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BY E. B. MURRAY & CO. ANDERSON, S. C THURSDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1886. VOLUME XXI.?NO. 44 Te}??he}^' Column, J. G. CLINKSCALES, Editor. Me. Editor : In passin* the Dean ville School a few days ago, I was kindly invited by Miss Maggie Graham, the efficient teacher of the same, to call and witness some of the exercises of her Bchool. I readily accepted the invita? tion, and I must say that for more than thirty minutes I was delightfully enter? tained, first in glancing hastily through the copy books, which were produced by the pupils, and noting the progress that each one, even the smallest, bad made in penmanship during the term; then in hearing them recite their "gems," beau? tiful selections from various authors; and, finally, which was indeed a perfect treat, in witnessing the whole school go? ing through their Calist -enic exercises. From what I saw and beard during my brief stay in the school room, I was deeply impressed with tho pains-taking of the teacher. Miss Graham handed me three compo? sitions, which she desired mo to examine at my leisure, and decide upon their re? spective merits, as she had offered a prize for the beat. The writers of thest? com? positions are Master Ossie Dean, aged 14 years, and Misses Clayton aud Annie Dean, aged respectively 10 years. Their subject was "our country." I called in Mrs. L. to my assistance, and, after care? ful perusal, we decided, first, that all of the compositions were good, and reflected great credit upon the youthful writers, exhibiting their knowledge of their own country, of what it produced, of its prin? cipal rivers, mountains, sea ports, &c, and, second, that that of Miss Clayton seemed to have excelled in only one par? ticular, and that was in its general arrangement. Hence, we decided that she should receive the prize. B. C. L. "writing makes an exact man, reading, a beady man." And the diligent practice of both will produce the full-fledged scholar. It is a well known fact that one of the greatest improvements in the system of modern pri? mary education is the prominencegiven te writing in oar schools. Ten or fifteen years ago a daily exercise of writing in a copy book, with an occasional compo? sition thrown in, constituted about the training of the average scholar in this moat important department of education. The former of these exercises required no mental labor whatever, and the pupil might scratch along through the copy and plan at the same time the modus operandi of certain games to be played daring recess. The latter exercise was scarcely more profitable, either from the nature of the subject given, or because the child was not mentally able to ex? press itself in a half dozen sentences on any subject. It was like attempting to teach a child to run before it knew how to walk. Now, writing is reduced to a complete system. We have the A. B. C's. and the gradually rising steps in the depart? ment of English written compositions. The scholar has his written grammar exercise as regularly every day as he has his spelling lesson. No pupil is allowed to treat any subject in all of his or her verdant originality until the way has been thoroughly paved up to that point, and we have no more such ebullitions of despairing effort as the little fellow poured forth, when, on striving for a long time to write a composition on "Thought" he jotted down,''Thought is the hardest thing to think about that ever I thunk on." The result of all the new methods has been to make a child of ten years a better writer aud a better thinker than a boy or girl of fourteen used to be. Writing, however, is not what I wish chiefly to discuss. Every teacher is well acquainted with the above facts, aud fully realizes the many advantage of the new system. Now for the "secondly" of my text: "Beading makes the ready man." In this department I think there is large room for improvement, especially in our country schools. Teachers, as a general thing, in their effort to train their pupils to read correctly and fluently, seem to lose sight of the far more important object, namely, to make the child inter? ested in the subject matter of its lessou, and to stimulate within it the desire to read from sources than that of the text book. Now, in a town, very few children need such a stimulus. From the libra? ries, picture books, gaudy advertise? ments, etc., they become fascinated enough with the delightful accomplish? ment. There the trouble lies in educat? ing them up to a taste for wholesome literature. In the country, however, matters are different. Here, the scarcity of books and papers, bad lights at night and a separation from the current news of the day, all serves as a damper to any latent desire to read. With the same school advantages, in proportion to their ages, I believe that an average town boy or girl of twelve years can read better and more understandingly than the aver? age couutry boy of sixteen; and all for the want of interest and practice in the latter case. Apart ffom the advantages to be derived from reading, in itself, it has been my experience, and no doubt the experience of every teacher, that those pupils who have the greatest fond? ness for reading?reading at home?are the most proficient in their other studies. The reason of this is quite obvious. The mental powers are kept in constant ex-1 ercise, a vocabulary is acquired, and the j nature of words and the structure of sentences are better understood, all of which lead to a more ready comprehen? sion of grammar aud mathematics. In one of my grammar classes there was a boy, about sixteen years old, who, after he had recited a few lessons, aston? ished me very mucii by the ease with which he mastered the dutita assigned. The text book used was "Beed and Kel logg's Higher Grammar," aud though this boy was going through the wor': for the first time, yet, in the analyses of sentences, he never failed to detect the most delicate shades of meaning in? volved, and exceedingly seldom was it that he required any aid in his diagrams. 