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ESTABLISHED "EN" 18rt WOMEN IN COUNCIL THEiCONVENTION OF STRONGiMIND EKFEMALESIPITHILY DESCRIBED. I ? "I Told Von There Would Kc Kxtra Snap in this Movement When Southern Wo men Joined It." Washington. Feb. 20,-1 went to the womon's rights convention on Thurs day night and had much entertainment. The ladies in the audience boisterously enjoyed the wholesale denunciation of monster man, while the men vigorously and chivalrously applauded the many hard hits at their sex. Miss Susan B. Anthony, a small, grim, energetic old maid, presided, and dearly relished the multiform compliments paid her by her vociferous sisterhood. Miss Anthony is sometimes called "Colonel Susan," \ but this is the designation of some \ masculine wretch. In the audience y Frederick Douglass ? stood up, like a great bronze giant, with a forest of( coase srey hair. In old days Douglass used to . preside at these meetings, but seems to have fallen into disrepute since he turned Ins back on the negro and married a white woman. All of'the speakers were quite old or mature, ex cept the last, a German-American lady, who had a comely face, a splendid voice and the true lire of eloquence. Miss Anthony, in a prim, starch way, like a veteran campaigner, told her o"ft repeated story of the wrongs of persons who happened to be bora of. J-Uo female gender. The old lady punched and cu:t ed her misguidad brethren and warned them that Tier spirit would haunt them until justice was done. A buxom Boston lady, rising 50 years, sententiously pursued the same theme, and severely rated statesmen who tried to make woman a nonentity. She said : "When Sara Bernhardt came to this country, people were curious to sec her. She was exceedingly thin and was joked about her attenuation. ? One day, a man was told to look in a carriage window if he desired to behold the famous actress, j He did so, but declared that, he saw ! nothiag. .^Then you saw Bernhardt,' was the instant reply.17' The Boston lady proclaimed that denial of suffrage, made women nothing. The fun commenced in earnest when Mrs. Merriwether, who announced her self as a Southern woman from the crown of her head to the tips of her toes, took the stand. She was considerably advanced in middle age, but foil of fight. She went from Memphis to St. Louis. A novel of hers, "The Master of Kose leaf," was a lurid attack upon the Yankees and their reconstruction of the South, but the last chapter was so hor rible and. revolting that it sunk the book out of sight, I understand. As Mrs. husband was a Democrat, I presume she has modified her opinions, but she and her sou created something of a dis turbance by calling forth and prodding out the traditional "negro in the wood pile." The idea of a black brute having the franchise to the exclusion of the most exalted white woman roused the indignation and wrath of Mrs. Mer riwether aud her "baby boy," a chipper and cheeky lad oi 19 or 20 years of ai,re. This lady made a rattling harangue, full of wit, sarcasm and bitterness. Argu ment was lacking somewhat, butill?stra tration abounded. She read a letter from Senator Vest, who uncompromis ingly opposes the woman movement, and then, bit by bit, and line by line, held him lip to ridicule as no man has ever yet dared to do. She had not read the minority report of the Senate committee on woman suffrage, signed by Senators , Brown and Cockrell, but heard about it: and yet she assailed it all the same, with a little spice of blasphemy, in the beginning, and a concluding offer to teach a better Bible doctrine to the two Senators, whom she invited to go to Sunday school. She discussed the Utah bills of Senator Edmunds and gave apa teut recipe for exterminating polygamy, winch is worth attention. ' T would." she exclaimed. * "allow the Mormon wo men to keep their suffrage raid disfran chise the men. Then I would send strong minded members of our associa tion out there as missionaries to teach Utah sisters to be strong minded, too. Then a Mormon' man would not want more than one wife, as one strong mind ed woman would be all he could en dure!" I am quite prepared to credit