor Hoadly will again head the icket. Judge Hoadly is an able man nit he is woefully lacking in political fiance and his conduct of his camiaign two years ago was full of misakes. lie is too impulsive to make a hrewd and calculating politician, and oo erratic and full of moods to meet he publicy day after day and forever icguile it into his way of thinking and cad it to his support at the polls. Vhatever he for the moment thinks, hat to him is revealed gospel, and his irst impulse is to enunciate it from he platform on which he may happen o be placed. It comes on good inside uthoritv that a deep feeling against lis re-nomination exists in Cinciniati, his home, and that serious oppoition from that quarter may yet arise 'udge Iloadlv was never popular with lie Democratic masses of Cincinnati, nd his ways were not their ways, and e never paid much attention to local flairs or local leaders until lie came ip as candidate for nomination for Jovernor. There never was any loyIty for him in Hamilton county. Ex-Mavor Means, of Cincinnati, is aid to desire the position of Lieutenant Jovernor, and to that end favors the lomination of some man for the . head f the tickent from the central or lorthcrn part of the State. It is not, herefore, settled that Hoadly will be e-uominaieu, auan is auugtauvr mure han likely that any decided show of pposition may drive him from the ield altogether. Little is said about uinor places on the ticket or touching he platform. The latter will, of course leclare for a liquor license law, as it ias done for several years in the past. ?he great contest this year is, in fact, ver the Legislature, no matter how nuch each side may try to cover the [uestion up and keep the United States ienatorship in the background. It ? i ir* vm nor siay mere, out reveais usuii t almost every turn and corner of the lebate. THE OHIO DEMOCRACY. Enthusiastic Gathering: of the Party in Convention?Governor Hoadly, a Fine State Ticker, and a Sound Platform. The Ohio Democratic State Convenion assembled at Columbus on Thurslav last. A permanent organization vas readily effected, and all preliminav questions were promptly settled. Nominations for Governor being in >rder, Congressman Geo. W. Geddes ffered the name of Governor Iloadlv n quite an extended speech. He paid , high compliment to Judge Tlmnnan or the course taken by that gentleman n announcing that he could not allow he use of his name before the convonion. Mr. Geddes concluded by movng a suspension of the rules and the lomination of Governor Hoadly by .cclamation. General Michael Ryan, of Cincinnati, econding the motion, defended the Governor at length against charges hat he had made mistakes. When the notion was put the vote was unaninous and enthusiastic with the excepion of four voices from the Hamilton :ountv delegation. After a committee had been appoint:d to wait, on Governor Hoadly and >ring him before the convention, W. I. Marquis, of Logan county, in a hort spcech presented the name o rohn G. Warwick, of Massillon, for enomination for Lieutenant-Governor, ["he motion was immediately put and arried amid great applause. Before proceeding further with the loininations Governor Hoadly was ntroduced auiid much enthusiasm and :x plained why he had not been an outpoken candidate for the nomination. The party had brought him through efore without much effort on his part nd he thronght he had no right to laim renomination under the rules of nccedent, the Convention being free o act without asking. He could now >e held to respond to the call, and with >etter health would hope for even letter results in the discharge of his rust. He demanded the most searchtig criticism of his official acts. He ndorsed the work of the last Legislaure, saying that nothing was done by t which Judge Foraker would have lared to veto if he had the power. lie nought that Jadge Jb'oraner instead or inding fault with the present adminisration should be defending- the rnem>ry of Rutherford B. Hayes and tlie jegislature which robbed Cincinnati f^local self-government. Governor loadly defined himself as against prolibition and said he did not believe hat regulation and taxation were ternal. Taxation was odious to him. After the Governor had concluded lis speech, on motion of the Hamilton ounty contingent which had objected o his nomination, three cheers were iven. The ticket was completed by the lomiuation of Peter Brady for Treasurer, James Lawrence for Attorney Jeneral, Gibson Athcrton for short enn Supreme Judge, Chas. D. Martin or the long term, and Henrv Werble -*C 1 _r lL? T> /VA ..s] r>., or Jieinour 01 uiu jl>u<iiu ui x uunv Vorks. The platform congratulates the counrv upon the election of Cleveland and lendricks, and the auspicious beginingof their administration; upon the [eterminalion of the President toconine the use of public lands to public iurposes. It commends the adminisration of Governor Hoadlv, and rcafirms the State platform of 1884. It pposes sumptuary legislation, and enounces monopolies. It mourns the leath of General Grant, and pays a irief