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VOL, XIX. PlI(KEN,S, S. C., THURSDAY. MAItCH 13. 189. TA LMNA 6E ON GRADY. THE BROOKLYN PREACHER EULO GIZES THE DEAD EDITOR. .ur. Girady's Triumph Over Adversity and file Deep Iteligious Natuire-An Inci dent of the Piedmont Chautnuaan. The subject of Dr. Tahnage's Sunday sermon was: "The Lifo and Death of Henry W. Grady, the Editor and Orator." He took for his text Isaiah viii, 1: "Take thee a great. roll, aad write in it with a man's pen." The preachtr said: To 1-aiah, with loyal 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 (auln's pen. So God honored the pen and so He hon ored manuscript. In our day the mightiest roll is the religious and secular newipaper, and the mightiest pen is the editor's pen; whether for good or evil. And Gad says now to every literary man, and espechilly 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,l. I was far away at the time. We had been efiing up from the Medi terrauean sea through the Dardauelles, which region 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 boaven. Indeed we had just passed Patmos, the place from which John had his apocalyptic vision. Constantinople had seemed to some out to greAt 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, soens almost to step into the water to greet you. But my landing there, that would hr.ve ben to me an exhilaration, was suddenly stunned with the tidings of the death of my intimatte friend, Ien ry W. Grady. I could haroly believe the tidings, for I had left on my study table at hwma letters and telegrams from him-those letters and telegrams having a warmth and genility, and a wit such as he only could expreFs. The de parture of no pnblic man for many Fears 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 pr<cfssion, and for the sake of what he had I:eon to me and shall con tinue to be as lo-g a3 memory lasts, I would speak a vord in appreciation of him, the most p:omising of Americans, and learn some of th; salient lessons of his departure. I have no doubt that he had enemies, for no man can live such na active life as he lixed, or t so far in advance of hli time, witho' making enemies, some because he dofeated their projects, and some because lie outshone tho.m. Owls and bats never did like the rising sun. But I shall tell you how he ap peared 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 iB 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 sumner, 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 he lives I will keep silent when he is d'arl. Myrtle and weeping willow can never do what ought to have been done by amaranth and palm branch. No amount of "Dead March Saul" rumbling f om big organs at the obsequies can atone for non-ap preciation of the -nan before he fell on sler p. The hearse cannot do what ought te have been done by chariot. But there are important things that need to be said about our friend, who was a prophet in Ahmerican journalism and who only a few year. ago heard the command of my texr: "F'ake thee a great roll, and write in it with a man's pen." His father dead, Henry WV. Grady, a boy 14 years of age, took up the battle of life. It would require a long chapter to record the names of orphans who have come to the top. When God takes away the head of the household ho very often gives to some lad in that household a special qualification. Christ remembers how that his own rather died early, leav ing him to support himself and his moth or and bis brotheors in the carpenter's shop at Nazareth, and ho 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 anri I would have had a more promising start, and there are some wrinkles on my brow that would not have been there." But I h'tve noticed that God makes a>special way for orphans. You would not have been half the man you are if you had net been obliged from your early dlays to fight your own bat tIes What other boy9 got cuit of Yale or Ilarvardl you got in the university of Hard Knocks. Go among successful merchants, lawyers, physi(clane and men of all occupations and professions, and there are many of them who wIll tell you: "At ten, or twelve, or fi fteen years of ago I started for myself; father was sIck, or father was dead." But some how they got through and got up.I aocount for It by the fact that there is a special dispensation of God for orphana All hail, thefatherless and the mother less I The Lord Almighty will see you through. Early obstacles for Mr. Grady were only the means for development of his intellect and heart. And lolI when at 89 years of age lhe puit down his pen and closed his lips for the perpetual Si lence, 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 .fnlly we live. A man who lives to 80 years and actc)mplishes nothing for Glod nr humaalty migtketter ave .eo. lived at all. Methusaleh lived 909 yeark and what did it amount to? In all those more than nine centuries he did not ac complish anything which seemed wortb record. Paul lived only a