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\ ^ I i ' ' ?? III ~"""T~ 1 " 1 I" Will i innijl -*a?? ???*? ???<?PM^? ? 1 <sss?r ri itP^ 4 <%, ,4 ? ^ . . <$k ^il [If . . .. t| % VOL. XLVI. WINNSBOKO, S. C.. WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 22, 1800. NO. 26. - HH-i *1 ~m~m ?^rtA3u-^-.- - -J aoona?opMBeaBMxaaBMyagB^^w^wM^aaBga?BMBMBa^Mi i jeCMgh""| '"PIF^?" ' "' ^MpijigMn? _ : tJROWIftG BETTER. THE SOUTH ADDING TO ITS WEALTH DAILY. And Bill Arp Says If Somebody Will Solve the N'esrro l'roblein Everything Will Be All Kisrk;. there ever such a time and such a country? Verily, it looks like the ancient Aladdin had come to life with his lamp and was just going about buildiug cities. Two weeks ago I was at Cross Plains, a little place fifty miles from here, and there wasnt anything there much?not very much ?just a wide place in the road and a range of high hills a mile or fwo away. There were some good cotton lands stretching out in broad, level acres, atnd there was a creek not far away. There was a little settlement of unpretending cottages and a few stores, where the merchants sat upon boxes and whittled and talked politics and * * ' ~ **" ? ? ? ? J * T-? <* f YT?r? A watcneu tne trams go uv , ?uu i>n.ao *><?;> all. Theie wasn't a blank acre in town B that I could not have bought for $200. Well Aladdin hasn't rubbed his lamp Eg Hr yet, but he is there going to rub it M h Millionaires have been there since I Bp was, ana they have bought out the R whole concern?everything but the women and children and the graveB yard, and they have stocked the 2,500 R n acres at a million dollars and have laid elf a city and actually sold three WT hundred thousand dollars worth of ? city lots iu three days, and the cry is still they come. I am told they hav* en't sold a hundred acres yet. Three thousand dollars an acre. Just think of it! I wonder what the poorfeliow thinks "'TTrv \i T*p WAP VTTTTV ?> nv ovjui/ xi * v-?? a- a*. Bat he got all it was worth and ought to be satisfied. He couldrft make it worth any more?but capital can This is the power of money. M< ne\ is iroing to put machine^ there acd build furnaces and rolling mills and bank sand manificent hxels. Why. they have got a bank already Kith a hundred thousand dollars capiral? all paid in. Had to have great big iron safes expressed there to keep the money in until they could build a bank. Some of the Yanderbiltsa-e in theriag and lots of moneyed men irorn all over the North- They say that in twelve months there will be live millions invested at Piedmont. That is the name they have given the new city. We used to thiuk that such things were just ac arrful scheme to tleece me lambs, i>ut it does not look that way now*. The whole South is on a boom. Look a: Florence, only two years old and twelve millions invested. Look at Sheffield, and Decatur, and Fort Payne, and Middleboro. Yes, Middleboro, on-y six months old, and ten millions invested. Look at Birmingham, only ten years old and fi.ty millions invested?and this thing is going on from Virginia t-o Texas. The mighty North is moving this way, nigger or no nigger. They send down their agents to spy out the land, and before we know it they have squatted somewhere and Aladdin goes to rubbing his lamp. What is to be the outcome of a;l this thing? Within the last- twelve months one? hundred millions ia capital has been ad led to the industrial and cemmercial value of the w5H o rsr"a &OUtU. iUCV YV 111 tv II VAV .ivvw iu the road and buy up 2,500 acres of land for twenty-five thousand dollars and "presto change," in a week is worth a million. Well, of course, there are mineral treasures behind all this. The mountains or t he hills are close by and they are full of iron, or coal, cr something. Now will these movements make 'a break into the solid South and help us SOLVE THE EACE PXOBLEM that seems to disturb the country so much? Will we become yankeefied, or will they become Dixiefied, or will it result in a harmonious mixture? A year or <=o ago, some Boston yankees settled a. little town not far from us and went to work. For awhile they were shy and peculiar, *nd when one of them was introduced to one of our f-.lks he reacned his haad out at arms length, hut by and by, they got acquainted and found out we were a very harmless and '-lever people and we fout-d out the same aboui them, and now they shake hands right up close and tell jokes and anecdotes just like we do. They bave got a newspaper iu their little town and have employed a regular South Carolina rebel for" an editor, and sure enough when Jefferson Davis died, he slapped the black mourning lines all over a whole page, and they said it was all right and just human, and the paper went to Boston on tee exohange list, and a Boston paper saw it, ana now wants to know by what legerdemain or hocus pocus or transmogrification a Boston Republican can go to Georgia and live a year or s 3 and fceceme a Jtnf Davis rebel. Well, that is all right. He is not a Jeff Davis rebel, but he is a high-toned, | lireral-hearted gentleman, ana naa respec: for the feelings of the people he lived with, aud expects to die with. In the first place if he hadu't been a gentleman, he wouldn't have come hero at all- A gentleman is not afraid > to go anywhere. A true gentleman can get along with any people. I have observed for forty years, that the ~? Northern men who come South to stay are'among the very best citizens we * have. A young man of our town told me the ottier day that when he made up his mind to come South his perilous venture was made the subject of earnest prayer in the family, for thev believed he was risking his lite, and they felt as much concern as if He was going to fhe Cannibal islands as a ? missionary. We are glad he came, for he is a {jeutlemau, too, and I wish some MORE OF THE SAME SOliT would come. Right now it does look I like we were harmonizing, ilven la-1 gaiis repenting ami is going to make a speech ior peace auc pay a tribute to Gr-;dy. lie has oeeu very sick they sav, and that does i ake the venom out of a man. If Ingalls does repent and will shed ali the tearjj he ought to shed, it will ^ive many a disconsolate r._ Peri a chance to get ituo heaven. jBat g there is an old rhyme that says: "Thedevil wassic?