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TO THINK OWN SELF BE TRUE AND IT MUST FOLLOW AB THE MIGHT THE DAY, THOU OANS'T BY JAVNEH, 8MBLOR, SMITH & STECH. WALHALLA, SOUTH CAROLINA? Bf AY 81, 1902. C. W. & J. E. Bauk MAJESTIC FLOUR, PIEDMONT FLOUR, - SILVER STAR FLOUR, - $4' 90 per Barrel. - $4.60 per Barrel. - $4.00 per Barrel. TWO LARGE SIZE NICKEL PACKAGE We also call special attention to o 25c. per pound , ;lso a special Green ( If you try either of these it will make IT PAYS TO B State Mutual Ute Annuity Cn. -ROM 132 9 Gt A.. The Parent Annuity Association of the South. Assets,.$189,471.89 Surplus, over all liabilities, July 1st, 1001, . $ 68," 59.40 IT IS WITH PLEASURE AND PARDONABLE PRIDE THAT WE CALL TUE ATTENTION OF OUR FRIENDS and tho public gonorally to tho excollont contract for Lifo Insurauco now being otTcrod hy Tho State Mutual Life and Annuity Association, ol' Koine, Ga. It is not an assessment company, but a GUARANTEED STIPULATED PRE MIUM CONTRACT. Tho plan is tho Annuity System, which provides a guaran teed annual income to tho mcmbor in old ago. In caso of bis death it pr?vidos for his widow, and in tho event of bor death, for his minor children. THE STATE MUTUAL issues tho strongest, tho safest and most beuoflcial contract for a dependent family now on tho market. They number among their policy-holders some of tho loading financiers of tho States of Georgia, South Carolina, Alabama, North Carolina and Virginia, and with T?^^^ Es^CS*t ono accord they unhesitatingly pronounce it T?jT~ J. W. ROUNSAVILLE, Vico-Pres. W. P. SIMPSON, Troasuror. THOMPSON HILES, President. ELBERT T. McGHEE, Secretary. Ollico and Consult in;: Rooms: 1600 Main Street, Columbia, S. C. First-class Agents wan tod. Address: Lock Rox No. 127, Columbia, S. C FRANCIS & HAILEY, Stato Agon ts. Or T. II. FRANCIS, 380 Whitehall Stroot, Atlanta, Georgia. Any information cheerfully furnished by .J. A. STECK, RESIDENT AGENT, WALHALLA, SO. CA. 20? PLENTY GUANO AND ACID ON HAND NOW. T. E. ALEXANDER. WALHALLA, S. C., MAY 7,1 902. Just Double IVlfEA'.'/ HO US E IS PA 1JV TED it is safe to estimate that a value lias been added to il, which is never loss, and something more} than double the cost of painting. How About Your House? Mu lt i'plij the distance around it by the aver age height, and divide by 250. This gives the required number of gallons of KINK'S NEW YORK TUS Paint costs $1.5o -- pw gallon. Come in ELECTRIC READY-MIXED PAINT, end, get SampU Cards and study Color Effect J. H. DARBY. New Road for Walhalla. For the Small Boys. The following sp?cial from Mine ral Bluff, Qa., to the Constitution, under date of May ll, will bo read with interest by the people of Wal halla and the surrounding country : "Thia section of north Georgia is just now attracting much attention from Northern capitalists, and the prospects aro nattering for tho building of a new railroad from Duck town via this place to Walhalla, S. C. A preliminary survey has been made and a charter obtained, and tho proposed lino was examined a few days ago by capitalists who came from tho North to inspect the route and look over the country through which tho road is to run. If built it will open up ono of the finest mineral and timber sections of the South in tho counties of Falutin, Union, Towns and Kuluin." Tito Atlanta Daily News is to bo rovived shortly under the editorship of John Temple Graves. M Pl SO'S CUR III HE H CURtS WHERE All EIS Heat Down Syrup. Taule? Oood. in limo. Sold r>j < The following is Ute text of tho law in regard to tho killing of birds and robbing birds'nests; "No per son or persons shall at any time or placo within this State, take, kill, sell, expose for sale, export beyond the limits of tho Stats, any mocking bird, nonpariel, swallow, bee bird, red bird, woodpecker, thrush or wren, [ander a penalty of $5 for each bird so taken, killed, sold, exposed for salo or exported beyond tho limits of tho State. No person or persons shall destroy or rob tho nests of any of tho said birds, under a penalty of $10." The island of Martinique, on which tho terrible disnstor of last Thursday occurred, has heretofore had its place in the history of the world principally ns tho birthplace of tho beautiful {impress Josephine, first wifo of tho great Napoleon. Hereafter it w?ll figure in the list of the most terrible disasters that havo occurred in the world. This, howovor, is not the first calamity of the kind that has occurred on Martinique', Tho island lost 1,000 lives by an earthquake in 1707, and in 1839, 700 people wore killed in a similar disturbance night are 8 PLUGS EARLY BIRD, 3 PLUGS SCHNAPPS, 2 DOUBLE THICK, (Eitht S ARM AND HAMM ur Hihgland Blend toffee we are sellin( us good friends. ?Y FOR CASH.'V WHAT LINCOLN SAID TO STEPHENS At