The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, June 08, 1888, Image 3
BLAINE CAN NAME THE MAN.
Laager a CaadMatr, lie May Be a Hapablt-
raa Warwtefc—Kepubiiraaa All at Baa—
liaan L raw lag Me aa while.
(fToin the Hew York Star, May SI.)
Not in many months has so much dis
cussion been excited among the politicians
of both parties as was provoked by the
publication in the Star yesterday of the
second and final letter of declination from
Hr. Blaine. In most quarters it is accepted
as conclusive, and as leaving no room for
the slightest encouragement to hope that
anything that can happen in the near future
would influence Mr. Blaine to change his
mind and face the trials and disappoint
ments of another presidential campaign.
A near rela&ve of Mr. Blaine was seen
by a .Star reporter yesterday, but he insisted
on the suppression of- his name. He said:
“Mr. Blaine does not want to undertake
another campaign He is doing all he can
to prevent his name being used and he is
doing it concientiously, and with a persist
ence that he hopes will result in an agree
ment on some other name. He has written
a great many letters like this one to Mr.
Reid to other confidential friends and they
all have this object in view. He hopes it
will be successful and that he will be spared
such another trial as he had in the last
campaign. But, if everything fails aud
the nomination is given to him unanimous
ly, I still think he would accept and make
as gallant a fight as he could. He is a Re
publican of the Republicans. His declina
tion then would ring the death knell of the
party.”
President Richard A. Cunningham of
the New Amsterdam Club had carefully
studied the letter and thought that it meant
Mr. Blaide’s peremptory withdrawal from
politics. “He is out now for good, and
that’s the only construction to be placed on
his letter,” said Mr. Cunningham. “If it
is true, look out for a circus at the Repub
lican National Convention. There will be
a big fight for an empty honor, for that’s
what it would amount to. Still nobody
knows but Blaine would jump in at the
last moment.”
Colonel Michael C. Murphy was not a
little surprised and was at a loss to diagnose
the R- publican situation. “If Blaine is
really out,” said he, “it complicates matters
very much for the G. O. P. Many Re
publicans took Mr. Blaine’s first letter as a
bid for the nomination, and of course the
Blaine men went to work with a will. Now
they don’t know just what this means or
just exactly what to do. I guess they'd
beet take him at his word.”
Senator Erwin, at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, wouldn’t say much. “If I were to
write a letter like that, my friends would
know how to interpret it. It’s a good letter
and will give the boys a pile of work. I
guess be means it.”
Senator Warner Miller, who had such a
time of it at Buffulo to be delegated to the
National Convention, didn’t like to talk.
He thought, being a delegate, it might be
immodest or compromising, but he didn’t
see how anybody who knew James G.
Blaine could put more than one construc
tion on that letter. “In fact, it was alto
gether a work of supererogation for him to
write it,” said the Senator, “for we all
knew what he meant by the first letter. It
means that he is out and we must look for
another man.”
"And that other man ?”
“Ah, there now; you really don’t mean
that, do you?” said the handsome Senator,
smiling and moving away. “See me at
Chicagb.”
“The great regiet for Blaine’s with
drawal, and that he has withdrawn let no
body mistake,” said Mr. Robert P. Porter,
president of the American Protective Tariff
League, “is that no other Republican could
draw on the Democrats for votes as he
could. The Irish element were strong
friends of Mr. Blaine and I think many of
them will deeply regret his preventing them
casting their votes for him. There is one
thing I want to say, and that is this, that
lest Democratic papers, such as the Star,
L from the first given Mr. Blaine the
of knowing what he was about when
rrote his Florence letter, and accepted
Tas final. The Mugwump press, on the
>ntrary, tried to discredit it, and in doing
so have only discredited themselves.”
“Well, after Blaine, who?” ventured the
reporter.
‘It’s ajlifflcult matter to say, and there
fcho will have a good deqJrt?
SheHnaii has a "kTdu of
following, and Gresham has friends, too.
As for me, I think Harrison and Phelps
would make a winning ticket. It may be
a combination that hasn’t struck everybody
as yet, but I think it would suit a good
many people whom I know.”
With this new idea percolating through
his head, the reporter hunted up Mr. Jas.
P. Foster, the President of the National
Republican League. Mr. Foster prefaced
his remarks by saying that the League was
made up of representatives from 3,000 Re
publican clubs, with a membership of half
a million, every man of whom would have
done what he could to make Blaine’s suc
cess assured.