little more than 60, but how many Methusalebe would it take to make one Paul? Whc would not rather have Paul's 60 yeare than Methusaleh's 969? Robert Blc Cheynel died at 39 years of age and John Summerfield at 27 years of age, but nel therearth nor heaven will ever hear the end of their usefulness. Longevity' Why, an elephant can beat you at that, for it lives 150 and 200 years. Gray hairs are the blossoms of the tree of life if found in the frosts of the second death, if found in the way of sin. One of our able New York journals last spring printed a question and sent it to many people, and among others to myself. "Can the editor of a secular journal be a Christian?" Some of the newspapers answered no, No. I an swered yes; and lest you may not under stand me, I say, yes, again. Summer before last, riding with Mr. Grady from a religious meeeting in Georgia on Sunday night, he said to me some things which I now reveal for the first time because it is appropriate now that I reveal them. le expressed his com plete faith in the gospel and expressed his 'stonishment and his grief that in our day so many young men were re jecting Christianity. From the earnest nese and the tenderness and the confi dence with which he spoke on these things I concluded that when Henry W. Grady made public profession of his faith in Christ, and took his place at the holy communion in the Methodist church he was honestly and truly a Chris tian. That conversation that Sunday night, first in the carriage, and then resumed in the hotel, impressed me in such a way that when I simply heard of his departure without any of the par ticulars, I concluded tha he was ready to go. I warrant there was no fright in the last exigency, but that he found What is commonly called "the last ene my" a good friend, and from his heme on earth lie went to a home in heaven. Yes, Mr. Grady not only demonstrated that an editor may be a Christian, but that a very great intellect may be gos pelized. His mental capacity was so wonderful it was almost startling. I have been wita him in active conversa tion while at the time he was dictating to a stenogr&pher editorials for the At lanta Constitution. But that intellet was not ashamed to bow to Chri8t. Among his last dying utterances was a request for the prayers of the churches in his behalf. There was that particular quality in him that you do not find in more than one person out of hundreds of thou sands, name'y, personal magnetism. People hove tried to define that quality, and always failed, yet we have all felt its power. There are some persons wno have only to enter a room, or step upon a platform, or into a pulpit, and you are t4rilled by their presence, and when they speak your nature responda and you can not help it. What is the peculiar influence with which such a magnetic person takes hold of social groupa and audiencest Without attempting to de flne this, which is indefinable, I will say it seems to correspond to the waves of air set in motion by the voice or the movements of the body. Just like thAt atmospheric vibration is t.e moral or spiritual vibration which rc1ls out from the soul of what we call a magnetic per son. As there may be a cord or rope binding bodies together, there may be an invisible cord binding souls. A mag netic man throws it over others as a hunter throws a lasso. Mr. Grady was surcharged with this influence and it was employed for patriotism and chris tianity and elevated purposes. You may not know why, in the con versation which I had with Mr Gladstone a few weeks ago, he uttered these mem orable words about Christianitv. some of which were cabled to Atelica. He was speaking in reply to this remark: I said "Mr. Gladstone, we are told in America by some people that Christian ity does very well for weakminded men and children in the infant class, but it was not fit for stronger minded men, but when we mention you, such a large intel lectuallity, as being a pronounced friend of religion, we silence the batteries." Then Mr. Gladstone stopped on the hill side, where we were exercising, and said: "The older I grow the more con firmed I am in my faith in religion." "sir," said he, with flashing eye and up lifted hand, "talk about the question of the day, there is but one question, and that is the Gospel. That can and will correct everything. D)o you have any of that dread ful agnosticism in America?' Having told him that we had, he went on to say: "I am p)rofouindly thankful that none of my chil dren or kindred have been blasted by it. I am glad to say that ab>ut all the meni at the top in Great Britain are Christians. Why, sir,' he said, "I have been in public position fifty-eight years, and forty-seven years in the Cabinet of the British govern ment, and during those forty-sever y3ars I have been associated with sixty of the master minds of the century, and all hut five of the sixty were Christians.' iIe then named the four leading physi cians and surgeons of his country, calling them by name