Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

ANDEBSON, S. C.v WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 1900, KTTtllB > <???!.-W-P-III lllllill-l I? ?HMM --WB-m-BIM. ? ? --ll? I ? I ? ? ll ?? ? ???ll- '? imm VOLUME XXXVI-NO. 20. THE MEN GET New, Nobby Clothing-up to the minute in style and priced fairly. Ours is not an old, out of date, job lot of Cloth ing, made up and bought for a sale. We won't handle that kind of Clothing. Won't let it into our house-not even at the back door. If you want Clothing that's new, nobby, Up to-date, made by merchant tailors ; Clothing that fits, Cloth ing that has the right set, and Clothing that carries a guar antee of satisfaction or your money back-we've got the kind of Clothe? you want. Come in and see the sort of Clothing we sell. It's not usual that you'll find such a big stock to select from. You'll be pleased with the make, tho fit, and the price will be less than you expected. Evans' $3.50 Shoes for Men. No firm attempts nowadays to sell a better Shoe than we do for $3.50. Our competitors will tell you they have as good a Shoe as ours, and will try to makes you take their's as a substitute. Don't let them induce you to take something just ao good, when you can get the beat $3.50 Shoe in town fromms. Evans'$3.50 Shoes are made in the following leathers : Box Calf, Willow Calf, Enamel Calf, Patent Calf, Patent Vici and Vici Kid. All sizes, all styles. One price, and that is $3.50. GIVE EVANS' S3.56 MOE 1 TRIAL . 0. Evans & Co THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FRONT. 9 LJ Everyone is Anxious To try our LP.-sst Pneumatic Tired and Bali-Bearing Axled RUNABOUTS. THEY are triumphs of modern inventive genius and a great boon to horses-so easy and fiiction h S? do they run. They're not the only ones, hqw . ever, in our mock "EVERYTHING ON WHEELS," Unless it might be n Fire Engine, and we could get you that. JOS. J. FBETWELL. TH? WATCHWORD I BUY IT CHEAP SELL IT CHEAPER. Special prices on Pants, Overalls, Shirts and Underwear. Our line is ?empi?te and bought for the hard cusb. ru ?"nt3? Ginghams, Ouliogs, Satins, Serges, Canton Flannel, Sheetings and check?, all ut prices that will suit you. Extra vaines in Ladies' and Children's Hose. This line is our pride, nnd *c guarantee the best values in the city for {be money. Our line Baskets, Brooms, Buckets, Tubs, Clothes Pins, Wash Boards, un ware, Crockery ware, Glassware, Lamps, is correct, in quality and price. 'soap, Slarch, Blueing, Chewing and Smoking Tobicco are winners. Don't forget to see our 25o. Boys* Pants. Mr. J. H. 3rown is with us and will be glad to see his friends. KEITH & CO. jouth Main Street -fp--fil DK. MOMLTS ?Aili^ir?llal^iil?OlpSu^, ^TEETHINA BESS J3L- (T^k^ .?JIL^ ofensa*.?*** ^rafsss^r? UfflWii** Or?u??5ctiito J, MOFFATT, M. D.. ST. LOUIS, krtflu HHHHBl^tl^^^Blll^BHHH FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. JFrom Our Oirn Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Nov. 6, 1900, The election aside, the most im portant event during the past week has been the announcement of the census totals for the United States and for thc several States, ?or or\ thou) will be based the representation of the States in Congress and in the electoral college during the coming ten years. Of course the determination of the total number of Congressmen depends entirely on Congress, which may muko it whatever it pleases. There is, how ever, some reason to suppose that there will be an addition of about thirty members to tho House, os this is the least number possible that will not re quire the representation of any State to be cat down. If. this number is adopted, the total in thc House will be 387 and the total electoral vote will be 477, necessary to a choice 839. Of the increase of thirty, the New England States will get two, the east soven, the middle west eight, the far west three and the south ten. This phenomenal increase in the South was not expected and will certainly causea renewal of the efforts to cut down tho representa tion ofthat section in accordance with the number of negro voters assumed to have been disqualified under illiteracy clnuBCQ. As the Republicans have full control of all branches of the govern ment at present, there will in nil proba bility bo a bitter fight before this mat ter is finally decided. The membership of the Hon.,o may be increased further by the addition of one, two or three States. Ol lahoma is the roost promising aspirant for State hood. According to the censan returns Oklahoma has 898,245 inhabitants, which would entitle it to two members of Congress if it were admitted, and, as it is customary to admit States when they have more people than necessary for a Congressional district, it is Bate to assume that Oklahoma will soon be granted Statehood, lt baa a larger population than