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^ VOL. XLIII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY. SEPTEMBER 23, 1886. NO. 9. L ' ???B?BMgoea I Ml Hill ?? THE BATTLE OF THE BROTHERS.' r ? i V HOW BOB AM) ALF TAYLOK AKE CA.\- j VAS.MXG TE.VNEsysEiS. j Triuni|ihnl Pro^re** of Fraternal Candidate*? j ^ M? Peculiar Features of the Xovel t'nnvast?I):s- ! ? ? F<,M!in? ?u : < Fcu^in^ x vui-v^i % & i i iu .%??* ?.?? - j I)uet*?Their Pt-rienal Traits ar;d Appear- i ( ance. ! j (Special ti tie Xex York Wo-'J ) j ? Nashville, Tenm, September 23.? j j rTlie remarkable gubernatorial canvass in . i Tennessee lias made the participants in j \ it the most prominent men in the State I * at the present time. Robert and Alfred | Taylor are the too oldest sons of the j Rev. N. G. Taylor, an old and well-j , known minister of the Northern Aletlio-j /Hot /?liniv?li win lias lived the fiTCatei"! part of Ins life in the extreme northf^jp5 western counties of the State, and been ? actively engaged in farming and preach-' ^ W ing. He is a pronounced prohibitionist, t but only stepped into jjoiitics once, when he was elected to Congress from the first ^ district, and succeeded by Roderick ? u Eandom Butler. Ke has since lived L k quietly, and neighbors tell of him that j he does less preaching during an off year H? than when one of his sons is running for ^ office. Robert and Alfred are both men Y of stalwart mould and goo I intellect. ^ Physically, they are both striking, both t heavily built, but "Bob" is fully eiglit ^ ^ inches taller and of much more com- j ~ mantling presence. Their heads are ^ ^ large and well made, and set firmly on their shoulders. Alf is of very stocky ? gar build, and not much over five feet, while ^ his Democratic brother will measure ^ fully six feet, and wc* *hs considerably "0 over two hundied pounds. The eyes of ? both are black, those of Bob full of fire t! and sympathy, while those of his broth- ^ er are more quiet and less piercing. ^ Their cortmlexions are the same, swarthv, ,' but the character of each face is given it ^ W&* by the eyes. jv "in disposition they differ greatly, Alf ^ r being phlegmatic and thoughtful, while . -j his elder brother is lymphatic, magnetic, ^ fond of telling iokes, of which he has a great stock, always being able to knock out argument with a funny story. This ^ makes him the more popular of the two, j, regardless of party alliliations. His in- -j fluence over the crowd is wonderful, and ? f his election to Congress in a strong Ee- ? Tp publican district, which never before or " cin/>p ?r>nt, .1 Dtrmo^rat to Conirress. is still talked of as the time wlxen "Bob" ? Taylor fiddled hiS way into Congress. ? Both brothers are accomplished fiddlers ^ and already fiddlers are beiug brought ^ in as a post-oratorical amusement for the v. r curious crowds that gather about them. ^ Until yesterday the speaking has been ' in Republican strongholds, but at Tulla- ] homa the first Democratic stronghold *' was assaulted in East Tennessee. Both were treated with the utmost courtesy. c* Yesterday, however, there was some disposition to guy the Republican candi- ^ date, which the Democratic brother silenced by rising and saying: 4 'The man j that insults my brother insults me." A A. 1\T/?ATir\r*rnllA 1 * *U.Va?1 11IH1 J-I-LW j ^ greeted by tlie largest audience ever j ^ 4 gathered in "Warren county, and were: ' r listened to with the utmost attention. . Partisans of each liad made the most extensive -arrangements for the reception, \ and the opposing cavalcades formed and ^ escorted the brothers to the hotel. ? Roses, red and white, -were worn by ' everybody in McMinnville. It is strange, by the way, that tho white rose has be- ' come the Democratic emblem. A pecu- T liar characteristic of the brothers would f. seem i-o uicutie uic ioux. u:cutioned, both have swarthy complexions, , rboth are extremely sensitive, but when ,' sensitiveness if touched they are affectcd , exactly opposite. Bob turns red, fiery red, in the face, while Alf gets ashy pale 0l when wounded or angry. Last night, ? for the second time during the canvass, they slept under different roofs. This was due to aiTangements made by the h respective committees 01 reception. Tlicj both arose early this morning. Alf took a spin of three miles into the ? country before breakfast, while Bob t sauntered out into the grounds of the ? , hotel, and finding a retired seat under a , spreading maple surrendered himself to the early morning air. A few minutes and Alf sped by behind a fast stepping . Mr trotter. "Hello, Alf," exclaimed Bob. "Hello, Bob," exclaimed Alf, as the Be~ pubhean disappeared r round the corner. After a leisurely breakfast the brothers ? held an informal reception, and at ten o'clock boarded the train for IMcMinn- * ville, occupying the same seat and de- ^ bating arm in arm. They glanced over * the morning papers. At every station ^ a crowd was augmented by excursions, and bv the time the train arrived at 3Ior rf~ rison every seat -was occupied. The in- * tense interest -which the campaign has J exci:ed manifested. itself ail along the line. Curious countrymen, eager to see 1 the brothers, peered through the car 1 windows at every station, while the plat- j forms at the depots were packed with partisans who ciieered their respective 1 candidates. { V Bob was now enjoying his stronghold and his name was on many lips. Tlie " y peculiar enthusiasm this man arouses * manifested itself at every turn. It is spontaneous, irrepressible and remarkable, without parallel ie. the history of Tennessee. The features of this novel and great debate, for great it has been in the fullest sense of the word, flashes from town to town with lightning rapidity. In no scction has this been more BBf strikingly demonstrated than in that P? -which the brothers are now traversing. Democrats are excited to fever heat over ] the brilliant campaign of their leader, J the fame of which has found its way to ] other States. .Republicans and Democrats agree that never have liepublican doctrines received a better exposition 1 than is made by Alf Taylor. The duel of brothers grows more ex- . citing, but is still upon the broad plane b of principle, not personality. At MorW* ^ risen three Democrats, fresh from their ' W country homes, walked up to" the Demo- . cratic leader and presented him -with garlands of wild Holers, daises and roses blending with violets and heliatrope. Bob was touched by tlie tribute, and with "God bless you," bade them farewell. He framed a buttonnier from r~^-- the blossoms and wore it at 3IcMinnville. At 12.30 the party airived at ilcMinnville. A magnificent reception awaited the Democrat:--* nominee. Democrats shouted themselves hoarse at the presence of their young leader. They rushed into the car and half overpowered him. They cheered him and patted him on Qlinnl/Ipr Thev called him "Bob" ! ' and called him Governor, and half pulled and half carried him out upon the platform, -where