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THE AIKEN RECORDER CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Manager. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY, APRIL 19. 1SS7. VOLUME C.—NUMBER 27. Save Your Money and Shop By Mail BOND ON THE NEW SOUTH. Capt. \Y hat lev on liisTiavels. J’ixe Farm. ) Aikkx County, S.C., April 12, ’S7.f .Vr. Editor: For some lime past I KFMAltKABL.r: SPEECH IlEFOltE A CHA KIjESTOX Al'DIEXCE. JEWELRY PALACE ^ •" - -rxrJ~‘ “ rxr~ ~_r^r \ Jr~Jr --_AwiT2_ / }"tnsxn REPAIRING A SPECIALTY <• m*OLA.£uC.Co> 5 0- 2«7 KING STRKT, CHARLESTON. S. C. t - (Opposite Masonic Temple •O:- Great Special Sale :(): 5,00 Pieces of Rogers A. A Silver Plated Flatware. &e., &c. : O: 5,000 pieces of Rogers A. A. SILVER-PLATED FLATWARE, bought at an immense reduction from regular prices, to close out certain pattern which they are not going to make again, and whieh I am selling at the following prices; y My Regular j M.V" Price.';) Price* |2 0<* 100 Crumb Scrapers 2( 4 00 2.')0 Sugar Shells 4) 4 00 iiOO Rutter Knives 3 75 100 Pickle Forks 3 75 ! 100 Oyster Forks 4 00 250 Salt Spoons 3 00 250 Mustard Spoons 5$ 2 00 500 Nut Picks IS 4 00 50) Fruit Knives 25 4 (K) 50 do/. t’t»le k’ves.doz 3 50 4 00 150 do/. T’ble K’ves 2 00 Ti»e above Goods are the very best rjuality of Silver, plated on Niekle Silver, au<l are perfect in every respect, and only sold at these Low Prices in order to close the entire lot out fjuickly. Every piece is warranted to wear from five to ten years constant use in any family, it properly used. tST’Send for Catalogue, giving prices of Watches, Jewelry and other silverware, and buy where you get the best value for the Cash Money. JRIO. McELREE, Proprietor. Price. 250 sets Teaspoon*: $1 25 125 sets Tablespoons 2*50 loOsets 'fable Forks 2 50 75 “ Dessert Forks 2 25 75 ** Dessert Spoons 2 25 ICO Soup Ladles, each 2 00 100 Oyster latdles 1 50 100 Gravy Ladles 100 Fish Knives 100 Cake Knives 100 Pie Knives 00 2 00 2 fX) 2 00 Regular Price. 4 50 1 (X) 1 00 1 00 1 00 50 75 35 50 5 00 3 75 Xj .A. JR, C3r IE S T -A X I>- Most Complete Establishment South. KSTAI5LISIIKI) l«4a. GKO. S. OtTiccand Warvnxuns. King, o]>p<tsiteCaniHin Strcc*, til A It I.KSTOX, S. C. Mannftu-turcrs of DOOItS, SASH, HLIXDS, Motddinr/x and JUiitding Material*. Joseph R. Robertsox. Fhaxu E. Taylhk. Geo. W. AVimams Jh Mr. Presitlent and gentlemen of the South Carolina Society: I was think ing while my friend, the Rev. Mr. Johnson, was speaking and said that have been canvassing Ai~en county selling Stephens’ History and Family I Ribles, and assume of the incidents j The Hope of the South in the Free and thoughts which have occurred to me may be of some little interest to your readers' I will give you a brief sketch of them. In the first place I must pay a just tribute of gratitude and praise to the good people of the county for their generous host itality and kindness. I have met with none too poor or too niggardly to exercise those Christian virtues, and I have been impressed with the fact that the native popula tion is not dying out, and that we do not need any influx jd' foreigners to clear R way obr Ktests'Ti 11 mir fields or to,carry on any of the iuduap ies of a civilized people. It does real If - seem to n*e that the greattrouble winch we will have to grapple with In the mar future will be to. provide homes for the swarmtiof bo Vs and girls who are growing up in our midst. I have s>lso c bt;en pleasant^ im pressed with the fact that theechool master is abroad in the land, and evi dences of Culture and refinement are to be met with on every hand; beau tiful and gentle maidens waiting to be wooed and won and to make bright and happy tiie homes of their fortu nate wooers. Some evidences also of a return to a better system of husbandry are to be seen; very sipall, indeed, like the cloud which Elijah first saw, but com ing up rapidly to refresh and restore the parched and famished earth to its former verdure and beauty by the long wished for and gladly welcomed rain. Not qujte so much guano and School System—A New Northern People in the Old South—Judge Bond's Itevlew «»f a Celebrated Speech. Xeir* and Courier, April 14(5. The remarks of Judge Rond in re plying to the toast, ‘‘An Indestructi