Delaware, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, North Dakota, Utah, Vermont or Wyoming and almost as 'large as Rhode Island or Oregon. In fact, the population of Montana, Nevada and Wyoming combined is ex ceeded by that of Oklahoma, and while these three States have three members in the House and six Senators, Okla homa has no representation in either chamber, except a delegate in tho House, who has no vote. New Mexico has nearly us many residents as a Con gressional district-1CT,777-and may be allowed to enter tho Union, while Arizona is climbing upward with 122, 212 inhabitants. All three ^ - ay be ad mitted before the election of 1904. and if so, the following electoral college will consist of 487 votes, with 244 neces sary to elect. Washington ie filling up again rapidly from the return of government clerks who have been absent on the stump or who went home to vote for the Repub lican candidates. Of course all these employees, while away telling the peo ple how to vote, drew full pay from the government, and were carried with out a murmur on the pay rolls. The employees thus enjoying tho lavish bounty that enables them to bo away from their desks while they played Solitics, point for excuse to Governor Roosevelt, of New York, who was away from his State for several nonths, yet continued to draw hit pay. They argue that if tho governor of a State can do tbese things, surely a Federal bureau chief has the same privilege especially when he is canvassing in the interest of the administration sup porting him. Among the Federal office holders who were out of town working in the campaign were Postmaster Gen eral Smith, Fourth Assistant Postmas ter General Bristow. Third Assistant . Postmaster General Madden, Superin tendent Machen, of the Freo erv Service; Auditor Castle, of the Postal Department; Secretary Gage, Assistant Secretary Vanderlip, Comptroller Tracowell, Treasurer Roberts. Comp troller Dawes, Commissioner Powder ly, Director Roberts, Assistant Secre tary Meiklejohn, Solicitor General Richards and Attornsy General Griggs. It is probable that the Conrt of Claims will soon take up what is known as the ShurtlcfF case, in which F. N. Shurtleff brings suit against the gov ernment for his salary as one of the Hoard of General Appraisers at Now York. Mr. Shurtlcft says President Harrison appointed him in 1890 without his solicitation. Ho closed up his busi ness on the Paciflo Coast and came East, expecting to keep the position during good behavior. Bat about January 17, 1899, he received a letter from Secretary Gage requesting his resignation. February 7 ho wrote to the Secretary expressing his surprise, and on February 22 ho received a letter removing him. Meanwhile James S. Sherman was named as his successor, but ho refused to qualify. Mr. Shurt leff continued to draw his salary, and on May 15th received another letter, practically tho same as the preceding ono of removal. The next day Israel F. Fischer appeared afc tho office and proceeded to take part in the apprais ers' functions. Mr. Shurtleff continued to go to the office until November 1, when he retired, because his salary ceased. The government's answer Is based upon the principle that tho President's power of removal is abso lute, Congress having repealed tho Tennre-of-OfficeAct. lt has, however, always been nupposed that theso ap ?traisership posts were practically lifo obs, as they are essentially judicial in their duties, and it has always been held to be good policy to have the tenure of office of the judicial y fixed. Scarcely a week passes that a member of tho Board of General Appraisers could not make his fortuno for life by j deciding & case in a certain way, and j?tsecTn? the poorest sore of policy to I have, men with this ]>>wer subject to j dismissal andjporhejs poverty at the j whim o?! ?ha omeo seeker. A DOUBLE WEDDING. ? The Story of an Unusual and Interesting Event. Columbia ?State, Nov. 5. During fair week, nt Kingstree, in Williamsburg county, thero was a double wedding with features ot more than usual interest. In the first place the ceremony was by special invitation performed by the chief executive of the State, there being only a few instance* of this kind in tho history of the State. lu tho second place, tho brides were sisters, Jewesses, and tho grooms were Christians. In tho third place, a special ceremony, prepared from those of several denominations, wore used, and by accident tho wed ding was rounded off with ono of the features of tho Jowieh ceremony-tho breaking of a glass. After completing the ceremony Qov. McSweenoy's arm in so mo way knocked a goblet off a table and it fell m the raidBt of the wedding party. Tho parties wore Mr. William Solo mon Lynch and Miss Esther Benjamin and Mr. Hoxie Glenburn Askins aud Miss ??oso Lillian Benjamin. Dr. Lynch is one of Coward's