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g? . ? ~ p YOL. XLIV. . WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4, 1888. NO. 36. , m r ' * A Mystery of the Sea and the Romance * of a Wreck. ; . CHAPTER HL "Sff ALONE AMONG 5IANT. . ' When Miss Denharn had finished her ft account of the shipwreck, Beckweth, with all traces of his lighter mood gone, expressed a deep interest in Hattie Harper's history. He said that, al-i i though he had known her for bat a single summer, she had always been associated in his mind with the recollec^ ,tions of his boyhood; for during that W time she had been his constant and - ?? ?t ^ - r\ viii. - :i 4 oniy piaymaie. \jixh xuue iuuiueixu , now came to him as clearly as if he' had heard the statement made "but yesterday. He remembered the vehemence rwith which little Hattie used to declare on all possible occasions that Mrs. Harper was not her "own mamma.". 'Where is she now, Miss Denhara?" he concluded. "I can not tell," she replied, after a mnmpnt's hesitation: arid, had her face ^ not been-in the shadows of the deep,' w high-backed arm-chair in which she sat, her questioners might have seeuthe color come and go from her face.. "I knew her well in Chicago, several years ago," she continued, soeing that Beckweth was greatm v ly interested to know more. "Her ^ father and mother by adoption both died in the same year, when she was about sixteen years of age. They had ho relatives in whose special charge T _ ^ ^ c-iiey caveu. 10 piauu uei. so jue uc^amc the ward of an old friend of the family. (The latter saw that she had a good home?even a luxurious home?and that she was liberally educated. When of age she came into possession^cf what for most persons would be a liberal fortune, willed her by Mrs. Harper, who, surviving her husband, had been made the recipient of all of his -wealth." "Poor child!" said Mrs. Horton, "I I ' ' am glad to hear that she was well prowled for." "Well provided for! yes, in one Tray!" said Miss Denham, speaking with a suppressed energy not uncommon with her. "She appreciates the natural benefits that she enjoys; but I they arc nothing compared to what snp h<i<; hpen dftT>rived of. Do von call it, in the trne sense, being well provided for? Can one's full measure of true manhood or womanhood be developed by feeing denied the priceless as^ sociatio'iS of home and kindred, except for a g&s* period in childhood, when one's u.\rure hr~less :i|>pioulaUvc limn at any other time? Can a home pur-, chased -with money, however much Mndly feeling, or even love, accompanies it, or can . friendship, warm-hearted and true though J?_may be, ever fill a mother's, father's, broEEer's or sister's place in the heart? Are there not those -wnose temperament is such as to cause them at times to experience untold anguish at witl AM 1TXSELF AN OKPHAN, YOU KNO^ ,-nessing the blessings that 1 have men . iio^cd, and which they are denied. J3ut, worse than ail, what tortures may ;they not undergo when haunted by the thought that possibly they never had a natural right to those blessing3. If . so, need their anguish necessarily be k shorn of envv, or of unappreciation of 1 friends?" Miss Denham became conscious, by the surprised looks of her nrsrero ihat towards the close of this outburst she had spoken with unusual ve hemence. In describing the misfortun^ of her friend, she had seemed to have' Twot) ctirrpd tn the verv deoths of her heart Had the trouble actually been her own she could scarcely have shown more feeling in the matter. "Excuse me," she said, coloring deeply. "I always become absurdly enthusiastic over the theme that Hattie Harper dwelt on with me so pathetically and so often. I must own though," "** always catch your tubbot before eating it." jshe added, more gently, and apparently "with some reluctance, "that I have Shared those feelings with her to a certain extent I am myself an orphan, you know." "I do not wonder," said Beckweth, ctthat a person whose mental characteristics hare led her into such a channel should have developed in childhood a desire for th'e proper recognition of her true relation to those about her. Hattie's early solicitude for her 'real mamma,' never left her, it seems." "Kb. She loves and reveres the naapory of t^ose vrbo supplied JJte place of her natural parents; but it rs still, as it ever has been, her most sacred wish to know who the latter were, and to learn something of them.1' "It seems to me," said Mrs. Horton, "that, although it may be a difficult matter after so many years have passed, it ought not to be impossible for her to at least learn who her parents were. Did Mr. Harper ever make ail effort in that direction?" " He made several efforts; hut some persons have not the gift, you know, of conducting a thorough investigation in any thing. He was one of that kind, I presume." "Hattie Harper," said* Beckweth, musingly, "I should really like to meet her again after this, and renew her acquaintance. Aunt Alice, did you see the skett-h of Fisher's Island that Miss Denham made? 'Ko?' Well she made one the other day, and I am goinsr to hesr it of hex*, frame it, and han? it up here in the cottage as a memento of my little childhood's playmate, and of this evening." "Really," said Aunt Alice, "you have disposed of that picture, which is not yet even yours, with all the assurance of a Gil Bias. How do you know that Miss Denham will give it to you? 