The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, January 13, 1887, Image 1
VO. XV >U CKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1887.
A LETTER FROM CA'T. TII.I.Y. AN.
Ho (;ive is View s on Certiuh Thingw
U,ne by the Leglsluture at the eecent
Nes+aon.
To the Editor of the News and Couri
er: Your editorial in the ''h e News ald
Courier of December 24, headed '"The
camo Old ''rouble," is in the nain just
and appropriate, but at the sme time it
is misleading. For instance, speaking
of the bills omanating from the l"aruers'
Convention, and which have been either
postponed, amended out of al shape or
slaughtered outright in the Senate, you
say:
"Who is responsible we need not say.
The Senators will be prepared, of course,
to explain their action to their conl
stituonts when the proper time cones,
and they will doubtless be giveu the op
portunity. But whatever their reason,
good or bad, the fact remains that the
quarrol of the farmers, if the have any,
is with their own representativcs. the
non-agricultural members of the (eneral
Assembly have been willing and ready,
as thoy have abundantly shown, to grant
every request and adopt every plan
which the farmers should agree upont for
the advancement of their peculiar inter
est, and to give to them the control of
their peculiar atfirs. Thet failure is
chargeable to the men whom they have
selected and ch cted to carry out their
plans, and the settlement mtnst be had
with thoso who are resqponsiblu for the
failure."
You may rest assured that they will
be ''given the opportunity to explain"
and that "settlement will be had" with
some of them when again the farmers
get a chance. if the "farmur s' move
ment," which has created such a stir
among the people, is really a derlmand of
the masses for reform and the correc
tion of abuses, and an expresyion of a
desire to see our rights as farmers re
spected, it will continue to grow and
spread, rather thau dwindlo and die, and
will have much to do with shainng the
future policy and politics of this State.
But let that he as it may. I only set
out to show you that, while correct as to
the house, your etitorialis calculated to
mislead when you say the farnrs in the
Senate are alone to blame.
.'d in order to make this ekar L will
show the complexiun of our pri'sentt Sen
ate as regards occupation. It is cOml
posed as follows:
Lawyers ................. .. . . 15
Farmers ........ ......... .....12
Doctors ................. . .....3
Preachers................... .
lEditors and printers. .........
Merclants.. . 1
Total.......... .... .3.
- -of whom 21) are new Senator.: and 15
are old ones, two of the new Ces serv
ing unexpiredl terms.
Now, the bill of all otiers iii which
thc farniers were most deeply iterested,
and which they desired to have lissel
most was that enlarging the board( of
agriculture andi reorganizing t b. agricul
tural department. 'Tihi:s the m :ate inst
ponedi, by a vote of 21 to I i, on the
tlimsy pretext, as voiceI by Senator
Youmians, that they "wanted li.re tine
to investigate this important matter."
The April Convention had teit..aded it.
'The November Convention lui demand
ed it. ''hc matter has leien th ruugluly
discussed for a year or lmer' in tie
press, anal charges of extrivi gnee a id
of incopll)etenct, or neglect l diity on
the part of the boant, prove. .iut these
Senatorial laVmakers almw0 needed
''more timie to inv estigate.' Vell, we
hope they wilt improve the t no years
eleven of them have got 1 fore the next
election to st.udy the miat ter miul lie pre
pared to give good reasons for their
votes when asked. .if, ind .ed, your re
po~r*er' he correct ini saving the ''Agri
cultural Senlato'rs were intliineed 1by a
determination niot to submiit to T.Iilhnani
dlictation," it will bue a pitiful excnse for
having refusedh to comply with the
wishes of the farmers of the Slate; and
an acknowledgment of haLving allowed
personal motives to go vera thir~ act ion
rather than a desire to legislate for the
public good. No member of the (lenl
oral Assembldy, either Senjator' or Riepre
sentative, can truthfully say that I was
either obtrusive or dictatorial ini pre
senting to them the mecasures asedd by
the two F'arnmers' Conventions, and it will
lbe left to the tarmers all iver thle State
to resenit in a proper way the immptation
that TIillmian alonec conlstitutes the
" FaLrmers9' movement."
Butt if thle agricultural Senators re
sented "TIillmani ditationi,'" wlm;t influn
enced the other Senators? I will now
p)roceed to show that the farmers in the
Senate arie not alone to blamet for de
ferring this bill. \ly Old friends, the
lawyers, took advantage ofi thle fuss
kicked up by Messrs. 'Tonnmus amid
Wolford to planiiit a sly daiger iln 'Till
man's side aind slap their agricuilturial
conistituents wh'lo lhave joi ned thle farm
ers' imoveiment in the fact. This is
shown by the vote, as follows:
Messrs. Dell ...'rir
Black .Iotr
Byrd lotr
Erwvin ....... 'ro
HLemph)lill .wyr
Kennedy. aer
McMasiter.. .1awyr
Moorelt .. ..uer
Patterson . iwyr
Rihamo.......fave
Reynolds......ayi
Smiith..........[mrnr
Smythe .LLV r
WVingard ..Faiir
Wrc iford . ......Laml
WVilliams......Irahm.
