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If; y\ CHARLES E. R. DRAYTOX, ^ana^or. AIKEX, S. Ci, TUESDAY, JUNE 14,1887. VOLUME 6.—NUMBER 35. THK STATE'S DEVIOI-OTMILNT AS AFFECTED BY THE BAIEBOADS. Some of the Inequalities of Rail road Bates by Which the Rife of the State is beliiK Dried np—The Effect of Unjust Discriminations on the Interior Towns—A Remedy SuKHestetl-—Address of Mr. W. ?I. Jones Before the 1’ress Assoeia t ion. r j’he press of South Carolina has Spartanburg and Union Road, was |7 oO a carload; now it is $17 50. an in crease of nearly 200 per cent. The lo cal trade has been destroyed. In 18S1 the freight on flour to Paco- let was 10 cents a barrel, now it is 32 cents: on bacon it was $20 a carload, now it is $36. So exhorbitant is this local freight that the people have been compelled to resort to wagon trans- DEATH BY DISCRIMINATION. consumption. Their goo Is tire ship- ped principally to foreign markets, and their growth does no. diminish railroad business but rat her stimulates the production of the export crop. Hence the railroads have lent them a strong helping hand. Their finished cloth is shipped from Greenville to New York at $10.80 a ton; the raw cot ton is charged *13.00 a ton. The same goods shipped by a merchant to New | portation. The lowest freight on the \ ork, would he charged $20.60 a ton. I Augusta and Spartanburg Road to 1 he railroads have favored cotton Uampobello, eighteen miles above factories, and they have prospered; j Spartanburg, is $3 a ton; lirsl class they have discouraged all other freight is s“ a ton. Wagons will haul factories, and they have perished, it, without regard to class, for $3 per strongly counseled diversity of crops ; the aj>vaxta<;k.s of T:n; soeih. j ton free of drayogo. and are monopo- and diversity of industry. It has done j f fiic i, ftS natural superiority 1 lizin S the mercantile business. Until ho forcibly, repeatedly, almost uuat i- over t , lt . Xorth for manufactures. We | recently the rate on cotton from Cam- | cost of leading, hut the cost mously, but without avail. It ,s ,lot | |, avc cheap food, cheap labor, mild cli-j pebello was 70 cents a bale, while the j shifting and starting. It sh my purpose to-night to a«lduce argu-j |nate a(1( j un ii, u it et i water-power, j wagons were eager to carry it at 50 ments to support the wisdom of this , %vhk . h i3 Iiever blocked with ice. Great they are more than overbalanced by the ac quired advantages of the North. They have cheap coal, skilled labor, expe- them to load and haul freight the first mile for the same amount for which they merely haul it He second mile. But when they have been am ply paid for loading, shif ing and starting the car, there seems no good ' reason why they should charge our own shippers more for inertly con tinuing to haul it than they charge to foreign shippers for exactly tbe same service. A liberal allowance should oe made for this cost of handling. There are hut twenty classes of freight. The General Assembly could appoint a committee to meet during vaciUon to CLERGY AND LAITY. An Historical View ot the Question and an Appeal to the Lessons of Ex perience. Editor of the Ncics and Courier: Before the Revolutionary war the i Church of England was the estab- ! lished state church of South Carolina, | and the parishes of this province were ! under the spiritual jurisdiction of the Bishop of London, and under the temporal jurisdiction of the General Assemby of South Carolina. One of the immediate results of the take testimony as to this cosf. ThL chargeshouldinch.de not c^ly the successful revolution was the separa council, but to seek the c.iu>e " hied) , ^ese naturul advantages are has made it so barren of results and to seeU a remedy. UXJUST KA11. KO A I> JHSCKIMIN ATIOX The prime cause of our continuance | rieuee in management, ample capital in our pernicious course lies in the : seeking investment at a low rate of policy of the railroad., of unjust dis- interest. They have giant establish- crimination against our home indus tries in favor of their foreign competi tors. HOME and “koheiox” fheights. It appears on the surface that the prosperity of a railroad depends on the prosperity of the country which supports it. This is a partial fallacy. It is tlie interest of the people to buy nothing which they can make profi tably; it is to the interest of the rail roads for the people to buy everything abroad, and raise cotton only to pay the debt; to have no local factories, to produce nothing which they consume. Before the war of secession, when the people produced what they used and used what they made, ihere was little ments, tilled with the most improved labor-saving machinery, and run on a j scale where expenses are reduced to a minimum. They are located in a dense population who supply a local demand for their products. They are located near the great commercial em poriums and can place their surplus products on the market at the least possible expen se and they have very favorable freight rates. These advan tages enable the great factories of the North to manufacture goods cheaper than our infant factories can possi bly do. .So great are these advantages that even John Stuart Mill, the great apos tle of free trade admits that some gov ernmental protection is neccessary to demand for