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VOLUME 41. YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1895. NUMBER 05.
FROM WALL STRE
VIA THE PRI
BY AUHTIN
Copyright, 1895, by the Author.
UJtLA-ritiK IV.
The Eastward Ho was a hint of a
project we had frequently talked over as
a possible speculation. Here we see how
men are led on step by step from bad to
worse when onoe they set out on the
Primrose Way.
We resolved to tell Irving in a general
way that we were going to Europe
to make some money and would pay
him and his two fellows their percentage.
Then we could apparently work
with impunity, for of oourse if we committed
a forgery in Europe and were
recognized as Americans?as probably
we would be?the foreign police would
report the case to the New York police
?that is, to Irving.
Edwin James and Brea had dropped
out of our lives for good, but as my
readers will be curious to know of their
fate in after times I will relate it in
this chapter.
The $6,000 we gave James eased up
matters for a time. Practice he had
nnnfl hnt managed to hold on in the
hope of realizing on the Brea will matter,
but getting deeper and deeper in
debt. Brea helped him all he con Id, as
his presence was essential if the old ladj
departed and the forged will was produced.
One night, four years later,
Brea's mother-in-law had a more than
usually furious outbreak of temper and
fell to beating the three daughters still
living with her. Before it was over sinhad
attacked and seriously injured tineldest,
and- then flew to her room in a
passion. Not appearing at breakfast the
next morning her daughter went to hn
room, but ehe was not there and tinbed
was undisturbed. Going to tinroom
that served for office and library,
they found the door as usual locked
Bursting it open the poor old mai.'..found
their mother huddled in a corner
oi me room ueau.
The genuine will was destroyed, an<:
the family lawyer, James, immediatel;
after the funeral produced and rea<.
"the last will and testament" of tin
dead woman. The four sisters and u
host of poor relations were present at
the reading. When Sarah, Brea's wife,
heard her name read as chief heir of
the vast estate, she was stunned, but if
she was stunned the rest of the family
v. were paralyzed. Legacies were left to
many, small in amount, save in the case
of the other three sisters, who were to
have a certain tenement and land in
Harlem and $8,000 a year for life out
of the estate. None of those present
thought for a moment of questioning
either the genuineness of the will or the
validity of the testaments save only a
poor relation, a nephew, whose name
was down for $500. He was indignant
with the old lady and loudly declared
that he would not put up with it. The
next day he employed a briefless lawyer,
one that had wit and brass enough and
who had his way to ruake in the world
and was determined to make it
Without waiting for the will to be
probated or having legal authority to
do so Brea and his wife, the very day
after the funeral, moved into the house
and took possession. But' before the
week was out he had persuaded the
three old maids that they would be happier
if away from the scene of their parent's
death, so he had them installed in
their own house at Harlem, he remaining
in undisturbed possession, waiting
only for the will to be probated in order
to take possession of upward of $200,000
, in cash and bonds still in the custody of
the old lady's bank. He had full possession
of the house, and with entire conii
dence waited to be put in legal possession
of alL
But little did he dream that at that
moment there was one poor torn sheet of
foolscap in the library, casually thrust in
a book, lying completely at his mercy to
destroy if he could only have known it,
which was going to tear all his wealth
from his grasp and drive him forth a
foiled plotter to become an adventurer
and ultimately to perish a miserable
outcast
Brea then attempted negotiations with
the attorney. Cautious as he was, ho
said enough to convince the lawyer that
> for some reason he did not waut the castto
come before the courts. Still the attorney
was half inclined to join hands
with Brea. In tho meantime Ezra (this
was the name of tho man of law) hud
acquired great power over tho sisters,
and they all looked to him both as
champion and protector. Ho resolved t:i
? be protector to one at least, paying assiduous
court to Jane, the youngest. Although
past 80, and without education
or accorupiisnmenis, sne was warm
hoarted and extremely sentimental, and
a thrill went through her tender heart
when it became evident that Ezra's attention
pointed at her. She quickly
made him a hero and invested the thin
shanked, narrow chested, waspish attorney
with a thousand tender attri
butes, and when, after one month's acquaintance,
she found herself alone with
him in the poky little parlor, and h:asking
her to be his wife, her woman's
heart overflowed, and telliyg him she
v had loved him from the first hour they
met she threw herself into his arms, crying
sho was the happiest and most favored
woman in the world. In the midst
of the happy lovers' talk she ran to theshelf,
took down a book, and opening it
revealed a soiled sheet of paper and asked
her lover what it was. His love had
?. given him a gift indeed. His trained
eye recognized it at once as a draft of a
sET TO NEWGATE.
