The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, April 20, 1882, Image 1

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Ijy E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C., THURSDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 23. 1882. VOLUME XVII. rWrllten for tho Anderdon IutelllReaccr.1 ^HlffO?EXCELLENT ESSA ?S. 'H BB- gubjoiued essays were rend before Kjate Grange, No. 2, at Slabtowo, I BK, l0tli, by D. K. Norris, and rc ^ BR:.i b7tlie (?raDge t0 be rubl?8hcd in ff Forage. Crops. I Brill"* 0at* CUt before tliey ar? ril)0 IJ Hjpjoperly cured and housed make MS, .silent feed. Cut up with a cut fflBinife. they need be supplemented by 'BLer corn nor fodder. BBB rj indian corn, sown at tho rate zafiro bushels per acre, on rich land, -'.fiMc?l sud cured when in the proper R yields largely of very fine forago. ?Bbird. Cow peaf, vine and all, cured 8BB bayt makes a No. i forage-all j; of stock being fond of it. ??be objection to tho above is they are HjHfLlfl, You have both tho labor of ?Lriog the landa and sowing the seeds HCyrth. Of crab grass, the expenso of Hjvatioo alone is against it. Lands ) BK manured with ammoniacal mauures, Swed, borrowed aud rolled, any time Hre the middle of May, with fair Bea fflf W?|1 yield more pounds of hay per K'tban fifteen acres of corn will of ? fHader. The writer has made six thou I BK! pounds per aero of as fino crab crass . BK y guy farmer could wish to 9ee, nod it too, on poor up-lands, but manured, course. The grasses of moat impor Hce to us now under the fence law aro BB perennials and pasture grasses. RED CLOVER Kewell adapted to our climate, and when r^"^r|y treated will give tho greatest aatia : ?tion. I Haw an half aero in October jit had continuously since May been Bzed by two large cows, and was then ??Iiog and rotting, aB they could no* ?Kp it down. It springs early in Spring, 9d causes a large flow of rich milk. It Build not be pastured beforo blooming, Sr during the heat ol' July and August, HBept on bottom lands perhaps. Tho Bnptation to disregard theso necessary ??cautions are great, but, if allowed, thc Bult would be killing, and then it is ?8(1 clover is not adapted to our climate. H a pasture, red clover is of more value ?MB hop than for either horaea or cattle. Sig astonishing how many hoga au acre HB fine clover will keep iu growing con WHITE CLOVER Bi also valuable in a mixture of seeds for RLture, furnishing an early ' a tn stock. Boee land is seeded to whit ?lover, and Bpcomes natural to it, whenever it is from Hider the plow the clover springs up. Hsro pounds of seed are considered ?hough per acre, as it spreads both from ns seed and root. BLUE GRASS. D This celebrated grass will flourish here, gp roy observations deceive me. In the Hwn of Anderson, and at the time grazed Bp by stock at pleasure, I have seen iso Hted but flourishing patches of it. I Has walking the streets of Greenville two Hinters ago with a friend from Louisville, ?By. We noticed a front yard well Bet Htfth it, and ho remarked it was ns fine as 3ge ever saw in Kentucky. I have it Hrowing in my pasture, and it promises He.ll. We mu3t rerr ember that in Ken HRicky and Ohio, whir? it grows with euch gSigor, the lands an capable of seventy 's ve bushels corn an acre. Make your Bauds as rich and Bee if it won't grow. ORCHARD GRASS, Hfl rich upland, furnishes u large amount Hf winter grazing, comes in carly in Hpring, spriggs rapidly after being grazed Hud stands drouth well. No pasture is H?rnplete without it. It is a tussock or Hunch grass, and should be sown thick to Hake entire possession of the soil. FALL MEADOW OAT GRASS Bfcn,la at the head of tho list among grasses for the South. It stands drouth S>esl, yields largely of Ano hay, makes the Boost vigorous growth in a pasture, fur gushes the moat abundant bite in winter ?nd springs very early in Spring. At fflpriatmaa the ends of the leaves are gpronuod by frost, but underneath there B' an astonishing amount of green that is Baten with avidity by cattle. On rich Spp-land it will grow six or ?even feet Epigb. and yield a large amount of seed, Which ripen before the Btraw turns, and Bnablea us to save both seed and hay. It W^ll grow on lands more sandy than any ?'hercultivated grass; and whilst rich Jew of soil tells with it as well as with ?oe other grasses, we can grow very good goat grass on landa not BO fertile, j Tho above three grasses and two clovers jahould be sown together on well prepared ?*ud in September, and used as a Winter, ?pring and Fall pasture. If you cannot ?ow them all, leave out any but the oat grass ; and if but one, by all means sow the oat grass. HERD'S GRASS ? well adapted to lands too wet ior cul tivation. There are hundreds of acres of '?w pipe clay landa that are fitted for no ?>her crops, that would yield good crops o? thu grass. Grow? well also on rich UP-land. It is more of a hay than pas ,ure grass, as the aftermath ia rather thin. With a well set winter pasture on fer tile land to supplement our usual short ?applies of food for winter, with crab jrass, broorasedge and stubble fields for ?te spring and summer, our stock will be cheaply and abundantly provided for. Provide also a clover patch for hogs, ?id a short corn crop with high prices ??r n eat in the future will have no terrors ?or you. Not?.-Seo Howard's Grasa Manual for "d' particulars of the above grasses and "??Oy others. I am indebted to him for moeh of the above. Dow to Control Labor. Let your manners and general deport ment be such as to command the respect ?' those under you, which with superior .oformation as to yonr business, and you ?ve at once made it easy to influence \ ?ose sround you. Keep your business i well in band, so that at any time, whether mud prevails or the dust is blinding, you can direct your labor wisely and employ it profitably. They know the instant they are put to a job to kill time, and nine times out of len 'twill be done. Expect and require an honest day's work. Indifference on your part at any time re sults in unfaithful laborers. Earnestness of purpose will always provo the con trary. Be prompt in seltlements, partic ularly when you are indebted, and so conduct your transactions that you mpy win their confidence. Remember, too, that their estimate of your integrity is made up from small transactions. Have distinct understandings as to duties to be performed and as to pay to be given. Allow such wages that they cannot afford to I %c tue position, or that will* draw it when needed; and experience teaches mo that fair wages are uot only just, but best. Yet, we farmers of South Caro lina, according to the Agricultural Re port for tho year 1880, gave, as an aver age, $7.32 per month for our labor-less than any SU?n in the Union. No won der so many of our ancestral laboren have recently emigrated to Arkansaa and elsewhere. A year's work here re" suits in $88 ; in Arkansas it is $140 ; ic Texas it is $145. Is is BO that our farm ing operations are less remunerative? 