The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, August 09, 1888, Image 1

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1/ 11I m.O, a VO.XI.PICKENS, S. C., TH URSDAY, A UGUST9,88N.47 t A Brother's Keeper. POI'S OR OF LOE AID DUTY. I T MAUY ATW$LL CATEIRWOOD, Awfsos or "paAQUp o' DoOM," "BTSPUaN OuTana, " THu Loss MAN'S 0A3A," AND OTsa SToRas. "But I never wanted to talk about our relative positions. The sight of him made me shuddering siok. You don't know how horrible it first seemed to mo that I should feel so toward my own brother. 13o it went on until he was sent to prison for a long time. I think he has been pardoned out; h's ume would not expire for year., Do ou know I was very glad they sentenced i Thorney and I drew some easy-breaths. I spent some money to go to a normal school, and Mr. Barker was the lecturor on mathe matics. So I got acquainted with him." The master nodded. "Your ignorance of common geometrical rules was so marked," said he, "and your general intelligence so fair that 1 felt im pelled to take you in hand." "You know you said she looked like the sister that died when you were a boy," mused Mrs. Barker. - The master drank his root-beer and made only a distant response to this allusion. "Man is a queer bundle of associations. I love this old cabin and I love this old dis trict. I've had one or two very good offers from colleges, Mr. Gurley," ho owned with frowning and shame-faced pride," but school term after school term sees we at the same old desk. I suppose I'll die in my rut. It seems good enough to me for a man to grow fast in the spot where he was born. I know it ain't progressive. I know it nar rows me. My opinions might not be so pat if I circulated more. But the wrench of tearing up would be more than I could stand. This is not sentiment," denied the master, sternly; "but a simple physical fact which I can not got around. Who's that, now t" Phobe cornered toward Mrs. Barker. "You haven't any ceremonious passage way,'' said Guriey, smiling. "You can open .your door and kick intruders right off the threshold like they can at Tom Holmes'. I've always envied that arrangement." "Now, Miss i-'wbe," said the master, visibly warming to the occasion, as a second and very loud knock bumped the door," don't let me see you do that. It hurts me as a man." "I know it is Thane," whispered Phmbe. "What if it is 'Thanel What if it's a thousand Thanesi I will now," declared the master, striding to the door and motion ing his wife back, "gratify myself with a good grip on the collar of his coat and the tive use of my right foot." But it may be one of the neighbors," - object,_Mrs. Barker. "We s idi ," responded Mr. Ogre, jerkingthe door toWrd him and concentrat ing his frowning sight upo..t he dark. Phcebe looked an instant,'aird td-$gr face against Mrs. Barker. "Phoebe White is here," said a voice out " side. "Don't mind-don't mind I" whispered the master's wife, feeling a strong shudder smake the girl. "Well, air t " said Mr. Barker, gathering himself. "1 want to see her. She cheated me. She gave me an envelope full of blank paper rawhile ago." "I did," said Phobe, facing toward hha. "I meant to have told that, too." "Who are you, sir, and what should she give yout" demanded the master, making .5mself sure. "I'm her dear brother," responded Thane, with insolent jocularity, "and she was to give me money that she knows lie owes me." "Sin" snorted the master, grabbing into the dusk, "i'll give-you-something-else -that has been-owing to you a good while I" "Oh, Mr. Barker I" screamed his wife, for in excessive zeal hdr husband disappearel over the steps and was hoard to strike the ground. Before G.urlecy could helphim lie had risen up, and he calmly brushed ot his coat wvith his palms as Mrs. Darker held the lamp on high and gazed with anxiety into the clear ing. "Come in," begged Plhobe, "come in!" Ber clutch fell upon Gurley's arm as wveli -U FsTL" HOTD rf' MsT/ wI hv. An tophsicaL "w SHOTD Ifell overI. "Hepo wil. $kiloufr's, nd Bure rouhta peredc the fiepae "DI' saw termanimelf," said .heo maee howua int is leal with atpisto ierbe oa,d He wsh Ievradnoy brougaith whiule hie.e"quvrdP b. "N onygoe wofakik," said t"elo ntda tor he thir o.Ifai had beeosng golint shooae, wild haoe imtu tonie c" d Agt phiollaw shoe the over."'l take ill kill youim it, Mlorse Bany suc "H's tve anrysaid Phoibd the kne.. toe' wifde whit tat's ewhyed "sandng comd her Ansteada ofsaing faes." es "Omih,tIhaishIohainoth brouset thn toul hero!"kqivereAd Phwso arae. h sho ewould wavine wo i one."ddha h"m piolut houe. then maputer "yhau te itdrome hr wah osis any sulot fuotrban aper under ya fieye.t n "He's every aneryt. sai kne I kem hoey o;b and tha ot why h antedcht cI ome he instead of stheyindre atdolmars He iht hdagve gt tom thow." t "Iobegd fo unsand thwhe.F didnsahtio him abuttey mne.' Whar I ptut y hm -n tiet drwe theris ouseed arioou fulofblank paper Thiboh k e once thn hugabotTanre, at carcMr. belr."n At the door another demand was made for admission, but this time timid and fumbling, unlike the bold knock Thano gave. "Painted savage or unpainted," respond ed the waster, starting, "this unruly rascal shall foel discipline." "Oh, Mr. Barker I" besought Phobo. "Ogre, dear," said his wife, apparently in the act of