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:>■? PETER A. BRENNER & CO I SUCCESSOR* TO a. O . ROBI5SOS AKDCO.,1 840 BROAL> ST., (OFPOgITEOLD STAND) j AUGUSTA, - - GEORGIA. FTJ^JZrOS Chickerinsr, Mason & Hamlin and Mathnshek. AIKEN RECORDER PETER A. BRENNER*CO SUCCESSORS TO O. O. ROBIESOH ARD CO., J 840 BROAD ST., (OPPOSITE OLD STAND , AUGUSTA. - . GEORGIA. OIR,C3-.iAICTS The Old Reliable Mason * Hamlin,the Packard Orchestral and Bar State. UAVILAND STEVENSON, Managing Editor. AIKEN, S. C., FRIDAY, JUNE 8, 1888. ESTABLISHED, 1881. • V A STRANGE WOMAN. Wonderful rests of Strength Performed Without Help. (From the Chicago Herald.) Among the supernatural manifesta tions now exciting attention among the curious, the so-called electric women of Georgia are not the least wonderful. For several days past one of these ladies, Miss Dixie Haygood, has been in Mem phis giving exhibitions of her power. A reporter of the Avalanche, by invitation of the little lady, assembled with several other gentlemen at the parlor of the Clarendon Hotel to test these remarka ble manifestations, and discover, if pos sible, their source and secret. Among the gentlemen present were Lawrence Lamb, Zeno Harris, Henry Walsh and several others. It is needless to say that it was the determination of the gen tlemen present to detect, if possible, any trickery or legerdemain that might be attempted. Miss Haygood is of small stature, compact mold, and apparently muscular beyond most women, and weighs about 104 pounds. She has brown hair, bine or violet eyes, and a pleasant expression of countenance, but an air also of firm ness and decision of character. The first two teats, viz., drawing a gentleman easily around the room by applying her hand to a chair or an umbrella held bv him, or the third test of holding a billiard one in her open palms at an angle of abont forty-five degrees with such firm ness that a strong man, or even two strong men, could not force the point to the floor, were certainly remarkable in a woman so small, but might have been accomplished by a woman of very great physical strength. Therefore the re porter felt disappointed to some extent, and argued with his companions that it was either a matter of sleight of hand or else a remarkable development of mus cular power. But the next tests were different. One of the gentlemen present was requested to lift the lady by ner elbows, held taut at the waist. This he did, but when told to try it again utterly failed to raise her an inch. Two strong. men then raised her by holding her elbows on each side with the greatest ease, bat on attempting it again they could not raise her weight a particle from the floor. Tliis was a poser and was tried several times, the party offering many explana tions, bat none at all satisfactory. The fact remained unexplained that she could at will allow herself to be lifted as other people and immediately, thereafter bring into plav such a force, without apparent effort, that two strong men could not move her 100 pounds of weight, try they ever so hard. The next test was still more inexplica ble. A chair was brought—an ordinary dining-room chair—and a gentleman weighing abont 130 pounds was placed in it. Astride of his knees another gen tleman of abont 145 pounds’ weight was placed, and between the two a third gen tleman of at least 150 pounds was seated. All raised ttieir feet from the floor as the chair was tilted back and held balanced. The little lady then approached the back of the chair and placed her open palms •long the arms or staffs supporting the ohair’s back. Observing the reporter narrowly watching her, she requested him to place his hand between hgr hand and th« xstMtrth prove Har no pressure was ex erted. This was done, and only the lady’s thumbs touched the back of the chair. Then, without an effort or the contraction of a muscle, or the slightest pressure on the reporter’s hand, the chair and its living freight was raised about fourteen inches from the floor. The weight, including the chair, was at least 450 pounds, and John L. Sullivan could not have performed the feat so easily accomplished by the little woman. This test was convincing, but the next was no less so. Miss Haygood stood on one foot, and holding a billiard cue horizontally before her at half-arm’s length, three strong men essayed in vain to push her, by throwing their com bined weight against the one, from her balance on one foot or press her arms back to her chest. The shapely, wo manly hands lifted the three great strapping fellows from the floor by sim ply touching with open palms his own hnnda placed upon the chair back, and he saw the dainty No. 2* boot standing unmoved on the floor with the combined weight of the same three Memphis gen tlemen thrown powerfully and persist- cntly against the small figure .of its owner. Explain it who can. But in one respect, at least, the modest little lady is like other mortals, she has a woman’s heart, and last night •t 7.30 o’clock, in the parlor of the Clarendon, gave her hand confidingly to the mao of her choice, Thomas L. Embry, of Cincinnati. The pair were quietly married by Squire J. J. Barry, without previous notice even to the hotel clerk, and a few minutes later went to the theatre to give the regular per formance. The bride was richly dressed in velvet costume, and wore an exquisite corsage bouquet of white flowers with out other ornament. The young hus band has certainly a deal of temerity to place himself in the hands of one so .capable of enforcing conjugal obedience, But seemed to be a very happy man. Why She Didn't ‘‘Holler.” A ypung woman from the country was euing her ex-sweetheat for breach of promise, Bays the 1 exss liftings, and the lawyers" were, as usual, makig all »orts of inquiries. “You say," remarked one, “that the defendant frequently eat very close to you?" . . “Xes, sir," was the replj', vitli 9 hec tic flush. “How close?” “Close enough so’s one cheer was all the settin’ room we needed.” “And you say he put his arm around you?" “No I didn’t." 4 ‘What did you say, then?” “1 said he put both arms around me.” 4 ‘Then what?” •“He hugged me.” “Very hard?” 4 ‘Yes, he did. r So durn hard that I come purty uear hollerin right out.” “Why didn’t you holler?” “Cause.” “That’s no reason. Be explicit please, Because why?” “Cause I was afeerod he’d stop.” The court fell off the bench, and had to be carried out and put under the hy drant for tire purpose of resuscitation. A PREACHER FROM TEXAS. THE CAMPAIGN DEVELOPING. Dr. Smoot Drive* a Nall In thr Collin of Presbyterian Union. Baltimobb, Mo., May 29.