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2 ' VOL. XLIII. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22, 1887. NO, 47. * ? - CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAGS. | TTV'Kl.VK HISTOKIC IiANNKKS OKI SOI TH CAUOLIXA'.S SOLDI KKS. ' General Drum's >Ianlv Letter to the Se<-- j retary o 1 AVar?'The Fia;;s from the I'almetto State?The President's Final ! i Action. | (Special to the Xews and Couiier.; Washington, June 15.?The sugges- j tion of Gen. E. C. Pram that the Confederate flags which were captured dur-' ing the war, and have for twenty years been stored in one of the attic rooms of j the war department buildings, should j -t X- i_?_ - Qfofoo fA I De returned to me C UUbWa WV I which they belonged has caused a great deal of comment. The letter of Gen. Drum to the secretary of war is itself one of the most notable contributions to the history of these times. It is the letter of a brave man and a true soldier: Gen. Drum's Letter. Wat. Depaet3?i3xt, j j Adjutant Genebal's Office, Washingxox, April 30, 1887.) Hon. William C. Endicjtt, Secretary of War?Sir: I have the honor to state that there are now in this ollice (stored in one of the attic rooms of the building) a number of Union flags captured in action, but recovered on the fall of the Confederacy and forwarded to the war deoartment for safe keeping, togetli- j er with a number of Confederate flags, which the fortunes of war placed in our hands during the late civil war. While, in the past, favorable action has altfays been taken on applications, properly supported, for the return of Union flags to organizations representing survivors of the military regiments in the service of the Government, I beg to submit that it would be a graceful act J to anticipate future requests of this na- j ture, and venture to suggest the propriety of returning all the flags (Union ! and Confederate) to the authorities of j the respective States, iu which the regi- j ments which bore these colors were or-1 ganized, for such final disposition as ! they may determine. While, in all of the civilized nations ! of the Old World, trophies, taken in j wars against foreign enemies, have been j carefully preserved and exhibited as j proud mementoes of the nation's milita- j ry glories, wise and obvious reasons have | always excepted from the rule, evidences ! of past internecine troubles which, by \ appeals t'., the arbitration of the sword, i have disturbed the peaceful march of a people to its destiny. Over twenty years have elapsed since j ^ _ the termination of the late civil war. Many of the prominent leaders, civil and Iilitary, of the late Confederate States " > now honored representatives of the L' 1 *?* ? r\fV?cky? cn-.inA^t C1UH5U Ui J-U. VUUV4 V ? jsitions lend the aid of their talents to j ne wise administration oi the affairs of i ihe whole country, and the people of tiie j several States composing the Union are i now united treading the broader road to j a a glorious future. Impressed with these facts, I have the j K. honor to submit the suggestion made in i this letter for the careful consideration j it will receive at your hands. Very truly yours, JR. C. i)BU.Ai, Adjutant General, j 'The endorsement of the secretary of war upon this letter is as follows: Wap. D?rAi:x3iENT, May 2C, 18S7. The within recommendation is approved by the President, and the Adjutant General will prepare letters to Governors of those States whose troops | carried the colors and flags now in this I department, with the offer to return j them as herein proposed, the history of each flag and the circumstances of its capture or recapture to be given. * War. C. Kndicott, Secretary of War. JL In accordance with the instructions from the secretary of war, Gen. Drum prepared thev following letter which was sent to Governor Eichardson: War Depabtiiest, , atjjtttant general's opfice, Washts-gtcx, June 7, 1387.) To Governor J. P. .Richardson, Columbia, S. C.?Sir: The President of the United States having approved the I ^xecoiasnendation that all the flags in the f """ custody of the war department be returned to the authorities of the respective States in -which the regiments which bore them 'were organized, for such final disposition as they may determine, I am instructed by the honorable secretary of war to make 7 on (in the name of the war department) a tender of the flags now in this office belonging to late volunteer organizations of the State of South Carolina. In discharging this pleasant duty I beg you will please advise me of your wishes in thi* matter. It is the intention, in returning each flag, to give its history, so far as it is possible to do so, stating me ClTCCmSULUCCB UJ. iio a.u.u. IV covery. I have <he honor to be, very respectfully, your obedient servant, R. C. DkujI, Adjutant General. The South Carolina Flags. Among the captured Southern banners are twelve ilags widen were captured by the Federal troops in battle or were picked up after the surrender of Charleston. Some of them are of very great historic value and it is-hoped that they will be carefully preserved when they are finally turned over to the State of the valor of whose troops they are so precious a memorial. The following is a brief description of these flags and of the circumstances attending their capture: Confederate battle flag, captured from South Carolina regiment at the battle of Sharpsburg, September 17, 18G2, at the stone wail in front of the 1st brigade, 3d division, 9th army corps, by Private Thnm?s Harp. Co. "D." $9th regiment, ^.JSew York Volunteers. Private Hare was afterwards killed. w Confederate battle flag, captured at "^Slalvern Hill, near James Elver, Virginia, July 1, 1862, by Sergt. W. J. Whittrick, Sod Pennsylvania Volunteers, Butterfield's brigade. This flag was taken from a South Carolina regiment, who piled up their dead to resist the attack of the brigade. Flag of the 11th South Carolina Volunteers. Inscribed Port Koyal, Cedai Creek, Swift Creek, Petersburg, Junt 24, Weldon Bailroad. Flag of the IGth South Carolina Volunteers, was captured bv Capt J. W. " " ? *1 r-ii, OCOIZ, v^ompaiiv JL-jius X CAIU&JJLvania Volunteers. It was taken from the hands of the color-bearer on the line during the engagement of April, 1,1865, at Five Forks, \ a. Confederate battle flag of the 27ti South Carolina regiment, captured bj Private F. C. Anderson, Company "A,' 13th Massachusetts battalion. South Carolina State riag, no history Confederate battle Hag, captured b; Gen. Sheridan's forces September IS 1861, from 8th South Carolina Infantry Battle flag of Sumter Flying Artillery captured in the battle of Appomatto; Station, April 8,18G5, by Chief Bugle Qkas. Shorn, 1st Virginia Veteran To] 1 untcr Cavalry, 3d brigade, 3d cavalry! ! division, Gen. Custer commanding. Battle Hag of the Sumter Heavy Artillery, captured in the battle of Sailor's Creek, April G, !So5, by Sergt. George ; J. Pitman, Company C, 1st New York | Lincoln Volunteer Cavalry, 3d brigade, i 3d division, Gen. Custer commanding, j I Gaarison tlag, '-Secessionville," James j j Island, S. C., defences of Charleston, j j captured February, 1805. Presented to : the war department by Prig. Gen. A. Schimmelpfennig. | Garrison Hag, "Fort Moultrie," Charleston harbor, captured February 18, 1S?