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VOL. XLIIL^ ^ ' " ; WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 20, 1887^ ^ NO, 38, THE GKOWING CHOI'S. White Clc Reports Made to the Department of -As*"*- Some of th culture by its Special Correspondents. Cultivator H The State Department of Agriculture j there is uotLi has. received and tabulated the April 1st i growth so de reports of its special correspondents. | plant as whit These returns cover every county in the ! rampant ?om State and over one-h?.lf the townships. i is always the ^ - t ABEA IX WHEAT AND OATS. I j? /UG ?rGV>'t; ! licious berry. Estimates based upon these reports other btra*. show that the area in wheat has been in- section of eer * creased three per cent, over the area of iy so_ This < 1886. The condition is reported at 4 tap-rooted gr b per cent, better than at the same tirue starves the st K last year, bait 5 per cent, below an aver- ons extent. W age crop. The area in oats shows a de- strawberry rc crease of 5 per cent, below last year, weather. T1 Condition 2 per cent, better than :n \7eeds and gr; 1886, bat 11 per cent, below an average, advantage in It is estimated that -12 per cent, of the no+ frozen, b oat crop was sown in the fall, and seveu- 2>cw what: ty four of the correspondents report the i^g almost early sowing in better condition than gouged and that sewn in the spring, while one hun- tough roots 0 dred and thirty-seven consider the latter aiJ,^ the work crop the most promising. i ' pay. The b The correspondents estimate that only Sn?t.]] lots or about 3 per cent, of the wheat crop vras plant in hills, drilled, the balance of the crop being suitable a 1st a Vvrr>(i(^r?ocff rrrvl tllft r.'-DOrts. With verv ; /.'in n lonaw t few exceptions, show thai the condition j 20? 0Jjjv / of the grain sown broadcast is much bet-! ^ncj a)j" 0f^ ter than the small proportion that was j wit.h compare drilled. It is estimated that 16 per cent. ' ^ of the wheat crop" was winter killed. j *? r nri'e siock. j Keswick, "V The condition of horses and other j work animals is reported at 7 per cent, i A Su below the average of this season of the i T) , . year, due entirely to the deficiency of j ? Q*ir\, grain produced by the small crops of q' fX w 1886. The condition of cattle, sheep t* L and hogs is fully up to an average. loci-*6 \t Live stock has suffered verv slightlv ' : o L71H) Tvwmns n from diseases of any kiad, tlte prmeipal d" complaint being of cholera amocg hogs, Sf-0CT. vbut this does not appear have been as } that the"oidv prevalent as in previous years. A i'evr i " . . lJ e ci -i t. t. i conntv is cc cases of glanders have been reporieu ; among horses, but the spread of the j disease has been checked by the action j ^ * of-the Department and the owners of ! t - ? . the stock in destroying the afSicied ani-1 it ma^ ^ , jSoriheniwi fajoi supplies. ; If this be tn The reports indicate that the amount j others succet of farm supplies purcliased will not be j Cotton has 1 less than in 18S6, owing to the partial I sometimes de failure of the crops of last year, but the ! wise subject t correspondents report that the fanners ! the days of re k are using every effort to better their | * condition by practicing the most rigid j "TI economy, and by a determination to in- j nrftRRfl thp area in food ctotds. ; , oce 01 1 * tnere are a gc fai&i lasok. There are a j Farm labor is abundant, and reported and ministers as increasing in efficiency. One hundred to do someth: and eighty-two of the correspondents way; but, fin " reply that labor is "good;" fifty as "an- have given it different," and ten as "bad." 9n~'J have rung on: V" twenty-eight correspondents report a tettechoir, an scarcity of labor, caused by the laborer cannot J^elp il working on turpentine farms and rail- There is no roads. The emigration appears to have go to get the had no appreciable effect on the- farm to carry the C labor of the State. ye into all th< co^ujebcial fertilizers. where. Miss Prom November 1, 1885,' to April 1, ^e* 1886, the sales of commercial fertilizers ^ -. in South Carolina amou .ted to lU^oSl Pe sea tvjf" . * : tons; for the same period in 1SS6-S7 the 10 an . .-v sales have been 91,078 tons, showing a j ^n arnve decrease the present season of 13,v05 j t ~ >T cmiW ATft alsA 1S.428 tons be- . ? . low 1884.-85, skewing, i'or tie pat.:; two { ^tA- ne? vri!?c ^years, a "steady decline in the consump- j awaL tion of commercial fertilizers by theirs men - farmers of the State. ! co no^ "ea i went down to COTTON OX HAND. : T ??r?? ? i men, 1 aoi a i The correspondents report that about j j have come j 5 per cent, of last year's cotton crop was j xay life, but a in the hands of the farms on the let of j a was."' ApriL This amounts to about 25,000- "One wicfc bales. ! to drive you i FKnr, etc. "You are; Fruit, garden ^produce, and early ^ planted com have been injured by the 7 ** recent frosts and freezes, be- it was too early, at the date Of the r' ports, April 1, ^obociy shall to furnish an estimate of tie amount of ^?iarL came j 3 "You stop th ,.TT h In a few da kemabks. ^ i qj-gaq^ hired - While these reports do riot make as | and windows, favorable an exhibit as could be desired, j eted around. still there are some facts coutained in j aid began to them that should encourage the farmers. ! hare in Jesus The area in wheat has been increased, j tears were in < The condition of both wheat and oats is In -a little ts v higher than at the same time last year. ha4 need for A smaller proportion of the crop was doijg great r < winter killed than in 1SS6. Horses and woiid have b other work animals are in fair condition worian.?Dr. for farm work. There has been no in-1 crease in the amount of food supplies I purchased, notwithstanding last year's short crops, and there has been a de- "loarae dc crease in the amount of commercial fer- Lansog trail tilizers purchased in value of about atth^'ibirds aaaa aaa -irxr ow cnfi Vir With very few exceptions the reports una as urnbr to the Department are of a cheerful Xes'ta?tra character, and their tone indicates a de- utes." termination among the farmers to de- "Sot are i serve success this year, which they will "Beaectly - win with favorable. " on thatlroad take firi" m 11 "Brides s When to Plant seeds. "Entirely ! It is a common notion that the tem- l^ peratare of the air ana the soil is a re- " liable indication of the time for planting t the-different varieties of farm and gar- "Thev den Many farmers mH not plant corn or cotton untn, in their judgment. -z the soil is 4'warm enough" to germinate -<VA 11. - - 3 ^ ^^.4. ? n -. ->Oi a JIX, me seeu. xuixt um xs uvti txu ?i\CVP 1 n guide may be easily demonstrated- by -u' J~' 5 y . iiii nsis and so. the experience of any one wno Ms kept ,K , a diary and observed closely. It is quite ?j - , j true teat corn, nor cotton, nor other , seed -will germinate and come up if the h T:; temperature of the soil continues, after ' * planting, below the proper degree of warmth for the germination and growth of the particular seed. But ordinary It is a * -le; observation shows that in our changeable two of fresh spring climate the temperature of tbe farmer's tab] air and soil on one day is no guarantee m8r_ ilauv of what it will be three or four days for outdoor thereafter. The conditions of planting for cutting* may be all right at the time of piantmg for bouquet* and be all wrong at the time of germi- yar j anj * . ^ nating. In the spring corn usually re- tmWi v>.