The Anderson intelligencer. (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, April 28, 1892, Image 1

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BY CLINKSCALES & LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C, THURSDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1892. VOLUME XXVI.?NO. 43. SEASON OF 1892. Womens,' Misses' and Cbildrens' Pine OXFORD TIES I Duchess, Langtry, Brighton, Elite, Souvenir, Theo, Adonis, Everett and Southern Ties. Juliet, Strap, House and Opera Slippers. YACHTING and LAWN TENNIS SHOES. JAS. P. GOSSETT & CO., Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Boots and Shoes, Anderson, S. C , under Hotel Chiquola. THREE CHEERS FOR TARIFF REFORM - A.TST> - FREE COINAGE OF SILYER. THESE WILL HELP YOU, BUT Will put money in your pocket if you will call and see his Goods and Prices. My STOCK IS NOW BEADY FOR INSPECTION, and I ask the Trading Fiblit to call and examine my Goods before baying. My stock was bought with the HARD CASH, and I have?. SOME RARE BARGAINS To offer the people of Anderson, thereby saving them money on every dollar's worth of Goods yon bny from me. To my old customers and friends I would-say that I am in a better position to save them dollars and cents than ever before. My Stock of Prints is.Fascinating, My Stock of Canton Cloth is.Beautiful. My Stock of Delhi Cloth is.Immense. My Stock of Ginghams is.Lovely. My Stock of Cord Du Boi is.Wonderful. My Stock of Embroideries is.. - Surpassing. My Stock of Laces.Beats the world. My Stock of Wool Dress Goods. - There is none better? My Stock of Braid is-........ .The Latest. My Stock of Shoes. .Beats the World. In fact my entire Stock is pretty, . . Bought Cheap, and Will he sold Cheap. BO. COME AND SEE ME. - W. A. CHAPMAN, Agent, Next to Masonic Temple. WANTED! RaGS, HIDES and BEESWAX by PEOPLES & BURRISS, at good prices. SECOND HAND STOVES As good or better than most Of the new ones now offered yon, which we are offering at a low price. We hope you will bear in mind that we deal in? Tin, China Crockery, Glassware, And EVERYTHING in the House Furnishing line, and at prices that cannot be beat by any one. Price elsewhere, then come to see us and you will be convinced. TIN ROOFING. GRAVEL ROOFING and GUTTERING, Promptly done by experienced men. Yonrs very truly, ? PEOPLES & BUKKISS. DON'T FAIL TO VISIT 11 fill i SOWS, DEALERS IN DRY GOODS, CLOTHItyC, BOOTS AND SHOES, STAPLE AND FANCY GROCERIES, FRUITS and CONFECTIONERIES. t&- We are selling Goods CHEAP, and will treat you right. Give us a call. Yours truly, E. W. BROWN & SONS. You caa.Save Money by Buying your .. Sc hoof Books and Stationery at COLLINS' BOOK STORE. A full lint of School Books, Blank Books, Stationery, Pictures md Pictnre Frames, and other goods too numerous to mention, all ' the low yet price*. PHOTOGRAPHS. Mj Photograph Gallery has Keen lately refitted with all the latest improved appara? tus for making picture* of a11 kloYla, from the sizs of a postage ?vamp to life sice in the finest finish. Portraits enlarged to any size, from small picture), at roaaonable prices. Dou't ibrget this if you want a nice Pboto. \ BespectfoJly, \ J. Hi GS&KirSt MONUMENTS - and - TOMB STONES. ELaVING purchased the Marble Buiii uces of the late T. M. White we aro pro pared to supply all Marble Work prompt? ly, in good style and? AT LOWEST PRICES. Give us a call on North Main Street, by the Ruilroad Bridge. WHITE Sc CO. FeWWJ 91 tm TflA?HflRg'?OLUMN, -Qffii All oetnmunicatiODB intended for thisColumn shonld be addressed to 0. WAKDLAW, School Commissioner, An? derson, 8. C._ MEMORY GEMS. "Breathes there a man with soul so dead Who never to himself hath said, This is my own, my native land." "That patriotism, which catching its inspiration from the immortal God, nnd leaving at an immeasurable distance be? low all base, grovelling, personal inter? ests and feelings, animates and prompts to deeds of self-sacrifice, of valor, of de? votion and of death ituelf?that is public virtue; that is the noblest, the snblimest of all public virtuea." We have received a great many more answers to the capitol qnestions. In the next meeting of the Teachers' Association, which will be held on the 2lBt of May, we will have "A lesson in Arithmetic," by Prof. J. M. Hamlin, of Lebanon school (a class of his pupils being present.) "A lesson in English," by Miss Maggie Evans, with a class from her school. The "Teacher's Prepare* tion," by Prof. J. F. Rice, of Townville. "Square Root and Cube Root," by Lieut. Miller, of the P. M. I. Other subjects will be added later. It is expected that we will have two sessions?one in the forenoon and one in the afternoon. We will have a recess for dinner between the sessions. We trust our teachers will so arrange as to be able to attend. We want this to be the biggest meeting of the Association ever held. Teachers, work for the building of character. That is