The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, March 02, 1887, Image 1
VOL. XLIII. WIXNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 2, 1887. NO- 31.
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GHOSTS L\ OLD YIRGL\3Y. [structure of pillow:
i borne by broad nan
each side of the hea:
THE SPENDTHRIFT PLANTER WHO *?&t mentis Since til*
could not KiisT in his ckavd. Hampden Sidney.
at 2o m the straits
crowded countrv hoi
A" Tale l,y Marl ui HarlamV, Which She ^ s;tuation T?-fgr;ni
Says i.-> * ;iin?le<l on Facto. gerklg cigar apiec
I. were extinguished, t
He had spent most of the December across the room at
dav within" doors. In his brisk prom"- an^ ^?ce set
, V. the house. Gervasij
uaue on iiic wug drowsiness, ms tan
when lie passed them, into the drawing blooded horses runn
a room windows. In the warm area pendumm tongue d.
5 i i -x i ii x c lazy second tieks.
spread about it by the great fire m the AXot u more glo^
chimney, he could see two armchairs set this?side?the Blue
suggestively together on the rag. He Lad "iinney's going tra
sat in one all the afterno-.m. His fane v C/liesntloot!
now placed in the other a slight supple The auditor laugh*
figure in a wine-colored gown with soft ing up the encomiun
laces at neck and wrists, bhe was voung feyetition at the ore?
, .. , ill i "i i aim>eli oc his elbow
and blue-eyed, and liad rust-colored nair ,.dfcV cigar Were out
with bronzed ripples running through it: uot set fire to the sh?
in the cheek nest to him was a diuipie ;>tamp ox his own tow
that deepened when she laoghed. Hr ^ the chimney4
r ? up to tus chin, and, 1
would marry her :n .May, G^d wil vf satisfaction, settl<
by tne time me .roes wvujki :i- a .?:oolk i -??, .
on the bare, brawn stoks over there mi I rain w5x.s ^
the garden. His n<?me w::s in L.yut;n- ',ou ,e P*
burg, fifty miles away from Powliatau ! -njav b-utdowul
plantation, pureua-ed six months ago In t uncier the
Geryas Miller, his prospective fatmr-in- j -- r, cout.cted m.->tai
law, a long journey by stage or privet t
carriage in this wet ther, and over the ^T?trfVaiV V'
worst roads in Virginia. . "t;*S: ht-ard it.John
Speed, the "catch" of his nativ V1 TLlt; same hey.
town, and engaged to the sweetest <jirl IE
in the world, yet found the air raw, the xh- rust1* of the
situation of Round Kid,noted for it* (beV U up^ht was
wide outlook, bleak, the landscape Someone w;
dreary. Eliza ("any to ner lamily anu J0rch with steps thai
friends since her baby tongue had m- :.neU oJJ,7 ^omet
vented the pretty substitute for her (.utlrelv w?ile one m
prosaic name) had gone up stairs to tvvellt: The rhvt]j
firess for supper; Mrs Miiler was bus^ ,-,lilu| floods acc'en
in her own domain; Mr. Miller and nis tiw ^evcmi.ss of .
two sous v.cic ai/iuu wiAiiuj wiui . rum end to end oi ti
it being the first Monday m the inontn .\eniy the dragging
the Circuit Court 'was in session. ^ front door, locks ratt
As he turned at the end of the porch The footsteps came J
in his twentieth ronnd?he counted taem threshold oi tne crav>
to oass the time?he saw a man coming tumbled with the knc
tip the brick walk. "An odd figure!" The friends hearc
meditated the city beau, but one wuo breath sharp y held, ;
WT*the bearing oi a gentleman. A lung back and somebody c
surtout of drab cloth, open and flying a brief pause; the tl
back as he strode forward, showed a Ti)e listeners, thewsel
blue close bodied coat trimmed with dense darkness as wa
brass buttons, a ruffled shirt soiled and beat the rampour;
rumpled a buff vest and breeches of tue strained senses, eacn
same color as the hat. Drawn over them ap for a spring so so<
to the knee, a pair of top boots staiutu should strike a iigut.
with red mud completed bis attire. ^ He Instead of this, he
carried a riding whip in his right hand, steadily as if nerved
and the wide brim of his hat was cau^m p0Sfc across the floor 1
up rakishly on one side. stood the piano Th
"A queer fossil, even for tne rniddie -sure 0t it as it they h
Counties: conunentcu o ullu ouee^, :-uo, j ?he dropped upon h
halting to await nearer approacn and j broken sigh shuctd*
salutation. "Ho might have come over ' gloom, an articulated
-with Captain John Smith." a word, they- did,-not
Tiia stranger ascended the steps de- they,believed y^s. a-s
liberately paused at the top and wheeled horrid, sickening guitar
a look' at the landscape, taking oil iioiiow, human groan!
his hat with a gesture of intense wean- The young men b<
ness?a despondent slouch of the well- COUches and groped 1:
knit figure that was inexpressibly mourn' uess f 0r matches, i h<
ful His complexion was as swarthy as zzziid, grew red, the
k a Craole's?rTohn Speed took note oi de- 4-The candle!"
?. iaiis while he still hesitated to advance ^ ^itli palsy.
and accost him. The deep eyes snone As the wic? caugnt
with red lire, the lower lip was fast m the first time m tne d
the savage bite of white, sharp teeth. the horror hacUeapec
He was unshaven, haggard, disheveled, cover of the Closed \
His hair and one eyebrow were iron chairs, a foot stool <
srrav the other eyebrow was black as were as they tad left
ooal 'civing a sinister cast to the corru- -Ded. . .There, wasno ?]
SSi forehead. ' ^ , . other sign of the n<
When he turned swiftiy on his heel. Avoiding one anottie
and with one stride vanished at the hull abashment' of' guilt _
door 'John Speed followed instantly. roora and hall with li.
The eccentric visitor might be a privi- ;ioor 0i the latter was
leged neighbor, or?he- reflected un- outer door locked an'
^ eiiiv?anescapedlunatic. In any cast "Yet I could ha
v it was his place to shield the ladies iron* 0()0ts were soaked=wi
BR disagreeable surprise in the absence ui- (jcrvas, fearfidly.
UH& the host and his'sous. sound of muddy sole:
Hi Casting a glance into the drawing With the same que
room windows as he hurried by them, ttiev knew not what
Wr he saw the unceremonious ^uest .thio? stole back on tipto
himself into one of the armchairs before room, made up the li
the fire. The door ol the room was shut, [Z SUioked and talked
and as' the Lynchburger opened it, light of a wild, rainy
Trible, Shy's pet spaniel, ran out be-1 lue windows.
tween his legs," yelping shrilly in "pain 01 . ln alj hours;
terror and scampered up the stance. tilcV arrived at. 1
John nad a distinct glnupse o: T:.c t awful secret she
figure crouched together m cha;r. sucli tiliie as tliev C0l
elbows on knees aud head in Hands, b> fcl0U 0f mystery,
fore the dog eSCa^HrU past ium. aud supers>t>lTl;>as >e
"Why, Trifle! ti> r*>: Trifle!" he called; *oak-{ f>t intolerable
re^unngij.. ' is tnenatter, ok >vi.? st,*jheii, vfellow?
. ? _ . , through clihouse uv
As the ills ait ed favorite Hashed out oi ? y
sight the voting man pushe . the dooi .. , - , ,T
b&kaad^tod. . Airs.
