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y ^ ^ ^ ''' "' '' '^'''' ^ """ ^ ^ ^ '^' ^ ' r""''' * y?"VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, s. C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1890. NO. 28. m i Mill >?l f A CONVERT TO DAVIS. JAMES REDPATH, ABOLITIONIST AND UNION MAN. Kemerkablo Utterance Irom a Strange Source?The Impressive Dignity of tlie t.'onlederate Ex-President?No Rebel or Traitor?The Case of the South Presented in a Nutshell. N?w York World. Denyeb, Col., Feb 19.?"Neither Rebel nor Traitor." Writing with this tor a subject, Prof. James Redpath, in the Common wealth, say- of Jefferson Davis: "I spent nearly the entire summer of 1889 as a guest of Beauvoir House, ths home of the late Jefferson Davis I was in his company for from six to "? 1 /3iiwnf? fJio nrVinl* tea iiour? cvcijr vu?j? _ time of my visit. During that period wo talked of every imj?ortant event in his long and eventful life, and discusst ed almost every issue between the North and South. My position enabled ard authorized me to ask questions and to introduce topics which other'- , wise it might have been ungracious, to say the least, or in bad form, as tne latest phrase is, to refer to in the home J of'.he ex-President of the Confederate ' States by any Northern writer, especi- ^ ally one who, like myself, had been an Abolitionist of the most radical ! school from, his earliest manhood?a , fact well known to my venerable he?t. < "I first met Mr. Davis in the sum- 1 mer of 1888- Mr. Allen Thorndike Sico h?d detirmined to prepare as a 1 TTAlnma t.n hia Rfiminiscan- ? ces'ot Abraham. Lincoln, a sort of Confederate supplement, a volume of ? RemiDis encee of Lee and Stonewall , Jackson. Having convinced him that it would be impossible to secure the contributions ho needed from fa*> I xnous Southerners without Mr. Davis's k oo-operation, I was commissioned to viait Beauvoir and secure it and to ob- | tain one or two historical essays irom ? him for the North American .Review, of which at the time I was the manag- 1 ins diicr. | ltWe!l, I reach?u Be*uvioi and re- ? mained there abous a wees, iserore 1 had been with Mr, Davis threee days ? every preconceived idea of him utterly and forever disappeared. Nobody ? doubted Davis's intellectual capacity, ? but it was not his mental power that most impressed me. It was his good- 6 ness, first of all, and then his intellect- e ual integrity. I never saw an old man whese face bore more emphatic evi- ? dence of a gentle, refined and benig- tnant character. He seemed to me the \ - * - i ;?I li meal em Document 01 sweemeio auu , light. His conversation showed that he had 'charity for all and malice to- r ward none.' I never heard hira utter ? an unkind word of any man, and he spake of nearly all of his more famous ? opponents- His mannexs could best be described as gracious, so exquisitely ? reuned,so courtly yet heart-warm. The . dignity of moat of our public men often 11 reminds one of the hod-carrier's 'store suit' it is so evidently put on and ill- * fitting. Mr. Davis's dignity was as , natural and as charming a3 the perfume of a rose?the fitting expression a, of a serene, benign and comely moral i nature. Howeyer handsome he may have been when excited in battle or ? debate?and at such times, I^as told, ] he seemed an incarnation ol tne most 7 poetic conceptions of a valiant knight ?it sarely was in his own home, ? with his family and friend* around him, that he was ?een at his ? SZar''"~*r~^zt: and that beat was the highest point'oi-grace and refinement that F the Southern character has ever reach- 7 ed. ~~ J Mr. Redpath tells of his great friend- J ship for Jefferson Davis, and continues: "But with this slight and inadequate expression of my affection for Air. 1 T>av;s. I mu3t now rest content, in or dcr to state as clearly and tersely as I may why the oid Confederate chief- i< tain never 'repented,' and why he g never regarded himsell as either a r.^bel or a traitor, but scouted such . titles, whenever applied to himself or 11 to the Souther': people, as a proof that ? the utterer of them wa? ignorant of * constitutional law and ot the true na* c ture of the Federal Union. ? "I returned to Beauvoif aad remain- *! ed three or four months assisting Mr. P Davis in preparing a Short History of a tbe Confederate States. After the last ^ pages of that work (now in press) had c !>een mailed Mr. Davis con.-?ent?d to pre; ate for the same publishers an ex- ? i tcded autobiography if 1 would re> *" main to assist him. He had not proc?.eded lar with his life before business r recalled me North. Although I returned in a few weeks it was roo late, ? as in the mean time Mr. Davis had ^ visited his plantation at Briarfield, J where hecauitht the malarial fever that 1 ended in his death. 8 "In order to assist Mi Davis with \ the least friction and loss of time, it c became necessary at the beginning of 1 my work that I should clearly understand the State Rights doctrinc as told * by the Confederate leader. Mr. Davis, a rherfcfore. cave me puch of his writ~ ings on the topic as embodied his personal views ana also other arguments that he approved. Ia addition to these ^ documents I had many and long con- * versations with Mr. Davis until I felt \ competent to state the Southern theory * without any doubt as to the correct- * aess of my understanding of it. In this 1 paper I will present only such views ! as Mr. Davis himself maintained. Be it understood that the language only ' of what follows is mine; the statements : are those of Mr. Davis "A traitor is one who violates ! his ai'egiance an3 betrays his cioun- ' tr\. ; " " * 1 T-- * < "A reoei 15 one wuo revunc nuu the country to which he owes ailegi$BC&? :-^ow, from tbe Southern point (f view, no secessionist violated his allesiscce o? betrayed his country, because be held tnat bis allegiance was due to fcis State, and he was loyal to bis r,tate ia following its fortunes after it withdrew from the Union. Of course under this definition tbe Secessionist crni'd not be a rebel because be maintained b;s allegiance to his sovereign State, au<* 'sovereigns cannot be' rebels. A citizen's allegiance to tbe federal government comes only through bis allegiance to his State, for the federal government was only the ageat of i nft Stains which formed it, and they nsver surrendered their severeigntv to it. "What, then, is the true nature of the federal union? If the fathers intended 10 create and did ureae a nation, then it follows without dispute that the Coufederates were both rtb&ls and traitors, for they certainly did fail in the ir allegiance to the federal government for four years and they V certainly were rebels against its au-|" tbority. But if the fathers did not create nor intend to create a Nation bat only a Federation, then the States that seceded only exercised an inherent right of I in withdrawing frcm the ? ! Union they had voluntarily eatered, ahd the only question that remains is rather a moral than a poli.'ical onewere they justified in withdrawing? , Practical!