The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, April 13, 1887, Image 1
VOL. XLIIi. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AP.RIL 13, 1887. NO. 37.
* TIMELY TOPICS FOR FARMERS. lightly, but
I grass tii-.-ct
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HOW TO DO PAYING V.OKM AX THIS 1;.CVer ei;*cr
[- SKA SON. gives a good
L * on each side
B> . next woikini
Suggestions 01 Inters
t;?tive Sourco. i-'-u!;Cv4
WW to;ore giver
(W. L. Jo e- in :h, i r. <Ja tlv .t r.) crop witli o?
The farmer's campaign Is no^' fairly miiicts or sc
begun. His plans have keen ere this
folly matured. To execute lb em is now ^Ui(
the matter of supreme importance. How earlier. Its
SB often failure comes just at this point! widely auve
Men who can tell you just Low a thing value them x
should be dune irequentlv hck the f 9 "rs
?. . , for stock fc
capacity to do it t :.eut:elvcs or nave thm corn, w
others do it under their direction. Tee Because taej,
thing called "executive power," how ^niake
far-reaching and important in every *
i ,, ,* upon turn u:
avocation! now lnuispensaoxe to tne L t.v : L: v
farmer! He must manage laborers, turingstrain
stock, machines, manures, soils, crops of common co
I ^ various kinds; he must iigut cohi, heat, more certain
storms, rains, floods, drought, insects, the conditio:
blights, rusts, mildews and. blasts. A a dry tv: s-?>
OTMk mfflv /Hstin/rf. ihiT'jr.-: nrn^t bfimadf com on I.?0tti
^ to K'ork together for a giwn cad. Kow ^nds, bat cj
multifarious the operation s which finally kaiiir corn 02
k tenxunate in a bale of cottcyi or a bushel R'ho have ne
. of corn! And yet ire are told that any man i -?J, its
can be a farmer. Yes, any one c:-.n put ordinarj sor<
P" seeds in the ground, any one ca !
j grass, any one can walk behind a plow? liaising su
' but is that all? When to plant. Low to most and mo
plant, "what to plant; wh- ,1 to plow, Low to tL-: cotton
to plow. What breadth of knowledge, tympt irnpro
-what discriminaiir-g judgment do th-.^e tins iurra 1.^ 1
^ demand! Let the youths who lack these will certainly
qualities go to the cities; the country j >he exoerttr
lias no place lor theiu. <-nv
But to matters now directly in hand. where } o
The planting of the cotton crvr> con- supplies at
fronts us?shall it be early or late? Partners, ilit
Opinions diil'er. Where experience fails -hey do not
to decide we can only appeal to general run them,
principles. It is quite certain that plan's cr0P winch ^
^ - have some degree ox plasticity?tb&? the provision
^ they are modi Lied to some extent by aiiiio maize >
climatic conditions. Se a of early c~-rn graia-produc
from the North, planted in tic South for extolled
several years, without -.i i-vsh impor'.a- -Ot prize ti:c
tion, acquires a later habit oi maturing. sovn in
How is this? The plant cannot be ei>u-! forage plant
~- *?' , 1 j?rr?::- riv -Ih-i
CU Ui irtO ^ . v. - -j
enables it to anticipate Li ; greater len-rh j a-iV other c;
of our seasons and regulate its growth uiged upon t
accordingly; and vtt it behaves just as 1 short of iora;
if it bad such, intelligence. Again, our | a good bread
native corn, planted very early i?. the i tins month.
spring, tends to produce smaller stalks ' time frum Aj
j but larger ears than that glanced late in sowings arc t
the season. 3iay not a similar tendency ' pt to succee
develop in early-planted cotton? The tnorouglily b
k cold of early spring chiiis this tropical iags and liar.
plant and threatens its destruction. - t apart to
? Threat of extermination alwavs tpiiekvns ! i-ght; sow se
the reproductive processes in ph. as.? i"- ^ two ti
The little cockle-burr which comes uv: -vhen uj> col'
late in summer, even though it uo^s : - .?oruge
grow more than six ineLs.3 high, v' teiekly to m;
k.. have a bloom and mature a seed. In the ; Ox course ve
tropics cotton grows almost-into a tr.-e, ; c-.omiuie, batbut
product s little unit; in temper.. Lv pportuni^y i
zones it is dwarfed in size, but ificrtased : -aoronghiy, 1
in fruitfulness. May it jloo be tiut tLe; ;t *i.i be Ui-st
a chiLing it gets in early spring preuis- i i^c.
\PO-~es it to frnitfalneshV It t t r- ~:,.cU5 o.
^^Mgoj^^foung plants very soon lire tfco st;- le ; _ n iitt
they are to keep up during 1 ?bcul-i no c b<
Eg bfc it tfergrejagjyiiia
^RSSCX"si&?'"tr~y slxiii to strive Anomer v
PF out to the end.
Bnrindividual experience Las been in monca, is u<_
r favor of early-planted cotton. It does ceedingly st
" not grow off quire as well, and is conse- stronger peri
quently somewhat harder to won-;, but j exception be
fruits better, opens early and can be peavmes. V>
housed and sold. early in the season, j m some_resp<
Then, again, early planting is more apt j food. It cali
N to bring good stands, ior there is then | grows weil 02
usually enough moisture in the soil to ; -nd properly
BP?. still bring the plants up; later is is apt to j cotton seed n
r be too dry. After trying "planters" and ! or composts
other modem modes of planting cotton, j should be pr<
we have gone back to the old-time; for drilledjpo
method of covering seed with a good list; sown on an a
by a double-foot plow and either knock-! rowed 111 au
ing off with a board or leveling do'.vn j seeds, which
" ?- 1 ("'-u? - -1" !.l iw l iil
^ WILLI it iiiti 1U Vv. SCCU. ?Ui iiV/t -W30m?
up through a thick covering c: in. It insttr<
earth, but they will sprout and get more certain
ready to come up when thus covered, j Hemember t
and will appear above the suriace; oe cut promj.
promptly when the superfluous dirt is | P-ar, the set
removed by board or harrow. Btur in quickly after
mind, this knocking oiT or harrowing is ; and it is not
Lnot labor lost; it is really equivalent to mature. I'h
a first working. For two years we have are not pioo<
tried the broadcast harrowing of cotton i in stomach a:
, with a smoothing harrow. It was done j through unai
L the hrst time just as the cotton began to j extreme ease
^ come up. The harrow was ruu obliquely ! cut aud cure;
'across the rows. About a week later it j high esteem;
- *- ?- -L- ~T ? * - + - i Artvn rnr
was run again ixngics co uuau . v*v,^.^ aw*
kit may be run squarely across the ro^s, | Increased:
but never up and down iheiu, for in tLe j of kte'in. tiie
latter case it would almost certainly m-; of the introd
jure the stand. Where the land was: "Spanish."