ble Union of IndestrucMble States,” at the slipper of the South Carolina Society on Tuesday night, were the subject of much comment ant! criti cism. Judge Rond, in responding to j ftbn is thrust to the bottom in the | the toast, said : popular education at this time, and n the fgture, is, and will be, n para- ount consideration. All classes of Europeans are coming here and rending themselves over our eonti- ental territory; and here are to be! ided the great questions that arej w agitating the world, such ns the 1 lations of capital to labor, and the} ve social questions that are vexing : Old World. These cannot be de ed in Europe for the reason of the nee of the power of free discussion agitation. _ho question now is, what part will the men of this generation take in wiesc problems, and can they be lived at all, if the idea of free cduca- liETTKlt FROM CHESTER. SOME REMARK A RLE CATS. AFFAIRS ON THE CONTINENT. The Grnnlteville Methodist Church, i How They Proleef Butchers mid The I^»t of a Euro|>enn Baler scale of tkc principles on whieh the Republic is founded ? The solution of these problems must come by debate anti can never be settled with the sword. Rut no step forward will ever it was an unlucky or a lucky accident be taken until we have, by the |a*wer of the Republic, extended the bless ings of the free schools to every grade of society. It is in these schools that the children of the Republic first learn that great principle that the majority must rule, as illustrated even in their games of tops and marbles and other toys. My friend, Gen. Johnston, said that he would not make a speech on edu cation. I will, and I am in favor of the development of every special tal ent that may exist in the growing generation. If there he one among them who shows a special capability' even for the forging of a horseshoe— let him have the means of developing that capability. If there he one of whom a John C. Calhoun may be matte, let him have the opportunity in a proper school. whose inventive genius found the in- After all, the people will always a iiitle more hoiue-umde manure, and j telleetual chewing gum—the toast to ! work out their own destiny in their a greater disposition to make home the United States—to whieh I am to : own way. They may be, after all, that he had not been born at the foun dation of this society, that it would have been a most unfortunate thing hud iie descended to us after a century and a half. He would have been like one of those fossils found in the allu vial soil of my native State, and speaking of the finding of one of whieh the discoverer said that he had found one of the original elements with its tail in its face. I am, indeed, glut] that he was not born a century anti a half ago, for the especial reason that we have him with us now. (Ap plause.) Rut I must hasten on to thank this association, this honorable and ancient body, for selecting one so young’in this generation to reply to this toast, and I hasten the more quickly to do so because my bosom is filled with admiration of the man [^IolElRlT[sliM COTTON FACTORS AND KRAI AGENT OF THE ASHEPOO PHOSPHATE CO. CENTRAL WHARF CHARLESTON, S. C. WULBEKN & U IE PER. Wholesale Grocers, \ND DEALERS IN- 1'ROVISIOAIS, LIQUORS, TORACCO, ETC. supplies. In this connection I cannot refrain from making honorable nYeVrtion of our old friend and formeFCommis- sioner, Win Foley, who had a lot of the best cured pea buy that I ever saw, and nnlK'irmf-blrtier^VvtifcTr would - have excited tin* envy and admiration of the champion butter muKer of the world. The credit of the butter, how ever, is not due to friend Bill, but to his estimable wife and fair daughters. Tiie breadt!i of land planted in small grain is not so large as it should be. W heat culture is almost abandoned, but that won’t do, brother farmers. Rally to your colors and try it again. Now 1 must mention tiiat whieh hrTrrypi-ti Sign m ■ in t irTP» respond. (Laughter and applause.) Now, they gave my brother Bryan an easy piece to speak, but I suppose that was because he was here at the foundation of the society. (Laughter.) A celcbralod FreiicJuumi -Wlu» wrote about this Republic when it was hut tour-score years of age. in lookiiit^ philosophically at the United States, said that it was a