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' r N AIKEN RECORDER. CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Man a "or. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1SS7. VOLUME ti.~ ,. :u7,t I. 4 Save Your Money and Shop By Maiii THE GOSPEL OF THE DEVIL. 1 . INFAMOUS TAIiK OF THK “HOIil NBSS” MKX IN COIiFMHIA. REPAIRING A SPECIALTY MA6LA,£*C.Co> CMAJiLZ s. a* 2G7 KING STREP, CHARLESTON, S. C., - (Opposite W»«o»ic Temple •O:- Great Special Sale :0: 1*,00 Pieces of Rotors A. A. Silver Plated Flatware. &c., &c. :0: 15,000 pieces of Rogers A. A. SILVER-PLATED FLATWARE, bought at an immense reduction from regular prices, to dose out certain pattern which they are not going to make again, and which I am selling at the following prices; My Regular , My Regular Price. Price. Price. Price. 250 sets Teaspoons $1 25 $2 00 100 Crumb Scrapers 2 09 4 50 125sets Tablespoons 2 50 4 (X) 250 Sugar Shells 45 1 00 ISOseis Table Forks 2 50 4 00 ‘500 Butter Knives 45 i ou 75 “ Dessert Forks 2 25 3 75 100 Pickle Forks 45 1 00 75 *' Dessert .Spoons 2 25 3 75 10 ) Oyster Forks 45 1 0.) lUOSoup Ladles, each 2 00 4 00 25i) Salt Spoons 25 50 100 Oyster Ladles 1 50 3 00 250 Mustard .Spoons 55 75 100 Gravy Ladles IK) 2 00 ,500 Nut Picks 18 35 100 Kish Knives 2 00 4 00 500 Fruit Knives 25 50 100 Cake Knives ~ 4 00 50doz t’ble k’ves.doz 3 50 5 00 100 Pie Knurs' 2 00 4 00 150 doz T’ble K’ves 2 00 3 75 The above Goods are the very best quality of Silver, plated on Niekle Silver, and are perfect In every respect, and only sold at these Low I’rices in order to close the entire lot out quickly. Every piece is warranted to wear from live to ten years constant use in any family, if properly used. £W'"Send for Catalogue, giving prices of Watches, Jewelry and other pil verware, and buy where you get the best value for the Cash Money. JNO. McELREE, Proprietor. \SHIIV SMALL GRAIN j TH P. O. S. is the cheapest and the best and the only Specific Fertilizer for small grain the maii.»:t. VSHLK* ASH ELEMENT, a very cheap and excellent non-ammoni- ai ^•iiTilizw <or small grain crops, fruit trees, grape vines, &c. ALHLhY COTTON AND CORN COMPOUND, a complete fertilizer for these two crops, and also usedhy the tfudiers near Charleston for vegetables. A~HLE*' COMPLETE GARDEN FERTILIZER, specially adapted to roses, geraniums, pansies, flowering annuals, &e. nr'F 'or U.;/nK, «.iredions, testimonials, and for the various attractive and iastrtwti *e publication* of Uy> Company, address, The Ashley Phosphate Company, 'Lfhariestun, - - ,S C. “OFFICIAL ANALYSES PROVE OUR GOODS TO RE ABOVE THEIR O UA RA N TEE.»’ NONE OF THE GOODS -OK THK- WANDO PHOSPHATE COMPANY HAVE EVER BEEN ITATdf’IZED BY THE STATE DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE AT COLUMBIA. Wando Ainiuoiiiated Fertilizer, Acid Pliospliate, Dissolved Done, Kainit, &c. FOR SALE BY FRANCIS B. HACKER, PKESIDENT AND GENERAL AGENT, EXCHANGE STREET, REAR OF POST OFFICE, CZHZ^ZRaLESTOItT, S. O. THE ASHEPOO PHOSPHATE £0. -M A N l * I A (’T U RE RS () F- FEETILIZEES. Si GENEKAL AGENTS, Centra! Wharf, : Charleston, S. C. Ashepoo Fertilizer, Eutaw Fertilizer, Comassie Fertilizer. Carolina Fertilizer, Ashepoo Wheat and Oats Specific, Ashepoo Dissolved Bone, will) Ammonia and Potash | Ashepoo Acid Phosphate, Palmetto Acid Phosphate, Eutaw Acid Phosphate.' -1 > K A I.KIiS IX- Cotton Seed Meal, As'iepoo Floats, ASHEPOO ASH ELEMENT. Importers of German Kainit, Ashepoo Bone Ash. WM. M. BIRD &CO. -r-OIX-iB-:-. WHITE LEAD, COLORS, WINDOW CLASS, ETC. AGENTS FOR HOWES STANDARD SCALES AND MARVIN’S SAFES. For th«present at 17.) East Bay, - - - CHRLESTON, S. f\ liX'CiuIiarv Aildrcsscs to the Colored People—Abusing the Preachers and Women of the Cfty—Asserting that the .fudges on the Rench are Worse than the Thieves in Prison. Ncirs ami Courier, Feb. 22. The white people of Columbia have, during the last te.i days, paid very little attention to the “holiness evan gelists” who have been making a radius of two hundred yards from Desportes & Edmunds’ corner almost uninhabitable by their screeching and screaming. It has been fortunate for these people that the whites have been ignorant of the subjects of their talks, or a coat of tar and feathers might have been administered them. An anonymous Communication in the Record of vesterday afternoon sounded an alarm. It stated that the women and preachers of Columbia were being villified by these fanatics. This morning a