railroadser\ice, and theii j ti, e t . s . a bijshment of factories when trattic was light. I they have to compete with a country Now, when we bring our meat from j vvlmso f a( . tor j cs i mve an established Ohio, our corn from Indiana, our Hour ^ business and whose processes of work from Illinois, our molasses from Louisiana, our shoes from Massachu setts and our clothing from New York, and when we ship our whole cotton crop to pay the debt, the traflle of the transportation com panies has become immense. The production of these things at home would benefit the people, but would materially diminish the business of the railroads. Hence it is the inter est of the railroads to suppress all home manufactures and shut up agriculture to cotton planting ahme. In this class of interests the railroad managers have not scrupled to sacri fice the welfare of the state. They have accomplished their purpose by an exhorbitant and outrageous dis- crn.'.watiffc’^^f'^^^rthnnjgbout our in favor ot their foreign competitors HOME MARKETS. cents a hale. Greenville and the other cities of Upper Carolina are in a like condi tion. In the seventh report of the South Carolina railroad commission is pub lished a correspondence between Pres ident Haskell, of the Columbia and Greenville Railroad, and Col. Ham- met, president of the Peidmont Fac tory, concerning the rate on cotton from Greenville to Piedmont, ten miles distant. The railroad’s charge was 83 cents a hale, which, with dray- age, made the cost one dollar a bale. Col. Hammet showed that the wagons would haul it for 5') cents a bale. He could get no reduction, was forced to employ wagons, and saved $2,500 a year by doing so. All shippers who continued to use the road were com pelled to pay the extortionate rates which Col. Hammet thus avoided. Few people have business enough to establish a wagon line tor their trans portation. of extra Uld be ilroads should : spor- ‘Wath- Uuder f will have become traditional. The infant factoriesof the North required and] secured a heavy protection against j the established factories of England, To-day they bear to us the same rela tion winch the old English factories bore to them a century ago. Our fac tories cannot hope for the protection which would build them up. Both the free trade sentiment of our people and the Constitution of the United .States prohibit any import duty against Northern goods. But surely it is not demanding too much to ask the protection which na ture gives us—the protection of dis tance? .Surely it is not asking too much to demand that the products irom factorien^ftliall bo distributed CRUSHING THI In this day of sharp rivalry the margin of profits, without which no industry can live, has become so narrow that the freight rates control its existence. A low freight may fos ter, a high freight will strangle it. Rut profits rest even more abso lutely on competition, and this, too, depends on the arbitrary will of the railroad rulers. 1 may secure a just and reasonable freight rate under which my business can prosper; it railroads please to favor my competi tor with lower rates he can undersell me, draw away my custom, ruin my business and drive me from the tielu. It is thus that the giant Standard Oil monopoly was built up ami its strug gling rivals crushed to death. It is thus that the giant factories of the north are able to strangle our strug gling factories in their infancy. own State as cheaply as the products of foreign competitors? Surely it is not requiring too much to demand that the railroads, built fre quently at the expense of the people for the developement of the State, shall not use their power of unfair discrimination to crush and ruin the struggling industries of the State,and drain her wealth into the coffers of for eign rivals? OPPRESSING THE FARMERS. mscnnirxATiox against ciiak- LESTOX. But this effect is not confined to the inland cities. Charleston, too, has experienced the weight of this policy. A few years ago Charleston was the Mecca of • the merchants of upper Carolina. But the railroads have so arranged freights that it just as cheap and quicker to get their goods direct from New York, and trade has flowed thither. As an in stance of the unjust discrimination against Charleston, I cite fertilizers— her chief product. The rate from Charleston to Spartanburg, about two hundred miles, is $4 a ton. From Richmond, Va., over twice as far, it is but $4 25 a ton—a discrimination against this city of nearly 100 per cent. Is tiiis right? Should railroads of the state be permitted to break down the business of the principal ') l i Wie Umir:—r-'ortiTeMdif iT" urally the port of South Carolina. She is entitled to (he trade of the state, and she would have it if she could get a fair showing, and the state should see to it that she lias that opportunity. This policy of the railroads has been ruinous to the state’s prosperity. It has stopped her small factories, sad dled the farmers with debt, and ruined our internal commerce. A REMEDY FOR THE WROXG. regulated in justice to the r and the people. The local rat< be based on the actual cost of tr tatiou and not on the basis of ever the traffiic will bear.” the most liberal allowance never be found that it cost ovtlu. one- third as much to ship|a carload of gua no twelve miles as it does to