giant without bones. Since that time—though I am not going to pronounce its eulogy—the children of this Republic have bound it together with railroads from one end of it to the other, and have stretched the telegraph from one ocean to the other, and the giant’s bones hiWC-J»e^«iiM-«> «•••<>«• •yo- 1 11 -r i* oj . ru in iivrirand histnerves of tiuglhig steel, destruction of our noble pine forests, j (Applause.) And so extensive, indeed, The hand of the spoiler and destroyer i i s this network of steel that there is bus passed over them and they will j not an injury that can he done to the soon be numbered amongst the things | body politic that the sons of the Re- tiiat were. Like the buffalo and tiie public cannot in a day redress. There Indian, they are receding before the rapacious hand of the white man. Now, Mr. Editor, I will bring these rambling lines to a close by saying that 1 am selling the best style of Family Ribles ever offered in this market and a History of the United States of America, around which has been thrown the magic charm of Aleck Stephens’ genius until it reads like a romance of the olden time, and if a.iy one doubts it, all they have to do is to buy one, read and be con vinced. T. \V. WTl VTi.KY. (17 & 100 EAST RAY. CHARLESTON, S. C. McGAHAN, BATES & CO., -JOBBERS OF- Dry Goods, Notions, Clothing, Nos. 226, 22« A 230 MEETING STREET. - - - CHARLESTON,S.C WM M. BIRD & CO. WHSTE m% COLORS, WINDOW GLASS, ETC. -AGENTS EOR- IIOWE'S STANDARD SCALES AND MARVIN’S SAFES. Forth* present at 175 East Bay, CHRLESTOX, S. C. NEW YORK AND CHARLESTON STEAMSHIP COMPANY. STEAMSHIP CITY OHJ 1 -A.TXj^.XTT^, YVliite l*om! I.eicer. \Vhitk l*oxn, S. C , April 15. The While Bond Sunday School is on a boom. It commenced the second quarter of the year with a considerable increase over Iasi quarter. It is to be li >ped that none of Bill Arp’s ‘‘boom erangs” will strike it until the “boom” shall have attained a solid growth. I am glad to see Dr. Bailey’s list of appointments for the Edisto Associa tion. although times are hard and money very scarce, it is to be hoped that tiie Doctor will icceive a sub stantial reception in our midst, and when he leaves us that he will go away feeling that Ids visit has not been barren or unfruitful. How long shall our sensibilities be j shocked and our best feelings outraged j with such shocking scenes as the! Johnstone-Jones shooting affair? Not a week but the papers horrible shooting scrape, and still no effort made to suppress that greatest of all nuisances—pistols. It is a libel on our boasted civilization that men in the peaceful avocations of life should he Aalking arsenals, and upon the smallest provocation declare war and become belligerents and blow each other’s brains out on the spot. It is a libel on our boasted civilization that while this state of things exists our Legislature should wink at the practice and that our courts of jus tice (?) should take no cognizance of the existing law against concealed weapons. We ought to have a law against carrying pistols either con-1 cealed or not, and the law should re-! quire every civil officer in the State to j see that the law is faithfully executed j under penalty of removal and prose- I cution. We are not barbarians, in ; the true sense of the term, and there is no necessity for *the barbarous practice of every man going armed. is no wound that can be inflicted upon any part of this great country hut that the great forces of nature, with her tingling nerves, cannot flash the in telligence to every part of the Union a*id cause the great national heart to make prompt and generous response. (Applause.) Now, what constitutes the great ness, for greatness it must he called, of this Republic? It is not great be cause of its powerful navy, for that might float in a fish-pond, nor of its standing army,which would not make a good skirmish line in case of the attack of one of the smallest States in the Union. It is great rather because it contains a free people and is sup ported by the oft’ectious of its children (applause); great because she is free, and we have made ourselves great in maintaining that freedom. One of the most touching things 1 read in the sketch of the history ol ! friend on wrong in the means proposed, but they