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ESTABLISHED IN 186 WHERE THE MONEY GOES. TWO MILLION OF DOLLARS SPENT EVERY YEAR. I'nrticnlars of the Expense of the State ; Government ofSonth Carolina?Dots for . ^ Reformers to Work Oh?What fan he j Cat on ? The following article will give the j reader the particulars of the expenses of1 the State government of South Carolina for one year. As this is a year of re-j form and economy the people may from " these facts be able to show where a re duction in our taxes can be made. The | total amount is nearly oue million dol lars. If we add the expenses of the various county governments and the j poll and school tax we will have very nearly a total of two million dollars to be raised by taxation for one year alone. We hope some one will be able to point I out where a reduction in taxation can | be made: governor'S OFFICE. Salary of Governor.$3,500 . Salary o f Private Secretary.1.500 Salary of Messenger. 400 Contingent fuird.4,000 Stationery and stamps. 250 LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. Salary of Lieutenant Governor... .$1,000 OFFICE SECRETARY OF STATE. Salary Secretary of State.$2,100 Salary of Clerk!.1.500 Contingent fund. 2:">U Stationary and stamps. 250 OFFICE COMPTROLLER-GENERAL Salarv of Comptroller-General.. .$2,100 Salary of Clerk..-..1,500 j Salary of Bookkeeper.1.500 j Contingent fund. 300 Stationery and stamps. 250 Printing blanks. &c. 200 ! For examining the hooks of County Auditors aud Treasurers. 000 OFFICE STATE TREASURER. Salary of State Treasurer.$2,100 Salary of Clerk.1,500 Salary of Bookkeeper.1,500 Salary of Boookkeeper loan Depart ment.1,500 Contingent fund. 250 Stationery aud stamps. 250 STATE HOUSE AND GROUNDS. Salary of Keepei. $500 Salary of Janitor. IG0 Salary of Two Watchmen. 800 Repairing State House. 200 Improvement Stal? House Grounds 200 OFFICE ATTORNEY GENERAL. Salary of Attorney General.$2,100 Salary of Assistant Attorney Gen eral....1.500 Contingent fund. 200 Stationer}' aud stamps. 60 Expenses of litigation.4,000 OlWClfrSTjl^Tl^l'ENDENT OF EDUCA TION. Salary of Superintendent of Educa tion.$2,100 Salary of Clerk.1.100 Contingent fund. 200 Stationery and stamps. 150 Bonks and blanks for public schools 800 Expeuses State Board Examiners.. 300 Conducting Normal Institutes... .1,500 adjutant GENERAL'S OFFICE. Salary of Adjutant General.$1,500 Salary of Clerk.1,200 Salary of State Armorer..'.. 500 Salary of Ordnance Sergeant. 400 Contingent fund. 150 Stationery and stamps. 150 Expenses Adjutant General's Ollicc.*..1,000! Maintaining militia. 14,000 Confederate rolls. 500 JUDICl ARY DEI'ARTMEXT. Salary of Chief Justice.$4.000 Salary of Two Associate Justices 7000 Salary of 8 Circuit Judges.28,000 Salary of 8 Circuit Solicitors.12,500 Salary of Clerk Supreme Court. 1,000 Salary of State Reporter. 1,000 Salary of Librarian Supreme Court 800 Salary of Messenger Supreme Court. 250 Salary, ot Attendant Supreme Court. 250 Contingent Fund Supreme Court 500 I Books Supreme Court. 1,000 State librarian. Salary of State Librarian. $025 Contingent fund. 200 Stationery and stamps. 200 Purchase Supreme Court Reports.. 450 REGISTRATION AND ELECTION. Salaries Supervisors Registration $7.000 I Blanks for general election. 8001 Books and certificates supervis ors registration. 2,000: Commissioners and managers of election for per diem and mileage 20.000 ! 11EALTII DEPAHTMENT. Salarv Health Officer. Charleston $1,800 I Salarv of Health Ollicer Hilton Head. 800 Salarv of Health Ollicer. St. Hel ena. 800 Salarv of Health Ollicer Gcroge town.'_ 500 Salarv of Keeper Lazaretto Hos pital. 400'i Buildings at Port Royal. 200 State Bond of Health.3,000] Maintaining (Quarantine.1,000 Repairing Keeper's buildings at quarantine station at Charles ton.2,575 PENITENTIARY. Salarv of Superintendent.$2.1001 Salarv of Physician.1.200 j Salary of Clerk.1.2001 Salary of Captain of guard.1.200 I Salary of Chaplain. 600 i LUNATIC ASYLUM. Salarv of Superintendent.$3.000 j Per diem und mileage of rciients.. 2.ihiii Insurance of buildings. 3,000 p Support of...".70.11011; Purchasing books for patients- 50 ' '< Center building.41.110 1 Repairs on new building. 700 ! I SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY. j' Salary of librarian. $500 .Repairs on buildings. 1.000] Insurance on buildings. 1.000 j Support of schools..~.15.000 ; < Salarv of assistant professor of j! agriculture. 