what we need, and that is what each individual needs, a true manhood, an individual personal character of a very high type. You have golden opportunities along this line. Work to develop the sW as well as the mind. Work for bodily, mental and moral development. Work for the dis? semination of truth, the elevation of mankind and the advancement of moral? ity and righteousness. You can do good work all along these lines. Do it. Lose no opportunity to impress the children with higher ideas of life. Education is a power. Then endeavor to put power into the hands of no unworthy person. Let the efforts be first directed toward making the pupil worthy. Carry both along together, but do not fail to keep the moral and worthy side up with intellect? ual development. It is preferable that our boys and girls should be good, rather than educated, but both if possible. Work for the development of the whole person. MEAI7DERINGS. Mountain Creek school keeps np the average attendance very well, indeed. This speaks in favor of both the teacher and the patrons. Miss Zella Campbell is one in whose care children may be safely entrusted. She is a good judge of human nature, well prepared as a teach? er, and deeply interested in her work. Miss Decie Earle is the teacher at Shiloh. She has an inviting field of labor, and we have reason to believe she is doing good work. The girls and boys seem bright and happy and inter? ested. At Ruhamah we found Mr. Job Year gin at work. We arrived rather late to get a very full view of his work, but we think he is doing faithful services, He was trained by Prof. McElroy, who is one of the beBt teachers we've had. The Spring session of his school has closed. MisB Florence Norrie, who is the teacher at Shady Grove, in Fork District, has one of the most interesting schools we have visited. The pupils are not itndying the higher branches, but they soon will be if they keep on the way they are going. We enjoyed our visit to this school as we do to all the schoto. We are always in deep sympathy with chil? dren who are struggling to get an educa tion. "Onward and qpward" is the watch word. Miss Eddie L. Davis, in Rock Mills District, has a school that speaks loudly for the good work she is doing. She hat several young men and young ladies, -who seem deeply interested in getting an education. Her methods are among the best, and her Buccess shows that she is thoroughly up with the progress of the titnos. She has the sympathy and co? operation of her patrons, which adds very much to the results. QUE8TI0NS. Mr. Editor : Please ask the following questions to be answered through your column: 1. Give the names of the sever: wise men of Greece ? 2. On what two occasions did they meet together? 3rd. Where is the Mason and Dixon line, and why is it called so i" Yours truly, Bertha Banister. QUESTIONS ANSWERED. Mr. Editor : I am a small girl, and will soon be ten years old. I have never tried to answer any of the questions through your columns yet, but will make an effort to answer Miss Jessie Goer's qnestions: The fall of Troy was 1184 years B. C. The restoration of the Jews under Cyrus was 40G years B. C. The expulsion of Tarquis from Rome was 510 years B. C. The Magna Charter was grauted by King* John on the 19th of June, 1215 years A. D. Yours truly, Bertha Banibter. ? The County Commissioners of Suf? folk County, New York, are paying a bounty of 25 cents each for every opos? sum killed in the County. When this information gets abroad in the land, many of the Afro-Americans who have tet their faces towards Liberia will change their minds and head for Suffolk. The idea of getting a quarter of a dollar for an opossum and then being allowed to keep the opossum will prove a great at? traction to them, A Reply te J. C. Gantt. Editors Intelligencer : I ask a lit? tle space in your paper to reply to thiB gentlemen. When the article was written, on which he comments, it was not known certainly what course the March Con* vention would take. The Haskelites, headed by Hampton, were contending for independent action, while the other wing of the faction were as earnestly contending for a fight within the party lines, though with divided forces. Hence the appellation of straddle-fence to the immortal thirteen. It is but just to say that when the Convention met they dumped the Haskelito faction and adopted the policy of loyalty to the Dem? ocratic party. As to my p!