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t THE ARE EST OF MAHONEj" FOR THE SHOOTING OF HARRISON j AT PETERSBURG. The Youur Democrats Were Paintinp j the Town R<;d When Their Merriment | Was Suddenly Checked by a Volley I From Mahone's Yard?The Little Boss ! Bound Over for Trial?Harrison's ! Wound Not Danfrevous. l'KTi.HsmTit;. Ya.. Nov. G.?The particulars t.F tho arrest of General Mahouc last night on the charge of shooting young Harrison, his temporary con- i liiK'nicni in the station house, and his subsequent release on bail, are as follows: About 9 :hO o'clock it was evident, according to returns, that the Democrats i hud scored a decided victory. The re- i Milt was that some of the best young : nun in the city organized themselves < into a serenading band, armed with a i liberal supply of firecrackers, and pro- ; ecidnl to celebrate the victory. From i Si ttiMi.t tliov nuirelied to Market ! street, and tbonce to a point very near General Ma hone's residence. There tliey fired off Roman candles ami hahy-wnkers until their merriment was interrupted by a volley, which, it is alleged, was fired fioin Gen. Mahone's i yard. < ?nly one man was shot, however. < lie was Mr. Herberts Harrison, ofihe ' .firm of Gilliam it Harrison, con fee- 1 lioners. A warrant was at once issued i for Mahone's arrest, and he was taken | in'to eiistody^and wliile detained in the I lockup Mayer (.'oilier was sent for. The 1 rase was heard and the following evi- ? delicti adduced: i The first witness sworn was Charles Romaine, son of a New Yorker, hut for I many years engaged in business here. < He testified that he and his friends : slatted upSycamoie street and went to a I point opposite Ma|innc*$ residence. There I iliey fired off several pieces of fireworks, i and* then either General Ma hone, Butler, t his son, or cx-Rolieemini Kerry <1 is- t charged firearms into their midst. The I General himself was plainly visible, as 1 was also Kerry and Butler, when the I i. iin. vv 11j? 11*11 Harrison exclaim that he was shot. Then, in company with j friends, he crossed the street to Ma- ( hone's pile, where he was knocked j down by Berry, either by the hitter's i list or by a pistol which he was flourish- t ing in his hand. His testimony was t corroborated by that of other witnesses, j The evidence of C. E. Burton, corrob- I crated by Komainc, established the fact i that Harrison was shot by some t person iu the front yard of Mahone's t house, and that the defendant acted t upon the offensive. 1 (.'icsar Lodelli distinctly heard three c shots tired from Mahone's yard. He saw Mahonc with a gun in his hand. ? Myer Sa.d heard two or three shots ( tired. I saw Gen. Mahonc with a double- j barreled breech-loading gun in his t hands. ()ne of t lie gent lemen expressed 1 t i General Mahonc surprise about his ' having the gun, and the General said: t 4"Yes, tins is my gun.' feaui iuriner 1 icstifiod that Mahone said he would kill t any one who entered his yard, at the 1 same lime clapping Ins hand 011 his pocket, and saying he would protect his ? property. The General was standing i near his gate, and the shot was fired < from 1 bat point. i Mahonc said: ''I was sitting in my i library in con versa, ion with Mr. Canpbcll s and Colonel Barbicre. 1 heard the ex pi oi- i ion of fireworks in the street until they 1 got to my house. Some were exploded 1 in my yard. The loud reports caused 1 - the impression that, firearms we#e being I used in my yard. Desiring to protect I 111 y property, i walked out, and seized i my gun as 1 passed. I saw a number of I persons at my gate, one of whom said: I 'You have a gun. Shoot, damn you!'I I walked down the steps. One of the men s said: 'We are only celebrating.' I re- < plied: 'That's a'l?right, but don't I shoot 011 my premises.' The men went : out and others cauie up from below. 1 One of tlieni said: 'You have a i gun.' 1 replied: 'Yes, I have a right to < have it.' Not a gun or a pistol was fired, 1 that 1 know of, trom the time I went i out of the library to the end of the affair. < i certainly did not shoot and I neither i saw nor heard any one else shoot." < uenerai aianone s siaiciueui was cur- ! rohorated by James (J. Campbell. i The .Mayor said that the evidence was i of a character to establish cause for the 1 belief that Mahouo had fired the shot < that wounded Harrison, and that he would send the case on to the Hustings < Court; but, as Harrison's wound was . not dangerous, bail would be allowed ( in the sum of $2,500. I The bond was gives, and shortly afrer < midnight the General and his friends >1 left the station house for their homes. | A Girl Horse Racer. A prettv incident of the Ivy City races i of last week is being told among the gen- ] t lemon riders at their clubs. It rocalls the romantic days of the period before ; the war, when the Southern clnvalry j was supreme in the atl'aiis of the turf, i The story is idyllic. After Modoc had made his famous victory and won the . silver cup that was worth $150 and the golden opinions worth very much more ' in value, there was a strong desire ' among the gentleman riders, members of the lUtmidane Club and others, to J meet the owner of the winner, who is no 1 other than Miss Carter, of the illustrious ! house of the Carters, of Virginia. Her home is in Warrenton, Va. Miss Carter consented to meet some of the gentleman at "the club house at 1 the dose of the day's sport. The rider 1 of Modoc, Mr. Jimmy Maddox, was also present. The newly won cup, which holds a gallon, was filled with champagne, and the ladies and men present drunk from it in the old loving-cup fashion, pledging the future successes of Miss Carter's Modoc.