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■> *' • t'- p «3 ZP m U4« m ■ . CHARLES E. R. DRAYTON, Man teer. AIKEN, S. C., TUESDAY. APRIL 26, 1887. VOLUME 6.—NUMBE1 Profe*8ional Advertisement- 1 ?. Uavihiiid Stevenson, Attorney at Law, Aiken, H. C. Special attention given to Collec tion. 0. C. Jordan, • the local militia, ‘*rnor of South Carolina, published a anies in a position i s”™ 11 uork ’ now ratl,er scarce, “A Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. James Aldbich. Walter Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. ■51 D. 8. Hexdekson. E. P. Henderson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United Stales Courts for South Caro lina. Prempt attention given to col lections. Edw. J. Dickerson, Attorney-at-law, Aiken, S. O. , Will practice in all the Courts of this State W. Quit man Davis, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the Courts of this Circuit. Specia attention given to collections. John Gary Evans, Attorney-at-Law. Will .practice in the Counties Aiken,, ICdgefield and Barnwell. of Dr. W B Courtney, Dentist. -OEFICR — Hicliland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. Next door to Ilenrv Busch & Co. Dr. B. H. Teague, Dentist. 1KFICE ON- I&cliland Avenue, Aiken, S. 0. WASHINGTON LUTTER. Corr<»spomlencc of Ih^ Aiken Hecorder. Washington, April 15, 1S87. Public attention Is now concentrat-j ing upon the national drill which is j to take place in this city next month. 1 The color line crisis has been safely jpa-sed; the movement towards the reorganization of putting the companies In a post to compete for the prizes, goes briskly forward; the month of the drill is nearly here; (he securing of hotel ac commodations has begun, and many other indications point to the fact that the great assemblage of the Republic’s militia, and of all who delight in the military, will soon be here. Wash ington, fresh and charming in her new spring suit of green, will gladly welcome the thousands of visitors who will flock to her reception in May, and, aside from all interest in the drill, it is worth a tripcf any distance to see the most beautiful city of America in her best attire. The warm, bright sunshine of Easter Monday seemed warmer and brighter in the neighborhood of the White House than anywhere else in this city. Thousands of children, without regard to race, color or previous con dition, thronged the grounds of the Chief Magistrate for the purpose of rolling and “picking” eggs. It is an annual privilege custom has long ac corded the youth of the District. They have the entire freedom of the grounds on Easter Monday. They take pos session early in the morning, bring their lunches .and their nurses, roil themselves over the green sward when they are tired of rolling eggs, and never desert the sport until nightfall. * One feature of the egg festival was its effect upon the afternoon reception to the public at the White House. Many of the festive little ones made free to enter and swelled the attend ance to about 1,500 people. Olie-iifth of that number is a pretty good crowd on these tri-weekly occasions. The children were Lost Chapter in History. Our State WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN. | parted on a “system of great cana^vjville, Chatham (original name of j along the Atlantic coast.” In Cheraw), Granby, &c. State they say: “The Santee, or Ca- B. J. Leasing in 1849 visited Rocky tawba, is said to be occasionally navU Mount with pen and pencil in hand, gable for more than three hundreflr He gives several sketches and rather miles, as high ns Morgantown, full accounts of tire Revolutionary in- North Carolina. Two companies havd cidents connected with the place. He been incorporated by that .State auiljjsnys: “Here yet remains the founda- the .State of South Carolina for theltion of a projected United States mill- purpose of improving its navigation.Itary establishment, to be called Mount The Lower Falls are above Camden,iDearborn, which was abandoned.” ami not far from the arsenal of thcfSince Lossing’s visit another asmy ry ruksident j. h. Carlisle In 1802 John Drayton, then Gov- Dr. J. II. Burnett, Dentist. - —OFEICE AT <}raniteville. Aiken County, S, C. Dr. Z. A. Smith PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, VAUCLUSK, - - - S. C. CSPOflice near Depot. i AIKEN INSTITUTE, AIKEN, S. C. FRANK H. CURTISS, President. D ESIGNED.for the higher educa tion of young ladies and young gentlemen. Course of study thorough and exhaustive, covering a period ol eight years exclusive of collegiate •course of four ye >rs. Each department complete in itself—Primary, Inter mediate, Grammar, Preparatory Aca demic, Academic and Collegiate. RATES OF TUITION. Per Month. Prlwinry. $1 50 Intermediate 2 50 Grammar 3 00 Prep. Academic,( . ^ Academic, ) Collegiate 5 00 German*ind French, each 1 00 Instrumental Music 2 50 Special Drawing Lessons 2 50 Painting, Oil, Water Color, Chi na, Lustra 2 50 For any desired information con cerning catalogues, rates of board, or any c<tlier mutters connected with the Instituto address the President. A limited number of students de siring board may tiud a pleasant home in the familv of the President. FRANK H. CURTISS, Feb 1. 