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S&KP 'I ML^l XLV. WINNSBORO, S. C , WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1888. NO. 2, Ibr THOU, BUT I. Eeeo for one of us my ovra ' cup, aad eat this bitter bread, tears upon thy face been shed, <4 dropped oa mine; if I oiooo &ow, thy spirit would have known b <y?imv ^eet aat tread thy feet had bled |ftfeaad for mine mad* Hot ia vain, Bhp. though mice weep; Tiou h&dti the peace, an<tifiSi^i ?Philip Bourke Mars to a. ' ?? A Brother's Keeper. i fours SARI OF LOYE ifiD DOTL ST XilT SAWWSLt CATH2RW00D, assxob op -qfuqtjz o' doofi," "suphb* GiKhbxx," "'Tss Lojtb Man's CimC ahd Ozhsb Sroaaea. v " "But I never wanted to talk about our relative positions. The sight of him made me shuddering siok. You don't know how horrible it first seemed tome that I should ' feel so toward my own brother. So it went on until he was sent to prison for a long time I think he has been pardoned out; t!6 fcme would not expire for years. Do jou know I was very glad they sentenced him! Thorney and I drew some easy breaths. ? spent some mosey to go to a normal school, - ftnd Mr. Barker was the lecturer on mathematics. So I got acquainted with him." The master nodded. "Your ignorance of common geometrical \ rules was so marked," said he, "and your general intelligence so fair that I felt impelled to take you in hand." - "You know you said she looked like the lister that died when you were a boy,". 1 mused Mrs. Barker. The master drank his root-beer and made -only a distant response to this allusion. "Man is a queer bundle of associations. I love this old cabin and I love this old dis trict. I've had one or two very good offers from colleges, Mr. Gurley," he owned with : frowning and shame-faced pride," but -school term after school term sees me at -. the same old desk. I suppose I'll die in my ?. rut It seems good enough to me for a man hi fa it in the spot where he was born. .1 know it ain't progressive, I know it narrows me. My opinions might not be so pat Lif I circulated more. But the wrench of tearing up would be more than I could stand. This is not sentiment," denied the master, sternly; 4'but a'simple physical lact which I can not get around. Who's that, now?" Phoebe cornered toward Mrs. Barker. "You haven't any ceremonious passage way," said Gurley, smiling. "You can open your door and kick in traders right off the threshold like they can at Tom Holmes'. I've always envied that arrangement." "Now, Miss Phoebe," said the master, L visibly wanning to the occasion, as a second and very loud knock bumped the door," l^aont let me see you do that. It hurts me as Ha man." I "-r i rm ?VJ OV I. "X Jtiiuw 11 is xutuie, " wtu?imw x uucuc. "What if it is Thane! What if it's a thousand Thanes! I will now," declared thaawter, striding to the door and motionr teg his wife back, "gratify myself with a ft good grip on the collar of his coat and the I active use of my right foot." "Bat it maybe one of ttn nfl>ffirhbara?'^~ jerking the door toward him and concentrate tug his frowning sight upon the dark. Phoebe looked an instant, and hid her face against lira. Barker*> Phoebe White is h^e," said a voice outside. "Doa't mind?d#?a't mindl" whispered -the master's wife feeling a strong shudder shake the girl. "Well, sir if" said Mr. Barker, gathering ^ bimsclf. , MI was* to see her. She cheated me. She gave jse an envelope full of blank paper I ?whi*ago." - did," said Phoebe, facing toward him. **fmeant to have told that, too." / "Who are you, sir, and what shouldsW ; five you!" demanded the master, f fetoself sure. .Thane, w pm her dear brother," response wa3 t0 with insolent jocularity, ' ajows she owes i jive me money that eh** -<e master, grabbing into give?you?something?else Been?owing to you a good Wa, Mr. Barker 1" screamed his wife, for Excessive zeal her husband disappeared * 'er the steps and was heard to strike the V round. . Before Gurley could help him he had risen E Jp, and he calmly brushed off his coat with palms as Mrs. Barker held the lamp on Kigh and gazed with anxiety into the clearSi HP"Ccme in," begged Phoebe, "oome in Hmar dutch fell upon Gurley's arm a3 well JPiaiOLl" BHOCTSD TSB MASTSB. . -- -M apoa Mr. Barker's, and Gurley brought | bar Sack to the fire-place. "PoB't be terrified," said he. "You see bow easy is is to deal with this miserable * v coward. He shall never annoy you again ^ - while I live." Phcebe drew a deeper breath as Mrs. : Barker shut the door behind her husband. "I only got two fair kicks," said the masi tor. "The third found no opposing solid in '.space, while the impetus continued according to physical law. So I fell over." t "He will loil you for it, Mr. Barker, whiskered Phcebe. MI saw the man myself," said thenar ^ tor's wife, whits and excited, "standing cut in the clearing with a pistol in his Land! And he was making faces." "Oh, I wish I had not brought the trouble here!" quivered Phcebe. "Nonsense," said (fcvtey. "He'll not da$4 to barmanjqmb. If h* had been going to shoot fa* would have done it at once." "A pistol I" shouted the master. "I'll take it from him if he flourishes any such contraband article under my eye." "jic'a ycry angry," said Phcebe. "I kscy ie would be and that's why I wanted to I come here instead of staying at Holmes'. Be might have got into the house theo, without knocking. And 1 was afraid ho would follow us in the woods. I did cheat t him about the money. When I put my hand | in the drawer there was a sealed envelope full of blank paper which I fixed onoe, thinking about Thane, but scarcely believing I ? could ever use it. He knew I kept my I money so; ana ue moment my nan a wuvuea it I took that instead of the hundred dollars. 