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J.'o'ed lo ^jjrintllurt, |jorfinil(urc, ^Domestic (Pronomg, flolitf literature, fjoliiits, and the (tturrent pities of the ?ag. XV J11.?Nkw Series. UNION C. U., SOUTH CAROLINA, MAY 13, 1887. NUMBER 10. HILL Alll' S LKTTKK. TIIKllK IS SO sUCIl THINS AS TI1K '.NEW SOLT1I.' The "Old South ' is not dead by a loug i shot, and L am proud of it. .Ju>t let anybody come out and flint; at her and her friends cuino out like hornets from a nest. Professor Tillett. of the S ander hilt University, has been ventilating his sophomoric opinions in the Cnifury, and bclittleing the graud old gentlemen of the olden time as ''dependent idlers ' and "gentlemen idlers," and .says they were little more than overseers of the blacks." llo assorts that "all our advancement in industry and prosperity, and education, and literature, and morals, and religion is duo to the emancipation of the white man from his bondage to idleness, which is inseparable from the ownership of slaves." I dou't know who this professor is, nor where he was horn, hut the spirit of 1 is article is a Ibul slander upon the old South. He either knew nothing about her or lie is just writing for buncombe. Ju^t such a tissue of misconception and misrepresent;) tion was never gotten togethcr-not even by Cable. The Christian Advocate of Nashviile, seems to he intensely disgusted, and says: "Is it all new? Was there no manhood until now? Was the great names that we revered only the creatures of fancy ? the invths that nnnnnr in llu< narlv lihtnrv nf all barbarous people ? Were Washington and Jefferson and Madison mere creatures of a mythologies age? Were Jackson, and Clay, and Calhoun, and Ponton, and Macon, and Polk, and Pell, and Stephens, and Critteuden the demi-gods of a prehistoric race ? Is it a delusion that Taylor, and Houston, and Crockett, and Travis, and Lee, and Jackson, and Sidney Johnston, and Stuart, and Morgan, and Porrest belonged to the old South ? Who are the uiei? that uow lead the new South, but the mcu who led the old South '! Who represent us in the hulis.uf CiU17Ja\S-\m.s,!> ' iVi1 t< word, what is there that is good in the new South that was not rooted in the old South ?' Then the ('Iwniuin Imh.c takis it up aud says : 'Wo belong to the new South and hope to keep abreast of her in all her progress in what is g ?ud. Put we aiso belong to the old South and are proud of her history. v> o acknowledge our present as the oil spring ol' our past aud not of somebody else's past. What there is good in us is not of puritan origin. The puritans are welcome to their own glory, but thoy shall not appropriate ours. We shall transmit to our posterity what we received from our forefathers ?-the history, traditions, char ?clcrs and blood of thecavalier 1 >lit the most clab date and admirable reply to Professor Tillett comes from Dr j ]?. b\ Ward, in the Mississippi Cinriun j It is grand, it is eloquent and convincing i It is worthy to be preserved in every -crap j book. It t-wells the heart of the true Southerner with pride, lie reads it and j feels good and reads it again. lie says in the outlet that 'the professor is skiriuiih- j ing to bring himself within the scope of the gale which has recently given such a graceful swell to the sails of Mr. (Jrady, but unfortunately his zeal is not tempered with the vein of native loyalty which tingles through the eloquence of <ioorgia .-> ciftvd and noDular editor. %' .