expanding her largo person to plaoo before him, "the man vill shoot." "Let me open the door," said Gurley. "I open my own door, sir," interposed the master. "Now, you scoundrel, what do you want this time?" He made a heavy dash at the person on the step, recovering himself with difficulty. Those inside saw it was a man quite clean-shaven excepting his upper lip; that his clothes were black, fine and old-fash iened; and though he held his tall hat in one hand as he recoiled from the master's onset, the hat had evidently been lifted be fore the door opened and his recoil meant surprise. "Oh I" Mr. Barker snarled suspiciously. "Good evening, good evening, sir. Good evening." The stranger made some responso in a nasal blur of words, concluding with an eager question. Mr. Barker turned toward the other in mates, his fierceness cooled to the tempera ture of combativeness. "Is this man speaking Latin with the con tinental pronunciation, Gurley, or is it Welsh?" "Step in, sir," invited Mrs. Barker. "Ogre I perhaps the door better be shut." "The door will not be shut," responded her husband, "until this man can intelligibly state his business." "It is Painter. Good evening, Mr. Painter," said Gurley. Painter. seeing Phwbe, stepped upon the sill with an exclamation. During the rest of her life, when she tried to set the action of the next live minutes in its true light, and to see the facts ns they occurred by the cloclc instead of through the medium of a terror which had no regard for time, she thought Mr is. Barker exclaimed that the other inan was behind this one; that Painter turned, saw Thane and seized him; then they struggled together without apparent reason; that she ran and hid her face in the lounge pillow; and a shot, the voices of Gurley and the master, and the bounding steps of some one running away all mingled together. Mrs. Barker looked ghastly when Painter was laid on the lounge. Plhube herself sat a moment on the floor beside the lounge. She heard Gurley ride off for u physician and officers of justice. Afterwards she waited by the kitchen stove while Mr. Barker and his wife attend ed to the wounded luau. There was no fire in tih stove, but she could see the hearth shine through the open sitting-room door and count bricks along the front of the chinuey. Here Mrs. Barker brought her a bit of paper and in agitation told her that Painter wrote it and sent it. She bent toward the distant 4 ,nhivht to wake out the characters itld notic-d that though traced by an un steady hand they were clear aind beauti(41. At first merely the name James Fawcett attracted her; then she walked to the fire place intent only on reading what was written, and it was: "You are my child. James Fawcett." "No!" said Phwbe, turning toward the wounded man and questioning him with negatives: "Not Not" One of Mrs. Barker's quilts covered him up to the armpits. Ho was looking at Phobe with wide open and agonized blue eyes. His sensitive lower face she saw was like the portrait in the Fawcett library. "No!" she repeated, twisting the paper in her fingers, "If" He nodded his head, and besought her by a gesture to come nearer. In his hands were a pencil and paper tablets which Mrs. Barker had taken out of his pocket for him. He was shot through the body, and the doctor, brought later by Gurley, could de Nittle more for him than had already been doQe. Mr. Barker sat near his patient's feet, rug gedly silent and stern as if justice were gth ering all forces in him. His wife held a light, resting her elbow in her palm, and looked anxiously from Phoebe to the wounded man.m Bhe stood behind his head andi let her- mi shine on his tablets. 80metiumo during the confusion Oircutt had been waked. Phonbt remembered hearing his mother command his return to bed. As Painter beckoned again Phbobo weni to him, not reluctant but unconvinced, and rested on the floor looking at him. His hand flew from side to side of his tab lets, and wvhen he gave them to her Mrs. Bar)cer mnoved a step to shift the light. "If I tried to talk," he said on paper, "yeor could not understand my voice. My deform Ity still mort4tes tao so I can not bear t< display it before my child. I used to tall thus to your mother. We had long, silent coin versations, sitting side by side. 1Her name wan Phonbe. You are her ever again, a little cx panded. Do you r- nemnber when you broughitume the maple a gar?" Instead of replying aloud Phonbe tooL his pencil and wrote: "Yes. But why have you beemi away fron me always?" He put swiftly dowry "because I though you were dead. When you cairo to ng with that miaple sugar I was startled, an my thoughts begn to work. Thecn I ioert your nnme was Phobe White. I found ti boy Thornoy was wvith you. Still I had ni certain proof until this after-noon when read a note yoq had sent by a boy througl the woods. I unfolded it ne* sonic triftinj property of his, and read your history, evom to Thane White's name. Then 1 got read to come after you. I brought in mny breast pocket the p)apers which will idewitify mio. went to the house nearest the school-house where I,knew you lived ; but they could no lind you. So, as you had w-ittein to Mr Sarls.er for help, I came directly hero. Yoi are ray ohildl, and your name is Phi<mbe Faw~ oett. You were bore eIghteen years ago in San