-rhe cevi! ;isaint would be r Tiit* Ocvi! ijot. wt.i-;he devil a saiut, was he." Alt wo ask is that the race problem be it*i alone, and it will work out its own salvation. Providence is overseeing this busint-ss Ir, was bis will that i bey should be brought here, and held in Bondage and lor a purpose. New England ships and Now England v" money brought them ner- and maybe tht-v will get b:ick to Alrica ?n the -a^e way. Who knows? The South Las had them in school for a hundred years, and if they are now fitten to go back and civilize their brethren in Africa they will be sent, I reckon. But the time has not come yet. Arkansas seems to want them a while longer and wants more of them. So lee it work along. They are doing very well in our part of the country. There is no friction. We are all calm and serene upon this question,. If he wants to go, we say go and God bless you. If he wants 10 stav, we say stay and behave yourselves. 60 it is a'l right ail round with us. I can draw water, and cut wood, and feed my * "* "t T _ . Horses, anu wortc my garuen. x cau cook breakfast and my wile or my I daughter can cook dinner and supper. I haven't a child?girl or boy but who can catch 3Ioily and put the harness on and hitch her to the buggy, and drive, and go when they please and where they please. So it is no ground hag case "with us. The old ones I will stay anyhow, and the will last about as long as we will. Uncle Sam says he ain't gwine nary step; says he will runaway first?just like he used to when old massa gwine to whip him. "Where will you rua to. Lucie &aai?" said I. "Run to e cane brake, lay uur all day and sleep wid one eye open, orne out at night git sumfin to eat. I h'aint lorgothow to run away.'' The truth is we havn't jjiven it up yet that thep have got to go at all. Wise men keep on PARADING THAT OLD MAXIM. ofJelferson and other philosophers that an inle.-ior race can't live in peace with a superior race. Is that so? Wi y rot? They are doing it ri.eht now all over the world. There Is just as much difference between the Oastillians and the greasers of Mexico as there is between the negro and the white man. There are grades and castes all over China and India. Ar.<i here are the Jews and the Gentiles, both races claiming to be the peculiar people of Goi, and yet they get along. Let us wait and see. If the negro will behave and the white niau be considerate, I am sure A 1 ^ ^ ' f rvft v>'q 03 n get aioug. u uv m/usu k uthavs tie will have to go somewhere, and that is ali of it. Here we are paying $850 to the colored teachers of their public schooi3 in Cartersville, and we furnish a good, school house for them, and yet their par, of the school tax is only fifty dollars. The white folks pay eight hundred dollars aud the negroes pay fifty to educate their own children; and it is that way all over the South. Now the yankees don't believe that, and we don't care whether they do or not. We are going to mn this machine according to our own convictions of justice and morality. It is either our fight or oui funeral, and we are ready to meet it. Bill Akp. QUICK TIME TO THE WEST. The Plan* o? Mnmuer JIcBeP?TwentyfourHour* From Colombia, to Cincinnati. On the occasion of his recent visit to Columbia, Col. V. E. McBee. recently, appointed Superintendent of the Spartanburg andUnion and theSpartanburg < and Asheville Railroad, was interview- 1 ed by a Register reporter, who gives ! the following: Col. McBee said that the chief object of the presence of himself and party 1 in Columbia was to look over the field | and to see in what ways the railroad system with which he was connected ; >iortoi-4brvB +hp rtertnia throusrh ^ whose country its lines ruii aad to j j whom it mUst look for patronage. He stated that with a view of establishing a through line to the "West the General Manager of the Richmond and Danville system bad for some time contemplated the combination or union of the Spartanburg, Union and Colnmb:.a and the Asheville and Spartanburg roads, both of which, while parts of the same system, had been under separate management. The General Manager's idea has now been carried out by making Mr. McBee Superintendent of both roads, and they will hereafter be run iu as close conj'mction as is possible and proper and as the demands of through trailic may render necessary. The change has been made and the question of new scnedules and better conhpinc ronsidered. By arrangements recently perfected i the "Richmond and Danville, with its i connections, furnishes the shortest line from Charleston to Cincinnati and < gives Columbia a through line to the West that will at once be able to olier ! superior inducments for patronage both for freight and passenger traffic to and from Cincinnati, Louisville and other Western points. Just what changes will be made in < the present schedules, Mr. AicBee was no<;, iast night, prepared to say, but this he promised as the result of the <ieneral Manager's arrangements?a line by which a traveler can leave Columbia any morning, at a slightly earlier hour than the present schedule, and arrive in Cincinnati at 7 o'clock the nest morning, spend the day there, if he chooses, and return to Columbia,, having occupied but three days in the round trip. Improvments will also be made in the freight service, iu the direction of more rapid transit, closer connections, and better facilities in general. The distance between Columbia and Cincinnati, via Spartanburg, "Asheville and Knoxvilie, is less than <>50 miles. All that is needed to accomplish the trip in the time proposed is a proper use of the facilities at hand ?and these it is Col. McBee's purpose to employ au-1 to expand. >Iid-J*u :n ?ii er Weill ii or. Cel. Thomas W. Hollov/ay, secretary of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society, writes | from Pomaria us lollows: "Tne con uuutu ?<41UJ u iv vuv i farmers. Tiiobi; who killed hogs have lost the joints. I have heurd of some whose meat lay in the pickle for six weeks or over, arid when the joints were taken out was good, but u few days' exposure developed taint, i have fourteen fat hogs yet to kill and in the event the warm weather continues much longer, I piopose to kill ucd i-i^kle in strong brine in barrels. Tiif >a!t shouid be boiled, (:akiti<: <11 the M-um.) and applied when about m:iR warm. The joints should be put i:i the birre! with the iarge end downwards anc the crevices tiiitd in with she side* cut io small strips. An a^-.d >.