The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, November 14, 1888, Image 1

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m. VOL XLV, WINNSBORO, S. G, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER U, 1888. " NO. l&l ip m i - . " ' HARRISON ELECTED. 9| THE REPUBLICANS CARRY TELE COUNTRY BY A HEAVY VOTE. IT All the "Doubtful States" Give Their ElecBL toral Votes Against the National Democ? rxeru?of the Resnlt. gff _ Every State voted for Presidential H~ electors on the 6th instant Every State H except Maine, Oregon and Vermont BBWK elected members of Congress, each orHr ganized Territory elected delegates and State office?; and members of the LegisWT lature were chosen by Colorado, ConW~ necticnt, JFIorida, Illinois, Kansas, Indiana, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mjssouri,Nebraska,North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, West Virginia and Wisconsin. California elected her Legislature, K GeffSf Justice and Associate Judge of the Supreme Court. Iowa and Ohio elected minor State officers. Nevada elected a ffi Supreme Judge, regents of the University and Legislature. HP New*Hampshire and Tennessee elected Governors and Legislatures. New JerR sev elected the Legislature. KmEC New York elected a Governor, Judge of the Court of Appeals and Legislature. Pennsylvania elected the Supreme 1 Court, Auditor snd Legislature. Proposed amendments to their conIk e stitutions, or general laws, were voted I upon by Georgia, Illinois, Kansas, NeI - vada, New Hampshire, New York, North F-- Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia. I The interest in the contest centred L_chiefly on New York, and next on New Connecticut and Indiana. X?w York. Hw Yobs, November 6.?2.45 A. M. Hnxrns received at the United Press H by counties, by majorities which Ktimated, indicate that Harrison has Ynrk bv about 10.000 I if Iork, November 6.?-?he Herald korning says: At the hour of going jss with our first edition, the probes indicate the election of Gen. ion to the Presidency. This opinf based upon dispatches received ell the States in the Union and [;may be divided as follows: [eland?Alabama, Arkansas, Conpt, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, bky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mis|i, Missouri, New Jersey, North pa, South Carolina, Tennessee, ? Virginia, and West Virginia,? prison?Colorado, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, MichiV^naesjta, Nebraska, New HampsffllpNew York, Vermont and WisconI v 'JtoQbtfgl?California, Nevada and 3a| Necessary to elect, 201. ?jingtke .Votes of Connecticut ttU to Mr. Cleveland and Wea. California and NeHX Gen. Harrison has a electoral college. The K Ti lini i " 1 liipil T m ^ffUl'as Governor? and ofMngh J. Grant as mayor. Political lesson of the election is that the national supremacy of the Democrat party has been sacrificed ; to the ambition of David B. Hill and Abram S. Hewitt. New Yobk, November 6.?The city aomplete gives for Mayor, Grant 107,537, Hewitt 68,134, Erhardt 67,725, 'Coogan 9,455. / New Yobk, November 6.?Total city i vote, allowing for 4 election districts in jL basis of vote 852 districts, Cleveland mK^1?2,907; Harrison 105,821; Fisk 1,300; HBTWrev 1.567. Be hundred and eleven outside disjive Harrison 222,509; Cleveland 1; Fisk 104,657. same in 1884 gave Blaine 198,552, and 163,457, St. John 9,620. York. November 6.?Returns alreceived indicate that the entire any city and county ticket is L by a large plurality. The Rems run about even with the counaocrats. Yosk, November 7.?There is g to change the indications that on has carried this State. The count in New York city gives Dn 105,726 and Cleveland 162,981; tnd's majority 57,255. rr.nr.innr TVIoOrram SftVR f ? 11JC mt.iuia , ?J v. Harrison carries the State by abont 10,000 and Hill by 17,000. The Commercial Advertiser says late t ; returns indicate the election of Harrison, L and that Hill has 10,000 plurality. IT~ The Mail and Express (Rep.) says ^"s^/^Harrison has the State by over 10,000. The World says Chairman Brice refuses to concede Harrison's election. He has not yet conceded New York State. The Republican National Committee make the following statement to the" m public: p Republican National Headquarters, November 7.?In view of c.aim being promulgated by the Democratic National Committee that they have carried the State of New York for Cleveland, and i I that they are sending telegrams to their local committees all over the State to effect, the Republican National Committee have sent out to the Chair?awli "Rjarmhliran Oormt.v Com Illflll VA ^ mifctee of the State the following telegram: Although full returns from every county in the State shew-New York b safely for Harrison by upwards of 15,000 * plurality, the Democrats are telegraphing to tneir county chairmen claiming the State and urging them to pay attention to the returns. See to it that the r^-*turns are thoroughly guarded till oflk^y canvassed. In case of necessity, emplo ' connst-L Notify us of any h tampering *iUl ^turns. Communicate L mfh vmr town committee at once if \ J. S. Fassett. \ Albany, November' Journal estimates a p lurahi-y of 12,(0j for Harrison and 7,000 for Hill in jNev; York State, and a Kepu^1^11 S*1.11 ?-' r nine Assemolymen. The (^flgrfiesioua] ff. delegation is unchanged in po. uic? Pro" i portion. New York, November 7.?Returns have been coming in slowly all day, but unless some most unexpected reverb of the State votes already known transpires, the election of Hnrri^-n may bt Considered as tititain. The loading newspapers, of all political iuitlxfi, con cede a Republican victory, but tht Democratic National Committee stii continued to assert that they do not giv< up New York. This claim," however, af the day went by with no material changi in Republican majorities in the up oounties already reported, and as eact new county showed continued Republi 5 "? 1 ?* in Wal can gams, graauauy iust ? i? street, and with immense throngs in th< '.