* 4 . . I lie says in his humming up for a period i of 01 years, from ITS',) to l.s.">;>, the .South i furnished t iglit Presidents whose Icriiis coven (1 >- years. Mm furnished foiiriccri Secretaries of Stale, eleven Secret in s of War, thirty-nine Presidents of the Senate, tli11(y-oiio ^jicakrrs of the Hmim\ l\\\> , Chief J list ices of "real, c ninetiee, twentynine Associate ?Joticcs, twenty one Aft r ne\ Cenerais and ninetynine ministers to , foreipii countries, 'i'l.t ie is no new Smth. The term is a 1 misnomer and a inytli. It is simply a ' phrase e slnnic in which old pn judie.m o fjicrade through modern pain's . e> k i*i_r t i | > i vert the education of S.u'hcrn childien into the conviction that their an colors, i! i < I criminals, were little non, u.;iii a i.;i :.-. I uit I? :< iI < !. Iumms ami ! lilur i'lm li(*-r:itnr?: 1 It i ' ! i out >t: ff: iin:ii Will >?.11? 1 as 1:1 muniriit. n! wis 1< la :?I:?1 tin-dels id el s-.-ica! i?>n\ In all the d' l'.iitincuts of {ioVcimm til, i;i !?w, literatim ami -oiciieo, while tin* S.?s11i? has Inn-lid >1' hi jitrat anay of wilt i pho ha.- fumi-lii d I lie tnimls j..?! m*t i vu of tliM ttr.urh st j sails t i the i nutiv ami I It i? wot! i. Wiuii a j i I:li- little aaiu il, vain In i j>r .'ray. twiltid tl ' l "i for i uiili.' ? 111 . !; . tl.i' li> ! i i > . I I | Iii 1 ' ^ is, ctily I'ltc? hut il if a lion.' Dr. W:ii?l * his splendid defense l?y saying : 'Does thi? or 1 r of men spring from n race of i 1 i- : s whose energies have been emasculated by the curse of slavery. Let Southern pareuts look loth.) education <>f their boys, and act with circum-p-eti n when the friends of education '_vme ta us 'bearing gilts' in the shape I endowments for Southern f'niver.-iti uh.re the hoys are to be taught to t history and blush for the character an 1 d -h of their ancestors.' That's it ; that's it exactly, that's what I have been thinking for lo these many years, and what L have been trying to say, but no man has ever said it as well as Dr. Ward. I know him personally, and was his guest at Winona, .M L-is.-ippi. 1 felt that I was communing with a thinker, a philosopher, a Southerner of the old school, .. ? ..r .1... i . <i l i J i u inv.; i * 11 i uiv-ii i.i.ib un: ??j i South produced and iho now South wiil not produce and cannot produce. L afiirm this humbly, con-eienti >udy and with faith?reluctant faith?that our present methods, will 11 t and cannot produce as grand aud noble men as the last half century before the war produced. I do not mix it with the slavery question, but with other questions more radically significant. 1 have only c pied a scrap from Dr. Ward's defence of the old .South, her men and measures, her patriotism, her integrity. her statesmanship, but if I had my way L would have it published as a classic, and have it planted in every school and college in the South as an authority not to be questioned. I say to my children : !There is no taint upon your ancestry. There was no curse iu si ivory. Harriet Deecher Slowe wrote a romantic lie and the whole fanatical crew revelled in slavery ? but slavery had its day and served its purpo-e. Its time was out?let it he out. We are glad of it if it was the will of 1 . 1 1 .. . 1 i' 1 1 j rovm iicc, out oc careiut icsi ;i worse | evil befall us. L.-t us f -ti!V and eu'rcuch mission, u >1 its sin nor its curse, but its mission both t>> \v!iilo ami to black, ami we are content IIore uro a whole lot of lb-Is who strut around on sjicculitors' money an 1 say let the old S uii!: alone, she's a (lead dog and stinks. i heard n bloated bondholder say tb.at m>t ! ago, and in tiie same conversation h bridged ab at a painting ho b mailt at Stuarts sale, and said it was bltOyeir.s oi l W e will talk abotit the id 1 S auli just as much as we please, and no man shall make us afraid. Wo love oM thing-, anyhow. Tlicy arc tho best. The poet says : I 1 iv?- it. I I-:vo it. -?n l who shall dure To chide ii.e- I'm- 1 iviin- that old aria chair.' Tin-re i> Did lluudred and Old l/ing Syne, and here arc tho old trees and the old landmarks and the old m -n and old women with good old lione-t habits and limited * ?. who indulge in no lolly and hanker alter no hi;.