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S ~ x IV v5 ^ P THE WEEKLY ill 01101 TIMES. Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, Polito Literature, Politics and the Current News of the Day. ? _ " -y; ' . XXI .?NEW SERIES. UNION C. H., SOUTH CAROLINA, AUGUST 8, 18tH>. NUMBER 32. 'PU7/\ /lit i II>!iri?AT ' :?i:? ?It . .. . ? . ' * ** ? ' - - ill Hi 1 M V CI1 .11 lilt! l!iii 1 t CORRESPONDENCE BETWEEN CAPT. J SHELL AND COL- HOYTA Proposition by tho I.ftltcr Rejected by the j Former-Tho Letter* in Knit. j Greenville News 1 The following letter was addressed | . to the members of tho State Demo- ? cratic Committee: 1 Rooms of tue State ( j Democratic Executive Committee, 1 Columbia, S.C., July 17th, 1890. j Dear Sir: It lian been suggested 1 that, as a means of allaying the ex- ^ citement and contention within the ( uuoa ox uur jmi t.y m iiiih quiw, tuu Executive Committee shall invite a conference at an early day in the city of Columbia, tobo composed (in addition to its own momber) of members ^^>f the Advisory Campaign Coinmit^Hlees, headed respectively by Capt. G. W. Shell and Gen. John D. Kennedy. It is believed that such a conference will further the object had in view by the Executive Committee, in ordering the August Convention, so as to bring about an orderly and peaceful settlement of the existing differences, and use the combined influence of the State Executive Committee and the two Advisory Committees in securing Such an agreement, on all sides, as will prevent any cause for dissatisfaction in the final outcome of the pi-eseut agitation, thereby assuring the unity and harmony of the party when it comes to confront the common enemy in the general election. Impressed with the force and pertinmifv r?f fhia unooflatinn cnnnlail with the desire to preserve intact the organization of the Democratic party in thiH State, I respectfully submit J the matter for your consideration, whether or not you will authorize mo 1 to invite such a conference with tho Advisory Committees aforesaid. If , you regard the matter favorably, and think such a conference is advisable, , please telegraph at once to the Secretary, Wilie Jones, Esq., Columbia, S. C., or send him a message to the con- 1 trury, if you do not approve the pro- 1 posed meeting. f Very truly yours, James A. H?yt, Chairman State Executive Com. J Tho answer b returned to this letter ( authorized the chairman to invite tho ( conference whenever he was informed i that the Advisory Campaign Com- r mittees would unite .mch a confer- < ence. t The following letter was addressed \ to Capt. G. W. Shell and also to Gen. j John D. Kennedy as representing tho ] Advisory Committees: i Columbia, S. C., July 16, 1890. c My Dear Sir?I have asked the J State Democratic Executive Com- * mittee to authorize rac to invito ft . couferenco in this city at an early day, j to be composed of the said Executive J Committee, together with the Advisory Campaign Committees, presided J over by yourself and Capt. G. W. J Shell, for the purpose of agreeing, if * possible, upon such a line of policy 3 by each committee as will best insure 1 the unity and harmony of the party 1 in this State when existing differences 1 are settled. The object of this con- * ^ ference is to talk frankly and freely * over the situation, as Democrats, and ( to use the influence of the several i committees in bringing about a better : state of feeling among our people. If you are willing to unite with your 1 campaign committee in such a con- j ference for the welfare of tho party * us a whole, will you at the earliest 8 practicable moment, so that I mayc all 8 the conference without delay, if the ( Exectfpre Committee approves the 1 suggestion. Address mo at ureenville. Yours truly, Jambs A. Hoyt, * Cbm. St. Dem. Ex. Com. 1 The following reply from Governor $ Konnedy was promptly received: i Columbia, S. C., July 17, 1890. c Col. James A. Hoyt, Chairman State c Committee: s My Dear Sir?I am instructed by c the Advisory Committee of which I c have t?e honor to be chairman to say 1 '"sp*1 lUai it the meeting referred to in your t * letter of July 10th inst., is called we 1 will accept tne invitation and attend, i We appreciate the motives which ac- f tuate you and will co-operate in every i consistent manner in effecting the j patriotic purpose you have in view, t ^vuiting further advice, c I am, yours truly, t J. D. Kennedy, Chm. J [Captain Shell replied that ho was i anxious to have am interview with the t chairman of the State Executive Com- c mittee, but was prevented from