“The Republican party will have reason
to regret Mr. Blaine’s withdrawal,” said he,
“for he was the one man of all others best
calculated to insure success.”
“But there may be others.”
“Oh, yes, to be sure,” said Mr, Foster,
“the party k rich in good men for Presi
dential timber. There are a dozen who
could win.”
“For instance?”
“Well, for first choice, Gresham or De
pew.”
Mr. James A. Blanchard, Vice President
of the Republican League of New York
State, thought that the party was strong
enough to stand it.
“It’s the greatest blow that has come to
the party in a long time,” said Coroner
Nugent; “with Blaine we could have made
a winning fight, but now—well, Depew
can carry New York State, and he’s my
man.”
Mr. A. R. Whitney, a delegate to Chi
cago from the Sixteenth District, said his
people were solid for Depew, and that he
was practically instructed to vote for him.
Sherman S. Rogers, of Buffalo, didn't
think there was any need of borrowing
trouble. He was surprised that any Re
{ mblicans had doubted Mr. Blaine’s sinccr-
ty when be sent out his first letter, and
those who didn’t began to cast about for
somebody else.
“For whom?”
“Oh, there’s lots of them. Don't think
that Mr. Blaine is the whole Republican
party, though he was one of its pillars and
won’t cease to be. ”
General Nehemiah M. Curtis, the depart
ment commander of the G. A. R. of New
York State, who came to town to see and
participate in the parade, said that up in
Ogdensburg the letter made a decided sen
sation. The confirmation of the news wa
not unexpected, but the questiun on every
lip was “Who now ?” The General wouldn’t
undertake to say on whom Blaine’s mantle
would fall, but he did say that Chauncey
M. Depew was highly thought of all
through the State.
“Allison is the man for the West,” said
John S. Clarkson, of Ghio, “and when it
comes to Chicago some folks will be sur
prised at his strength. The Republicans
who say they didn t believe Mr. Blaine's
first letter are only those who didn’t want
to. I knew him well enough to know that
he had studied every word, and that no
power could drag him into another cam
paign. The friends o? Senator Allison
acted on the good faith of that letter, and
BLAINE WILL RUN NO MORE.
A Letter tael
Talk a tout Mia
Bettlea the
CaeSMary.
[H. Y, Star, May 30.]
The following letter from Mr. Blaine to
Wbitelaw Reid, the editor of the Tribune,
was received in this city yesterday. It for
ever sets at rest the question of the Maine
statesman’s ambitions with respect to the
presidential nomination. He vdll not ac
cept a nomination in any event, and may
be regarded as out of the field of practical
politics henceforth.
Paris, May 17, '88.
Whitelaw Reid, Esq:
Mv Dear Sir—Since ray return to Paris
from Southern Italy on the 8th inst. I
have learned (what I did not before believe)
that my name may yet be presented to the
National Convention as a candidate for the
presidentinnal nomination of the Republi
can party. A single phrase of my letter of
January 25 from Florence (which was de
cisive of everything I had the personal
power to decide) has been treated by many
of my most valued friends as not absolutely
conclusive in ultimate and possible contin
gencies.
On the other hand, friends equally de
voted and disinterested have construed my
letter (as it should be construed) to be an
unconditional withholding of my name
from the National Convention. They have
in consequence given their support to emi
nent gentlemen who are candidates for the
Chicago nomination—some of whom would
not, I am sure, have consented to assume
that position if I had desired to represent
the party in the presidential contest of 1888.
If I should now, by speech or by silence,
by commission of omission, permit my
name, in any event, to come before the
Convention, I should incur the reproach of
being uncandid with those who have al
ways been candid with me. I speak, there
fore, because I am not willing to remain in
a doubtful attitude. I am not willing to
be the ceuse of misleading a single man
among the millions who have given me
their suffrages and their confidence. I am
not willing that even one of my faithful
suppotters in the past should think me
capable of paltering in a double sense with
my words.
Assuming that the presidential nomina
tion could by any possible chance be offered
to me, I could not accept it without leaving
in the minds of thousands of these men the
impression that 1 had not been free from
indirection, and therefore I could not ac
cept it at all. The misrepresentations of
malice have no weight, but the just dis
pleasure of friends I could not patienly en
dure.