ship it 100 miles, and that, too, when it is loaded by the shipper. When once the through rate per mile is fixed by the railroads an I pub lished and when the cost for extra handling is ascertained and estrbiish- ed by law, the rights of the slnj^per become so plain that no expensive railroad commission is necessary to protect them. He knows the rate.per mile, the distance he has shipped and the extra cost for handling tin. class of freight offered. Whether i ©/has been overcharged, is a qestion ' f sim ple fact with which the Cour s can deal, and a penal statute is ampYfi ro ‘ tection. But whether the remedy I Jhave suggested is the best or not, tin! evil to be remedied exists. It is an op pressive incubus on the prospei ilV oT- South Carolina. The iuteres South Carolina are dear to even, of her sons, and especially tc members of tiie Press. It is foi I reaon that I have ventured to j e j these facts to your attention. A Notable Affair. Col. Ingersoll was thrown incident ly into the society of Henry Beecher. There were four or five gentlemen present a'l of whom we^re prominent in the world of brains, nt variety of topics were discussed wir’ decided brilliancy but no allusion t# religion. The distinguished infi The effect of this policy is hardly Is there no remedy for this wrong? less hurtful to the farmers. Exceed-| Have the people no rights to be re- ingly low through rates have induced jgarded? This has been the claim that the neglect of all other crops, and the almost exclusive culture of cotton. This brings in its train extravagance , and debt, and in the end dishonesty. When the people raised their own supjdies they had less money, but they needed less. They had enough to purchase tlie comforts of life, which they did not produce, and to pay their honest debts. Now, wlr-n the peo- The discrimination practiced against j pie raise cotton only, they make more the siiippers in South Carolina is j money; their pockets are full if their enough to paralyze almost any enter-, barns are empty. The money all prise. SOME I’KAUTICAI, II.I.USTKATIOXS. A gentleman contemplated the estab lishment of a fertilizer factory in Spar tanburg. It is found that the freight rate from Spartanburg to Wellford, distant on tbe Piedmont Air Line 12 miles is $17 50 a carload, or $1 46 a mile; tlie rate from RichmomiYa,, is 10 cents a mile a discrimination of near ly 1.400 per cent, in favor of the foreign shipper. There could be no claim by the railroad in this case for extra ex pense in handling, for the shipper is required to h ad his own car and the railroad is to haul it at its convenience. The rate to Pacolet, on tlie Spartan burg and Union Road, 12 miles dis tant, is the same, $17 50 a carload. We have in Spartanburg a strug- Jiugdoor and blind factory. The freight to Greenville, thirty-two miles dis- comes in at one season. They are rich then, if poor all the balance of the year. While they have the mon ey they squander it needlessly, and before the year expires are compelled to go in debt for tlie necessaries of life And so the next year’s crop must go to pay for last years living, and a sys tem of debt has been saddled on the | the railroads have set up. They as sumed that the stockholders Were the absolute owners of the roads, ami any attempted regulation by the govern ment was repelled as an unwarranted infringement on private rights. Dur ing the weak and truckling rule of tlie Radicals this bold assumption was acquiesced in. It is now absolutely exploded. It is now held in every state in the nation that the railroads are public highways, constructed tor the benefit of the people. That the management of these highways is given to a corporation by the state, as trustees of her sovereign power, a trust not to be abused. The power should be exercised with equity and justice, as the state would exercise it. The state could not justly discriminate between its citizens, and its agents should not be permited to do so. The country which has brought it to the ; state could not with equity build up verge of bankruptcy. Who can fore- 1 one of its cities at the expense of other see the result of one more crop fail- cities, and its agents should not be are? permitted to do so. The state would ouk iXTKKXAo commerce. llot sac, *^ ce ^ ie hulustries and pros perity of her people to the benefit of I he internal commerce ot the State ! f ort .jyn competitors, and the railroads ( has been mined, and the growth °t j should not be allowed to do so. The state, if she owned tlie roads, would our rising cities has been cheeked by this same ruinous policy. The pros perity of cities hangs on tlie will ot the railroad autocrats. They can cause business to How into it, or to go elsewhere. They focused advantages taut on the Augusta and Charlotte i at a country crossroad in Georgia and j Air Line is $32 a carload, or $1 a mile, i Atlanta sprang up teeming with en- \ The same freight from New York | u-rprise and wealth. A withdrawal 1 to Greenville, is 12 cents per, of these advantages would dissipate | ni il*'- I her business, and her prosperity would These instances are not exceptional,! be a dream of the past. Ten years and I have mentioned Spartanburg I ago it was the policy of the* rail-' only because the rates there were more ! roads to build up of the internal easily