* thing. but live calm ami serene ami covet nothing but the li;ij?|?iiios- ol their ehiMicn! I see that Mr. Harnett has presented a shingle that is a I.nr??lreel years old to the agricultural department. 1 expect it paddled his grandfather, and is therefore a sacred relic of the old South. The new South don't padul'' tnueh. J>ut th.o school teachers do ihradi around .some in these parts. Carl was telling inc te.-day how the teacher whipped one ol the hoys yesttrdiy. 'I (ill you what, papa, that boy go', forty-nine licks, fir I counted 'cm. and he never blinked nor winked, and sot down laughing. 'W by, lie is a tough one, sdd 1,'ii' iiiual have a hid ; like an alligator. N i, -ir, .-aid C arl, 'but be bad on a big. loo.-e jeans coat; and b : held back his sh"u! !? r-so tii .t tiie coat never touched bil l, and nothing got a whipping hut the c > t. Siuaii l?oy.s these day-, and shifty. The nil South may whip, but the new S nitii knows !io\v to dodge. l?t 1.1. Aitf. f> l? , , ,t I I 1 ,* A 1 i.n, U 1 < ?.. i: Mill I ? .III * c ay a Tunic is lii-in;^ iliHlrtt<.''l. Soo Ili:tt you yol \\ c"!nmrel.v.i'l < Calisiya Tonic, ninnulTaiiiri il i y W ? -1:n > i*l:iit I lir.'s., i ireeii vii 1 . S. 1'. livery t i-til" ?!. mi l iriVY a r I metal c.*l|> over i'ii- < - I k. Willi ilie lollnwinji i111; ri111: Wostinnrc11! i ' il - iy i Tonic. \\ i--i hi >re!an l ISros . r l'riipii i-ir?. Ii.(-i'iiniile, S. ('. livery !> (i i \\ i -1n,i11 an I s Ci'i-aya Tonic slioiil-l ii ivt- I in* >- living : ti:i:\su;v i?!.i'.\htmi;nr. I >n i< :: ni I niii: N VI, Il i.v i.m i:. \Va-5.iii;r!??ii January'Joili, IsS:',. \i, We i i ril ia-1 I'rvisiirceuvill S. <' i "viii ii : %" ?!r f I'liml'i fur mailiny ymir i'iisivi! I iiic.' eeriilio'I In mii lor oath on llic ! in i%.i . Iin ! ii examine I. M ! a !I. it. 1-r | ni | v- of lav.ili n ii ii . . ; i.r In'craal I .i \ me Liiwit llti* Tonic. t* < i.. i 'o. iii.iv l.i- ? ; .- 1 as a | r-ii-riciiiry i n-?l r -a I lull i . slllji a I l- Ii Ml ]- I iv. IHi I ;!i at 1 !. - * ! will l-i- ?n' i- ! I I!?? pre.Hi'iiH -T So I a I I I'. I;i-vI M-ilnics. I -. j or: fully. C.ilKI- S 1' l: \r.M, < :..-a:--i a. o-. II - 11 :i t i iii.-, in r i i - i , i : i . i I > , i i i. i i - i j } J. IV. 1 V \ \ I'IO, J?KALTI :i r. ('KKOI.K WOMEN.?The aristocratic Creole hdy is often :t model for the imitation of her sex. She is an obedient and respectful daughter, a faithful wife and a devoted mother. She is soft of speech and lias a grace of manner which gives a charm to all she does. Well educated and accomplished, with keen wit, i she makes a brilliant figure in society, but is neverth.les-, an excellent manager ol her household, and gives a most careful supervision to every detail that will enhance the comfort of her lord. She looks diligently alter the physical and intellectual welfare of her children^; especially are her daughters trained under her own cyi s in all that goes to m ike women lovely in inttiil niiil norenii 'I'It si it* fiel* j P.kt* uoli a.\1 arc conned by Iter hide, their music lessous are practiced within her hearing, that she may detect the least false note. She shares in all their amusements, she is their companion, their confident, their friend. They come to her with all their little hopes and fears, sure of her sympathy, When her daughter is grown, the Creole matron blooms again into a rich second youth ; her own girlhood is renewed in that of a child ; they are scarcely mother and daughter any longer, but a pair ol loving sisters. The young girl is educated in a convent, and leads a secluded exist encc until she is launched in society, and then in the joyous life that burs's upon her she always surrounded by the same watchlul care that guarded her