clean and free from obstructions, tLe or history, u'
work was very satisfactory; ev-~n where very excciiei
r " land was not perfectly clean, the stand v.eil, and c
was not much injured, Ii no rain has main root, m
fallen since the soil was stirred by the <<uite easy,
plow, the harrow tends to rem too deep; rather sandy
where the soil is crusted it works hneiy. the groundp
If one does not use a harrow the; juuct to the
scrape should be started jast as soon as Scarcely any
the first, cotton makes its appearance, pork, and a
Kg - The wing nest the cotton should be set disposed to r
6 ' - nerfectlv flat and the cotton sided so formeriv wer
closely that the two furrows almost to tiieir att<
, meet." Very little dirt will be thrown on planted at 01
- ' the young cotton, and even if some is, it plant the set
will" not interfere seriously with its come up moj
' * coming no. Should* the ground be ; in a hill; rov>
1 crusted, the crust will be broken; more- two feet ia ii
> over, the grass which usually comes, up In tiuS co
< . with the cotton wili be killed. l\o thing should rccoi
contributes more to the easy, pleasant tariy varieti
-.vorking of a cotton crop than tu be-in -Vam, and the
* - plowing it early and plowing it_ often in vellow flesh
, the early stages of growth. We gener- feed. If the
qliy leave too mucn ioi me noe xo uo. 0f May, hogi
By running the plow early, properly the first c
and often the hoe-work may be greatly keptonv.cn
reduced. One thing is very clear, that' anj then tur
unless the cost oi production can be re- bv tbe e
j duced there v> ill be very little pro lit in for the knife
cotton at present prices. that farmers
^ ^ As soon as-cotton-planting is liuisheci, advantage at
early-planted corn wili be ready ior its bacon, A fc
V " ^iirst working. li planted in v.ater-iur- thing that h(
*ow manure may now be dropped neur than he c;tn
Of the hill of corn, and the first plowing meat, all tl
W will cover it up. In this case also set should ?.r: r.
the wing of the scrape nest the corn so pend esc " is:
it will run very ilat and throw only a corn-crib. <
moderate quantity of dirt into the water- clover, J- >
f furrow and about the corn, it is quite i'eed up-r ; r.
injurious to corn to dirt it heavily w hen ^oicliard:-, wi
it is young, and force it to throw out free-, aenew
roots near the surface before it is withswc
v ready to do so. Corn naturally throve
out new circles of roots at successive 0f /-re \\y v.
joints, one set above the otb-r, box not easily raised
all at once. A considerable interval ol entvi:iitime
elapses between the formation ol year to year
successive whorls of roots. Bat deep corn u^d cdirting
interferes with the course oi trusting to t
r nature ana causes new roots to iorm our "wants.
prematurely. Again, by only partially :ailed, but la
tilling the water-furrow at the iirst work- is in the seas
ing, more dirt is thrown into it at the < or the mere!
second working, and covers and smoth- are blind to
ers grass most thoroughly, dispensing ourselves an
with all hoe-work. Where corn is not thousand ex:
planted in the water-furrow we liave never the ri:
found it an excellent plan to use a twister too late, put
or turning-shovel, and starting in the prepared foi
[center of the middles bed up with bar some in groi
side next the com. The last furrow can some in G<
be run very near the corn, dirting it forage com.
enough to cover up young! the .j::ws in ;;rssiA.
iialiy if it is done early j . ~~
e contend that a hoe EeeS ! Representatives or a xersc.<-at?.?.:.a?
a Cornfield. Such siding! ArelfatedanclJSiiateuIiytliereo.
. opportunity to put manure When a Russian sees three nien
of corn to be covered at the ; gaunt faces, long priestly coats dan
?. i at their heels and a lock of hair ha:
the recommendation here- over each ear, ho say s "' More go
i to supplement the corn ment spies." ILese .Polish Jews si
lc oi' the recently introduced not be confounded wiiii the thrifty
>r"hums, as kaliir com or ox America, ihev are another cia
lvillir corn is nothing like j people. Their features, their man
n; it resembles millo maize, the cut of their hair, and the fashi<
Iwarfer habit and matures their clothing are diilerent from
tnd millo maize have been one is accustomed to ste in New"!
rtiscd as forage crops; we The m:rober of blondes among the
no re for their seed, -which siirprisingiy large. They seldom i
v.tillable as ordinary corn alone, but in companies roam the r
ed. If not more valcablc of liussia and Poland, ever tally
plant them, asks one. ever restless; watched, feared and h
r stand drought better, and and they in turn ever watching,
a crop where corn would hating, are never afraid, yet dis
It" one is forced to rely ever lurks in their finely chiseled i
uands to make, corn, he had The general opinion expressed bv
? ^ -1 * *1 T\ . T .1 T *
xcaliir corn, or an early ma- .Russians is inas wane ronsn oew:
of milio maize, rather than spies by nature, they have remar]
rii. The former is much shifts for business, and that -when or
. to produce a crop under them is so fortunate as to get a cons
..s mentioned?especially in able sum of money and embark in v
i?the latter. Plant speculations, he .speedily grows
jm lands and on frgsh rich gathers his clannish friends about
inline it to these, and plant forms a colossal combination, thr
i tliin uplands. To those which, if not prevented by oppre
rer cultivated the latter, wo or legalized conspiracy on the pa;
culture is similar to that of his jealous neighbois, he in time is
;hum?nothing peculiar cr to control the business of his neig:
n ir.# hoou. It is not until one has seen 1
41.Pz-.UwIi .Tovrc Tvn+f'ipr! tl.p.iv iitrnnrrr-l
st Important of ail problems pressive faces and studied their pec
-raiser. It is useless to at- character thai he appreciates that
veraont oi any kind until are direct descendants of the Jew
iiade self-supporting. He history, ivho for ages suffered imsj
fail if he buys provisions. able outages. The wrongs describe
ice of the last tweatv years historians arc plainly waitten in
roughly demonstrated this, faces, and as they glide noiselessly a
u wiil, the men who raise the street, with restless, Jesuitical c
homo are the prosperous tenances, one feels suspicious in spi
:ir lands are not mortgaged, himself. Many of 'hese people ar<
hr-ve to r<sk merchants to doubtedly obnoxious I have se
For tLis we stress every weary woman strang e through
-ill help the farmer to raise crowd at a railway station to get .s
he needs; kathr corn and for her little ones, when a priestly-3
strike us *as very promising iug dervish snatched the cup from
hig crops. They are geu- and drack the with manners 01 a b
as forage plants; we do Why these yellow-haired wanderer;
m highly :or ihat; ordinary ways travel in squads of three 110 on
dri;Is Las no superior as a plains. They swarm the country.
;. It one will manage it cruelties of centuries have given th
re is no occasion to hunt up ferocious, hunted look and made 1
op as a substitute. It is as brutal as animals, yet their infct
;very farmer, who is at all lifts them above their oppressors,
je, or likely to be, to sow call them "spies."
:a of laud in drilled corn ~ ?* - It
may be sown at any notes of southern ri:oci:ej
>ril to August, but the early :
he must s-atisfactor;. -most A wood working factory is t<
d. Prepare -che land very erected at Longwcod, Fla.
y repeated pickings, roil- A creamery is being erected at J.
rowings; make dri!is four v,on Station, Miss.
,.f oii? or>/l .
ed , It is reported that a box factory
:> three inches apart,' and be btuLan Jnasoiua, ,irk.
fcivate xritli sweep. Some 'ibe Presbyterians will build a :
corn should be town very 000 church at Franklin, Tenn/
&ke tiie i-takes very small. \ large brick manufactory b^
ry largo stuiks are ooje-c- j established at Darlington.
it each piaut has nos the , . , , ,
. . , - , A iarf'e tobacco lactorv is reportc
L.i aevfeiooiiis; ltstii pretty . p , , -1
h. - . ,,ue ereccea at Anoxv.'lle, lean.
cue borage will ;ucL quality; '
i-icos and not rehired by It is reported that a canning fac
n sialic ought to have v/iil oe established at Low/y, \ a.
portunity to enable it to J.*0. Cross is erecting machinery
1e nubbin, and the crop a shoe factory at Anniston, Ala.