rising and popular young physicians, a son of J. C. Lynch, one of Florence coun ty's moat substantial business men. Hoxie G. Askins, Esq., is a promising young attorney of Lake City, a sou of Mnj.S. M. Askins, a prominent mer chant of Luke City. The brides aro daughters of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Benjamin, who have re sided many years in Kingstree. Both are attractive and accomplished young women, having many friends in the society of thc town. Both were dressed alike in white or gandie, trimmed with embroidered chiffon, satin ribbons, laco aigrettes, and wore beautiful bridal veils. Thev carried bouquets of bridal roses and ferns. Tho flower girls were Misses Thetis Stackloy, Adelaide Harpor, Ada Brockington and Florence Jacobs. Thc wedding march was played by Mrs. M. F. Heller and Mrs. W. V. Brockington, Mendelssohn's "Midsum mer Night's Drenm" being used. Tho brides were given away by Mr, Louis Jacobs. Tho decorations of tho house were beautiful and tasteful. The presents were handsome and numerous. The bridal party left fer Charleston and other points after the ceremony, Gov. Mcsweeney returning to Colum bia. . Tho text of tho special ceremony used bv tho governor in this unique marriage was as follows: "It was ordained by the Creator from the time when man dwelt in innocency that it waB not good for him to be alono, and tUcrefore there was created for him an helpmeet. Marriage is honora ble in all, but it becomes those who would enter into this estate to duly weigh the duties and responsibilities which it involves as well aa the pleas ures and happiness which accompany thia holy union; for only by a full real ization of the duties and responsibili ties can the parties enjoy to their full measure the happiness which this con tract into which you are about to enter carries with it. You cannot always expect to enjoy prosperity; daye of ad versity and of sorrow will also come; the sunshine and the shadow chase each other; and so will? days of glad ness and rejoicing be followed by days of sorrow and weeping; but if you fear God and keep His commandments He will not forsake you. He will strength en and keep you in every time of need, and comfort you in all of your sor rows. "This is the most important epoch in your lives, und I charge you to weigh well the contract into which you arc about to enter. It involves the closest and tho tenderest of all earthly rela tions. "Aa no impediments have been shown why you way not bc lawfully joined to gether in matrimony, I ask yon, in the presence of God and of these witnesses, /mentioning name), do you take this woman to he your wedded wife, to live together after God's ordinance in the holy estate of matrimony? Will you love her, comfort her, honor and keep her, as a faithful husband is bound to do, in health and in sickness, in pros perity aud. in adversity; and, forsaking all others, keep you only unto her so long as you both shall live? (Answer: 'Yes.') (Mentioning name,) do you take this man to be your wedded hus band, to live together after God's or dinance in thc holy estate of matri mony? Will you love him, comfort him, honor and keep him, as a faithful wife is bound to do,??n health and in sickness, in prosperity and in adversi ty; and, forwiking ali others, keep you only unto him so long as you both shall live? (Answer: 'Yes.') (These ques tions were given first ono couple and then tho other.) "Join your right hands. "Forasmuch as (names) and (names) havA- imntuaUy consented to live to gether in holy wedlock, and have wit nessed tho same before God and this company, I ns tho chief executive of the State of South Carolina pronounce them man aud wife; and what God hath joined together, let no mnnput asunder. . "Let us pray. "O, Eternal God, tho Creator and Preserver of all mankind, tho Giver nf all spiritual grace, the Author of ever lasting life, we would acknowledge Theo in nil our ways, and devoutly im plore Thy direction and blessing. We adoro Theo as tho source of our benevolent affections, and of all our social satisfactions and comforts. Wo praise Theo that Thou has ordained for us domestic institutions. Aud wo beseech Thee to behold with Thy favor and to bless these Thy servants, who have now entered into the closest and tenderest of all earthly connections. Help them to fultil with fidelity tho vow aud convenant which they have made in Thy presence; that the rela tion in which i hey hi ami to each other may not bo to them a state of tempta ! tion aud. sorrow, but of holiness, joy and indissoluble love. Give them grace to overlook eaeh other's infirmities, to cherish a duo regard for each, other's virtues and good intentions, to improve each other's understanding and heart, I and to travel baud in baud to the end i of lifo. Enable them, by preserving af- j fect'on, by a worthy deportment and | by united devotions to soften to each other tho unavoidable eares of life, to j alleviate its sorrows, to increase its in nocent enjoyments and to edify their friends and all around them. Aud hav ing been pious, virtuous aud happy in their connections hore on earth, may they be at last united in the realms of everlasting love and bliss.