com- \ ing to Greenville on account of court g convening in Laurens, and asked for ^ a visit from the chairman. He was e willing for a conference between the State Executive Committee and the t Campaign Committee of the Farmers' Association, and expressed his desire to restore peaco and harmony to the party. Further correspondence en sued, and resulted in a personal interview at Laurens on the 23rd inst., in which Captain Shell was urged to make a definite answer to the proposition, and which was followed by the annexed lefiera 1 W Laurens 6. H., S. CM July 24, 1890. i Col-JTames A. Hoyt, Chairman State < I^mocratic Executive Committee, j I- Greenville, S. C.: i R Dear Sir?I have given the subject \ I of our interview of yesterday careful t I ' thought, and can see no reason to a change my conclusion previously i I made known to you. I will repeat t that it is my desire that unity and c good will l>e restored to the body ? ^ ^ujolitin^hat in future, instead of the c BBBMM^actions indulging in abuses uv? Mivcvi ^iumuiumnuu3,riiiUlllHHUUB, ill true Democrats should be willing x> unite in healing tliO wounds and njuries complained of and let the Democmtic party present to the wrorld that magnanimous spirit charicteristic of South Carolinians, renemberiug that "to err is human, t>ut divine to forgive." For tho State Democratic Execu live Committee I entertain tho highest regard, so also with my distin ^uished friend Gen. John D. Kennedy, for whom I feel more than ordinary concern, but I can not, to save mo, see iny good that could result from a oint conference such as proposed by rou. The August Convention meets in Iwenty days. Its action will be conclusive as to the matter of primary ir no primary?the latter condition doing most probable. I deprecate die thought of precipitating a primary apon the people during the campaign, ind nothing could bo devised that ivould contribute so much to divide die Democratic party. The very east friction just now is the most lesirable thing hoped" for, and the idoption of any suggestion louking ioward the perpetuation of conlhctng influences, such as would result I 1.-11- i. i 1 i rum u iiuuy coniesieu primary election, a quarter of a century would lordly heal the breach incident to mch a proceeding. It is my opinion that the ..complection of the JAugust" Convention will effect the ultimate result of the September Convention, which if true, vould be sufficient to satisfy all reatonable minds, and would also give ibundant timo and opportunity to ical all the bitter disappointments :aused by reason of defeat. For heso reasons I most respectfully dedine to invito the committee over vhich I have the honor to preside to >articipate in the conference proposed >y you. I have the honor to be, very espeotfully, Your Obedient Servant, Or. W. Shell, Jh'm Cam. Com. Farmers' Ass'n. S. C. Greenville, S. C., July 26,1890. japi. ijr., >v. ttiioii, JLaurens, ?. u. My Dear Sir?Yours of the 24tl) ust., was received last evening. I egret Liiul you adhered to a decision igainst theproposed conference, as I un sure you have misconceived the nain object of conferring together lpon the political situation. It is ilso unfortunate that our interview which was held at your request to ivoid such a result, as I understood t) should have failed to impress you vith the real purpose of the confer mce. I sought to convey the idea bat the paramount object in view vas tho concentration of forces to a particular end, namely, the unity and perpetuity of the Democratic party n South Carolina, at tho close of an xciting and eventful campaign. It vas not my purpose to make the conerence an occasion for urging the adoption of the primary system in n choosing delegates to the Septemper Convention. That matter will >e settled at an early day, but as you ecm to hinge much objection against he conference on this score,allow me o say that I do not at all agree with 'ou as to the effects of a primary Section for delegates, such as I proposed for the consideration of the August Convention. The people are joing to have primary elections in ivory section of the State, and to elect lelegatcs by this method is not "preiipating" anything they do not want. [t. would lift flAHV ononcrli fn nr-runcrn or the election of delegatos at the laine time the county officers are ihoaen in this way, and it is possible o do so without friction or unneceslary excitement. I confess that the uloption of this method of selecting lelegates would interfere with the irevoiling mode by which a few men ire deciding upon representatives for