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VOL. XLIII, ' W1NNSB0R0, S..C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 12, 1887. NO. 24,
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p A LETTER FKO.M CAPT. TILLMAN. f
He Gives IIi- Views on Certnln Tiling*; .
Done I>y the Legislature at tiac Recent
Session.
To the Editor of the X(-vvh auu Courier:
Your editorial in the Tlie and .
I Courier of December 'J4, htaot-d "The .
v same Old Trouble," is in tlie m-.in just;
and appropriate, but at the same time it,
is misleading. For instance, speaking 1
of the bills emanating from tlie Farmers'.
Convention, and which have l>een either
postponed, amended out of all shape or
slaughtered outright in the Senate, you ;
1$ say:
"Who is responsible we need not say. I
The Senators will be prepared, of course, ;
to explain their action to their con- |
stitueats when the proper time comes, j
and they will doubtless be given the op-,!
port unity. But whatever their reason, j
good or bad, the fact remains that the i
quarrel of the farmers, if the have any, j
is with their own representatives. Tiie !
( non-agricultural member^ of the General i
Assembly have been willing and ready, j
as they have abundantly shown, to grant j
every request and adopt every plan j
fumiors shnnld siyTee MMOll ioT i
WUULVJdl vav ? 0 _
the advancement of their peculiar interest,
and to give to them the control o?
their j>eculiar affairs. The failure is
chargeable to the men -whom they have
selected and el*, ck-d to carry out their
plans, and the settlement must be had i
r with those who are responsible for the j
failure."
You may rest assured that they -will!
be "given the opportunity to explain" [
and that "settlement will be had" with j
some of them when again the farmers j
get a chance. If the "farmers' move- j
meat," which has created such a stir j
among the people, is really a demand of !
the masses for reform and the correc-1
tion of abuses, and an expression of a;
desire to see oar rights as farmers re- j
spected, it will continue to grow and j
spread, rather than dwindle and die, and I
will have much to do with shaping the I
o-n/3 T*r?Ktri/"s nf this State. !
lUtUXC JL/VAU.V/J ttAiv.*.
But let that be as it m:y. 1 only set j
out to show you that, waile correct as to
the House, your editorial is calculated to j
mislead when you say the farmers in the |
Senate are alone to blame.
And in order to make this clear I will'
show the complexion of our present Sen ;
ate as regards occupation. It is com-;
, posed as follows:
Lawyers ... - 15 j
Partners 12 j
Doctors S|
Preachers
Editors and printers - r '2 j
Merchants j l j
Total 1 85 j
?of whom 20 are new Senuto.N and 15 j
are old ones, two of the new jnes serv-1
^ ing unexpired term.-.
^ Now, the b:li ot uti others in \?hieh j
^ the fanners we'c u?i>st deeply ^ii&rebteif, J
and which they deaiivd io iia-e passed i
most was that enlarging woard oi j
agriculture ana reorgauiz.;ii? in*
tural department. ihi?> tu postponed,
by a vote of 21 to 14 on the
tiimsy pretext, us voio* d by jje^aSor :
Youmans, that they ''wanted li.-re time
to investigate this. iatowitant jiiiaiu*r.":
The April Convention had deui^obd :r. i
The November Convention hau-icaiajud- :
edit. The matter has hewn t: c?.
discussed jor_ a year or mo^:a ti^e I
press, and charges of extra\j ^uiivx; auxi j
of incompetence, or neglect of duty on .
the part of the Doard, proven. .But ihcse !
Senatorial lawmakers alone nttdvd j
"more time to investigate." Well, we
> hope they will improve the two years j
eleven of them have got before the next j
election to study the matter ami be pre-;
pared to give good reasons for tiieir i
votes when asked. If, indeed, your re-1
porter be correct in saying the "Agn-j
* cultural Senators were influenced by a
determination not to submit to Tillman
dictation," it will be a pitiful excuse for
having refused to comply with the
wishes of the farmers of the State; and
an acknowledgment of having allowed
personal motives to govern their action
^ rather than a desire to legislate fur the
public good. No member of the Gen\
eral Assembly, either benator or Eepre*
sentative, can truthfully say that I was
either obtrusive or dictatorial in pie;
senting to them the measur es asked by
the two Farmers' Conventions, and it wi.'l
be left to the farmers ail over the Suite
^ ' to resent in a proper way the imputation
| that Tillman alone constitutes the
r "Farmers' move sent."
VU/%. nrr-r.*/?vi If rival TP
J X>Utt 11 UU.O iVLUWUXWi
sented "Tillman dictation," what influenced
the other Senators? I will now
proceed to show that the farmers in the
Senate are not alone to blame for deferring
this t>ili. My old friends, the
lawyers, took advantage of the fui'i
kicked up by Messrs. Youmans and
S Wofford to plant a sly dagger in Tillman's
side and slap their agricultural
constituents who have joined the farmers'
movement in the face. This is J
shown by the vote, as follows:
For Postpovewie.it. Occupation.
Messrs. Bell Farmer.
Biemann Mer'nt & hotelkeeper.
Black Doctor.
Byrd Doctor.
rErwin Farmer.
Hemphill Lawyer.
Howell Lawyer.
Izlar Lawyer.
^ Kennedy Lawyer.
McMaster Lawyer.
| Moore Lawyer.
Munro Lawyer.
T>.> X ,< >
| x atiuovu j v*.
I Khame Lawyer.
B .Reynolds Lawyer.
Y Smith Farmer.
Smythe Lawyer.
Wingard Farmer.
W i fiord Former.
Williams Pi eacher.
Youmaus Mer'm and farmer.
?total 21, of wh >m ehwn are lawyers,
six are farmers, two art- doctors, one is n
preacher and one is a m? recant.
This looks very much hkr: the "oil
} garchy of lawyer.-,'' oi\ v.horn [ havs
spoken so often heretofore, did it? It
"W looks very much like iht> noa-agricuitural
members of the Senate, at ah
events, are willing to s-iiner at and ypr
/ upon farmers' efforts to obtain "control
of our peculiar al:'air>." 1: iiirm
er Senators controlled tlio iiiteeu noi;agricultural
Senators in tht;ir aetiov. v
is the iirst instance on record of u:? agrijr'
cultural tail wagging the legal dug. i>
: the farmers whose voted sent tiie-e invito
the Senate have any self-reject; ii
they have any manhood and a proper
sense of resentment: if they are not the
dogs they are niken fur, they wili, when
the time comes, see to it that the men
who thus contemptuously put tnis indignity
upon them are properly rewardy~
ed. ?t we cannot reorganize the agricultural
department, we can reorganize
the Senate. The farmers of the State
are fast sinking to the level of serfs?