will almost invariably be tight and patriotic in their sentiments, and I would earnestly impress it upon the young men here that they are some day to become a part of the history oi this country, and that they wMI be called upon to extend this system of freJ-cdiication throughout the South, in order tiiac-Lhe^South may take its proper place in the'grCar questions of the present and future. Not long ago a speech was delivered in New York by a speaker from a neighboring State, who spoke of the “New South.” Well, when I came here I locked foj^liis “New South.” South” hich invites here tii^H^I'^ of tiie North to buy up our lands and mines aAd coal and iron, and send North for educated labor for their de velopment*' That reminds me, Mr. Chairman, of the Old Soutli that sat on the fence and looked at others at work. (Laughter.) I say. Mr. Chair man, that this will never he a New South until it has as much free educa tion as the West has had at the ex- oense of the Government. Never shall * » it be a New South until its own chil dren delve in its own mines and drag from the earth the minerals and ores that belong to tUem. Have we not still the Old South, and the people of the North developing it for iheir own benefit? I wish that the young men of this land could see witli the vision of that old piophct—I do not mean Dr. Vedder—the importance of the question of nublic education. I wish that they could see as T do that in this so called Xcjw South we arc only de veloping a n|jw race of Northern peo ple in the Okl South. Now, Mr. President, I too am im pressed witji tiie statement of my e left (Capt. Ingleshy) your society was that, even a wav ; that it is an back in Colonial times, its founders i to make an had the same feelings that actuated } congratulate the founders of the Republic in tlx North and New England States—they were impressed with the importance difficult part of mine is over. (Laugh ter ) Isupp' tiling for m think loo nu (Laughter./ 1 think, in xtremely difficult tiling after-dinner speech. 1 myself that the most se it would be tiie proper to say something now Carolina, but I don't ch taffy is good for you. We have had it to-night, ibundance. (Laughter.) L too, can ap ireciate ail that is grand of public education. (Applause.) The about Soutl pioneers of American settlement fell that there could not be a free Republic unless its people were intelligent, and ' the first tiling they did was to estab- ] lish schools, and our success has sprung mainly from t he establishment ; land maintenance of these public in- . ! stitutions. It is sometimes said that 'join in the ef education makes the common people ring in the j dissatisfied, hut, ns I understand it, the object of a Republic is that there shall be no common people (applause), and that every man shall stand on an ! equality before the law and be hide-' that ShowiiiirfHow Men Arc Sat On. and glorimi! ^ _ ^ State, and I relate some! , ..<• .i—- ....i.i;.. come when ring in the ti in the history of this hope the day will soon all of her citizens will rt to ring out the old, lew; ring out the false, le. I would not that my less, but I Rome more. friends shoufl love Ctesar would that r ey loved II (Applause anjl cheering.) pendent of everything except law itself. (Applause.) Look at one of the questions of education to-day. The United States, or rather the Old Thirteen, gave every tenth section of certain public lands for the support of public schools, and then they called upon the Old World to come and build up the waste places, and that Old World ditl come, witli its thousands and tens of thousands, Jo settle upon this soil, and their children we placed in these public schools, who they were cherished and fostered at educated. Was it not the liberali of the Old Thirteen States that fill the West with an intelligent, no and patriotic people? And now com \Y i*hington Critic. A little Sixteenth street girl was in terviewing Ihe preacher. “Ain’t G<fl good?” she asked, earn estly. “Of course pastor. “And it it?” she coiiSnued. “Oertainl»not.” 