1 felt that I was doing the boy injustice in keeping him back with the claw, and so I told him one day that he might go on by himself as fast as he was able. Nor wa3 his ability due to any special talent for grammar alone, for he was equally apt in every one of his other studies. I naturally became very much 'interested in this youth and began to make inquiries as to his previous educa? tional advantages. I was told that he was the oldest son of a widow in very limited circumstances, that he had been to school but little and very irregularly, and that he paid for his schooling him? self by workiug in a brickyard. This indicated a pluck, a' determination to succeed, as rare in-one of his chances as fountains in a desert, still, it did not account for his singular ability. One day, however, I learned that he was a great reader; that he had been taking the Youth's Companion for a number of years and that he literally devoured, digested and assimilated every line of its contents. Ah 1 here lay the whole secret. The mystery was solved. Here I beheld his school, his teacher, his text books, and the source of all his inspiration. The paper was about all that he had to read, yet he read and remembered. I spent the night with him once and with? in his mother's little log cabin, before the blazing hearth. On that January evening, we talked of Calhoun, Webster, Burr, Preston, Stevens, Toombs, Gladstone and others, and I found him as conversant as an average college graduate on the lead? ing topics and distinguished men of the day. As the conversation turned upon the classics in a liberal education, he said: "Wait, I will show you an article on that subject," and taking a little blank book from his coat pocket, he began run? ning over a long index, turning leaf after leaf, until he came to what he was look? ing for. Then, going to one corner of the room where there was a box full of his papers carefully preserved, he drew out a copy from near the bottom and showed me the article to which reference was made. Boys, girls, teachers, profess? ors, how ofteu do you find such spirit, such energy, such germs of inevitable greatness in your experience ? I have read of such, but I never had the privi? lege of coming in contact with such be? fore. Lot the world wag as it may, pluck like this will clear its own path to the front. Fellow-teachers, endeavor to make your pupils interested in good reading, so that they will read at home. This will stir up their dormant energies, and make them anxious to excel. It is true, as I have said before, that there are a great many drawbacks in the country to the accomplishment of this end^ yet much good cau be done with persever? ance. In my "visiting round," as we pedagogues call it, I find that the average library of my rural friends consists of about a half dozen books, and as I glonce at the title, I can read between the lines of most of them, "Book Agent, Book Agent, Book Agent," and in these titles I beheld more substance than upon the leaves of the volumes to which they be? long. Then, one thiug for a teacher to do is to try to interest bis or her patrons upon the subject of reading and prevail upon them to subscribe to some suitable paper for their children, or purchase for them suitable books. Then we should talk to the children upon the subject in school, read to them the most interesting selec? tions that can be found, and draw liber? ally upou one's own stock of common sense and judgment for other available means. The first, second, third and fourth readers are generally very inter? esting to scholars, but after they have been through the fourth reader twice, they want to take up some other book, and, I must confess, I can find no fifth reader that is worth the paper it is writ? ten upon. When I took charge of my school, the text book used by the highest reading class was "Shepherd's Historical Reader," and after I had taken my class half through it, honestly, I do notbelieye a single individual could have shut the book and given me the name of any subject read about, uuless, perhaps, it was that of "George Washington." This work is made up of admirable selections from the best writers, but interesting only to those who have a very fair knowl? edge of the world's history. I have about thrown aside the work now, and require the members of this class to select every night some suitable piece, whether from a book, newspaper, or even from an almanac, to read at their recita? tion next day. I find they like this method of reading very much, and I am convinced that it is far better than me? chanically stumbling through unintelli? gible matter. Well do I recollect the utter disgust I entertained toward my fifth reader?"Sterling's" I believe it was - -and to this day I can recall the blank ?erse of Shakspeare and Milton I floun? dered through, and how I gazed in un? feigned astonishment at ray honored instructress, when she spoke of the beauty aud sublimity of these produc? tions. 1 would go home and pore Over my "Arabian Nights," and wish we could read stories like those at school. I believe nothing will interest boys and girls more, in the matter of reading, than for them to subscribe to some good weekly paper. Let it be sent to them in their own names and let them consider it their own property, and by the way, I think the Youth's Companion, (without expecting to be paid for this advertise? ment) is the be3t paper iu the world for young people.? W. K, Blake, in Carolina Spartan. ? A young blacksnr a wroto his ad? vertisement, stating that all orders in his business would be promptly executed. By mistake, it was printed, "All others in this business will be promptly execut? ed." An old blacksmith, on seeing the notice, threw up his hands and exclaimed, "Has it come to this, after thirty years of honest toil? Law, me ! W>H !" ? A Boston lady last summer attended a funeral in a country church. After the singing of a hymn, a man who was sit? ting beside her remarked: "Beautiful hymn, isn't it, ma'am ? The corpse wrote it." ? "What is your circulation?" asked the inquisitive individual of an editor. "Blood, principally," was the calm reply.! "Prohibition." Editor Intelligencer: All thinking men here long jince reached the conclusion that the whiskey traffic is a monster evil. People nowa? days do not discuss whether or not it is an evil, but the public mind is centred on the remedy for the evil. There are a great many good men in the city of Anderson to-day who wouldn't hesitate to vote a "no license" ticket if they were convinced of the fact that the sale of whiskey would be strictly prohibited. The question is not, can the law be en? forced, but will it be enforced ? for no reasonable man doubts that it can be done. Eight along this line comes the trouble. Of course every one is bound to admit that the mere law in itself is worth nothing. All other laws are in the same fix. SomeAnti-Prohibitionists argue that the law: that we have now regulating the sale 'of whiskey are not enforced, and we cannot be expected to enforce any other laws that we may ob? tain. It is true that some of the laws that we have now are not enforced, and this very fact has been the means of weakening the cause. But do not our people expect too much of "whiskey laws?" These laws are not the only laws that we have in South Carolina that are not euforced ; a careful examination will show that there are a great many laws upon our Statute books that are either not enforced at