'Always catch your turbot before eating it!' used to be a good motto when I was young. Come now! one of you, finish reading 'TheNewcomers' to me; we have not had any of Thackeray for two or three days." v y CHAPTER IV. 11 ; v > ^ t A CASE CP PSYCHOLOGY. ' A " Back from a continuous line of wharves, and running parallel with them, is a long, narrow street of q great commercial city. The latter now contains a few of the oldest bonded warehouses, but for the most part has long since been abandoned to a miscellaneous collection of small stores, beer saloons, sail-lofts, truckmen's restaurants, shipping and towboat offices, junk shops, "sailors' homes," ship-chandlers' shops, and the Mke. On this street, hemmed in on either side by tall brick structures running many stories higher than its roof, stands the last of the old wooden houses of a century ago. This relic, for some unaccountable reason, has withstood both the ravages of time and all dangers- of destruction attending the increased value of the land on which it has so long stood. The out side front of its story now emits a warm and somewhat cheerful glow under the combined influence of a bright winter's sun and a fresh coat of red paint. A small anchor hangs as a swinging sign in front of the doorway, against the casing of which are nailed, with seemingly studied irregularity, some dozen or more metal letters and figures of various pat fcamg STir) g>7;pc Oyoy fckn ? weather-beaten fragment of wood-carv ing, that evidently formd at one time a part of a ship's figure-head. All these indications, together with the display of odd ships' blocks, bits of tackle, a rusty boat-hook or two and a pile of row-locks in the one large window of the building on the ground flooi*, serve to notify the public in general, and ship-masters in particular, that here is a shop to which their old junk can be brought, and almost every thing pertaining to ship-chandlery procured at second-hand. Standing before the door of this shop is Arthur Beckweth, trying to persuade himself that his desire to enter is not a surrender to a foolish whim or fancy. For many days now he has not been able to drive from his mental vision the picture of certain of those metal letters that are now staring down at him from their place on ttiat door-casing. When, in the pursuit of some business matter a week or two previous, he had passed thi3 little red-front shop, bir> naturally observant eye had tiot failed to bestow a casual jjlasce on its swinging anchor, its window display and the uniquely decorated doorway. These made the same impression on him at the time as did all other objects of no especial interest that he saw during his walk on that particular street. All was driven from his mind as rapidly as it was received, to make way for new impressions that were forced upon him by the rapid succession of scenes in a crowded city. A few hours later, however, when he was not especially preoccupied, a mental picture of the junk shop arose involuntarily before him. Every detail of its exterior cam? before him with a minuteness that it would hafe been impossible for him to have survived a moment after his first and only sight of it. * Most prominent of all the picturo was the doorway, with its phantastic decorations. Of these, the vision of three letters, of a peculiar shape and style of finish, and differing from all the others there, refused to be das- j j missed from his mind as a passing impression. Perhaps their peculiar arrangement, P E X, so nearly approaching a word when pronounced together as such; their peculiar style, or, possibly, a previous acquaintance with them, may have had something to do with the tonacions hold which they maintained on his memory. Certain it is that, before their image had been supplanted, they had, by some dim association of ideas, forced the thought upon him that somewhere bccoon thnqp letters, or some lUiv UUU CVVM ? like them. His memory refused to aid him in recalling where and under what circumstances. Not deeming it of any importance that he should remember, he had dismissed the whole matter from his mind for good, as he supposed* The question: "Where have I seen those letters before?1' has, however, I . Vn-rvf in-rrvlnnt.arilv reeurrin? to him. rvv,|^w j a Each time it has presented itself with. Increased force, so that his efforts 10 drive it away hare been unavailing. As he now stands before that door, it is for no other purpose than to rid himself of what has become an annoyance to him?to find an answer if possible to the question: "Where?" v; CHAPTER V. IN THE 3TTXK SHOP. "SirT' said Beckweth, who has finally entered the little red shop and is addressing its proprietor, "Have you May more letters like the three largest of those on your door? If so, 1 should fifee tosee What opo^you -a i ' "An1 what would yez be wantin1 wid thin*?" said Mr. Flynn, the selfstyled "junk merchant." This method of saluting his visitor was due to his suspicion and curiosity getting the better of him for. a momeat; for his practiced eye told h'iu at a glance that Beckweth was out of tfjo run of his usual line ot customers. "For my yacht," was the brief ropiy At this answer his questioner menaaVviawIaJ /va/1 +y-v V? " r-k> c/^1 ? o ^ WlllJ l/U 11 I pi.ir.i I uu??v AV4 once he had "bin lid asthray" in his estimate of a customer. "Faith!'' ho soliloquized, in an undertone, "I liiver thought of that;" and then added THE JT7XK SHOP. aloud: "Dropped a letter from her stern I suppose? What was it?" "She has not had any put ^r. jot; she is being built." "Thin you should have new ones. I've nothing here that will suit." An impression had come over Mr. Flynn that, after all. his first suspicion had been correct, and that some treachery was in the -wind. The fact was, report had it that Mr. Flynn was in the habit of sometimes trading in contraband articles?those .that the revenue officers had failed to obtain a proper knowledge of. It be came him, therefore, to be wary of ali unknown customers. After a little more skirmishing, Beckweth finally succeeded in getting matters down to a business basis by conliding to the cautious dealer that the particular pattern of those letters that he wanted happened to bo very much to his taste. He could find none like them elsewhere, he said, but if Mr. Flynn had enough of tiicm alike to make his vacht's name, he would use them in preference to having new ones cast. A long search was of the pseudo yachtsman; but it was without success, for the three on the door were all of the required pattern and size that could be found. Mutual regrets were expressed at this?sincere