18s7.-tf President. SPRiPJC A NS 0 [ACE ME A New and Elegant Line of Dimjfi nnrcui ni Hu JUST OPENED. Secrwufkcrs, Ginghams, Soudan Cloths. Call early and get first selection. F. B. Hendwrsor.. William Turnhyff Lauren* Street, Aiken, S. C. CJAHE public arc invited to inspect A. mv stock uf CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, which 1 am Belling at rock bottom prices. I buy none but the best and sell as cheap as the cheapest. Canned Goods in great variety and from the best houses. WM. TURNBULL. H. F. Warneke, Baker and Confectioner AND DEALER IW GROCERIES TOBACCO act CIGABS, TOYS, FI RE-WORKS, Etc. AIXvEN, - - - S. English, Irish, French and Spanish, Gorman, Italian, Dutch and Danish. At first the President attempted to give each one a greeting with some special remark, but this generous in tention was overcome in a few min utes, and ere long iie was trying to shake hands with three of them at a time. There were humble white folks and aristocratic black folks, and they laid their hands in the Executive palm with equal confidence. Occa sionally a tow-headed boy, soiled and hot from his morning’s sport, would march up solemnly, put ins dirty egg- smeared fingers in the Presidential hand, and then slink olFas though be had done something lie was asnamed of. ince the iuter-State commerce law went into effect the number of per sonal applications for appointments under the administration at Wash-j ington lias diminished very materi ally. The Cancelling of free passes has caused a marked falling oil in tire number of callers at the Government Departments from the various .States auU Territories, and it will pretty effectually stop the coming of delega tions and individuals to urge appoint ments and press their claims here. Heretofore a day never passed with out such delegations at all of the de partments. bm especially would they infest that of the Interior. They would come from the Pacific coast and the far Northwest, and often just in the hope of securing tiic pettiest office. Probably the most absurd of all the complaints made against civil service reform is the charge that it will lead to the establishment of an office hold ing aristocracy. Any one who exam ines the lists of thousand-dollar sec retaries of Senators, of committee clerks attifehed to both houses of Con gress, of unclassified officers in the departments here in Washington, and of the occupants of the most comfort able bertlu in custom houses, Federal Courts, the postal service, internal revenue and pension offices ali over | ; the country, will be astonished at the number of sons, broi hers, cousins, nephews, sisters, nieces and aunts who are drawing incomes from the public treasury. Only last week a Senator’s son was appointed to he chief of division in one of the Washington departments, and another Senator’s son received a clerical position under the Inter-State Commerce Commission. This is not saying that the fact of one cflPizen’s relationship to another ought to ope rate as a bar to Ids official aspirations. But all of these above mentioned places are beyond the reach of the civil service rules. It would be scarcely possible for a more offensive form of aristocracy to obtain than this, which is under the old system of patronage. The new rules restrict admission to the civil service to persons of approved educa- 1 tion and Uitelligence, extend to rich, and poor, weak and powerful alike, and give the Government clerk after his installation a sense of security so long as he does his work well and be haves himself in other respects. Palmetto. View of South Carolina as Respects her Natural and Civil Concerns.”- In the lirst chapter, under one of the heads, “Cascades.” he thus describes the Catawba Falls, at the southeastern conic/ of Chester county: “For quantity of water and grand eur of appearance, perhaps the Ca tawba Falls are the most interesting of any in this State. They are situ ated a little above the Rocky Mount, and the approach to them is over the hills which line the sides of the river. On either side the rocks are piled up in a wall of many feet high, and hills rising above tliem in sharp, conical summits nod over the rupture below. Now the .Catawba is arrested in its course, and from a width of one hun dred and eighty yards this river is forced by the hills and rocks on either side to shoot down ‘the gulph’ in a channel of ouly sixty-five yards wide. Collecting its waters, impetuous and noisy, it thunders down the falls, tumbling over massy rocks and foam ing from shore to shore, wheeling its large whirlpools and glancing from rock to rock with maddening fury, not ceasing its troubled waves until it has leaned over twenty falls in the distance of two and a half miles, and has precipitated from its height a depth of ninety feet. Here, below Rocky Mount, it begins to subside and spreads over a channel