hewers of wood and drawers of water for
others. An efficient and representative
board of agriculture, together with an
agricultural college to act as a pioneer in
11^ * oi^Aix yi lamming
we are compelled to pursue ere -vre caii
^ expect any change for the better, could
Wm ~ j]o much to aid and assist thorn to re?*? --
V
cover their lost prosperity. But these |
pix agricultural Solon s and their fi.teen ;
professional associates say to them in j
eiTL-ct: "You don't knew what you want. j
V?"o will continue to tax you to support a j
de:-arta:c::t ot agriculture which yo:i do j
not ff.ei i.s beneficial to your interests as :
novv conducted, because we like it. We j
will voie your nif>uey to support the ;
South Carolina College and Citadel be-;
cause we think those s-chools are a 1 we j
need; but your Agricultural College is a ;
iiarubug. V>* know it. 'Wisdom will
die with tis.' So we will not even spend
T.'nr mvn ro/ir-,..-e to Tr-Vfv.fit r':ft mat
tt-r and let a commission report so we
can act intelligently."
it may be said the farmers iu tlie Senate
were divided, as they were six for
and six against the bill. .Then if the
professional men in the Senate had j
needed light as to the wishes of the j
farmers of the Slate, if the actions of j
two farmers' convention had r-o weight, j
the almost unanimous vote by which the j
bill passed the House, composed largely
of farmers, should have made them hesitate
to postpone it .
But I have my own opinion as to how
this thing was brought about. I visited
Columbia three times during the recent
session of the Legislature. I kept my
eyes and ears open. I learned a great;
deal that would be of value to '.he people
if I had time to tell it, and I will,
when occasion offers, let out some of the
"true inwardness" of what I saw and
learned. I could tell why and how the
hopes of the people as regards reforms
and reduction of expenditures, &c., resulted
only in the cutting off of a beggarly
thousand dollars?the Lieutenant
Governor's salary. I could show that
on oKhcd ic ?nr1 tft.lrpa rnnt
VWVVi (Ui (??/UwV Aij WV4 W?>.vv ?W>
in South Carolina it is harder than nut
grass to get rid of. But just now I will
only give my belief as to why the Senate
postponed the bill to reorganize the
agricultural department. Of course
some of the Senators voted against it
because of their resentment against
"Tillman dictation," for Mr. Gonzales
says so; some voted?t.vo at least?because
they never vote against one of the
Senators from Charleston, so I am told;
others voted against it because I am
credited with having had much to do
with the slaughter of the Columbia
Canal and the King wanted revenge,
though, to tell the truth, I-am totally
innocent in that matter. Some voted
against it because farmers and. "farmers'
movements," stink in their nostrils. But
the real cause, tuongh _manv__Sfe.,i,!i<a^l
do it perhaps, is that .the
phosphate interests of the State are controlled
by the department of agriculture,
and the Coosaw .vlimng Compny is too
well satisfied with the present management
of that interest to allow a change
if it could prevent it!
Why a board of agriculture should
have anvthins: to do with collecting
mining royalty, farmers of ordinary intelligence
cannot understand. "We do
not see the connection between the two,
but perhaps some of those who started
this thing, and some of those who keep
it up, can give us light. This board of
ugrieulf uiv, which is liked so well, has
spent >170,000 since its creation in 1880,
and we would like some one to tcli us
" hat beuelit it h;^s been to us fanners,
cvlio : \ for it aione. Will some isenatcr,
"agriiiid'uralist" or otherwise, answer?
Or v. ill >ome member of the board tell
u?? D. B. Tji.t.vi^y.?
iloper's, S. C., -January 1, 1887.
AN JELL U.
A Connecticut Coachman Elopes With His
Employer's D:iJi~hter.
The village of Bedding, Conn., is
greatly excited over the elopement of
\Ii?? Hill, dunfrliter of the most
prominent and wealthy citizcn of the
place, with her father's coachman, Frederick
Hicks. Hicks is twenty-seven
years old and is said to be a very disagreeable
looking young fellow. It
appears that Hicks had been in the employ
of Mi*. Hill for about ten months
during which time Miss Hiil fell, despe^-q
atelv in love with him. The young lady,
who is accomplished in every - way, of
faultless form and very beautiful, was
not only the belle of the village, but of
all the neighboring towns. .She taught
a cltiss in Sunday school in her father's
church and had many admirers. Some
months ago the conduct of Miss Hill
and the coachman caused much village
gossip and it finally reached the father's
ears. He was highly indignant and
threatened to kick his coachman from,
his premises. But Miss Eunice begged'
him not to, as it would create a sensation,
and she finally -succeeded in having
the servant retained. Becently Hicks'sconduct
toward Miss Hill was so objectionable
that the girl's father said he
JJlUbir ?U.
Tiie coachman secured a situation in a
liver}- stable, but kept up a cominunicaI
tion with Miss Hill. Last "week lie ciiine
to Mr. Hill's residence and begged that
i gentleman to take Mm back into Ms service.
This Mr. Hill refused to do.
While the two men were in conversation
Miss Eunice quietly stole out of the
house and got into her lover's carriage,
as per arrangement. The couple drove
at once to Brewster's, a neighboring village,
where they were married without
delay. The father of the girl is greatly
enraged over the all'air.
A Fearful Kailroau Accident.
A dreadful accident occurred near
Tiliin, Ohio, at lour o'clock on Tuesday |
morning. The fast train on the Baltimore
and Ohio Kail road, which leit
New York about 9 o'ciock Monday for
Chicago, with five coaches aDd four
sleepers, all well filled with passengers,
..,>11^,1^/1 !> ;> ]-> or> rvmnri frpirifr.
| WUiUVU Vl^UXX ftM SAWWVAM vvvu<v*
i tram.
; The fast train was about- lifty minutes
Lite and vas running at the rate of sixty
miles an hour. Passing Kepublic, a
small stat.on, like a Hash, it rushed aiony
to a curve one mile west of that town,
when suddenly the engineer saw t-he
freight tr:.m imder fail headway within
one hunt;red yards oi nini. He at once
applied the brakes and reversed the enyiae,
but it did no good, and the next
iListaiit the cr?iah cuxne, telescoping the
coaelies a ad piling them up on eacii
other. 'J'o u,id consternation to the
horrible s>cene lire broke out in the
-onuKUig far and boon spread to the other
cans M -a* were killed outright, while
others, ??edged in among the broken
! curs, wero slowly consumed by the
| xitmes.
me accident '.vcs due to a niisunder-tanumg
t i tram orders. Auotiier statement
is ILat tne engineer of the freigm
train ftus jsauK. me wiuue iiiuuoer ui
i?asseajj<rrj was Co. Tue number of kiiieu
'.v^> _'J, \v:cii muuy wounded.