childhood. Young girls are not allowed to go into society without being accompanied by their mothers, or some other married lady, as chaperon?one of the many Creole customs which has been generally adopted by the American residents of New Orleans. These young giils are often wonderfully luro til i I it I ( 1 ii/ul liinf ii^oc lintiileitni.t ouoc UVItUVIIIIIi ?JI VVMl IVlHUltO, IllUi'iOVUIV/ wc and graceful figures combine to make them very attractive, their beauty being not infrequently Oriental in type, though tho vivacity of their manner marks them iTi.tf-SM' 5l?"tW literary clubs which society women have inaugurated of late years in .New Orleans, the American ladies have been astonished to find the Cieolc ladies quite as well posted as themselves in Knglish literature, while possessing a much greater kn iwiedgo ol the literature of other countries. JJut an accomplishment still more attractive to the impecuui us young man sticking matrimony is the exquisite taste with which these maidens lair will fashion their own gowns and bonnets when circumstances require them to make these things at home. The Creole women have inherited the French taste for dross, and in a greater degree than other Americans, they regard the liat of Paris as the supreme authority 1 .III Iii.uitio v,'jiagiiiiu^ nil' iiJIIUt. .VIsO, tlio Creole women of al! ages and of all classes arc devout. Neither social engagements, nor weather, nor other obstacles are allowed to interfere with the discharge of their religious duties. Are they not somewhat superstitious i Sonic of thorn a little so, perhaps, in romcttihr nice of vouduu stories told them in llu ir infancy hy old negro nurses.--/W/?v (>> Omaha JiC/aiOfi'caii. Don't J-Ixpkisimknt.?You cannot a (lord to waste time in experimenting when your lungs arc in danger. Consumption always seems, at lirst, only a cold. l>o not permit any dealer to impose upon you with some cheap imitation of l>r. King's New Discovery for Consumption, Coughs and Colds, but lie Mire you get the gcniii tie. Hccause he can make more profit he may tell you lie has something just as good, or just the same. Don't lie deceived, hut insist upon getting Dr. King's New Discovery, which is guarantee I to give relief in all Throat, Lung and Clicsi all'cctioiis. Trial bottles free sit .1. \V. Posey s Drug Store. ? luc king toiuh can In* <|tiitl;iy curt**I l?y Shil?*ir* ('inc. \\Y i-ttaianh ?- it. l\?r Mile l?v ,1. \V IWY A P.m. o WlllPPMIl IN d AI i AT liAST.?Till) J'a/mrflu /'/../?if Saturday .says ; 'W. A. \\ liipper, I'rob.te d u lgo i f this County, was arrested this week and brought before Trial !n-iioo T. < 1. White of IJenifort. on a charge of olli dil misconduct, corruption in ot.'icc, li"iu !, <>pnr -<.s11?:i in otlic.*, profcrrc.l ly nno Thorn is <' S-itt, >f Siis own color, who claims that .Viiipji r Si i > Hi chilly ami i ul.vilu 111 \. dTriulol him. ilohcrt Smalls. S .1. i! im|>ll?!-.!, an 1 a irimbcr oilier pr.'itiin *:it c??! ?ro?? cili/. lis arc material witncs.sc:. W liinjur w.v b ".in ! over in ()? sum of *l,<nni i.> appear. .Messrs ?l. 1'. I!ulchinijs, Iv A Scheper ami S uiuny < I icon p,oiii? his .security. It is tluo l" W hippir t ? say that be lias been llw; AtJorn-y for Sin il!> in the conUst ayiii: t i >nm-c.--in ;n lv!i>tt. *i?