' Excuse me, sir!" he began laughing- "Utn :'r -v
j . ' 6 ? ? tier mother, address*
V> i , , marked "Coiifidentiii
Both chairs were emntY. Jsotacrea- ,.T , ,
tore was present exceot himself! , ,A? v c? c
: . - lucK., wrote tire o:
"but the darkness 01
Shy's voice in the hall coaxing and the open door is' th
chiding her dog recalled him from mis- which we huve grope
fitted reminiscenes of scientific explana- "Last week bust
tions of wraiths and doubles. He smiled Chesterfield on the f;
foolishly ih perceiving that he was Powkatanites st le
actually feeling his own pulse. As well country.' I took dii
l>e superstitious as hypochondricaL and met his father, t
(<What have you done to Trifle?" said age. On learnings
Shy, in her clear, girlish tones, as he fellow brightened i
opened the aoo^ for her. "He was loth began to chat of- the
to come down with me at ail A little knew it when a yon
while ago he scratched at my door/ .u.d bom, it appeared, c
when I let him in ran crating and shyJi- estate, his father h
ing all over into the darkest corner oi Tuoseley's overseer.
thA closet. X bronchi him down in my to set down exactly ;
arms, but the moment he heard "your " 'He come iuto'a
step he jumped to the floor and- raetu when'a father died, J
back up stairs." * ' an'he ruh-.through.
They had been separated for half au racehorse would 'a v
hour. It was therefore nectary that 'n cyard piayin' 'n h
John .should wind his arm about the knows what eke v.
?lim waist and bend his tall head to the whole time, night's
leyel oi hers; xhen conduct her to lire 'gaged to be marriec
without withdrawing the support-. Still to a mighty hue gui
standing thus, he told her how the dog A Miss F?.ni*y Gyarf
had rushed past him and disregarded his stiddy him long. S
calL . was in that 'ar h;
*1 Suppocc a coal popped out on him," nights arier Pow'tai
observed Shy, carelessly, nestling her made decent folks'
* - - 1 * i ' I T- TV. 1J
head against tae oroaa snouiaer oesiae sun x VI an tuis jj
her. ''He is. a lazy little scamp who help likin' the feller
can't be taught \o keep away from the He hadn' trt inimy Sre.
How deliciousiy warm it is in 'twas hisseli. 'S fo:
here)" ter, she fyarly wo
'' Mr. Miller brought home to a late heerd tei].. Ennyhc
supper the judge of the court and three ry him, but ijuther
lawyers?one young, two middle-aged, up for nig i:'pen te
Sis wife woulu have been surprised had wouldn' take a drui
he appeared "with fewer guests. But the but she'd never take
most elastic hospitality, even in ante- marry nobody els^-.
beilum Virginia, encountered barriers in " JY&-as, sur; I sa
the matter of sleeping places sometimes, didn't git no youngs
"I say, my dear fellow, you won't :ime you may be su
. . nn the Darlor sofa powerful ?as:, but hi
mind camping ? >
for one night, wiil youV:' said Gervas, ue were very _ ua]
Jr., drawing his prospective brother-in- French Mood in hi]
h?>; aside as bed time approached. ''You the bes' sort, I beei."
see, Judge Bolton has rickety nerves? jit black hyar. On*
must have a room to nimseif, with no mat one 01 ^uu>vj<
clock in it, three pillows of assorted sizes tother didnHe t
under head, and brandy und water his brains had settle
within easy reach in case of nightmare, haid. It give him ?
Mother looked blank as a slate when she look, 'though,
heard he was here, but I told her we " 'Weil, tilings g?
would abdicate in his favor, that we it came to sellin' of
could sleep like a roach in the bottom of a nigger or two.
a pond, or wherever she might put us.'' mightily. His nh
Midnight and the dving tire saw the fond o him. He n
pair stretched out on a luxurious super- one on em when h<
s and blankets, tip- teched a wliip to 'era when he had a ' '
cloth sofas, one on good haid o' liquor in, he'd pitch 'era
rth. Thej had been money by the han'ful nex' day, "fur to CiiI>t:
;ir freshman year at 'n'int the sores," he'd say. " '
Veteran campaigners " 'One evenin' he come home by his- Ca
and makeshifts of self. 'Twas of a Monday?December the 3
uses, they accepted coat-day, I reklect, 'n' he'd been 'way c^n^.
lsly, smoked a lin- more'n a fortnit. Part o' the time't Mr. "
e after the candles Cvarter's in Gooshlan'. They did say's we
he red tips win king- how Miss Fanny 'scarded 'him tuen any f
one another until f' good 'n' all, bein' nyar were out, poor the q
tied upon the rest of girl! an' no wonder,"with 's dis'pated evs' D
first gave token of ways. Ennyhow, he'd stopped Sat'day c
of line girls and night't Pow'tan coat-house, 'n' sot up
ing down drolly, the ail night 'n' all Sunday :n' most all o' ^ie ropping
words like Sunday night playin' cyards up stars in Captt
the tavern with some Riehinon' gam- 'Thi
ous pair of eyes? biers, 'n' when he lef' the coat-house again
Ridge!" he drawled, they got his money, every cent of it, 'n' u'hon
in'er?f the course his plantation, 'n' higgers, 'n' his watch but a{
?bay?one white? 'n' 's horses. He had to foot it all the n?thi:
nine miles home. and ^
id silently, treasur- " 'Well, suh] Royal, his body servant, opini<
i for elaboration and he see him a-settin' 'n the big chetr as 0
kfast table. Raising had b"longed to his mother, by the par- ^ C01
to see if his com- ior lire, mighty down like res'in'~his rathej
j.1. ^ v _ i.- ^ 3 v:- i->_ ii. < i n-iM.i.
, ciLLu. mat lie liaa nmu uu ix?s UULI s, u lvojaiiie t00? li
ets, lie aimed the fotclied him a hot drink, knowin'. his et>ty o
surd the faint shim- ways, jon see, sub, ' had a nice supper m zhv
drew the blankets cook' fur him, but he wouldn't tech drap pense
with a deep breath nor moufful, an' when it came dark?a pende
bd into his downy bad rainy night 'twas, too?he wandered t0 the
off on the plantation. Thar warn't a "CI
iag with rhythmic nigger quarter he didn' go inter that 'ar' Colon
?rch root', a" heavy ni^ht. an' he'd the same story ever}'- credir.
the wind. Suddenly whar. I doff
uMow awoke him. "I'm a-startin' on a long journey," mure
itly where he was sez he, "an' I want fur to take your m
i^ood will with me," sez he. "I aint bnsTl
,1 i.a,...? r for In
[?ert*u. *.?ccrui Quuu luai.mci j-uu, an jl ^axi l
Hiat!'' came back go *thout you forgive me," sez lie. extra*
' 'Every one on 'em was lit to break *jie ^
r_ thar hearts a-cryin', when he talked-so sions-r
mounful, an' they ail tole him ho .v much :1I"rer.
: bed coverings as store they sot by him an' all that, but requir
audible la the dark he couldn'seem to take no comfort in ^et pi
is v.'uikiog^ on the what they said. Nigh 'pun midnight hquor
; lagged and quick- 'iwas, when thar come a knockin' at our ^eh
irnes they stopped outside do', an' my father, ne got uj>
ight oount ten or thinkin' somethin' was the martter with board
imic patter of the the stock or somethin' 'n' othei. An' eVen *
tuated by contrast thar stood Mr. Moseley, wet 's a cal)ltn
the tramp! tramp! drowndtd rat at' white's a sheet. I'd Prow
le wet floor. Sud- got up, too, an' was a listenin' behind them,
feet halted at the the do', an' I heerd him a going over the
led, hinges creaked; same sort o' fyarwell to my father. ! t;jtumblmgly
to the " 'An' then my father, sez he, ""Mr. j the be
'ing room; a hand Moseley," sez he (father bein' a Meth- j politic
Jb. ^ odis' class leader 'sorter), "Mr. " Iu.-e- | weigh:
) tr>?> ntlior'c i ? 1. _ ?a t
* ^ ~ jlu ?, iitr, jrignu bureigub uuo u wis ?~~?