tlr.ee hundred ar.d eighteen yards wide, but is not composed. For miles below rocks are scattered in its way, at times irritating its waters and provoking the rapidity of its stream.” Dr. David Ramsey (1898) and Robert Mills (1828) give similar descriptions of these falls, which are connected with an almost forgotten page of our history. A committee of the House of Repre sentatives of the Third Congress, “to whom so much of the President’s speech as relates to arms and military stores, magazines and arsenals” was referred, made their report March 5, 1794. They offered the fopowing reso lution: “Resolved, That the President of the United States he authorized to direct two arsenals and magazines to be erected in proper situations, to ac commodate the Southern and Middle States, and that a sum not exceeding fifty-nine thous.*.nd dollars be pro vided for that purpose.” LTPited States at Mount Rock.” (If a later Congress at any time lias made appropriations confusing geography and names, it is only history repeating itself, perhaps.) In 1809 “The Catawba and Wateree Companies” asked Congress for help. A committee of Congress reported that the canals would he of vast im portance and utility to the inhabitants of North-and South Carolina and Tennessee, and that the armory and arsenal of the United States estab lished at Rocky Mount would also he considerably benefited ; yet, “iu view of the present condition of finances, and critical situation of our country in relation to foreign governments, it would be unadvisable to apply any public money.” In the journal of Bishop Francis Ashury (1809) he speaks of preaching near William Heath’s, on Fishing Creek, when, “to my surprise, a num ber of United States officers came up. I invited them in. These gentlemen are attached to an establishment at Rocky Mount.” In the Annals of Congress, under the date of December 2G, 1815, the “Committee on Military Affairs” re ported a bill “establishing three addi tional military academies—one within the District of Columbia, one at Mount Deaiboru, in South Carolina, and one in the vicinity of Newport, Ken tucky.” “The bill was read twice and committed.” A few days later, in “committee of the whole,” Mr. Campbell (probably a misprint, mean ing Colonel J. J. Chappell, of South Carolina,/ “proposed to change tiie location of the Southern Academy from Mount Dearborn to C'olumbir, on account of the superior advantages of that, place over Mount IDearborn and the eligibility of its situation for such an institution.” The House rt- fused by a large majority. Mr. Pick ens, of North Carolina, “was in favor of a more upland site than either of those mentioued. and gave a decided preference of the two to Mount Dear born over Columbia. He proposed a point in Buncombe county. Asheville was soon put in nomination against Mount Dearborn, but was negatived by a large vote. The committee, after a long debate, in which Mr. Calhoun December 12, 1795, Timothy Picker ing, Sec^Jary_^JY^rjCjtH^JxiLau_lhg uml Clay, SpeaHff joined (botli advocating three acade mies), agreed to strike out three aim insert one. A year later, February. 1817, the whole matter was indefinitely postponed. ~ These references sirow that for sev eral yeafs an “arsenal and magazine” (in one place the word “armory” is used) were kept up near Rockv Mount. In the original paper ordering the se lection of tiie place estimates were given for the following buildings: “A brick building, three stories high, one hundred and seventy-five feet long and forty-two feet wide, would contain twenty thousand mus kets, artillery and carriages in pro portion, together witTi all the light appendages then of. An arched brick magazine, capable of containing two thousand five hundred barrels ot pow der. Brick barracks, and work-shop for one hundred armorers, for the necessary guard.” It does not appear how far this plan was carried out. Mills, writing in 1820, some time after the enterprise was abandoned, says: “The United fetates establishment near Rocky Mount commands alien tion also, though now abandoned and measures^vhich have been pursued to obtain proper sites for arsenals. He says: “It having been determined to erect one arsenal on tiie Potomac and and another in South Carolina, the latter in a situation to and from which water transportation would be afford ed, and the former in the vicinity of a number of iron works, the necessary orders were given in the year 1794 for exploring both countries,” * * * “The engineer employed for the pur pose iu South Carolina made a report, which was received early in the last summer. He had explored that part of the country to which his attention had been directed by the Executive. He a Iso examined another. * The lat ter, independent of its being in a more healthful situation, was deemed by him to possess some other advantages over the former.” The engineer alluded to was most probably “Colonel John Christian Senf, Engineer t« tiie State, who at that time was digging the Santee Canal (1792-1S00). The second place referred to was