*?J claims tbit S:n ills avrs 1;iin >' 1!IS for services in sue i < ,j, icily ami lefti"'-, p.vaici.t. Subi|iieu:|y Wliipjicr had b a ail ? >1 in a civil si'*-1 '*i frrowin^: (oil ! the sain; c.u-c, itii<I i< ;i. enable t? jiin i-h i ijni h ml? | w.i c< ii.inUti.il to j ill. wi.erc lie m>w i-. the'.western earthquake. Sail 1'raucisco, May 4.?Au earthquake shock occurred yesterday which extended from Ccuterville, Cal., through Arizcua and New Mexico to K1 l/aso, Texas. The shock was also felt at Guayuias, Mexico. Tncson, Arizona, May 4.?An earthquake occurred hero at 2.12 jesterday afternoon. No person was injured. Coti' siderablo d image was done to buildings. Goods were thrown from shelves of stores, and many houses were more or less cracked. The shock was accompanied by a rumbling sound. Many clocks were stopped, aud the entire population of the city took to the streets, terror-stricken. The Courthouse cupola swayed like the mast of a ship in a turbulent sea, and the building itself seemed as though it were toppling over. When the shock struck the Santa Catalina Mountain, great slices of the mountain were torn from its side and thrown to its base. Vast clouds of dust arose above its crest 7,000 feet above the sea level, at three different points from three to lour miles apart. It was believed for some tiuic that a volcano hvl burst out ou the crest of the mountain. One lowering peak known as 'Old Castle,' a prominent landmark from Tucson, has entirely disappeared. The extent of the damage cannot be told lor several days. This was the Grst earthquake ever experienced in Tucson. The public school building rocked to and fro like a cradle, and some of the plastering fell, creating the utmost coustcrnatien among the pupils. The school was at oucc dismissed for fear of a repetition of the slio-.k. According to a gentleman who timed it, the shock lasted just four minutes. One or two slight vibrations have since been felt. Shorliy after the earthquake a volcano broke out at a point tweuty-two miles south of this placo in the Total Wreck Mouutains. The sky 1 i-j brilliantly illuminated. A House Destroy i-:i>.?Wilcox, Ariz., May 1.?A severe earthquake shock was * ? -? ...... i seconds. The residonoo nf v r w.i"' ruined by the shock. N ? one w is injured. Contcrvillc, Cal., May 1.--A heavy earthquake shock was felt her ; if 7 1- yesterday morning. The direction wis Pom Xorth to South. The Sliock was preceded by what seemed to be a heavy ruaibliug explosion. Tub Ground Opens.? Henson Arizona, May 1.-?A person just in from the vicinity of the Sau Pedro River reports that tho ground opened about six inches and the water rose in places tha' had hitherto been p ufectly dry. Smoke was noticed about 5 o'clock, which appeared to be in the noiglib irliood of Whetstone Mouutains, eight miles from hero. Some say it is a voleauic eruption, and as nothing of that character has ever been known in tbis region tho greatest surprise and curiosity exist. Several buildings >n this city were damaged by serious cracks. A Lake Goes I>itv.?Tombstone, Arizona. May 4.--Ten miles from this city, a lake covering an acre of ground was completely dried up in twenty minutes. Embankments along the Now Mexico and Arizona Railway wore moved from their former positions, in manv instances as much as twelve inches. Tiik Quake in Mexico--(iuaymaa, Mex., May l.?At 12 15 yesterday afternoon two earthquake shocks were felt here at short intervals, lasting altogether a few seconds. The direction was east and west. The clocks all stopped running, but no damage is reported so far. Similar shocks were felt along tho line of the Sonora Jlailroad. The following is from an agent at Torres station : 'One minute after the first quivering sensation was felt the highest cliff of Chivafo Mountain fell. Wee Tors as I'iiidksmaids ani? 1'siiKits --Ami speaking <>f tho bridegrooms recalls the Tuesday wedding at 11 race Church. Six young gentlemen from six t> eight years old, in dark violet stockings ami black velvet knickerbockers, acted as ushers ; tho bridesmaids were five little girls. Two in Nil j green tulle slips, carrini w 111 f ? lii'ttMnllij nml ? ' - .. .. MUM Ml li'K.iall.lll IUI " J two iii pink, rose tulips rml carnations? the in till ot' honor, a dignified pcrsjti i>l throe in cin iry