representative of the bureau was informed that the “holi ness evangelists” were going around among the colored people and attempt ing to excite them by declaring that all their rights were being usurped by the whites, who were imposing upon them in a most outrageous manner; that many a poor colored man was in the penitentiary for stealing a chicken, when the Judge who sentenced him should he in prison for much greater crimes, &c., &e. In their talks upon the streets indecent language has been frequently used by these people— such language as, if used upon the streets by a citizen of Columbia, would, have been rewarded b3 T a berth in the guard house. Several colored people have been interviewed to -day by a bureau representative, and they cor roborate the statements previously made to the reporter. Some of the colored men were violent about these preachers, and thought that the mayor should have such people, attempting to make trouble between the races, removed from the city. One colored man said: “Many a poor colored man under the sod would be alive to-day if it was not for just such scoundrels who come down here and lead the ignorant people of my race astray.” Another colored man said that he had heard some talk among the people of giving the evangelists a pelting of stale eggs, and that their indecent talk in alluding to the women was in supportable. Last evening the police received a hint thu^if any more such preaching was indulged in by the holiness crowd they would be roughly handled. Up to this afternoon their accustomed street corner has been un occupied. If they appear in public again religious topics had better be strictly adhered to. How they live is a mystery. They lake no money from their congregations and what their means of support are is unknown. It has been hinted that they are in the pay of some organization desiring to make trouble between the whites and blacks. THE COI.OHKD PASTORS of Columbia have had their eyes opened to the pernicious work of the so called street evangelists. The fol lowing official report of their meeting to-night, embodying the ringing reso lutions adopted, show that the evil inlluenee of these people has not been exaggerated by this bureau. The col ored ministers of Columbia met this evening at the ollice of the Baptist 1'ribunc. There were present Revs. M. G. Johnson, G. B. Middleton, J. J. Durham, S. B. Stratfoot, E. M. Braw- ley, D. 1)., J. C. Daniels, S. H. Jeller- son, J. ,S. Lee and It. FI. Wall. The following resolutions were adopted: Whereas, there are in our city a hand of people who have openly as sailed the churches of Christ, the ordinances, the ministry and ali else that is pure and sacred ; and, whereas, the denunciations that are daily hurled against organized Christianity, and the slanders that are uttered against the moral character of the ministry and the methods employed .for ad vancing the cause of Christ have al ready borne evil fruit among our people and will .vet bear more unless something is promptly done to prevent it; and be it, therefore. Resolved, 1st That in view of the great evil that is being done by people who are falsely working in the name of Christ, we deem it our duty to re pudiate such people, and do not recog nize them as followers of the Lord Jesus, but rather as emissaries of evil. 2<1. That we regard the evil slanders uttered against us as only such things as Christian people may expect as the work of the devil, and we are not sur prised at the character of the work, considering the source whence it \ comes. j 3d. That as our people are emo- i tional, they are especially liable to be . injured by these errors, and as many ; have already been injured, we desire i to warn ail the members of our I churches that their endorsement of i these so called evangelists is positively hurtful to them, and we urge them to keep away from these meetings, where , so great injury is done. 4th. That we deeply regret that any of our people have allowed themselves to he led away, and we appeal to ail Christians to stand firm in thoirChris- tian character and not to be led away by the wi.los of the devil. .