was a struggling mass seeking to speak to him. Finally the procession formed, and through the streets to the hotel it was a triumphal march. The speaking was well attended, and both attracted the favorable comments of their ^ , partisans. No new points were develL V pped by either. Davton, in Bhea county, -which ;s lecidedly close on a full vjte, hundreds turned out to give the rival brothers an Dvation. Bob Taylor wore the white rose and Alf the red. The cue has been jaught up from place to place, and now i man's politics may be seen by the color )f the rose or rosette which adorns the apel of his coat. It is a reminder of the jontests of the houses of York and Lanjaster, only in this ease the single house )i" Taylor is involved. The gallant Bob, jes cies this decoration, looms up conpicuousiy in his now iamous white felt lat. It croes faithfullv witli him every vhere and shines forth prominently as he white plume of King Henry of Navarre before the battling French hosts it Ivry. YV'OMEX AS? FARMERS. L Fc?w of Them Who Are Succeeding in Agriculture in the South. (Frcti the Philadelphia Times.) It is not in the West alone that women : ,re successful as farmers. In the South hey are engaging in this business, and ia?\A 'i'A! 1 A f A it* mv U1UU (liU ? VJXX. - J. , XXL JUXJ >wn county, on the Eastern Shore of Maryland,'at least four ladies are engaged in agriculture, and if they are not ' growing rich in these days of low prices, : acii is making a good living in an inde- i >enuent way and doing quite as well as 1 icr neighbors, the gentleman farmers i round her. Three of these ladies are j ridows, living in the country that they aav raise their cb ildren away from the 1 emptations and confinement of life in own. Tlie husband of one of them died } a debt, but the earth had not settled : hove him before his brave little wife J md resolved to keep the farm and try to >ay that money, and in eight years, by lose management, she has done it and .ow has the place and the stock clear, " nd under her care her boy and girl are ! rowing up in health and usefulness on ] Another has been a widow a longer 1 ime; from the farm which her husband ' ?ft she has educated her children, giving ? liem advantages beyond the public shools of the country, built an excel- ; mt house, improved the land, and now < "ith.one of the most desirable places in < lie neighborhood, as age creeps on, she ; > resting somewhat, while the sons ' hom she has reared cultivate the land, 1 nd one daughter has charge of the dairy- 1 nd another the wultrv. "Tliev have * managed as well, if not better, than tlieir ? usbands possibly could have done" be- 1 lg the verdict of the entire neighborood. Another of these women farmers ? as never married. When her parents [ ied, leaving to their six daughters but J no small farm, she, then in very early 1 omanliood, instead of selling out and : iking her younger sisters to town to < jam trades or stand in stores, and so * ecome more easy victims to the con- 1 amotion of -which their parents had ied, bravely took up the burden of ] managing the farm and keeping them on < and bravely has she succeeded; and < ow when most of them are useful wives < 1 other homes, she still lives in homely i omfort at the old place, keeping its 1 reside bright for those of her sisters 1 ho, by reason of widowhood or other 1 hanges, may wish to come back to it. >id the motiier of the Gracchi accom- 1 lisii more? Wlille lliese women all give < heir personal attention to the details of ] heir business, and attended to poultry { nd dairy themselves, they have not at- jmpted the cultivation of the land, de- 1 ending on hired labor to do that. 1 >oubtiess they have many cares and 1 nxities, know many a weary hour; but 1 2 what way can a support be made with-1 \ nt cure and weariness, especially if there J hould be children to raise'? 1 I have no argument against the West. ts abundant opportunities make it a 1 md of delightful promise, but this sec- { ion offers immunity from the long van- 1 srs of the West, with their long-con- i inued snows?which must be a serious J ugbear to the woman who wishes to ttend to the feeding of her stock? bundant transportation, convenient larkets, and more abundant "labor. It > true the negro is not so reliable as the ] ,-hite man of the North and West, but ' :e can be hired for liaif the money and ] i not near so exacting in his require j lents. All through Southern Maryland nd Virginia, indeed all of the Southern itates, is much land wliich can be j' ought very low, many places with j : uildings on them. It is true when the |; rice is low the land is generally thin j nd the buildings out of ordt r; but the ' md improves readily under kind treat- j aent, and whitewash and a general ; leaning up soon make a wondrous . hange in a neglected old place, as I ; mow from personal experience. These (laces are inviting fiehls for fruit and 1 egetable raising, dairying, oee ana joultry keeping or general farming, and ilready the advance guard of the woman ; armer is on the ground and at work. ] In addition to those mentioned there 1 s a widow over in Dorchester who has ' Wanted her land in peach trees and is : aid to be reaping a good income from t. Further up the peninsula are two mmarried sisters, who are known as )each farmers. Down -in Somerset three adies, who love flowers, are raising oses and other plants for sale, and ioubtless many others all through the south are making a support from land, i noticed in a late paper the advertisenent of a lady in Virginia who has eggs .'or sale. I suppose she is some energetic voman who has gone into the poultry business. I know of a bright little wonan who engaged in that business in Mississippi some years ago and did well it it until a covetous bachelor in the neighborhood persuaded her to give it lp to mam- him. Let me not be understood as advising all women who must am money to turn farmers. Far from It. Those who have not love and fitness cor it will be very apt to fail, just as many men'who attempt it fail; but those cvho read "Farmer Finch" in one of last rear's Harper's have seen how she succeeded on the few acres when her father had failed, and so I believe that many svomen are as well suited for this calling is the maioritv of men who engage in it. "Far better," says a liberal-minded man farmer in our midst. "She is more afraid of debt. She has not the same temptations to spend money outside of home. She is not so easily discouraged. She better knows how to economize in little things, and then you know when a woman wilLs she will." To these requisite qualities we must add strength of character and love of home. If she have all these, and feels that she would like to try the farmer's life, then let her come to" our Southern land, if she so wills, and buy only what she can pay for. Far better only five acres all paid for, and with something to improve it, than two hundred, with a debt hanging over it. Indeed, I am inclined to think the "little farm