.Iotal1 21, 'of whiomi'ee ~elwes
six are farmers, twoicittt,jOl 5I
pi'eichir an on .l amer'hnt A9(1
'ihs hok-~tmuc ker.
gareay o l~yt ~, 'octWo. Iha
sj)oiei sootii ereoor.i i? I
h il{ viylii el I ~tItFarm I-er. e tt
I anil11(10 Iic .leSawe ati
evets mie ~ i li .Latwy ier.u ui ~u
ot am Iieiiio alars.' f liwe.x am
tw cuai iM 'ii i .Lvital enr. ii
the f ~ ~ ~ . armer . hts\it~serteeil
to he emie hav ayerlh.iOuet;i
they have any manhood and a proper
sense of resentment; if they are not the
dogs they are taken for, they will, when
the time comes, see to it that the men
'ho thus contemptuously put this in
dignity upon them are properly reward
ed. if we cannot reorganize the agri
eutltural department, we can re organize
thlu Senate. The farmers of the State
are fast sinking to the level of serfs
hewers of wood and drawers of water for
others. An etlicient and representative
board of agriculture, together with an
agricultural college to act. as a pioneer in
mapping out the new system of farming
we are comlpelled to pursut err we can
expect any change for the better, could
do much to aid and assi.;t them to re
cover their lost prosp erit v. hit these
six agricultural Solons ald their lhiteen
professional associates say to them in
el'ect: "You don't know what you want.
We will continue to tax you to :support a
department of agriculture which you do
not feel is beneficial to your interests as
110W conducted, because we like it. We
will vote your money to support the
South Carolina College and O tadel be
rautKC we think those schools r:"e a'l we
t,eed; but your Agricultural College is a
humbug. We know it. 'Wisdom will
dio with US.' So we will not even spend
your own money to investigate the mat
ter and let a commis8ion report, so we
oen act intelligently."
It may be said the farmers in the Sen
ate were divided, as they were six for
and six against the bill. Then if the
professional men in the Senate had
needed light as to the wishe l of the
farmers of the State, if the actions of
two farmers' convention had no weight,
the almost unanimous ;ote by which the
bill passed the House, composed largely
of farmers, should have made then hesi
tate to postpone it.
But ] have my own opiion as to how
this thing was brought about. I. visited
Columbia three times dining the recent
seS:sion of the Legislatute. I kept my
eyes and ears open. I learned a great
deal that would be of value to the peo
ple if I had time to tell it., and I will,
wvhcn occasion otlers, let out sonic of the
''true inwardness" of what I saw and
learned. . could tell why and how the
hlopces of the people as regards reforms
and reduction of expenditures, &c., re
sulted only in the cutting oil of a beg
garly thousand dollars-the Lieutenant
(Governor's salary. I could show that
once an abuse is planted and takes root
in South Carolina it is harder than nut
grass to get rid of. hut just now I will
only give my belief as to why the Senate
postponed the 1hill to reorganize the
ugricultural department. Of course
some of the Senators voted against it
because of their resentment. against
"Tillnan dictation," for Mr. Gonzales
says so; some voted-two at least--be
cause they never vote against one of the
Selnators from Charleston, so I im told;
others vote(d against it because I am
credited with having had much to do
with the slaughher of the Cclbunhia
Canal and the ling wanted revenge,
though. to tell the truth, I am; totally
inlnocent in that matter. Som te votel
ugain..t it because farmers and iarners'
movemients" stink in their nostrils. Bat
the real cause, though ninny Senators
do not know it perhaps, is that the
pho.;phate interests of thie State are con
trolled by the departnmeint of agriculture,
and the Coosaw Mining ('ompny is too
ielt satislied with tie present lmanage
mecnt of that ilt,erest to allow a change
if it couldi prevent it.!
Why a board of agriculture should
have anything to do with collecting
mining royalty, farmers of ordinary in
telligence caiiot undlterstand. We do
not see the connection between the two,
but perhaps some of those who started
this thing, andu somle of those who keep
it upl, can giv-e us light. This board of
agriculltulre, which is liked so well, has
spent 1l70,000) sin1ce its creation in 1.880,
and( weV would like mome onet to tell us
wvhat benefit it has been to us farmvers,
who pay for it alonue. Will some Senator,
'agriculturalist.'' or otherwise., an swer?
Or will somec mnember of tie board tell
us5? I. R. Tfu2.AN.
R'per's, S. C!., .January- 1, 18tr:7.
'The village of Rteddinig, C onn. , is
greatly excited over the elopemueint of
Miss Emalice l11ll, daughteri of the most
prominent and wealthy citizen of the
place, with her father'sconeh.maim, Fred
erick I icks. H icks is twenity-seveni
years old anld is sauid to b)e a ' cry dis
agreeable looking - youog fello w. It
appeairs thiat flicks had been ini the em
ploy of Mr. IHill for about ten months
durimg which time Miss IHill fell desper
ately.inl love with hlim. Theli young lady,
wIho is alcomplishIed in every way, of
faultless form and very beautiful, was
niot only the belle of the village. butt of
all the neighb orintg towns. Shte taught
a ehass in Sunday school in her father's
church and bad many admirers. Some
monthis ago( the condhutt of M'diss Hill
aind thei coachman caused much viilhgse
gossip iand it fIally reatched the father's
enars. IHe was highly indlignlant and(
treatenied to, kick his coachiman ft'om
his premises. But Miss Euniice btegged
htn not to, as it would create a seunsa
tioii, anid she: finally succeeded ill havuing
tIe servantIt rtie. Recently H~iicks's
((onducl(t tiiward Miss 11ill was so oh)jee'
tiomnab le that. the gi rl's father said lie
:nuist. go.
The coachAli secuiredi a situat,ion in a
livery it atble, bust kept uip a comnmuniica
tion with Ii lissi liill La st w eek lie came
to 7tir. I hill' 1 (sidence'i andi b)eggedl that
;$ienlman to take himit bacek itto fis ser
vicei. This AIr 1 ill ref used to dlo.