all or only partially so. When a law is not enforced it is the fault of the people and not of the law. No law is worth anything uuless it is enforced. A law prohibiting the sale of whiskey can be enforced as well as any other law, and will be enforced if the people were made to see their duty. Some people contend that public senti? ment should always be in advance of legislation. This is generally true, for the people enact the laws, and the laws would not be enacted if public sentiment didn't realize that the law was needed. A majority of the people rule, and we say that if it takes a majority to enact a law, there is certainly sufficient public sentiment to enforce it. However, we have one instance in Anderson County where legislation went ahead of public sentiment. We refer to the stock law. If the stock law had been left to a vote of the people, it never would have carried. The Legislature, however, in its wisdom, saw proper to enact the law over the heads of the peo? ple. What has been the result? The people of the County to day wouldn't go back to the old way for any consideration. See what a great difference there is between public sentiment in the stock law and public sentiment on Prohibition ? A majority of the good citizens and property holders of the City of Ander? son favor Prohibition. The majority that will vote the law is amply sufficient to enforce it, and if it is not enforced it will not be for the want of sufficient public sentiment on the subject. It is true that we have in our ranks some weak'-kneed men, men who are wanting in backbone, but the cause is not to blame for that. On the other hand, we have some men who have the courage to do their duty when it is pointed out to them. We fear that some of our people en? tertain wrong ideas in regard to what their duty is towards enforcing the laws of our land. Some of them are afraid to act as public informers, and they stand by and see the law openly violated in the broad light of day and never open their mouths. This is wrong, and we believe they can be made to see the error of their way. Every law that we have is enacted for the good of the peo? ple, and it i3 the duty of the people to enforce it. We don't mean that every citizen should become a detective and sneak around corners and eavesdrop. Not at all. But when they, in the ordi? nary discharge of their duty, see the law openly violated, then it becomes their duty to prosecute the offender. Not through malice or spite, but through a sense of their duty as citizens whose duty it is to keep down crime by punish? ing the men who yinlate the law. It is the duty of the Temperance people to recogniz5 this fact and to stand up for peace and good order. If we carry pro? hibition next December we must vote it with the strong determination and fixed purpose of enforcing the law to the very letter. If wo do this, Prohibition will be safe for years to come. If not, we must take the consequences, for it will be our owu fault. Let me then say to those who keep out of our rau: * because we have some weak kneed followers, come into our ranks and bring strength with you, and help us to carry Anderson for Prohibition and en? force it after wc get it. Try us one time, lend us your strength and support, and if we make a failure in enforcing it you can leave us. Temperance. A Touching War Event. A pathetic incident of the war has been recalled that baffles fiction. This is the touching story: Miss Annie Pickens, daughter of the Governor of South Carolina, was to be married April 23, 1SG3, in Charleston, to Lieutenant Andrew De Rochelle. The wedding party had assembled at the Pickens residence, and the clergyman was asking the bride if she was ready, when a shell from a Union gun in the harbor broke into the room and burst. Nine persons were hurt, but only Miss Pickens' wound proved fatal. She bore the pain with wonderful fortitude, and was unmoved when informed that she had only an hour to live. De Rochelle said that he would like to have her die his wife, and the poor girl smiled sadly ,n assent. The guests remember the scene as far more pitiful thao can be described. The bride lay on a sofa, her white dres3 dabbled in blood and her long hair dishevelled, while her pallid face was so wrung with agony that her efforts to smile became futile. The cere? mony was hurriedly performed, though the bride's "Yes" was in a faint labored whisper, and her lips hardly moved in response to her husband's kiss. She died immediately afterward. ? A Modern music-seller announces, "Thou Hast Loved and Lelt Me," for ten cents. Reply to "Fanner's Son." Mr. Editor : I did not mean in my article in reply to "Farmer's Son" to state that the average of $57 per head was paid in duties direct to the govern? ment;. Far from it. We purchase very smally from John Bull, in the South. The way this amount comes in is this: An English merchant can sell in New York a suit of clothes for ?12 and make a reasonable per cent, on his investment. Add the tariffand ha cannot sell the same suit in New York for less than ?20. IJow, the American manufacturer comes just under the line, so as to crowd out the Englishman, and sells the same suit for $18, two dollars cheaper than the Englishman can and make a per cent., and yet the American gets $6 clear profit from the purchaser. Not one cent of this ;6 goes to the government, but the tariff is the direct cause of the purchaser losing sis dollars from his pocket. A pocket knife that costs a farmer 30 cents could be purchased for 20, were there no tariff. He gets an American knife, yet pays 10 cents overcharge. That does uot go for revenue, but to American manu? facturers. On nearly every farmer's dining table can be found English crock? ery. The amount of tariff he pays for | that goes to the government. We, Free Traders, are simply working to try to get the tariff rates so low that the enormous amount that is yearly being drained from the West and South to enrich the Northern States shall bo stopped. We do not want to be taxed to keep North? ern manufactories running. We are not objecting to the amount actually paid to the government for duty on articles ac? tually imported, but we do enter a sol? emn protest against the system of plun? dering the whole of the people to enrich a few. "Farmer's Son" is one farmer out of a hundred. I do not disagree with one thing he says, but I wanted to show what an enormous thiDg the tariff business is. Where he can repose under home-made blankets, there is one hundred that can not. Now, we do not waut them to pay 90 per cent, on the blankets they buy, and of course urge them to follow the example of "Farmer's Sou" if they can. Let us do the most good that we can. If "Farmer's Son" can make his own blan? kets, and pay cash for all he buys, and