*>th. That these resolutions he pub lished in tiie Xtivs and Courier, the Columbia Register and the Baptist 7 ri tunic. M. G. Johnson, Chairman. E. M. Bkawlky, Secretary . The art of killing is becoming ex pensive. In 1856 in France the cost of the best cannon was $560, a ml the eo^t of a single discharge was $3. Now the most expensive siege guns cost $97,500. and one discharge costs ^9;i5. A CLEANSING OF COLUMBIA. The Holiness Evangelist* Expelled From i lie Cily. Nricx and Courier, February 24. I Mayor Rhett this morning instruct ed the chief of police to notify the so- j called street evangelists to cease the , meetings which had become such a nuisance and outrage, and to say to j them that if they desired to continue their alleged “services” they must se- j cure some building for the purpose as | is done by religous bodies. The ; mayor, having no information as to I the character of the gang, originally gave them the privilege of meeting in ! the streets," but having become satis fied from the accounts published in the News and Courier and from pri vate information that they had ex ceeded the limits of decency, he 1 promptly and properly recalled his consent. The evil-tongued invaders will have to meet in some congenial corner or leave the city. A very considerable and respectable body of .young men adopted primitive methods to-night and abated a nui sance. The outrageous attacks of the Holy Evangelist tramps on the women and the churches of Columbia during the last few days, have resulted in clearing the Columbia atmosphere of their polluting presence. At 7 o’clock to-night young men began to gather on *he 8tate-Hou.se grounds about the Confederate monument. The night was rainy and dark, but they con tinued to arrive at the rendezvous until 8 o’clock, when there were about one hundred present. After a conference among themselves, a committee was appointed to execute the will of the body. The committee proceeded down Gervais street to the boarding-house of Mrs. T. E. Milligan, opposite Rose’s Hotel. They asked for the evangelists, who had their lodging there, and were shown into a reom oc cupied jointly by the four men of the party, three whites and one negro. Communicating the desire of the body at the State-House they served the quartette with notice to leave Colum- j bia by noon to-morrow. They refused to do so, saying that they proposed to go to Spartanburg in two or three days, ii iliey could find no hall to con tinue their preaching in Columbia. The landlady was consulted and said that she did not object to having these boarders removed, the committee guaranteeing payment of their board still due. Without violence the men were led out of the house by the arms and escorted up the street to the main body at the State-House grounds. From this point two of the men were allowed to go under escort to 78 Lurn- T5#—gri^et;—Wrerfe they liad their clothes, and where the three women of the party, two white and one negro, lodged. As one of the women was sick none of them were disturbed, but the men were instructed to send for them when they had reached another town. The two men having returned, the regulators took up a collection sufficient to pay the railroad fare of the four male evangelists to the near est town. This happened to be Sum ter, and a train for Sumter was to leave at 10.25 to-night. The evan gelists wanted to go to Spartanburg, but they weie not gratified. The reg ulators went down with them to the Union Depot, furnished them with tickets ror Sumter, put them on the train, sang them a farewell song and saw them oil. The manner of the young men was decorous throughout. They performed their mission so quietly that it was not known on Main street what was going on until the train had left. During the ceremonies the evangelists wanted to raise one of their alleged by in us, but were told that it would do no good and that they must refrain from further sing ing in Columbia. Before our unwelcome visitors de parted they admitted that they had received more severe treatment in various Northern communities, having been stoned out of several towns. Considering the pains they have taken to insult every decent sen timent in tliis place, the gang got off lightly. They were made to go be cause they proposed to continue in doors the excesses they had been pro hibited from enacting on the streets. The original intention was to have bad an egg-pelting to-night, but a more conservative and cleanly method won the favor of the regulators. THE BLOOD OF THE BODRBOKS A STRANGE STORY THAT REARS ALMOST LIKE A ROMANCE. “.Something of the liidiculous. ' Rarnu'cll Sentinel. Senator You mans’ panorama of Capt. Ben Tillman’s cause and the | News and Courier's connection there- i with is published to-day on our first