-.- Washington Star. A Valuable Domestic Invention. Mrs. \V. A. Cock ran of Shelby ville, Ind., has placed her name on the roll with the great inventors of the world, the result of Iter genius being a practical dish-washing machine. She began experimenting ten years ago. Her husband, the late W. A. Cock ran, was then ( ii i-dii i iitk 01 Mieiny i ouiuy, leaving her financially unahle to complete her undertaking. l>y the aid* of friends, however, she finally succeeded and has a machine desigued to do the work now done by the thousands of girls and women the land over. The machine is i wonderful ami intricate. It is made in i dilTerent sizes for families and hotel i purposes. It is also made for both hand and steam power and it is capable of washing, scalding, rinsing and drying from live to twenty dozen dishes of all < shapes and sizes in two minutes, the i number, of course, depending on the size of the machine. Mrs. C'oekran has j recently disposed of her machine to an ! Illinois manufacturing firm for a large i .sum of money and will receive a good royalty on all machines sold.?Kansas I CV7 tj Star. . 1 ABOUT THE PLANETS. Some Interesting Events During: the Present Month. The sun for November continues his Southward course,although not with the same rapidity that he traveled in October. the change of declination for the month being only seven degrees, and the speed slackening perceptibly toward the month's close. If the sun had never been examined with any other instrument than the telescope, or totally eclipsed by the intervention of the moon, we should not have formed any idea of the nature of the operations going on at his surface. It is remarkable that modern science has shown us mof% mysteries in the sun than it has explained, as, notwithstanding the researches of scientists, it must be said that the real case of the solar system still defies analysis, and that the mechanics of the segregation of a planet from the sun, or of a satellite from a planet, if, indeed, such an event ever happened, or of the mechanics of an evolution of a solar system from countless meteorite*, are sfill far from being clearly made out. The mathematical theories of the earth * I ready advanced and elaborated are by no means complete, and no mathematical Alexander need yet pine for other worlds to conquer. The converging lights of many lines of investigation are now brought to bear on the problems presented by our planet, and much may h: expected from the new astronomy, which looks for the secrets of the earth's rigin and history in nebulous masses or in swarms of meteorites. The moon presents four phases during the month, being full on the 7th, last juarter on the 15th, new moon on the ;2<1, and first quarter on the 2Uth. On lie 1st the moon was in the eonstellaion of Capricornus and on the 30th it will be in Pisces. On the 8th there is a conjunction with Neptune, on the 16th with Saturn, on the 18th with Mars, on lie 20th with Uranus, on the 21st with Venus, on the 22d with Mercury, and on he 25th with Jupiter. Jupiter will continue alone in his *lory as evening star until toward the close of the month, when he will be joined by Neptune. He begins the month ? i-1.- ?/x?ofnllnfinn f tlio A TV'hor ()n II UIC VUI19ICIiaiivii VA ?..?w V..V.. v.. he 25th, three days after the new moon, he planet and the moon will be it) eonunction, and, although not as close as ast month, the crescent and the star yill in the cool, clear atmosphere of his season *f the year present a celesial picture well worth seeing. During he month Jupiter grows smaller, as lis distance from the earth is still inireasing. Venus, the queen of the morning stars, ranges under |her banners all the ithir planets with the exception of Jujiter. One by one they have succumbed o her superior attractions until her ival is left to shine alone in his glory, Venus is in conjunction with Uranus on he 9th and with the moon on the 21st, leither of which events will be visible to he naked eye. She rises about two lours before the sun. Saturn attracts more than ordinary ittention this month from the professional star gazers, as on the 1st, at 8 /clock Greenwich time, there occurred a remarkable conjunction, that of lapctus, ts outermost satellite, with another satellite called Titan. These two, mov/l 1 rnnt-irm c nsQ^rl within U? l.J UIUWVU^ "1 r-v, two seconds of each other. Shortly after this close approach Tapetus entered the shadow of the ring system, and, as Saturn was then near quadrature, the entire passage of the satellite through the shadow was clear of the planet as seen trom the earth. The satellite's path traversed the shadow of the rings on both sides of the planet and the clear space between the planet and ring on me side. 11 was a matter of great interest and importance to note if the satellite shone out when crossing the