- gathered until the little! . ^^uv ?w
" - . - j AllfVSu^ A1&} cO 1 Li-1*.v CiSS 7,OtSi
"cry Valuable ioca cro?\ , ,
>e started the List of tills i A company nas been organize
~< 11:. ~H xniilet. Xt is an ex- L}&u\iile, ^ a., to bnil(t a street raili
ro:jg, nutritions forage? i Several parties at Kingston, X.
laps than asy other, unless j contemplate establishing a starch faci
maue of clover hay and William Craig is erecting machi
has*u mav no i, equal tnese Xuoxviile, Tenn.j to manufac
?cts, ic is a oeiter balanced
is for rather ricli land, but ' . , . ,
1 poor land when manured , A.company is ocing orgaaim
prepared. Stable manure, a ^bacco factory at ClarKes^
icai, ammoniated fertilizers icnuwill
answer. The land It is reported that a canning fac
spared, as described above, is to be established at Knoxviile, T<
rn, a halx bushel of seed soon.
ere and ver> iightiy nar- \ company will probably be foi
.d then relied. All stnali uf Chattanooga, Tcnn., to manufac
must be slanted s nallow, ? patent lamp.
led ??t? tfiey are tam.?d a c Post oiheTS tere org!lI
"gSfcSta oi tkf sii: i Ua"to'
but Genn^a millet skouid ' *" ?1 - *
>tly as soon as blooms ap- It is proposed to organize a $2i
z& form and mature very stock company at Thibadaux, La., t
the bloom, unusually so, tabiish a canning factory.
desirable to let the seed The sum of ?25,000 has been rais<
sy are so small that they erect a pork packing establishmer
CLIJ UlttUWITJ'U, iu.a>J owtu j V^UJUCIUiit, XCJULU.
nd do harm, or else pass j TLe Chattanooga Paper Box Co:
gesied aiiu are lose ihe nv Chattanooga, Tenn., will ehl
with winch tills millet is fiiCfcorya^t May 1.
i idso commends it to our | > '
it has decided advantage i ifc ls sported that Mr. Madison, (
f*e in this re*\>eaf j Girardeau, Mo., will establish a fi
.T , 1 , -j ! ture factorv at .Florence, Ala.
mterest has been developed i - '
grom:dpea crop on account The Arkansas 1 ump anu Pipe (
notion of the variety termed PaQ7 ^ been incorporated at I
\v'e do not know its origin &ock, Ark., with 1). G. Jones as v
at on triil have found it a dent.
it variety. The pods fill It is reported that a company wil
luster largely around the formed at Nashville, Tenn., to esta
aking the'digging of theni pottery and terracotta works.
On suitable laiid that is Xhe Judsonia Canning and Evap
anawitiijime in tne soil, jng Company, capital stock ?2,000,
ca is a very vaiuaoie ad- .ocen incorporated at Judsonia, Ark.
J.nr>ii crnns AT ti.O krffi.
tiling is better for fattening Cannning & Son, Selma, Ala.,
s farmers are much more Purchased machinery to double
ai<e their meat than they capacity of tlieir carriage and vr.
e, we commcnd this crop -actory.
;iition also. It should be D. S. Forney and Samuel H. ]
ice; it is better to shell and berry, of "Wytheville, Virginia,
d out of the hull; they will purchased 2,300 acres of iron ore 1
:e quickly; drop at least two m Pulaski county for ?89,000.
s tnree leet apart ana bills The Central Manufacturing and
ie ro\y. ^ provement Company has been form<
nnection the sweet potato Lovely Mount, Virginia, and will
ive attention. j.lxc large, brick works and a wood working fac
S3? ^ <* * cay M Company,ca
. *i ~~'v - stock So00,000, ljas been iscorporat
, arc nssupanca as nog sirm? ^ Ala., to start a V t
i slips are put out the first . ? , ,
1 , * - tunng town aoout live miles fr..
5 may be turneu on them
if September, or earlier, oe __ T_ ^
i till the middle of October, 0- ^-ase* J* A. xJ - Ben ana 2s.
ned uryon the groundpeos, ^Jer have teased a building at Atl
nd of'November be ready Ga., and will fit it np with machi
. Si is a mistake to suppose for a soap factory. They will be kz
cannot raise their meat to as the Georgia Soap Company,
the present low prices oi _ The Bessemer Manufacturing (
inner can rai-e almost any- pany, capital stock ?25,000, has
} needs on his farm cheaper organized at Birmingham, Ala., to :
buy it. In the matter of ufacture at Bessemer, sash, doors
lat is required is that he blinds. '6. T. Brittle is President,
properly for it?not de- .v. S. Camp, Secretary and Treasur
vexy, or t-\ en larger /^ The Helena Street Hailroad Com},
^razing ^;ts. i>?, u^ia capital stock $30,000, has been orgai
son > iO* Helena, Ark.. v/ith Greenfield Q
iotstoeks of in winter, plum ^resident. P.'T. Haxsraves. seer.
:a cherries, seeuuug peucu amj j-r# Horner, treasurer.
. persimmons, c ti\, vOgcvacr c&mpaEV -viII build tlieir road at on
otatoeSj peas aii(" ground- *_ ^ ^
t a cheap, inexpensive bill
Consumption.
i which hogs can be very
fatterf<%i. v-*e are not Niiiwi^isiandiiig the great number
enough; v.o weak on from yearly succumb to this terrible and
in the same old ruts, raising disease, which is daily winding its
:rton and little else and coils around thousands who arc u
he cotton crop to supply all sci.^s of its deadly presence, Dr Pi
Year after vear we have golden Medical Discovery will cl
o?e never dies. The fault ^d puJ fy the biooci of scrofulous in
* ties, aud cure tubercular consunj
sons, or .ne ?uaB , ^ '? (wbich is only scrofulous disease oi
lants, or sometning else, ve ,ungS^_ Send* 10 cents in stamps an
tiie j.ac. TUat is cilietly m r,_ r.nrrmififfi trr-atisfi on con.
a our methods. ^ \\ e give a tjoa an(j kindred affections, with num
2us,es for our failures, _ but testimonials of cures. Address, W
;!it one. 2s ow, before it :s Dispensary Medical Association, Bu
; some of the land you had 2s. Y.
: cotton in sweet potatoes, m? m>
andpeas, some in kailir corn, Why is a secret like a bank bill*'
urman millet and some in cause after it has once left the teller c
knows how far it will travel.
general jackson's j/i?L. . beech
V.': > .Some lie:;, iu licences ol* a Notable Event ft His Letter IIe<
plo. E<i?g Time A^o. >I:r:
vyjti. In tbe current number of the South- (i'r.-m tt
c-rn Bivouac there is an account of the When Oscar
r.-giug duel between General Jackson and to Turkey. tt:
vera* Charles Dickenson, derived from the olfico by' his
lould 'ate General \V. G. Harding, of 2sash- }3eeeher* a war
.7e?.\s viUe, which diners'somewhat from the ^rot^ the folio
vf accepted story. General Harding said liar letter. It
ners, ^bai the duel grow out of a quarrel on any words otht
ibft race-foiftii l^i'vvw.n Jackson an-.i sarins bim
whr.t Joseph i-rviL. Dickenson^s father-in-law. vanced positio
tori:, Dickenson took nj. the quarrel an J the pustor:
ni is duel followed. The other account of "Bkooxlv
ravel fhe affair narrates that in 3S(X> Jackson ^
jiains became involved in u quarrel at the racekir!"-.