attainable. Other cities will j commerce of tins State. Favoring be found in like circumstance, and through rates were given to railroad 1 other rates in like proportion. In-j centres and cheap distributing rates.) stances could be multiplied indefinite- ) In a single decade Spartanburg doub- not do these things even for gain, nor should the railroads. If the stock holders can makea profit legitimately they are entitled to it, if they cannot, i they have simply made a bad invest- ] ar ' the subject himself but one of the pa^ ty finally,desiring to see the hitch kiij .. tween Boicand Beecher made a idcJ^j^odv^It wq^I ful remark about Col. IngersoliTs | seemly for a idiosyncrucy as he t<*rmed it. Th^ colonel at once defended his views in his usual apt rhetoric. In fact he waxed eloquent. He was replied to by several gentlemen in very effec tive repartee. Contrary to expecta tions. Mr. Beecher remained an ab stract listener, and said not a word. The gentleman who introduced the topic with the hope that Mr. Beecher would answer Col. Ingersoll, at last re marked. “Mr. Beecher have you nothing to say on this question?’•’ The old man slowly lifted him self from his attitude and replied: “Nothing—in fact if you will ex cuse me for changing the conversa tion. I will say that while you gentle men were talking my mind was bent on a most deplorable spectacle which I witnessed to-day.” “What was it?” at once inquired Col. Ingersoll, who, notwithstanding his peculiar views ot the here after, is noted for his kindness of heart. “Why,” said Mr. Beecher, “as I was walking down town to-day I saw a poor lame man with crutches slow ly and carefully picking his way through a cess-pool of mud, in the en deavor to cross the street. He had just reached the middle of tlie tilth, when a burly ruffian, himself all be spattered rushed up to him and jerk ed the crutches from under the unfor tunate man and left him sprawling and helpless in the pool of liquid dirt which almost engulfed him.” “Whata brute he was,” said Col. Ingersoll. they all tion of these parishes from the See of London and the renunciation by tho State of South Carolinaof its authority over the church. The various congregations in the state were thus left without an Epis copal or temporal head, and dis united, except by the bond of a com mon faith. Under these circumstances it was thought best that they should form an association, and for the gov ernment of this purely voluntary association the various congregations sent deputies to a convention. From that day to this the government of tlie Diocese of South Carolina has been in the hands of these conventions un der their own rules and canons. At first there seems to have been in the conventions but one class of delegates, elected or appointed by the vestries or congregations, and it is interesting, to note the extremely gradual assertion and acquisition of their right to a separate vote an clergymen by the clergy. For a time this right was confined merely to spiritual matters, and in all temporal concerns clergymen were debarred from voting an clergymen. Eventu ally, however, the conventions took their present shape. They were com posed of two classes or orders: 1st, the clergy or professional preachers,linked together by the bond of a common profession and generally convinced of the superior authority of what they call their “cloth;” 2nd, the laity or non-professional hearers, whose bond of union with each other and with their clerical brethren is that of a common church. As the non-profes- sipnul churchmen out numbered largely the professional churchmen, for the protection of this order it was arranged that the two closes or or ders should sit and debate together at, when desired should vote separ ately, thus giving a majority of each eight-box law!” implying thus thatl political ingenuity will be needed to rescue tlie church from the same degradation that overwhelmed the state under President Grant and Judge Bond! Brethren, let us have peace! Avoid such temptations. When in the con vention, a lay member in debate, dangled before the eyes of the presid ing officer a bait; when he suggested that were hr in the chair, he would not hesitate to decline to entertain the point of order made; when the presi dent cried, “it is too late, I Rave en tertained it and will put it to the vote;” when the point of order was put to tlie vote and sustained; when, thereupon, the presiding officer pro ceeded to do what but a little while be fore he had declined to do; what but an instant before the convention had decided could not be done; when men, who had grown old in the counsels of the church, in a dignified way, re buked his course by withdrawing from the floor, followed by the repre sentatives of the great body of tlie diocese; when the unorganized rem nant thereupon proceeded to amend the laws of the diocese, to displace the old servants of the church, when gen tlemen by its vote accepted positions to which it was self-evident that they could not under other circumstances have been elected, then indeed was it plain that new wine had been put into the old bottles, and that political ingenuity had entered into the church. This is not the way to benefit the church! It is not thus that faith is encouraged or respect gained. Let our reverend brethren try to convince