Francisco, and your mther- died whoi you were two-and-a-half years old. I spon much time in Nevada, where I was interest od in rmine, Your mother was devoted t mec. I took pleasure in enterprise thiei I loft home wheni a boy, determined to miak my family proud of rme when I camne bde.l in spite of my defect. it turned out di ferently. I have lived here in the wvood: niot carig even to olahu my rights in ti estate. There was nto one to inherit afta mae. I have covered my identity up as muw as possible. Now it would be iffoee. Wi when I could live I mnust die.'' lie gave the tablets to Phorbo and covorc his eyes with one hand, his moiuthi set wit physical agony. Site liashedl over the word and advanced a little noqreir to him on hc knees. "But, father," she sxid, aloud. Ho started fromi head to foot, imumediat ly whitoniig with the pangethis start gas "Father," she said again, this time a firmnatively, "father, fJather/" She arched one arm over his hean' a' was held to his breast. Mrs. Barkern m.i Ing a sympathetic grimace, shifted ti lamp unsteadily, but her hushand) sat a lounded. P'hobe caught her breath with a sob an explained to them, raising her face: "~A tn time he hna lired alnnao wheno 4 oug to have been with him. I'm his child and he needed my care 0, father I" In her excess of mother-like passion her palm constantly smoothed his lean cheek and her fluttering finger-tips petted him. She felt fierce toward his persecutors. The tears dripped from her cheeks upon him. "How you have been cheated, you dear! and I never suspected such a thing. And we'd have been such friends together 1 I thought 'Ihornoy and I had all the hard times, when you were living that lonesome life I We can have our relationship now, father, we can have our relationship now I" Mrs. Barker shook her head at Phwbe to Indicate that it was bad for the patient to be agitated. She then turned away, holding the lamp at arm's length, and wiped her face carefully; aud Phwbo leaned in silence against tho pillow. With pencil and tablets her father re sumed: "When your mother died I lost heart and every thing went bally with me. I wanted to stay by myself and experiment in chem icals. It was my dissipation. There was nobody to take proper care of you, so 1 concluded to bring you home and make all I 1'11E1:IE nEADINU wa . mi r 1 .E'l'A tu HWItoT1'!. my arraulgenelits. 'Thauie Wh ite was in California then. He was a third or fourth cousl of yon l Int her' s, a worthless ci-cat. urc, but we helpel him on account of his d istant relationship." I'hobe, rending vhile her father wrote, inquired at once: 't 'itorney my brother, then !" ''No; Thorney is 'i'ls''a siou. Your mother was Itiid to the iniserable little soul. We kept iin wit i us; his father wis brutal to himin. I gave Ttane omlloylnout for several years. lie bore a bad nine when he catine to the toast, and was prob. ably worse than I knew ;but we <'uit hardly shake h iun off. I never inaginied the i that lie would separate my child from ite and ilnally shoot ne. 'our mother had kuiw his wife in the States, a lor, dejected young woman who died early; and the b.y Ti.> n cy was only half-witted. When i read in your unoto how Thane had used yon, it. seemed as if I had never suftered before is my life! And you forced to appeal to a stranger while your father lived! 'The sight of hint filled mo with such fury I don't know what I might have done if ho had not shot." fTO BR OONTINURD] FORTUNE CAME TOO LATE. Miss Catherine thafYney Mentally and Phys teally Faillng. (New York Star, Aug 1.) Miss Catherine Gaffney, who has sud denly fallen heir to $50,000, is still in th almshouse on Blackw3ll'8 Isind, whert she has been an inmate for three years anc eight months. Since last March she hat been in the hospital of the almshouse. A reporter of the Star called at the hos pital yesterday to see the fortunate woman, Warden Vought, the genial manager of the almnshouse, and the matron, conducted tht reporter into a neatly kept and well-lightec ward and stoppIel before a feeble, old lad. half arose, lie checks were sunken, hel eyes were dim iutd her voice trembled. II memory had faded from her. She is '4 years old. Her fortune had come to her st late in life that it seemed to mock her. Sh did not know the warden first, and asket him If he was bier brother. HIe repliedl lha he was the wardlen, anti the old lady replied '"T) he sure; I remember you now. Got bless you, warden. They have been ver' good and( gentle to me here." A young man and a young woman nephlew and niece of Miss Gaffney, callei yesterdlay forenoon to see the old lady ant said that, they would lake her away today They told Warden Vouight that they wouik send clothes up to the island for the oh lady anti would provide well for her afte she went away The youing man is TP. V' Sheridani, who is one of the heirs. 