*s ike door swung hvmnbook: | Sut
ntvrocl. Theresas .. . ..-WMle the Imp hoI'? ont to bora, braz?
irobnmg hearts of The vilest sinn? moaght return,'' *frtI
ves unseen in tne , _ , ,,,.,. , ,, nnsera
s the intruder, out- *ez he- "Kub out, n b gin ag in, suh, my ov
without, to their sez he, "'s never too late to men'.'-' (,f Hei
gathering himself Ah! zany's the time I've thought o' pvUSSe;
>n as the trespasser them 'ar' words sence> aud how solemn coufes
-F ^ my father said 'em, he bein' a Sorter's I feel cc
walked heavily but ?a^d* '"Never too lat-6 to men, Mr. "after
bv deliberate pur- Moseley," sez he. not kr
to the corner where "'"An', sez ne, laughin wilder zation
prp f),pv V-Arp q<~ cur'ous-iike, "ther's nothin' tall left to nf +lm
^en L sction xen', Mr. Ite, an' wass'a nothin' fur tfjH
is kn^es. \ lo*^^ men it with* x don t know b tne ^ spcc
-re'"1 through the devil '11 think me worth pickin' up. But caltur;
sob burdened with good-by! good-by!" an' he was off in ever c,
,.^.1, w which the rain ah' win'. " 'Twas ies' arfter termin
ame, followed by a sun";iP nex" mornin', but still a-rainin'
"i -* ? *.? r?' rlArrc t?/mi YrtA5i/vh+ c-n^r tr^an lmvo i?
gie?a a ail tnua?a v-u-to " wg"i wou' *<*j> >< , ilu.,
como Boyal a-racin' an' a-bellerin' down j \u
>unded from their to 0U1' house fur to tell us he'd foun' Ms wW],*;
a frenzied clumsi- paster stone dead an' cole on the parlor jno. or.
2 blue light snapped door under his mother's pictur, a-iyin' with+]
n'clt ar. i'ace down, with his throat cut from year ;f ^om
>ed Gervas, shaking to year. Ain t the stain o' the blood
' thar still, sun? 'Tuse' to be, do wlwfc r,l"
they turned for '^ey would to git it out. jrney say " a my
irection from which blood stain won't never scrub clean.' " ? 4oaU
I Upon them. The , ^?^41 Speed glanced furtively over his 'jQ^
)iano was smooth; shoulder, wet his dry lips with a tongue noj m.
and-a lamp stand that was stiff and cold and steadied on ^
them on going to the leaf of his desk the hand that clutch- tainim
prostrate figure or T~e letter. A horrible sense of unDcturnsl
visitation, reality possessed him. Now that ex- an(j
r's eyes as in the planation had come, there was no ful- 1)0puh
they explored the crum on_which to rest credulity. Then ^arnw
jrhts. The polished the floating haze of letters subsided into 0+?
> dry and clean, the iLnes, tne i^es irom curves into leveis. i farme,
i barred. went on: J t
re sworn that his "When I got back home I made a wtiv
th wet," whispered ciean breast of the matter to my fati' . v,oor i
'hey had the sodden Mother was luckily away from home. I fG,v u
5." really think the good man doubted my ;,jn-, u.
er, cowed dread of sanity and your veracity for at least ten
upon them, they minutes. \\ e went together to the ^er o{j
e to the drawing drawing room, locked ourselves in, "d0?s
re, and sitting by m?ved the piano and pulled up the eoruntil
the dim day- nfcr. the carpet. The stain is there? sjo.n ^
morning slid in at a big, brownish splash, running off in m
large and smaller streams with the grain jj- 3(jox
of agitated confer- 01 ^ boards?an ugly, ugly sight! |fcU<re
Jut one concJfusion. "We?you, my excellent father and I CUb? tj
'uld be kept until ?don't believe m ghosts, Jack, nor yet al
lid furnish a solu- ^ haunted houses, nor in inexplicable liefe(|t=j
To delicate women eights and sounds, even when we see me
rvants Kound Hili hear them ourselves. But what are crb jjweiv
they to sus- to tljink of all this? And what use m(4t?
?ibie and iuvisible, can we make of tue key, now that it is
ids own evil will. ' thrust into our hands?" tb.,t K
Note.?However inartistic may be the T,;,>lT. j.
, .. addendum "Strafe but True," to what f(l?i f!
tor a TPar + % > - ti.
. , T 1 ** f would otherwise pass as a bit of unayi- tlley ?
cei\ea a le^er iom uat jve fiction, the author feels constrain- rn,m,
ju to his ofhee and n ^ , , V , _i , , sutm
; ed to state that tne story given above wficn
1\ ,, , a, ,, rests uoon the testimony of witnesses of rinr-tli
- fellow unimpeachable verity. The apparition
? vi ' on tne porch; tne midnight alarm; the "
lOe otter s:de of iaeffilc^le ^ stain; |hl; Mstory of Sf
111 the suicide?all these were real happen- j>u+
isA me to inf, ?ae solemn asaeTeration of good ^
rentier of what we aud sober men y worthy of credence.
the Yellow Jacket The sueeziug: Spot. and c<
mer with my client never
ho- is 80 .years of As a Journal representative satin the have
rhere I lived the old chair of a Maiden Lane barber the other least <
ip amazingly, and day, the genial artist of the brush ob- land,
neighborhood as he served that the journalist sneezed when stand
ng man. He was his hair was combed. "Did I touch the farme
>n tiie Round Hill sneezing spot?" inquired tue bar-xi*. nave
a-viog been Byars He then proceeded to explain that the comn
The rest I will try ''sneezing spot" was a sensitive place to usufri
is he told it. " the left of the middle of the forehead, with :
mighty line prop'ty '"Why," said he, "there are ruen who 1 h;
3yars .Moseley did, eome in here who sneeze regularly every and u
it faste'n his best time I comb their l air or shave them tiuue
rent, suli! Drinkin' just as soon as the ^omb parses ever that tLo ]
orseo, '11 the Lord spot. I hf*J a. man in here yesterday attain
as a-goiir on the who sneezed three times just as hard as mine,
well's day. He was . he could, all because I touched the at'ttr
I, too, arter a while 'sneezing spot.-' It must be a very small b'ijjp
:1- over'n Gooshian! nerve that tickles the nostn's."?A V?.;_tiy make
:er. Even-that didn't Journal. " then
ech cyarryin's en '3 j ; t, . " - dispu
ouse," ?soeeiaIiv the new invention called the are
l boat dav, would 'a "hrachionigraph" shall prove its useful- rea,liz
hyar stan' on end, ncss tor overcoming writers' cramp it vre?<.
that, you couldn't ^ act as a boon for thoosan^.. Siany ^av
, to save -tour bfe. newspaper and maga-ine writers, as well in w
.11 ihe world 'thcut 25 accountants, suffer intolerably from ?sta1
r r>!iss Fannv Cyar- sheer inability to pen thoughts or figures some
rshinped him, I've rea(^^y? ^ Xhere are varieties of this
>w, she wouldn' mar- species oj. impairment, distributed be- want
would s^s give nl.-i tween the Ungprs, wrists and muscles of raim
n years." Said she the arm, which this invention is alleged \ye ?