'He is, my child, said th< I \ >n’t wrong to say so, is For the Aiken Recorder. CniwTEK, ri. C., April 10, 1H87. Mr. Editor: fn your paper of April 12th there is a communication from "Styx,” interesting in many of its items about Grnniteville, especially with regard to the advance of the Methodist church of that place. Rut why should the present prosperity Dealers at AVashlogtim Market. no Moans a Hapvy Otlo/ Xetv York Evening Sun. j Spe.eial Cablegram to Xrw York fyd. A huge water rat scuri ied •nit from' Loxnox, April 0.—Across the CTtsr- under a Washington market butter nel things continue to he mildly l*»- staiid this morning, followed by a | terestim/, and an occasional hnhtdeVf bone, a boy and a eat. They came ‘ international discord |»o|is up to mar.1: along like a hurricane, and woke up from a sound and peaceful sleep Mr. Win. Duraiidn, an old butcher, who east roproachon former pastor pastors, j was wedged in an arin-ehair at the particularly the last, whose labors were certainly.uuremitting and faith ful, and during whose last year thsre the church was abundantly blessed and over sixty souls added to its num bers during a revival meeting. They have had gracious revivals since (nearly three Tears), which of course has added many; and I think also, Mr. Editor, that your blessed work of temperance has helped to keep many wavering souls steadfast. We are glad of the blessings to Graniteville, ami shall always he glad to hear of its prosperity, hut it ira* not down, as your comiminication would intimate. Its Sunday school and ali its other interests were faith fully attended to by Its earnest, humble pastor. That God will continue His blessing on its pastor and the people of Graniteville is the prayer of this writer. A Lovkr OF Justiuk. MILITARY INFALLIBILITY. Kirnncc Signiflciinco of I he Sunset Gun—An Anecdote or the latte Col Scott. Xcw York Herald. A contemporary thinks that the re cent order of the Secretary of War for discontinuing tiie firing of the sunrise and sunset guns at Governor's Island and other military stations is verv • * “■ hard on the army, as its forces the men to consult the almanac to as certain when the suu rises and sets. This recalls a good story that is told of tiie late Col. Robert N. Scott, whndied recently leaving unfinished his important work of editing the War Records After the war he was stationed at some small fort in New York State over a garrison of less than twenty men, and there was very little work to be done other than perform ing the military ceremonies and keeping 7 up the-giimsofMarni and gar den. An amateur astronomer in the vi cinity took considerable interest in liming tiie morning and evenijhgguns ^*1 i I ■ "T—— the spot where the war scare wh’f*- pool was raging a little while ago. Katkolf is working to bring war about, and the Czar does uot UiacotUr door. The eat and rat disappear'd, age him, as he ought td do. Foceign but very s >on the former r appeared,! «eirrespoiulents who have only goY war and seemed trying hard to conceal its j rumors tosend along, sent} them free- disnppointmeiit at having failed to ' !y, ami refuse to let the jvar scare .die. catch the rat. ‘Heavens!” said old Mr. Durand'*, “she’s lost it, I never knew her to fail before.”’ “It’s a fine looking cat. Yon seem to think a good deal of her!” said a bystander. “Fine eat! She’s one of the best around the market, and there’s some mighty line eats ’round here, too, I can tell you. and well taken care of. We all feed them; no matter whose eat comes ’long we feed it. That eat you see never eats a rat or a mouse. It’s the queerest thing out. She swaps tiie rats she catches for the allowance of beef made to another cat, who won’t eat anything hut rats and mice.” “You don’t mean that,” the by stander said. “Yes, slree! Say, there’s a little black-and-white cat tip here that never eats anythin’ but bread, cake ami pie and other sweets. Couldn’t coax her to cat anythin’ else. It be longs to an old woman who Ins rheu matism. The electricity in the cut is good for rheumatism.” “I never heard that before.” “Oil, it’s a fact. You just rub one side of a cat hard Witli one hand and the other side witli t!f%other, and I’ll bet you you feel electricity. Hay, I’ll tell you a cat you ought to see. It’s down here at Hines & Mansfield’s. They’ll show it to you. They like to show it. They’re eoekey over it. I know myself old Mansfield wouldn’t take #100 for it.” Mr. Durando’s statement excited curiosity. A personal