vliolo counties, but nevertheless I five the primary plan the preference n all cases. But, I wish to say on the main point it issue that it was expected to meet n conference for a free interchange >f opinion upon the political condition >f the State, and not to gain advantige for any faction, nor to bind any me to a given course against honest ionvictions of duty and responsibility, rhe strained relations existing beween the factions and the unusual leat engendered by the campaign low in progress do . not augur well or tho future harmony of the party n South Carolina, and my chief obect in sufirtrestincr the conference wuh o secure adherence to regular racthkIs and recognized usages, so that here will be no reasonable excuse or splitting the party in twain, as iss been threatened in certain coningencies, nor justification on the >thcr hand for the enactment of measires that will prove offensive or degrading to any portion of our party. 1V0 are fellow-Democrats, and whativor affects one of us will surely touch he other in our political relations. Jo long as there ore open questions o bo considered, there will continue Vision and conflicting influences, and t isn^e to tell grown men that they tan securtCPlace by an ignoble sur ender. BbV-When the contest is >ver between tlmfm&ons,there will be he test of true mantiflUfl "JflHriexalted tourage as to who can best Nerve a mited party, the manifest dur> _of vliich is to preserve the honor ana lphold the integrity of our ancient tommonwealth. Believing that the patriotic imnuloAfi of fhe cronflomon loraprising the several committees vould readily suggest the means for hat most desirable end, and \relying vith confidence upon their willing less and readiness to serve the whole itate, I made the suggestion for an tarly consultation as to these means, md very much regret that you have leclined to meet us for this purpose. As the. newspapers are already sur rnising as 10 me unci interview we ' had the other day, and to prevent any possible misunderstanding of its ' purport,I will furnish this corrcspond| cnco for publication. With sincere regard, Very truly yours, James A. Hoyt, Chairman State Deni. Ex. Com. ITEMS OF INTEREST. ; ?It lias been suggested that th*> head of M iss Susan Anthony ought 1 to bo put on the silver dollar. ?Miss Louise Imogene Guiney, the poetess, thinks nothing of walkj ing twenty miles on her poetic feet. --Mrs. Adare of Eathdore, Ire., has refused an offer of ?350,000 for i her cattlo ranch somewhere in the i West. She holds it at $2,000,000. ?The fat and particularly venerai ble Kalakaua, king of the Sandwiches, will visit England in October. His ' sister, Princess Lilino, is going with him ?Olive Logan, the pioneer of news' paper women, lias the honor of being elected a member of the incorporated Society of Authors, of which Lord Tennson is president and Walter Besant the secretary. | ?The largest fruit farm in West Virginia is the Becker farm, near Harper s ferry. It containg 5,000 apricot trees. 37,000 peach trees, 3,000 plum trees, 5,000 miscellaneous fruit trees, and 35,000 grape vines. ?Robert Melhonny of Plainview, Adams countj', Pa., is the possessor of a turkey hen that laid ten eggs while she was hatcliin; she hatched out an even dozen of young turkeys, and is still laying an egg every day. ?All through Now Mexico, Arizona, some parts of Colorado and also in old Mexico, no rain lias fallen for months, and thousands upon thousands of range cattle are lying dead in the parched valleys and thousands more are dying for want of grass aud vr utn . ? The moat monotonous city in its buildings is Pai is, tlio houses there being almost alike. An attempt is now being made to vary this by building houses of the style of the Rcnais1 sauce and Louis XI., and hope is expressed that the example will be fol1 lowed generally. ?A woimderful wedding dress was | recently made up in Russia for the daughter of a great Russian artist. It is of regulation whito satin, but on the satin are innumerable little pictures, chiefly allegorical, painted by her father's friend. What may be its value in years to come? ?A. Montefiore, who has been traveling in Florida and devoting careful study to the fruit growing districts of that vast State, calculates that the Americans eat moro meat in tho course of twenty-four hours than all the inhabitants of Great Britain, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium Holland and Switzerland put together. ?An oculist inBreslau has recently treated 300 cases of defective eyesight, for which the cause was not