—The South ern Presbyterian General Assembly spent all of to-day wranghng. Organic onion roused the members to a fever heat, and Dr. Smoot, of Texas, made a red-hot speech. The report of the com mittee on overtures, declaring organic union impracticable, was further con sidered and finally adopted by a vote of 88 to 40, thus killing the scheme. So impassioned were the speeches that the Moderator had frequently to call the speakers to order. Dr. Smoot, of Texas, created a sena tion. He flourished his right arm and almost shouted: “These Northern brethren keep talk ing abont what we owe this country. We started ont on the principle that we would conserve the interests of the Church of God at the expense of the country, whether it stands or falls. I owe nothing under God to the country. I pay my taxes, abide by the laws and the powers that be, and love my family. I don’t mean to tie myself to the apron strings of any flaunting government Talk abont the country being united! It is not. Yon might as well talk about uniting the Democratic and Re publican parties. They talk about the color line. Why, a white woman actually went to a member of the Legislature in Texas and asked to have the laws changed so that she could marry a great, big, black, stalwart negro, on the ground that he was flesh and blood like any other man. The only difference was in color, which was the most superficial thing of all. They tell ns that it will be discourteous to the Northern Assembly not to seek organic union. Bat these brethren have forgotten all the wrongs of the Northern Assembly to ns. I say it kindly, Christianly, bluntly, I don’t want organic union. But the Northern brethren are sharp. What they don’t know is not worth knowing.” The Rev. J. A. Waddell, of Virginia, a precise little man with gray beard, took the platform, with his manuscript in his hand and his umbrella held close- under his arm. This created a great eal of amusement. He did not mind that, however, and, undisturbed by a suggestion that came from within a few feet of him to drop hi* umbrella, he held on to it and proceeded to deliver him self against organic union. Organic union by fusion, he declared, was dan gerous. Organic union was not com manded by Christ or required by the Gospel. The Rev. S. M. Neel said: “Thegreat question of church unity has fallen upon our age. I carried a musket in the Southern army for four years, and for aud 'i that I might be supposed to be opposed to the North, but I want to do what the Church of Christ wishes me to do, and I mean to do it. The first question that separated us was as to the spirituality of the Church, but if there had been no war there would be now no separation. Thank God the war over, and now shall we stay separated? We have been told that the Northern Assembly dodged our questions as to pelagianism and remi- pelagianism. I don’t believe it. 1 be lieve they met ns squarely like meu.” Mr. If. T. Simpson, a ruling plderl unity is not needed in matters ecclesias tical let us abandon our Presbyteries and onr Synods and go back to Congrega tionalism. It is time for ns hide our heartburnings of the past and go for ward in the work that is before ns. The Northern Assembly did not evade our | questions as to heresy, as they have been charged with doing. They are just as sound on that subject as we are. These questions have all been sifted until it has become ridiculous. We are told that we are making progress. What progress have we made with the colored man? This is a solemn question that confronts us in the South. There is our field of evangelization. We should lay aside all prejudice and take up this duty. It is alone our duty, who know their characteristics so well. After twenty years of professed evangelization can you point to a single Presbytery that has done anything?” A vome: “Yes; in North Carolina and South Carolina.” Mr. Simpson, continuing: “Yes, that is all we have accomplished among a people who have been for one hundred years our tutelage. ” Dr. Smoot, of Texas: “Yes, and if the Northern preachers had let us alone we would have done more.” The Moderator: “Order!” Mr. Simpson: “I deny it.” Dr. Smoot; “You can’t deny as to Texas. You haven’t seen it.” Mr. Simpson: “I don’t undertake to speak for Texas. They have such funny things down there that I would not be surprised at anything that happened there. How can we accomplish any thing with two churches working side by side both jealous of each other?’’ Most of the members say they are glad the question has now been finally dropped. A Forgotten Mat). Southerner, who saw much of William Gilmore Simms in his later years, says that Simms was “oboice in the selection of his language,” aud that “if thesubjeot required grave thought and anything like elaborate discussion, he delivered himself in au oratoric style, bordering upon the tragic. He would rise from his seat, pour forth a flood of words—strong aud full of meaning—he would quote alternately from history, philosophy and poetry, and suit the action to the word and the word to the action; not infrequently falling into the loud declamatory tone, and occasionally, like Thomas Carlyle, throw ing out a jagged sentauce, such as you would characterize as rough and uncouth, but packed with meaning. It would be Simms talking and no one else; he seems to feel it to be so. aud made you under- ihind the fact. He never dealt iu abstrac tions si the expense of his concrete in dividuality of intellect, opinion and self esteem. "He was, therefore, dogmatic. He was not unlike Dr. Sam Johnson. As it was said of Pericles, his tongue was armed with thunder. He would fulmin ate, whilst his style was strong, hea\y and sometimes diffuse. He hail an aide at temperament an4 a vivid imagination, a methodical mind and an inexhaustible fund of eloctic knowledge, and withal, the command of his vernacular as to cor rectness and elegance, as well as force." — New York Tribune. A Serioun Smudal on Cleveland, Itlalne'a Private Paper* Stolen. (Special to the Baltimore Sun.) New York, May 28.