}', such a question can never be considered, for if a community has 5 the right to secede, it must also be the e judge of its necessity. The power that T holds the whip by the handle never does recognize the need of the groans and kicks that come from the body 0 that stands at the other end! n "Mr. Davis maintained that the via- c, UlUtLUUU Ui tuc OUULU iGdcUU. cucvjc? ^ two considerations?their rightful power to secede and . the causes that C justified the exercise of that power. ir "I confess that while his argument in li favor of that right seemed to I e ex- y ceedingly strong, yet I do not see the n< same forct in his statement of the justification io. *ts exercise But then, r< I was at ihe other end of the whip and ai I justified John Brown." ti Y on aTn#>n<-1nn?nt\ r?f t.Vift fn Constitution, declares that: ' er The powers no: delegated to the A United States by the Constitution nor b< prohibited by it to the State are re- ta served to the States respectively or the w people. ec "This amendment was oae of the ce conditions on which the Constitu- p< ;ion was ratified. It clearly shows fij :hat sovereignty remained with the se States/' be The writer states the Constitution te irouldnot have been ratified by the p? najority of the States had it not been ru 'or t?e assurance that this amendment ru vould be adopted. The stand taken nc >v the Southern leaders is described as a < ollows: W Mr. Davis submitted as a justilication ou >f the withdrawal of the Southern states iu 1SS6: pr "The destruction of the balance of co >ower which existed when the Consti- dii iitinn was svnd snhssenuent, ha egislation for sectional advantages er ather than the general welfare, to- ca jether with gross and persistent viola- be ions of obligations which the States co lad assumed in the formation of the "fi lompact of Union, adding to unceasing "g lostility shamefully displayed and cul- rig ainating in invasion, which treated thi he feellng'that the fraternity in which th< he Union was founded h id ce.-sed to no ixist?that the Union was was no long- ev r one of the heart." "Were the Secessionists. then, true fai 0 the faith once delivered to the to >tate? May be? And yet, right here, ap 1 seems to me, is both their best, de- su anca on/1 fViuiT* nt'/aoIract \Tn tOl &uoc/ auu vuvii u ufl.ak.vot uwiuv. ?^ ive race consents for veiy iong to be an uled by dead men. Each generation de aanages to rule itself?if ,-ioc by the tri etter of the law or or a strict constituion the^ by amendments to constitu- pa ion an- revision of creed! I never mot is ; ,ny puDiic man who reverenced the zai Constitution as Mr. Davis reverenced wl t. th< "Lest any foreigner should read thL> th< rticle let me say for his benefit that pa here are two Jefferson Davises in in< Lmerican history?one is a conspirator, las , rebel, a traitor, and the 'Fiend of th< Lndersonville'?he is a myth evolved sic rom the hell-smoke of cruel war?as fel mrely imaginary a personage as Me- be >histopnel?s or the Hebrew Devil; cu he other was a statesman with clean by lands and pure heart, who served his tec eople faithfully from budding man- cr< lood to hoary aee, without thought of les elf, with unbending integrity and to ur he best of his great ability?he was a orr aan of whom all his countrymen who pr :new him personally, without distmc- ur< ion of creed political, are proud, and an roud that he was their countryman." thi ? ? So RUSSIA FOR THE RUSSIANS. av ,th< 'lie Cznr Expeels Germans from the Em- tlO pire---The German Nation Had. UO The cry of "Russia for the Russians" 3 growing louder, and under its in- j ? luence the process of Russianizing boi he southern provinces is steadily go- wii ag on, involving the expulsion of va- so ous classes of German inhabitants and sax he suppression of German manners, ne< ustoms and speech among those who ers re permitted to remain. This un- nes -j: ~^4- A 4.^ neuury wuido uuc: jlluo icnu iv im- vju^ rove the relations between Geimany far ,nd Russia. Armed peace is forced to haim the mo/e, and the situation be- ne: omes acute. gai This being the state of affairs, ac- Ex ion his just been taken at St. Peters- inc ?urg which can on^y be compared to est hrowing a firebrand iato a powder sh< nagazine. It is officially announced wi o day that the czar has issued a de- ly ree forbidding the employment cf an jerman actors in imperial theatres. Che decree is to go into effect on May I s 1890. Managers will be obliged to Tt irnul all contracts with German ac- is ors, upon whom the tost theatres 13d lepena, ana tne artists tnemseives are mi virtually excluded from Russian soil, en Fierce resentment is sure to be arous- ex id by this unwise and inhotpitable th LCt. ou M fie To Spy Out Georgia. g0 Atlanta, Feb., 28.?An excursion re vill leave Dayton. Ohio, on Feb. 24, or Georgia, composed of represents- tic ,ive farmers and business men ot the pr Sliami valley. The party will make a as ,our of insyection of the agricultural, fu nanufacturing and fruit-growing sec- gr lions of the Empire State. _ ct A telegram from Canajoharie, N. Y., th siys: James Askell, W. J. Askell and ti< Bernhardt Gillam of the Judge and th Frank Leslie's, with their lamilies and 3everal others, left here in a special car thie morning for a tour of the South at the invitation of Governor J. B. Gordon of Georgia, jGovernor 'Gordon will accompany the party in their visit te to the important cities. Killed His Old Teacher. Louisville, Feb., 20.?A young man named Bco:h waylaid Rev. Mike Whisman, neap Cornpton, Ely., and ? ' fatally cut him with a kniie. Whisman lived two bours after ieceiving his ? wounds, and made a statement about his attack. Booth was accompanied by a man named Sparks. Whisir.nu had once punished Booth while ihe latter was a school boy, and i>ooth a had threatened then to be rev'enced c' and had never forget bis fancied u wrongs. e ^ ^ m CX> The Prisoner was Acquitted. 