~r streets in front of the two national head quarters and newspaper offices; ant to-night the streets are given over U Republican paraders and the souj Giover'sin the oold, cold ground,"! r i [being bummed everywhere. A report this morning that Illinois was doubtful, revived Democratic hopes, and whe The News issued an extra claiming Cleve' land's re. election on this report, the excitement was intense. In Wall street the market became weak and feverish, and Republicans looked anxious. By 2 o'clock, however, with bulletins from Repablican headquarters from Quay, assuring Republican success, and , later reports stating that Illinois was sure for Harrison by twenty thousand the excitement subsided. A second rumor became current in the ai-l^iUWU UU(?V OM W.4.VJ. I covered in the vote of Kings county, i giving Cleveland ten thousand more majority. This was soon disproved and denied. New Jersey being conceded to the Democr ^s by sis thousand to eight thousand, all eyes turned toward Connecticut and Indiana. Returns came very slow from both States, but at G P. M. a careful estimate gave Connecticut to Cleveland by about four hundred majority and Indiana to Harrison by three thousand to four thousand. In Connecticut the vote is so close that an official count may be necessary to decide the contest, as has been the case in that S'.ate several times before. Nevada is Republican by about one thousand, Oregon by four thousand, and Michigan by about twelve thousand. California and West Virginia are still much in doubt, both sides claiming them, with chsaces in favor of the Demn/>rota in thA fnmic-r and of the RfiDnb licans in the latter. In New York City Tammany Hall's clear sweep of all offices astonishes every one. The reports from the interior of the State show that the vote of Hill leads that of Cleveland in about the same proportion as that indicated earlier, and point to a plurality for Hill of about seventeen thousand. Hill's great ran is made the universal expression of the opinion that he will be the next Democratic Presidential candidate. Cleveland's defeat in the State is due to his reduced majorities in Kings and Queens counties, and Warner Miller's high license candidacy and admirable canvass of the State, which cut the prohibition vote in the up counties to pieces. As far as can be judged, the tariff issue played but little part in the matter. Depew's influence with the railroad vote played also a part. Much indignation is expressed over the Democratic defection in Kings county, and charges of treachery are openly made against Boss McChurin. In the city Republican heelers knifed Ehrdardt for mayor. The corrected State vote at 6 P. M. gave Cleve land 7/,7S2, J?arnson 07,773, iuuier 58,863, Hill 69,997. In the city Grant received 114,138, Hewitt 70,931, Ehrhardt 70,873 and Coogan 9,617. The collapse of Coogan, the labor candidate, who claims to have spent over a hundred thousand dollars on his election, is surprifiirg. General Harrison telegraphs Senator Quay as follows: "Accept my heartiest congratulations. I owe my success in great measure to your untiring efforts." He also telegraphs that his advices give a Republican,^ j ority in Jffirfois of twenty-five thoiteand^iQdis^ six thou-.. -t^djpr scvea-4nousaiui^ and. California six thousand. Chairman Brice and Chairman Murtha, of the Democratic State Committee, were not visible this afternoon to reporters who endeavored to obtain a statement from them as_to the King's county vote. Secretary .Deireest, of the State committee, being interviewed on the subject, said: "I can't tell what the State committee will do, but you can say the grossest kinds of frauds prevail, not only in the county, but in several poller parts of the State. We have an f&HEstigatiDg committee at work on thewforns now, and I assure you they wiff take pro iipt action." New York, November 8.?An extra edition of the World says: Chairman Brice of the Democratic National Exec- ' utiye Committee concedes" the election of General Harrison. Captain McCleman, Chairman of the Campaign Committee, was the only member of the ' National Committee at headquarters this morning, and he made the authoritative announcement of Chairman Brice's cono Tri/^.AW WOOlVii V i. t~m fAVVVAJ* The World puts California and Indiana in the Republican column and gives Harrison 233 votes in the Electoral College. New Jersey. Trenton, November 7.?The Democratic plurality in New Jersey is now put down at 5,000. The Democrats elected to Congress are Geisenheimer in the third district, Fowler in the fourth and McAdoo in the seventh. The Republicans elected are Bergen in the first, Buchanan in the second, Beckwith in the fifth and Lehlback in the sixth. The T AMMlAiA?A 11 Tl/>WkA/**0^1A 1\TT O AJtSglOiaoUiD HU1 uc i/cuuvJiauu uj a viwc vote. The Senate stands Democrats 11, Republicans 10. This is the first time in ten years that the Democrats have had the Senate. The lower house is claimed by the Republicans to be a tie, but the Democrats say they have a majority. The closeness of the Legislature will make the race for United States Senator next winter unusually exciting. Connecticut. Hartford, November 7.?Editor Sprey of the Post says: "Connecticut gives Cleveland 384 plurality, but error in New Haven may change it to Harrison." Later State returns elect Congressman Edward W. Seymour, Dem., in the fourth district bv tlio vote of iSewfcon. His majority is 398. The Congresssmen are thus equally divided, two each. Hartfokd, November 7.?Completer returns jin the State givo Cleveland 7i,yui, Jtiarnson a,or.i, jl-isk Cleveland's plurality 385. Indiana. Isdia^apolis, November 7.?Eight hundred and forty precincts in Indiana give Harrison 132,517 and Cleveland 125,813. The same precincts in ISS-i gave Blaine 130,367 and Cleveland 1 119,910. Full returns from twenty-seven counties out of ninety-two show a net Republican gain of 2,355. The RepubL lican State Committee claim that Harri son has carried the State by 5,000 plurality. The Democratic committee claim j the State by 3,000 to 6,000. ; The Feeling iu Washington. j Washington*, November 7.?Business was especially suspended in the depart> "cents and at the White House. Sevt-ral : o. -'Ui'K'rs of the cabitut c.illcd on the &ii lilio <iid J iiJjticu L:i:iiu.r j and Chief Justice F oiler. They did not I remain long, however, and Secretary vrrt>;?.