—A few loca Democratic politicians, who pride them selves on being anti-Cleveland men have been holding secret conferences with some Blaine Republicans in this city within the past two or three days for the purpose of putting into effective form a “sensational statement” deroga tory to Mr. Cleveland, which they declare will be mode public in time to kill the President’s chances for a renomination. It is promised that a pamphlet will Ire issued on Thursday or Friday that wil “startle the country.” The anti-Cleve land men, who in almost every instance are Hill partisans, talk gleefolly abont affidavits yet to be produced which will convince the country that Mr. Cleveland has violated social proprieties in the Whitj House in snch a way that the mere telling of the story will convince the country that he is unfitted to be President. These significant insinuations would would be as so much idle gossip were they not encouraged by the in dorsement of some of the most active of Blaine’s supporters. The positive asser tion made by some of these men “that sworn statements will be laid before the St. Louis convention,” snch as will make Cleveland’s candidacy an impossi bility, indicates that the Blaine mana gers have brought themselves to believe that another campaign of scandal and vituperation will help their candidate, The story that the anti-Cleveland people promise to give to the public the latter part of this week relates wholly to per sonal matters, and it is a story that must either be substantiated by the most in controvertible proofs, or it will over whelm and disgrace forever its authors. New York, May 28.—An Augusta (Me.) special to an evening paper says: “During a conversation with one of Mr. Blaine’s personal and political friends last Saturday he gave our reporter a piece of news which has never been made public. ‘Did you know,’ remarked the gentleman, ‘that Mr. Blaine’s house was broken into some time ago while ho and his family were absent and all his political and business correspondence and private papers, involving financial operations, which wore in his library, were overhauled and a portion of them abstracted? Well, such is the fact. The matter has always been kept a secret in the hope that the thief might be discov ered, but ho never has been, at least I never heard he was. I don’t think that anybody in particular was ever suspected of being the thief. The supposition is that the robbery was perpetrated in the expectation of obtaining something among Mr. Blaine’s private papers which might be nsed to his political injury if ever wanted. I never learned the char acter of the papers stolen. When the robbery was discovered the floor of the library was found to be littered with letters and papers, which had evidently been carefully examined. Every drawer was found to have been ransacked, and its contents either disturbed or dumped upon the floor.” “WHAT'S IN A NAME?” A u Exciting Episode in the Presbyterian —oeiwn Mi<* il««* I.ony Mi < I, Kiwmih, the Chii'Mijo banker’s wife, crt-uU-.l u ilecidefl sensation iu the court room, ia that city > estenluy morniug by shooting at Lawyer Whitney. The woman was infuriated, and on enter ing the room fired five shots at her intended victim. But one bullet took effect, the wound being in the leg. She was at once arrested and taken to the sheriff’s office. It is supposed her rage was caused by some • * W d her eut with ivorce suit. bitney In regard to Famine prevails at Epirus. Funds have been started at Constantinople and Athens for the relief of sufferers. Ih-Klr.icAte Storiu* In Olilo Yksia, -M iv JO.-At Fairfield ye-tenl iy ligii.olt / ►ll IC'R ihe oS the K 1 .wuuil t'lnii.b, setting il on tire, and though the flames were .extinguished, there was great damage done. New Lexinoton, May 80.—A terilflc rain and wind storm occurred lute yester day afternoon, blowing the roofs off the optaa house and the Catholic Church. The St. Aloysiue Academy was also unroofi d. Hillsboro, May 30.—A terrific storm of rain aud wind set iu hers about 9 o’cLck last night and did a good deal of damage. Hon. John L. Hughes and his wife were seriously injured while driving along the Belfast pike. Their buggy was blown over and Mr. Hughes was fatally injured. Philadelphia, May 29.—In the Pres byterian General Assembly this morn ing, the Rev. William Aikman, D. D., of Atlantic City, offered a resolution that gave rise to an unexpected diversion. It was as follows: Resolved, On the near approach of Decoration day, the day set apart by our National Government in memory of those who daring the war of the Re bellion gave their lives that the Union and the country should not die, this General Assembly desires to put on record its grateful recognition of the inestimable services, the devotion unto death of those heroic and patriotic sol diers, and onr undying attachment to the great principles for which they fought and died, and with the great mul titude of our fellow-citizens to extend our prayerful sympathy to those to whom the day brings still the memory of immeasurable bereavement. Dr. Aikman entered into a somewhat impassioned discussion of questions in volved in the war. He was interrupted by several Commissioners with cries of “The war is over” and calls for the ques tion. The Moderator pnt the question and the resolution was lost. Here ensued a scene of confusion. Dr. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, moved that the Rev. Prg. Dickey, McCook and McIntosh l-e appointed a committee to draft a resolution expressive of the sense of the Assembly upon the matter. Dr. Dickey jumped upon the platform, aud, after expressing his regret at the former vote, moved as an amendment that a special committee lie appointed, of which Dr. Crosby should bo the chair man, to prepare a resolution on the subject. Drs. Johnson, of Chicago, Heckman, of Cincinnati, aud Lawrence, of South Carolina, spoke with some heat, depre cating the action just taken, and the de bate was growing very lively when I)r. Wallace moved a reconsideration of the vote by which Dr. Aikman’s resolution had been lost. This was agreed to, and then a sub stitute was offered by the Rev. Dr. Falconer and carried. It provided for the appointment of a special committee to prepare a resolution. The Moderator appointed the Rev. Drr. Crosby, Aidman and Johnson, and Elders J. H. Baldwin aud William Wade. This quieted down a