not depend on the merchant for it, let us give him praise for being on the right road to successful farming, but. let u3 not lose sight of the hundreds that can not do as "Farmer's Son" does. Let us cor? rect every evil that tends to keep them down. The tariff is a great one, so let us do away with the tariff. Of course, the whole North will be almost solid against free trade, but as Prof. Means Davis says, "it is like a snow-ball, en? larges as it goes." We cannot expect to change things in a moment, but we can gradually enlighten the people until they will, by the might of the ballot-box, change them. I am glad "Farmer's Son" is in favor of a revision of the tariff. I invite him and"every one in the County to send their names to Prof. Means Davis, Columbia, S. C, and be? come members of "The Free Trade As? sociation of South Carolina." As to the remedies and means to be used in bring? ing about this reform, I have not space to speak. But I will say that the far? mers of Anderson County annually pay out thousands upon thousands of dollars needlessly that would be saved them, were there no tariff. As to the exact amount no one can say. I followed the calculations of Mr. Montyredin, one of the best posted staticians in England. This amount is not actually paid to the government on imported articles, but on articles of American manufacture, sold at a price artificially raised by the tariff, which prevents the competition of for? eign merchants. G. T. B. A Strange Case of Dropsy. About five weeks ago Dr. Garmany was called to see a negro man named Jeff Livingston on Mr. J. D. S. "Livingston's place, near town. The negro was greatly swollen with dropsy. In a few days his skin burst in about twenty places, and a large quantity of water escaped, which gave him much relief. The doctor then drew water off from the chest and the region of the heart, and the patient ap? peared to improve. Two weeks ago a white streak formed around the patient's legs and spread within twenty-four hours from a little below the knees to the soles of the feet, and became "as white as "white paint," as the doctor expresses it, In a few days a watery fluid began to ooze from the affected portions, and the flesh and bones, beginning at the soles of the feet, began to como off, and con? tinued until they were gone nearly up to the knees. The patient has a good ap? petite, is not emaci .ted, suffers no pain of consequeuce, and, except some organic affection of the heart, would be well enough and strong enough to be at work in the field but for hiariegs. . The Doctor says he never saw such a case before. Dr. Ruff says he knew a white man in this County forty or fifty years ago who was similarly affected as to his hands and arras. They rotted off to the shoulders, and the man died. Dr. Ruff says the disease is Yaws, and is ex? tremely rare. Dr. Garmany told the patient a few days ago that the only chance to save his life was to amputate his legs above the knees; that if the arteries were sound it might preserve his life, but if they were diseased he would be liable to bleed to death. The pstieut expressed a desire to have the operation performed, saying that if the worse must come ue would rather bleed to death than rot t j death. Yesterday afternoon Dr. Garmany, as? sisted by several other physicians, took off the patient's legs above the knees.? Ncxcbcrry Observer, April 29. ? In Galveslou on Thursday Edward Burke, in a drunken rage, fatally stabbed his brother John and immediately realiz? ing whaC he had done, wept bitterly and shot himself through the brain. ? Mrs. Dunmire, the divorced wife of Guiteau, the assassin, is in Washington for the purpose of getting a pension for her present husband, who is a resident of Leadville, Col. She is accompanied by her little son, born since her sr-eond mar? riage. THE COMMUNE IN CHICAGO. Riotous Proceedings of tho Foreign Labor Element. CHICAGO, May 4.?The rioters arrested yesterday are Bohemians, Poles, Ger? mans and Irishmen, two Irishmen out of a dozen arrests. About one hundred men employed in the Union Steel Company's works at Bridgeport, as laborers, yester? day demanded ten hours' pay for eight hours' work. As it is perfectly impossible for the foundry to work only eight hours the demand was refused, but the manager offered to raise the pay of the men from $1.25 to $1.40 for ten hours. This offer was refused, and the men at once walked out of the works. The North Side rolling mills shutdown yesterday for an indefinite period, and about 1,000 men are out of employment. The superintendent said that in all prob? ability tho mills would not start up again until the labor troubles were at an end. The company could not give ten hours' pay for eight hours' work, and to shut down was the only course open. The packing-house men have gained the greater part of their demands. Some of the employers pay nine and others ten hours' wages for eight hours' work. There was no effort to dispute their claims. McCormick's Reaper Works opened as usual this morning, fully one-half of the workingmeu returning to the factory despite the intimidation aud blood shed of yesterday afternoon. A special force of 1 police was on duty to protect the men on their way to work, but their services were apparently not required, as the Anarch I ists and their followers of the day preced i ing were not to be seen. Threatening indications appeared in many quarters of the city this morning. A crowd of Bohemians, Pole3 and Ger? mans began to assemble on the prairie in the southwestern portion of the city this morning, but the police raided and effectually scattered them without making any arrests. These men then proceeded to the southeast, forming a column three or four thousand strong. They directed their march toward a large glue factory near the crossing of the river at 35th street, with the intention of closing down the works. A strong force of police collected and arrested nine of the ringleaders and overawed the crowd, which moved off without making an attempt to rescue their fellows. The size of the crowd was such that the chief of police directed a reinforcement of officers on duty in that district. The knowledge that such a large gathering was being kept together, and apparently urged by the leaders to acts of violence, has caused more thor? ough preparations to be taken to guard against trouble. The commanders of several State regiments have largely rein? forced the guards at the armories without specific orders, but simply as a precau? tionary measure. A crowd of strikers attempted an assault on the Milwaukee and St. Paul shops at Western avenue this forenoon, but were driven from the scene by the police. The lumber dealers to-day notified their men that by unanimous decision they rejected the men's demands