on the part of one, and assumed by the other; for Bcckweth regarded the circumstance as rather in favor of his theory that the P E and X on tha , oil v;auic nyiu bug doujj place. During the search he had been ver^ talkative, and had made it a point ti express considerable amusement anj wonder at the nature of the wares thai he saw. "How could such a miscel laneous collection of apparently uselesf stuff ever have been brought togetherP1 he asked. "It would be interesting,* he added, "to know how far some a these odds and ends have traveled be fore reaching this resting place." A somewhat derisive laugh frou Mr. Flynn followed this outburst or what he considered romance on th| part of the "young swell." "Sure there's no mystery about it at all,' said he. " That pile was picked u] about the city by men with their hand carts; and that big lot came from th< schooner ' Flying-Cloud,' that I bough; the hulk of. I burned it, down t* the island, and got out of it what yoi see there- The rope-yarns and cables, my boatmen collect in. theii boats from the captains and matei (we do the best business with thf mates) of vessels; All these whol< pieces are sorted from every lot that comes in, and arc mostly sold again ai second hand. But come, now! Som< of these other lettei-s will do yon a| well as any," he exclaimed, returning .to the business in hand. "Don't wan| any others?" he continued, in response to Beckweth's refusal to consider such a proposition. "Well, I have it, thin Buy thim letters on the door for a pat> tern! Sure, you can't git any made like thim widout a pattern! Come, now, if you will, I'll tell you when they was from." This last inducement was thrown in as a facetious reminder of his customer's desire to know "where on earth" al1 his wares had come from. " I've nq doubt they traveled a good bit before } crnt tliom " lio nrifled, orrinnincrlv." bvw w ' ** y D o~? Seeing that Beckweth still hesitated, be sought to further whet his curiosity by saying, mysteriously: "Tim Mur? phy brought them to me?Tim Mui> pljy, you know, that works for tha dredging company down below here." A glance assured him that Beckweth had surrendered, and his answer to the question: "Where did Tim get them?1' was as indifferent as it was loquacious: "Sure I don't know." After agreeing upon the price, the letters were taken down and Beckweth j left the now voluble Mr. Flynn and his "A2h' WHAT WUD TEZ BE "WANTIN1 WID THIX? " ' # shop. . He could but actoio\y3(jdge.^oi himself, as he did so^that -he had gained nothing to *his~ purpose .by the visit. The dredging c o rtf par>y Ts - offic e was on his way, however, and Having gone so far,he determined to humor hjs whim a little more and interview Tina Murphy, should he happen to find hita at that place. . 'Murphy has been out of our employ for over a year," said a good-naturedappearing individual of whom he ma<4e his inquiry at the office. "Did you want to see if he had any more letters to sell like tbose?" He asked, wiwx;a nod of the head towards Beckwefctfs purchase, which he held in his hands. "Did I ever see them before?" he said, in answer to the question. "Oh, yes! Murphy found them one daj*;when we were widening the Rockberg^ channel two or three years ago. We saw them sticking out of a lump ?f mud that we had scooped from the bottom. They were probably a part; of the name of some vessel wrecked crai I Fisher Island. I remember them, because I had them nailed up in. t^e house of the dredger. They were afterwards stolen from there, hut I ha^e * -a. T31 * 11 * seen inem since at njuu s- ] Beckwo'" errplained to him that lie had just bought the letters for the possible purpose of comparing them with others. Mr. Flynn had told him that they came from Murphy and, as Ife was going by the office, he thought $3 would inquire if there were any moi 5 like them to be had? "No, I don't think there were an r more found than what you have." As Beckweth left the dredging cofl pany's office, the association of hi \ mind with the letters he carried in hi s hand had become perfectly clear aji last. A dawning of their significance had also begun to break upon him. "1 must make it a business to obtain the rest of them," he said to himseli pro be continued] Notes About Ball Players. Johnny Ward of the New Yorks is stopping in Philadelphia. Big Chief Roseman is still unsigned. He is practicing pitching. Jimmy Fogarty, the Philadelphia!? right fielder, is still in California. l The Sporting Times prints a photo graph of the JNew fork's mascot. Pitcher Baldwin of the Detroits ancS Manager Watkins have agreed on salary, Pete Browning and young Chamberlain have refused to sign with the Louisville club. It will cost the American Association 318,000 this year for umpires and prizes. All the members of the St. Browns are now hard at work getting themselves in trim. .... Jim O'Kourke and Buck Ewing are satisfied to play almost any position on the team except third base. i The Brooklyn players' new uniform^ them to steal bases without being injured. President Young has at last selected cue men wno wlu umpire uie games. Tliey are Lynch, Decker, Daniels and Valentine. A1 Spanlding, the president of the Chicago club, is making preparations to send two base ball teams to Australia next fali. The Brooklyn's spare material are still unsigned, and it looks as if none of tbe association clubs want any of the players. Otterson, the young short stop, who played with the Brooklyns last season while Smith was sick, will captain the Wheeling club. Bushong, now of the Brooklyn club, played with the Worcester team in 1879 for $80 a month. His salary now is over jive times that amount. Morrill of the Boston club will have plenty of work to do this season. Besides playing first base he will manage the ciub, and also captain the nine. The Athletic club's new players, Gleason aud WTelch, have reached Philadelphia, and reported at the rink where the rt'tu Ui mt3 cio aic President Nimick of the Pittsburg club is beginning to be disliked