track with a Mr. s-vunn, una he found '-'D:'.ak Ms. ]
ited: Dickenson's liaae ouensively introduced best citizens ar
ever i into the letters written by S'.tann. Disk- poiniaaent of C
itrust enson had previously made disparaging to Turkey. 0
aces, remarks about Mrs. Jackson and the geuerai consen
the General had remonstrated ' with Mr. an- attainme
s are Ervin about Dickenson's speeches, say- "a*u? i am in
Icable icg that he visaed no quarrel with ihe ity?^lo^Tct tH
ie 0f latter," who was used by Jackson's bitte/
iider- enemies in Nasiiviiie. S w^nn's letters, tains^iu many j
rheat however, renewed the feeling between to receive any c
ricli General Jackson and Dickenson and re- ^ is because he
him', suited in the l'at;;i duel. urge his appoii
ougli Jackson in a conversation with Sard- tioa of tJiis rem
ssion declared that he was frightened becoming large
ft of v>hen he went on the field with Dickon- can-prosperity
able -sori* "I knew lino," said Old Hickory, morality and la
ibor- "'to be a cool, brave, determined man, lie-measures foi
these *ke best shot I ever saw, and I never deserve and s
v ,-.t. expected to leave the field alive. I owe hands of . our
idiar ra.v io the fashion of the day?the recognition. Jthey
full-breasted coat. This and tho peculiar fortkin this qu
's of conformation of my much-sunken chest the genius of
>eak- were all that saved me. Dickenson's which has unde
l(i bullet struck what appeared to be the P*e of all civil:
their centre of my boJ.y under the right ami treats them wit]
Jong an(l the ball grazed my breast-bone. I ligioas or race ]
oiu? had gone upon the field determined not citizens? We s
fe 0f to lire at Dickenson, but to discharge Germans to Ga
j un- my pistol in the air, having ro ground because he is
en a quarrel with him and not wishing to should wc not
the hurt a hair of his head. My quarrel was mony to the g<
vater his father-in-law, Ervin; but when sending a He
,ook- 1 felt myself shot, under the impression ignorance and s
jvi- that I had received a mortal wo and and Europe may ac<
east. ! smarting under this belief and the phys- <>f that dark age
s ai. icai pain, i lired the fatal shot, and no in our day can 1
e ex- ^ oi my life have I ever regretted so imagine." Chri:
The much. the bosom of Ji
em a *'Under the conditions of the meeting the Old Testam
:hem ^ a right to reserve the fire, be- selves gone t<
'licet cause I knew that Dickenson eould.shoot Christianity is
who 20 much more quickly than I could. It and it would se<
has been asserted in the public prints," to turn against
said Old'Hickory, "chat I advanced on grown. H:
Dickenson to deliver my shot and that ?
he gave back, both of which statements T,ie Co
3 be false, sir. I stood in my place when ? ..
I fired and Dickenson remained in his, . :,ew iclr
i.-u? ^ i i its weekiyrevie
r.,/1; receiving jjuv suuu uac a uuui, urnivc . tatii.
9 J ,, ' monts, savs Uu
man, as lie was. t* > .^77
General Hardiug said tliat at this sarae :}? ? ,
will interview, which was tiie iast l:c ever !;
. bad with General Jackson, the latter i'J., , '
310,. saMtobim: aud. 72,9.^ ba
"Tile world is greatlv mistake1.: about eja^Hlg V^j,.
teen ?J ***??? iiugoyeruaitemper. I ***>> ^
never gave an ex muition Oi temper witn- ('JvC- ' , .
out ay judgment approved it. " i -some- ^ *
a 10 times found it n cessarv even to prevent 7^/ - 5 , >
the shedding ox blood.'' " _ - ex-DOr^ f
? ri ^ - evening reacn a
ijooiu :?. > a sriiaiveu. - which 40,815
5,602 to Franc
for The (ireat Actor I^clutt-s .*va Incident from of 4fc? COHtinC
His kuble Career. c-r,v-tinerAst) por
tted- rTrom the >< n Kranerrgi'Q I'iir-oi?i< IcJ j ?Ibftl<
? i \>*? r l,v. \i . I 13 <\ -rn rxcrf i-t^t^Tnrr c ttr 'vTsfz ?.
cl at timid man about society. He is the | sight Friday nij
cad. only actor I ever met who is embarrassed pared with the f
q at a compliment. ilost actors," when crease of 119,05
lory! Jpu tell them. how well they do, imme- correspond
' ^ ' diately proceed to explain to you that decrease, of* IS'
?lCr^ they are really greater actors than you v.ithl8S-JL
e think they are. Mr. Booth seems to be ^he old inter;
possessed by the unique conviction that faring the week
1 to j Shakespeare meant what he wrote, and the same period
rille, one of his main droacls is of the man the same tow;
who wants to know whether Hamlet was more than the s
:ion- reaily insane or only feigning. He was *ince iSeptembe:
inn.', shaking of his reception at the Baldwin towns are 7t>,0t)l
' on the first night. ! same time in IS
I mi., u.i ?
med /'ion saw ray reception ou ALonday j j.ucw>?ujlwc
ture said5 "and I?I couldn't I siliCC: Septembe
ba\e said 'lhank you' before tbut cur-1 l,alesj in Itfjo?
tain."' in ISSi-Sj wei
rized ^ He confessed to making one speech, though the rece
-rect but the result was not very encouraging, past week were
Some years ago he went with his com- movement froc
>,000 pauy to a place to play one night. He 3,437 bales, th
o es- bad been specially requested not to play ii-om the stock
' Haml- t," as the people had seen him Last year the i
>d to m .^!G Jear before and they wanted tiuns for the ?
^ al something else. Ywien they' assembled bales, and for
**"' I at the theatre they found the baggage bales.
had gone astray and the costumes for ^ fne increase
mpa- "Iiicholieu" liad not arrived. They must- f riday night, as
ar&'- play something else, and the only thing is_16,t>S0 bales,
they could do was to make up a bill of a ?rith. 18SA-85 is^
2ape farce and three acts of "Hamlet," which increase over 18
lrui- were easiest to put on. .Mr. Sooth went
out before the curtain and made a little ?
! Romance*
:om. speeca.
"They listened to rue," he said, "and [from the j
,cesi- "J10? 1 got though a man in the front . Tiere are m0
of the orcheitm looked up aaa said: d ? sk
1 bo gsveos-'Haalcfc I wnt ^ CTeE a ?
* D,e Oil leehcg very proud of my speech. 1 5 '
bhsu had done briilimtly, I thought. Just ^hite-skinned
then I heard somebody talking in front ^t iTis c
orat- of the curtain. What's this, I said to (1ine's to be ;
has mysdf. S^tebody objeet^g---a row- ^Tcd churcht
iiiiu x grew caucus; >uij aiervuut. v usi. e ? hrnfiipr r
we then one of tlie men came in from the ?irvfL-. ,.r crm
it front of the liouse. 'What's Hat? Who's S?the?o,
? that^ikiog out there?' 'Oh, ff. all
right. Jts the proprietor. They didn't famili? were (
Tew- J OU said, ana he is exphdu- bloot TJ Qt
have J?| ^ them t!lat youre ctimSe,i the from tho pulp:
ands ? ' _ _ Uaptist churciu
a brother aske
Mrs. Cleveland A,mine: the Flowers. , \ r,
j w whom he had
ed at Mrs. Cleveland is an ardent admirer tweP^\ -.^axS*
stiii't ox the beautiful in nature. The con- ^o:fu "V:
torj*. servatoiy and flower beds in the execu- nearv a (5r?
tive grounds receive daily a share of her country, llus
Zi attention. She has developed into a tu? bll^er being
nfp,._ gardener of no ordinarv merit and has c?, womau
Ia+aIv npivr.? ,1'" sniifrvised the work of 9.'^ 3 e2rt
Gardener Pfisttr. The gardener and Lis ^ 01 Ur' *'
assistants welcome lier presence among a ^reac
" them with delight, as her delicate praise t.ue^ %>ere S0PU'
anta, 0j horticultural efforts lightens the lUe war was m ]
inery burden of their work. They strive onlv
10Wn to please their beautiful mistress, and if ylfrH in
success attends their efforts the remainZom
iog portion of the day after her morn- ?"rom tb
been ing visit is very bright indeed to them. The iir-.-s in t
man- The clerks in the ea^t wing oi the State, lina are particu
and War and Navy- building also enjoy the berton was the
and morning visits of Mrs. Gevelaud to the son, and now <
er. gardens. This morning she made her last-named tow
>anv initial visit, and. accompanied by the houses on one
jized gardener, walked through the inciosure Main street 3
iiarle devoted to flower beds, stopping now pared for hre.
