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WHWBHWBBWM??w? 1 11 mmm" VOL. XLIH. WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23T1887. NO. 30. ?- . ? ???a? ?a?????I TliK SINS Or' T1LK SliX.lTJv. [ broken up ;in<l t of its present iru An Explanation or the Course o, x:iai 0vtraV;ura!,r 0ffic Body on the ?A~r;cuUtiral Jlilis." cniVe-thk djO, t Senator L. V?\ Yoomass, 01 BanrwoIJ, be filled by the < has written a letter to the News end cruited by assur; Courier, defending the action of *;he ^ ^onie strcit-;. ? hitter senoo] e>; State Senate on different matters con- 0rf'air'/. ^;<;e sidered at the recent session. After re- the fact that the: viewing the articles of the several critics tv.o organ:zatior nf tli.i Stf who have published their views in the o newspapers, Senator Youmans says: When the or^ani In a resume of this chapter of far It in process its nu finding we note three specific complaints nilied, but the against "the Senate: The emasculation of awav, ami the j the bill providing for experimental sta- tbat the materia] tions; the rejection of the resolution er depends f.ir n. providing for a traveling' committee to terpnse, energy investigate the modus operandi of agri- organization, cultural-colleges in other States; the- We are told tL postponement of the hill to reorganize out of oicl ruts, the department of agriculture, i-'irsr. already out of tL the bill to provide for experimental sta- new ones of in?.l tions was-maimed hi - the House and its travagance. W\ original design frustrated by amend- the old ruts whe: v ment providing for i vo stations instead their own exertii of one, as at first int "uued. Tee iuten- the Legislature tion of the framer of this bill was to have when men were : it follow in its passage the 1 ill .to reor- and paid their w ganiz'e "the department of agriculture, we had no home stnd that tbe ?10.000 appropriated be ex- tLo financial init pended - under the auspices of a new no lien laws to b board of agriculture upon one station, agance, thriftier with the-view of making it a basis for The fact is, the < ? the ultimate establishment of an agrievl- being mindful < tural and mechanical college. The bill transcending its to reorganize the department of agrical- our people, has, ture haying b&.n postponed by the- Sen- nursing, undenr ate, and the amendment to this bill and dwarfed thei having been adopted by the House con- ndependence. trary. tar tire, expectation of its author, homestead exes thus shorn of that symmetry of its stir- many of them in L roundings, crudely amended in the tion now turn th B hurry.-OS cf legislation, was sent to thy man presumably Senate, incongruous .in shape and incor- quails and maun rect even in its phraseology. All the that he feels dee Senate proposed to do except to strike bilities resting out the provisions for the traveling com- many have vagus mittee, winch, I will state en passant, of something wo ^as an- amendment proposed by a accomplished by Charleston lawyer, and not contemplated his leadership th in the original bill, and which amend- j regard the mahu" ment on the part of the Senate wasaftei- i raont as the cai f ward&accepted. by. the House,- was to i-either through i make "the bill conform to its altered sur-: mental stations, roundings^-the attempts to effect which ah agricultural c 1 thinlxjwere afterwards improved upon tion of the Gove: bv a committee of conference with the mysterious way, approval of the Senate. <. | permanent relief Second. Also the rejefction or the ' tits, while Mr. T Senate of Representative Brawley's resc- j preparing for a lution providing for a traveling commit- j pleasant waters r tee to investigate the practical operations j pond. of agricultural colleges in other States, j To me it appc the Senate had already passed a bill the j criminal to diss provisions of which instructed the board J people by this i of agriculture to take into careful con-; their poverty a: sideration the plans, specifications, cost, j their condition. <vc., of j the erection of an agricultural j spifis of indepen r college,-and did not--see the propriety of j to rely on their passing this resolution, appointing, in j them to attribut addition to what it had already done, a | suits of indolen committee to further investigate, with- lack of thrift to out any limit as to v>-hat this investiga- \ cilitv of the Go tion was to cost. Indeed, so far us the j has been in this provisions of this resolution were con- j of solving the i perned, the committee thus appointed! get his pork a? could have travelled the "whole year until i work for them* - ' tiio n#>vt session and have expended many i not feed merohi thousands of dollars. j and neither by e ? Third. Of the three complaint,tV" - *<?" ' ' .-1 * ^rrni.f",,.+.-( ^?vcr-sfesia:i ana colleges-will it a [Rpetiies -has been manifested most ers than Capt. 1 Jp^inly, perhaps, towards the postpone- . lift themselves ment by the Senate oi;the bill to reor- boot-straps. ??mize the department oi' agriculture, thi In conclusion, *>assag?rof Avkich. says Dr. Tindal, would timent of the in make the*4:Farmers>' movement" one of farmers of the i the departments of the State Govern- no sympathy v ment. - conduct of his Shortly after the introduction of this resolutions, pro: bill into the .House, and some time be- i the April Convt fore iw:eaehed its second reading,' as a | and his reckless; planter and chairman of the Senate com- j against the Stat* p mittee on agriculture I approached l>r. i like the raving Tindal, the author of the bill, to ascer- {- utterances of a i tain what was sought to be accomplished j class of our citi ' ^ WIIAW ir?TA\*rrv\ a/1 rlir* ! ^WV>6T?C< /\4 +V? n JLV* tt iitu uuttu %jjlv vvjvvw I hli 111 ^ i, o vyA . j,uo , w to increase tlie boarcr of agriculture j saying that thou and to popularize it by bringing it closer i ink to the level < to the people, I proposed, if he would j and drawers of 9ft modify the bill so. as to increase the! prepared so clai; [H^^Wbo?.rd..by th? eiectfon at the then present j laboring classes ^ * ^session of the Legislature of an addi-1 no stock in tLy' tional member from each of the five un-j the classes^e* represented Congressional districts and ! traduccr^" cur the election of hve more at the next! istrat^s and ;t session, when the terms ox the present j G<yfge'' to'eonte board would expire, and-we could acH^rest of our j jTjthput a?y disrespect to the presei^f own Governmen board, I would unite with him to s^~re j ?: rr: the passage of the bill; but I pp^avely j - Caihoiu^s; L. a declined, after what I consider** reck- ' less and .fallacious charges/*^ extrava-1 o clockgance and incompetency repeatedly pre- j dozen workmen: ierred against the p?esi:nt board and j lass Oi tjpe ^-nnj commissioner of amsculture, to support i square, and the.i ___ ?. t'n,;, I .John C.'Calhotu uuy uiciibuxc v ? unceremonious dismissal from office, i T_-e work arid re; iurther" p^posed |o Dr. Tindal, if it "was 4ye years, slowi the re&tulte'r^i oi "the fanners he was flip vork v;a? di seeking, to introduce a joint resolution order to allow sc K instructing .the State treasurer to refund the committee t< Pfi . to the" department agriculture cables had been ? *v moneys arising from the license tax, torn of the chair , vjvhich -had been expended for general ^.