projection of the Cassinian division, and if it was at all visible when in the shadow :>f the dusky ring or crapo veil. This rare and interesting occurrence was much bettor observed in extreme Southirn latitudes?about Australia. Saturn itself is in conjunction with the moou :>n the 16th and in quadrature with the lun on the 25th. It is the second in importance of the morning stars, and ts size is gradually increasing as it gets nearer to us and approaches a convenient position for observation. Mercury, another of the morning ?tars, rose about 5 o'clock on the 1st, uicl gets lazier as tiie com weatner increases, not appearing on the horizon on he HOth until about ten minutes before sunrise. To-day he is in conjunction with Uranus, as the latter is moving Westward From the sun. Mercury, Mars, Uranus ind Venus are to be found in the constellation of the Virgin. Mars is a morning star, and one of the few whose size is increasing, as the planet is slowly approaching the earth. Mars will make his appearance earlier md earlier as the month advances, ris ing at its close at about 2:15 in the morning Uranus, also a morning star, meets both Mercury and Venus as he increases bis distance from the sun. He is in conjunction with the former to-day and with the latter on the 9th, meeting the moon on the 20th. He rose on the 1st about 5 o'clock in the morning, and on the MOth will rise about two hours earliet. 'Hie progress of stellar photography is weH exemplified in the case of the inner satellites of Uranus, which, although they are among the most dilfi cult.of all, have during the past year been successfully photographed. Neptune, the last of the morning planets, continues to be ranked as one of that remarkable galaxy of brilliants only until the 25th of the month, when, being in opposition' to the sun, he leaves the fair qeeen of the morning skies to serve under Jupiter. Although nearest the earth at the time of opposition, which is the most interesting period in his course, he is too far away from us to be seen without artificial aid, although his general location is fairly well defined by Aldebaran, the brightest star in Taurus, and on the 8th Ins position is still easier to ascertain, as ou that date he it in conjunction with the moon. Hf tl?<> /lAnefnllof inno VrvvrimKot* the Dipper is well placed for observation in the Northern section of the heavens. In the Southern portion we find the ruling constellation to be the Fishes, below which is the sea monster LYtus. in the East the stars of Orion are rising. Above the head and shoulders of the (iiant are the horns of the Bull, and above theso again the constellation Perseus. The Milky Way runs nearly vertically along the left of these constellations. All the original bird constellations are to be found in the West. The Lyre was one of these, being called the rising bird, while the Swan was called the falling bird. The divided portion of the Milky Way is now well seen in the West, it being particularly bright to the right and growing less so as it gets nearer the horizon. - THE NOVEMBER OALES. A SUMMING UP OF THE RESULTS OF TUESDAY'S CONTESTS. How the Elections Are Regarded in Administration Circles?Efforts to Explain the Unexpected Republican Defeats Ey Everything- But the Real Reasons. (From the J'/iiladeljihia Times.) The adverse winds that so often chill a new administration have blown this year with unexpected violence. Pennsylvania is about the only Republican State that stands unmoved, and even ^here it is to the Democratic failure in Philadelphia more than to the votes ef the Counties that the Republican majority is mainly due. Ohio has gone Democratic, electing Campbell Governor over Forakor by some 8,000 majority. The Democrats have apparently elected their whole State ticket, as well as a majority in each branch of the Legislature, thus securing the United States Senatorship. Even more surprising is the result in Iowa, where a Democratic Governor is elected for the first time since tho Republican party was organized. The Republicans retain the Legislature, having districted the Slate for that purpose, but the popular verdict is emphatic. Mahone's defeat in Virginia is overwhelming. The majority for McKinney is at. least 35,000 and the Democrats will have three-fourths of the House of Keprentatives and two-thirds of the Senate. 'In Maryland the. Republicans made some slight gains, but the Legislature is still strongly Democratic. In the East there have been no such startling changes as in the West, but the gains are all on the Democratic side. Abbett is elected Governor of New Jersey by at least 12,000 majority, and the Democrats have a safe majority i:i the Legislature. New York gives some .'5,000 plurality to the Democratic State ticket, though the Democratic gains are not sufficient to change the Legislature. Massachusetts, on the other hand, elects I the Republican candidate, Brackett, Governor over Russell by less than 4,000, against 28,000. for Governor Ames last year. 