Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Appendioiiif, whioli has become t 'fashionable disease during the past fea years, hiui had moro victims at Yal? College this term than in all the rest of ih? State of Connecticut. State Geologist Smock, of New Jer(ncy, who has been on a business trip to Holland, says ho thinks 300,000 i. Heron of Jersey meadow land can be reolaimod by adopting the Holland system of embankments and dikes. A composite picture of the American of the future would be worth /going a long way to see. Aocording *o Henry Watterson, of tho* Conrier Journal, he will be a union of CavarL*. > V"1*. Teuton, Beandinavian and oih elements too numerous to mont#' A Bnei^rtyres paper savs that the agricultjp 1 redacts of Argentine lj?75 I\Sy\ last ton venrn. 'Iho valuehis year's crop amounted to <a?T c^BOO. Tlia ..ri>*t? -ii ? - r wht^F in cxcesH of homo need, ij xnjm n[.?27,000,000, ranking above Ti^pnnd next to wool in the value of ^Hitiuc's cxportnblo products thu> _ . >11 lv thirty five vcrpoIs lmve been ilt at Baltimore during 181)3, while .ty-ono were built there in 1892. J le registered tonnage shows ?n even rjreater decline. In 1392 it was 17,277 tons, while in 1893 it was but 5389. ''This," comments the New York Sun, "is a striking indication of the extent ?f the depression in the shipping industry during the year." The healthfuluess of New York is s ronRi>n f?vr ?'1 * * .?? jviviuij hi iut: uiiuHr oi tho- prevailing gloom, maintains the Tribuno. In spite of the increase of population, the number of deaths in 1893 was little greater than in 1892 ? only forty-one larger ?while tho number of births increase! more than 2000. The death rate for last year woe 23.46 per 1000, against 24.26 in the previous year, while for the last ten j ears the average has boon 24.72. Tho Board of Health's most recent es- j timate of the population of tho city is \ 1,891,800, the estimated increase from 1 1)00, so that a year from now tho population will approximate closely to 2,090,000. Somo time ago Mr. Carnegie, the extensive iron-master, was approacho! by tho reliof committee of Pittsburg nnd asked what ho was willing to do for tho suffering unemployed of that city. Mr. Carnegie replied that UU ?TU?iU IVHtV'J bin nil Uscriptions of thy whole city. Tli? committee went to work with n will to make him give as much ns possible, and had up to a few days since secured subscriptions amounting to 360,795, when by some means Mr. Carnegie's offer became public. The committee says that the publication has done au incalculable injury to the good work, ns the subscriptions at once fell oft'to almost nothing. Th people of the city argue that if the millionaire is going to give so large a sum it is unnecessary to make an effort. The American Lawyer, in a long anil careful editorial, sets out that litigation, especially in the Now York courts, is declining. The work of the lawyer is undergoing n great change, his chief forum lias been transferred from the courthouse t ? the office. This result has been brou <ht about l>y tho growth in number an I wealth of corporations which wish legal counsel and will pay well for it but desire, as n rule, to keep out of court. The fees of #500. $1000 and $5000 once consid* ^ ered munificent in trial practice, are small in comparison with tho fees m"br. iA ik? ,.?i w:n I |;niu itii lilt- r?t:i v ii-u in v wuun-ji, u i iiam Nelson Cromwell, of Sullivau A Cromwell, of Now York, for managing the affairs of a great estate received a fee of $260,00.) and a snleu lid service ol Bilver as a token of gratitu le. John E. Parsons, of the firm of Parsons, Shepherd Ogden, received $250,000 for his services i:i the organization of the sugar trust, and there are manv practitioners whose fees Amount to &25,Q.)0, ) > an 1 $100,000 per yeor. As show big the fie dine in the number of caaes tried, the firm of Hornblower, Byrne t: Taylor, the hea<l of which was lately appointed to the Supremo Bench by President Cleveland, baa but one case in the New York Supreme Court at its last term ; such a firm as Evarts, Choate k Beman has but forty-four eases in that court; Arnous, Bitch f: Woodford filed but eleven, and ho on through the list of great law iiruiH. Yet the practice of these firms is lucrative beyond the dreams of fifty years ago. ClientH pay their money now, not t > got into court, but to bo kept out of it. THE FATE OF A BOOM TOWN. Under the Hammer It Brings Abojt Three Cents for Every Dollar Invested. Birmingham, Ala.?The boom town of Fort Payne, Ala., where millions