^cure. ^"LicL. ws State purposes, to be applied by the -the head vras board of agriculture for the benefit of' thick folds of : ^ the farmsr^ upon espc-imcjuiai stations. i (iuy *op-jo iea. I si?on became aware, however, that in- tions were held < L stead of the advancement of the real in- enabling them t< terest of the farmers through the regular or lateral motioi - > -.-F r. +;?*.?. ..vA i"to tHp "sfai; UL vuv UXOU tkU\A A-U-i? -- ~mediate object sought to be ajepmpiish-j to occupy on tii< rW by the prime factors of this agitation ! It did not tai. was, a&-I?r. Tinual has since so lucidly'top of the ped< stated in &s interview with a reporter o: j allowed to remai the News a&b Courier, published cm the ! tive than ever oJ 24th xut.. to i&Iiice the board pi ag.lcni-! tioii, until vue i pure st the heaj^ of the "Jurr.icrs' move-! guy ropes had b b inent," :,as -it called, to act in the | positions. The] capacity of a b?J?su for the organization j lick slowly niov Hj of "the farmers, Tra^ri a pJan so thoTongb;' statue cliye?tily c jp ?pc? coirpiepe as pVoniinciice, like the | it was to rest; . W - prgan'lyTttioa of' ti?LCemocracy, willz tne statue of Jo] W Olnbs. Imagine suejkan organization its pedestal, tlii f penected.- ihe departn^nt or agricul- come? stone pi | lure converted into a bnreaStof orguniza- laid. \ tlon with it-s headquarters a\ Columbia, The figure fac maintained and snnuortedvby taxes of tne chuir beii L * levied by t^e General Assembl\r ranked :E5 on me groii. ft and supported by oacaity oigatoizafctpns au aecnn-.te idc tept mtefa, Jzi'Cepttan' TiliijSn pro- height, but tiios f ^ jjofces, rij'aSfttf.St conas'iroii tLe'vjove:tv ?-G~ pn thesesi 9^. treasury, ana 1**? iii turn y the could easi-j jud Bp c<^^uzatioi: or fit? i.^' ^ors into cJ-ubs. looked liie-tJb f "15b entire fabric peniieated," witiA the d warfs. teachings of Captain Tillman, to Ube There vorcai I eifecc ihzi iho pzes&dt ^oyenizrisnvkis torical figures s L not only extravagant, imbecile and ik- panels w compj [ fceiopefea*,priding.-its shortcomings i& Viett, the coatr: the dye. of -the cuttle-iish. but caiious J^rk, is-io be. K w*a indifTerenf to &e interest and welfare %1 'r:> ? - - . i tioii 01 am eoni L? Ol tUG 18123.6X5. XHCii. IiUl? JU .? . . r , might $kcse selr^un-iticing apostles who heV*1 aaxniraau . disclaim *23* desirorkr uSee, ancl-pijo- sprnfe^,:;.r -iru:: fess to eschew poSiics, propose to spread TJ?01i;- '-11!1. their nets and futer the "political ;;uli -u?: jjoaift, iuxaester it avvpat that.;' Whst :t ally of Mr. Tiiiman, who has I r0it* f - . . . > - . iv-cn^pfcu:M!\ been coquetting m a jadi-m-mc- . , with this-''political depute-might iio?n monamei r<%? not be .elected to the United States Sjn- ?? fw nanus ate* We do not wish to be considered ^ ^ie 1 j^t all pointed, as assurances hare been Courier, gratuitously given from certain ouarters 7" ~ that there is :*no combine." We know X'x- fierce s ^ Mr. Tillman would not have an office J?0,* .^:xt0i:?u \lS 1 because there is not "much love of self liu: f a sul-f in him^" and he has already "told the de'iito get behind him." 2s\>r would p-^yv* j^r,^ \ K& Dr. imdai Have, an o-uce, Because ne : t0 Women, 100 says he "does not"' menu to improve the | :tamps. Adilei Brv political condition of tiie farmers. So | v-d Assoeiatior vheH^&G o!igtcrclij;:s;deleated, "the ring f 5. T. .O*' he Government purged j lautitiisg at locksmiths. Competent, imbecile and ' - . ials and cleansed of their An Klo^;n^ *f"" a fe,i,m:try Hfclel he oiHces will have to' ThatiicaisaXa?,iy *??*. lupes v.'ho have been re- ( (trom the j^u:sv;ju- Po t.) iv.ccs of "getting in on A Cjuiet little "weudiug in .Teiiursonviile ' It The disciples of this last night brought to an end a romantic busii ;toI the advantages of little love story and a family feud of byti pparenily regardless of several years standing. Ten years ago nity re are now in-existence John S. Dullit, of Cleveland, Ohio, ru- meat ,3 of the agricultural in- moved to a point near Xcv." Market, may '* ? - ?- 1 I'l - 1 -JV 1 * :t_ .to, tlie Agricultural and ^entucKy, anu semen wun ii? lumuy . stuw elation and the Grange. on a farm. Shortly after his arrival I its pi ization of the latter was ?iere he got into a dispute with Hunter force ;rirs were similarly mag- Wells, a neighbor, over a small piece of swell echo has nearly died ground between their fi rms. This re- Th csj-on has been "taught suited in a long law suit, and was finally perie [ prosperity 01 the farm- settled m liullit's favor. The men wen; by n< icre upon individual en- reconciled, however, and became has a and' thrift than upon bitter enemies, i'or years the members the c of the two families spoke har&hly of one and a at ilie object is to get us another, and no opportunity was passed book; Ihc trouble is we ai'c aii injury to the other family. cling: e old ruts and into the ^r- ?>ullit at the time of his removal "stoc lolenee, credit and ex- Kentucky had a daughter Celia, aged whicl : should be relegated to seven ycai's. As time passed she grew sense 1 1 4*-r\, re all classes relied on ;i iovcij. v>uuiig giu, U. 111.1 <i?"5 OCJJll/ L\J I xvum .ms and did sot expect convent of the Notre Dame, near to be to provide for them? Cincinnati, to receive her education. count industrious and frugal, Returning home last Christmas for the "X ay as they went?when holidays more lovely and perfect in keep( stead laws to debauch feature and form than ever, she met "Tak grity of our people, and Albert Wells, the son of Hunter Weils, a roc's eguile them into extrav- young merchant of St. Louis, who was tongr h:ess and dependence. a^so home on a holiday visit. The Whei 3-overnmert, so far from two first met at a dance at; a farmer's to ku 3f the public weal, in house near Calvary Station, but found it and \ proper sphere to assist hoth convenient and pleasant to meet day? by a process of wet- often after this. They loved one another for ai lined their self-reliance an(* when they parted after the holidays as ha ir spirit of manhood and ^ was with the agreement to correspond, and a Taught, to rely upon or eight letters were written, but lionai iptions and lien laws, v?'hile Wells received those from iliss No their enervated condi- B"1 lit, the Sister Superior at the convent stant] eir eyes to Captain Till- ffiliscrcotly- kept those directed to her tinue with the; expectation ofj lovely charge. -Finall becoming desper- book; 1 Wells made the iournev to Cii'.ein- solut: Or. >> fc\U UlilJ UC ICiiiiiiJL. 