ikard nor a gam'ler, i10 ohviatc. ^ estab
i hur word back, no? ?.News oi the red hot river of lava tas-p
| running for twenty miles from the oval legac
id ten 'year?'n1 he crater of I-Iauna Loa to the sea border- vvaJ '
?r nor^ richer 'n' all ing it3 base makes it of interest to de- sakr;
re. He turned gray scribe briefly this volcano, Maun* tiCH'
elos money faster, and lile mi two great basaltic ,
:? compiected; had volcanoes of the Sanawick Islands. The U0^L
Tt?quality blood o' craters arc nineteen luiies apart, that of v,'ore
t hear tell?an', had Mauna Lea being 13,700 feet above the PeoP
- ?a- Tt-oc IqttqI oni3 T\*ikiM hftino* -?.200 feet three
- ^LU. UUO CCvfl ivivi) MNWV? ? ? ^ _,
?brows got gray 'n' high. Kilauea bleeches constantly, the two 1
ise' to say 's how all eruptions of steep Manna Loa are anL'sd
'n one side o' 's spasmodic and violent. The oUaert, or in tb
i kind o' outlandish prater of ilauua Loa Is three miles long, i
one and three-quarter noles wide and over
Dt wuss'n' wuss, till eight hundred feet deep. That of derm
;'s race bosses, then Kilauea is similar. Outbreaks of Manna ^La vThat'
cut him up Loa were noted in 1855, 1S5S and 18SL ^ro5'jer?
was powerful ; ousl;
ever laid a"lick on Use Dr. Pierce's "pellets" for all bilious luxni
i wus sober, 'n' ef he attacks. i wlio;
j. .. - .w ii, ii i i i ii i ' * ? ? ~
tiie sins of the sexate." salary paid, do tlieir -work. G
^ with ai assessment of over $325,0
tin b. k. Tillman's Reply to the -^i^ch has risen year by year,
.etter of Senator L. W. Yonmans. ?42.001,000 more in 1886 than it
ptain B. E. Tillman has written to 1382?Georgia only pavs her Gc
fews and Courier a reply to the re- gaSouth Carolin.
- ,, , 0 , .Poril "prostrate State once, and the
letter of Senator loumans, of Barn- Stete-now, for our taxable weal
After expressing his dislike for ma{i Yeiy little gain in ten ;
urther newspaper controversy over Souti Carolina, assessed at $150,0
uestions growing out of the "farm- payo^r Chief Magistrate $3,500.
0 -r\^.rr rr ny J nHrrac OO f\nfl ?
Mvanent," and some allusion to 3?iSTg^s$3,3)0
ivn letter reviewing the action of $4}000.and so on in many other
Legislature at the late session, Our ta:es are eaten up, and vrh
iiu Tillman says: ask to have the burden lifted '
i animus of my letter was not called 'disciples of Henry George,
st the "agricultural Solons," for above al things, we want no inco
11 only felt pity and contempt, in So^k Carolina., at all events r
jainst the eleven lawyers who knew which axes the poor farmer whil<
L?g about the merits of the matter, ing thaich men of other classes
vho should have deferred to the For wht is the recent assessme
jns and wishes of the farmers out- taxativl of the farmers' produce,
f the Senate, who had met twice Arc., onaand but an income tax?
ivention and asked certain things, property is all the farmer has to
: tnan to the partisans and tools till anoiier crop ls made, and is a*
1 it. I am wiliingto concede hon- an inone as the salary of the cor
x purpose to some of these farmers ler g??ral. If that gentleman is
i^rnutc^ w it tzmstrrre ax iivo ex- carrviis out the law," as he clai
oi their intelligence and. itf&c? ^Qiy sbOTs that the farmers in th(
nee. to sa} nothing of their fealty jsW,,ure umug cmeiess or -nidi
ir brother farmers. to oar ights, and that an organ:
ieek" is a favorable word with_ .of farriers is needed to watch ov
el Youciaus, and he gives me intends.
for having my share thereof, but Tlw''Farmers' movement" is
my iaut to him as having even . political agitation, pure and simp
tLan L Colouel Youmans has read f, at last, have never disclaimed
iv articles, i'.<r his letter fairly was pfctical to the extent of se
v vir i i'rnm tViAm ?n/i reforms. We have a ri
ui t<> tiuiiu tLat my "charge.' of "dispo.*t in the political mill-;
raginet: and incompetency" against however distasteful it may be to C
oard of agriculture and commis- Younans and other members c
wore "reek;:-s and fallacious," ruiingdique, and we shall conti;
;c public :d and admitted facta, agitata those waters till they t
e-. "tmiss enough to gild a church- pure aid wholesome. But we a
e." Tuw commissioner's "good going outside the Democratic pa
" mu>t have addled his brain, or obtuinour rights or redress grie^
is tuad i tfr regard for the present and Colonel Youinans knov
ent, . a;riotiy and trustworthy The aieering adusion to Mr.
of agriotibure" has blinded him Itussei shows that lie aud his :
o ailmirr-a icts. 1 caunot re- would be glad to have us mak
' ' - * - ? - "r> ^ A ^4V
late tisc c1r, (fs i. nave made ana tatai aiswKe. x>ux we cannot air
.1. bin Your readers remember abanaon our father's house becat
un-i I t-:.n only explain Culonel don't like the management \Y
uns mukiay this assertion by the sooner kick out unfaithful and :
;at warm peisonul r- lations with petait stewards ?nd install other
?ard ot' commissioner* and love for wilfdo then- duty, and to acco:
!<d allies have kept i>im from this we must "organize."
ing the evidence and giving an Colonel i-'oumcas, while sneer
t verdict. I thevalue of farmers' organizatioi
there is nothing bat "cheek," especially the Grange, would ye:
i and unbliisbiag, in his further theheud of that order and the pr<
on that I am "self-confessedly a of the State Agricultural Soci
ible failure in the management of menbers ex-oihcio of the board o:
<n farm," or that T an. .1 "disei?l > culiure, and that, too, notwithst)
ary George and compter of W. P. the fact that these gentlemen have
11." I have never made any such no special iituess for the position!
>ion, and have only said I did not proper conception of the real duti
mpetent to teach others, and that boird of agriculture. He poi
seventeen years' hard study I did thtse two agricultural organiz
low how to farm." It was a reali- and the inference is mat he thii
of my own errors and the errors otler is needed. Has he i'orgott<
se around me in managing our so:pe years ago they both unanii
ands that first led me to advocate pa3sed resolutions urging the I
Lai training for farmers in an agri- tare to abolish the lien, law?h
itl college, and I am more than aversion?and does he not ren
mviuced of the necessity and de- with what effect? Had either or l
ied to urge aud advocate the estab- those organizations represented ai
mt of such a school in South Caro- siderable contingent of our agric
The Aiken Kecorder is the an- oooulation; had there been fewer
r, perhaps, for ibis falsehood, but cians among them and more real,
er I have been successful at farm- farmers, there would have been
not has no connection legitimately heed paid to their wishes. But s
lie measures I have advocated, and the "farmers" who voted for the
es with poor grace from a store- ti-ss at the joint summer meeting
who dubs himself "planter," and a i^ast repealing the law in the X
oaxuu U/ wv vollctl ?150- ... ??.
nest admission of ignorance into a The example oi treachery to or
jssion of failure." cultural interests, and of indif
making of money out of land is after having obtained political
y definition of a good farmer, but ment, are so numerous in South
reservation of fertility while ob- na, that it is small wonder that
j an income from. it. Judged by accused of trying to "feather m
andard I am a failure as a farmer, nest," by acting as the agric
rcll-i'igh the entire agricultural champion. Especially has this
ition of the State are failures, been made and reiterated by tlios
ell's Senator, who has waxed fat are already "in" good places o
store by selling goods to his poor friends or relatives in them. The
: neighbois and their hands, and sation is a confession of their own
I't. o rrtvjn/) cnodMc moir lank nf it 18 fc>0 (
LIO/U JJL^ JLO at ^i.MJUV4. kj UWOO?'j Xi^uij .. . ? ? ,
say lie has no sympathy with "a stale to serve Mr. Youmans in p]
iarmer." It remains to be seen argument I can only say that if
luch sympathy they will have for into the political mill-pond" it 1
hen he seeks their suffrages again, with pure motives, and I will cor
farmers of liarmvell may be bet- with clean hands.