*' The Hampton Legion. Thc veterans of tho Hampton Legion mef in the chamber of the Supreme Court at the State House yesterday af ternoon. Cen. Wade Hampton was present and acted as chairman of the meeting aud Dr. li. H. Teague of Aiken as secretary. After being favored by thc general with many interesting inci dents connected with tho legion the meeting went into a permanent organ ization by tho election of Maj. T. G. Barker of Charleston as president, P. A. Emanuel, Esq.., of Aiken, vice presi dent, and Dr. B. H. Teague secretary. At thc suggestion of Col. U. K. Brooks of tho Sixth South Carolina cavalry regiment all South Carolinians were in vited to attend tho annual reunions of the Hampton Legion, which, upon res olution, are to be held at Columbia dur ing fair week each year, tho day and Lour of meetiug to bc appointed by th? president. It was resolved that tho president also appoint a suitable committee to collect historical data of thc legion' that a complete history of tho com mand may be compiled. An incident of the legion's flag was given by Col. Wad6 Manning, after which Dr. Teague read a sketch of tho legion printed several years ago in The News and Courier. The old comrades were overjoyed at meeting again, and especially were they gratified to hnve had their old general with them once moro. They assured him of their constant apprecia tion of and n dec tion for him. The meeting then adjourned after many fervid handshakes.-Thc State, Nov. l. A Strange Story. A prominent Atlanta business man told a good story on himself at the Aragon recently: "Years ago," said he, "when I start ed in business I had as a partner one of my best friends. We grew together from boyhood and had always planned to become business partners. The first year was a successful ono and we laid aside a neat sum on the profit side. Thc second year business was not so good. I don't know what got the matter with m? but tho idea took possession of mo thal my partner was looting the con cern. I hod no reason for my sus picion, but tho suspicion was there and it gave mo no rest. I would go to sleep and dream about my partuer ab sconding with nil tho available assets and leaving mo bankrupt. "Finally I could stand tho toiture no longer and hired a private detective to 'shadow' my partner. Tho detective shadowed the partner for two months and then made mea written report to the effect that my partner's life was absolutely straight. Then I got ashamed of myself for entertaining such unjust suspicions and fer a long while could hardly face my business associate. "After awhile my partner decided to go into business in another city and I bought him out, still feeling that I had greatly wronged him. Well, my asso ciate went away and two years after wards I was at my desk thinking ot him and of how I had had him shadowed. Almost unconsciously .1 pulled open a drawer of tho desk that hadn't been used since my partner left. I noticed in there an envelope marked 'confiden tial' and addressed to my partuer. I opened it, thinking it related to some of tho firm's business. "What did cho envelope contain? Weil, you'll hardly believe it, but it was a report on myself made to my Eartner by tho same detective I had ired to shadow him. The idea that I was a thief took possession of my part ner at tho same time that 1 grew suspi cious of him and he hired my detec tive to shadow me."-Atlanta Constitu tion. How's This. We oflbf OHO Hundred Dollars reward for RUT case rf Catarrh thu cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. We, tho undersigned havo inown f... . Cheney for tho lott l? years, aod believe him perfectly honorable In all business transaction! and finan cially able to carry out any obligations tonie by their firm. WIST ATB?AX, Wholesale Drugcists, Toledo, O. WALDIMO. KU:;;AN A MAI:VIN, Whob:nlo Drtii;. gists, Toledo, O. Hairs Catarrh Cure is taken internally, acting diroctly upon the Mood and mueotis surfaces of the system. Testimoni?is sent free. Sold by Druggists. 