apparent. It rose as suddenly as an epiuemic, ana was contmeu to men entirely. At last lie found the reason for it in a new fashion of very tight shirt collars. He made the young men unbutton their collars and their eyes got well. ?In Maine a man has been found who has sold liquor freely for the past thirty years, and who has never missed attending district, county and State conventions and advocating and voting for resolutions asserting adhesion to the principles of prohibition and demanding thorough and effective enforcement of the law. Well, he is a curiosity. ?There is an interesting scheme for establishing a floating hotel at Hong Kong. The vessel is to have three decks, the lower being arranged for dining, billards, smoking and card rooms. The main deck will contain a drawing room, twenty-one bedrooms, each with a full sized bath and dressing room, while the upper, or spar deck, has been arranged as a promenade. * ?English ladies are adopting the ,4.1.: I~J:? ?u. 1UOU1UI1 UI UlOU 1UU1 UKf VYIiU wait at table in livery. The skirts are plain of these livery gowns and of the heraldic color of tho house. All the pie its ai o thrown behind. Then the waistcoat and jacket are trimmod with livery bands, buttons and crests or monograms in metal. A high stiff white collar, white cuffs and a tiny whito cap like a topnot complete this livery. The Dill Is Dead. The cold, palsied hand of death has been laid on Mr. Lodge's bantling. "The bill will never come up. Tho Senate committee which is considering it know very little about it, and the other Republican Senators know less. No caucus has been called and none is likely to be for weeks." This was the way in which a Re publican senator, wlio is in position to know, put his foot upon the state raont which was given out to-day for the benefit of the llepublicnn radicals wh> are thirsty for nodding plurafcfhand gleaming bayonets at the polls, that the consideration . of the bill was nearly*completed and that it would soon be reported to theRepublioan caucus. Thfl^t is that the bill is nowhere ncai oven to the satisfaction of Republican members of on elections.?New ?The Geo if has refused a net ^^^^^^^HWoolfolk who muf of his family in Alii' J ILK r?UYCOTT. j 1 WHY HE THINKS THE SOUTH SHOULD f USE IT- , i A Patriotic Appeal to the Men anil Women ] ot the Sunny South. , Atlanta Constitution. J "Well boys, let's quit playing witb em. They won't play fair niul they t are always fussing at us, ami they ' steal our balls and marbles, and the less wo have to do with 'em the hotter." I.think that will be better for all J concerned. We won't nabor with 'em. We can pass and repass like the feller ' did with his bull, but it's high tiifro : (n/ out vff nil liibliantiravlntlOIlB. iVuSt the South wants is to bo independent and self-sustaining. That is what , anybody and any community wants. The farmer who raises the most of everything that ho needs is the best oft'. We have paid tribute and homnge to the North long enough. Let us au uegrn economy at nome ana clo without the luxuries that our own section can't furnish. Mrs. Arp says i she will wait for a carpet until I can . get her ono at home?wants an ax 1 minster, I recon. She knows how to do without luxuries. If she can get them she wants them, but if she can't she don't. She tried doing j without during the war when we had to live on rye coffee and sassafras tea ; and smokehouse salt and lyo soap, and sorghum and cornbread, and the children wore shoes made of half- ' tanned leather, and their clothes ami i hats were made of Hcraps. "Oh, yes," 1 she said, we did it in war and I reckon we can do it in peace. Solomon says, "Eat not the bread of him that hath ; an evil eye, neither desire thou his dainty meats." Well I would like a little more codfish and mackerel and cheose, but I will do without it. Cobe says he's done quit even long ago for the war left him with nothing but a yellow inulo and all he buy's is coffee and tobacker. He says he'll be dogged if he won't eat roots and think branch water if it's necessary. Well now, speaking seriously, the South can do without the things she cannot make or raise or import. She wouldn't suffer a day for food or clothing. Wagon factories and carriage and buggy factories and furniture factories would spring up here like magic, and give employment to thousands of our young men. In a few years there would bo thousands of muni I industries. We would manufacture every- ' thing from a hairpin to a locomotive, < and keen our mrmov ni. homo i Friends, countrymen, patriots, let 1 us do that. Let us form a league that will do something sure enough < and do it for all classes. Let the < North keep all that she has got and J run tho government and shinny on J her own side and we'll shinny on ours * and quit plying with them until they ' get friendly. We arc tird? tired. "A < continual dropping will wear away a i stone." I wouldn't trust a Democrat ten ] steps who would stay in partner- i ship with a bloody-shh t Republican. 