by his players. Galviii and Miller are angry at him because lie stated that they were a third-rate battery. Ed Andrews has arrived in .Philadelphia, and was met at the depot by President Reach. The latter stated Andrews had no ill-feeling against the club aad was willing to sign a contract. The case of Pitcher Clarkson is ore that cannot be arranged in short order. The Chicago club will hold on to him as long as there is a ghost of a chance of retaining him, and will only let him go after every attempt to hold him has failed. Progress in the State. The Baltimore Manufacturers' Kecora ot this week contains the following statement of new enterprises in this State for the past week: Beaufort.?The Port Royal MiniDg Com pauy, capital stock $10,000, has been chartered to mine phosphate. Charleston.?The Charleston Turnvereia have purchased a site to build a new hall,. a*id will shortly let the contract. Enoree.?The Enorec Manufacturing Company will shortly begin manufacturing brick for their cotton factory, previously reported. Georgetown.?It is rumored that negotiations are being made for the erection of a cotton compress. Greenville.?George H. McFadden <5; rv> nf PMlfldelnkia. Pa., are negotiating to erect a cotton mill?they are to put in machinery (now in Philadelphia), owned by them, and a certain amount of stock to be taken by Greenville parties. If anything is done, T. B. Hayne of Greenville, can give information. Greenville.?R. E. Allen & Brother, will build at once a grist mill with a daily capacity of 150 or 200 pushels per day. Spartanburg.?V company is being worked up to build a cotton mill in Spartanburg. Charles Petty can give information. . Winnsboro.?Water works are being agitated. Mr. Tanner's Xannuig. ~ We have investigated the facts connected with the outrages alleged to have been committed upon the person of Mr. Tanner, the fish patrolman from Marion, and find that the account of the incident given by the News and Courier's correspondent is substantially correct. Coal tar,however, and not lamp black, was used in decorating Mr. Tanner's physiognomy, It is stated that his habits are dissipated and that on previous visits to Georgetown he has allowed himself to get in the condition which he says causes piscatorial phantoms to rise be fore the afingbtea vision, jtion. Jir. ham was .unfortunate in recommending him for the position. Stripped of the exaggerations in which Mr. Tanner has clothed "Lthe affair, it seems to have been a harmless.piece of amusement indulged in by a few of Mr, Tanner's boon companions and courted by his own deplorable lack of self-control,?Georgetown Enquirer. A t K i TIE SICK MM OF EUROPE. : 1 1 ALL ETI:3 FASTENED ON GERMANY'S ( FEEBLE KAISER. ? ? Talk of a Regency--Coniiug.ConstItutIouaI Reforms?Bismarck'? Place in the Presence of Royalty. j (Londou Letter to the New York Times.) I Ttaovi+Q oil 4-V>a /v-Hiniol drill Oil UJJ.C VJUAVAWA Ui?V*MiWiW*u v.*4? the vague and misleading reports of favorable symptoms Kaiser Frederick is ] really growing* worse week by week. 1 Almost the last words a Prussian official * friend said to me on Thursday when I ( was 'leaving BernS" were: "Be prepared 1 for a declaration of a regency any day. t -The Kaiser will not much longer be able ^ to.stand the strain of even listening to s Stato papers and signing his name." < Sure enough, within forty-eight hours j the announcement has come. The im- j. perijil rescript creates a sort of co-regen- t cy, enabling 1'rince William to act witn ? authority solely on such matters as are ^ referred to him by his father, but there j. is reason to believe that another rescript is already signed and in readiness for an ? emergency, devolving whole and full ? powers as regent on Prince William. c It is fair to say that this action is a 0 more valuable and trustworthy indication of the Kaiser's health than all that a Dr. Mackenzie may whisper to the cor- ^ -respondents to the contrary. A new ^ I Emperor who is unable even to receive [ the Presidents of the Chambers of the ^ Prussian Diet when they bring an ad- j( dress which is the most important that t( conld possibiy be presented is not a c patieut'with a mere local throat ailment ^ from which he is recovering. When I r( remember that last week he gave au ^ audience to a mere delegation of the .municipality of Berlin, it is obvious that y | his refusal now to see a delegation from ^ Parliament gives the lie to the assertion that his-heal fell is improving. More than 0 this for the moment it is impossible to ^ say. Probably next week, when, if the c< fine weather continues, the question of c his removal to Weisbaden or Pottsdam ^ will be settled, the public may learn ^ something of the real facts of his condition. Hints about coming constitutional re- tl forms throughout Germany continue in a the air, but the prophecies are still with- a out tangible form. There is a good deal t) of disappointment in moderate German circles of Alsace Lorraine at the tone of ft the imperial proclamation to the people a: of these provinces. The Elaseer Journal a1 says, for example: "We must openly ad- a mit that our people had hoped to find in w the proclamation some allusion to the si development which the Constitution would easily admit of or to the relaxa? 1- ' -1 --JLJ. "L.~ _ 11011 WHICH IXllJ/Uc Ut) iiittuc i-iA luc^icocuu u system of government. This hope is not w fulfilled." Liberal papers in Berlin, tl like the National Zeitung, also show y, certain signs of modifying their first tc exuberant confidence that great steps to- ti ward the liberalization of Prussia were impending. Dr. Friedberg, the imperi- S al minister of-justice, is-Hsaid-to be hard <x at work on a big schedule of names to tl be iD eluded in the amnesty granted to political offenders which is expected next ^ week, but beyond that nothing definite h is known. b Prince Bi marck's status under the ^ new regime continues to be generally ?