Republican victory, the prospects of
which grow brighter every day, can be im
periled only by lack of unity in council or
by acrimonious contest over men. The
issue of protection is incalculably stronger
and greater than any man, for it concerns
the prosperity of the present and of genera
tions yet to come. Were it possible for
every voter of the Republic to see for him
self the condition and recompense of labor
in Europe, the party of free trade in the
United States would not receive the sup
port of one wage-worker between the two
oceans. It may not be directly in our
power as philanthropists to elevate the
European laborer, but it will be a lasting
stigma upon our statesmanship if we per
mit the American laborer to be forced
down to the European level. And in the
end the rewards of labor everywhere will
be advanced if we steadily refuse to lower
the standard at home.
Yours very sincerely,
James G. Blaine.
UBNKRAL NEWS XOTE8.
Varlotu
"THE EARTH TREMBLED.”
Tbe Belamlc Terror Pays nightly Visits In the
Park Neighborhood.
It will surprise many of our citizens to
learn that earthquake shocks are still being
distinctly felt in the city. It was to be
hoped we would have immunity from these
intangible visitors, but they have been
making nightly visits this week to citizens
in a certain portion of the city.
Mr. C. C. Habenicht informed a Record
reporter this morning that on last Monday
night be was awakened by a rattling of the
windows of his house and he could see the
bed teisters shaking above him. It was re
peated several times and his wife and
children were awakened and very mnqh
On Tuesday night Mr. Habenicht felt
the shocks again and his children refused
to sleep in the house and had to be sent to
his place at the brewery. On Wednesday
night Mr. Habenicht counted seventeen ol'
the shocks. His sister-in-law placed her
hand on the door, which was shaking vio
lently, and felt a very decided electric shock
from the contact.
The«e shocks were also felt by the fam
ily of Mr. John Bauskett, who lives next
door to Mr. Habenicht. The disturbances
were more decided on Wednesday night
than on any of the other occasions. Hi;
family were aroused and are convincet
that they were genuine earthquake shocks
The reporter has learned that the shocks
have been felt this week by several other
families, but very few have been heard of
except in the hollow around the Park.
Mr. Habenicht was very earnest in his
statements and said that the shocks were
very distinctly felt by all bis household,
and Mr. Bauskett makes the same state
ment. The seismometer at Dr. Jackson’s
was visibly moved last night and on several
other nights of this week. It is a well
known scientific fact that the earth is rare
ly ever at rest, and scientists claim that
there is some internal movement, though
often “microscopic," at least once in a pe
riod of thirty minutes.—Columbia Daily
Record.
(shot the Bberlir* Pome.
St Louis, May 30.—Sheriff Allen, of St.
Louis county, and three deputies crossed
the Missouri river at Musick’s Ferry this
morning with a warrant to arrest King,
Hurd and Groegan, charged with stealing
a horse and ferry boat from John Smith.
Three miles below the sheriff and deputies
found the boat, but upon nearing it the
sheriff and deputies were fired upon with
pistols and shotguns by the parties in pos
session of the boat. The three deputies
were all wounded, aud one of them has not
been heard of since. H. Breckman crossed
with the sheriff to this side, and received
the contents of a shot gun in the abdomen,
and is thought to be fatally hurt. C. C.
Garrett, a deputy, was shot in the forehead
and right arm. Otto Ashefet, a volunteer
deputy, is thought to have been killed, as
he has not been heard from or seen. Sheriff
Allen has placed the matter before County
Attorney Mudd, who has sent the sheriff
to arrest John and James King, Henry
Groegan and Lewis Hurd.
that’s why they havegathered strength for
him so early in the West.”
Mr. James W. Arkell, who, besides the
editorial cares of the Judge, writes double
leaded brevier for the Albany Evening
Journal, says the Republicans cannot
afford to take up a less pronounced protec
tionist than Mr. Blaine, and that that man
is Chauncey 31. Depew. His nomination
will solve the Republican* problem. In
this his brother editor. Mr. Elliott F. Shep-
agrees with him. He says now its
w as a matter of course.
Joe Manly, last night, said he didn’t
know what action the 3Iaine delegation
will now take. They have had no consul
tation since the election of delegates by
their respective Congressional districts.
A Brutal Father.