1 wish I'd given It to him now." "I begin to understand the transaction," said Ourley, "and Bess' part in it But if he triss to storm this house the garrison out,-embers hhiL They both look as if wo had a^jt^dsavags at baj, 2?r. Barker." At the door another demand was made for f admission, but this time timid and fumbling, unlike the bold knock Thane gave. i "Painted savage or unpainted," responded the master, starting, "this unruly rascal < shall feel discipline." I ?Ca Mr. Barker!" besought Phoebe. i "Offce, dear," said his wife, apparently in i the act of expanding her large person to ( plaoe before him, "the man will shoot." "Let me or?en the doox*," said Gurlcv. "Iopeu my own door, sir," interposed the master. "Now^rou scoundrel, what do you want the step, recovering himself with difficulty^ Those inside saw it was a man quite clean-shaven excepting his upper lip; that his clothes were black, fine and old-fashioned ; and though he held his tall hat in one hand as he recoiled from the master's onset, the hat had evidently been lifted before the door opened and his recoil meant surprise. "Oh!" Mr. Barker snarled suspiciously. | "Good evening, good evening, sir. Good evening." The stranger made some response in a nasal blur of words, concluding with an eager question. Mr. Barker turned toward tbe other inmates, his fierceness cooled to the temperature of combativeness. "Is this man speaking Latin with the continental pronunciation, Gurley, or is it Welsh!" "Step in, sir," invited Mrs. Barker. "Ogre I perhaps the door better be shut." "The door will not be shut," responded her husband, "until this man can intelligibly state his business." "It is Painter. Good evening, Mr. Painter," said Gurley. Painter, seeing Phcebe, stepped upon the sill with an exclamation. During the rest of her life, when she tried to set the action of the next five minutes in I its true light, and to see the facts as they occurred by the ciock instead of through the medium of a.terror which had no regard for time, she thought Mrs. Barker exclaimed that the other man was behind this one; that Painter turned, saw Thane and seized him; then they struggled together without apparent reason; that she ran and hid her face in the lounge pillow; and a shot, the voices of Gurley and the master, and the bounding steps of some one running away all mingled together. Mrs. Barker looked ghastly when Painter was laid on the loungQ. Phcebe herself sat a moment on the floor beside the lounge. She heard Gurley ride oft for a physician aiiti officers of justice. Afterwards she waited by the kitchen at/\xr?? ttrViO&'MV Rarlrfr anrt hia wifft attftriil ed to the wouhocd Licr? There was no fire in the stove, but she could see the hearth shine through the open sitting-room door, and count bricks along the front of the chimney. Here Mrs. Barker brought her a bit of paper and in agitation told her that Painter wrote it and sent it. She bent toward the distant firelight to make out the characters,, and noticed that though traced by an un- , steady hand they were clear and beautifui. At first merely the name James Fawcett attraoted her; then she walked to the fireplace intent only on reading what was written, and it was: "You are my child.? < James Fawcett." "No!" said Phoebe, turning toward the wounded man and questioning him with negatives: "No? Nol" < j One of Mrs. Barker's quilts covered him up to the armpits. He was looking at Ji Phcebe with wide open and agonized 1 eyes. His senaitgeAoger facc she sa,tf'<ya3 c ^^r^sneTrepeateaTtwisting the paper in \ her fingers, "I!" Ha nodded his head, and besought her by , a gesture to come nearer. la his hand3. j were a pencil and paper tablets which Mrs. 1 Barker had taken out of his pocket for hii^fc He was shot through the body, and? doctor, brought later by Gurley, cog^P / little more for him than had air/ J done. ; wfeet. ruarMr. Barksr sat near his gathgedly silent and sternasyg^jjehgta a light, ering all forces in himrer palaij ^ looked resting her to the wounded man. anxicusly his head au4 let her lamp She stooge tablets. Sometime during the, *}**2!5a&"G^rcutt had been waked. Phoebe ^Smembered hearing his mother command his return to bed. As Painter beckoned again Phoebe went to him, not reluctant but unconvinced, and rested on the floor looking at him. His hand flew from side to side of his tablets, and when he gave them to her Mrs. Barker moved a step to shift the light. "If I tried to talk," he said on paper, "you 1 oould not understand my voice. My deformity still mortifies me so I can not bear to display it before my child. I used to talk thus to your mother. We had long, silent conversations, sitting side by sid e. Her name was Phcebe. You are her over again, a little expanded. Do you r^nooiber when yov brought me the maple sUgar 1" Instead of replying aloud Phoebe took his pencil and wrote: "Yea. But why have you been away from i me always!" < He put swiftly dowq^ "because 1 thought you were dead. When you came to me < with that mapie sugar 1 was startled, and ny thoughts began to work. tten I heard your name was Phoebe White. I found the boyThorney was with you. Still I had no certain proof until this afternoon wnen I read a note you had sent by a boy through the woods. I unfolded it afe some trifling i property of his, and read your history, even to Thane White's name. Then I got ready 1 to come after you. I brought in my breastpocket the papers which will identify me. I ] went to the house nearest the school-house i Sphere I knew you lived; but they could not i find you. So, as you had written to Mr. j JJerker for help, I came directly here. You ire my child, and your name is Phqpbe Fawoett. You were born eighteen years ago in San Francisco, and your mother died when j imit nrrtwn fwA QTtP o Vol# TTOAVO T arvor*? /VH *YOAO WYT VttUU'JTUPU J VOi a V/1U> A. O^vuv | much time in Nevada, where I was interestad in mints. Tour mother was devoted t* I me. I took pleasure in enterprise then. ] ? left home when % boy, determined to make i my family proud of me when I came back, In spite of my defect It turned out differently. I have lived herein the woods, not caring even to oiaim my rights in the estate. There was no one to inherit after . me. I have covered my identity up as much . as possible. Now it would be different But when I coull live I must die." He gave the tablets to PhcBbe and covered his eyes with one hand, his mouth set witn physical agony. She flashed over the words, and advanced a little nearer to him on her 1 knees. "But father," she sxid, aloud. He started from head to foot immediate- j ly whitening with the pang this start gave him. * "Father," she said again, this time affirmatively, "father, JatherP' She arched one arm over his head and ' was held to his breast. Mrs. Barker, making a sympathetic grimace, shifted the : tamp unsteadily, but her husband sat as- ' founded. ' Phoebe caught her breath with a sob anfi 1 explained to them, raising her face: "All 1 tbis time be nas uvea aione wnen i oayuk j to ii.vV^ t-vvii with him. I'm bis child a a J ' he needed my care! O. father!" In her excess of mother-like passicn her ' palm constantly smoothed his lean cheek 1 and her fluttering finger-tips petted him. She felt fierce toward his persecutors. The 1 tears dripped from her cheeks upon him. "Hew you have been cheated, you dear! and I never suspected such a thing. And we'd have been such friends together! I ] thought Thorney and X bad all the hard times, when you we're living that lonesome j Uf6l We can have our relationship now, father, we can have our relationship now!'