1 think not. A discussion jere would b( very natural and satisfactory to me fx follow up the question just raised, but J am circumscribed, and will return. Better pay results in permanent, relia ble and satisfied laborers. You will gel better work and moro of it. If not vol untarily, you can consistently requin more. Besides, where you aro spendinf or giving largely, your own inteiesta wil require more intelligent attention oi your part, which will alwayB result ii larger profits or in having more worl dono, and ia to be commended not onl< for its effect upon the laborer, but be cause your own attention is better se cured. "The eye of the master is wortl more than both of his hands." The profitableness or uuprofitablene!? of labor is in tho bands of each ono o you. The management Gr nii=?i=:jagtj ment of labor is a question of fairness firmness, liberality aud tact. Study th idiosyucracic8 of your laborers. liol yourselves above everything that islittl or mean. Be as indulgent of short comings aa is consistent, and thc resul will be an abundance of tractable laboi It will put a atop to emigration an make you masters of the situation. Treating a Cow Like a Lady. A man caiae into thc office on Tuesda with a black eye, a strip of court plaste across his cheek, one arm in a sling, cn as he leaned on a crutch and wiped tb perspiration awsy from around a lum on bis forehead with a red cotton hand kerchief, ho asked if the editor was ii Being answered in the affirmative, h said : "Well, I want to stop my paper." an he sat down on the edge of a chair ? though it might hurt. "Scratch m name right off ; you nra responsible ft my coudition." "Can it be possible ? we inquired. "Yes," said he. "I am farmer and keep cowa. I recently rea an article in your paper about a dair man's convention, where ono of the mo toes over the door was, 'Treat your co aa you would a lady,' and the article sa' it was contended by our beat dairyme that a cow, treated in a polite, geatl manly manner, as though she was a cen ?anion, would give twiro aa much mil he plan seemed feasible to me. had been a hard man with ray stock, ar thought may be that waa one reaaon n cows always dried up when butter w forty cents a pound and gave plenty milk when butter was only worth fiftei cents a pound. I decided to adopt yoi flan, and treat a cow as I would a lad had a brindle cow that never had bei very much mashed on me, and I decid? to commence on her, and tho next mor it?g after I put on my Suuday suit and white plug hat that I bought the ye Creely ran for President, and went to tl barn to milk. I noticed' the old cc Beemed to be bashful and frightened, bi taking od' my hat and bpwing politely, said r'Madame, excuse the seeming ii propriety of tho request, but will you i me tho favor to hoist?' At the Bar time I tapped her gently on tho flai with my plug bat, and, putting the t pail on the floor under her, I sat down i tho milking stool." "Did she hoist?" said wo, rather an ious to know how the advice of Preside Smith, of Sheboygan, the great dan man, had worked. "Did she bois Well, look nt me and eeo if you thu she hoisted. That cow raised right I and kicked me with all four feet, switc ed me with her tail and hooked me w) both horns all at once, and when I got out of tho bedding in the stall, and di my bat out of tho manger, and the mil inc stool out from under rae and beg to maul that cow, I forgot nil about t treatment of horned cattle. Why, s fairly galloped over me, and I never wi to read your old paper again." Wo tried to ?plain to him that t advice did not apply to brindle cows all but bo hobbled out tho maddest m that ever asked a cow to hoist in diplon tic language. ^ WHERE SLATE PENCILS COME EUC -Any ono who has children and w about forty times during a term, he complaints about their pencils, tb breaking or loss, will perhaps be glad know that tho supply is just about lu haastiblo. There is not tu* slight danger that thc world ?d' eve: want slate pencils. Thc hard black Gern ones have been superseded ol late, tho quarry near Castleton, Vt, ah thirtv-five workmen produce- &u; pencils daily, and it is proposed to crease the daily output to 100,000. 1 blocks when quarried are Ba wed i pieces seven by twelve inches, split b thickness of a half inch and smoothed a planer, the block is placed undei serai-circular knife and after having b turned over, tho process is repeated, J result is fifty-seven inch pencil. A i ticlo of quartz in the block would br all tho pencils. They are pointed b; grindstone turned, assorted and sent market in boxes of a hundred. - Tho gypsum beds of Texas are al 400 miles in extent, and contains largest deposit of this mineral to be fo any where in North America. The success of St. Jacobs Oil throt out the civilized world is without a ] allel.-Richmond ( Va.) Southern Pla and Farmer. A ROMANTIC COURTSHIP, True Sketch of How m Texas Lawyer Won n ?ride. Sunny South, Four jeir* ago, ia the progressive young city of Fort Worth, Texas, a hot blooded South Carolinian got into an altercation with a man, and was so un fortunate as to wound him dangerously. ?here were circumstances which greatly mitigated the guilt of the deed, but the excited citizens did not take them into accou?t. The young man was a stran ger, and appearances were strongly against him. He was thrown into jail, with every prospect of being fo'ind guil ty and sentenced to the. penitentiary. In bis extremity, he sent for a rising young lawyer of the place to visit him i in his cell, and entreated him to take his case in hand. "I have no money to give you as a fee," he said, "aud I shall not npply to my father. Ho bitterly opposed my coming West. I will not add to his troubles by letting him know my wretch ed situation. My home is Walhalla, South Carolina. I have a dear old father and mother, and I am their only son. I have a sister-as tender and noble a creature as ever lived. Their hearts will be broken if I am sentenced to the igno minious penitentiary. Will you not take my case?" The lawyer considered. He was yoting aud ambitious. His foot was on the lad der of his profession, and lie