1] Raleigh, N. G., Feb. 19.?There r har been a great sensation at r^uiith- ; field the past few days, on account of the trial of J. E- StarliDg for murder. It has resulted in ?n acquittal. He | ; was charged with the murder of an : t j aged woman, his mother-in-law. and ! c i little boy, hi? nephew, who were t I found dead, with^their skulls crushed, j I ' in a branch near their home. ' t WORK OF THE ALLIANCE. KO W THE ORGANIZED FARMERS ; ARE PROGRESSING. rhe Prospects ? t k Order in Seutlt C*rotlna?Cbrerlo ore1= From President , Stac&boane. U The Alliance people in South Caro- j ina havTe now entered upon the second ? ear ot educational and co-operative -Sort on the several lines of Alliance *> vork. 188S was devoted to the work ^ if* nr?rr.-? r i i ar> in 1 CCH f r? ttt(? rV f? , iu iyuv' uixv rr wjl jk. vi rgaaization was continued, Rod i? si ,ow-8th Feb., 1S90?Dlanted in uvvrr b ounty in the State. The planting, tj cder the direction of your Executive hi Committee, has beeu done at the min- if num of C03t, and thia work will w kcly be very nearly completed btforo w our second annual meeting in July ext. A ? -it- Al uur ue&peiuie vunuii/iuu, uuanuiiwy, ~ jndered our organization possible, ^ ad to the betterment of that condi- c" on oar greatest efforts have been pat >r:h. Last year the efforts at co-op- A ative trade was by Sub. and County lliancas securing for themselves the A 53t terms possible. The results ob.iDed, while more or less satisfactory, ere very unequal, the saving efiect1 being estimated at from 8 to 33 per :nt. on last year's purchases, de- Di indent largely or mainly on the #ic mncial condition of the difl'erent Rg ctions of the State, the larger saving sing only possible on the credit ays* ?o; m of purchasing; and attention is ee:cialy invited to this as showing how jr( inous has been that system, and a* inous morally as financally. Let us >t blame others solely because such condition of things was ever pos?i- ' e, but let us like true men assume 4 Lr iuu snare o: me responsiDiity. bic jckless risks demanded ruinous ofits, but we now see our folly in nsentins; or submitting to such con~ tions so long. And now that we ,ve organized to correct this and othabuses, we must be careful, V6ry tt refill,about the character of our mem- ' rs. We have taken in and must om utinue to take in members who are nancialiy bankrupt," if th?y k*v? ? ood moral character." Thii is ? ;ht. We honor our organizations bj Lil e effort to life them up?to improro " eir financial conditio)!?but we cant. fltfnrd to i'-.irrv thfim if tViAv flhnnlr! i en seem to be careless about their jng ancial obligations. Should they y* 1 to practice that strict economy, or n0i exhibit that industry and constant ? plication to business so necessary to 1 ccess, we must e^pel them. To re- ^ a them would be wrong to all who gie< 3 battling for the manhood and in- pi* pendenco of the farming and indusal classes. me Che financial depression caused bvja to rtial failure ot the crops last year COr a trying ordeal to our yciSQg organ- prt tion in some sections of Ae State, his lich is a matter of deep ???cern to g&j D3emore fortunate eisev^iere, but anc eir activity and forwardness in pre- Fr< ring for anoiher crop prove their cce 3 ? 1 t- T _ 1 iumiuiu.ie piucK. m some places ;t year the crops were less that half " 3 average. Iq such places depress- but >n like Egyptian darkness must be hoc t. Just how such conditions are to " met and overcome is a problem diffi- the It of solution,but it will best be done " our people standing together a uni- ]i?i 1 brotherhood. The eflorts at in- " sased industry and a closor economy aw: >sen the danger from such crop fail- {| es; but for the practice of such econ- jijp ly and industry last year, the de- upj esaiou growing out oi vne crop xau- joe e would have been more extended ac<j d trying than it now is. In proof of is, it may safely be claimed that the for uth Carolina farmers, taking the Thi erage of the whole State, commence sai< 3 year 1890 in better financial condi- " n'than they did the year 1885; Iotj 'withstanding the short crop, the yet jrtness of which more than ofiset the t.wr ;her prices at which it was sold. A ker ger percentage of the supplies Sui jght for Alliance farmers in 1890 11 be bought for cash than has been bought any previous year by the?e ne farmers. I should not deem it A pessary to remind these cash buy- the i that the;/ now have a State Buai- mai ;s Exchange which they can use in c*n i purchat>s of supples and sale of colc m products, but for the fact thattbey ing ve been doing this very same busi- " 35 through agents of their local or- aho rtiTdtiAno cr\ onnrtfioc- lr.lUr I uv ouv^ooiuiljf UOlUi D IUO you ;change was establisheri. Your bus- wer jss agent can be, must be, the larg- " , cash purchaser in the State, aad Dei juld be, and with your patronage whl II be, able to purchase more cheap- X is than any other. It is your agency self d will be what you make ii. me But I have possibly said as much at g0 hould now on the financial outlook, tha ie educational work ot the Alliance cot probably more advanced along the ras, ancial line than any other. The ^ jthods of learning along this line are De] rinently practical. I intended to a(j? tend this letter to convey some tioi oughts on political economy, and j)e T nrcrapq Stofodnil huf 1 td it will make this article too lor^, I must defer any attempt in that a? ction at this time. ( My recent visic to the different sec- r. >ns of the State suggested the pro- bu iety of what I have written as well C01 wnat I propose writing in the near %n, ture, as I may h*ve opportunity. I ^ atefully acknowledge my indebtediss for personal kindnesses while on pC is tour, and my unqualified admira- Ch Dn for the devotion of our people to ?0 ie principles of our order. aj( E. T. Stackhouse. ' V* . TO) m toi Punctuatory. ^ You've been writing poetry to sis- ge x," said Willis. tai ''Yes," admitted the youth. ga "What kind of a poem was that g0 &t one you sent her?" 0t 440h, it was a sort of apostrophe!" "Well, if you'd a seen the way pa ;ted when he saw it you'd a thought was a whole lot exclamation points." -Washington Post. Ti mi ill ti: The Damage by an Explosion 2 Raleigh, X. C., Feb. 19.?A boiler h t u. saw mill at Ahoabie, Chowan sc ounty, exploded, instantly killing the Jo olored lireman and putting out the ui yes of Wright Poell and injuring iE nother man. Poell is very seriously p; ajured, and it is believed will not V! ecover. 