I page, and u ill no doubt he read with j much interest by those of our readers ! who are in accord with the Senator’s views on the farmers’ movement, i There are many passages in the docu- ! ment that are familiar to our readers. | ihe Senator culls them from public: - | tions of Capt. Tillman, the News and | Courier, and others who appear to be , closel}’ identified with the movement. These are so linked that the reader will observe something of the ridicu lous falling to the side of Capt. Tillman and his aids. At His Old Tricks. Barnwell People. In his address to the farmers of Colleton county week before last Capt. B. It. Tillman again spoke slightingly of the Citadel Academy. He seems to be rubbing out compromises and mak ing a new start on the old schedule. The King of Spain is to eive a ball at the royal palace. In honor of the occasion he will put on his first short frock. He can walk a little now, and to be hospitable lie will distribute handsome memorandum hooks to all the children who come. Two grand sons of the Emperor of Brazil and the sons of the Princes* Imperial arc to he there. .las H. Rion Said to Have Reen a Direct Descendant of Louis XVI of Franco—The Statement He is Re port .d to Have Made Just Before He Died—A Jewelled SnulT Rox with the Orleans Coat of Arms. News a od Courier, Feb. 20. He was a descendant of the Kings of France! Col. Janies H. Rion died at his home in Winnsboro, S. C., on Sunday, the 12th day of December last. He was loved and respected wherever he was known. An upright man, an acute counsellor, a profound lawyer, a faithful citizen, a superb soldier and a finished scholar, his loss was deeply deplored. He was all this, and if the story, which is now told for the first time, be true, he was much more, for in his veins ran the blood of the Bour bons, and the modest country lawyer was none other than the grandson of Louis NVI and Marie Antoinette, King and Qnequ of France. An eminent South Carolina lawyer yesterday told a reporter for the News and Courier a strange story of Col. Rion’s lift). He said: “There has always been, as perhaps you are aware, a mj'sten*surrounding Col. itkm’s birth. He was very fa miliar with John C. Calhoun during his early life, wVo took a great interest in his welfare and was very kind to him and his mother. They came "from Canada to Washington about the time when Mr. Calhoun was Secretary of State under President Tyler. There have been u any speculations in regard to Col. Rum’s origin and family ana many rumors, and there was always a recognized mystery hanging over the subject. It was difficult to account for the great interest Mr. Calhoun seemed to take in him. Col. Rion himself'always manifested great ad miration for Mr. Calhoun and ever entertained the deepest reverence for (lie illustrious statesman both us a public man and as a private citizen. Some have even gone so far as to infer from these circumstances that some peculiar relationship existed b tween them. It is said now that Col. Rion exploded this mystery during the few brief hours that intervened .between the first paroxysm of the attack which carried him oft" ami his death—he lived several hours, as you will re member, after he was first attacked. “The story h, that Col. Rion then, in the presence of Dr. Hanahah, his physicianj.iind of his entire family, was the son of the Dauphin of France, who would have been King Louis XVII had it not been for the French Revolution,which bythe execution of Louis XVI culmi nated in the overthrow of the Bourbon dynasty. His statement was that this boy, the Dauphin, who was reported to havedied at an early age, and to have been an imbecile, had not really died, but had been sent over to Can ada and had there been reared in ob scurity 7 under the name of De Rion; that he entered the English army and was married to Miss Hunter, and that Col. Rion was the offspring of that marriage. DeRion died in Coi. Rion’s infancy and he, with his mother, were placed under the charge of Mr. Cal houn by the Austrian Ambassador at Washington, with a statement of the facts in the case and upon cc' tain con ditions that were to be faithfully ob served. One of the conditionn was that the facts should not be divulged except in certain contingencies; an other of the conditions was that Col. Rion was never to go to Europe unless in charge of the Austrian authorities, and on board an Austrian man of war. A further condition was that Col. Rion