this assertion aud to go beyond it. In-! deed, an irreverent scamp says, that in- { Stead of one such woman, he prefers! twelve wives of the other kind. Mrs. Merriwether claimed Sam Jones as a; Tennesscean, and emoted him to show i the superiority of woman, lie had heard ! a lady make a prayer so fervent that she ; seemed io bring heaven down to earth. "Xow," ejaculated Mrs. Merriwether. | "I never knew any man, preacher or otherwise, who ever brought licavc-nand earth within 10.000 miles of each other." Aud yet there arc some saintly men m ; this world, and the Redeemer of it was uot a woman. ??Colonel" Susau reluctantly call? d time upon this fiery Southern matron, and. wagging her head significantly, jerked out: ?*! lold you there would j be extra snap in this movement when Southern women joined i!." Then. ;::!<?;? a nu!d protest from Mi.-s ' Anthony, lue sou of Mrs. Merriwether. was introduced by his fond parent, lie had just come from Europe, and. after! handsomely complimenting !::s mother, proceeded to make months ;tl Ihc wo men of Spain and Italy, who. not being strong-minded, have caused. In hU opin ion. ii:e ducnv of those nations. u? 1 ? \>.L r-i i::i and Jt .lv :.-.?mi;:irc rather Va\vr::i''y w't'i Mi.-.o'a: a::-!'Tennessee, m (ho.quality oi- men and women, loi say nothing of art and science. The j yot;n:: hopeful got iuhisdvnamitoon the "nigger." The explosion came later! on. Col. Susau cut him down when he began to quote Tuccilus, and brought' forward Sirs. Llara ZSVyman, ofXewj Col M Glover Jan 1, '86 ' 9. ()] York, the German lady mentioned in the beginning of tlris article. '? Her address was so noble, so grand, so pure, so full of thought and spirit, that it dwarfed the flippant, boisterous beings I around her. and lifted the whole conven tion iuto dignity and sublimity. She compared the American and German governments as well as the American and German women, pointing out skill fully their respective virtues and defects. She anathematized the rich American women who shrank from maternity and cared for nothing but display. The pic ture she drew of an ideal republic, re fined by women in all particulars, was so beautiful and exalted that the men present more thau the women paid her homage of an applause that was sincere, although reason bewailed that such an Arcadia did not and could not exist this side of paradise. 1 declare, under the inspiration aud magnetism of this gifted and devoted woman, my senses were taken captive for the moment, and even Susan 1). Anthony and her sardonic sisterhood melted into something lovely and serene. Hut there was-a rude awakeniug. In stead of dismissing tlie audience under such a powerful and pleasing spell, old Susan had to lug out a tall, venerable, white haired ami bearded man who was said to be colored, but could hardly lie so discovered. This man was presented as ''the noblest. Hornau ofthem all." and some of the audience seemed to hail him as such by clapping their hands. In a deep, solemn, sonorous roice he proceed ed to rebuke young Merri wether for bait ing the "negro in the wood pile," and, in a tone of resentful thunder, shouted: ''Southern people can never lind eterni ty long enough to make atonement for the wrongs done the negro?" The audi ence in part echoed that :? ntiment, and the colored orator was aboat to amplify his wrathful indignation when Colonel Susan nipped him in the bud. The "noblest Roman" succumbed to the resolute little white woman, and retired with dramatic resignation. As she strode back, like H?rest as Spartacus, Mrs. Merriwether her bangs all awry and her frame heaving with excitement, rushed ;to the footlights, and, in defiance of Miss Anthony's quick remonstrance, shouted: "Ladies and gentlemen, what that boy said was from his head and not his heart. It was inadvertent. He was brought up to believe in freedom lor the black as well as white mau." The "noble Roman" bowed his head in proud pro pititation. Miss Anthony shook her cork screw curls bcnignantly. and the strong minded were uproarous. Hut the effect" of'Mrs. Xeyman's radiant prosepoem was dissipated iu a smell of sulphur and the purgatory of disccrdaot