probably Rocky Mount; the first place is not known. February 2, 1302, Thomas Jefferson, President, sent in a short message, in which he says: “Besides the perma nent magazines established at Spring- field, West Point, Harper’s Ferry, it is thought one should be established iu so'iue point convenient for the States of North Carolina, South Caro lina and Georgia; such-a point will probably be found near the border of the Caroiiuas, and some small pro vision by the Legislature preparatory to the establishment will be necessary for the present year.” In January, IS93, Eli Whitney, “in ventor of the cotton gin,” was selected to assist Colonel Senf in choosing the site for tiie arsenal near Rocky Mount. Whitney was at that time pressing his claim before the North Carolina Legislature. For expenses from Ra leigh to Rocky Mount, and for pro fessional services while there, he re ceived tiie very moderate fee of fifty dollars Colonel Senf, witli the rank of “Superintendent of the Arsenal at Rocky Mount,” received sixty dollars “for making a plan of the arsenal at ! Rocky Mount, and report thereon, in cluding his traveling expenses.” During that year (1800) four thousand dollars were paid “on account of ex penditures in erecting the arsenal, magazines, &e., at Rocky Mount. S. C.” During the years l c 03-l the las crossed the Catawba at that his- oric point. Before the late war a cotlon factory toodpn the banks of the canal, owned l>y Mr. Daniel McCullough, the spot till bearing the old name, Mount learboru. Mr. McCullough is yet iving. one of an unusual group of »If a dozen men, all over eighty rears of age, near Rocky Mount, fhey might give some interesting lerps fronv their early recollections jut the,.United Stales estatdish- Fllt. Robert Mills has a paragraph thgt should not be overlooked: “Here (liocky Mount) repose the ashes of one whose memory should be cher ished by Carolinians for his devotion to their cause in the Revolution, and Ms subsequent efforts to serve them i\ his professional capacity—Colonel nf. tiie engineer both of the Cataw- Company and of the Santee Canal, sleeps, in what was ids garden, at Ky Mount, but no obituary stone records his mmie. A few trees (which hi planted in a spot that he had cut iif; the fashion of a falling garden) sllkde his grave/ Colonel Senf was n military engineer of considerable tal- eiit.” (Statistics, p. 53.) The two great works of the German engineer in our Stale are now little kiiown. The bed of the Santee Canal isory, and the very ruins of his arse nal and magazine on Mount Dearborn hnye perished. If the proposed rail road from Camden to Rocky Mount is bui|t. the silence of the hills around hinlonely grave will be disturbed by thmeream of the engine, a power lie little dreamed of in ids day. Let a station, or at least a locomotive, bear ame. Let a stone be placed un hose trees to mark the spot where , away from kindred ami home, foreigner who ludped us in our of weakness and trial. y the old Mount never again the sound of a hostile gun or the of an army.—News and.Courier. WE.—Since tiie above was writ- tjmjjthc following date has been ascer tained: March 21, 1826: A committee of yongress recommended retroces- sioii*V* Soutii Carolina of the site of the A/aenal at Mount Dearborn.” ®fT At TUIKTE st-TTTSftr THE AIR LINE ROBBERY. FOUR MORI-1 ARRESTS MADE AT GREENVILLE. in ruins. This circumstance only tends to make it more interesting to the traveler. The buildings erected here were handsome and extensive. The magazine (a coideal brick build ing) has entirely tumbled down. The arsenal is a substantial building, erected close to the canal constructed by the State, and is the only building of the whole that promises to be really useful. The barracks surround a square, fronted by the officers’ quar ters, a large brick edifice, the whole erected on a promontory projecting into tiie river. * * * Nature fur- uishes few spots more variously ro mantic than this; a noble river ren dered more interesting by the rocks which impede its course; the islands scattered in the stream; the surround ing hills covered witli woods, and towering above it—all induce a wish that tire project of a military estab lishment here had succeeded and that Alleged Wonderful Cure of Dyspep sia and Rheumatism^ Atiguttu Chronicle. Ridge Spuing, S. C., April 18.