1 Tho New York Herald* makes a big i blow about New York going fifty i thousand Republican majority if the i South boycotts her trade. Suppose 1 she does? Suppose they give a hundred thousand, what is that to us? What is she doing for us now? Ever since the war the South has given her j solid vote to help tho Northern De mocracy, and what has that Democ- ; racy done for us? What is it doing < for us now? Amos Cummings is the j only man who depends upon princi- j Ele. If a man is a friend, why don't ( e show it? Why don't the Northern , Democrats hold public meetings and , denounce all this unholy war upon us? ^ Why don't they quit the church that allows its preachers to abuse us and , tell lies upon us? Why don't they , do somethiug or move out of that ] country? You can't take up a North- { era magazine that hasn't got some j malicious scandalous piece in its j columns. The very last "Centuiy" is , still harping on Andersonville, and , has a communication from a con- f temptible cuss about our using blood- ? hounds to catch runaway negroes be- 1 fore the war, and says it was a com- ( mon thing It was a very uneom- ?; mon thing, as every old-time negro t will tell him. But suppose it was, , what good can oome of such a discus- , sion now? What fair minded editor j would admit such things? It is all for hate and venom, and the mystery ] of it all is, what makes them keep on t hating us? It is said that Mrs. Can- f field's husband was dreadfully morti- t tied about his wife's letter being pub- ^ lislied. That's all. He was not mor- y tified that she felt that way, but be- f cause her feelings got into the papers. Why don't ho educate her to feel some other way? The truth is, he believed that way himself, or ho t wouldn't have manied such a vicious, < malicious woman. If ko was really { friendly to the white people of the i South, ho should have made her stop 1 talking that way or quit her. i What is the use of temporizing ? with such a people? Let the Newj, , j York Herald, and all the other HeuM aids, threaten us with increased Re- 1 publican majorities. A hundred ] thousand is no worse than a hundred. ^ The result is all the same. What t good has our forbearance done? Are ( not the relations between us getting f more unfriendly every year? It is 1 11 unlooa fA />W urlior? f iu no * mwwx/ww m/ v? j wvv nuvu uuv&w AO in/ f peace. This Congress is forging tho i chains to bind ns and our children to submission, not only to thom, but to the domination of an inferior race. 1 The Canfields are as thick up there as t are "the leaves in Vallambrosa's ' vale." i Now/ let us all work together and 1 build tip the South. Let us invito all < conservative people up North to come i town ami help us build up. There ire Home who have visited us aud ningled with us and know what wc ire, and how wo livo and how the aogro is treated. There are many vho have already made investments lore and have prospered. Wc will *ive glad welcome to all who come laud hearts and good intentions. Chicago has got the World's Fair. Now let the South have nothing to do with it. Her loud-mouthed representatives howled over that Force bill and swallowed it whole. They belong to the Canfield stock, and we want none of them fair. The North has put us under the ban, and all that even their Democracy wants is oui* 153 electoral votes If we are mistaken about this we will take back 90kie tilings that wc Have said, but not all. If they care anything for us they have lost their influence with tlioiiMiabors. Bili. Aiuv A TERRIFIED COMMUNITYA Witch Mukos I.lfe hi Ohio l?ii|?lcn*nnt? Strani;o lalrn. Poktsmocth, Ohio, July 29.?The little community of Little Twin Creek in Nile township, Scioto county, is just at present stirred from center to circumference over the advent of what they believe to be a veritable witch in their midst. This woman came to the place some time ago, and since has been leading a mysterous life, and has become (lie talk of the entire neighborhood. In the day time she wandered about the country side from one house to another entertaining the simple housewives with strange tales of distant