tribute to his memory. The Convention adjourned amid reat enthusiasm. The Oklahom* Boomers. A distinguished member of Congress rom.the Northwest has written to the ccretary of the interior that he is n formed that the settlers (the Oklaioma boomers) have in good faith ispersed and will no longer remain in amp. This action ou their part is argely the result of the action of the administration concerning the issue of sases and the occupancy of the cattle vndicates in the Indian Territory. lie tates that the proclamation of the 'resident meets with universal favor mongthc people, and has inspired the reatest confidence; that it is evident bat the Administration intends to deal nth equal fairness with all classes of eople, and he feels assured that there rill he no further trouble on the border f the Indian Territory. The Trouble Safely Over. Stomach trouble is serious business rhile it lasts: but what a blessed relief 3 have it depart! Mrs. F. G. Wells, f 19 Atlantic steet, Hartford, Conn., mtes that she tried Brown's Iron >itiers for stomach trouble, and that he experienced such relief that the rouble is now entirely over. She ecommenus tins great iron medicine o all who arc afflicted. It cures liver nd kidney complaint. * ?Two colored children killed their iabv brother with a gun, on the 14th f June, in Abbeville, but the matter ras not investigated until last week, fhen the youthful murderers were ent to jail. GENERAL XETTS ITEMS. Facte ofInt?Tcsf, Gathered irom Various 1 <Juarters. j ?Velio\v fever is reported in Xcw j York. j i ?The Grant monument fmul has not yet reached $50,000. |( ?Two divorces were recently jjrant- r ed in Chicago in half an hour. i r ?A genuine Voodoo doctor has been i j discovered near Atlanta, Ga. I ( i ?The treaty of Tien Tsin is a dead ; t letter. The Chinese refuse to leave Tonquiu. ?'Lhe recent strike of the street-car drivers in Memphis was ended by a compromise. ?Elias Daly, the Greenbacker, has announced himself as a candidate for Governor of Iowa. ? Within the past ten days the confidence of the Virginia Democrats lias greatly increased ?Queen Victoria and the Prince of Wales have started for Norway on one of the royal yachts. ?The youngest son of Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, of Virginia, died at Evergreen, Fairfax county, last week. ?Germany lias formal!v proclaimed j her seizure of the Caroline Islands, J formerly claimed by spam. ?Trouble is brewing between Spain s and Germany relative to the occtipa- t tion of the Caroline Islands. j ?Nine monuments to Grant will be erected in this country unless some of the present projects fail. ?It is said that Maxwell, the alleged | murderer of Preller in St. Louis, is } j the son ol* an English schoolmaster. I ?The Rev. Dr. Farrar, Archdeacon i | of Westminster Abbey, will sail for ( the United Stales in a couple of weeks, j ?Gen. Goode Bryan, a graduate of | West Point and a hero of the Mexican 1 j and the late war, died in Augusts, Ga., < I last week. l j ?Maxwell is vcrv cool and jokes ^ I ?a.. ~ k ? *. Willi uie rc[juru:i~s uuuiil l luuui, i ing he killed him accidentalh, or lie) raav be up in a balloon, etc. ? Russian i\gents are reported as intriguing in Macedonia to bring about ' a revolt in that country against Turk-* , ish rule. ?Miuett Mirrell, a prominent resi| dent of Lynn, Mass., suicided last I week in London; the supposed cause 1 being losses in land speculation. ?Daniel Leroy. a member of a well ! known Knickerbocker family of New i York, died last week. His sister was | the wife of Daniel Webster. ?The most valuable present received { by Princess Beatrice was a tea and i coffee service of solid gold, richly i chased, which was sentby the Empress j Eugenie: ?Daniel McCain, an old colored man, living just across theX'orlli Carolina line from Lancaster, dropped dead I on Sunday last, just after eating a I hearty dinner. ?The British ship Haddingtonshire, j froui A.*toria, Oregon, for Liverpool ; with .1 carjro of flour and salmon, went | ashoiv off Point Reyes, Cal., last week. | Eighteen livrs were lost. ?Grand Nigh Mass was celebrated in Montreal last Wednesday with the intention of invoking the Almighty to grant a cessation of the smallpox epidemic prevailing there. ?While Messrs. Charles Carr and Amos Garland were cleaning onl a well in Union county, N. (J., last Tuesday, they were overcome by foul gas, j from which the former died. ?The story that one hundred and eight convicts escaped last week from ,the Spartanburg and Asheville Kailroad, near Arden Park, Buncombe : county, N. C., is baseless. ?A lire broke out on Thursday morning in rhe liell Telephone Company's works in Montreal, causing ; damage estimated at $80,000, against I which there is lull insurance. I < ?The completion of the railroad ! i from Pcmberton's Ferry to Lakeland, FJa., is the last link "in the. all-rail i route to Tampa, and extends the fast i mail system to Havana by steamer. 1 ?The Mississippi Democratic Convention last week nominated Governor Lowery tor re-election, and a full State "ticket. President Cleveland's administration was warmly endorsed. 