Another umiamoth cave" is reporte- .,
this time in .Missouri. The first exploration
was only a partial one, but took in
several ch-unbers and was prosecuted for
a distance of a quarter of a mile, and still
other chambers and labyrinths of passages
lay beyond in several directions.
I'iie scenery is reported to be indesrib
ably beautiful, the abundant stalactites
and staglaimtes assuming all sorts of fantastic
shapes.
"The Lost Ciiord"?The wood misseu
] from your pil?- oTeroijjhr.
INDUSTRY OF THE SOUTH.
The Marveilo'j'i Progress of the Year 1
1886?Tt Surpasses any Year, Even ol" the* j
Lust Wonderful Decsdc.
In its annua! review oi the industrial i
progress of tLo South, the Baltimore j
.Manufacturers' Becord says that 1836
was the most remarkable year in many
respects in the history of the Southern
States, and more accomplished for the
prosperity and progress of the whole
South than ever In-fore in any year.
This is shown in the enormoas invest
merits of capital in industrial enterprises
anu ir the growth of confidence among
Northern and European investors in the
stability of the Smith's irun and other
manufacturing interests.
The amount of capital, including the
capital stock of incorporated companies,
represented by new manufacturing and
mining enterprises organized or char
terea at the South daring 1830, including
the enlargement of old plants and
the rebuilding of mills, aggregates $129,226,000,
80(3,812,000 in 1885, divided
among States, as follows:
States. 1886. 3885.
Alabama $ 19,848,000 $ 7,841,000
Arkansas 1,524,000 3,220,000
Florida 1,659,000 2',019,000
Georgia 3.599,000 2.000,000
Kentucky.... 29,404,000 18.303,200
Louisiana 2,240,000 2,118,500
Maryland 8,765,000 6.063,800
Mississippi... 774,000 701,500
X. Carolina... 367,000 323,000
S.Carolina... 1.203.000 856,000
Tennessee 21,240,000 2,692,000
Texas 5,694,000 3,232,000
Virginia 8,514,000 3,314,000
W. Yirgiria.., 8,365,000 12,056,000
Total.... $129,226,000 $66,812,000
Tlie development of iron manufactures
employs the bulk of tliis new capital.
Other interests as well as iron, however,
are being rapidly developed. Included
in the list of new enterprises organized
in the South during 1S86 were: 2S iron
furnaces, 50 ice factories, 68 foundries
and machine shops, many of them of
large size; 1 Bessemer steel rail mill, 20
miscellaneous iron works, including iron
pipe works, bridge and bolt works, etc.;
$ stove foundries, 24 gas works, 34 electric
light companies, 11 agricultural implement
factories, 174 mining and quarrying
enterprises, 16 carriage and w:igcn
factories, 9 cotton mills, 23 funiitngy
pw-viri'i?y^ iiour jxins, -?-?o iuiiiL/fi
mills, (not counting small portable saw
mills,) including saw and planing miils,
sash and door factories, stave, handle,
bhingle, hub and spoke, shuttle-block
factories, etc.; in addition to which there
was a large number of miscellaneous enterprises.
One of the most gratifying
features of the South's industrial
progress, says the Manufacturers' Record,
is a wide diversity of new industries
that are developing all through that
section.
A BEGUILING PROSPERITY.
(Fr.iir. tK?> Ntws ars<i Courier.)
It is exceedingly gratifying, of course,
to read the statement made by the Baltimore
Manufacturers' Record in evidence
of the wonderful development of manufacturing
in the South during the past
year. The total increase of investments
in all kinds of enterprises in the Southern
States daring 1886 is shown to be
nearly (j00T suui- it?is claimed
witn train, upon' tne oasis oi rnese
figures, that the year which is now
closing has been the most remarkable in
many respects in the history of the
South.
It will not escape attention, however,
that the development of iron manufactures
is credited with the employment
of the bulk of the new capital, about
$36,000,000 of the total increased investment
being divided among the three
States of Virginia, Tennessee a::d Alabama,
while a decided falling off is
shown in the States of West Virginia
and Florida. Arkansas, Louisiana,
. sissippi and North Carolina barely hold
tbeir own. There is much ground for
gratification in view of the development
of the iron iaduscry in Ihe States where
it has taken such a hold, but it would be
far. far better for the South if the devel
opment were more general and more
equally distributed. The impetus given
to the iron business, it jV conceded,
comes from without, aud the profits
from that business will largely go out of
the South. While a good deal of money
lias doubtless been made by Alabamians
and Tennesseeans, for instance, in disposing
of their lands, the bulk of the
profits has gone to speculators who
bought up the lands iu large blocks and
at nominal prices. The control of the
lands, moreover, has passed forever out
o? the hands of the people who live on
them, and the enterprises which have
been founded by small home capitalists
in the mineral districts are rapidly passing
into the possession of outsiders, as
has been reported in several conspicuous
instances.
Another and certain result of the great
rapidity with which the production of
iron in the South is increasing is th?.i
the production of the same metal in the
3i ortii must be cheapened enormously,
<">) eke the South will eventually monop|
olize the iron industry. It is tc?o much
! to expect that the iron manufacturers of
Pennsylvania, for instance, will consent
to have their business crippled in either
way. It is probable, therefore, that
these will soon come forward and ask
for lower duties on coal to enable them
to competc successfully with the South-"
ern districts; and, when the demand is
ma .e, the Randal tit es and other Protectionists
will hesitate no longer about
striking any sort of blow at the Alabama
and Tennessee coal and iron mines and
iron manufactures than they would
hesitate now to destroy the sugar industry
of Louisiana, if the votes of the
Louisiana Representatives were not
courted by their selfish allies.
The very prosperity of the iron in
dustry at the South, in short, is fatal to
its continuance, unless it passes into the
hands of Northern owners, and the new1
- ?- "D ?- I'./, * ? _
iy cocyerwju x ru iwuuu-uito m mc uumu-1
ern iron-producing States will find in
the end that they have sold out the true
interest of the South and of the country
for a prize that will crumble in their
bands, or pass into the hands of nonresidents
as soon as it- becomes worth
the taking.
A yourg lady about to be sworn as a
witness in a New York court firmly ret
used to kiss the BiMe, because it was
too filthy, and she was allowed to :2irm
without hissicg the book. It wouid be,
it is said, a costly job to furnish haif a
dozen new Bibles every day to each police
court in New York. The young lady's
objection, however, was well taken. She
had seen the book handed to her kissed
U?, i,rrifnoccnc nf Trhn"m
bad a blister on bis mouth, and tbe
others lips were smeared all over with
tobacco juice. Tbe Mkissing of tbe book"
by naturally fastidious people in NewYork
appears to be somewhat of an
ordeal.
All apprehensions touching the safety
of stoves using gasoline for fuel are set
at rest by the improvements observable
in the Front Yapor Stove. For further
particular*, ?? advertisement.