and remarkinf upon the high qualities of each of thenr and addei: "They are all thoroughly Christian." My friends, I think it wil: be0 quite respectable for a little longer t< be the friends of religion. William E Gladstone, a Christian; Henry W. Gra dy, a Christian. What the greatest oi Englishmen said of England, is true of America and of all Christendom. The men at the top are the friends of God and believers of the sanctities of religIon thae most eminent of the lawyers, th most eminent of the doctors, tho moe eminent of the merchants, and there ar no hetter men in all our land than somi of those who sit in editorial chairs. An( if it does not correspond with you: acquaintanceship, I am sorry that you have fallen into bad compa2y. In an swer to the question put last spring "Can a secular journalist be a Christian?t I not only answer in the affirmative butlassert so great are the responsi bilhit.ie of that profession, so Infinite and eter nal the consequences of their obedience or disobedience of the words of my text "Take thee a great roll, and write oni with a man's porn," and so many are th surrounding temptatlons,that the men o no othe ninfe.unn more deeply ...e the defences and the re-enfercements ol the grace of God. And then look at the opportunities of journalism I praise the pulpit and magnify my office, but I state a fact which You all know when I say that where the pulpit touches one person the press touches 500. The vast majori tY Of people do not go to church, but all Intelligent people read the newspapers. While, therefore, the responsibility of the ministera is great, the reponsibility of edit >rs and reporters is greater. Come, brother journalists, and get your ordination, not by the laying on of I-. man hands, but by the laying on of ti,, hands of the Almighty. To you is com mitted the pieciois reputation of wom en. Spread betorc our children an ele vated literatute Make sin appear dis gusting and virtue admirable. Believe good rather than evil. While you show the hypocrisies of the church, show tip the stupendous hypocrisies outside of the church. Be niot. as sonic you are, the mere echoes of public opinion; make public opinion. Let the great roll on wbich you write with a man's pen be a message of light and liberty and kind. ness and awakening of moral power. But who is sullicient for the,e thingw.? Nct one of you without divine hel-. But get that iiflueuce tind the editors and reporters can go ip and take this world f.,r God and the truth. The mightiest opportunity in all the world for tiseiulness today is open tefore edi tors and reporters and publishers, whether of knowledge on foot, as in the book, or knowledge on the wing, as in the newspaper. I pray God, men of the newspaper press, whether you hear or read this bermon, that you may rise up to your full opportunity and that you may be divinely helped and rescued and blessed. Some one might any zo me: "How can you '.alk thus of the newspaper press, when you yourself havesometimes been unfairly treated and misrepresent ed?" I answer that in th t opportunity the newspaper press of this country and other countries have given me week by week to preach the Gospel to the na tions, I am put under so much obliga tion that I defy all editors and reporte.s, the world over, to write any thing that shall call forth from me one word of bitte; retort from now till1the day of my death. My opinion is. that all reform ers and religious teachers, instead of spending so much tine anu energy in denouncing the press, had better spend more time in thanking them for what they have done for the world's intelli gcnr:e and declaring their ma;nificent opportunity, and urging their employ mernt of it all for the beneficent and righteous purposes. Again, I remark that Henry W. Grady stood for Christian patriotism irrespect ive of political spoils. Ile declined all official reward. Ie could have been governor of Georgia, but refused it. IlIe could have been senator of the United States, but declined it. IIe remained plain Mr. Grady. Nearly all the other orators of the political arena, as soon as the election is over, go to Washington, or Albany, or Iarrip"-urg, or Atlanta, to get in city or State or national office re ward for their services, and not getting what they want spend the rest of the time of that admiration in pouting about the management of public affairs or curs ing Harrison or Cleveland. When the great political campaigns were over Air. Grady went home to his newspapers. le demonstrated that it is possible to toil for principles which he thought to be right, simply because they were right. Christian patriotism is too rare a com modity in this country. Surely the joy of living tinder such free institutions as those established here ought to be enough rewardI for plolitlcal fidelity. Among all the great writers that stood at the last presidential election on D)emocratic and Republican platforms you cannot recall in your mind ten who were not them selves