1,7001; Col M Glover Jan 1, 'SG 9. Ol Salary of professor of applied mechanics. 300 Equipping department of applied mechanics. 1,200 south carolina military academy [nsurancc Citadel buddings. *400 Support of benclioiaries.20.000 deaf. dumb and blind asylum. Support of Dumb aud Blind Asylum.810,000 Insurance on buildings. 331 Drainage.".. 200 Purchasing organ. 1,200 catawea indians. Support of Catawba Indians. $800 LEGISLATIVE DEPAKTM EKT. Per diem, mileage and stationery certificates.830,000 Pay officers and employees. 5,000 Contingent expenses, Senate.... 400 Contingent expenses, House oi Representatives. 600 Engrossing and enrolling depart ment. 2.500 Public printing. 15,000 miscellaneous. Civil contingent fund.$1,500 S. C. Agricultural Society.2,500 Columbia water works. 1,000 Repairing executive mansion. 700 Completing consolidation. 1.000 Harber master, Charleston. 1,100 State board of equalization. 1,000 Muster roll of soldiers of the Revo lution. 300 Artificial limbs.0.000 Interest, consols. 352.700 Deficiencies. 27.02s Agricultural College scrip. 11."?08 Claims passed.... 0.000 County Auditors' salaries. ?1.900 Total amount of State taxes..8932,144. To this must be added the County taxes And 2 mill school tax. The Agricultural Bureau has an in come from tax on guano of between $20.000aud 830.000. The people pay this tax. the guano companies adding all taxes aud expenses to the selling price of their goods. The expense of Hie Railroad Com mission has so .far been borne by the railroads. SHOCKING DOMESTIC TRAGEDY. A .Jealous Man Shoots His wife, and Then ?low? Oft* HI? Head. New Orleans, April 23.?Early this morning Mrs. William E. Nossen was awakened by her husband, who told her that as they could not live peaceably they had better die together. At the same time he drew a revolver. Mrs. Nesscu caught his arm. but he tired, the bullet passing through her wrist. Their thirtcen-ycar-old son rush ed iu grappled his father's arm, but the second shot took off the boy's finger and seat tho bullet -into his wifb's breast inflicting probabP, ? fatal wound. Mrs. Nossen ran screaming from the house, but sank unconscious to the sidewalk. Her linsbaud did not attempt to follow, but going to* their room removed his false teeth, aud placing the muzzle of the revolver in his mouth blew oil' the top of his head, dying almost instantly. He lias frequently accused his wife ofinli [lelity and they had many quarrels in consequence. He leaves ten children, the result of three marriages. The youngest child is six months old. Nes ?en was sixty-two years of age. His ivife is forty. Burled iu a Sand Dank. quincy, III., April 22.?Eddie and j Charlie Kinsmcycr, aged twelve and seven years, and Charlie K?llerbach, j aged ten years, disappeared on the -1th of last September. Yesterday u man j hauling sand for a foundry was loading | his wagon near the river bank, and on lifting his shovel was horrified at finding that he had cut the head from a human body. Upon further ivcstigatiOtt the! bodies of three children were exhumed [ from the sand bank and were identified | Its those of the missing boys. It is thought that the boys were digging a cave in the sand when it caved iu and buried them alive. ltesurreeted from Death. Last week an accident occurred in this county, the results of which arc rather remarkable. Mrs. Barnwell Akin miss id her little girl, and after searching sonic tune found her iu a tub of water lead. This was some time iu the after* icon. The body of the little one was taken out and carried in the house, and \ftcr night came on life asserted its sway, to the joy of the parcuts. Our informant stales that she was quite ill so Sunday and may yet die from the affects of being in tin; water so long.? j Uaruesvillc (Ca.) Gazette. Ex-President Arthur's Illness. New York, April 22.?There are nanv conflict ting rumors in regard to ;he illness of ex-President Arthur, but; hat prevailing is that he is slowly im- j irovcing. Mr Sherman \V. Knevcls. j iis law partner, said last night: "I j rave not seen Mr. Arthur tor a few days, mt have heard from him within the last j Lwenty-four hours. He is gradually! mprovmg, und I do not think his i'oudi-I -ion at all serious. I believe that he has j some trouble with his kidneys, but If the j iuc weather continues we may hope to ice him about soon/' Shad by I he Thousands. Shail are more abundant