7_ j ply the heavy responsi- aati and visited the convent in company far a-s upon him, as a great ^h Mr. "\V. Hunt, of that place, under are c s and unreasonable ideas the guise of Ceiia Bullit's brother, again nderfnl or great being "While the young couple could not act as mucL lxis convention. Under freely as their hearts dictated, owing to with ey have been taught to the presence of a teacher of the school, with [ministration of govern- they succeeded in making an appoint- thence of their woes, and ment at Hunt's Hotel, which was after- by lb ;he medium of experi- wards kept. Here they agreed to marry, simp; a change ot boards of and as she -would not consent to be max-- little ollege, or a reorganiza- ried other than in the presence of a rela- Th rnment, or in some other j tive, they came to this city and tele- tione they are to bo given i graphed George Bullit, a brother, to renin and" great future bene- meet them here. He did so, and linaiiy skinr illman and his crew are -he old family enmity was talked down the b refreshing bath in the the three-went to Jeffersonvilie, vious of the political mill- ^here Esquire ICelgwin married them, had 1 They returned and are stopping at the notp jars but little less than Arlington ^Hotel, where Air. Hunter have atisfy and enervate our wens anct-vlt. tionn joumt are exj^uteu liuun sontmual gabble about this after hood, they having telegraphed untie ad the "hopelessness of their satisfaction at the icarriage and earth .Instead of fostering a the hope that never again would ill feel- core: dence by exhorting them -i^gs prevail between the two families. bare! own exertions, to teach. ? - - - - rejec e th? unsatisfactory re- Ceacral Leo's Address. of CO en. extravagance and a . woul the disregard and iaabe- General Stephen. D. Lee, the popular ?Uvo: vernmem. There never and successful President of the Missis- and s country but one method sippi Agricultural College, is no mure a sin: problem how-one was to figure head, but a live and progressive to th id beans, and that is to agricultural educator, one who loses no clear The Legislature does opportunity to promote the best inter- nam* rnts, lawyers or doctors, ests of the farmers of the South. 3?f- be sa xperimental stations, re- cent! v. - in dressing tlwMississippi rice, Xioj. a^xiUuTturai State (jrange, he said: the < uj more feed the farm- "I esteem myself complimented, in turec .illman and his crew can being invited annually to appear before soup over the fence by their the State Grange and address it. This Qu seems appropriate, as the order has simp T -;-T- T ?--- 1 11..' 1 _(. I^in . J-TOiiDik J. ^ oiee tlie SfII-i u.ecil, auu is Siriix. ius I."-t ex.: gen: and respectable j t-on of farmers in ^Jississipoi?it is alsoi State wnen I sr,y I have i tire largest national organization "01'I ^ef'Pf mil ilr. Tillman in the i farmers in the United Stated TLe i daint movement, nor do his order in Mississippi, too, cii^'more to I was k nulgated and adopted by have the A. and M. College established, begar mtion, reflect my views, j than arty other influence- ? As early as ^?"as h md disresj>ectful charges 1875, and yearly, - afterwards, they the le 5 Government seem more r^emorialized the legislature, and by the rc s of a fanatic than the resolution, insisted on the passage of a plate nan equipped to lead ;?ny law organizing the College as a separate mash< zens. On behalf oi the and distinct institution from the Univer- and a State I feel warranted in sity at Oxford, so that the .spirit of the also, a x 1 ' 1 i-iiL-1 Kr* c-71 | n.t)DlG gn we may Dt^'iast sulk- j xeuerai i?w ??**?. A A _ of serfs, liters of wood I "Not, friends, are you ready to _ "N .' water^*ws are not yet be beE^ttea by the experience of otli- follov di b*Jiherhcod vvith the ers? Are jou ready to put more value can't ; p( the North. Taking your lands? Are you ready to take j "0 war of. the masses up*** care of your capital in business, -which is j ever i saisn'afc' be rallied V the the fertiity of your soil? Is there need two tf past*Democrat admin- of agricultural education? Your soil said c he'disciples.oi.'^Benry was once fertile. You have carelessly Now nd against fEe ablest and and by pursuing a -wrong system im- minc< mblic.. servants' and our poverishod it. You liave worn it out, "some t.. V fend dow ready to deliver it to your chil- and 1 gfr'?sf. .. dren pooler than you'got it from your yeste] Sta^e in. Position,-, fathers. This* is not right. Your chil- I w ^7r7.c -uren should receive their heritage un- befor i ue^aj jqorngig g. na4 impaired, from you. You must be edu- mew catea an tee new way 01 preserving uie ? uu? je-fertility ?fyour soil. If it is too late powd loiossalbronze^?iMc4of for you, your cliildren must be educated seemt ^. wnieh -was-to cro^it. jn the new methods. If tliev <Jo not Then flise the dream of tojriy- J restore fertility to-these laiids, others as i+ < f pse from tqic ground/ oan and will The question is, will yen tho p #laved;untiJt|ad6 hour in prepare them, by education, to do this? "It iine 01 the-members of xt is a plain proposition, If '* ) De present. iSix. stout Y>of at cRnnof ~* * - ' passed around the bot- SP or amnot t. ^ iose tUose lands. W and mad* ^ to the :e"ey pass ds ot stam~ " lS1.i;^'us_ ?,icd^ balanced. "The facilities in Mississippi arc at mom< .L . covered wi ko. -jq restore these lands. They are ^ j?nv?.ss, ughuj bouna. all favorable. ~W~c have plenty of good done . mg m diliereno direc- ]an(j je* }eft on nearly every plantation, faith] jacn oy a workman, inus | Xke plan is to stop cultivating poor land, ciamfc d regulate any circular j xt wdl break plV^bc; uttemptrit. ' One- nants i, and at the same time j fourLh or one-third of our land is still locg, tie in tnp position it was g00j. Cultivate only good land'; ma- such s pedestal. _ _ ^ nure it, work it better, follow intensive c long to hoist it to the farming on our good lands. Do away istal, and there it was with one-half or two-thirds our labor.. [ m. -It^was more sugges- XJt:Ji~e th<; p^or lands as grazing lands. ';I i the idea of sn axicu.- > Mature frill cover them at once witii j and c iien at the enu 01 _ the j gjagg. it costs nothing for grass to loath een placed m the proper j grow. It costs nothing for stock to cat! A lev a the boom of the der-, grass. Stock-raising ic the ojiy praeti-1 with ed around, swinging tne J Q-ble w^y of using tnese lands, getting calle< vir Iho peacs:ai wiicre > a protit out of them and allowing them i trv e Av. i-jvrv TrurnTr.p? Twar. il r -j. j.:.? j.- t i 1 " --- * ? ??x~~ r " ~~ ai some tune to recuperate, iuiu nave a;:eoi an C. Calhoun rested on fertility restored. it viii break strew rty- five years after the anybody who attempts to cultivate them. hous the monument bad been rfi?2 fertility that lias been lost must be with ' . 1 restored before it will pay to crop them from es the south, the back again." - hour lg to the north. Stand- cs?? "I ml one can hardly *oim Ksuiroa<i Karaings. the 1 fa of ,itsi dimensions or ]>ietc >e; who -who saw the work- The New Yoek Fixaxciai< Chboxtctje folding near it' yesterday ss>y3 thai the uanvtary earnings of nearly I ge cf its size?the men evevy Southern railroad are greater than | jn g;i l6 most diminutive of' their losses, and that, in fact, the South- it. ; ern and Southwestern roads, taken as a iEg i a now only the four his- --hole, record the best results. The s0 n: nd the ornamc-nts to the Chronicle reives a comparative statement than eie the ifipnuiuent. Air. lowing the January earnings of ten .?