meant to raou;?t higher ; but this waa a case that could bring him neither gold nor glory. Then would bo no remuneration for hts efforts, and defeat was almost sure ; more over, to undertake tho case might make him unpopular iu the town. Ho had determined to be prudent; sohe.unnked the prisoner for his confidence in him, and declined to take the case. But after he had left tho jail, tho words he had heard in the cell, came to him with a persistent and pathetic appeal-"An only son, with doting old parents and a devo ted sister, whose hearts would bo broken if the shadow of the shameful peniten tiary should blight my life." He went hack to the cell and BrJd to thc prisoner, "I will take your case." Ill news flies fast, particularly in these days when the press and the telegraph give it wings. The terrible tidings of their son's impending doom reached tho far home among the hills of Walhalla, and brought woe to the fond hearts there. Tho parents found out who mould defend their non, and wrote to his counsel, the young daughter being their amanuensis. Her letter was so eloquent with feeling that it roused the young lawyer to a deep interest in the case. He wrote, feeling as though he were speaking, face to face, with that sorrowing, true-hearted sister, and tried to soothe and reassure, promis ing to do his best at tho coming trial. He kept his word ; but the tide was too strong for him to stem ; the case went against him, and the young Carolinian was sentenced lo the penitentiary for a term of years. Hit? counsel conveyed the sad news to hia friends aa gently aa possible ; then came a passionate appeal from tho sister. He must not give up he must take the case to another tribu nal. Willingly, but with little hope, he reviewed the conduct of the case, and found in it a flaw that gave him ground to appeal against the decision. He carried the case to the Supreme Court. It wa? some time hnfore he could obtain a hearing there, and in this trying interregnum, he bad opportunity through her letters to admire tho deep devotion, the clear sense, the hopeful energy of tbe prisoner's sister. An hour before tho case was called, he rece, /ed one of these letters--so a-throb with emotion and earnestness that it inspired him, and he made the best speech of his life, drawing tears from the eyes of the jury and tho court. The prisoner was acquitted ! He waa hardly more rejoiced at his freedom than was his counsel, whose first thought was of the sister and parents who waited the issue in agonized suspense, and whose firct act was to send tho message that brought relief. Then carno the out pouring of thanks from the old parents, through their girlish interpreter, accora t?nica by the prayer that he would send is picture. They wanted to see the face of their sou's benefactor. The picture was sent, and appeuded was a request that bc might have the privilege of pos sessing the semblance of bis fair corres pondent, who, though unseen, he could not think of as a stranger. His wish was complied with ; the little sun-pic ture of a sweet, womanly face was re ceived, and with it a frank, modest letter over her own signature. Then of course he must write to express his thanks, and his sense of the honor she did him in begging that ho would be ber brother's freud and adviser. Thus the correapon d ice did not end with tho case, but con tinued, and grew moro intimate, until tho two gained a deeper insight into each other's characters than face-to-face com munication would havo given. From this intercourse of soul, blossomed a feeling tendere? than pity or friendship. But the young lawyer had his way to make in a crowded profession. He must do it by hard work and close attention to business. He could not spare time or money to vi-.it the lady of his love ; his energies must be bent towards making a home for her, in which he boped she would preside, as queen of his henri and his hearth. Years went by. The young lady had suitors who pressed their claims ; but ber heart had been given to the generous defender of her brother. It was in vain that friends and relatives shook their heads incredulously, and called her a dreamer to fancy that this distant, never seen lover would keep the faith plighted in such romantic fashion. She held to her bellefin his honor, and cheered him with letters full of trust and affection. It was arranged at last that they Bbould meet, and the scene of this first meeting was to be Atlanta during the Exposition. He came at the appointed time, full of ardent expectation, and at once consul ted the poat office, expecting to receive a letter, containing the address of the friend with whom she was to stay. But no letter rewarded his frequent applica tion. There was a misunderstanding. Tho little lady believed she had given him the address in tho last letter he re ceived from her before ho left Texas. But she had neglected to enclose the card, or it had dropped out ot her letter. Days passed, ana each, unknown to the other, walked the crowded streets of the city a proy to disappointment and distrust. At >*st c*tne a gleam of hope in the sbr-pe of a line in tho society column of fhd CoiutUulion, saying that Miss Julia J. was stopping with friends on-street. The young Texan read it, seized his hat and hurried to tho resi dence named in the paragraph. The servant, who answered his ring, aaid that the young lady was about leaving for home ; she was getting ready, and would go on the train within an hour. But he must see her, ho insisted, and he sent up his name with an urgent request thatsbo would grant him a five minutes' inter view. She came down, at that, wearing a traveling dreas. She bowed and touched his band formally at first, but ! when bo grasped ber little band in both I bis and looked into ber face with frauk I eyes full of tenderness, distrust vanished, and she did not shrink from the clasping arms and the kiss which sealed the long betrothal by letter. Thc lady's departure was postponed; the Exposition, which bad seemed a dull adair, took on new glories, and deman ded a prolonged stay, that ?U wonders might bo examined. When at last the lover went back to his Western home, it was with the un derstanding that he wo.dd visit Walhalla at the first budding of Spring, and claim his bride. That he kept his word is at tested by a bridal card lying by mo as I write; whereon the names of Byron Johnson and Julia Johnson are daintily bleuded. On their way to their borne in Fort Worth, thc wedded pair stopped a few days in our city to visit relatives, and I heard from their own lips