<!y of SO years writer "I recollect wrd tuch a winter sixty two years -;go ?1^27-Xo cold until uKr?ii? I'-..', r?tlio firsh r>f .\ nri whea all vegetation was killed, lie thermometer being lower than at any time during the winter." 1'lum tr?e.are blooming, fruit trees buddii.^ Gr^ne apprehensions are felt for sm.. . grain. Wheat sown late in Octob; . -s as high as it usually is the first of M-.rcb. T.:ere will be no fruit this year.'" READY'S CRUEL DEED. DETAILS OF THE LATEST BLOODY BARNWELL HORROR. tu Xesro 1'etli* Thief, L'nder Arrest. Tied to n Tree and His Brains Shot Out by a IlruUil White >lau?The Murderer l^elt to^o Free am! Hi* Cowardly Coinpauions Discharged from Custody. The Charleston Budget. Barnwell, S.C.,Jan. 11.?Tne Degto who was so brutally murdered near Rob? ? oms Tuesday morning, us puuuaucu v^.clusively in the World tuu*y "fas "William Black, aged 20, an ex-convict wtio !'ad just been released from the State pouitentiary, where he served a short term for larceny, having pleaded guilty. He was on his way home when he entered the house of Jim Bennet, about five miles from Bobbins, and ate some cold vietuals that he found there; then stole an overcoat,*a hat and some other smaller articles and left. Bennet soon returned and discovered that some one had entered his house and' that certain articles were missing. He ac once looked about for any trace of the thief, and soon found some tracks leading from his house in the direction of Robbins. He followed these tracks, after going to Trial Justice Dunbar and informing him what had happened, until he came to Bobbins. Here he inquired of some UT>*aJrr o>, lucut liilluu^ wiiuiu v? as jl ivauj, ?.u unprincipled white man, if they had seen auyone around there with an extra hat and overcoat. Ready said that a negro had just left there a few minutes before, going in the direction of the mill (on Mrs. Elmore Ashleys place), with an overcoat under h:s arm and something else, but he did cot know what. Ready was drinking, and volunteered to assist in catching the thief. He and Bennett went in the direction that the negro had been seen going a short time previous, and soon came up with him. The negro had the missing articles, which Bennett identified and took from him. Then they took Black back to Robbios, where they were met by Henry Sweat, a negro who ilr. Dunbar, the Trial Justice, had deputized to arrest the thief if he could be found, and bring him be fore him. Dave Ready said to Bennett: ''You have got your things back, so 1 guess you are satisfied, and if there is any _ t ?~-4. :? ?> money sa iuis x wniit xl. Bennett said he was satisfied, and then he and John Walker, a youDg white man, Dave Ready and the negro constable, Henry Sweat, started with the prisoner to go to Trial Justice Dunbar When they had goue about four hundred yards from Robbins, Dave Ready, who hud the negro in charge, turned off from the public road, and went down an old road leading through a field, crossed the railroad, and then told them that he was going to kill the prisoner. Bennett, Walker and Sweat all say that they begged Ready not to do any thing of the >ort, but he said he was going to do it, ind told the negro to say his prayers, which he did. Ready, who was the only one armed, :heu gave his gun to Sweat and told him to hold it while he tied the prisoner to a little hickory tree standing by. Sweat jaid he did not want to take the gun but ae was afraid Ready would kill him, as ; j 1. J'J W Cio UI UliC>| II U1U UUl) OU /JC uv/i/cw it. After biudiDg Black around the :eck and waist to the tree, the three . towards stood by and saw Heady deliber- ! itely place the gun to the negro's temple xnd blow out his brains, scattering them m the tree and over the ground, iround. Thi3 was done about 11 o'ciock on ruesday night. The three men who svho were present and saw the murder committed, and who are wanted as accessories in the first degree, did not neution it until Thursday, because as :hey say they were afraid Ready would sill them if they told it. They finally informed some one, who swore out a o/voincf fVlO frill 1" TVttrHpfl thrac* wauaub o^amcv wuw * v VM*W if whom, Bennett, "Walker and Sweat, were arrested on yesterday (Friday) morning. Ready went to Augusta on Thursday, md it is not known here whether he has been arrested or not. The above contains the facts and cir Dumstances as gathered by your corres' pondent from a conversation with MrEugene McCreary, a merchant of Robbins, who was here to-day. He said it was a most foul murder and that all the parties should suffer for their crime. Trial Justice Dunbar failed to bind over the three prisoners, Bennett, Walker and Sweat, notwithstanding they testified at the coroner's inque9t, held by Duabar, to the fact as stated above. He seemed to think that as the three prisoners did not help directly to mur der the negro that they were only witnesses agaiust Ready, the principal murderer. Mr. Jatnes S. Davis has been retained to assist the prosecution, and says he will see that the guilty parties are brought to justice. Tiie I>eed ot a Fiend. Albany, Ga., January 1G.?A negro boy, eleven years old, Andrew June by name, tried to take a bycicle from the little eight-year-old son of Mr. J. W. Joiner. He resisted, when the young fiend beat and kicked him and then held him down on the railroad track as an incoming freight train was approaching, intending to have him run over. Some negro men, eon- iiii; r.prrihlp. desiern. made him release the boy. The negro was jailed and upon being released was given a terrible beating by his sister. As Mr. Joiner went to look for the young fiend he was followed by a negro man with a pistox who swore he would kill Mr. Joiner if ho touched the boy On the subject of cotton bags the Southern Alliance Farmer says: A great deal of interest is being felt in the use of cotton sacks for fertilizers, j corn, oats, etc. There is no trouble about the use ox' cotton to hold gr lin and all other goods of that kind, bnt lor fertilizers, cotton sacks are in a great measure a complete failure. For -dry, mixed fertilizers, such as are usuS ailv made by small mills by mixing ! o on seed meal, kainit and acid, the i cotton sack will answer, because the J cotton seed meal aud kainit absorb | the acid sufficiently to prevent its cut tingthe cutton. All wet mixed and | active goods such as high grade ammo| niated and acidulated mixtures, will ; destroy the sacks in forty-eight hours ! so that they cannot be handled, Bur laps make the best sacks, because they J resist the chemical action of the acid ion-er than any other material. These ! things have been thoroughly tested and need no further discussion. t HAMPTON AND SHERMAN. A Lent' From the lii>turr ol' iHr War? Ilampiou's i?ci>iy to S!iern::iu*? TJjvat 10 Mnxitr Couffderatc i*riKon?