were invested by New England capitalists, w?h sold under the hammer to E. N. Cnllom, n Birmingham capitalist, for the smull sum of $60,000. The purehaso includes 30,000 acres of mineral lands, 2,000 towns lots, and various large industries, including rolling mills, furnaces, factories, hotels and 11 l-'L U1U J1KO. In July, 1802, tke cntiro itropnrtj of the Fort Pay no Coal and Iron Company was placed by order of the United StatoB Court in the hands of n receiver upon the petition of A. M. Loylcs and others of New- England. Theso were afterward Joined by the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, trustee, who asked for foreclosure of ? mortgage for $.'100,000. The receiver ship, though hotly contested in the United States courts by other New England stock holders, win* sustained Fort Payne was the fint attempt of organized New England capital to found a city in the South, and it hio proved a Hat failure after several mil lions have been squandered. Tintown was built to otder. In the fall of 1880, W. P. Rico and associates of Boston, floated 40.000 shares of Fort Payne Coal and Iron Comnany stock in Vermont, Muiuc, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut and New York city at $25 per sliare of $100, realizing a clean $1,000. 000, which was taken in a lump to [ Fort Payne. Aftcrwnril 10,000 shares , of stoek, reserved in the treasury, were sold at 837 per share. This soon ' went, and a blanket mortgage with bonds aggregating 8300,000 was exe- | cuted. Immense sums were obtained from the sale of town lots, which were | also expended noon the town water ( works, hotels, railroads, sower system, \ furnaces, rolling mills, and all the ac- i eoutrements of a commercial and man- | ufacturing city. I Then came the bogs of financial de- j prer.sion ill 1800, and Fort Payne retired, and has remained in retirement ever since, private and corporate expenditures having amounted to $3,000,0(\f). Tlieexpenditurcsof tlieFoit Payne Cohl and Iron Company amounted to 80,000,000, all of which has been sold for 800,000, or for 3 cents on the dollar. The result of this enterprise has been disappointing to both Enstern people and to Southerners, the one in losing their money and the other in tho check that is given to Eastern investment. Fort Payne was the first of '.writfili'Tiiyfriiii in the front in the South in 18^.> ami 18J10, Middleboro, K., and Hnrrinrinn, Tenn., being other examples. All have gone the way Fort Payne went. Generous Gifts for a Worthy Charity. Charleston, S. C.?At the 2fith anniversary of the Home for Mother*, Widows and Daughters of Confederate Soldiers, held in this eitv, a gift of $20,000 from a Baltimorean was announced. The name of the giver in withheld. The Home is the oldest in the South. It was founded and Inn been managed by women. It has housed hundreds of widows and educated nearly a thousand daughters of Confederate soldi* rs. The association h? supported by contributions of the charitable, nnd up to this time the hit} W. W. Corcoran was its main benefactor. The gift materially adds to its fund ami is the occasion of pro.*011111 satisfaction. A Massachusetts Manufactory Arrcnoinq to Come So it'. Boston, Mass.?The committee on mercantile affairs of the Legislature, reported a bill authorizing the Dwiglit Afnniifftpfnriiwr f!nmii?it?v nf ( r> to increase its capital stock from ?1,200,000 to SI,800,000, and t<? engage in business beyond the limits of the State. At the hearing it was stated that the company desired to build mills in the South for the manufacture of coarse cotton Roods, which enn be made cheaper in that section, where the labor cost is small, compared with the cost of the material. The Bonds Will all be Taken. Watiinotom, 1). C.?SecretinCarlisle, after the cabinet meeting, authorized the statement that there wan no longer any doubt, if any ever i...i ai. * /..ii nrwi iwwt ,.r | (A If* HI I y Mini Hlt5 lllll IM '- *><]? would be taken. One offer In f,".'' nt'lct's ..v*V New York for $20, 000,00o t\\.? ...iij-d, boaidea many others in stnnller sums. Hnveral is Raid, wore for $o00,0Q0 and $1,000,000. Ins rrjents' Successes. Rio Janeiro, Rha/.ii..? Alnrininn reports have been received here o! government disasters lit Cnrutiba, Pa ranagua and Antmiina. It is stated that these places have been eajitured by the insurgents and that the gov eminent troops have tied, nbandouin; their arms and munitions of war. Retrib.'tion is Sire T l-? o rrr A nrl inn* ni K' nnenn ^ M c AT/-* haft made a clean sweep of the chargci against officers of the