looking for remunerative apipoint. ments. Aye, you can cotunt them all on the fingers of one hand. The most ii lustrious specimen of that style of man for the last ten years was IIenry WV. Grady. Again, Mi. Grady stood for the new South and was juEt what we want to meet three other men, one to speak for the new Nort b, another for the new East and another for the new West. The bravest Speech made for the last quarter of a centtury was that made by Mir. Grady at the New England dinner in New York about two or three years ago. I sat with him that evening, and know something of his anxieties, for he was to tread on dangerous ground, a.nd might by one0 missploken word have antagonized fo: ever both sections. Iiis speech was a victory that thrilled all of us who heard him and all who read him. That speech, great for wisdom, great for kindness, groat for pacification, great for bravery, will go down t,> the generations with WVebster'a speech at Bunker IIill, 'William Wirt's speech at the arraignment of Aar)n llurr, Edmaund Burke's speech on Warren Ihiastings, Robert Emmet'slspechb for his owni vindlication. WVho will in conispicuous action repre sent the new North as he did the new South? Who shall come forth for the new East and who for the new Westi Let old political issues be buried, let old3 grudges die. Let new theories be launch ed With the coming in of a new natiori at the gates of Castle Garden every year, and the wheat bin and corn crib of out land enlarged with every harvest, and vast multitude of our population still plunged in illiteracy to be educated, anc moral questiens abroad involving th( very existence of otir republic, let the old p)olitical platforms that are wornr eaten be dropperd and platforms tha' shall be made of two plank., the one th< Ten Commandments and the other th< Sermon on the Mount, lifted for all 01 us to stand on. But there are a lot of Sold politicans grumbling all around th< I sky who don't want a new South, a nevi I North, a new East or a new West. The' have some old war speehes that the' a prepared in 1861, that.In all our autunm - nial elections they feel called upon to in ,flict upon the country. '[hey grow loude: 'and louder in proportion as they ari ,pushed b.ack further and further, and the m IIenry WV. Gradys come to the front - But the mandate, I think, has gone forti s from the throne of God that a nes ,American nation aball take the place c t the old, and the new has t,en baptize< it fur God, and liberty, and justIce, an< f peace, and morality, and religion. I And now our muchna ented frion 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 diseasel The impersonation of st:ut health was Mr. Grady. What compactness of mus clel What ruddy complexion! What flashing eyes! Standing with him i iv a group of twenty or thirty persms at Piedmont, he h,oked the healthiest, as his spirits were the blithest. Shall we never feel again the hearty grasp of his hand or be magnetized with his clo quence? blen of the great roll, men of the pen, men of wit. men of power, if (Pir J;pnd had to go when thm etl c4rme. bU 111- 1 Voll whent V1,111. C,111 colneCs. When Gue -a you b hw1m.Ire yu dIone with your pen or your eliueoce or ipur wealth or your social positin, will yoPu be able to give a satisfactuyr answer? What have we been writing all these years? If mirth, has it been itrocent mirth or that which laceratest From our pen have there come forth productions healthy or pi-ionousf In the last Vreat day when i he warrior must give account of what he has done wiLh his sword, and the ierch!nt what he has done with his yard stick. and the mason what he has Ione with his trowel, 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 diamiond pens and pens of exquisite manufacture, and every tew weeks I see a new kind of pen, each said to be better than the othcr; 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 and encouragement and hel) and grati tude to God and benediction for man. May God comfort that torn up South ern home and all the imes of this coun try and of all the world which have been swept by this plague of irfluenza, which has deepened sometimes into pneumonia and sometimes into typhus, and the vic tims of which are counted by the ten thousand! Satan, who is the "Prince of the Power of the Air," has beti poison ing the atmosphere in all nations. Though it is the first time in our remembrance, he has done the same thing before. In 1690 the unwholesome air of Cairo, Egypt, destroyed the life of 10,000 in one day, and in Constantinople, in 1714, 300,000 people died of it. I am glad that by the better sanitation of our cities and wider understanding of hygienic laws and the greater skill of physicians these Apollyonic assaults upon the human race are being resisted, but pestilential atmos phere is still abroad. Hardly a family here but has felt its lighter or heavier touch. Some of the best of my fock fell under its 'ower, and many homes here 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 