— Everybody is at present very much excited iu the town of Ridge Spring over a recent wonderful cure of a se vere ease of dyspepsia and ^’heu mat- ism, which took place in Mr. \Vru. Merritt’s flower pit. Mr. Merritt lias for fourteen years been a dreadful sufferer from chronic rheumatism and dyspepsia, and the case getting so bad he was compelled to leave college on that account. He could find no relief; but one day, not long since, he took a book and went into the pit to read, remaining several hours, and to Ids surprise when he rose to go he felt a severe electric shock, as if given by a battery. He felt so much better that lie continued to visit the pit until fully restored. He only weighed 125 pounds three months ago, and now weighs 100. He says that he does not feel the shocks every time he goes into tlie-pit; that they seem to come only at intervals. He stems to think that tiie earthquake has much to do witli the strange ease. Any one who would like to investigate tiie case further lias only to see Mr. Merritt himself. Gen. Beauregard and JcfF Davis. New Ouleans, La., April 10 — During the ceremony attending the unveiling of tiie statue of Albert Sid ney Johnston on the Otli inst., Jeffer son Davis, in Ids impromptu remarks, took occasion in a manner indirect but thoroughly understood t<> reflect severely upon General Beauregard for his handling of the troops at the battle of Shiloh. This aroused the ire of the sturdy creole and he conies out in a I four column article in the Picayune | defending his course, showing that i what he did had the approval of John ston, and that he did all that could be done with men who were absolutely outdone by tiie need of food and by fatigue. TV.e article is quite severe and the author makes out a good case against Davis, even producing the this fairy spot had been the abode of identical military dispatches which refined society.” The references and quotations in this a.tide have all been verified, so that this short sketch of tiie “Rocky Mount Establishment” is believed to be correct. It is incomplete, as it is prepared without access to sources which would give other items as well total amount expended at Rocky | as the time and cause of abandon- Trylng to Do Too Much. Neie York 1I< redd. incut. The local tradition is that Rocky Mount was fourteen thousand four hundred and forty-bight dollars, being four times tiie amount spent on the j Mount came within one vote of being ‘‘arsenal and magazine at West Point” ! the West Point of the United States. It is an American fault to try to do : during those years. Of this sum, three | This may not be so. still those so in ton much. The suicide of poor young | thousand one hundred and thirty-! clined may speculate as to the effect Gitewood. a cadet at the Naval Acad- > eight dollars were for the purchase on our history if a groat “national eniy, on Friday at Norfolk is a sad j (through “Thomas Sumter”) of a military academy.” with all the at- case in point. A similar one occurred j “tract of laud in South Carolina for a few months ago, ami several other j an arsenal.” instances of brain trouble have oc-j General Henry Dearborn, Secretary curred within :i year or two among of War under Jefferson, visited Rocky the students of the Naval Academy, j Mount ami laid the corner-stone of arising from the same cause. There j the main building. Robert Mills (Sta- is no poorer economy conceivable tistics of South Carolina; states this than that of over-study. Diligence is fact, bn’ does not give the exact date, 1 name ol Grimke, by calling the place ■ good thing, hut like all good things which must have been in 1803. The j Grimkeville. Unfortunaiely scvarnl spot was known as Mount Dearborn attempts 'node to perpetuate iiautrs far manv years. I truly worthy have been failures—h£ In 180-8 a committee of Congress re- ‘ Gr.'uikcvillc, Draytonvll’e, Finckney- - 8.* exaggerated. It i* better not to burn the candle at all than to burn it at both ends. tendant patronage and influence, had been established on the banks of the Catawba, like that on the Hudson. In the Gruukelville, which the printers of Mills’ Statistics give as one name of Rocky Mount, some readers may not see the design to honor the Davis declared had been lost. The fact isdisclosed. however, of an almost phenomenal bitterness between the* two most conspicuous survivors of the late'Confederacy. It is possible that Bavis will reply to Beauregard in kind. Enjoy Life. What a tiuiy beautiful world we, live iu! Nature gives us grandeur of f mountains, glens and oceans, and j thousands of means of enjoyment, j We can desire no better when in per-! feet health, but how often do the inn- ‘ jorily of people feel like giving it up! disheartened, discouraged and worn i out with disease, when there is no oc- ; easion for tiiis feeling, as every suf ferer can easily obtain satisfactory proof that Green's August Flou'er will make them free from disease as when j born.- Dyspepsia and liver complaint arc the direct causes of seventy-five . percent, of » irh maladies as bilious-) ness, indigestion, sick headache, cos- tlvenes-*, nervpus prostration, dizzi ness of the head, palpitation of the ii<*art,and other distressing symptoms.! Three looses of August Flower will; I ittive itji wondered effect. Sample i :ottlcs 111 cents. Try it. 1 A Horse Trainer Suspected of Being I be fieading Spirit ol t lie Conspiracy —Caldwell the Salesman of tin? Gang—The Stolen Goods Found in Many Stores in llie City and Coun- try. The News and Courier. Giieknville, April 18—“It is the biggist piece of systematic stealing ever worked on a Southern railroad,” was wind Detective H. T. Fellers hud to say to-night of the Air Line freight robbery scheme after a hard day’s work on the