~*vTT Mmortpil r>n IpAvinc that; hp > was Dot surprised at the result, especially i iii New York, where he had for some - days past seen evidences of Republican t success. He said he thought the change - was due to the persistent presentation of 1 the false idea that tariff reform meant j free trade. It seemed impossible in the - length of time given to the campaign to i educate to educate the masses. > Shortly after noon Mrs. Cleveland, * who spent last night at the White s House, took a carriage and drove quietI - . Ij to Oak View, where she will be kept informed by telephone of any later news. In the departments the Democratic clerks and officials are wrestling with figures and possibilities and rumors, and hoping that some unexpected development may yet give the result to Cleveland. Secretary McPherson. of the Republican Congressional committee, puts the next House at 14 Republican majority. "Well, we are beaten," said Colonel Lamont, as he entered the White House this morning. "I stayed at the White House until 1 o'clock looking at the reI turns, and there seemed no doubt of it. Republican gains in tho interior of New York were heavy, and there was a stir up in Jung s county tnat 1 aon t understand. I thought it had gone against us at S P. M." At 1 o'clock this afternoon a salute of 218 guns, one for each electoral vote claimed by Harrison, was fired by the Republicans on the White lot, adjoining the White House grounds. Business has been at a stand still and in the departments today. Colonel Lamont says Governor Hill had done all he could for the ticket, and the vote he got in excess of Cleveland was largely from the Republican liquor interest. ESTIMATED MAJORITY BY STATES. The following table embraces the States j heard from up to mid-night. Cleveland. Harrison. Arkansas 20,000 Colorado 8,000 California Connecticut 400 Tlolttxpar/i 3 3(V) Florida 1,200 Georgia 25,000 Illinois 20,000 Iowa 20,000 Indiana 25,000 Kansas G5,000 Kentucky 35,000 Louisiana 35,000 Maine 23,000 Maryland 10,000 Massachusetts 24,000 Michigan 12,000 Minnesota 20,000 Mississippi 40.000 Missouri 30,000 Nebraska 30,000 Nevada l.(XK-) New Hampshire 2,556 New Jersey 6,946 New York 11,191 North Carolina... 25,000 Ohio 25,000 : Oregon 5,000 Pennsylvania 55,695 Rhode Island 4,000 South Carolina... 40,000 Tennessee 15,000 Texas 140,000 Vermont 27,500 Virginia 5,000 Wisconsin 18,000 West Virginia THE STATE ELECTION. Tiie contest in South Carolina on the 6th in$iantr was" anr&e-sided affair, except in a very few counties. 'With the exception of an unimportant disturhtoce in Sumter and cneia Hampton, the whole-election was very quiet. The Democratic vote was noticeably small everywhere. We give below items from the counties wiiere there was anything of special importance. From Aiken. The election at Aiken passed ofT quietly. No disturbances of any kind occurred. The vote was as follows: v At the Federal box: Total vote cast 530,! of which Cleveland received 360; Harrison, 165. For Congress: Tillman, 364; Smith, 162. At the State boxes: Total vote cast, 309; for Governor, 299; State officers, 294; Solicitor, 296; State Senator, 283; Representatives, 296; other county officers, 286. Constitutional amendment relative to Probate Jud;ie?Yes, 190; No, 84. Constitutional amendment for School Commissioner?Yes, 208; No, S5. f From Beaufort. .: Returns come in slowly. Col. Elliott made a fine run, and Miller's majority is not near as large as was expected. W. J. Virdier, a staunch Democrat, has been elected io the State Senate. The county fusion ticket met with entire success. From Sumter. There are three precincts yet to be beard from. Those heard from give Elliott a majority of t?50. Bishopville, Manchester and Carter's Crossing are not yet in. Elliott's majority in the county will probably reach 1,000. The whole county ticket is elected. From Oconee. The following is the result of the vote in OcoDce county: For President: Cleveland, 1,213; Harrison, 237- State officers, 1,128. Congress, Cothran, 1.225. State Senator: R. E. Mason (Dem.), 1,15S; T. Y. C. Pahnstock (led.), 313. The county ticket received the same vote as the State. Leonard, the Famous Telegraph Operator. "I rememl-er," said my Somers, a Western Union electrician here, when we first began reading by sound. The first man 1 ever saw try it was Jimmy Leonard. It was in an office on the old National Line. It was like everything else nevr?looking upon by the management with suspicion. Leonard soon picked it up, but be didn't dare let the superintendent know it. The superinwa? nnm<?rl Srvpftrl and VIA had said that reading by sound was all bosh and he didn't want any such nonsense in any of his offices. Leonard was working on this principle all the while, however, when speed wasn't around. After it became known that such a thing was possible and that it was advisable to adopt it, Speed went to Leonard and asked him 11 he could do it. Leonard said ho couldn't. Speed thought ho I might learn and give him the benefit of his judgement. Leonard was afraid to learn too quickly, for ho was uot certain that Speed was not trying to catch him. By degrees he unfolded the secret and finally Speed gave in. "Leonard was one of the most remarkable operators I ever knew," continued Mr. Somers. "He was the onlv man I ever knew who could send a message with one hand while at the same time he could receive from another line with his other hand. He died down South not long ago. When the old-time telegraphers met here they raised money and had his remains brought back to Louisville, his old home, and put to rest among his kindred's."?Chicago Times. PtAXUfe AM) OKU WH. 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 $24 up; Pianos from 8150 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. C. A man of deeds?The conveyancer. THE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. An Interesting and Important Meeting in Columbia?State Chemist and State Veterinary Surgeon Dispensed With. (Special to the News and Courier.) Columbia, November 8.?The Board of Agriculture met at 10 o'clock this morning and remained in session until after I P. M., when they ad]ourneu to meet again after dinner. Upon reassembling the Board eon tinned the consideration of the varions papers submitted by the CommissioDer. The Farmers' Mining Company was granted a license to mine phosphate rock in Parrott Creek. The representative of the National Department of Agriculture at the Paris Universal Exposition of 1889 having requested that the exhibit of South Carolina rice, now at the iugusta National Exposition, be transferred to and exhibited at the Paris Exposition at the expense of the National Government, Commissioner Butler was authorized to accede to the request in his discretion. ? * 1-3 X.u? J. lie -Boaru aooepueu. ui? uncx uj wo New York College of Veterinary Surgery of a free scholarship in that institution, and will appoint some worthy man desirous of instruction at that institution. The resignation of Dr. P. E. Chazal, the State chemist, to take effect December 1, and of Dr. Benj. Mclnnes, Jr., Veterinary Sargeon of the Department, were received and accepted. Dr. Chazal, as has already been announced, resigns in ordor to