^ ^ quires about twelve or fourteen days to course ro?s 7- come up, and cotton seed from live'to perennial*" . ten days. Hence, the weather may be the blue lu all that could be desired for several days spris^ irises . after planting the seed and then turn ?>ear Sir] vT %&?; ' coldorrain. It is more important that the leaved" vm-s -? ~ latter half of the period of germination } panielcd <*v should be more favorable than the first - larkspurs aii haiL' to plant ac- \ midsummer . cording to time?the Jay of the month | tertlv weed: ?having regard otherwise only to prop- i Autumn br: <xp.&ocnrf*> ay rlreness iii t'he sniL which i <t - __ _____ ? ?j I MWJ **' ' * Sould be'in good condition for work- anemones. ing, ' The time should be cMermmeu bj : annusus tna. experience of past jears. Ine writer jias i the first y several times planted corn when the j Camelia-tioy ground was frozen early in the morning, i Drunrcond ^ _vr " aSd secured a perfect stand of vigorous dahlias; m ~ plants. In Dakota and other extreme j nasturtiums Northern sections, wheat, com and veg-! poppies, sal - - tables are'planied in May, as soon as \ ziuneas. i ihs ground' has thawed to. a depth; easiest cultr sufficient to permit of plowing and "liar- j beauty and rowing, the soil having been ueepiy ; through, broken the preceding fall; and it often j occurs that the seeds so planted are tip ; "Xo wont and growing while the deep subsoil is j is sick all tl still hard frozen to the depth of many j mothers and >ver Among Strawberries. A KANK <)i" HILLION.S. .e readers cf the Southern TIlc i-^baions "Wealth of the 'i lay have dlSCO%*ered that France?Historical sketch of u St Lng in the Shape OX natural ?us Financial Institution, btructive to the strawberry A few evenings ago, says the Bs e clover. It is much more Salvador, I attended a most inte: e years than others, but it reception in the Parisan world?a great pestiferous obstacle tion where few foreigners are ev i and culture of this de- mitted. It was given by M. 31 This may not be the case governor of the Bank of trance, v ucrrv regiuuss uui ill uu: OCCaSlOD 01 liie eigJLilY-seveiHU ai ltral Virginia, it is especial- sajy of the institution. Daring ti clover, like all others, is a ning I gathered much information owth. It crowds, hugs and 55 ifc has never been publi^he rawberry plants to a ruin- American friends may hnd a few Clover roots as well as of value. After many trials and fa )cts, grow in mild winter the great Bunk of France was bor is clover and all biennial the nineteenth century. In the asses, may be weeded out to ning its capital was 30,000,000 : winter when the ground is represented by 30,000 shares of at it is tedious work. francs each, and its shareholders is the remedv? Hand-weed- Xupoleon Bonaparte, Luyien Bon: impracticable; it may be Hor tense de Beauharnais, Carnb; torn away, but its long, Duroc and others less no tea. It>ften remain to come again porary home was the Hotel r?Iassi is tiresome and will not the Place des Yictoires. In If: est remedy, however, for capital was increased to 182,5 for garden culture is to francs. Many special laws have , two plants in a hill, hills enacted giving privileges to this nee apart. The cultivator until December 31, IS7Q, priviieg hem in this position, and uewable after that date. The bi te clover, but blue grass occupied by the Bank of France ; r pests can be eradicated present time has great important itive ease, and the berries is an irregulur quadrilateral bu and of better oualitv. snrrnnndefl I>v tha Hues Croix des J. Fnz. Changes, de la Yriiiitre, BaihiT et a. ziwell. The public has entire conf ' ' in the bank, and to merit this cont ccessfui Dairyman. great, precautions have been 4al . ~ .. -pL render private as well as public pr farming pay.J Does any- ^ ?he fire brigadef c0mpF0, con-gro .?mg pay - asus t e <jIeElen wbo once belonged to the Ishmaelite, and then adas: 3eEt f Pali ^ ince the firs day of ?anna- bniMio one Joi are ^ _W. J? >,ortnern has sold fameaS raervoirs, and sixty an ersey barter and four ^^tain ianees ready to throw j n frppn fiviirA dollars \rortn .. . , *V _ ^ "Vl , ru water. rL&iue irom uie uremeiijlio w let some man who holds Katchmell are emp!oJca. Xhe Hi ready-money Clop of Jm k Vriliiere occupied to-day I it-on that cotton-growing ^ of bailt io rest guarantee of money- tie aesigns o? Francois H^ard. ite wncil and see 11 he MdilJ|is ge2ensl;T imt|, mprontsoutof a year of yHotelde Toulouse, beca *? m the cotton-held, 13e was bKnght m3 by Lois Ate ' it loot as Jf Mr. ^ BonrlSn, Chmie de Tootoose, f 8 h:s Jerseys pay. ,L ^ SI? d y a ^ is of him, ray may not The Due de Ponthieon, rh A at the same busmess? fhe son of ae Comte de Toious JC0n. =: .|JU:. ar~ i beUished the hotel and gave it its po=ed;, and.;f n.?t j^y . ! When he died in 1793, the buildin tatsdeswito the img m - a ^ prJ,pcrtTi and ivolution. L,_ ^ t vAltS LiOi'JlKJXi.CVJL j^ri in nuiicg ?? jut I'uie Vomwi." stalled. In 1808 the Emperor m decree that the Hotel de Toulouse i he villages on our coast, become the property of the bar :ocr many rough fishermen. 2,000,000 francs, but it whs in 1SI ^ood number of churches *&e corporation removed from the there, and viit-y have tried ^lassiac. Popular tradition giv< ing for theie men in their vaults and the forbication and de .ing ihey could not, they tion of bank notes in the Banq up. The Church said, "We France a profoundly mysterious r r bell, engaged our quar- iion. The vaults, locked, relocke id if you do not come, we locked again, are never seen exce L" the guardians, but by special j>ern: * command for people to the precious billets were exiiibii Gospel; the command is me. In the beginning bank notes xospel to the people?"Go black, but this color is too easily 3 3 world," that means every- graphed. In 1862- blue was c] Phelps "was given up to -hey are ail oiue witn me exce pn jhysicians said, "If you go the note of 5,000 francs,"created in ige on our coast, perhaps which was red. Never more sha iy prolong your life; but it cuttings of this note was made , a wicked place." That pale these there are but five in circulat d