01 u Cross and While. vr Ralkigh. N. G.. Feb. 20.?The Su- ^ >reme Court has? denied the motion o grant an arrest of judgment in the ase of Cross and White, th? Balaigk >ank forgeit Therefore they will w lave to serve out thetr respective tl erns on the County road. . tl \ AN ATTACK ON GRAD?. j in Exploded Story Revamped About Kx Senator Bob TosnbiiiDd the Roll of Hi Slavci. Boston, Mas?., Feb. 20.?la hi* lecare at Fremont Temple ye*torday, he Rer. Joe Cook made An attack ipon the dead editoj, Henry W. Grady, le said: "I think Boston ought not to heer treason. Mr. Qrady tras a man f geniu*. and he is now in hi* grave, at his principle* are not in their rare, aad therefore I take the ocoaion to aay that since a Southern Seator threatened to call the roll of hi* aves o* Bunker ^ill, nothing has een said mucn more airociou*iy initios fc) Northern sentiment than ic s?';i-mation of the Southern orator afore bit Boston audience, that even the nation were to put forih its hole military power, the South ould yet trample on the newest parjraphs of the Constitution. That i? illing the roll of slatee on tfee rirhta ef the political Constitution self, and the slarflt are those who iejish inch politieal sentiment." j BOSTON MAX'S SWALLOW. 2 1 Sic Enllckati Billi?< ilia, bat i Trinkr ffailii't Xiaidlt. j Tkera were a number af ui in one of , e Los don taTtrni nada famous by i ckcis, when * graat bij lellow < >uchad in and made himself very di?raaabla wilh hia mauth. One of our ^ rty w?? a man from Bo?ton, and in ne way ar ether ha and the biz man . wordi. Tha first . > heard of the row the bif man was ? I 'You Yankeeeii great on the brag, d thafi all you can do." ? 'Well, I dunno," replied Boston. 'But I do. Wheivaid you ever Jo a >ominr, blartted thing?" 'How about 1776?" ? 'Never heard of it." o 'How about 1812?" 'Never heard of it." 'Did you ever hear of 'Banker . 11?" 1( T 1 rp;,.4>. ?i *<V\ J M J. ilAfQ on, jlu?u *y uwit vvv . M licked the life eut ef 4,000 brag- *' I Yftmkwrf" " 'I g99ta set." J 'Net! D?? you darefco di?pute the rerpool Kid?" " 'You'd better read whafc?hisk>ry s." " 'I hate done that 'ere, you bloom- ^ ; idiot, and it #ay? a* how all yeu * nksai run at the firit fire! Den't it pr?" V 'I ne7er heard that it did." 'Don't it say that?" ? y / - * ? V _ .1 1_ . 3 T_ I JL l no oijj iciiow nau. pusnea up uis , ?yes and put up his fists, and it was in that a row wa? on hand. Ho 9 big enough to eat up two sach . n aa Boston, while he had friends loek omt for the rest of us. Our ' apanion therefore teok the most iaent oour*e,and acknewledged that tory might say srand probably did K ?o. This satisfied the Lig fellow, i he turned away and glared at a >nchman, alto a tourist, who had no in later. After a lour stare ht Iked up to the Crapeo and shouted: b? Blast yer blooming parley tous, di ; wa've always licked ye out of yer ai >ts on land and sea!" m 'You speak you big liel" shouted ea Fr?noisian. hot in a^inute. ti: What? Call Tke LiveV?>ool Kid a k; to hi* fbcef" h< Aye! and I shall now giro you Pul bseg licking!" fe 'Johnny" jot out of hit coat in a id f, danced around with his hand? fe and to onr utter astonishment the k? 1 went right down into his boots fr I slunk eufe of the room, baring no ?e re pluck than a hen. We sat there hi fire *inutes befere any one spoke, oc in it wae the Boston man who pi !: ca T -i.M T IJ.T. ?- /.I ? + J UBu bUlS* OI lit X CAU UCt. *1A i?I8 lilt* that banfcy Frenchman, And tt thai big duflVr mad? ra? swallow oc > wan for indtpendfMce and Bum- m Hill on top of th*m.?New Yark to l* T< Dennis'Powerful Logic. . merry young Iriihman, not long from a "old dart." ia employed at coach- a 1 bj a JefEerion aTenue family. Re- 1" tiy. while suffering from a seyere P< 1, he made hie appearance one morn- V ?wv? In W ?ft V% l ? A.% A I ft Aft 4 ft V ? a V. ft T VV wiiu HIS nan tub uiuoc IU un licau. Why, Dennis," said his mistress, in jo eked acc?nt, "whatever poisessed pi to have your hair cut while you F e almost sick with a cold?" ti 'Well, mum," replied the unabashed ? mil, "I do be takin' notice this long ile that whinerer I bare me hair cut *1 ,ke a bad cowid, p,o I thought to my- *' ' that a*w while I had the cowld onto do it would be the time of all others to and get mc hair cuttin' done, for by |r t courie I would save meself just one j" fid. Do you see the power of me Jc oning, mum?" ^ rhe lady was obliged to concede that ^ nnia' lopic was irresistible, and now- *j lys never attempts to call into ques- * 0 bis matives for anything he does.? troit Free Press. S ? Seeking Southern InvMtment*. h Columbia., S. C., February 20.?Mr. A. Lynch, formerly of this city, *] t now of Boston, is in the city, ac- j, upanied by Messrs. A. E. Bonney B1 1 G. W. Emerson, who are under- a >ed to Jbe capitalists sseking invest- 0 sets m fcoutn Uarolma. JLhey ex- 0 ct to be shortly joined by Prof 3 larles H. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth liege, N. H., a geologist and miner- c >gist of some rote, and it is said the 4; rty intend to take a prospecting fl nr over the State. Mr. Lynch has t tablished an agency in Boston for e sale of Southern lands, and the T ntlemen named above are represen- ] tives of the agency sent to investi- 1 ,te the resources and possibilities of | iuth Carolina. The party will visit fi her Southern States j A Young Candidate For Hanging. 1 Columbia, S. C., Feb., 20.?Arthur ^ urner, the thirteen-year-old son of erchant Turner was stabbed twelve cues yesterday afternoon by Leslie < olland, a young son of Engineer i ^oliand. The boys had quarrel SET in < ihool. Alter dismissal Holland fol- I >wed Turner and catching his heed < ader his arm stabbed him repeated./ < l the neck, back and head. He was reven ted from continuing what would : sry probably have been his murder- ' us work by a companion who jerked : Holland off. Younsr Turner is badlv ounded and miraculously escaped ; ith his life. No arrest was made. ?The Russian Nihilist Stepniak ; Titos all his works in English, acd ley are revised by William WesthalL < ie novelist. ! FLOGGED a WOMAN. HO W MADAME SIGIDA DIED UN DER THE CZAR'S KNOUT. Three Oilier Female Prisoners, Fearlni , Her Tate, Commit Suicide?Sorrow Al?? 1 Urivci Two Men to Death?Ru??inn J Atrocitiea. 