* * rni -1- ?1 A discussed, jl uere is auiue uuugex tii?o v? people outside of Germany not familiar with the habitfs of thought and actioD in- p grained in the Prussian character will draw false conclusions from the fact that I there has been an evident desire by the v new Kaiser to honor a lot of people whom Bismarck dislikes. It is difficult t< for a foreigner to realize how small, from h the standpoint of Prussian Court" discipline, Bismarck is as compared with b royalty itself. Americans probably had a: in their mind's eye before last week's t< funeral a kind of fancy picture of the old Kaiser in his coffin, with the two " great historic lieutenants, Bismarck and w Moltke, as the chief figures on either ai side. As a matter of fact, if they had attended the funeral, their places would a have been about half a mile behind the b hearse, following in the humble wake of 1 every petty descendant of an obscure w German Prince or other princeling who ^ was able to pay his fare to Berlin. When d I saw in the official programme the ti places assigned to ihem I said to a Ger- p man official: "This seems, from my it point of view at lejist, to be an outrage, d I wonder they don't resent it." The tl official looked at me in smiling surprise, si "Oh, by no means," he answered, "they jt are too good Prussians not to know ex- A actly where they belong in the proces- w sion, and would never dream of desiring to be somewhere else." The same gen- C tleman told me an interesting anecdote lj of an interview Bismarck had with a Frederick III. when he went down to h Leiosic on the lJ.th to meet the San tl Remo train and return with it to Berlin. t( Tho Kaiser showed the Chancellor a t< draft of his famous letter t<? Bismarck J for approval before publication. Bis- ^ marck read and renamed it, suggesting n: the alteration of a single word in the Ci original. The draft referred to him as the "much-cherished fellow-worker of tho late Kaiser." Bismarck suggested the word servant instead of fellow- % 1? ?j?:_i? 1 worker. xrcuenun quwj*. lllc \jlu*xx\^x- >. lor'a hand warmly and made the alteration. I relate this to indicate Bismarck's conception of his position. Whatever he 11 may think of the new policy, it wotild d have to be a very grave and momentous *> thing indeed which would induce him to express dissent from the decisions and c< instructions of his imperial master, b Bven then it would be done with the a utmost caution and deference. As for a mutiny, that would be simply out of the question. . p Another Account. d Berlin, March 27.?It is expected S - ? ' * - p tt-? m o that the coronation 01 rung x reutsnua. ? and Queen Victoria of Prussia will take 1< place at Konigsberg in June. 1 The mass of cartilage just removed ? from the Emperor's larynx is believed to o indicate that nature i? making a curative efiort entirely independent of the physi- o cians, which belief is strengthened by S the fact that a similar voluntary expul- t sion is unknown to the physicians in o their experience in the treatment of c cancerous diseases. The circumstance is p also held to furnish incontrovertible evi- c dence of the correctness of Dr. Macken- 1< zic's persistent contention that the dis- p ease is not cancer. 1 Empress Victoria, replying to ad- s dresses presented to her by seventeen associations of which she is a patroness, says her foremost and most sacred duty will be the care of her suffering husband. She is conscious of the task devolving upon her as Queen and Empress, and will accomplish it to the best of her ability. At the same time, she is reminded that she has other social duties. The moral and intellectual education of women, the sanitary condition of the laboring classes, and the improvement of the facilities by which women may earn a livelihood will be constantly before her. The noblest vocation of a princess,, ? L_ V: ^ she says, is an untiring activity in the york of ameliorating the suffering of Qie poorer classes. Owing to the diflijulty of her task she ifi doubtful whether she will succeed as well as her heart desires. SENECA'S BIG MENS AT I ON. 1 Georgia View of a Kecent Carolina Sensation. (From the Macon. Ga., Telegraph.) Andy Gallagher, of the Missouri Pacfic, ind P. A. Williams, of the Memphis & Little Kock, who have just returned to Atlanta from a prospecting tour in North Carolina, tell of a thrilling accident that lappened a day or two ago at Seneca 3ity, on the Atlanta & Charlotte Air jine. It seems that a short distance above ? nn??? lx awa Kaov^_ JCJ-uuch. a xcAiia u.<Ji;c uiu ?ci uuoiu:d the train and wishing to make himelf as comfortable as possible, turned >ver one of the seats in the i'rst-ciass oach and stretched himself out at full ength. After he had ridden a few miles o. this position of comfort and ease, a rain hand entered the coach and waling up to the Texan informed him that he rules of the company would not allow h-j seats to be turned. The Texan re ased to stir, and when the train hand laced his hand on the seat for the purpose of turning it, the stock dealt r from tie Lone Star State drew a large 45alibre pistol and poinling it at the head f the disturber of his comfort, said: "If you don't go. off and leave me lone, I v, 'II blow a ho!o through you ig enough to drive a yoke of steers iirough." The train hand, not desiring to have a annel cut through his body with cold iad, withdrew and reported the matter d the cond actor. This official then ailed upon the Texan, and after informig him of the rules of the road with iference to turning the seats, told him aat he would have to occupy less space, 'his mild invitation to get up and allow le seat to be placed in its proper posion, did not have the desired effect. On tie contrary, it seemed to make the wner of the six shooter indignant at not eing left alone. After he had heard the onductor through the Texan, in an exited manner, jumped up an$ again rawing his life exterminator, threatened > blow a hole through the conductor. "I want you to understand that I am :om Texas," said he to the knight of le bell cord, "and if you don't let me lone I will