was never to accept civil office in this country. “These conditions were faithfully observed up to the time of Col. Rion’s last fatal illness. He is not known to have confided the story of his birth to any one except his eldest daughter. He is said to have told her the story two or three years ago, when she was about to sail for Europe. It is said that one of her purposes in going to Europe was to examine into the death of the Dauphin and to obtain such knowledge in regard to it as was pos sible from tradition and otherwise. “It is also said that when Col. Rion referred to the subject just before his death he observed in the countenances of those who were gathered about hint that they supposed his mind to be wandering, and that he said to them: ‘You think that my mind is wander ing, but I am In possession of all my reasoning faculties.’ He then asked Dr. fianahun to put him to some list in order to demonstrate the fact that he was perfectly rational. He said (tapping his ureast): l I have the proofs here of the truth of what I say.’ “Col. Rion is known to have been in possession of a very 7 valuable gold snuff-box, set with diamonds, upon the top of which there is a monogram of the Orleans family wrought In dia monds. This snuff-box, it is said, had never been seen by any member of his family until his deatii, but lie is known to have exhibited it once, in 1S&5, to an intimate personal and pro fessional friend, under injunctions of secrecy, which have been removed l*y bis death. He gave no intimation to his friend of the history connected with the possession of this box,except to say that Mr. C!emsen, the son-in- law of John C. Calhoun, brought it to him from France, when he (Mr. Clem- sen) was secretary of tiie American legation in Paris. Tiie snuff-box has been valued by a jeweler, since Col. Rion’s dentil, at $3,C00, and is of most costly and exquisite workmanship. “Col. Rion went to Canada some years ago and told a friend when he had returned that he had seen in the old Cathedral at Montreal the record of his baptism. | “It* is understood that Col. Rion’s 1 family are now preparing for publica- I tion a full statement of the facts in the I case and that there is inueh evidence to sustain the confession made by him just before his death. Certainly no j one who knew him would doubt for a ! moment the truth of any statement that he made when clothed in his i right mind, for he was the very soul of honor.” Such is the mystery which was shrouded up in the life of Col. Rion, and the public will eagerly await the publication of the full facts connected with an affair which will read like a romance. There have been many 7 pre tenders, each of whom has claimed that he was the Dauphin, but their stories have been discredited, and in France it is believed to this day that the Dauphin died in the Temple, where he was placed under the care of Simon, the Jacobin, aftpr the execu- .ion of bis father, Louis XVI. The following particulars in refer ence to the Dauphin and his supposed fate are given in the American Cyclo pedia, and will be read with interest in view of the story about Col. Rion: “Louis XVI I. Dauphin and titular King of France, son of Louis XVI, was bom in Versailles, March 27,178.), died in the Temple at Paris June 8, 1795. He was the third child o? Louis and Marie Antoinette. The title he first bore was Duke of Normandy and he became Dauphin by the death of his elder brother, Louts Joseph, June* 4, 1789. He was very carefully edu cated under the supervision of his father, and at the outbreak of the Revolution was a beautiful, lively and intelligent child, but remarkably im patient and unmanageable. He was imprisoned in the Temple with the rest of the roy 7 a! family August 13, 1792. After the execution of his father, January 21, 1798, he was proclaimed King by his uucle (afterwards Louis XVIII), and was recognized by most of the courts of Europe, by 7 the Veu- dean chiefs and by the insurgents in the South of France. “These demonstrations, together with several attempts by the Royalists to rescue him from prison, irritated and alarmed the revolutionary gov ernment, and on July 8, at 10 o’clock at night, the boy was torn from his mother’s arms and carried screaming to another part of the prison. Here be was consigned to the care of a shoe maker.named Antoine Simon, a vio lent Jacobin, of rough manners and brutal temper, who, with his wife, treated him with systematic cruelty. The