than the rest of us?they may be The Senator from Barnwell d
" enougn to lick the hand that vivid picture of the probable re;
' them, they have never given any "placing the Board of Agriculturt
lut they knew there was a "Farm- head of the farmers' movement
ovement" in South Carolina?but conjures up a most frightful catai
onei Youmans will accept the chul- as the probable result. "Imagin<
1 made lnrn last Uec< mber to dis- he, "such an organization pei
ie question of agricultural educa- l'he department of agriculture Coi
LI.'- i OlW UJLJUULJU9Ul?bblV-Ll aiLU lUb iOIVXUL10 ;.juuv m * *??-?. v?m v*
1 in our State Government with not in vain might these self-sac:
fure an audience of Barnwell farm- apostles enter the political mil
l don't &tart a, "Farmers' move- and go into deep water at that,
there i will ' ftiiur up." powerful ally oi Mr. Tillman, w
may sound iioU->ucal; hut. I have be-:n coquetting in a jack-in-the-b
..kii/i u! uij own honesty and with this 'political de' utante' mi;
nth in Uie justiof ot' our cause to bi elected to the United States S<
iut, prejudiced against me tiiough ihe idea is so preposterous and &
uay be, and ap .luetic as X kno* ly improbable that it produces i
to be, man}' of i,ht*ui will "fall in" of pity for the sickly imagination
they hear thy truth. i wantitdio- thus "preys upon itself." This
i understood that i make this pro- quo's ghost" could never have aj
in good laidi, but that I cannot to any one else but the Senate
n tiie pledge ail next summer or Barnwell, and the natural infer*
tuat the family of Younians have i
, Lo return i.j Colouel Yournans and a pre-emption claim to a seat
:neek." W'ii :? reason h<is ue for United States Seuate, and all tre*
3 me a "di.-- ipj. of lie ay George are warned to "ktep off the grass
jmpeer oi ?. V. xiusseli"? 1 have hardly provable that either of t.
read au\ c: George's books, nor lant one-iegged veterans who no"
L JJi'&A'M3.11} Ui UMUIiIUC.-,) jruu nr? 1*i uvwcv mic t?
A aii eoni intUi.tj' vi o?v ucibiiip in ton will be disturbed iu their pi.
1 have too much iau'i, not with- long as. they el.oo.e tolioid tiiem,
mg my ' nii.vjxv.bic laiiure as a tiiey exercise cjjiuioii pveueucer,"
and want lo .sell some, but i j tiie jariners'movement alonr.
no purpcse oi putiiog ii ai;o a] But Coiuuel Youuiau.s ;..*i n*
ton j-'ilu ior ever} botij to enjoy its j the chances of his (H>tiii-jui.siied l
act, nor do i a^ire to oiviue it j the district uiU'ttiey, byim taita
my one bui my euiklreu. , U; ine eii-bris oi the iuriuera ox
Live called things by tiicir names f Carolina to better their conditio
ot minr ed matters, iiid shall con j >ocure their rights. And the- uiti.
vo do oO. The disoutiLiaction oi' j of the business is tbft* the secret
oeopie with ^ the way our public j und ?-s now know what indu<
>viw i?ij qi j "agricu!tnmi boioxi iroiii Jb
but oniy showed, itself owmy Uv,uo is a "planter," and Keeps a
I began to irate, r.nd iuy "gao- to lead the assault in the Senate
*" abuu<. our poverty and its remedy bills proposed by the Farmers' (
s me a disciple of Henry George,- tioi. ai'tor their passage by the
I glory in tn?; title. 2soix>dy now The "true inwardness" e; Lh-j pr
tes the fact that farmers as a class dislike of "Tillman dictation"
poor and growing poorer, and a bare, and this "immaculate St
;ation of their true condition must who votes for personal aggiand:
de a^y error:: to better it. This and the family rather than the
"enervate" tltem, but i cannot see good, is "hoist by his own peiari
hat way. We do not want the can discover no harm that can c
:e to feed the farmers," but we want South Carolina by the most tl
of our money spent ty educate organization of farmers, escc]
;rsas "well' as other classes. We Captain Dawson might be electe
politicians aiau drones relieved, oi l-nilea States Senate.
ing the agricultural department. Suppose we did elect the edito
raut reduction of taxes and a re- News and Courier, what harm
lishuient of the equilibrium between follow? What has the United
ayer and tax-eater. We want the Senate got to do with the reorga:
ies left us by the .Radicals, in the of the department of agriculture
d? useless oliices, abolished, and the pose Mr. Tindal, lur. -JDohaldsc
ies ui' the others reduced in proper - Ferris, Colonel Stackhonse and;
to tie work done, who have been leading the
e purcha^inrj oi- iuoiiey is movement got a good fat ofiicc
io vLftt it was .when these salaries and became "tax-eaters" for
lixfcd. The taxpaying power of the what harm would follow? Ccici
le is about one-third less. It takes mans did not pau^e to picture 1
: bales of cotton to pay what taxes thai; would iiievitably result; he
then paid, and if the storekeeper mention the wailing among th
"planter'* whu represents Barnwell herited members of the royal
.e'Senate doesn't leei it, we larmers whose places would be usu:
md we are not "lifting ourselves these plebeian "fanners."
tlie fence by our boot-straps" in imagination only sees that some
mding a change. "VYe ?;.q pour and named Youmans is to go to the
to stint, and v?e want no bosses in States Senate, and his mind is i
deloth and hne linen to fare sumptu- ?Brutus was not more determin
p every day and patronize the "Co- he slew Cxsar?and he votes to}
jia, Ulub" to kul time, while clerks, the bill "with such emphasis an<
se places can be tilled at one-halt the delight that it created a ripple c
eorgia, ter all over the Senate." Actuated by I the la
00.000, these liighly patriotic and virtuous mo- . ~
being tives witli what a magnanimous air he * . a .. C<r'-,en, ,t
was in poses at the champion of injured inno- H^m^ir?.' C<
vernor cence and refuses to "slap our efficient r, ' ,
1, the and patriotic board of agriculture in the , - was e?Jr - ,e.'eu
"sick face. How blind he is to their short- beaming to shire
th has comings and those of the commissioner. ^nt^m_eu5ana ^?me
rears? He fails to point out in'what way we *; eu jL^or" we
DO, 000, farmers are benefitted. He does-not ^I'P01, jue aoor
They show where the $170,000 thev have spent ^?d P?1^ open.