7Sc. Hall's Family Pllls'areltbe best. STATE NEWS - Four attempts were ma<lo Sunday morning to burn cotton^st Kock Hill. - Charleston's cotton receipts are ; now 3,000 bales ahead of tine time last year. - Eleven cases ot' small-pox arc re J ported from (J ruy Court, iii Earn en? i County. - There are 37 cotton seed ??il mills i in South Carolina, usiug 220,000 tons of | seed annually. - F. B. Morgan, the merchant at Easley. ?rho killed a burglar, was ac quitted at tho Pickens court. ? - The holding of fall festivals is get tiug to bo quite common now through out tho State. Orangeburg will bold ' one on November 13, M and 13, - Anegro meeting in York county lias passed resolutions crying out against the impending danger fro m white teachers in colored schools. - Saluda lins a population of 400. The corner stone for the courthouse j was laid in July, 18W), when not moro than 23 people lived in the hamlet. - Thc Baptist State Convention will meet iu Greenwood, the chango having been made necessary by the illness of the wife of the pastor at Newberry. - Thc Synod of South Carolina has decided to inaugurate a movement to raise an endowment fund of $100,000 for the Presbyterian Seminary at Co lumbia. - The trustees of thc Thorn well Or phanage nt Clinton, S. C., report ?in, 000 collected for tho last year. Every dollar of that money goes where it is doing most good. - The citizens of Newberry have or ganized a Game Protective Association, having for its purpose the protection of gnuie and tish by tho enforcing of the game laws of tho State. - Mr. J. G. Smith, of Aiken County recently found on Shaw creek an alliga tor nest containing 44 eggs. He took them home and reset them nud now ht has 14 young gators about a foot iii length. - Tho famous Donohue plantation in Marion has been sold by Chancello] j Johnson to Mr. A. E. Calhoun, Jr. Il ! was perhaps the largest real estate transaction that has taken place in thu State for many years, ltfOO acres bring ing $40,000, - The National Municipal Leagut Wiil begin its sessious in Charleston or December 12. Mayor Smyth has seul Gov. McSwecuey an earnest invitatio! to attend and deliver the nddress ol wolcome on that day. Tho Governoi hopes to be nble to accept. - Kev. John Owen, for several yean past a prominent member of the SoutI: Carolina Conference, was accidentally shot last Wednesday by a young mar with whom he was out hunting neal Johnston whoro Mr. Owen was located Mr. Owen died from tho effects of th< wounds Friday afternoon at 0 o'clock, - Tho Greenville News states that J. H. Traynhnm, who took the second prize in that county, made 108 bushele of wheat on three acres. Ho sowet peas and mowed 4,414 pounds of hay Counting his prize money $33 nnd hif wheat at 83 cents und his liny at ??! cents, tho crop on tho three acrei brought him $157.40. - Mr. Frank E. Smith, of Yorkville, has hit upon a scheme to prevent ne groes from crossing his lot at night Ho has erected an old gallows, recently found on his premises, and tho negroes gave it u wide berth. Hatchet marla on the gallows show that ll persone have been hung ou it. - Tho ministers of the Yorkville dis trict of tho African Methodist Epis copal Zion church, lately assembled, adopted a series of resolutions protest ing against thc putting of white teach ers in negro schools to teach negrc children. To this whites and blacks should agree. Let the negro "schoolc bo black and tho wliito schools white, To mix ono is to threaten the other. - Tho Cotton Growers' Association of South Carolina met in Columbia last Wednesday and after a thorough dis cussion of the situation determined to push tho work of organizing the farm ers of South Carolina so as to] control thc cotton crop in co-operation with the other cotton growing States. The as sociation also decided .to send a fal' delegation to the meeting of tho nation al association this month. - The officers of the State who went on to New York after Nicastro Dom inico, thc Italian murderer captured in that State, have returned bringing the prisoner to Colleton county to stand trial for thc murder of another Italian committed some years ago. Tho pris oner reached Colleton a few days ago. Tiic bringing back of thh?fellow, it is thought, will havo a good ?effect upon tho lawless crowd of foreign laborers working in tho phosphnte^mines in South Carolina. - Finiey Brown, the twelve-year old son of W. K. Brown, of Charleston, died there last Saturday morning under distressing circumstances. Tho boy wac a day pupil at tho Porter military academy. As a practical joke, some of his school fellows dropped him into tho ? swimming pool of tho academy, from ! which the water had bconXdrnincd off, ' and left him to get out of tho hole ns : best ho could. During his struggles to ; regain his liberty little Finley injured himself internally and died in great ; agony. He refused to'thc last torc I veal tho names of tho boys who placed him in the pool, and ho declared that they were acting merely in a spirit of fun, and that no blame should bo afr? tached to them. UENEKAL NfcWS ITEMS. - Johu Sherman loaves n fortune of threo millions. - Hains in Texas have given cotton au upward start. - Brynn will go down in history as the greatest speech-maker of tho age. - A dealer iu artificial limbs esti mates that 1100,000 Englishmen have lost ono or