countries which she had visited, and of strange supernatural phenomena which she has witnessed, 1 1* i' ? * * iuui m some oi which sHe lias been a part. Her stock of whitch lore in boundless, and she understands the charm as well us the medicinal properties of every plant in the field or woods. At night she in some way disajv pears, and, although on several occo. sions she has been watched, she has always managed to elude her spies and make her nocturnal visits to witchland unattended. Recently she has been making some astonishing exhibitions of her art in connection with a Mrs. Sam Cooper of that neighborhood, who for years has been suffering from a nervous affection of the muscles of her neck so that she could not keep her head still. The witch told her that she was under the spell of a certain man af the community, whom she doscrib?d, and if she would examine the bed md pillows whereupon she slept she would find thirty-three witch balls. The examination was made, and juriously enough the exact number af balls, ingeniously formed from the feathers, were found. And now a night has been appointed, when at the hour of midnight these balls are to be burned, and at such time the noon declares, the mafi who is wieldiug the spell will die at once and the woman at oncce be cured. The peo pie are anxiously awaiting the hour, and in the meantime the man described by the mysterous woman is moving nervously about and is minions fuitly conscious of being one of the main characters in a most serious tragedy or a most ridiculous farce. A Newsboy's Grout lan k. A broker stepped out of tho Broad Street door of the stock exchange yesterday, apparently after having made some money. He espied a little mito of a ragged newsboy, not threo feet high, and a philanthropic notion took possesion of him. He caught up the littlo bunch of rags :uid, carrying it to a cigar stand, procured an empty cigar box. This he placed in the dazed boy's hands. Then the broker dashed into the exchange with a wild whoop that lirected general attention to him. Instantly he was surrounded by a crowd, and Broker Dick Hal stead Jirew a coin into the box, seized tho l>oy, passed him to J. W. Bass, who ilso passed him on after dropping a contribution into tho box. Coins md bills began to rain into it. The trust crowd was invaded, then flpNew England crowd, and the pilo >f money in the box grew rapidly, riio yells, the sight of the money, ind the general novelty of his trip verc beyond the littlo fellow's com irehension. Ho simply stared blauky Finally he was released. There must aave been $50 in the box. He shot >ut of the exchange, and was last leen running up Nassau Street hugjing the box tightly to his breast. iVbo ho was, where he lived, or vhat he would do with his fortune 10 on* knew.?New York Special. A Martyr to Duty: The St. Louis Republican States hat Congressman James P. Walker, >f that State, who died suddenly Saturday last of apoplexy, was a nartyr to duty. Ho was canvassing lis district for renomination, but liurietUback to Washington to vote igaliat the forco bill. Tho long trip ntiw intense heat was primarily the iflHkof his death. Commenting on .inn tinj lvepu oncfin aptly says: "ljet Democratic absentees in Washington vbo neglect interests of their constiuents, though almost withiug sound )f the Speakers gavel, remember the sacrifice of Walker in leaving a close y contested canvass and travoling i thousand miles through tl*o broilng heat when his vote was needed." ?A collision has occurred on theNew Vlanchester ship canal cut between iwo trains tilled with wovkingmen. Ten were instantly killed and -s$me tixty were injured, of whom probably thirty are fatally hurt. A blunder of a switchman caused the calamity. t DANCED HIMSELF TO DEATHI Rninnrkiililo Kffoct of tlio llltc ?>f a Trin Insect, Tl Old stories of the bite of the tarantula inducing an uncontrollable n desire to dance have been recalled to mind by the death of little Maurice 1 Benton, son of Lemuel Benton, a prominent lawyer, which occurred yosterday. The little fellow had lc been playing on the lawn of his father's residenco and ran into his n mother, complaining that something w had stuck in his bare foot. The mem- Hl ber was examined by Mrs. Benton ^ and a small red wound, such as a large sized needlo might have punc- ^ tured, was found, but was occompa- pf nied bj' no swelling, and but little tl pain; so applying a little camphor to cc the place, his mother thought 110 more of it. C( During the night, however, she M was aroused by the child's uncasi- in ness and