1 Provided with a cable dispatch of in- ^ troduction from Geo. Kenan, the celebrated Siberian traveler, the London ^ agent of the Associated Press called t ?n Serguis Stephnian.^the well knoi?ni i writer upon Russia's political and ser- t i i t i n C lai conditions, ctepnnian was asKea. ~ whether ho could gi?e any informa- t tion in regard to the outrages in the f political prison at Eara in Eastern Si- t beria, rumors about -which had re- 8 cently rcached the public press by * way of the Kussian colony in Paris. t< ONLY A HIST OF THE TJtAGEDY. * a Stephnian stated that the reports $] aireaay pu?nsaea gave omy a mac 01 p ihe horrible tragedy enacted at Kara. ^ Perfectly trustworthy information, he fo said, had been retired in cipher let;ers that succeeded in getting through ;o Paris and Londen from exiles in Eastern Siberia. These letters, which a ire nothing but meagre scrape of pa>er, tell the story of the recent horror >nly in its main outline, but one who ez :nows about Siberian life does aot leed a circumstantial recital to unlexstand the cruelty of the discipline st jad the agony of suflering of which ai nis nerror was tne culmination, rne nil detailfe of the dreadful story can- m Lot be long now in reaching the Wesern world, coming so soon after the ublicity given to the Yakutsh atro- hf ity. It can hardly fail to deepen the w, ease of horror already felt by the ivilized world at Russia's treatment at f political offenders. CI NX WOMAN FLOGGBD TO DEATH AND ^ TMXEE SUICIDE. The facts so far received are as fol- I'1 >ws: Madame Sigida did not com- an lit suicide, as the earliest reports Ated. She died frem the effects of a rm?I flegffiag te which she was sub- ^ >ct?d. Tke flogging took place Wed?day, tbe'fth of November. It was P^! ?ntinued until under the brutal blows to IW UULXmy^fJ Y1UU1U WUOUUUSU9W ad lay as one dead. The poor wo- so tan nerer revived from the terrible yo lock, but continued to grow weaker ad weaker until Friday, when death qu irne to her relief. The news of her off iocki*g official murder produced ha ide-spread dismay aid anguish tic nong ber fellow prisoners and three olc ' them, unable longer to bear their otl ratchad fats, committed suicide fev iking poison. How they obtained tie te peison is not known, but probably sel ley had it a long time in their pos- to ?*ion and ware keeping it as a last be iiert. The names of the women wa ere Marie Kalush, Maria ?adlovina aralefskega and Nadesenta Smir- te< >tk&. ha SAD FATE OF A ?IEL. a ? - - - Sh Maria Kaiusli wag arrested in lssa, ting then a girl of 18, on charge of sloyaltv. ?er father wu a march- ^ it at Odessa. Daring her imprisonent every means was tried in vain to cr( ttort ft em her a confession implicaDg her friends. At last Col. Katus- r pe, a gen d'arme officer, brought to j sr a skillfully forged statement, pur >rting to be a confession from her flow conspirators, and promised imunity jf she also confessed. Marie 11 into and confessed, and sr confession vss used against her , i?wHn ?hn Triarr rniifTn^Vi t.^ ? irvitude. Whea. she learned they" ? id made no confession, but had been f mvicted on her testimony aloae, she q rocured a revolver and on Aug. 21, . died upon Col. Katuskya and fired. ; him, wounding him slightly. For ^ lis attempted assassination she was mdemnea by court martial at Odes. on Sept. 10,1884, and sentenced to renfy years penal servitude. FROM HBK HU3BJLND, REASON an XLEBS. Mary Padlovina Karalefekega was , young married lady 85 y*ars of age daughter of a well known lauded roprietor in the south *f Russia, aul V?rautsog, and a sister of Basil , ereuteoff, one of the best known . alitioal economists in Russia. She ined a secret circle, which was surrised and captured by the police in ebruary, 1879, and was sentenced to , drteen years penal eerritude with ( die to Siberia for life and depriva- , n of all ciyil right*. Her husband, , loufih not present, was sent by an Iministrative process a thousand liles from the miaes to which she ce; m sent. The separation drove her Pa i*ane and she was put in a straight m, i,cket. In 1S81 she wu allowed to p >in her husband in the hope of restor- , if her rewon. She recovered, but le new governnor separated them pin and she was restored to the jira mines. ar Nadesenta Smirnetzka was 31 years Id and a student in ^woman's college. .. he w?a Mii to the Kara mines for fteen years with penal servitude. ^ :OSXOS DSITXS TWO MIN TO DEATH. 33 Shortly after the suicide of the bree wemen, a brother of Marie Ka- ye r J:-J isn, also a political pnauner, uiou w; uddenly. It is not definitely known s yet-whether ho too died by poison r whether his death was the result of P< rerpowering f rief on learning of the st .eatn of his lister. Another exile, named Bobokovo, ommitted sucide rather than sufcndt to cs he cruel humiliation and suffering of [. vrrinir "RnhnknYo was a university on tmdent and toek pari in some public l*mon?tration? or the students which <jj r?re displeasing to the authorities, h, was therefor#, ordered to make n( lia abode at Pinego, a small village in g< he province of Archangel, the northirn-xno?t portion of European Russia, tl from there he attempted to make his a( teeape, and, for this heinous offense, a, Tie exiled to the mines of Eastern Si- ai >eria, THB JTLO?GIir* or ifADAi?E SIOIDA. a: *< The Hedging of Madam# Sigida o?