there, ail a tcok a room, present. The figures printed o little the first night, and j notes aio their means of id en tide ling was sleeping quietly"! and the combinations are so nun lows open for sea air," when j that each note has its own 2/iai ened by the rough swear- j cote passes through twenty-three < under her window. She | tions from the time it is first on' ,r it, and, hastily dressing, until the signature of the first casl > the door, and said, "Oh, placed upon it. The surveillance poor, sick, dying woman, severe that workingmen cannot from the hills to prolong i even a clipping of paper. Aftei ou are going to drive me j impression, women are employ* count and recount the papers acid 2d man said, "Who is going them in packages of 1,0U0. The 1 r\f thA K1 rift ink is unehan<?able. a: ivvujr, juu ua-c v> uuiau.. ? ? you have been swearing composition is a secret. These dour." leave the bank crisp and bright, embied, and said, "I -Rill turn in less than two years torn, the man that swears, and often altogether illegible, 1 swear while you are here." made the tour of France, and perh along swearing. Said he, the world. As they are brought at; there is an angel here." and judged unworthy for use, tys she took a little cabinet many formalities they are destroy a hall, opened the doors the presence of the regents. At on , and the rough men gath- the worthless notes were burnec She touched the keys, now they are reduced to paste sing, "What a friend we enormous cylinders receive the J' Before she had finished, Water is poured upon this mas syes unaccustomed to weep, orifice of the cylinder closed and hile she had a church, and and the whole is cooked fortj a. Trn*T>i<?w p_r>r5 t.hftv are I hours. A very fine blue paste is 1 things there that never suit, and. tnis is sold by weight f< een done but for that pale manufacture of pasteboard. The . Bates in Service for Jesus, in circulation at this moment rep mi, 3,500,000,000 francs, and since it She Went. tion the bank has issued 35,500,0C The governor of the Bank of 3 iwii here to go out on the is M. Magnin, a fahhful represei she said to Officer Button of the government presided over 1 itree't depot yesterday morn- Jules Grevy, and himself vice-pr? ild a satchel in one hand of the Senate. The general corn ella in the-other. composed of two lieutenant-gove in goes in thirteen min- three honorary lieutenant-governo fifteen regents, among these the stoves in the cars?" Alphonse de Bothschild, and Baro safe, ma'am. All the cars tinguer, all chiefs of great French can roll over twice and not ing-houses. Several times has the of France been in a position to ; afe service to the government; once ii so." at tire ciose ot tue J: ranco-rrossiai : rails ever spread oil that it made the Bepublic a loan of i hundred millions. The shares < francs are quoted at the Bourse abont collisions?"' and during the last few weeks, 1'fc have any." -stock fell far below par because < ce for some other train to rumors of war, those of the Be rear end of ours?" France were reduced to only 4,525: on't know but I will take A Story of Two Words, but I want you to under- ? _ , T . . anything does haopen by "On, if I were- lucky enougii i killed my old man won't ^*is estate mine, I should be a tss than ?2,000, and mebbe fellow," said a young man. "And e burial expenses to boot." a friend. '-Ahy, then I( 1 down the old house, and build a ] Cut Flowers. have lots of prime fellows roun -4 Tract TTri-r?oC QTirl ilCCJl/ LJUw ^tQU ITJJUVCj C?MV% leant thing to have a vase or horses and dogs in the counrty." lovers to brighten up the then?" "Then I'd hunt, and rid* It and living room all sum- smoke, and drink, and*dance, anc hinds which are - beautiful open house, and enjoy life glork decoration are not suitable" "And then?" "Why, then, I sa bit all those that are good like other people, 1 should gro > ire equally effective in the and not care much for these tl e ;oodfwife should bear this "And then?" "Why, then, I si n D-aking her selection. Of in the course of nature I should we always good. AmoBg all these pleasant things?and? djffodils, poet's narcissus, yes?die." "And then?" "Oh, rjgtvort, lily of the valley, your thens, I must be off." aid bleeding heart all ap- Many years after the frien* A rcitli Toil f X-U5.U uaj" 1XU,IUO AuU 4rU9 cww^uvv* ^ T. These are followed by my happiness to you!" "How? pscjjhila, double feverfews, two words spoken in season long .d lance leaved coreopsis. In "And then?''?The Quiver. cone the pink spir*e.i, "but- ? ??*>?ea md many irises and lilies. * -*,CTV Way to Pay oi<i nctn*. ngs-tte showy grasses, the ? , ,, ; . . jv.ersr and the Japanese Snike?pc-are teds now uns caa oe Acd\hen there are hosts of P^iea ia <J_"e ?L his immortal p.: com^uom seed and bloom uc^f [? nal"re r;VJS, ' car. Ilhe tallerasters and ^ V 1 i, , . tue use ot Dr. fierce s uoiaen . ;?recutasams, crndy tuft, D;scorery.? lt b Eot ? ..cure & o _ coreopsis and single vaiua^]e for sore throat, bronchit tarsgolds and mignonette, mfl> catarrh, consumption and all , piiiKSj.pansies and douole 0f {jje pulmonary and other organs, Yiss, sc^ios,. sweetpeas and by scrofula or "bad blood." Sci of fciese are cheap, of ulcers, swellings and tumors are c ire, and^annot fail to furnish its wonderful alterative action. B; L fragrance all the season gists. "I don't see how you city folks li Ier,"-saidthe doctor, "the child I no exercise at all," remarked a cour ie timC~lt has both its grand j to his new boarder. "2\o exerci grandfathers and a candv-store { claimed the city man; ''guess yo' ne block. T " ? saw a fellow chasing a street car." A "VTESTEKN XEKKOB. SCI unk of j The Story of a "Western IIi~bwayman and How Some S( upeii<I- | a ."Mountain lion. tlic Mastc (From the Chicago News )' I troncss ' ari;u'-iug f=tory comes to us from The great resting i *ar ^est- For a long time an out- the world wi recei> lavfj^named Roach the Terror, had been mals were ' er^ad- th^-iourge of the mountain districts of nature's cha in, Idlno, and last month he waylaid and but many on the Proceeded to rob one Bivens, a wealthy recognition iDiver- gentleman who was traveling through palaeontolog - ? f.h/> Ti^rritorvn'n mininc hnsiness. While It} CYC" ?