color, had a bouquet of yellow (1 i (Tod lis, tied with yellow satin I .. , . . " rioboii. The hi i le wore a most lovely and oirhili costume of yellow tulle, the skirts licit! in place with hunches of pink buuvardis, and carried a b:^ bunch of the i same flower. The veil is always thrown hack from the lace, and I ills ihe length of i . the train ; the wedding toireh is a relic of f irm r years livers wrli-c inducted couple ; conies in church and ones out by the i 1 chanting of whiu-robed choir-hoy?.?AV. j J'. It Takks tub Cap axi? ?The iVt'ics ami ( vurirr h is added to its suit of uiotley the well worn cap and bells of the Abbeville /*/ .?. > ami Manner and editorially appeared on Friday in complete uuiforui. Our Abbeville cotitcuiporary promulgated the sapient and profound suggestion that it will be well to arui all prisoners charged with capital crimes with Winchester rilles as a method of preventing lynching. Willi equal sapiency and profundity our Charleston cotcnip.-riry accepts the suggestion as a good one and ar^uo.- in its favor. All men who help to lynch criminals arc murderers, and .should be shot ; I ut as they arc cowards, the fact that the pcrsous to be lynched are armed aud in shooting condition would keep the lynchers back and pi event mischief. We are not told what would become of the sheriff and jailer iu the event of a lynching raid of the ordinary kind, hut it is easy to imagine that they would be iu a painful position, II tlio reasoning cud assumption ol our Charleston cotcmporary would hold good. The lynchers, being cowards, would remain outside the jail and would therefore bo safe. Only the officers would be in jeopardy with armed prisoners having a di> rect interest in their early and painless decease inside and armed lynchers outside clamoring for vengeance for the arming of the priosucrs. With the rule suggested by our contemporaries the olfico of slouiil would bo divested of the monotony that sometimes surrounds it hut it would not likely bo regarded as desirable. Dodging nimbly about the corridor of a jail with propelled buckshot entering the doors and windows and rifle bullets emerging in rapid succession from the cells would be an interesting ?we may say exciting?amusement, but il would not be wholesome.? CrfrnviM' A cu t .. The Liquor Question.?Seneca, Pickens Co., May ?Seneca is about to bj badly stirred up. Three members ol' the town council elected in March were knowt to be pronounced'wet' men, while tlu in tick*;!. ?tti<i ;i l'I'C.'lt many met who arc known as men wore in flucDCcd thereby In vote it. Xr.w tliej begin to show the siuii out >1" which the} arc made. Yesterday application was made by two men for barroom license. The position talc 11 by the 1 i<|uor men is that when tlu Statute jrohibiting the sale of liquors in Oconee County was repealed it carried with it the Seneca bill. The three liquor men in the council passed an ordinance granting license, but lutetidaut 31. X. Sitton and 11. 15. ilaves, whe is also clerk of council, refuse.! to i.rn the ordinance. These gentlemen have the moral support . 1" most of the property holders and nearly all of those known a? the best people, white and colored. The liquor men may expect, if tin y iro ink the fight, that the ant's :.rn not going U give up till they win or are d -Seated in the Supreme Court?(f>r X< >:\s <m / ('<>nri<r < Faults of digestion cause disorders of tl.i liver, anil tlio whole system becomes deranged I>r. .). II. McLean's Strengthening Cordial ami Wood Purifier perfects the process of digestion ami assimilation, an 1 thus makes pure Mood Alien Tj.