ea*c. Since the affair was sprung on the public hy the ar rest of Caldwell, and the two negroes, Harris and Froneberger on Saturday, rumors have been countless of new developments said to involve men prominent iu business and social life. No confirmation has yet been afforded these minors, bin four more arrests made to-day have added to tin* excite ment and increased the rumors of fur ther sensations. It appears that the band have car ried on a regular traffic in goods cap tured from oassimr freight trains, dis posing of the stolen articles to mer chants all through the county as well as in the city. Trace Agent Wall, of the Richmond and Danville Road, who is working up the case, says he has over $5,000 worth of goods reported short in the last few months, all of which were stolen at tiffs point. Cald well, who is now la jail, has acted ns salesman for the gang, and iu every ease the goods were sold below the market price. Only staple articles were dealt in, twenty-five or thirty bales of plaids, twelve sacks of coffee, three bales of cotton, besidec numer ous lots of tobacco and cigars being among the lots already identified. The scheme appears to have been carefully planned and included numer ous con federates, John G. Griffin, D. C. Moore, George Johnston and Hur ry’ Leomau were arrested to-day, ma king seven arrests in all. Griffin is a professional horse Iraiuer; and has been here since the Piedmont races lust fall. He has a stable of fine val uable racers belonging to Heath, of Kentucky, quartered at the fair grounds and has become well known among horse men here, among whom he bears a good reputation. He is be lieved hy the officers so be the ring leader in the gang, as all operations have been conducted near the fair grounds, Where Griffin has lived siuce he came here. Harry Loenmn is a young white man employed bv Grifflvc M. Kotoiiiwl*Tugw# brother-in-law of Caldwell’s and known to be intimately associated with Min. Moore is proprietor of a small shop in tiie suburbs where a sack of coffee and several thousand cigars were discovered to-day. He attempted to conceal the articles when the store was searched, and was im mediately’ put under arrest. Investigation to-day revealed the fact that numerous parties have pur chased goods from Caldwell, the agent of tkc thieves, who represented him self as ft, drummer. Mark & Endel, dry goods dealers, have about $300 of the stolen goods, and a lot of tobacco has been found at Turner & Poole’s bar. Lipscomb & Russel, grocers, have bought tobacco and cigars at dif ferent times, and a bale of plaids was found in C. L. Foster’s store and iden tified as stolen property. Warrants were served to-day on Caldwell and Johnston for selling whiskey and to bacco without license. Detective Fellers, Chief of Police Kennedy, Wat eh man John Hillhouse and Officer Fred. HehLpbach are at work on the investigation, and fur ther arrests are expected to-morrow. Preliminary’ examinations will not be had before Justice Earl until the case is fully developed. It is generally conceded to be the most extensive scheme of roltbery ever known in tiffs section, and people are just now won dering how so much knavery and cunning schemes to detect it could have gone on for months with abso lute secrecy’. I’XJt A YELLING A KOBUKUY. Cki.kxville, April 19.—The scene of operations in the Richmond and Danville train robbery investigation was transferred to Central, Pickens county, to-day. and the excitement in this city was slightly diminished in consequence. Early* tiffs morning Lem Neely, a barkeeper, was arrested and committed to jail on the charge of offering stolen goods for sale. No other arrests were made in the city during the day, hut on the morning Air Line train Detective Fellers and Trace Agent Wall went over to Cen tral to work up a clue in that direc tion. At Central John Bridwell, who has been employed by Moore, one of the parties in this city arrested yesterday as driver of tiie wagon used hy the robbers, was captured and identified as the man who hauled away the goods stolen from the freight train last Friday night when the thieves were spotted by the detectives while at wflrk. Fourteen boxes of tobaeeo included iu the Friday night’s haul were found secreted under a lot of straw in an old stable, where they had been placed on Sunday night. In the store of T- A. Bollotte eighty- four holts of missing plaids were found, and in J. E. Bellotte’s estab lishment another lot of forty-four bolts. The Messrs. Bellolte readily gave up the goods to the officers, say ing that they Irad bought them in good faith. Several boxes of otears were identified at other places, and the officers returned to this city this after noon with the prisoner and a cargo of reclaimed spoils. Reports of scatter,.'I lots of contra band goods continue to come in from points all arbdtid, showing that the gang has operated on a wide scale and apparently with a complete sys tem of division of labor in the busi ness. It is now probable that the amount of the robbery will reach any where under ! 