\st political record, or Mr. Gantt's either, it is a matter of no con sequence to the people.now, except to excite prejudice. What the people are interested in is the living, burning issues of the day, not the effete and obsolete is? sues of the past, whioh are, for the most part, a record mainly of partizan strife, which hau brought the country to its de? plorable condition. But that I may not be misunderstood, .1 plead guilty to the charge of Greenbackism ever since '82, and instead of being ashamed of it, as Mr. Gantt seems to be of his association with Haskelism, I am proud to know that I stood in the breach then with a few tried and trusted friends, and pro? claimed the very doctrines that are now being embraced by millions of my fellow citizens, Democrats and .Republicans, Southern men and Western men, North era and Eastern men alike, and will soon dominate this country in all its depart? ments of government. So mote it be. Now, Mr. Gantt, as'a discussion of principles is always in order, while ?Per? sonalities should never be indulged in, by intelligent men, I make this proposi? tion that I will meet yon through the public press in a discussion of any one or all the demands of the Alliance as a whole, and let reasoD, not passion or prejudice, decide between. There's my platform and has been since '32, and there I expect to stand, politically, until our whole country is reduced from the fonl grasp of the money power and re? stored to the government of the people, by the people and for the people. This is good enough democracy for me, and ought to be for yofit and every other pro? ducer. T. H. RUSSELL. From North Georgia; , Tbion Factory, Ga., April 13. Editors Intelligencer: As I have got settled for awhile, I will give you a few dots from this place. My first experience here was a flood, which came the next day; the river (Chattooga) was nearly to its highest water mark, and it only took a few hours after the rain commenced until it was at its highest. I hear that the water was all oyer the streets in Rome, some thirty miles below here. They are taking steps toward fortifying against the river in Rome, which I think will be a good idea. I don't find so much cry of hard times here as we have in Carolina, and I don't think there is much call for all this cry of hard times anywhere, as there is an abundance of provisions in the United States to feed all the people here and have a good portion to send to Europe and elsewhere. Then why so much cry of hard times ? If we could get our National and State government in the hands of good and competent men, I think all this fuss about hard times would end and the peo? ple could go to work with some encour? agement and be contented and happy. This little manufacturing town (Trion) is full of energy and hope, and its people are contented and happy, for they are en? couraged by their President and Super? intendent. They don't have to spend the bjgger half of their time in the mill, for they only work eleven hours per day, and they get off as good a production there as wo do in our State on a good deal longer time. The production has been steadily going up here Bince Mr. McKin ney took charge of the mill last summer, hut no wonder, for he is an Anderson County boy, and you know Anderson County is the banner County of?the United States. * Well, Mr. Editor, I did Intend to write you something about my trip to Colum? bia to tho Convontiqn, bnt I suppose you have heard all about the Convention; but one thing I will say, for fear I don't get an opportunity to say it again, and that is that while I do not claim for myself any superiority in looks or appearance, but the good peoplo of Columbia said that of all the Conventions and Legislatures, etc., that had ever assembled in that city, we were tho finest and best looking set of men that had ever assembled there, and my fellow-citizens gave me the honor of .being one of them. I toll you a person sees and hears a good deal in traveling on the Railroad. If I hud nothing else to do aud had plen? ty ot money, I would travel all tho time arifi write down everything I heard. As I was coming along tho other day this side of Atlanta, tho train was crowded to somo extent. A middloa^od looking lady took a seat by mo and commenced talking to a lady and gentleman bohind mo. In the courso of thoir conversation she said, "Well, this is Marian's birthday." "Oh, it is?" said the other. "Yes, and she is just twenty-two." "You know Elise?" "Yes." ''Well, how old do you suppose sheis?" "I don't know." "Well, Iknow. She is ju?t forty-one, and I don't have any idea sho would tell her age, but I know, for sho is just three years younger than I am, and I am now forty-four." "That's the way some girls are, and I do not see what it is for. I don't caro who knows my ago," and that's the way their conversation runs until they get off. When we got to Carteravillo I went out on tho platform to seo if I could see anything of Mr. Arp, but as I wout baok to my seat a well-dressed, matronly-look? ing lady motioned mo to her and asked rr.o to let down the window shado for her, which I did. Sho thanked mo very po? litely, but with an air of dignity, which looked very pleasing, and I thought, showed her to bo a woman of high cul? ture, and from tho way Bill Arp describes Mrs. Arp I think it must have been her, for sho looked like sho would wear about a "number