'Tie (til lady was asked if she would liki to go away. She repliedl: "No, I shoub rallier stay in the aimshouise. I like it ver' well. They are very kind to mec." Miss Gaffney was brou;ght to the al;nm house when she was twvo yetars past thtre scare andi ten. From the day she entere< till the tday site inhieritedl her fortune n humanl beinig ever visited her or inqtiire about her. Whlen it was learnedi that. sh had iniher ited ia large amlounIt of mtoney i.y of her kinfolks rushietd for the islandi a onice. Th le visit of her niece and nephies yesterdlay was the fIrst she had receive since she entered the inatitution. "'Parer.ts seldom bring their childi en t the almshlouse," said Wartien Vought, "bhu cildtrenl often bring their p)arents lier When the c'hildlrenl see their parents saflei installetd in the almshiotuse they kiss the mother 'good-bye" antd shake haiids w'it their fathier. TIhen they say to their parent 'Oh, yes, wei come anti see yotu,' and at off. They come to see them once, and ger erally they never comle again. If thel parents should unexpectedly inherit a grei deali of motley they would come over to si -them with a carriage. "When Miss Galney caime to the aku; hiouse, she told me the story of her nie brother, Patrick HI. Gaflincy of Cicagt At her request I wrote hin two letters, hi forming 1him1 of lisa sister's situation.I answer to the letters, lie senlt hem' two tic Slars twice, there beinig ai conaiderable hi r terval of tIme between the two) gifts. "i'Misa Gaffney was an intelligent an 4 ladIy-llke woman and hats never given any t rotible. She was a very pleasant ane d andt interesting tailkeir upi to sone montl a ago, when her health fiIled lher."' Miss Glaffney has a brother in ifYalb rn before referred to, andI another brothe Matthew GJaffney, in llrooklyn. Shei heir to but a fotirthi part of her dheadi brother Sestate, vaited at $150,000, antI will pirob e lbly get about $35,000, instead of the $50 000 it was thought. wonuld fall to her'. Ti r. physician thinkst she has but ' short tin to einjoy her fortune. - Mr. Blaine will review an immom~ o0 Republican proesseion from a hot< s- baleon ywhen he arrives in New Yori He had better steer elear of New Yoi hotels. .Burobard's B. R. R, may ha: THE MLETING AT SUMTER. Speeohee by Governor Richardson, Leut. (Jov. Mauldin and Othera. (From the News and Courier) The meeting appointed by the State Democratic Ezecutive Committee to be held at Sumter, for the seventh Con ?ressional district, came off on the 1st inst. Speeches were made by Gov. Richard son, Lieut.- Gov. Mauldin, Attorney General Earle, Comptroller General Verner and Capt. 13. R. Tillman. The Gove.uor and the Lieutenant Governor spoke generally to the same effect as at the previous meetings. Capt. Tillman's speech contained nothing new. Comptroller General Verner spoke of the State finances. He invited Capt. Delgar to ask two farmers in the meeting to exmine their two sets of figures, and decide whether he or Capt. Tillman was correct in his statement of the differ enoes between the expenses of 1878.79 and 1886-87. Tillnan: "Take (hn. Moore and (len. Earle, both are respected." Verner: "I will show the committee what a manipulator of figures you are." lie read the correspondence between himself and Capt. Tillman on the vexed question and Capt. Tillmen's statements at Chester on Monday. There was a lively and continued running tilt on this matter between the two. Here is the summing up of it. Capt. Tillman charged that Mr. Ver nor, in his statement of the differences between the fiscal years of 1878-79 and 1886-87, bad tsed the comptroller's report for 1886-87, and the treauiit i's report for 1878-79, and that he gave as a difference, after taking off the funded interest of $192,000, only $27,000. Mr. 'Tillman claimed that this was done for partisan purposes. In the figures which Capt. Tillnan gave the reporter of The News and Courier, which were published Tuesday, he claimed to prove that he had proven substantially the corree'.ness of his statement in the recent Desmocrat ic Convention, but whcn pressed by Mr. Verner he admitted that he had oulled out of the treasurer's statement for 1878 79 the figures which ho used to swell the difference to $237,000, they being in cluded in the aggregate expenditures for the year 1878-79, as shown by the trea sure's report. That is, he admitted doing just what he had charged the comptroller general with doing. Re claimed lie was right in doing it, however. Capt. Tillman and Mr. Verner alter nated in speaking on this subject and there was the liveliest interest among the audience and much confusion. ATTORNEY (ENERAL EARLE. was now loudly called for. He defeated the State Government from the charges made against it and reviewed the tate's work in edocation, This talk about reducing taxation. he said, was demagogic. If legislators were untrue to the bohests of the people, let them be turned out and new men put in their places. Again, in answer to Capt. Tillman, he said he was willing to abolish the annex so-called and give its funds to the agri cultural college. Capt. Tillman announced that the Hatch fund had been stolen from the farmers and that the agricultu; al board did not represent them. Col. Earle dis eented from Oapt. Tillman's position in regard to the privilege tax fund. That should not go to the agricultural college. I t belonged to the people. Tillman: "The agricultural board don't represent the people." Earle: "Put them out, then." Tillman: "But the Legislature is ma nipulated." Earle: "Then put out the members. Capt. Tillmnan is not the State. He mustn't expect everybody to trail after his opinions.'' After a lively passage bieyond the reach of reporting, Gen. Earle said: "I approve many things you