well tilled" is the right thing for tlie South at present, especially - for the woman farmer, wiio comes nere irom other sections. She may not grow rich as fast as her sister who goes West. Indeed, I doubt if she ever will be rich, as the world thinks of riches; but she may know abundantly the true life of one's own vine and fig tree, under softer skies and a milder clime, where all the rates - - i ? xl X- Ll. TIT x Ol iivmg are lowex tuan -> unu ur ? cat, and she can have the comfort of near neighbors, schools and churches. Her 11 I III III I II I I a IJUMM?MWI IU ^ life will lie in quiet ways; but if slie set 'the example of a carefully managed business, a well-ordered home, a well-trained family?if under her care neglected fields be slowly changed to blooming orchards, or fragrant clover lands, while over her home roses and vines clamber, and her bees drone, and her busy hens sing through the long summer days, she may well feel that she is of use in her /i i j.: i__ ? "ui uav aiiu gejLiejrciuuii; us surcijr a jjuuuc benefactor as he who makes two blades of grass grow where only one grew before. H. Easton, Maryland. "A. JOHXSOX, TAILOR." (Greenville (Tens.) Letter to Pittsburg Disp -.tili.) "We walked along the naixow sidewalk and finally came to the main street of town. My guide pointed out some relics as we passed along and we crossed the straggling thoroughfare and descended n nrpr.tlp rlpclivitv fit', thfi fnnt, of wliic-M babbled a little stream. We halted in front of a little one-story house. A Virginian creeper mingled its vived green with the mildewed white paint. Over the door my eyes saw a legend on an old piece of paintless board, which was all sprang and weather-beaten. Some straggling, old-style letters, scarcely decipherable in their faded blackness, met my gaze. Only three words, but those three words had once convulsed a hemisphere. They were an embodiment of possibilities; an epitome of the power of intellect over surroundings; a story of matchless power, and a perishing record of imruvrichnlilo l^riniaTi^r Thic cimiVIa legend was as follows: "A. Johnson, Tailor." The lettering is rude and was evidently done in pay for a pair of jeans made by the tailor-President ior the village sign writer; indeed, the village tradition runs to that effect. Here at that very window the humble tailor sat sewing svhen his townsmen came, in 1828, to xpprise him that the signal honor of being Alderman at Greenville had been jiven to l>im by his appreciative fellowlitizens. No need to further trace the career of the illustrious Andrew Johnson, seventeenth President of the United states. The old house is in good repair, kept so by the Mayor of the city, and :he villagers have a thousand traditions in/! nnpfdntps in rr-ln.to ahrvnt tlip. lionsfi aid its distinguished occupant, one of ivliicli will serve to close with. "Mose Green -\\-uz a character roundibout Greenville, en' wuz notorious for >win' every one of the store folk on Main street. Shiftless?that shiftless :hat he'd tote his old musket along Main street with his clothes falling ofl'en hini m' never Peering, sail, so long as do iiau i chink in liis gullet. Mose lied a mis'ajle old yaller dog which wuzn't wuth >hootin'"at. Wal, one day Mose wuz powerful liard up fer some jean pants :n' he traded off tlie dog for three yahds )f cloth. How tu git them made, Mose lidn't kno', en' ez he had no weenrin 'oik he 'lowed he'd git Andy tu make ;hem pants. Meanwhile the yaller dog led gnawed the rope ez he'd ben tied ;vith en' kim scooting back tu Mose. "Mose wuz in high glee en' 'lowed ef ie could get them pants made by Andy -yZ clieajM ez tic got uic d??tn nc u ue powerful lucky. So he went down and jot Andy tu measure him fer the pants. iint Andy knowed Alose and said ez how le'd tu plank down in advance or there'd jc no pants. Andy talked so perlite ;het Mose he thought ez how he'd trade :het dog agin. 'Andy,'sez he, 'there's he most powerful coon dog in the ieoimty, en' ef you'll du a good job on hem pants I'll let you hev him.' So \ndy he buckled tu en' made a powerful Ine pair uv pants. Wal, sah, Mose then ;ot intru them pants then lie whistled hat mis'able purp away en' wuz a pair iv pants ahead. Andy, though, he ' -i n -*-i m fx. T. 55 aevan sea nuiuun. x wuzu i ms way. . A WARXttiG TO TESTATORS. The ejection of the sisters and grandaeices of the late Mr. Tilden from Graystone by the executors of his peculiar ftill is probably only the be? inning of a Long series of events bordering upon scandal to result from that document. While there can be no doubt that the sxecutors are within their legal powers lud perhiiA^> their legal duties in order ing Mrs. .Feiton ana cnuaren 01 mat lady's son to find another place of abode :>n five days' notice, neither can there be any doubt that in consideration of the tragic relations of the late Colonel Pelton to Mr. Tilden (which are public and notorious) such a collision is one greatly to be deplored and should have been avoided if possible. The truth is, that Mr. Tilden's will vvas the crowning example of a procrastination which always perplexed and often alienated his associates, both in business and in politics. He possessed a mind of extraordinary ingenuity, capable of profound thought and intricate plotting, but sadly lacking in executive determination at critical moments for aciion. He planned a beneficient disposal of the bulk of his great property for public uses, but never was resolute enough to put the plan himself into operation, and died shifting it to the discretion of three gentlemen, whom he took especial pains to fortify against own kindred, but took no pains to constrain to carry out ius purpose at any definite time or in any definite way. The subject is a fair one for public comment and criticism, in consideration of those uses declared in the will in which the public has a distinct interest to the amount of several million dollars, although there may be may be no legal means of enforcing that interest. It adds another to the innumerable warnings to men of great property and benevolent intentions to do their good works "while it is yet day" and they can themselves supervise the execution of their projects.?N. Y. Herald. Home Politeness. A boy who is polite to his father and mother is likely to be polite to every one else. A boy lacking politeness to his parents may have the semblance of courtesy in society, but is never truly polite in spirit, and is in danger, as he becomes familiar, of betraying his real want of courtesy. We are all in danger of living too much for the outside world for the i agression which we make in society, coveting the good opinions of those who are in it sense a part of ourselves, and who will continue to sustain and be interested in us, notwithstanding these defects of the deportment and character. We say to every boy and to every girl, cultivate the habits of courtesy and propriety at home?in the sitting room and in the kitchen?and you will be sure in other