Minneapolis, Minn., June 1.—The
body of Miss Adele Menard, daughter of
Joseph 3Ienard, a prominent citizen, was
found floating in the river late yesterday
afternoon. Miss Menard passed 3Ionday
evening in company with a young man to
whom she was betrothed. Before retiring
that night Mr. 3Ieuard whipped her for
some reason not disclosed, and the next
morning she was missing. She left two
notes—one to her father, the other to her
lover. To the former she wrote that she
was going to commit suicide by drowning,
aud that she had been driven to the deed
by his cruelty. The note addressed to her
lover advised him to commit suicide also.
He has not been seen since her note was
delivered to him, aud it is believed he has
killed himself.
There is no change in General Sheridan’s
condition.
It is reported that Jay Gould hna sud
denly returned to New York, in c >nse
queoce of serious illness.
The Wallingford Wheel Works at Meri
den were struck by lightning yesterday
morning and were totally destroyed. Loss
$60,000; insurance $23,000*
A Fight With Indians.
Duluth, Minn., 3Iay 31.—Two deputy
sheriffs went to Deer Lake Indian Camp,
in Itasca county, ten days ago, to arrest an
Indian, Cut face, for the murder of a white
man, Joe Bonville. Arriving there they
learned he had left, and followed him to
Net Lake Camp. Enticing him to their
canoe, they bound him and started off.
The alarm was given and sixteen bucks
gave chase, soon overtaking them. After
a fight, in which both sheriffs were badly
bandied but not seriously injured, Cutface
was released and both the white men cap
tured. Through the intercession of an In
dian who spoke English, the sheriffs were
released, but told that they would not be
allowed to take any Indian for killing a
white man.
Some negro miners in Merritt county,
W. Va., attempted on Thursday to rescue
one of their number who was arrested by
the sheriff, and they were fired upon by
tbe posse. They were repulsed, several of
them being wounded.
mu ol I ■ to real UatbereO fr
Uoartero.
John Bright has passed the crisis of bis
illness and his condition is more favorable.
The manicures always hit tbe right nail
on the head.
A headlong man is not a man with a long
head.
3Ir. Pyne, M. P., who was imprisoned at
Clonmel for offences under the Crimes’
Act, has been released.
Tbe six newly-elected bishops of the
Northern Methodist Church have been con
secrated.
Three of the six nominees on the Ala
bama Republican State ticket have refused
to accept the nominations tendered.
Leprosy is spreading at a dreadful rate
In Russia. Thirty cases have been officially
reported in Darpah alone.
Parnell, much improved in health, has
returned to London for the reopening of
Parliament.
The Republicans in the Second District
of North Carolina have nominated G. A.
Mebane (colored) for Congress.
Charles Bell, of 3Iarlboro, 3Iass., was
accidentally shot and killed by a com
panion while gunning yesterday.
Henry Kreutzer, of Covington, went to
the graves of bis children near Cincinnati
yesterday and committed suicide.
Professor Virchow, after his last micro
scopic examinttion of Emperor Frederick’s
throat, declares that tbe glands are per
fectly healthy.
The Hon. W. R. 3Iorrison thinks the
Democratic Convention w T ill nominate
Thurman for Vice President if he con
sents to be a candidate.
A fight took place between the Jones and
Green factions in Hancock county, Tenn.,
on Thursday, resulting in the death of two
of the Green family.
The comptroller of the currency has au
thorized the First National Bank of Gaines
ville, Fla., to begin business with a capital
of $50,000.
Senor 3Ioret, Spanish minister of foreign
affairs, has announced to the French Senate
that Spain will not be represented at the
Paris exhibition.
Ed. Hussong, editor of the Nelsonian, at
Nelson, Neb., was fatally shot from am
bush on Wednesday last while-returning
from a Grand Army camp fair.
R. B. Willison, cashier of the Pittsburg,
Cincinnati and St. Louis freight depart
ment, of Columbus, has absconded with a
supposed shortage of about $5,000.
Twenty-nine Social Democrats of Berlin
have been sentenced to imprisonment for
terms ranging from two to six months for
circulating seditious prints.
At Wilkesbarre, Pa., William Leslie, a
reporter, has been committed to jail for
contempt in refusing to testify before a
grand jury about a prize tight.
The project to build a grand hotel in
Charleston is well in progress. At a pub
lic meeting last night tbe subscriptions in
money amounted to $117,150.
It is estimated that tbe reduction of the
public debt during the month of May
amounts to $4,000,000, $12,000,000 having
been paid for pensions.
In New York yesterday the Richmond
Grays, escorted by the 9th regiment, in
spected Castle Garden and viewed with
much interest the landing of a ship load of
immigrants.