inspection of the feline proved it to he a remarkable one. It lias been known to bring in as many as fifteen water ruts in a day. Whenever it catches a rat it seeks out a barrel without break or hole in its sides through which a rat could cs- ca|>e. It will then dump the uit into CAPT. R. W. LOCKWOOD. STEAMSHIP ciTir om 1 coilttiivlibi-A. CAPT. I. McKEE. SAILING WEEKLY FOR NEW YORK FROM CHARLESTON. It is the dutv of government to pro-. teet the lives <>t the people, and in so ! , 4 , , it * doing it should abolish everything that threatens human life, so far as practicable, and the present practice is certainly a menace to human life. WlIITK PoXll. The Situation in ICliodc Island Philadelphia Time* (.Deni.) United .States to help the citizens the Old Thirteen States to educa their children, who by their o bounty educated the people of t West. Rut then comes along so constitutional objection which hoi that it is not within the power of people to educate the people. T . . . i . .. . .i • , i Mr. Chairman, I cannot understai It is not pretended that this revolu- ’ .... it. I cannot see iiow it is in the pow ! of the people to shoot down a in who does not obey the Constitution tion in Rhode Island is a Democratic | party victory. The Republicans .sim ply got so tired of machine rule that they broke the traces and smashed the machine; but if general sullrage shall be carried Rhode Island would become a doubtful State. Under her present uuti-Kcpubiicau constitution, little m >re who would the United States, and that it is n within the power of that people to teach a man to read that Coustitutiotn (Appl uusc.) I don’t see how it is con- tlieir irregularity caused Iliac eter to appear to vary. Ho much respect for tiie military regu lation, which said the guns should go off exactly witli the sun, to doubt that the error was at the fort. He made tiie calculation for that merid ian and found his chronometer correct But his respect for tiie government outweighed even his reliance on his figures; so lie sent his figures for ver ification to the Dudley Observatory at Albany. On getting them back with the Ob servatory indorsement of their cor- rectncsv he was startled and shocked and saw no way but to lay the facts before the commandant at the fort. Col. Scott received him with affable dignity, and listened to his tale of perplexity. Having heard him through the Colonel said: “My dear sir, I think I ean enligh- en you on this matter. The man that fires that gun is the ordnance ser geant. He is also tiie orderly sergeant commissary sergeant qurtermastcr sergeant, sergeant major and hospital steward, and he likewise milks my cow. Now, his orders are to fire that gun ns soon as lie has milked my cow and while there may he some uncer tainty about your timing the sunrise and sunset by the report of that gun you may feel mighty tolerably sure that my cow has been milked!” Adam Forcimiiffh and the Gro cer. 7*5iladelphia Xeirs. Healways travels with his show l nud lie even purchases the provisions for his employes’ meals. You must un derstand that he caters cn route for all the attaches of the circus, the per formers, musicians and business staff dining in a sjiecial car and the labor ing force in a camp on the show grounds. Onco in Holyoke, Mass., lie was purchasing a quantity of pro visions from a grocer, telling him to charge them to “the steward of the Forepaugh show.” When he had completed Ids purchases lie said,“Isn’t there something in this for me?” the remark being instigated by the fact that the stewards of hotels, steamboats etc., are frequently bribed by those of whom they make purchases. The groCer quietly handed him a $2 bill and then extended the account to be marked correct by the supposed stew ard. The circus manager wrote upon it: “O K., Adam Forepaugh.” Tiie grocer gazed upon it and then looked as though he wished the earth would open and swallow him. Forepaugh said nothing and walked away. He nf LKimq,. jXT a good time ail to itself. . Mr. Munsfiel4»^vy»-Uvni in the three of kitFresidence on the docks lie has not lost a dollar’s worth of prop erty from the ravages of water rats. Formerly his firm’s loss in watermel ons alone often reached as ir uch ns #10 a season. The rats would eat into the heart of tiie