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~-? . - V I I ~ ,bi~j7 P 'b I. ~' 4' 7~ 4.. VOL. XIX. PICKENS, S. C., ~ MARCH 13. 1890. NO. 25. I.. . .. -- - J. I "IlVU AIUI. THE BROOKLYN PREACHER EULO GIZES THE DEAD EDITOR. .Ir, Grady'. Triumph bver Adversity and UI. Deep Itelliaens Nature-An mnci dent of she Piedmont Ohautauoua. The subject of Dr. Talmage's Sunday sermon was: "The Life and Death of Henry W. Grady, the Editor and Orator." He took for his text Isaiah viii, 1: "Take thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen." The preacher said: To Isaiah, with toyal blood in his veins and a habitant of palaces, does this divine order come. He is to take a roll a large roll, and write on it with a pen; not an angel's gen, but a man's pen. So God honored the pen and so He hon ored manuccript. In our day the mightiest roll is the religious and secular newspaper, and the mightiest pen is the editor's pen; whether for good or evil. And God says now to every literary man, and especially to every journalist: "Take thee a great roll and write in it with a man's pen." Witnin a few weeks one of the strong est, most vivid and most brilliant of those pens was laid down on the editor ial desk in Atlanta, never again to be resume.I. I was far away at the time. We bad been salting up from the Medi tersanean sea through the Dardanelles, which tegion is unlike anything I ever saw for beauty. There is not any other water scenery on earth where God has done so many picturesque things with islands. They are somewhat like the Thousand Islands of our American St. Lawrence, but more like heaven. Indeed we had just passed Patmos, the place from which John had his apocalyptic vision. Constqutinople had seemed to eome out to greet us, for your approach to that city is different from any other city. Other cities, as you approached them, seem to retire, but this city, with its glittering minarets and pinnacles, seems almost to step into the water to greet you. But my landing there, that would have been to me an exhilaration, was suddenly stunned with the tidings of the death of my intimate friend, lIen ry W. Grady. I could hardly believe the tidings, for I had left on my study table at bemo letters and telegrams from him-those letters and telegrams having a warmth and gen1ility, and a wit such as he only could express. The de parture of no pnblic man for many years has so affected me. For days I walked about as in a dream, and I resolved that, getting home, I would, for the sake of his bereaved prrfession, and for the sake of what he had .,een to me and shall con tinue to be as lo.:g as memory lasts, I would speak a word in appreciation of him, the most promising of Americans, and learn some of the salient lessons of his departure. I have no doubt that he had enemies, for no man can live such an active life as he li ed, or be so far in advance of his time, without making enemies, some because he dofeated their projects, and some because lie outshone them. Owls and bats never did like the rising sun. But I shall tell you how he ap psared to me, and I am glad glad that I told him while he was in full health what I thought of him. Memorial orations and gravestone epitaphs are of ten mean enough, for they say of a man after he is dead that which ought to have been said of him while living. One garland for a living brow is worth more than a mountain of japonicas and calla lilies heaped en a funeral casket. By a little black volume of fifty pages con taining the eulogiums and poems utter ed and written at the demise of Clay and Webster and Calhoun and Lincoln and 6umner, the world tried to pay for the forty years of ob'oquy it heaped upon those living giants. If I say nothing in p raise of a man while lie lives I will keep silent when he is de.ad. Myrtle and weeping willow can never do what ought to have been done by amaranth and palm branch. No amount of "Dead March Saul" rumb~ling f omn big ergans at the obsequies can atone for non-ap preciation of the man,before he fell on. slet p. The hearse cannot do what ought t6 have been done by chariot. But there are important things that need to be said about our friend, who was a prophet in A merican journalism and who only a few years ago hoard the command of my text: "Take thee a great roil, and write in it with a man'3 pen." 'His fa.her dead, IIenry W. Grady, a boy 14 years of age, took up the battle of life. It. woulId require a long chapter to record the names of orphans who have come to the top. When God1 takes away the head of the household he very often give. to some lad in that household a special qualification. Christ remembers how that his own father died early, leav ing him to support himself and his moth or and bis brothers in the carpenter's shop at Nazareth, and be is in sympathy with all boys and all young men in the struggle. You say: "Oh, if my father had only lived I would have had a bet ter education and I would have had a mnore promising start, and there are some wrinkles on my brow that would not have been there." But I hive noticed that God makes alspecial way for orphans. You would not have been half the man you are if you hal not been obliged from your early days to fight your own bat ties What other boy9 got cut of Yale or Harvard you got in the university of