for eight hours' work with ten hours pay. The dealers' reply is rather long and detailed, and gives specific reasons why the business will not stand the additional tax proposed. The substance of it is that if the demands are submitted to the wholesale lumber trade will be driven from Chicago. Tho delegation of work? men deputed to receive the reply listened to its reading and immediately repeated their demand and took their departure with very bad grace. One of them, named Schmidt, as he departed declared that they would go to work on their own terms or burn the yards. A policeman was promtly called and Schmidt is under arrest on the charge of disorderly con? duct. The secretary of the Exchange will appear against him in the morning. Ten thousand men are engaged in this strike. A riot began about 3 o'clock near the corner of Morgau and 22d street. A crowd of striking lumbermen and their adherents made an assault on a body of police in that vicinity. The police charged the crowd repeatedly, and were stoned and fired at by the rioters. In the encounter Detective Michael Gran? ger was seriously, and probably, fatally, injured by a flying stone. Officer John Strong was shot through the hand. Squads of police were hurried to the scene. A number of rioters are reported ohot, but the casualties are not yet known. The Arbeiter Zeituny, German paper, edited by Speis, a Socialist/who was one of the speakers who incited yesterday's riot at McCormick's, says : "Workingmcn ! The hated police yes? terday murdered'four of your brothers, and wounded perhaps twenty-five more at McCormick's Factory. Had your brothers, who had nothing but stones to defend themselves with, been armed with good weapons and a few dynamite bombs none of the murderers would have escap? ed his well-deserved fate. As it wus, only four of them (policemen) were wounded. That is sad. Yesterday's massacre occurred that 40,000 strikers in this city might be filled with fear and terror, and that the dissa'isfied and rebellious laborers might be driven back under the yoke of slavery. Will this end be accomplished? Has not a mis? calculation been made ? The next few days will answer this question. We will not speculate on the course of events." The paper then goes on to give a de? tailed report of the trouble, and puts the responsibility on the police. Speis also says tbat some Bohemians and Poles in the background of the crowd he was ad? dressing raised a cry of "On to McCor? mick's !" The paper also says that the polico used their clubs in dispersing the Strickers yesterday, and adds : "In whose veins does not the blood course faster when he hears of the shame? ful facts of these beasts? Whoever is a man must show it these days. Men, to the front!" A report has just been received that six policemen have been killed in the Hay Market where the Anarchists are holding a meeting. Telephone reports from the lumber district say that seri? ous rioting is now in progress in tho vincinity of 18th Btreet and Centre Avenue. No particulars are yet obtain? able. CHICAGO, May 4?Midnight.?A man who was standing in the crowd received a pistol ball in his thigh and has just been brought to the Central police station. He says that during the progress of a speech by one of the Socialists a squad of officers marched by close to the speakers' stand. Some one shouted, "Kill the -!" Almost as soon as the words had been uttered three bombs were thrown from near the stand into the midst of the squad of officers. The bombs exploded instantly and five police? men fell. Others were wounded, and several of the Socialists did not escape. An officer, who has just arrived from the scene, says there is hardly any doubt that at least five officers were killed. More coherent accounts are coming in and they point to a much more disastrous affray than at first reported. About two huudred officers had been detailed to attend the meeting and had been in the vic inity since the Socialists had begun to assemble. At the time of the throwing of the bombs the crowd had dwindled to less than one thousand. The utterances of the speakers were still of the most inflammatory character, however, and the hearers who still remained grew riot? ous in their demeanor. The police con? cluded to put an end to the disturbance, and advancing ordered the crowd to disperse. At first the Socialists fell back slowly, one of the speakers still urging them to stand firm. Suddenly the bombs were thrown. The police retorted instantly with a vol? ley from their revolvers. The rioters answered with theirs, which, the sequel proved, they were provided with. The mob appeared crazed with a fanatical desire for blood, and, holding it3 ground, poured a volley into the midst of the officers. The latter fought gallantly and at last dispersed the mob and cleared the market place. They are now guarding every approach to the place and no one is allowed there. Immediately after the first explosion the officers who were left standing drew their revolvers and fired round after round iuto the mob. Large numbers of these fell, and as they dropped were im? mediately carried to the rear and into the many dark alleyways by their friends. No estimate of the casualties can be given, but the police at Desplaines street station state that fully fifty of them were wounded. Drug stores in the vicinity are crowded with people who were hurt, and doctors have been telephoned to in all directions. Before the* firing bad ceased the neighboring police stations were turned into temporary hospitals. At 11 o'clock twenty policemen lay on the floor of thc Desplaines street station house, all disabled and probably half of that number seriously. Others were re? ported to be still lying in the open square, either dead or badly wounded. Chicago, May 5.?The police are rapidly collecting evidence against the chief conspirators among the anarchiats. They searched Spies office this morning and found absolute proof that the inflam? matory circulars mentioned in these dis? patches, and headed, "Revenge 1 work? ing men to arms!" and another headed "Attention working men!" were found with the form in type. These were taken possession of and locked up in the Central station as evidence that Spies and .Schwab directly incited the riot and bloodshed. A mob of six to eight thousaud per? sons re-assembled near the corner of 18th street and Center avenue at noon and raided the Rosefield drugstore mentioned in early dispatches, carrying off every? thing portable in the store. They then raided the liquor store in the vicinity kept by a man named Wesiskopf, carry? ing away or drinking all the iiquor. Women and children joined in this raid. The police returned to the scene and suc? ceeded in dispersing the mob. The strikers at the Deering reaper works