MROSE WAY.
BIDWELL. 1
new will in the handwriting of the do|
ceased mother and dated the very night
of her death. It was a rongh draft, but
across the bottom was drawn the bold. <
masculine signature of the old lady
There were no signatures of witnesses,
but Ezra was lawyer enough to know itwould
stand, and that it revoked all
previous wills. Calling in the two elder
sisters, he read the will to their amazed
ears, and then and there wrote out a
full statement as to the circumstance
under which it was found. All four attached
their signatures to the document, 1
and when Ezra kissed his love a tender
good night and went home he hardly felt
the paving stones under his feet,
for he had carefully tucked away in the
inside pocket of his vest, just over his 1
heart, the little soiled piece of paper :
which told him in unmistakable terms '
that his fortune was made, and tho
wedding ceremony once over that it was 1
beyond all chance of change. '
Before the discovery of the new will,
while it was believed that Mrs. Brea .
was an heiress and her credit good, she
and her husband had made use of the
fact, and had incurred debts to a large
amount. Brea got his wife to indorse his
note for $10,000, and he borrowed that
sum from the bankers, but as soon as ?
the true state of the case was known
his creditors became clamorous and had
him arrested on civil suits. Unable to
give bonds, he was locked up in Ludlow <
Street jail, and there he remained six
months, until, acting upon Ezra's ad- ,
vice, the sisters agreed to pay all his
debts and give him and his wife $1,000
each if they would live west of Chicago.
This they were forced to accept and
went to Montana. Brea opened a saloon
at Butte City, but he never recovered
his spirits again. He became his own
best customer, and that of course meant
ruin, but what, after all, killed him
was the knowledge that he had been for
more than a score of days in full posses
siou of that old house and had spent '
scores of hours alone in the old library '
and yet had not discovered and destroy- 1
ed the new will lying there at his mercy, i
The sheriff soon sold out his saloon, J
fphile his wife eloped with his best
iriend. Ruined in pocket, health and 1
character, poor old Brea was left bare to (
every storm that blew. One morning, as (
the sun was rising over the town, sur- 1
prising half a dozen belated gamblers in 1
Ned Wright's saloon as they were getting
up to leave, they found lying across '
the threshold the body of a man, rag- (
ged, emaciated, forlorn. It was Brea. f
As soon as James had read the will 5
he insisted upon having $5,000 from s
Brea at once, and he got the money. *
But when that thunderbolt of the new 5
will fell on the two men James sadly 1
recognized that fortune and he would 1
shake hands no more, so far as this (
world is concerned, and be resolved to {
chance returning to London before the \
whole of the $5,000 he had from Brea i
was gone. To London he went He lived (
a few years in extreme poverty, driven 1
to all manner of miserable shifts, and at
last died. '
This man died who ought to have J
been buried in Westminster abbey, so '
adding one more brilliant name to the
long line of illustrious lord chancellors I
from Thomas a Becket and Cardinal 1
Wolsey down, but he, hating his own I
soul, took the first step in wrongdoing, '
and instead of resting in the mighty abbey
and bequeathing his dust as a i
precious legacy to succeeding genera- i
tions perished forlorn and alone and s
was buried in a pauper's grave.
We all landed in Liverpool in the 1
highest spirits and at once took the <
train for Loudon, enjoying the novelty j
of everything.