this ro mantic story of their courtship. THE COLUMBIA CANAL. The Work Actually Commenced trifler Favorable Omens. Columbia Register V2th luttant. In accordance with the suggestions thrown out by tito Register yesterday morning arrangements were made by tho authorities of the canal and city nud Ibo Board of Trade lo give some eclat to tho erasion. By ll o'clock about one hun dred persons, including Mayor Rhett and members of tho City Council, Vice Pres ident McCreery and members of tho Board of Trade and a number f promi nent citizeuB and ladies, had assembled on the bank of thc canal ia rear of the Penitentiary to witness tho initial steps in tho loug-wished-for development of our great water power. Mayor Rhett called tho company to order and in a few felicitous remarks, in which ho spoke of the honored custom of our fathers iu invoking ibo Divine blessing on all important works upon which they entered, he introduced the venerable Chaplain of the Ponitentiaiy, Rev. Wm. Martin, who oflered 'prayer in terms singularly appropriate to tho occasion. The Canal Engineer, Major Lee, then announced that as an appropriate signal of the commencement ol the work three rock blasts bad been prepared and would bo discharged. Tho ero .vd hurriedly nought shelter from exposure to tho frag ments of rock projected from the blast, and in a few moments Major Lee, accom Eanied by bis little daughter Miss Mel. ice, crossed to the East bank of the I canal, and, receiving from the hand of a convict a bar of iron heated at one end, I she with steady nerve applied it to tho I fuse, and retiring to the cover of a huge bouider near at hand awaited the explo sion. Three blasts followed in rapid succes sion, the air above them was filled with flying fragments which quickly fell in a shower to the ground, and tho first work on the canal was successfully nccom Eliched. The immense rocks which had Gen blasted lay in fragments varying fr rn an ounce to several tons, tho larger pieces ready to take their places in the new work, the smaller fragments being rapidly appropriated by the crowd as mementoes of tho enterprise now begun. Mayor Rhett then handing a ?pride to Colonel F. W. McMaster requested him, as the representativo of the citizens of Columbia, to throw tho first spndeful of earth, which he proceeded to do, without, however.raaking a very large hole in the proposed work. Fifty convicts with picks, shovels and wheelbarrows then entered vigorously ou the work of trans ferring the earth from the East to the West bank of the canal. The assembled company, after watch ing the operation long enough to assure themselves that the whole thing was not a dream but a hard fact, slowly retired from the scene. Passing through the Penitentiary yard the male part of the assembly lingered for a whil-i at the Superintendent's office, where tha? polite and attentive officer and tho Board of Trado had unread a lunch table to refresh the exhausted energies of those who bad engaged in the hard work of opening a canal. Here a few moments were spent in a general in terchange of pleasant seutimcnt and ?ood wishes for the new enterprise. Mr. IcCreery presided with his usual bon homme, ana the Mayor, the Superinten dent, the Engineer and tho press were toasted. Mr. McCreery stated thal the press had rendered invaluable aid in the work, and Mr. Pope of the Register remarked that they could be counted on to press the matter to completion. The hope was also expressed that so long na the canal project woj afloat the Board of Trado would always be aboard. The crowd then Blowly dispersed and came into town to spread the news that the first work on tho canal was an ac complished fact. From Major Lee we learned that the work will be carried on at tho point where commenced until the full width of 150 feet is opeued. This will require the blasting and removal of a Inrge body of rock, which will furnish ample mate rial for building up the river bank of thc canal at this point. MISTAKEN KINDNESS.-Mormon wa gons took sunflowers along with them on their way lo Utah, and Iowa farmers have a bard time fighting thc pest. A single Scotch thistle plnnted in Victoria -the Scotchmen there had a congrat ulatory dinner over it tweuty years ago has covered tens of thousands of acres and been the destruction of farms. The scattered grain empted from the bags cf German troop-ships in tho Revolution knocked millions oil' tho value of our grain crop for all time to come by bring ing the Hessian fly. A* careless man set out a French grape cutting a few years ago with phylloxera on it, nnd tho pest is now sprinkled along the Pacific coast, creeping inland. Its rnvoges in Eranco have cost $400,000,000. A man with a taste for peppery greens planted water cress in new Zealand, and tue little plant has spread no that tho local legislature hts to.appropriate a round Bum yearly to remove tho water cress out of existence and thc water courses. A kindly, mis guided man brought over to New York a basketful of sparrows, not twenty years ago, and tho little wretches have already driven half our song birds into tho woods. In South America tho samo thing was done, and the birds arc cleaning out the fruit crop. They will bo here some day. Natural selection is occasionally wiser in finding a place for men and animals than men. - Colonel Samuel Wallingford, of In diana, the apostle of Greenbackism in Abbeville county, delivered a speech at Ninety-Six, in that county, on Saturday last, in support of bis peculiar theory on this subject. The Abbeville Press and Ronner says : The crowd, from actual count, numbered twenty-three whit? men, five boys and four negroes." The conclusion arrived at by the reporter of the Press and Banner, after hearing the speech, is that "Ninety-Six can be put down as solid for Democratic Govcrn : ment. Home Rule and white supremacy." ! JESSE JAMES, TUE BANDIT. ! Incident* In the Career of the Outlaw- j I A Desperado who had Traits that might ' j have Made a great Leader. Letter from Sti'ston Ifntchim. j There uiiiy have been moro daring and ! desperate men in the olden time than ! Jcrfsc James, the Missouri bandit, who was assassinated last Monday at St. Joseph, but ?tb not probable that for audacity ,cool, ! calculating courage and resources of skill nnd endurance, bia equal has either been I seen during tho last twenty years, or sur j viveBhim. Outside of Missouri his name < stands for nothing but colossal theft and brutal ferocity. In Missouri orin certain sections of the State ho is better known and understood, and possibly more justly