>. Presented to the war department by JBri^r. Gen. A. Schimmelpfennig. Garrison flag of the Citadel of Charles- \ ton, S. C., captured February 18, 1S65. j Presented to the war department by i Brig. Gen. A. Schiinmelp: ennig. The President's Action. Washington, June 10.?The following i letter was sent to the Secretary of War by the President to-day in regard to the disposition of flags captured by the Uniou forces during the late war: I have to-day considered with more care than when the subject was orally presented to me the action of your department directing letters to be addressed to the Governors of all the States, offering to return, if desired, to the loyal States of the Union the flags captured during the war of the rebellion by the Confederate forces and afterwards recovered by government troops, and to the Confederate States the flags captured by the Union forces, all of which, for many years, have been packed in boxes and stored in the cellar and attic of the War Department. I am of the opinion that the return of the flags in the manner thus contemplated is not authorized by existing law, nor -ustified as an executive act. I request, therefore, that no further steps be taken in the matter, except to examine and inventory these flags and adopt proper measures for I their preservation. Any direction as to the final disposition of tbem should originate with Congress.- Yours truly, Gsoveb Cleveland. At the request of Governor Foraker, of Ohio, that counsel should be retained to institute legal proceedings to enjoin the return of the Confederate flags to the Governors of the Southern States, Gen. H. V. Boynion to-day selected Samuel Sheilabarger, of Oi^'o, and George S. Boutwell, of Massjvoi'asetts, to take charge of the case. These gentlemen expected to have an application for mandamus filed in the Supreme Court of the district at 1 o'clock this afternoon, but were delayed by the non receipt of the necessary telegram from Ohio. The ?- .TV/ 4 I 1 TY> Cl "f \ papers i-'uscvi .j , the Secretary of War was about to dis-1 pose of public property without authority of law. The letter of the President, however, made further action by the attorneys unnecessary. Gen. Fsirchild I wives. Washington*, June lo.?At a reception i to Gen. Fairehild, commander-in-chief j G. A. E., in New York, last night, ten-! dercd by the Alexander Hamilton Post, j Fairehild delivered an impassioned i speech uuon the proposed return to the Southern States of the flags captured in i the late war. He spoke under strong j excitement, and almost his first utterance I was: "May God palsy the hand thit wrote j the order, may God palsy the brain that j conceived it, "and may God palsy the tongue that dictated it." In the course of his speech Fairehild said: "C-* 1 A i/i A 1? V>oc "Oincu liuuuii jlovji me ?j. -i. it,, u..w been the friend of the South, we have no sort of hate or malice against our old ioes anywhere and are ready to extend then the right hand of fellowship. Not, withstanding all this X most eraphatical| ly assert ihat the Southern States have | no manner of right to take from us the i relics of the late rebellion in the shape ! of Rebel flags. What would Missouri, j Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina I and other States do with the flags if they had them? Would the Governors of these States place them in their State capitals as emblems to be revered and to teach coming generations treason? Xo loyal Governor of any State in this Union will receive them. They will say: 'These are relics af a dead past. We are members of the Union of States and can not receive these emblems of treason."' Fairchild concluded by stating that he spoke in defence of the Southern people, whom he felt sure would feel insulted by having those flags thrust upon them. After Fail-child's address, resolutions were adopted as follows: "That the President of the United States, having approved there commendation that all battle flags in the custody of the war department belonging to Southern States in rebellion during the late civil war be returned to the respective States -svhich bore them, for such final disposition as they may determine, this post views with surprise the action of the President, and records its protest thereto; that the sacrifice of blood which captured the emblems referred to was a sacrifice to liberty, national union and to God; that no sentiment of generosity and no expression of magnanimity is involved in the surrender of these cove * ' * > l nants 01 national nonor; iuhl it* miy remains to direct that the bat-tie flags of the Union be distributed among representatives of the so-called Confederacy as a fitting acknowledgment of the righteousness of the 'Lost Cause;' that this post expresses its disapprobation of the act of the first President of the United States who has held the office disassociated from memories of the war for the Union." Other Protests. Protests against the proposed return os the flags have been received from the Governor of Wisconsin, the Governor of Kansas, the Governor of Iowa, and from many other prominent men at the North and the West. Over-Worked Women. For "worn-out," "run-down,"debilitated school teachers, milliners, seamstresses, , housekeepers, and over-worked women generally, I>r. Pierce's Favorite Prescription is the best of all restorative tonics. It is not a "Cure-all," but admirably ful. fills a singleness of purpose, being a must potent Specific for all those Chronic Weaknesses and Diseases peculiar to women. It is a powerful, general as well as uterine, toiiic aud nervine, unci' imparts vigor and ' | strength to the whole system. It promptly ' j cures weakness of stomach, indigestion, !i !)': weak back, nervous prostration, I ciei-ilny ;:nd sleeplessness, in either sex. j F-:.'oiile Prescription is sold by druggists under on:- r^Uice guarantee. See wrapper around bottb. Price $1.00 a bottle, or si.