( ictor, wiio did tiie granite leading Southern and Southwestern com- COve praised as well as con- sanies for siz years. In January, 1882, v>het he successful consumma- the earnings of" the Richmond and Dan- then raet. ii is admitted to vile road were 8231),G2S; it iS83, $251). - laid b piece of work, and it is 757. in 1884,5266,889; in 1885, ?325,'- pcrc ge that not a single stone y.33. ^ ?278,572; in 1887, $351,- myr: the cutting. The v;orli gijo. Only two of the ten roads repre- the : dofabiy. mfftQ time than g^nted in the comparative statement :Vil 1 1 , --- -- "i-ujkhoiu-1 -0for 1 .SS7 Iuil'c:' rctnrasiiuvn for >% ,-.* ?3 ana moreofer it aas any 0? tiie ?eals gi7^ ^ tii., V uone. Warn the to- j,;o earnings of the tea roads for T?i t-ii it is completed uiere wii are over .$1,000,000 greater ih m in i*&". -|.roinor works of art to _ ^ 1 liuted biai'ss.?I\fiwsaii4 " PT'T ' n Vouct Muw-ioli-* Bri<}e. plet slioi "Favorite Prescription .is" The Xetrs and Courier of the loth inst., i Vcure-ail," but admirably alluding to the recent marriage in Rome of ess of-purpose, being-a most 3hss Terry to Count ->Iuccioli, asked, "V; hu 'i' n those chronic weakness ,-s ^iiss Terry of South Carolina; and re- w ?s? J .v:- .i: jmcn. Particulars L>r. 1 ^ ..... iJiCI .realise on Disease Peculiar t&c State horn whence 3Iiss Terry hails. pro; pages scat for 10 cents in " ^orth Carolinian. She is a native s World's- Dispensarv Med- of Wilmington, and a daughter of the liev. t{lc i, 663 3Iaia street, Buffalo, j P- Terry, who was for several years rect | rector of St. John's Church in that city." .^e TAKING STOCK. f MYSTERIOUS MOUXTAINEKKS. u Campbell ?>n the Importance of An Interesting Theory as to the Origin ol Accurate Accounts. the Moonshiners. (F.-v;n :Le Philadelphia Time.".) ' Y. E- Allisar, in Southern Bivouac for February.) is a phrase familiar enough to the Rude in speech, figure and habit; less man and understood in a degree barely lettered, though rarely entirely le feminine element in the eommu- unlettered; cunning, bold, determined who realize one phase at least of its 2nd reckless of life, he is apart from the ling and are aware that bargains men of any of the people who dwell on be regarded as its synonym. It is a the plains on either side of his mountain n when every remnant and tag has range, and has a code of manners, cusace in the general account and is toms and morals that is unknown to the d to do sucii duty as may be in outer world. Tiie origin 01 me raouning the year's returns. " taineers tliat inliabit the ranges from e housekeeper, who also baslier ex- Virginia to Arkansas is a subject that nccs with tags and remnants, will might tempt the curiosity of a serious ) means admit that the same process historian. The vestiges of the early ny application to her system. On population, and of some of the singular ohtrary, hi spiie of cooking. school* episodic inroads that accompanied the n always increasing flood of cookery steady flow of English colonization, are s, journals and magazines, she s&ll pkinly perceptible. From the semis to the early convictions that cfecal plantations of the King's favorites k" is one of the popular delusions in Virginia and the Carolinas many of i must be renounced if common t-feose unfortunate or criminal wretches is to govern life, and that soup wlic were transported from the mother led upon stock is an extravagance country to be penal slaves in the fields frowned down and generallv dis- c: heartless, and mostly absentee, mas < ---* A1._ fcenanced. tors, escaped into tne rei/uge oj. wie ake stock!" said a young house- mountains, and, animated by a despair;r the other day, in my hearing. iug hope of freedom, sought the most stock! Why don't they say take a inaccessible hiding places. To the egg or take a quart of nightingales' escaped convict, trembling under the reles? One is as easy as the other, membrance of a master's lash, and willre am I to get stock, I should like i&g to dare any native danger to escape ow, vhen there are only two of us the slavery he had fled, the approach of re only want a little meat once a arother refugee was as full of terror as And if 1 make soup that is good of comfort. The runaway felon could lything it takes just as much meat trtst nobody; or, perhaps, he had a li' a dozen people. Stock is a snare band upon his forehead to hide from . delusion, and nobody but a mil- cu-ious eyes, and wherever he made his ire can afford such extravagance." heme it was kept remote from neighborly as remarks of this order are con- slip and made as uninviting as possible ly lieurd, in spite of the long eon- to adventurous or suspicions eyes, mere ci demonstration of the fact, in is little doubt that among the first setis and out, that stock is the only tleis of the mountains were these British ion of the ' left over" question so coivicis sold into slavery to the Auieri> bonus and bits of very tough meat cat plantations, and condemned to a life ioncerned, it seems well to state of aborious servitude, which they only l that while clear soups demand esaped by such hardships as could l meat, very good ones can be made tenpt no free man. The free pioneer very little, and quite as savory ones &nc thewoodsman pushed on across the none at all. These last may bide mom tains or through the passes and time, deserving really some space cle?red for himself an empire and garden emselves, the present article giving in fertile Kentucky and Middle Tennesly the possibilities, even where very see or sought the softer air and cotton meat is used. lante of the Southern States. The e young housekeeper just men- escfped convict was afraid to venture in d had thrown into the bucket of c-itLer direction, lest he should rush into ants, almost as she spoke, the thecands of a former master or over iy end of a porter-house steak, and see; who would identify and re-enslave ones.of a chicken stewed the pre- hire. So, with that last instinct for peri day, the remaining meat on which sorul freedom that has always jjossessed jeen utilized in salad. Kescue was the Caucasian race in every land, he racticable, else demonstration would clucj to the mountains of his refuge, been made then and there that a secure in his solitude and getting his : of very good stock had come to an pea? in the impregnability of Lis reaely end at her hands. Given an treat It was perhaps an inherited in en or granite saucepan closely stintf, therefore, that mar1- Mie moun:ed, a steady heat and slow boiling, tainers hate negro slavery as'bitterly as y more than a simmer, and those the aost determined Abolitionists of the ted possibilities, put in three pints Xorti, and which led them by force of Id water with a teaspoonful of salt, fate t> join the Union armies when the d have yielded up every atom of civil var came on. The mountain rerand strength. The result, strained i gionsnot only lurnished the Northern * 1 1 1 1 - m /if cril/liAvo lmf filon SCtj il'>V?ly 10 COUi, V* y III' L JJ.it V U tu ??