shoot"the lights out of you ad leave you here as a monument to 10 occasion." The conductor witMrew to a coach in :ont, where Andy GaL'agherwas seated, ad knowing that the ]:-opular representee of the Missouri Pacific was an old inductor, asked bis advice as to what as best to be done under the circumances. "Well, all the advice I have to offer," lid Gallagher, as he passed a religious eriodical to his friend Peg Williams, ho sat beside him, "is to say you know le rules of the road, and if I was in our place I would enforce them if I had ) call to my assistance every official in le State of South Carolina." At this juncture the train reached epeca City, where it made a stop of. insiderul>Ie Icugtli, murth longer. ie schedule allows. Mr. Gallagher wishing to know what as going on in the rear, called upon is friend Williams and the two dropped ack to the coach in which the Texan as enjoying his ease. As they entered the car, the Texas rover looked up and asked: "What do you reckon they are stoping here in this wilderness so long for?" "I don't know," gaid Gallagher, "but hear thai the conductor has had a fuss ith a passenger about turning the seat ad imagine that the conductor has gone ) get the marshal of the town to help im enfor<Jte the rules of the road." "Weli, I reckon I am the passenger he ad tlie tuss witii, ana it win raise mm ad a dozen marshals with six-shooters > get away with me." "Well, my friend," retorted Gallagher, you and I are both passenger?, and if I as you I wonld conform to the rules ad not have any trouble." Before t:ie Texan could make a reply dozen citizens entered the coach, some y the front door and others by the rear, hey walked down the car until the man ho was responsible for all the trouble as reached. In another moment a half ozen pistols were flashed in the face of ic Texas drover; around his head was a erfect net-work of pistols, while above , was a canopy of firearms. The Texan id not flinch at the six-shcoters, and irew his hand behind for his trusty sixaooter. The pjsse of citizens then imped on him and bore him to the oor. Hia pistol was taken from and lie as hustled out of the cars. "When the train pulled out of Seneca ity," says Gallagher, "the Tes^n was ring at full length on the platform with bait' dozen citizens straddling him. I ave a curiosity to know what became of le Texan, but not enough to go back ) the scene. I never saw so many pis)ls in the air at one time in my life, 'eg Williams bays there was a two-horse agon load, but I don't think there was tore than a one-horso wagon could ..... wry. Tall Stories, but True. A gas well was struck at Zenia, Ind., le other day which has a flow of 14,30,000 cubic feet. The flame is seventyve feet high. In Augusta, Ga., a tree felled in early lorning was before nightfall of the same ay converted into paper and sent out easing the current news. An immense locomotive has just been onetructed at a Paris founcLry. Its uilder predicts* that it will realize an pproximatc speed of ninety-three miles n hour. A. R. French, of Kansas City, had retty_good luck in fishing the other ay. iie seated mmseii on tne pier at anta Barbara, Cal., and with a hook nd line caught five sharks, averaging in mgth five feet and nine inches each, 'he finny monsters fought gamely for reedom and it-took the combined efforts f three men to get each on terra firma. "Wind-rolled snowballs are often seen n the Dakota and WyomiDg prairies, iometimes millions upon millions of the alls are in sight at one time. Many are f the of an orange, some as big as a annon ball, while others reach the prolortions of the prize pumpkin of the ounty fair. These freaks of the storm save a person under the fanciful impassion that great armies of school boys iave ^*1 battling over the snowy pacer-. TAKE TOUR CHOICE. I heard a lot of people talk On how to pronounce: Yolapalk. oome were sure iwas y uiaputu;, Making it rhyme with duke: Another who had read the book, Spoke of it as Volapcok. One mt.n said 'twas "simple truck," And, sneering, called it Volapuk; Some other persons?quite a few? . Who studied French, said Volapu; And one, who German spoke, said, "Ach, The proper name is Yolapak." But were I asked, I should say sleek The "correct thing" is Volapeek. . said slie could not; talk about it, as nothing had yet been definitely settled. She tacitly admitted the fact, but refused to enter into details. "Nina," she said, "has not yet completed her plans." The beautiful Miss Nina herslf, when asked to tell the public about her plans, replied: "I am not ready to talk to the public yet, for when I go upon the stage, if ever I-do, i tear t-iiey will tains: I talk too much." WAGES WOKSE THAN SLAVERY. English Workwomen Who Might Envy the lilack Slaves of the Sotidan. (London Saturday Eeview.) The English drudge rises early and goes to bed late, woiking eight or twelve hours a day, either in her miserable garret or in a huge manufacturing hive. Pinched with hunger and cold, worn out with labor, exposed to temptation and degradation, her joyless life stretches behind her and before her, with no pleasures to look back upon, no hope to look forward to. The wages she earns, those wages which proudly separate iier from the slave, are barely sufficient to keep body and soul together, till at last the body gives way or the soul revolts. Then comes the inevitable end, aud a verdict of "Death, from starvation" or : "Found drowned" closes the scene. The Soudani girl is taken from her parental hut of sticks and mud and sold . to a respectable family or perhaps a very rich one. In the first case, she will probably be alone; in tlio second, she will find others like herself. She represents so much capital invested, and is looked after with equivalent care. She , is a s^ rvant whose wages have been paid i twenty years in advance. It is true they ] have uot been paid to her, but that is ail the be lie j." for the girl. She is well housed and well fed, and wanis for < nothing. She is immediately provided ? with