engage in independent chemical work in Charleston. Dr. MoBryde, President of the University, submitted a proposition to have the chemical and veterinary work of the department done under the supervision of the chemist, Dr. Burney, and the veterinary surgeon, Dr. Niles, of the University, which proposition was 80cepted. Dr. Burney will be allowed two assistants, graduates of the South Carolina College, or some other institution of as good standing, and will himself supervise the analytical work to be done by them. Dr. JNiles will visit any section of the State in which contagious diseases among animals may be suspected, and in other respects will fill the place vaoated by Dr. Mclnnes. These officers of the University will receive additional . remuneration for this extra service, but : the total cost to the department will not, of course, be as large as it has heretofore been. The annual report to the Legislature ! of the Commissioner of Agriculture, ' and of the Board, were then adopted, and, after acting on various minor matters, the Board adjourned. TOO MUCH KXERCISE. A School Girl Said to have been Paralyzed by Calisthenics. (From the Philadelphi Record) The calisthenics drill bv Section 3 of Class C of the Girls' Normal School is condemned by Druggist Charles E. Haig, who alleges that the length and severity of the present system is responsible for the serious illness of his sixteen-year-old daughter, Anna. This is Miss Anna's second year in the Normal School, and she belongs to a class that lis assigned two hours each alternate week for instruction in the calisthenic department. The girls are all clad in exercise suite of flannel and use light wooden dumb-bells and wands for gymnastic purposes. Section 3 consists of sixty girls, the majority of whom have had a year's experience in calisthenic exercises. The delicate pupils, who included a small proportion of the class, are excused from physical exercise on the presentation of a physician's request. On Friday night, after her exercise in the calisthenc department, Miss Haig was taken with violent pains in the neck and head. By Saturday the right side of her face was paralyzed. Dr. Ziegler, the family physician, ascribed tne paralysis to over-indulgence in calisthenic manoeuvres. The young lady has suffered very much, and Mr. Haig says J V.? ?l).,Trr tJittlf UUUCJL XiU UJULUVLLLLOUOJUVOO nAU UO UUV TT his daughter to resume physical exercise when she shall return to the Normal School. The physical exercises are given under the supervision of Miss Grace Spiegle, who is a person of experience in the calisthenic departments attached to pubschools, and is known to be very considerate of her pupils. "J distinctly remember that Siiss Heig was excused from calisthenics all of last term on the presentation of a physician's certificate that she was unable to indulge in such exercises," said Miss Spiegle yesterday. "But Section 3 of Class 0 has had only one hour this term in calisthenics. But one hour and fifteen minutes actual time in two weeks is devoted by C 3 to my department. The time is divided in this waj: Ten minutes are devoted to the use of the wand and fifteen to explaining the physical movement. This interval rests the scholars and another ten minutes are spent in exercising. The girls then recite a portion of the lesson, and after this second rest a short conversation is indulged in, and the session closes with ten minutes more of exercises. I watch the girls very closely, and any scholar who I think is not capable of enduring the easy exercises I excuse from performing them. Contrary to proving an injury, it has greatly benefitted the young girls, as numbers of them can tjiofif-cr oni-J fViaT7 lnnlr frtrwurd with pleasure to the hour they spend in my department." Pen Picture of the Midnight Sun. The midnight sun is thus discribed in "A Jubilee Jaunt to Norway." Imagine yourself on a ship at anchor looking west or straight in front of you. There is a broad expanse of sea a little to your right hand, behind yon will be the rugged coast, and to your left the long, narrow fiord between the islands and the mainland that the steamer has just traversed. You watch the sun as it slowly, slowly sets; the island and the coasts look like a rich, dark purple, and the shadows cast by the ship's mast, &c, grow longer and longer. After a bit, when the sun had sunk apparently twelve feet from the horizon, it stops and seems A ofofiAnow f/M* oVvAnf fnranfrT WS A UiUWLU DUUV1VAMUJ AVA UWUV VHOUVJ minutes; then the very seagulls hide away, while the air on a sudden strikes chilly. Each one has an awed, expectant feeling, and surrounding even the tourist steamer broods a silence that may be felt. Soon the sun rises very slowly once again, and the yellow clouds change with his uprising to even greater beauty, first to the paleBt primrose and then to a bluish pink. The sky, which was just now rose color, becomes gray, then pale emerald greeD, and lastly blue. Rock after rock stands out caught by the sun's bright rays, and the reign of day has begun once more. A Murder at Gaffbey City. bP.VRTAFBURG, jnov. b.?mere was a homicide at Gaffney City last night. John Petty shot Dave Lindsay, killing him, about a game of cards. Petty has fled and cannot be found.?Special to News and Courier. I WITS OF THE PAST. Famous Englishmen Who Said Some Verj Sharp and Pat Thlucs. The late Mr. Alexander, the eminent architect, was under cross-examination at Maidstone by Sergeant, afterward Baron, Garrow, who wished to detract* from the weight of his testimony, aiid, after asking him what was his name, proceeded: "You area builder, I believe?" "No, sir, I am not a builder; I am an architect." "They are much the same, I suppose?'