Therefore, after completing certain <
preparations which required skill and I
considerable business knowledge, we
departed to execute this new and of I
course last shuffle for fortune. <
After we saw George off to Paris on i
the train Mac and I walked up and
down the platform outside of the station
star gazing. Mac, with his brillian- <
scholarship, elegant speech, logical force ;
and fiery enthusiasm, made a most fas- |
cinatiug companion. j
The study of mankind is man, the old |
proverb says; but, like many other prov- ,
erbs, there is a full measure of unreality
in it. It takes a good amount of arrogance
and conceit for one to fancy he is j
<rninr? tn vl-ndr- Jinrl midnrstand mm No .
mail can understand himself, and by no |
amount of experience or study will he |
ever come to understand that subtle |
thing ho calls his mind or understand
the motives that sway him. i
I only wish one of those scientists (
who study the human mind could have .
sat in Mac's brain that night, have ,
thought his thoughts and heard his (
spe?'ch, while remaining ignorant of our j
history and mission. Mac's mind was a ,
storehouse of erudition, his memory a ,
picture gallery whose chambers were (
gilded and decorated with many a glow (
ing canvas. As a child he was familiar t
with the Bible, the Old Testament par- (
ticularly, and, improbable as it seems. t
was still a diligent student of holy writ. ;
His mind was completely saturated
with Bible imagery, yet there we were ,
with our pockets full of forged documents
walking up and down that plat- ,
form star gazing, while he talked with |
intelligent enthusiasm of those silver |
flowers in the darkened sky, of stellar
space, how in its infinity it proved the (
presence of Deity; that with him there
was no great and no little; that a
thought sweeping across the God given
mind or an infant was as wonderful
and as much an evidence of power as
the millioned arch of radiant suns in the
milky way. While speeding through
Belgium on our way to the Rhine he
continued until the sun shone upon the
horizon at times, talking like an inspired
prophet of God's purposes to men
and of the destiny of our race. It was
something to stir one's enthusiasm to
see his sublime faith in the mighty destiny
of man, and to listen to him tell of
the dignity and grace of every human
soul and his sure faith that all would be
garnered in the mighty plains of heav- (
en, and he meant and felt it alL Yes,
meant all he said, believed all he said,
believed that he himself was a potent ,
factor in the divine economy, and furthermore
believed it behooved every
man to do all things, to be all things
good and true, yet on this Sunday morning
we were fast speeding to the scene ,
of our contemplated schemes, and with
light hearts looked forward to a speedy (
return to London, fairly well laden with
plunder.
J 4.1 -L-K 1.1 I.
ue luiiiuu. tut) wiiuie uigui uiruugu,
or rather Mac talked and I listened, and j
It was a treat to be a listener, he being
the speaker.
A period was put to his oration by the
train stopping at Luxembourg, we being '
summoned to breakfast
to be continued.
jiUisfcUancous grading.
LETTER FROM BETHEL.
i
r!.v Crop In Short?Light on the Fertilizer
Question? Crimson Clover?Or. Campbell's
Chickens?Narrow Escape froin a (
Serious Smash-Up?School Matters.
Correspondence of the Vorkville Enquirer. |
Forest Hill, September 23.?The 1
weather has been unusually hot for the
past week. Cottou is opening very
fast. Fields that were picked over six
lays ago, are now as white as they <
were before. The crop is going to be j
much shorter than the farmers had j
:hought it would be before they com- |
ueueed picking. Ou sandy lauds the
Liulk of the crop has already opened, <
ind if this hot, dry weather eoniiuues ,
avo weeks louger, the cotton crop in ,
;his section will he picked by the mid- (
lie ot uctooer. iur. wniiain otautou,
ivho is oue of our most observant and (
successful farmers, says that the crop |
n this immediate section will average ?
jetter than any he has seen, and that
here will not he more than two-thirds ,
)f a crop made here. The dry weath-\
ir of the past three weeks has blasted
die small top bolls and they will make (
nothing. i
All the intelligent farmers that I <
nave talked to, seem to be of the |
jpinion that it pays to use guano, and ;
iay that their cotton crops have been ;
shortened just in proportion that they (
shortened the fertilizer. Mr. Stauton
;ays that he did not use as much gulno
on any of his crops as usual; but
;o prove that he is right about guano 1
paying, he says that in one Geld be
inly put one sack to three acres, his
juauo having run short. This three |
lores was, he considers, the best land
u the Geld ; but now, while the weed ;
>n it is as large as the rest, there is ,
not as many bolls by one-half.
Mr. Ess Miller, one of our young .