At the annual meeting of the National
Civil Service Reform League in New York
Geo. Wm. Curtis, who presided, was re
elected president for the coming year,
making his seventh election.
The National Prohibition Convention
nominated Clinton B. Fish for President
and John A. Brooks for Vice President.
The South Carolina member of the execu
tive committee is James A. Tate.
Mrs. Lewis Wingo was killed by light
ning Tuesday afternoon, near Wellford,
Spartanburg county, while she was sitting
near the fireplace. Two children were in
the room at the time, but were not hurt.
As a rule everything eatable at a table
should be eaten with spoon or fork.
»WWeA p'iSuKJ however, may l>e
with a pruning knife.
A reporter who attended a banquet con
eluded his description with the candid state
ment that “it is not distinctly remembered
by anybody present who made the last
speech. ■’
The word Birmingham, so common in
naming towns and cities, is compounded
of three words, which together mean “the
hill which is the home of the broom,” an
English shrub.
"If it be true that tfie hairs of one s head
are numbered,” said the man after he had
escaped from his wife’s clutches, “there
will be one angel at least who will show up
with a big deficit.”
Horseradish yields from two to four tons
per acre and sells from five to ten cents a
pound. The worst drawback to its cul
ture is the difficulty of eradicating it when
it once gets a firm hold on the land.
The bill making Phil. Sheridan General
of the Army has passed both branches of
Congress and has been signed by the Presi
dent. The commission has been issued.
Sheridan’s condition is unchanged.
The national debt statement shows the
decrease of the public debt during the
month of May to be $1,618,695.06. The
decrease of the debt since June 30, 1887, is
$99,414,577.94; cash in the treasury $606,-
971,049.03.
Sir Henry Parker, premier, has consented
to open the Austrahasian conference on
Chinese labor at Sydney, Australia, on
July 12. Chinamen recently released under
writs of habeas corpus in accordance with
the decision of the Supreme Court have
returned to Hong Kong.
At Chicago, Nelson Morris, dressed beef
shipper and meat packer, has bought back
from the Cattle Trust the Fairimnk’s Can
ning Company, and has satisfactorily dis
solved all relations with the Trust. The
consideration paid on the repurchase was
$2,000,000.
“Did your sou take the valedictory in
college?” said a gentleman to a lady who
was enthusiaslical.y praising the ability of
aer offspring. “No, indeed, he didn’t,”
she replied, with pride; “he didn’t take
anything He is the healthiest boy you
ever saw.”
A wreck occurred three miles from
Louisville, Ky., Tuesday, on tbe Louis
ville and Nashville Railroad, in whibb En
gineer Quinn was killed and Firemen Rich
ardson and Beckman Farley fatally injured.
The engine boiler exploded aud twenty-one
freight cars were demolished.
“I could gaze at the moon for hours,
Mr. Sampson,” she said, in a voice full of
sweetness and pheumonia. “I never tire
of it.” “Ah,” he responded, “would that
were the man in it!” “Yes,” she assented,
softly. “And why. Miss Clara?” he asked,
getting ready to tyke he* hand. “Be
cause, Mr. Sampson,” she said, shyly yell
ing her eyes with their long lashes, “you
would be four million miles away.”
Trial Justice—Had you ever saw this
man before? Witness—Yes. “Had he
came before you had went?” “No.” “Is
them your eggs what you say was stolen?”
“Yes.” “Would you have recognized
them if you had seen them before they was
brung here?” “Yes; I would have knowed
them.” “Speak grammatic, young man!
It ain’t proper to say ‘have knowed’, you
should say ‘have knew."’
The largest auction sale of fiannels ever
held in New York was made yesterday by
Faulkner, Page & Co., commission mer
chants. Over 1,000 buyers were present,
from all parts of the country. About 14,-
000 cases were sold aggregating about
$2,000,000. The sale lasted all day. Scar
let fiannels brought from 12 to 25 cents,
plain white 16 to 25i cents and qulchee
white flannels from 234 1° 431 cents.
In the Senate yesterday the bill reviving
the office of general of the army, and au
thorizing the President to appoint General
Sheridan to that office passed the Benate
by thirty-four yeas to seven nays. The
bill provides that the office of lieutenant
general of the army shall expire with Gen
eral Sheridan’s promotion, and that the
office of general of the army shall expire at
his death. The seven Senators voting no,
were Berry, Coke, Harris, Reagan, Sauls-
bury, Vance, and Wilson of Maryland.