While the twio Jmen wteire ini conversation
lis lKunic Elanetly 'tole out of the
bonse and got iintoi hr loveK a carr-iage,
AM lo r. arlogeit. Thie couleli dlrove
at once4 to liwsh' .tialligilboinig viI
i lii lihere i\ wer Aliitrrieil witllouit
delay. The lather (t the g:irl is greatlhy
Alilot.luer''' "niIl il ei Ve i t'F) ol ed
iis time in Mlissouri. Th'le first. axplorai
tiont was only a lparHal tone, buit took ini
several thnambersm anad was prosecuted for
at dlistance of a qutarter of a mil-, .and still
othier chlambders andl labyirinit his of 1 ase~
;es lay be(yonld ini seveiril Idirec tionts.
'he s-ceniry is reported to lbe inidesrih
ab ly beautiful, the abundant stalactitesi
and staghamnites assumtintg aill sorts of fan -
tatstic shapes.
"Thec Los-t. (Ci'hord"- The wood i,d
INI)LS'I:Y OF' ru iE sO1: it.
The Maurcellou., I'ro:rsi'lib of thu Yor
I $8(;--It Siurli,. "; ay Y uur, Lon ui the
l.ttrt W'untdet-fto De;mte.
In its annual review of the industrial
progress of the South, the Baltimore
Manufaeturers' Record says that 1886
wats the most reinerkable year in many
respects in the history of the Southern
States, and more accomplished for the
prosperity and progress of tie whole
South tihan cvcr 1'efore in a :y year.
This is shown in the enorious invest
Ients of capital in industrial enterprises
and in the growth of confidence among
Northern and luropean investors in the
stability of the South's iron and other
manufacturing interests.
The amount of capital, including the
capital stock of incorporated companies,
represc Ited b,y new manufacturing and
mining enttcrprites organized or char.
tered at the South during I,88,, includ
ing the enlargemtent of old phnts and
the rebuilding of mills, aggregates 8129,
22G,00, $GG,S12,000 iii 188.t, divided
among States, as follows:
St ates. 18f*t1;. 18,
Alabama . $.. ; :!,8i8, :. 7,841,000
Arkansas. . 1,524,00 1,220,00
Florida....... 1,659,001) -.,01,,0t)O
Georgia. .. ,5i),000 2,000,(tlu
Kentucky . 2S,4I,)I 18.0:1,200
Iouisiana . !,211,000 2,l 18,50
Maryland..... 8,7(5,(It I;,(;l:l,8)U
Mississippi . 774,1f))5 7t1,5(
N. Carolina. . :it;7,001) :2:3,0)5)
S. Carolina. 1,2!)t,0(ift) ,511,)
Te nnessee. 21, 21, 00Il0 2,(;2,10)
Texas....... . ,i ,0I l ;;2:32,)ss)
Virginia.. . ,)1 ) :;,:;11 ot)t
W. Virgir ia. 8,3oa5,00o 1 2,(;,(01)
Toetal. ... $121i,2261,000 :i ;,812,000
The development of iron manufactures
employs the bulk of this new capital.
Other interests as well as iron, however,
are being rapidly developed. included
in the list of new enterprises orgatized
in the South during 188U were: 28 iron
furnaces, 50 ice factories, (; foundric s
and machine shops, many of thet of
h.rge size; 1 Bessemer steel rail mtill, 21
miscellaneous iron worls, including iron
pipe works, bridge and bolt works, etc.;
8 stove foundries, 21 gas works, :.1 elec
tric light companies, II agricultural in
plement factories, 171 mining and gtuar
rying enterprises, lt; carriage and watgon
factories, 9 cotton mills, 2:3 turnitutre
factories, 12 water-works, 58 tobacco
factories, 92 flour nills, -118 luther
mills, (not counting small portable saw
mills,) including saw and ldaning mills,
sash and door factories, stave, ftandh.,
shingle, hub and spoke, shuttl'-lock
factories, etc.; in addition to v .hicl there
was a large number of miseelhmtteotus en
terprises. One of the most gratitying
features of the Soutl's industrial
progress, says the Manufctutrers' le
cord, is a wide diversity of new indus
tries that are developing all tlrotugh that
section.
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< Front. 'u Nrn tu (.,;;e;
It is exceelingly gratifying, of comtr:,,
to read the statement made by the Balt i
more Manufacturers' I ecord in evidence
of the wonderful developntent of mant
facturing inl the South during the past
year. The, total increase of investments
in all kinds of enterprises in the South
ern States during 1886 is shown to be
nearly S6 i,000,0t)0, and it is claimed
with truth, upon the lasi.k of these
figtres, that the year which is im
closimg hats leCn the most reniarkab: in
many resp2ects iii the history of the
South.
It Will not escape attenteie, h:o.evler,
that the development of iron mnusttae
tures is credited with the enploynteuut.
of the builk of the n:ew capital, albout
$36,tI00,000) of the total increased invest
mnent being di vided1 ainon g thea three
States of Virginia, Tennessee a:d Ala
banma, .while a diecidled falling off is
shown mi the States of 'West Vrginiia
and Florida. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis
sissipipi and North Carolina b arely hold
their own. There is nuch grounid for
gratification in view of the dlevelopmnt
of tile iroin induist.ry in thle States whei-e
it has taken such a hold, butt it woub I be
far, far bmetter- for tile South if the devel
opment were more guenral and moil re
equally distributed. The imnpet us given
to the iront buisinie-s, it is conceded,
conies frotm without. and tile profits
from that business wvill largely go out of
the South . While a good del of nmoney
hals dloubtless been nmade by Alab amnians
and Tennesseeanis, for inistance, in dhi8
posinig oif their hands, the( bul k of the
profits hiis gone to splatod rs w~hio
boutght up the lands iin large blocks and
at ntomiinal prices. Thie control of the
lands, moreover, hIas passed1 forever out
of the hiand(s (of the pecolet whol live on
them, and( thie eniterprniset whiich have
heeln founded byv small honie capitalists
ill thle mineral districts are rapidly pass
inig into the poissessioni ot outsiders, as
has beena rep ortedl ini severaleconspicuous
instances.