places to deport yourself in a becoming and attractive manner. When one has a pleasant smile and a graceful demeanor, it is a satisfaction to know these are not put on, but that thev belong to the character, and are manifest at all times and under all circumstances. Instead of "Much obliged," "Thanks," or "Thanks awfully much/' the Anglodudes about town now say "Beholden," or "Very much beholden to you." It's the i latest, and quite catching. FASHIONS FOR AUTUMN. MATTERS OF LIVELY iXTEREisT TO THE FAIR <?EX. Xoveliles !n Hat*, nnd Odd Yet Becoming Bonnets?Something Xew in Skirling, Etc. Xew goods for early fall "wear continue to be displayed daily and present a number of novel fabrics, some of which are as brilliant in color shadings as the richest tints seen in the autumnal foliage. In all wool fabrics many quiet tones are shown, varying with stripes with dashes of color. In Paris plaids and checks promise to be the Litest choice to combine with plain materials, but here stripes appear to be the most popular. One striking feature in the fall modes is the extreme "mannishness" displayed in the styles. This is not altogether new, but this season promises to be carried to a greater extreme than ever before. The question of becomingness to the wearer is not considered. Fashion is so potent that there is rarely any discrimination exercised in the choiee of what to wear. However, if the style is antagonistic to a refined and conservative taste, it is a trifle modified if countenanced. An admixture of tints is to be decidedly fasliionable this coming season. By slow degrees the universal adoption of black and dark tones is being given up, which has made so many social gatherings of Lite years so gloomy of aspect. Excellent coloring is displayed in coarse interpleated basket cloths?black, white, red and brown intermixed?and in the * 1 1 1 A 7 'A1. 1 T _ Aicxaiiura cioms wuu uuucie snipes? red, yellow, blue and red, flecked. Other woolens are in plain colors and also with tufted stripes, which, placed horizontally and perpendicularly, form a check. Then there are cloths with spots between the stripes. Plain material comes in the same shade to combine with these in costumes. Zebra clcth is solid, plain ; and striped in such mixtures as gray and blue, blue-brown and green. Parisian fashions have always a certain following, so some tweeds have been brought out with large plaids of blue, brown and red. Serge, which has hitherto been con- ' sidered a plain material, is now advanced to a decorative fabric, with broad velvet and chenille stripes. A very beautiful cloth displayed is of a petunia shade, with a very broad stripe, quite a quarter 1 rif a vsml across, in nlain and fancv frize velvet, showing convolvuluses in shades of petunia (a red purple) with leaves twining around stripes of a dark and light tone. Tliis material is very costly, and only appropriate for a handsome carriage of visiting toilette. , WHAT'S XETW IN" SKIRTIKCt. ( It is always difficult to find anything new in skirting, but the winter petticoats will be remarkable for their brilliant coloring. The perpendicular stripes are two inches wide, in red, yellow, black, whitpt ami gray. ihotrc have a line of herring-bone' weaving beside each stripe in yellow. Most luxurious are the cardinal satin petticoats, lined with flannel, with a very little eiderdown between . the two thicknesses. These are ex- ] quisitely quilted in line diamonds with a i handsome border, the edge finished by a pleating of satin. Pure woolen fabrics in shades of leath- j er and biscuit, with tiny specks in a j darker color, form some of the prettiest . demi-salson cost unies; the skirt is pleated in rather wide box pleuts, each one orna- ; mented at the edge with an applique em- ! broidered design of Indian or Persian . character. The costume is completed by j a fnniV mi/I nr hv a nolonaise fastened diagonally from the left slioul- : der under a band of applique embroide- . xy, continued round the right side, which , is draped like a rounded panier. The ! left side forms a long tunic draped with . pleats under the embroidered band ' edging the right side, and falling in a long point a little to the left of the centre, and draped again far back on the left hip under a bow of wide ribbon. The back breadths form a pleated and puffed drapery, bordered down the sides and round the edge with an embroidered applique bind. Many novelties are daily appearing in millinery, each new bonnet or hat being more eccentric than its predecessors, for odd styles are certainly the most popular at present. The latest Parisian novelty is the "pine cone" hat, in perfect imitation of a gigantic fir cone. This hat is always trimmed with ostrich plumes or 4-nllr* r\r fli/* ]>nn rvf flm rvmAC ATon V nf t/U.JO.1/ V/j. bi-Xl/ UUV v/i WJ-LV/ W-. the prettiest bonnets are composed of crepe; even tliose intended for the winter season are composed of this fragile material. Of course they have an inner lining of thin silk and will be reserved more especially for evening, aiternoon teas and reception wear. RED THE FAVORITE COLOR. pLprl is a favorite color for evervthiner. It lias been popular in Paris for the past six months and now promises to be equally fashionable here. It requires time for Americans to become accustomed to decided novelties, but when they do the extreme of using colors promiscuously is generally adopted and this will likely prove the case with the bright color that is popular; beautiful and stylish as it is if worn with discretion. A red bonnet, made of crepe, has a flaring brim standing up well above the face, with a wreath of poppies beneath it. The trimming upon the outside consists of a ladder up one side made of pearl-edged ribbon. Chenille is applied in various ways. Many wire bonnets are covered with chenille of different colorings, twisted in and out, the fronts pointed, the backs turned back. 'Astrachan bonnets are new and -will be in demand?not made of fur, but of imitation woolen Astracliau in all colorings. These all have the plain turn-back coronet. The great novelty of the moment is that bonnets are made of two colors. For example, a red crown, with blue sides and the turned-back coronet blue. The colorings in this kind of bonnet are principally brown and giecn, brown and red, Kwv?.-?