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PICKETT'* CHARGE.
General Alexander's Article on llio Battle
of fivttystnrs in January Cc-Rtr.ry.
In the January number of the Century
are articles on the third day's fight nt
Gettysburg, by General H. J. Hunt and
E. P. Alexander. From the letter's account
of Pickett's charge we quote as
follows: "At exactly one o'clock by m\
watch the two signal guns were heard in
quick succession. J'n another minute
every gun was at work. The enemy was
not slow in coming back at us, and the
grand roar of nearly the whole artillery
of both armies burst in on the silence
almost as suddenly as the full notes of
an organ could till a church.
Theartiilery of E well's corps, however,
took only a small part, I believe,
in this, as they were too far away around
the town. Some of them might have
done good service from positions between
Hill and Eweil, enfilading the
batteries lighting us. The opportunity
to do that was the single advantage iu
our having the exterior line to compensate
for its disadvantages. Bat our line
was so far extended that all of it was not
well studied, acu the officers of each
corps had no opportunity to examine
each other's ground for chances of cooperative
work.
" the enemy's position seemed io have
broken out with guns everywhere, and
from Round Top to Cemetery Hill was
blazing like a voicano. The air seemed
full of missiles from every direction.
The severity of the fire may be illustrated
by the casualties in my own batailion
under Major Ku><er.
"Before the carmonade opened I had
made up my mind to give Pickett the
order to advance within fifteen or twenty
minutes after it began. But when I
looked at the full development of the
enemy's batteries, and knew that his in
fantry was generally protected from our
fire by stone walls and swells of tiie
ground, I could not bring myself to give
the word. It seemed madness to launch
infantry into that lire, withneaily threequarters
of a mile to go in the midday
J uly sun. i let the fifteen minutes pass,
and twenty, and twenty-five, hoping
vainly for some-thing to turn up. Then
I wrote to Pickett: "If you are coming
at all yoa must come at oace, or I can
not give you proper support; but the
enemy's fire has not slackened at all; at
Qta.fetih fixing frogu.
the cemetery itself." Hive minutes after
sending thai message, the enemy's fire
suddenly began to slacken, and the guns .
in the cemetory limbered up and vacated
tbe position.
"We Confederates often did such
tiling as that to save our ammunition
for use against infantry, but I had never
before seen the Federals withdraw their
guns simply to save them up for the
infantry light. So I said, 'If he does
not run fresh batteries in there in hve
minutes, this is our fight.' I looked
anxiously with my glass, and the five
minutes passed without a sign of life on
the deserted position, still swept by our
lire, and littered with dead men and
horses end fragments of disabled carriage.
Then I wrote Pickett, urgently:
For God's sake, come quick. The
eighteen guns are gone: come quick, or
my ammunition won't let me support
you properly.'
"I afterwards heard from others what
took place with my first note to Pickett.
4'J/iCHct/t took it to -i O D lxOctj. XjO^?^?
street read it, and said nothing. Pickett
said, 'General, shall I advance?' Longstreet,
knowing it had to be, but unwilling
to give the word, turned his face
away. Pickett saluted and said, 'I am
going to move forward, sir,' galloped olf
lo iiis division anci lmmeuiuiexy pui* xi. jlu _
motion.
"Longstreet, leaving Lis staff, came
out alone to where I was. It was then
about 1.40 p. m. I explained tlie situation,
feeling then more hopeful, but
afraid our artillery ammunition might
not hold out for ail-^we^ffoald want.
Longstreet said, 'Stop Pickett, iminuiu"ately,
and replenish your ammunition.'
I explained that it would take too long,
and the enemy would recover i'rom the
effect our fire was then having, and we
had, moreover, very little to replenish
with. Longstreet said, 'I don't want t:>
make this attack. I would stop it now
but that General Lee ordered it and expects
it to go on. I don't see how it can
succeed.'
"I listened but did not dare offer a
word. The battle was lost if we stopped.
Ammuniiion was lar too iow to try any- j
thing else, for wo had been fighting
three di ys. There was a chance, and i'
was not nay part to interfere. While
Longstreet was still speaking, Picket's
division swept out of the wood a ad
showed the full length of its gray ranks
und shining bayonets, as grand a sight
as ever a man looked on. Joining it on
the left, Pettigrew stretched farther ilian
I could see. General Dick Garnett, just
out of the sick ambulance, and buttoned
up in an old blue overcoat, riding at the
head of his brigade, passed us and r
luted Longstreet. Garnett was a warm
personal friend, and we had not met before
for months. We had served on the
plains together before the war. I rode
with him a short distance, and then we
wished each other luck and a good-bye
wnicn was our last.
"Tlien I rode down the line of guns,'
selecting such as x-ad enough am muni-,
tion to follow Pickett's advance, and
starting them as last as possible. I got,
I think, fifteen or eighteen in a little
whiie, and went on with them. Meanwhile,
tne infantry had no sooner debouched
on the plain than all the
enemy's line, which had been nearly
silent, broke out again with all its batteries.
The eighteen guns were back in
the cemetery, and a storm of shells began
bursting over and among our infantry.
All of our guns, silent as the
infantry passed between them, reopen'd
when the lines had got a couple of hundred
yards away, but the enemy's artillery
let us alone and fired only at the
infantry. No one could have looked at
o/ltron/)/! TTT'?f]"?<r\T7f rrmli n rr nrrmrl r\i it..
I lOJXbf au V CkXiUW X UUV UW J^A,W*V-. w ? ?*
"But as oar supporting guns advanced
we passed many a poor mangled victim
left in its trampled wake. A terrific infantry
rire was now opened upon Pickett,
and a considerable force of the
enemy moved out to attack the right
Hank oi his line. We halted, nnlimbered,
and opened tire upon it. Pickett's
men never halted, bat opened fire at
close range, swarmed over the lences
and among the enemy's guns, were swallowed
uj) in smoke?and that was the
last of them. The conflict hardly setimed
to last five minutes before they were
melted away, and only disorganized
stragglers were coming back pur.-ued by
a moderate lire. Just th.-u Wilcox's
brigade passed by us, moving to Pickett's
support. Tliere was no longer anything
to support, and with the keenest pity at
the useless waste of life I saw them adfance.
The men, as they passed us,
looked bewildered, as if they wondered
what they were expected to do, or why
they were there. They were soon, however,
halted and moved back."
Michael Davitt has traveled over ten
thousand miles, delivered forty-eight
speeches, and been married, all in a
of less tl^aiten -woeim.
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THE HA>'I> OF <;OD.
A iiiusyiieuot-r Curses Hi> Creator --ii is
Sirickeu with Paralysis.