advocate, but do not abuse people without cause. :Do not charge a class with wrong-doing i and array class against class." Tillman: "i've said harder things against farmers than lawyers. i've calle-d them fools and puppets." Earle: "You cannot point to a single I South Carolina Representative in Demo cratic days who has stolen a dollar." Tillman: "I don't know about that. r There are some fishy things," [Great . confusion, the entire platform being cov ered with excited mn crowding about the couple. Cries of "P~ut him up to I testify !" j Earle: "Come out openly and say it." Tillman, with hesitation and looking awkward: "A reputable man in Marion 'charges-tand thou he repeated Big. Iham's slander about Governor Thomip Sson.) I don't endorse it, but I was in the H ouse myself when Dean made that report Bigham says lie did. The News and Courier thiu morning has a reply Smentioning a lot of things in the man jsion, but that is not conclusive to me." Verner, excitedly: "Tihatschecdule was Scopiedl from records in my oflic. There iis not a scintilla of truth in that accusa tion; not a scintilla." y Tillman. doggedly: "Glad to hiear r someO one deny it." bi Earle: "Then the thing that looks : fishy has disappeared. With all respect e for Governor Thompson, if a man will 1' make an affidavit ap'naut mm i wil inae r him brought to South Carolina and tried., t But don't let use have these accusations.' ' Tillmnan: "it's not my change, not my~ busiiness." Earle: "Not your business when ai (lovernor of the State is accused of theft?" a Tiillmnan: "I would be ashamed t( I. make the charge." SEarle: "Ashamed to accuse (Governor Thompson, and not ashamed to accust d the Legislature of stealing agricultural i.' funds?" d Tiillmnan: "A m I under cross-exainra. IS tion't" i'arle: "1 ask you to specify anm ~'prove." . Tillman: "I'm satisfied about (Gov ernor Thompson, but the people arn Snot." S Mr. H. R. Thomas, Tillmnan's lienton e ant, interrupted with some sne 't (len E tarle's showing oftf his ability as a law yer. Earle: "I am fishing for trout, not fo cminnows. While I resoct Capt. Till Sman, I think lie has got~one of the poor Sest lioutenmants I ever saw." kTmE gN9. p- The meeting ended amid great confui sin The encitement noe ince Mi Verner's departure had been intense. di* Calls were made for (Jol. )argan, but 801 he had loft. Capt. Tillman left imme- thi diately after dinner, to spend the night on with a friend in the country. The Meeting at Florence. The meeting at Florence on the 21 for inst. was a very noisy one---the noise be- Mi ing made chiefly by the followers of Mr. me Bigham, now a candidate for the Senate from Marion county. S peeohos were em made by Governor Richardson, Lieut.- ha' Governor Mauldin and Captain Tillman set and Col. B. W. Edwards. No new ma points were developed. Then came of Mr. Bigham, of whose speech and the sal subsequent proceedings the News and a n Courier contains the following report: no Mr. Bigham opened by declaring that Ho he had been grossly misreprsented by Ca the "clicks" and rings of Marion coun- boi ty. tiht His subsequent remarks could only be 1 heard in fragmeits above the din, but at4 he secured silence when he turned to the m News and Courier Roporter and de- tlht manled a fair report. The rel*>rter un- thet fortunately has not tho most patient of temp,er in the world, and jlumping up ho shouted: "You seem to be an infernal in ass, and if you don't shut up and attend ral to your business you will got hurt. Stick sta to your text, and provo if you can that bh you are not a slanderer, but leave mo si) alone." Mr. Bigham remarking, "I know if I fail to prove it I will deserve a whipping ' and get one," proceeded with his laliori ous task. He first quoted Governor amu Richardson's remarks in Greenville as 1)11 to him, and said that the Governor this pa morning, when he spoke to him at the wb hotel on the suhject had ''eaten dirt" 1u and said be was "willing to take it he back.' (Note- Governor Richardson oat subrequently told the reporter that this fr was a lie out of the whole cloth. No hel decent man will doubt which to believe. I11 Above the distlrbanco I! r. Bigham t" was heard to say: Rn "I'm a goin' to vlip out the State." The next thing heard was a declara tion that the News and Courier had pub. t lished everything against him and would not publish his replies. If he sent any thing to the News and Courier they would keep it for eight or ton days unutl they could consult the "lick." '1'hen th turning to the reporter of the paper he to began to instruct him to note this, that tl or the other thing about the News and 11i1 Courier. thi The reporter got over the benches ani CI up to Mr. Bigham, and told him that he mut could not talk at thi News and Courier rer through him. That if he had any corn- 1n plaint against the home otlioe he could a I go to Charleston and make it there. 11 That if he wanted satisfaction in be Charleston he couldl go down and L'elp th himself, and that if he wanted any her ca tram the representative of the paper lie pr could have it then and there and wel- ne come. These remarks were emphasized tie by the vigorous shaking of a fist within in a few inches of Mr. Bigham's classic th nose. The wildest excitement prevailed. 