ftnds who have g,one there are many and very dear. O| tearful eyes, look up to the hills crimson ing with eterna morn! That re-union kiss will more than make up for the part ing kiss, and the welcome will obliterate the good-bye. "The lamb which is iu the midst of the throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." Till then. 0 departed loved ones, promise us that you will remember us, as we promise to remember you. And some of you gone tip from this City by the Sea and others from under Southern skies, and others from the homes of the more rigorous North; and some from the cabins on great Western farms, we shall meet again when our pen has written its last word, and our arm has (lone its last day's work, and our lips have spoken the last adieu. And now, thou great and magnificent soul of editor and orator I under brighter skies we shall meeot again. From God thou camest, andl to God thou hast re turned. Not broken down, but ascended Not collapsed, but irradiated. Enthroned one! Coroneted onel Sceptered one! Em pa:-adised one! Ilail and Farewell! A CANING AT CLAFLAIN. Tnes aMulatno chiapiin, nenten b,v a whiite Pro,fesser-A Rlace Wnr Th,eatenedu as n Itemult of the A frnir. CHIARILES'!N, S. C., Marci 4.--There are symutoms of a race trouble at Claflin University, one of the largest colored untiversitica in the Sotith. This morning Professor W. 8. D)eThreville, white, ad ministered a caning to .J. N. Cardoza, lie mulatto chaplain of the Co' lege. The chaplain was badly beaten, in fatct wks knocked senseless. On hearing of the fight, the colored student's to the number of several hun dred, gathered and proceeded to the de pot with the avowed itetntion of lynch ing D)eTreville. The white pecople of the town of Orangeburg also assemnbled1 and a~ con flict seemed inevitab)le. Dr. D)unton the pres dent of the college, however, heard of the affray and soon quieted matters by sending the students back to the col lege. Professor D)eTreville claims that Car doz.t made certain remarks in a class room rdlecting upon him and that this was his reason for punishing him. Cardoza is a brother of F. L. Cardoza, who was State Treasurer under F"rank Moses' administration as Governor of South Carolina, during the reconstrtc tion period, 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 upwards of 800 pupils on its roll and is stupportedl partly by the State and partly by the Agricultural Land derip. The trouble appears to be serious. A lir-utal Mutrtler in Jiauirenu. LAURENS, S. 0., March 4.--A negro named William Rayford, livingon Tonm Wether's p)lace, about six miles east of this olace, disappeared several days ago. Foul play was suspected and Ssearch was instituted, and his dead body was found yester day in an old .well near by. It had every appear I ance of a mo-t brutal mntrder. At the r Coroner's inqutest the wife of the dead f negro testified that Bob Fheldon, color I ed, told her that he had killed her hus I band, and this with other iircumstan ces led to the arrest of Sheldon. The I accused refuses to talk. He Is In jail. WHAT IRELAND WANTS. TIE NATIONAL AGITATION DE. FINED BY MR. T. P. O'CONNOR. Federntion, Not set,araten,-A Vicerey. a Cablnet nud One Elious of Parilametit Are abe Fealares of Ireland'n 1orst. Rule. LONDON, Mch. 6.-'!. P. O'Connor, editor of the Star and member of Parliament, was soen by a reporter at the office of his paper today engaged in writing leading articles and was asked this question: "What improvo ment or changa in the internal gov ernment of Ireland, short of absolute independence, would the Irish party con-ider satisfactory?" In reply Mr O'Connor said: "At the outset lot me say that no member of the Irish party regards absolute sepa ration as possible. Nor is there a sin gle member who regardga thie sever auc3 favorably, even in the theory. The finding in the report of the Par nell case hat, some member of the Na tional party had joined the Land League with a view to even' ual dis ruption of the empire is not only false but to all Irishmen acquainted with' the actual facts of the ease and the character of [the gentlemen named, was a misapprehension so grotesque as to deprive the report of the Judge's opinion on Irish politics of any solid value whatever. "I am glad to see that the American press coincide with my o,inion that the net result will be an immense gain to the cause ofIreland. TheJudges who acquitted us, as a matt r of fact, partially condemned us by inference; in other words, their lordshlps acquit ted individuals, but convic!ed organi z tiois. But the acquittals will be re membered, and the convictions forgot ten. How absurd it was to let three pedatitic black-letter lawyers pro nounce on a movement which is so vast in scope and so portentous in conse quence, and which, in view of the fierce passons aroused, and the enor mous mterests assailed, is of a revolu tionary character. "Then you must remember that the threeJudgei were pronoanced politi cal