\ t bottles for $0.00. ; A large treatise on Diseases of Women, profusely illustrated with colored plates and numerous wood-cuts, sent lor ten cents i in stamps. Address, World's Medical As ! sociation, 663 Main street, Buffalo, N. Y. ] A gkoup of Axakchists, numbering . ninety men and women, has been discovr ered at Columbus, O." A blasphemous , secret circular issued by the group aavo. cates arson and murder, and even th( , killing of the wives and children of capis. talists. The Knights of Labor in Cor lumbus unsparingly denounce the An archists. WOMEN lit LING A CITY. Am! l>oing-lt Fully as "Well as Masculine Ortioials Could. (>alina, Kan., Letter to Memphis Appeal.) ! I Lave just returned from a trip on the San la Fe road, west. Syracuse, sixteen miles from the Colorado line, was the Mecca of my pilgrimage, becausp here, April 4, they elected a city council of women, and I was bent upon seeing the town that had made this innovation, and the women who were filling the council chairs. I -wanted to ask the people bow it came about and how it was working. Tbe first of these ladies introduced to me was Mrs. E. B. Barbour, a fair-faced, gentle-mannered woman, with an unmistakable air of business about her. I found this accounted for by the fact that she is a business woman. Her husband J',es a large and complicated business; the books are entirely in her charge. Mrs. EL D. Knott is a business woman, too. I expect much of Mrs. Knott in the management of their Suffrage Society, because of her experience in Iowa as president of the Eighth District Womap Suffrage Society. Mrs. Coggeshall says they were very sorry to lose Mrs. ICnott from their ranks. She is chairman of the Syracuse aldermanic force. Mrs. M. M. Kiggjes is a quiet little woman, a careful and conscientious mother and housewife. She has a way of making up her mind for herself and standing lirmly by her convictions. She has a reputation among Syracuse male citizens for being a person of excellent judgment. Mrs. S. N. Coe is a woman of excellent ability, with enough conservatism to keep her enthusiasm in proper check. No one of these women is more anxious to do exactly rignt tnan is Mrs. Coe. She is sister to Mrs. Lemert, president of the Saxon Equal-Suffrage Socicty, organized at Dodge City by Mrs. Saxon and named for her. She Las several such namesakes in Kansas. Mrs. L. M. Smartwood, the fifth member, I did not see, although 1 made an .effort to do so. She was confined to her home by sickness; but I am told that she is a woman of ability and that she is by no means behind her sisters in any requisite for her position. My short acquaintance with these women convinced me that sitting in council chairs and wrestling with questions of city polity have had no effect to unsex them ?whatever that may be?for these were rs womanly women as jl i?-d.\r evtu. scuu. I looked in vain for masculine tendencies. There was not a hint of it in dress or manner. Meeting tiiem on the street or in the cars, you would never guess that they were city officials. From conversation with them I learned that they were exceedingly anxious to make their administration a just one?one that would advance the best interests of the city; and when they spoke of advancing the interests of their city they betrayed the fact that they had in mind the city's moral as well as temporal prosperity. It is said of them that they are doing better work than the body of men who composed the previous council. Their townspeople say they were elected because "somebody proposed it and eveiybody was pleased with the idea;" because "it was believed that they would j make excellent officers;" because "the fnmwaxirsffo "n?>An!a f/hrvrich t women ! wouldn't be afraid to enforce the prohibitory lav?;" because "we wanted to advertise oar town"?iuis last irom a m<. mber of a real estate firm; "because women would take time to do the work well and thoughtfully." Altogether, I was pleased with my first sight of a woma i council. This is the only one in the United States. A DECIDED MONSTROSITY. A Very Strange living Keccntly Horn in the Old North State. A dispatch from Asheville to the Knoxviite Tribune says: Conspicuous among the freaks of nature in this section of the State, is that one just reported from the little town of Coopers, eight miles east of the city on the Western North Carolina Railroad. Information this moinine reached here that at this place, on jesterday, a child with two heads had been born. Finding the physician, Dr. B. I. Wilson, who attended the mother, he confirmed the report and gave a fall description of the freak. ! The child with two heads, the faces i being opposite. The front face is per| fectly white, the one at the bat k is not i regular. There is only one neck for the j skulls and the hair on the forehead j comes down to the eyes. The ar-^s of this being are covered with a heavy and shaggy growth of hair, entirely to the wrists. A number of people to-day went from the city to see this monstrosity, and were astonished at its remarkable peculiarities. Bath and Havey Lythe, two reputable and hard working colored people, are the parents of this strange being. They live in an humble cabin close by the Swarre river in the suburbs of the village. The child is an unusually large one, weighing about sixteen pounds, and apparently two feet long. It is amost white and has facial features that are rather pleasing, when the shaggy forehead and rear head are concealed. Its voice is not that of the human young, suggestive of the lower animals in its strange unnatural cries. It has not taken nourishment from its mother's breast, but greedily swallows what is otherwise given it. The mother appear attached to this strange creature and refers to it most endearing terms. 2s umbers of our citizens from the surrounding country have to-day visited the cabin, and gone away in wonder. Al ready tlie adaptability oi tne irean. 10 we demands of the museum has been freely discussed and it is said that business oilers have been made and declined. Lamar us Judge. A Mississippian said recently to a party of gentlemen in Washington: i Secretary Lamar could never do for judge. Why, do you know -what happened to him on a street car the other day? He came into the car with a French novel under his arm, jammed himself down in a corner, ran his hand into his pocket, pulled out a fifty cent piece ami put it into the box. It was a "bob tail" car, where passengers pay their own own .tare. Then he poked his nose into his book and began to read. A lady on the opposite side who had seen his mistake, caiied his attention to ! it, saying: "ilr. Lamar, you put fifty cents in the box.