/ O ? - | vuAuirvi 3j axid. ^v0 were ^us employed?the'one in -xas too fasc: if, my robbing and the other in being robbed go easily kill 'notes ? ^eJ suddenly became aware of the pear at inter iiures approach of a mountain lion, one of ^d a 2sev n with those stealthy, cruel monsters that in- vritin.' as v be'rrllL. habit and lay waste the fastnesses of the "fact. "The Erancs, Bocky ^Mountain region. Roach imme 'onger, and< LOGO diatejy dropped his booty and skinned ered entirel > were up a tree as nimbly as he ever could; as learned. TJ sparte for the other man, he didn't stop to pick tions of one aceres] up his property?he followed Eoach up preceding a^ > tem- '"e *ree marked alacrity. The tion. in the 1 ac, in &erce hon, flaunting Lis tail savagely, logger ago t >67 its Peking his hideous fangs and rolling, ks ton?was?exl 00,000 giassy eyeballs suggestively, looked up that of a gia , at; tij.c i?u ixicu ucc cjoiu. jJtc^aicu (tj xaW JQIQe, i bank to ioin ^em. litted in the 'cs re- ''Have you a pistol?" asked Roach the restored afte iiidin" ^error- whole raiset at the "No," said Bivens, the traveler, "but cc >e ji in my belt I carry a knife fourteen inches ^E^ioua. dia tiding ^ng"" " fcubt respo: Petits "TheB," suggested the Terror, "sup- as a sad cod Bad- Pose J011 t"e that var- juedicai prof idence v^eu ke teachers out for us." time^it mav idence "Yes, but if I leave the knife in the was perfectly A_ lion." .said Bivpns. "ATnl if lift fulls with arinrvn+. Ilia opertv ^kat protection ^ave I from you? physicians' < -j of ^?? teeP an(* *fct Jou sh?ot human bone regi- critter ^h your pistol." _ In 1840 "] in the ""Yes, but supposing I do shoot him," btan, create 3(j IW0 said Roach, "what protection have I nouncing tfa " nr;pt. against your knife when my pistol is of Job, whic ?ts of e^Pty-" from the Sta "night Meanwhile the Hon was coming up the turned ou$, ] jteTde tree alarmiuo rapidity. He seemed & mastodon >y the gttv; three feet every way as he ad- JCoch had ad after vance$ foot l?J *oot- joints to the "The "Unless we can come to a eompro- chest, turnet: 31* the mise>" said Boacb, "the vermint will eat semi-circle, use it us Eet's agree to this: Yon stab into an aqua :andre ^im and I'll shoot him?at any rate, itself to tree second e^^er we folks or that crittcr has got to shaped tusks ontes- <^c-" " beredonthe o was "That's so," said Bivens, "and I ac- fae Siberian, e em- ceP^ the compromise." formations oi name. wiien ttie liou ?ot range Job, that rei ? Boach blazed away at it and Bivens makers. K there reached down and drove his knife clean London, whi as in- monster's breast. -British muse ade a r-^e hon fell to the ground with a bullet mastodon by jhou^d ^ole ^ ^ead and eleven inches of once recogni ?or steel in his lungs. Then Boach and L that ^vens descended from the tree. They leech tti had escaped so narrowly that thev could m _ i|.? no! be other than friends. Each was in- v^ey e*c*p? ?tru"- ^ebted to the-other for his life. They ' an*e * ue do resolved not to separate, and now they i orir,Ao are engaged in the ban cat buaness to- A , ft getherin the Idaho fastnesses.' - | xiiiy-iiiiiui E <? . y l.uioii sent fk03i teje solth. - its ordinary ussion pas&ngeis i ed to yne Hundred and Ten Negroes from Tliis listlessness b Were Section 3Iay Become tlie Cause of Some made Bu?fdl( photo- Trouble. with envy, iiosen. (From tlie Now York Sun.) "Take it 0 on of B. J. Coyle, of Washington, lias the off!" scream 18-10, contract for laying the new system of jumping intc n 400 sewers in East Orange, and on Saturday the bell-rope ,nd of lie secured 110 negroes from North Car-j one of the ion at olina and Virginia. They were brought^ fHer features n the on by three agents of a labor bureai|? her blac] ation, and, as the ag<: i> ts got a commission for intensity at t lerous each man, they made all sorts of repre- arm. k. A sentations to secure them, promising At first a s opera- ninny of them $18 a month and board, minds of the graved and others SI. 50 per day. Coyle could was a case of lier is not pay them all the agents promised the pretty v; is 50 and a row seemed imminent. To make- bracelet, the; take matters worse, the agents became in- A lawyer " each toxicated, and attempted to avoid any potter buildi ed to discussion with the laborers and to drive as well as place them into quarters in an old hat shop in leech and pu color Dodd street where a gang of Italians had the lady ha ad its been housed. The colored men did not Meanwhile 1 notes like the quarters, and were dissatisfied . did what t] to re- with the rations of meat and corn meal frightened si soiled provided by the contractor, Fearing a "How ma ISA IS riot, the contractor called on the police madam, in tl aps o 1 from Orange and East Orange, and sev- "Three!" ? back squads of men were sent to the "Why, ma after scene. The colored men had sensible i The shriei ed m leaders, who said that there would be Every ftmai< e time no row; but the police had plenty to do wearing one 3, but in protecting the druuken agents from But the luwj ; two the wrath of the crowd of men and boys ting of the < notes, which gathered and excited the ire of crippled in t s, the | the three fuddled men. They finally The la/iv i sealed persuaded the colored men to st iy in the to conceal bt --eight barracks until to-day, -when an effort out that she the re- -^jii be made to come to some under- known iron )r the standing with- them. They were quiet the Seventh notes yesterday, but demanded tliat the agents -with a swollt 'resent should pay their fares to their homes if down town t s crea- satisfactory arrangements were not made, her husband 10,090. cut too big a France The Cottoa Movement. When the hi itative > A/lvpTitnTp iif iy 31. In its weekly review of the movement weRt down_ rsident of the cotton crop, the !New lork Finan icil iS cial Chronicle say3 that for tbe week Auimt* :rnors, ending Friday, "April 8, the total receipts rs and have reached*29,o08 bales, against 34,115 There is a Baron bales last week, 40,298 bales the previous number of tl n Hot- week, and 57,716 bales three weeks since; -^ho have a t 1.1. t~l x' 4-1% yv 1 r.4- 1 _ _ _ a Dam?- maiiiug tut; wjiiti j.oo ui apoiogy ana ! Bank September, 188(5, 5,070,191 bales, against 0f adornmec render 4,891,989 bale? for the same period of the same is t l 1871, 1885-86, showing an increase since Sep- deprecating i war, tember 1, 1886, of 178,202 bales. brought up. several The exports for the same time reach a is natural an :>f 500 total of 49,964 bales, of which 27,9S6 want to look 4,550, were to Great Britain, 405 to France and tliat, it is a A when 12,573 to the rest of the continent. The ber circumsi of the total sales for forward delivery for the to dress well mk of week are 480,400 bales. For immediate jg any occasi francs, delivery the total sales foot up 961 bales, "gay" of he: The imports into continental ports have mystery. L been for the same period 64,000 bales. _ art, and it is There was an increase in the cotton in art is unkno ;o call sight Friday night of 10,106 bales as and cry abo: nappy compared with the same date of 1886, gible dxessin , n* an increase of 45,474 bales as compared izemostexfc 1 pull ^th the corresponding date of 1885, and sensible dres na.lartA .1 c n.-.