Partners, but au energetic aud intern- |
*eut one, says that he used guano;
jut not as much as usual. One of his |
neighbors, who has better cotton laud <
lhau his, did not use a pouud. Now
Mr. Miller says the neighbor lias a
iarge weed, butscarely any bolls on it; '
while his cotton is fairly well boiled. |
Mr. Miller says he is satisfied thatgu- '
itio pays, aud that the present short
Age in the crop is in proportion to the
shortage iu guano. I
Mr. Sam Clinton says cotton crops '
will be short in his section ; but corn |
jrops are fine and there has been an
Abundance of'roughness" saved. ]
Dr. Campbell says he considers the
. rimson clover crop, one of our best ,
forage crops. His idea is that the crop |
hould be followed first by corn and
then by wheat, aud then cotton. The ;
:lover, the doctor says, leaves too j
much amonia iu the land to suit cot- (
ton.
Dr. Campbell has several very tine cows
; but one that from her appearince
and qualities as a milk and but- |
ler cow, would stand a chance for the (
premium at a cattle fair. Dr. Camp- <
bell says she is from imported stock
And is across of the Jersey with the (
Short Horn. (
Dr. Campbell not only takes an
uterest in cows and hogs, but he is |
pute a chicken fancier, and assisted ,
\\' Afrc Cnmrtlu'll ht* cuo/'ooil j in i
raising a great many. They are of f
:he game variety, ami he must have
several hundred oil his different
walks. I asked the doctor if the
rholera ever attacked them. He replied
that he was not troubled with
that' disease. From investigating the
lisease carefully by examining the
uodies of chickens that had died with
rholera, he says he was satisfied that
:.hey had all the symptoms of having
lied of phosphorus poison?that is,
jtilarged liver with inhumation of the
mucous membrane of the bowels. He
used as a remedy, salts and magnesi*
mixed with their food, and put a few
spoonsful of turpentine in the trough
where they drank. This remedy,
when taken in time, is a sure cure,
ind if given as a precaution, will prevent
the disease, especially should it
je used in the spring when guano is
?eing scattered about, and the fowls
ire likely to get insects and worms
:hat may have the phosphorus poison
311 them.
Mrs. John Simril and her mother,
Mrs. Bigger, came very near having a
serious smash-up a few days ago,
which, fortunately, resulted in no very
serious damage. They started over to
see a sick neighbor, and after they
had gotten into the buggy, the mule
started oli' very briskly. They tried to
stop him ; but he would pay no attention
to the lines. They then noticed
that the line had caught in the ring of
the saddle, and was not curbing the
animal at all. The mule got faster
and faster. At last Mrs. Bigger attempted
to get out and try to stop the
old mule. In doing so, she fell and
bruised herself considerably, but not
seriously. After awhile the mule
stopped of its own accord, and the
party returned home, grateful that the
mishap had been no worse.
Some persons in this section are
having chills ; but we hear of no very
serious illness.
Mr. J. L. Barnett had a fine mule to
die last week.
Rev. Sparrow, who preaches at
Union, on the other side of the Hue,
had the misfortune to lose a very valuable
cow some days ago. Mr. Moore
Warren also had a fine cow to die.
Miss Ida Ferguson has returned to
Lenoir college, Hickory, N. C., where
she will graduate this terra.
Mr. Lem Campbell and Mr. James
Barron have returned to Fort Mill,
where they are attending school.
Through an oversight of Mr. Barron,
the name of Miss Lonie Cook was
omitted from the roll of honor of Forest
Hill, published in your paper of
the 13th instant. Her standing, we
are requested to say, is 96.
There was a delightful party at Mr.
G. C. Ormand's on Thursday evening
last. The young ladies and gentlemen
of the vicinity enjoyed it hugely.
The party was given in honor of Miss
Docia Orraund, of King's Mountain,
NT. C.
Mr. James Stanton, who for the past
year or two has been in business in
Selraa, Ala., has returned home. He
is now busy having repairs done on
his plantation.
Work on the Foretst Hill lithia
spring, had been stopped until a pump
ran be had to draw off the water that
rushes in so rapidly that the workmen
eould not fix in the pipe.
Mr. George L. Riddle has had an
expert from Pennsylvania fixing the
new machinery in his mill. They will
start to grind today.
Messrs. Stanton, Riddle & Co., will
Bend speciraeus of ore from their gold
mine to Atlanta to the expostion.
There was a large attendance at the
Jebate at Forest Hill on Friday evening
last. The debaters acquitted themselves
with great credit. The society
meets every two weeks at 8 o'clock on
Friday evening. The school at Forest
Hill is now small, and will likely be so
until the cotton picking is over. x.