decent clothes and set to house ] work. She has charge of the family > washing and cleaning, and of the kitch- j en, ana generally minus tnese auties ^ much better than a native paid servant , would do. She is under no special re- ^ straint. accompanies her mistress shop- < ping or does the marketing herself, and ! gossips her fill with the neighbors as she < hangs out the linen on the house top or j sweeps the front door step. , Her work is by no means hard, and f after the fashion of Egypt, where every 3 man is a brother and every woman a sister, she is looked upon by the family quite as one of themselves. Speaking from personal observation, we may affirm > ] that the black women are almost in- t variably treated with the utmost kind- i ness and indulgence, and are often < spoiled like children by fhe too great j good nature cf their masters or mis- I tresses. They constitute a very merry, s happy portion of the population, and it s is seldom one can find a black girl without an infectious broad grin on her pol- t ished face. If she chooses to marry, as j she often doe?, with her owner's con- s OL'U auvnw, ?UU^VVAJ ivi iu n a "free" woman in the letter, though i often, as she finds to her cosd, a greater . bond slave in the spirit than in the days i of her servitude. J COLOR IIM THKCflUUCH. j A-iS'vf<2*o*u Vi^>w o? th? Difficulties In thr * South Carolina Dicce.se. The New York Tribune, referring to c the color question in the churches, has this to say in regard to the admission of colored clergy to the South Carolina Diocesan Convention: ^ "At the coming Easter vestry elections the question of ad mitting colored clerical * delegates to the Convention will be the^ paramount issue, and k- is likely that* v vestries opposed to this will be generally \ elected. That will mean the continu- , ance of the schism, with the Bishop and ^ most of the clergy on one side and the ? laity on the other. The immediate rf- j suit of this will be, as the Bishop says, i vacant rectories, closed churches and t suspended and abandoned missions. "Bat it will bring about at least one good result. It will compel the next j General Convention of the Episcopal Church, which meets in this city next 2 year, fairly and squarely to answer the ( question whether clergymen and laymen ^ of that church in good standing can be deprived of their constitutional rights, ,, localise of the accident of color, in any of its dioceses. That it will answer this question in the negative may be fairly j; inferred from its history and traditions. t It it fails to do so, it will encourage o*h- j er denominations to take the same T stand, and there will then be nothing j T left for the colored race but to withdraw l from the existing churches and organize churches of their own, in which it is to r bo hoped a more comprehensive and ? Chris tain conception of church member- K ship will prevail." * EUEPHAJfT'S FOOT I>~ AFRICA. A Dish Which Knocks Out Anything at * Delmonico's. Speaking of elephant's foot takes us * naturally to the Jvallirs, wiiere tins aisn f is the crowning triumph of their bill of t fare. Night is the time generally sclected by the Kaffir for the enjoyment of , this prime luxury. Oth zt portions of j the elephant are eaten with great gusto, t but the feet are esteemed the delicacies ( of the feast. A hole is dug in the ground and a fire made on the bottom. It is allowed to burn dovra to a heap of coals, irV\-"r>V> nro spraned cut bv the Cooks, i When this oven has "teen freed of em- * bers, the foot is rolled into it and cover- * ed with twigs, and green leaves. After ^ this the hot embers are replaced and a roaring fire started over the heap. In this manner the foot is baked, and when the fire has bnrned low the contents of ] the oven are lifted out by several men ] and the feast opens. Travelers who < have feasted with the Kaffirs on occa- < sions of this kind have paid glowing ? compliments to their cookery. The na- ( tives are said to love elephant foot next 3 to the marrow taken from the leg bones j of the giraffe or eland, bui the prepara- , * - a --J. tion 01 CQ1S 100a UOBS iiut auuiu ULIC va- J joyment which is associated with the < dish we have described. The Kaffirs are fond of locusts also. They eat them whole, just as more civil- j ized people devour shrimps. They h ave, too, a certain fondness for lion's ilesh, about the toughest dish any one can sit ^ down to. The late Gordon Cumming, , [ who was familiar with the secrete of the . Kaffir kitchen, used to say that "a very good idea of the meat which is usually , obtained in Kaffirlani may be gained by i taking the very worst part of the tough- : est possible beef, multiplying the toughest by ten and substracting the gravy." PIAA'OS AiND OKUAIK. "Vve are prepared to sell Pianos and Organs of the best make at factory prices for Cash or easy Instalments. Pianos from $210 np; Organs from .$24 up. The verdict of- the people is that fhey can save the freight and twenty-live per cent, by bnying of us. Instruments delivered to any depot on fifteen days' trial. We pay freight both ways if not I ?fARt in vnnr d?kbl0XAVLV/XJ viuv* j own homes. Respectfully, N. W. TKUMP, * Columbia, 8. C. THE GRASSES OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Ac Interesting Article from a Learned Writer. (From the Monthly Report of the Department of Agriculture-) In 1885, Dr. Henry W. Bavenel, the eminent botanist, who was at that time the Botanist of the State Department of Agriculture, prepared an exhaustive article for the Department on the Agricultural'grasses of this State. He divided them inta the Native or Wild Grasses and the Cultivated Qressea. We begin in this report the publications of that article, taking first the native grasses. ^Tlv?./v/v ?C TTftwA+IAC n *A /IAOAIHTWI JLUULCU UX bUCCC TftiJicwco tti.v uv\jvi a ?