'Such is a very brief summary of the November elections. The record is not flattering to the administration. But fortunately the warning has come early and there is time to profit by it. "LOCAL CAUSES" TO BLAME. The Administration View of the Elections. (fytecial to Aew York Time*.) Washington, Nov. 6.?For an "off year" in politics there has rarely, if ever, been so much interest shown here in an election of any sort as that which has been exhibited in the result of yesterday's contests. This interest has centred on Ohio, Virginia and Iowa. New York. Massachusetts and New Jersey have each had its fair share of attention, but the results in these States were generally expected, and the question has been one more ot majorities than of the successful party. Last night the Republicans would concede nothing, and were troubled. Today they concede everything, and are /]nnn/1 fKa tYl AT?A TVWAmVflOnf ua^cu. vjwuic ut cue I'lv/uii iiv/ui Republicans declined to talk about the elections at all. Others take their cue from persons high in administration circles and gravely attribute the defeat to "local causes" and to the apathy from which they say the successful party in a Presidential year always suffers in the next succeeding State elections. President Harrison is not submitting to interviews on the subject, but to those to whom he does talk he declines to accept the idea that llie national administration was on trial yesterday and that it received a vote of want of confidence. Opposition on general principles to a third term lie regards as a sufficient reason to put forth for Foraker's defeat in Ohio, and if he is shedding any tears over the blotting out of a rival for the Presidential nomination in 1802 their traces are not to be seen on his countenance. The loss of the State of Ohio is another thing, and the expressions of regret at the White House appear to be genuine. Wliritovw nrivntft pnnsnlntinn Miihono '' """ * I ? may receive for the crushing defeat Virginia has dealt out to him, it is evident that lie need not expect any public demonstration of sorrow from the President. Gentlemen who have called on General Harrison to-day have been told that the President was not responsible -for the candidacy of Mahone, and by the President's friends it is declared that such assistance as Mahone has had has been no more than any Republican , nominoe has received. Had the result been different, the little ex-Senator would probably have been called upon to divide the honor of his election with the Chief Executive, but Mahone defeated must take all the responsibility. Outside of the White House there is a general disposition on the part of docent Republicans to regard the political burial of Mahone as deserving of very mild grief. They would have been glad if by tiis help the solid South had been broken, but they would have been better pleased if it could have been broken by a better man. In Iowa also the President finds local causes,for the surprising success of the Democrats. Personal opposition to certain candidates on the part of the farmers and the introduction of the temperance issue into the campaign are some. of the local causes which he think.) ac-, count for the result. By pretty nearly every one else in Washington the defeat of the Republican ticket in Iowa is regarded as by far the most significant aim mij^uiiaiit iiiv.iuvui ? * o elections, in their bearing upon national politics. It is realized thai in the Iowa contest the tariff was almost wholly the issue, and thinking Republicans confess to-night that the farmers of that State, at least, have learned something about the tariff sinco oue year ago. The effect of Iowa's vote upon the tariff legislation to be proposed by the Republicans at the approaching session of Congress is already being discussed, and predictions are already beard that the next AllisonAldrieh tariff bill will 1)2 far less radical than the last. Amid the general gloom which prevails at the White House in spi'o of tlie announcement .that the administration was not on trial yesterday, and therefore has not been rebuked by the people, Private Secretary Halfold presents a cheerful smile to all comers, bike his chief, lie sees "local causes'' at the bottom of yesterday's defeats. He has also discovered that "once in four years the people must find a vent for their personal prejudices against certain canj didates," and this is one of these occasions. "During a Presidential election," says Mr. Hal ford, "there are sins of omission and commission, and when party principles are not at stake the voters consult only their own feelings. They go out into* the hack lot, as it wore, and kick themselves for what they have clone in the past. The elections are not evidence of additional Democratic strength. On the contrary, the Democratic vote has beeu cut down considerably in many important places, notably in New York." The President's private secretary adds, for the comfort of Republican callers, that "the principles of tlu Republican party were not at stake yesterday." A WONDERFUL COTTON PLANT. A Spartanbursr Farmer Raisins: Cotton Seed Without Lint. News comes from Spartanburg of a new cotton plant, which, if it is as claimed, will make a wonderful revolution in the agricultural and cotton oil interests of the nation. T. Ferguson, an experienced cotton planter, claims to have a cotton plant which will produce nothing but cotton seed without the lint, ilisstatement is briefly as follows: lie claims that there is a male and female