-rn ol War. The Charlotte Dtdly News quires from the Daily North Carolinian March 2S, 1SG5, the following aecount of the correspondence between Gen. Hamton and '2eu. Sherman in reference to the treatment of some of Sherman's bummers: <n writes his fora<rin2' parties are murdered after capture and labelled "Death to dl foragers." lie goes on to say?'"One instance of a lieutenant and sevru men, near C estervil:e, a'-.d another of twenty, near a ravine eighty rods from the main road, about three miles from Feasterviile. 1 have ordered a similar number or" prisoners in our uarAs to be disposed of in like manner. I hold about one thousand prisoners, captured in various ways, and can stand it as long as you, but I hardly think these murders are committed with your knowledge and I would suggest that you give notice to the people at large that, every life taken by them simply results in the de^th oi out of yours." In his reply Gen. Hampton says: "Your communication of the 12lh inst.'reached me today. Iu it you state that it has been officially reported that your oraging parties were mur. dered' after capture and you go on to saythutycu had 'ordered a simiiar number of prisouers in our bauds to be disposed of in like manner.' That is to say, you have ordered a number of Confederate soldiers to be 'murdered.' 'You characterize your order iu proper terms--, lur the public voice, even in your own counfry, where it seldom dares to express itself iu vindication oftruth, honorand justice will surely 3gree with you in pronouncing you guilty of murder, if your s?rder is can ied out. "Before dismissing this portion of your letter, I beg to assure you that for every soldier of mine 'murdered' by you, I snail have at oace executed two of yours, giving in all cases, prelerence co any oilicers who may be in my hands. "In reference to the statement you mnli-A rp-mrdini' t.hft death of VOUr for . VQ O - / agers, I have only to say that I know nothing of it; that no order given by me authorizes the killing of prisoners after capture, and I do not believe that my men killed any of yours except under circumstances in which ii was perfectly legitimate and proper that they should kill them. ''It is a part of the system of the thieves whom you designate as your foragers to lire the dwellings of thooe citizens whom they have robbed. "To check this inhuman system, which is justly execrated by every civilized nation, I have directed my ( men to shoot down all your men who i are caught burning houses. This or- < der shall remain in force as long as you disgrace the profession of arms | by allowing your men to destroy pri"i ~ -v: u. X. vate ciweiungs. uw w , dian scalped his victim regardless of , sex or age, but with all his barbarity j he always respoctei the persons of his , female captives. Your soldiers, more . savage than the Indians, insult those , whose natural protectors are absent. "In conclusion, I have only to request that whenever you have any of my men 'disposed oP or 'murdered,' for the terms appear to be synonymous with you, you will let me hear of . it, in order that I may know what action to take in the matter. In the meantime I shall hold fifty-six of your men as hostages for those yon have or dered to be executed." THE SPECTRE DEEK. Queer fciEht* on Wnldeng Ridge?A Mountaineer's Account. From the Griffin Call. The mountain people on Walden's ridge, within fifteen miles of Chattanooga, are convinced that a spectre i T? mv. deer protects tne living ones. j..uere are still a large number of deer to be found on the mountains, and parties frequently go from the city on hunting expeditions- They seldom fail to get within sight of game, but frequently returned without any. The reason for this is explained by one of the natives of the ridge in a most singular way. "I know," said he, "that there is a spectre deer on the mountains, I have seen it, and so have a great many other people. Now I can hit a top of a cap box at one hundred yards, and I never missed a deer in my life when it was an actual flesh and blood deer. But often, when I go hunting, I jump half a dozen deer at a time; one of them will stop within a few feet, with itssid~ to me. I shoot at it and it nev< er moves, and I load and fire again. Then I know that it is the spectre deer, and there is no use in my hunting any more that day; I would never see another deer." Vanclerbilt's Forest of Pines. Asheville Citizens. The planting of trees on Mr. Vanderbil's estate has been discontinued for the present. One hundred and twenty Koun n?,-\i?<7)1 nA 11 n fin rl nl:ir> liU T U J/iWUijUVM w ^ J ied with white pines, wbich have been arranged :n rows seven feet apart with a space of five feet between the trees in the same row. This makes 1,200 trees to the acre. The young trees are from 15 to IS inches in height, and are obtained from Mr. Douglas' nursery at Waukeegan, Dear Chicago, which is one of the largest in the United States. Oaly last year Mr. Douglas bad a contract to set out three million trees in Kansas. His son is now employed as landscape gardener at the University of California. This university has 80,000 acres of land, which was given to them by Senator Stanford. It is located about twenty-five miles from San Francisco, and has on the estate a vineyard of 4,000 acres. Tbe white pines which hayc been set out on the slopes where the timber has been cut down, take one year to root themselves firmly in the soil. The second year they grow about one foot higher and every succeeding year they receive an additional upward growth of three fe?t or more In three years from the time of plantiug they will be at least sis feet high, and in this climate will attain a maximum height of 450 feet. The idea in planting them so closely together is to make them grow very tall and prevent them from putting foith branches near the ground. One thousand acres are vet to be planted, but by the time 1 " fnr ALr. VHiiutsruiii/B ujiiusn'u >o iw?uj occupation the whole mountain side will be covered with dense woods. The ; sameness of the timber land will be re| lievcd by planting many different kinds ! of trees at the base of the hills and i alDDg the drives. AN OUTLAW AT LAJ?GE.