- *, iurrtd under order* issued by Lieut.' V 3en. Baron Koff, governor-general 5f the province of Arnour, in wbicn Kara min?s are situated. These orders directed that the secret edict i Df March; 1888, signed by Calkin# Vraski, director-general of the prison c for the empire, should be eaforced. /* T*V??CI xrrmm 4a flm ftflRanf fViaf. Tinllt",- L XUXO UU1VU TT AO l>V vuv VUVW \ v j^w?.? , ical oonricts should be treated by prison oMciala in precisely tke same nan- T ner as criminals condemned for common law offences. Political prisoners were thus made liable to flogging for c breaches oi prison discipline. In what fi Bartkular war Madame Sizida had if transgressed the prison rules is not I i' clearly explained. But the flogging I a of a sensitive and cultured woman to a p t death for any Jack of conformity to prison regulations Stepniak thought would impress the Western world with a profound horror. The political prisoners at Kara, Stepniak said, had in some way learned that the political exiles imprisoned at SaghaHen had also been subjected to cruel flogging. Thev were constantly in dread of similar torture to that in- I 9icted upon Madame Sigida. FLOOCIN6 ORDERED BT THE CZAR. Stepniak was asked whether he hought the czar, in view of the fact ;hat the exceptional horrors at Kara lad been made public, would mitigate he severity of prison discipline in the ?se of political convicts. He replied hat he thought it was not unlikely hat the publication of the facts would orce the superior officials of Russia to j afce some notice of affairs, but he aid flogging and a7l other brutalities rere entirely due to the direct orders f the central government at St. Pesrsburg, namely, the edict of March, 888. The government was, therefore., irectly responsible for the renewal Of ae corporal punishment of political risoners, which had been suspended 1 1877 after Trepoft ordered Bogoluoff to be flogg?d. THE STAMP CLERK. n Interesting Study of Character in a City Postoflicc. "I should think you have a pretty isy time in here." "Well, pretty easy." "You don't have much to do. Just ' and at the window, count out stamps, ' id take in the money." J "That's all, save the little item of '< aking correct change every time." 1 "O. of course. But it isn't much." t "No, not much, though sometimes * ilf a dozen people, all in a hurry, ant stamps at the same moment." < "Yes, to be sure. You must be busy i times, say early in the day, or at t iristmas and Easter. But most s iople could do the work, with little t actice." t "Yes, practice is a great thing, but ? re been a stamp clerk for ten years, 1 id yet yesterday I made a mistake t counting out a small number of one- s nt stamp's. Still, practice is a great li ing." "Well, I should like to have your n _ xL-iJ- -11 Ti li. 1 J ^ nee, maL a an. xt can o uw very xiaru t sell postage stamps." t "i wish you had it, as you think it is v easy. But, should you try it a day, ; n u might think differently." s The conversation between two ac- a aintances occurred in a city post* y ice a year ago. The change which s; s brought about a new administra* p in removed about a month ago the si 1 postoffice clerk and installed an- ?< J.K1 1110.11 1U 1US piiUJC. ? rhe new clerk entered upon his du- & s the first day with a feeling that ii ling stamps was a diversion suited p his genial temperament. He hadn't en at the window an hour before he * is %sadder and a wiser man. _ y A. woman came up and wanted thir- r, in cents' worth of two's and one"-. v If and half, seven postal cards and a package of two cent wrappers. $ e had nothiDg smaller than a $5 a 1- a When the clerk had recovered from 2 temporary slow fever iDto which j ls episode threw him, there was a g, woit.irv-r rmfoid? ond all Via p/wll d ar;was: j( rwentj-five cents' worth of twos, > iase." "Package postalcarks." "Dol- ^ 's worth stamps, quick." "How j( ich'll that take? Goin' to Canady." t ruff stamps; on that, hey?" "Gimme j, o twos and three ones, will you? I'm a* a hurry." < rhe young man nervously counted t stamps, v reighed packages, consult- ? - the printed schedule, for rates in g eigri countries, anu perspired freely. v Id chills rs n down, his back, for he g a. VACUA nf somebodv renty-five cents worth ofstacnps for E ;y cents, and of selling a packaged ,u stals cards for hall price, rhe crowd at the window did not , ninish, but grew. A. man finally c&me up in a hurry d threw down a handful of loose j ver and nickels and coppers and ced ,//r? 'Twenty-sevea ones, sixteen oancs' >rth of twos, two and a half pack- y es of postal cards, and the rest in "c os and one cent wrappers" a me new cierK cnojaea qowh a uig - >rd or two, mopped his brow ner- o usly with a sheet of stamps, and be- t n counting out a package of stamped v velopes, government official size. i 'How many did you say?" ' 1 "How many what?" ? "Envelopes." t 1'Envelope? I don't want any envel- es. Twenty-seven ones, sixteen a cits' worth of twos, two and one-half I ekages of postal cards and the rest twos and one-cent wrappers. That's lat 1 want, and in a big hurry, too. >t to catch a train." "Sixteen cents' worth of twos?" "Yes, I said so." "Oh, well, all?all right! There you e. And?and how many ones?" "Twenty-seven. Come, hurry up." "Twenty-seven; twenty-seven. Five nes five is twenty-five and two is ven -twenty-seven. Twenty-- seven ad now, the rest in envelopes did you y?" "Envelopes? I don't want any enslopes. One cent wrappers is what I a.nfc V "Hew many?" < "How many? Well, give me just one; i jrhaps you can count that out i raight." (Sarcastically.) "A one-cent wrapper is two cents." "All right! I can stand it if you kn." "How many packages of postal ,rds?" "Never mind. I can't wait here all iy. Besides, there's a crowd out sre stretching way around the corsr. Jast give me' my change and I'll jt out of here." When the clerk iiad recovered from le syncope into which this little trans " ? *-5 J.T.. 2tion naa cast nim, ne spied me uiu iquaintance, the former stamp clerk t the window. ' Ah, you seem to be having a pleasat time in here. Please let me havf2 worth of twos and sixes, $1 worth c i a.ch. And just weigh that little bunle. Going to Honduras.. Needs two lore stamps, I think. Should think ou would have a good time in here, lot much to do but stand up and sell iamps, and give back the right change ey? You must enjoy your place here. >f course, it will be a little busy early 1 the morning, or at Christmas or ]aster times. Most people could do it rith a little practice."