-.1 flr.TT..!> K:i?? TCflR cn-m?!i
jl-e I ciad in a dark dress and no j of them have*
ce# j covering for her Liead, nor did she wear j apparatus for
gloves, bat delved into th-.; earth with thirty or forty 1
her bare hands.?From the Baltimore or three bu.dc
Aznerica.:i. house. Bnc foi
' ?=3???? ? it lias suffered
fatal. r.'.v a*Lsw. im 0j 2m ra
neon- TLc following x..;;tract from the Or.-neml
erce's Statutes ;< of interest to sp:>rtsmeu: '"it ? ~ I"; "V
eanse shall not be lawful for any person in this- the on
lpuri- State, between the first day of April and -Now twentf-ei<;
iDtion ihe first day of Xovcmber, in any year
f the* hereafter, to catch, kill or injure, or to removal
d get pursue with such intent, or to sell, or expose tt a^e>- bein?mmp
for sale any wild turkey, partridge, dove, ^ore of pli??
erous woogcock, or pheasant; and any. person or v- r .
?1.1'. na?ftnc fnnn/1 miiliv tlioronf cliflll hf> finf>d
;ffalo, not k-ss than tea dollars, or be imprisoned n^stenng jJ:
not less than tea days, which line, it irn i has rest
posed, shall go one-haif to the informer g??d health.
2]e. and the other one-half thereof to the school j ."Widows mav
i0 one fuail lhe county wherein the offence widowers but"]
was committed." } ^ \he game,
i
|
tin on the ami akt prints.
commendin;; a H el; rev. as An Intcre-Sing Arlieie on Current Liieraister
to Turkey. ture. j
ie Xew York Times.) Two volumes recenilj- published by the
S. Straus, now Minister Harpers, Fruukliu Square. >ev.- York, mtl
as being urged for that attracting consider, sjie co'ice. Otic of
fr^v.,7-.- TT.-.T.rr- W-.ird them, "A Tr:iir.;> Trip: Low to see Europe
a friend of -Mr. Straus', 011 ;j?* cei*:s ; : tnrown a jc?;od ue:?I j
winff lette" It is a pecu- of 1;: tiav ; subject, and its free,
tells more* definitely than "I!C: *vcniioual !c is ^uulifce the guide r
than its own can de- ^ u!llt P?>bauly u wu be largely sub
d statesmanship and ad- **** for tiirt wci,wn:a numbug.
, -r. 11 A? r ! i;e v.iUcr who mace a tramp trio
n of Brooklyn s .anions ov, r carr,p(. is Ll.c Meriwether, an original
voung man in b;?th liioiiiiiit and act. \Vilh
>T. Y., Feb. 12, 3SS7. a desire to ice what he con:-M-.-rcd really I
,'r,i\i>. Europe, Metiv.ether took steerage passage,
over-the Atlantic, and after landing on the*
: zzsiDh.\ j. . Som^^oui other side he mingled almost wholly with
e soJ.cinous forjme -ap- ia^_^prking classes in the cities and towns.
).?o:ir Straus as -diitfstor -,r>ri v.-T^ ;in? nras:o!t.< in ;i:c rural districts.
>f ills htness tnere is a Tramping from place to place, and assot
that* lie is personally ciuting yuh whomsoever he met, the Amer
;nts eminently excellent, icuii gained a trustworthy knowledge of
;terest<jd in another qual- "bone and sinew" ilfe.cf Europe/
at lie is a Hebrew. The The many iuteresti.cg objects lie tells of
?against Jews which ob- in his book r.rc perhaps not r.r.v to the
>arts of Europe ought not average reader, out the manner of narraiountenauce
in America, tion and the standpoint of view from which
s is a Jew that I would tiie descriptions ^rise arc different from
itment as a fit recogni- 'A*hat is usually met with in books of this
arkable people, who are drawer The work may scarcely be
contributors to Ameri- tern\ed,' Kc~^rc in the high sense of the
and whose intelligence, -but U aocmB'1? ,a n^fy and %fu:i
it? f ie iiiiorniahou. and so will rest one irom
rge liberality in an puu- 0J,i;nur, t,lcs 0f travel.
:the "welfare 01 society, .Ti0r., Forocastle {u tlie (jabhY' is
noul'i receive irom the tLi?- other book iVum the Iiurpers tiiat i
government some such referred to at the outlet. Some one may
s it not also a duty to set suppose iLis is merely a boy's book. 2vot
iet, but effectual, method so. however, ior while a youth, may be inAmerican
Government, teresled in ihe story, it possesses no less air
its fostering care peo- traction for people of mature years.
ized nations and which Samuel Samuels, the famous Captain of
aout regard to civil, re- the Dreadnought, and of other less cele- peculiarities
as common braied craft in his early career, is the writer
? - -l.i.T.. i. /? ;?i? ...
end Danes to Denmark, uuuiy wuiutcuuiy ?nu aiuuutw m
rmanv; we reject no man ,:iu landsman, the oid salt writer cutis
a Frenchman. Wlir adnfcasmany btfo^iopa terms as i?simate
a crowing testi- l,Ie' "m! ?** '"S-bpokjn odi
:ls everyone c n comprehend. 1 i:s stor\
j" "* t i C./ 1 rr-J" of the sea docs not oiler any inducement to
brew to lurxey.- I he ]jy. v,Lo rbc.lisIlc,s lhe beIief ihat.. ..iife
uperstition of mecuievai OQ .ric Gcc,n ,v.uv- ti,e lop.gal!ant ;iolcii
;ount for the prejudices uf or f.ime
Bui now a Christian The adventures Captain Samuels enturn
from a Jew I cannot countered are not .soltencd <>r made unjtianity
itself suckled at i-eosingly succes^l'iii in <nder that his story
ida:sm;_our roots are iu may charm the reader, but they ate parent.
\\e are Jews our- irayed with that vividness born only of ex)
blossom and fruit, perience, and which is far mo:e to be adt
l l-.i.:-... tlwn wnnn/Lii lilmic'intf nf t'-i.'-r ?
0 UUaiSUI lil UVUxUUUii, iu.u. v,w*w^v** *' %.?***?*?? ?.?v,w V.WV.
>m strange for the seed liciioa in order :ha" the anxiety of some
the stock on which it was silly person may be soothed.
ElNit^' Vr \KD " All s!i 1 ?j S sal.or \ JfcMJ 2^ It ro^iti
*a . J " good one, iiittrcolii.g and reliable iron;
ttoa Movement. ihc rorce^iie to the cabin."' The pubitsh
ers have euhanc;.:i i he value of the story
k Financial Chronicle, in by introducing n:aoy illustrations, the
w oi the cotton move- frontispiece bringing the gatlaut Captain on
it for the week ending deck in fiue feaiior-bi.?; form.
tal receipts- have reached As ^astc; Vh,(-'':!ycy> 0iie 1:5 cv-:>*
gainst 4238 bales last of .i!e Uoly season. Ia
n. ,, * nothmir ciso is tne biessc! r.iiSter-tKle nn.'rc
iMsjbe pajTO.es *cA, s^iutifuiiy b...n3Ul v, uaa -Ja-vfr
k'S vaK'e act:ii.s siuce, p.Hi;am tue <-i.it!* *witm-n:?r.tt n*
x receipts since bop- llesuriec!i-')R. i v as looking m .s -tnt
~ flirt 5?<nnn^t . c r> . . ? ??, i. ... .. *"? . .....
u,v?,w^ -p? ot jvjpiiaei i. Uvn. cv uuliww uic
for tne i-uiae period. ol otiier day, aao it did not take :m; i<
ig an increase since bep- decide that sheir dainty souvenirs pleased
of 190,286 bales. ^ iue more than ail others I had seen.
or tne weoi-i .ending that The Tucks ;.re especially famous for the
total of 77,219 bales, ot dfclicatcr.csi of designs ou their cards. 'J! I
wer6 to Great Britain, course beautiful spriag-time flowers afford
e, and. 21,802 to the rest most, of their subjects, bui tiic excellent styie
;nfc. The imports into in'vhieh iU*y ai-: presonitU to the public
ts during the week have seems quite a marvel of art work.