Hard Knocks. Go among successful merchants, lawyers, physiclana and men of all occup)ations an dprofessions, and there are many of them who will tell you: "At ten, or twelve, o'r fifteen years of ago I asrted for myself; father was sick, or father was dead." But some how they got through andi got up.I nocount for it by the fact that there is a specoial dispensation of God for orpaans All hail, thofatherless and the mo.ier lease The Lord Almighty will asz you through. IEarly obstacles for Mr. Grady were only the means for development of hi. intellect and heart. And So S when at 89 years of age he purt down his pen armd closed his lips for the perpetual si lena, he had done a work which many a man who lives on to sixty and seventy and eighty years never accompiishes. There is a great deal of senseless praise of longevity, as though it were a won derful achievement to live a good while. Ah, my friends, It Is not how long we live, but how well we live, and how use .fully we live. A man who lives to 80 years and accamplishes nothing for God a.a.. I a1. JuIavvuuaawu IIVUA UYJU and what did it amount ;o? In all t wore than nine centuries he did not complish anything which seemed w record. Paul lived only a little r than 60, but how many Methus would it take to make one Paul? would not rather haye Paul's 60 than Methusaleh's 969? R.bert Cheynel died at 89 years of age and, Summerdeld at 27 years of age, but therearth nor heaven will ever hear end of their usefulness. Longei Why, an elephant can beat you at i for it lives 110 and 200 years. ( hairs are the blossoms of the tree of if found in the frosts of the se death, if found in the way of sin. One of our able New York jour last spring printed a question and it to many people, and among othei myself. "Can the editor of a sec journs,l be a Christian?" Some of newspapers answered no, No. I swered yes; and lest you may not un stand me, I say, yes, again. Sum before last, riding with Mr. Grady f a religious meeeting in Georgia Sunday night, he said to me s things which I now reveal for the time because it is appropriate now I reveal them. Ie expressed his c plete faith in the gospel and expree iris astonishment and his grief that our day so many young men were jecting Christianity. From the earn nese and the tenderness and the c dence with which he spoke on il thinize I concluded that when Henry Grady made public profession of faith in Christ, and took his place the holy communion in the Metho church he was honestly and truly a Cl tian. That conversation that Bun night, first in the carriage, and t resumed in the hotel, impressed me such a way that when I simply hearc his departure without any of the ticulars, I concluded tha he was read go. I warrant there was no frighi the last exigency, but that ho fol What is commonly called "the last e my" a good friend, and from his h< on earth he went to a home in heav Yes, Mr. Grady not only demonstra that an editor may be a Christian, that a very great intellect may be p pelized. His mental capacity was wonderful it was almost startling. have been~ wita him in active con vel tion while at the time he was dictat to a stenogrs.pher editorials for the lanta Constitution. But that intel was not ashamed to bow to Chi Among his last dying utterances was request for the prayers of the churc in his behalf. There was that particular quality him that you do not find in more t one person out of hundreds of tli sands, namely, personal magneti People hove tried to deflne that qual and always failed, yet we have all its power. There are some persons v have only to enter a room, or step u a platform, or into a pulpit, and you thrilled by their presence, and w they speak your nature responds and can not help it. What is the pecu irdluenco with which such a magn person takes hold of social groups audiences? Without attempting to fine this, which is indefinable, I will it seems to correspond to the waves air set in motion by the voice or movements of the body. Just like I atmospheric vibration is tae moral spiritual vibration which rolls out fr the soul of what we call a magnetic I Son. As there may be a cord or r binding bodies together, there may an invisible cord binding souls. A netic man throws it over others a hunter throws a lasso. Mr. Grady surcharged with this influence and was employed for patriotism and Ch tianity and elevated purposes. You may not know why, in the vereation which I had with Mr GladsI a few weeks ago, he uttered these m orable words about Christianity, som which were cabled to America. was speaking in reply to this remi I said "Mr. Gladstone, we are told America by some people that Christ ity does very well for weakminded and children in the infant class, bui was not fit for stronger minded men, when we mention you, such a large ir lectuallity, as being a pronounced fri of religion, we silence the batteri Then Mr. Gladstone stopped on the side, where we were exercising, said: "The older I grow the more firmed I am in my faith in religi "sir," said he, with flashing eye and lifted hand, "talk about the questio the day, there is but one question, that is the Gospel. That can and correct everything. Do you have at that dread ful agnosticism in Ameri Having told him that we had, he on to say: "I am profoundly than that none of