?United States fail. ?New Orleans is to be thoroughly * A. leaned up lor t-ne summer ana put iu rst class sanitary condition. The work 5 to be dono by co-operation between he city authorities and the citizens, nd all the money necessary has been ssured. ARP'S PIIL0SOPHY. J RTT.T, T AT.TTft A TiHTTT TTTT? MTSnWrRV OUS LITTLE ONES. The Difference Between Mlschierouancis I and ftleanness?Some Remark* on the Q Peculiarities ef Boya. There is a wide difference between (mischief and meanness. But mischief is ^ close akin to it, - when it injures any j n body or hurts their feelings, or breaks E the rules or the laws. Most all boys ^ lo?e a little mischief. I used to love a t] good deal. I remember when we thought 01 it ever so smart to slip around at night and change gates and the signs, or ^ stretch a rope across the sidewalk,.or tie g a goai in tn? scnooi nouse, or put one k man's horse fn another man's stable. I ec have worked mighty hard at such things ? and I did think it was just as funny as it could be, but some how or other I pr don't see a bit of fun in it now. I woe- th der what is the matter with me. My children inherited mischief, I reckon, ve and so I hare to excuse them, but when pc my little girl thoughtlessly pulled the bj chair away just as I was about to sit fiu down, and I came down with a shock ini that jarrsd the house, and my feet flew nil up and knocked the lamp off the table, hi: [ was mad, very mad until I looked at hit her and saw how frightened she was, for Br she hadn't counted on such a catastrophe, an 3o I tempered down, picked up Ihe b?o- an; sen fragments and Dever said a word, coi ind was a minute before anybody spoke, thi l?rs. Arp was the first to break the awful gu silence with an explosion of laughter, Br< ind that started the children, of course 2 -all but Jessie, poor little thing, who ;ame to me and said, "Papa I didn't nean to do it." I knew that shedidi't, ^ jut my offended dignity was at stake, tnd I got me'another lamp and went to rating. I wanted to laugh as much as hey did, but I wouldn't. That was ggj our years ago, and Mrs Arp. is not done aughing at it yet whenever ?t is alluded ^ o. I believe it would do her good to gj^ e me bump the floor and kick over a g}1( amp about once a week. jrc I was ruminating about this because wa ay boj came home from school ahead of )j0( ime and aat down before the fire looking. ?? olemn and sad. I was writing by the gt* window and wondered what was the ^fj, laiter. For a while he never moved or mo poke, but suddenly he looked up at me nd said, a pitiful voice: "Papa, was pju ou ever suspended?" "Suspended?" ia j aid I, "I don't understand you?susended, how?" "Suspended from chool," said he. "Why, no," said I. LO ;What makes jou ask that question?" le choked up, and said: "Well Tm wii (upended, and ao i3 Torn Miller." "Is : possible?" said I, as I laid down my j en. "What have you been doing?" aaa Tksii he told as how he aad Tom aai per ;ot co throwing water it iicn otoe; jt j phile the professor was in the other j^o: oom 8uu" how-he missed Tom and the moie aipper ?iii s:rucj? tee DiacKDoara l01 ad pat out the sum aod raa dowa upoa Dre lie floor, and the professor came ia just yea t the irxong time and asked who did it, par ad suspeaded him aod Tom, aou told fr0] hem to take their books aod go home. i0u felt greatly relieved of course, for I $3 aw that it was mischief and net mean- Qe^ ess, but I never said aoythiog aod maDoked solemn aod resumed my writiog. <ow, it distresses my cbildrei to see me istressed, aod that is a good siga. As 3Dg as a boy lov?s his pareots, aod gis * roubled when they are troubled there ^.a: 3 hope of that boy. After a while he "1E aid: ,lPapa what must I do obout it?" ?: * 'I don't know" said I, "until I see the irofessor. Not lon? ago we had up a ase of suspension, and the board refusd to take the boy back, I don't know da: rhat they will do with you and Tom. I c*e: xpect you have been trying the profes- c?c or's pati?nce for some time. Tou are e lot bad boys and are very good scholars, tilt your disposition to mischigj?^0tj(! roobted-Jiiin. and set bad" examp^ 5CT. ?he other boys ~are" talking about you, c^c nd say that the professor is partial to j*1* ou and Tom, and I'm afraid that he is; am glad that he has stopped your mis- m? t " ^ ?? t;rvi niei. " But it came out all right. The boys ?ere not suspended, and they w?Dt iack the next morning and apologized, aa( nd now everything is calm and serene. yef ?he boys must conform to the rule*. If >ne boy throws warer, all the boy* have he right to throw water, and that wouldn't do, and a sensible boy knows . < t. Let every boy act upon principle. Lit Chey may be tempted to tell a story to Su ;et out of a little scrape. But it is better ; bo; o tell the truth. The truth is the tking thi -the biggest thing I know of. If I had i ou l great business that would give em- [50! )loyment to a thousaud boys, and I had vre o go about and select them, the first to juestion I would ask would be "Does he th< ilwavs tell the truth?" I wish the boys re: md girls could realize how rnueh anxie- rei hey give us. Here are 400 going to an ichool in our little town, and in a few fcu rears they have got to take our places th md make the laws and do the bneioest w! ind make up society and establish the tiz norals of the community, and up?a their th conduct the happiness and good came of tic she people will depend. The young bo aen of this generation will hare to solve ?lai she race problem and the other prob- an [ems, and upon them wili depend the ex- al istence of the government. We think su ibout this a good deal, for it affects our childlen and grand children. It trouoles us to think about wars and anarchy and revolution and about tyrants and bad men getting into power and about ^ the rich getting richer and the poor or poorer. I know that it will be all right if tne people win ao ngnc?11 tne cnu- ^ dren grow up with good'morals and ?j>j good principles. "We have got good schools almost everywhere in the South. jD I know we have in Cartersville. I am cs prcud of the professors and the tcachers ta and the pupils. We are a long ways ^ ahead of Boston. There are no hip m pockets in our schools?no kicking of ^ teachers, no band ef forty thieves. We : have Christian teachers and the moral training goes right aloig with the school books. The boy or the girl who gets no more education ihi.n can be had in our T schools has the foundation laid for any rrc beginDer in life. b< ' m The Oil Company's Responsibility. jc Nxshtiiije, Tenn., Ftb. 30.?In tk? el circuit eourt Peter Swan waa awarded b< the sum of $12,000 damages against the 01 Standard Oil Company, ia the sait which has occupied the attention of this court for a vreek. The plaintiff sued