? 1 Mrs. Barker shook her head at Phoebe to Indicate that it was bad for the patient to be , agitated. She then turned away, holding the lamp at arm'3 length, and wiped her 1 1 face carefully; and Phoebe leaned in silence ' igainst the pillow. With pencil and tablets her father remmed: "When your mother died I lost heart and ivery thing went ladly with me. I wanted x> stay by myself and experiment in chem.cals. It was my dissipation. There was nobody to talro proper care of you, so I joncluded to bring you home and make all /-V i jBgil] PHCKBE READING WHILE HER FATHER WROTE. my arrangements. Thane "White was in California then. He was a third or fourth cousin of your mother's, a worthless creature, but we helped him on account of his distant relationship." Phoebe, reading while her father wrote, inquired at once: 'Isn't Thorney my brother, then?" "No; Thorney is Thane's son. Your mother was kind to the miserable little soul. We kept him with us; his father was brutal to him. I gave Thane employment for several years. He bore a bad name when he came to the coast, and was probably worse than I knew;but we could hardly shake him off. 1 never imagined then that he would separate my child from me and finally shoot me. Your mother had known his wife in the States, a poor, dejected young woman who died early; and the boy Thorn- i ey was only half-witted. When I read in your note how Thane had used you, it seemed as if I Had never sunerea oeiore m my life! And you forced to appeal to a strauger while your father lived! The sight of him filled me with such fury I don't know what I might have done if he had not shot." [TO BE CONTINUED J FORTUNE CAME TOO LATE. ijla# Catherine Gaffoey Mentally and Physically Failing. (New York Star, Aug 1.) Miss Catherine Gaffney, who has suddenly fallen heir to $50,000, is still in the almshouse od Blackwall's Island, where she has been an inmate for three years and sight months. Since last March she has been in the hospital of the almshouse. A reporter of the Star called al the hospital yesterday to see the fortu??w woman. Warden Vougbt, the genial manager of the almshouse, and thf rf2aa"0D> conducted the reporter into a p^tiy kept and well-lighted ward and sbefore a feeble, old lady/ half aro^ cheeks were sunken, h'J eveg _<-ie dim and her voice trembled, met j^iiory had faded from her. Shejfs 76 rears old. Her fortune had come tg^er so , ttiU iu uic Luat it acruicu Que lid not kuow the warden first^D(i asked Jm if he was her brother. HeJt.epjje(j that ie was the wardeo^A^tiie old!A Ay replied: 'To be sure; I f^^^you A0w. GojL and a idlS| P^?^^^^ltid?^^r away today, ^^^old Warden Yought that fhey would send clothes up to the island for the old lady and would provide well for her after she went away. The young man Is T. V. Sheridan, who is one of the neirs. The old lady was asked if she would like to go away. She replied: "No, I should rather stay in the almshouse. I like it very well. They are very kind to me." Mis3 Gaffoey was brought to the almshouse when she was two years past three score and ten. From the day she entered till the day she inherited her fortune no human being ever visited her or inquired about her. When it was learned that she had inherited a large amount of money two of her kinfolks rushed for the island at nnoo Thf? trleif df Her T.iw>p onrl no-nhom yesterday was the first she had received since she entered the institution. "Parents seldom bring their children to the almshouse,"said Warden Vought, "bat children often bring their parents here. When the children see their parents safely installed in the almshouse they kiss their mother 'good-bye" and shake hands with their father. Then they say to their parents: 'Oh, yes, we'll come and see you,' and are off. They come to see them once, and generally they never come again. If their parents should unexpectedly inherit a great deal of money they would come over to see them with a carriage. "When Miss Gaffney came to the almshouse, she told me the story of her rich brother, Patrick H. Gaffney of Chicago. A.t her request I wrote him two letters, informing him of his sister's situation. In answer to the letters, he sent her two dollars twice, there being a considerable interval of time between the two gifts. "\T?QQ Claifnoxr TTrtQ on fntolliar^nt on/1 lady-like woman and haa never given us any trouble. She was a very pleasant and and interesting talker up to some months ago, when her health failed her." Miss Gaffney has a brother in Buffalo, before referred to, and another brother, Matthew Gaffoey, in Brooklyn. She is heir to but a fourth part of her dead brother's estate, valued at $150,000, and will probably get about |3o,000, instead of the $50,XH) it was thought would fall to her. The physician thinks she has but a short time to enjoy her fortune. The Alleged Assets of the Confederacy. Washington, August 2.?The attempt to secure the passage of an appropriation to send another agent to Europe to search for assets of the late Confederate States has failed. The proposition was submitted to the Senate as if it were new. On the con :rary, it is very oia. i ne Treasury department and State Department have both sent 5ut agents at different times and at considirable expense on such errands, and their reports have been of a character which has Forbidden any further investigation of the subject. There undoubtedly was considerable property and money in Europe at the close >f the war which had belonged to the Confederacy, but it was long since scattered so is to be beyond recovery, or is no ionger of ralue. Tbe roving commissions, which had at different times been given to persons who were on good terms with various id ministrations, have been interesting and profitable to those who were charged with th; inquiry, but they have yielded nothing to the government. It is not claimed that there is any newly discovered evidence, or tbat the departments are in possession of facts which have not been known for nearly a quarter of a century. Mr. Blaine will review an immense Republican procession from a hotel baloonv when he arrives in New York. He had better steer clear of New York hotels. Bnrchard's B. B. B. may happen again. A men is seldom aware with what admirable fast colors his suspenders are dved until they are transferred to his under:lothing. THE MEETING AT SUMTER. Speeches by Governor Richardson, Lieut. Gov. Manldln and Others. (From the News and Courier ) The meeting appointed by the State Democratic Executive Committee to be held at Sumter, for the seventh Congressional district, came off on the 1st inst. Speeches were made by Gov. Richard- j son, Lieut.