1C,000. as new traces come iu every day to swell the aggre gate above the original estimate of $5,000. • In the mention of merchants yes terday in tiie city who had bought goods from Caldwell, the agent of the thieves, an error was made in the substitution of the name of C. L. Fos ter fur R. C. Foster. C. L. Foster A Bro. have hail no dealings whatever with the men who sold the stolen goods, 'and claim about as much knowledge of the affair as the man in the moon. AUGHT ON THE FLY. MOST COURTEOUS ■ f THIEVES. au Laughable Denouement of tempted Elopement. New York Herald. Mrs. Delia Peck is a woman of fam ily and lives in Taunton. Bhc had a quarrel with her husband on Wednes day and went to tell her troubles to her daughter, a 20-year-old miss who works for Simpkins a tailor. Young Leaudcr Simpkins, who is not yet of age, heard the tale of woe. He told Mrs. Peck he would elope with her and take her to Manchester, N. H., where she would be free from such troubles forevermore. They agreed to meet at Middlcboro station to-day. Mr. Peck took the train for Middle- boro tiffs morning. When he stepped out of the train one of the first persons lie saw was Yoqng Simpkins coming across tiie platform with trunk checks in his hand. He also saw his wife waiting in the-stalion. Stepping up behind thepurloincr of his wife’s affections he touched him .on the buck, and as Simpkins turned lie said, noticing the checks: “Going to Boston, are yon?” Simpkins turned pale and almost fainted as he gasped and stared wildly around, saying, “Where’s she?” “She’s all right. Give mo those checks, young fellow.” Taking the checks Peck bolted for the waiting room. There a scene ensued. Mrs. Peck shrieked and howled and culled her husband names, and lie stood and took it like a iamb. When she had quieted down enough for him to get a word in he said: “Come, Della, stop your foolin’ and come home. You are not goiu’ off with that boy. You are old enough to be his grandmother. Wouldn’t you look pretty eloping with -th nave yourself. I don’t care whether yott-voiiie back or not on my ovcn nc- count, but for tiie children’s sake you have got to go back home with me.” She picked up her things and went. Against Treating. Savannah Morning News. • Justice M. R. Freeman,of Macon, a Gentleman who is well known out side of the city of his residence, has organized a society which deserves success. Is not strictly a temperance society, but its tendency is iu the di- rectioa of temperance. It is an anti treating society. Intending it to have growth outside of Macon, Justise Free man lias named it “Jemison Division No. l,”in honor of the late Samual II. Jemison, of Macon, who, before his death, earnestly advocated the formation of such an organization. Tiie plan upon which it is intended the society shall work is simple. Each member agrees that he will not drink with any person, or ask any person to drink with him, any spiritous or malt liquor, wine or cider iu any pub lic place or elsewhere and he also agrees that he will not engage iu any game of chance for liq >r. The agreement is printed upon a card and after R is signed a duplicate of it is sent to the division to which the member belongs. One of the greatest evils connected with the use of intoxicants is tiie cus tom of treating. If it were not fork there would be much less drinking and fewer drunkards. The truth of this is shown by the experience of most drinking men. For every dollar spent for liquor consumed by them selves they spend at least $2 in treat ing. o” this subject a young man said the other day: “A gentleman I know spent $15 last night buying li quors for a party of six, and Yet what he drank himselfcould not have cost more than 75c.” A bnrkeeuer who heard this statement said: “Three men came into 1113’ saloon. One of them offered a Ijtudreu dollar bill, out of which I was told to take pay for what the party drank. I changed the bill, and in less than three hours I had $2U of it in my money drawer. If it was not for treating the saloon business would not be a very profitable one.” Justice Freeman’s anti-treating so ciety is an aid to the cause of temper ance. If there evei€k*as a time when a man could make a sot of himself and continue to be respected it has passed. A necessary qualification for position in society or in business is sobriety. Young men who object to prohibition, but who desire to have some safeguard in the use of intoxi cants cannot do a wiser tiling than to join Justice Freeman’s anti-treating society. Afraid of Kcsiin cctiontat*. From the Anniston Jfot Blast. It is a sad commentary upon the civilization of our Northern brethren that they are mortally afraid of resu- CIinrmlMK anti Considerate Behavior of Train Robbers in Spain. From a Madrid Corrcsjwmdcnt: I spent a pleasant week In Madrid? and I then went on Seville. The ex-- press journey was not without Its in teresting features. We now stopped and again for fifteen minutes and half an hour. When we stopped everybody got out of the (rain and went into the buffet—passengers, guards, engine- driver, porters and all. We all sat down together ami ate and diwrirto- gethcr. and then we all smoked cigar ettes .ogether round the fire. When it was time to start, we got up, stretched ourselves, and leisufelv strolled back to the train, the guards and the engine driver and the sto ker being generally the last to iurn out. Oqr “civil guards,” oi course went with us, their moustaches fiercely twisted and their rifles loaded. We .