**U*V3 lUi V UUO.UUJ Vi. w?v MWV ill cake ot fat, every particie rising maintained warm sympathy for the e surface and leaving a quart of cause in the rear and front of the Union broth below", ready to take on any lines, and it is not singular, perhaps, 5 desired. This alone would hardl^that- they have continued in sympathy very or very nourishing, buiaadi^Jsh^th the Republican party as instinctivetonalo, a little onion, and so op, H^-'gro. combination indefinitely -^vatunV~ a m of satisfactory an<* weli Savored KemarVable Corn. would havP K-cu the outcome. ?ie 0f ii>?> most savory and delicious Among the esj)ecially interesting and )/ doups X ever ate had as small a substantially valuable exhibits iu the ning, and I give its full history as of farm products at the late Texas astration of what the careful house- State Fair, was a half bushel of corn r, who puts away all remnants developed and raised by Mr. JeiT "Weltly, can easily secure. The soup bom, of Welborn Bros., .New Boston, nown as the "save-all" soup, and it Bowie county, Texas. The cob is '21 i with a quart of stock whose origin inches in diameter, its length ten inches. i just materials as those rejected by There were forty rows of grains on the ss experienced housekeeper. From ear (and what is most remarkable) the jfrigerator appeared the vegetable grain is seven-eighths of an inch long, on which I saw a large spoonful of This com shells one quart to the cob. --1 ?~ -t-k The Welborn Bros, fathered this fverv Jti jJUUlcV} Cv XIL LJ.'Zs OIU *? V-y> 1'UaiU.M ] -- 0 v ^ remnant of squash. There was dry) year eight hundred bushels from sartor of tomato and half a baked ten acres, an average of eighty bushels , Tutu a sliea of cold toast. j to the acre, and this with only eight l'urot the apple!" 1 said as one thing j rows to the row. This com, which he red another into the saucepan; "you i has named "Jeff Welbbrn's Conscience," mean to put in that apple?" j he states matures two weeks earlier than ne of the most perfect curries 11 the common white corn: it is also extra ite owed part of its perfection to j lirm, but not flinty. Messrs.- Welbom's irt apples minced fine," my friend corn attracted universal attention, and almly. "Wait and you. will see. so numerous were the applicants for a'i the thing wants character. We will few grains that the exhibitor was forced } a small onion and fry it brown in to withdraw it from exhibit. It was of the fat we took from the stock, awarded both first and second premiums, ierc: are three green stalks from ''he first being a splendid wagon (offered ! - 1? bv the Keatincr Machine and Implement a? quite silent, for this was long Company), the second, twenty dollars e personal experience had taught *orth of nursery stock.?1 arm and hat might be. The onion was fried Banch. jht brown, a saltspoonful of curry . ~ m "" er was added and the ; 255,a j it | The i> i rect Tax Bill. id, simme;cd slowly' for au liour. ; ileeuest distrust in my mind Ihc Senate has passed, and the *_i^ase ame at List to tublo and I gazed at has referred to a committee, a biii with Iateful. before me. regard to tile direct tax leyi** Coring : is a of incompatibilities," 1 tUC Tvar* with an inward groan, "but fchs ^ the 5th of August, 1861, as a war oi society prevent nj thiowing 'it f measure, a tax of ?20,000,000 was levied f thy u-hiduw. Here goes then.". 1 on all the States, North anu South alike. "'X i- : i" t _ iI ft. rnwnnspd that. if n.nv S.tatft should ; IS CiOi-ICiUUS: X. iiUUc:Li uiuuu, UiXU ?x r j ent later, and it was, pay its share, 15 per cent, discount -would ice then 'the friendlv '-Save all"' has 1 be r,Hc-wed. Several of them took addutv at Last onco a vreafe. Try it, vantage of the provision. . As the law .essv houst&i-eu&r, out" remember stands, whenever any money is due to a iesc oare Is essential with all rem- State which lias not paid this ta*, it is which must never be kej)t too placed to the credit ox the State. The and that only such care renders hrst. Comptroller is bound to do this, methods possible. but the law has given rise to controver . ____ sies. To prevent this, the bill is before ? ^ . Congress. " * Cockroaches. Tlie -following statement of the direct , , r taK- s'.ccounts is oflicial, but only relates beg to forward you ai! easr, o.eon _ vlrginja Korth-Caiolraa aid '.Vest *rlam method of cpuh^g tnose vi . J ^ tho toteb llle amount some Ui-vc <rom dwelling houses . ? d yj ; , ?82.0,021.02, of ? n? ago my houae m'ested ^ 35,55^ 00ilected, learfug cockroach*, or 'docks, xstkoy are . a c ^ o? ;j0 g m A = ^erV ^ 1 Y ' jessed February '2.3, 1867, the Secretary iicair.jc-, I of the Treasury was authorized to trans ? taw ^ a most Mated with the vermin Im-U0,st<1, ?? the green peel, cut not ven- thin ^ tliccucuiaoer, anc.sat up hail an , uwr -" t ^-.wXr iutcr tLu.ii usual to vutcli tlieeffect. ,,,, ,- , , ', ? . , ,, ' efore the expiration of that time ' ?n ^ loor-.There ti e pee! lay w? com-,?"6 tJf'T,?-? 1.1,e .W*S*k<? !v covered rii oscLachcs, ?0 *c to all tnc States is over *14,iM8t?T^-tobte???Mn?the ' ^ gtate3 that ^ ^ ,.nd are ?. """"""J* credited with 15 par cent, discount are .ckiiig toe poisonous moKta.-torn. ;..s; whllt th^v paid-in taxes. The t adopted tircimopaaliie fo&W- Statcs tint are. stiil due the government ught, released irom payment. b Enerctis?I saould tninK not more 1 J a fourth of the previous night. )n the third night I ditl liOt (lis- i*ro>r??rMy in Ihe South. r one: but, anxious to ascertain .... , , . . ,, ,,, _ her the house wus ouito clear of 110 WtckI/ rePort to 9hf:tt^00ff -j ? . ? Z Ti i 1 raaesman ot new enterprises m the koutl ?. 1 e._.;.rn: ,e-.i vu-j p el alter I nad sj.0WS tilc p.^. vv^ek to have been one oi it uo>-u aoout hat. an nour, apd t,JC m0jj. active yet known. Among tin eived tuat it was ^ covered Tilth ;eaciiug new industries reported were tht u:us oi minute ^cc?i\?aenes aoout following: Five cotton mCiis?ihrtt in A1 3"'r ui ii ilea. L "therefore allowed ^ama. cue ;u Georgia .,nd one in urines pi-el to remain until morning, and vilio. P;u.Ua. t?rcJ"large flouring millsj. tliomoment 1 hav.< vot s-. cn a one stud two in Tcooei-see; coa :roaeh iu il'.o JL . a very old ;tn<J i?:;s wjhpany, with sl.-VjO,';1-"'' crtpii-.'.l uh-~, and I can insure wa that the four marble quarries, two in Tea'cessce re remedy only requires to be per- one in Alabama; a 50 ton charcoal luruac .. V J.-.A ...J- r.ji.i- i_ ?.? 100 riVfns :ir T?Inrnnw? W: . twrttfl lev. ux iiiiee ur xuur iuyiiis w vum.- ... -.v.,..,......, ely eradicate the pest. (Ji course, it bacco fae'enss?^>ne each at, Bristol am lid bo xresli cucumber peel every Biooisiii^dals, Tenn.; a tack factory a 1^'> Mossy Creek, Tcnn.; 200 cokc ovens a Chattanooga; also a bed lounge factory am ^ cutlery works at Sag Ci'.y. six wale lie suit of J. II. Lester p gainst Ben But- companies and i'J railroad companies wcr for damages for alleged false imprison- organized during the week. Ciiattanoog it during the war. which' has been in rCul estate was more active last week tha rre.