\ni>loui?ism.?A kill similar to the Alien Landlord's bill, passed at the recent session of (kinoross M in , ... ... the Illinois leirisluturo. It provides that hereafter aliens shall not bo allowed tr buy land in the State until they shall have declared their intention to become citizens ; that uuless they shall become citizen: within six years their lands shall revert ( the State, and that all aliens now hoi lino lands in Illinois iuu>t become citizens within three years. This bill is aimed at one William Scully, an Orangeman \vl o is said to have imitated in Illinois (h< practices that have made Mn^lish landlords objects of hatred in lieland. Scully owns in the Stale I com 7~?.000 to 100-. 000 acres, which are lii'ed by wretched tenants upon almost hopeless terms. Tin leases are said to < ntain sonic of the Worst features of the Irish lease in use ten years ago. Scull) also owns about 1<><>. 000 acres in kansa*. lie lives in London. The people of Illinois appear t have determined that he must either sel out or become n citizen, for it is | rcJictcd that the pending bill will surely become r law. o Savkj Mis I,hi: Mr. I?. I. Wilcox-.n,o Horse t'uve, Ky.. says lie w i?. for many your-, ho'lly afflicted Willi I'liihisir, also l>iul>eU's; ih< pains were nlim-si niicii lurahio mi l wnuM M-mc limes alinosl lliinw liini into ? lituls'ons. lit tric.l I dec; tie ISiitri - ami yot relief fwn? firsl Imllle aii'l uficr la'iin/ six ! "'lies, was enlirioly cureil, ami had xmic l in tle?h eighteen pounds, Says lie pos I ve1 v eves lie nmi I have died, had it 11 vl t'ceii I r the iv icf allor.lc l Ky Ideetrie Hitlers. >11 ri I'.fiv ecv- a l?o!i!e ly J. W. IVcy. For l?> n |' ia nil 1 I i\ i < ?-hi; in), haw \? n printed euaraiil ry ?>ltl of .* ! HoV V ii > ii/> i I*, n.'vxr s'.iil-1 i 1 i I . 1 . W r . l it !'\cr? ani? Tuoiuiits From a Tram: I'aimiu. ?N\'i> arc m>t in onr province in this paper to par(icu.-1rli7.tf ci define tiie claims ami facts porliucnt to industrial agitation. Wo can. however, summarize the ploblciu as being resolved into a claim for the principle of distribution us against the corrective of monopolization. This is the kernel of the nut. We quote the following figures from a paper prepared for the Commercial club of Chicago as illustrative : The machinery of this country is controlled l>y 2!.<'u0 men, there being Kt.iiott.OO't men affected and governed thereby. Two mi lion seven hundred and fifty thousand hands receive a wage of ? 1 Id a year. Of those, '21'2,<Ktij tiro women an I 171,000 children. The avirage wage of farm hands, of which there aie eight millions, is a year, or less than S > cents a <l.i.y. Vaudorbilt made more froui 1 ss0 to 1 ss.*, th in ;i million farmers. Tito profits of 'J.(t(iO banks were equal to the earnings of .jiM, < ( 0 farmers ; the net gains of ltMt railroad companies equal to the earning of 2,500,000 farmers J'JO.Ot'O stock-holders in railways owuing 17000 miles of rond, representing with equipments about ?8,000,000,000, charge for their service about ?s,000,000 and pay some OtHl.OOO employees about a dollar a day. We are no guarantee for tho absolute truth of these figures ; there is, however, no disputing the fact I hat the increasing power of wealth and the qualities in its distribution have a tremendous emphases in labor'discontont. As on adjunct and logical consequence we litul ourselves Hearing the point in wealth in which luxury makes pleasure the object of life and labor its worst misfortune. We pay ?">( 0 for a dress, So.OOO for a pair of earrings, and go to the White Mouse with some ?30,000 of .Jewelry adorning tivc feet and a-halfof ordinary humanity. We gtvo$l,000 a night to an opera singer, whilst in the same city sotuc poor seamstress is earning -o cents a dozen working ut button holes, and men are glad to pick a herring's hone in sight of a palace whero others are banqueting on wiiie?lOa bottle and straw berries :;o ecnls a piece.. Ifhistoty has a lessoii for us on litis mailer, it lias an unpleasant significance. ' Greece was in ils noon of art nn<l luxury when lMiiilias was tilling the l'lirthonin with immortal sculpture, bul the stunina an I Vit ality of the people was gone auil left them nn easy p.rey to the rmler races who fought well ami 1 ki.ew nothing of luxury. Home went the i-amo w?vy. The l'nr.thcon was but the tomb of ft degenerate race. Franco was a banquet hall same lump.?S/. Louts Ajc of Sltcl. i _ ? ? l-'.