| THE PEOPLE OF ROCKINGHAM COUNTY, X. C-, TERRORIZED. Wratt Mcivenzio. a Notorious Escaped Murderer. Accompanied bv Six Other DeNperadGf><i, II mimic for Six 31eu Whom He Threaten* tc I?i2i ca ^jcht. Charlotte, N. C., Jan. 1G.?A re port Las reached here that "Wyatt McKeever McKc-nzie, a notorious outlaw, who has given the citizens of Rocking ham County considerable trouble, has again appeared in this St:.'c. He is dow said to be hiding in Rockingham County, heavily armed and swearing vengeance against a. number of citizens. JIcKenzie has banded with him six other men of very desperate character, and they arc all armed to th<* teeth and announce tl.it they are ready for any sort of fray. Some years ago McKenzie murdered a man in Rockingham County by the name of Goodeand was sentenced to hang. Four days before his execution was u, take place he broke out of jail at Wentworth and escaped. In bout two weeks he was recaptured and gain lodged in jail. The Governor appointed another day for his execution but again he broke jail and escaped. .iNothmg more wa3 heard irom him until Sunday when he was s?c2 with his band of six ir.<'n it: the upper part of Rockingham county. It is reported that ,McKeuzie a day or two ago sent for Dr Withers of Blakely, Stokes Ccuniy, who ; is an old acquaintance of his, and met him in the woods, where the two were engaged in a conference for a number of hours. The outlaw told Dr. Withers that since he escaped the gallows at Wectworth he had rambled over many States, and said that he had killed a man in Georgia and had been sentenced . to a long term in the penitentiary there. ; but bai escaped. He inquired about ' the whereabouts of six men whom he swore he in.'ended to kill on sight, saying he would shoot them like dogs and ( spit upon thc-;r carcasses. The people of the County are terror-stricken and don't know what to do. The authorities think if is useless to undertake to cap- . ture the outlaw, as he has grown so des- ; peraie that to do murder is bis only sport, j McKenzie and his baud stiy in the woods and swamps most of the time, , and when they want any thing to eat , : bey march to the nearest farmhouse and . order that it be prepared, always paying , liberally for what they get. Recently many bold robberies have been commit- , ted iu Rockingham and adjoining Coun- j ties, and now these arc ail charged up to McKenzie. It is said that the si:: men who compose McEenZie's band are all strangers, and as he has just come from Georgia and Alabama it is believed fhey are some old associate of Rube Burrows, the noted Alabama outlaw, and it maybe that Rube himself is in the gang. t McKer.zie is described as quite gentle- j manly ir. Ir.o raauusrs and not a danger- , :>us-looking maD. He is over sis feet J' tiigh and aoout 35years o!q. The peo- { jf Roekicgham County are much ( llarmec, and a bloody outbreak is ex- s pected. ~ _ 1 1 A STATUE OF TILDEN. i Aiiioh Ciwiunidzs WnufM One Erectetl an<l 1'Iaceii in the Capitol's Kotnuda. In the House Xr. Cummings, of New York. ofiered a joint, resolution for the erection of a statute to the raem- ( ory os the late Samuel J. Tilden. The joint resolution was read as follows: . Resolved. That there be appropriat , - 1 r v* AT A TTn^AAj iroiil LUt? 1/rCilStliV Ui IUC \j'AII/oul | States the sum of $50,000 to erect a bronze statue of the late Sanrl J. Tilden, to be placed in the center of the rotunda of the capitol. That on the ] tablet, at the none base of said statue, there shall be conspicuously engraved i these ,vords; "Samuel J. Tinden,uine teenth President of the States. Elected, but not seated.[Applause on the Democratic sice.] 'ihatonthe right 01 the square base shall be engraved the dates of birih, election and death of such President, and that on the opposite side shall be engraven an eagle with a snake in his talons, and under tcera these words: ".For the right." Resolved. That the president of the United States, chief justice of the supreme court, president of the senate aud speaker of the house of representatives be authorized to superintend the expenditure of the money, and that a copy'of these resolutions, with the names and titles of said dignitaries, beengiaven on the rear of said base. Mr. Sweeney, ol Iowa, inquired whether the gent leman expected the inscriptions to bs in cipher.?[Applause on the republinan side.] The lJattle Flaj:*. Columbia Register. The Legislature, at its recent session, instructed the Adjutant and Inspector General to coikct as mauy of the flags used in the late war as he could iind, ar.d to deposit s-ame with the Secretary of State, who is to have j them properly preserved. As he is totally ignorauL of the number of such Hags, as well as of thejiames and residences of their custodians, he requests that all persons Jioiaing nags win cum- j municate with him at an eany date.! in order that this very laudable object | ma}r be carried out. The Legislature I failed to provide any funds for the ! collection, and he is compelled to rely : upoa the press cf the State, to who-e ! liberality and petrotism he has so of- j ten been iudedted. A lUutiisiaii'n Lesp. Charlotte, N. C., Jan 16.?News is I received here of a peculiar case at Ho ' Springs. As a fast traiu was entering j that towu Saturday a white man tired u ; pistol several times from the re.