banks which closed there last summer Twenty five indictments were returned. Al* were charged with embezzlement and accepting deposits when they knew their banks were insolvent. Heavy Snow Storm: A heavy snow storm in reported frniv Boston ami all over New F,ngl>rid. Lock port, Auburn, Ogdeimburg, Wii tertown, N. Y., Hcranton, I'enii , am other points. Winds are high am travel and t legrnphic comnunicr.tioi interrupted. PITHY NEWS ITEMS. Aiken, S. C., in to have city water1 Vorkm A riot lief foil miry and machine shop Is being built at Roanoke, Ya. A fund in being rained at Florence, S. G.t to erect the propimed opera house which is to he 45x75 feet and hold 800 people, A iicaitii resort hotel ia Wing plat* red at Stutcsville, N. C. The project of building an electric road from Cape Clinrlca, Va.t to the lower end of the Chesapeake peninsula ia being discussed. The road tvi'l bo about twelve nitlea loOgj fttlll give the country behnv Cape Charles an outlet. The Spartanburg, Otendnle * Clifton Railroad Co. hit* decided to issue fTO,-*" 000 in bonds to build five mtha of road and purchase rolling retook for the whole line, which is to ho eight milop loug. The United Ranking A* Building Co of Richmond, Va., has organized a branch in Florence, S. C. .T. S. Daniels and E. B. Cottingham I p.re among the incorporators of the | International Migration Society, organized at Birmingham, Ala., to trans- 1 port negroes to Liberia and other points ill Africa. ' The American Institute of Mining ( Engineers will hold its annual meet- , ing at Virginia Beach on February 20. , Several hundred members are expect- , cd, including a uumber from abroad, y They will visit Norfolk, Portsmouth, Newport News and other points of in- j terest in the vicnity. y The report of Capt. F. V. Abbot on 1 the question of opening the Congaree ^ River to Columbia, S. C., for navigation r:;.-.de. He recommends J constructing a lock and movable dam ' near O rail by below the city. This 1 Mil raise lf?e river to a suflicient 1 leight to allow river stenmerR to roach ho city from the sen. It in ORtimated * ?250,000 will he required for the work. ' 1 A moTement in on foot to form t j South Carolina society at Washington, i I). CI. f (Jen. John W. Cotten, grand mat tei " of Masons of North Carolina, preKide?l " over a m ? t: :ig at Oxford of the trus- 1 teeH of the Or; han Asylvtn. At this ^ meeting Dr. W. S. Black was re-eleet"d superintendent. J* The Wiit rn North Carolina farm j, era are preparing their landR to plant heavily in tobacco the coming season. > Several small, patent roller flour wiiifi AhrivAftvg vm T. burg county, C. This is evidence J that wlioat growing is being taken up A special from Hamilton, Ga., stuter , that Will Swint hhot and instantly , killed Sunny Peareo in a dispute ovei , a land line. Both parties are ver.i promine nt and wealthy. The tragedy , shocked the entire county. i The ".Han ot Iron." i "The Alan of Iron,*' otlRTvise "Giles tlu Wizard," was one of the I arsons put to death during the witchcraft persecution at Salem, Mass. His ........ ?.. nil... -...1 _t n.~ time of his awful death he was an old ! man past eighty. When accused of Vicing a "wizard" (which the Salem lunation seem to have considered tlio masculine of "witch") he calmly me. their charges and coolly informed them that, he would die rathe.' admit that lin had ever had coi ltnnuio'.i with evil spirits. Ho wasp.it to the peine forte et dure (death by pressure with huge weights), his ortitude during his dying moments ?ii ning for him the title used in ?lic 'irs* line. ?Chicago Herald. KUCHAN DESTROYED BY AN EARTHQUAKE Twelve Thousand People Killed in a City ot Northeast Persia. San Francisco, Cal.?Additional advices by tho steamer Belgie fro in China announce the complete annihilation by earthquake of the town o/ t/ i * r\ m it l nuenan, t (thir. incivu iiious.iiiu people wrrc killed in tin1 awful ditnater. Ton thousand bodies had hern reeovercd to dat \ The once beautiful city of 20,000 people ih now only ft neone of (lentli, cloHolntion and terror. Fifty thousnnd onttlo wore destroyed at the same time. Kuohan lies in a fertile plain at the foot of some monntaiiiH. As ia usually the oftHo, the soft alhrvinl plain was undoubtedly disturbed in n far greater degree hy th earthquakes than the neighboring rooky masses. The above repoit eonlirms the earlier intimation of the destruction of KiKhnn. No More Prize Fighting in Louisiana. The Supreme Court of Louisiana has reversed the finding of the jury in the ease of the State against the Olytnpie Club of New Orleans, for the forfeiture of the oharter, and the club will lie put iii n receiver's hands to wind ii)> itf* ufl'airs. Thin ends j rizelighting in the State of Louisiana. rolitical Activity. Tho State central and executivt committee and loaders of the Populist paity of Virginia held a conference ir Hiohniond and adopted nn addresi I.inking to a thorough reorganizntioi of thJ pftlt'/. Cigrntic rension Fra id;. i 7> _ /? tit * ? ? 