*' What iie did was the funniest thing I ever heard of. He inf.n tIia l>r>Y a minute absent j miadedly, thrust his hand again into his ; pocket and pulled out a nickel which he also dropped into the box, as he said: "I made a mistake! Oh, thank you, thank you. Guess this will make it aU , right." . Land ComnssioxEK Starss says thai about 25,000,000 acres of land will be i taken from railroad corporations thai are not entitled to them, and will b( . thrown open to settlement. This is on< . of the good results of Democratic ad' ministration. THE VALUE OF THE OATS CROP.! FACTS AND FIGURES JDRAWX FK(JOI ACTUAL EXPERIENCE. f ; How the Grain Flourishes in Diirtytent Sections, and How it is 71.idea Profitable Crop. (From the St. Paul, Minn., Farmer.) From the results of the analyses.of 1G0 samples of American oats collected from all parts of the country, the Department of Agriculture at Washington* has" rendered a service much needed. The results prove much variation of the oat grain in its plumpness and relative proportion of the kernel and the husk and other physical qualities. The kernel is found to be in proportion of 7 to 3 of the husk?the samples from Western States contain least husk. Where the white cats will grow they are generally heavier, and have a larger proportion of kernel in consequence. Connecticut oats weigh 29.3 lbs. per bushel, Dakota 1S.G lbs. and Colorado IS. 8 lbs. The average of sorts being 37.2 per bushel. . The Pacific slope 43.2 lbs; Northern States 3S; Southern 31.5, which is 2.7 lbs. lower than the average is ior me wnuie uuuutxjf uwjujljj h-> looser liusk. Oats from Washington Territory gave 7G.1 per cent, average of kernel. One sample gave 70.?8 per cent., and one sample from Dakota 55.37; but the amount of meal from the best varieties does not exceed 50 per cent, of the oat. The warmer temperature of the South lowers the average weight, and the average yield is relatively about 10 bushels per acre in the South against 30 for the North. This is an item of value very necessarily to the farmers' interest, and should be taken seriously into consideration. The relative quality of oats is a money value, affecting the miller as well as the fanner. Of the 179 samples analyzed, 18 samples from the Pacific slupe were lower in albuminoids, and richer in fiber (husk) than the average for the whole country. The average composition oi oats was found to be: In the kernel. In the husk Per ccnt. Per cent. Carbohydrates 07.09 Albuminoids 14.31 2.48 Fiber (skin of grain) 1.38 *17.88 Oil 8.14 +Not Estimated Ash 2.15 5.59 Water, 6.93 5.22 -Fiber of husk. fOnly 1 to 1* per cent, in the husk of English oats. As the husk and kernel are given to stock it was considered desirable to examine the husk to see if any variation existed in different localities; the results proved that the hulls from Western territories contained less Albuminoids than j from other localities. But as a wholeJ the oats showed more albuminoids and" j oil than other cereals. Ohio samples were the highest.ia_albnmiaoidg, ^ Texas samples the highest in oil, yielding us much as 11.20 per cent, and compare favorably with Scotch and best English oats. By extensive selection and introduction of heavy oats from Sweden, Norway, Poland and Scotland, and distributed extensively by the Department of Agriculture, the quality has been greatly improved, and the last five years the acreage under crop very considerably increased in consequence, so that oatmeal now figures in the exports of grain to Europe. As corn is too heating m summer for horses, there is a greater demand for oats, as the more wholesome and nutritious ration for horses. The total area under crop for last five years a-ns lS.fi28.029 acres, against 11,076,822 acres (annually) in the previous ten years. With the improved milling and bruising process of oats by rollers, recently introduced, and sold now in America as "rolled" or flattened oats, it is reasonable to conclude that we shall soon see the increased demand as an article of diet and drink or beverage for the table much more appreciated, owing to the more nutritive quality than the corn preparations as articles of food, many of which are only "corn starches" and lack the nutritive albuminoids? flesh, blood, bone and brain forming elements of nutrition. There is a natural dislike by the cooks to stand over a fire stirring tlie "oatmeal grits," which have to be boiled and stirred for a long time to keep it from burning and to get softened, as the hard skin prevents the hot water dissolving out the starch and gluten. The rolled or flaked oats is easily cooked and easily digested by the j - * -1--1 -j j 1 most delicate man, woman or cunu, imu is uothing more or less than pure oatmeal, which is growing more and more into favor. It only requires to be better known to be more popular as the most desirable food for child, invalid or robust man or woman. Finer meal is made, which can be used in making puddings, cakes, thickening soups,, broths, or suet and bread dumplings, of higher nutritive quality than any other meal or wheat flour manufactured. It is a specialty likely to expand and grow into an article of food of vast uses for export. When treated by the new process of milling, the kiln drying does not yield the same Scotch oatmeal-like odor and taste as Scotch and English oatmeal samples, but it the more easily replaces other Hour or meal in cooking, and making sundry articies of food in which the high kiln dried and roughly ground oatmeal cannot be used. The nutritive properties, however, are the same, and more palatable to many invalids or children. Following up the subject comparatively with the numerous and complete analysis of English and Scotch oats, under the direction of the late Prof. J. F. W. Johnson, the eminent agricultural chemist and geologist; by Prof. J. P. Norton, of Yale College, laboratory of the Highland Society of Scotland, in ?the most elaborate and important investigations on recovd, either before or bince, deserve special notice?which occupied eighteen months of constant labor. Pre lessor Norton found samples of Hope-town oats dried at 212 degrees Fahr. to yield the following results: Per cent. Starch 65.24 ' Sugar 451 - Gum 2.10 Oil *5.44 : Casien 15.86 Albumen 0.46 L Gluten 2.4/ Epidermis 1.18 Alkalies 2.84: Total 100.00 ^ Protein compounds 14.00 * Nitrogen 2.19 5 *The oil is of a beautiful pale yellow ' color; its smell may be perceived on heating oatmeal cakes. Seven per cent. rnay.be taken as the average?about as i much oil as is found in corn. American samples seem tenacious and bard, and therefore it is necessary that oatmeal grits