complaining, so she took him out of his bed, and to her horror discovered that the entire limb had turned a purplish black. A physi- ai cian was sent for, but before he ur- tl rived, the boy was in convulsions, of T so peculiar character that the doctor tl at once suspected the presence of S( some unusual poison. The spasms h seemed confined to the limbs, which P were so violently and continuously convulsed as to keep the child danc- r' ing up and down, throwing dta arms wildly and twitching its lingers. These painful contortions lasted un- j, til the little fellow sank exhausted j and unconscious, in which state he remained all the next. day. dying in the evening. j The body was perfectly livid, with n 1. i- . r 1 * 11 great fs[toin 01 luscoiorauon nearly p black on tlio limbs and stomach, js wlnlc a peculiar fungus growth made u its appearance between the parted ri lips. The physicians were much jj puzzled to account for the ease, as iV, the limb was so swollen-as to render ^ any examination of the wound impossible, but old settlers say that from the description of it and the convulsions produced, that it was undoubt- v edly caused by the bite of a tarantula. 1 These dreadful creatures have grown 11 very rare in these parts, so they were l1 not at first thought of in connection 11 with the case. j1 REVIVAL OF CANAL BUILDINC. ? Have tin* lUlln'Ayi Fnih-U to Meet tlie Ki- V pect<?tlon8 of IturtineHX. p One of the tinancial phenomena of the country, and, indeed, of the world, n has been the revival, within the past tl twenty years, of an interest in the fi projection and construction of artifi- J1, cial waterways. A generation and G more ago the canal was the popular ti means of transportation of freight, d In 1825 began an era in railway building. Tho example of the Blackstone * canal, in our State, shows the result a of this new undertaking. As the e building of the Providence and Wor- ^ cester railroad was the deathblow to ? the prosperity of the Blackstone * canal, so it was to universally. * " But tho year 1870 marks a revival of interest in canal building. This sin- a gular fact and its explanation are ^ discussed in the most recent of the r LI! i* _ e a*. . k ; *n r puuucauous 01 me .American jiicono- y mic Association, by Edmund J.James, e Pli. D., of the University of Pennsyl- 0 vania, Pa. James iirst calls attention a to the increased activity in this class r of projects in Europe and in this fj country. In Prussia and in France g this interest has been very great. Iu a tlio East a canal is in process of con- c struction through the Isthmus of q Corinth, uniting the waters of the y ASgjcan sea and the Gulf of Lepanto. t< The North sea and Baltic canal and n tlio Manchester ship canal are pro- j jects of great commercial importance. * * Ho finds the chief cause in the j falure of the railway to realize the expectations entertained of it. It has faded, be says, to secure as low rates as the public and shippers insist should prevail. Charges of railroad " extortion, ho claims, aro rifo under all systems?Amorican, English, v French and German. ?o A Wasted Ijtfe. b "Ah, yes, his was a wasted life," u sighed the bald-headed gentleman. t( "Was ho dissipated? Had ho an- f< tipathy for work.' Was he a gambler, o a lover of fast horses, a?" S ''Nay, nay, interrupted tho bald- o headed gentleman; none of those; but tl worse, far worse. He spent his life endeavuriug to raise vegetables which should remotely resemble the gorgeous specimens he had seen in the seed b man's natnlncriiA ? Ijongcd for a Carriage Ilide. 11 The professor's wife complained c tlmt ou a recent visit of curiosity to the new cemetery he did not go with r her. e "But you must come with me some time, won't you, dear?" she said wheedingly. "I shall take the greatest pleasure in doing so, loye. And what is more ft do not off too long, either." | ft > . v First Burglar: "I've got a scheme." ^ Second Burglar; "What is it?" ^ "We'll form an unlimited burglin' H company an' get a charter from tho State of Louisiana." i "But we can't offer $1,250,000 for tho privilege." "We couldn't pay it cash down, of 1 course, but we might offer to let tho 0 State go halves." h N othing so completely robs con- f< finemcnt of the pain and suffering at- f< tending it as the previous use of C The Mother's Friend. Sold by all t] Druggists. b * T' " "" ' v v ' ' v NO TROOPS AT POLLS. HE REVISED FORCE BILL A MUCH MILDER MEASUREour Says tlio Provision for Trcsp* Haa Been Stricken Ont-Kdntunds Still Holds Out AgnliiKt it CluutRe cf the Ituleg. The Washington