33,500. has gone, and he cannot show any ev.denfy just stlrti
i a rl anna to vpcnlf nf its expenditure. He 0,5t \ _
places, rehearses the old story of an agricultural . A51 7ou.
ien we college and constitutional convention ^, 7 i ' a,
rce are costing 3300,000, just because be saw it ??. .'<? *n,
."But, in the News and Courier. /-bo am I, bear
me tax Tbe old story about the "little fellows mi^ ',.ear'
Lot one at ibe Globe Hotel" and tbe Sbeppard- , .e, , sse, ~.er
5 leav- Dawson-Tillman combination bas served f irougn tbe doc
alone, its uses and oniv acts as padding for h'm her e^'es 1
f,.v Colonel Youmans's lenetbv screed. It asaiDj
corn, I put the "pea under the~wrong thimble" ? ? ,
This at the August Convention, and those - ", ' " '
live on who benefited by it are welcome to their /... , ' iinuch
victory. Had I been the politician I am <***?'>.U
optrol- charged with being I v,-ould have re- k. c u.' > ;f.i
"only muined away from the State Convention ' "~ ?
ms, it and esj. jused no man's candidacy. But -' r
? Leg- I wiH Ly for the benefit of thos? farmili>ront_
ers who were bamboozled by it last ?. . ., f-, ti
izatl^r 4<>miw wanted saidanoth
er our on anybody, that I have since been tolu" ,
by a feader and manager of the "King" !'tL
-* - i-iiu-u. ?iSt ?tw i , it , The tvoman tame
II(J 1/ a IJCLi. uy iio. VUUiuviui UUMV , --.?.. __ ??
le, but was a lie, but that they worked it for all ,r]
that it it was worth," and that when that failed t ?
curing to stampede a farmer delegation they ' J* ,, 7- j
ght to would ask tauntingly, "How has Tillman bnSS
[jond," ordered you to vote?" and the poor TTic tfri?ro +1
Colonel greenhorns, resenting this imputation ,, . 7.
,f the upon their independence, would come -<>rth picking i;
iue to over or be more than ever resolved not setting up lir
>ecome to be led by''Tillman dictation." Iam J|" -illc
re not glad to know we farmers are getting 7-' , , , 0Ter. (
? - K?- - 4.^0^1 the lights beginning
xt} iu auy tne nam m tne
ranees, politicians, ana no such "tmmbie-ng- ? , ,.
rs it. gmg wiii answer next time. 6 , f.
W. J? I*t the farmers of the State who sym- ^ An.?b<mt hJO.TO
fellows pathize with progress, economy and re- ^ ' J L. click$c
.e that trenciiment, and are "disciples of Henry f, , t\?
oru to. George," perfect their .Laaizatioo* * $??? J** of th
ise we and keep up the touch of eiSows. Let ? lbc S fl?rof.
'c will us have a full representation from every m'J!: SP? ,e )Vli'
incom- county at the meeting of the Farmer? ? ?? ?ooa. the TOr
s who Association next .Noveaber, and arrange Borneo t emwei
mnlish our p,ans for the nest year's campa.gn.
ilien if the oligarchy still refuses our ~~~? "r~, ~V,
ing at demands we can be prepared to pi: or- ;re.a io,"
js, and gunization against organization, and ,e ?a*
t keep honesty against ciiicanery and "thimble- _L' 1
jsident rigging," und see what effect will follow. fc^Vfs 33e room-etv
as i think we nut only con "reorganize the Lottie, 31enson; wh;
? agri- South," but the State Government, too. rofe J210,11 kughed.
andin" x^e ljSnts 1116 J
shown 3ioi;>; j:aoit cojl. kiox. awhile, the noises o]
in(i no aud less. The men
e3 0f a a Fur.TB ?b statement. oftener and passed 1
nts to ^on> ~M1-. of Winnsboro, son of from hand to hand,
ations ! '.te James 11. Rion, has sent the ioi- ing tired. He was :
iks no ^O.wiuo nole tpMr. .X. G. Genzales of Ihe had been when he fc
in that '^f? a'ld Courier: type, and the smell
** p^cntioued yestcrcuiy, wc did not to him as lie wortcc
liuuoij (jeSjre puoiieity given to my tamer s strange more weary.
iCgisia- story, und upon second thought, and alter j^e i0E,4d for on<
as pet consultation with the lamily here aud some ljelp hinT out " "t
vvth^f -ll? Vtlllcl I.tbink li beat not to a lad near hin:
? ?? } .* f<* f P0M? "? ? Wan to taste the II
.j con- ler whieh shou:<l have been, in the erst ia- ;? , ; , 1(1)
ultural stance, one ot secrecy as tar as they were ^ , ,
Tjoiiti- concerned. Therefore, you will excuse me age; I wantea to be
honest from furnishing the data I promised you.
more However, the many inaccuracies and an* ' .. . e hours went
ome of achronisms in the true statemcct made by Clicked louder and
resolu- my ful^er' taken together with his actions street grew less and
voted llD^ incoherencies, plainly show thai he "Here, IvIensoE,'7
' , was under the iniiueuce of morphine and across the room, "h
J ? " not in his right mind when he made it. best French brand
!T Hmucc, 1 think no importance or weight know vou are sick t
[ . can be given this wandering of an excitcd good."
tcrence i>rai11> except that the siaiement was made. "J don't feel exa
prefer- -True, as 1 told you, there are evidences s .jzjDg ^ bottle es
L/aron- ihat he hiniseil beiieved that he was the 0r.}y ^ste it "
I am sou of the Dauphin, but, as far as proofs xhe fumes of t
y own are concerned, mat he was in reality such a maddening hin
Olturai person, mere are none. ur. it. n. iiucu- r, ,
charge hah. the attending physician, at the time crying out to b
ie "who of the statement and the foJlowing morn- eagerly as he hat)
r have iug, expressed it as liis opimon thaf Fattier " rT, F S0.0'1 or?
: accu- was under the influence of morphine. bacK the bottle,
selfish "The article 'Blood of the Bourbons,' as The man winked
)ld and yesterday printed, is in nearly ail pariicu- he went back to his
ace of *:irs erroneous, and as far ;is a publication Menson worked <
i <<rr0 by the family is concerned, that is simply he said to himself, 1
rill be ridiculous. You can deny the truth of the him good; and afte:
' statement as published, upon my authority, for another drink.
and also s-late thai. Father was under the in- The man gave i
fluence of morphine when the strange story eagerly as before. j
raws a was told l)V Further than tKis, you j^y times by tile '
Iwyuld a? f^mily and myself a favor by set up and tiie men
.at the publishing nothing. If, however, any- to ieave. It.wasea
W, C0UMf lr?mtUe Jrour paper the noises of that ec
.trophe suall haye the preretenca beginning to I
i, says col. r.io> s s.ntff-box. ,r = J;
'fected. A correspondent ol the Szvrberry Herald -e^son wen^ ,
lverted and Sews, in the last issue of tliat paper, ^ Cv ?
- i ... . ... . I- his hat. but he a
Then says taut just ueiore me ureaiuug uui ui . _
ritieing our war a highly-educated Swede, named vv"ere "e bad put it
l-pond, Hainmerskuld, settled in Lincolntoy, X. t He stood holding
What ? ? t0 cug;igc in the iron business; that cnair, vaguely, w
ho ?i^ abandoning nis business to enter cue Con- should do about it,
f>x wav federate army, he became impoverished, had given Lira the 1
^ht no*t Iliiul l~?, v,:ir> ^ onier io raise 'Hello, Menson,'
mate?" i inoIJCJ' hesoid a valuablediamond-studded look as though you
0 utt-ei- ! snnil-box, .>u:d to have been a gift of leader. Too late no
1 smilp ' tne '^' U= 01 ^Ac"^ea'10 (-0'- Li- Cbilds, Jlenson endeavored
which 01 columula' vvb,; subsequently presented dilemma.
"Bab- i;wC;"-Kl0?- itecurnspuudeutUiinss -.'Where'sjonrcc
meSSl ? *> ;,)nd md ^ ,
'Pedrea i lie is collect. 1 lie suuli box ueurs tne , -~ T i >>
r from i klw 0., mikI ? cr?.vu m... O-aauaxU. it b'f? f ^ ..