my chuiren or kini have been blasted by it. I am glad say that ab>ut all the men at the to1 Great Britain are Qhristians. Why, he said, "I have been in public posi fifty-eight years, and forty-seven 3 in the Cabinet of the British goi ment, and during those forty-s years I have been assoclated with of the master minds of the century, all but five of the sixty were Christir HIe then named the four leading pl cians and surgeons of his coui callia them by name and reman up)on the high qualities of each of I and adde d: "They are all thorou Christian." Miy friends, I think it be quite respeCctable for a little long be the :riende of religion. Willian Gladstone, a Christian; Henry W. dy, a Christian. What the greatei Englishmen said of England, is tru America and of all Christendom. men at the top arc the friends of and believers o'f the sanctities of relij the most emineet of the lawyers, most eminent of the doctors, the eminent of the merebhants, and ther no better men in all cur land than of those who sit in etditorial chairs. if it does not cor.mspond with acquaintanceship, I ain sorry that have fallen into bad compa2y. In swen to the question put last sp "Can a secular journalist be a Christ I not only answer in the affirms butlasser t so great are the reaponsi bi of that profession, so infinite and nal the consequences of their obed or disobedience of the words of my "Take thee a great roll, and write with a man's pe.," and so many at surrounding temptations,that the m no ot he,- n%nft.. n mo.,,e ,deepl ?me essences ana the re-enfcrcements of hose the grace of God. ac- And then look at the opportunities of orth journalism. I praise the pulpit and nore magnify my office, but I state a fact lebs which you all know when I say that WPho where the put pit touches one person rears the press touches 500. The vast majori Mc- ty of people do not go to church, but all fohn intelligent people read the newspapers. nel- While, therefore, the responsibility of the the ministerd is great, the reponsibility ityl of edit,rs and reporters is greater. hat, Come, brother journalists, and get your ray ordination, not by the laying on of lu. life man hands, but by the laying on of hat ond hands of the Almighty. To you is com mitted the precious reputation of wom nals en. Spread before our children an ele sent vated literatute Make sin appear dia a to gusting and virtue admirable. Believe ular good rather than evil. While you show the the hypocrisies of the church, show up an- the stupendous hypocrisies outside of the der- church. Be not, as some you are, the mer more echoes of public opinion; make rom public opinion. Let the great roll on on which you write with a man's pen be a ome message of light and liberty and kind. first ness and awakening of moral power. hat But who is sufficient for these things? om- Nct one of you without divine help. ised But get that influence and the editors in and reporters can go up and take this re- world for God and the truth. The est- mightiest opportunity in all the world nfl- for usefulness today is opes before edi tese tore and reporters and publishers, W. whether of knowledge on foot, as in the his book, or knowledge on the wing, as in at the newspaper. I pray God, men of the dist newspaper press, whether you hear or ris- read this sermon, that you may rise up day to your full opportunity and that you hen may be divinely helped and rescued and in blessed. I of Some one might say co me: "How ar- can you talk thus of the newspaper y to press, when you yourself have sometimes in been unfairly treated and misrepresent nd ed?" I answer that in th , opportunity ne the newspaper press of this country and me other countries have given me week by on. week to preach the Gospel to the na ted tions, I am put under so much obliga but tion that I defy all editors and reporters, os- the world over, to write any thing that so shall call forth from me one word of I bitte: retort from now tillithe day of my sa- death. My opinion is. that all reform ing ers and religious teachers, instead of At- spcndinx so much tiune ana energy in act denouncing the press, had better spend ist. more time in thanking them for what i a they have done for the world's intolli hee gen'e and declaring their ma nificent opportunity, and urging their employ in ment of it all for the beneficent and ban righteous purposes. ou- Again, I remark that Henry W. Grady sm. stood for Christian patriotism irrespect ity, ive of political spoils. he, declined all felt official reward. He could have been vno governor of Georgia, but refused it. lie pon could have been senator of the United are States, but declined it. lie remainad ben plain Mr. Grady. Nearly all the other you orators of the political arena, as soon as liar the election is over, go to Washington, tic or Albany, or Hiarris"urg, or Atlanta, to snd get in city or State or national office re de- ward for their services, and not getting say what they want spend the rest of the of time of that admiration in pouting about the the management of public affairs or curs bat iog Harrison or Cleveland. When the or great political campaigns were over Mr. om Grady went home to his newspapers. lie )er- demonstrated that it is possible to toil ope for principles which he thought to be be right, simply because