tho Hampton Roads Conference-Vost, of Missouri, Recites Correct Record. Discussion of tho Philippine bill in tho Senate recently took on an amusing phase. Mr. Vest (Mo.) called attention to tho statement of Mr. Tillman made recently, which, ho said, he was compelled to take notice of in justice both to the living and tho dead. That statement which has been found in the public press and upon the lec ture platform for tho last three years was that at tho historic conference in Hampton Roads in 18G4 between President Lincoln, William H. Seward, Secretary of State ; Alex H. Stophens, vice-President of the Confederate States ; ll. M. T. Hun ter, former United States Senator, and John A. Campbell, formerly Justice of the Unitod States Supremo Court. President Lincoln wrote upon a piece of paper "Save the Union," then handing it to Stephens, said, "Alox take this paper and fill up for yourselves the conditions of peace between the two countries." Mr. Vest said the story had been denied by John II. Reagan, of Texas, who was the last surviving member of the Confederate cabinet. Ho knew personally, said Mr. Vest, without having becu present at that celebrated interview, that tho inci dent was without thc slightest foun dation. "If true," said ho, "it would place the government and officers of the Confederate States in tho cate gory of criminals, because it offered tho Confederacy all that it over de manded in tho wildest hopo of tho most extreme partisans of that cause if they would only return to the Union." A deep silenco had fallon upon the chamber and every Senator on the floor listened to him with rapt atten tion. With great deliberateness he continued : "If true, it would mean that the Confederates could have placed in that sheet of paper thc perpetual establishment of slavery and the right of secession, thc most extreme demand that had ever taken looality even in tho dream of any Confederate." From tho lips of Stephens and Hunter had como to him, he said, tho details of what took place. Upon the return of thc Com missioners of tho Confederates, ho heard their official report as Mr. Reagan heard it, ho being a niomber of tho cabinet and himself a member of the Confederate Senate. "I am to-day tho only surviving member of tho twenty-six gentlemen who acted aa Confederate Senators," ho said. Mr. Vest then stated that what did happen at Hampton Roads be yond question was this : That when the President and Secre tary Soward mot tho Commissioners of tho Confederacy, Mr Lincoln, addressing himself to Mr. Hunter, whom ho know well, said : "In tho first place, gentlemen, I desire to know whether your powers and in structions aro from tho Richmond government," avoiding, said Mr. Vest, as Mr. Hunter told him him self, tho "Confederate States.1' Mr. Hunter, to whom the inquiry was addressed, said : "Mr. Presi dent, we aro instructed to consider no proposition that does not involve tho independence of tho Confederate States of America." "Then," said Mr. Lincoln, "tho interview had ns well terminato now, for I must say to you, gentlemen, frankly and honestly, that nothing will be accopted from the govern ment nt Richmond except absoluto and unconditional surrender." Mr. Vest then said that this termi nated tho intorview, and as tho Con federate Commissioners retired Presi dent Lincoln, addressing Stephens, who was tho last to go out, said : "Stephens, you aro ?making a great mistake. Your government is a fail ure, and when tho orash comes, as it soon must come, there will be chaos and disasters which wo cannot now foresee, which must come to your people." - - 25c. - 25c. ?r Kind), - - - 25c. ? ER SODA FOR 5C. Roasted Coffee at 5 at 15c. per pound. "This act of that interview," con tinued Mr. Vest, "substantially and almost word for word as I have given it, came to mo from Mr. Stephens and Mr. Hunter." Mr. Veet said that he considered it his duty to make this statement in order that history may not be falsi fied ; in order that the men who were said to have refused this offer at tho bauds of President Lincoln, should not be made to sin in their graves, adding,*for if they had re refused what was said to have been tendered to them by the President they should have given the lie to the intentions which they professed when they risked everything-everything that is held dear amongst men-in defenso of the Confederate cause." While the deep silcnco still reigned in tho chamber as ho spoke, and with overy eye directed toward him, Mr. Vest concluded as follows : "It may be but a very short time till I shall join the twonty-fivo col leatrr.es I hud in tho Confederate Senate, and I did not want this statement to go into the record of this country without ray statement of these facts and my solemn denial that there is a shadow of truth in this assertion which has been going tho rounds of tho newspapers of the country for tho last few years." STATE OK OHIO, CITY OK TOLEDO, I LUCAS COUNTY, \ Frank J. Chonoy makes oath that ho is tho senior partner of tho firm of F. J. Chonoy & Co., doing business in tho City of Toledo, County and Stato aforesaid, and that said firm will pay tho Bum of Ono Hundred Dollars for each and overy case of Catarrh that cannot bo cured by tho HBO of Hall's Catarrh Curo. FKANK J. CHENEY. Sworn to boforo mo and subscribed my presence, this Otb day of Docombor, A. D. 1880. *. ? A. W. GLEASON, \ BEAL I I ^v^. ? Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally and acts directly on tho blood aud mu cous surfaces of tho system. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHENEY & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family Pills aro tho best. Hopewell Hems. Hopewell, May 1G.-For tho past three weeks wo havo boen having soino beautiful spring weather for farming and the farmers have mado good usc of it. Tho order of the day is putting cotton to a stand, thinning corn, etc. Wo have a nourishing Sunday ^school at the Hopewell Baptist church, organized tho second Sunday in April, with forty pupils on roll. Tho school has purchased a now organ. Sunday school convenes every Sunday evening at, 3 o'clock. Rov.K.W. Nelson supplies this church again this year, preaching on first ? Sundays at 4 o'clock p. m. Rev. William Abbott abo proaches hore ovory second Sunday at 4 o'clock. M. There have been times when the wild boasts have bssn more merciful than human beings, and spared the woman cast to them in the arena. It ie astonish ing how little sympathy women have for women. In the home the mistress sees the maid with the signs of suffering .he recognizes so well, but she does not lighten the sick girl's load hy a touch of her finger. In the store the forewoman sees tile pallor and aviation which mark womanly wea?..i?.<s, but allows nothing for them. It is work or quit. Doctor Pierce's Favorite Prescription makes weak women strong and sick women well, by curing the womanly diseases which 'undermine the heal tit and sap the strength. "Favorit? Pre scription;' establishes regularity, dries weakening drains, heals Inflammation and ulceration, and cures female weak ness. ?When I first commenced ualng Dr. Piercers medicines," write? Mr?. Geosue A. *roug, of Oanseroort. Saratoga Co., M. Y- wn* ?U Bar ing from fc-n.r.le weakness, a disagreeable drain bearing-down pains, wtak and tired feeling all the time. 1 dragged around In that way for two years than I began takiag your medicine. After taktug thc drat bottle I began to feet better. 1 took four botica of Dr. Piere?'? Pavor of ' Oolden Medical Die lte Prescript I on. two wi covery,' one vial of th? ' Pleasent Pellets,' alan used One bottle of Dr. Bag?'* Catarrh Remedy. How 1feel like a new peraon. | cant thank you enough for yotp- kind advice aodtbe good your medicine has done me." ?Favorite Prescription" makes weak women strong, sick women well. Ac cept no substituts for the medicine which works wonders for weale women. Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are the most desirable laxative for delicate women, . > WAR RECORD OF 0. M. RUSSELL. Some War Reminiscences of tb? Groa? Strug git Between tho North and South. We are indebted to Mr. John lt. Zachary, who lives near Townville, in Oconeo county, for the following war papers concerning Dr. D. M. Russell and the part he played in the bloody and never to be forgotten war between the States. Dr. Russell is still living at Cedartown, VAk County, Qa., enjoying a green old age. Beforo and after the war he practiced medicine in and around Town ville, and married a daughter of the late Morgan Harbin, deceased, by whom he has several sons and daughters living in his adopted State. Dr. Russell is the youngest brother of Col. Thomas II. Russell, a gentle man well known in Anderson county, and un ole of Mr. D. H. Russell, the present able editor of the Anderson Daily Mail. The oompany, of which Dr. Russell was one of its brave and gallant officers, was made up prinoi- j pally of Oconeo mon, of whom it may bo truthfully said there were no better and truer solders in tho Con federate army. We feel sure these papers will be read with a great deal of interest by the readers of Tho Courier : In February, 1861, I volunteered for the defence of tho State of South Carolina, my term of enlistment be ing twelve months. I assisted P. W. Kilpatrick in organizing a compatry known as tho "Calhoun Mountain eers." Tho company, of which I was a member, elcotod the lamented Kilpatrick their Captain. That com pany was assigned to tho Fourth South Carolina Regiment, whoso Colonel was J. B. E. Sloan. April 14th, 1861, we