.Douglas, Ga., January 4.?' ! hope
that God may paralyze me" were the !
words spoken by William Burkett. At
once liis hands dropped to his side, his
legs r tit used, to move and his eyes rolled
ivudl) around. His pra\ c*r was answereu
.'.s he stood pui'ljzed. on the spot where
iiut a few inmates before he was a magnificent
type of physical manhood. hie
tried to speak, but his tongue would not
move. Half a do2en men, who were
present, were rendered motionless by
the evident visitation of the hand 01
God. Whtn they recovered seii-posr-ession
they tenderly moved the aliiicted
r>Kirt fn Tiit! rMsiripnfift. a half mtlo dis
taut. "When Miss Khody JBurkett saw
the plight in "which, hei father was
brought home she screamed and fainted,
uid*tiied a lew days later.
.For years Mr. Bnrkett had been the
i'errjman at the Kawk'.usville road crossing
ci the Ocmulgee l\iver. Ke was ol
giant physique, with long gray lochs,
anafc-ecame especially noted because oi
the brace of revolvers which he kept
strapped to his waist. He was a great
hunvjr, and the ferry* being in tiie
midst of a swamp, he was convenient to
an abundance of game. From those
who lived around iunj. it is learned that
he was fearfully profane. Whenever he
sighted game and was called off from ii
by an alarm from the ferry he would
pour out such a volley of oaths as would
make the flesh of ordinary men crawl,
it was while in one of these profane
spells that he cursed his Creator, and
wound up with the expression above
quoted. ^ ^ j
Tlie news soon- spread through the |
country, and scores of people caJ led to i
see the victim. He was at first completely
prostrated, but subsequently was
enabled to take a few steps, when he
wonld falL When spoken to he replies
in an inarticulate mumble, and acts in
t ue most idiotic manner. The physicians
can ascribe no natural cause for his
affliction, bnt admit that it is a visitation
of God. The preachers in the neighborhood
have used the incident in their
sarmons with great effect.
. ?KO?-?3*
Story of a Georgia To:vn, True but Terrible.
I was recently in a small Southern vil-LP/^fejlnrm*V
TTflf A.^.PiY,l>;K^on>
;ind oi Ttie four -stores two wereHoaivT
rooms, or whiskey shops. It was no
common sight to tee staggering nicn and I
crowds going and .coming from these
shops. On courfc days, for the connty
court house was there, many men instead
of eating good wholesome food for dinner,
would go to the bar and drink their
dinner. ^ Just think, a dinner of this vile
burning poison; were they fit men to
judge their fellow men? a thousands
times no. But while I sojourned at this
place, I knew three bright promising little
boys, aged four, five and six. Then
there -were two others, little ones, seven
months and two years, each having a
nurse, young, colored girls. One day at
dinner we were at the hotel, the oldest
boy said. Mama, Mr. Barber-shop man,
the proorittor of the barroom also cut
hair) called us and gave us all some cider.
Liz took Clyde and the baby too, and he
made every one drink even the little baby.
ilie Jiama saia, ? win. pun:sn you ana i
3'our brother for going. I strictly forUUltriti
Tile xli-lltt.. '])(, TZuxz* (the
oldest nurse) said come on, , your ma
won't care for sweet cider, and Mrs. Mux
lets Mr. Waiter go. Mr. and Mr?. Max
v.-ere all p.resent: and I II not forget the
look of horror these words brought to
Mr. Max's face. He was i strict Presbyterian
minister, Walter, their one little
lamb; he turned to his wife and said,
Edna is this true; do you let Walter go
io this drink shop? She replied, he
went there to get his hair cut, and brother
lialph said he was too young for any
barm to come of it. He f aid, why don't
you see even the baby is not too young,
"ilig knows his part well. He begins
with the tender" young
them up, cultivating a taste for it, bait- '
ing them for his own aim. I am horrified
that in tins lair village there is sucn vile,
black crime, and our beautiful boy, Oh!
1 shudder; I wished to say when he became
a man, Walter has never set foot
in a dram shop, and now 1 cannot, little
did I dream of this, so young. Why.
I'd let his haii- grow long upon his shoulders,
and I'd punish him severely it' he
knew it was a whisky shop. Edna, I am
surprised at you, his mother, nearest to
liim on earth; you who should be ever so
wary and watchful of this evil. I am
deeply stirred witliin me. Walter, never
set foot in this man's shop again, and
never taste or take any thing he oilers
you. If I hear of you doing so, I shall
punish you severely. The other two
mothers showed equal distress for their
boys. The mother of the babe especially,
to think, as the good minister said, he
was bringing up even the babbes to love
his drink. Her father drank away reason
and life, under this same man's influence,
and her only "brother on the verge of
manhood; Oh! she trembles to think
what will be his fate. Is this fitful gaiety,
this bright bloom upon his young face,
the bloom and gaiety of youth? She
trembles and prays God it may be, and
not the fatal poisoning bloom and gaiety
of vf-mrxr rirmIt "FY?rm_ Onrl watfth aiul
guide your fair boy. And the widowed
mother oi' the other two, tbe two oldest,
may she never experience the deep sorrow
of sceitig her boys intemperate. Oh!
village, Oh! county, banish alcohol from
your Jand, from your people, and you
banish these fearful crimes that arc now
racking you with deep distress, then you
wiil see progress and prosperity, where
now is dilapidation and non-progressiveness.
Whisky is your curse; tremble
for your children, tremble for their
future. Do you tecognize this true picture?
It is as it really occurred!?Georgia
Temperance Advocate.
iigtQ i ?
Thi- Brave \\ ife ol a Sheriff.
A negro man named Monro*: Buck, con
fined in j-lil on the chars?'* of burgiary and
larceny, attempted to his escape !:ist
wees, ana would luve suceeeueu m cmma
so but for the courage and presence of mind
exhibited by Mrs. Josiah Doar, who happened
to be on the premises at the time.
Buck q.'.ivtiy awaited his opportunity,
which came when Scipio, the servant employed
by the Sh.-ritf, opened tbe dom
lending to the ceils la order to cany up the
meal* of the prisoners. Ke attacked Scipio
vigorously a:;d succcedcd in throwing him
down. Iiushing through the lower lull ol
tli?- jail, lie ran rapidly down the -tups iutihe
van! ami darted tow.ird iiie iYont ga?c,
but was stopped by an imperious command
from Mis. Poa", vh i iori'i.!;' hi- moving
or pultiug I:a:i i.-i - .j 'he;: t ailed
o it to the ienc.yts ? V. the doas
when Buck, who had led for the rear
of the enclosure, surrendered unconditionally
and begged Mrs. Doar piteously not to
set the dogs on him. When Sh'jrill Doar,
who had been notified of the trouble, arrived
on the scene, Buck had been safely
confined in iail again. Mrs. Dear's ad mi
r itile enduct under these trying circumstances
Is worthy of the highest common
dation. There "are few ladies who would
iiave U1U5 uravcu mc- iaij' ui au cawijjiiig
j :il bird.?Georgetown Enquinr.