*' "I beg your pardon, sir; I can not admit thai'; I consider them to be totally different." "O, indeed! perhaps you will state wherein this great difference exists?" "An architect- sir," replied Mr. Alexander, "conceives the design, prepares the plan, draws out the specifications ?in short,- supplies the mind; the builder isAjj^'refy the bricklayer or the carpenter*-/ The builder, in fact, is the machine; the architect the power that puts the machine together and sets it going." ='0, very well, Mr. Architect, that will do. And now, after your very ingenious distinction without a difference, perhaps you can inform the court i.l, ~ ?,-. +T. ? n-VU ~C tH. ? TV wnv woo ojxo ui wit> iuw?r sjl Babel?" The reply for promptness and wit is not to be rivaled in the whole history of rejoinder: ''There was no architect, sir, and hence the confusion." One evening at Carlton House the Prince Regent observed the author of "The Hoir-at-Law." "Why, Colman, you are older than I am." George replied: "Oh, no, sir; I could not have taken the liberty of coming into the world before your Royal Highness." w nen a suascription was proposed for Fox and some one was observing that it would require some delicacyand wondering how Fox would take it, SqIwyn said: "Take it? Why quarterly, to be sure." To all letters soliciting his subscription to any thing, Erskine has a regular form of reply, viz.: "Sir, I feel much honored by your application to me and J beg to subscribe"?here the reader had to turn over the leaf?"myself your very obedient servant," etc. "My Lord," said Dr. Parr to Erskine, whose conversation had delighted him, "should you die first 1" mean to write your epitaph." "Br. Parr," was the reply, "it is a temptation to commit suicide. " One of Curran's friends, a notorious and lucky gambler, getting entangled In fwnvprsn.t.iftn with "him. crrafliinllv lost his temper, and at last said, with great vehemence: "No man, sir, shall trifle with me with impunity." Curran corrected him by saying: "Play with you, you mean.1' An old lady residing in one of the charming villas near Tours, observing that her watch had stopped, told her maid-*' what o'clock it was on the sun-dial in the garden. In a few minutes Mile. Nicole returned, quite out of breath and carrying something heavy in her apron. "Ma foi, madame," said she, "I can't make out what it says, so I have brought it here, that madame may look at it herself." Bushe. the Irish Chief Baron, made this impromptu verse upon two agitaTtrVin +A AnrVit nnA An UVi %J H4AV fcVAUUVVk VV VMW vu account of his affection for his wife and the other beeause of his love for his daughter: Two heroes of Erin, abhorent of slaughter, Improved on the Hebrew command: One honored his wife and the other his daughter, That his day9 might be long In the land. Dr. Croly said very smart things and with surprising readiness. At his table one day when one of the guests inquired the name of a pyramidal dish of barley-sugar, some one replied: "A pyramid a Macedoine." "For what use?" rejoined the other. "To give a Philip to the appetite," said Croly. At the breaking up of a fashionable party, one of the company said he was about to "drop" in at Lady Blessington's; whereupon a young gentleman. a perfect stranger to the speaker, very modestly said: "O, then, you can take me with you; I want very much to know her, and you can introduce me." While the other was standing aghast at the impudence of the proposal and muttering something about being but a slight acquaintance himself, etc., Sydney Smith observed: "Pray oblige your young frieud; you can do it easily enough by introducing him in a capacity very desirable at this close season of the year?say you are bringing with you the cool of the evening."? London Society Times. Indian Mounds in Iowa. According to intelligence from that State several Indian mounds were recently opened in the country around JL/UUUl^UC* 0?H DOOiaiup; iv win^i iu w*v theory that these mounds contain the relics of a prehistoric raco, differing greatly from the American Indian, and a vastly superior order of intelligence and civilization. Last week several skeletons, in a perfect state of preservation, where taken from a mound a mil p. from Dubuaue. Thev have been articulated and are now on exhibition. They are of huge stature. Another lai-ge mound, at Charles City, in Floyd County, has also been explored. Here tho skeletons were in a trench, instead of on the ground, and a quantity of pottery, arrow-heads and stone implements of peculiar design were also found. The most curious relic was a vase with a rim ornamented in the same fashion as vases found in ancient English mounds and described in the report of the United States Bureau of Ethnology. That report states that specimens of this kind are exceedingly rare in this country. Further explorations are to be made." Disposing of Confiscated Pistols. The Clerk of Court on salesday sold at public auction a number of old dilapidated pistols, the confiscated property of peisons convicted of crime before the Court of General Sessions. With one exception these pistols were worthless, the exception being the pistol used by Jim Woods when he shot and killed Robert 01 lie. This i 2 Qr weapon was a large, impiuvcu uuiuu w Wesson pistol, and was worth about $20. It was sold to Mr. J. II. Bush for $9.50.? Aiken Journal. The novelty of having a baby in the | house is like the trade-mark on a cake of ' soap, it soon wears off. > * AMEBIC4N WOMEN PRE-EMINENT. The Best Dressed, the Best rooking and the Most Stylish. ( grout the St- Louis Globe-Democrat.) American women are accustomed to being called the best dressed women in the world, and in a certain way and to a certain extent this is correct. They have more money and more leisure than the women of any country in the world, more freedom in the use of both, and, not being so much hampered by circumstances and traditions, they can draw from all sources and collect in the sum total of their dress something of all other women's best. In other countries?though there is no longer in "society" the distinction I and division created by purely national | costume?there are differences quite perceptible to trained eyes, which show both the influence of temperament and the controlling nature of circumstance. The German women, for example, have an exquisite perception of color. They excel in color combination. They proj duce the loveliest embroider^, in colors | upon linens and other fabrics ior household uses; but they do not put it into their dress?that is, there is nothing of it seen in the ordinary dress of the masses. There are two reasons for this: One is their poverty, the other a public opinion which condemns the working woman if she shows any evidence of willingness to attract attention by the gaiety of her attire. If she is above the rank of the peasant, and must be seen upon the streets or in public in her efforts to earn her daily bread, her dress must be black, or absolutely neutral, to preserve herself from remark, or at Jeast from the inference that she is frivoloup. The workingwomen of France are bound in very much the same way; but they have acquired more pecuniary independence; they control almost ail the retail business of the country, and if they had the taste for which they receive the credit, would have worked out