clamor. Whdo these strident women, rich or comlbrlablc, arc making fierce demand ihr andVagCy buadroda of their sistorhood ask only for honorable employment and the right to earn an humble living. Pos sibly they wouid be more fortunate if the ballot were given them, but probably not. I am for giving these sisters of ours the most enlarged opportunities of making their way in the world, but the suffrage may not be best for them, and I am inclined to think that the vast, ma jority do not desire it. especially at the South, where the evil, because ofa pecu liar race environment, would be some thing infernal and intolerable.?J. 11. Randall in Augusta Chronicle. STARVED TO DEATH IN BED. Pitiable Dsatll of Congressman Smalls Step Daughter. The Palmetto Post of the 25th hist., says: Charlotte Williams, a step daughter of Congressman Smalls, was found dead in her bed on Monday morn ing, in Beaufort, under circumstances of the greatest poverty and neglect. When hep two little children woke up they found their mother stiff and cold beside them. The damp, squalid apartment m which she was found was the base ment of an old neglected house, with no window panes in the sashes and the fireplace without a spark of lire or a cinder, and her only covering was a thin quilt upon a rickety bedstead, and some meagre furniture and tinwerc about the dirty floor. A bottle of gin with lightwood chips steeped in it was at the bedside, The spectacle of poverty aud squalor as presented tu the jury of in quest was siekeneuing. She was a lewd woman, to be sure, but no more than some of the well-to-do of her race. The colored men. composing she jury were loud in their condemnation of Smalls for his neglect of her. A verdict was rendered that she came to her death from | want ofattenliou. A Iiu]>i<y l-'amJly. A strange story?so slrauge that in fiction iL would be condemned for its im possible situation-comes from Milwau kee. Five years ago, Mrs. Hcrucmnu. wife of William Hcrncman submit ted quietly loadivorcc lor which he sued on the ground that she had borne him no children. William soon afterward married again, aud now has two children.: About two months ago ho removed to Milwaukee from' Michigan, where lie had divorced his first wile. A lew days la ter the lirsi wifn arrived in Milwaukee, aud begged so pilcousiy lo be near her! Ibrmer husband, whom she said she still loved more than life, li.ai Mr. Ilcnicman aud hi:; present wife look her In ns hutise keeper. They are now ?11 living under the same roof, and ilii' former who I sc< ms to he exceedingly grau lid for her privileges and font I of her former hus band's children. The love thateanurge a wo;,!;:!? to accept this Situation ma-; be irresistible.- Chicago N'evvs. The Host salve m tkJ'wor! dVnr Cuts. Bruises. Sores. I-leers. Sub Rheum.; Fever Sores. Tetter. Chuppcd Ihm !-. Chilblains. Corns, and Skin* I'ruplieiis. and positively cures Piles, or iVi pay required. It is guaranteed iogrve perfect satislact:??:j. or moncv rchmdt I. Price 25 cento per box. For sale by Dr. ,T. CWanunmaker. T1 );: ?' if , v / cr. ?? ? ; ?: SA^GEBTJRGr, S. C, TH IN A BAD FIX. An Emigrant Agent Named Walker Makes Many Other Walkers. A correspondent of the Laurensville Herald, writing from Waterloo in that county, says: "On the 13th of Febru ary Mr. Walker,thc emigrant agent that skipped by the light of the moon from our town last year, stepped off the train to take a look at our town. He recog nized some faces, and said he would pay us a visit soon. The next day Mr. Boyd, bis sub-agent, appeared in our town, demoralized the labor. For some distance around all the negroes that could be induced to go to Arkansas be gan to collect at the depot, with their baggage, ready to take the special train that Mr. Boyd had ordered for them. They spent three days waiting for a special train. In the meantime" Mr. Boyd had left for Greenwood to hasten, on the special train. On Friday forty-: seven colored and- one white emigrant left our -town for Arkansas. They were stopped at Greenwood to change cars for Atlanta. Five days have pass ed, and they arc still at Greenwood, without transportation, money or food? with