-, r, A Viaisva TT/wcoclmo cmilrPTl lUl/WJU 44.11.14. crowns are. as far as can be seen at present, likely style of the coming season. The ribbon is folded and crossed over this crown, coming forward to form the strings. Many of the new felt hats have high-pointed or square crowns bound with velvet, a bow tied in the front. A NOVEL BONNET. A novel bonnet is made of gray velvet, of the shade resembling an eleph&nt's fur; the crown is covered with silver braid, gradually shading off to the same coloring as the velvet; the front stands up very high, and_ is* decorated with a large bunch of pink azaleas, strings of tulle tlie same shade cs the flowers. A stylish bonnet is made of black beaded tulle, with very high coronet; in front a high bow of red velvet, with a large bunch of red and black cherries J h and foliage falling over it; beaded tulle strings, fastened with a handsome jet pin. Steel, gold and black beads are fashionable in fringes as well as embroidery; gold beads especially are in favor for dresses and small vestments. One of these, of gray cloth, has the collar covered with a fringe of fine gold beads, and the whole of the plastron is covered with gold-bead fringe. Bead embroidery is used for everything, the plain and colored beads both being used, the effect m many and in fact most eases oeiug gorgeous. Passementerie corselets arei to be a feature of the coming season; these are exquisitely beautiful, and correspondingly extravagant in price, llibbons form 'an important part in trimming; bows are used upon everything, and an entire trimming six inches wide is made to edge evening and dinner costumes, formed of very narrow ribbon, like a bobbin, loop upon loop, making a thick mass. Rosettes arc made of the same ribbon, to correspond. VKESS TEmiiTS'GS. Bands of' etaminc, embroidered in cross-stitch with silk, are employed in trimming matinee and morning dresses made of surah and foulard; revcrs collars and cults are embroidered t-.? correspond with the bands and form a very p. ctty trimming. Lace of all kinds is extensively fcscd for trimming. Lace embroidered'with gold bullion is very elegant to trim dinner and evening dresses of black lace, silk or satin. Velvets for trimming are strewn with tiny flowers in bright colors. Galloons and braids of all kinds are the most fashionable trimmings. They arc plain or neaviiy beaded. Complete sets of the beaded ornaments are made to correspond for trimming panels, vest, cuffs and collar. Tlie weight of some of these, if elaborate, is truly appalling. Natural fir cones, very small, are introduced as pendants on jet galloon; gold is also used with jet. It, however, must be of the very finest quality, or it has a common, tawdry appearance. Fringes of silver-gray seeds mixed with steel beads and ornaments to correspond are shown to use upon gray wraps. These : are new, stylish and very expensive. ' La%c steel, gold or jet balls are worn on the ends of ribbon bows. Suede gloves still continue fashionable. When will glace kid gloves return IU itivui; uuvu'j 10 lux uivuuing wear, but certainly ghee kid looks better for dressy costumes and evening * wear; but fashion is a stem autocrat and ' must be obeyed, so ro change is yet to : be made. The tan color of the kid is | yet the first choice, but black aud vari- j! ous shades, matching the costume with . whicli it is to be worn, are shown for ; those who prefer a match to a contrast. ' Four-button gloves are the length most ' used for general wear. For evening the . Length of the gloves and number of but tuns is regulated by the purse of the owner. There is a slight disposition to ' use some of the pale tints so long discarded, as well as the tan shades. Stitching black and colors is seen on many of the new glovei. ' JUDGE POlivAD A.\l) THE DRIXKS. Senator Mffl" /> S?l?tnStc, fmrttocif4 fled It in Time. (National Ropublican) No member of Congress of recent years was better known to the galleries tban Judge Poland, of Vermont. The blue press coat with brass buttons which ; lie wore made him conspicuous among ; Lis colleagues. He is above the average stature; his features arc as clear cut as a cameo, with an expression of severity ; chat m:iks his humor and good nature. , His general appearance, dignified bearing and correct manners convey the idea that he is one of the most straitlaced of : aien. Senator Blackburn tells a good story that illustrates the manner of man : Judge Poland is. Poland and Black- ; bum were members of the House during the Forty-eighth Congress. One day seme friends of Blackburn while 011 the way to the Congressional to obtain liquid refreshment met the Kentucky member as he was passing across the hall of the ! House, and invited him to join them. "Wait a minute," said Blackburn, "un- | til I speak to_Judge Poland, and I will 1 join you." "Jtirmg the .Judge witn you," said one of the party. "Judge Poland never drinks," ,caid Blackburn. At this some of his friends laughed, and one replied, "You don't know the man; ask ' him to join us." Blackburn repaired to Poland's seat, transacted his business and then invited him to join the party. Poland accepted, much to the surprise | and gratification of Blackburn, and as they were proceeding to join the party : who had preceded them, Blackburn informed the Judge of the conversation here related. Poland, without changing his countenance, said: "I don't know wny you snoiuu. enieruun sucu uu opinion of mc, and yet I am not surprised, as many men have heretofore acted upon the same belief, and in consequence of this erroneous belief I have' lost many good drinks in my time." From that time forward Poland never missed a drink when Blackburn and he were where drinks could be obtained. ^ Bji Religious Madne** and Murder, A painful case of religious madness analogous to one that happened las:; year near Melbourne has just taken place in in the Hautes Alpes, near Brianeon. Two sisters, named Marie and Catherine Olaguer, aged respectively -A7 an:l 45, ? * > * i - - A j- ? ~ I:JL uvea mere on me Kindest terms ou u jultle property wliicla they had inherited. They had also a sum of 40,000f;, which was well invested. They were both noted for their piety, and had a profound belief in miracles and the supernatural. Last Monday morning Catherine told Marie that she had had a vision in the night in which God appeared to her and demanded a proof of her obedience in sacrificing her sister. Marie lent herself to this idea, which did not appear to her at all strange. So after devoutly hearing mass on Tuesday morning she came "* i - 1 1 i? "J- ^ ^ norae 10 prepare xierseu iu ue u auuimut;. Catherine got a sharp razor and cut with it into each of tlie arms in front of the elbow and into the instep of each foot. The victim kept repeating, "Jesus, Marie, my hope, my Saviour!" Catherine thencollectcd the blood to dry* it and keep it as a relic. Y\"hen Marie was lifeless her sister dressed the corpse in white and went with the will of the defunct to a notary, to whom she related what she had done. She also said that in obedience to God's command she had burned all the debentures and scrip belonging to her sister. The number of these had been, however, given to the notary by Marie. Catherine has been arrested, and will be subjected to an examination by doctors who make lunacy a special study.?Paris Dispatch to the London Daily News. Here is an old proverb set in a new dross. It is a fashion these days to adopt a modern method of expression and here is one of the best examples of it we have seen: "When the Prince of Evil was in ill health he vehemently desired to be a holy friur; but upon convalescence he w:is heard to remark that his pious aspirations had fallen into inocuous desuetude." CIRE? Or A TIIOl'ssAXD ILLS. j I'll" Ha!:, the Dumi; and the D.