~ nr\n 1 -i -i a aecreass 01 utucs aa uujlulkucu aowctv aiici d ^; with 1884.. found. Iti uLitbi fiie 0:.j interior stocks have decreased taste whose a _ daring the week* 10,578 bales,- and were lately destit ?,^ana pxidaj night 184,551 bales less than at whose arm 1 i rIeeP the same period last year. The receipts 0I1 everv a: ;US - at the same towns have been 2,136 bales that the'dre: ppose, jess than the same week last year, and harmful and w old, siItce September 1 the receipts at all the They see sir towns are (58,327 bales more than for the raleat Ex. ^Pose same time iu 1885-86. . P _ . leave The total receipts from the plantations " Toti since September 1, 1S86, are 5,154,351 bother hales; in 1885-86 were 5,195,883 bales; At the to1 in 1884-85 were 4,712,786 bales. Al- county, X. C 1 was though the receipts at the outports the on.May]U,t ,, ??e past week were 20,308 bales, the actual soldiers. \v Ik movement from plantations was only )? . int '->rL a?ro-iiQ.^A +.airpf, the last regu from t3ie stocks at the interior towns. f u_;^r. Last year the receipts from the planta- Johnston" *] tions for the same week were 25,473 ient to Gene accom- balcs' aii I for 1885 tlieJ ^ere 57>16- deliver the tys; out . ... t.*~" . promises to 1 iemand Thcr* are 'i;l startling developments in busiue:<s em hrou^h the Pan I ondle case. A former conductor time to pre; Medical 0:1 !-,e named Connelly is supposed to occasion ae i .but in- have been the leader of the gaug, and to atorZ. B. V is, asth- ^ave gotten away with an immense amount address. diseases ?f plunder. He got wind some time ago caused ^at the raid would be made and fled. He i ofuious ^ now iQ Kansas, but an officer has been uied by sent after him, and it is expected he will be . Neither a 7 dm"-- arrested and brought back to the city next reliable. 1 ? / .t. r_n J _ WCC&. JjGtWCSD 3U &ilCi oO 01 JJJLQ mrcsicu-- ?w 1 ng f.j railroaders will waive a hearing and give Tonic for d vc with ^onds to await the action of the grand jury. . fnln 'jaundi itrvman The cashier at the General Freight Office, wea'Lrippc se!" ex- Chicago, is said to be short s20?0UU. a never Why is a stage like a bird? Because it Tie labo: has "wings" and "Hies." - wagfes. EXTIFIC HOAXES. ! Ol'Ii GREAT C AIT AIV. dentists Dressed L> Farts of j Ketoiniscenees of General Lee fr xlon in a Fanciful Manner. ! era! Long's Hook. 'Scribner for April.) i (From :hc New York Sun ) lesson -which Cavier taught j "We are told that only twice dz as, that many races of ani- oiograpner s proiongea mumi entirely extinct, and that Lee was the latter seen to lose 1 in of existence had not one per, and thut one of these lap: missing links. From his self-control occurred at Sha of that fact the science of "Lee," it seems, ?;was riding y may be said to date. . But Httle in the rear of the line ; ous nature of the mastodon came across a soldier who had si inating an absurdity to be killed a pig, which he was surre led, and it continued to ap- i ly conveying to his quarters, vah. As late as 1835 we orders having been given agains England medical professor ?f every kind in jlaryland, this it were an nnquestioaable disregard of his commands th giant theory lingered still General into a hot passion, fwn TPt. hft fionsid- usuall greatly disinclined to cap: y extinct among the un- ishment, he determined to make ae dictum that-the*supersti- ample of this skulking pilfer age are but the science of ordered the man to be arrested a ;es receives ample confirma- back to Jackson, with directions iistory of this subject. Not him shot." The Puritan Ger ban 1S4G a mastodon skele- whom Scriptural precedents we: libited in New Orleans as as familiar as they had been tc nt. The craaium was made cell's officers, "couk< not quite fantastic wooden teeth were utility of the culprit's execution jaws, all missing parts were men were already scarce, and i sr the human model, and the him that it would answer the ' X-L- 1 n 1 Tx Tnifa no \c-o1I rvnf. f.nA l upon tue ujuu legs. j.o ? r? -? mveyed the notion of "a front rank3 of the army^fct tl boHcal giant," and was no threatened point." He acejsible for many nightmares. treated him as David is reported imentary on the state of the served the hasband of Bal ession in the southwest at the ' 'placing him where his chance c be added that the exhibitor shot was excellent. The fellow, 7 honest in his belief, and to fond of clandestine pork, was nc faith he had a trunk full of hag in courage, and behaved g certificates that these were He redeemed his credit by his 1 s. coming through the heat of tl Dr." Koch, a German char- unscathed, and thus though he ri a m-oof ctmcotinn hv an- pi;x, he may t>e said to have sa e discovery of the leviathan bacon." h he called'tlie Missourium, The author appropriately c( ,te where it was found. It ^he chapter assigned ^ to Get! however, to be nothing but 'where the star of the Confe preposterously _ mounted. fortunes passed into irreparable ded an extra dozen or more v>"ith the following anecdote, wh: backbone and ribs to the only on newspaper authorii 1 the tusks outward into a wIiich General Long deems wc and converted the animal belief and reproduction, because tic monster which anchored strangely consonmx with Jiis ow is by means of its sickle- nations of Lee's large-minded ; and then peacefully slum- variably considerate attitude : bosom oI the waves. Like "^nion men. The story was 01 , he found interesting con- told by a '"Grand Army" man, v : his views in the book of been viewiEg the panoramayl tl age of perplexed monster Gettysburg, and who said: ' och took his leviathan to the battle of Gettysburg rnj self, ere it was purchased by the incident occunred there which mm, and reconverted into a changed my views of the Souche Profpssnr Own who at pie. 1 had been a most bitter an zed its true nature'. nian, and fought aadcursed the _ erates desperately, i could see :es in a house car. good in any of them. The last the fight I was badly wounded; from a Lady's Pocket and shattered my left leg. I lay tny Ameunt of Trouble. ground not far from Cemetery m the New York-sun.) _ and as General Lee ordered Ins avenue _ car "was rolling ^e and Lis oiSeers rode near i )ng Madison avenue, near they came along I recognized hi street, the other day, when though faint from exposure and assortment of all sorts of blood, I raised up my hands, s-as startled out of semi- Lee in the face, and shouted as y a shriek that would have t coui(]j 'Hurrah for the Union > Bill's proudest Sioux burn General hear i me, Icoked, stop horse, dismounted, and came ff! Take it away! Take it I confess that I at first tho ed a nicely dressed lady, meant to kill me. But as. he c > the aisle, with one hand c.i ^e looked down at me with sue! and the other outstretchc:i expression upon his facc that i startled male passengers, j iefj jng und j wondered what were a picture of terror, j about Hc extended his baud k eyes gleamed wi tn frantic : an(j ping mine firnilv and ne wrist ?x iier outstretcned Hght iuto say ?jc*, ssd&i 'lly hope that you will soon be well.: uspicion swep* through the live a thousand years I shaJlnev< knowing passengers that it look upon Lt*e's face. There snakes, but on looking at defeated, retiring from a field tl Tist, set off by a jeweled cost him and his cause almost tt y saw a real live leech- . hope, yet he stopped to say suci who has^ an ofiice m the 03 those to a wounded soldier ng and who nas some nerve enemy who had taunted him us h( gallantry, plucked off the ^ soon us the general had t it in a paper box which j cried myself to sleep there :i] d carried in her pocket, bloodv grc und." ;he other lady passengers " Siev could to sooth the st<rr> THE TRAIN DISPATCHE3 ay leases did you have, Holds ttTuf. of Ev. le bos? asked the lawyer. ?nScri? Hi, Hand. >he gasped. dam, there's only one here." The traveling public have lor ' fliof TL'QC Q. /?