-Gov. Mauldin, Attorney General Earle, Comptroller General Verner and Capt. B. R. Tillman. The Governor and the Lieutenant Governor spoke generally to the same effect as at the previous meetings. Capt. Tillman's speech contained nothing new. Comptroller General Verner spoke of .the State finances. He invited Capt ? 1 * XI Xm ass two iarmerB iu uit* mtwuug decide"whether he ^ correct in his statement of theanw, encea between the expenses of 1878-79 and 1886-87. Tillman: "Take Gen. Moore and Gen. Earle, both are respected." Yerner: "I will show the committee what a manipulator o? figures you are." He read tii?- -oorrottpo-QueuCS t*7W>/>gT> himself and Capt. Tillman on the vexed question and Capt Tillman's statements at Chester on Monday. There was a lively and continued running tilt on this matter between the two. Here is the summing up of it Capt. Tillman oharged that Mr. Yerner, in his statement of the differences between the fiscal years of 1878-79 and 1886-87, had used the comptroller's report for 1886-87, and the treasurer's report for 1878-79, and that he gave as a difference, after taking off the funded infavoef nf fiflfl nnlv ifi7.000. Mr. liiTOiVOV V* V*"-) vww, v?^ I TilJman claimed that this was done for partisan purposes. In the figures which Capt. Tillman gave the reporter of The News and Courier, which were published Tuesday, he claimed to prove that he had proven substantially the correctness of his statement in the recent Democratic Convention, but when pressed by Mr. Vemer he admitted that he had culled out of the treasurer's statement for 187&1 79 the figures which he used to swell *16' difference to $237,000, they being/'11* eluded in the aggregate expendito~?or the year 1878-79, as shown by ^ ,~ear sure's report. That is, headmj^d "01D8 just what he had charged th?#,on?PtrolIer general with doing. He^mec* was right in doing it, howe^* .. Capt. Tillman and A*-. Werner alternated in speaking jn 3 subject and there was the Sliest mterest among the audience muoh confusion. A^^ QJiLNffKATi KARLIS> was now^^y ca^ for- Se defeated theSto*6 Government from the charges I ma^a against it and reviewed the State's jpaii in education. This tali about reducing taxation, he gaid, vas demagogic. If legislators i were antrue to the behests of the people, , let them be turned out and new men put , in their places. Again, in answer to Capt. Tillman, be 8 said he was willing to abolish the annex / so-called and give its funds to the agri y cultural college. ^ Capt. Tillman announced that t? q U&tch fund had been stolen from iaimers and that the agricultural board didtiot represent ?k?in. 06\ '^*11 sfi^fc1?--^^2apt. (Ti2|ip??^r-^fciuoninJ IfFagarP pnvilegflJgr /1 i7iunl_iii.il agricultural college. ' JSlonged to the people. Tillman: "Theagricultural board don't represent the people." Earle: "Put them out, then." Tillman: "But the Legislature is manipulated." Earle: "Then put out the members. Capt Tillman is not the State. He mustn't expect everybody to trail after his opinions." After a lively passage beyond the reach of reporting, Gen. Earle said: "I approve many things you advocate, but do not abuse people without cause. Do not charge a class with wrong-doing and array class against class." Tillman: "I've said harder things agfiinst farmers than lawvera. I've called them fools and puppets. ]?arle: "You cannot point to a single South Carolina Representative in Democratic days who has stolen a dohar." numan: "i aont Know aDout mat. There are some flahy things," [Great, confusion, the entire platform being covered with excited men orowding about the couple. Cries of "Put him up to testify!"] Earle: "Come out openly and say it." Tillman, with hesitation and looking awkward: "A reputable man in Marion oharges?(and then he repeated Bigham's slander about Governor Thompson.) I don't endorse it, but 1 was in the House myself when Dean made that report Bigham says he did. The News and Courier this morning has a reply mentioning a lot of things in the mansion, but that is not conclusive to me." Yerner, excitedly: "That schedule was copied from records in my office. There is not a scintilla of truth in that accusation; not a scintilla." Tillman. doggedly: "Glad to hear some one deny it." Earle; "Then the thing that looks fishy has disappeared. With all respect for Governor Thompson, if a man will make an affidavit against him I will have him brought to South Carolina and tried. But don't let us have these accusations." Tillman: "It's not my-charge, not my business." Earle: "Not your business when a Governor of the State is accused of theft?" Tillman: "I would be ashamed to make the charge." Earle: "Ashamed to accuse Governor Thompson, and not ashamed to accuse the Legislature of stealing agricultural funds?" Tillman: "Am I under cross-examination?" Earle: "I ask you to specify and prove." Tillman: "I'm satisfied about Governor Thompson, but the people are not." Mr. H. R. Thomas, Tillman's lieutenant, interrupted with some sneer at Gen. Earle's showing off his ability as a law yer. Earle: "I am fishing for trout, not for minnows. "While I reepect Capt. Tillman, I think he has got one of the poorest lieutenants I ever saw," THE END. The meeting ended amid great confusion. The excitement ever since Mr. Yerner's departure had been intense. Calls were made for Col. Dargan, but he had left. Capt. Tillman left immediately after dinner, to spend the night with a friend in the country. The Meeting at Florence. The meeting at Florence on the 2d inst. was a very- noisy one?the noise being made chiefly by the followers of Mr. Bigham, now a candidate for the Senate from Marion county. Speeches were made Dy uovernor xvicnaraaon, liieut.Governor Manldin and Captain Tillman and Col. B. W. Edwards. No new points were developed. Then came Mr. Bigham, of whose speech and the subsequent proceedings the News and -Courier oontains the following report: Mr. Bigham opened by declaring that ke had been grossly misreprsented by flie "clicks" and rings of Marion county. His subsequent remarks could only be haard in fragments