young Prince was left alone in a cell day and night without empley- ihent or amusement, or any 7 oppor tunity for exercise or to breathe fresh air. A vessel of water, seldom re plenished, was given him, and some coarse food was occasionally 7 thrown in at the half-opened door. He was allowed no means of washing himself, and his bed was not made for months. His limbs became rigid and iii.s mind, through terror, grief and monotony, became imbecile, and at length de ranged. Something he had said in reply to questions having been per verted to the injury 7 of bis mother, he resolved thenceforth to be silent and for a long period neither threats nor blows nor coaxings could induce him to speak. When not sleeping he sat quietly in his chair without uttering a sound or shedding a tear, or shrink ing from the rats with which his dun geon swarmed. After the reign of terror he was placed under more merciful keepers, but was still kept in solitary confinement and not allowed to see his sister, imprisoned in an ad joining apartment. At length, in May, 1795, a physician was allowed to see him, who pronounced him dying of scrofula. According to official ac counts he died at 2 p. m., in the arms of Lasne, one of his keepers, and the next day, June 9, his body was identi fied and certified to by four members of the Committee of Public Safety and more than twenty officials of the Temple. A post-mortem examination was made the same day by 7 four dis tinguished physicians. On the 10th the remains were buried in the ceme tery of St. Marguerite and every trace of the grave carefully obliterated. The principal pretenders who have claimed to be Louis XVII were the Rev. Ele- azer Williams, who died in 1858; Hervagault, a tailor’s son, who died at Bicetre iu 1812; Bruneau, another mechanic’s son, who died in prison about 1818; Hebert, who called him self Baron de Richemont, Duke of Normandy 7 , and after various arrests and imprisonments, died about 1855; and Norndorff, son of a Prussian lock smith, born in 178G, died at Delft Au gust 10, 1845. The last named pul - j lished his autobiography 7 , Hisloire. d<s [ infortunes dn Dauphin. His* claims I were pleaded in 1851, by 7 Jules Favre, before a French Court, at the instance j of his son and daughter; hut the evi- | deuce of the death of Louis XVII in | 1795 was regarded as conclusive by the ! Court. The ease was revived in 1874, I with the same result.” • THE RION MYSTERY. i What Col. Rion'* Son says About the Family Mystery. Neit’s and Courier, February 21. In accordance with a telegraphic re quest from the home office f went up 1 to Winnsboro on Friday last to inves- ! tigate the report concerning the royal ; descent of the late James H. Rion. Tiie rumor which had spread in Co lumbia and Charleston seemed to have reached very few people in Winns- boro. My mission proved a delicate j one, for it became evident to me that accurate information as to Col. Rion’s ! dying declaration could only be ob- i tained from his family. I visited Mr. Willie C. Rion, the eldest son of Col. Rion. explained the situation to him and requested the information I had been commissioned to obtain. Mr. Rion, in the course of a 1 mg coitver- i sat ion. expressed his regret that the story had gained publicity, and inti mated a belief that his father had been under the influence of opiates—given to relieve his intense suffering—when he made the declaration. He request ed that no publb'ntion should he made, but promised that if the story should reach print he would furnish me with an accurate statement of the declara tion of his father and the circum stances attending it. When the after noon train arrived 1 was surprised to find that the account of “an eminent lawyer” had been published. I imme diately called again upon Mr. Rion, and showed him the article; and in vieW of the fact that the report had been printed, he promised to send me, as soon as possible, a correct statement for exclusive publication in the News and Courier. Upon my return to Co lumbia on Saturday night, I made the announcement by wire, and it was published in the Sunday News. Last night, (Sunday) a letter from Mr. Rion reached me ofwltich the fid- lowing is a copy: “As I mentioned yesterday, we did not desire publicity given to my father’s strange story, and upon second thought, and after consultation with the familyl! ere and some of my father’s friehds, I think it best not to satisfy the curiosity 7 of the public