>.ArnR I wont to bestow approval upon i passenger thought she was engineers for the self-sacrihein, or both of the other two. which they exhibit when the li er found both in the mat- trusted to their care are endanger jar, and one of them was ^ the annals of the rail these he excitement. rences are so frequeLt that pa; omped off the car spitefully generally picture the man at the ;r embarrassment. It turned 01 the locpmotive as a hero by \ was the pretty wife of a well ^ position. These opinions merchant and member of servedly held, and it would Hegiment, who was at home grossest injustice to detract fr m leg. His wife had been honor which self-abnegation o get the leeches to feed on merits; but there is a class of 'sleg, but the druggist had employes, almost entirely nr.k-'. breathing hole for the ji. j passengers, whose responsibirit isband learned of his wife's j much greater and whose slightes ) laughed till the swelling nugnt jeopardize tue ii>es u on trains more than any overs 0 n the part of conductors or engine ; Plea for Present Styles. it is indeed strange that they seldom mentioned in the public ^ . class of women, and the This class is the train disjj iem is unnecessarily large, whose every order is implicitly ;endency to assume an air of by trainmen; and while the cre^ self-excuse when the love train is responsible for the move it and eagerness to achieve thai train alone, the dispatcher alked of. They assume a his hands the lives of every in air when this subject is on every train on the road; an And why should they ? It road having a large trade the dt d fitting that women should posed on him are very great and f , and dress well. More than Kis position in the railway se voinan's duty, just so far as unique; were all.trains running ances and means will admii, and provided for on the periodic nn/l tostofnlK- Wliv thorft fcahlft issnAfl bv the ftomuanv. hi on for a woman to make a have no duties to perform; bu rself for "beauty's sake" id a will get delayed and occasions w ressing, to be sure, is an requiring extra trains, or trains only to those to whom this any specified time or rights, to wn who are raising the* hue over the road, and then his serv it "dress reform" and 4'sen- necessary to avoid hours of dela; g." The women who theor- All trains on railroads are di\ Austively upon this so-called classes, according to their imp sing are apt to be the most generally two, passenger and ridiculous anywhere to be and all trains of one class runnii ; the woman devoid of all specified direction have the rigii figure is scrawny and abso- road, or need keep no lookout fc ute of any lines of beauty, of the same or a lower class run s long and bony, that is sure the opposite direction. Thus i id all occasions to declare sumed that on a certain raiiroa< 5sing of the present day is running eastward have the right . injurious to one's health, over trains running westward; ' l lurking in every ruffle and east-bound passenger train can whole length of the road in enti gard of ail trains; another p: be Dead of BentonviUe. going west need only look .~~Z~- ,, r , . the east-bound passenger trail ten of SuiithSe.il, .jonns^on ^he freight trains must keep out a monument will ue unveiled < ? . o the memory of Confederate ^ ^?LtI P^s?nge* trains an ) fell .it theoatttoof Benton- tram framing I, 1865. Ttie engagement w;?s action prescribed as lianng ti lar buttle of the war, and v s ?* roadcontested. The Coufede^ : kvery one understands that a commanded by Joseph v;. are charted or have a time g r " - ? ?i!? nuocinrr ei-Q-f-irvn TrniVlj ? LASl V\ CK. 1*11 IIIVIUUIUII Wcto WtWCUiQ WA'w-Ui. Wwcwv/u, ., ral Johnston to be present and no instance be anticipated, and ] address. General Johnston train men know where all oth< be present, but says that as his ought to be at any particular ; jagements do not aiJow him if Un time; but as trains freque: pare an address worth of the generally get late the train of must decline thut honor.- Sen class must nave its movement e acce will therefore deiivei the some extraneous cause or it ^ delayed for hours awaiting a fa U1 Men are .\ot Bad. h* been wrecked or has t back for some other of manj re all prepared remedies un- I'ken the duties of the train dj 'his is proven bv the results are of importance. He will ae use of Dr. Harter's Iron give p^der to the delayed ' yspepsia, rheumatism, scro- telegraph directing it not to go ice, torpid liver and general ia certain place which he think ' 1 "'> *- ix? 1 i_ . . * j reacu wihiouc aumcuiiy, aEia xu ! the opposing train to proceed rer is worthy of his higher t same place and there pass ti ? train and in that manner the i - .. - ; - \<. . . - ' i enabled to pass each other -without any a j delay to either. His great responsibility om (.en-1 consists in that he may have a dozen An Ex,ra0 i other trains in his charge at the same time and in directing one train to go Muephyi iring the beyond its usual place to meet another cuit court icy with he may neglect to give an order to the than cr.mi iiis tem- second train and in such an event a col- sheriff ann es from lision would probably ensue, much prop- jail charge rpsburg. crty be destroyed and probably liv^ be Mississippi along a lost. ended in a vhen he It will readily be seen that the slight- When tb ;olen and est mistake of a train dispatcher might er's bos th ptitious- cause serious results; and in this respect "You ar< I'-- /wafl+fi* I ova Trr\n9" -L UOIUIC ill>> respuilillljjjj.tj' IS ^IHJWaKIXJ ^isauw. UU.V. jr^v?. it pilLige tlian that of any other individual under "Wal, y< flagrant whose charge the public are placed. A case, jedg rew the pilot on a vessel may lose his reckoning, stealin' it Though bat the fact soon becomes apparent to didn't stea ital pun- others, and his capacity for mischief is laughter.] ! an ex- thereby lessened; other railway em- they get P< er, and