somewhat ex- citii g episode, and just before adjourn ment the committee reported the same resolution, word for word, except that “civil war” was substituted for “war of the rebellion,” and it was adopted by au unanimous chorus of ayes. - -W ♦ Filiuiliids ou Lis Dignity. A Washington dispatch says: It was thought that Senator Edmunds, who by resolution of the committee ou foreign relations, reported the fisheries treaty, would have it in charge during the de bate, and the fact that the leadership has practically been taken by Senator Sherman, aud that the voice of the Sena tor from Vermont was not heard upon a subject with which he is so familiar in the colloquies which closed this after noon’s debate, caused some surprise. The explanation is understood to be that Senator Edmunds believes it improper and unwise, to use no stronger term, for the Senate when in the act of aovising the President, and especially npou an la p -riant mutter of diplomacy, to do so in t e presence of the public and the other party to the case. Though assent ing reluctantly to the will of the majority and voting with his party for open doors, he is understood to prefer to take no public pare in the proceedings which he holds to be so irregular, FROM POVERTY TO PURPLE. A Hsautiful American Girl Becomes Prussian Princes*. The embassadors of some of the powers at the Court of Berlin act as if they had been instructed to make np to the Prinoe®, Noer, Countess von Waldersee. remember that lady as one of the galaxy of pretty Americans who were drawn here daring the middle period of the Empire by the ease with which accets was then obtained to the most amusing court in Europe—that of the Tuileries Some of those transatlantic charmers hat varied destinies. Eliza Cook got hold of the King of the Netherlands and the petroleum spri: on the Orange estate in New Jersey. She had such incomparable diamonds that the Empress, to avoid seeming to complete with her at the Opera House, used to go there unadorned with jewels. A New Orleans beauty, small, sparkling, and petulant as a humming bird, made a conquest of the old Marquis de Chasse- loup Loubat, when he came to propose for her in the name of his nephew, and at her far famed fancy balls at the Marine Ministry opened tne oflicial world to many of her countrywomen. Another beauteous American from Boston was all-powerful at the Home Office in Persigny’s time; and De Moray's death robbed a pretty Now Englander of unbounded influence at the Palais Bourbon. But the American girl (or rather young ady for she was more than a quarter of a century in existence), who was carried lighest by ambition, resolution, audac ity, style and beauty, was Mary Esther Lea, who now, as Countess von Walder see, is about as bad a thorn as there is among the many thorns in the side of the Empress Victoria. If trust were to be placed in the favor of princess she wonld be certain to govern the German Empire through William II. and Augusta Victoria when Frederick II. is called to another world. However, even should the favor ; ho enjoys continue, her reign may be out short, owing to ill-health of the Crown “rince. In that event. Prince Henry would be Regent, and his future wife, 'rene, worships her Aunt Victoria. I have not seen the Princess Noer siuce she used to be boarding around here, ler father was a Wall street operator, who was unknown to the Astors and Vanderbilts, and never grew to bo a millionaire by his operations. At that time Miss. Lea was beautiful. She still, I am told by a friend holding an upper function at the Court of Berlin, las jolies restes, and in a country in which women of all ranks are heavy and grace- ess is of exceptional elegance. She has brains, is resolute, independ ent, sees her way to the objects she has in view, and is counted one of the most ambitious women in Europe. Mary Esther Lea picked up here that ?rince of Holstein who was among the >eaux who revolved around the Duchess de Berri in her widowhood and settled down in life with a Danish heiress con nected with the royal ’family. That xeiress, I have been told, left him her brtnne. He was bora in the year one and was quite an old boy when David liea's daughter bewitched him. The bewitchment took place as the stuggl” < sinniii —« 1 h and a marriage .was the General Stonewall Jackson’s remains will, in a short time, be removed to place called “Jackson Circle” abont one hundred feet from the present grave, When this is done a beautiful bronze monument will be erected over the grave. A JEALOUS DOG. Strange and Unmistakable Lerelopinent in an Animal of a Common Human Paaalon (From the Tooth’s Companion) "Jealousy is not a distinctively human feeling, bnt is ‘shared by animals in general. A parrot will often manifest Hie most extreme discomfort, and even work itself into a downright passion, at seeing its mistress playiw* ■ it u a canary, while the sensitiveness of dogs upon this S oint is proverbial. A lady traveling in iberia relates a ludicrous instance: We had five dogs. Mme. Jatier was the favorite and was allowed to sleep in a corner of tee youth, or enter it at pleasure; she was fed first; in one word she held a distinguished position. One day Mr. Atkinson was away on huntingexcursioa and the task of feeding the dogs fell to me. I had soup made and when it was brought I gave it to them one at a time. First i called Jatier, according to custom, but as she did not answer the call I gave a portion to Appoleck. Before he had finished Mme Jatier appeared and started to drive him away. This I would not permit and we had a grand souffle When Appoleck had dined, he walked Cway in ah orderly manner and I filled the dish for Jatier, but she was sulky and Would not eat. I called another dog, and there was another battle, bat I was firm. So matters went on till all had dined except Jatier. Even then the jealous creature refused to touch the soup until I offered it to her in a clean plate. Then she relented. Not long afterwards, as I was seated on the carpet with my sewing, Jatier entered the court; but as she did not come and lie at my feet, as usual, I fancied that one of the other dogs had dareu to enter and turned to order it ont. There stood Jatier, certainly, but scarcely recognizable. She was hterall one mass of mud. Of her glossy hlac 1 coat not a speck was visible. There she stood, wagging