two" shoe, although I did not seo her shoes, but she had on tho gold spectacles, and I beliove Mr. Arp says his wifo wears gold spoctaclos. I saw and heard a groat denl more, but I havent room for it now, for I havo al? ready written morothanlexpocted whon I commenced. I hope you all will have a good time, and that tho party -will join hands In politics and try and heal tho breach that Tillman made in 1s90 and all go along together for tho best men for Stato politics; then they can .stop tho cry of hard timoa and prosper and bo happy. J?ST THIRTY-ONE TEARS AGO The War Between tho States was Begun. April 12th! Thirty-one years ago on this day the first gun sounded the prelude to the great war drama, the curtain of which fell four years afterward on the dead bodies of nearly a million of the ac? tors and a loss of billions of dollars. The echo of the last stroke of four from the historic chimes of St. Michael's had scarcely died away, when a group of sol? diers gathered around a mortar in Fort Johnson, Charleston harbor, and waited, watch in hand, for the moment when the signal should sound the tocsin of civil war and tho death knell of eighty yearB of peace. A half hour later, obedient to the orders from Gen. Beauregard, follow? ed a flash of light, the thunder of a gun and an eleven-inch shell traced its path? way toward Fort Sumter with a long, thin line of fire, Another quickly suc? ceeded, and the chorus of battle began. The first of these shells was fired by Capt. George S. James, the second by Lieut. Hampton Gibbes. Among the officers in the mo-tar bat? tery were Col. James H. Chestnut, ex United States Senator, Capt. Stephen D. Lee, subsequently a Lieutenant-General, and Col. Alexander R, Chisolm. These officers were the aides of General Beau regard, by whom his final note to Maj. Anderson had been conveyed to the fort. No pen, tongue or canvas can accurate? ly portray the scenes of that April morn? ing in the city of Charleston, when its inhabitants were startled from their slumbero by the first guns. Lights dash? ed, as if by magic, from the windows of every house, and in the twinkling of an eye an agitated mass of people were rush? ing toward the water fronts of the. city. Grave citizens, usually distinguished by their dignity, hurried along the streets, dressing while they ran and madly shouting hurrahs. There were men without coats, women without hats and children in their nightgowns, all hasten? ing to the same point of view, The fashionable promenade, known as "The Battery," presented a conglomera? tion of persons in dishabille, who, at any other time, would not have thought of violating the social conventionalities of attire. And there, with pale faces and eyes sharpened by the strange fascination of the scene, the multitude remained hour after hour, peeping into the dark? ness and watching the progress of the fight by the flashing of the guns. In a few minutes all the batteries that environed Fort Sumter had opened fire, or to use the words of General Ripley, then commanding on one of the islands, "rung their breakfast bell for Major An? derson," but it was two hours before the latter responded to the sail. ? Hardly, however, had objects of the low coast become well defined among the shadows of the morning, when, as if wrathful from en forced .delay, there sud? denly poured from the parapet and case? mates of Fort Sumter a storm of iron hail. The murmur instantly rau through, the city, "Fort Sumter has opened fire." The battle now raged with fury, and the fiery messengers from both sides followed each other with spiteful haste. Short, sharp spurtB of flame told of bursting sheila in and around tho beleag ured fortress over which floated the only flag of the stars and stripes to be found on the soil of South Carolina, while splashes of gray or clouds of crumbled brick marked the ugly force of round shot striking its face. Dispatches were received hourly by Beauregard, the commander in-chief, and communicated to the people by bulletins. At first the proud Carolinians were in? clined to rebel at the authority of a strange commander, but there was some? thing in the well defined physiognomy, the dark eye, firm lip and massive chin of the great Creole that told of hidden power and inspired confidence, and it was not long before the hero of Contreras and Chnrubusco was enthroned in the hearts of the people. A curiouB blending of humanity was to be observed among those who manned the Confederate fortifications. In their shirt sleeves, with bare heads and fea? tures smoke begrimmed, workiug heavy guns, were the gentlemen whom you met only a few days before at the Charleston club, elegant types of wealth and leisure. Here was a clergyman and some of his deacons, there a bank president and clerks, and yonder a group of planters who could give you more points on the age and quality of fine wine than on mil? itary tactics. Many of these