in the Calaw lm River this Spring than thev have icen in twenty-five years. There is a . perfect camping ground ai the ('atawbn [?'alls, and we are informed that many >eople are there night and day. Last ! simdav the traps got so foil of shad that*! :he buzzards flocked around the traps: ind ate the fish which had died iu the raps by reason of the trans being so ull offish that the water did not cover I hem.?Che?tor Bulletin. April 23. Ei:ei>.E.Van Mf.kkiikke, of New! fork, who is making a tour of the j ?ounty on a bicycle, passed through >partanbttrg a few days ago. He iverages thirty-four miles a day. tANGrEBTJRG, S. C, TH1 MASSACRE OF INNOCENTS. A MOTHER TAKES POISON AND BRAINS HER FOUR CHILDREN. One Killed Outright and None of the Vic tim* Expected to Live?Repeated At tempts of tlie Demented Woman to Com mit Suicide?Says She Killed Her Chil dren to Save them from Hell. Keypokt. X. J., April 25.?Mrs. Fannie Smith, the wife oi* a fanner liv ing about seven miles South of this place, became insane' Friday morning, took a dose of poison and crushed in the heads of four of her children with an axe. The youngest child died immediately and the others are not expected to live till morn ing. Mrs. Smith is also very low and will probably die. The family consists of J. Monroe Smith, the father, about fifty-five years old; the mother, who is forty-three years of age, and their live children?nineteen, eighteen, thirteen, eleven, seven and j four years old respectively. The family retired rather earlier than I usual, so Mrs. Smith arose about 5 [ o'clock in the morning and roused her I husband at the same hour. Their break ! fast had been prepared by a cob.red wo : man who has beeu iu the family's ser ; vice for year*. After eating, Mrs. Smith i left her bus did in the kitchen, and ! went out to the hen-house. Mr. Smith j followed her in a few moments to a hot ! house, which was about one. hundred 1 yards away from the house. In the heu i house Mrs. Smith took out of her pocKet in package of Rough on Rats, which she : bought and concealed over three years i ago. She swallowed a large dose of I he ! poison and threw the box away. On her j way back to the house she picked up a i large axe, which she concealed beneath her dress. Entering the house she went first to the bedchamber of the four-year-old I daughter Edna, who was quietly sleep I iug. She took the axe from under her j dress and brought it down with terrible ! effect on the child's head. She did this three times until she saw that the little curly head was split open. Then she left and entered the bedroom of her son Rufus, thirteen years old. She struck him three or four blows on the head with the back of her axe. which laid the side of his head open. Next she turned her attention to her eleven-year-old daughter. J Jessie, whom she found on her knees praying. The child seemed to know that her turu had come, as she had witnessed the attack on the others. She lifted up her hands imploringly and begged her mother in a faltering voice ! to spare iier, but this had no effect on j thw frenzied, woman, for BbvJfg^? axe! come down' on the poor little" child's head with as much force as at lirst, and a moment later her third victim was 1} iug on the floor with her skull fractur ed. A moment later she had struck Alida, another of her children. The sound of the child's voice bad 1 readied the cars of Rettie Reldo. the j aged colored housekeeper, who ran to the child's assistance up stairs. Mrs.} Smith had just completed her bloody work, but she was still in a frenzy ol excitement. She turned on the old wo man and raised her axe with the intent of adding another victim to the list. Rettie turned and ran down stairs, pur sued by t.ie woman, who now began to I show her insanity by howling at the top 1 of her voice. Finding that she could not overtake the colored woman, Mrs. Smith threw the blood-stained axe after ' her. but it struck the wall, and the col ored woman ran out of the house scream ing with terror. The insane woman picked up her fear-1 ful weapon again and retraced her steps up the stairs to the room where her! eighteen-year-old (laughter was. This girl bad seen some of the tragedy, had | picked up the baby, two years old, and j lied to the apartment for safety. She had not time to lock the door when her j mother, with the axe raised above her j head, was upon her. Then a fearful | struggle