her tail, and looking as impertinent as possible. I was angry, and seizing my whip said: “You dirty creature, how dare you come ‘ ere!” But before I could reach her she was off like a shot, and by the time I was ent&ide of the tent she was racing far over the steppe. Not many minutes afterwards she r turned, looked as clean and flossy as ever; and now she came without a word ami took her accustomed place. I maintain that she was fully aware of my horror of dirt, and rolled in the mud on purpose to anuoy me because I had not waited for her to dine first. I had never before seen a speck of dirt on her coat, and she must have gone some distance after it, as there was no mud anywhere near. Fashion Note*. The newest parasols are made of China crepe, lined throughout with China silk. As the crepe will not admit of stretching, it is gathered into the stick and to a narrow cord about the edge. The landles are long and of twisted silver "TaU gowns this season will show some sr&ffeetion at least of one of these styles, ~ > ompadour, Directiore or Empire, ‘A drapery abont the hips. The English fashion very generally prevails, of wear ing a black hat and a small black wrap, either mantle or jacket, with dresses of any color no matter how light. The anglomaniacs take father pleasure in wearing small fur capes late in late in the season with black lace dresses. A feature of new French dresses is au attempt to do away with the high stand ing collars so long in favor, leaving the throat bare as low as the collarbone am finishing the neck of the dress with tnraed-cver knife plaiting of silk like that of the dress, or else draping a lace barbe along the sides of the neck, arrau ing it in a fan-like pliited bow in bac and front. This new departure will onl> be adopted by those with a short, fair and plnmp neck and throat, hence most of the imported dresses bronght over this season when ent in this way require a little guimpe of net or embroidery or else kerchief like folds of India silk laid close against the otherwise uncovered neck. For misses, graduate! and very young ladies are pretty dresses of white veiling or of China silk made with a round gathered skitt, and round plain waist buttoned behind and cut off even across just under the arms, to be filled ont at the top with a guimpe of figured net or embroidery permanently set in. The sleeves, of mutton-leg shape, are of the material of the guimpe without lining, A WONDKKFUL KINK. Which Fays Dividends of Fer Anuum 1(50 Fer Cent Lite At in America, consequence. The old gentleman’s hobby was Syria, where he was born. “Partent pour la yrie” was then the national air of ranee, and after Misss. Lea became rinoess Noer she begged her illustrious lusband to take her to the Holy Land, n going to the East he was away from lis relatives, who naturally were hunger- ng for his fortune, and ha made a will eaving everything to his bride. The lardships of tee exoosion were not great, seeing that it took place in winter, and with every convenience which wealth and and the good offices of Turkish Beys and ! kashas and European consuls could procure. Nevertheless, such as they are, they tilled the poor old beau before the spring lad come round. As there is no such Ring in Danish law* as a morganatic marriage, her position was a solid one and the will was bind ng. She was created Princess of Noer by the favor of Re Emperor Franz Joseph, who, at the i ime of the marriage, wanted to be (to i efeat the plans of Bismarck) on the best of terms with the Sohleswig-Holstein- Sonderbnrg-Augnstenburg family. With her good looks, quick wits and immense fortune the Princess was not ong in experiencing I’embarras de choix in regard to suitors. After Count von Waldersee had covered himself with glory at Sadowa she preferred him to others. 3ut, as she was not “born” her Austrian title did not meet with any but sullen recognition at the Berlin Court. The Crown Princess (now Empress) was mis- urustful of her cleverness. The Princess Noer’s opportunity came after Prince William married the big iolstein Princess, Augusta Victoria. The actual Crown Princess went to Berlin a tall, finely-built, country-bred Ifirl, lumbering in mind and body, unattractive and incapable of improve ment. The mental superiority of her mother-in-law humiliated her. She had no taste for study and good excuses for not studying, there being, since her first child was bora, pretty nearly always a aaby ip the cradle. Princess Noer undertook to reform per, bought lovely frocks aud charming toys for the babies,gave life to the dinners and teas of her late husband's great-niece, and became indispensable to the Imperial couple. **It is irritating to the Empress to have jer path blocked by the Noer-William- BEmark combination, and to find that the adroit Princess nee Lea is the rising sun. She is to Prince William (in point of moral influence) what John Brown was to Queen Victoria, and what the Batlenberga now are. Consular Service. (to Robinson, returned from “You say you were robbed in Brown abroad,) Italy?” Robinson: “Yes, they took every cent I had.’ Brown: “I suppose you went to the American consul for help?” Robinson: “Yes and he wanted me to lend him 85.” There is a temporary scarcity of funds in the New Jersey State treasury, and the authorities, in consequence find themselves greatly embarrassed in sev eral ways. The printing of Rte laws pasted by the last Legislature in the newspapers requires an expenditure of about 875,000, and Gov. Green hesitates to proceed with the designation of the papers to do the printing. It is doubtful owing to the same stringency, whether any encampment of the Ni will be held this summer. Decoration Day was generally observed throughout the North, and also at somp points in the South. There is a deadlock In the Democi atic Convention of Florida, on the nomination for Governor. Twelve ballots have been taken without result. National Guard h^ the? two last having the preference among *! j*£Juffmesare not sn&foiently slim *e graceful in clinging draperies. ie “dinner coat” is the latest fancy ndon. It is the Din ctoire cc?