on a matter which should have been, in the first instance, one of secrecy as far as they were concerned. Therefore, you will excuse me from furnishing the data I promised you. However, the many inaccuracies and anachronisms in the true statement made by my father, taken together with his actions and incoherencies, plainly show that he was under the influence of mor phine and not in his right mind when he made it. Hence, I think no im portance or weight can be given this wandering of an excited brain, except that^he statement, was made. “True, as I told you, there are evi dences that he himself believed that he was the son of the Dauphin, but, as far as proofs are concerned that he was in reality such a person, there are none. Dr. R. B. Hanaliaii, the at tending physician, at the time of the statement and the followiug morning, expressed it as his opinion that father was under the influence of morphine. “The article‘Blood of the Bourbons,’ as yesterday printed, is in nearly all publication erroneous and asfarasa particulars by the family isconcerned, it is simply ridiculous. You can deny tiie truth ofl he statement as published, upon my authority 7 , and hlso state that father was under the influence of mor phine when the strange story was told by him. Further than this, you would do Ihe family and mysejf a fa vor by publishhtg nothing. If, how ever anything comes from the family, your paper shall have the prefer ence.” Upon the receipt of this letter I tele graphed Mr. Rion drawing his atten tion to my card in the Sundav News, and urging that his refusal to furnish the facts placed me in an embarrassing position. This morning I received the following answer: “WiNNsnoRo, February 21. “State contents of my letter, or as much of it as you think best. This will relieve you from y 7 our position. W. C. Rion.” In accordance with this permission I have given the text, of Mr. Rion’s letter and now leave the mystery where I found it. n. o. G. [WHEN iiiilAUP Ho Went and . j Sot Off rtio Chicago News. --Halt Gen. Phil SheMdan i-T able story-teller. QLlate has acquired quite a remitotioa a&au after dinner speaker. He ia nqt as el oquent or graceful aa-Deaew, end : “you know” figures ▼cry’freqHWftly in his remarks, but he a!w,uvs t^lptf- / ests his hearers when he «i*€aka. u Not long since a’ a dinner given ,»• New York Gen. Sheridan rehtWH*ill * ' incident that befell him wlilie call ing on the young lady whois novrHie ° present Mrs, Sheridan, During the war Gen. Sheridan was too nit copied to fall In love. When malady finally overtook, liiu^ cago, after the war, Sheridan I passed what is called <be stage, and tvatf-settling dowm well seasoned old bache lorW, Old) bachelors make the most rntTnurta^ln "i of lovers, and the General admitted^ that he was no exception to * > “It was a Warns Huinme%eyeJUug« , i<-’-« Sheridan, began, “and upon.ray..arri* •• vnl at the house theyoutwriady an4~i*i myself retired to the hack- parlor- 4 The front parlor opened Into the balfj I and as the night was warm, yr>t| know, wc did not think it neoeasary* >4 to light the gas in the back rur*** f*’ Now this young lady’s jfctther ittfri * great fear of but glare. HeJntd btisg* lar alarms all over the bouse j recently put a new alarm on the 1 door. Neither the young lady myself knew anything almtiiH alarm on tiie front door. After a tlraw the old gentleman came down stain, set his alarm on the front) < seeing the dim light in the Croat lor, supposed that I turned <nit the light in the halt* AVe were busily en#tged iW talkfBg,->p0t» know, and somehow did ddfea tatdgr- him. Finally, when I dfd get leave the young lady me to the door. We tr to find the light turned out, feml in 77 ":' fumbling around for the dooekneb I set off the burglar alarm. ifrtaeMrfaT *** to mu that I never knew a JbuVglar* alarm to work. so well before* * sounded like the explosion df n’tcegof- i dynamite. A moment later Die idA'*1 ther of the yotlt}gnlddy >ap£nac*ed*illf tiie head.of the-, stairs 'in liMigMMw dres*,iholdingf. light ill onntifMxt’aAdPns a large pistol ikl thw'dfker. At tMtf rfw apparition tire young lady deseUM’*!* mo and fled into the darkness.’ P5/it ion was positively dangerodd. I'' ' suppose 1 had been in dangnrona pHt-L'*' ees before without* thinking anti belt! '• I confess for the moment I trertMc# all over with fear, and scareelymkd— tered up voice to nay: 4 l)dn?t stlOOfU 7 ’ it’s me.’ Fortunately"Jip-pBW!