LABOR AND LABORERS.
The Brotherhood of Carpenters and Join
ers has nearly 400 assemblies.
Banner Citt (Kan.) people have found
• 2-foot vein of coal at a depth of GO feet.
The coal mines at Midway, near Girard,
Kan., are getting from 25 to 35 cars of coal
per day.
The Cutters’ and Polishers’ Union, of
New York Citv, will join the Metal Trades
Federation.
Near Coburg, Germany, a whole village
of people has for many generations made
nothing but toys.
The Taunton locomotive works, Taunton.
Mass., are running four nights a week un
til ten o’clock to fill their orders. ^
The Austin (Tex.) penitentiary board has j.
refused the request of the Palo Pinto Coal
Mining Company for convicts to work its
mines.
There are nearly 1,000 persons employed
in the Australian copper mines. Up to Iasi
September almost 500,000 tons had been
developed.
The members of the Syracuse (N. YJ
Brewers’ Union have been granted shorter
hours, an increase in wages and leas
stringent shop regulations.
It is claimed that excellent coke can be
made of Leavenworth coal. The Leaven
worth Coal Company have two ovens from
which sample coke has been taken.
The three months’ strike for a nine-hour
day by East Saginaw (Mich.) carpenters
has been settled. The point was gained
after a slight reduction m wages.
The Working-women’s Society of New
York City is circulating a petition to he
presented to the Legislature praying that
six women factory inspectors be appointed.
The Hiawassee Mining and Manufactur
ing Company, of Chattanooga, Tenn., has
been chartered with a capital of $1,000,000
to develop mines, quarries, etc., engage in
manufacturing, build railroads, eto.
The Cat’s Run Coke and Iron Company,
composed of Fayette and Westmoreland
County (Pa.) capitalists, has been formed
and will build 100 ovens, to be immediately
followed by 800 more in the summer.
The sash and blind makers of New York
have decided to start a co-operative estab
lishment. They have not been apio to get
the terms they want from their bosses a&d
have, therefore, decided to become their
own bosses.
The men employed around Chicago and
the lakes are organizing an assembly of the
K. of L., and what is to be called a Marine
Trade Council. Each branch of the trade
proposes to stick by the other in case oLa
strike or other grievance.
Eleven of the leading shoe manufactur
ing firms at Cincinnati have issued a circu
lar declaring their shops free, and that they
will keep them so, making no discrimina
tion on account of any one who is a member
of the K. of L., but that they will protect
all their employes against intimidation.
Labute Countt, Kan., is coming to the
front as a coal-producing section of the
Stute. Some time ago Mr. Burnsides, liv
ing near Chetopa, discovered a thirty-six-
inch vein of coal at a depth of forty feet, and
only a few days ago a Mr. Higgings passed
through a thirty-three-inch vein while sink
ing a stock well.
Findlay, O., will have another glass fac
tory. The new factory is Dalzells Bros. &
Gilmore’s, of Wellsburg, W. Va., who are
among the best known manufacturers of
pressed glassware in the Ohio valley. They
contract to erect a thirty-pot factory em
ploying three hundred gands, and to -be
ready for operation with the beginning 'of
next season.
WORSE THAN MOONSHINE.
LAMENT OF THE BLOODY SHIRT.
A la Whltaaa-Swlaburne.
I am in the shirt business, the political shirt
business, the ancient bloody shirt busi
ness, the shirt all o’er deep dyed with
gore and ruddy stains and freedmen’s
pains and negroes’ chains and moans
and groans and dead men’s bones and
freedmen’s skulls busted and Republi
can hearts thrusled with dagger’s blood
rusted ami every decent man Ku-Klux-
ted I
O, that deep-dyed, traitorous, treasonous,
villainous, poisonous Democrats unite
with us in decorating Union soldiers’
graves. I would rather far they flung
mud on those sacred mounds. I see
in this yearly growing affiliation of my
party with their party, this brotherly
love and lack of sectional hate, naught
but ruin to the dear old sacred, hal
lowed Bloody Shirt. I see, alas! its
blood-red stains washed away. \ see
it going. Its tail is being rent asun
der.
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E. P. Henderson.