they were right. ag- Christian patriotism is too rare a com a modity in this country. Surely the joy was of living under such free institutions as it those established here ought to be encuigh ris- reward for political fidelity. Among all the great writers that stood at the~ last :on. presidential election on D)emocratic and one Republican platforms you cannot recall em- in your mind ten who were not them e of selves looking for remunerative appoint. HIe ments. Aye, you can count th.:n all on irk: the fiagers of one hand. The Llaost ii in lustrious specimen of that style of man ian- for the last ten years was Henry WV. nen Grady. it Again, Mi. Grady stood for the new but South and was just what we want to tel- meet three other men, one to speak for end the new North, another for the new East es." and another for the new West. The Aill.. bravest speech made for the last quarter and of a century was that made by Mr. Grady yon- at the New England dinner in New York m."' about two or three years ago. I sat with up- him that evening, and know something n of of his anxieties, for he was to tread on and dangerous ground, and might by one will misspoken word have antagonized fot y of ever both sections. His sp)eech was a na?" victory that thrilled all of us who heard gent him and all who read him. That speech, kful great for wis'dom, great for kindness, fred gruat for pacification, great for bravery, to will go down to the generations with in Webster's speech at Bunker Hill1, William tin." Wirt's speech at the arraignment of tion Aaron Blurr, Edmtund Burke's speech on ears Warren Haistings, Robert Emmet'sjspeech era- for his owni vindication. even WVho will in cornspicuous action repre ixty sent the new N~orth as he (lid the new and South? Who shall come forth for the ns." sew East and who for the new Westi1 lyai- Lot old1 political issues he0 buried, let old itry, grudges die. Let new theories be launch. king ed With the coming in of a new nation hem at the gates of Castle Garden every year, ghly and the wheat bin and corn crib of our will land enlarged with every harvest, and n er to vast multittude of otir population still E. pltunged in Illiteracy to be educated, and Gra- moral quiestiens abroad Involving the it of very existence of our republic, let the a of old p)olitical p)latforms that are worn) The eaten be dropped and p)latforms thai God shall be made of two planks, the one th< lion, Ten Commandments and the other th<( the Sermon on the Motint, lifted for all ci most us to stand on. But there are a lot oi a are old politicans grumbling all aruund the Bome sky who don't want a new South, a new And North, a new East or a new West. The1 your have some old war speech'ez that the1 you prepared in 1861, that in all otur autum an- nal elections they feel called upon to in ring, flict upon the country. They grow loude an?" and louder in proportion as they are tive, pushed back further and further, and tha lities Henry WV. Gradys come to- the front eter- But the mandate, I think, has gone :ortl ence from the throne of God that a tnel text, American nation shall take the place o on it trAe old, and the new has t,aen baptizet e the for God, and liberty, and justice, ant en of peace, and morality, and religion. neced iAnd now our much lameated-rion has gone to give account Suddenly the facile and potent pen is laid down and the eloquent tongue is silent. What? Is there no safeguard against fatal disease? The impersonation of stout health was Mr. Grady. What compactness of mus cle! What ruddy complexion! What flashing eyes! Standing with him in a group of twenty or thirty pers. ns at Piedmont, he koked the healtbiest, as his spirits were the blithest. Sball we never feel again the hearty grasp of his hand or be magnetized with his elo quence? Men of the great roll, men of the pen, men of wit. men of power, if our (iiend had to go when the ctl came. I do U,r von when your call comes. j When Glou a: you wia lave you done with your pen or your eloquence or your wealth or your social position, will you be able to give a satisfactory answer? l What have we been writing all these i years? If mirth, has it been inrocent mirth or that which lacerates? From our pen have there come forth productions healthy or ,oiuonouse In the last great day when the warrior I must give account of what he has done r with his sword, and the merchant what he has done with his yard stick, and the mason what he has done with his trowel, e and the artist what he has done with his pencil, we shall have to give account of what we have done with our pen. There are gold pens and diamond pens and pens of exquisite manufacture, and every few weeks I see a new kind of pen, each said to be better than the other; but in the great day of our arraignment before the judge of quick an. dead that will be the most beautiful pen, whether gold or steel or quill, which never wrote a pro fane or unclean or cruel word, or which from the day it was carved, or split at the nib, dr pped from its point kindness I and encouragement and help and grati tude to God and benediction for man. May God comfort that torn up South ern home and all the h mes of this coun try and of all the world which have been r swept by this plague of influenza, which t has deepened sometimes into pneumonia