-af Walk, Talk and Hear. A long line of people in their second childhood and many colored folks filed through the cemetery at Greenville, N. J., yesterday to the "faith cure" camp meeting. The lame, the deaf and the blind, chronic paralytics and promiscu/-mc fnvnliily in crrntpsrinp procession. The invalids were blithe, the paralytics capered nimbly along, gay enough to dance on the graves, the deaf thought that they'could hear the crickets, the blind that they could see, and some of the more enthusiastic negroes imagined that they could fly. Even' one in the procession believed in miracles. All had come from various towns in Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey, and some had traveled nearly 500 miles. The camp meeting was held in the oromtrls of flir- "VnnTit 7inn Krvnr'tamrv " an .ordinary, two-storv house, whose ontor walls ace painted with scriptural quotations and sentences'bearing on the "faiili cure." It is claimcd by tlie "faitli cure" people that a woman of the name of Antoinette Jackson had a direct revelation from God, and that she is the only person in modern times and since the r-TnlwATV ivrrvnli/vfc tt*1 >n Trie nr/ir in communication with the Creator. About 500 people were crowded in the tent yesterday afternoon when Mrs. Antoinette Jackson, a very healthy looking 1 woman, opened the devotions by saying ] that she had once had curvature of the 1 spine and neuralgia of the brain. She 3 had been healed by faith, which also ] cured her of a desire to go to the opera. She said that she had given herself whol- 3 ly to ti.e Lord, and it didn't make any 1 difference to her now whether she had a * new bonnet or not. At this reference a 3 colored man in the camp meeting cried: ( ' 'Praise the Lord." J "Banjo Bill" arose and declared that 1 his entire family had been healed by the 1 faith cure. One child that had been 1 helpless with spinal disease for thirteen ( years had been annointed and was now * auic to s:up tne rope. Anotner nau oeen J cured of pneumonia and a tliird of ? malaria of four years' standing. As for ( himself, lie had been cured of a desire ( for strong drink of eighteen years' stand- 1 Lng and of a desire for tobacco which had ? run for thirty years. ? .-i miuiue-agea man said tnat taim naa 1 cured liim ox placing pool. He used to * drink half a gallon of whiskey a day, T aiid Iiad never opened the covers of a 2 L>ible until he was 37 years old. A col- 1 ored man got up and said that he had * ijeen curt*! of chicken stealing and of 1 i.anging around watermelon patches. 1 Since he had been healed by the "faith s cure" no turkeys had ever got tangle> up in his clothes, and he had never lost 1 his way and run into a smoke house. ( Another colored man testified that he couldn't hear a fog horn until he came * Lo the camp meeting. He had wrestled * with the lumbago for years, and came to 1 cue nrst meeting fuli ox doubt and cov- 1 ered with posters. Now lie no longer < needed any plasters and the lumbago ? bad gone off. A fat and jolly woman who would probably weigh 300 pounds, 3 qot up and said that she used to be so 1 fat she couidn t walk. I'uttiug Iter trust J in the "faith cure" she asked the Lord c to take away some of her fat. Since that ? time she had lost thirty-five pounds. ? "Haven't we a right to jump and hoi- * Ler.J said she, bounding up trom the floor; "if we didn't tell the way we feel ? we'd bust asunder." I A woman lieutenant of the Salvation Army said that she had ruptured a lung 1 while speaking at an open air meeting. ^ That lung had been wholly healc-d by a the "faith cure," and she could now shout as well as when she was a sergeant. * Many devout people testified in a simple ^ and sincere way that had been cured of T jrave bodily ills by the faith cure, and 3 -i ~t j. 1.1.r~: .1- J ,1 pointer to LiLfir 1 lieuus uuu miiuicu present who Lad been unable to walk j iinul they had been healed through a faith. i Xo collection was taken up, but most \ Df those present dropped coins into a c box at the door. "Kev." M. D. Han- c cox, an unordained preacher, who pre- 1 sided over the camp meeting, invited all ^ present to join his new "church of the 1 first !>om" and to leave the Babylon of 3 the modern churches, if the latter would t not allow them to belong to the two 1 churches at the same time. ? -P- ? \ Pnnr iMtrnipr'^ 1 Speaking of Kentucky elections some ( curious stories come to me in regard to ^ the Hon. William Preston Taulbee, a j member of the House who represents the . m/\i ?* * . nnriArit! /"Ir* ILIX i-io V/X vlv scribed in Charles Egbert Craddock's ( novels. Taulbce is a long, lank, cadaverous, smooth-faced, sallow-complexion- , cd man. thirty-live years of age. He has ^ black eyes, dark, hair, and sort of a t frontier air about him. He is a man of * some ability, and the Congressional Directory says that he prepared himself for Congress by studying for the minis- } try three years and for the law three. He j lias John *D. White's old district, and 1 whereas it is an open secret that White i used to buy his district, Taulbee was ' UlCCl^U ijn LilC ^iUlUiUd tULUO UCJ v?4U) O* poor boy and a man of the people. It is ; said that he made his poverty his plea r for election on the stump, and that ^ among the favorite sentences of his ^ stump speeches to the mountaineers were such as the following: "I would have ; the people of these mountains show the ' world that a poor boy can go to Con- J gress. X would have the nobility of , France know it. I would let the Queen : of England know it. Aye! I would let the monarchs of the world know that , down here in Kentucky one man is as good as another, and that a poor farm- ] er's boy can be elected to one of the i highest oilices in the land." A good deal " of the electioneering in the Kentucky | mountains is done by talking at the crossroads and private conversations. T?nto<"iv,-> T-m ]h,-r> it is said, nnvw allowed an opportunity to pass of making a vote or of impressing liL= constituents with the simplicity of his nature and habit.?Washington Letter to the Cleveland Leader. The Sew KcpofJrr Jvjuai to Hii Ta?k. A frightful oath exploded upon the still, pure air of the editorial rooms. The managing editor opened his door, stuck his head in and inquired with interest: "\\*ho was that cussed just now?" civ " eni/I tlia v/mn<T mjnHftmnn T r V,U. Oli-J JV/vuijj most recently added to the stall', "I'm soil}' to say that i did." ' IV:: did," cried tiie managing editor, reselling out his hand. "Shake, young man. I was doing you an injustice. I feared your university training had afieoted you incurably -with prejudices of a gentleman. You will make a journalist, sir. Tim!" shouted the great mail. an:l the city editor came hurrying j in. ''Tim, young White lias sworn." "Weleorr o!" was the only word uttered by the city editor, as with illumined eounteniince lie stretched forth both hands tc- the overpowered neophyte from Berkeley.?San Francisco Post. A mar may have no car for music, yet have a n:.iad to play. PICTURES OF STRANGE LANDS. WHAT THE TRAVELER .