cotton plant?the male being do signated, he thinks, by the red calks. The seeds are vari-colored, the shades being generally blue, green and white, and of course cannot bo distinctly specified. Given this fact, Ferguson commenced, some time ago, to pick out the male plains, and with the seed extracted from them planted another patch separately. When the. crop was ready for picking the male plants were, again selected and the production of seeds planted separately again. This process of selecting the male plants was kept up until at last the lint refused to germinate, and nothing is loft in the bolls save a large amount of seed. The amount of seed contained in the boll is more than equal to the weight of the lint and seed found in the average sized boll of cotton. Ferguson claims that he can produce four hundred bushels of seed to the acre by this new discovery, where only thirty-live bushels are now gathered with the lint. He has been very careful in producing the results given above?to obliterate all vestige of lint from a boil of cotton?and bus succeeded in a most remarkable manner. Otiior experienced planters have been shown Ferguson's new discovery and are much struck with it. An expert who was shown the plant A 1?11 . A 4-1. ~ 1 11 1 aim uvms >iuu hic uuii uus ute appeal a nee, both on the exterior and the interior, of a regular boll of cotton after the lint bas been picked out. The seed are a little larger than the common seed and are perfectly free from any semblanco of lint. The bolls are filled with these seed, which are as numoroas as okra seed in a pod of okra. The revolution that will be effected bv this new cotton plant, if it can be cultivated successfully, will be beyond calculation. If Ferguson's calculations are correct, the cotton oil business will be entirely revolutionized. The planters who now raise cotton arC fortunate it they can make 200 pounds of lint c*tton to the acre. Counting the value of cotton seed at $.10 an acre is considered a big return to planters in this State. Ferguson claims that his new cotton seed plant will yield at least $90 an acre. This amount he says will be obtained from 400 bushels of cotton seed at twenty cents per bushel, that being the present price paid for the raw seed. The State agricultural bureau will investigate tho mutter. HOW TO AVOID WRINKLES. Repress Tour Emotions, Smile >Pleasanfln an/t Tl, o.. \AI i 11 Vrtf m a YoU realize that a wrinkle ia coming, says a writer in the Philadelphia Times. You don't understand it", and you like it less. How did it get there? Li te the rest of your sisters, you are of a nervous temperament, and even when you are not speaking you are moving your mouth. Nothing sa entirely tends to the formation of wrinkles as a continual biting of the undet lip, a moistening of the lips with the tongife or a drawing the lip up at the sides which causes an ugly, supercilious look, and which is the best friend for the cultivation of wrinkles. Learn the art of repose as far as your face is concerned. You can look intelligently at things, and all the expression desired tnay be in your eyes, but that is no reasou why any other part of your face need move Laughing and crying alike are said to cause winkles, while a pleasant smile never will, and the moral of this would seem to be that it's wisest to repress one's feelings, or, as the darkey mammies have always taught, that "loud laugh bespeaks a vulgar mind." Avoiding this, you arc stamped well-bred, and the wrinkles do not come. "Doine" Europe. *' A storv that would be ludicrous but for the disgust that an American must feel upon reading it, is going the rounds of two young men from a Western State who are doing Europe. Not that they had the remotest idea of gaining any benefit from the trip or that they really saw anything worth looking at the second time, for the paintings in the Louvre and the galleries of the Luxembourg were no more to them than chromos given away with packages of poor tea. They cojild not understand even "The Last Supper." An intelligent New Yorker took them in hand and every morning arose early and laid out a route for the day, hut the exposition made them tired and they sitv in the Champs Elysees only a place in which to sit do vn and talk over their comrades at home. The New Yorker finally lost patience and said . that he was tired of hurling the glories of franee against the "jelly-fish souls of these two galvanized mummies from the West." fie said that he had asked them why they came to Europe and they did not know.?Springfield (Jfuss.) Union. The Latest Thinir in Chrysanthemums. The Rock Mill Herald of Thursday says: A number of (he young ladies and gentlemen of the community will engage in a-"chrysanthemum parade" this afternoon at 3 o'clock. The participants will ride horses, and the parade will bo a very novel one. Wc understand that about forty couples will turn out?each couple being ornamented in a distinctive color. The idea is a new one for a "chrysanthemum show" and had its origin in Rock Hill. Pianos and Organs. Pianos $200. Orgaus $00 Chicker in cr, MathUobek, Mason & Hamlin, Srerling aud Arion Pianos. Wason & ; IlanliD, Packard and Sterliug Organs, at factory prices for cash or on easy in* ; stallments. Fifteen days' test