began. The girl knew that her i mother meant death, and all her ener gies were aroused to keep the door fast until assistance would come. She threw her body against the door, while Mrs. I Smith struggled to force it in. Finally the brave girl succeeded in turning the j key. Then she laid down the baby and hurried away to tell her father of what had oi'orred, while the mother was try-! ing to wittle down the door with the axe.; 'The girl met her father aud Bettic Reldo hastening from the hot-house to j the scene of the tragedy. The husband ran up the stairs. The insane woman turned with rage and raised her weapon, but at sight of him she cowered and let. it fall nervously to the Moor. Then she fell down herself and grovelled at bis feel. Tears sprang into the man's eyes i and trickled ('own his checks as he cried: "Faunic. what made you kill mv chil drcd?" Wilhout any apparent sorrow for her terrible work she answered calmly: ??Why. Monroe. I was told by ,;"<1 1" do so. and I obeyed his commands." Then getting upon her knees and look ing up into her sorrowful husband's lace, ! she said : '?I know I did wrong, but it was (be onlv thing to bo done to save them from hell." By this Mrs. Smith meant that she was afraid that the old homestead which' lias been in the family for generations was to be taken away from them, in which case the children would be thrown upon the street and feared ilia! lltry would become dissolute. In one room lay the body of little ' Edna cold in death. In another one la\ Bessie, the JtrcttV girl thai got down upon her knecn> to beg for life. Olli;' of her eyes was cut out where the axe , hit her uplifted head. Three of the fingers of her left hand are also missing. , Her skull was fractured on the left side. Rufus. the thirteen-year-old boy. was i lying beside his sister in a pool of blood, i [JKSB^Y, AP?TL 29, ISi His head, like that of his sister, was .split open. r:-He half awoke from a sort of stupor ami asked what was the matter. Two of hie fingers arc cut oil'. Alicia, the remaining daughter, was lying in another bed, where she appeared to have been asleep when she received the blows from the axe. Mr. Smith could say nothing, lie was completely prostrated by the blow he re ceived from his wife's actions. He beg ged to be left alone with his misery. He wouldl^pentcdly ask how his children were, and the doctors would give him very .-little encouragement. Lif-UsLEdrm never breathed after the axe strucil^hcr. The other three child j reu a/e iu a very low condition, and the j four doctors v, ho are in attendance fear j thatjthoy wilj|je dead before morning, j They lie half unconscious, and when they rnll^ifrom-. n'ieir stupor their minds wanctef iund they liegin to mumble in coherently. The doctors can do noth ing for ;them at present as their skulls are all crushed in. At this writing. 10 P. Mm- they fear that both the mother and children will die during the night. The poison that Mrs. Smith took np ! pears to'have just, taken effect upon her ! and she-is sinking rapidly. Little Edna was buried yesterday ! morning. Hundreds of people gathered j around the homestead and the road to the cemetery was crowded for an eighth j i ota mile with wagons. At the grave a ; I sad. arid impressive sermon was deliver 1 ed by fJie clergyman, and when the last ' words wore spoken and tin: coffin was , ahout to be concealed, the lather an. I his j oighteei.-ycar-old daughter, Laura, gave : way .to their feelings and threw them- j ', selves on the ground. The lather called upon heaven to save his other children 1 from the fate of little Edna. Kind hands , placed the heart-broken lather and ! daughter in their carriages, and they ! were taken home to their house of sor i row. i Whin the funeral services were being j read at the grave, a far different scene ! was oeeurlhg at the house. Mrs. Smith, i who had uoticcd the funeral leaving the housof^iad sharply watched the move meutsofMr. .II. Willitt,who had been left to.watch her. Noticing him leave the room for a moment, she jumped from her bed and made Tor the closet whercvjthe- remainder of the rat poison was stpwed away. Sim intended to take : another dose tor the purpose of ending i lier Ittey hut Mr. Willitt returned in time I to save her. She struggled vainly to get possession of the poison, but finally had to.giv^e up when overpowered. It was the second time she attempted to