Oh, shucks! and John Brown moldering
and so forth and all that sort of thing
and Garrison aud Sumner and Chand
ler and Andy J., and all the rest of
our sacred band who believed in blood,
and tubs full of it, and war and battle
and shootin’ and cuttin’ and slabbing
right and left. Right foot, left foot,
hay foot, straw foot and streets a foot
deep with Democrats and traitors—Oh,
where are you now, and can’t you
come back a day two and raise a row
and brighten up and carmine and touch
up the dear old Bloody Shirt ?
Ob, sad was the day when the blue and
the gray marched in peaceful array as
they did yesterday on upper Broad
way. Oh, sadder and madder and
badder I feel as I squeal and I feel how
the fates steal still so gently o’er me
stealing this horrible feeling that all
the old gory shirt feeling is from the
united country peeling. My head is
reeling with such peaceful dealing.
Oh, let me go somewhar, there’s a bar near
or far, for I’m dry for whisky, for I
need to assauage this terrible rage with
something strong and long, something
fiery and wiry and raspy and nasty.
[N. Y. Star, May 31.
A Man Takes Phosphorous for Years
Is a Total Wreck Now.
John Clayton, now in the city and county
hospital at San Francisco, is of particular
interest both to medical men and the world
at large as the victim of a rather new
“habit.” He presents the first instance in
medical science as known out here of a
“phosphorous habit,” and he has become as
complete a slave to this substance, which lie
takes in the form of pills, as any morphine
fiend is to his habit. The result is that he
has suffered tortures from blood-poisoning,
and his lower jaw bone has decayed so
that he has had to have it taken out.
Wheu he applied to the hospital for.
mission it was found that he was suffeNfg
>m neci
‘JT'ffB&'lfom a general
nervous system. His jaws were swoUi
and his mouth so distended that his ft
appearance was repulsive. His face hi
peculiar ashen pallor, different from thjat
usually produced by illness. The gums
were so contracted that portions of
the jaw were exposed. Pus had caused
blood-poisoning, and this produced such
intense pain that he * had been tak
ing daily half a grain of m jrphine. Clayton
said that while serving as hospital steward
of his regiment in the army fourteen years
ago he had seen phosphorous given to sick
soldiers as a nerve stimulant. Afterward,
when he felt some symptoms of nervous
debility, he began taking phosphorous plUs.
Evolution and the Preabyterlana.
In this position of Dr. Woodrow, (which
is the only part that concerns the Church
at all), he is sustained by a respectable and
growing minority in his own church, and,
in the church-at-large, by the overwhelm
ing majority of the great thinkers and
writers of our times. I name a few: Dr.
Robert Flint, divinity professor in the
Presbyterian University of Edinburgh,
Scotland; Professor Calderwood, moral
philosophy chair, in the same institution;
Professor Henry Drummond, of Glasgow
Presbyterian University, whose immortal
book, “Natural Laws in the Spiritual
World,” has passed through its fifty-second
edition, and now yields him the handsome
sum of $15,000 per annum in royalties
Every line of the book assumes the truth
of evolution, and yet the Free Church of
Scotland raised him at once to his profes
sorship upon the reputation gained by his
work! 3Ir. Gladstone, in his discussion of
Mr. Ingersoll, takes the same ground, as
anybody can see by reading his article r
the May number of the North Americi
Review. And Mr. Gladstone, for the first
time, so far as I know, adduces in this con
nection the words of Bishop Butler, con
fessedly the ablest defender of Christian
ity in modern times, showing beyond a
doubt that Bishop Butler’s patient and calm
reflection had already entertained, as far
back as May, 1736 (the date of his master
piece, “The Analogy of Religion to the
Course and Constitution of Nature”), the
great thought which Darwin has developed
with unrivaled power and cogency. See
North American Review for May. The
venerable James McCosh, D. D., LL.D.,
ex-president of Princeton College (Presby
terian), is just out in a book, “The Re
ligious Aspect of Evolution,” in which he
takes the self-same position as my friend,
Prof. Woodrow. The volume is from the
press of G. P. Putnam’s Sons, New York,
therefore is accessible to all reading
nly to reter to it.—Dr.
iemphis Appeal
D. 8. Henderson.
Henderson Brothers,
Attorneys at Law, Aiken, 8. C.
Will practice in the State and
United States Courts for South Caro
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lections.
James Albrich Walter Ashley.
Aldrich & Ashley,
Attorneys at Law, Aikf.n.S.C.
Practice in the State and United
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John Gary Evans,
Attorney-at-Law.