for the full extant of the damages, amounting to $14,000, sustained August 23d, 1889, w by the destruction of his marble yards al in the northwostern suburbs of the city, to by the burning of the Standard Oil 0(?m- c< pany's establishment. There is a?oflier st sail against the oil eoapasy for tfee de- d: truction of the bended warehouse of 0. ai S. Peara, from the same cause, in the y< sum of $15,000. *11 A FOUL MURDER. refan Hood an Aged Man Shot and Killed A Xearro Arrested for the Crime?Fear* of a Lynching ('arte His Removal to Colombia for Safety. Chablottjj, N. 0.. Feb. 19.?John lood, tbe faiber of Sheriff W, H. Hood, >f Chester. S. C., was shot with a dou le-barreled shotgun, and killed, in Jhester, Saturday night. Mr. Hood'a ody was found at 7 o'clock Sunday ! r_ J a. _ /I igrniDg. suspicion pomiea co ween frown, a negro, as the assassin. He ras arrested, and a double-barreled gun ras for.cd in his house, with -mud on le stock, and apparently having been nly recently shot. The Chester correspondent of the hronicie s&js the evidence was so reegthst fears were entertained of rown beiag lynched, and Governor ichardson was immediately telegraph1 to aod asked for instructions to reove Brown to Columbia or elsewhere, he Governor replied, instructing that ie Lee Light Infantry be called on te otect the prisoner,. Sunday afternoon e prisoner was taken to Columbia. __ As to the cause of the murder, and the irdict of the coroner's jury the eorrtsindent saya: "Other facts gathered . r your correspondent are that" Brown o >Ti?n r\f Kaino f/v> v^/V\y?V V? VS/iViWU UiUU V* k/V4U^ VW timate with bis wife and Saturday ?ht awaited in ambush the object of i jealousy. When Hood passed by on 3 way from visiting some relatives, owd mistook him for the other party d fired. It was on a street without y light* whatever. The verdict of the roner's inquest, held here Sunday, wag * it John Hood came to his death by n-shot wounds at the handa of Qreea own (colored.)" Mr. Hood was 79 years old. Shot His "Wife and Her Uncle. Dhaslestox, S. C., Fab. 18.?A able tragedy occurred here last jht. Napoleon Laval called at the ? -x tt^i* - cl ji iC Oi JD. XOIUUIAUU C& OUU ted to sm his wife, who had been >arated frem Aim for some time, lien the woman came down Laval it her, and then entering the store )t Feldiaann. She has since died. Idmann will recover. Mrs. Laval s a niece of Feldmann, and had in living with his family for some le. On being arrested, Laval ted that it was merely a family lir, and that th^re was nothing re to be aaid abeut it. The affair i created a great sensation, aa the ties are well known and prominent busi tesa and society circles. TIBET'S DESPERATE EFFORT. Illnsr to Pay the Debt of Loolataaa* for a New Leuie of Jilfit. Jew Oelkans, Feb. 19.?The Looisx, Lottery Company is making a desate effort to retain its corporate life. iaa fa eaAnvA o a?V?ovfo* fvism IV SCUIUV O &4VIU rth Dakota, and its next move, it is J,wiiibe -as _?ji.ormou8 bribe to the lisianaLegielaturefor ar&crewsdTrfitr-'? sent charter, which will expire two rs hence. Its preposition will be to r the entire State debt, amounting to m $11,000,000 to $12,000,000. The ;ery is earning $250,000 a month, or 000.000 per year, net. Many promiit Louisianians fear that the bribe r be accepted. So Near and 3Tet so Far. Ut.f.igh, N. C., Feb. 20.?Last night 3 fixed upoD for the celebration at ie Level, Johnson County, of the rriage of A. D. Godwin and Miss i Oliver, the pretty daughter of Pine rel's leading mearchant, T. T. Oliver. s invited guests had come, the attenlts were all present, the officiating rgyman on hand. The time had ae for the couple to step in front of : preacher. Godwin and bis intended kec!farms an i marched out together the S)Et of the prescher, Miss Oliveff^jPI^ illy informed Godwin that she had "? en up the idea of getting married, is effectually put a stop to ?the careny. Her father stepped forward and d the would-bo groom that he, per39. had better desist from all farther >ceedin?, and leave for home. Godi quietly retired, got in his . boggy i departed. No reason for Miss Oli a s auauge wuuuug JS giTcu. Firc in a Lunatic Asylum. Chicago, Feb. 20.?A special from ;tle Rock, Ark., says: At 3 o'clock nday morning, fire broke oat in the tier room of the Insane Asylum near s place and spread rapidly throughfc the entire bailding.There wer? nearly 9 patients in the building all oI whom sre removed from the different ward* the first floor, preparatory to taking sm from the asylum. Baring the noval, a scene of pandemonium ??~4 gnec, the patients ssreaming, cursing d sobbing with terror as the keepers stled them from boor to floor, until J - ey were in comparative saieiy. mean lile the water gave out and only the nelv arrival of tbe fire engine from i. city prevented the complete deslruc>n of the building. Oae included the iler room, pump room, engine house, andry, dry bouse, kitchen, bath-room* d pantries, were destroyed, entailing os8 of about $35,000. There is no i?raace. The Georgia. Alliance, k ? n.i. AA rm. ^ tl. ? ATUtMTA, r;u, m<j.?ice oiaie ru? era' Alliance has taken possession of 3 nevr and more commodious quarters i the corner of Hunter and Forsyth reets. The Alliance has been expeoag to make the change for months. be building was donated for the use : the order for fire years as one of the aucements offered by Atlanta for lotting the exchange here. The secre -? A li: -3 tl it. .rv oi cue ixiuaucesauu me urg&u ui iuc otberhood, the Southern Alliance Parer, also have rooms in the exchange lilding. Enx??ea Rooms for a Tear. The Charlotte Chronicle states that Mr. hoaaas A. Edison has engaged a suit of oms is that city for a year. They will for the use of himself and hit experts henever they shall be there, luring the sxt twelve months to pursve their miaig investif atieas among the the mints f Southwestern xTorth Carolina,- wlaich 5 declares is the richest mineral region a the fflobe. Mortality from Small-Pox. SaS" Akto^to, Texas, Feb. 19. ?Late spons frcm the small-pox districts ong the Ei'< Gn.ide thow an appalling .ortality list. Oa a ranche in 'Doral >uaiy, 147 out of 150 employed wer? .rickea wi'h the disease, and 65 of them , ied. There is a gTeat scarcity of nurses ad physicians. A number of tbs Ducger doc ^rs of this place are Jt ig to visit the afHicted place.