finish Lhe deadly work. During the dead I of nighf- she got up when Mr. Willitt was l^V; doze nud gamed the stairway ?i"?fir^yio^ttie children's bedchamber. Wheuslie was discovered and brought back. Mr. Willitt said to her : "Why. Fannie, what do you want up-stnirs?" '?I want to keep my children from going to hell," she answered ??The devil bad a hold on me last night and now he has deserted me, so there is nothing for me to do but to finish my work and meet him in hell." "Regaining her senses again, she asked how the children were and begged pile- '? ously to sec them, she expressed great sorrow lor the deed she had done and hoped that God would forgive her. Since Friday morning she has not par taken of a particle of nourishment. A litte cold water is all that she asks for or will lake." It was only about ten days ago that I Mrs. Smith, while on a visit to her uncle, j John Eastinoud, at Fort Monmoutb, | said to his wife that if Monroe, meaning' her husband, would not take, her away, ? she would do something terrible. Mr. ; Smith was told of what Iiis wife had said, and asked what he intended doing, j "Oh. I think I am able to lake care of her." he replied. "I always lock our' door and hide the key away, so if she wanted to get out she could not." Rufus, the thirtccu-ycar-old son who j received three terrible gashes, is entirely ! unconscious of what" had happened. ! When he awoke during the night he lilted his hand to his head and said; i "0! that pains me. What did It?" He was told that a log had fallen from the barn and struck him. He appeared to be satisfiied with the explanation, for he sank back int?; a sort of stupor again. ' Bessie, the pretty clcvcn-year-old child who had prayed her mother not to kill, her. gained consciousness during the early morning, and the first thing she said was: "Where is mamma'." She was told that the physicians had forbidden her to speak, but she insisted oil knowing, and when told that her j mother was down stairs dying, she said: "Oh. poor mamma! I know she did not menu to hurt me. II was not her; fault. I hope she will go where Edna is." In the next room was Lidia. the sev en-year-old daughter, who had three deep gashes iu her head. Three of the lingers ' of her left hand were. gone, and her right arm wasalinnsl oil'. For a few moments at tunes she uaius consciousness, and then passes oil'in to a semiconscious con dition. When asked how she felt, she said that her head pained her terribly, and when she attempted to lift bur hand a cry of pain escaped from her lip-. The suffering of the throe poor luuoceul children is terrible. Prof. C. W. Holmes, Principal of the Keyport Academy, and :t relative of die Smiths, said the time twelve years ago '??it Mrs. .Smith had th'! trouble at child birth, she received a notification from Marciis Ii. Tay. the lawyer at Keyi?orl. that a mortgage of *2.i*M)0 was t<> lie foreclosed. This completely prostrated her. us >he had no money to pay off the mortgage. She had Imped to realize enough from her strawberry crop, but as that was a failure she was completely upset, and that caused her insanity. Don't borrow your neighbor's paper. | 56. PRIC EDITORS ON THE WAR PATH. A Strict Fight Between the Editor* at Vt'alterboro'. Our streets were thrown into quite a i state of excitement on the morning of the Kith instant, by an encounter be tween the editor of the Star and the senior editor of the Press. The facts as related by several eye witnesses are as follows: On the morning of the 15th inst. one day alter the issue of the Press, at about half-past 7 o'clock in the morn ing as the senior editor of the last named paper was on his wav to breakfast, and just as he passed the cornor of the street on which is situated the store of Messrs. Terry & Shaffer, his attention was arrested by someone hailing. Stop ping to listen he heard footsteps ap proaching from around the corner, and directly the editor of the Star made his appearance, each advanced toward the other, and when they got within speak ing distance the editor of the Star iu j quired, "Are you responsible for the article which appeard in the last week's Press?" Press answered, UI am." Whereupon the editor of the star struck j him a blow on the shoulder with his list, which was immediately resented on the I part of the editor of the Press by a blow [ in the face. The editor of the Star then j struck his opponent on the