their baggage locked up in the de pot, being held as security for freight charges. The most of them are anx ious to return to Waterloo, and some of them have endeavored to get Ihcir for mer employers to pay their way back to Waterloo: but our citizens seem dispos ed to let them freeze out. Boyd basin deed left them m a helpless condition. At this writing,. Monday 22d we learn that the most of them are walking back to Waterloo and have, left their baggage in the depot at Greenwood. The white emigrant alluded to is Hobt. Ilendersou, son of James Henderson, of St. Albau's Grecnvill countye. His lather would do Well to make immediate search for him." "LAY ON MCDUFF." The Korshaw Gazette on the Threat of the Fertilizer Companion Two of the greatest drains upon our country since the late war, without com mensurate good, (in our judgment.) has beeu worthless insurance companies and trilling fertilizers. They have sapped deep, aud to the quick.' They have play ed a heavy game upon the upright, hon est working mau, and these wounds are slow to heal: leaving bchiud them scars deep-cut aud lasting. The old insurance business, which was a tarnish uponall honorable trans actions in most cases, is about dead and a new, healthy growth has taken its placoj but Its counterpart still stalks boldly in the noon-day sunlight, seeking whom it may devour. It bears the geutle and euphonious name of fertilizer, and although no good seems to come from most of it, it frowns and kicks if its utter worthlessness is shown up to those, whSsorarronogC itrseeks. :' ' Recently some of the shortcomings of these manufactures have beeu brought, to light by a careful and thorough analysis. This is public property, and the newspapers taking hold have so used it. For this sin, libel is threatened, war is declared and general destruction made imminent. It is indeed laughable?we should say contemptible if it were sor rious; but, alas, it is nothing. As well might a paper be libelled for calling Benedict Arnold a traitor, or Judas Is cariot a betrayer. "Lay on, MoDulf, and damned lie he who first cries mold, enough.'" SHOT DOWN IN THE STREETS St. Louis Dentists Ifigkt it out Oil the Side walk to the Dentil. St. Louis, Feb. 25.?Dr. Edward II. Coatcs shot and fatally wounded Dr. A. B. Keith, tit the corner of Four teenth and Pine streets, this morning. Both of the men are dentist, audit is stated that jealousy lias existed be tween them for a long time. Mr. Coatcs has been endeavoring for a year past to procure a divorsc from his wife, but has been . unsuccessful in his efforts. Dr. Keith has. in the meantime, been the defender and sympathizer of Mrs. Coatcs. He has been accused by the lady's husband of improper relations with her. Coatcs has been despondent for some time, and this morning an nounced his intention of drowning him self, and started for the river to carry out his purpose, but upon emerging from the house he met Dr. Keith, and alter an interchange of some hot words he accused Dr. Keith of having caused all his im happiness, and the latter deny ing it a struggle ensued, both men fail ing to the ground. Upon Keith's rising aud attempting to walk away his anlag ouist drew a revolver Ironi his pomui and fired it with the above result. Dr. Keith was taken to the city hospital, where he died at 1.40 this afternoon. Darned in Deuth. On Friday night hisl the house of Bill Crafton, colored, who lives iicar'lhc Old Wells, was destroyed by lire. His sou Charley, eighteen years of age, aslccq at the time, was burned up, as also hisr daughter Lula, fourteen years of age. and a colored man, who lived m ar Wil liston, S. C The father only escaped by iho cracking or bursting of a mirror which stood near the head of his bed. the noise of winch av.-nkc him. In the house at the time was a boul fifty dollars hi ni nicy and it is surmised thai probnl ly robbery preceded the lire.? Edgciicld Advertiser. Dn>i?a Dead While Unking?Snccrli. Des Moixe.3, [o\v.