Another anid certain result of the great
rapidity withi which thie pir<thiection, of
iron in the South is incereasinzg is that
lie productioni of thie siame mietal in the
North mu1(st he chea pened eniormouisly,
or else the Soulh will 1eveiitually monop
olize the iron inuist ry. R11 is too much
to expect that the iroin maufitacturers of
Peniinsylvaiiia, fur inustanuie, will conisent
to have their-buisiiness ecrippled in either
waty. It is prnobabiile, ther-iefor-e, that
these will soon conic forward and ask
for lower diuties on coal to tnlet thema
to compete successfully with thue South
ern dlistr-icts; and, whien thle demantid is
ma fe, the1( Iandallitets aind other Pro
tect ionists will hesitate no longer about
striking any sort oif blow at the Alabama
iand Teninesseo (oail and iron nmines andt
iron mtiiufactiures thain thuey would
hiesit(.ie now to destroy the sugar in
dust:y of Louisinaiu, if th( votes of the
L1 oi innia lRepr&entatives wer- not
coturt.d by the-ir selfish al lit's.
THit very prlosperity of the- iron ini
dustrty at the Hothi, in short, is fatal to
its conuiitiuance. unless it palsses5 ito( the
hanLids o)f N orthterni owniers, and1( thet nuew.
ciri ironi-prod(utcing States will fuitd ini
tuheuiid that they have sol ot the tirut
iterest of the Htuith and of the cttuntriy
or a pize t hat will criiumlhe ini t hir
hasnds, or pass inito tim hil(nd 0f no0l1
rt idtints as s(on its it biec-omes worl- hi
the tiaking.
Mliihael I)avitt has traveled ovetr tn
~ nud mniles, delivered forty -eight
sp eches, and been married, ab in *a
peiodi of len~ th an teii wee k
Uenorul Aloxaundor'w Artile on ti.t: Hatt le
of (ottysburg in Januury (entury.
In the January number of th iCentury
are articles on the third day's light at
Gettysburg, by General 11. J. IB unt and
E. P. Alexander. From the hlt.er's ac
count of Pickett's charge we quote as
'ollows: "At exactly one o'cloak by my
watch the two signal guus were heard in
quick succession. In anotlher minute
every gun was at. work. The uemy was
not slow in coming back at us, atd the
grand roar of nc,trly the whole artillery
of both armies burst in on th ' silence
ilmost as suddenly as the fult. totes of
an organ could fi11 a church.
'lhe artillery of Ew1'ell's corps, how
ever, took only a small part, T 1licve,
in tms, as they were too far awarnaround
the town. Some of them migitt have
loit good service fromt positi )s be
tween I liii and IE\well, enlilading the
b attt(rit':.si;;htihug uis. te oi portuimity
to do that wva the siugle advantage in
our having tht exterior lino to compett
sate for its disadvantages. But our line
Was 5(o far extended that all of it was not
well studied, and the oflicers of oech
corps had no opportunity to examine
each otiher' ground for cltncos of co
operative work.
"'h. enemty's position seened to have
b rokeni out w1ith guns evcr)'tere, and
front I mid Top to Cemetery H ill was
bla,ig lihe a volcano. The air seemed
full of iiussiles fron 'very directioin.
The smr \ity' of the fire nay bie illitstrated
by the casualties ii my own latalliott
utter 'hijor luger.
"It e tle cannt nade opened I had
nadc' ; maty niind to give Pickett the
erder to ad%atntce within fifteen or twenty
mttinutes after it began. But e hen 1
looked at the full development of the
enemty's batteries, and knew that his in
fantry was generadly protected from our
lire by stone walls and swells of the
grotuntd. L could not Iring myself to givo
the w rd. it seemed madness to latuch
inflantry into tlit tiie, with neatly three
tliuarters of a mile to go in the midday
Stily sun. .1 let the fifteen mintt es pass,
and tweity, t:al twenty-live, hoping
vainily for somc thing to turn up. Then
1 wrote to I'ickett: 'It you are coming
at all yott nust coniC at ouce, or" 1 cal
n10 giyt ou. l ropier support.; bit the
cieney's lire hits not slackened at all; at
least eighteen guns are still tiring from
the eenietery itself.'' Five minutes after
sending that message, the 'tenmy's fire
suddenly began to slacken, and tie guns
in the ccinetry hinbered up and vacated
the ie,sitiont.
''We Confetlrat_es efteii dii such
tin ugs as iimt to ave our amnie uit on
for use again t infani ;y, bitt I lot never
it fore een the "ed.'aIs withdra ., their
ens s piltttly to save thent upl) tot the
iifatry li;:-ht. he . said, 'Ii i: does
not run lrei1h hatteries lin theen i ive
mlinuite'-, this is our' light.' I looked
ni xiont y \witha my gia's, tit tie five
liuiteihs lis-sitl withoutt a sign ui tile on
the det;artet t,sition, still swept b y out'
tie, antd lit terd \ it Ii dad inn and
horst and fraient(eis of disabledI catrri
tii. tiwu1 wro t 'ickett, air iently:
'For GOId'; Sa1t, comlie 4u ic. Ihe
eightten guns ate goet: cotne tuick, or
my atittuitilon wonit't let tile tlport
yout prloperly.'
"I af'terw.ardl< s ard fromu other w;\hat
tooik 1ltce vitIi iy lirst note to !'ickett.