-EES IX THE HEART OF RUSSIA. The Gilded Towers, Gorgeous Churches ond Splendid Jralacea or Moscow. (Letter to the Eavenport Democrat.) The other sights consist of churches, palaces, and treasured things -within the Kremlin. This is the old time fort? called stoutly about. This was in early i days the entire city. Here were the palaces, churches, the troops and arsenal ?the heart of Russia. Here lived the czars, the priests, the generals, the soldiers. Here within the church was all the treasure kept?an old-time oriental custom of the pagan age; here, too, were people judged and executions held?here the heart and central strength of Russia. As the city grew more walls were added, but the old Kremlin walls were kept intact; and now, as you enter there through the holy gate, beneath the emblems of the church, you must remove your hat? so does the emperor?so all his subjects ?all who visit here. The palace here is very grand?has many rooms and lofty halls aglow with polish, glass and gold. To take you through these halls, and rooms, and corridors would be to travel for miles and oiiles and write for months and months. Ihey cover many acres?filled with Fnrnifnrp rvrirl /?nrir>ns rliinorc* xirfth lipds md bedding?costly, inlaid floors, irabesques and gilded work?with carvings, tiles, armorial shields; great stables, jarriages and luxurious outfits of all sorts; i winter garden far above the street luxlriant in palm and vine, exuberant tropic plants?aglow with tropic heat here in his frozen realm?a playroom for the lueen, who comes not often here?all hds for the imperial home, but very rarely occupied. The treasury is very spacious?very rich in richest gems, in :rownsand scepters, hilts and jeweled slothes that here are gathered up to nake a museum for folks to come and >ee. A czar is crowned?his crown and icepter, all his costliest things and gems ind lodgment here. Even the coronaion clothes of Mr. and Mrs. Czar are vorn no more, but hung up here to look it all the ages. Here in this regal show nany a costly coach and sledge, built ;or the coronation pageant?to be used 10 more?no end of costliest luxury of vhich you tire very soon and wish for 'ometking good and plain. Here in the Kremlin churches lie the oyal bones of all the czars and wives lown to Great Peter's day?here stored iway in great stone coffins cumber the ioor, o'ercast with purple velvets rimmed with golden cuffs, fenced up ,vith gilded posts and rails, waiting in :oyal state amidst the masses of the shurch, among the rehcs of the shrines', imong the pictures of the saints?the laily ceremonials?waiting in state the udgment day. Most people have ceased :o bury human beings in the public shrines, but here they do jnst as wa? lone in the days of yore. These inon- ' irchs are the Greek church popes? . igents of Heaven upon the earth to do ! iie will of God. Their word is absolute ?have in their hands to make or break ' it will; have in their hands the fullest 1 )Ower, comingto them as a divine right, ton don't believe in such things?not of jresent kings?its not your interest to. iVe can believe that Saul and Solomon md such old-time barbaric Jewish kings vere really called of God to rule and lave no end of power and gold and rives, but -we have to draw the line someriiere, and draw it before we come to Russian days. The churches here are miracles of . ewelers' art. The domes without, the : Itars, shrines and tombs within, abound ; n beaten gold?gold wrought in count- ! ess shapes?gold counted by the hun- . Ired pounds?up over the dome and unler domes of tins Saint Savior's church, * - P 1 x- n _ 3 C )uiit Here m way 01 tnamis tu u-uu ior ictory in 1312 over the troops of Trance, greets you from miles away as rou approach this Moscow town, i'irst hing of all you see in the bright sunight coming across the plain is this harp glint and gleam?a costly diadem juspended in the air?refulgent corona. kVliat makes it so? You see no gleam ike this from the gilded State House lome of Iowa, only a dullish glare. But his is different. The State House dome s gilded very thin and plain. These lomes we see?you may stand upon the owest and count them by the score?are >f thick plates, and burnished till it jleams like finest polished jewelry, dazzling your eyes. This outdoor golden vealth is here prodigious. To gild San savior's dome took half a ton of purest jold. The whole church is a gleaming glory )f polished granite, marbles, costly nalachite and lapis luzuli; masses of inest porpJiyry, sucn as is used 111 iionan cliurclies only sparingly; masses of Finnish granite; columns of Siberian rerde antique, black marbles of the hnest jrain, liglit violet and gold line grays, .vitli altar work of pure Carrara white. Ihese regal stones mount arch on arch, :he columns, walls, the arches, piers and ioors atiash with polishing. The ?>ious pictures of the Almighty Savior, saints md sacred scenes of heaven and earth ire works of hands most skilled?you nove about mid golden bronze and silver things, midst gems and ail in earth nost choice and rare?all stone and metal, not a piece of wood in all the -?-?r\? lorrrn lil-A rrroif UJLi\ Javt ? wvw ? jliurcli in Home?only a pendant you nay say, yet costing twenty millions? :he" finest gem in all this land of costly shrines; the finest in the world, they *y- _ Killed by the Earthquake. Mr. G. B. Newcomb, an employee of the Northeastern Railroad Company, reports Lhat the foliage on many of the trees in the neighborhood of Ten-mile Hill lias been killed by the water which spouted up from the sand craters on the" night of the earthquake-. lie examined the country immediately east of the railroad track last Saturday for a distance of about a half mile, and found it badly torn up by fissures. One of the rents seem to extend across the whole area, being four feet wide in someplaces and marked at intervals by holes from which water had evidently spouted. The foliage on many of the young pinetrees in the neighborhood had been wilted ? J i.Ill? UL1U U-IIIUU im lilt Iiait.1. Twelve Hours With a Salmon. The papers describe the feat of Maj. Hill, who, having hooked a Salmon while fiisliing in the Wye, stuck to it for 12 hours, and then incontinently lost it, as unprecedented." This is wrong, for two years ago an angler who was fishing for I i rout in the River Doon hooked a salmon at 11 in the morning and did not succeed in landing it until a" few minutes of midnight, llis "record'' is quite as good as Maj. Hill's in point of time, and he did not lose his fish, to say nothing of the fact that he had only a small trout hook.?London Truth. Ill mrnna WHAT THE KIKLIX DID. Warm Springs, X. C., September 22.? Sitting on the broad viazza of the hotel here, away from the promenaders, I listened last night to a passionate, earnest justification of kuMtmsm in Louisiana and