'it. J i>r?v. <vv. ijowip, eoiorou, Wlin miniy iiliistwi , was j?i 1 ?><1 at Chattanooga, Trim , and t lio inoht. gigantic pcnaion frumln rvrr known in the South hav< been unenithcd, which will lead to tin arrest of probably a hundred nogroea, implicated with Tiuwia in swindling the government. THE SOUTH'S RESOURCES. Mr. Pat Walsh on the Material Oorohpmtni of the Southern StalesAt the nhnuni banquet'of the MetchnntM anil Manufacture ' Association of Baltimore, Mr. Pat Walsh, editor of the Augusta (da.) Chronicle, in reBponao to the toast "The Presa," suid: "The great miaaion of the press is to devote it? best efforts the develop* llleut df the material resources of tbo country. Speaking for the South I am confident that our section affoids tne best field for i nvestment nnd development. The war left us improvcrislied, and reconstruction did its worst to dispirit our people and to invert the the pyramid of civilization. Hhl OHfr days of defeat and disaster the citv of Bnltimorc and the State df 1 ? ? lun.uuuii ?frc ni!vcr ncKing in sympathy rrrr wanting in" gn^tnitinl aid. Wo on:i never forget the generous assistance rendered the 8011th at all timea by the people of thin city scd who nave ever been true to the parent principled Uf Olvll and religious liberty and the rights of the Stnti b. "Under adverse politienl conditions the 8oi:th has made commendable progress in agriculture, mining, mnnufactureres and raiboad const ruction. Wh i d it is rem- inhered that the era of recoiist-netion did not terminate tiutil 1877, llet* aiivrteecnient in the perioti uf sixteen years has been the most remarkable in the history of this or any sther country. For twelve years a'ter .he war political nITairR in the South ive'e so unsettled iiy federal iotcferMiee that progrers in mining and man1 factavetcs was retrmtcd. "X know that tin's is not the occasion o quote statistics, hilt I cannot refrain 'rom giving it few facts that will serve ;o illustrate the development of the ionth. "The eoftr.r. crop ^ ieidn avuuallv $00,0(10,000. Iii twenty-seven years he cotton crop alone of the South lifts inrieUed the world and added 80,00(1,100,000 to its acrtrreffnto "Hubert l\ Porter, superintendent if tbe United States census. ia nutliorty fur the statement that tlio South eada the United States and, indeed, he civilized world, with its wealth of intber. Forty different varieties dfe onnd in sufficient quantities to euimeriite in the re use a. More than me-hnlf of the South ia covered with orcst, 207,147,050 ncres being the stiinnto. The Harne uuthority ndda: It i:> not certain that even the iron lineH of the South are more valuable Iran her forests. The unnunl yield 11 lumber ia SI50,000,000.' "The Stntea of Virginia, Tennessee, forth Carolina, Georgia, Alabama and Lcnteekv abound mj/on and conland """ '"I"" ' In** jg. - " , n mining pursuits. The* oTo^Toai fauiiliar with the subject doitw. If > mte to predict that the States named rvill become the most aueeessful iron ind steel-producing districts of like irea in the world. "In 1870 the United States produced 15,000,000 tons of bituminous coal; in 1800 the South produced nearly 18,000,000. In 1870 the product of iron ore in the United States was 3,103,830 tons; in 1800 the South prolnced 2,017,520 tons of iron ore. Tn the Southern States twenty establishments report of cost of the manufacture :>f iron at from $8.55 to $12.50 per ton; in the Northern States seventy establishimuits report cost of manufacture from $12.00 to $20.00 per ton. "Not only is the South rich in cotton prodnetio m and in coni, iron ami tinihei, hut in the production of corn, wheat, outs, tobacco, sugar, molasses, h:iv, rice, fruits, potatoes nod other good c-oits her fields \ i> I< 1 an income >f one billion dollars a year. ' The Mouth's progress in making .vilta'i into ( loth has attracted the attciitiou of the corn try. The growth th'K industry has been something phenomena!. There were those who onterded that this industry would he i fa'luve, because they alleged that the '1 imatic conditions wee unfavorable So spinning cotton and