9O A party of Bighamites were preparing, in it is stated, for a raid on the Reporter, th' when a counter-movement was made by wi the more respectable element; and unex- a pected backing came from many quar- a E tere. A number of prominent citizens wt expressed their satisfaction at the snub- go bing Mr. Bigham was receiving, and sP were apparently desirous of seeing a ha regular tilt inaugurated, but M.-. Iig. he ham, having taken the hint and returned without a word to other subjects, the Reporter had no reason to continue the interruption. al Mr. Bigham was now frequently inter- lo' rupted by quhations. )r. Weatherly cornered him about the furniture matter. ta Mr. Bigham declared that he had never so said thait Governor Thomipsoc stole the tiu furniture. Dr. Weatherly insisted on a to yes or no answer as to whether he (lid ap steal it, but Mr. Bighanm dodged the question. He gave a long statement as tio to the matter, which, as wvehl as could be 80 heard, was simply a rehash of his letter to to the News and Courier upon the sub- th ject, and1 since answered and refuted pe~ conclusively in the Newvs and Courier. 431 He gave not one new piece of evidence, th simply stating that lie did not believe thi Col. Sloan's statement or the circium- cc stances reported about the in vent ory. lie could not find in the Jlournals of the 19 Hlouse any mention of the resolution trn Governor 'Richmardsor, said he had passed. va D)r. Weatherly : ''Why did not you tight these furniture appropriations iu er the I egislature?" n Rlighami: "'I had thme Al aiion Counit.y clicks andi rinigs to attend to." on Mir. Righiam hiavinig coimicmec-d a aen- au tenco as fellows: "HSolomon being the gr wisest man that ever lived," was initer- eli riipted by a chorus of ironlic ejacli lations: 10, "'Fxcep)t BMgham!" Th' len Air. liighiam gt turnod en D)r. Weathierly with the quies- (1 tion: "'If you object to this, why did iiot shi yout send1 oIlher reprcsenitatives from Al a- I h Dri. Wecather ly, (dolvoully ': "Wouild to Gocd we had iiot. sent. youl, Air. lIighmam! Onie of Al r. Iiighai'a auidile remarksa wvas that he hiad expeccted (Goverinorli liichardson to stay amd hear lhim. Another was that. Col. J1olin C. II askell,I fixes up figures so that thle farmer can not understand him them. Thleni because ia $l1t 0 had hicen paid by ( lovernor Rtich- ts ardson for gas consliumed at the Al ansion tl and about its groun tds dutring (Governor 1) Shepard's Adlministration, when no( familyd lived in the house, thle fiund for the pur-1 pose of the fiscal year just, elosed Iboirig exhausted, Alri. liighara giavely aln nouncedl that the (Governor hadl heen guilty of a penal ol'enice, and that lieo had proved it on him, and that h,e shtoul be punishod for it ac implartialliy as the man who stole a 25 cent chicken. .f the poo01)1 of Alarion endorse the prnc tiples ' of .John Peter Richardson, sid lie, they imust send somne oioe (Olso to the Senate. s I Voices: "'We will do it!'' I doiit want" the votes of such peole. The~ L egisha ture, hto declared, had proveld b)y its Iaction that it. was un willing to ti oit Johntl Peter liihelardIsoim with time ftirniiture in the (Governtor's Miansion without taking( his receipt for it.I it a mmber Ion(f the HI)los could maitke sulch a stir its this ini I a short time, whait coul not lie (d( if lie tdid not you investigato when you were there?'' "'Oh you could( matke ia tine dog r of tIme treasury if you could (only get -back !"J He accused (lovernor Rlichatrd -son of botching the .State lionse andt, nisappropriatinmg money while a memiber e of the State House comninission, andI was t - going on in the same indlecent style whmeni .the Reporters who were tired out aundi a gusted loft him at 4.80 P. M. to hunt no food. They were told after wards it ho continued, to the end his attacks the whole A<dministration. DRt. SLNarRAAti'3 siCuu('n. )r. Siugletary had boon waiting long a chance to express himself. When Bighan oeased, he addressed the oting in somewhat the following terms: 'Follow-oitirens"of Florence: I atu prised and mortiled that you should e stood here to hear such a blanked of hypocrites and scoundrels as Till n and Bigham, l am deeply ashamed this event. 1 could hardly control my when this scoundrel Iligham abused Ian of honor aid integrity, like (lover e Richardson. Vhy are those follows mad with the (iovernment of South rolina? Because, by George, its mom 's are gentlemen, and gentlemen are only hope of the State." blore was said by the angry orator, I it's deelared that ho received the m liboral and continous applause of day. his remarks above are given at earnest request of prominent citizens Marion County. Aem (ladsden, the worst negro Itd ical the town, is said to have led tho hur ing for Iligham, and it is further ted that Bigham received the hand kes of the negroes upon his conclu n. I'tOMlsaD ltiO(IRAPIY OF niGAIIAM, dlr. Bigham's active tongue will soon called to his own defense. It was 1tnnced that (hen. V. W. 1larlile will blish in the u xt issue of the Marion lers some account of Mr. lighamu, in ich will he includtel information that a certain trial he swore in Court that did not believe his own mother on h, and that he brought tw) witnesses in anot her county to testify against voracity. 