-s bciure Judge Coxe, in the United ever, and actual transfers exceed ?2,000,00 es Court at New 1'ork, has ended. At ;u amount. dose of the argument, Judge Coxe di- -* * ed the jury to iiud a verdict in favor of TThy are babies like new flannel'' ?' defendant, which they did. cause they shrink from washing. A COTTON* CHOl'I'ER. FIXZ LEE'S LITTLE , i The "Wonderful A;rri<-iiltural Invention of How He Captured a Yaul a Camden Mechanic. 1 alise. (Corr-'-por.df-nco of the Nc-rs anfi Courier.) (St. Louis G'.obe-Deraccr I Camde.v, February 10.?Mr. J. B. In 1SG1 Fitzhugh Lee, no Amnions lias ma ;e a cotton chopper of Virginia, was commandin ; which promises to be a success, and now, federate outpost in Fair fa: i with the "Ammons's Chopper" and Colonel of cavalry. Colon' | Mason's picker and gin, the farmers can who was an intimate friend i expect to make more out of their cotton mate of Lee's at "West Po I crop. Mr. Amnions, a wheelwright and command of tlie Union cava | carpenter by trade, was raised in Marion., near Alexandria. One day ' i bat for tbe last" two years has lived Jin ceived orders to advance a: I Camden. He has been studying up bis Confederate position in fro ! machine for eleven years, and three talion of men, made ap from years ago made a model, which lie li?s rnents and the city of Washii worked successfully in the field every the President's Body Guard, season since. He reached what he ed him to make the advance. thought perfection last winter. His a friend before leaving: | machine is built very much like a sulky "I want soldiers with me < j plough, with adjustable hoes that will pedition. I know Fitz Lee, j leave any stand of cotton that may be wit? him, and whenever we c ; desired, and witn one man and norse er somebody will nave to do i eau chop from twenty-five to thirty acres lighting or fast running. I i a clay, There is a little scoop plough will fight. If I had soldie | attached in such a way as to act as a these dress-parade fellovrs, . | guide to the horse always on the next delighted to give my friend a row, the horse being made to walk in to let him see how nicely w< this shallow furrow going across the cot- him back into the Union." ton beds. In trying the chopper the In the meantime his wife j usual way is to leave one and two stalks h is valise with clean linen ar of cotton to the hill. The only objec- of old Hennessey brandy. \ tion that has been raised is that it leaves thing was ready Colonel Ta a tuft of grass around the cotton, and up the line of march along i this objection has been done away with uud Alexandria turnpike, in by what Mr. Amiaons calls two dirters, tion of Fairfax Court House, which piles the dirt against the cotton command had advanced a fev behind the chopping hoes, and thus also come to a halt to rest, the ( keeps the wind from damaging the dressed his men in the follow stand. "Attention! battalion: I Mr. Ammons has sold several county speaking to you as soldiers w rights and over two hundred and fifty iisted to defend your count mnfMiinps nr. A80 all in fhrefi fi-llmv I wfl.nf. months. The machine has been thor- his duty in the time of battle onghly tested in Bichland, Kershaw, should. If there are any of y Chesterfield, ilarlboro and Marion not willing to do this, step t counties, and it received the first diploma to the front." at the last State Fair. The machine Not a man moved. They : weighs about 15U pounds, and tracks wall of granite. This gave t with standard wagon track. A patent much encouragement, was applied for on November 30, 1880, "Xow, my soldiers," said serial number 210,735. A few machines this determination on your p: are being made, but no attempt "will be continue our advance and made to ULi the demand for them until enemy back, or capture in time for the season of 1888. I3y that force." time the plans for manufacture on a Within a few miles of the c large scale wili be completed and a large thev encountered the Gonfed* luunber of machines made. Flattering ets, and succeeded in driving oilers liave been received for buying the Ihis gave the command nei right for the States of Louisiana and Oa tiiey pushed. But, aL Texas. Turner Ashby, with his B1 pkTsTn \vo?k. Cavalry, came charging on t. while Fitz Lee pressed then] (Corrc-pon 'cn? c of the sr. C- Pre .byt-njn.) The engagement began to get i It has been said that every true mother when suddenly Pelliam's Hon sees her own boy in the face of every u .limbered on the leff flank, other boy, that the mother-heart yearns to pom- a galling lire into lor the welfare of ail. From this princi- ranks. He rode to the frox pie it is easy to comprehend why this the charge" against Fitz Lee o State organization feels an interest in all hide. The men seeing the sit the boys oi' the btate, and desires that came demoralized and. retreat that they arrive at a true and noble man- fusion, falling back to Alexan hood. Dear sister, did ^our mother- Union forces lost a few killed heart ever take in the thought that the prisoners. Colonel Tannant's majority of prisoners are uniier twenty- ters ambulance was captured two years of age, that one-third are i<n- rations and baggage, der sixteen, mere boys who need a A few days after the fight a < mother's tendeu care? Possibly the team drove up to his headqui mother is only one in a name, or she the letters "0. S. A." brand may sleep under the clods of .Skeleton mules, and in dim w] r-Boyfir-marft'.childn n, ii'Q in t'np. si^nf the toplessamb f eight-years -ol age, liavc bee^^^H^0MH|pSB(HlGhUi. a.," and tl io the penitentiary in our own State this instead-of wearing the blue In I year. What a future is before such q* gray. The driver enter* | Shut in with older criminals, instead of Claimant's tent with a milifc being improved by the punishment they bearing in his hand the Coloi are turned out months afterwards trained "Where did you come f. criminals who delight in vicious habics, mandeci the ColoneL again and again to go behind prison bars "T cmne from Colonel Fitz! until finally some dreadful deed demajids quarters," was the reply. 