trial and ! freight paid both ways if vot satisfacto ry. Order aDd test in your own homes. Delivered to Dearest depot freight free. Don't forget bottom prices and equare dealing. Write for cuts and prices, i N. W. TRUMP, Columbia, 3. C. THE COTTON OIL TRUST. Plans Adopted for Changrine It Into a Corporate Concern. New York, Nov. fl.? Tho committee appointed at the 'ast meeting of the eer: tifv ate holders of the Cotton Oil T-ust I to examine into its affairs and suggest a method for changing .the trust into a corporate concern, met this afternoon, T. P. Alcott, presiding. The report presented and adopted, after considerable discnssion, was on the basis of changing the present certificates into stock which would be assured by a deposit of all securities owned by the trust with the Central Trust Company. The new stock will consist of $27,000,000 common and $15,000,000 6 per cent, noncuimilnting preferred stock. The committee leportcd hat through errors of judgment a loss of $277,110 had been sustained and had been charged off on the hooks of the -company. The report of Hie trustees for the fiscal yoar ending August 3d, 1889, was found to be correct. The extraordinary los-* of $377,11U is accounted tor Dy tin; fact Unit tin; president and treasurer of the trust ha:l for the purpose, as they state, of maintaining and strengthening tin; 'credit of the concern used its funds in supporting the price of certificates. These transactions entailed a loss of over Imlf a million dollars. Mr. Hagler, the president, contributed $100,000 toward making up the deficiency. The company will be reorganized on the plan recommended by the committee. , Boulansrista in Conference London', Nov. 7.-A conference l>fetwecn the leaders of the Boulangist i party was held to-day at the residence id General Boulanger on the island of Jersey?sixty of ihe prominent members of the party were present. The authorities of the Island of Jersey had a conference to-day, which resulted in the landlord of the hotel at, which the Boulangist conference was held being cautioned that he would be held responsible, in the event of any over-demonstration arising from the conference. It is stated that the Boulangist leaders debated a proposition for important alterations in the programme of the party. Ladies Who Use the Foils. Those who understand and enjoy the art of fencing, says a London lfitter to the Pniladelphia Telegraph, are becoming very numerous nowadays. Indeed, it is said it will bo quite tho fashion in the coming winter. Now that ladies have taken up the exercise in earnest, it will no doubt be tbe rage for a while. Graceful figures are never seen to greater advantage than when practicing the art of swordsmanship. The Prince of Wales's daughters are i all expert with the foil, and many of the Radios who weary themselves with every variety of exercise in the Summer are taking to fencing as a substitue in i the winter. ? The Civil Service Law. Baltimore American Washington cor1 respondence: New young Congressmen as they come to Washington take good care to have themselves interviewed, and they take equally good care to say things that are popular. Their strongest hold is, of course, civil service law,-and one after another they denounce it, and demand its abolition by the coming Congress. That kind of stuff is pardonable in new men. Nobody knows them, and they must say something popular in order to be read. But when ; a man of Congressman Payson's repui tation and standing comes along and fulminates in the same absurd style, his . best friends regret it. Not that they may not fully agree with him. But every sensible man knows that, fortunately or unfortunately, nothing will ; ever come of all this anti-civil service i law agitation-. It lias come to stay. i It needs improving and will be improved; but one tbing can be depended upon absolutely-no Congress will over dare to repeal the civil service law. It is all very "well for Congress to swear at it, and for them and their constituents to "demand" its abolition. All , this is the merest talk, and every Con1 gressman knows it. There have been annual bills offered to do away with it, ljut the very men who offered the bills knew perfectly well that the bill would never even eome back out of committee. The simple truth is that the Congressmen of the Fifty-first Congress, like those of preceding Congresses, however much they may declaim ana rait to reporters, and however much they may hate the present law, the same Congressman will never dare to vote for its abolition. And, furthermore, no President of the United States will ever sign any bill, granting for an instant that Congress would pass ir, which will abolish or even seriously hamper the operation of the law. So that all these rabid interviews might us well cease. The law can be and needs to be very much improved, but it never will be abolished. Sutrar Trust Dissolved. New York, Nov. 7.?The General Term of the Supreme Court handed down several decisions to-day, among them being the long expected one in the case of the North River Sugar Refining Company, which was some time ago incorporated in the Sugar Trust. Opinions are written in the ease by Judges Daniels and Van Rrunt, affirming the decision of Judge