gentlemen never had heard a shotted gun before that day, und yet, with a mixture of chivalry and reek lesicess, would spring to the crest of the earthwork;; after each fire to watch the effect of their aim* and then cheer for Maj. Anderson, as his answering missiles came shrieking back. The aggregated wealth of the companies might have been counted by the millions, and the old his? toric names of the State, Rutledge, Rav enel, Pinckney, Lawrence, Hoger, Rhett, Oalhoun, Middle ton, Manigault, Hamp? ton, Preston and others, answered to the roll call "here." Colonel Thomas Sumter, the grandson of "the Gamecock of tho Revolution," after whom the fort was named in 1833, was a private in the Palmetto Guards; ex-Governor Jonh L. Manning, grandson of one of the conspicuous heroes of Eu taw, was also a private. Tho venerable Edmund Ruffin.of Virginia,seventy four years of age, was a private and having traveled all the way from Virginia for the purpose, was allowed to fire the first shot agaiDBt Fort Sumter from what is known as tho iron battery. Fires were kept blazing in Charleston harbor during tho nigllt for the purpose of detecting tho launches of the distar' fleet, if an attempt should bo made to relieve the garri?on. The second day was ushered in clear and bright, and the air was laden with the perfume of early spring flowers. The flags of both the combatants were flying with stately defiance, and as the first sun? beams touched their folds the thundering intonations of the heavy artillery told the listening mukitudo of t; ? renewed strife. ? The garrison of Fort Sumter were uu their last rations. Their breakfast that morning consisted of pork and rice, the last of the rice being served at that meal. Alfter this meager breakfast, the first relief under Captain Abner Double^ day and Lieutenant G. * W. Snider, opened the return fire. This was about 7 o'clock. From Fort Moultrie Gen. Ripley was throwing hot shot, and about eight a tall, steadily ascending column of smoke was observable on the southern portion of Sumter. First, it was thin and pale, but every moment it grew darker until, shoot? ing out from the base of the black pillar, great yellow tongues of flames could be seen lapping the tops of the barracks and officers' quarters. The first impression was that Major Anderson was signalling the fleet, consisting of eight war vessels and 1,330 men, which had been sent to the rescue, but had remained idly at an* ^chor and made no sign of help. At 10 o'clock the fire reached a maga? zine of shells and grenades and a terri? ble explosion ensued that caused many a heart to stand still, for the men in that beleagured and burning fort had many friends in Charleston who were watching it with the keenest interest. When the explosion occurred a young girl, who was present with a party of her schoolmates, was seen to throw up her arms wildly in the air and exclaim, "Ob, God, my brother I" She was the sister of Lieut. Jeff. 0. Davis, one of Major Anderson's officers, who afterwards became a Union General. During all this trying period, when the fort was in flames, and the air like a blaat from a crater, Maj. Anderson continued to send occasional shots to the different batteries around him as if determined to show to the world that he "died game." At every flash from the muzzles of his guns the Confederates would send np cheer on cheer for the gallant defender of the fort. Three times the flag was flowered as a signal of distress to the Federal fleet in the offing, but no response followed, and it was left to Beauregard . to tender the merciful assistance, for which a call had been made. Captain Stephen D. Leo, Col. W. Porcher Miles, and Roger A. Pryor were dispatched upon this errand. At 1 o'clock a shot from Sullivan's Is? land severed the flagstaff and brought down the stars and stripes. They were replaced, however, ip about fifteen min? utes by Private Hart, under circumstan? ces of great daring. At the reappearance of the flag the boat with the aides of Beauregard, who bad been sent to offer assistance, turned back, but meantime ex-Senator Wigfall, of Texas, a voluntary aide of Beauregard, accompanied by Private Gourgin, of the Palmetto Guard, pushed off from Morris Island in a small boat, and, showing a white handkerchief on the point of his sword, proceeded to Fort Sumter. Being conducted to Major Anderson he compli? mented that officer on bis gallant defense, and stated that to continue the conflict under the circumstances would be to un? necessarily risk the lives of the men un? der his command without commensurate results. Colonel Wigfall said that the troops would cease firing as soon as the flags were lowered, and he offered the terms of surrender already submitted by Beauregard. "Then," said Major Anderson; "I must surrender; I have no other resource right now; we are alj in flames, aud my men will shortly suffo? cate"" Accordingly, at 