1 the life to pay the penalty. ^ _ teams and clothes with me ar It makes one's heart bleed to think of i could come back and bring ^ the children who are trained as criminals here it is, Colonel." ! by long waiting in jail with older exj^erts "Ail right, my man," said tl who are anxious for a pupil to whom to "Go to your quarters and cli impa 1t tiieir viic aounaance. come steps uniform, and report for duty ought to be taken to remedy this prepa- Colonel Tannant took the ration of criminal lives. The State has to his wife's room and opene ; a right 10 protect itself. It would be contents of the valise were a 3 [ economy to fill these idle moments ia ran in the following wordsjail with labor. Nothing so tortures a "Outpost Confederate Arar child as to have nothing to ao. Hard jJew x^nt: I Lave ov labor is far more desirable. And chil- appropriated your bile drea in penitentiaries should not miss a change, and also your bol all the years for mental discipline. Hennessev for a bad coid. They have been idle, prolligate, but ambulances and teams also, now ?n the hands of the State they come out again bring more c should oe turneu out improved. It is auj quartennps^e^ s*oies.' not our duty as an assembly of Christian Colonel Snn^fkeBt' the women to present to the Legislature the tl^e'ciose of the W, telling a. propriety oi making provisions for a f; iv.,t faithful and loving State Keform ochoo, under ino care Tannant has been living m a Christian superintendent Matron, sinee thp war Rpnpritl? v , and godvv teachers, where those con-1 met and a bottle of eld JSen: victca o: crime under seventeen years of I w * age, shall be placed to be formed, | educated and established in the i m ? ? ^vuv. I * should be S . ?./."r.tiai-4ubor I Japan Clover Cultiii acnool, located upon a farm with SUch appliances as are necess^y to teach I would like to. know somel trades. A a^r^ey itself should be a the clover which is springing su^lClent offence to send a boy to this the road sides and old home. ~\Ye need more of the Jewish '-Lispedeza Streata," or "Jai idea of industry forming a part of the as it occurs to me that it des basis of morality in training children, consideration and attention which is ezpressed in their proverb, "He per ceni. of our lands by con that teachech not his boy a trade does vation in cotton and corn, h < cAmo oc if nn fanrrht lijm t.r? so thin and poor that the crc Often these young criminals are the them is no longer prolitable, children oi drunkards who have inher- too much run down, jmd r< ited evil tendencies. Often the crime is much machinery and tools fo the direct result of drink itself. about the only thing left, is A few years of this reformatory life, stop the gullies and washes, while the character is being formed, will uves, and about the oniy t turn out to the State many a steady, nourishing is this "Japan < educated citizen, who, if his boyhood nave seen no land yet too po< had been spent in a State penitentiary, or too wet for it to grow on. would have been, by repeated offence, a very fond of it, and get quit far greater expense to the country, be- feeding on it. It is reporter side the sorrow lie may have caused. clover seeds on top; if that 1 This plan oi treating criminal boys is I am not surprised it weeds both politic and nuuian, not iu say thing, for an investigation sh Christian. Many a boy just as guilty, it has seed on the root, fon unci UlOl'C SO, tUull UUVSC XU i-IIC jytjuiiviii- vuc-j-uuul iuvu uuu >1 vi.v tiary, continues at home and becomes so ground. Therefore, when improved and established by the home weather kills the stalk, one influences as to become a popular and sprouts put up after the iir useful man. Home, one of three bright- wish, however, to know som< est stars iu every boy's inner sky, is the of its history, and when and great moral t'.v;tur in determining his and hence this communicatic after iife. Wo agree that the home in- Huntsvihe, Alabama, lluencc cannot with economy to the . State be dispensed with, even for criini- * m 11 ai children, and thai it should be sup- \\.'iite .v c?-. plied in the Reform Home. t,? , ,, Uu-vC Woody :uleotion has been callc * ' -''jr of white mice, which hoy 'ha|>:cr of Accident*. arc laising itsi pets. For their the most bloodthirsty and fei "While Alex. Love?son of 3Ir. 11. A. *LUrcs- A rat put among them Love?and a young Mr. Gibson were out a:H^ devoured. From the Moi hunting yesterday, Alex's gun was ueci- VoJusUtuilon we learn that dentaliy uischuiged, pouring the entire load -Lvans, of Palatka, i'ia., the i of shot*into the "back part of Mr. Gibson's hule four-weeks-old baby, was i head, causing a very serious wound. going into her room where Jesse CiiUon, sou of liev. J. A. Clifton, ije<jn lefl asleep about live mi : of ^pm-tttuburg, during a stay of a few see .some of the white ~zi: hours hero yesterday, Jell from a pole on I:0U~-C. <.a-.iag the i\,c6 o? th^ which he was practicing gymnastics ana screams - u?/t Drought all th - had his aria dislocu'ed Ht tb* elbow. ' rniuiiiu House"cottage. - xesterdav, a small colored boy on Mr. sMes, to l\ef room, when it w : I. 3ieiJ. Mijoifj, place i'U across" :l stick of that the child 1;?;I been badli : i wood wiiich ;? h;?ger boy was chopping, the face by the rats, and pro . I and h-d o^c of Lis Hands cut oil.?Chester ep i}} uie iUUC o wuu ;j \ lUpviLr. .Mrs. trans says that moral A - lag the blood which was flow J I "I do not like thej, X>r. Fell, wounds when she entered th. .11 The reason why, I cannot tell." cage^s, lips, tongue and iiosj t! It has often been wondered at, the bad were bitten, and whenfirstso i odor ihN oft-quoted doctor was in. 'Twas covered with b;cod. ine ch r probably because he, being one of the old ing quietly .v eanesday aftei e school doctors, mauc up pills as large as one ::nows the result of the a bullets, which nothing but an ostrich could ceivcu. u bolt v.'ithout nausea. Hence the dislike. _ -uothers had better look ot 0 Dr. 1?. V. Pk-rcc's "Pleasant Purgative tcmalpets as white micc. Pellets" are sugar-coated aud no larger than . 7 bird-shot, and are uuick to do their work. ^ s a mighty mean man wl 2- For all derangements o: the liver, bowels i?own l':c wou!< And stomach tliey are specific. ia favor Oi beating the cripp] JOKE. THE LATE COLONEL RION. kee Olticer's His Dying Statement Concerning His Parentage. at) The News and Courier of Saturday w Governor contains an account of an interview with o ^he Con- a "prominent lawyer," who, speaking of el CTann^nt& t*ie *a*e '^ames Kion, of Winnsboro, . and class- sa^: int, was id "There has always been, as perhaps .lry outpost you are aware, a mystery surrounding rannant re- Colonel Iiion's birth. He was very ad feel the familiar with John (J. Calhoxm during nt. A bat- his early life, "who took a great interest . the depart- in his welfare and was very kind to him igton, called and his mother. They came from Canada was assign- to Washington about the time when Mr. . He said to Calhoun was Secretary of State under President Tyler. There have been many this ex- speculations in regard to Colonel Eion's I have slept origin and family and many rumors, and ome togeth- there was always a recognized mystery some good hamnnff over the subject-. It was difficult know Fitz to account for the great,, interest Mr. :rs and not Calhona seemed to take in "him. Colonel I would be Bion liimself always manifested great i brash, just admiration for Mr. Calhoun and ever i can whip entertained the deepest reverence for the illustrious statesman both as a public had packed man and as a private citizen. Some id a bottle have even gone so far as to infer from Vhcn every- these circumstances that some peculiar nnant took relationship existed betr.een them. It ;he Fairfax is said now that Colonel Iiion exploded the direc- this mystery during the few brief hours After the that intervened between the first 7 TO"! 