held an open air meeting on the prairie, near the factory, at 10 o'clock. They demand eight hours work and ten hours pay, double pay for over tijnc, and 20 per ceut. advance for piece work. It is learned that Schwab, one of the men now under arrest, addressed these strik? ers last night, urging them to this course. The striking freight handlers had intend? ed making a parade to-day, but have issued orders countermanding it. They also adopted resolutions condemning the anarchists and tendering their services, if needed, to preserve the public peace. The sheriff has not yet been called upon, but the militia are in their armo? ries, ready to turn out at a moment's notice. Between 300 and 400 police have been armed with Springfield rifles, and every mau on the force is armed with 44 calibre revolvers. Three thou? sand men employed in the great car shops at Pullman laid down their tools and went out, this morning, joining 1,000 who quit yesterday. There are no men at work in town to-day, except the men employed in the truck shops who do not number over 500. Another great strike was inaugurated this morning. Seventeen hundred men employed in the Deering harvester works stooped work without notice or warning of any character and without having made any demands. Whether the men have been influenced by the recent riotous events directed against the work ingmen remaining at their posts, is not known. The managers of the works have asked for police protection. The works are located in the heart of a dis? trict largely populated by a foreign speaking people. The railroad situation was further complicated this morning by a strike of all the freight handlers on the Lake Shore road. The switchmen on the same road also decided not to handle any freight cars loaded by any persons other than the strikers. "There were nineteen of my company of twenty-five shot," said Lieut. Bowler, the six-foot-two officer who headed the squad into which the bomb was thrown. He was sitting, surrounded by the unin? jured survivors of his little band, at the Desplaines street station. "I never heard dynamite explode before and I don't wau't to again. It deafened me and all the men who did not receive doadly wouuds. There was one company ahead of mine and four behind us. We had just come to a halt, ready for the i next order, which would have been a flank movement. The bomb came from close to the speakers' wagon. I saw and heard it coming, but it exploded too quick for anybody to have done anything with it or get out of the way. I was knocked down by the explosion, but not wounded. When I recovered myself my sergeant fell into my arms badly hurt. It was a terrible time. I can tell you they had everything cut aud dried." When the front column reached the speaker's wagon Captain BonOeld ordered "halt," and cried: "In the name of the State of Illinois, I command this crowd to disperse." As the words left his mouth a splutter? ing spark of fire arched through the air from an opening of an alley and over the speaker's wagon. It was the burning fuse of a dynamite bomb. It was well aimed in its deadly mission and fell di? rectly in the middle of the street, and between the two first double columns of the police. The instaut it struck the ground it exploded with a terrible sullen roar, seeming to shake the earth. Men badly wounded and dying fell on all sides. The death dealing contents of the bomb reached almost to the rear ranks. Twenty-nine mangled officers were groaniug on the ground. A gatling gun could not have cut a wider swath. A scene of horrors followed, the details of which may never be known. The officers were demoralized, and for an instant broke ranks, but almost in? stantly recovered their presence of mind. Before, however, they had time to realize the destruction which had been wrought in their ranks, crowds of anarchists gathered in front and on either side of them and opened fire with revolvers at an almost point blank range. The first volley of the mob was quite as fearful in its effect as was the explosion of the bomb, but the officers did not lose their presence of mind. Orders flew thick and fast from the captains and lieuten? ants, and within the briefest possible space of time they were charging the murderous assassins on every hand, deal? ing death and destruction to, them with their revolvers. The anarchists did not sustain the charge an instant, but fled as soon as they could distinguish the blue coats and bright buttons of the officers through the smoke from their re-olvers. The crack? ing of these weapons was incessant for five minutes, and only once was anything like a volley fired on either side. This was fired by the anarchists when the bomb was exploded in the ranks of the police, thus showing that they had been carefully dri'led beforehand to work in concert. When the officers emptied their pistols they used them as clubs, and it is quite probable that numerous skulls were fractured. With the revolver shots cracking like the tattoo of a mighty drum, and the bullets singing in the air, the mob plunged away into the darkness, with yells of rage and fear. It was an indescribable scramble for life. Fourteen citizens, one of whom was a looker-on, aud others, members of the mob, are under treatment at the county hospital. This does not comprise, it is believe1, tore than one third of the an? archists ai.d people injured. Sam Jones in Baltimore. "Some people think they can't be pious unless they are always begging. If my child begged that way, I'd take a brush along and whale him well. If you got faith by prayer, what have you done with it? Faith is a gift of God, don't see and hear for me. I pray for my daily bread, but I have to hunt for my corn pone with the sweat running down the hoe handle. [Laughter.] You put your arm in a sling and pray for muscle. A boy, says, 'Mister take your arm out and go to that blacksmith shop and handle the sledge and you'll get all you want. If you don't take it out soon you can't lift it out.' You've got faith enough to move mountains if you put it in action. God gives every perfect gift, but the development of it in every practical sense i3 yours. The only kind of faith I bank on is that of committal, trusting in God. You are going round singing, 'Oh ! to be nothing,' and you've sung it till it is the God's truth. [Laughter.] You are old Brother Nothing, and going nowhere. [Laughter.] I waut to be somethiug, and go somewhere. I'd rather go to hell than nowhere. [Sensation.] I have an infinite, consolidated horror of being nothing, and going nowhere. 