ployes may neglect their unties, and is a worser nd taken rush headlong into danger, but their wimmen, j > to have associates generally realize the situation thing. [R< teral, to before any unfortunate results ensue; the court] re quite but the slightest behest of a train dis- boat, but I > Crom- patcher must be, obeyed without ques- I took my 1 see the tion; even though to do so would "Then i q, when jeopardize the lives of those receiving August ten t struck the orders?though of course tmtil an "Xo, jed. purpose accident results the train men are igno- till August ' in the rant of the i'act that they have been given "Have j ae mo?t wrong directions. r . ; )ou: ordingly Instances of oversight of dispatchers 4<^o, anc i. to have are extremely rare?much less than of got no mon thsheba, neglect of conductors and engineers to for keepsal >f being adhere' to the orders given to them?and goo1 la wye though while they perform their onerous duties poor one. >t -want- almost entirely unknown to the people me." allantly. whose lives they have in their control, The cour bravery, aud therefore never receive the meed of lawyers to < lie fight praise due them, travelers ought at least With awl lost his be made acquainted with their duties language h< ,ved his and the important part they play in the but blamed rapid and s^fe movement of passengers. When th< jncl.ides - - - sisted on re fcysburg, . ' w.wrs ax endorsement. thesituatio deracy's - ,, 7 , . eclipse, ,e PatheIip Appeal o! One of Alexander U. C*em? ich rests Stephen*'# Old Servants. { Aft6r &H J J, but m, (From the Atlanta Constitution.) ^Se' til? i11 rtby of The following rather pathetic epistle 'Sth^oS it is so ^as among those recently received by I ^ -ft nobser- Governor Gordon: 7 of not guilt, and in- Hosr. Johx B. Gobdon?Dear Sir: ~ toward Pardon me for taking the privilege of iginaUy jntmglto yon to ask a favor of yon. A Dakota Gi ao had AtDout two months ago I was discharged to Dc te battle ^ a messenger in the Interior Depart- ,v I was in aient on a false report, and the Hon. * 7;Jtu S and an Jaa H. Manning and an ex-member of largely Congress from the State of Mississippi rn peo- instructed me to write to you, knowia- g.lett? fci-South j you was a personal friend of mv ~ 4iOTaniiOT n* with a lead (J0HX6& -w-vu. w.. OHly to Cilli nothing Stephens, and ask you would you be their"first lc dav of kind enough to write to the Hon. Henry tal, and rea< a "ball Harris, Third Assistant Postmaster- T-a on the General, at Washington,. D. C., in my eide"the lan Kid"e behalf. Mr. Gordon, I was always faith- now. 3^ 1 retreat'' ful in discharging my duties as a mes- jg ?ick, and ne." As senger, and of all the moneys, stamps aca 02jy eig m and and other valuables that I handled or money, and loss of passed through my hands of the depart- our claim, looked ment> my employers will say to-day that "Ma wan loud as t^ey never had the least suspicion of my buy soe (j '?be honesty. Furthermore I was true to jg awful col< ped his my ?ld master. I was faithful. I served ^ ha. toward kim we^> ^e ?a^ be put me hardly keep ught he in ^e department, upon this he felt aine ud b?nndto serve me some too. I' was in Gordon, 3 1 a sad General Toombs's brigade during the The iette all fear war and served there faithful as a ser- gioner Spai he was vant- I have crawled up on my knees routine of t to me aad kands, over a mile, to carry mj iet;erwas'w lookin"! fiends something to eat that was in the her that the son. I: defense of their section of the country the claim in jj" j i and General Toombs Iit*s ofnon said 1 apoeol'had i :-r forget j neTcr forgot my natural ritual. I know 0f the interi t 0 rc-i-./-\ tott "taacf. fnV'nrlfl orA ATr ftfxk-nh^nc mi. - 1 _ lie waa : j xne untie gi oat Lad i 531(1 lfc are the duty of those that ^ fo jjgJ Leir last Tv'ere elevated to high, lofty position to commission i words '??k upon the humble and poor with the decide ma's of the eye of pity for this reason I appeal to "told ma tl 3 passed 7our sympathy, your charity and to he wo left me yoar generosity as the Governor of the trouble but jou the ^ old State that give me birth to Thislette look upon my humble and deprived con- <>orresr>onde dition with pity. I beg of you, sir, hurry his ac with all the humbleness crowning the * act of a servant to write to Mr. Harris at erv the earliest date as your conveniences will allow you in my behalf. ' f0u0, I remain, sir, your most humble and c|ay statue < ig been obedient servant, Piekce Lafaiette. which is Spirit! it is hoped, ? I Political Calculation*. front r,r thA ves en- Westmorela :ed, and [From the Cliarlotte Cbroalcle.] 0f the tomb i occur- ' The Philadelphia Record has discov- who fell in' sengers ere(j that the Republican organs, espe- ceedingly c] throttle cially of the North, are calculating how and the fac< irtue oi ranch the Democratic party lost, and Low from his o are de- ]^*le the Republicans were affected; in General in 3 be the the recent Mayoralty elections in New promise of om the v0rk, Chicago and Cincinnati The boy is fathe always Becord further notes the fact that be- truth. The railway etlllSe the Republicans have insisted upon simple cap, 10 wp. to rigidly maintaining their party organiza- an oak tree, y is so! tioas in municipal contests it is not a to about th( >t omis- ^iga 0f healthy political development. It Bible, witl f people indicates, rather, a continuance of that leaves. Th ight on -^regenerate partisan spirit that always turned frorc ers, that the party above the-public interest, is erect and ar$ so \Vorkingmen everywhere should, never- catch the lij )rints. theless, make a note of this fact that the the fold of 1 iiiuiiti.-:, jKepubiican newspapers exalt in tne reveals in p obeyed separate organization of laboring men and compa r of one ^ politics as a means of injuring the small feet f< ment of Democratic party. There is no doubt famous, are holds in ^afc ^he organization of a Labor partj slim, boyisl dividual jn national politics -would draw by far breeches bu (1 on a the greater portion of its strength from had, by a r ities im- j^e Democratic masses. Monopoly in opportunity irduous. ^ji forms would rejoice in such a di- of the like: rvice is vision as affording the best guarantee for hereditary 3 on time perpetuating its abuses. But the Ameri- anything, ial time- can workiugmen are not to be caught in ngure in < } would third-party trap. While they fre- studio a lad t trains qUently make diversions in municipal tors, who w ill arise ejections, in which strict adherence to Cooper, da; without party is often a vice, they do not fritter cousin. Oi be run ia^ay their strength in national contests about 15, b ices are -wiiich. great political interests are in- ^o the boyii 7; _ . volved. The third-party trap that was relative, as ided