1 AC flTJfl 4*1">^ O4~fon\r TT'V?1/>V? r -?O-UJL VI 4,-AJ.V/ Cifi/UCA^/iX lTAiAVH VttiliVU Colonel ad- him oil* and Ms death?he lived several ing words: hours, as you will remember, after he am now V7as first attacked. ho have en- "The story is that Colonel Rion, then, ry, and as in the presence of Dr. Hanahan, his - man to do physician, and of his entire family, as a soldier stated that he was the son of the Dauphin on who are 0f France, who would have been King hree paces Louis XVII had it jot been for the French Revolution, which by the execu- . stood like a tion of Louis XVI culminated in the he Colonel overthrow of the Bourbon Dynasty. His statement was that this boy, the Dauphin he, "with who was reported to have died at an irt, we will early age, and to have been imbecile, drive the had not really died, but had been sent the entire over to Canada and had there been reared in obscurity under the name of :ourt-house De Rion; that he entered the English Brate pick- armv and was married to Miss Hunter. them back, and Yftat Colonel Rion was the offspring v courage, of that marriage. De Rion died m. is! Soon Colonel Rion's infancy, and lie, "with his ack Horse -mother, was placed under the charge heir Hank, 0f Mr. Calhoun by the Austrian ambasl in front, sador at Washington, with a statement nteresting, 0f the facts in the case and upon certain >e Artillery conditions that were to be faithfully ob~ and began served. One of the conditions was that Tannant's the facts should not be divulged except it, leading certain contingencies, another of the n the other conditions was that Colonel Rion was mation be- never to go to Europe unless in charge ed in con- 0f the Austrian authorities, and on ? dria. The board an Austrian man of war. A further r and some condition was that Colonel was never to > heaaquar- accept civil office in this country. , with his . <-These conditions were faithfully observed up to "the time of Colonel Ilion s dilapidated fatal illness. He is not known to irters -with haVe confided the story of his birth to ed- on the any one except his eldest daughter. He tiite letters is saidto have told her the story two or H ulance also. tirree^ears-ago, -when.-she was about to - H ae drivers, i sail for Europe. It is said tfcafc- one of id on a suit ^er purposes in going to Europe was to> id Colonel examine into the death of the Dauphin iry salute, an(j to obtain such knowledge, in regard iel!s valise, to it as was possible from tradition and . ? rorn?" de- otherwise. "It is also said that when Colonel ' Lee's head- Tlimi referred in thfi snhiflfti in si ViofnrA [e swapped | ys death he observed in the counter*Ld told me ances 0f those who were gathered about jcm valise, that they supposed his mind to be "* wandering, and that he said to them: lie Colonel. <You third;: that my mind is wandering, .ange your I am in possession of all my reason- * iog faculties.' He then asked l)r. valise over Hanalian to put him to some cest in a it. The order to demonstrate the f&jfc that he icte which wus perfectly rational. He said (tapping his breast) 'I have the proofs here of the 7, Virginia, truth of what I say.1 ened your "Colonel Sion is known to have been d shirts for possession of a very valuable gold. ctle of olu snotf-box, set with diamonds, upon the * . I traded J f 0p 0f -which there is a monogram of the Yvnee, you t Orleans Family wrought in diamonds. !OJ?inissary This snuff-box. it is said, had never been 1 cGCitt onr ** note until n:s Jeath, but he is known to have ex0 P.ne aoou*? hibited it once, in 1SS5, to an intimate ' : personal and professional friend, under ies^essee injunctions of secrecy, which have been 3 ana Lee removed by his death. He gave no in- . a&sey was timation to his iiriend of the history *' connected wish the possession of this bos, except to say that 3Ir. Clemsen, th6 son-in-law of John C. Calhoun, c* brought it to him from France, when he ,,. (Mr, Clemsen) was secretary of the ^ ? J\ " American legation in Paris. The snuff' up o g |ias ^een vaiueci by a jeweller, since mdora" ColoaelBioa's death, at ?3,000, aad is _ . ' oi most costly and exquisite workmanerves some .. J x A Wrg ship. ''Colonel Hion went to Canada some ^ years ago and told a friend when he had 'i,:? i ' _ returned that he had seen in the old v Cathedral at Montreal the record of his X C .A/lIig , .. r^wheat^c that Colonel Rion's to trv -tud *am^y are now PrePai'hig for publication / ' f_ a full statement of the facts in the case Inn" i . -I an<^ ^ere ^ mnc^ evidence to sus^iovcr " &<I t^10 C0nfessi0IL ^ade by him just ' ' tn\ ,irv before bis death. Certainly no one who Cal'e ""e knew him would doubt for a moment ., v.v *tvnn> the truth of any statement that he made t +, f , when clothed in his right mind, for he be the c^e; the very soul of honor." , out every- The Latcat Fad. ah'c m/i t'nof f j>ing about A writer in the New York Star says: I face oi the was at a theatre the other night where the the drv performances Uike on the guise of burdozon new iesque and pretty women, and I was somerain I ^"hat startled to sec the linger nails of the jthing more -iitter like burnishdd gold. I pitied how to so"v the I1l'cU-v crcature' for 1 thought that, ?T ' '' through sonic accident, she had lost her real finger nails and hud artificial ones substituted. Vv hen the curtain rang down on the act I went to the manager and asked how the girl had met with the accident. lr.ni* ' ' li/i A?'f T?/\<* Vicau c. ^AViaiiiigU) UAJll lr vutL d to the dan- kn(?H' is the latest lad? Wait a little s in tiiis citv u''n''c -,ou will see ail the actresses with ?ize the'- are .-Med tingerr.aiis. Then the custom will roc-ous crea- iiac* il~ v''a3" iut0 society. It is the very ry-il'l be killed mosf subsequent of all. It Isn't English, aticello (Fla.) don'tcherknow, but it is Parisian, xotts Mrs. Carrie saxCZ-" mother of a , *? * ; horrified, on -?Twenty-live years ago Simon Trail, . the baby V-ad a vell-to-do farmer living near Dayton, nutei before, Ohio, wanted, to take Ms four-year-old ?; ne*s of the ehiid to chureli with him on Sunday, child. Her The child was convalescing from a long e inmates of illness, and its mother objected to its v.-here she re- going out. A quarrel ensued between as discovered husband and wife, resulting in their say * bitien iUg bitter things to ore another. It was :ubly tile i; :i their first and last quarrel, for neither ' 5 one has spoken a word to the other sinc'-'> although, four children have been iiis j born to tiiem m tiie meantime. eroom. liie J treasurer oi' a dramatic come of the emit. I -n j>oston gayjj that a mac who enM w fsie-? tored Ms officc 02e tla? Picked UP kis "oo ?, ^P- "That is a von-pretty thing ; wounds it re- saiu visitor, "How docs it work?" And he began stamping its impress on a it for such in- large 5-cct ?- foolscap. The treasurer turned his back on the man, and the sheet of foolscap left the room. That 10 wrote "Pull night the house was flooded with passes 1 probably be for two or three people each, with the es. treasurer's olliciai stamp beneath. A