1 05 o'clock on the 13th of April, thy stars and stripes were low? ered, firing ceuse.d aud Fort Sumter vir? tually passed into the possession of the Southern Confederacy. The appearance of the fort at the time defies description. At every turn the eye rested upon ruin. Fort Moultrie also bore evidence of the careful attention paid to it by the Confederate artillerists, It was here that Captain John Mitchell, Jr., son of tho L~ish patriot, first dis? tinguished himself as an officer. Strange to 6ay, notwithstanding all this exchange of iron compliment, not a single life was lost. The evacuation of Fort Sumter took place about noon on Sunday, April 14, and the garrison took its departure on the steamship Isabel. Dressed in full uni? form and wearing their side arms, they marched out to the tune of Yankee Doo? dle. Major Anderson looked careworn and despondent. He was a fine specimen of an American officer and gentleman, and no one more keenly than Beauregard, his associate in arms, sympathized with him in the bitter mortification of the hour. Major Anderson, in common with all the officers of tho fort, had been the recipient of Charleston's choicest hospi? tality. The flat; had been saluted by the dis? charge of fifty ^'uns. A gentleman standing near by r.sked Major Anderson if thirty-four, the usual number, was not sufficient. "No," replied the old soldier, bursting into tears, "It should be a hun? dred and even that many would not be enough." As the steamer moved off cheer after cheer rent the air. Every available site along the coast f.nd in the city was occu? pied, and every conceivable species of water craft had its complement of guests. The strictest Churchmen forgot their af? ternoon services and watched and shout? ed with the noisiest of the worldlings) while old men and maidens, young men and children hurrahed until they were hoarse. People stopped and shook hands that day who had never before exchanged civilities, and fine wines were druuk at clubs and dinners that for more than a century had been held in sacred keeping for no other purpose than to fitly cele? brate a great epoch. So ended the first and only bloodless battle of the great civil war. Mrs. F. G. DeFontaine. ? Tho le?..son which the working peo? ple of our country need to learn is not bo much how to get money, as how to suvo it or spend it wisely. Most peop^ can manage the first part of home financo, but it takes a clever person, in? deed, to make a proper ubo of the money when it is earned. Dr. Johnson once said that "without economy none can be rich; and with it few can be poor." And, though bis statement cannot be accepted as being absolutely coirect, there is still a grain of truth in it, Conductor Smith's Dilemma. Is there one among the thousands that have traveled on this train who doeB not know, and who knowing does not esteem Conductor Smith?"Billy" Smith of the Blue Bidge Railroad? Surely not, for like his prototype, Baines Carew, the sympathetic attorney of the Bab Ballads, who w sb so overcome by the recital of his clients' woes that he "had scarcely strength to take his tee," Billy, the em *bodiment of courtesy and kindness, never collects a fare or punches a ticket without a deprecatory smile and a look of sym? pathy as tho' it grieved him very much. This accommodating disposition has made him an easy prey to an exacting public. Other trains have passed over his road, but the cream of the travel has always been feserved for Billy. Hia the happi? ness of looking after tow-headed boys sent to visit distant relatives; his the honor of escorting the boarding-school grown girls who have been provided w.th half-fare tickets by their thrifty mothers ; his the privilege of hauling to and fro, ladies who have been blessed by a prodi? gal providence, ladies with bird cages, ladies with baby carriages, ladies with cats in baskets, ladies with geraniums in pots, ladies with home made jam and pickles in jars, ladies with bundles and band boxes, ladies with an overweening desire to pour into his sympathetic ear divers family secrets?the exact number of teeth the last baby but one has cut, the number and variety of the fashiona? ble ailments considerably diagnosed by their family physician, etc., etc. With these and like confidences the patient conductor1! time is not Infrtqaentlj whiled away between stations. Thus for years has Billy Smith trod? or rather joggled over?the path of duty between Walhalla and Belton. In the springtime, when rill and river are swol? len by heavy rains, and the tawny water* rnsh down the hillsides, gullying the plowed lands and scattering the rich soil "out among the neighbors," when the pale blue wild violets and the waxen Easter lilies peep from dell and dingle, and the peach and plum trees, clustering arounr-the fprra house.