\. February 25.? j Judge James T. Mitchell of Nebraska while addressing the convention ofllic early Iowa law makers in this city this evening dropped iL..,' on the il.mr of the opera house. lie was ju.sl conclud ing his speech wiln the sentence. "J love ihy n] ] toldicK of Ii ".va!" when he ?ell to the floor, dying immediate! v. -??' inured services \v< re h< Id this even ing. i!i- fonner law partner, Fred Lehman of this city, and several promi nent ?.:(Isen* of iho Stale made ad dresses. URSDAY, MARCH 4, 181 THE WAY TO DO IT. A NEGRO LYNCHED ON ACCOUNT OF A GROSS OUTRAGE. Indignant Citizens of Spartaulrarg Hang tho Assailant of Mrs. Lancaster on a Tree In the Slain Street. SpartaxnuKG. S. C, March 1.? Abe Thomson, the negro committed to jail here yesterday7, for a felonious as sault ou Mrs. Laucaster. near Glenn Springs, last Friday, was taken from prison this afternoon by a crowd of citi zens without disguises, and carried to a grove on Main Street, about half a mile from the Courthouse, and hanged to the-limb of a tree. lie was about 20 years old and of brutal passions. He assiuilted a negro woman last, week, but she'being very strong resisted him. He also attacked a white woman on Friday, i who'escaped him. This was before he ! came across his unfortunate victim. Mrs. Lancaster- is a bUrhly esteemed 'woman, the mother of two children, and about to become a mother again. While.: in jail-Thomson confessed to the crime, | and when they carried him out to the grove he was asked If he had anything ! to edy.i He said: "Yea; I did UuTdced. j ? I do not know what made me do it. 1 ; deserve-to be hanged. Give mc a little time to pray." After praying awhile j he was swung up and .left [hanging. Several persons in the crowd were drunk;, but the greater number were sober. Coroner Evins is now holding an inquest. He will take charge of the body and have it buried. The banging ; took place at o'clock, and at 7 the town is as quiet us Sunday. Several colored men wero in the crowd that entered the jail. The keys were taken by force from the jailer,, whose hand was lacerated in the scuffle.?Xcws and Courier._ AT APPEAL TO COTTON PLANTERS Lei them Unito Together to Protect Them selves from the Speculators.' Memphis, Texx., February 2C? The Inter-State.Agricultural Conven tion, which has been in session at Jack sou, Tenn., since Wednesday, adjourn ef-this evetiing. The following resolu tion Was adopted, with an amendment to include breadstuffs aud Ions products as Veil as cotton: The Yoanipulation by speculators of the cotton crop of 1885-SG, which so de pressed prices that they have fallen be low the actual cost of production, forces upon the planters of the South the necessity of" relieving themselves, as far as in their power lies, from the influence of so ruinous a system as that which now controls the chief exportable pro ducts of the country, and with this end in view the representatives of the agricul tural interests of Tennessee, in couveh ?ii^Tr^ssTOblcdr' yaii upon., our brother plimtors or all the"' Southern States to protect themselves by united action. Emboldened by past success, the specu lator has lixed the standard price for the cotton crop of 1880-87. This, he has done before the seed has been put in the ground, or even the ploughs have been started. Cotton futures for the mouths of October, Xobcmbcr and December, 1880, and January. 1887, are to day quoted in Xcw York at from 8.70 to 8.85, according to months. This means not exceeding 8:] cents for middling cot ton iu Xcw YorK, or SJ cents at the principal shipping ports o.f the South, j including such cities as Xcw Orleans,! Charlaston, Savannah, Augusta. Mobile. Galvcston and Memphis. Middling col ton at these cities selling for cents j means not more than 7] ccuts to the i planter, who must pay freight, insur ance and regular commission charges, which generally average from :,' to 1 cent per pound. Xow, iu view of these ' conditions, so ruinous to our interests, wc appeal to the intelligence ol the cot- ! ton-grower, and ask linn can he pay the j expense of fanning and make even a* bare living by selling cotton at 7.' edits | ! per pound J1 The answer is already j j given iu the negative. The next ques-i lion following upon this is : What is the remedyr We answer: 'Diversifiedcrops; plant one-third less cotton and more grain and