Home rule?Wipe your' feet before you
come ia.
I>KCI.S:ON< OX TEMPEKANCE.
Uy T. V. i'ottdcrly, >i. \V.. of flic
Knights of Labor.
The growth of our oruer und the notice
taken of it by the nrf.-ss of the land has
awakened an interist in the labor movement
among men who have never given
the question of organization a thought.
Thousands of men are knocking for ad
mittance; they are actuated by all sorts
of motives. Among the number wno
would like to become members, I find
quite a i'ew liquor dealer, and I am
written to every day to kuow 4;i:
cannot be admitted; it is true he is ongaged
in the liquor trafiic, or his wjfe
seJis liquor, or he is in some way connected
with the rum interests, but- we
know lie would inas[e a good member-"
The decisions of the General Master
Workman are now published in book
orm. Turn to the pages of that book
and you will see decision after decision
on the eligibility of those connected with
the saloon business.
One or my correspondants asks why 1*
reversed the decision of my predecessor;
the decision reads as follows:
> "22. Men of good report, respectable
p-tk; honoraLle teeners of roadside inns, I
for the bona fide entertainment of travelers
and tlieir animais, with bed and
board for the same, connected "with the
real interests of the locality in which,
they live, du not come under the cnissihcation
of saloon keeper and liquor
dealer, and may be admitted to membership
under the "law of the ballot."
It is true that my decisions are in conflict
with the above, but it was through
no disrespect to Brother Stephens that I
made them. They are as follows:
"G7. An agent l'or any liquor establishment
(be that establishment wholesale
or retail, or be he the agent, manufacture
or dealer) is not eligible to membership."
.
"So. No person can be a member of
the Order whose wife sells liquor. He
must either get a divorce from his wife
or from this organization. The latter
can be granted in the shape of an honorable
withdrawal card."
"3'J. Bumsellers can* not be admitted
to membership, and an member engaged
in +I10 lnninocc /-if iTimsAllinrV- rllTHfllv
cr indirectly, whether by barrel, g;illon,
quart, pint, or gill, who sells either by
hin:sell' in person or in proxy, must apply
for and be granted a withdrawal
card: and if he p^gler-ty to nuke appli-.
cation tneretor, at orLcetne^Spps^Odg^
Secretary of the Local Assembly snlPI
notify him of his neglect-, and at the
next meeting a withdrawal card Jiall be
issued to the brother."
"97. If during the internal between
the election and initiation of a candidate
he engages in the iiquor traffic, either
for his own purpose or of another, he is
disqualilied, and cannot be covered with
our shield."
"211. The manufacturer of beer (that
is, the proprietor or owner of the
brewery) is not eligible to membership.
The men employed in the- brewery are
eligible to membership. If you turn to
pages 285, Proceedings of General Assembly
of 188G, you will get an idea of
why I oppose tiie admission of those enerased
in the liquor traffic. Our Order
cannot be beneiicial to the liquor dealer
and the laborer."
If the reader will examine l\o. 22 carefully
he will see that if allowed to stand
as law it would open the door Jjj^rgery
keeps a saloon on Broadwav, JN'ew Xorfe,
is the "keeper of a roadside inn," and
up to the present time no one has heard a
man engaged in tue liquor business admit
t'uat he was not "respectable and
honorable.
Even wish the law as it now stands I
am pestered every day with inquiries
? 1 I f "t. V1J .,..,7
ana itppeuis iroui -.ibseiLLLfjuca &uu
there to give a decision on the advisiabiiity
of admitting some one who has an
interest in a liquor establishment. All
sorts of excuses in order to open the
doors of vlie Knights of Labor to the
dealer in spirits. To-day 1 iinu the following
on my desk:
? ivn . ?i<; ^ood-natared.
liberal man, and very AavonfEIu^ro* "1. .
One of our member*, while in liis place
spoke rather unreservedly of the allan's
of the Order. 3Ir ?lias gained a
knowledge of our secrets. We are of Ihe
opinion that a dispensation from you to
allow us to initiate -Mr. would
settle the difficulty."
This is my answer to that lequest: I
will never grant a dispensation to any
man engaged in a calling likely to bring
disci edit to the Order. In frequenting
this man's place a member ioseshis wits.
1 ? ^ _ i. _ /-\ 1 1. Til 1. . _
.li lie gets into ijllo cruer lie wju ue ill a,
position to clo more injury. I do not
care how good-natured he may be, that
belongs to hiss trade. The spider would
be considered good-natured by the person
who saw him invite the fly into his
parlor, bnt if 3Ir. Ply could get out of
the pari or his testimony won Id convict
the spider of being "good-natured" for
a purpose. This man may be liberal,
but if other men were not idiots he
could not be so very Jibcral on the
money they stoic from his v.ife and
child to give to him. He may be liberal,
but you cannot afford to be. because you
have given to the saloon keeper your
earnings.
I am .sked if a young man working
for himself, over twenty-one years of
age, may become a member if his father
sells drink. I have no objections to
such a person, but if his presence in the
Assembly is likely to lead one person
into his father's "parlor" who would not
otherwise go there, then I am opposed
to his coming in.
I regret to note the narrow interpretation
given to my rulings, it is not
the saloon keeper i object to, it is the
influence of rum; and if I know that
th; admission of any man or wom.tn
will lead men into saloons, I am of opinion
that his place is outside. Aly decisions
were ail made with a view to protecting
tlir> Order and tho ftitise of labor. Xot
only do I oppose the man "who sells, but
the man who drinks as well. I have no
nse for a man when he is uronk, and if
any one can point out to me a heroic
deed, a manly act. a noble achievement,
performed by a drunken man. I will
gladly apologize for all the hard things
i have taid oi the drunkard.
I have stood at the foot of the gallows
and have seen the drop fail from beneatn
the feet of men who were my
equals iu ali tilings but one?they drank
to get drunk, and ie drank tiiey committed
murder. 1 have seen murders,
theft?:, burg Lines, ail crimes committed
bv men who were tlrunk, but have jet
to see a mun '.vho drinks periorm an act
that other*men could applaud, unless he
commits suicide.
Thomas JStc>. ens. who is making a tour
of the world on a Dicycle, and who a few
days ago was supposed to be lost some:
where 111 China, has been heard from at
iiong Kong. He reports tome pireitv
rough experiences, and v-P^ets soon to
1w? ir> X-m
I One of the rinest and biggest nuggets
of gold ever found in Calnornia is on
exhibition in San Francisco it is as
large as an ordinary derby hat and
weighs thirty-five pounds troy. It is
worth $20 an ounce and is almost pure
gold.