*; open their pink and white petals to the sunshine and the dew; in the summer, when the golden bees 8\\ arm over the clover blooms and tho ripe grain falls before the sweep of the scythe; in the autumu, whon the chestnut burrs lie on the sod and the dead leaves swirl in the'blast; in the winter, when the Blue Ridge is wrapped io a slumber robe of snow and the front crystal*., forced out of the icy earth, sparkle on the .<Mes of the deep cuts?in all seasons and in ill weathes, Billy Smith plods on. Time and toil have streaked his beard with gray and deepen? ed the lines in his face, but his smile is as sweet and his hands and feet as willing a? ever they wore in his younger day?, and until be shall run bis last train through the golden gates of the new Je? rusalem, and pass in his manifests to be checked tip by the Almighty Auditor, he will doubtless still be seen at the termini of the Blue Ridg? Railroad, loaded to the gunwale-! like a lighter at a coaling station, with babies, pugs dogs, flowering plants and all the miscellaneous para? phernalia apparently inseparable from itinerant femininity, and he will etill tske a commanding position in the centre of his coach and diuroally sing alas! "that old, sweet song": "Belton, Belton. Junc? tion Columbia and Greenville Railroad. About fifty juiautes, fifty minutes, before the train comos for Columbia. Passen? gers going in the direciou of Columbia will have to git off now, you'll have to git off, as this train leaves In about ten minuteB, ten minutes, for Greenville, for Greenville?which is in the*opposite di rection from Columbia." There are moments in every life when flowers are no longer sweet and women are no longer fair; when there is no mu? sic in the song of birds, no merriment in the laughter of children, and all the world seems dark, x One* of these moments came to Billy Smith the other day when Conductor Fielding of the main line unloaded at Belton, Diana Horlback.an elderly black woman from Beaufort county, who with her grand-daughter "Lizzybet," a spotted pig in a bag, two barnyard roosters and a hen tied by the legs, four quarts of roasted peanuts, a bushel of "Crazy Jane" sweet potatoes, a large bundle of bedding, and divers and sundry other be? longings, was on her way to. Pendleton to visit relatives. "The fight came up," as the Congressional reporters say, "on the recurrence of the previous question," which ft-as in this case an emphatic de? mand for the payment of full fare for Diana's "gran' " "Lizzybet," who was a leggy a'irl of apparently fourteen years of age. "Cap'ci," said Diana, "dat gal it a 'leben yeahs .de gal, en' wayrebber I dots tekkuin ou de, strain, de buckra nebber does chaage me mo' den chillun money fuh de gal. Ent you 'member, sub, de yeah w'en de drydout' cum ? Well, dat gal wuz bawn een dat same berry yeah, een de fuss' paat ub de summer, 'cause I member berrywell de drydout dry up all de swamp, en' backwater en' tine een Auguss', en' all de man on de plantes ehun gone out een de sw.amp en' ketch de allegetter ont'n 'e hole, an' dis gal Lizzy? bet ma?him name Beenus?eat too much allegetter w'en Lizzybet wuz a free weeks' ole gal, en' de 'ooman dead en' leff dis gal on my nan'. De gal pa wuz my n'youngis' son, Pollydo', en' alldo' de Scriptuh any 'Paul kin plant en' Pollydo kin wahter, but Gawd duh de man w'at gib de grease,' still yet Pollydo' en' him bredda Paul plaht de crop en' wahter'um alltwo 'tell de drydrout' come, but Gawd nebber sen' de grease 'tell Pollydo' ketch do allegetter en' bile'um, en' stillyet, all do' 'e foller de Scriptuh wud 'en gib 'e lady de allegetter grease w'at de Lawd sen', yet de lndy dead, so I don't t'ink dat tex' w'at my locues' pasture re^plain could be specify, elsesb I don't t'ink Pa Kinlaw could be onderetan' de Scriptuh berry well or de grease nebber would'a 'stroy'd de 'ooman. Stan' up, gal, en' 'low de buckra fuh look 'puntop yo' foot. Cap'm, you ebber seo sense you bawn ?hisha feet likka dat on a fo'teen yeahs ole gal? En't you know," Baid she, as Conductor Smith's eyes opened at the size of the pedal extremities exhibited, "<sn't you know dat a 'leben yeahs o?e gal gota bigger foot den a fo'teen yeabs ole gal ? Di? gal nebber bad a shoes 'pan 'e foot, en' 'e foot gota nutt'n fuh stop 'urn frutn gror. Befo' you tekway all my money fuh ek dis gal to Pendletun, I wish you, please suh, kin eeder go yo' self elseso sen' a answer to my sistuh' law, {Miss Frayjub, w'at lib to Mistah Brisstle place to Cumbee, en' azum wed der dis gal Lizzybot, which him is my gran' is ra& den 'leben year ole."