' .Those of .their jiroduc: lows tfiat are done
>&&&&! itr iif the xnciii >:' : -bui'v.riy rxe-1*1*
O A?)1 Vv.-?1/K2 OP i crtted-paiurihg, ah f each souvenir of the J;
:JULU ui -jUAX too , . , . ~ same
date of lb85, an iu- ^25^ ls?t*"*> a tic*'1*"1? . , .
? bales as compared with ? ^fere dwelte in .ny m.nci one of lue
Aota .+ ioM _ ruc?ias KnauiUL c-.-.a- tuat 3S tcadcny as^o?lH
ct lbb?' &ni * ^ciatcd viUi a ' uihclLc incident of a ion
,,J63 bales as cornea v,lljic
ag'j. The design shows an aniaTs I
, face (and it i> the Iovti:e.-.t ?;i:e 1 have ever
ior stocks nave uecrcascu ..een oilh-.-r in or out of a picture), up;
bales less than at ijomc by ihe p.-.?rly v. hue puiions of the
L last year. Tlie receipts saints: ambient clouds con eal the angelic
us have been < ,9-10 bales rorm, and make a contrasting irame for fiie
ame week Jast year, and giorilieJ face of this child ot iieaven. 'I he
t 1 the receipts at all the clouds uplifting a little >;\.?e above c-arth,
5 bales more than ior the the scene of the c:ucitit;i'?i is laid hare.
So?SG. Possibly only a few would he impressed
:ipts from the plantations wiih the cvuibinaiion of beauty and gran>.
i -n-r-w. ~ t?.r> <)(>! dear in this curd, but it will always linger '
86 'were 5,170,*10 bales; ia mind %\iia me.
, _ _ L , .1 Aithou:r:i ilits incident l have aduded to
6 ? ? not exactly in place here, I will ?dl the
l^s?a.c !"H' 1 ^ b V .-lory because it goes with l!;e picture iu my
t x e u.'^ thoughts. Lust week a friend sent word to
l plantations vas ^ onu mc ]i-:s ( ju;tj W:;s iij; and would I come
e baiance being ta.is.en andheiphim. Whet: 1 r? ached his homul <
5 at the interior towns, found it. in a sad condition: my friend's eceipts
from the planta- wife was quite sick ::s well as the little
>ame week were 3(5,oot> girl, anil he, poor man, was weary in body
18S5 they were 14,93-1 and sore at heart. 1 said "poor man"'?in
was doubly that, and he needed my help.
j.\ j. ti,/. iinntai i,?i i.,.t i..o ii.^ iw, i. r
in tile ttJUlUUilt 111 Cl^llU 1 LiU UWVIU1 ii.iM UUl ii.lt HW^iZKy ? lit-Li X
compared with last year, entered it. and i lie words he had spoken (
the increase as compared only too faithfully cumbered ihe remaining
620,372 bales, and the hours of the pretty chiid. ihe was oni\ '
83-81 is 602 255 bales. 'lve> an!' had become a favorite with me.
Not knowing how iii bhe was when 1 ieft
-*>? ? my own lodgings, I ha'< brought the card I '
I or the Havery Day-. have described, thinking it might please
' " . my little friend. She was quiet, and looked .
ndlanapolis Jcurnal.l to rtje unusually pretiy and bright: no
re romances of the cruel knowledge of death had ever chilled her ;
among the colored peo- happ\ little heart, but somehow .-he icli to
arter of a century after talking alK>ut; angels, unci askiog rae per
on proclamation, than ??.?> ?.?.?
f ^r... ana how loair they lived. 1 remembered i
peopie * the picture, and iieid it before licr eyes. ,
pnte customary ^ seemwi absorbed in the face of ;he
read j-roni tne puipita oi aQgej Up ja ci0U(]Si and whispered in a
s asking the 'thereabouta iiuJc voice: "Is that where angels
a* a sister, or perhaps a live?" So other words were spoken, no
, frora whom the person reply did I make, for my little friend Lad !
airy was separated either gone to find an eternal answer to her soul's 1
or before the war, when inquiry. ii.w.e Weatuerwkll. '
iivided by the auctiun Hawtuokxe. April 3, 1SST.
her day a letter was read
it of one 01 the colored Tlir.'ishiiijja lUidnisjlif.
ui tiuo ij j *u ?? ^
d about a sister from A night or two ago a gentleman living '
been separated for over near Sparkill bad occasion at a late :
The same letter had hour to cross the stone bridge over the :
read, as is the custom, in Sparkill creek, when he encountered the j
colored churches in the ghostly' object which was on its nightly ;
one found an answer, round to frighten people. The man '
Louisa Smith, a worthy picked up a good-sized stone and hurled
, who has lived in this it at the object, striking him a pretty .
i, and is now in the fam- hard blew. The spook became angered i
Thompson. The brother and clinchcd with the man. The gentle
in St. Joseph, Mo., and man proved too muscular, however, for ]
rated in Kentucky when the spectre and grasped it by the thr jat. (
progress. The gho=t. in a hnrcan voice, begged for |
n ni mercy. The Sparkill gentleman re- j
ieiiicu, unu, aitur ui&t;uveiiijg luc iuei.ibi- i ,
\orth Carolina Town*. fcy of the person who had been person- j
e Wilmington Star j ^ting a ghost, promised to let him go |;
, , . ri and not ma^e known his name on con- ;
ue tovvr-s of NorLiCaro- tlitioa tI,at ^ give up tv, spook busi- ;
^r -' c, ni?"'lv?1' " ness. The one who has personated the ;
jret tosnfier.thes^ii- ghost ai.a caused the worst scare ever ,
Jx-oi'd. I.:e nre jJi tiie ^own ia lower part of the county is ;
n destroyed the business a man ,yeli kno^ in Piedmont Jnd
^street, hut diu not reach ^par]ij]) the man who discovered
'oceo^t.ic towns :s pre- ?s sticks faithfully to .lis
They have an tdtei-h m- no+ to reveal it.?Nyack (N. Y.) ,
, oi t?;uer, an<. not m-ry special to the New York Times,
thp ncffifil fiifrmes and L
putting OUt iil'Co. For i I'erfeci Flood ofSkUswhine"*
pears Oxford bad but t?.o
iug$ burnt, one a smoke- \Y:il ilii liic isear; of every suffering
r the lost thirty-live years woman i: v. :ii only persist in the use of
from many fires, and in Dr. PS> ru-> "Favorite Prescription." It
any business houses were will eu: ; llic :;iost excruciaiin^ periodical
r a loss of some $35,0: >0 :::;d r-iieve you of all irregularities
>t manvmonthuairo a lire *nd give healthy a:;t?n. It will positively
I hotel and socio .stores, curt-internal inflammation and ulceration,
rbt stores are iri ashe^ misplacement aud an kindred disorders. ?