+. h is something in shape like a man’s g coat, ont off short in front and having long tails reaching to tee bottom of tee skirt behind. This is very be coming to the few figures of that peculiar character which perfectly straight lines “dress” more than anything else. For these few the severe Direetoire swallow tail coats are made in the richest material. The skirts under these coats are of the lightest eubstanoes—lace, ribbon or crepe. A striking dress was worn at the royal academy tee other day by the beautifnl Mrs. Drew. The skirte were of cloth, simply made and pinked ont around the edge. The color has no specific name, a sort of a Boulanger red with a hint of crushed strawberry. Over this was a Direetoire coat of black moire silk. Hayward, the London dressmaker, makes also what she calls Pompadour diuner coats. The Pompadour brocade makas the bodice, which meets in front, tightly fitting. Just in front is a many- seamed carefully shaped piece, some thing like the waistcoat worn by fash ionable men. The nepk opens like a coat and hie coat rever < of dark Velvet, over which falls a full jabot of white lace. The elbow sleeves are of brocade, with cuffs of velvet and deep lace ruffles. There is also a “tea jacket” made by Hayward that is immensely admired. It is made of cream colored satin plush—a lovely material—fits tight behind, but in front is loose and crosses over, showing no fastenings. It is braided in gold, and the hi^h policeman’s collar is gold. The flowered foulards for summer dresses are in most beautiful designs this -year. They reaily make flower dresses. Some of them have a broad silk edge like a ribbon, which when the dress is mad e up borders all ti e drapery. Mummy cloth is being revived after having been out of favor for six or eight years. It imitates the texture of the cloth in which the Egyptian mummies were wrapped. It is very light and cool aLd does not wrinkle. One of the French dressmakers is making costumes of it in such a fashion as to give a vague imita tion of tee straps and bands of the mummy wrappings. Some dresses of it show broad stripes of Boulanger red al teraating with stripes of “mummy color." One of these is made up with Ihe stripes iu a rediugote over an underdress of rich cream-colored English embroid ery mounted on cream silk. On one side the bodice fits quite tight ^nd is made of embioidery, the other side is of mummy cloth, drawn across in folds and fastened to the side of the waist with clasps. The Marie Antoinette fichu is being made of folds of the dress matt rials to complete light 'dresses of cashmere, crepeline or Bengaline, for carnage and street tojlets. Three or four wide folds, cross the l>ack and shoulders and narrowed as the waist tapers, then crossed over the bust and carried to the back, each end being finished with a ribbon bow on the tournure. This is a pretty finish to a young lady’s pale gray orepe line dress made with full sieves tucked down from the armholes, and a plaited skirt with butterfly wing points in front and back for drapery. Snede-oolored Bengaline dresses are similarly made, and both these toilets are worn with large black rounds hate of straw, with the crown nearly covered with long stemmed flowers and the brim capriciously bent to suit the taste of the wearer. Cashmere, veiling, Bengaline, India silks and black lace are the materials for tee new toilets worn at afternoon recep tions and weddings this spring. Gray is in greater favor even than last year, and is trimmed either with ribbon of the same shade or else there is silver galoonor old fashioned gimp on the waist. The polo naise and prinoees style, as well as all straight designs, are worn by all to whom they are becoming, especially those with fall plump figures that do not require The Chemical Bank of New York city is probably the strongest financial insti tution in this country, and its prosperity and success have been a marval iu busi ness and financial circles. A New York letter gives the following interesting points in reference to this wonderful moneyed institution: Ten shares of Chenical Bank stock were sold the other day on the Stock Ex change at 83,600 a share, without the bi-monthly dividend of 25 per cent. This is the highest that this stock has yet sold for, and it has long been noted as commanding the highest premium of any bank stock in the world. First National Bank stock commands $2,000 jer share, the Fifth Avenue Bank $800 per share, the Bank of Ireland $275 and the Bank of England $350. The dividends of the Chemical Bank lave for a long time been at the rate of 5 per cent bi-monthly, with an additional dividend of 10 per cent some time daring the year or an even 100 per cent per annum. The dividend declared for the ;irst of March and to be continued there after is 25 per cent bi-monthly, or 150 >er cent per annum. Last year the bank )aid $3,000,000 in dividends, equal to the amount of capital stock, and earned a surplus of twice the capital stock. It is very seldom this valuable stock finds its way to the market, and then only in the settlement of some old estate, and when a sale takes place it attracts great atten tion. John B. Manning was the purchaser In 1843 or 1844 David Wolfe, the fatherT 1 of Catherine Wolfe, bought 200 shares oi 1 Chemical Bank stock at par, or for $20, ACCUSED OF WITCHCRAFT. A Singular Trial Hacently HHtl In IS# lad Ian Territory. Muskogee, L T., May 30.—Many years ago in the early history of onr country it was no uncommon thing for a person to be accused of witchcraft and brought to public trial and often severe ly or fatally punished for alleged inter course with tee evil spirit; bnt probably the only persons who have been openly accused and bronght to public trial for !