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THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS. j
What the State of South Carolina Hu*
Done for their Support.
South Carolina furnished more soldiers |
to the armies of the late Confederacy, in !
proportion to her white population, than !
any State in the Confederation of seced- i
iug States, which is, however, onlyj
natural, considering the fact that seees
sion had its birth in her borders. She j
has also dune less toward relieving her !
maimed and wounded soldiers than any
Southern State. This is, perhaps, owing
to the fact that the State was longer under
the control of the carpet-bug regime
than other States and that the was prob- |
ably the worst-plundered State in the j
South under that plundering regime.
Soon after war, when the first Legisla- [
tare met under Governor Orr, and be- J
fore the enfranchisement of the blacks, j
::a Act was passed providing for the fur-:
wishing of artificial limbs for those of
her soldiers who had lost a leg or an |
arm in the service. Under this Act dis- {
abled soldiers received from 3100 to j
$200 each, the necessary funds being i
appropriated annually. It is to the
credit of- tire?carpet-bag fin i iwiiiilthat
this appropriation, about $$5,090
annually, was never withheld.
When the Government reverted to the
| whites by the revolution of 1876 an at!
t'.-mpt was made to provide pensions for
| the disabled soldiers, but the State was
! too pool*, and the one-armed and oneI
legged Confederate soliiers in the Leg!
islature were always the most strenuous
j in opposing the measure. Every year
since j.0/0 nau-aoze:i or more .-iuto nave
j been passed appropriating specific sums
! ranging from $25 to $200 to maimed or
! disabled Confederate soldiers, each Act
: bsing, however, a specific appropriation
for an individual named. No general
pension Act bus ever been passed. At
the recent session, -which closed on Decumber
24, an Act was passed enlarging
the provisions of what is known as the
Artificial Limb Act, and extending its
benefits to persons who have resided in
the State for ten years, whether they
were natives or not. This is about all
that has ever b <>n done for the maimed
soldiers of the State.
"Waste in tlie Kitchcn.
Waste in the kitchen is verv often great
......+ 1 TT fwtno] cArr/>k)?!
AX L>IU UliTMU OVUAVW,
In cooking meats, tlie water is thrown
<rat_wft>?out removing the grease, or the
tt^jom tiie dripping pan if thrown
Scraps of meal are tCa^Wi^* 1?Cold
potatoes are left to sou^N^3?01^
Dry truits are not looked after aa<^f*
come wormy.
Vinegar and sauce are left standing in it.
Apples are left to decay for want ol
"sorting over."
The tea canister is left open.
Victuals are left exposed to be eaten by
mice.
Bones of meat and the carcass of turkey
are thrown away, when they could
h>> rjsprl in mftlrinor mind smms
Sugar, tea, coffee and nee are carelessly
spilled in the handling.
Soap is left to dissolve and waste in
the water.
D sh towels are used for disli cloths. .
Napkins are used for dish towels.
Towels are used for holders.
Brooms and mops are not hung up.
More coal is btirned than necessary by
z.-oi arranging dampers pot n<?iDg
the fire. .
Lights are left burning when not us?d.
"Tin dishes are not properly cleansed
and dried.
Good new brooms are used in scrubbing
the kitchen floors.
Silver spoons are used in scraping
ketcles.
Cream is left to mold and spoil.
Mustard is left to spoil in the erase,
etc.
Vinegar is allowed to stand until the
tin vessel becomes corroded and spoiled.
Pickles become spoiled by the leaking
out or evaporation of the vinegar.
Pork spoils for want of salt, and beef
because the brine scalding.
-SiLns become tainted c^^&tt^with
vermin for want of care.
Cheese molds and is eaten by mice or
vermin.
Tea and cofl'ee pots are injured on the
stove.
Woodenware is unscalded and left to
warp and crack.
Iiia Mcxican Theatre.
One very funny custom of the theatres
litre, says a correspondent writing from
?.Icxico"to the Pittsbu; ? Dispatch, is
their manner of keeping their reserved
seat, diagram, the seats being marked
upon it by small holes, in which are
piaced wooden pegs. When you buy a
reserved seat the ticket seller removes
the peg from the hole you have selected
and gives it to you as your check. The
ushers know the seat it designates by
the length or color of the peg. As soon
as the act drop falls every gentleman
puts on his hat, rises from his seat and
turns about to take a view of the house
through his lorgnette. The-.' subsequently
pass into the aisles to greet
their friends, and remain there talking
until the prompter's bell warns them
mai anoiner act is aoout 10 oegm. men
thej hurry to their places and remove
their hats. The appearance of a Mexican
theatre between the acts?its aisles
crowded with groups of men talkiug aud
gesticulating wildly?would cause au unsophisticated
American to think thut
free fights were in progress ail over the
house. Very few Indies wear hats or
bonnets in the street, substituting black
lace ma lit i lias instead, and eveu the.-e
ure dispensed with at theatres?the hair
being elaborately dressed?and thgreat
majority of the gentlemen are in
lull evening dress, the appearance of a
Mexican audience is very brilliant.
TJit t'sc of Arras Escmpliil?*!.
Lucy?Why, Belle! Is ii all over between
you nufl Harry? Didn't I see you
out sleighing List night with George?
Belle?That doesn't signify anything.
I preferred to go with George?that was
ail.
Lucy?But look at the difference between
the two men. George is only a
clerk on a small salary. He isn't handsome.
Harry is rich; he is noble looking.
and he adores }ou.
Be'lc?Yes, and he has only on area.
When it comes to sleigh riding, you
know
Lucy?Yes, yes! That's a fact. I for
got. You are quite right, dear.?Chicago i
Tribune.
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There is a little stretch oj" !?ud south j
of Kau^s and Colors,do whoich is known j
us No Plan's Laud, for the reason that it j
is not aiitiehed to any state or Territory j
ror judicial purposes. it is four times ;
the size of -Rhode Island, and three-1
fourths the size of Massachusetts. A \
York ii:inpr sr.acfsts that it be 1
? ? i i? ?oo? , :
opened up to the Mugwumps i'or settle- ]
rnenl:, and that it be caLed 3lugwumpia. i
A new color is called ' blackberry.'' It
is of tile precise tint of the cewly-crusbed
berry, and will be beyond the recognition
of aao?t persons as anything but purple.
TRUE TO OURSELVES.
How io Get What You Write in the Northern
Papers.