! ~ Price reduced to one dollar. Uy dru^u-ts. '
of Prof. Sanborn, of X. la Wayne, 3Jicb, Circuit Court Judge
pronounced incurable by Jennisca g-ve wis decision on the corn est
ieians, from Los Vegas, of the will of the late Francis Palms be
-i > > . c-- f\r.11 AAA ?i.,
ome, was enecteu dv aa- v^wv.ww iv ?k? i?u tu.?n v-??. j
Harter's Iron Tonic. ?0 b<-' Le!ci 1;J"theal iu trust for their chil- j
ored him to Lis forcer lirC!i- Tbc friendly contest was begun tc \
>ccure a legal decision on tlic will. In Ills
decision. Judge Jendison holds that he}
set Ibeir caps more than statutes are against controlling fortunes j
figures sbow that the latter from the grave from generation to genera-1
tion.
! CHEATING THE GALLOWS, [notfariro
execution <
road leadi
j five mukdekers lynched AT and CDiva
! yokkville. marking tl
nouse.
The rcos
Arrae<l Men Enter the County Jail ana ? o ,
[ ,, , _ . j oi tins Kin<
orciblv Capture txiejr Prisoners a?o . , .
Han- Them to Trees-No Clue to the ld.de:
** hnt nut he
I'articiiiants. J """
must os at
(From tlie Ycrkville Enquirer, .April 0.) on^ ^
Yesterday morning opened cn the kuo^r whet
closing scene of one of the most fearful bravely, 01
tragedies ever enacted in York county. tession esse;
With the brutal murder of the little incannot
tel
iiOcc-nt boy Johnnie Lee Gucci, on the quired to a
evening of the 30th of last "November, four eomra
our readers are familiar. On that eve- ,t0 j^e *"Je. ^
,, , . . . x last require
mng, as the investigation of tne jupy of murreti ey
inquest and subsequent confessions de- you espec
veloped, the murderers proved to be Spa71,fc 1
Prindley Thomson, Bailey Dowdle, Dan 0f the'final
Roberts and Mose Lipscomb, with ~ num- them expxi
ber of supposed accessories before the of adjusting
fact, it being believed that a combination The ropes
fur the purposes of robbery and murder which appe
existed among the negroes of that neigh- lines,
borhood, in Bullock's Creek township, As soon
aad adjacent to Broad Piiver. Several Sheriff to d
of the accessories or accomplices whose the execut
r-ames were divulged by the investiga- physicians,
tion were lodged in jail, where they now render any
are. ^ bodies the;
Excitement ran high in the neighbor- trees?four
hood of the murder, as indignation was ;ide of the :
also manifested .nroughout the county, limb of a st
The victim was an unoffending boy less poiite side,
than fourtei n years old, the son of well- tinet.
to-do and worthy parents, by whom he The Sher
was idolized. In an unfortunate moment, cut down ii
>:s Prir?dl<?v Thomson confessed in the snroad nnoi
jail, the little boy detected him, Mose, by side, un<
i)an and Bailey, in the act of stealing on which fc
cotton from his father's Held. To pre- bodies ren
vent exposure, the cotton thieves brutal- afternoon,1
]y murdered him. Prindley m:ide tbis burial. Pi
confession: took posses
"I went with them after the cotton in body of Bai
Mr. Good's field, and left them there. jion of by 1
Bailey had the boy's waist; I had his vrere buried
legs: Mose was choking him, and Ban News of
carried the rocks. We all went away by ;own rapid
the pasture field. Bailey hit him first morning un
r.-ith the rock when we first got hold of -was visited '
the boy. Dan saw the boy first. Dan The color
sxid: ''Boys, yonder is Lee." Bailey hit tlie dead bo
lirst, and Dan next. Mose jumped on curiosity th
Lis bowels." vv-re dispo;
Such was the material portion of gave expre;
Irindlej's confession, the wounds on the jeeling. * In
dead body of the boy corroborating his about nooE
statement as to the manner of infliction. letter writfc
After this confession was made and be- mother of
came known, it being reasonably certain dated Marc3
oi the positive guilt of Prindley, Bailey, <Odr Dea
Dan and Mose, the pent up ieeiing of that Giles C
the western side of the county found dering sera
vent in threats of lynching, and besides could lead r
the four named, the blood of Giles Good, He has obi
the supposed instigator of the crime, from teachi
and accessory, was also demanded. from my ci
Slic-riii' Glenn, vigilant for tiie safety believe It 1
of liis prisoners, becoming satisfied that (rood from
tiie threat of lynching "would be at- correct
tempted, on the evening of December my child's n
14th procured an order from Judge for my sake
Wiiherspoon transferring them for s$fe- once more,
keeping to the jail at Columbia, and on his body,
that night they were spirited away. This lettei
True to his expectations, about 7 o'clock aad is a key
on the following' morning, a crowd of tiuned in t
about seventy-five mounted men, undis- Good. He
guised, approached the jail, prepared chief insiiga
with axes and sledge hammers and some to the murd
aimed with shot guns, and a number of _
LUtiUl SCCLUlliy an cuuiutc uuuugu uc .lev, igr?
corridor, proceeded to the third floor
Liiid commenced battering the wooden The attitu
shutter covering the irun door which pie toward 1
Leads to the ceils. By the time the they show 1
rfiieriiT was aroused by tne noise aud had ism in a do;
run up to the landing on the third lioor, woman who
une panel oi the wooden shutter was sons here
r.uociied out and tlie crowd were moving could see a
on the works as though they meant bus- art oi' dinne:
uess. When the Sheriff interposed, the Washington
crowd desisted until he convinced them <lnners hav<
ihat the men wanted were not in the here it is qu
jail. The whole party, which, aside this dinner-;
irom then- demonstration on the jail, had mark. Vv'h
been quiet and orderly, then peaceably ington host*
1 ~ - -A' ~?f/ ? *
tUUC out Ui LU ?11. uMrnviw AVX .
Tlie Sheriff foiled the would-be lynch- irimeuiate t
ers and saved Lis prisoners, wlio a'oout Yorkers hav
the hour of the demonstration were in just such sj
North Carolina on their way to Coiura- and assnmui
bia, where f-ey remained until last Sat- if it were ve.
urciay, when the Sheriff deputized L>r. by the eapit
A. Y. Cartwright and Mr. James H. uine tney
Kiddle, two men in whose courage under they come
contingent difficulties he had iuii conli- lengths to g
tience, to conduct the prisoners? from ciety. Pres
Columbia to Yorkville. The traiiifer delights of
was accomplished without incident, and accessible tc
on Saturday evening they were returned the fashion <
o then* old quarters in the YorkviHe up. Until t
jail. " ' she recited
It was supposed that tiic excitement though; Wa
ind indignation incident to the murder inj; after ti
nad subsided, and certainly ail. feeiing its more frig
Lor summary vengeance was siumbeiing mind. Ail J
until iionday morning when the unmis- beset by rea
takable iunacy oi the lather of the mur- 1'ork, the pi
Jered boy rekindled the anger of all v, ho emphasized,
witnessed the unfortunate man on the ca res partici
tvay to the Asylum. No captious in- ington Lett*
|Uiry, however, could discover any
undue feeling in the general current ui The I
public sentiment. The inquisitive newspaper
man, in liis suggestive way, en- .';h:.ai>kl
leavored here and there to gain a clue, op.aion amoi
bat everv person anoroaclied iroon !the c.iTIS !l:ul
subject expressed the opinion tbat the
law would take its course. Late Monday ^
jvening the fcjlierift ft it a sense of perfect ' :', ?!^
security, and Yoikville retired Monday ?i,c c:
iiight, little expecting to wake up next ;,v thj'Cormi
aiorning to find lire dead bodies dang- temporary n
ling from the limbs of trees almost within tin i will splii
the corporate limits. "There is
The men chose for the hour of their '/4'-'a(;e. ^
cvork the wee small hours, and at hall |'a'ro^.>*^c
past i the Sheriff, who was also jailor, was ^ \
xwakened by a noise at the door. He ^
rushed up to the crowd in his night ; airnc
Iress, aid he refusing to surrender the siVVtheyarr;
[icys, his visitors proceeded to the third -J.V ^
ioor and commenced on tha same door ;.s ..-orapetitoi
that had partly yielded to similar treat- sceli 1 posi;
inent only a jew weeks before. The j niercial alia;
Sheriff was powerless to offer resLiance, | r.iomhs or m
ind endeavored to attract attention to j i'hc Souti
the iail by rapid and successive iiriiii* oi i Association,
[lis gun. This had the efiect to bring to mis^ou iie<
the scon:: a few persons, but by the tune ! 1.uc"t"V5 lUc 1
tLey arrived, the lynching party hud ^\:ue2~u.I^lc!*
gained entrance, secured the men they .