''.l'IchttI Io;k it to L.ogl"streett. I,ong
streti read it, tnil said niotlintg. 'iekett
lsai, 'Uner:al shtalll .I nil vance. Long
street, ki:wing it I had to Ib', but tnwill
mng to give tw wonit, turned his fact
away. Picke tt litt I and said, '1 an
going to Imotve 1orwari, sir,' galloped all'
to his divi,ilt :tttt iintilediately lnit it in
imotioi.
"Longstret,t leav~ing is I2 .StaWl, camne
tout atlne to wher Ii .wats. .It was then
tiona, feeling~ then mlore hopjefuil, hut
aifraidI tur artillery amminunition miight
ntot hioltd out for all we would wuant.
I LongstreetI said, 'S)top) licke'tt, in:uitedi
ately, and( rcte'iiish your amnaltliitionE.'
I explainedti flal it would talke ttoo lonlg,
and the enemiy woul recotvter frt om thle
etheet ouir fire wais ftin haivin, itind we
luud, illoreotver, vet'' little t o repltenishi
with. ILoiigstreet said, 'I dlon't wauit to
maiike this atitack. I w'ouild stopl it. no(w
liect it toa gel on. 1 don'1t -see how it can
sueed.'
wordI. The battle wvas lost if we stoppeed.
Amulnitbon was far ttoo low 'to try any
.1hng etlse, for' wit hadl biein lightinig
thr ee elh ys. Therec was a chaliCe, and1( it
was5 not Iny pat to initerfere'. Wh'Iile
ILonigst reet was still spoeikmiig, JPicket t's
divisittn swepIt oult o fthie woodlt and1
showed thle fuill length Iiof its gi'raym ak
aid shininig bayot3'(ts, as grandl a sight
as5 eier at mant lookhed oIn. .loininlg it 011
the left, P1~t tigr'ew strtetchied farthter- thani
I conihl tete. G eiierail Dick Gaitrnett, juist
out. of the sitk Iihlanlieo, and1( buittonedn
up~ ill ani old blue oIvecIoatI, ridinig at the
head of his brligaide, passed us andi( sa
luted Lonmgstreet. Gar-noti was at warm
peCrsona11 fiendtu, 1and( we had ntot meIt lbe
ftore for mothsitl. Wo had setrveil oni the
lhains together before the wair. I rode
w ithi hint a shor't distance, andt thlen we
wished each other luck and( a good-bye
wthichi was (our1 111st
"T'lhen I rode dowin thle Iiin' of guns,
selectoilg sueh as i.ad( entough an1anu1n1 i
ft iin to follow I 'i-ellt's iadviiince, anid
star'tiing them Its fast as poissibile. I got,
II think, fifteen or t'igteeni in a lhttle
whil-, anid went on with them. Mleani
while, the inifanitry had( ilo sootner de
bouchied one i p 111laini tIhan atll the
Centmy'i line, whiichi lad b een near-ly
Sikeint, broke outit agatin with all its bat
teri's. Tlhte eighteen guns were b ack in
the ctemtetety, iandt ai S.orm (If shells bI
gant butrstinug over andl iamong our' ini
tantry3. All of our guns, silt-it its the
imfantrty passed b etweeni themi, r'eopenied
whVenl fte linies hald got ai couiple Ill hun-11
dlred yards away', butt I lw etnmy'i art il
lery let its aloine and firedi onily t the
Sfattry. No onett(' iol I ailve lookedi tt
lhat mi ta-c 'w ith ot feeling pr-oud (of it.
"I iit Is our511el rupportig gunIls atdanled
wel-agedtmanaly ai poor miaagleid victimnu
h.'fti m ius tiuiile-d wake'. A terrilie ill'
fantry firt wats niow openIied tilti p;ig.
ett,'t:imf a m'onsiderab(lle forc-i otf tha
<uemliy ino(vedl (lit toi attack the right
thank of his line. We halted, uinlimbher
ed, anld topetned fire uponlR it. P ickett's
men(1 nOeve'r halted, but1 opienied f'ire at
('lo se ranlge-, bwarmiedl oerC the' fecs
anid amonog the enemhiy's gtuns, were wal
lowed til in1 snmoke- -andi that was the
l-at uof thern. Tlhe coniflict hardly seemed
t" ast fion mlimttte before th-y. c
melted away, and only disorganizcd
stragglers were coming back pursued by
a moderate fire. Just then Wilcox's
brigade passed by us, moving to Picketts
support. There was no longer anything
to support, and with the keenest 1ity at
the useless waste of life 1 saw Ihem atl
vance. The men, as they passetl is,
looked bewildered, as if they wondered
what they were expected to do, or "lhy
they were there. They were soon, how
ever, halted and moved back."
trt y of a ;eorgia Tot n. Tr-itt bti Te iii bii,.
I was recently in a small Southern vil
lage; the county was Anti-l'rohihition,
and of the four stores two were bar
rooms, or whiakty shojis. it. was no
common sight to sec staggering men anl
crowds going and coining from these
shops. On court days, for the county
court house was there, many men insteat
of eating good whiolesomte food for din
ner, would go to the IhI- and dirink their
dlinnr. .I.t tlhink, a dinrt rf this vile
burning ptusitn ; were they lit iel to
judge their fi L?w ienl? a thousands
tines no. Ihit u hile I sojourned at this
place, I knew three Ibright promising lit
tie boys. aged fo ur, .ive and six. 'T.'hen
thore were t wo fI hers, little oies, seven
months and two years, each having a
nurse, young colored girls. One day atl
dumer we were at the hotel, the oldest
boy said Mama, Mr. ltarber-shop manl,
(the prourietor of the I arroon also cut
hair) called uts and gave us all some cider.