above the din, but he secured silence when he turned to the >ews and Courier Reporter and denanded a fair report. The reporter unfortunately has not the most patient tgnper in the world, and jumping up he slouted: "You seem to be an infernal as, and if you don't shut up and attend toyour business you will get hurt. Stick toyour text, and prove if you can that yoi are not a slanderer, but leave me aloae." . Jlr, Bigham remarking, "I know if I failto prove it I will deserve a whipping and get one." nroceeded with his kbori oufc task. He first quoted Governor Eiihardson's remarks in Greenville as "^ 'lim, and said that the Governor this Fuming, when he spoke to him at the ~<^^^tfi*^^ctha^"eatendirt" wa^rd to say: ?)a a goin' to whip out the State." ?e next thing heard was a declaratiojthat the News and Courier had pub- ; lia'd everything against him and would nc^ublish his replies. If he sent any- 1 thil to the News and Courier they woiJ keep it for eight or ten days until ' &yieould consult the "click." Then : tu^ng to the reporter of the paper he be?* to instruct him to note this, that 1 or t? other thing about the News and ' Coser- ' Je reporter got over the benches and ' np> Mr. Bigham, and told him that he ; cod not talk at thj News and Courier ttyugh him. That if he had any com- ' pi?t against the home office he could goio Charleston and make it there. Tit if he wanted satisfaction in ; Clrleston he could go down and help yweKv and that if he wanted any here 1 pm the representative of the paper he .inU tlQCO -if fVnn ika?\ tt,1 av vucu auu L-ucxc auu wcjlctme. These remarks were emphasized bi the vigorous abating of a fist within aiew inches of Mr. Bigham's classic lise. The wildest excitement prevailed. :A party of Bighamites were prejiaring, itis stated, for a raid on the Reporter, wen a counter-movement was made by th more respectable element; and unexpated backing came from many quarter A number of prominent citizens impressed their satisfaction at the snubbin j Mr. Bigham was receiving, and wer? apparently desirous of seeing a cegdar tilt inaugurated, but Mi*. Bighsmr having taken the hint and relumed wihout a word to other subjects, the ^porter had no reason to continue the Qterruption. Mr. Bigham was now frequently interUjpted by questions. Dr. Weatherly ornered him about the furniture matter, dr. Bigham declared that he had never ail that Governor Thompson stole the ujniture. Dr. Weatherly insisted on a ee or no answer as to whether he did teal it, but Mr. Bigham dodged the uestion. He gave a long statement as \ fVia tirK^Vi oa wnll ?o Vva r Y""r '?J niuvu) nwu no wUiU uo I F><^?fc ?paa cimnlv * taVi P-pH?erf bifi letter I ^0 l^^f+BW8" -?Qd ^?5P5?*^i conclusively iu ity fxtwS^to& -?Sc-i2i.' He gave not one new piece of enSetre^ simply stating that he did not Col. Sloan's statement or the circu^ stances reported about the inventor^ He could not find in the Journals of the House any mention of the resolution Governor JtiichardsoL said he had passed. Dr. Weatherly: "Why did not you fight these furniture appropriations in the Legislature?" Bigham: "I had the Marion County clicks and rings-to attend to." Mr. Bigham having commenced a sentence as follows: "Solomon being the wisest man that ever lived," was interrupted by a chorus of ironic ejaculations: "Except Bigham!" Then Mr. Bigham turned on Dr. Weatherly with the question: "If you object to this, why did not you send other representatives from Marion?" Dr. Weatherly, (devoutly): "Wouldto God we had not sent you, Mr. Bigham!" One of Mr. Bigham'a audible remarks was that he had expected Governor Biohardson to stay and hear him. Another was that Col. John C. Haskell, fixes up figures so that the farmer cannot understand him them. Then because ?16 60 had been paid by Governor Richardson for gas consumed at the Mansion and about its grounds during Governor Shepard's Administration when no family lived in the house, the fund for the purpose of the fiscal year just closed being exhausted, Mr. Bigham gravely announced that the Governor had been guMvj w ^/wuw uuvuwj (UiU uuab uo had proved it on him, and that he shonld be punished for it as impartially as the man who stole a 25 cent chicken, i f the people of Marion endorse the principles of John Peter Richardson, said he, they must send some one else to the Senate. [Voices: "We will do it!"J I don't want the votes of such people. The Legislature, he declared, had proved by its action that it was unwilling to trust John Peter Richardson with the fnrnitnre in the Governor's Mansion without taking his reoeipt for it. If a member of the House could make such a stir as this in a short time, what could not he do if he was sent to the Senate and put on a committee of investigation? [Voices: "Why did not you investigate when you were there?" "Oh you could make a fine dog of the treasury if you could only get back!"J He acoused Governor Richardson of botching the State House and misappropriating money while a member of the State House commission, and was going on in the same indecent style when the Reporters who were tired out and disgusted left him at 4.30 P. M. to hunt some food. They were told afterwards that hfl nrmtirmp/T tr> t.hfi hi a affo^Va on the whole Administration. DR. SINGLET ARY's SPEECH. Dr. Singletary had been waiting long for a chance to express himself. When Mr. Bigham ceased, he addressed the m eeting in somewhat the following terms: "Fellow-citizens of Florence: I am surprised and mortified that you should have stood here to hear such a "blanked set of hypocrites and scoundrels as Tillman and Bigham, I am deeply ashamed of this event I could hardly control myself when this scoundrel Bigham abused a man of honor and integrity, like Governor Richardson. Why are these fellows so mad with the Government of South Carolina? Because, bv George, its mem bers are gentlemen, and gentlemen are the only hope of the State." More was said bv the angry orator, and it's declared tliat he received the most liberal and continuous applause of the day. His remarks above are given at the earnest request of prominent citizens of Marion County. Lett' Gadsden, the worst negro Radical in the town, is said to have led the hurrahing for Bigham, and it is further ! stated that Bigham received the handf shakes of the negroes npon his concta sion. A PROMISED BIOGRAPHY OF BIGHAM. Mr. Bigham's active tongue will soon be called to his own defense. It was announced that Gen. W. W. Harllee will publish in the n xt issue of the Marion