'Be not like dumb, driven cattle; be a hero in the strife.' We are running on believing in this country. As an old darkey said: 'It's the principlest thing here.' Every fellow goes on the principle of 'he that believeth not, shall be damned,' and believes everything to keep him from being damned. [Laughter.] What are you going to do with these little fellows that believe in everything? Your beg? ging don't amount to much, for you don't look as if you had had a square meal in ten years. The faith that receives every? thing and gives out nothing don't amount to anything. I'm no revivalist. I'm an humble member of the Georgia confer? ence, from whom I got my appointment. If I'm a revivalist, I have grown to be one just as my finger-nails have grown. I do my work, and I am happy in it. I am ashamed of my fellowmen. We are dying with decency. I saw a brother slip last night, and when he recovered him? self he glanced around to see if any one saw him, and looked scared. I say to you, 'Turn loose and laugh, and it will loosen up your hide and do you good.' [ Laughter. I It. is unnatural to be starchy and dignified. Dignity is nothing but the starch of a shroud. | Applause.] If you addressed a merchant as you address God, he would have you tried for lunacy. If you went down town and said : 'Thou great and majestic merchant, show me a pair of divinely colored ho^e,' they would put you out of the store. [Laugh? ter. I Talk to God as you talk to your wifo and children. Be a child and natu? ral mau. I am Sam Jones. There is a Samuel Jones, D. D. One is natural and tho other is artificial. What are you going to do with that artificial Jones? Why, go and bury the D. D. He's dead, j I Laughter.] If we will be ourselves ! we'll be a grand variety. God never j made two men alike but one was of no I account.?Baltimore American. BILL AKT. Mr. Arj? VIhH? Abbeville, S. C. Atlanta Constitution. These are lightning times lo live in. That used to be an exagerated idea, and kind of hyberbolc as the scholars call it, but it is not now. These are lightning times sure enough?chained lightning subjugated lightning?lightning manu? factured to order, and in quantities to suit purchaser. All of our lives wc have seen nature's lightning shoot across the clouded heavens, sometimes perpendicu? lar, sometimes horizontal or catecornered and most always with a zigzag line. It comes and it goes in the twinkling of an eye, and always impresses us with awe and admiration and we watch and wait in subdued silence for the next flash. We speak of a flash of lightning or a streak of greased lightning, but we are always impressed, and always feel that the Almighty is not afar off and has something to do with that business. Folks don't talk much when looking at such displays. Even the children huddle up by the parents and look and watch and wait and are glad that a father or mother is near. He was a bold man who undertook to play with such a toy, to draw it down from the clouds and bottle it up and use it. But it was done and now it is domesticated and tamed and driven along a wire and made the winged messenger of the world. I was ruminat? ing about this when I read in my morning paper a telegram saying that the N. Y. Sun of to-morrow morning will say of Jefferson Davis's speech at Montgomery, or the Courier-Journal of to-morrow will say of General Gordon's speech, etc., as though the public could not wait for their opinions to be printed in their own pa? pers and be copied by others, but they must know the editor's thoughts just as soou as he thought them, and so Uiey telegrap? in advance to all the daily journals what their great thoughts are. Well, I have never yet seen anything of this kind that I couldn't have waited for two or three days without damage or inconvenience, but still everybody wants the news now as soon as it can be had. "What's the news?" is now the universal question. I was wondering when the notable speeches of Mr. Davis and others at Montgomery and Atlanta would get into the papers. I anticipated the luxury and comfort of reading them. I felt a peculiar pride and independence in the fact that our people dared to utter their sentiments, and, above all, that Mr. Davis was to be honored by these public demon? strations. Time and again we have been mortified when some of own people have been fawning at the feet of Northern heroes and had no brave words for our own. But old father Time, sooner or later, sets all things right, and now the South can dare to indulge in self-respect and to call Mr. Davis from his long retirement. I wonder what the North thinks of all this. I am curious to see what the New York Tribune "will say to-morrow." General Gordon sent me his speech in advance sheets aud I read and enjoyed it two days before it was delivered. It gratified me in tone and sentiment. He said what should have been said?enough and no more. His recital of facts and the truth of history will dignify us before the world and increase the self-respect of our people. Old Father Time is making history very fast now, and these public ceremonies and demonstrations make it better than books. This generation has no time to I read books. Not one in a hundred has read Mr. Davis's book or any of the histories of the war, but most everybody reads the papers now and will catch the glow of independent enthusiasm that has animated our people from Maryland to Texas. Wc have asserted our manhood boldly and freely before the world, and it will command more respect than all the truckling aud fawning and apologiz? ing of time servers for the last twenty years. It was a curious coincidence with me that on Thursday when these great cere? monies were going on at Montgomery, ceremonies that seem like a resurrection of the lost cause, ceremonies that as it were, touched the dry bones and gave them life, and that lifted up the venera? ble chieftain and showed him to his people as the man without fear and with? out reproach, on the same day I was sojourning in the town where secession had its birth and where its final dissolu? tion came. These good people in Abbe? ville, South Carolina, assure me that in this town was held the first secession meeting, and here were the first resolu? tions that spread from County to County until the State went out. And here in Abbeville, S. C, was held the last formal meeting of Mr. Davis and his cabinet. I passed along the street where stands the houses of Colonel Pcr rin and Mr. Burt?who entertained Mr. Davis and Benjamin and Reagan and Brcckenridge and Lawton and General Bragg and Duke and Vaughn, and many others, and who for two days were here in council and solemnly pondered the crush? ing weight of defeat and disaster and saw the last lingering rays of hope to fade away into darkness aud gloom. Who would have thought that in the short space of twenty-one years there could have been such a restoration of peace and plenty in this afflicted, deso? lated land. To day, this very day, is the anniver? sary of that last cabinet meeting, and