correspondent of le Macon Telegraph writes as fol>W8: The Republican Senators were not umerou8 at church today. They ere at home, reading the sixty-page lbstitute for the seventy-five page >avenport-Lodge force bill, which [essrs. Hoar and S pooner havo prcired. The change were made by tese two Senate . without much msultation with. ieir Republican >llengues on tlie election committee, [essrs. Frye, Evarts and Teller, but i deference to tlioi well-known deres for a milder m asure. The esRcial desire of Mes *s. Frye, Evarts id Teller was for an elimination of 10 provision for tro >ps at the polls, his, Messrs. Hoar and Sherman say, icy have stricken out, but it does not i appear from the copies of the resoition they hrve furnished their Reublican colleagues. The section re?rred to. which re-enacts the civil ights law. remains unaltered. A Mrril MILPElt BILL. The other important changes have een stated as the work was being one. The bill is so much milder lat it will receive all but a few votes t the caucus tomorrow night, provied Hoar and Spooner demonstrate mt the provision for troops at the ools is really out. Rut its passage i still most problematical, for it canot be passed without changing the iilcs.and Edmunds still leads alieroic ttle band of opponents to any such ction. So long at lie stands firm it ill not be done. ONE OK IT'S WORST FEATURES. "One of the most dangerous proisions of the Federal election bill is he possibility of the appearauce once aore of United State troops at the .oils, which may be put under the .lurching order of any United States i.irshal or officer," said Represent aivo Mutelder of Pennsylvania to tlie iundav Gazette. "It is u curious thing that the very iew which was enacted by the Reublican Congress in the heat of war imes to put a stop to the outrages gainst the elective franchise comlit ted by United States troops on he border states should furnish the rst pretext for the exercise of that ower, but so it is. The act in quesion was designed to restrict the uso f troops. It has, however, been prostuted to partisan purposes, so as to estroy the very object for which it 'as enacted, and the little clause to cep the peace at the polls has served s a pretext for the numerous influnces with state and federal elections hich wore so numerous until the hangc of policy inaugurated by the layes administration. NOT CONFINED TO THE SOUTH. "The use of United States troops t the polls on election days has not een confined to the South, as some oople suppose to be the case. Thoy fere used in Pennsylvania at a stato lection in 1870. Without the request f the Stato or municipal authorities, n armed body of United States maines were brought to the polls in tho fth ward of Philadelphia, took posession of them, kept them closed for n hour, and exercised the right of hallenging voters. Gen. John W. leary, a distinguished Republican, no was governor at the time, proisted against this high-handed outigc, and in a messago to the Stato jcgislature denounced it in vigorous uiguage. The occunenco cited in ennsylvania waH at an election for tato officials. TROOrS AT NEW YORK TOOLS. "A more dangerous attempt was iado in November, 1870, in New rork, under the provisions of an act rhich it is now proposed to revive, nly in a more dangerous form, to vera wo voters and State officials, and ut for the firmness oi Governor Hofiflan and the yielding of the President 3 milder counsels on the evening bejre the election, scenes of riot and f bloodshed and conflict botween tato and Federal troops might have ccurred that would have startled lie country." Too Groat u HSsk. Father: "John, why don't you go o work? You're old enough now to arn your own liviu." John: "Ah, father, but you don't nderstand. Clara says she don't are for riches. She loves me for myelf alone. Suppose I should become dnti f vaii ono 44- "^*1 " %j jvm ovvj av nv/UlU DjlUU very thing?"' A Substitute for I<cnthcr. y\p. Younghusband: "Isn't tbero piece of old leather in tbo bouse ny where, BAss' I want somo in tbo irorst way." Mrs. Youngliusband: "No, Cbarlie Kovo itirt'f /Wovkwif 4l>Au?Ui uvtv inu V yxAnj/flJ lliUU^Ilb nuiKCH or:) "But, Charlie dear, there's i hat teak you bought day l>efore yesterlay, you know." The Macon Telegraph says: "Ben ?illman made himself ridiculous by ngaging a detective to accompany im while ho was in Charleston on is recent visit. Tillman seems to jel that he has done something awally mean. The people of South 'arolina laugh at his silly pretense hat ho is in danger of bodily harm as e cavorts through the State "