rather than to assault, and if upon conviction the great majority of the laity of the diocese assent to this great change, those who doubt may then well be silent, or else re move to some happier place where such questions trouble not. AN ANGLO-SAXON. SHOT AT HER CORONATION. was of course, too polite to iutroduce. ’ojtder a veto upon every action of tlie Needs Repairs. Philadelphia Record. So vast and complicated is the tariff' system that the Treasury Department is kept constantly employed in set tling questions that daily arise under the provisions of the tariff laws. A Boston firm recently appealed from a decision of the Collector at that port in regard to the appraisement and as sessment of tlie duties on steel billets. In other parts the assessment of duties are made in a different way. After twenty-five years of tariff tinkering this model American protective sys- yention. Jt would seem plain lhat in such is sadly in need of repairs, beunfwise and un- nial^ of the less ^ A \Vomaiu to Hang'. New York, June 3.—Shortly after noon to-dav sentence ofjjUmtlr'Was im posed on ' L^JerUjikpi Cignarale, who was convicted of murder in the first degree for shooting her husband. She was condemned to be bunged in the Tombs prison jail Friday, July 22d next. ly. By reference to the report of the South Carolina railroad commission ‘ we find that theaverage rate charged to foreign shipper, Greenville and j Columbia, Railroad for each ton ofi freight was nine mills per mile; for South Carolina shipper to home con- ! led her business and tripled her popu. Jation; wholesale houses were e-tab lished and supplied the local trade for miles around. Her goods were sold within twenty miles of A tlanta. Within the past seven years this en couragement to wholesale internal “What a brute he wa: echoed. “Yes said the old man, rising from his chair and brushing back his long white hair while his eyes glittered with their old time fire as he bent them on Igersoll. “Yes,Col. Ingersoll the man. The human soul ment and must abide by it. j Clnistianity gives it The right of the state to restrain and i crutches to enable it to cross the high- regulate the railroads is now un- i ua -’ life- • It is your teaching that j disputed. The question arises, how is ^ 11(> cks these clutches from under it this to be done effectively? We have : - l helpless and iiulderless w ieck in the ‘ attempted to do so by a railroad com- ; ^louguof despond. It lobbing the soul | mission. 1 do not know what they jofitsonlj support on this earth ie- ; have done; I do not impugn their he youi protession, why ply it actions. But tiiis wedo know, that this ; f° your heart s content. It requires stitiingand pernicious policy of dis- ali architect to erect a building crimination against home enterprise ] an iiieeiuliary may reduce it to ash- i has sprung up during their control, j es » Land tht* condition of affairs is | The old man sat down and silence infinitely worse now than before their lji ' 00,le d over the scene, Col. Inger- interf'erence. ! feund that he had a master in his I have attempted to show that our own power of illustration, and said Run Over an Alligator. Columbia Record June 7th. The train on the Atlantic Coast Line, which Captain Webb brought into the city early this morning, had on board an alligator which the out going train ran over and killed last night at flic Camden crossing, near the Wateree bridge. The ’gator was quite a largo one, measuring about 12 feet long. The train people last night thought they had run over a man, which caused those on tlie up train to be on the lookout to see what it was. suuiers fifty-six mills per mile a, dis- commerce has been withdrawn and crimination of nearly GK) per cent. | the business has perished. Conces- against our South Carolina producers.' sions have been made to no distiilm- Is it strange that in the face of ting poiuts except Charleston and Co- such discrimination our local enter-, lumbia, where proximity to water prises languish and die, and foieigu ! compelled it. But even these have factories usurp our home mar- 1 been deprived of what is more impor- • ' | taut—their cheap distributing rates. SPECIAL RATES FOR COTTON FACTO- j THE MTU LFSALF. TRADE OF THE IX- RUvS. TFRIOR. There is one class of factories which have been fostered by the railroads, and they have prospered They an the cotton factories. Their product- 3re not specially intended for home I again take .Spartanburg as a type of her sister cities. In ISM tlie rate on fertilizers from Spartanburg to Moll for. I, on tlie Atlanta an 1 Cnar- b»;t * Air-line, or to Pacolet, on tlie present need is low distributing rates —rates to our home pi odueers as cheap in proportion to distance as those granted to their foreign competitors. This, I believe, can be easily, cheaply and effectively secured. A UNIFORM RATE FOR ALL SHIPPERS. Under the Inter-State law all through rates must be reasonable and equitable. These rates must be pub lic. This we cannot interfere with and would not. But this state can pass a law providing that whatever rale per mile the road* fix fur through fr \ght, tin if name rate shall be granted to our local slap urn ltd tit nothing. The company took their huts and parted. A Woman to he Sold. Chicago, June numerous or clericaf^der to attempt to force upon the