-'tiil want this sort of protection on long railway journeys over lonely plains in Spain, because the brigands are not quite done away with yet. The way in which the robbery is ear ned nut is this: The brigands signal to (he engine driver to sthp, ana ho does so being generally “in” with*.the brigands. Then these genUe!Heit ( called in Spanish “Sulteadores de ea ini nos?” or road jumpers, approach (lie carriage, raise tiieir hate to the passengers, and, in the meet, polite language request them to give up llndr money and Jewels. The guard- dias civile*” are stopped from flying at the robbers by the affrighted pM- sengers.as the rascals have previously explained that if they are fired at they will shoot at the passengers Uk re turn •, •i,. | The chief of the brigands usu ally addresses the passengers-to U$eae terms: . nH “Ladies and gentlemen plcsM-de liver up your money and valuables of every description. We do not wish to put you to the indignitv of a aegrch but shall rely upon your honor. But us souii as you tell us you have given up everything we shall search one passenger of each class. If upon .eith er we find a single coin or a single valuable, we shall shoot one passen ger in each compartment. Ladiospnd gentlemen do not hurry yourselves. Our time is yours*” : ^ You can imagine that upder these circumstances there is very little kept back. The passengers beg and pray of each other to conceal nothing. As soon as a complete surrender has been made, the brigands raise ■ are ire it in tnesc \t con Dios”—May yon go with God-— nmrrrs •ffictYainmovcB ofTTliey ' add;' with beautiful and simple piety, “and may we all meet again someday in God’s big parlor.’i. — J* L ; * Dcvelopcnientsiikstlie Pan Han dle Itolffmry. Late developments in the Pan Han dle robbery case are of a somewhaut startling nature It is gradually becom ing evident that the proseeption will find it difficult to make cases against a large number of the men under ar rest, and suits against the company for damages will be the result. The desperation of the company to secure convicting evidence is evinced in the fact that several of the prisoners have bee a promised imnynffty and that the charges against them will be dropped iu consideration of their giv ing up Information necessary to the company iu the prosecution of other cases. Among those who have tak*u advantage of tiie company’s propo sition is 0. Longacre.to whose capture was attached special importance as a ring leader and against whom 27 char ges were preferred. His bail had been fixed at $7,500. In consideration of a confession mudo he was released on $1,000 ball. Wir. Isett, T. A. Griffith and M. S. Joyce were released on $600 bail each. Conductor H. C. Busbley against whom are If charges, was ar rested at Dennison, Ohio. ms 433 m m A Great Idea Grasped. Missouri Republican. Mr. Terence V. Powberly grasps a great idea when he declares that the “Labor party to succeed most Le thoroughly American.” Having prog ressed thus fur, he is fairly on 411# road to the conclusion that while It remains a cla^s party it can never Le a “thoroughly American” party. Keep them in Prison. Nciv York Herald. What shall we do with our prison population? Tiffs question is asked hy every one. but as vet it is without a satisfactory answer. It is one of the most puzzling problems of the day— almost as difficult us squaring the cir cle. It is the nightmare of the publi cist and the despair of philanthropy. I rectionists. Lincoln’s remains were hidden, Gen. Garfield’s are guarded and Stewart’s were stolen. The Vanderbilts and Goulds have built fortresses to retain their carcasses but what will that avail? The dust The murder of the unknown girl at Rahway, N. J., has led to the discov ery that fifty girls are missing from the great cities nearby. It has-also brought out the fact that gfria ara missing from mi'iv mall town* in all parts of the country.* Perhaps it might bo \$ell to establish abureaa at some central )M>lnt charged with searching for the missing. ‘ *1 he late William H. Vanderbilt was blind in one eye but he was care ful to keep the fact from the public. Hu probably thought that if it believed he Couldn’t see well attempts to get the better of him in bargains would be more frequent and petal** tent. ■ tin * *3/ “A bow-legged critter,- eyes and a band a maud token of mourning for of the dust of Utesar? £ DHL ii.ii will id •it IIIC 11U si ...1^- If : - ... ... ..... \\T of Cheops V/US not saved by the pyra-1 vvlfc ’ la l lhc ' Vi,y 'T W mid, and who knows a hut has become 11 01 " s l K?u ‘ ;fc another 1