l'arrett, ordering a dissolution of the company. The Tozer Engine Works (Successor to Dial Enirine Works.) JOHN A. WILLIS, PROPRIETOR, 117 West Gervais Street. ft ^ 1^ f OO UNION DEPOT. * : PQ ?MANUFACTURERS OF THETozer Steam Engines AND ALT. SIZES OF BOTH LOCOMOTIVE AND RETURN TUBULAR BOILERSfoundry work in iron and brass. REPAIRING PROMPTLY EXECUTED. J uly 23-ciii IT GAVE HIM A VALUABLE IDEA. The Bes.r Elevation of a Lady's Hat as a Design for an Eiffel Tower. "Pardon mo, madam," said the studious looking man in the sixth row of seats next to a Chicago Tribune reporter, as he leaned forward at the fall of the curtain on the first act and spoke politely to the lady sitting in front of him, "but I beg you will not remove your hat." "Sir!" she exclaimed, flushing with indignation. "I fancied from the motion of your hands," he resumed with the utmost suavity, "that you were about to remove it. Please do not Oblige me, my dear madam, by keeping it on." "You are grossly impertinent, sir!" said the lady sharply. "I beg your pardon, madam," he replied with great earnestness. "I am ( only a poor inventor and I am making a drawing of your hat as a design for a j World's Fair tower." - Madame JBouianger. No more pathetic spectacle now confronts the eyes of the world than that of Madame Boulanger. wife of the flightyfancied general, who for so long has lived alone with her two daughters in retiracy in Paris. Hers is a sad though handsome face, iri* which pain has cut more lines and grooves than time; while to listen to her low, sweet voice is to wonder how the General can endure passing any of his days beyond the reach of its snbile music. Sue is a gentle, little heart-broken lady, from whom the iron hands of ambition have clutched all that she found best in love. And she has not even the satisfaction of knowing that the man who turned the sunshine of her earlier days into the bleak desolation of the present ever; uives her a single thought. Still she does not condemn him. "It is not for moJ.0 judge him," she sometimes says when some one accosts her concerning him; "we loved each other once! Some day." she usually adds, "he will need ray love again. I do not wish to be divorced frcm him, because I want to retain the right to care for him when all the world forsakes him?when, save his wife, he has no friend." History tells us of few more beautiful characters than hers. How unworthy of her is the roystering, blatant demagogue to whom she remains so true.?Boston Traveler. HELP FOR THE SUFFERING. How often a home is made sad by the suffering of some member of the family. How keenly the gcod wife sympathizes with her invalid husband, how greatly the kind husband hopes for his sick wife's recovery. Blessed be the men that furnish sick and aching humanity with a remedy that brings sure relief. Isaac H. Otlaw, ML Olive, N. C. writes: " I was troubled with skip disease and was broken out in running sores. I had been afflicted for ten years OT;TM mcr AQUQ and usuaNy wor? OikilN UibLAbr.0 in hot months. Eight mouths ago I got a bottle B. B. B. at John R. Smith's drug store at ML Olive, and it has entirely cured me, and 1 have had no symptoms of the disease since." Kennssaw, Ga^ Sept 11,1S87. Blood Balm Company. My Dear Sirs: I take , great pleasure in ackno pledging the great benefit my wife has derived frora your great and wonder lal medicine, B. B. B. For two years she was a great suffer from Scrofula or some blood disease which had lain dorc ant all her life; we had attenSr.p/^-PTTT ? tion fram some of the most skillLI\Ur U LA fui physicians in the country but all to no effect nntil we had all despaired of her recovering Her mouth was a solid ulcer and for two months or more her body was broken > out with sores until she lost a beautiful head of hair, also her eye-lashes and eye-brows. In fact she seemed to be a complete wreck. Now comes the great secret which I want all the world to know, and that is that three bottles of Blood Balm medicine kas done the work,which would sound incredible to any one who did net know it to be so. To day my wife is perfectly healthy and clear from any scrofulous . 'aiut. and she now has a three months old babe also perfectly hcalthly. Very Respectfully, H. L. Cassidy. rSTIf the reader will Bend to the Blood Balm CoAtlanta, Ga., for their illustrated "Book of Wons." it will urove of further interest (11 Bookbinding. r HAVE TWO FIRST CLASS BOOKBIND , KKS-ri good as can bo found anywhere. Send mo your Books and I will do them up nicel) and at moderate cost. ACCOUNT BOOKS ol all kinds made in the best style of the art CHARLES A. CALVO, JR., Printer and ItooIt"b 111 tl?r, 65 North Richardson Street, COLUMBIA! S. C. GILDER'S LIVER PILLS, Remove the bilo from the system, care al bilious troubles, and prevent malarial diseases. * For sale by all druggists and merchants at 2' cents a box, or mailed on receipt of price by THE BARRETT DRUG CO.. " Augusta, Ga. TAKE GILDER'S PILLS. Feb 15ay PITTS' CARMINATIVE I^Olt CORRECTING NAUSEA. DYS1 entcry, Diarrhoea and Cholera Infantum. A pleasant medicine of incalculable merit in the home circle for child or adult. It is popular, pleasant and efficient. Truly a mother's friend. It soothes aDd heals the mucous membranes, and checks the mucous