Will practice in the Counties
Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell.
of
Haviland Stevenson,
Attorney at Law, Aiken, 8. C.
Special attention given to Collec
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Edw. J. Dickerson,
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Will practice in all the Courts of
this State.
Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist.
-ofeice at-
Ghraniteville, Aiken County, S. C.
Dr. W B Courtney, Dentist
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Over Beckman’ Bank.
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A LOT of second-hand buggies that
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CO It SALE EXTRA CHEAP.
Wagons, road carts and all kinds
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Horse shoeing and all kinds of
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»nd
A Little Child Ron Over b,
A colored child about 3
e Street Car.
ears old, the
a. coiorea cniia about 3 years old, the
son of James Pettigrew, residing on Wash
ington street on the premises of Mr. Ed
ward Horlbeck, was quite seriously hurt
this morning by car No. 17 on the Enter-
B rise Railroad, and now lies in the City
[ospital.
It appears that the little boy, with his
sister a few years older than himself, were
selling plums at Mr. Horlbeck’s gate, when
the little girl threw a switch or stick on the
car track and the boy went to get it. Car
No. 17, in charge of Mr. Ben Lamb, was
dow. tie stm* .ndonjhedown
v ’ * *— - - - --- givde. The driver saw the child, but could
not stop his car in time to avoid the acci
dent and one of the wheels passed over its
leg, inflicting a severe wound. Policeman
Carroll picked the little fellow up and he
was carried, as above stated, to the City
Hospital, where his wounds were dressed.
He is still under treatment at the Hospital.
—Charleston Sun, May 31.
A Good Flogging More Effectual.
Andrew Tally, a negro prisoner, was re
leased from jail last 3Ionday on expiration
of sentence. He was arrested last August
on a charge of stealing a hat worth seventy-
five cents. Twenty days later he was re
leased on bail, and at the October term of
court he was convicted of petit larceny.
Not appearing for sentence, a sealed sen
tence was left and a bench warrant issued
for his arrest, which was effected on the
18th of October. He then remained in jail
until tbe Febmary term of court, when tbe
sealed sentence was opened aud he was
sent to jail for ninety days, which expired
last Monday, be having been in jail alto
gether eight inonihs. That little ease «>f
petit larceny has cost the county about one
hundred dollars. A good floeginp, admin
istered under sentence of a Trial Ju-ii< e,
would have been far more effectual punish
ment and would Lave cost the coutiiy litt'e
or nothing —Anderson Journal.
—• —-
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employees are thrown out of work
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into his nervous system, and so he kept it
up for several months. When he ceased
the practice he felt the former symptoms
returning, and so took up the phosphorous
again. He found that be could uot stop its
use without his nerves giving way; aud for
years he had used the drug unremittingly,
always carrying with him his case of pills.
For the last year he had taken daily one-
tenth of a grain. Physicians consider one-
hundredth part of a grain a regular dose,
and even then they carefully watch its ef
fect. The amount that Clayton had lately
been taking daily would kill au ordinary
man.
When he applied to the hospital the physi
cians told him that his only hope for his life
was in the removal of the jaw bone. This
was done, and the patient is now getting
on fairly well, though it is doubtful if he
can live. He is fed upon liquid food, and
a good deal of stimulant of various kinds
is given him, but he constantly begs foi
phosphorous, and craves it so much that
frequent hypodermic injection of morphine
are given to keep him quiet.
The Pathos of Dally Ufo.
Carlye’s thought that “there is no human
life, faithfully recorded, but is an heroin
poem of its sort rhymed or unrhymed,” is
forcibly called to mind by the follow
ing incident of one of the Dakota
blizzards: Mrs. Mary Chapman, the
young wife of a settler in the central
E art of the Territory, remained alone at
ome while her husband was away looirinp
after his cattle. The storm came on sudden
ly, and it was nearly three days before he
was able to get bank through the drifts, and
when he entered the cabin he found his wife
lying insensible on the bed. There v.-ui
just food enough left for a meal for her bus
band, and she had gone without eating for
two days rather than touch a crust of it
When brought back to cousciousuess the
noble little woman threw her arms about
her husband’s neck and cried: “ O, Jim i 1
thought you might come home nearly dead
with hunger.” This typical wife had a true-
soul sister in the heroine of a story that
w«»s not long ago published in the Loudon
papers: A little girl lay dying in a hevel at
Shoreditch. “ Now there will be enough fur
the rest to eat,” she said.
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