CONDENSED FROM THE HERALD.
Various Items, All of Which Are of More
or Less Interest to Somebody.
Rev. Dr. J. H. Thorn well is thought
to he getting better slowly.
Mr. Cloud Hickliu, who has been
suffering a great deal lately with a
carbuncle is better.
Many tobacco chewers in Rock Hill
ire using tobacco grown and manufactured
within the incorporate limits.
Rev. J. \V. 0. Johnson, of Charleston,
is to take charge of the Church of
Our Saviour, in Rock Hill, about the
Lst of October.
The large barn of Captain S. E.
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vv uilc, wttj i'uiu mm, waa ucauuvcu
by fire, on Monday night of last week.
The origiu of the fire is unknown.
President Johnson has nominated
Mr. R. B. Cunningham for the position
of secretary and treasurer of the
Wintbrop Normal aud Industrial colege.
A mule fell with Mr. John Shillingavv,
uear Rock Hill, last Thursday.
Mr. Shillinglaw's left shoulder blade
was fractured and one of his ribs on
His right side was broken.
Rev. W. M. Anderson, formerly of
Rock Hill, hut more recently pastor of
i church at Jackson, Tenn., has accepted
a call to the pastorate of the
First Presbyterian church of Dallas,
lex.
Rev. J. E. Herring, of Walterboro,
lias been invited to the pastorate of
ihe Baptist churches at Fort Mill and
Datawba. He will preach at Fort
Mill in the morning, and iu Rock Hill
an the eveniug of the fifth Sunday in
ibis month.
While trying to catch a hog in his
aarn recently, Mr. Walter Sturgis
slipped and fell. The hog turned on
liim, and with its long tusks, ripped a
seven inch gash iu his right arm and
band. The wound had to be sewed
jp ; but Mr. Sturgis is uow getting
tlong all right.
ROCK 11 ILL HAPPENINGS.
Work on the Cotton Mill-Mr. Cuveny In
the Grocery Business?OH for College.
.'orrespondcnce of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Rock Hill, September 24.?The
,vork on the uew cotton mills at this
)lace is being pushed as rapidly as
lossible ; but the contractors have not
iearly so many laborers as t liev require.
The Methodist church has been iinmproved
by repairs.
>Ir. W. J. Cuveny has bought out
he "Lindsay Racket," and is now conlucting
a grocery at the old stand.
Mr. V. B. McFadden is conducting
legotiations looking to the establishlient
of an ice factory at this place.
Mr. J. H. Blake has gone to Furman
iniversity, and Mr. M. J. Hall has
jone to the Banks High school.
Messrs. Geo. W. Witherspoou, Lad
Moblcy, Joseph Rawlinsou and James
S. White left last Monday to enter the
South Carolina college.
Mr. Frank Sawyer, of Johnson, S.
C., is clerking for the Johnson Drug
Emporium,
i Misses Fay and Daisy Griffith, of
Charlotte, N. C., will attend the Wiuthrop
college.
Mr. S. J. Kimbrell leaves today on a
business trip to Kentucky. c.
SHARON SHAVIXUS.
Lots of Sickness? Improvements?Personal
Mention?Sacramental Meeting.
Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer.
Sharon, September 23.?There is a
good deal of sickness in this section.
Mr. James Shillinglaw . is quite sick,
and two of Mr. Andy Shilliuglaw's
children have fever. Mr. S. A. Mitchell
is down with malarial fever. Mr.
Sam Warlick, who has been quite ill
with typhoid fever for sometime past,
is improving.
Messrs. Ratchford, Sims & Co., are
adding 30 feet to their store house.
Mr. R. R. Plexico is adding too rooms
to his dwelling, and Mr. S. S. Plexico
has just finished some extensive im- :
provemenis. i
Mr. M. M. Ross at home visiting
friends and relatives before going over
to the seminary.
Miss R. Alice Ross is at home again, i
School opens at this place this morn- i
ing under the management of Mr. R.