discharge from head, stomach and bowels. The mucous discharge from the head and lungs art- as promptly re-1 licved by it ns the mucous discharge "from the bowels. It is made to relieve the mucous system and cure nausea, and it does it. It makes the critical period of teething children safe and easy. It invigorates and builds up the system while it is relieving and curing the wasted tissue. It is recommended and used largely by physicians. . For sale by Wannamaker & Murray Co., Columbia, S. C., and wholesale by Howard ?fc Willelt, Augusta, Ga. II. II. r . GUARANTEED TO CURE Sisk Headache and Constipation in a abort tiitfe. Prevents all Malarial troubles. Price fiftv coats. For sale by druggists and mer enant*. Manufactured by THE BARRETT DRUG CO.. Feb l.r>av August . Ga. [COMPLETE OUTFITSI * I . Then he clasped her with emotion, affl Drew the maiden to his breast, MB Whispered vows of true devotion, The old, old talc,?you know the rest SjH From his circled arms upspringing, With a tear she turned away, jH And her voice with sorrow ringing, " I shall not see my bridal day." 43B This dramatic speech broke him up badly; flH but when she explained that her apprehen ions were founded on the fact of an inherlted predisposition to consumption in her fomllr ho ralmnH hop foara Vvouchf a hnftlft 39 of Dr. Picrcc's Golden Medical Dfscovery for M her, and she is now tbo incarnation of health. V Consumption fastens its hold upon its victims M while they are unconscious of its approach. The "Golden Medical Discovery " has curtxl fl thousands of cases of this most fatal of mala- n dies. But It must be taken before the disease M is too far advanced lir order to be effective. vl If taken in time, and given a fair trial. It will w cure, or mousy paid for it will be | refunded. For Weak LunfC', Spitting of Blood, Shortness of Breath. Bronchitis. Asthma, Severe. Cougus, and kindred affections, it is an efficient remedy. Copyright, 1888, by "World's Dis. Mid. ASS'k. tmMm I( \ iJf for an incurable case of CaBwml J/ tarrh in the Head by 'he proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh ltemedy. tf Its mild, soothing and healing propertied >. suree the worst cases, no matter of how long standing. By druggist^, 50 cents. ^MOTHERS jpL FRIENDS'** child BRADFIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTAnt BOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. 0/1 m. ru j ir^ii 10 limners aiiu mm witju Hote My Line and Write to Me tor Prices Prv'.t, Winship ahd Brown Cotton Gins at lower prioes than aver before. Liddell Company's Bona Single and Double Beraw aid Direct Acting Steam Cylinder Cotton Prtuei J Liddell-Tompkins, Westinghouse,'Atlas and Oneida Steam Engines and Boilers Liddell Company's Variable and Belt] Feed Saw Mills. Lane Manufacturing Company's S*w Mills. , . i.. Shafting, Pulleys, Hangers, Couplings, eto? at prices that cannot be bettered. 011 Mill supplies. Brown and Carver Linters, Hullers, Screens, Cake Grinders and Breakers, Fertiliser Mixers, etc. "Ideal" Rubber Belt, and Oak Tanned Leather Belt. I will meet any competition, value considered, but will not recommend INFERIOR machinery. Serve your interests by writing to me before pLcing your orders. Special estimates made on* Wood Working Machinery, Sturtevant Dry Kilns, or anything wanted in my line. W. H. GIBBES, Jr., Columbia. S. C. ? FOR SIXTY DAYS. WE OFFBR OUR NO. 2 HAND-MADE ?? RO\D CART to responsible parties on SIXTY DAYS' time for only 518.00. It has best hickory wheels and shafts, steel tires and axle, cushioned seat and painted nicely. Not h cheap made cart, but is first class throughout. We alas offer our oar No 10 hsnd-mnde Buggy, put up on any kind of spring, on SIXTY DaYS' time for the small amount of 515.00. It has best patent wheels, steel tires and axles. Trimmed up and painted in good style. Not by any means a cheap vthic/e, bat is very substantial and is warranted, For circulars and general description, address HOLLER & ANDERSON. Manufacturers, P. 0. Box 116. ROCK UILL, S. C. In writing please mention this paper, oc 1-fm YOU'NEED IT.?WHAT? i Why, The Columbia, S. C., Weekly Register. 8 pages. $1 a year. . All the news from everywhere. Special Correspondence daily from all parts of the State. Always fresh and readable. If yon want to keep up with the procession send along your dollar and be happy for a year. Remit by P. 0. money order, check or registered letter. Clubs of six for $5.00. Get up a club and. get a free subscription, to The Columbia Weekly Register for twelve j months. [Address Charles A. | Calvo) Jr., Proprietor, Columbia, S. C. BARHAMVILLE QTfirK- ANn POULTRY FARM HORSES, CATTLE, SWINE AND POULTRY FOR SALE Gold Medal Butter Herd of Jersey Cattle. The Imported Percheron Stallion BICilE. (18.963) 7.950 will make the season at 125. Choice young Jersey Cattle. HfcHKsH I HK Swino, Light Brahmas. Wviindota, Limgshsns, Brown Leghorn*. Plymouth Hocks and Game Fowls ?pr sale. Lvgs in season. 1'KESTON I.. >1 ELTON, Proprietor. Columbia, S. C. JAS. H. BALDWIN. Manager. "jersey flats Chill nml Fovor Cure. Large bottles 60 cents, and guaranteed to cure any .case ?f Chills and Fever. Malarial, Intermittent and Remittent Fevers, by THB BARRBTT DRCG CO , AWOU3TA, GA. TRY JERSEY FLATS. Feb 15ay - J