more numerous or lay order a course of action whiclpthe latter and the congregations who edifa pone the association or diocese strongly disapprove of and oppose. And yet it is just such an attempt which to-dav divides into two oppos ing parties this unhappy Diocese of South Carolina—on the one side a few- aggressive clergymen, not seeking t<> convince, but asserting a right mas terfully to compel; on the other the great mass of the church of South Carolina praying their friends not to hold this bitter cup to their lips, not to force upon them an issue which they must fight tc* tlie bitter end, not by unreason and violence to array friend against friend, but to wait, resting assured that if priests are, as they imply, the mouth-pieces of God in this matter, God in his own ap pointed time will guide the laity into the right course. And what is the purpose of this aggressive fight? It is to bring into the governing body of the diocese a negro element. For ten long years this state groaned under a negro government. It was called “The Prostrate State.” It had heaped upon it every epithet that pity could inspire, that contempt could suggest. Struggling to emerge from this condition of servitude and despair, it heard its life struggle called one of murder, of fraud, of bribery. All this we have forgiven. All this we are striving to forget. And to-day it is the conviction of the people of this state that it is wisest at this time to keep apart as far as possible two great populations, of different races, of different tradi tions, of different degrees of civiliza tion. Thus the State itself has de creed that there shall be a white militia and a black militia, and that they must never parade together; that there must lie white public schools and black public schools, a white col lege and a black college. Our Baptist brethren, our Presbyterian brethren, our Methodist brethren have white church organizations and black church organizations; there are even in our cities white graveyards and black graveyards, and the law of the land absolutely prohibits mixed marriages of the two races. Has not the entire state decided that at this time it is unwise and wrong to insist upon a mingling of the races? And yet there are rev erend gentlemen found, who in the troublous times of negro anarchy were abreast with their neighbors in., . „„ , protesting against the wrongs then j .i! done us, who in eleven years have The exodus of chinamen from the Pacific coast has assumed such pro portions that it exceeds that of any previous year. They say that their business has been steadily decreasing in California, and that they are com pelled to come east. Tobacco ami Eyes. New York Mail. “Cigarette smoking is doing more injury to the eyes than anything I know of,” said an optician recently to a reporter of the Mail and Express. “Smoking pipes or cigars is bad enough, but there is something in the paper with which the cigarette is rolled that is very injurious to the eyesight. There are more men anil boys wearing glasses now than I have ever known before, and I attribute it all to excess in tobacco smoking.. Nine out ot ten Germans wear spec tacles. They are inveterate smokers.” The Dusky Queen of a Tournament Murdereit Ly a Jealous Lover. Atlanta, Ga., May 23.—The Lin coln Rilles, a colored military compa ny, and several hundred of its friends, went on an excursion yesterday to Rosedalc. The day’s exercises consis ted of a shooting contest, a foot race, a tournament and a dance. In the tournament Lieut. Spriggs and a light mulatto barber of Gainesville, named Rogers, were the rivals for the first prize. They made a tie and had to make another contest to decide who should have the honor of crowning ids sweetheart queen of love and beau ty. The Lieutennant evinced an en vious feeling of his competitor’s prow ess and made many harsii remarks about his occupation. In the second contest the young barber gained the prize and chose ns his queen a young octoroom named Julia Milling. It seems that Lieut. Spriggs was in love with this woman and he could not repress his jealousy. He went to her and hissed in her ear, “Julia, don’t you let that yellow- barber crown you. If you do I’ll never speak to you again.” She replied that she did not care whether he spoke to her or not; that she liked Rogers the best, anyhow, and intended to become his wife. This enraged tlie officer, who swore that if Rogers attempted to crown her he would kill him. The woman paid no attention to this threat, and in the excitement of the festivities forgot all about it, and she did not even mention it to her lover. All preparations for the coronation being camplete, the company was drawn into line, and all the guests were massed in the grove w-here the ceremonies were to occur. At the last moment it was observed that Lieut. Spriggs was not in his place. Inquiry was made for him, but he could not be found. It was decided to proceed without him, and few of the crowd knew of his absence or noticed it. Tlie queen was brought forth to re ceive her crown. She w-as dressed in snow white, her raven black hair hanging carelessly over her shoulders. In her bosom she wore a bunch of white roses. She was radieut with smiles, and as she stood to receive the coronet she was the envy of all the young women. She was led to a low