grasses, raise, hogs and hominy, let cotton be the surplus crop, instead of producing six and a half million indes make only four and a half million bales. By tins means wc may realize a large i price for our labor, and at the same time i ; live independently of speculating sharks ? who prolit by our losses. In addition to this, the Legislatures of each of the I Southern States should be petitioned to make dcallings for future delivery, un less cotton is actually on hand to sell ? and is actually delivered to the contract ing purchaser, a felony punishable by line and imprisonment, not less than one thousand dollars aud two years in the penitentiary. The time, is now pro pitious for united action, and we appeal to the press of the South to aid us in our eflbrls by giving every publicity to this protest, an appeal which we ferl cannot : but result beneficially if prompt m ac tion and lived up to honestly. A Little Iii i?>. Billic Hucthins, ofLawroueeville, Ga.. is a hero. A can of powder dropped into a basket ol chips and was thrown on ibe lire before which stood BilHc's ihre- Y.i lle girls. The boyjumpedforihecan.but just asbc seized it the powder explod i '.. The Hille girls wer:- not hin t at all. but :l:c boy v,;;.; badly burned, -on:,- one asked him why be grabbed the powder, j No answered as well as lie could, for he was siisi'ernit; intensely. "To save the girls." G::.ii;iFebruary 2.3.?Tis? sb-uv house ?>!'W". j;. L'leey, . u Main f.lrcr-1 was lolally d? *troyctl by dre lais i:: CU ing. It ? ? Uppo: e ; i... have be<ui the ?15.000. It war insured In the fedioxv-; ing companies: I'lieislx.' Iloyal, Liver pool. London and Glo! ' "itv of Lon don and Tnuisatlanlic. Tola! Insurance $11.000. ; PMC CRESCENT BONE FERTILIZER. What Commissioner Rutler Say*?The Fanner has Received More than he has Paid for. To dealers selling and farmers using the "Crescent11: Gentlemen:?Some of the nc wspa pcrs in South Carolina have recently published a sensational article headed, "Fraud in Fertilizers." in which a large number of the best and most popular brands are stigmatized as fraudulent and 'armcrs arc advised to "shun" them. This charge is baseless and arises from misapprehension on the part of the Editor who published the original article. It docs great injustice to many honora ble and prominent gentlemen, and works injury to the farmers, by misleading them and creating unfounded doubt and suspicion of the best Fertilizers, causing them to purchase articles of lower grade. By reference to the Official Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture, which refers to Fertilizers sold and used a year ago, it will be found that those in the so called "Black List" in nearly every instance exceeded in commercial value tiie guarantee given by the manufacturer and that where the Slate Chemist shows a falling oil" in any Special Fcrtillzca'ni any one constituent, it is more than made up by an excess in others*, in other words, the average of the Fertilizer was better than the guarantee and "the Far mer has received more than he Haid for." One of the most palpable cases show ing the groundlessness of the charge dl "Fraud," is that of the Georgia Chemi cal Works. Acid Phosphate (of Augusta Georgia.) Their guarantee was 10per cent," available Phosphoric Acid and 1 per cent of Potash, Commercial value $14.00. The State Chemist makes the sample he analyzed show 12.35 per cent. Available Phosphoric Acid, (b9S Potash, Commercial value .$17,04, or an excess of $3.06 in Available Phosphoric Acid aud a deficiency of 2 per cent in Potash, and so with many others, show ing the utter absurdity of the charge of "Fraud." Variations in Analysis are impossible to avoid, and Prof. Shcpard, former State Chemist of South Carolina, tells me he cannot in scarcely any in stance make two Analyses of the same sample and get the same per-centages. Analyses arc simply approximations indicating the average quality of the Fertilizers, ? for it is impossible for any man who lias ever lived, or will live, to mix millions of pounds of four or five different ingredients and have every tcaspoonful to contain exactly the same proportion of each