'T'he good people of Ma ni have realized rather late I he mistake y made in not scotching the liigham ike when it first raised its head. SAMY Jt"s 1)1' (:I:ult(.iA. Tailk,, In le Peetalhar Way AIoant Poll l IM 111tl nt I1igin. ( Fr tn the 'h i tau,o ; ileraii Lev. Sam Jones stopped over night at : Sherman House. lie is on his way Madison, Wis., to lecture. ''I think Silmportauce of my work is inereas ," said he, ''1 have a thousand or twr )usand applications for me ahead. ''h :nostness of the people who listen to is shown by their number and the ults that come. As for prohibitior the South, the number of voters isn'1 air criterion of the temperance senti tnt. ''he largest. veto will probablh in Georgia, 10,0001 or nore. I hop 9 ltepubliean party will be defeated be use then it will break to pieces and i ohibition party will be formed. Th w party ought to take up other ques es, also the Sunday question, for in ttunce. It has come to such a pas it we won't have any Sunday in thii nntry in eight or ten years. I bolievt the grand Jefljrsonian principles o 3 Democratic party, but I can't go th( ole hog. I don't think a man can b ;1hristian and be a Democrat. If he ii ;ood Christian he will be a might' ak-kneed Democrat, and if he is t od Democrat there won't be much ino to his Chriatianity." Mr. Jonei dI not made up his mind as to whon would vote for. Vit ality of lKHYnoaia Ilra, See,l. I'ho July Bulletin of the Experiment Station of this State tantains the fol. ing: In the ilay Bulletin the result of t ,t of the vitality oi a sample of thit 3d was given, in whith-, s'., a tempera re of 70 degrees, non11 con'd bea mlade germinate, alt.houghi renn~:eng Pa the pa&ratus for a m.>n1th. Since0 Ltou ihe tusis hav. be 5conl med0(, but at hiigher temnI a -itur-~ viz to Hi5 degreos, or still h.iriei !e, thal which the seed would ho2t' ep, ..-d at soil. 'Te result has been tl'at 1G r- cent, of good seed have germinated por cent, or the germs appean ing 01 i third and fourth duays, 8 per' cont. 01 a lifth day, and the remiinilg 14 poe it. during the followinig thirteen days Theo 10ample as5 pu1rchased container 13 por cenit. of i.1)purities, such aii shil and foreign seed. 'VT per" cent Iuo of the sample is therefore 54.11. St ill fturther tests to he made at high temperatures nmay show a highear ger Th'le diiYeront results obtained at itYr t temlpeiratur es furnish valuable guid cc to the farmer in sowing seid of thiu sas. Th'le planit is a ntativo of warn mates, and only perfects its soods it iv latitudes, ain these retiuire foi rmnination a sntihicientt warmth of soil ir' results seein to show that plantings ol bo taaado not later ini the fall thai a itidnlIe of ( )etober, nior earlier iml the ring than April 10(thl. Ana A be,urdIIa~, Ia,to. (nconsciounsly I pe rhps, several moc re iln ,Iawksonaville have halletn into tidton fad that oIf shinitg theoii uppe >. Thboro is ani organized moevemen the E'ngl ish caittal againlst the must laho 1am14 aittempts aire bili1 g madie b a) Atnglo-mnioas ini this contrya t >pu11larizo it here. 'I'his las provedi lad failurei- in Phi ladelphliia. 'The Itecor< that city remrark s that it hats hoe 3iarly demaonstratedl that "mtn- mel wlu soon Ier p)art wilth theiri little Ii nger til with their muistachle."' Why, w io seeoms to know. A muatstachlelss mai 5 no( charmi for a girl who is lookin r a i sbain I. Vdan alla 5al heroes al haoautiful ly trinedis antd formerd lI 'vers. AteI i phy !lt'ia5i say t. lat a liar >is inijutiriouis to t ho li yes, tliui aistach, lving to b reak the do wn weard fallc AaI,ilmi I he, Itt'ynablett aa (amauin utI. N iw 't>l~tK, Augus4t 2 -Ti.'' invitliv 'Inltnitt4ee ofii th NaMSt,ioa li44put:lila hete were0' p)resenlt, Chaiian Qmuay an1 'MIseinin aml I halley. No lnformatic asM vouchlafE'd 1AMs4 to ieir purtposes, butl probable41 tha lit behy will deal wIth aill it Mas. It wasI annltoliti w<l ihat ti h campig 'iubl beg-ina in Alhain alaw t he lon. .honi it A uigua IT, (L-i. Wi. II. (libtsoni, bisl, >nal ( lai. (I. II. (lrosvno(r will lns >r Alasite in a few days . Thley will imal ,eChest4411 <hing thle camiipaignt in difYerei iris ut the Stnto. AN ILAND FULL OF OL. The Rom,ance of the Treadwell Miue !a Alaska--"it Oontalna Enough of the Metal to Pay the National Debt".-Roeh that Will Require a Ceutury to Exhaust. It was whispered from time to time in the last year that Alaska has the richest gold mine in the world, but people who heard fragments of the story simply shrugged their shoulders and paid no further attention to the subject. Invee tors in mining property have been fleeoed so often that every enterprise for getting the precious metals out of the earth bears to their eyes the marks of a swindle. And then (barring the beautiful fur seal) they think there is nothing in that far off country but Tilinkets, Hydahe, Ohil kate, muskrats, icebergs, glaciers, and other unmerchantable articles. Only a few o! the more favored tourist who have b'eeni lot into some of the secrets of the small clique owning the property appre ciate the great wealth that is looked up in the forbidding cliffs on the shore about two hundred miles north of Sitka, it is no concern of the insiders to have the world know that they own millions of tons of rook into which long ages ago the precious metal was so geterously filtered. They have no mine for sale. It is the little follows owning holes in the ground which have been heavily stocked who want to sell. They are con tent to quietly dig out 100 per cent. a month in tins dark- corner of the earth. Modest fellows they are. On the west side of the Uastineau Channel, says the Chicago Tribune, with in pistol shot of the mainland and under the shadow of preceptous mountains, is Douglas island. Just back from the shore, in a cliff 800 to 1,000 feet high, is a horizontal shaft 400 feet wide and many hundred foot long. At intervals along the top of the cliff are perpendicular shafts. 