n and sometimes into typhus, and the vie tims of which are counted by the ten thousand ! Satan, who is the "Prince of h the Power of the Air," hus been poison ing the atmosphere in all nations. Though it is the first time in our remembrance, he has done the same thing before. In r 1096 the unwholesome air of Cairo, t Egypt, destroyed the life of 10,000 in one day, and in Constantinople, in 1714, t 300,000 people died of it. I am glad that c by the better sanitation of our cities and c wider understanding of hygienic laws t and the greater skill of physicians these c Apollyonic assaults upon the human race I are being resisted, but pestilential atmos- t phere ia still abroad. hardly a family 1 here but has felt its lighter or heavier touch. Some of the best of my flock fell under its 'ower, and many homes here r represented have been crushed. The fact is, the biggest failure in the universe is : this world if there 'o no heaven beyond. But there is, and the ffnds who have gone there are many and very dear. 0 i tearful eyes, look up to the hills crimson- r ing with eterna morn! That re-union l kiss will more than make up for the part- c ing kiss, and the welcome will obliterate c the good-bye. "The lamb which is iu r the midst of the throne shall lead them t to living fountains of water, and God s shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Till then, 0 departed loved ones, promise i us that you will remember us, as we i promise to remember you. And some o < you gone up from this City by the Sea, r and others from under Southern skies, f and others from the homes of the more ( rigorous North ; and some from the cabins < on great Western farms, we shall meet I again when our pen has written its last word, and our arm has done its last t day's work, and our lips have spoken the i last adieu. And now, thou great and magnificent soul of editor and orator I under brighter skies we shall moot again. From God thou camest, and to God thou hast re turned. Not broken down, but ascended Not collapsed, but irradiated. Enthroned one! Coroneted onel Beptered one!i Em pa:-adised one! IIhail and Farewell! A CANING ATi'CLAFI1N. Tne Mulatto Ohaplatin Henten, by a. White P'rofes,r-A Rtace War Th,eatened as n fleictof the A fTair. CHTAIPTrON, 8. C., Marcti 4.--There are symntoms of a race trouble at Ciaflin University, one of the lairgest colored universities In the South. This morning Professor WV. S. D)eTreville, white, ad ministered a caning to .J. N. Cardoza, the mulatto chaplain of the Co lege. The chaplain was badly b)eaten, in fact wLs knocked senseless. On hearing of the fight, the colored studeint's to the number of several hun dred, gathered andl proceeded to the de pot with the avowed intention of lynch ing DecTreville. The white people of the town of Orangeburg also assemblledl anid a con flict reemed inevitab)le. D)r. D)unton the pres (lent of the college, however, heard of the affray and 8soon quieted matters by sending the students hack to the col lege. Professor DeTreville claims that Car dozti made certain remarks in a class room reflecting upon him and that this was his reasot: for punishing him. Cardoza is a brother of F. L. Cardoza, who was State Treasurer under Frank Moses' administration as Governor af South Carolina, during the reconstruc tion p)eriodl. iIe Is a minister in the Northern M. E. Church. Claflin College is ne of the largest universities for colored students in the South. It has tupwards of 800 pupils on its roll and is supported partly hy the State and partly by the Agricultural Land Scrip. The trouble appears to be seriotis. A Brustal Muirdlr in Liaureng. LAUnzNs, S. 0., March 4.--A negro named William Rayford, living on Toem Wether's place, about six miles east of this place, disappeared several days ago. Foul play was susp,ected and search was Instituted, and his dead body was found yestei day in an 0old well near by. It had every appear ance of a mo-t brutal murder. A t the Coroner's inquest the wife of the dead f negro testifledI that Bob Sheldon, color I edi, told her that he had killed her hus I band, and this with other sircumstan ces led to the arrest of Sheldon. The I accused refuses to talk. Ha is in jail WHAT IRELAND WANTS. I'HE NATIONAL AGITATION DE FINE) BY MR. T. P. O'CONNOR. Federatlo., Not $eparatleu,-A Vicere, a Cablet and .ne loume of Parliament Are the Feature. of Ireland'. h ome Rule. LONDON, Mch. 6.-T. P. O'Connor, tditor of the Star and member of 1 ?arliament, was seen by a reporter at 1 he office of his paper today engaged n writing leading articles and was usked this question: "What improve nent er ohage in the internal gov- t rnment of Ireland, short of absolute I ndependence, would the Irish party on'ider satisfactory?" In reply Mr O'Connor said: "At the utset let me say that no member of he Irish party regards absolute sepa ation as possible. N.r is there a sin ;le member who regardg. this sever nce favorably, even in the theory. t l'he finding in the report of the Par- r tell case that some member of the Na- E ional party had joined the Land eague with a view to even' ual dis- ( uption of the empire is not only false, e ut to all Irishmen acquainted with I he actual facts of the ease and the t haract,er of Ithe gentlemen named, t vas a misapprehension so