on this day that dethroned chieftain is lay? ing the corner stone of a monument to the confederate dead. Peace and good will hovers over the scene. May the . North look upon it with feelings of ad? miration for the patriotism that under? lies and supports the foundation stones of this monument. For twenty years our people have contributed to bury their dead soldiers in national cemeteries and to pension their invalids and their wid? ows and orphans and to erect monuments to their heroes. Now let no malignant heart find fault that we seek to honor our own. I came from the historic town of Ab , beville to this charming scat of learning ?this beautiful, shady hamlet that is ' called Due West, noted for nearly half a century for its well organized and classic , schools. Krskinc college is here with I her 150 students, and there is hero a female college with a like numbcfr^M Gricr is at the head of one faculty^HB Professor Kennedy of the other. Tl.W are pupils here from nine differentStatt? and I have heard from many sources thatl there is not a college in the Stale that ; has sent out to the world so many noble, ? earnest and accomplished young men and women. Not long ago I read in the Constitution that the senior class from Oxford, thirty-nine in number, had been to Atlanta to have their photographs taken in group, and that they were all interviewed by a reporter as to what they intended to do after their graduation. Thirteen wero going to practice law and nine practice medicine and six go to preaching and four become merchants and one was going to be a mechanic and one go to farming. Can this be true? Only two out of thirty-nine who intend to produce anything to add to the com? mon stock. Will the rest be consumers ? Is this to be the result of all collegiate educations in the South ? May the good Lord have mercy upon us and preserve our people from such ? calamity. Bill A nr. A Historical Incident. The ceremonies at Montgomery, Ala., on Wednesday last, and the allusions made by Gen. John B. Gordon in his oration there to the imprisonment of Mr. Davis at Fortress Monroe in 1SG5, revives some incidents rarely now mentioned, but, nevertheless, of rare historical inter? est, and belonging to both the period and the subject, they may now be truthfully related. An eye-witness, engaged there in the ordnance department at the fortress, now resident and attached lo the police de? partment of Baltimore, says that when Mr. Davis landed from the gunboat on the Government wharf the guard that received him kept back the lookers-on to a considerable distance while they con? ducted the prisoner to the interior of the fortification and to the casemate assigned for his incarceration. Soon after he was lodged there the officer of the day called and advised him that orders had been re? ceived from Washington to place him in irons, and asked him to submit by lying prostrate on the cot theu within the casemate. Mr. Davis, with some vehemence, objected, and asked that the order should be read to him. This .was done, and he still refused, and declared that the manacles should only be placed on him by force. The blacksmith was then present with the leg-irons, aud a soldier, being so ordered, placed bis musket across the breast of the prisoner, pressed him to and then down on the cot. While held in that position the smith riveted the irons on the ankles, and the prisoner, thus secured, was locked in the casemate. A day or so following orders came from Washington to remove the manacles, and soon afterwards to open the door, and finally to allow Mr. Davis to exercise himself by limited walks within the grounds. The order to iron was issued, it was said, by Secretary Stanton, and the preparations to do so were all made prior to the arrival of the gunboat. President Johnson issued the ameliorating orders that followed.?Bal? timore Sun. . ~-+m^-, -. New Way to get Drunk. "Let me have a little butter, please," said a stout, elderly gentleman, who stood in front of the bar the other even? ing, with a glass of steaming hot rum before him. The white-aproned bartender bent down and from a shelf underneath the polished raahogony brought up a dish of butter, in which was stuck a silver knife. With this the man took off a lump of butter and dropped it into his glass and stirred it about until it was melted. Then he drank the concoction slowly, with an oily smile overspreading his features. "Yes, it is rather a curious drink," said the bartender to the reporter stand? ing by, "but it's a very pleasant one, anjL. a great favorite with some gentlemen. Those who don't know of ita effects, however, had better leave it alone, for the effects are apt to be queer. The man who drinks a number of these hot rums would be quite sober when he went home, but in the morning when he woke up he would be as drunk as a lord. That's odd, isn't it? But it's easy enough to exi_ plain. It's because there is so much oil in the butter. "Let me explain, and you can try it yourself. Take a bottle of sweet-oil with you when you go out with the boys the next time. Order any kind of liquor you like, though I wouldn't bother much with beer if I were you. Pour into your glass a few drops of the sweet-oil every time you take a drink. No matter how much you drink you will keep sober, while your friends, if they have kept up with you, will be in a very 'how-come you-so' condition. You go home and go to bed feeling all right, and in the morn? ing, when you wake up, you will be dead drunk. The reason is simple. Oil, as you must know rises to the surface. "Consequently, when you drink these oil-covered concoctions the oil will re? main on the surface in your stomach, keeping the fumes of the liquor down. That prevents you from getting drunk. When you have stopped drinking and gone to sleep, thus giving your interior arrangements a chance to go about the** ordinary duties, the oil will gradually evaporate itself through the system, allowing the fumes of the liquor to rise to your head. The consequence is that you awake in the morning 'full.' It's the funniest thing in the world when a man has this experience for the first time."?New York Star. ? In a recent lecture delivered by tho Rev. R. A. Cross, of Denver, Col., he said: "Scientists tell us that the water of the ocean contains gold at the rate off one grain, or about four cents worth to every ton. At this rate 10,000 cubic feet of ocean water contains about $1 worth of gold. If the ocean has an average depth of one mile (though it is probably greater), it contains enough gold to fur? nish $15,000,000 to every man, woman and child in all the world, or more than $100,000,000 to every family of seven; At this rate, if figures do not lie, a cubic mile of ocean water contains about $140, 000,000 worth of gold.