Vunj.nt.ifni ir??as. Bnfc at t.Viia moment France is very much like America; it receives its ideas second hand, and only imposes certain sumptuary laws through the wickedness of its men, who procure whatever is made attractive to their eyes and imagination. In England it is different. Englishwomen are a type by themselves, and with the energy of the Saxon and the tenacity of the Briton originate ideas and create conditions which influence tho rest of the world. The American woman is French and Eoglish when she is not wholly Irish or GermaD, while the Austrian woman is French and German, and in her independence and activity are a constant reminder of the American. But the American women Las a little of all in her dress. She will wear lace like the Austrian, a practia 1 walking dress like the Englishwomau, all the draperies and caprices of the French demimonde, blends colors like an Oriental, and loves fur likA a Ensfiiaii. Sooner or later, moreover, she grat: lies, her tastes. The girl who dreamed dreams in a cotton sun bonnet, wears ?6,000 worth of lace in a London drawiog room, where, as an American, she L; the cqnivalent of a duchess. The woiaan who spent half her life cooking npon a rickety stove in a log cabin is a serene old lady in her laiatyearg, who takes her niece to Europe and wears sealskin 56ats and India shawls worth a small fortune. A Philadelphia Wouihu'b Love letters. Ninety-six pieces of unredeemed and unclaimed baggage were sold at auction in New -York on Friday. One of the pieces, a small satchel, was opened. It contained a few worn toilet articles, which might once have .been of good quality, and a bundle of letters. The letters were neatly tied with ribbon, aud, although they were yellow and timestained, the writing was still legible. When opened they reveaiea a romance of real life. Part o: the letters were from a Philadelphia woman, evidently possessed of much refinement and an excellent education, to a gentleman in Washington. The replies were in a strong, masculine style of penmanship. They were recriminating letters, sho wing the unhappy lot of the lovers. The story rtold by them was one of double abandonment, the woman having left her husband for the sake of the man, who, in turn for her sake, had deserted his wife and children. Then the man had repented, and had declared his intention of repairing the wrong he had c6mmiited by returning to his family. This placed the woman in an unfortunate position, and she threatened to commit dire and dreadful deeds if he carried out. his declared intention. Her letters' alternately pleaded and upbraided, while his maintained a tone indieiting that his repentance was siicorc, and hia purpose to reform unalterable. For a period of several months the correspondence eon tinned in this strain, and linauy a learBtained Jotter from the woman told of her heart being broken. She requested the return of ail her letters, and bade farewell forever to the mun whom she had loved not wisely but too well. The Exposition is Open. The door is open and Augusta's National Exposition is ready for inspection. The opening ceremonies today were worthy of Augusta, and they made us all feel proud of ihe old city, proud of the accomplishment of ? n]an and purpose designed by our own citizens, carried forward by them, paid for by them, and brought to a successful culmination by the same noble and clever people. It is needless to go into details when the picture stands ready for inspection, and when all may see who keep their eyes on Augusta's pet enterprise. All the features of a world's fair aie :u hand, and although some of the exhibits ;iro \et settled down into position ami many exhibitors are dancing around in Tint huny of final arrangement. Mil] we me as inar reatly ;:s any people ev* r waie ?*ti opening day. We are open. anyw.-y, a:.il we aie ready to greet aud make* ?!ad all who come to see us. Augusta has surpnscd hi*r<e.t ou iliis gigantic enterprise. 1; ?.is promptly begun and pluekilv put through the stages of incepiiiui, f?ri;;iuizatioQ and growth until its present successful place in the world's eye w.o won. It has met difficulties un i J ' mrninnntod ttlpm fill It uuuiuereu iiuu ouiuivuuiwt ? has given experience to the officers and a reputation to the town. It has today opened the eyes of all who doubted the possibility of Augusta's handling a big show, and it has proven that Augusta is not only a progressive city, but that it has laid the croakers in the graveyard under al>out six feet of clay. Many people will come to see how Au gusta has survived the flood and to take mental photographs of the ruins. These will not only be staggered at the progress of the place, but dumbfounded to discover that traces of the flood are about wiped out and covered with Georgia clay, mixed with genuine Augusta chips from our Hirer this st.vlfi flf mad giaiu rutii ucutib. ^ .w. ?. j way they can roll out to the Exposition with ease and comfort, and en joy the greatest industrial attraction of this eventful year.?Evening News, Nov. 8. Jealousy is the meanest of all human passions, and a fellow never realizes it so forcibly as he does when he can't help baing jealous away down to his boots himself. BLAINK GIVEN THE LIB. BTngh S. Thompson Shows the Utter . Falsity of the Statements of the Plumed Knave Respecting: the Treasury. A Washington special to the New York Herald says: I called to-night at the residence of Acting Secretary of the Treasury Hugh S. Thompson, in relation to the following declaration made by \f? PIcitia in liin orvmy>Vi of H QTron mi? x>wiuc iu mm aav Conn. Mr. Blaine is quoted in to-daj'a Herald as saying on that occasion: ' I find that there has be?n 360,000 loaned to the national banks without interest. I say loaned to the national banks, the pet banks, while only $?,500,000 have gone to pay the debt of the nation during the past month." Governor Thompson read the paragraph carefully, and then with great deliberation said: "This"is of a piece with the many other wilful misrepresentations which Mr. Blaine has made about the treasury department. No man who has been as long in public life as Mr. Blaine, and who is a familiar with public matters as he, i<?uld have made; that statement and believed it to be true when he made it. Mr. Blaine's obvious purpose was to deoeive the masses, but he knew perfectly well that no banker or other business man familiar with the treasury statements, which are issued monthly, would be misled by his misrepresentations. "The last public- debt