opponents of the Irish eause. Two of them were bigoted Tories and the third a liberal Unionist. Why, sir, did not Sir Charles Russell prove in his speech yesterday in the Rouse that the tribunal was intentionally packed by the government? "However, the Irish party is confi dent of what it, wants and will have it at the next general election." "But what style of governuient," asked the reporter, "will satisfy the party of Mr. O'Connor?" With a superb gesture, Mr. O'Con nor repled: "A Vieeroy aided by a responsible Cabinet-a ational Irish Plarliament consisting of one chamber only. The party of Ireland make no common cause with any labor move ment beyond a general sympathy with the poor and oppressed all over the world. "We, as a party have no afliliation with socialism or any other ism. We are content to follow the course mark ed out for us by our fathers in the glo rious though short time of Ireland's free Parliament, when loyalty to the Crown and to the country were the distingui.h,ing characteristics of such men as Grattan, Saurin and others, who, though differing in creed from the mass of the people, yet bent their hest energies to the common cause of their country, and under whose influ ence Ireland p)rospered to an extent uneq1ualed by any nation of the world. The Qutorumi quest ion. The program me to be pursued to test the constitutionality o: the trans action of any business by the House of Representatives without a quorumi, present andl voting, has been substan tially agreed upon. It is proposed that Mr. John 0. Pendloton, who was unseatedl by a vote of less than a quorum, shall make a claim upon the treasury for the pay to become due him as a member of the House of Rep resentatives from the First Congres sional Dimstrict of WVest Verginia. Upon the disallowing of this claim by the accounting oflicers he will proceed to b)ring suit in the Court of Claims, and endeavor to have the case advanced for immedliate tr ial, and in case of an adlverse deccision take an appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States, where a motion will also 1be made to advance the case, as one aflecting great pubbie interests. In case the hearing in either the Court of Claims or the Supreme Court of the United States should be very much retarded, another plan has been suggested. It is to have Mr. Pendleton bring a mandamus suit to compel the auditing and payment of his salary, on the ground that he is still a member of Congress as he could not be unseated by less than a s insti tutional majority, and that the audlit ing and payment of his salary is a purely ministerial act.--Washington Gazette. What the Flooid AccomplIshed. CAIRO, Ills., March 6.--The Ohiu river is now over fifty miles wide at this point. It extends from the Cairo levee, which holds it backed up 45 feet aboec low water mark, into Kentucky, till it strikes the hills there, forming one solid sheet of water, exepjt for the narrow strips of rock hound earth upon which the Mlobile and Ohio and Illinois Cen tral railroadd run south. A mile below here it joins the Mississippi, which in turn extendls Into Missouri another 50O miles, making the combIned width of the two rivers over one hundred rmiles --A suit has been brought for $100 by Charles Le Raw, a detective, against Mr. Charles A. Stevenson, the actor, as solace for certain injuiries which, he says, were, caused by Mr, Stevenson's flsts and boots. The as sault is said to haive been incidental tc the employment of the det.etve by Kate Claxton, who was desirous eo abeing informed of her husband's move menta. A CHECK TO CHANDLER. The President Said to be Opposed:to Ex treme Legislation for the Mouth. In course of the last two or three months the President has had numer ous conversations with Senators and Representatives on the subject of Southern affairs. As intimated in his annual message, he Ii in favor of the passage of a supplementary Federal election law, but it is understood that he is not willing to go to the extreme length advocated by such malignant demagogues at' Chandler and others. Any law designed to control the man ner of elections must be formed to meet his views; otherwise lie is not the man to sign it. It is not believed he will be inclined to favor any meas ure the efrect of which would be to in terfere or influence in any way the lo cal elections in the South. Mr. Har rison is a strong partisan, but ho has alwas been a strict o3nstructionist of of the constitution, and according to the reports of those who have talked with him, lie finds no warrant under existing circumstances for any at tempted interference by Congress with local government in the South. The hope and design of such men as Chandler is to pass a measure broad r enough to make federal appointees practically supervisors of local elec - tions in the South. The initial step in this programme was his presenting in the Senate yesterday of a "cooked 1 up" petition relative to the Arkansas State election of 1888. There are