grotesque tl s to deprive the report of the Judge's u pinion on Irish politics of any solid S 'alue whatever. "I am glad to see that the American a ress coincide with my orinion that d he net result will be an immense i ain to the cause oftreland. TheJudges e vho acquitted us, as a matt r of fact, i artially condemned us by inference; if a other words, their lordshIps acquit- ti ed individuals, but convicted organi- r .:tions. But the acquittals will be re- Ii iembered, and the convictions forgot- r sn. How absurd it was to let three s edautic black-letter lawyers pro- t ounce on a movement which is so vast t scope and so portentous in conse- v uence, and which, in view of the I erce passons aroused, and the enor- e aous interests assailed, is of a revolu- t ionary character. c "Then you must remember that the b bree Judges were pronounced politi- e al opponents of the Irish cause. Two p f them were bigoted Tories and the t bird a liberal Unionist. Why, sir, id not Sir Charles Russell prove in its speech yesterday in the house that he tribunal was intentionally packed y the government? "However, the Irish party is confi lent of what it wants and will have it t the next general election." "Bet what style of governulent," usked the reporter, "will satisfy the >arty of Mr. O'Connor?" With a superb gesture, Mr. O'Con for repled: "A Vieeroy aided by a eaponsible Cabinet-a National Irish 'arliament consisting of one chamber A nly. The party of Ireland make no ommon cause with any labor move- n aent beyond a general sympathy with he poor and oppressed all over the F vorld. "We, as a party have no afliliation a rith socialism or any other ism. We re content to follow the course mark- o 4 out for us by our fathers in the glo ious though short time of Ireland's j ree Parliament, when loyalty to the ;rown and to the country were the a listinguishing characteristics of such non as Grattan, Sauna and others, f vho, though differing in creed from t he mass of the people, yet bent their 1 est energies to the common cause of heir country, and undler whose influ muce Ireland p)rospered to an extent mnequaled by any nation of the world. Tihe Quorum Quest ion. The programme to be pursued to est the constitutionality o: the trans iction of any business by the House of Representatives without a quorum, present andl voting, has been substan Lially agrceed upon. It is proposed bhat Mr. John 0. Pendleton, who was ulnseatedl by a vote of less than a jiuorum, shall make a claim upon the Lieasury for the pay to become due h~im as a member of the House of Rep resentatives from the First Congres iional D)istrict of WVest Vergin in. Upon the disallowing of this claim by the accounting officers he will proceed to bring suit in the Court of Claims, andI endeavor to have the case advanced for immediate tnial, and in case of an adverse decisior. take an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, where a motien will also be made to advance the cease, as one affecting great public interests. In case the hearing in either the Court of Claims or the Supreme Court ot the United States should be very much retarded, a nother plan has been suggested. It Is to have Mr. Pendleton bring a mandamus suit to compel the auditing andl payment of his salary, on the ground that he is still a member of Congress as he ceuld not be unseated by less than a < -msti tutional majority, and that the audit ing andl payment of his salary is a purely ministerial act.--Washington Gazette. What, thne Fiood Accompijlished. CATRO, hIll., March 6.-The Ohio river is now over fifty miles wide at this point. It extends from the Cairo levee, which holds it backed up 45 feet above low water mark, into Kentucky, till it strikes the hills there, forming one solid sheet of water, except for the narrow strips of rock hound earth upon which the Mobile and Ohio and Illinois Cen tral railroadd run south. A mile below hero it joins the Mississippi, which in turn extend. into Missouri another 50 miles, making the combined width of the two rivers over one hundred railes --A suit has been brought for *100 by Charles Le Baw, a detective, against Mr. Charles A. Stevenson, the actor, as solace for certain injuries which, he says, were. caused by Mr. Stevenson'a EAts and boots. The as sault is said to have been Incidental to the employment of the detective by KIate Claxton, who was desirous of being informed of her husband's move menta. A CHECK TO CHANDLER. Lhe 'resideat Said to be Opposed:to Ex treme LetlIatioa for the Mouth. In course of the last two or three nonths the President has had numer )us conversations with Senators and itepresentatives on the subject of southern affairs. As intimated in his mnuual message, he is in favor of the assage of a supplementary Federal >lection law, but it is understood that ie is not willing to go to the extreme ength advocated by such malignant emagogues as Chandler and others, kny law designed to control the man ter of elections must be formed to neet his views; otherwise he is not he man to sign it. It is not believed to will be inclined to favor any mess ire the effect of which would be to in erfere or influence in any way thelo al elections in the South. Mr. Har ison is a strong partisan, but ho has lwas been a strict o)nstructionist of f the