>eing witches for many years past are Wilhs Loren and his two sons, who ou Saturday last were called before Judge D. M. Windom, of the Union agenoy, to answer this charge. It appears that iu the Cane creek settlement, which place is some five miles north of Muskogee, Willis Loren and his two sons have for the past two or three weeks been practio- ting their mysterions art upon several of their neighbors. Bo thoroughly do the colored people who dwell in Cane creek bottom believe they possess the power of witches tha:. they have lately petitioned the United States Indian agent to ex pel them from the settlement. The agent paid no attention to the matter until, on Thursday last, when a specific charge was brought in, he decided to give the matter hearing, and appointed Saturday morning as the time for the trial. Early Saturday morning the agent’a office was eronded with colored people from the Cane creek settlement, all of whom were evidently excited over the strange happenings and mysterions occurrences that had lately shook up their neighborhood. The specific charge brought forth was that Willis Loren and bis two sons had bewitched one Island Renty, a neighbor, and as a consequence be had completely lost the faculty of reason, and acted very strangely in other ways, until some of his friends discovered < Re material which was nsed by the Lorens for bewitching him buried in the earth near his cabin. Immediately upon the discovery and removal of the “witching trash” he reooverered consciousness and cooled down to his normal condition. Renty is a little, crooked, black negro, and it wonld be a question with many whether or not he ever possessed the : acalty of reasoning to any great extent. He was the first witness called by Judge Wisdom, and he started that on the night of the 12th inst. Jim Loren had boned in his back yard at exactly midnight a juoketful of “some strange staff. At this point he produced a sack and poured ont on the floor before the judge the “strange staff” which consisted of little black dirt, a few pieces of broken glass, a turtle shell, some horse hair, and a few jurat tags and strings. Renty, said that immediately after the staff was buried he : elt a dizzy sensation and oonlden’t deep. When he woke np the next morning some thing in his left side palled him oontinaonfly that way. When he stood np he leaned or staggared sideways, and when he walked it was sideways; besides, le coulden’t recognize anything or anybody, and he was continually in that condition from the time the material was juried in his yard until his friends had taken it np and removed it. Several ptement of A Famous Doctor Ones said that the *ecx«t oi good health consisted in k* oping the head cool, the feet warm, and the bowels open. Rad- this eminent physician lived In onr day/ and known the merits of Ayer's Pills as an aperient, he weald certainly kavs recommended thun, as so many el his dlningolshsd successors are doing. / The celebrated Dr. Farnsworth, of Norwich, Conn., recommends Ayer's Pills as the best of all remedlss for “ Intermittent Fevers.’ 4 Lr. I. K. Fowler, of Bridgeport, Conn., says: “Ayer’s Pills are highly and universally spokan of by the people about here. I make daffy use of them in my practice." Dr. Mayhew, of New Bedford, Maas., says : “ Having prescribed many thou sands of Ayer’s Pills, In my practice, I can unhesitatingly pronounce them the best cathartic In uir^V* The Massachusetts State Assayer, Dr. A. A. Hayes, certifies: “ I have made a careful analysis of Ayer’s Pills. They contain the active principles of well- known drugs, isolated from Inert mat ter, which plan is, chemically speaking, of great Importance to their usefulness. It insures activity, certainty, and uni formity of. effect. Ayer’s Puls contain no metallic or mineral substance, but the virtues of vegetable remedies In skillful combination.". * Ayer’s Pills, Prepared by Dr. J. C. AyarftOo., Low*U. Sold by aU Dealers la Kedlotae. u a W. W. WILLIAMS. Real Estate Ag f t. For Sale. Li F ARM 125 ACRES 1-2 mile of Mont- naorenci Station. A nice Cottage aud four new tenant houses on tract. 1500 of the celebrated Niagara grape, orchard of Young LeConte Pears and Apples. - —ALSO- 1034 3-4 acres one mile of station. Both very choice. —also— Building lots on Boulevard Coles and Colleton avenue, destined to be (he popular portion of our citj' for pri vate residencee. —ALSO— Several houses with large lots loca ted centrally. William Turnbull - 1 ■pinju tiuia 000, and has paid more than $1,000,000 in dividends since the day it was pur chased. A Gorgeous Swell Dinner. The following details of a dinner which was given the other day by a New York lady may be read with interest by people who want to know the latest thing in the way of American extravagance: The dinner table was arranged abont a miniature lake, in which palms, lilies and ferns appeared to be growing, while tropical trees rose from the banks amid miniature parterres of flowers. Small electric lights, with vari-colored globes, were arranged about the lake, and elec tricity was introduced under the water • of the improvised lake, and caused to dance about in imitation of vari-oolored fish. There was a fountain in the centre of the lake, and a colored glass ball, lighted by electricity, spurted up and down a jet of crystal water. There was no cloth on the table, and each of the twenty courses served at the dinner was placed before the guests on a natural palm leaf. The wall and room decora tions—some of which came from Florida and South America—generally were of emilax, ferns, ivy and palm, mandarin, banana, orange, and other trees. Hang ing among them were hundreds of very small colored electric lights. The decorations of each plate cost thirty dollars, the 'avers sixty, and the menns were painted to order at ten dollars apiece. The truffles came from France, aud the strawberries cost seven dollars and five cents per bunch of five berries. Roman punch was served in oranges hanging on the natural trees, the palp of the fruit having been deftly removed, so that the gue&t picked the oranges from the branches.—Loudon Court Journal. EVXftJL. some of their neighbors, and that they did not have any relations with the devil and were not witches. Judge Wisdom dismissed the case and old the negroes to go home and behave Remselves and not trouble abont snob foolishness. A '‘Great’' Indian poctur. * A few weeks ago there appeared in the neighborhood of Shady Grove Church, in Belton Township, an Indian, accom panied hy his wife and child. He se cured a house ou the plantation of Judge W. F. Cox, and took up his abode there. In a very short time it was noised around that he was a medical doctor, who could cure all manner of disease. Several darkeys who were afflicted consulted him, aud he began treating them. In a few days they claimed that they had been entirely cared of their diseases, and siuce then his practice has daily increased. People, both white and black, who are afflicted with cancer, white swelling, rheumatism, dyspepsia, etc., etc., are flocking to him from miles around, some coming from both Greenville aud Laurens counties, and in nearly every case the persons claim that the Indian is benefiting them. On our trip into the eastern section of the county last Sundsv, we passed by the home of the “medicine man,” and we venture the assertion, from what we saw and heard, that there were no less than one hundred persons to see him during that day. The Indian claims to be from Little Rock, Ark. He uses herbs and plants, and manufactures his own medicines. He makes no charges for his services, and is satisfied with whatever a patient gives him. Bte is to be very illiterate.