The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, May 13, 1887, Image 1
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.
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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.
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\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
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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
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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.
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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.