or groats should be ground into meal and not into grits. In like mahzter oats for horses should be bruised in order to get them thoroughly digested; ii.is the common practice in England^ .and found to be far more economical in feeding horses on oats. It is noteworthy that the Hopetovn variety grown ix^forthumberknd, was remarkable for weight, which was grown on a sfluVlv soil suffered from drought and I yieldecLonly three quarters per acre. The btner samples, grown on deep, rich vegetable loam mould, produced eight quarters per acre, and less ash. As the oat grain constitutes three-fourths of the weight, it will carry off 45 pounds of j phosphoric acid per acre, and GO bushels pel acre carry oft 300 pounds of bones per acre. In-Conclusion, Professor Norton sums up Ms 18 months' arduous labor thus: "Wu-pee-tfiat even including the 'husk,' the oit is superior to any other corn in the ingredients which go directly to the production of muscle in the body. The strong muscular forms of the Scottish ploughmen have long been living witnesses to the good properties of their favorite and almost only food; and, now that it has been shown what those properties really were, I feel sure that Dr. Johnson's definition of 'oafs:' Food for man in Scotland, and for horses in England, will be remembered only for its good and appropriate answer: And where will you find such men and such horses? We may add, and where in America wilCyou find any man like Professor iNowon at His own expense ana time aevote 18 months' labor in investigating witit others such important practical research into industries of world vide importance and interest? The importance of the subject in the growth of the oat, and comparative analysis of the st raw at different stages, in like manner Professor Norton conducted his investigation, deserves more notice and investigation of samples in every State of America by the Washington board of agriculture, -which the chemists there seem to have left undone, and their investigations consequently incomplete. Surely this will be soon investigated and published. T.iE "WIDOW OF J 1CKETT. Heroism of a Soldier's Bride?A Perfect and fearless Kider and a Brave Woman. (From the Baltimore American.) The recent recovery in Washington from a severe illness of the widow of the late General George E. Pickett recalls one of the most interesting stories that come back to us from A"U^v T4-f r-.Vki "ivi ic Vt/vr rtavA tiiC Wfti XtC AJJLIWVQU XkJ JUV* v*v I v tion to her husband in all the hours of his hardship and danger. Privation, sickness or suffering of any kind only served to bring out more beautifully her heroic and womanly nature. Daring the closing year of the war she followed him to the battle fields, lived under can- j vas, and went through camp life like | a soldier, being repeatedly under lire i a^i making narrow ? japes, yet still remaining faithfully by his side.. When shf married him she was but fifteen a^e; beautiful in facs and. foncv giftiP.a fn n-r?/f in, licr ixar ture. She was, too, a perfect and fearless rider. When the war was over an effort was made to take from General Pickett the privileges given him by the GrantLee cartel, and they went to Canada. TliPrfi thftv had no friends, no money and no prospect of either, with a youug child to care for. But her brave nature never faltered. "With that indomitable courage "which never deserted her, and aided by her superior education, she obtained a professorship in belies lettres and took care of the family untii General Grant insisted that the cartel should be kept, and they at once returned to their home. General Grant then tendered General Pickett the position of Marshal of Virginia, but he accepted a position in an insurance company with a handsome salary attached. Though all then seemed bright, the worst sorrow was yet to come. In a few years General Pickett died and she was left to her own resources. It was then that her helpless condition aroused the South and a subscription was started for her, headed with $8,000 by the State. She firmly declined to receive this upon hearing of it, and shortly afterward secured a small government position, sufficient to support herself and family. Among her friends and visitors are some of the leading society and official people, whom she occasionally entertains in a mcdest but dignified way. The Cotton Movement. Tiie New York Financial Chronicle, in its weekly cotton review, says that for the week ending Friday evening, the 10th instant, the total receipts have reached 4,032 bales, against 7,599 bales last week, 9,765 bales the previous week, and 10,626 bales three weeks since; making the total receipts since the 1st of September, 18S6, 5,179,919 bales, against 5,207,94'J bales for the same penqd of 1885-6, showing a decrease since September 1, 1886, of 28,030 bales. The exports for the week ending the same time reach a total of 5,588 bales, - i- --1- A orn 01 W0JUX1 4,00J vvcxc t-'J ui??i uui, to France, and 2,729 to the rest of the continent. The total sales for forward delivery for the week are 700,500 bales. For immediate delivery the total sales foot up 8,612 bales, including 7,017 for export, 1,595 for consumption. . The imports into continental ports, for the same period have been 34,000 bales. There was a decrease in the cotton in sight, Friday night, oi 46,311 bales as compared with the same date of 1886, a decrease of 21,025 bales as com - ** *1- _ r pared with, the corresponding aate ui 1885, and a decrease of 273,389 bales as compared -with 1884, " Old interior stocks have decreased during the -week 1,587 bales, and were Friday night 70,471 bales less than at the same period last year. The receipts at the same towns have been 4,387 bales less than .'for the same week last year, and since September 1 the receipts at all the towns are 03,104 bales less than for the same time in 1885-6. The total receipts from the plantations since September 1, 1886, were 5,183,518 bales, in 1885 6 were 5,311,006 bales, and in 1884-5 were 4,740,493 bales. Although the receipts at the outports the past week were 4,032 bales, the actual move ' ? 1 O.