constitution, and according to he reports of those who have talked pith him, he finds no warrant under xisting circumstances for any at empted interference by Congress vith local government in the louth. The hope and design of such men as :handler is to pass a measure broad nough to make federal appointees ractically supervisors of local elec ions in the South. The initial step in his programme was his presenting in he Senate yesterday of a "cooked p" petition relative to the Arkansas tate election of 1888. There are le ublicans in both houses, however, rho share the opinions of the Presi ent and wi) not be inclined to grat y Chandler's malignity. Whatever lection measure is finally passed will i all probability be confined to regu Ltions concerning the manner of elec ons of members of the House of Rep sentatives. The idea of the Repu b - cans is that a law can be framed the ssult of which will give to them a iflicient number of congressional dis ricts in the South to overbalance any 2ing short of an overwhelmii tidal 'ave in favor of the Democracy in the < forth. The President and some oth r leading Republicans think the par ' should be satisfied with this. Such . alculation is not sound because it is ased upon the assumption that the ntire nergo vote is to be held in per etual slavery by the Republican par y.-Baltimore Sun. TIE ALLEGED SLATE. Vhat I. 4a,d of it by 0.. of thefAllegod Caadidats In the News and Courier of Wedues lay, there appcared an article purpor ng to give an interview with a drum ner, who professed to have discovered n his travels through the State a ticket which bad been already "cut and dried" or the March convention in Columbia. f he alleged "elate," a far as it goes, a s follows: "For Governor, Benjamin R. Till ian of Edgefleld. "For Lieutenant Governor, John W. erguson, of Laurens. "lor Secretary of State,M. L. Don ldson, of Greenville. "For Attorney Goeral, Y. .1. Pope, f Newberry. "For Adjutant General, Hugh L. 'arley, of Sp trtanburg. "For Comptroller General, E. T. tackhouse, of Marion. lion. M. L. Donaldson, State Senator rem Greenville County, and manager of he State Alliance Exchange, is, it will re noticed, put on this alleged "slate of ~aptain Sheli" for the office of Secretary f State. Mir. D)onaldsen was seen at his 4flce in the Cleveland block, by a re orter for the D)aily News yesterday, nd asked his opinion of thu so-called late. Mr. Donaldson expressed doubt as to whether the publication, being purely mnd on its face unauithoritative, should eC noticed at all or not, The statemients tttributed to the ''drummer" (lid not, ecrtainly, bear any evidlence of fricndli *ess to the cause of the farmers, and hero were ear marks about the article hat might lead one to dloubt that the ileged "drummer" was a drumnmer after Speaking for himself, Mr. D)onaldson aid that lie knew nothing whatever of he ''slate" printed in the News and Cou nr, iIe was at a lose to know where the "'drummer" obtained lisa in'ormna Lion. lie was not in possess.ion of any such information himself, nor did he believe the information was correct. "'I am not," Mr. D). nald son said, ''a cand i date for any position on the State ticket. My present position at the head of the State Allianae exchange I consider a highly honorable and rospionsihie one0 and my time is wvholly taken by it. As to my name being on the 'slate' for any State office whatever, that ms a mis take." Mr. Donaldson saidl that he was, of course, thoroughly an(i eartily in syam pathy with the Farmners' Movement and( he was glad to see it growing among the people. At the proper time, either now or later, he was in favor tof tho State ticket being put in the field to represent the purposes and p)rinciples of the I'arm era' Movement. Who should he on that ticket, lie could not say and lhe certainly did not knew o( any ticket being "cut and dried for the March Convention." ie did not believe there was any '-slate" at ali.---Greenville News. Aniot her V'ictim ofit a !"aul. A special to the Cincinnati Enquiirer from Biarboursville, Ky., says: Sunday at Flat Lick, Sheriff Calloway Carnes was fatally shot "y a dlesperadlo named Bill Smith, leader of the Smith faction of the Smith Bluisher feud. The deputy sheriff attempted toe arrest one of the Smith party. Their leader objected, and opened fire with a Wipchester rifie, one ball passing through the deputy sheriff'. body. Carnes a broth er-in-law of the Messeres, four of the most desperate men in the mountains, who are also members of the Mlusher side of the feud. They railled their forces and started in pursuit of Smith's crowd, but have not yet come in con. tact with each other. Should they (10 so, a battle will be the result. Eith erside numbers over 36 men, well amed. KILT,ED THE WOMEN. A Terrlie Table "f Afri.a, Niwe. Timne at Thir"t. A letter from Zanzibar says that over a year ago a caravan of 800 Arabs loft the East Coast to go Ant. the in terior to trade. They have now re turned and one of the chiefs relates their adventures. Arriving at Kaviron do on the northeast shore of Victoria Nyanza,, the Arabs saw that the na tives had a good deal of ivory and that they had no guns. They attack ed the tribe, and before the shooting had gone on long the natives were willing to do anything to make peace. After a long palaver with the chiefs the Arabs agreed to leave the country upon the payment to them of two hun lred tusks of ivory and two hundred voting women. The natives were glad o get rid of the enemy even on these hard conditions. As soon as they re 3eived the ivory and the women the Arabs str4rted for the coast. They had a terrible time in the Masai country. 