received orders to report for duty with three days' rations and two blankets. We boarded the train at Pendleton the next morning, expecting to go to Charleston, but as Fort Sumter had surrendered, we wero stopped in Co lumbia. In May following, tho Confederate Government having been fully organ ized, wo transferred our allegiance from tho State to tho Confederate States. Soon thereafter we were ordered to Richmond, Va. ; from there to Leesburg on tho Potomac River, and from there wo wero rushed down to tho plains of Ma nassas, whero wo received our firBt "baptism of blood." In the winter of 1862, our term of enlistment having expired, all but a very few of our company re-volun toored for three years of tho war. All who re-volunteered of tho Fourth and Fifth South Carolina Regimonts wore put together and formed into a rogimont known thereafter as tho "Palmetto Sharpshooters." Micah Jenkins was elected Colonol of the regiment, Whit Kilpatrick, Captain, N. W. Harbin, First Lieutenant, my self Second Lieutenant, and R. L. Lewis, Third Lieutenant of our com pany. I was in tho following big battles : First Manassas, Williamsburg, Seven Pines, Gaines' Mill and Frazier's Farm, besides quito a number of skirmishes. In the last named battle I was hit threo timos-twice on tho hoad and once through the left ankle. The balls that hit mo on tho hoad tore my little old Confederate cap into shreds ; the ball that went through my ankle toro up both my shoos ; a ball knocked my sword out of my hand and broko off tho point. I lay all night and urti' late in the ovening of tho next day near the battle field without any sheltor. When I at last was carried to the hospital in Richmond I was as wet as a "drowned rat," as muddy as a hog, as bloody as a butchered beof, and all tho belongings I had was a shirt and one pair of pants. You oan imagino what sort of a looking "critter" I was. During my service in tho army I never reported sick, novor missed a roll call, piokot duty or a fight until I was wounded. While lying up iu Riohmond nursing my wounds I received my commission as Captain from the Con federate War Department. That commission read : "For gallant and meritorious sorvice on the battle field." Approved by Qon, Jjong street. As Boon as I recovered sufficiently from my wounds to travel, I was given a sixty days furlough. At the expiration of my furlough I was ex amined by tho Medioal Board of Columbia, who pronounced mo per manently disabled and gave me an honornblo disohargo. In this they wove mistaken. In less than a year thereafter I had organized a oom pany of crippled soldiers like myself to guard the orossings on Tugalow River, pioking np deserters and * ning down busVwhaokors.My head quarters were at Knox's Bridgo. Seme amusing things happen "1 while we were on this duty, and some rather dangerous, but as T did not start in to give details, I omit them. I forgot to state at the proper plaoe that in tho eleotion of offioers in our company I was the only can didate who reoeived every vote. This I regard as-one of the highest compliments ever paid me. D. M. Russell. The following is a copy of a letter written by David Marion Russell while in Manchester Hospital, Vir ginia, to his mother : Manchester Hospital, Virginia, July 8,1862.-Dear Mother : For the first time sinoe I have been in service I address you from a hospital. You have probably been informed before this that I received quite a painful, though not dangerous, wound in Monday's fight. The ball entered on tho outer side of my foot, just below the ankle, and came out on the inner side, fracturing somo of the small bones near the ankle joint. The wound looks healthy, and is do ing, I think, very well. I intend re moving to a private house as soon ae I can make arrangements so to do. I am kindly cared for here, but the hospital is very crowded. I think 1 could do better in a more quiet place. Tho battlo on Monday was dread ful, exceeding anything in severity by far that I have seen. Our bri gade made tho attack, charged anc drove the Yankees from formidabh fornications whore they had elevei cannon planted. The charge wai made through an open field two o three hundred yards wide, expose*, all tho while to a dreadful fire of ar tillery and musketry. I have oftei heard of its raining lead, but neve saw an illustration of it before, was wounded whon within abou twenty paces of their fortification and just as tho enemy gave wa) The Yankees fought manfully-i: fact some of them were bayoneted before they would leave. We sue ceeded, however, in completely rout ing them, killiug and oapturing great many, and the taking of thei cannon, but oh ! at what a fearfi expense of life ! Our company alon had four killed dead on the field an twenty-five wounded. The nam( of the