statement, issued November 1, shows that the debt, less tae cash in the treasury November 1, was about $4,500,000 less than it was October 1. This Mr. Blaine assumes to represent the actual decrease in the public debt. As a matter of fact," continued the acting secretaiy, "I purchased during the month of October of the interest-bearing debt over $29,000,000 worth of bonds. I cannot atate the premium accurately, as I have not the data at hand, but I should say, speaking generally, that it amounted to upward of $4,500,000 additional, making in all about $33,500,000 decrease in the debt finer *V?a mnnth ftf fMabflr." Pacing to the oft-repeated charge that the secretary of the treasury had loaned $60,000,000 to the national banks of the country, without interest, Governor Thompson said: "The object sought to be conveyed by this statement is that the beneficiaries in each case are banks owned or controlled by Democrats. My best reply to this is a quotation from the speecn delivered by Secretary Fairchild at the business men's meeting Wall street on the 13th of October last Referring to this very charge Mr. Fairchild said: "I need not add that there was absolutely no favortiam in this matter, the banks were designated and deposits made in the order of the applications, political and personal friends and foes were treated exactly alike, the widest possible distribution was sought, until almost every State and Territory had one or more depositories and could use of the money which rightfully belonged to their business. There are a number of banks wit'a deposits of a million and over. I know the politics of the offioers of very few of these depositories. But I have in my mind now a half dozm where I know the officers to be prominent and zealous Bepublicans, and I can think of but one where the officers are Democrat of" prominence. But I have never given a thought to the politics of the bank officer. My only thought was the security of the deposit and re lief to- the public from financial distress.' "lieferring to Mr. Blaine's further declaration that out of the $60,000,000 4-1-vv.o A T>o/3 f?TA tuiw XUOU^U ca iouu r?v vided to re-elect Mr. Cleveland, the acting secretary simply remarked, 'That is tcfo absurdly false to dignify with a denial.'" The Western National Bank got money on deposit of national securities, just us hundreds of other national banke got it. ' The amount could not exceed a; million of dollars, and in putting it out iLt) treasury knew nothing about the political preferences of any bank president or other officer. The Native Amy of India. The imperial service?I use the expression recommended by the civil service commissioners because it covers both the civilians and the administering soldiershave displayed for a century a rigid respect for promises and perfect pecuniary honor. Consequently, aided by" the rooted Indian idea, that, power being of God, any one, however hostile, may honorably serve a de facto ruler, they have always been able to hire Indian agents of all Idnds?soldiers, policemen and minor ofiicials?in any number required. Thai power, however, gives them no foothold. As 1857 showed, they have pqt socured even the loyalty ;of the Indian soldiers bound to them by oath, and while actually in the service, and outside the ranks of their paid servants, they have nothing to depend on. There is no nation or tribe or caste in India which is certain in the hour of trial to stand by the white man's side; which has, so to speak, elected him as ruler; which, were the garrison defeated or withdrawn, could be trusted to die rather than the empire snouia rau. There is no native army that the imperial service?which is, I repeat, the empire?could summon with confidence; no tribe whom they could arm en masse; no native city whose inhabitants would risk a storm to protect them from being slain. ? Meredith Townsend in Fortnightly Review. "Wanted the Postmaster. "Where's the postmaster?" demanded a long, bony woman, with a freckled face, who presented herself at one of the deliveiy windows in the po6t office the other day. "What is it you wi?h, madam?" inquired the clerk. "Are you the postmaster?" "No, ma'am, but?" ' Thnnnrht vnil didn't look old enOU^h. It's the postmaster I want, young man." 1 don't want no truck with you. Will you go and tell him I'd like to see him'/' "He is busy now; but if you will state your business, perhaps I can attend to it You are keeping other people wait?" "Young man, I've walked eleven blocks to get here, and I pay as much to support this post ortice as any woman of my meaus in the city. I'm going to get what I came for or I'll raise the biggest row you ever saw. You're a-listening to me, are you, young man?" "1 am, madam. Will you please teil in.: what you wish?" ' I waut to get a letter I mailed this morning to Mrs. Edward Felix Wiuterbottom, JNew bury port. JEsiex county, Mass. C1?a'o ?r?rr rtAlld'n 99 OiiC O ULAJ lA/UfcJ&M "What do you want it for?" "I want to write 'In haste' on the back. I forgot to write it before I dropped it in, and the letter's important." "I can't do such a thing as that for you, ma'am. Besides, it isn't necessary." 4 'It ain't, hey ? Perhaps you know more about writing letters than I do. Perhapa you're 55 years old and have carried on a correspondence with friends in the East for thirty-seven years, you long legged, tallow haired dude. If you don't go and fetch the postmaster?" But the post office policemen gently led I her from the building.?Chicago Tribune. y UNCLE ABE'S LECTURE A Verbatim Report of an AddreM Delivered in ut Alabama Church. "Frexs and Bredrkn, Ladies and Gemmen: I cums afore you tonight to pint oat de way ob de traf. Some folks la called to preach an' elorffy de Lawd, an' some is called to lectut'nad glorify de cullud nation, an' I is dat main. "We,.am de " chosen people ob de Lawd, an' I w&ktell you for why and show yon how datflng stands. Weli, now, yon pintedly knows as now ae fjooa dook a one say, "juemue . Lawd love He chastenetb.' Now, ain't dat ^ proof, case ain't He dooe chastened us, an' ain't we done sarved our time under da white folk? Den, agin, de good book says, .