melon to reach the seed, which they eat, discarding the pulp. The most remarkable thing about tills cat is that she has six toes on each foot, as have also her five little kittens, about six weeks old. Mr. Mansfield wants #5 apiece for the kittens and #100 for the old cat. SNAKES IN THE BACK LOG. It i« dead, though, or in a state of.capia at If'ast.. ..i . . i The Sultan is unitappy again- / As tt’iinl lie i» angry at <he Gra»4Att*fcr. He has not looked ufiowfhe tkef fcfrtinfc gentleman oftlie Arnbllih-SfljjlliNPtttle for three weeks, and threaten*) 1 1® dis charge him. It is all because hfa spe cial commissioners to Sofia failed dis mally in his attempt to establish a peaceful understanding among the tur hulent Bulgarians. Russia continues to stir up trouble in Afghanistan, or England thinks so at least, and we arc again told to ex pect trouble from the French. Tho mutteringsagainstGermanyhavebceu started up by the recent harsh treat ment of Alsatians and Loralners by Germany. Austria continues to strengthen herself against Russia; and in short the general run of events prove what has before been sajd in this column, that even peace over here Is found to be a very scary and uncom fortable sort of thing. Unless a big change of some kind comes a correspondent at Odessa thinks trouble is brewing for the Cxar in the shape of a revolution aimin'* at Ids overthrow and at plac’ng on tho throne of Alexander If,Ids eldest son by Ids morganatic wif^. the Princess Dolgorouki* The vnua'gpritiee 1* rep resented as a prodigy of lenridn^;,am bition and craft. He did not-seem to be all that wiien at his mother’* honso in I’aris, and appeared quitdAappV and contented at the prospect of efl- joying his mothers millions. Ho would certainly make a better ruler than the Czurewitch, physically iftbl mentally weak, who is to succoeiT'Hio present potentate, but it will be no easy task to get rid of tho Czar. “ I A description of a visit tolhe Czrr shows him to lie guarded and prqteetj ed to an exte led w Thrilling Adventure by the Fireside in a Calskill Home. Xcw York Herald. Pine Hill, N. Y., March 31.—Up here in the Catskills, where two or three thousand New Yorkers while away the summer, is an old home stead in which a farmer resides with ids family. The house is quaint and old fashioned, not the least of the at tractions being great yawning fire places, in which immense “back logs’’ crackle and blaze, while the kettle simmers merrily on the hob. It is still winter at Pine Hill and vicinity, so “back logs” continue to be in great demand. When the snow and hail were com ing down lively last Sunday night, and the wind was blowing no “small guns,” the farmer, Matthews, replen ished the fire around which his wife and rosy cheeked boys and girls were cosily gathered. As the farmer placed an immense knotty piece of wood, in which there was a deep hole, on the fire one of the children remarked: “Hope there’s no little mousies in there, dad.” That there was something in the pine knot was soon made evident by the unusual crackling and hissing, and pitfalls and soldiers in his castle at Blais, wasan unprotected babe Ey ing on the grass in Central Park com pared to the ruler of the Russians. A- story in tiie Hungarian papers shows what precautions are taken against the Nihilists. A Hungarian gypsy band, which played on several occasions la-fore tho Czar, was not received with that frank confidence whieh does so itinrli to make life pleasant. On each occa sion their musical Instruments were carefully examined by the police be fore each concert. The first examina tion lasted two days, during which time the complicated instrumentswero taken to pieces, and at each con cert each musician played with a policeman stationed behind his hack. THE STATE HAH ASSOCIATION. An Eminent MAssachnsctts Lawyer to Deliver l lie Next Annual Oration. Abbeville Messenger. Mr. Benet, Secretary of tho State Bar Association, informs us that Hon. Joel Prentice Bishop of Cambrige, Mass., has consented to deliver tho annual address before the Htata Bar Association. Mr. Bishop is quite a distinguished jurist, being a law pro fessor at Hamrd and tho author-of several works on criminal law which are everywhere regarded as authori ty. All the records of the State Bar As sociation were destroyed in Mr. Ben- e 'slibrar, b.' thefl.