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VOL. XIX. PICKENS, S. C., ~ MARCH 13. 1890. NO. 25.
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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'