because of its ?nervutieg effects upon the operatives. I?ut ti'oae fallacious ideas no longer \xii-t. There is nothing that succeeds ike success. In Hie parlance of my friend. Rev. Sam Jones, 'the South nns got there.' Her mills are rum tug ?leven hours a day w?liter and snmaier. They never shut down on account of the weather or strikes or dull imcs. While 4,000,000 cotton epiwlcr were idle in the East for e portion )f last year,the cotton mills in Georgia inn rue v;aniiiiinH \v? re running on hill limn r.nd makinifUHtneyr In 1H80 ho South lux I invested ineotton factotea $22,000,0(10 nud consumed '231,000 pales of rottoo; in 1890 she had invented over $01,000,000 nnd consumed early 000,000 bah-a; in 1893 she conuinied 744,000 bales of cotton, and the npital invested had increased proportionately. The manifest destiny V>r cotton-spinni ig is the removal of iliis industry to the cotton fields of the South. "Georgia 1ms the largest area of any State east of the Mississippi, being 10,000 square miles. In 1880 the asleased value of the whole property Hubert to taxation was $2">1,000,000; in 1893 tlie assessed value had increased ;o ?452,000,000. This is exclusive of J'20,000,000 ?>f railroad property which n t-*eiii|iti-u nv i'liuricrh iioui an valorem taxation From 1879 to 1893 agricultural lands increased i>j vain from 390,000,000 to ?131.000,000; liv stock from $21,000,000 io $27,000,000 farm .mplements ircgu near $$,000, 000 to near $0,000,000; the Capita invested in cotton millR increased 1879 to 1893?from 31,000,00 ) to ove $12,000,000; rnilro.nl properly in floor gia from $10,000,000 ftixnlde) to 312, U'm.ooo. Tin-re if* n fjront *l?'n1 of foolish t.il n)>out tho rnc?> foiiiii* t in th?? Bout! A? it mutter of fn< I th;>ro is uom ^^t!i iitv'is ]ivt* ninicaMy iiinl ore j>roi jv.-fJHff together. In 1879 th?} colore i people of Georgia owned and returned $5,000,000 of property for taxation, in 1803 the colored people owned and fctu^Hed. fof taxation $l5i000,000. "South Caroiiiia lidd Murtlj Carolina have made great progress inhuiiding cotton milla. About two-thirda of the apindles in the South are in the Caroliims and Georgia, pretty evenly divided between them. Augusta ia the largest cot-toil manufacturing .city in the South. She has expended $1,500,000 in a canal to secure water-power, which she rents to her factories and workshops at $5.50 per horoe-power per annum. Augusta has 33 per cent, of the capital invested In Cotton factories in Georgia. "The South has abundant transportation facilities Itr rail and water. The railroad development tins l)Cch fully I abreast of the times. In 188f> she Imd nearly 20,0 K) miles of railway; iu 1890 she had over 43,000 In e?57j department of human endeavor the South is making .commendable pro grcsfl. She rtffoftih the best field foi investment and development: ttlle has withstood the financial panic bcttei than any other section; she emerge* from it with renewed hope and confi dence. "It is the highest duty of the press of the ftoutll to ettcoUfaoe diversified agriculture and tile development of the mining nn<l manufactures, and to thin mission wo cordially invit-j tin preps of the country." HIGHLY FAVORABLE SHOWING. Bradstrrct Talks on Ike B/siness bt the Com try. New Yoiik. ? Bradstrcit's report says: The success of the government bonds' *?"*::? in with qualified satisfaction, but the effeet on other speculation or investment is tnerely sentimental. The market is st;ll waiting for ntl end of uncertainty about financial and tariff legislation, though values are apparently sustained by a feeling that the depression has run its course, and that the improvement in business and railroad affairs will soon develop. Business Is quiet in Charleston, cV cept that shipments of feitilizers nro heavy. Country merehnnta are buying conservatively of Nashville jobbers, who are not tiying to push sales, and a similar report is received from Memphis. Atlanta jobbers nre shipping with some freedom, and industrial establishments there arc more a : n..ii /--a ? ? * nvuvc. v^uiwju irnuneb hi onvannnil are holding for higher piices, and quotations for turpentine are advancing. Collections are better at Monptfie annual festival at New Orleans lias stimulated business, and exports of bulk corn are large. At Galveston the wholesale movement of dry goods and shoes is conspicuous. A Terrible Experience. (Washington, N. C.,Gazette.) A terrible experience was undergone a few dnva ago between Hatteras aud Ocracoke. Phil Gaskins and Leviue Quidly had ftarted in a sail