appreciated. For ten yenni Le has been the terror of railroads, banks, express companies and Pinkerton's detective force. As long ago as 1872, Pinkerton, the original, took a contract to catch him, and since that time Mr. Pinkerton's de tectives have been free warren for tho James boys and their gang. The mortal ity among them bas been excessively : largo and steady. lt in certainly instructive to reflect what Jesse James might have become if he had fallen into legitimate as well as congenial channels. In licensed murder or spoliation-like war-he had no su Cerior. Such a splendid courage as ho ns exhibited was surpassed on neither sido during the great civil war. He must have been a master of strategy, for he planned his campaigns with absolute pre cision. On every oucof his expeditions ho was forced to take a thousand chances. and yet coolly and sagaciously provided against every one of them. He was tho unquestioned leader of all his followers, and although the price sot on his hoad was enormous, he has beoti able at all times to protect himself from the treach ery of his gang ns well ns tho cupidity of hiB common enemy-tho public. Give such a man the command of an army and what laurels might he not have won ? His control of himself was moro wonder ful than his control over those who nerved with hiia. It ia reported of him that nobody ever know him to be disconcer ted-not even fora moment, no matter bow great the peril. His wits were like lightning flashes, and always at his com mand. They never fell short of tho ne cessities of bia situation. Most men tem porize, and fit their remedies to their dis orders. This superb villain always al lowed a liberal margin and took a bond of fate. In one of the last years of tho war he was captured at a Mississippi River town and put on board a steamer to bo taken to Memphis. Even then he was known to be a desperate man, and to prevent any attempt at escapo or suicido he was handcuffed to a I'ederal soldier-ono of his guard-and confined to tho lower deck. It was a desperate case and re quired heroic treatment. About mid night he struck his captive companion a stunning blow on the head, which killed him instantly, and without sound or alarm deliberately cutoff the arm of tho dead man to which he was handcuffed, jami ed into the river and swam ashore. I am not sure about my dates, but this story and tho one which follows I know to be in everything but rn-re detail, true. Before his jame had become the terror of the State of Missouri, ho was sup posed, with his broth' r and the YouDger gang, to have committed n daring bank robbery and murder nt a small town in the northern part of the State, and Pink erton put one of bis shrewdest uud bravest detectives on his track. James was at last overhauled at Hannibal, a town ninety miles or more above St. Louis, on the river. The detective knew bis man and resolved to take no chances. He waited until he found him seated in a barber's chair, bis face covered with lath er and his deadly bands folded in nis lap. The pursuer pushed open tho door of the shop, quietly drew his "Navy" to a dead cover and announced that if he moved ho would bo shot dead. James attempted to jump to his feet, but the handles of his heavy navy revolvers had dropped over on either side, and, coming in contact with the arms of the chair, fairly pinned him to it. As he rose the detective fired and the ball went crashing through his mouth, taking two cr three teeth along with it, glancing, passed out of bis neck. A faint conception of his splendid courage and presence of mind can be got from what bo did. Disen gaging both pistols from the chair, ho drew one in less time than it requires io record it and shot the detective dend, rushed from the room and mado his way out of the town to a safe covert, with a wound which would have deprived nine ty-nine men out of a hundred of their senses. There is hardly any doubt that along in 1874 both of the James boys houestly desired to call the old account even and nettle down to a peaceful life. Jesse, who is now said to be tho younger of the two, but I have always understood him to bo the elder, had a genuine love affair and contemplated matrimony. It was at this time that those who had known him and served with him during the war, applied to the Missouri Legislature for some net of amnesty or clemency that would injure the brothers against indemnity for their past if they would give security for the future, and this they agreed todo. The matter was discussed seriously, as the ex ploits or rumored exploits of the gang were doing infinite injury to thc State. As it seemed impossible to catch them or to prevent them from doing as they pleased, sensible men thought it best to accept the inevitable and legislate upon it. It was found impossible to do this. A pardon could not be granted foran un coil victed crime and the Jameses did not propose to put their heads in halters. For a year or two they were quiet, however. Jesse married, and it is believed, went to Texas with the notion of destroying his identity and becoming a good citizen, but he came back to Missouri, either ou a visit or to remain, and it was while ho was at bis mother's house-a Mrs. Samuels about forty miles from Kansas City, that Pinkerton's force surrounded the place . nd attempted to dislodge tho occupants by throwing in hand grenades. Ono ex ploded, killing a littlechild of Mrs. Sam uel's in the cradle, and tearing off her arm. This crazy act was an excuse and justification for a new campaign, and the James boys seem from that time to havo taken the field for life. Of the fifteen or more men who made up tho party which conducted thc sortie on the Samuels house it is said that all but three have been killed. Whether this is truo or no* I do not know ; but, when the Jamesy robbed a train on Hannibal Road last year, Jesse went though the cars until he found the conductor, who was the ?arno man in charge of the train that took Pinkerton party to Kearney years before, and killed him, giving his reason for it as he did so. 1 never saw either of the James boys to my knowledge, but Maj. John N. Ed wards, who was associated with me for many years, and who is the soul of hon or, strict integrity and chivalry, bad known them in war times and frequently had visits from them, of a very clandes tine and mysterious order. It Tras Maj. Edwards whom they called out of tho Kansas City Tarnet o?Rce, after they liad robbed the fair, and tossed him a big bundle of greenbacks. These tho aston ished Major refused to accept, and then it was they threw a watch at him and rode off. Maj. Edwards always believed that all they wanted was a chance to reform, and manfully fought to have thc public graut them an opportunity. Itccrtaiuly would have been mouev in the pockets of every Missourian if Edward's advice had been followed. One day a messenger banded in to me, while editor of the St. Louis Timer, a note, of which thc following is a verba tim copy. Major Edwards examined it and pronounced it a genuine document, and afrerwards learned that .Tense James had been in St. Louis at the time. The object of the letter, from the date and con tents, was to convey the impression that tho writer was in 'J'cxas. Tho letter has been kept sinco as a curiosity, and never before published : Special to the St. ?MU?S Times. EAGLE PASS, TEXAS, Oct 10, 1870. 