-.Q ment irom plantations wws vi??j JL,UC/V bales, the balance being taken from the stocks at the interior towns. Last year the receipts from the plantations for the same week were 1,839 bales,' and for 1885 they were 489 bales. A wife slyly attached a pedometer to he.husband's coat when, he went out- after tea, "just to balance his books." The little meter told of 15 miles on hif. return. It it a Ion? walk around a billiard table for so many hours. Use Dr. Pierce's "Pellets" for constipa tion. A PLAGUE <?r SNAILS. They Are Kating Every Growing Thing; in Center County, Peunsyi anin. (From liarrisburg special to New York Sun.; The entire lower portion of Center county, Pennsylvania, is at present plagued by a most extraordinary visitation of snails or garden slugs. Tliey come from their Gliding places in crevices nniler board walks, stones, etc., only at night, and they cover the roads and walks by the million. In Penn's valley and Bloomfieid and the surrounding country they have eaten every growing thing in their path. Some gardens have been entirely destroyed. A letter from Penn's valley says that mornings after warm nights walks and roads are literally covered with the slum these insects leave in their trails and by bushels ot dead -snails that have been crushed by pedestrians and wagons. Lime, paris green, salt and other insect destroyers have been scattered liberally where the snails travel and ieed, but they have had no effect on them. The singular part of this plague is that no insects of the kind were ever known to be in the conntry before. Where they came from or what influences have brought them there so suddenly and in such immense num1 * 1 "U~ oers is a mystery no vuc oias uccu iiu?c to solve. V Noble Federal ScIJipr. Among tlie orations delivered on the Federal Decoration Day, that of General Si. G. Griffin, at Hadley, Mass., will cause pleasure at the South. General Griffin was one of New Hampshire's soldiers in the war between the States. TT was afterwards a Republican membei J'ingress. The subject of his oration was "The South of To-Day." The Bosiod Herald reported his speech in full., and from that journal the following condensation is taken: "Within the last ten years, Gen. Griffin said, we are told that 12,00'J miles of railroad have been built in the South, and more than ?.">00,000,000 has been expended on railroads in the Southern States. The assessed valuation of prop- rty has increased during that time about ?l,o0u,000. There is $200,000,000more capital invested in the South in cattle alone than there was ten ? -'Ho JCi'ifS I liU iiiiJio iia.* ^ uvuv;cu in number and in capacity in the last four years, ami cottoa oil mills have nearly quadrupled in the same time. The nation is familiar with the great increase of iron production in the South, and knows that she has the largest deposits of coal and iron in the world. The iron mines of Northern Alabama. General G"i!:iu said, which ten y-v.rs ago might have ! oen bought tor $50,00 ), to c!ay could not be bought for $5(1.000.000. The city of Birmingham, t>i w,,h i: ;-lteut;I \>a has often been directed, h.:? grownup in that time. To show how the iron interest of the South is increasing, it is stated that from IbiO to 1-iS-i Virginia, Alabama and Tennessee increased the product of pig iron 200,000 tons, wh.'ic in ail the rest <;f the Union the product decreased 0,000 pounds." Gen. Griliin h;ti made tiequeiu visits to tin: South and is familiar with business operativesia this-ection. lie hears testimony to :he cordial good v. hi of this section for the North, C;:?>ideriug the fact that Ger. Griliin was an officer in the Northern army daring the war and since a Republican member of Congress, his statement ou?fht to be convincing. / The Savannah _Yt as thiuks that it is >;ych f>fla-?*5ss us ii#ot.Gen, Grifac-tiudC umke att StK-tion? or tne coann^'-igaHT-tTae:' The people of the South are in the Union and they mean to *tay there. All they ask is that their protestation of loyally to the government shall be accepted in good faith. a View. The New Yobk Herald's financial article in a recent issue takes a hopeful view of matters, aud says that just now the prospect is especially cheering, since I the recent rainfalls have done incalculable benefit in regions that had been suffering from drouth. The financial and industrial indications have likewise improved. The iron trade is better; higher prices are bid for steel; the demand for woolen goods has improved; many thousands of striking workmen have returned to their labors; Europe, fearing lest her own crops be late, is buying our breado+vi-pfo at tnliovml sterlincr ex OUliiAO UV j. , -W change is very uracil lower: immigrants in vast numbers are passing through Castle Garden on their way to develop new territory in the Wist; bank exchange.,, :akiug the country as a whole, are very large; and the temper of the people generally is cheerful, and indicative of confidence in the future. The Pacific Railroad Commission has received from the Commissioner of the General Land Office a report showing in tabular form the quantities of land granted to the several Pacific Railroads and patented by them. This state, ment shows that the Central Pacific Railroad had a grant of nearly S, 000,000 acre?, of which it has received patents for 1,040,210 acrt-s, and has vet to select 6,-113,712 aerej. The Uui-.>n Pacific was granted 11,309,844 acres, and has vet to 3 1.17 !".>n Xfrf* Ti.fi Pa ciiic had an original grant of 6,000,000 acres, of which but 1,788,252 acres have been selected. The r: maining roads of the Central branch of the Union Pacific, the Western Pacific and the Sioux City Pacii'c have made selections amounting to upwards of 71.3,000 acres for nearly ; i ail o? which patents have been received. A >-js\v musical prodigy of Paris, the j child Hoffman, continues to excite the greatest enthusiasm wherever he appears. Without considering him as a modem Mozart, he has certainly wonderful execution, facility, memory, and a remarkable talent for improvisation. He listens attentively to a _ melody which he hears for the first time and immediately, without a moment's hesitation or study, he carries that original theme through a dozen or more variations, never losing it, and never giving it more embellishment than its rhythm and musical idea can support. Hoihian comes from Vienna, and is said to be only nine years. Gexekal E. P. Alexander, a wellposted man in railroad matters, thinks it very doubtful whether the Inter-State Commission will suspend- the fourth clause of the Act after the 5th July. He thinks that instead of f rigid enforcement of the long and short haul clause, the line ought to be drawn somewhere, and he indicates the rule which he prefers as follows: "No rates below cost; free competition above cost." The following is from the Springfield Kepubiican: " 'If any Southern man dares to raise the American flag, shoot him on the spot!' This is one of a series of new i.?l,V>n nooz-l in tin* .Tr>Tin Sllfil' wiitciinuiuo cu iwvu i-j- ~ mail campaign." The Pee Dee Index thinks that "it will be difficult to find any one to replace Dr. McBiyde. If possible the State of South Carolina should keep him at the head of her famous college. The man who succeeds him must come with a reputation already made. Xo experimental man at this juncture should be tried." WAS HE A MAX OF DESTINY? Au Iowa Soldier Whose Wounds Frightened a Railroad Out of a Lawsuit. One of the most remarkable railroad damage cases on record is thai of 1). H. IVlcKiuley of Osa<re. Iowa, against the : Northwestern. McKinley was a ha^e { mau, powerful and athletic. One day, I vf>:irs :\<ro. whnn it was onstnm.