D. Douglass, of Blackstocks. i
This hot, dry weather is opening
cotton very fast. The crop is very <
light and will not amount to more than
half of an average yield. The corn <
crop is very fine, and the people seem <
to have assurance of plenty to eat. <
A sacramental meeting begins at '
Sharon A. R. P. church ou next Fri- I
day. A. E. 1
UNDERGROUND JERUSALEM.
1
Getting Down to the Wall that Ex-luted in <
the Time of JoHephun. (
From the London Daily News. j
It is now more than a quarter of a i
century since Captain (now Major Gen- <
eral) Sir Charles Warren carried ou
his explorations at Jerusalem for the (
Palestine Exploration Fund, aud
which resulted in such brilliant dis- ,
coveries, revealing to us what was then j
known as "Underground Jerusalem." (
That was the remains of the aucient |
city, now covered up with the accumu- <
lated debris of ages, an accumulation ]
that reached in some pluces to a depth
of more than 70 feet. Since that time
no systematic explorations have been
carried on in the Holy City. Herr Baurath
vou Schick and other agents of the
Palestine Exploration Fund have
watched whenever any digging took
place?for the foundations of new
buildiugs or any other purposes?and
if anything of importance turned up it
has been faithfully reported in the
"Quarterly Statement," published by
the fund, and which is now the recognized
journal of arohieology in Palestine.
For some years back the value of
ground at Jerusalem has been increasing,
and building, more particularly on
the north and west, has been going on
outside the walls aud it became advisable
to have some explorations made
before houses were erected, which
would make excavations impossible.
ine necessary nrman irom tne suiiau
was procured, and I)r. F. J. Bliss be- J
gan operations last year. The first ;
task he undertook was to trace the
line of the aucieut wall on the south- i
ern side of Jerusalem. It was known ,
that the old was about 800 feet to the
south of the present one, and that it
skirted the brow of the slope which
forms one side of the Valley of Hinnom. i
Why the builders of the uew wall left ,
this commanding height undefended is ;
a question that is not easily explained. ;
It is certain that the older engineers .
did not leave this advantageous posi- |
lion for an enemy to occupy. Traces .
of the old wall were first come upon ,
when leveling the ground for the En- ,
glish cemetery. |
In 1874 Major Conder, writing from ,
Jerusalem, recommended that explora- ]
lions should be made at this point ; <
and Mr. Henry Maudslay at that time ;
did sufficient digging to show the j
existence of the wall all the way |
from the Protestant school to the ]
east end of the cemetery. Among other ;
things he found that the dining room |
of the school had its walls standing on
the square pose of one of the ancient |
towers; and that in places the rock ou (
which the wall stood was scarped oe- j
low to a depth of 30 feet. Mr. Bliss s
took up the work at a point where j
Mr. Maudslay had left oil, and follow- ]
ed the line of wall from the cemetery, j
where it runs in a south-easterly direc- .
lion for about 230 feet. He also found |
deep scarps iu the rock, which must
have given great strength to the de- *
feuse, and made the battlements to
tower with an imposing appearance J
over the Hinuom Valley. The stones
are of no great size, that is, in com- {
purison with some of the masonry at 1
other parts of the walls, such as that 1
of the Jews' Wailing-place, and por- (
lions of the Harara Wall. They have 1
the usual draught around their borders,
and t he lower course is bedded on !
the solid rock.
Water supply has not been forgot- 1
ten, as numerous cisterns have been 1
come upon. The existence of a gate- 1
way was discovered at this point, and
it is here that one interesting point in 1
the explorations presents itself. The <
main street of Jerusalem runs from
north to south in almost a straight 1
line?it begins at the Damascus Gate
on the north, and ends ou the south at <
A,
Sion Gate, also known as the Bab ami
Nabi Daud, or pate of the Prophet
David. This is no doubt the original
line of a thoroughfare that has existed
from the earliest times, and it is assumed
that there must have been a
similar gate at the end of this maiu
street in the older wall. This was one
of the points Dr. Bliss was directed to
discover. The gate which has been
found is uot exactly in the position
where the expected gate was supposed
toexjst; it is a little too far to the
west to be in a line with the main
street. Still, it ought to be borne in
mind that the present Sion Gate is not
quite ut the end of that street, but a
little to the west of it; this may indicate
that some reasons existed for the
deviation in both cases. Here, for the
present judgment must be suspended,
as the "spade" will in time settle the
matter.