platform and her knight was in tlie act of placing the crown upon her head when she reeled and fell, as the sharp crack of a rifle rang through the woods. Lying prostrate upon the plat form the tfiood oozing frtfm a wound in her breast* just where the bouquet of- flower* had beenqiiimo.il s hep t to red one w oVd before ihe expired^-Vii few minutes. The crowd w^ a3 t err ifted. Sonic, few jumped it tho^ conclusion that SprigtJs^YGbi U.T* murderer, and turned in the direction of tlie copse, in which he must have been concealed He was then descried, mounted on a white horse, riding at a furious speed down the public road. It was not many minutes before h dozen mount ed men were in hot pursuit. They followed him for eight miles, when they abandoned the chase. This morning several countrymen discov ered a dead white horse in the road, and it was identified as tiie one tlie fugitive murderer had ridden. The young woman was hurried to-day, dressed as she was when she stood to receive the crown as queen of the tour- uament. The tragedy has produced a great sensation among the colored people of Coweta County, and should Spriggs be caught they could not be prevented from lynching him. If, however, he Is the scheming, ambitious man lie is represented to be he will not stay out of tlie Cabinet very long. The war party is a very strong one, and lie is one of the lead ers of it. The chances are that his health will very soon improve greatly and that he will make an active effort : to regain his old position of Minister ! of the War Department. Some of the ] French journals announce that the ) new ministry will go to pieces within a very few days and that the ministry j of which lie was a part will doubtless I be recalled. It will not do, however, to be too certain about this. The peace and war parties appear to be pretty evenly balanced and unless some unexpected event to stir up the war feeling occurs It is by no mean* certain that tlie war party will get the upper hand. A few days may deter* mine what tiie chances are Cora con tinuance of tiie Rouvier government. SENATOR IXtiALLS RISGU8TEI> ’ The Granting of the Right orSuffrage to the Negro on Absolute Failure. _ Senator Ingalls is dissatisfied at the breach made in the color line in some of the States in the South. He is quo ted in the Boston Herald as having remarked recently: “I have no hesita tion in saying that granting tlie right of suffrage to tlie colored people has proven an absolute and unqualified failure, 1 ’ This confession from so thorough a radical Republican as Sea*-* ator Ingalls is significant of his dis-. gust at the changes in the colored vote tiiat the later Southern elections have shown. They have not been so strong ly manifested in Virginia as in States further to (lie South, but it is evident that Senator Ingulls very clearly sees that the Republican party South is in danger of disintegration by the defec tion of a considerable portion of Its colored allies, and that the “absolute and unqualified failure” of the recon struction policy lies in the fact that by granting the right of suffragejto tho colored people it lias largely increased tiie number of Southern Democratic representatives in Congress over ami above what it was before these newly created citizens swelled the popular vote. So long as the colored people could be organized into Republican clubs and led by a few white Republi can leaders like a flock of sheep to the pools, and carpet-baggers and reu$ gades, by iheir help, wore in of the several State governmc ator’Ingalls was that granting the rigMt oC sul It is thought that foreign immigra tion to this country this year will add 1,000,000 to the population. Russia, Austria, Hungary, Poland and Italy are the countries lhat are sending over the largest numbers of immigrants, j The Knights of Labor are not pleased with the outlook. They think there are already enough laborers in this country. Report from Rome has it that six or seven miles of untrodden catacomb have been discovered under the Eter nal City. The hyacinth is now the favorite fcrgolten, and who now declare that 0l Times special ; t| lcre ]j es n<1 danger to our Utile and , :r<>m 1 aducaii, Kv.. says: In the | ( jj oce3e f ronx j n p, j uit,) Court yesterday, Mollie Jackson governing body a strange, discor-i dant element whjefi it canned nssjmi- It is rather more costly than the mod est violet which is discarded fti “com mmi- late. The Chicago says;“It is repor ted in high political circles that the Hon. John Sherman came back from tlie South with fifty-two electoral votes in hjs pistol pocket: also a daisy is the advertisement has been ! t^coniiTsiaturailzed in South Carolina P |u « kod , from th « 1 | atn « ,,,ed r , ^ liza . , . .. „ r i Pinkston s grave for the Hot*. G. I* ns- A German gentleman, who from I he sate will be made * the tenure of his epistle evidently has a white woman, was convicted of va- : graney, and Judge Thompson ordered that she he sold to the highest bidder for thirty day as soo.i issued. This is the first judgment of the kind ever made here, but it is not without precedent in other places in Kentucky. Judge Thomas’ action the cost of extra hand'lug added. Of met with a great deal of unfavorable course it would be unjust to require comment. since 1876, and cannot therefore re