> 'Dem He loves He will deliver.' an' 'fore ... / /'.. de Iiawd, ain't He dene got us free? Glory* hallelujah!" Here the darkey audience became much excited, and cries of "Dai's de truf. bwidder," "Bress de Lawd," etc., were heard. The old man mopped off his face with Ida gaudy-colored bandanna and continued: ' Yes, my hredren an' sisters, you Js done. ;r"' sot-free, an' I is gwine now fur to show you as how you mis'/duct yourse'fsao dsrc - ^ you will be zamples to de whole workL In de fust place, I says, carry a high bead and stiff neck, case you is de chosen people, an' let dc white folks know as how you is as good as dey, if your skin am dark and your ha r kinky. Right here I brings in annudder proof?and dat's de way a lectur' man makes his pint. Ain't it de aim ob de white women now-a-daya fur to make dar ha'r kink, an' case it don't kink natchuml, don't dey have fur to screw it up in papers an' ha'rpins, an' Iron it, too? I tell you, my frens, de time ain't fur off when I 'spects to see out chflluns cut all de shine offen de white nation, an' I hopes as how you will 'member dat da Bible says as how 'you must 'turn good for evil.' But time is precious, as I beam a gernmau say, an' I is got annudder pint to lay 'fore dis cultivated awjence. "Thar is one charge dat is brung up agin our race dat is pintedfy wrong, an' dat is lis: When we picks up de t'ings what de Lawd lays in our paths, de white folks say we steals. Now, bredren, when de good Lawd prowides dese t'ings for you, you ain't steal in', case you is yarnin' dem by de sweat ob your brow. Ain't He done say so? Now, mind you, I ain't tell you fur to break open de doors an' de locks, but I says when dey is laid right afore you, pick 'em up. Den, agin, when you is libin' wif Mass Bob, I ain't 'vise you fur to go to Mass John'* and kill his hogs, case what's de use when Mass Bob hab got hogs and you is awuckin' fur dem same hogs? Darfore. bredren, I says be upright an' jest, an' don't steal frum Bob <dy, but jett take what de Lawd prowides fur His people. "Bar is annudder f tog we is noted f$r-= beatin' our wives. Now, dar de Scriptur" comes in agin. De good book says,- 'Husbands, keep your wives is submission.' An' how is you gwing to do dat? Why, beat 'em, to be sure, case dey needs it. I see dem gals a nudgin' each odder an* tossin' dar heads, but I comes here fur to tell de truf, widout fear obman or woman, an' wid de Lawd's help I is gwiaeto do it. Yes, gem men, we is de kings ob de y earth, an' wc must rule de women, .case if we don't rule 'em dey is mighty apt to role us. Den, agin, we is de salt ob de yearth, an' we is got to be pretty sharp to keep de yearth salted. Den, agin, if yon gib a woman an inch, she is more'n apt to take an ell. So I 'vises you all to do your doty an' keep de women in hand. "Now, sisters, I ain't in no wise 'posed to you wtea you do&'t toy td^et'yona yocr- / _ sefs, so I will close dis here lector' by wishin' you all good luck, an' 'vism* you to dewote your time, your eddication an' your 'compliahmenfe to us gemmen, case, as I said afore, we am de kings ob de j car in, au jvu cau l uiut um uu aj. grvui tongues are longer an' your heads pretty strong. I'spects I done made yon sorter mad, but facta must be spoke, an' as I tola you afore, de salt got to be sharp to keep dis yearth salted, an' it don't do in no wise to let de women t'ink dey is anywhar nigh de equals ob we gemmen, case dey is monstus easy to spile, an' if dey gets de upper band, dey is more'n apt to keep it. I speaks from 'sperience, an' 'sperience, my frens, bredren and sisters, is a eood teacher, case if any of you had my Eliza Jane for your wife you could tell den why I 'vises you to rule de women in de 'ginning, case, 'lore de Lawd, when dey get de start you had jest as' well try to mote a mountain as to rule a woman what you is 'lowed to gel sot in her ways." * An Incident of 1876. An unfamiliar story of the campaign of 1876 is told at the expense of Mr. Blaine and General Harrison, who, being at Vincennes, desired to go to Seymour and New Albany in a very short space of time. Both men noticed, as they boarded their special train, that the engine was decorated with large portraits of Tilden and Hendricks and that it bristled all over with Democratic tnottoes and quotations from Democratic speeches! The conductor, a very polite ieuow, as wen as a stauncn ivepublfcan, readily agreed to hay'e the obnoxious decorations removed, and with a hasty step went forward and gave the order to have the'91' taken down. "Look here/' replied the engineer, who was a brawny Irishman, "yez are running that thrain back there and Oi'm running this ingine. O'm a Dimecrat and the flags will not be removed. As fur the picthur- o' Tilden, there ain't min enough on the train to take it down. Do ye moind that, now." He was right. The quarrel between the two was long and bitter, but the engineer was obstinate, and at Mr, Blaine's request the conductor gave the signal to proceed. The victorious Celt opened the throttle and Blaine and Harrison were hurried into the waiting ornwrts at. Spvmnnr hv an enffin? the profuse decorations oa which led every one to believe it was the head of a Democratic excursion train. Death of Immc Hayne. Speaking of the death of Mr. Isaac Hayne, the News and Courier says: The shock felt at the announcement of the death of Mr. Isaac Hayne was not confined to the large circle of his immediate friends, but extended ^throughout our entire community; and the recent knowledge of his sickness had not prepared us for the melancholy tidings. With name and lineage identified through generations with the faithful discharge of high duties, Mr. Hayne in all the relations of life filled the full measure of responsibility. Of blameless life and gentle aud amiable disposition, coupled with a tenacity and firmness of purpose which never failed, he deserved and won the confidence and regard of all to whom he was known; and his loss will be widely and deeply felt. Mr, Hayne was graduated from the South Carolina College in the class of 1868; and it was characteristic of him that his college friends remained his life-long friends. He studied law in the office of ilayne & Miles, of which firm his father, the Hon. Isaac W. Hayne, Attorney General of South l^arunua, woo uuc bcjjiui iuciuwi, ouu nu admitted to the bar in 1861. Mr. Hayne was only in his 50th year, and his career seems to us to have been abruptly and prematurely ended; but the example ef his life will be a heritage not only to his children, but to the Bar, to the city and to the State. <1 x auii AWiucub ah ? avicmvv* Florence, N07. 6.?Young Tommie Moore, h son of Mr. C. C. Moore, while In charge of a shooting gallery to-night during the absence of the proprietor, was accidentally shot in the left cheek by Claude Waters, a friend of his, and died from the effects of the wound in about an hour.-* Special to News Courier.