*nIakg v '*A my voice and came down and let me ** out. “Now you know, gentlemen,” he * concluded, “if the young lady had ' stood by me there would have been no danger but she didn’t, you know, and my position was rather awkward before I was recognized. One might die on the field of battle Without re gret, but I should hate to be'shot as a midnight marauder. I only tell the story because it actually took place as I have said, and to show that there are times when we may all lose our courage.” Smalls vs. Elliott. Hampton Guardian. Smalls, the saddle-colored coon who ran for Congress in the Seventh Dis trict and was beaten by Col. Elliott, will make a lively contest. Over 100 witnesses were examined at Green Pond, and the Radical negroes there are swift and willing to testify to al most anything the Gullah ex-convict may advise. The followiug testimony of Cuffy Staffers will show the general character of the witnesses: Where do you live? Blake county 7 and State of Collinton. Where were you on the 2d day of November last? Green Pon\ sah. Did you vote? Yes, sah. For whom did you vote? Gubner Small. How many tickets did you vote? I wote one, sah. How old are you ? I is 21 years old, sah. Cross-examined by Major Howell: How do you know that you voted for Smalls? April Singleton tole me so, sah. Then you don’t know of your own i knowledge that you voted for Small*? No, sah. * If you were to tell a lie would you stick to it ? Yes, sah—cause I done tole um. You say that you are only 2! years old? Yes, sah. To whom did you belong before the war? To Mr. Lown; I dun hen grown man den. When were you horn? Jurin of de war. Can you tell me the color of Uncle Toby’s black dog? No. sah—less he been a soeekle dotr. If a iium should walk up here in this crowd and recognize you what would you do? I link I struck um; I ain’t low no one to suit me for nuffin. Surely such evidence as this will do “Gubner Small” little good. It is enough to disgust even the average Republican Congressman and bring him over to the support of Col. Elli ott, who is, as all the people in this section of the State know, worthy 7 of the seat to which he has been elected by assiduous work on the part of re- »p«*ctable c«»lor* 7 il men and the solid white Republican and Democratic vote of the district. The Electric Well iu Georgia a Hoax. A private letter to a citizen'of Abbe ville says: “The electric well near Augusta is a hoax. A gentlema'h who was there says he saw men shed tears at being so much deceived. Men were there wdiose families would have to suffer from their using alt the money they had to come to the well in search of health.”—Afiftctu’We Prcn and Banner. The Savannah News says: The Re publicans have evidently begun in earnest their campaign to prevent the renomination of President Cleveland. Their latest move is an attempt to breed dissatisfaction in the South. A story which they are industriously circulating is that hereafter no ex- Confederate need ask the administra tion for office, it having been deter mined that none but ex-Union soldiers shall be appointed. The absurdity of the story 7 w ill defeat its object. If the Republicans wisli to breed dissatis faction iu the South, they will have to display more skill. The wine-merchants of Atlanta met on Saturday, and in view of the trouble and annoyance attending the sale of domestic wines by the drink over the counter, decided to discon tinue the sale of all wines in less quan tities than a quart, to be drank oif the premises. The live hundred and one thousand dollar fines being dally im posed by the Atlanta Judges arc a little too heavy for convenience and a successful pursuit of business.—Au gusta Evening News. A canvass of tiie Massachusetts Legislature shows that out of 128 Re publican members 76 are for Blaine for President, 16 for Sherman, and 7 for Hawlev. Twenty-nine havo no choice, Out of 74 Democratic mem bers 56 are for. President Cleveland, 13 for Hill, and 5 scattering. If tha race is really to be between Blaiuo and President Cleveland the former might as well prepare himself to spend four years more at home. No grace is more necessary to tho Christian worker than fidelity ; tho humble grace that inarches on in sun shine and storm, when no banners are waving, and there is no musly to cheer the weary feet. . Gen. Spinner, whose pleasant p< t hooks graced so many nrilliou* of greenbacks, celebrated his 85th birth day anniversary -*t I-eksonville, F1j # a few days ago.