-:r coach j and thea jumped fraoi the train. lie ! fell on his head and turned around sev- I eral times. His head was crushed, one ; eye was knocked out and his arms and i ODe leg were broken. lie did Dot live j ' long. His name was Van Henderson ! | and he iived near Hot Springs. He was ! | in a drunken frenzy when he made the j fatal leap. S I " OlilMt "Wnn. I Beyond doubt the oldest man in North Carolina is 2?Ir. William Fos=cr, who lives near Burling on. Mr. Foster is i!OW 110 years old, and is as s^igiuly as mo-t men forty years his ju"i.or. He lives on a farm with one of hfn great-great?grandchildreu, a:d can spiit rails, chop. p!o*v and do any sort of farm labor. It, is sai-.i of him that he never drank a drop of any so-'t of intoxicating spirits, and never took a dose of any sort of me :ici^e. | J? l A POWER IN NATURE. J TiiP ^cauee Drtinsrs cf Daisy itobiusoa | ol Sutr'er. S?. C. N. T. Commercial Advertiser. Hit's Daisy Robinson of Sumtei*, in South Carolina, ought rather to bo looked upon as a centre of force than a human being of common mold. Wherever she may be, most mysterious and striking events are apt to occur, and it is not to be marveled at that, as a dispatch from sumter says, she seldom smiles. A person so dreadfully apt to have unearthly events attends attend her presence must have small reason to smile The people of her neighborhood are much excited over Miss Daisy and do not pretend to understand her. When she enters a room the furniture seems to be aware of her pres J ?X V.tinririC* *T\ ' GJlCCj 5XI1U. <Al> Uiliic ia/ ?v around and act in a way that shows it to belaboring under the impression that something must be T.one, and dcneatorice. If ablate happen? Lo lie at ease on a bureau thinking of nothing, and faking the world ?s it t.mes.no sooner does it preceive thai Miss Daisy is in the immediate vicinity than it springs up like a guilty thing surprised, and reaches the ceil icg at one board, and then dashes itself to pieces on .the floor. A humble coal scuttle, sitting <mietly in the chimney corner and dreaming, perhaps, of the days when it was bright and young, will try to g&t out of t he room as soon as this singular young woman enters it- In its haste to escape it will forget even its own contents and waddle to the door when, if it had had but the forethought to empty itsell on the heath, it might as well as not have made its exit up the chimney. And we have the word of a local policeman lor it thai, a seemr i <. I.,,,.!,,,,. mgiy iQuuiuia.Lt; iw?-uuv&m, which was dreaming away its exist* e.nce on a inantiepiece in fancied security, leaped headlong from the dizzy height- ho soon as the door opened and Miss liobinsou put in an appearance. A shovel, also, that was leaning in a corner "came prancing out" Uii though it bad: ome important business on hand which must be attended to wiiLoui further delay, and then, becoming aware of that awful presence, feii clatrei ir.g and banging lo the ground in a dead lain:. These are s:range doings, and they not only ivcall the Kochesrer knock* ir-^s aud the work of >-iiss LuJa iiurst, t)ut ikey remind us 01 Orpheus and Amphion, and the days when the cvorld was young, and tre**s were in Lbe habit of pulling them.-elves up by :he roots and dancing on the greens ivard of the music of Fan's pipes. Poets haye dreamed of such things, as lid that great singer to whose lefty imagination it seemed that The sow came in ?ith the saddle, The little pte rocked thc'eradle. The spit, stood behind the d^>or And threw the dish-o!<-th on the floor, "OJspiuds!" g;ud the gridiron, "Can't you a^ree? I'm the heutl constable. Bring it to me." It must be a terrible responsibility ,o have control over what in our blinuiess, we caii inanimate nature, as is josessed by iiios Kcbicsou. That the ,-oungwoman feels this responsibility t " t s, wo judge, the reason wny sue seiiom smiles. It is to oe hoped that ;he will use her tremenduous power ivith what circumspection sne may, jut if, as is possibly the <;a.re, she is >ul the centre of tcrce aud therefore rresponsible, Sumter, ia South Garyiua, has some he?vy sailing before iu CDDS AND ENDS. The Bank of France has at the present $230,000,000 in gold in its cellars. The Swiss nationalrath have granted ;hc sum or 3,000,000 francs toward fortify iijg ths St. Gothard passes, and 3,000,000 will be spent in all on this project. A Vv'est Virginia girl has saved money enough to buy herself a gold watch by trapping muskrats, skunks and other animals and selling their hides. A woman in Illinois who broke her wrist while trying to raise a window /uii> 1,oc inct vocpivpd Ill ci itUii VUU V-Ui J ?1,685 damages. There arc now more than 200 Indian lauics studying' medicine in the schools of Bombay, Calcutta, Lahore, Madras, Hyderabad and Agra. It has been determined that a new tunnel through the Alps is necessary, and either the Simplon or Mount Blanc will be ihe point chosen. To place telephone wires under ground and maintain the same efficiency as in over head lines would require an insulation 021 each wire of over two feet in thickness. Instead of getting fifty pairs of wires into a threw inch pipe, as at present, a tunnel occupying half of the street woul^ be required for one cable aione. The French civil service costs more now than it did twenty years ago. In the budget of 1S71 the amount d manded under this head was ?10.120000. In the budget of 1890 the same estimate figures for within a trille of JUIT.UUO.OO'J. And there is said to be nothing whatever to show for the in-! ereused expenditure. German functionaries will in future have to be provided with three uniforms; one for ordinary occasions, onu for fe: livities, and one for solemn guia events. The last, being particularly expensive, is proportionately obnoxious to the poorly salaried officials. On the Kanawha and Ohio railroad a quuil Hew against the headlight of a +l,r? f-vrminrr. break \ iug; the glass and -.^tiuguishing the light. The quail was picked up for dead and given to the bstggagernaster, who revive(1 it. Soon it was as chipper as ever, and v.*as turned losso to go on its way r. .Vicing, while the train ran tlio ! fif tbo wav in f ineness. So". J I.er Cody for Gingerbread. "Squire Smith Kennedy says that he has attended several hangings in his life. The most notable one was the hanging of a black woman, a slave, near the fair grounds. She was hanged for poisoning a couple of her masters children. She sold her body to some medical students at Lexington for all the gingerbread she could cat while .she was in jail awaiting for the execution. After ihe hanging the students placed the body in a coffin, | and swung it under a wagon and drove oft to Lexington in hot haste?their ; horses in fast trot?hoping to arrive there in &mc to resuscitate the body : with electricity. Just before arriving there the rope broke and the corpse I fell to the pike and the coffin broke i into halves and tho corpse roiled out. ' They gathered it up and carried it into j Lexington by hand power. As noth, ing more was heard of the woman, it : is fair to presume their experiment was a failure.?Bourbon (Ky.) News. Hi S LETTER,WAS LOADED. PASTOR THOMPSON, OF CHARLESTON. STIRS UP A SENSATION. lie Writes a Communication Denouncing th3 i'mtestants vriio Toott I'ari in inc Reception < arditia! tiibbons and the Casbcdral Corner !?toue Ceremonies? Some Men Who arc Mad. Charleston, S. C., Jar. 14.