both iegs. - A man in Texas has entered [suit for ?250,000 damages for being sent to an insane asylum. He places a high vaiue ou himself. - Cornelius L. Alvord, Jr., who gofc away with $700,000 from the First Na tional Hank of New York, was caught in*the city of Hosten. - Tho report comes from Germnuy : that many Confederate $10 bills have I been passed there recently as Uncle ? Sam's promises to pay. j - A joint stock company has ocen organized at Winchester, Va., for tho establishment on 4000 acres of land of an Angora goat farm. - A Chattanooga woman cut her grandson into pieces with n t?nchet be cause she said that ho was a bad boy and smoked cigarettes. - A 3-year-old child in Poughkeepsie smokes cigars or a pipe daily, and is said to have used tobacco since bc was oightccu months old. He is strong and healthy. - A formation of the Agricultural Implement Trust is openly announced. After January 1, 1001, every piece of machinery used by tho fanner must bo purchased at trust prices. - Tho visitor to New York need not go hungry for the want of a pince to get a meal. According to the eensus made in June, there are TU hotels in thc metropolis and 2,500 restaurants -where meais are sold without lodging. , -lt is reported that Grover Cleve ' land may be President of Washington and Leo University, It will bo remem ? bored that Secretary Wilson was Prc?i t dent when he died a short timo ago and since then tho college has been with? i out a head. : - Thc mayor of Evanston, 111., has t issued orders to tho police to shoot on > the spot every person caught in tho ? act of robbery, Highwaymen, bur? . glar.* and other thieves have terrorized the town for the past two 91' threo > wc?ka, anil the m?y?r hits determined i to put an end to that sort of thing. t - Edward Henry, reputed to bo tho i oldest mau in thc country, died nt his E home in Pittsburg, Pa., aged HOyears. r Ho was born a slave in Culpepper, Va., in 1784. During his long career ho was ? married livo times, and is survived by i his Hf th wife, by whom ho had 13 chil r dren. He is said to have been the i father of 00 children, r - Tho Indian territory will soon bo . divided among tho tribes inhabiting i tho Territory, to-wit : Cherokees, Creeks, Seminoles, Chickasaws, and b Choctaws. There aro 87,000 Indians L and 10.008,030 acres of land to be divi > ded equally among tho difieren t tribes. I This is said tobe one of the richest . sections in tho United States. i - Charles Steinbrook, who was con* ? rioted at St. John, Kan., on 40 counts s of selling whiskey in violation of the prohibitory law, was fined $4,000 and sentenced tc 40 months in jail. As he - cannot pay his fine ho will, under the . law, have to serve it out in jail at the . rate of GO cents a day, making his total i jail sentence practically 30 years and 5 months. \ - Tho seedless orange was a freak of nature found in tho swamp ou the north shore of tho Amazon |about 1872. ? To-day its cultivation in the United , States has revolutionized tho orango industry. It has brought tho orango yield of California up to^l7,000 car ? loads a year; and tho amount of money ? invested directly and indirectly in if is i over S 100,000,000. - During the last few weeks duels have caused a perfect slaughter ia Italy. As many as four duelists were ; killed iu different towns in ono day. During tho lust year 2,400 duels have ? been fought in Italy, and ISO deaths have resulted. Most of these combats were between army oilicers and based i cn the most trivial pretexts. - A peculiar incident was witnessed in tho Bethany Presbyterian Church of Trenton, X. J. The sermon had a so porific effect upon Harry Tidd, a young , druggist, and he fcll;'asleep. AVhilo still in slumber he arose.tfrcmovcd his coat, vest? and collar and was about to further durobu when tho women in his vicinity screamed. An* usher aroused him and led him out of the church. - Chicago is not only the greatest cattle, sheep and hog market in tho world, but it now loads all creation as a horse market. During the nine full months of tho present calendar year 117,000 horses were received and sold there, brenking all former records by nearly 30,000. Tho largo increase is at tributed to the demand during the last year for cavalry horses, .which have been purchased uv the government and by Germany and England. - Two plans for army reorganization will bo submitted to Congress this wi? ter. Secretary Hoot, meeting the views of tho President, is having prepared plans which will follow the same gen eral 8chemo as that urged upon the late Congress. Gen. Miles will proposo an army of 80,000, including 30 regiments of infantry, IB regiments of cavalry, 20 batteries of artillery of ?about 18,000 men to properly ?nan the senecas! de fences. Gen, Miles beliovoe there should be at hast oiie soldier to eveiy thousand inhabitants.