>/vvi herewith. The publication of the article will be continued in future report?, until the despriptions of all have been published. In treating of agricultural, grasses, viz., those 'which are valuable to the farmer either for pasturage or hay, the first obvious division in between those which spring up spontaneously and those which it is necessary to cultivate. The former include those which are native or naturalized, and which mature on/1 tATc +>iAir nxcn Rppd s and tatft earn of themselves. These are found in all natural pastures, in open swamp lands, along roadsides and in the woods, and, as in the case of crab and crow-foot graces, those which spring up of tbeir own accord in cultivated fields. The latter include all others which require planting and cultivation, and which may be either annuals or perennials. WIIiD OE NATIVE GRASSES. The ordinary pasture grasses?those which are native, or if introduced, have become so thoroughly naturalized as to be able to take care of themselves, will be treated of first. Most of these are "wild grasses" so jailed?grasses which are generally spread through our State, and help to make up the ordinary pasture land, fhey vary in different localities, accordmg to the region of country in which :hey are found, and to the composition ftcU.>4UO?I ri Javvvvv A! .IT? W rrtr* /< T* v> liCOliCl XJLk J KJL V/CO.J VI oau-.ij 3-enerally there is a mixture of many species in every natural. p*stnre, soma preferred by animals for cropping, ami others again, when left undisturbed, best .'or curing into hay. For many of these vild pasture no local or common names ire known, and so only the botanical lames are given. SMOOTH PASPALUil. The gennsPaspalum comprises a.large lumber of species, mostly confined to ;he South. They are nearly all perenliai rooted, and are commonly found in ill natural soil. Prof. Pharse of the Agricultural and Mechanical College at ilississippi, who sec-ms to have made a special study of our Southern grasses, / says. "They are all succulent, tender, nu;ritious, liurdy, thrifty, and r?iisbod by ill grass-eating animals. They fill the soil with a matting of roots, and cover he surface densely with luxnriant foliage a i-orn early spriug till ancumnal frosts." The Smooth Paspakim >s a tali growing species fronf three to four feet high. [t lias been fou^id to make a very good lay, as Prof. Piiarse says he ha3 a neighbor who has been feeding this grass for TCDiy-live years and for many years has ' lad a meadow~df it, from w^icITWttfOtitr ;ven having seeded he annually mows L'oout two tons of hay per acre. SWAUP JOINT GRASS. This species is very common in the ide swatcps of the low country, a great jest to the rice planters, and*is known is joint grass. It, however, grows freely - -> n the upper and middle parts of the State, preferring rich, damp soils. It ias very much the habife of Bermuda jrass, with creeping root stocks which :hrow out roots below at each joint and t turf of leaves above. It. is rather a ow growing grass, rarely exceeding 12 ? -i !r ; i_. ui_T. l.?i J.T _ j. rU lO UlgU, UUL LUC iWW) HutO Ui&L- w ;ed over the surface arid it famishes a lenee and luxuriant foliage. Good for jasturage, but scarcely large enough for iay. l)r. Yassey, of the Department of Agriculture in Washington, in his "Agrisultural Grasses of the Unite a States, .884," alludes to the perennial-rooted, 'vergreen species of paspalum, both of sreeping and low habits, lately brought nto prominent notice in Texas as giving jreat promise of usefulness. One of hese [Paspalum remotum] was sent to he Department by H. B. Bichards, of LaGrange, Texas, who states that it oots at every joint and sends up shoots ike a layered grapevine, in that it renains green all winter, and it is almost mpossible to destroy it. Anotner species Paspalum platycaule], having the same ireeping habit, has been observed in ieveral Southwestern States. It is a jrass of lower growth and smaller size ban the preceding. 3Ir. Benjamin 3rodnax, cf Louisiana, says of it: "That ;be mode of growth is flat to the ground, ;aking root at every joint, and spreading n every direction. It ?ffectaally kills >ut every oth'er grass or weed, as it forms i thick sod and is evergreen." I saw his grass very common in the pastures tround Houston, Texas, in IS 9, and tlso along the railroad from New Or 1. ?n T./VWVMOMA ?U1S KJ JL>IOOUCU.I, 1U JUUmOittUO> JLXJ14JL hese gfasses are well worth a trial in >ur State for permanent winter pasturage. Panicum. Tho genus Panicam contains the argest number of species of all the jrasses. Many of them are very valaible, particularly those of large growth, riiich are found in low grounds. CRAB GRASS. This grass is so common and so well mown, both for pasturage and hay, that ittle need be said of it. It is so univer >aiiy dinasea tnrougn tne oomnern States, that all is necessary to secure a 500d crop is to have the land in proper condition in the spring or early summer, free of weeds and of sufficient fertility. A bountiful nature does the rest. There are several species of tallgrowing Panicums, natives of our State, ind generally found in rich low grounds, whicn are valuable adjuncts to a good pasture, and many of them make a good liay. On Saturday evening, about 7 o'clock, a burglar forced open the front door of Mr. Charles Scssitt's jewelry shop, in Barnwell. a.ud carried away a dozen watches, of which four were gold; loss, $500. Two of the gold watches were engraved with the owners' names, "G. Duncan Bellinger" and "T. J. Simons." A third watch was marked "D." On the proposal of the French Minister of War, .President Carnot, acting on the unanimous advice of the officers who conducted the court-martial, has signed a decree placing Gen. Bouianger on The retired list of the army. .The proposal had previously been considered by the Council of Ministers. "Willie," said the fond mother, "I wish you wouldn't associate so much with Robbie Gcorgeson. He is greatly addicted to the use of low slang." "That's a fact, mother," said the bright little boy, with engaging frankness. "It isn't my fault, though. I've tried a dozen times to give hi in the cold shake, but the blamed chump wouldn't tumble!" ^ 'J