boat to Hatteras, loaded too heavy with set net stakes. The boat capsized and Gaskins was drowne.l. Quidly remained on the bottom of the boat four days and nights without food or water, and was picked up by Win. Gaskins. This all happened in sight of the life-saving station, we have heard, where the men could be sepn walking on shore, yet no assistance was s^nt to the Buffering man. mium ? ? Cor. Tillman 0 ys It. Ciiarlottp, N. C. ?Tin* saleof whis'<ey seized for violntioii of the revenue lawn, took place in this city. There vere 130 barrels in the lot. An mknown purchnst r got 97 barrels ?f fine corn whiskey nt 81.10 per gallon. It is understood that bid was for Gov. Ben Tillman, of South Carolina, who in laying in n stock of the pure truck for his dispensaries, and who is ihvavH on the lookout for something good. The liquor he bought here is as pure as any distilled?just the sort to boused for medicinal purposes only. TUB TARIFF BILL S VICTORY. It Had 64 Majority in the Hojse of Representatives Washington, 1). C. ? Amid the greatest enthusiasm of the Democrats and a packed gallary of spectators, the WilTftriff lull itnggoil !?*? H n iuo Vituu 201; nays 140. There wore unparalled scenes on the floor of the House, inrl Wilson war carried to his Committee room on the shoulder* of their ;ollf A JUCB. IICIU.? He So gfit Consolation. William B. II ornblower, lately rejected by the Senate for Justice on the Supreme court bench, and Mrs. Emily S. Nelson, daughter of William K. San'ord, were married Thursday morning at 10:30 o'clock at St. James Episcopal Church, Madison avenue and Seventy-first street. New York, by Rev. I)r. Cornelius B. Smith. Mr. Hornblower had been a widower for eight years, and the lady he married D is bis sister-in-law, who has taken e care of his three children. 1 Honey No Object. From Oweuaboro, Ky., Protectionist We will take any of the following, or one year's subscription, if deliver d at thi? office: 1 fat lions,5cockerels. I kopbo, 1 tnritov, i mm/.. urcfwu ran >it?, 5 do/, frrwli ' J bushel* <?' 1 (;oti.4 pounds of fr< sh butter, 1( ;?ound? of fresh J oik. two bushels o' orn moid, or mivtluii^ a fnmih eon use of the vftjnc of $1, SHOOTING SFFMH IN COLO KB/A. Davis Nil/or Shoots W. 8. Moot to, It Kay Bo Fatally. Colvmma, 8. C.?Davis Miller shot W. D. Meetze Friday afternoon, in front of Trial Justice Stack's office, and the wound may prove fatal. "Miller was a witness in a trial of R. L. Seay for violating the dispensary law, and gave sonic evidence against the rtClMiftcd. It is alleged thut there is a regular cotispif-ttPy 111 Columbia to intimidate witnesses and prevent their testifying in behalf of the State in prosecutions under the dispensary law. Mectzo is a notorious character, and has a reputation of being a "bad man." He tackled .Miller, after the trial, nKnni fltn <tr arirl . U..J ...... "" gry words. Trial Justice Stark attempted to keep the men apart. Meetze kept eiltfKittjf Milter and-telling htm to draw hi? pistol. MAei?? backed nwiiy from Stack. Miller wrenched llfmsclf loose and drew n pnir of pistols. Meetze drew a pistol. There is doubt us to who fired first Meetze fired one lmll through Miller's coat, under itie arm, rtfld another bnll tore open the coat sleeve. Miller placed a ball in Meetzo's groin. Five shots were fired, three by Miller. A crowd gathered around and threats were tnade against Miller, who stopped shooting as soon as his antagonist fell. Charles ^Hendrix, an ex-bar-tender, drew a pistol which was wrenched from him by Sergeant Moorehead, who arrested Miller and disarmed him. When the crowd drew around Miller, Morehead drew his pis tol and warned Ihe cfOWd that he would shoot the first man who interfered with his prisoner. The crowd fell back and .Millet* was taken to in?l Meetze ?*.r.j live. The encounter took plnce within a few feet of the spot where several years ago Meetze kill oil ?Tim Clarke. Tho Judiciary Commi'trn Dc c/ ibed. The .tmllelnr* ConimUteo of ttic Uliitdl States' Senate. which passes upon presidential nominations to judicial otlice, is composed of sonic pret v honvy timber, politically speaking. Senator I'ligli. the Alabama-Chairman, was a eohgn ssinnii before the ?ur, He fought in the Eufnnla Kitlcs. Ho wns n Zaehnrv Tiivlor elector in 1848. He is 71 years of age. Senator Coke, hia Texas colleague, is 65, ou<l has lived in Wttio since 1850. He fought in the war. He was ejected judge in Texas twenty-eight years ago. fie has twice been Governor of Texas. Scnntor George of Missippi, is 68. He fought in the Mexican war, and ill the cftvalvy all through the civil war, .? a !