Any editor in the South can have his
editorials copied in the leading Northern
papers if he will damn the Sonthern war
leader?, speak disparagingly of ex-President
Davis, pi^te eternally of a ''New
South," despise the traditions and opinions
of the true South, slander the
memory of the great political thinkers,
worship Mammon, hurrah for gilded
vice, apotheosize the Grants, Stantons,
John Browus of the North, speak with
bated breath, of what the South was, did
and is, and swear that Plymouth Rock
is the holiest spot on earth next to
Bethlehem and Mecca. /*
But there are tens of thousands of the
be&t men in the Sou h who believe in
the immortality of principles, and that
they are "the same yesterday, to-day
and forever." They would rather have
the approval of conscience, the consola
uou oi ciuty laitnrauy done, me senrespect
that is born of a noble manhood
than all the plaudits of all the Yankees
who ever sat down to splendid banquets
Jo celebrate the coming of the "Pilgrim ? s,
Fathers." Southern men of the right
type have no words of censure for the
celebration of a day that is ever dear to
the New England heart. The South says
let them sing and rejoics and praise to
repletion the men from Avhom they have
descended. The South only proposes to
maintain inviolate ancestral faiths of its
owe, to enjoy its own cherish memories,
and to honor and revere those grand
men why bore themselves as heroes in
the most trying of crucial times, keeping
their faith pure and unspotted, looking
to the heights of glory for help,
leaning upon their own strong right
arms for victory, standing by convictions
that were supreme with them, and
omiil oil rovorcdc all anil
sufferings asserting a stoicism and virtue
that were equal to every demand. The
best and noblest men?the men who
stood in the trenches?the men who
fought against five-fold their numbers,
charged the batteries and the bristling
heights again and ag-iin?these men will
never v?in Northern applause by sycophantic
adulation; and will never secure
a newspaper immortality by pandering
to Northern prejudices, or yielding to
Northern demands. They will live and
ilie true and loyal to the laws and the
Constitution; and what is of equal importune*
and value, true to themselves
and their Southland.
Ch ap Lnbor in ih?- Went Indies.
Now that cheap labor is attracting gen
er;ii attention, ana giving rise to created
discission, the following, from one who
wili be read with interest, no doubt7^
"The negroes work on the salt-pans, men
and women alike, for 'do cents a day and
board themselves. As to the women, the
employers say they would rather have them
than the men because they work steadier?
spend less time rolling cigarettes and smoking
them. By salt pans you will unders.t
:cd that I mean those areas on which salt
vvatcr is let in to the t-xtent of niue inches
i i depth and Irom which three inches of
p :rc salt is obtained simply by solar evaporation.
Do not think that because these
laborers ob ain so low a rate of wages that
they live poorly. On the contrary, they j
live better than the average of our laborers |
lo here; the reason of this is that fruit of
all kinds is very cheap and fish is almost
valueless. The plantain-ban nana is Ub&fl
JJJUUI Jjac. aameff
they are cut in thin biices*iu\U '1 11,1 1
luiied with meat of different kinds; also
Kiteu raw in almost unlimited abundance.
The most of the work is d'>ne very early in
t lie morning and late in the afternoon and
evening. In lhe middle of the day the y
laborers take their siesta, and no matter
'?- ?? ? Hrt /<< ? ? TT, . > t* Vwi cloon c/Min/l.
li'JVV liUt ilic VJdJr UXdJ lutj
ly wliich is done as much because of cus- ?
tom and practice as ia consequence of tbe
requirements of nature: and when night
comes and labor of the day is over, instead
of resting themselves they, as a general _
thing, go'to frolicking, such as dancing,
visuTog:nrjd having a good time generally.
It is but seldom that you see a drunken-*^
person on ano of the islands, although rng^
:-> very cheap; so cheap that almost
one has it on hand at all times.
drunk are mostlv the car ?
English v^j.jSe crews
of the vesselsoic>uiJJMitti'!^ generally
behave themselves better* when ashore,
than these do, as regards the use and abuse
i: ?
VI UV.JUUI.
The State University.
The tirst meeting of the Board of Trustees
of the State Univers ty, under the
changes effected by the ejection of new
members at the late session of the Legislature.
v.-as held ia the Library of the College
lust week. The following members
were present: Governor Richardson, Associate
Justices McGowan and Mclver, I).
1'. Duncan, President of the State Agricultural
Society, Colonel A. C. Haskell. Genen!
James F. I/Jar, General John B.atton,
lion. VV. C. Coker and Dr. Robert Henry.
Tiic vacancies in the Executive Commit :ee
were filled by the election of Governor
Richardson and Judge R:tskell, in place of
Colonel ilcllaster 'and the late Colonel
moil. me vuLuuuuee c:;usisu5 ui me
ocwly-clected members, the Judges of the
.- jpreme Court, and President McBiyde as
Chairman ex officio.
Tiie follmvmg corned membcs were
-lee-ted :is the E^-cutive Committee of
CSatliu Uuiv?-rsiiy: General J. F. izlar,
1 ;hi:irmau; Judjje C. H. Simonton, Hon.
V. C. C -ker, G. Lunib Buist and
Dr Kolfiji Me'try
C-?iouci A C Haskell was elected a
i? imr*r f ;: e L biiirv Committee of the
South College, in place ot Colonel
i?\ vV. M M.s.er.
T.i- r? c? .!tu?-:iii-t(i ?n of President Mc13
. .1 U ?. . ..1. -11 ? J
oi^u , ii'U 'nc auu-? c ueparii?iit*i11
i>e aU)li&ti? d iifiL-r the close of tie
' urrt ai ire?-i?'n. w as adopted.
I>. was ret" rred to the Executive Commiuee
to i i'HOie proper rules and regulations
:<>r ilie admission of beneficiaries, in
oedience to the Act passed at the recent
session of the General Assembly. The
committee will report at the next meeting
ol' the Board, in May next.
Two Inimitable Perfumes.
It is sa:d of two of the most delightfully
fragrant Uowers that grow upon this continriiL?ihe
ma*rnoli:i and the tea ohve. living
;;i two or three oi the Southern States?
: hat their odor has a?-ver been simulated in
perfume. Experiment after experiment has
o-ea niud^, and when it seemed as if bucos
hid l)eeu obtained, tbe next moment,
b U're the conditions could befixad and
determined, it \va- 1< >: again,. There is no
d .u''t, however, but thnt someone will yet
ti d :: method of inu'sating their subtle and.
exquisite frngruuoe, which comes and goes.
H > y as? only to leave an impression of
f'- ct-fjj pleasure. The real skill of the
lies in simulating such deiicate
"Those which are stronger and
:re !es> agreeable, and reined people
u-i not like to employ them. To use
perfuin'-ry tkil fuliy is an art. for good
taste forbids that there shall be about the
iierson any thing more than a suggestion of
tho tinoi*
and more intangi^e, while yet perceptible,
i.ueniore agreeable and artistic it is. The
production of some?>f the most delightful
| perfumes has been the work of years.
| The American Vapor Stove Company
lead other iiianufacturers in the matter
| oi a stove that combines all the elements
1 of excellence. Read the advertisement
' in another part of this paper. *