?A .E. Gonzales, in Columbia State. KILLED HIS NEPIIEW. Ho Returns a id Ii Convicted. Atlanta Constitution. One Saturday afternoon seven years ago, Mr. W. M. Eason, a prosperous farmer of Tattnall County, went over to Cobbtown, a little country village. The place is noted for its bad reputa? tion and on Saturday afternoons it is full of the country youths from the section surrounding it, drinking and fighting. On this afternoon there wa& an unusu? ally large crowd in the village, and an unusual quantity of ipirits was imbibed. Among those present were two young men, Ben. and Steve Collins, the former being the uncle of the other. They became involved in a dispute and the uncle cut the nephew to death. Mr. W. M. Eason was an eye-witness to the killing. He was in Atlanta yesterday to secure a pardon for Ben. Collins from the peni? tentiary where he had been sent for the murder of his nephew. He was successful in his mission. Mr. Eason is one of the most promi? nent citizens of Tattnall County and is a cousin of Solicitor Tom Eason, of the Brunswick circuit. The Collinses are near neighbors of hia and the two families are fast friends. After young Ben. Collins had killed his nephew,' a young man about bis own age?seventeen years?he escaped in the confusion that followed. He went to southern Florida, and hid himself for a time. His brother, wbose son he had killed, made every effort to bring him to justice. A large reward was offered snd shrewd detectives were put on his trail. One of the shrewdest of these sleuth hounds got on the track of Ben. Collins aud followed him to Florida. He found Collins at a small place in the extreme southern portion of the State. He did not know Collins aud only had a descrip? tion of him, and as be was not sure of his man he waited to secure positive evi? dence of his identity. He made the ac? quaintance of Collins and associated with him for three days, but as tho young man was under an assumed name he did not arrett him. Collins knew the detective and knew his mission and watched his opportunity to escape. For three days ?one offered itself, the eagle eye of the detective was always on him. On the night of tbe third day the de? tective loit aight of Collins for a moment. With all haste Collins slipped out of tbe room and ran off in the dark. The detective came back and found his man gone. This coufirmed his sus? picions, and summoning two or three men he gave chase. By chance they took tbe same road Collins had taken and were soon close upon his heels. Col? lins heard them coming and no other way of escape offering itself be climbed a tree near the road and tbe men passed him. For three days be hid himself in the swamp and the detective, satisfied that Collins was gone, left the place. Collins went from there to Texas im? mediately after tbis escape and began the life of a cowboy. After a few months active work search for Collins was given up and he was com? paratively secure. Every man he met he regarded with suspicion, fearing he might be a detective. For four years he roved from one place to another in the Lone Star State and in all that period tbe fear of capture and death never left him. The fear of it grew nearly as ter? rible as the actual experience. With tbe years this fear increased. He was hag? gard ia appearance and miserable at heart. One morning four years after the mur? der at Cobbtown a young man, unkempt and with a haunted look in his eyes, knocked at the door of the County jail of Tattnall. When the sheriff came to the door the young man recognised him at once and greeted him familiarly, but the sheriff stared blankly at him. He didn't know the wild looking young man before him. "I'm Ben. Collins," tbe young man said, "and I'm come back to be tried. It's awful to be hiding out as I have been doing. I had rather rom& back and be tried for it, even if they hang me. It's been enough to drive me mad." The sheriff was thunderstruck, but what his wretched visitor told him was the truth. And when the news spread over the County, there was great surprise. After four years Ben. Collins was tried for the murder of his nephew. His fam? ily, with the exception of his brother, whose son he had murdered, did every? thing in their power for the young man. His brother did all he could to convict him. His family is well-to-do and stands high in the County, and perhaps to their high standing is due the light sentence young Collins received. He was sent up for four years. Three of them he has already served. A few weeks ago Mr. Eason came to Atlanta to get a pardon for the young man, but some one in the County had heard of his effort, and had been at work trying to stop it. He went back home unsuccessful. He came back yesterday for tho second time and the -pardon was signed by tbe Governor. Armed with an order for the release of Collins, Eason left the city last night for Goodman, where Gress'a camp is located. He will take him back to hia home to? day. Bucklens Arnica Salve The best salve in the world for Cuts Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fe? ver Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands, Chil? blains, Corn?, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give per? fect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents per box? 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