-J- -n- - o tr-Court of Mississippi at its close. Senator William Lindsay of Kentucky has a war record, snd wns elected to the Kentucky legislature twenty-seven years ago. lie too has been 11 judge. These are the four Southern Democrats on the Committee. The two Northern Democrats, Hill and Vilas, arc younger men. IIill is 51, Vilas is 54. Hill has been an Assemblyman, city attorney and mayor of Elmiru, Lieutenant-Governor and Governor of New York for two full terms and a portion of another. Senator Vilas is a native of Vermont. He has served in the Wisconsin legislature and in the Cabiuct. Senator Hoar, the senior llepubliean member of the Committee on the Republican side, ib Go years of age, and a member of Congress or of the Massachusetts legislature almost continually for forty years. He wns first sent to Congress in 18 53. Senator Wilson of Iowa is ?6. He in an Ohio man, and was first elected to the Iowa legislature in 1857, four years after his arrival in that statu. While the Republicans l?.d control of the House of Represent:, tives be was chairman of the committee there dm intr the whole neriod of his service, which began in 18(53. Sen: tor Piatt of Connecticut is 67. He was secretary of state of Connecticut in 1857, and lias been a United States' Senator since 1879. Senator Mitchell of Oregon, another Republican member, is a PenusylVanian by birth, and first held oflice in Portland in 18(51. He was Governor of Oregon in 18(5."). lie was elected United States' Senator in 1872. Senator Teller, the fifth Republican on the Judieeary Committee, is 64. He was born in New York, and waa one of the Silver State's original United States' Senators (Colorado was admitted into the Union in 187(5.) The united ages of the Judiciary Committee are 695 years, the average of its members is 62. Peacocks Utilized to Arouse (tuests, "I had ft funny experience the other Jsy when I visited tho Blanks si their ovel.v country home near Winchester," writes an American girl who is spending the winter in one of the most beautiful counties in England, to the Chicago Times. "When I reached my room, which was dcliciously light and bright, with chintz curtains at th? window, ft small flowered paper on the wall, chairs upholstered in some soft stuff nil covered with red rosebuds on a white ground, a brass bedstead and carpet white again with a faint, pink irregular pattern, and was breathing in the gracious comfort of the place. Miss Blank, w ho accompanied me, broke in upon mv reflections with . There are two things that we always iel! any one. WUO visits us. >yp si ways DreaKinsi at half-past eight, and wa keep peacocks. ' "Well, next morning when I wa< awakened l\y the most, hideous screaming I have ever heard, I understood why visitors were warned about lb< oacocke." Tho nsaesBcd valuation of tk| property and wealth of Great Britain , in $45,000,000,000, GEORGE ff. CHILDS DEAD. THE GREAT PHILANTHROPIST SUCCUMBS TO PARALYSIS. History of the Famous Philadelphia' Journalist From Ilia Karly Struggles With Poverty Until He Became a Millionaire?Ills Library, Curiosities and Journal. oeokor. w. fiui.nrt. Ch-orgo XV. Child?, proprietor of tho Pub-' lie Ledger, died at one miuuto after Ito'clock, n. ra., nt tho southonst corner of j Twenty-second ond Walnut Btroets, Philadelphia, Penn., from tho efTects of n stroko of paralysis sustained bv him on January 18. | There were present nt his bedside George C. Thomas and James W. Paul, of tho firm of Drexel A Co., Mr. and Mrs. John Drexel, Miss Peterson, niece of Mm. CulIJ., .ma Stanley, companion to Mrs. Chllds, nnilCo!ouel Edward De V. Morrell. The Prexels rmMi .w.?_lw.U lit.. * -J T^. """ ?us-nnii wi llio iaiuxci |?uyciij. iu future the ledger will be managed by A. J. Droxel's youugcst eon, Oeorgo W. Child? Drexel. j Sketch of His Lifo. George William Childs was bom in Bnltftnoro, M?l., on May 12, 182!J. llin parent?' wore poor, so poor that when a tiny lad ho was forced to shift for himself, Boforo ho was fourteen ho oorvod a year in humblo' capacity in tho United States Navy, and then went to Philadelphia. Ho* was nearly n-mnlloss, and know but ono fam-i ily in that city. Within a fow days uftor hi^ arrival this family removed, nnd thus ho wa? left entirely alone nnd friendless. Ho obtained employment at onco, howovor, ? errand boy In a book storo at a weekly, salary of ?3. It was not long beforoi ho was clerk and right band man attending tho evening auctions and rapidly* becoming familiar with