constituent to the 100th part of a grain. Isold about 1, 700 tons of the Crcsent in South Caroli na last year, or 3,400,000 lbs., which were mixed with the utmost care and contained the best ingredients, but not withstanding ..this fact, no two separate tcaspoonful would analyze by auy Che mist, exactly the same in Available Phosphoric Acid, Ammonia, and Potash, if one ingredient overran, the other would probably fall below. The Commissioner's report shows most of the Fertilizers not italicized were sold on a low guarantee generally .S per cent of Available Phosphoric Acid. 2 per cent of Ammonia, and 1 percent of Potash. Commissioner Butler, writes me as follow:', in regard I" the "Crescent11 sold last year: Static or South Carolina, j Department of Agriculture, > Columbia. S. C. Feb..' 19, 1880.) Mr, Ferry M. DeLeon. Suvannah, Ga. Dear Sir:?Upon the evidence pre sented to me. I am satisfied that an unintentional error was committed by the party representing the firm selling Crcsent IJonc Fortilizcr at Sparlanbtirg last season, and by the agent represent ing the Department of Agriculture, in reporting that the guarantee on sacks was Available Phosphoric Acid, 9j per cent, Ammonia, 2:j per cent. Potash,'2; per cent, and that the same should have been, Available.Phosphoric Acid, !> per cent, Ammonia. 2 per cent. Potash, 2 per cent. And the Commercial Value therefor would have been 919,70, instead ol s23, fi8, as printed in the Official Report ol Analyses of Fertilizers. Our Analyses of Crescent Bone gives you, Available Phosphoric Acid, 8 I I per cent. Ammo nia, 2 ol per cent, Potash, 2 2.S per cent. Commercial Value $20.09, as against your guarantee o/'819.70. Yours truly, A. P. Butler. Commissioner of Agriculture. In other words the Crescent was $1.00 per ton better than the guarantee, aud the identical goods in question were hugely used last year and gave general satisfaction, and by the analyses ol Pro,'. Liebigof Baltimore, a Chemist of national reputation, were fully up to gnaraulce in eeery vuhalUucid. I have some thousand tons stored al the ."--?".itli Carolina liailroad, which I'pof. Shcpard i- now analyzing aud as soon as receiv ed, ! will nublish the Analyses. You can rely on the Crescent being a first idass Fertilizer in all respects and upon its spring satisfactory results with pro I.er care and cultivation in average fons. Feuuv M. OkI.kon. i;.. died d> !?;?;?.; Ii Inn . Tmyi Detroit, Micir.. Fob 25.?This morning Alexander Hose, an employee of the Electro Light Company, asceii I d the lower at Gratis avenue and Mack (?lre?'t for tSic purpose of replacing burn ed out carbons, lie ha ! just reach d the platform at the lop when ho sud denly fell "V? r the railing and came down headforemost to the ground, a distance of 150 feet. II ;s b ?ly was horri bly iiuiiigtcd and he lived but a abort lime, lie was twenty three wars of e ?1.50 peb axnuaL A BLOODY TilAGEDY. KILLED HIS WIFE AND THEN BLEW OUT HIS OWN BRAINS j Mysterious "Wife-Murder au<l Suicide by it Stranger from North Cnr^liuu?'Nine Orphuns. GltEEXVILLK, March 2.?A horrible tragedy occurred .at Piedmont llr&morn ing. James W. King, a resident of [Piedmont, after accompanying fr> the I depot Iiis brother-in-law Philips, who took the up-freight train, returned to his j dwelling in the village, murdered his wife I by stabbing her in tiie breast and tin oat j with a knife, and after this bloody deed : cut his own throat. Parties who suspected something j wrong broke open the door of then- room land found Mrs. King lying on the floor' I in a pool of blood and her husband lying j across her, both dead, and ihe knife ? lying in King's breast. What led to this dreadful event seems to be. wrapt in ; mystery Evidently King and his wife j did not live amicably together. A cir , cumstauce creating this belief is that King bad recently notified merchants of Piedmont not to let his wife have goods.ou his account. King earned his I Hying by ditching and some of his chil 'J'drcn worked as .operatives in the Pied ? mont Factory, Hut little can be learned J of the people. They came to Piedmont ' as strangers from North Carolina. It . ' is surmised that King