member tlie condition out of which we have struggled politically, (I mean Mr. Ulrich von Hutten,) suggests that “pious lay ingenuity may he en trusted to invent an ecclcahu s grave bia Hoar.” Tlie Prince of Wales is said to have ! “dropped” a comfortable fortune on ; tlie result of ll|e Jast Derby race. The New French Ministry. Savannah, Ncxn. There is a strong impression both in Paris and London that war between France and Germany is only a matter of a comparatively short time. It is believed that an attempt will soon be made to overthrow the Rouvier min istry that lias just been announced, and there are not wanting those who are in a position to form a very cor rect opinion, who say that the attempt will lie successful. The new ministry favors peace, and if it is sustained the peaceful relations between France and Germany will be maintained. The ostensible issue on .vliich the Goblet ministry was over thrown w.is one growing out of finan cial matters. The receipts from the revenues were less than the expendi- tmes and the ministry proposed to make up the deficiency by additional taxes. To this the Chambers objected. They said that the trouble should be cured by a reduction of the expendi tures, On this issue the ministry was beaten, and was, of course, forced to resign. Everybody understands, however, that tlie real trouble was not a financial one, but one involving war with Germany. Gen. Boulanger dominated the ministry, and he was spendimr immense sums on tiie army and navy. If it had been clearly un derstood tnat war was the thing aimed at, and that the outcome of the enor mous expenditures would be hostili ties, it is not improbable that the Gob let ministry might have held on a while longer. But nothing of the kind was claimed. On the contrary, it was distinctly asserted by Gen. Boulanger that there was no intention to attack Germany. He wanted to be ready, however, he said, in tiie event that war was declared. Tlie peace party could not see the necessity for additional taxation for military pur poses unless war were regarded as in evitable. Gen. Boulanger lias asked for a levee of absence from France on the ground that his health needs a ehangi of climate. He is out of the C’abine 1 and, therefore, not in a position to do much lo bring about war between France and Germanv. the colored, fneed men was a wise tey v It waSonJy wl e fear to them Alifiit they be remanded back into slavery if the Democrats obtained posessioti of the government thatl they began to think for themselves and to act independent ly of Republican dictation. Now that they have learned Unit their freedom, is quite as well assured to them under Democratic as under Republican con trol, it is not at all strange that while they were always ready to ask the ad vice of their own people in all matters outside of polities, they should now be ready to a steadily increasing extent to follow tlieir advice in politics.—Bal timore #un. . -« Uj, ‘•at The Kissiine View of It. Since the whereabouts of the now notorious Win. Kissanc, alias Wm. K. Rogers, was made known, several newspaper men have visited his ranch about three miles from Sonoma. At his home are bis wife and a grown daughter. To a reporter the wife of Ivissune said that Gen. Francis Darr.to whom is ascribed the reopening of Kis- sane’s eastern career had made the ex posure owing to Kissaue’s failure to pay aelaim for $34,000on uecountof the Chemical bank of New York. She said Lhat since the suit had actually been commenced tlie amount had dropped to $4,300.Gen.Darr and hiswlfe had visited them at their house prior to the publication of tiie details of her husbunu’s supposed career, and had expressed only the most friendly regard although as she claimed they came to take an inventory of their ef fects. Being asked how she thought the affair would end Mrs. Roger* s iid:“I know how it would have end ed long ago if I had not begged and implored my husband for my sake and for the sake of our children to leave the punishment of Dr. Durr’* malice and cruelty to some other hand than his own. It is well for Gen. Darr that Col. Rogers lias a fam ily around him, some of whom aro little ones or long before this he would have had to settle with the man whom lie has pursued like a fiend for no cause that we can imagine except the desire to extort money.” fcihe said that her husband would defend the matter in tiie court. There is as much danger of hurting the brain by idleiies* as by overwork. According to a writer in Faith and Work, Dr. Farquharson argues that intellectual power is lessened by the listlessuess in which the well-to-do classes generally spend their lives. Under such conditions the brain grad ually loses its health, and, although equal to the demands of a routine ex istence, is unable to withstand the strain of sudden emergency. So, when a load of work is unexpectedly thrown on it in its unprepared state, tlie worst consequences of what may lie called overwork show themselves. Similarly a man accustoned to seden tary pursuits is liable to be physical ly injured by taking suddenly too vi olent exercise. Dr. Farquharson further says that so long as a brain worker can sleep well, eat well, and take a fair proportion of out-door ex ercise he is safe to keen on. When any of tbcHe conditions fail it is time to cry bait.