Liz took Clyde and the baby tt to, and he
made every one dri ii even thitn little baby.
''ie Mama said, I will piuish you and
your brother for going. I strictly for
bade it. 'The little boy said Liz, Ithe
oldest nurs it '.i1 cona oi, your ma
won't care for sweet eieir, and M\Irs. Max
lets Mr. Walter go. ,dr. anid Mrs. Mix
were all present: and .'Il not forget Ihe
look of horror these words broughit to
Mr. Max's face. .1 le was a strict Presby.
terian minister, Walter, thir ono little
lamb; he turned to his wife and sail,
Edna is this true; do you let Walter go
to this drink shiop)? She repilied, lie;
went there to get his hair cut, anil brot her
R,alph said he was Ito young for any
harm to conic of it. lie -aid, why don't
y"out Set evel the bltaby iSr not tot yolutn;.
11he man knows his part well. lie I begins
with the tender young blte, bringinig
them up, cultivating a tasie for it, bait
ing them for his own itim. I an horritied
that in this fair village there is such vile,
black crime, naml our beautiful bov, (h!
I sliuddr; I t 5ihtl to say whn-ii lie be
came ia man, Wt'alter has iover set foot
in a dIraIn shop, atd now I cannot, little
did 1 dream of this, zo ytiunt1g. Why,
I'd let his hair grow lt:ng upon his slut -
ders, and I'd punisl Limi sevt"rely if lIe
knew it was a whisky shopt. l-tlat, I ont
surprised at you, his moltdher, nearest, to
him on earth; you who should Ist ver rtt
wary and watchiful of this evil. I Lmn
deeply stirred vithiu m. Walter, na-ver
al't foot in this nutt's 51h1p atganu, anad
ner taste or tal:e aiy thiing lw ire
)ou. f I hear of yo u doing so, I slut II
puniish yout severely. The it h ltr t wo
Imothers showed a11111 di'trts, f-r their
boys. 'I'h mother of t he htabe- especiall y,
to think, as the good miniist:r said, lie
was bringing up evein tw bathbes to love
his irink. 1er father dhrank away r(asont
and life, under this saute inirt's ialn'tiiee,
and her oiily 1 rother on t itre fg utt
manhood; o h! slt Irembls to thiniil
what will b) his att. is lh is litful gaiety,
this brigh1t balooma upon his ytttmg hacs,
the tltmtti aini gaiety of yoiltI?
Iremblets and prays (iod it tuay1 bei, :umd
not the fatal poisoning Itlooti ini gaitI y
of strong drink. Elniia, (latt wath-i aatl
gutida' your fair boy,. Antd llhe w idaw,"d
mother of the ollwtr twti, Ilit t wo ohltst,
may she nevor e.ittriene t he tletp sur
rofw oif steeing hier-litoys initempi1erte. I )h
village-, Oh!I coimyi buiuiebl fromI
you lad, romyour proph-lI, aisd y Iu
baniiish th ese fearfu it imies t.iimt are litow
racking y'ou wifth leep di-stires, thlen youi
wVill see priogres,s a111 p rosp eri ty, wilie
ness. Whisky is youra eurse; triemblle
for- your chilren, trembilet for thiiri
fiuturie. D o you a ceognizte thiis tui pie
liure? Iti is as iti-rialhy occurreid' ;eorgia
Tlemiiertice Adlvocate.
Watste~ in tie ittchten is very oil eni gret
fromt ap)parently trivial soures.
Ini cooking meats, thle watiter is thrownl
tiut u ithiout reintoving then greas-, or thle
greaist from thei dippinig pan1 isL thriowni
awayu.
Scraps of me-at alte throt nV iany.I~
C old potatoes ar e left to sonur anad spih
Dry-) fruits are niot lotte aiter alid bte
come wormiy.
Vinegar iand saiucte are loft stitamhi g ini it.
Apphles are~( lift tto dtera v fior wan t of
Theli tenL callister is It-it open.h
Victuals are It-ft expo t -d i to bie eaten ity
ice.
htones of tmi eat andit the cargaiss of iur
k(ty are thrtwni aiwaly, when:1 therv coubilt
be used in making goodt soupo.
Sugar, teat, cotlce alit rI - 11 yte ca1rIe
lessly spilledi in the luiallinig.
Soap is left tio d issotlve mal waste ini
D)ish tow lsi aret used tor ilishi i-lthi
Napkins are usedi for- lish tton -l
'Towels are ulsed foir holtler-s.
M\or(e cial is burniedl thilit-nc sslary by
not arranlginig dllaipers when-l nott 1uic
'Tini dishes arnt propltiI lyt tiliansedi
('oodh new birotims art uised iin sri
bing thie kitchien flors.
Silver spool areli ill ind ini t'raj
k~ettles.
Creami is left to mtoltd andi sptl.
Mu1stairdh is left tt spttil in. thll 1511
etc.
toit oir evaporation ot the voegar;ti.
IPIortk spoils fotr wanit of salt, aund bte
beicausje the b riine wats scatldinig.
Iilihms blecomeu tiintetd ori tittllIw
verini for waniit oif einr.
Ch(etese mioldis iaitd is eateni by miici: it
stolve.
Woodentwmiare0 is 1i:iI usali-d andi left t,
warp andI eiack.
All appr Iehtntsjins t ouching tihe saf t v
of stoes usinig go li - foit sr tile areVt set
ii1(5res bgy the - improcveiients observablei
I ('I'ION"; ON TEMPEILANCE.