other Southern States. The story of wrong and outrages, the violation, ruthless and rough, of all that men hold most dear and sacred, as it came pouring in burniner words from the lips of one of New Orleans' most eloquent divines, was in striking contrast to the perfect peace that wrapped the valley in deep silence. The moon was sliming with a brilliancy . seen only in Southern climes, and the clearly defined mountains were patched with alternate light and shadow as the clouds drifted by. The conversation had drifted on Southern topics, and as the preacher, whose faith is a firm belief in the fatherhood of God and the brother nood ox man, warmed with ids subject his physical ills for the time were forgotten' and the mentality that has stirred many a congregation with its fire burned and glowed like molten iron. "Was kukluxism justifiable?" lie said, in answer to a question. "Yes, sir, and if the doctrine that "the end justifies the means' was ever correct, it was during the reign of terrorism in the Southern States when kukluxism was rampant. Remember, sir, that at the close of the war and dur- " inn- rtr-rinfl flip xrhitft men in tiie Scutli were disarmed, and it was penal offense for them to have firearms in their homes. The negroes, however, were armed; our streets and highways were patrolled by negr^ soldiery, who were but a set of barbarians and savages, worse than are the savages today in the interior of Africa. It got so that a white woman dare not cross the * threshold of her house lest she be as saulted by one of these brutes, while white meu had to abandon the roads to the negroes and make their across the field as best they might. To appeal to the law was useless, for the judges were carpetbaggers and sustained the negroes. "It was this state of affairs, when we saw our civilization, and all the rights and privileges of society being swept away, and our dear ones exposed to a fate'worse than death, that gave birth to kukluxism. . Self-preservation is a funmental law, and recognizing that naught but heroic measures would quell the . ^ > i_t? LX1V_- nuiw V?UJ.OUAJ VI" ganized, and in armed bodies began the redress of tbe wrongs from which they were suffering. Do not imagine that the kuklux were reeuited from the criminal classes. Such I know is the prevalent Northern idea, but it is absolutely false. The members of the K. K. K. were gentlemen of fine education, struggling manfully to retain and sustain their manhood, and give to their children as a ? heritage of the war a higher civilization than Dcrha-os they themselves load en joyed! In many instances that was the only legacy they had to give, for all else had been swept away in the storm of shot and shell #tat had for four years been sweeping over the land." "How did the bands work?" "Negroes, like sheep, require a leadear, and the bands quietly noted the ^ leaders and where they lived. At nights they visited their cabins, and called the -j moii ont. The most brutal were either shot orliimg;'othersthoroTigMy-wiHgped - ? and ordered to leave the country. In this way a reign of terror was created among the negroes, and the white men gained control. Why, sir, even the Federal troops that were sent down to suppress kukluxism refused in many in stances to mtercere, ana ixj. some cases actually aided. They knew that it was not a condition of crime and anarchy, but a necessity bom of negro insolence and intolerance." "What about the Ford-Murphy murder in New Orleans'?" "New Orleans is and has been since the days of Warmouth cursed by ring rule. The spectacle of a judge adjourning his court and deliberately going out and shooting a man to death as one would a wild beast was simply disgraceful, and is a blot on the fair fame of the Queen City that will not soon be effaced. The ring did all in its power to save the murderers, and perhaps would have succeeded had it not been for the efforts of the Bev. E. A. Holland, of Trinity Church. He not only published letter after letter in the Picayune, demanding their punishment, but also publicly and from iiis pulpit demanded their execui? TTV ^ * -i* C il?Al -J. uon. juis me was iretju.eij.uy uireiiteneu. by members of the ring, but lie persevered and won. Had tliose men been pardoned they would have been lynched within twenty-four hours. So determined were the members of Trinity parish, the wealthiest in New Orleans, to rid the city of the scourge, that 100 of them organized secretly for the purpose of lynching the murderers. Among the members of this band were 'numbered some of the most respected citizens of New Orleans, and their counsel was their pastor. In many respects the Rev. E. A. Holland is a remarkable man. He is Tf i 1 V'-xl. ,1 ^ 1, a JYeniucJiiixi uy uirui, <uliu. aiuiougu. oi small physique, is all pluck, and does uot hesitate to raise his voice in denun- , ciation of wrong-doing and in favor of a higher civilization, i'roru his pulpit he fought the traud in the exposition management, a: id alone was the means of stoijping the bull fighting on the exposition grounds* You may know how devoted he is to principle when I tell you the mea ho fought in the exposition were anions; the wealthiest members of his church." He is strongly intellectual, ? and has mo st pronounced views, which he never hesitates to express. Special Agent Sloan's Observations. Mr. Sloan took a trip up the Ashley river yesterday, going as far as Lamb's, oa tie South Carolina railway, and thence up the cast bank of the river on horseback. Mr. Sloan reports that most of the old uiuiiciuua uiivi jjiaico uy in<j iivci have been destroyed. "Middle-ton Hall" is badly injured, while Dr. 'Baker's handsome old English house ana the Cohen place are * hopeless wrtcks. At the- Cohen place an old pump which had been buried in a well for years was forced (our feet three inches above the surface of the ground. . ?J Mr. Sloan also discovered, between Lamb's and Ten Mile Hill, a la -ge hole in which several small pine tree, have been engulfed. The hole is thirty-one feet long at its longest point and twen'.y feet broad. When lirst discovered if io .sad to have lx.cn about lifteen feet in depth. It has since tilled up with soft, oozy mud, and is now only about live feet de p. Mr. Sloan left for Augusta last n? .lit, having recc ved orders from Washington tn ewimine the count rv between Anmisfn and Columbia iu order to ascertain whether* there have bx-n any changes there in the marginal iine of the geographical formation upon which they have been operating, lie will be absent several days, and upon his return will finish taking observations of the earthquake phenomena in and around the city.?JYeics arul Courier. IIow many cliiiureu are spoiled by discouragcment ' Parents grumble and chide "i the livelong da}-, and never praise. It is J wrong. Nothing will so effectually crush a child's, ambition to be good and noble. The sweet approbatio 1 of a good mother s enough to make a young man face tire an^ i death in a worthy causcT r J * I