lie publicans in both houses, however, who share the opinions of the Presi (lent and will not be inclined to grat ify Chandler's malignity. Whatever election measure is finally passed will f in all probability be confined to regu lations concerning the manner ofelee. tions of members of the House of Rep- f resentatives. The idea of the Itepub. licans is that a law can be framed the result of which will give to them a sufficient number of congressional dis. tricts in the South to overbalance any thing short of an overwhelming tidal wave in favor of the Democracy in the < North. The President and sonic oth- t er leading Republicans th-ink the par ty should be satisfied with this. Such < calculation is not sound because it is r based upon the assumption that the entire nergo vote is to e held ii per petual slavery by the Republican par ty.-Baltimnore Sun. rHE ALLEGED SLATE. What ts MAnI of it by Ous of thel tileged Candidates In the News and Courier of Wednes day, there al)plered an article purpor ing to give an interview with a drum mer, who professed to have discovered in his travels through the State a ticket which had been already "cut and dried" for the March convention in Columbia. The alleged "elate," as far as it goes, is as follows: "For Governor, Benjamin R. Till man, of Edgefield. - "For Lieutenant Governor, John W. - Ferguson, of Laurens. "For Secretary of State,)M. L. Don aldson, of Greenville. "For Attorney General, Y. .1. Pope, of Newberry. "For Adjutant General, Hugh L. Farley, of SIP trtanburg. "For Comptroller General, E. ,. Stackhouse, of Marion. lion. M. L. Donaldson, State Senitor from Greenville County, and manager of the State Alliance Exchange, is, it will be noticed, put on this alleged ''slate of Captain Shell" for the oflice of Mecretary of State. Mr. Donaldson wan seen at his office in the Cleveland block, by a re porter for the Daily News yesterday, andi asked his opinion of the so-called slate. Mr. D)onaldson expressed dotzlbt ast to whether the publication, being purely andi on its face unauthoritative, should be noticed at all or not. Thesctatements attributed to the "'drummer'" did ntot, certainly, bear any evidence of friendli ness to the cause of the farmers, atnd there were car marks about thte article that might lead one to dloub)t that the alleged "'drummer" was a d rummer after all. Speaking for himself, Mr. D)onald.on said that lie knew nothing whatever of the ''slate" printed in the News and (Cou rier. IIe was at a loss to know where the ''drummer" ob,tained his in 'orma tion. lie was not in possession olf any such in form at ion himiself, nor didl he believe the information was correct. "'I am not,'' Mr. D. naldson said, '"a cand i date for any position on the State ticket. My present position at the head of the State Allian.ce exchange I consider a higAly honorable and responsiblef one and my time is wholly taken by it. As to my name b)eing on the 'slate' for any State office whatever, that is a mis take." Mr. D)onaldson said( that, lie was, of course, thoroughly and heartily in symi pathy with the Farmners' Movement and he was glad to see it growing among the peop fle. At the proper time, either now or later, he was in favor of the State ticket being put in the field to represent the purposes and principles of the Farm ers' Movement. Who should be (on that ticket, lie could not say and he certainly did not knew of any ticket being "cut and dried for the March Convention." lie did rnot believe there was any '-slate" at all --Greenville News. Antther Victfim of'n Feudo. A special to the Cincinnati Entpiirer from Barboureville, Ky., says: Sunday at Flat Lick, Sheriff Calloway Carnes was fatally shot by a dlesperado namtIed Bill Smith, leader of the Smith faction of the Smith Slusker feud. The de?mty sheriff attempted to arrest one of the Smith party. Their leader objected, and opened fire with a Winchester rifle, one ball passing through the deputy sheriff's 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 Slusher side of the feud. They railled their forces andI started in pursuit of8Smith's crowd, but have not yet come in con. tact with each other. Should they do so, a battle will be the result. Eith,. erside numbers over 35 men, well armed. KILLED THE WOMEN. A Terrilo Tablo of Afrias ilayes Time ot Thirst. A letter from Zanzibar says that over a year ago a caravan of 300 Arabs left the East Coast to go into the in. terior to trade. They have now re Lurned and one of the chiefs relates their adventures. Arriving at Kaviron Jo 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 3d 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 he Arabs agreed to leave the country Tpon the payment to them of two hun lred tusks of ivory and two hundred oung women. The natives were glad o get rid of the enemy even on these lard conditions. As soon as they re .eived the ivory and the women the trabs started for the coast. They had terrible time in the Masai country. l'here was a drought