?nce is | has not Uie urleuus tnouogram. i'tie in! . . . 1 -nere it }S3 1
entered j t:.il is probabiy tnat of Uscar L, King of 1-Luerw I01
in the | ^wtuei. aua .N^rvvaj, Ooru died iboU. tne boys have all gc
passers j Co! Ki.?n's uimh fcuew the hi>iory ot inig l^ey went over '
>." Jt is j ii'ult f'-x. ami ma l'eicreiice io u, a<r tt proof was just coming u'
lie gai- | yji ieaas ue->Ct nt, tLey considered an down below thf>rv~, ^
/ rMtiru. I cviciciictj ill it ilC WUS Uuci^i' ilio llitiUi^LICC (>t | ODpfLO^ &ud Jit OIK
,<siifn?? | morpuiuc * ucu iic- m .Uc ii s d> iu^iicd^. stamp, stamp*, as et
aces as ! Ll"11 r-A'".V fe?sh ^ <3an
.-buuld i iio-Kt; ABot L TitK s.%u^-ses, ^'Oome on then,
iAtid. let i 1 iielil.fciiiMU o! 1 ! iiii Hi.-. Culilpauioi). tUj j
* iVl'XO^;* ".Vi'JL tiiC. ?talCiiiCUt C?>U* 3(5 illlP Oil,
f v?.'ir i i. :: t . eis>K<'l?i, vmiw ;S> .-;Ud lu tne OtllOl
i nu/e ?(. ! i i<??,<?! L P. CuuiSs ihu diamond The eievato? beg
)1 Jil-'Ci j .. I 1 J. J ?
i-niiit i)i>x u!r-viy :n-.-?n-'uei! iu t-apers: sl>ait- ,v?enson lo
*?joiru ' r>:\o;-i sviUr: Isrst hi Cli>i-ie?uu>. dwr.
un ar*i 1 u"c*r'-' Ui' Ui? accvuipiisiiwl were "Here's place/' 1
- Ti * 1'I'? r?rcipietiis?.?l m;i' U ia asocial toward it.
part j , .y jlwi.-iif i>ceu ao nute. companion
ls v. leu arcuiiKet of tiie^taie came off in, his bar
ted ibe j jiouse, bu> : place o^iujj to !ii> b^td wiidly iookincr at v.
Iflmwell ! i W V. If.. in {timicr . * v .
store,) dK^in^circuuWa^. " ^w mm, someway
on tlie lu ,G ii-miti"i<-r>koju, ituanciaiiy ruinetl. e gtcao caxly
Jonven left to ^asiivihc, whore "V"v ,^-s crowcied j
H?%ucc. . ii<- <in<i I.". Is i??. it cerium, there- niorniiig:
etended { fore, that s > mueh or the &tory as states "^e regret to ve
is laid . tuat the s:j'i;r box was s >i<4 to Coi. Child* building oi ilie
inator," j !>S Usir.iijierskuid the war is erruae- it said, "which. res'
izement! ous- Chiids must have become iu one ol cur oldest a
*oablic i P'-'Ssessio of it sooner, or have goueu it ployes.
3.*" ile ' *roin somebodp o her than nimmerskoid. "At .'>.30 this
ome to i Coiumit u Utoprinters were leavi
lorongh * **- ?* ? - being at the time i
pt that! Joxbs says: "If I wanted to get state, owing to 1
d to the i good square judgment on something I brandy for a slight
! bad done, I would rather go to a news- off tho elevator slu
n- -* i-V i .
r of the i paper oliiee for it tban any other court otiimg zo cue oas<
1 would j of justice. I know that they probe into stoutly killed. Hi
[ States men's cbapictcr, aud : he pure need not attempted to save
aization le..r ait. tiie presses in Amorica. The to find h;s oiiip.ty <
2 Sup- way to bo safe from so-called newspaper "-ilen.'Kxa wasun
>n, Mr. | attacks i-:- to a Christian. The reporters i enemy but him.
all of us i are the best detective force in the whole ! /"'He leaves a wil
farmers' i country, They hav- brought more crim- j fho were depende
: apiece i i^als to justice and punctured more ' po^* .?lv*UiI!a. 5
a timo4 j sLams ihan all other agencies combined." ! Signal.
ac-l Sou- ]> all eepoets be trae, the most re- _ ~
ihe ruin markable woman we have ever heard of '
'^,2? rf^ay^eain5ucmgtom?,ui>.ty, Va. j Mr. Editor. IaE
biie ,0 ;;earf oJ age. and was I ;e<> fio many times
? *?ver ?novrn m ail her long life to be out: things for the live
SM S umi!er .?r a CroSf rd" Her ! that have done us
? 1in* j ' ^ao 17eu ^h her for fifty-j j feel it due vour
! one not I fivp VftftT* fnT ^ frntMlllnftW ! or, lirvnecf or
United; zi the above. What a happy roan he j>r. Harter's Iro]
nade up | must have been! The Lynchburg Ad- Yours truly, A
ed when i vance remarks that if the world were only ? ??
postpone ! half full of such women, what a glorious A. tire in Raltim
1 evident world this would be. People, too, would destroyed propert;
if laugh-1 live longer and die happier. eluding the candy
ST ITEM. EMOMSED FOR CEXTl'KIES.
> One Who '*\Vas Uni- Five Mummified Bodies Found in a tavern
iving No Enemy But Eighty Feet Below the Surface.
mfT The larrms were A Paul telegram says: Parties from
^ 15,(1 Lands, in Dakota, arrived in St.
1 i (!?;t i Paul vesterdajT wHh five mummies, which
q wno had tmishec. u-erc Vouud by a prospector in a cavern in
re hurrying home f t]ie si.de of the mountain. "\Yilliam Allen,
?- a nea^ "ttle home vvhile sinking a shaft uc^r Buffalo Gap,
A man was near it. .t3rj when 20 feet from tie top, felt the
ng out to begin his earth give way beneath hin , and his tools .
dropped out of sight. Hastily ascending,
have to go back to by means of a rope from the windlass, he
fe was saying. She procured a longer rope -id again descendabled.
eel, going down about SO feet, and landing
lswered. "but never in a cavern 20 feet square.
j it won't be long." He was horrified to see huddled in one
he spoke and went corner the bodies of five persons?a man, a
>r She looked after "*?nwn and three children. They were
nil o" tears " fi he shrivelied to less than half the usual size of
" she said', "oh,"if he h,umac1 l*ia"s< thc dri?l-up !lesh
' them the appearance of mummies. The
j. n bair was still on their heads and the finsrer
a tall, slender girl I1:iils were perfect, but very long. On?he
me and tell me "*\ a >ide of tiie c-ave were some strange hiero>r
lathers suppers, J glyph ics and marks as though the inmates
emuroidenng 1hem hud tried to dig themselves out, and, fail
liiay isn t very iar ua, I:w iri -^is, iejt tj10 story of ttieir late.
The theory of 3Ir. Allen is that the fami5
going to clab to- ly took refuse io the cave hundreds of
that new book he years ago and that a land slide from the
er girl, evidently her mountain sealed the mouth, leaving the
m speak of it and we imprisoned persons to die a horrible death
by starvation.. It was near this place that
d and went into the Uie immense lower jaw of a mastodon was
door< discovered and sent to the - Smithsonian Indown
the street and fcthution.
agaged at his ease, , ? 71,,, * "
. , , , A D/eadful Earthquake.
iest story of a tall
? , , . The cable announces that two shocks of
7 J . r^ld. ^ \7.*
j'dci. siiu xuttii, ua.\^ix earuiquasc ivere iun, m n_c uu ?r cuuwip
the bits of black tiay morning. Houses rocked,walis cracked
te after Jine of what and in some instances frail houses were
id appeocin the great thrown to the ground. The wildest alarm
5 city he could see prevailed among the inhabitants, who *
; to shine, and grjfdu- rushed distractedly fro^i their dwellings,
streets below him The first shock lasted'lo seconds and the
last 12 seconds?the movement being from
:e men working away w"eSt t0 east- At Samona the shock was
,f metal. He" could ver-y. severe, and 11 persons were killed,
lick, as they went on ^:r ?f. Gecoa, 15 person's
e work Were kllled- At Onegha 6 were killed and
Sow and then one of }? injure(L At. lhe neighboring town of
Diano scores of people were killed and
> generajiv }iUU{ir(.,js wounded. Jb'uliy one-tiura ot
K- . . the town was destroyed.
at to their coats oc- IJome. February 24.?Details have beea
y hung on the wall received this morning of the results of the
ties in the pockets, earthquakes yesterday, showing that the
ife silent worker be- effects are far more serious than was
>ok his head. though!;. The loss of life and destruction
i gay young fellow of propertp is learned to have been terrible.