—Anderson Intelli gencer, A F*tr of Pugnarioua Pollcictan*. Chicago, May 30.—A Herald specia from Cape Girardeau, Mo., says: “Judge David L. Hawkins. Assistant Secretary ol ! the Interior, and W. V. Leech, a promi nent citizen of this city and Democratic candidate for the Legislature, fought in the street, in front of the city drug store last evening. The difficulty urew ou’. of a letter written by Judge Hawkins from Washington regarding the appointment of postmaster at this place. Friends inter fered and separated them before either of them was badly hurt. The fight created quite an excitement, and friends of both parties fear that it will not end with this dre-^'f -tLi-ES. The Loren family ■that Lauretta Street, Aiken IHE public are invi m v stock of T onci which 1 am selling at rock bottoro prices. I buy none but the beat and ell a» cheap as the cheapest. Canned Goods in great variety and fjom the best houses. *- WM. TURNBULL. WHERE IS HE? A Negro Who Can Got Five Thousand Dollnre. Greenville, S. 0., May 30.—A man named Hudson from near Augusta, Ga., was at the stationhonse yesterday in search of a lame negro to whom the courts of Georgia had recently granted 10,000 damages from a railroad* compa ny for his foot having been cut off in a railroad accident. The name of the negro, the railroad, and the place where t occurred were withheld, bnt he ex- libited such credentials that proved be yond doubt that his mission is a genuine one. The negro had turned the claim over o lawyers, who were to have half, if they won. After a hard fight, they were sncoeaafnl. The ease then went np to supreme court, bnt daring the time the negro became discouraged and left the neighborhood. Several months ago the supreme court affirmed the decision of tUe lower court. Hudson was then em- Joyed by the lawyers to find the mia- iing man. He traced him from Augusta Greenwood, S. C., from Greenwood to Felzer, and thenoe to Greenville. Here all positive trace of the wandering darkey ceases, bnt Mr. Hddson says he jroposes to stay in Greenville until he either finds his man or where he has gone. If he can be fonnd he will come into possession of $5,000, which will be fortune for the poor wounded negro who is wandering from place to place and living from hand to month. Few Southern Negroes Land-Owner*. We doubt whether the value of propety held by colored men in New Orleans is any greater today than that held by the freedmen of color in 1860, and yet both in New Orleans and throughout Lonsiana the negro has been improving his con dition steadily. It takes more than one {generation, however, to raise a race held in bonds of slavery to the condition of propety-holders. When the hundreds of millions of dollars paid the negroes in wages and the millions wasted by them in veriest trash are considered it seems strange that so few dollars have been invested in land, houses or any per il .anent propety. The freedmen of color who inherited land or booses held on to them, or at least to a portion of them. The negroes engaged in any profitable trade or business may have laid aside something and own some little property, but the great majority of the race, who are simply farm hands, laborers or do mestic servants, have acquired no per manent property of apy kind.—New Orleans Times-Demooi.’v < E. A. SOMMER, :0: Laurens St. and Richland Aye. BAKER AND CONFECTIONER. DEALER IN Groceries, Tobacco aofl Cipro. I will keep constantly on hand Fresh Bread, Cakes and Pies and al so Fruit and Vegetables which I will sell at reasonable prices. A share of the patronage of the Aiken public Is respectfully solicited. E. A. SOMMER. Laurens St and Richland Ave. Aiken, S. C. H. P. METTE & CO., KEEP ON HAND A FULL LINE OF FURNITURE. Including cheap Chamber]Suit8,|Mat- tresses, Baby Carriages, Cradles, Sew ing Machines,Wardrobes,Feather Pil lows, Bureaus, Bedsteads,Chairs, etc., SELL ON INSTALLMENTS | DISCOUNT FOR CASH. I H. P. METTE A CO.. Curve Street. - - - Aiken. S. C. PAVILION HOTEL. Charleston. S. O PASSENGER ELEVATOR AND ELECTRIC BELLS. House fresh and clean throughout. Table best in the South. Pavilion Transfer Coaches and Wagons at all trains and Boats. Rates reduced. Beware of giving your Check to any one on Train. Rates 12 00 @ $2 50. A Somnambulistic Editor. Editor J. O. Gariington, of Laurens, who, by the way, publishes one of the best of the Carolina weeklies, is a somnambulist. While glancing over the matter in preparation for the issue of his paper for the current week, he noticed an article telling of the destruction of Laurens hy au inoenchary fire. Efforts to ascertain who wrote the article, or what printer pnt it in type, failed. It soon leaked out that Editor Gariington had written and set np the article while asleep, walking from his residence to his office in the dead of night to do so. The account of the fire recited, among other things, that the loss occasioned by tht fire would foot np $70,000, with one- eighth insurance.—Augusta Chronicle. Mrs. Ells F. ae pu is the only lady who has the honor ol holding such a position. She was educated in the Chicago schools, is a lady of supe rior refinement and cultivation, and ia ib every way qualified for the duties pertain ing to her position. - Young, assistant superin- ‘ of Chicago, THE AUGUSTA Sir TEL! Augusta, -* - Georgia. BEST $2.00 HOUSE IN THE SOUTH. Headquarters for Commercial Men. Centrally located nearR. R. Crossing. L. E. DOOLITTLE, Proprietor, Formerly of Tontine Hotel, New Haven, Conn. Aleo, West End tar Free omnibus and baggage wagon for every guest of this house both from and to the depot. Hotel, Long Branch*!. N. Wright’s Hotel l I S.L. WEIGHT ds SON, Prop’r*., COLUMBIA, - - 8.C. mABLE supplied with the BEST. I Rooms large and well furnished. One of the most comfortable hotels in I the Sooth. VTltaf reasonable. • •• % •« ‘ ■ mm 4