papers some account of Mr. Bigham, in which will be included information that in a certain trial he swore in Court that he did not believe his own mother on oath, and that he brought two witnesses from another county to testify against her veracity. The good people of Marion have realized rather late the mistake they made in not scotching the Bigham I or* Q Irn TTTVI nn if ^ An /-J TT uuu ii mou loinou iw AN ISLAND FULL OF GOtD. The Romance of the Tread well 9I]ne lu Alanka~"It Contains Enough of the Metal to Pay ihe National Debt"--Rock that Will Require a Century to Exhanat. It was whispered from time to time in fmit JZ the^ shoulders fe^r^-nmsTD^pPuiftlAi1 llkWJ ulEnleeced so often that every enterprise for getting the precious metals oat of the earth bears to tbeir eyes the marks of a s win die. And then (barring the beautiful fur seal) they think there is nothing in that far off country but Thlinketa, Hydahs, Chilkats, muskrats, icebergs, glaciers, and other unmerchantable artdclee. Only a few o: the more favored tourist who have been let into some of the secrets of the am all rtlinn? nwiiirc the TiroDftrtv aoore ciate the great wealth that is locked up in the forbidding cliffs on the shore about two hundred miles north of Sitka. It is no concern of the insiders to have the world know that they own millions of tons of rock into which long ages ago the precious metal was so generously filtered. They have no mine for sale. It is the little fellows owning holes in the ground which have been heavily Btocked who want to sell. They are content to quietly dig out 100 per cent, a month in tnis dark corner ot the earth. Modert fellows they are. On the west side of the Gastineau Channel, says the Chicago Tribuue. within pistol shot of the mainland and under the shadow of preceptons mountains, is Douglas Island. Just back from the jhore, in a cliff 800 to 1,000 feet high, is i horizontal shaft 400 feet wide and many lundred feet long. At intervals along ;he top of the cliff are perpendicular shafts. This is the Tread well Mine. It s said that some rock has been taken )ut which yields as high as $200 per ton, Dut that is exceptional The statement >f one intelligent man is that the average s $9 per ton, that it costs ?1.50 per ton ;o convert the raw material into gold bars, md that 300 tons of rock can be reduced per day. These figures being correct, ihe net product of tUe mine is $675,000 t year, allowing only 300 working days. Another authority estimated that the >utput for the year 1887 would be $100,)00 per month, or $1,200,000 per year, m/1 t.V>A i/iaIH thifi ^rtainlv Aorinnt ?e less. Diamond drills have been ran ong distances in various directions and ihow no change in the charttcter of the ock or the ore. A thousand feet below ^ ^f?i it's just the tume. It junda extravagant, but experts who lave made careful investigation declare hat there is unquestionably enough gold a this mine to pay the national del-t about $1,200,000,000) and that there are : |jny million dollars' worth of pay rock The confidence of the owners * of the prupeiiy is anaX^iry tiio i. th they have in operation more stamps thai there are in any other mill in the world The appreciation of the mine by othe: people ig indicated by a bid of $16,000, 000 which was made for the property some months ago. This is a case, how ever, when the insiders don't want to ge 'out and the outsiders cannot get in. The mine wan named for its discoverer Tread well was an old Calif or nian of Ion* experience in mining. He was one of i great number of people who, knowing that there are valuable mineral deposit; in Alaska, went there prospecting. Th< natives, a good-natured lot, are alwayi uu uuuu lu u?&e lounaie ana explorer; along the coast almost any distance Many old miners are constantly testing the rocks with hammer and glass. Thej have located deposits of gold, silver, cop per, iron and other metals, but it waj reserved for Tread well to find this masi of gold-bearing rock. It is said thai when he first vi.iited it there was a veil of gold running conspicuously up anc down the face ot the cliff After satis fying himself that it was worthy of for' tner tests, he went to California, bought some machinery, and then returned. Il required but little work with this machine ry to excite his cupidity to the nighesl pitch. Having secured his rights in tht claim, he went to San Franoisco with some specimens of the ore. Senatoi Jones of Nevada was at that time in bad luck and poor. It was his opportunity. He went ud to Alaska and was convinced tiiat another fortune was his if he could get control of the Treadwell Mine. He formed a syndicate and was given a quarter interest in the profits of tie mine as z consideration. Treadweil, it is said, received 31,000,000 in cash and a small percentage of the profits. The stock oi the company is now owned mainly bj four persons, of whom Jones and i). 0. Mills are two. Some wealthy Chicago men, including C. B. Farwell, S. A. Kent and President JBlackstone of the Alton road, have been allowed to examine the property, but it is not believed that they have any financial interest in it. The mine employs natives and Cornishmen ae laborers, paying them 3*2.50 per day and upward, and has already become quite a center of miscellaneous business. With California losing its prestige as a gold-producing country, Australia disappointing its friends, and other parts of the earth failing to meet expectations, the students of finance are looking about the world for a new sourse of supply. Perhaps Alaska will fulfill the requirements. Burmah, a mysterious country, of which Americans know even less than of their own Alaska, is said to have enormous stores of gold ore, of the location of which nobody but a few persons connected with the Government know anything, but developments cannot be expected there for many years. Meanwhile Alaska will come to the front. At all events, people who have seen the Tread well like to remark: 'Alaska was certainly worth the $7,200,000 Seward paid for it twenty years ago." PIAXOS A AD ORGANS. One thousand Pianos and Organs to close out by October 1. All Organs and Pianos sold at cash price, payable November 1?no interest?delivered to your nearest depot. Fifteen days trial. Organs from ?21 up; Pianos from $150 up. All instruments warranted. Send for circulars. Buy now and have the use of the instrument. Remember we pay freight both ways if the instrument don't suit. Prices guaranteed less than New York. N. W. TRUMP, * Columbia, S. 0. A ROMANCE OF A COUNTESS. HOW THE DAUGHTER OF A GERMAN NOBLEMAN LOST HEK HEART. I An Eventful Career-1 Husband Assassinated?Marrying a Second Time and Being; Deceiwed?Diamonds, Paris Dresses aud Great Wealth Found in Chicago. (From the New York Star.) For some months past there has been a little romance going on in Chicago, which the Globe of that city says would furnish capital material for a novel of the thrilling style. Some years ago there lived near Berlin, in Germany, a German nobleman of great wealth, who, among other favors of fortune, possessed an interesting family of two sons and two . daughters. The elder daughter married at an early 85e a German nobleman, -a member of .