The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, April 19, 1887, Image 1
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
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REPAIRING A SPECIALTY <•
m*OLA.£uC.Co> 5 0-
2«7 KING STRKT, CHARLESTON. S. C. t - (Opposite Masonic Temple
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Great Special Sale
:():
5,00 Pieces of Rogers A. A Silver Plated Flatware. &e., &c.
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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
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2 00
2 fX)
2 00
Regular
Price.
4 50
1 (X)
1 00
1 00
1 00
50
75
35
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3 75
Xj .A. JR, C3r IE S T
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Most Complete Establishment South.
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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
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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.
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\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
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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