and they almost )erished of thirst. Then provisions >mcame scarcer and scarcer and the vhole party was in danger of starva ion. Finally the Arab chief decided 'hat in order to save themselves and heir ivory it would be necessary to iacrifice their female slaves, who were tery weak from their deprivations and ould march no farther. That night all of these 200 young ,vomen were shot to death, and their )odies were left in the camp for beasts )f prey. The victims happily had not iuoment's warning of their impend ng fate. Each murderer selectad his rictim, and the horrible crimi was ac :oiplished so speedily that few of the romen made any outcry. With their 'orces thus sumnmaari3 ro luced the trabs were able to pull through the lesert rerion, obtaining little more ood th in barely enough to sustain ife. The chief who related tbese facts n zlnlzibar showed no compunctions vhatever for the terribl3 crime in vhich he had assisted, but he mention d the massacre only to give an idea > the great loss they had sustained by hi necessary sacrifice of their 200 laves. It is a curious fact that some f the murderers were troubled In aind because their necessities had onpelled them to eat. rats and other nelean food, which is prohibited to 4ohanmiedaus on the march. ws i arimling Pay? ''his question is constantly asked and aways provokes discussion. Whether arming payi, saya the Columbus En juirer Stun, depends more on the farmer han anything else. Among the many armers in the Stato who can answer the Iuery athirmatively ir lion. James M. smith of Oglethrope county. lie is now 6vithout doubt the largest and wealth - est planter in the State, a plain, practi -al, common sense man who began life ifter the war a poor boy without a d(l. dt0 j We&bV.t 1roim Ou nan who recently visited Ogldferopo ounty that Col.Smith'u receipts from hst ear's operations ranged s.mewhere be ween $150.000 and $200,000. One big te was his crop of 1800 bales of cot on. Busides there were thousands of mishels of corn, wheat, oats, etc. Col. 5mith also runs proflitably an oil mill nd fertilizer factory, to say nothing of s hort line railroad, of which he is )resident and getteral ianager. All this minense usineis was built up by a armer on his farm.-Augusta Chroni 'le. A 4111111n11 Hiandi 1,4-1-ified. Mr. WV. II. Jones, of Atlanta, male a remarkable hid in Florida a few (days 'igo. Thiis is no more nor less than a pe trified htan hand. It was found im bedded in the saia.d, only a few feet front the suarfacet, b)etween Cockledge and Cocoa, on the Indian river. "'The hiand," says the Timeis-Union, "mu tst have beenct severedl many years ago perhiaps by the Indians. The fingers are partially closed, the thiumbi resting lightly against tIhe fore and middle fin gers, and it was a yeaang woman's hand --one oif the most shapely, refined and delicate that coul be imagined. The tapering Iinegers, nail andi dianty wrict belonged, onme mutst imagine, to a lady of great bueauty. Near thle wrist joint is the clearly-delined amark of a brace let. Tracings of tile veins, musacles sad arteries, and1( te porouas condition of hand and wrist, i ndicate that it is the natuaral hiaum hiand, petrified. 'rThe creasesB in the palm are perfect. No) stonie ort marble o)f whIch we have any k nowled ge, at present, couitld presenit stuchi featuires, and~ if it was the work of an artist his name would rank with that of thbe ineat sctulpto)rs of ancienit or modl ern timos, nor wouldt such a work likely, have bteen thirowni away or lost,'' Shou~alil liepILa'r IIaIt'Still. A loving young hiusbnaid of O'ncinnati presBa pretty younig wife and gweet little btaby who is tas g(ood as lie can be in the daytime, but wiho has a penchant for making time air resotund with his cries. The dlear little thing was giving his usual concer't several nights ago. IIis audience was tiredl ouit. T1he ''hap. py father" was trying hard to persuade the (old sand tman to fill his eyes and trantsport him tc the land of nod. 8till the baby yelled. "Dleatrest," growled this lovinig young husband, "'hadn't you better get tup and walk around t he room aand get your baby qutiet ?" "'My buabs ," tcespotnded "'h)earest," '"well, I think tabout one-ha' f of it is yours'" "Oh, I don't care how much noise mny half makes," answeredl the vilhuan. "'You just keep your half still."-Times. Rlegualat lng Ilours'b of' Labor. RlrcirMoN, Vt., March 6.-Tho bill to regtulate the houi of labor in factories where females and children under four teen years of age are employed, passed both IIouses and went to the 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 (lay. Sinice its p)assage, the Governor has received numerous protests against it fronm Lynchbturg, i)anville and other prominent tobacco manufacturing points of the State, with urgent requests to withhold his signature, unless ho wished to see the factories ruined. Notwith standing these applications and protests, the Governor to-day signed the bill, and . It Is now a law.