in set ^th bold Ben Butler for bait caught stranger's e ortance, r*ew Democratic workingmen, and it is stock; and, freight: liV^ltr tn mffth mari-c nf +Vit>m ten I m, * years hence, no matter with whom it Lee, thong] t to tne be baited. The Democratic party moved, and >r trains LS the workingmen's party. Why, then, affection an 111 should workingi_ui be guilty of the folly ciured that _t is as- Gf form;ng another for the benefit of mu&t be sat i - trains their political opponents ? ness, apart of way ?: ... ^or? then an IJIoody Riot in Denver. run the v i re disre- Denver, April 11.?A bloody riot ocassenger curred here to-night between rival I was in t! out for Swedish, Polish and Hungarian colosies, eral waitim ;, while at 34th and Blake streets, which resulted when a De ; of the in the fatal shooting of five men and the under his vc 1 of the serious wounding of several others. usual," indi* ; in the It grew out of a christening festivity, arable Repu ae right When the christening party had eaten cat. who ws A a. I era! v uas e 11 trains walk and made war upon the inhabitants T va^oc^ iven for of a neighboring house. Others in the D,^fV j i can in neighborhood became involved and the 3;-p.1 hence all uproar became great. P ir trains It required a detachment of a dozen cil1!c''' ''WiU' moment, police, armed with Winchesters, to quell- ever\ bo?'y i utly and the disturbance. Three or four police a {rcmeudc inferior first made their appearance, when the here ever s spedited riotors postponed their contention and and 1 supp may be joined forces against the common enemy.* office with rain that Ihey could noc stand against the rifles, other man, >een kept however, and about thirty were lodged Post. r causes, in the calaboose and some in the hospiispatcher tal. probably But one or two of the prisoners can tV- . . train by speak English. They are all ragged, wi , beyond dirty and spattered with blood, and have devastation s it can the appearance of belonging to the low- thousands a L> directs est type of humanity. Many of them inward fire 1 to the arrived in Denver only a week ago, direct tion of the . ae other from Hungaria, Poland, Bohemia and by Dr." P ;rainsare other parts of Europe. , coveiy." * . KOAKIXG FAKCE. rdinary Scene in an Illinois Court. .V i.VpSj 5bobo, HL, April 6.?The drclosed -without trying other cal cases. At the dose the fliaf a "nvicATcr rtraa '!n : 1 with stealing a skiff on the i. The case was tried and it laughable farce. e prisoner entered the prison- -3^?|laBj s judge addressed him: 2 the man who stole the boat, is; but thar's a pint in the e. They charged me with '' in the morain', but I 1 if; till after rJart. fflrfiBf ' I don't want to be tried tOI iter Cooper (Ms partner.) He man ner I am. He steals girls, fish-hooks and overyears -of laughter, joined in by Pete ^wanted to keep the intended-return it after thing* dowi-t^ie river." ve must defer^trial till the ge, I don't want to Me^nTifca? I want to be tried now." ^ rou an. attorney to defend l ciqju h wtuii any. x louut ey but a few German coins Les. Tliey wouldn't hire a r, and I wouldn't have no He'd only make it worse for t appointed three prominent ;ward gestures and uncouth j admitted stealing-, the boat, i jury took the case he intiring with them to explain n, but this the court hearthour of wrestling with the ry, to the consternation of id audience, and the disgust ? icution, brought iff a verdict KBYEN'G UP T.A'W'A'ltLrl Who Wanted the Secretary - / ' ;cide Her "Ma's Case." the Cincinnati Enquirer.) rl eight years old, residing Dakota, has written the folr to Secretary Lamar. .It on a small piece of paper pencil, in a style peculiar dren vrh^n chey are -writing tters. Every letter is a capi\UES: "Won't you pleas9 ded case that is in your office las to work out, and "IVfiTmie I have to do the work. I ht-years old. We hain't no . jjigc iiluvn xs iaj ts to get some money so we ae close and get a horse. It I here al Mitchell, Dakota, ve to burn hay, and can't r was referred'to Commis:ks, and went through the lie land office, and an official commissioner had decided . favor of her mother, but an boon mr.de to the secretary. . Or, where it is now pending, rl wrote another letter, simiprevious one, begging the er "to get jilt, r mmara uj c&se. Lige Moon," she says, lat if yon decided in ma's nid not give her any more Lige Moon lies." r was also answered, and the nee seiit to the secretary to Lee as a Boy. ;* V . ^ing is a description of the )f General Lee as a boy of being modeled in Italy and, will be erected in marble in - . house of Lee's chilhood __in nd county, Va., on the ate s of many of his followers the war. The figure is extiaracteristic and full of life, ; rejuvenated by Mr. TV-ftTripl wn bronze portrait of the ater life gives eloquently the what was to come. "The r to the man" here in very i right hand, holding'a little, rests on the small stomp of while the left, brought up i level of the waist, clasps a i one finger between the e youthful figure is slightly i i right to left, and the head thrown back a little, as if to ght breeze which blows apart / K/vr-'c Wnnco arul art the promise of strength ctness in the figure. The >r which the Lee family are finely modeled, as also the , : 1 leg, in its neat stocking and ttoning below the knee. I aere chance, an interesting r of judging the faithfulness aess as a mere likeness, if resemblances are to count for While I was examining the ietail, there came into the y with three pretty daughas introduced to me as Mrs. . : ighter of General Lee's first le of the young ladies, aged . \ sre so sinking a resemblance >h portrait of her illustrious > : to make it certain even to a -' ^ ye that they were of the same indeed, Mrs. Cooper (who is ' -- % led the '*niece" of General bieallythe cousin .once rel was on terms of the greatest d confidence with him) deany member of the family isfied with the striking like- >>3^ from the artistic merit of the t'eteraa at the Business. he room of the Postmaster Gen- -' j my chance to speak to him, ?jLuaiui o*u.u LVJ LLLC> )ice: "Wait got here first, as catiDg with his thumb the venblican member from Connectiis in the revolving chair at Genar. ' 'lie always gets here first lie always gets everywhere is the obstacle I always run he Navy Department, at the apartment, at the Pension Office resident's. That's why he is The'Vorst of it is he knows - ^ n Washington and it gives him >us advantage. He has been iince Johnson's time, I think, >ose has got more people into in the last 20 years than any living or dead.?Washington A Terrible Fire. ^ :hriil of terror passes over us cad the record of some fearful by fire, and yet it is a fact that ltc daily being consumed by the of fever, caused by consumplungs, which could be subdued . 'v~*|?S ieroi's "Golden Medical Div