This point would have been cleared
by this time, but in tracing the wall
eastward difficulties arose with some
of the proprietors of fields on the sub
ject of remuneration, and Dr. Bliss,
merely as a strategical move in the
negotiations, started his operations
still farther to the east, where he picked
up the line of the wall again uear
the Pool of Siloam. There he found
the wall runs south of the old pool,
and turns up in a northerly direction,
aud as the Hiunom Valley here meets
the Kedrom Valley it is assumed that
the wall will continue northward till
it joins the portion of the Ophel wall
which Warren came upon during his
operations; this will then connect it
with the old wall of the Temple inclosure
at the southeast corner. The
Ophel wall is mentioned in II Chronicles,
xxvii, 3, where it is said Jotham
'built the high gate of the house of
the Lord, and the wall of Ophel he
built much." It is also referred to in
Nehemiah, iii, 26-7 : "Moreover, the
Nethinims dwelt in Ophel, unto the
place over against the water gate towards
the east, and the tower that lieth
out. After them the Tekoites repaired
mother piece, over against the great
Lower that liefh out, even unto the
wall of Ophel."
Close to the corner, where the newly
discovered wall turns northward,
mother gate has been found. As four
cr five courses of the draughted masonrv
still exist, the details of this irate
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can be well made out. Its date may
be also determined to within a few
years, for Josephus says that at his
lime Siloam was outside the walls; but
Antonius, a martyr, who wrote about
370 A. D., states that " * * The
mountain of Siloa is at the presant
:lay Vithin the walls of the city, because
the Empress Eudocia herself
added these walls to the city." This
makes it evident that the portion of
the wall with its gates Dr. Bliss has
brought to light at Siloam was that
built by this errfpress, and its erection
may be dated as having taken place
within a year or two of the middle of
the Fifth century. The remains of the
cider wall that existed in the time of
Josephus are no doubt still uuder
ground, and will require to be sought
for in order to make the exploratioa
complete at this locality.
Butler on Tillman.?Senator Butler
was in Columbia last Wednesday,
and there was a rumor in circulation
to the effect that he had come for the
rv 11 aT nolli ^ari nf at* Tillmnn t a
puijjuov taiuu^ k^ciiatvi iiuuiuu iy
account for the attack that gentleman
had made on him in his speech on
Monday. Asked about the matter by
the reporters, he said : "My consideration
for his brother, George D.
Tillman, who is a manly man, a gentleman,
and always strikes'right out
from the shoulder, never hitting below
the belt, restrains me from saying a
great many things that I could say.
I have denounced Ben Tillman to his
face as a coward, a liar and a thief,
and he did not resent it. If I should
kick him now, he would howl like a
spaniel and doubtless indict me for
assault and battery. You know you
ain't keep up with a constitutional liar
like he is, and I shall leave him to
enjoy all the glory he can gain by
it tacking a mau behind his back,
when he has no opportunity to reply.
His statement- so far as it relates to me
is a tissue of falsehoods from begiuuing
:o end. Here is oue specimen : He
refers to an interview between General
Gary and General Roger at EdgeHeld
on the day of election. Geueral
Ruger was not at Edgefield at all and
:he statement is pure fiction. He is
equally at fault about the second Republican
meeting at Edgefield. His
recount of what occurred is a flagrant
Misrepresentation of what did occur.
But why attempt to follow a man who
s so utterly regardless-of the truth
i ml 1 in liii? nf Amnnff T nf
iiiu icwivictds iu un .-uuicuiciits. jjcl
jim go."
Controversy Settled.
Lancaster Ledger: The cotton
.veigher controversy at Kershaw has
)eeu settled by the resignation of both
contestants. Another election will be
aeld ou September 28, and it is agreed
:hat both factions will support whoever
may be elected.
The IiUlgeivay Shortage.
The Fairfield grand jury has found a
shortage of $58 in the account of Dispenser
Lewis, of Ridgewav, and insists
.hat the solicitor take immediate steps
:o collect the amount,
ro Take Them to Atlanta.
Senator Tilhnati is iu favor of a
proposition to charter a special train
tnd take the Clemson cadets and the
Wiulhrop girls to the Atlanta exposition.
? Major Joseph C. Cobb, of Liucoluton,
lied on the 16th instant, aged 73 years.