had some family trouble and had become insane when he committed the awful tragedy. King was about forty-live or fifty years of age. They 'leave, it is said, nine chil dren several of them very young. A GHOST-HAUNTED COMMUNITY The Scene of it Tripple Tragedy Said tobe the Iloiti:? of I'erturbv-tl Spirits. NEW HAVEN, February 2-3.?The residents of Kilhngworth, a quiet little towu on the Sound, are very much ex ercised over a haunted house. On a , lonely road near the centre of the town stands an old house of peculiar con struction. It was in this mansion that, a decade ago, Mrs. Horace Higgins cut the throats of her three children while they were asleep. They were buried in the village charchyard, and although the other graves there arc covered in sum mer with an abundant growth of grass, not a blade ever grows on the graves of the children. Their mother was adjudged insauc aud confined in a room overlooking the graves, and every night until she died she would stand at the window gazing on the clock in the church tower near by, moaning and craving pardon for her crimes. For many years the house had the reputation of being haunted, aud it al most continuously remained tenantless until last summer, when the Hay family of Boston took it as a summer residence. The first night they slept there the two tenants were nearly scared to death by the apparition* of a woman in White .standing at their bedroom window. Loud aud unearthly noises echoed through the house. The. next night Mr. and Mrs. Hay say they saw the appari tion and they promptly gave up the house, Recently only these facts were learned by the villagers aud since then several weird sights have, it is said, i been seen in the old mansion. ~ GOING HOME. , The Chhmiuoji Getting Kcudj to Leave the In it.-.! States. Wong' ( 'hing Foo, a Cliiiie.se lawyer from New York, who has been attend ing sonic court proceedings in St. Louis, is quoted as authority for the statement that lue Chinese community in St. Louis has received what is alleged to be a genuine copy or an Imperial Proclama tion, requesting that on?or before the fifteenth day of the liftb moon of the present year (May l;3) all subjects of the Tai Tszing Empire (China) now re siding in the L'niled Slates of America return home, and instructing them that upon application to their Consuls free transportation will be provided from any part of the Tjnited Slates to any part of the Chinese Empire, except the pro vinces of ToUllg Tung, whose cilizeus, because of superior numbers, are rc quired to pay hall fare. The proclama tion, while ii embodies no threats, I broadly intimates that the Chinese Uov [ eminent intends to speedily retaliate I upon the American export trade and i American residents in China for the j long-continued outrages upon Lite Cht i uesc in VX\< country. This design, if carried out, will destroy an annual rx ? port of fJ.S0.0O0.O0ii and expose 9.000 Americans to the terrors of Imperial ' prosecution. Most of the SO.OOO ('hina , men in litis country at-.: ?"?[?? led (?> I obey Ihe proclamation. The lllalr Hill. The IJiair Kduealionnl bid appropr iates in iIs present form ?7,000.000 Ihe ! first year, si".' >?>.? 00 the second, ?13, 000.000 the third. Sio.000.000 Uus f-jurlh, vi 1.00 1.0 ? tin filth, t'.'.'?'0,000 the sixth. vT.' ?0.< thescvi iithand ?j, 000.000 the eighth year. The money is lo be di.-trbul;-! ;:a: ; .!ie Stales and Territories u:i the ' asis ?. I illiteracy, and no .- late or Tt iTilnry is lo participate in ; the benefits of the bill that doe. not provide a Ireo school system. Sepcralc schools fur white and colored children iare uot reckoned a violation of Lhi.- eon .lonateau Reynolds >? Pembroke.Me.. i:j an avctl mail who has aiwavs gloried in being called an inii.Ld. Laslbiiuduy, lie caused to he iv :d in ihe Methodist i.-ulpii !'! Pembroke :i duration nc i by h!m. in which !.?? >:>M: ??! dpslrc "now tocotmleraci the evil 1 may have i .iv.-i i. ! believe I? ?:? a | er on to live and die happy they must believe in the Lord ?.-;> Chri ' as recorded hi tho Scripture-." Years, ?:? m--! e.-r-s. when tliev -' n't taken ma:.'s senses' away, bring .". man lo his senses,