-tt A.-tiima.?Hoping to benefit some ono . alllietr 1 as I have always been with asthma, I setol the following simple remedy to loosen tLo I'hlogin : T.ihc one tablespoon sunllowcr seeds, ' steep, sir ?iti an 1 sweeten. This will make two-thii ! . a tea-cup. Drink freely until it i loosens, lh'a as often as one likes. It is j er> I'ectly harm'o-s. (splendid for coughs and colds) should bj token a little warm, 's a 5 rcventive n-t a cure lor aftiima.?/,. " rsori. 9 ? li you .-'tiller pricking pains o:. .Moving t';o eyes, or cannot t ear bright light, ami liml your t sight weak and failing, you should promptly use Dr J. li. McLean's Strengthening Eye Salve, '.'o cen s a b x. ' an.mi.us Willi Mi.\n lb SINK- .?St. Lollis, May 7. ? A si co al from W.uo, Texas sa\ 8: The .Slate Farmers' A liar.ee C'ottoa C'<nzr.?S, which has been in session hero for a week, a> join lied to-day. The object of ilie Assemi b.nge was to arrange to entir into ilie nianufnciui ing of wagons, agricultural iinp'eiucnts, cotton ] rc-ns an I oil mills. Over SIU.U U.OiK) were represented. Arrangements have ban Cot c*n il? i lor co 111-! 111o stat iclids mi l fur mi | e il l v dinner under tItc laws of Texas, l-'ivc ( hundred thousand dolla' s weic appropriated to the erection ut'coltou mils. Other nntiiuftctiiring enterprises will lie taken up right away. The body was n representation of the agricultural interests of the Slate. There weio ono i hundred delegates present. t i A Minimi I>i?a>h:ii.? Victoria, 15. C., May I.?A special dispatch from Maunimo, on the ca t rn shore <>f Vancouver's Island, says: "A terrible explosion occurred in No. 1 i ."-'halt of the Victoria Co.al Company's mines at i 'i o'clock la?t night. ??ne hundred and fifty , men are believed to have been iu the mine at the lime. At midnight several bodies had been recovered, and twelve persons seriously burned were resetted alive at the same time. There was .illIc hope of recovering alive any of ih. se -till in the mine. A reselling party went down, but owing to the black damp, were unable to do anything. One of I lie rescuing p irty died shortly after coming out of I the mine. The scene around the shaft was mo: I heartrending. A special train carrying surgeons from Victoria arrive 1 at M uiiamo at 'J o'clock (hi- looming. I>:>n :t \ 11; l e.in .>s an hsuink.?Jessup, i t.. M:iv Joe Smiili, a desperado, attempted (o i-s iiilt a colored woman last night, an 1 ? <liirin<r iSic druggie cut licr witii a knife, lear1 ii".' her to die. As train No. 1, on tlie Savnti1 trili, l"o"i la an 1 Western, was slowly pulling k out of town Smith hoar le 1 the engine. It was sou,clime before Kngineer 'rawford noticed tlio prt-sence of his crouching companion, lie oriel' I Smith to jutnp olT, which Smith doelined to do, ami a struggle took place in which Smith again u-cl his knife ami slushed up the , e-jL'ineer pnlly freely, < lining (rawford to ! surrender and allow Smith to reman on hoard. \hoi;| lifieell liiile< ' III, ('i :i\vfordistoppod his train opj ;!e a I .re'.y house, lie entered the house, seeurtd a donhlc-harre'.e 1 shot gun and Willi ii it I ii en C'I to the en.'ine, win re his dcfiaiii cuiipanioii still hei i the fori. Smith dared t'rawhrd to move, luan Halting his knife, fiaw lord , l.eu di-i-ii are< d 1 < tli hair. Is shoot, ing tl.c de-per.ido I" s i.