1 ?The spinning, drawing and comb ing department of Ilichard Williamson 1 and Co.?s worsted mills at Camden, | N- J., was burned last week. The loss is estimated at between ?7o,000 and , $100,000. ; ?The grain warehouse of O. T. ! Wells, and also the residences of Edward Dwyer, of Washington, La., and [ E. O. Aldrich, at Sherman, Texas, were bnrned on Wednesday. The total loss amounled to $G0,000 and the ] insurance to $40,000. . ] ?Two ladies and two children of a j Columbia county, Fla., family died < from eating poisoned watermelons. A 1 planter, annoyed at repeated deprcda- ; tions on his patch, poisoned some of I the fruit and forgot to tell his partner, . who sent one of the poisoned melons ] home. ] ?An unskillful physician set the broken arm of a lad named Davie Block, who was thrown from a horse near Marshall, 111., but it was done so badly that the bone protruded, mortification set in and after great suffering1 the child died. The butcher has been warned to leave the country. ?Pleuro-pneumonia is prevailing to an alarming extent aaiong the fine stock of the Blue Grass region of Kentucky. Money is being raised to buy up the infected cattle and have them killed, as experience has shown that that is the only way to stamp out the disease. ?A photographer at Louisville, Ivy., on Monday, discovered a blue-eyed colored girl, with kinky hair and coal black complexion. She is believed to be the only oue now in existence. | Some > ears ago a blue-eyed colored I boy lived at Culpeper Courthouse, Va., ! but he is now dead. i ?It is learned at the treasury department that there is now quite a brisk movement of silver dollars all over the country. The issue averages about $100,000 a week more than during the the same period of last year and is slightly iu excess of the regular monthly coinage of $200,000. ?During a negro church picnic at Silver Springs, Florida, two colored women quarreled about their lovers, stripped to the waist, fought and scratched until exhausted, when their lovers had a set-to with razors and slashed each other fearfully. The women thi eaten to try razors when they get well. ?A Washington paper says that over two hundred replies have been received at the treasury department to the circular letter calling for an expression of opinion from manufacturers ar,d importers on the subject of tariff revision. As a rule the communications have contained more complaint of the ad valorem system than snggestiors for its improvement. ?The State Democratic Convention of Iowa met at Des Moines last week. Unas. n. waning, 01 jMonana couniy, was nominated for Governor. The nominees of the Greenbackers for Lieutenant-Governor and for Congressman from the 7th district were endorsed. Resolutions heartily approving President Cleveland's administration were enthusiastically adopted. GENERAL GRANT'S BOOK. The First Edition of the General'* Memoirs to Reach 'lOl'i,000 Copies. The first edition of the personal menoirs of U. S. (irant is 150.000 copies, the publishers say they may add 50,)00 copies to ir. A second edition is tlrcady made necessary by ihe huge mmber of subscriptions received, j The presses \v4ll be set to work upon j t just as soon as the first edition is ;oniplcted, whicii will be in about! hrec weeks. The second edition will j je quite as large as the first. The irst volume of the tir-t edition will lot be delivered until December. The second volume will be ready in March. Orders for the book have been coming i: very steadily at the average of five iiousand a dav. The South is doing ts share of ordering. Already 300,000 ;ets of two volumes have been ordered. L'his docs not mciuue loreiijii oruers. TJic book \vi!i be tran>Iated into French, German, Spanish and Italian. Che entire manuscript for both volumes vas in the publishers nands on Fridav jefore General Grant died. Mr. Webster took the galley proofs of the ast fifty pages to Mount McGregor on | hat clay and showed them to the I general. The manuscript brings the i story down to the end of the war and j lot "to the day of the General's death, is reported. Mrs. Grant is to receive ' seventy-live per cent, of the profit 011 j he book in America and eighty-live | icr cent, on that abroad. iuoo-j.aw rtn? iunru?r. A special from Chattanooga, Tenn., j >av?: "Fifty men well disgui~hed en- j ;eml Dalton, Ga., shortly al'ter inidlight on Tuesday night and visited a lotise owned by Mrs. Jane KMd. The woman and fix of her boarders were dragged from their beds and given ifly lashes each. Some of them are in i critical condition and may die. The j sand then went to the house of Tom Carver, a notorious thief, and beat him lo death, after having tortured him for half an hour. A negro man named Armistead was then so badly beaten : that he will die. Subsequently several j persons were notiiied by the mob to j leave the place at once under penalty j of death. There i-< no clue to the identity of any members of the band." 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