-irv to ! reserve's, car in each passenger train for ladies and their escorts, he left his sachel in a seat at Harvard, 111., and returned to the platform to bid his friends good-by. Upon attempting to re-enter the car the brakeman stopped him with the query: "Ladv in the car, sir?" "No, but I have a grip." Can't let you in; it's against the rules." Drat the rules!" and with that McKmley forced his way through the door. Just as he passed, the brakeman hit him a terrilic blow on the left shoulder, fracturing the bone in three pianos. McKinloy turned, picked the brakeman up with the right hand, dashed him to the floor, and nearly tramped the lungs out of him. Then he stepped into the first law office he came to and began suit for $25,000. The railroad attorney to whom the defense was committed had some difficulty in looking up McKinley's record, until quite accidentally one dav he met an old Iowa friend who was well acquainted with the defendant "Why, Mc-Kinley," said the Iowa man, "was one of the bravest, and at tiie sainc time one of the most unfortunate, of soldiers. If he hadn't the constitution of a cat he'd have been dead years ago; and if his wounds hadn't kept him in the hospital so long he would have graduated from the rebellion a brigadier instead of a captain, lie was a marvelous lighter. McKinley started out a private with the 8th Iowa i 1 1861. He led a charge at Blue Mills, Missouri, and was shot through both h;gs. lie was promoted to a lieutenancy for gallantry, and upon leaving the hospital in July, 1862, was assigned to tiie 24th Iowa infantry, then forming. His next setback was down in the Vicksbarg campaign. At Champion Hill a shell. exploded over him, one piece crashing through his face, near the right nostril, and lodging in his throat, another imbedding itsell m his bram. Inserting a finger, he coolly picked the piece out of his throat and then coii-.psed. it took months aud months to restore him. The iron never -was taken out of his brain, and eventually a ruu i. t)g sore came in the roof of his mouth. 1 Ha rejoined us in November, 1863, at New Iberia, in southwestern Louisiana. 1 The day he returned to duty his company happened to bo stationed near the 1 drum corps in dress parade. At the : first beat on the drums an unearthly veil escaped him and he'.fell to the irround almost dead from nervous prestation. He was returned to the hospi- 1 tal. Again he set oat-ir.'the spring of | Ifc-64 to join his command, which was following the unforrumite Banks through 1 !he Red river campaign. The steamer c nveyiir2r?h;:.. np the river was attacked above-Ai^fadria and r'uldled. He but he had to go back to ' saw MeRi nlev again until :}ment got around in yirginin, He returned to us~1n the Sheridan campaign. By this time the boys had all . ome to regard him as a 'hoodoo,? and the first word that passed along the line was: 'Mi-KinleyTS back; look out for a fi^ht* The battle of Fisher Hill followed, but he went through it valiantly without sustaining so much as a scratch. Theu we thought that perhaps he had struck the limit and his luck had changed, The nigot following we were pursnin<r the enemy down the turnpike. Everybody supposed there was a cavalry deploy ahead, and we were marching listlessly, waiting for the echoes of an engagement. As we were plodding up a defile a volley of artillery and enough musketry to keep it respectable comiwnv struck us sanare from the front The confederates were intrenched at the summit of the knoll which the pike crossed. Every one fell flat and crawled out the best wav ne could. The rebels were afteward dislodged, and retreated with our corps in pursuit. Among the killed and wounded Mcivinley was found, shot through the hip twice and his thigh bone broken. I was left with another drummer to take care of him until morning. He wns placed with twelve other wounded men in a cabin at Edinburgh. About midnight :\Iosby, prowling in our rear, raided the town." Myself and chum crawled under the cabin. The guerrillas walked up.to ;he door and iired a voliey into the dying men. Eight of them were killed. At least a dozen holes were shot through McKiu ley's eot ana covering, our lie had received his last wound ot the war, to the close of which he was confined in the hospital. "The next time I heard of McKinley was at Cedar Rapid? in 1867. It was during the state fair. One morning, in I scanning a local newspaper, I read that he was there representing the Beloit Roofing-Paper company. He was superintending the unloading of a car full of the paper, for exhibition, when a careless running switch threw a car against the one in which lie was working. ! knocking him down and breaking a ' l\vo Winters auerwaru uis ieaiu ' ran away with him at Osage and he j had three ribs broken in the wreck." "Any further casualties that you know of?" asked the attorney. I understand that he met with two serious accidents when a young man, but I am not familiar with the details," "W-e-1-1, I guess we don't want any ! lawsuit with him, if he d-d whip the brakeman." McKinley was paid $20,000.?Chicago News. Tired Out. When natural gas was first made use of in Pittsburg for fuel the agent of company wanted an old Dutchman to become a customer. "I tell you aboudt dot," repiied the old man, as he felt of the back of hi.I head, "it vhas all right if nature makes ! dot gas for nothings, but I liaf discovered dot when somebody vhorks for nothings he gets tired oudt by and b_v and go; 5 on a strike that makes your aead sir-vim." Someoi the natural gas wells are nov; 0:1 a strike which will probably i-.avc no ? IShtu.l X<;. J A Louis clergyman pr-jackou his' o;i:?;i.iy night against liie ballet i:i opera. He probably thinks, and rightly too, tliat old ladies should bo at home iu the evening.?Sew Ilacc.i News. While a man was goins: to bed in St. Louis lately, a small hand. wearing or. one linger a ring, suddenly appeared, raised the chimney from the lighted lamp to a height of six inchcs or more, moved it toward the astonished observer a short distance and then dropped it to the floor. The