-eon last Tuesday* The proceedings of tiie last meeting were just ready for tiie printer, and considerable delay will be caused in duplicating the manuscripts. Doom ti Horst; Hair Turn to a Worm The Newberry Ofticrwer says:Notic- iug an interested group on the street the other day, we approached to find out what the attraction was. It and five pairs of dilated eyes watched j prove4 , to i, e a | 4>nf , guilder black the hole in the wood intently, as the | u . orm j,, sl boU ie of water. A color- blaze crept closer and closer to it. | , M , Im , XVUH exhibiting it and insisted Presently there was a jumping and j t , iat j t developed from a horse hair skurrying of the farmer and his family i that , lc . llU(1 put t |j e boU | 0 n tout ten days before. He said ho got the hair from the tail of the stallion American Cla}-, Jr. The hair or worm was wrigling about at quite a lively rate, and continued to wriggle after as a snake slowly but surely issued 1 forth fiom the wood. It squirmed and jumped, and at last, by a violent effort, freed itself from the fire-place. Tiie farmer and eldest son killed the reptile, which was found to be a young | m ving been taken out of the water rattlesnake. , a|Jt j placed on the ground. Several Two other small snakes of the same | jngjgted that the object could species also crawled out of the wood [ , lot , iaVe bcell a bor se hair, but was a and were qnickly dispatched. riU | worm. Among these was Mr. R. During the entire performance Uu* I j. itamage, the local naturalist, uud farmer’s wife stood on a chair with j j,, MU ,, l>OIt of b |g view showed a book her skirts gathered heroically about | (l f | ia t ura i science in which this horse her and shrieked lustily. , ba j r worm is spoken of as “a popular 1 lie next morning, however, accord- f a j| a cy.” He insisted that it is a gtn- has used llosehce's German Syrup to; Big to the farmer’s story, his wife u | ||e worm, the name of it being ti.a pointed proudly to the snakes and ; (p,rdius. Others present were very 8a ‘^ : positive in their belief that a hor*e “We killed them all within a ball i imir. when kept in water, does become hour, didn’t we, \N illiaut?” a worm. Tiie question will be tested _ " * _ practically. A hair lias been taken Greatly Excited. > from the tail of American Clay. Jr., and placed in a bottle of water to await developments. held on to the #2 note. Astoundiing: Success. It is the duty of every person who let its wonderful qualities he known to their friends in curing Consump tion, severe Coughs, Croup, Asthma, Pneumonia, and in fact all throat and lung diseases. No person can use it 1 without Immediate relief. Three doses will relieve a 113- case, and we you the right band of fellowship. But what of “Un<Jle George’s" terrible the Constitution Hat 'the forebodings »«[. Democratic disaster i-rvcnuuiieau eoiisuiuuoii, - ... •ftiiaeniia.it a sin Mr Cleveland s • hJL. half of her .H-o,.:. *«•» Ihoaev h>r j J TllCSSStf I he voters clsc.vhcrc tan | cation ot their children cam.ot be | look much lifie “losing every iscjrLl.- i/m.fon Monitor. Not a few of tiie citizens of Aiken, 1 consider it the duty of all druggists to | have recently become greatly excited recommend it to the poor, dying con- 1 ° Vfcr th e astounding facts, that several sumptive, at least to trv one bottle, as ! “f their friend* who had been pro- in the HuudMofiJlHcreetutMl Able 80.000 l~„h, »,r. .o.d .... year, and not one case "here it failed with that dreaded monster Consump- Hew I ork Star. wa* reported. Huch a medicine as the ; tiou—have been cmnplctelv cured by! German Sgrup cannot be too widely i Dr. King’s New Discovery for Con-} known. Ask your druggist about it. I sumption, the only remedy that dots Sample bottles to try, sold at 10 cents.: positively cure all throat and lung Regular size, 75 cents. Sold by *11 diseases, Couifiis, Colds, Astiuua, and Druggists and Dealers, in tlic United Bronchitis. Trial bottle free at H. II ' £ totes aod Canada. ' Hall’s Dcjj s>Ujcc, Luttica U The serious oomplicat iuns that at tend the work uf the euom.is’don «>)* already apparent. It is fortune** that the good m-usj of the President has placed it hr las IimUcIs *.f disenut uuJ oulc