^evdear - ""Tr^Ti the"- same regiment. The younger daughter of the old German nobleman?whowas also a baron and the scion of one of Prussia's most noble families?was the Countess Marie von Oveardon, a charming brunette, with a beautiful figure and a most bewitching manner. The dream of the old baron's life was to wed this daughter to a rather elderly German of untold wealth, who was an officer in the Emperor's retinue. The Countess Marie, however, disliked the man to whom her father had betrothed her in her childhood, and after visiting her sister, where she met the dashing young surgeon, who was her brother-in-law's friend, she returned to her father's castle minus heart, which she had given into the surgeon'? keeping. The elderly suitor's chances were materially "done for." Baron von Oveardon would hear no word of the surgeon lover's suit, and bade his daughter consider lierself betrothed to the elderly lover. So the young couple got a dispensation from the Emperor, and one fine day they were clandestinely married. Their marriage life was Bhort, however, for one night in 1883, while the surgeon's regiment was encamped outside the gates of the capital, he was shot by an assassin in ambush and died the following day. On his death bed he told Viio cnrrnty xeifa thftf Via fplf, snrA that, his disappointed rival had a knowledge of bis assassination, and made her bind herself by oath never to have anything to do with him. Baron von Oveardon had discarded his daughter when he heard of her marriage, and she also lost her title on account of her misalliance. So, although her husband left her a com- . fortable fortune, including his life insurance, at his death the broken-hearted young widow had no home save with her married sister. Her health failed after her bereavement, and her sister and brother-in-law decided to travei for a few years and see if time and new scenes would not wean the young Countess (the death of the husband restored the title) from her grief. For four years they wandered all over Europe and America. While in th6 United Slates, where she arrived in 100.1 *1?1 r\ K-rr AUvTX, bUC y>JUUUUCOC, WUW UOU UJ VUiO rime recovered from the poignancy o? her grief, a decided fancy to the m So, a relative who was a Caffi Dlic bishcflrP ^ Wisconsin, she took nj ijo>..<3rtesiclence with him, and her rela ! tives returned to Germany. In Jane 1884, she visited Chicago, and, as sh< f could not speak the English language . she visited Professor Minshall, the blinc j elocutionist, on the West side, witl . the object of taking instruction in th< t English language. She took a few lee sons, proving herself a very apt pupil, She evinced a decided liking for th( professor and his wife, and made then: the conlidants of her romantic story, Shortly afterward she returned to Milwaukee, and her friendp, the Minshalls, failod to hear from her for some time. In the course of a year, however, sh again made her appearance in Chicago, and told her friends that she had married a wealthy Milwaukean named J. J. Hoi, who was in the real estate business. Their life was not happy one, and in December last she applied for a divorce fU nrrtrt 41 3 irum uci uuauouu, trnu woo given ? ust CTee by Judge Shepard on March 12, t 1888. Her life after her divorce was [ not a pleasant one. Practically she had . given up her fortune, and, although she . had a small fortune in jewels and s : magnificent wardrobe, she had no monej I save about $1,500 and an income of $7C per mon;;h which her father allowed t her. j The old lover, whom she suspected ol i having had a hand in the assassination of her first hosband, again appeared I upon the horizon of her existence. A , young German Prince visiting this I country a topped over in Chicago, and I in his retinue was an elderly German oi > wealth ac<?mpanied by a valet. The Countess was at this time living with i her friends the Minshalls. She had neara incidentally irom a iriena wiiu I whom she corresponded in Germany [ that her old lover had been trying to r get her address, as he intended visiting this country. When the Countess left > Germany she left behind her, besides i her married brother, a young brother t whom she had not seen in a couple of i years, as hie was at Paris receiving his education. When the old lover arrived i he stopped at the Graud Pacific Hotel, i and by some means he had located the Countess. He sent word to her by his servant that her young brother and a very dear friend had arrived here from Germany and would call upon her the following (lay. The next day a gentleman of dignified appearance rang the door bell of No. 2180 Wabash avenue, where the .lady had a furnished a room, and inquired for the Counress von Seiflert He came in a carriage and was accompanied by a young gentleman whom he said was the Countess' brother. The moment the Countess beheld her fr5oifj->ro oVi?, ViAr fliyarinriintAfl lover and almost fainted. She ordered him out and bade him never to return. The young man, who bore a striking resemblance to the photograph of her brother, she doubted, and denounced him as an iriposter. He, ho wever, ttoutly maintained that he was ht_r brother, and made a,n engagement to see her the nest day, when he would call again alone. The old lover departed, vowing venganee on accouut of his reception. Next day she visited Archbishop Feehan with her alleged brother, and as he failed to answer some questions she propounded, she requested the archbishop to cable to her father La Berlin as to the whereabout? came back that he had just returned to Berlin from Paris, where he had beei. attending college, and if any one w&representing himself to be her broth* r he was an imposter. The naxfc day the German Prince aad his party depart ed from Chicago, and then began a systematic course of annoyance for tht ^ -1 ov. 1J i. 1^ I I poor uouniesa. out) uoiuu uut leave iiei ' house without being shadowed by detec tires, whom she suspected of being i& the employ of her divorced husband and cast-off lover. She Anally determined to seek another residence, and in April last she moved to 2108 Wabash arenas, rented by W. T. Noble and family. Her irieads, the Minshalls, did not then see as muoh of her as they would have desired, and she seldom visited them, but explained that she could not leave her home without being shadowed. On June 13 last she accompanied th<* professor aud his wife to a musicale at Professor Steiner's, on the North Side. They did not see her again after th?t, and after waiting two or tbrce weeks thev called at her an/1 #/-?nn she had moved away. The landlord, W. T..Noble, expressed ignorance of herwhereabouts, saying she had moved oat the previous week. A reporter called at'No. 2108 Wabash -V : . avenue. W. T. Noble was in his and 09 being naked if he knew ,lj?. the Countess von Seiffert was, Air, ^' SheTh^^kidg^^l^B ^j^aEted in some way withlsT^G. Maresch, a wealthy business man of - Whatcom, Washington Territory. M%resch arrived in Chicago Jane 27, and as he proved to be all that he represented, the Countess went with him at once to Rev. Father Butler of St John's Church, ~ and on Sunday evening, July 1, they were married. The couple went to board at Southern Hotel. They remained there until Wednesday evening, when they departed for their new home in Washington Terri tory, and a happier couple could not be found. Rev. Father Butler confirmed the . statement that he had performed the ceremony. "Yes, the lady was a German Countess of wealth. I know her whole history, and she came to me with letters irom a most eenmaoie clergyman, Father Lalumier of Milwaukee. She was quite free to marry, as she had married a divoced man for her second husband without knowing it. They appeared to be very happy and I hope it will turn out weiL" Mr. Bafcchelor, proprietor of the Southern Hotel, said that the Countess and her husband boarded with him for two weeks, and they appeared to be happy and had plenty of money. Mr. and Mrs. Minshall were seen, and were astonished when they beard of her marriage, having worked on the abduction theory since they found out she bad moved away. Meanwhile the Countess, who is about 30 years of age and still a beautiful woman, is on her way with her new husband to their home in Washington Territory, where she will undoubtedly create a sensation with her diamonds and Worth toilets, and her romantic life's history. SAM JOXKS OF GEORGIA. He Talks in Hli Peculiar Way About Polltics and Religion. (From the Chicago Herald) Bey. Sam Jones stopped over eight at the Sherman House. He is on his way to Madison, Wis., to lecture. "I think the importance of my work is increaa- ? _ ing,".said he, "I have a thousand or two thousand applications for me ahead. The ? earnestness of the people who listen to me is shown by their number and the 9 results that come. As for prohibition ment The largest vote wififprobably 3 be in Georgia, 10,000 or more. I hope the Bepubbcan party will be defeated bo> cause then it will break to pieces and a 3 prohibition party will be formed. The : new party ought to take up other quetr tions, also the Sunday question, for ir | instance. It has come to such a pass 3 that we won't have any Sunday in this country in eight or ten years. I believe ' in the grand Jeffersonian principles of 3 the Democratic party, but I can't go th& 1 whole hog. I don't think a man can ba ' a Christian and be a Democrat. If he ia a good Christian he will be a mighty ' weak-kneed Democrat, and if he is a crntiA Dflmnwot thuw tir/vn't Kfl tnnnh ! spine to his Christianity." Mr. Jonea had not made np his mind as to whom he would vote for. Vitality of Bermuda Grass Seed. , The July Bulletin of the Experimental Station of this State contains the following: \ In the May Bulletin the result of c. l test of the vitality of a sample of this s seed was given, in which, at a temperat tore of 70 degrees, none oonld be made r to germinate, although remaining in the i apparatus for a month. Qin/kA than f^ofo kowu /?A? MIMVU VMVU WAJW f V kA^U WU~ tinned, bnt at higher temperature, viz., . 80 to 85 degrees, or still lower than that to whioh the seed would be exposed in ' the soil. The result has been 66 1 per cent of good seed have germinated, 43 per cent, of the germi; appearing on ' the third and fourth days, 8 percent, on 1 the fifth day, and the remaining 14 per cent during the following thirteen days. The sample as purchased contained 19.18 per cant of impurities, such as trash and foreign seed. The per cent. value of the sample is therefore 54.6. Still further tests to be made at higher temperatures may show a higher germinating value. The different results obtainedat different temperatures fumifih valuable guid- . ' ance to the fanner in sowing seed of this grass. The plant is a native of warm climates, and only perfects its seeds in low latitudes, and these require for germination a sufficient warmth of soil. Oar results seem to show that plantings should be made not later in the fall than the middle of October, nor earlier in the spring than April 10th. An Absurd Fashion. Unconsciously perhaps, several man tiara in .TMttkRmivillA havA fallen infrt a London fad?that of shaving the upper lip. There is an organized movement at the English capital against the mustache and attempts are being made by the Anglo-maniacs in this country to popularize it here. This has proved a dead failure in Philadelphia. The Record of that city remarks that it has been clearly demonstrated that "most men would sooner part with their little fingers than with their mustache." Why, no one seems to know. A mustacheless man has no charm for a girl who is looting for a husband. Villains and heroes au wear beautifully trained and formed bp covers. And physicians say that a bare lip is injurious to the eyes, the mustache serving to break the downward fall of one's vision somewhat.?Jacksonville Timea-Union. The Hide to the sparkling Catawba. T'ha ri/ta frnm tVio railrAAi^ tn *Via Sparkling Catawba Springs is a very pleasant one?made especially so by tha fact that Messrs. Brannpn Bros, bava established a regular hack line from Conover, N. C., the nearest station, to the Springs. In buying tickets and checking baggage, remember " that Conover is the station and that Brannou Bros, will supply comfortable transportation at reasonable figures,