--The "letter published tills morning from the Rev. Dr. Thompson, paster of the Scotch Presbjterian Church, denouncing iho Protestants'who tock a prominent part in the rectption of Cardinal Gibbons and in the ceremonies of the laying of the comer stene of the new cathedral has crc^cd something of a sensation. The Catholic portion of the community is dispossd to look on and view the quarrel iron afar. The most indignant :ire :he Protestant churchmen who are denounced by Mr. Thompson. Among those w ho took a prominent part in the ~ ? U--? ~A ! mi I f no norD _ Ut lilU V/U*UJiiv?i auv? vwi v monies were the Iiev. Dr, Smart, pa-tor of Bethel 31. E. Churah; the Rev. Dr. Levy, Rabbi of the Jewish synagogue; Mayor Bryan *ud Colonel H. E. Young, Wardtus of St. Michael's P. E. Church; Judge jla^rath and 31aj. J. C. Hemphill, of toe News, and Courier, both membeis of Dr. Thompson's church; Geo. W. Williams, the leading lay member of Trinity M. E. Church, and a dozen or more prominent and leading members of other Protestant churches in the city. Many of these are mad. ?>i*. Thompson'* Letter. The following is the letter referred to in f>.#? above .^isnatch. Drinted in the Newi a:id Courier of yesterday: To the Editor of the Neves and Courier: I have uoticed the accounts given in your columns of the visit of Cardinal Gibbons to our ciiy and to ihe ceremonies aitendiyg the laying of the cornerstone of the iiornan Catholic Cathedral. Your report of the citizens upon the platform includes some prominent Protestant lav men and one Protestant minister. The presence of those Protestants was doubtless intended only as a courtesy, but it was mere?-it was # virtual endorsement of tho&e proceedings and a God .:p<;ea to the gigantic ecclesiastical organization that conducted them. It is the boast of thus cnurch that it is the only church of God. The Cardinal said as ;,nucn on yesterday. It brands all others as heretic.-. A former Bishop of Charleston declared "within thirty years the Protestant heresy will come to an end."' It claims for itself temporal and spiritual supremacy. It tolerates those who differ from it only vrhere it has not '.lie power to enforce its claims. The Archbishop of St. Louis said: "Heresy nnd unbeiief are crimes, and in Christian countries, as in Italy and Spais, for instance, and where the Catholic religion is an essential part of the law of tne land, they are punished as other crimes." The Catholic Rr-view says: "Protestanism, of every form, has not, and never can have, any right where Catholicity is triumphant." Its spirit has undergone no change since those days when it gave its order for and sang its "Te Deum" over the wholesale, indiscriminate slaughter of helpless Protestants. Its fundamental principles are antagonistic to our government and its cherished institutions. Its ^rowtn id tms country menaces some of cur dearest rights and privileges. Notes of warning have come to us from many of the foremost statesmen and thinkers as to what we may expect sbouid it ever gain the ascendency, and yet ve have the spectacle of Protestant preachers and laymen, some of them the descendants of Huguenots, glorifying a Romish Cardinal and encouraging the extension of the spiritual despotism be represents. Had the circumstances been reversed Romanists would have been conspicuous by their absence. I contend that Protestants are sacriflcirjg their history, and are putting contemp: upon their martyr dead, aad are stultifying their former testimony and are sweeping the ground from under their feet as to mission work in Romish land3, and are imperilling the future of their country, by thus favoring Romish pretension and progress. W. T. Thompson. ART IN WATERBURY. CONN. A ."Mortuary memorial That Beats the Kecord. Hartford Courier, Everybody lias read of the remarkable memorial to his wife which an ec- j centric Charleston (S. C.) man has placed in the cemetery there. This is more than equalled by the pecular memorial which a Waterbury (Conn.) woman has constructed for her late lamented husband. It is described as follows: A unique piece of handiwork bas just been sompV-ted by Mrs. Sophia Larrmore of tbis city, who is now approaching her 70i.ii year. It is a mor tuary wreatn in memory 01 ner Husband, who was dead nearly live years befoi e the curious symbol was begun. She made it of relics of her late husband and of articles which were tbe property of the wives who prc-coded her. The frame is of putty, into which, while soft, the widow placed among others tbe following articles: la the centre of the top cross piece are the j spectacles of her late lamented ana a small vial containing the piiis which ' were left over from his last illness. Be sides these, there are many small stones which he had treasured during his life, his jack-knife, a piecc of candy, which she says he had left uneaten; buttons cf all kiads from his clothing, and a small bottle containing cheese made by his first wife. A'l of the collection is labelled, as, for instance, ' The smelling bottie used by the wife belore me:'' Enclosed in the frame is a picture of him whose memory the wreath is supposed to perpetuate. The wreath above the ; ortrait is composed almost entirely oi flowers and leaves, each of these made either of some portion of his coat,waistcoat, ;trousers, neckties or suspenders, and woiked to. getker artistically. The shirt in which he died is honored by having made from it a snowy bird, too wonderful and strange for description. Just outside the wreath are placed suspender buckles and watch chains entwined with the hair of the mother of his lirsc wife. Some of ike hair of his own head ha? been made into tendrils, ana the stamens of one of the flowers is of the material that lined the coffin. On ""? ** friii u-voof-H o hinc'n ALiVl?l vl '/1UV Vt v*-i*w iC t? >/V4UV?< of raisins be bouarbt her the year ht died. saying: "'Xow don't cook auv oC these, but eat. every one." Bal ancing the raisins are three wires each supporting one or his teeth, ^nc behind them the last toothpick he evei i?