wanted and left. The wooden door be- ;
fore alluded to was opened by culling '
out the large plate lock with an axe. "^',fna1'
The padlocks securing the doors to sub- i
sequently open were broken, but the^-e steaTa iiiies"
were replaced by new ones and tho ceils *
were left comparatively safely locked. Cou:nuuy, 0
Five prisoners were wanted, it seems, *
instead six as on the former ocrcsion, ]'
and those taken were Giles Good, Bailey ; >?arric?
ijowuie, i'rinuiey jl;ui; .uou- j
crts aud jIosc Xicscoi-b. Their idenii- In 1^1 Ih
ty was ksvjrsd by means o? ,a dark Jan- ri'.-ii 3ir. Ba
tir- witli which the party was provided. yp1'3 her jj
As far as can be known, no resistance, i <-?corge Eik<
or even outcry, was mads by any of the t'r?^,
doomed men. A loan whose business Vf:Uu ~lJ;
required hiia to pass near the locality of fV-"r'- ^ "
, x .1 i v i : letters,
tao nanging, saw the crowd approacn-1 ^ iiusl
ing, and stepping to one side of the oflic(
road, permitted tiie entirejprooession to ;v cvervixKh
pass without offering any molestation. ic. ;-i.e J
Jie gives tlie opinion that the victims {jie range
were mounted. He could see ilo one on among peep
foot, and all were proceeding along unions are f)
leisurely and quietly. He saw the part} papers.? JS'c
m the spot selected for the
of the deed, a knell on the
ng northwest from the jail,
short distance from the stone
le first mile from the Court
it interesting scene in an affair v
i is supposed to be the bearoieanor
of the fated wretch,
are our account of this one
fault. e hare not seen any
id he was there, nor do we
her or not the men bore up
whether any words of coniped
their hps. It is vaguely
but with how much truth we
I, "that Giles Good was rectas
the executioner of his
des, and was then compelled
not of his noose. To this
ment he is said to have deiculating
"how the devil do
t a man to hang himself."
<5 coid > . S\ TTAr/^fl TPfiVA
q cuiu LJ-ixtu av ?t nv*v jri
any one during the enacting
scene, further than one of
ssed his desire of the manner r?"?2?
I the rope around, his neck.
nsed were ordinary cotton,
ar to have been used as plow
as it vras possible for the
o so, he vent to the spot of
ion, taking Tvith him two
but they arrived too late to
assistance to the five limp
_ r .1 .1 1: r j.t_ ^
y iUlLUCl ULLLlglUlg IXOXI1 wits
from one tree oil the east
road, and the other from the
out oak hard by on -the opLife
was found to be exiff
caused the bodies to be
omediately, and on blankets
i the ground, laid them side
ler the branches of the tree
>ur vere hanged. Here the
lainc-d until late yesterday
svhen they were removed for
rindley Thomson's relatives
ision of his body and the
ley Dowdle was taken possesus
father. The other bodies
. at the expense of the county.
the lynching spread over
Iy, and from early in the
til late in the day, the scene
by throngs of persons,
ed people, of course, visited
dies with no less motives of
an the whites; but if they
sea to censure the act, they
=sions in words to no such
. a group of colored people,
l, was an auntie, who had a
en by ilary Thomson, the
Prindley. The letter was
131, and reads as follows:
n Child: If he has testified
i-ood led him into that murpc,
I do believe it, for he
ay child better than I conld.
yjiuveiiicuj 11123 muuitsr
ng liim the right way, and
illd's action what made me
xe always would mind Giles
ten years old. I could not
. Do, please, if you break
.eck, break Giles Good's, too,
. I do want to see my child
and if he is hung I do want
Maby Thomson."
r was intended for the Sheriff,
to the bad reputation sua- v*-lie
neighborhood by Giles"
w.aS cuspccted of being the
.tor of the thieving which led
er.
c anil 'Wusiiinstoa Society.
.de of New York society peoJVashington
is peculiar, and v
heir bumptious' provincialsen
ways. One New York
lias spent a couple of searemarked
lumpy that she
great improve, lent in the
r-giving since ^ne came to
' Of course New York
5 always been perfect, but
ite a new tiling, you know,
jiving," was her bland reen
repeated to a few Washisses
who have been giving
a score of years there was an
empest in a teapot. New
e the coolest wav of making
peeches about Washington,
ig an air of condescension as
rv kind in thpm tn ho arrmwl
ai's doings; yet at the same
make all tiiese pretensions
here and go the greatest
c-t into tlie full swim of soident
Arthur first made the
capital society patent and
Tiis New York friends, and
once established keeps itself
he unfortunate night when
" :Ostler Joe" Mrs. Potter
shington social life fascinattat
she had a chance to see
;id aspect, and changed her
lostesses'who entertain, are
nests for friends from New
Mil m ilipir Vuafnor
as tliougii giving the appliilar
value,?from a W'ashir.
.ong and she Short Haul.
I'iiiA, Agril T.?The general
ig the raiiroad officials in this
the action of the Inter-State
,'omaiission, on the long and
uestion concerning the bouth,
a ill crush the entire measure,
hat this is the most vital feautire
Act, and the stand taken
ilssion, even though it "be of a
ature, is an entering wedge
t the whole log,
not a railroad of any conseLis
country/' said a prominent
utive oiUcer to-day, "that wili
: saise claim as that contended
iouthern lines, and the justice
u cantioL .ail to be recognized,
ist the lirst act of the Commisay
against them every railroad
jily or remotely a water route
and further they have taken
.ion as will unsettle the comrs
of the country for three
ore.''
:erii Haliwav and Steamshin
concerning which, tlie Contusion
Las just been made, inoads
traversing the Southern,
lg them the Rort Royal and
road Company, Richmond and
iroau Company, Seaboard and
ilroad Company j South Caroi
Company. Atlantic Coast
, Baltimore, Chesapeake and
steamboat Company, Clyde's
I\ew York, and Charleston
Company, Ocean Steamship
id Dominion Steamship Coml
Women Twice T&eir Age*c
Baroness Burdctt-Coutls mar
ixucu, Vi'uo was more man ou
iuior, arid 3I:.r:aa Evans, or
>U, v.'iiS much older than Mr.
i she married ia li&O, after the
. Lewis. To go further back,
aei, another famous womaa of
Ifj when in L"5l2 she took for a
jaad :>1. de iiocca, a young
r oi 20. Probably, too, nearr
can recall instances of marlese
which have occurred withof
iiis own acquaintance and
le less distinguished; and such,
requently reported in the newsio
York Sun.