'here was a drought and they almost erished of thirst. Then provisions ecame scarcer and scarcer and the whole party was in danger of starva tion. Finally the Arab chief decided that in order to save themselves and their ivory it would be necessary to sacrifice their female slaves, who were very weak from their deprivations and uould march no farther. That night all of these 200 young women were shot to death, and their bodies were left in the camp for beasts )f prey. The victims happily had not a moment's warning of their impend ng fate. Each murderer seleotad Ms victim, and the horrible crima was ac ;oiplished so speedily that few of the women made any outcry. With their orces thus summarily re Inced the frabs were able to pull through the lesert region, obtaining little more ood th zn barely enough to sustain ife. The chief who related these facts n Zanzibar showed no compunctions vhatever for the terrible crime in vhich he had assisted, but he mention id the massacre only to give an idea >f the great loss they had sustained by he necessary sacrifice of their 200 laves. It is a curious fact that some >f the murderers were troubled in nind because their necessities had :ompolle(d them to eat rats and other mclean food, which is prohibited to Qloharnmedaus on the march. I)oes Farming Pay? This question is constantly asked and always provokes discussion. Whether farming pays, says the Columbus En quirer Sun, depends more on the farmer than anything else. Among the many farmers in the State who can answer the query affirmatively is lion. James M. Smith of Oglethrope county. He is now without doubt the largest and wealth iest planter in the State, a plain, practi cal, common sense man who began life after the war a poor boy without a dol man who recently v1iste1 OIlf1n e county that Col.Smith'u receipts from last year's operations ranged s3mewhero be t ween $150.000 and $200,000. One big iter, was his crop of 1800 bales of cot ton. Besides there were thousands of bushels of corn, wheat, oats, etc. Col. Smith also runs pronitably an oil mill and fertilizer factory, to say nothing of a short line railroad, of which he is president and general manager. All this immense husines was built up by a farmer on his farm.--Augusta Chroni cle. A ItIIIntII 11511(1 Pet 1ifed. Mr. W. II. Jones, of Atlanta, made a remarkable find in Florida a few days ago. This is no more nor less than a pe trifled human hand. It was found im bedded in the er.d, only a few feet from the surface, between Cockledge and Cocoa, on the Indlan river. "T be hand," says the Times-Union, "must have becen Revered many years ago perhaps by the Indians. The fingors are piartially closed, the thumb restir.g lightly against the fore -and middle fin ger., and it was a young woman's hand -one of the most shapely, refined and dlelicate that couldl he imagined. The tapering fingers, nail and dainty wrist belonged, one most imagine, to a lady of great lbeauty. Near the wri&t joint is the clearly-decfinied mark of a brace ~t. Tracings of t ie veinis, muscles sand arteries, tin d thet porous condition of hand and wrist, in dicate that it is the natural huimani hand, petrified. The creatses in the palm are perfect. No stone or marble of which we have any knowledge, at p,reseut, could present such fea.tures, and if it was the work of an artist his name would rank wyith that of the fliest sculptors of ancient or mod ern timos, nor would such a work likely , have been t hrtown away or lost," A loving young husbatnd of C;ncinnati prtesesses a pretty young wife ant sweet little baby who is as good as lie can be itt the dhaytime, but who has a penchant for making the air resfoundl with his cries. The dear little thing was giving his uisuaul conceit several nights ago. hlis audience wats tiredl out. The '"hap py' father" was trying hard to persuade the oild sand imatn to fill his eyes arid tranisport lim tc thne land of nod. 8till the baby yelled. "D)earest," growled t his loving young husband, '"hadn't you better get up and waulk around ihie roomi and get your baby quiet?1" " My babsb," responded "Dlearest," ''well, I think about one-ha'f (of it is yours !" "'Oh, I don't care how much noise my half makes," answered the villian. "'You just keel) your half still."-Times.ie. Regulamting itours of' iial>oie. lUciiMo)N>, Va., Masrch 8.-The bill to regulate the houirs of labor in factories where females anid chilIdren tunrder four teen years of ago are employed, piassed both IIouses arid went to thie Governor a few days ago. The bill provides that no child under the above age shall work in any factory more than ten hours a (day. Siince Its passage, the Governor has received numecrotus protests against It from Lynichbuirg, D)anville and other pirominient tobacco manufacturing pointe of the State, with urgent requests to withhold his signature,unle he wuebed to ace the factorie ined. gotwitm standing these app the Gover ner it isnow alaw'