=ed. THE CURSE OF INSOMNIA. Spreading: kike An Epidemic as tlic Hisuit of n-s!i Tension in Business life. Modern physiological research, proclaims sleep to be the result of a certain amount of blood being abstracted from the brain, to lie quiescent, if not dormant, in certain channels and ves* sels, which, during the waking period, are apparently emptv, or at least very flabby and in a condition, as it were, of negation. In proof of this view, it is a well known fact that good, healthy, restful sleep rarely if ever takes place when the head is full of blood. ! Continuous prevention or any interference with sleep is the most far reaching damage producer to the human system. Comfort and contentment are obliterated. Their attendant substitutes arc nervous irritability, mental anxiety, which sooner or later, according to the resistance power of the individual, become idiocy, mania or death, preceded by a painful physical collapse. At this'momerrt just howmany insomniacs there are in New York alone is unknown, but the faet exists that 10 per cent, of "Wall street" operators are wretched sleepers and 5 per cent, more are pronounced victims of insomnia, who never sleep except under exhaustion or from the benumbing influence of some hypnotic ?it may be chloral, opium, alcohol, sulfonal or bromides. These used in ever increasing quantities to produce artificial sleep must end by the destructicm of intellectuality. This is brought about by a constant contraction of the blood" vessels supplying the brain structure, because these hvnnotic drucs nrimarilv act upon the great nervous centers whence arise those nerves distributed to all the blood vessels which are known as the vaso-motor nerves, or governing nerves. Under the influence of such drugs these nerves are either paralyzed or over excited, and they keep up a constant diminution of the caliber of the blood vessels, wherefore the wholesome supply of nutrient blood is kept from the brain, which temporarily promote sleep, but ultimately destroy it. What ii the safe remedy for sleeplessness? Yvrhat can be done to cure jjisomnia? In these two leading questions the entire subject is considered. Thousands of insomniacs can trace their troubles to causes readily remediable in the beginning. The absence of correlation between the brain and the stomach must bo known as a prime factor in preventing sleep. The muscle brawn laborer rests infinitely better when he seeks his sleep with a stomach comparatively empty; with him sletp is that oblivion which his slow acting brain awards the work strained muscles. The brain worker proper?students, professional men and builders of fortune?rarely sleeps soundly and regularly. To such insomniacs I say, study your stomachs and keep them comparatively full for two purposes. First, to coax the blood current away from a flaccid lot of blood vessels ramifying through everv nook and corner of r . * l. J your Drain, wmcii is iw auuve <xuvl loaded wita unnatural fullness. Secondly, the stomach'TOTSt-S^^ iood in order to keep up a steady supply that always in demand pabulum nec-^*?^ essarv to healthy nutrition, without which no organ can thoroughly do its allotted work. The brain worker must always woo sleep with a full stomach, warm feet, cool head and quiet heart's action. But what if there is a tenC ency to an epidemic of insomnia as the result of that dreadful wave of the higher education of our boys and girjls, offsprings of nervous parents, inheriting their debilitated physical constitutions, with a coadded attenuated higher intellectuality, undoubtedly now being made manifest as our young people enter adult life? If we but recall the beginning of tha nmvrm! wavft of intellectual lii-e SM it existed twenty years ago and contrast it with the present concert pitched tones of educational life, we may possibly check these sleepless nights and the early physical decay evinced by a thousandfold increase in neuralgias, a vast amount of ever aggregating eye disease?, or rather a failure in eye accommodation, by urging the educators to cease their so called physical efforts, not because one youth ; cannot absorb every subject now taught, but simply because it is done. This intellectuality and physical advancement of the age are aangerous beyond anticipation. The soil is too fallow. It must be permitted to lie idle, else the next two decades will ' witness a state of affairs much more dangerous because much more artificial! V ? iindoubted hot bouse intellects of brilliant color but feeble vitality. The time has come to cry a halt, otherwise this excessive culture will permeate the age and weaken such resistance power as is yet abiding in our people. Just at this moment a wave of disease, the grippe or influenza, is traveling around the world. We must study it to avoid it. If such physical rosulis obtain through atmospheric influences we can readily comprehend, because we see the results, how a too fragile intellectuality breaks under'* condition, as it were, of stereotyping, which should never show one ,single flaw under proner surroundings.? ^ * ? nr T\ Zm~. | jviontrose a. jraueu jx. u. jui York World. Xlircateacd Famine In Eussia. Deplorable accounts continue to reach Odessa from several districts in the Volga provinces. The failure of this year's crops in that region is the fourth consecutive disaster of its kind. The peasant holders are novr selling1 most of their stock for food. According to a dispatch "unless the government comes to their aid, and that i quickly, a famine is inevitable. The poorer peasants and laborers are utterly impoverished, and absolutely without. moans of sustenance for the win ! ter.?Philadelphia Ledger. i | An American company have given j two French painters an order for a I panorama of Stanley's two journeys i through Africa. It is intended for the | Vr.r1 . fn ir of 1892. Viiat Satisfied U!in. "Last Mouday morning,'' he began, in n solemn voice, ''last Monday morning I stopped here and ordered a large list of groceries. To-day is Thursday, and | they hare no'; come up yet." ! S "They haven't? Oh, ye-. I r^ioem !! ber now," replied ihr srocer. II "What's the excuse?'' ij "You are owing us $40, and we can i! fill no further order until thut U p*id." ' j "Is that it?" j "Then it is all right. I didn't kuow , : but one of your horses was sick, a wasr[ ; on smashed up, forg-tfu! clerk, or r; something of that sort. Tbat mukec Jt ' all right."