1 stated iu an nrticlo I had published iu tho Kansas City Times last August, that Mr. Will Garrison, while he was pay master of tho Lexington and Scaalia Railroad, tried to havo a job put up to get robbed. A short lime alter I had that article published, my friend, who ?avo mo that information, told me that o was only joking in what he told mc; tliRt Mr. Will Garrison, Jr., was an hon orable and conscientious gentleman, and I feel it my duty, in behalf of Mr. O, to correct the misapprehension I made, iu regard to him. I have got a bad name, but under no circumstances would I in tentionally do anything to injure tho rep utation of an honorable gentleman, which I now believe Mr. G. to be. Respectfully, J. W. JAMES. It is not probnblo that Jcsso James could havo been captured in any fairway without the lesa of a good many lives. They tell incredible stories of his skill with a pistol, and anything that could bo done with ii horse or on one he did. His stud was a liner ono't han anybody'?, except Bonner's probably, but not BH royally stabled, ile bad the reputation of being very liberal with his old companions who needed he!p, and not at all quarrelsome or overbearing. His blows, if required, generally preceded any words. In tho western part of tho State of Missouri there was not a bridle path or a lane that he did not know. It was, therefore, al most impossible to surround him. It is not truo that tho people of those sections sympathized with him. They were in mortal terror of him and knew too well the fate of men who tried to betray him. His pistols were always ready. Even in the brief report of his killing, it is stated that he laid his revolvers on the bed whilo bathing his face, and then it waa that a buiiet was went crashing into his skull from behind. Probably that is ua fair a way to kill a mad dog, or a mad mau, or a human devil aa any other. Every body will breathe freer iu Missouri .low that bo is dead ; but one cannot help thinking what a man and hero he might havo made if he had only been started right and kept right. A Wonderful man. The "India Rubber Man," who has been a Bource of astonishment to medical men in Germany and England, arrived here on Tuesday, and was yesterday af ternoon tho subject of un examination by physicians and surgeons at tho Ash . land House, where he is stopping. M>*. G. A. Farini, to whose care tue "Gum mi-Menach" was consigned, acted as his introducer and interpreter, for Herr Heinrich Haag, the curiosity in question, who is a native of Nuremberg, ia a simple-minded upholsterer, innocent of any other language than German. kerr Haag is a lightly built German with reddish-brown bair, sandy mous tachu and whiskers, and blue eyes, and weighs only 130 pounds. The most criti cal observer, seeing him iu a Btate of repose, would fail to find anything queer about him. But all the medical men gasped when, seizing the skin of bis throat, be hauled it up so far as to com pletely mask his f*."?e up to thc eyebrows. Then he drew down the ?kin over each eye BO as to lay over on the cheeky pulled the skin at the point of his nose down to bia chin, clutched thc skin of his breast and hauled it out a good seven inches from his body, reached over his shoulder;; and dragged up flaps of skin that looked from the front as if ho was pu.ling an India rubber blanket over his back and seizing tho akin of Iiis kneo, drew it out sn far that he tv. isled it up in a knot aa ono might a w*?t. towel. Whenever the Bkiu waa let go Jt glided back smoothly into place without a wrinkle, and looked Uko anybody clae'B skin. The doctors crowded around thc India rubber -shinned man, tugging his cuticle in all directions, held lights behind the broad, loose flaps of lt, and slightly scorched it in their eagerness to see tho circulation of the blood in the delicato blood vessels of the skin. Mr. Haag showed a large scar on his right arm, where Prof. Leube, of Erlan gen, cut out a piece of skin to got at tho bottom facts about it. The scar has not grown fast to the flesh underneath, but pulls six inches away, as if it was merely a patched or darned ?pot in a loo-? gar ment. Prof. Leube found that there was no Hiib-cutAncous fat, that there was a strange lack of tissue between the skin and tho fleab, and that the porous pro cesses Axing the skin to the deep fascia are loose and long. The doctors agree that his is a surpris ing caso of dermatolysis, or "slippery 6kin."-New York Sun. SOON MATED.-In Houston, Ga., not long ago, a company of young folks met to enjoy a game of whGt. There was occasion for one of tho young women to remark that abe would never marry a man so liko Oscar Wilde that he should fall to the oestbetic depth of wearing his hair a la horse-tail. Her interlocutor bantered the fair Georgian to marry him, and os much to his surpriso as to that of the company, sbo accepted tho offer. The party of tho first part was rather elated than crestfallen, however, because tho party of the second part happened to be as wise as she was witty and as rich in purso aa she was rare in per.-onal at traction.