books und their value. Neverthless his salary remained very small. At the end of throe years' service it' only amounted to about *0 a week. From; this small sum, however, eked out with fortuuate ventures in book buying 011 his own. account, tho lad mnuaged to save money and! adopted as his early motto, "Industry, temperance nnd frugality." capital to enter into business otTTiis own ac-' count, and set up a modest book store in tho' Ledger building. thou at tho corner of Third! and Chestnut streets. Tho venture was a. very uncertain one. for his capital was veryj small. Nevertheless, ho began to make* money almost from the start. , In 1849 he entered the publishing llrm ot, R. E. Peterson A Co., the llrm being shortly' afterward changed to Childs A Petersoj^ Robert Evans Peterson, w'lO later !> -' came Mr. Cliilds's father-in-law, mi,| like Mr. Childs, a bookseller. in 1880 Mr. Peterson retired from the llrm, ami Mr.i Childs entered Into partnership with J. P., Idpplneott A Co., abasiness connection whichi continued about a year. Mr. Childs theni commenced business for himself. In 1863 ho| purchaso 1 tho Publishers' Circular, an advertising slieot then published in New York, j He remodeled and edited this paper, and | issued the llrst numl>er under tho titleof tho Amerlcun Publishers' Circular and Library Gazette on May 1, 1863. The Circulur was it. great success from tho start, and continued, under the charge of Mr. Childs until 1869. when tho increasing cares of tho publication | of tho Public Lodger forced him to part with it., Mr. Childs had now beeomo a man of note.( His name afterward became almost ns wolll known in Eugland as in this country. Hoi had taken a place in this country as a publlo| benefactor because ot his largo liberality iu| Rifts to worthy institutions and persons,, and every year gave away much of thtv large income derived from his news-' paper. In England his liberality took> the form of doing honor to the poets Georgol Herbert and William C'owpor by a memorial) window in Westminster Abbey; of paying' homage to Milton by one in St. Margaret V,( Westminster, an I by erecting a fountain to Shakespeare in 8tratford-on-Avon. Ho also) contributed to a monument to Leigh Hunt inj Kensal Green Cemetery, and a memorial window to Moore in the church at Browham. In this country he built a monument to Edgar. Allan Toe and had given orders to provido one for Richard A. Proctor, the astronomer.) Among the latest of his public gifts was the! erectUu of the "Prayer Book Cross," near San Francisco, to mark the spot where Sir Francis Drake landed and where the religious services in the English language wero first held on the western shores of America." Dill 1119 111 m " r;n u y in 11119 run in i j iuva chiefly ih? form of benevolouoe, not merely in the shape of charity. Ho paid his printers* more than union rates, and his employes generally shared in a souse in the promts of his paper, which was estimated at $350,000 to $50;),000 n year. All who worked for him received liberal salaries ; ho paid tho doctors* biils of the sick, pensioned the superanuntedp and often buried tho dead. In !8?;8, Mr. C'ntlds aud Tur. A. J. Drexel jointly gave $10,000 to't he Inter national Typographical Union, which was the nucleus of tho fund out of which tho home for aged and invalid printers at Colorado Springs was finally erected in 1892. To iucreasethe fund printers east of the Mississippi onoh sot a thousand ems for its bonoflt on Mr. Childs's following birthdays, and those west of the great rivet did the same thing on Mr. Drexel's, S"ptamber 13. The list of Mr. Childs's benevolent deeds is a long one, and tho amount of his benefactions was immense. In addition to giving to public aud privato charities in Philadelphia nud elsewhere, he educitedat least 500 young women. No reserving stranger ever nppealed to him ill viiu foj aid. 1 /' T !i? .I ,L> I . ?. J j\ turiwmij vi i in* U4in? # Additions to rented premise*, when i made by the tenant, should never be fastened with nails, but with screws.^ says a St. Louis lawyer. The reason for this lies in the fact that should he wish to move away and take with him the boards and other lumber compos- \ ing the improvements he has made, he , ! can simply draw out tho screws and J I take tho planks. If he fastens thorn j with nails, however, li<- can remove -M nothing, and the improvements become M tho landlord's property. The fact resuits from a legal quibble, insisting * that articles fastened with screws are 1 for temporary use, and if put in placo * 1