man has the broken ! chimney in proof of the truth of the story. A STUPENDOUS STEAL TiiE KOIJBEKV OF JAKJE SHARP AND TIIK NEW VOKK ALDEBMEX. The Theft Was Not Less Than ?10,000,000 in Gross?Gotham's Great Susceptibility to the Offers of Bribers. (From the New York World ) It is very well understood now that it cost Mr. Jacob Sharp very near to $60,000 to get iiis Broadway franchise from the Board of Aldermen. This does not include his "attorneys' fees" nor expenses at Albany in securing the passage of the General Railroad act, which made his Broadway franchise possible. It is very well understood by those familiar with the facts that the total cost to Mr. Mr. Sharp was in the neighborhood of $1,300,000. p What a costly franchise it would have been, then, had he bought it at an honest sale! He risked SI,300,000 of bribe money, the chances of a legal 'for feitnre afterwards and of the criminal prosecution?that has in fact come to ' him?in the dishonest purchase rather than to attempt to buy the franchise at it? real value. The twenty-two members of the Board of 1S84, Heading Clerk Maloney and General Manipulator Keenan pocketed $600,000 and sold the franchise at an annual rental of ?40,000. They at first gave it for nothing in excess of the 3 per cent, on gross receipts required by the law, but when the World, Mayor Edson and the general public raised such a row about their ears, they had another meeting and agreed to demand of Sharp an annual payment of 4 per cent, on $1,000,0110?or $40,000. J L JJ5 ci CUI1U LLC ujjlchu mm IJ uvuoov but misguided people say about Sharp and the Board of '84 that we would not have had a railroad on Broadway at all if the franchise had not been given then, and that the briber and bribed were not, therefore, so guilty, after alL Let* as see: The City of New York is getting from the Broadway Surface Railroad Company for what is probably, considering the length of the road, the most valuable railroad franchise ever granted by a municipality to a corporation, the sum of 37j,S49.94 a year. This sum is made ' up of $40,000 a year rent and 3 per cent, of the gross earnings, which, on ?1,061,665.80, the gross earnings for the year ended September 30, 1886, gave ?31,840.94. In the course of the Cleary trial, Mr. ^ t - r% ?j. xiei'.ry juacomoe, ^uuiitsci w ujlc (joration, since appointed by President Cleveland a Judge of the United Stttes Circuit Court, was on the -witness st'inh This was on March 21, and during his cross-examination he was asked by Mr. Ira S hater the following question concerning the araount received by the city from the Broadway Surface Company: "You regarded this as a fair rental, didn't ^ ou?" Mr. Lacorc.be answered: "I regarded it as quite sufficient to protect the city in..the percentages it. should receive.' As to rental, I thought it a fair value." Mr. Lacombe probabP spoke without consideration. ftecent 'events, in any event, prove him wofully wrong. On May 30 last?only a little less than two years after Sharp began to run his cars on Broadway?tiie franchise of the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-ninth street crosstown road and of the Fulton street crosstown road were put up for sale at auction by Comptroller Loew, under the provisions of the Cantor Bailroad law, passed after the granting of the Broadway franchise. The former franchise, for which there were two bidders, sold > r\$ rrrncc T"nfjC XVJi MU'M gcuu VA LXiV gAVww *VVV?^W) to which, must be added, under the General Street Kailroad law, a per cent, on the annual gross earnings for the first live years and 5 per cent, thereafter. The city will, therefcre, receive 29.2 per cent, on the gross earnings of that road tor the first five of its operation and 31.2 per cent, every year after the first five years. For the Pulton street franchise there were three bidders, and it was finally knocked down for 35 per cent., making the city's rent for the first five years 38, and 40 lor the subsequent years. As the Broadway franchise is undoubtedly much more valuable than either of'these, it is safe to assume that * 1? ? ?<?>-%<? 44- V^orr^ Vuion liie C u HljJG Ll LIU 11 IUi lb WVUiU 1MM IV ks wm more eager, and consequently that the city would have secured a considerably larger percentage if, like them, it had been put up and sold at auction. But, admitting that it would not have sold for any more than the Twenty-eighth and Twenty-:iinth street franchise, how much is the city losing annually by the compact of its corrupt aldermen of 1881 with the corrupting boodiers who are reaping the benefits? The gross earnings of the Broadway Surface Railroad for the year 1885-86 were $1,061,665.80. They are likely to be larger instead of smaller in the future. ' * " A1--J Unoi'o Jtsut, accepting mat stun as a. n*u. vacua of computation, 20.2 per cent, of it would give the city $310,006.4:1 a year for live years. Alter the expiration of live years the city would receive, at 31.2 per cent., $331,239.72 a year. As the city is getting only ?71,840.94 per year under the corrupt disposition of the franchise, it will lose $238,156.47 annually for five years, and afterwards $259,389.78 annually forever. i If, as it would be perfectly proper to assume, the Broadway franchise had sold for as much as the Fulton street franchise:, it would have brought into the city treasury $103,433 a year for five years and $224,6G6.62 a year for all time after five years. On this basis of calculation, then, the city is losing at the present time by the corrupt compact $331,583.00 per annum, and it will lose after the lapse of four years from date $352,816.38 a year. Do these figures make plain the full extent of the city's loss by the venality of its 1885 aldermen? No, and for this reason: Money is worth at the present time in New lork city fully 15 per cent, per annum, and $352,810.38 would pay the interest at five per cent, on $7,056,327.60. Therefore, when those alder men gave tne uroauway. irancmse lor 871,0'M) a year and their own corruption fund, they gave away for no consideration v.'hatever at least $7,056,327.50 of the people's money. - So it was that, by paying ?1,300,000 in bribes, Jacob Sharp intended to save . five and hJf millions of money which, with the thirteen hundred thousand besides, he should rightfully have paid for the franchise. And, when each of the aldermen pocketed his $24,000 bribe, he sold out the people of New York city to the amount of ?7,000,000 in gross, or over ?352,000 a year in revenue. ?Bottles suspended from fruit trees and containing a little syrup will catch myriads of insects, many of which are hurtful to the fruit.