::you given up the The most startling news comes from the
at will happen next?" Genoese Riviera. Over 1,500 people were
iuiieJ ia that district. At the village of
Louses died out after ' ^ajaroo, situated at the top of a fill, a
o the street crew less ?' ioeabitaiits took refuge in a
weot to their bottles utu Ule ,*>?*? :bem
back and forth ^ucat aad greater shock demolVr
u v ijhed ;he churcn, aud 3u0 of the people
j-Ienscn was gro w- who were in it were killed. The aestruc
aot as young as ae tjon 0f property in the section of Italy visegan
to worK at the ;:ets earthquakes was immense and
of the liquor canift widespread.
L and grew more- and Reports of the disaster continue to arrive.
Tiie total number of deaths reported
; taste, just cue, 'Ho up to the present time is about 2,000.
0 rest him." Yet. Sliocks were felt at Purraa, Turin and Cor1
took the bottle and oneza. Undulations of the earth were noquor
he touched his need at Catania, in Sicily, at the foot of
l't, I began at vonr Mount -Etna. The director of the Turin
smart* don't bp^'n " observatory telegraphs that seismic instru
,SZ" ? mei.ts.ae now quiLcent and that no fnrby
and the presses t:ien disturbance is feared.
the noises on the N."-0J^rl eartnquake shock was felt in
lec.s .Nice Friday morning. The disturoance
c?;a n was slight.- Dispatches from Home give
^ the following official list of the killed and
.eru is. sujiic ui _ tuc mounded: iiajordo. :;uu killed and woundy.
_ Just taste it; I e(j; j_>iano Marina, 250 killed and injured;
o-mght; it'll co jou Brossano, 50 killed and 3G injured; Diano
Css&H, 30 killed; Casteliano. 30 killed and
ctij wel],:: he said, manj' injured. The number of persons ?
tgerly, taste it, killed is iess than was supposed. It is esti"
. mated that in the province of Porto Maube
liquor liad been rizio 570 were killed and 156 injured. In
t, liis old thirst had the province of Genoa 3i were killed and
esatisfitd. He drunk 37 injured. Bagourda and Diana Marina
[ seized it. were the only places destroyed. Cervo"
mdv " he said <nvin<* was only partially damaged; A: Bajardo,
? Caslellaro and Aurigo the churches were
slyly at the others as tbrown down by the shock.
case- Conflicting Testimony.
Dn. Ke felt better,
:he brandy had done "What I want to know is, who struck
r a while he a^ked tbe first blow?" said an Austin insfcfoA tn
Jim Webster, who was tlie principal
t and^ he drank as witness in an assault and battery case.
Be had drank a good ''Uncle Ike, dah, he hit de fust lick,"
time the last line was replied Jim.
were making readv "Are you positive Uncle Ike struck
rly morning now and the first blow?"
irly time in the city i 'Ob course I is. Didn't I see him
>e heard. ' _ reach oat and hit the fust lick, but bow
?et his coat, but he many licks he hit before dat fust one or
rhen he looked for how many licks de udder niggah. hit him
ould not remember fust am more den I'se wilLin' to swar
ter."?Texas Siftings.
on to the back of a a ?
'Oncieiing wnat he Circumstantial Evidence.
__ 1 Li - 1
viien xne man wno
Drandy come' up. Judge to prisoner?You have been
' lie called out, "you here before, I think?
were getting up a Prisoner?Yes; sah.
w for that, come on/' ' 'What was the charge?
I to let him know his "Same as dis one, stealin' chickens."
"And you were convicted, too, I re>at?"
he said; he was member now."
"where's your coat? "Yes, jedge, I was foun' guilty, but it
wasn't my fault. I was convicted on
c'i me help you on circumstantial ebbidence."
t are, come on now. "How so?"
>ue and left us," "A mail saw me takin' de chickens an'
to the elevator. It he swore to de circumstances."?Texas
p thp shaft. Away Sittings.
;ney could heir the ? ?
5 r^da ihe presses, A Craving for Girls.
IV JUJ- \?I.UJS?7VVt | ?
ap from their jaws. Keith county's craving need just now
now my boj,:> called is girls?woo-able girls. The valleys,
AioD'oii hesitated, canyons and hilltops echo the mournful
one bewildered acd cry oi lonely homesteaders, and hun:
hilarious and loud, dreds oi outstretched arms and longing
an to move down the eyes-mutely appeal to the east for sucoked
up and saw a cor. Good, strong, bangless girls are
wanted, and they can't come too soon
le said stepping out or two frequently. It is related that a
party of theatrical barnstormers recently
caught his coat. It stopped over night in tiie county. Three
id, and as he stood of the stars "were eligible and the country
he heard, down be- ooys captured and married them, which,
g fall heavily. broke up the troupe.?Omaha Bee.
had a little item, a
into its columns that
?Susmus Anderson.^ a Norwegian
late a sad accident at naturalized cit'zen oi Wisconsin, sent as
Morning Chronicle','" oar ^hii^ter to Denmark, scandalizes
ulted in the death of ?oart circies of Copenhagen by hvud
most popular em- *u * garret
?3 -<-<
morning when the ?Bishop Taylor's Congo steamer will
ng, (>. W, Alcnbon, be hghted by electricity, and will carry
in a rather confused a saw mill on board. Hose to squirt hot
taving taken a little .Tate/ on obstreperous natives is to be
indisposition, stepped coiled conveniently* on deck.
i e i! ^
Lit as me ioun.ii story,
ament and b^mg in- Xee ee?okt of tlie Director of the
s terrified companion -^firiT s]_.0?i-s a mai-iied increase in the prohiru'_
but/was liomlieu juctjor. 0f the precious metals for the
joat .e:t in his uund. vear ^SSG over that of 1SS5. The gold
iversally liked, having output incroaseti from $31,800,000 to
seii- ' , . . ?35,000,000 and the silver production
:e and tnrco daugnters '{vQm ^vyS00;000 to $49,895,930. The
nt upon mm. ior sup- output of the two metals is 885,Lamman,
m Iniou "or more than five millions
m. greater than, tiie production of any forlacts
Known. ^er Jear the history of the country.
The gratifying increase in the gold proid
neighbors have been duct is due chiefly to improved methods
into buying different of mining in California and to the develr,
kidneys and blood, cpment -of the newly-discovered gold
more harm than good, fields of Alaska. There are evidently
readers to advise them great possibilities involved in the fuld
good medicine like ture expansion oi the gold discova
Tonic can be had. ^ries in our late iceberg purchase. The
lX Old SmscElBEii. * import and export accounts of gold for
i ? the year just about balance themselves,.
ore on Friday morning leaving us with so much of the year's
v worth S2W.000?in generous production 10 add to our stock
factory of Darby & Co. as has not been consumed in the arts*
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