14 Tl. v . I'u.'. e , (;. M. W'., of $1he
Kii iyl(+ of Lubor.
h110 growth of ofur order and the notice
taken of it by the press of the land has
awakin:tl an interist in the labor move
ient atmionug me1n w have never given
tlie question Ot org.tization a thought.
'Ihousai(d of inen are knocking for ad
muittauce; they atre actuated by all sorts
of iotives. Among the number who
wouid like to becoie members, I find
(juite a tew l tuor dealers, and I am
writtein to every diiv to know ''if -
cannot he :nilit ted; it is truc he is en
gaged in the liquor trallie, or his wife
sells liquor, or he is in soue way e in
nectetl with the rum interests, but we
kno1w hei would maiil[o a goodl miembler'"
Thie dtecisions of the General Master
\orkniat are now published in book
orm. 'Turi to the pages of th &i, book
and yOU will see decisiont after decision
on the eligibility of those connected with
the saloon business.
one of my correspondontt 115kb why I
reversed thm deision of my predeecsbor;
the decision reads as follows:
" 22. Men of good report, resp otable
aid honnrablo kOpers of roadside inis,
for the hona lide entertainment of trav
elers and their animals, with bed and
buard for the samne, counretc(d witi the
real iit rests of the locality in\ which
they live, do not come under the classi
tititioi of sdlooii keeper and liquor
deiler, antd lay be uhuittcd to mebnier
ship urnier the ''law of the ballot.."
it is true that liy derisions are in con
Iliet wit Ii the above. but it was through
ne( lhisrtespect to llrother Stephens that I
mIIdte them. They are as follows:
" ii. An agent for any liqtuor estab
Iislent (he ilmt establishieit whttle
sale or retail, or be he the agent, manuit
faeture or d1('alcr) is not eligible to mem
ber:ship." 1
"'5. No persoii cnii lie a mme ier of
the Ortk-r whoso wife sells liquor. Ho ]
iust t-ither get ai divorce from li.: wife 1
or fromii 1 his organization. The latter
('ilt lie granted iii the bhae)C of an hon- 1
orable withd,lrawu at curd.''
''"%. litiimmllt'r'. t,N wrt beo admnitted 1
to ileil'rsluip, and ait iebilr engaged
itn ilie losines of rimselling, directly
to' iiiliretly, whether by latrel, gallon,
tlupat, pint, or gill, w\ ho sells either by
liuis("lf iii petrsoi or in proxy, iust ap
lily for aiti he granted a witdali(twal
ea id; :andl if lie negli'ets to uake appl,li
eation thercio', at, once the Re',ordiiig
:>t'or(tary of the ioeal Assembly shall
ilotify h11m of his neglect., and at the
next lmeet iig at witlhriawtl caid shll ie
isuetd to It lbir(otliei'.
ti'i during the interval Itween
the" (h-tuii anid iltation of at candid(ate
It ani ' in the lituor tratlie, either
ittr li1, n it'i o rii' i anot.her, he is
listittuali!ttil, and ealtiot lie covered with
oilu 'lit I-I.'
. IT i : iaauiifac.tiu't'tu of b e:' tthat
(wi Vr I is it h tibiile to iieinIairship.
7'h ine1 t'iiloy(tI iii thl le birewerv are
(tli,giblet to membeiirrhip. if' yout turn to
pagcti IPrucedtiigs of (ioner:tl As
sinblly of 1ISi yi wil get an ilea of
wihy I uj,pose: the aldiission of th<o, en
guget iii tlit liqluor tratlie. Our Order
cainunot lit b,ei'liciil to the li< ior dtaler
atl ih(' labor,'i'
1if tha i''hr wil 'xamilne Ne. eitre
ii i - u ill ,' tlii t it allito'el to stitnd
l.tt i \1 tlahlit l 'ii llit ' d lo i lt, 'very
"" i r' itt' in th !e hIa Thl e 'Ilt ium: who I
hi p',r a 5,la rlo , Iin ihttahlt,y\, Nt"w \'ork, i
I liii "'I --I(r uf a roadside ii),' and
u I e wllil (l tlu itei now has heard a
lirtois 1Io Iti'ut I i luc m ti('huNli Iit'a' al
ioor o fl;at ' iii th, li<ior Ibu in'a ati
'it ihat hie wats ut "r,pctal( and
oithL iti' i ha1asl( tad
"" ili I lisr .t c sr i.v ' lol wi iiiuirie t
settl tlide fromi ii.\emishe am
ihe es lo ily dtlseisio tInl h"ei alvsa- I t
iiillretV niata tii'p ealishmenilto Ay (
2rts11 f il xcseEI m an lrder t ptioin I
(loos'il to the (nights. li of,brqiitinthe
de:lt' rut inltpiit Ttr lie witd the fol
loingit l o iiy dlokt: iitiy oi
"Mri -tlt .:) liii u a ood-ntk aturei,
tlira hnat l'lit vry favorable tl the
<1' bl ll or iie I h elwile if hiso pihie:r I
(lul l beri.iil utritervedl ofliii the hr I
ofii the ()lh1er. A -iie has i e is (le
lan>wledge-O11 ift any lirets.\' r or thei ia1
t1at iis t io iitltte idr. - y wiisonl
Welt'lith <ilii d t v." 21VeC( poeti
Tii ny isser5 toti hawt) rilquest
w4 ill 'ver tnuiik a spewi n ht any
I a e stod i a oo oufn hke towins!
lilalrlnit toeu the rt.i In fr elluentng
tis num's5 pl tlhings a iimtine teyhi wits,
tfh. et ntlo the irder hies will eitt a
belng tLoI Wht WCtlrak bh t hpa-r would
to see a man who rinks perform an sob
that other men oo d applud, unless he
commits suicide.