killed are J. 13. Rutledge, i P. MoJunkin, Wm. Isboll and D. 1 Simmons. Obe Butler was mortall wounded ; A. P. Harbin was stn through both thighs, but didn't brea any bones ; J. M. Knox had his 1< broken. All the other wounds ai slight. I have not been able to gi a full list of the wounded or 1 woul furnish you with them. J. W. Stril ling, W. J. Harbin, E. J. Olevelar and J. T. Duke are in the hospit with me. Their wounds are sligl and they expeot soon to start hon on furlough. Our company wei into the fight with thirty-two rn? and only three wore left uninjure Wo were exposed to a cross-fii owing to the faot that some re; m en tn on our left failed to come our support when ordered. I a sorry to say, too, that they we Carolinians. Moore's regime fought gallantly by our s'de durii the engagement. Our regiment literally cut to pieoes. Notwit standing tho heavy odds against thc they pressed on undaunted until vi tory perched upon our banners. Tl great battle has now continued i six successive days with dread! slaughter on both sides. AU t hospitals and nearly all the privs houses in Richmond are crowd with tho wounded. Surgeons a nurses are in great demand. I have had no reliable nows fr< the field of operations sinoe Tuesdi but hoar it reported that McClell is in full retreat with his whole ari and our forces in hot pursuit, seems almost impossible to rout army of such disciplino and mag tudo as his. In every engagem? yot wo havo beaten him badly, a his long cherished Boheme for 1 capture of our capital is, I hope, f ever crushed. I feel vory thankful that I hs osoaped so lightly, while many my fellow-soldiers fell so thiok B fast. 1 only regret not being ablo be of any more service during t engagement. I was hit in f< plaoes, but none save one disab me. Give my respects to all relatio friends and neighbors. Your son, D. M. Russell P. S.--Fifty thousand of the Y koo army, I havo just learned, hi surrendered. It is reported t McClellan is among tho number, -* Ebenezer Items. Ebeneser, 8. O., May 16.--We have had another excellent week for farming. Crops aro looking fine, especially the wheat. The fruit orop promises to be an abundant, yieH Mr. D. H. Alexander, of Seneca, visited bis unole, Mr. Elias Alexan der, near Pleasant Ridge, who is quite ill with a ohronio sore on his face. On his way back to Seneca he oalled to see some of his friends, who were glad to seo him looking so well and oheerful. Mr. J. li. Ly ?es, of Mountain Rest, visited some friends here last Sun day. Mr. J. Gr. Huff, of Greenville, vis ited Mr. J. P. Jonos and family last Monday. They were glad to see him enjoying good health. Mr. Huff is an acceptable young man. Everywhere he goes he gains friends. Mr. Thomas Dodd and family have moved baok from Piedmont to their farm. We are always glad to wel come Buch neighbors as Mr. Dodd into our midst. Wo are sorry to | say Mr. Dodd is dangerously ill with a oancor on his f aoo. He has a little son, "Elio," who* has a severe burn on the back of his head, oaused by falling into the fire about three months ago. There are many friends who sympathize with them in their soro afflictions. Mr. Joshua Barker and family, of Salem, visited their mother, Mrs. Elijah Sanders, last Sunday. They are having a flourishing Sun day school at Ebenezor. It is held in the afternoon at 3 o'clock. Mr. John Fowler is the superintendent. The trustees of our school met to-day and eleoted Mr. J. G. Huff as our teacher. He will open his school on the 8th of July and con tinue for three months. He will vacate for one month and then he will teach five or six more months. T. M. N. Suggestion as to Pensions. [From Anderson Daily Mail. J The pension money is being paid to the veterans and the widows of their deceased oomrades, and it is I gratifying to see their glad faces and that the amount has been so much inoreased. But there is room for a greater increase, and I write this to call attention to that class of veterans who have lost a leg or an arra and whose income is above the limit which excludes them. I have seen one of these veterans plowing in his field with leather straps to his body attached to the plow stock to supply the place of his lost arra, and by the industry and economy of himself and family has been enabled to accumulate enough for his income to exeeed the present limit and yet not enough to live without work. lt should be borne in mind that these men are suffering from the loss of a limb every day of their lives, and in the loss of an arm requires tho aid of othors in cutting their meats dur ing meals, putting on and off their clothing and in various other ways unknown except to their families. Thia is written simply to call atten tion to the camps of Confederate veterans, and if it meets their ap proval