-". Cards were abandoned ; a courier was sent with quick beela for a marriage license ; a judge was summoned as witness ; a clergy mau was hauled from his study ; and with a quickness that almost took away the bride's breath, she found herself a wife. As tho betrothal took place at 10 o'clock and the mar riage at li. oue hour only was consumed. In this romantic way Miss Maybelle Clark, daughter of .fudge Clark, of Americus, was wedded to Henry L. j Saudlin, a worthy and well-to-do mer chant of Houston County, i i, _ j - Thy mean man who has lived mean all his life and gives to tho poor by will after his death, is not what the Lord would call a cheerful giver. Ho would take his money with bim if ho could, and the reward ho gets for generosity is in proportion to tho cheerfulness of his giving. VOLTJ? Ki ?UITEAU INSANE ? Th? Question 1'renentcd lu a New Shape. CHICAGO, April ll, 1882. Mr?. Francis M. Scoville yesterday prepared a bill which was filed todny through her attorney, W. S. Johnson, praying.tlio couuty court that she bo ap pointed conservator of the estate and person of her brother, Cha?. J. Guiteau. The following is tho bill : THE TEXT OF THE BILI? State of Illinois, County of Cook-In couuty court of said county, in May term, 1882, petition of Frances M. Sco ville for tho appointment of a conserva tor of Charles J. Guiteau. To the Hon. Mason ll. Loomis, Judge of said County Court-Your petitioner, Francos M. Sco ville, respectfully represents unto your Honor, that she in a sister of one Charles J. Guiteau, wh-ise residenco is in Chi cago ; that said Guiteau is now insane ; thut said Guiteau is owuer of certain persounl estate, of tho value of several thousand dollars, consisting chiefly of copyrights, manuscripts, and other ob jects and rights pertaining to tho publi cation of literary works ; that in addi tion lo such personal property the said Guiteau is in receipt of a daily income of a large amount from the sale of pho tographs and autographs of himself, and that by reason of being insane, as above alleged, is wholly UNFIT AND INCOMPETENT to have the care and charge of such prop erty and income, that by reason of his so being insane, ns aforesaid, the legal rights ot said Charles J. Guiteau have become jeopardized, not only as to his property and income as nforesaid, but also as to his liberty and life, theroby rendering tho speedy appointment of a conservator for thc person and proporty of such insane person urgent and imper ative ; that on tho 2nd of July, 1881. in Washington, tho said Guiteau, while suffering from mental disease and not having sufficient mental power tocontiol the impulse of his disordered brain,- did shoot and wound ono James A. Garfield, then President of the United States; that afterwards, on tho 19th of September, thc said Garfield died, and thereupon tho said Guiteau was, in tho city of Wash ington, indicted and tried for the killing of tho Haid Garfield ; that during and Bince this trial many people bolteving thc : aid Guiteau insane at tho time of the shooting aforesaid, and cognizant of his helpless condition and financial needs, presented him, tho said Guiteau, with sums of money from time lo time ; that autographs and photographs of the said Charles J. Guiteau have been and aro being constantly sought for and paid for by a largo number of people. And your petitioner further shows unto your Honor that she is informed and believes that the said Charles Guiteau, insane as aforesaid, is about to negotiate, or lins already negotiated, for THE BALK OF HIS nODY, to bo delivered over after deatb, in tho event he is executed iu pursuance of tho sentence of death now imposed upon him? Wherefore, your petitioner prays for a speedy inquiry into the mode pro vided by law and according to tho statute of this State in such coses made and pro vided., of and concerning tho matters in this p?\...?* ancged. and that upon an adjudication hereof, in case such matters and things bo proven ns true, that said ?hurles J. Guiteau be by order of this Honorable Court duly adjudged insane, and that some fit and proper person be appointed by your Honor conservator of the person and property of tho said Chartes J. Guiteau, and as iii duty bound your petitioner will ever pray, etc. FRANCES M. SCOVILLE. THE TUIIN IN AFFAIRS. Thc aile ney for Mrs. Scoville in this case is William S. Johnson, of 99 Wash ington otioet, who is one of our brightest young criminal lawyers, and has much experienco in insane cases. In the cele brated Claret murder trial here Johnson cleared his client, Miunio Dixon, on the ground of insanity. He was formerly engaged with Emory A. Storrs in the practice of law. This is an unexpected turn of affairs in the ease, and while the question of bis insanity will bo tried here in Chicago, whether Guiteau is present or not, the case requires trial by jury be fore Judgo Loomis, and the question -viii again come up as to whether Guiteau was insane or not nt the time of the shooting ol President Garfield. Newly discoveroi ?dence will be introduced nt the trial of the case in Chicago. Many witnesses who were not present nt the Washington trinl will bu in attendance hore at tho next term of tho Circuit Court in May. OUITEAU'S OPINION EXPRESSED. WASHINGTON, April H.-Guiteau has I issued a card in reference to Mru. Seo ville':! petition for a conservator of bis estate. Ht -'escribes the petition as im pudent says his only properly is the copy ..?j?it of his book issued to day ; that bc is not a lunatic was officially decided on his trial ; and that his legal residence is not in Illinois, but in Washington, and concludes that the Scovilles are nui sances. BETI'Y AND HER BABY. The Betty and the Baby fund has reached seven thousand dollars. Mrs. Mason deposited to-day one thousand five hundred dollars in Bigg's bank. She and her telatives are disappointed in the amount of contributions. She does not wish her husband pardoned if it re sults in keeping bim in tho army to servo out his enlistments, as she wanta him to use his money to buy a Virginia farm ; $3,000 aro expected to-morrow frcm Phil adelphia. The Sergeant states that he ts well treated at the prison. THE DATE OF THE FIRST EASTER. .lust now there is a great deal of discus sion in the religious press as to the date of the first Easter. One author of a lending Bible commentary maintains thnt the old idea that our Lord's pasJrn and resurrection occurred in A. D. 85 (given in most Bibles which have dates Sn mar fins) was founded on thc traditional be ief that Ho was about thirty-three year? on earth, combined with the idea that the date of His nativity was four years later than it really was (the actual dato of the event being, in all probability, B. C. 4). Tho only real doubt about the date of the resurrection is whether it was A. D. 29 or SO. Now astronomy tells us that the full moon, which would be Pas chal in the former years, fell on a Sat urday - April 16 - which ls inconsis tent with the circumstances narra ted. But in A. D. 30 the full moon was 1 on Thursday, April 6, on which the Pass over meal was eaten, and our Lord suf fered the next day (in our reckoning the same day in Jewish jon which other obser van :es connected with the Passover were still to bo kept. This, then, without a doubt, was the tino year, and, if so, of course the first Easter was on April 9th, which day the Christian world this year celebrate. - "Let's 'lustrate it," hiccoughed a political orator. "Ita beautiful. You seo. an old farmer comes to town loaded with new wheat, an' ho goes home loaded with old rye." IE XVII.