TUE CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
What the State of South Carolina Nat
Done for their Support.
South Carolina furnished more soldiers
to the armies of the late Confederacy, in
proportion to her whito population, than
any State in the Confederation of seced
ing States, which is, however, only
natural, considering the fact that
sion had its birth in her borders.
has also done loss toward relieving er
maiaed and wounded soldiers than any
Southorn State. This is, perhaps, owing
to the fact that the Stato was longer u
tier the control of the carpet-bag regime
than other States and that she was prob
ably the worst-p>lundered Stato in the
South under that plundering regime.
Soon after war, when the first Legisla
ture met under Governor Orr, and be
fore the enfranchisement of the blacks,
an Act was passed providing for the fur
nishing of artiticial limbs for those of
her soldiers who had lost a leg or an
arm in the service. Under this Act dis
abled soldiers received from $100 to
$200 each, the necessary funds being
appropriated annually. It is to the
credit of the carpet-bag Government
that this appropriation, about $10,000
annually, was never withheld.
When the Government reverted to the
whites by the revolution of 1876 an at
tempt was made to provide pensions for
the disabled Foldiers, but the State was
too poor, and the one-armed and one
[egged Confederate soldiers in the Leg.
slature were always the most strenuous
in opposing the measure. Every year
tince 1876 half-dozen or more Acts have
icon passed appropriating specific sums
rangmg from $25 to $200 to maimed or
lisabled Confederate soldiers, each Act
eing, however, a specific appropriation
or an individual named. No general
>ension Act has ever been passed. At
he recent session, which closed on De
;umber 24, an Act was passed enlarging
he provisions of what is known as the
trtificial Limb Act, and extending its
nueits to persons who have resided in
h State for ten years, whether they
were natives or not. This is about all
hat has ever b en done for the maimed
soldiers of the State.
Till: 1:AN1) OF GOi).
lilasi.pltmer ('ur,,e, 1i1 Creator aui is
Stricken wit i Parlysj,.
1)o(ILAS, GA., January 4.-"I hope
that God may paralyze me" were the
words spoken by William Burkett. At
m iee his hands dropped to his side, his
Legs refused to move and his eyes rolled
wildly around. His prayer was answered
as he stoodl parlyzed on the spot where
but a few minutes before he was a mag
nificent tyle of physical manhood. He
tried to speak, but his tongue would not
move. half a dozen men, who were
l,resent, were rendered motionless by
the evident visitation of the hand of
(hod. Whtu they recovered self-pos
session they tenderly moved the afllicted
mian to his residence, a half mile dis
tant. When Miss Rhody Burkett saw
the plight in which her father was
brought home she screamed and fainted,
11(d (lied a few (lays later.
For years Mr. Burkett had boon the
cerryman at the I lawkinsville road cross
ng of the ()camulgee River. lie was of
piant physique, with long gray looks,
nd becamO esp1ecially noted because of
he b race of revolvers which he kept
tr1apped to his waist. lie was a great
muuter, and the ferry being in the
nitd1st of a swamap, he was convenient to
in abulndance of game. Front thoso
tho hived arouind hinm it is learned that
t.o was fearfully profane. Whenever he
ighted game and was called <.tIC from it
>y an alarm from the ferry he would
>ur out such a volley of oaths as woul
uake the lesh of ordinary men crawl.
t was while in one of these profano
itolls that ho cursed his Creator, and
rounid uip with the expression above
tioted.
'The news sooni spread through the
ountry, zitl scores of peopjlO called to
cc the victin. ile was at first comn
letely prostrated, but subsequently was
nabled to take a few stops, when he
iould fall. When spoken to he replies
a an inarticulate mumble, and acts in
he most idhiotic manner. The physicians
an ascribe no natural cause for hia
Ilhiotion, but admit that it is a visitation
(leod. The p)reachers in the neigh
Iorhiood( have usced the incident in thieir
urmions with great effect.
A leariul Rtailroadi Accidents
A dreadful accident oco3arred near
illn, Ohio, at four o'clock on Tuesday
nirming. Thne fast train on the Balta
aoro and Ohio Railroad, which lost'
oev York about (I o'clock Monday for
,hiicago, with five coaches and four
leepers, all wll Illed with passengers,
(ollidled with an eastern boumd freight
raim.
T1he fast train was aibo ut fifty minutes
tto and wats running at the rate of sixty
iiles an hour. P'assing Republic, a
mxall station, like a flash, it rushed along
e a curve 01n0 mile west of that town,
hen suddl(enly the engineer saw the
reighit train under full headway within
no hundred yards of him. l1e at once
tPlied the brakes anid revers'd the on.
ise, but it (lid no good, and the next
tistant the crash came, telescoping the
caches and piling them tup on echl
thoer. T'o add consternat:son1 to the
orrile scene fire brokot out in the
nioking car and soon spread to the other
ars. Many were killed outright, while
ithers, wedged in among the broken
~ars, were slowly conlsumned by the
lames.
Tlhe ac('ident was duo to a miisunder
dtamUng of train orders. Another state
uent is that the enginteer of the freight
crami was dirunk. The whole ntumber- of
passengers was i5. Tlhe inmber of killedi
was 2(0, with manty wvoun<ted.
Thomas Stovens, who is making a tour
>f the world On a bicycle, and who a few
atys aigo was supptlosedl to be lost some
vher, in China, has been heard from at.
Iong Kong. lie reports sonmc pretty
ough experiences, and expects soon to,
3e in San Francisco.
On o<ftve hi'iest and bigetn
~xhibition in San Francisco. lb is as
arge as an ordinary derby hat and4
weight thirty-five pounda troy It 'f
ort1h $20) an onneCo and in a1it pur