'T'his is the Treadwell Mine. It is said that some rook has been taken out which yields as high as $200 per ton, but that is exceptional. The statement of one intelligent man is that the average is $;) per ton, that it costs $1.50 per ton to convert the raw material into gold bars, and that 300 tons of rock can be reduced per day. These figures being correct, the net product of the mine is $675,000 a year, allowing only 300 working days. Another authority estimated that the output for the year 1887 would be $100, 00(0 per month, or $1,200,000 per year, and the yield this year certainly cannot be less. Diamond drills have been run long distances in various directions and show no change in the character of the rook or the ore. A thousand feet below the level of the earth it's just the same. It sounds extravagant, but experts who have made carelul investigation declara j that there is unquestionably enough gold - in this mine to pay the national det 3 (about $I,200,000,000) and that there aro d many million dollars' worth of pay rook - in sight. The confidence of the owners - of the propety is shown by the fact that 3 they have in operation more staipe thau there are in any other mill in the world. The appreciation of the mine by other people is indicated by a bid of $16,000, 000 which was made for the property some months ago. This is a case, how ever, when the insiders don't want to get out and the outsiders cannot get in. The mine was named for its disoveror. Tread well was an old Californian of long experience in mining. He was one of a great number of people who, knowing that there are valuable mineral deposit iii Alaska, went there prospecting. Tim nativos, a good-natured lot, are always on hand to take tourists and explorers along the coast almost any distance. Many old miners are constantly testing the rocks with hammor and glass. They have located deposits of gold, silver, cap pr, iron and other me.tals, but it was 3 reserved for Tireadwell to find this maa ci gold-bearing rook. it is said that when ho llrst visited it. there was a vein of gold running conspicuously up and dowy the face of the clifft After satis tying himself that it was worthy of fur tner tq.o, ho went to California, bought some niachmeory, anti then returned. It requir6&but littlc wos k with this machine. iy to e iVto his Oiupidity to the highest pitch. iIa\'Intg soured his rights in the claim, he went to Sani Francisco with some specimens of the ore. Nenator Jones of Nevada was at that time in bad luck and poor. It was his opportunity. ie went up to Alaska and was convinced that another fortune was his if he could get control of the Tireadwell Mine. He -formed a syndicate and was given a quiar ter iteresit in the profits of the mine as a c3onsideration. Treadweli, it is said, re - eived $i,000,0)00 in cash and a small Ipercentage of the profits. Tihe stock of the company is now owned mainly by four personis, of whom .Jones and D. 0. Mills arc two. Homo wealthy CIhiicago mott, intchuhng U. Ii. Farwell, N. A. Kent and0 l'resident Blaokstono of the Alton Iroad, have been allowed to examine the prjoperty, but it is not boelicved that they hatve any financial interest in it. Tiho mine employs iiat.ivos and (Cornishmen as labioreors, pay ing thieni $2..50 per day and uip ward, and1 has already become quiite a ceinteir of miiscellaneo us business. r With Cailifoirnia losing its prestige as a gol-produin country, A ustralia disap -pomutlng its friende, anIu othier parts of to earth failing to moot expectations, the studets of finance are looking about the world for a new sourse of supply. P lerhtaps Ahaska will fulfill tihe require monzts., fiiirmah, a mysterious country, of which Americans know even loss than oftheir ownt Ahaiska, is staid to have entormiousi stores of gold oro, of the loca *tion of which nobody butt a few persons connected with the Gkovernment know antyt,bintg, but developments cannot be e*xpjoetod3 there fo,r many years. Moan while Alaska will conmo to thie front. At o tall eveiits, 1peopl1 who have seen the 4 T[readiwell like to remark: ''Alaska was o certaintly worth the 87,200,000) Neward ptaidi for it twenty years ago." O ne thousand Pianos; and Organs to e eoso out by October 1. All Organs and P Liantos sold at cashi price, p)ayablei Niovember'JI I --no interest -dolivoe to iyour nearest depot. Fifteen days trial. SOrgans from $24 upl; i'ianos froia $160 I upi. All intstrumazents warranited. Nend for ciroul ats. Buy now andi have the use of thr instrument. Remember we ~pay froishlt both ways if the instrument *don't suit. Prices guaranteed less than . SNew York. >l N. W. TRUMP, a Columbia, hS. (J. it A woman seldom preserves her temper when rhe. Ia canningr fruit.