-NO. 40. News and Gossip. - Would it be vulgar to call coothing syrup a kid-nnppcr? - The latest novelties in carnied goods are frogs and sweet potatoes. - A mau cannot smoke a cigar too short unless ho smokes it too long. - A boil io the kettle is worth two on the nose. A corn on the ear is worth two pn the toes. - 589,514 gallons of corn whiskey were made (according to law) in North Carolina in 1881. - Of course smoking is worse than chewing, for the old adage says, "of two evils che ivs the least." - Five thousand Cl.icagoans under took to send valentines through the post office without stimps. - A couple recently divorced in Los Angeles, Cal., repented, made up, and wero remarried the next day. - Tho City Council of Chattanooga, Tenn., has issued an order for the de struction of the English sparrows. - "Ob, Martha ; do look at that fleshy young man reclining against tho lamp post there. Isn't be soul-ful?" "No, dear ; he is beer-ful, I think," was the answer. - Wm. Walton of Kentucky, has do cided to visit tho capital of every nation on thc globe, bearing a United 6ta?>s flag, and earning a day's wages in each of those cities. - Thc residence and outbuildings on plantation of C. M. Ames, in Spartan burg County, were destroyed by fire on the first iustant. Loss $2,500. No in? miranee. Incendiary. - Dr. J. L. Westmoreland, of Green ville, bas recovered a verdict against the Columbia and Greenville Railroad for $0,200 fer damages sustained by an acci dent on that road in January, 1881. - A cynical writer says: "Take a company of boys charing butterflies, put long-tailed coats or- the boys, and turn the butterflies into doi'?rs, and you bav?, a beautiful panorama of tue world." Eugene V. Clad, of Philadelphia, has been arrested for mutilating coin. His plan was to take a $5 gold piece, saw of. tue top, take out about #2.40 worth of gold, and fill the cavity with platinum. - Young man, we eat all tho rind here, said a boarding-house keeper to a boarder who was taking off the outer portion of a piece of cheese. "All right," replied the boarder, "I'm cutting thia off for you." - Miss Julia Jackson, tho daughter of Stonewall Jackson, basa will of her own. "Remember," she once said to her mother haughtily, "that I am a Jackson." "Yes," said Mrs. Jackson, "and I am your mother." - "Do you pretend to have as good a judgmei.t as I have?" exclaimed an enraged wife to her husband. "Well, no," no replied slowly, "our choice of ??artners for life shows that my judgment B not to be compared with yours." - Carlyle being once ssked the diflfar ence between a natural fool and an edu cated fool, replied, "Just about tho dif ference between you and me, I suspect.'* Tbe questioner was nover able to deter mine which kind of a fool he was. - "Ella, is your father at horns?" said a bashful lover to his swe _ "I want lo propose something to bim." "No, Clarence, papa is not at homo, bnt I am. Couldn't you propose to me just as well?" And be did, with perfect success. - "The sentenco of the court is," said Judge Porter, a popular Irish magistrate, to a uotorious druukatd, "that you be confined in jail for the longest period the law allows ; and I hope you will spend your time in cursing whisky.'. "I will, sir ; and Porter too." - The will of Mme Autran, widow of the French poet, baB just been opened at Marseilles. Mme. Autran, who waa twice married, dc-sires in this document that her heart be huricc. with M. Autran, but that the rest of her body should be laid to rest in the tomb of her first hus band, an American, named Fitch. - A-Vermont watchmaker bas en riched tho world with "a clock which acts out tho assassination of President Garfield." Tho trains run into tho depot, Guiteau fires his shot, the President is carried off, a clergyman enters reading tho funeral service, and finally the assas sin is worked off with punctuality and dispatch. - Among the numerous pension bills passed by the House is oue granting a pension to the aged mother of Jennie Wade, killed ou the field of battle at Gettysburg. She had gone to the field to take care of her betrothed, a young ser geant, who was fatally wounded, and also to assist in tho caro of olher soldiers, and was shot while baking bread for tho sol diers during the battle. - In tho matter of the South Carolina cases, which Mr. Benny Brewster pre tends to have so strong a desire to push through in a disinterested manner, there is little to say yet. The proceedings thus far have developed but one thing, and that is, that the United 8tates govern ment officers are displaying a strangely tyrannical spirit in refusing to allow the accused persons tho time which they ask for to prepare their cases In.-Atlanta Constitution. - A circus agent visited the assassin Guiteau in his cell at Washington jail recently and purchased two snits of clothes from him. Fo" the suit ?. "Tn by Guiteau nt tho timo he shot the i'reai ! dent $250 was paid. For tho snit "irons I by Guiteau duriog bis trial, and when I Jones shot bim, the agent paid $100. Guiteau did not hesitate to part with bis clothing, and when informed that the suits were to be exhibited on plaster casta I of himself, now being made for the circus I proprietor, he was much elated. It tickled his vanity, and the chances are that if the agent bad been smart he could have secured the clothes for nothing. - The Greenville New? says : "Can a Keat Government which resorts to jury >x stuffing conscientiously prosecute anybody for ballot box stuffing? Isn't it all stuff anyhow ?" The facts upon which the News bases its charge are rather conclusive. For instance, from Greenville county, which contains about 5,500 while voters, of whom 5,800 are Democrats and 200 Republicans, two jurymen for tho V. S. Circuit Court were selected, and both of them were white Republicaus. This fact is, in the lan Suage of Bill Nye, about the site of a ale of ha' But Greenville is not the only cout which is called upon to wrestle wita such problems as 53 into 2 equals 2. Wo, however, say that they are worked by the new and improved Federal arithmetic ; while our esteemed remarks very impolitely that the juries aro packed. Merely a slight difference of opinion.-Sumter Spirit of th? 7?m<?.