to adopt such measures as will bring it before the Legislature. Joseph N. Brown. Anderson, S. C., May 12, 1902. How About Your Heart Feel your pulse a few minutes. Is it regular? Are you short of breath, after slight exertion as going up stairs, sweeping, walking, etc? Do you have pain in left breast, side or between shoulder blades, chok ing sensations, fainting or (mothering spells, inability to lie on left side? If you nave any of these symptoms you certainly have a weak heart, and should immediately take Mues* Heart Cure Mr. F. H. Oaks of Jamestown, N. Y., whose genial face appears above, says: " Excessive use et tobacco seriously Affected my heart. I suffered severe pains about the heart, a?d In the left shoulder and side; while the palpitation would awaken me from my sleep. I began taking Dr. Miles' Heart Cure ana soon found permanent relief." 8old by ?ll Druatlat*. Dr. Mlle? Medloal Co., Elkhart, Ind. Baking Powder Makes the bread more healthful* Safeguards the food agains alum? Alum baking powder? are the greatest menacera to health ot the present day* _BOVM, tAKHjO fOWOCH PP.. mw VOWK. Somo Historical Facts About Martinique. Tho scene of the world's latest volcanic, horror, the island of IViar 1 inique, has been desoribed by a writer as being "perhaps the most interesting island of the most attract ive archipelago of all this world. Martinique is about 80 miles due south across the Carribean waters from Dominica. Columbus made its discovery on his last voyage in 1602. Its extreme length is about 45 miles from northwest to southeast, and the main part of it is in the shape of an oval with rough edges, its greatest width being 15 miles. Tho whole area of tho island,' nearly 400 Bquare miles, is mountain ous. The loftiest height is Mount Pelee, whose monstrous crater, long dormant, vomited its flood of molten lava and ashes upon tho city of St. Pierre, which lay upon its gentler slopes, and sought in rcoent years to climb higher toward tho crater. Mont Peloe, on the northwest shore of the island, is 4,450 feet above tho sea level, and near the foot of its western slopes lies the bay along which St. Pierre was built. In speaking of Mont Pelee, Fiske? in his book on the West Indes, predicted the fate which visited St. Pierro, in the following words : "Farther south (of Mont Pelee) aro the three crests of Courbet, and all along the mighty ridge aro black and ragged cones of old volcanoes. These slumbering monsters oannot be reckoned as absolutely harmless, for in 1851, after a century of seeming quietude, Mont Pelee broke out with a dan gerous eruption." Beneath the heights of Pelee tho fierce Carib was allowed to remain undisturbed until tho adventurous Norman captain, Esnambuc, came down from St. Christopher in 1035 and founded St. Pierre at the very foot of the frowning peak of Pelee. The population of Martinique is reckoned at about 175,000, of whom 10,000 are whites, 15,000 of Asiatio origin and 150,000 black. The old est, most populous and flourishing city of Martinique was the now wasted city of St. Pierro. It was also the chief scat of tho island's trade. Thero was a lower and upper town, and from tho bay it seemed to rise in terraces of yellow houses with rod roofs .embowered in gardens and groves. The streets within the oity were mostly narrow, steep and well paved. Like Guadeloupe, Martinique is ax department of France, with ono Senator and two deputies to repre sent it. It is divided into the two arrondissements of St. Pierre and Fort de France, and into twenty-five communes. A Governor and council aro appointed by the home govern ment, and tbero is a general council of thirty-six elected members. Another Volcano is Restless. Guadalajara, Mexico, May 16. The Colima volcano shows strong indications of a great eruption and tho inhabitants living in tho valley are floeing to safe distances. Smoke and puffs of flames have been belch ing from the crater for several days. Mount Colima has been threatened with ronowod activity for several weeks. This condition caused tho work of constructing the extension of the Mexioan Central Railroad to Manzanilli, passing near the base of the mountain, to cease temporarily. The'route of extension will probably be changed. Thero was a few weeks ago a con siderable flurry in the South over the Crumpackor resolution to exam ine into tho election laws of the Southern States with a view to the reduction of the Congressional repre sentation of thoso States that have imposed suffrage qualifications that will result in disfranchising a largo part of the negro vote. We never had any idea that this resolution would be passed, and it is now gone rally regarded as a dead issuo. TUB COURIER and tho Atlanta Consti tution and tho Homo and Farm one yea* for the sum of $2.