shoulder i with his walking cane, which was rcsenl ied by a blow in the face, as before. Again did the editor of the Star raise ! his cane, but before'the blow descended j the Star's editor rolled on the ?round, 1 from which position be arose to renew I the attack. Canes were now out of the iquestion. ;unl the battle, continued in I regular listiculf style, and sparring con tinued for a while. The parties then : came together, and the representative of the Press was tripped. Both fell together, the Star's editor falling on top. which vantage ground he immediately made use of. Striking two or three blows on the face of his opponent with a large seal ring. At this juncture the friends of the Star raised its editor up and pre vented the parties from again engaging in the listiculf.?Collctou Press. THE TERRIBLE FIRE AT STRY. Sixty-Eight Bodies Taken From thelCulns ?Twenty Deaths I nun Kxpo.Mire. Vienna. April 21.?The condition of affairs at Stry among the people who lost their homes by the great lire is most pitiable. Most of the victims are with out food or means, and arc rendered desperate by the thought of starvation. Farmers in the vicinity have been visi ted by mobs oi men, who have first, de manded food, and then, if refused, stole it. Owners ol farms are now compelled to barricade their houses as the only way to guard them from being plunder ed of food by the mob. which on account of hunger is becoming uncontrollable. Numerous struggles for food, resulting in bloodshed have 'alien place. All the public archives and registers of the city of Stry were lost in the fire. It will he necessary to ask grants of money from the Limberg Diet and' the Reichrnth to rcleivu the distress of the thousands of destitute people. The search for the remains of persons who lost their lives during the conflagra tion has been proceeding as rapidly as circumstances would allow. Thus far sixty-eight bodies, charred so as to make recognition difficult, have been taken from the ruins. There have been twenty deaths in the fields since Sunday of in valids, young and old who were, taken out of town to escape the Maines. Over six hundred houses were destroyed. Tin- Fatal Wedding Tarty. The fatal ending of the wedding party near Rico Station, Minn., forms one of the saddest features of the wholesale destruction of life and property wrought by the recent cyclone. The party was assembled at the residence of .lohn Schutz, a farmer, to celebrate the wed ding of their daughter. Mamie. The ceremony was performed about 1 o'clock by the Rev. Oustavus Smith. The after noon was spent in social enjoyment, and at 4 o'clock the party gathered about the wedding least. It was a happy as semblage of nearly forty persons, cele brating the bridal festivities of the lavoriie daughter of the house. The cyclone came, and in the space of live minutes the house was converted into kindling wood and scattered all over the farm. Of the happy party of but a few minutes before, ten were corpses and many others were injured, several of whom will die. There was not a build ing left in which the few survivors could care for those not past help. The bride groom was killed outright, but the bride was only injured. The neighbors who had escaped the fury of the cyclone went to the rescue, ami the bodies of the dead were taken to the school house at Rice Station. An Editor's Awful Crime. Bikmingham, Ala.. April 22.? Thomas W. Kilts, a young man about 2.'! years of age. who a month ago began to publish a sensational weekly paper called The ??Hornet" akin.1 of miualure Rail Mai' f.'azelfe. late last night shot and kill Clara Ross, an inmate of the house 01 ill-fame. Ellis hurriedly left house and. proceeding to a hotel near, he surrendered himself to the officers, not. however, before he had at tempted suicide with the pistol placed at his own head. Then; were, no witnesses to the affair. The woman was found lucked ill a room shot through the head. Collector Itradh-y Continued. Washington, April 21.?Among the continuations made by the Senate to-day was lb ('. I'radley to be Collec tor of Kevciiue for South Carolina. This ease gave rise to considerable discussion, Bradley being charged with mootishiuing predilections. Edmunds is said to have led the opposition to Bradley ill person, but he hail been favorably reported by the Finance com mittee and was confirmed by 27 to 10. at E $1.50 PEB AXXI'M. QUESTION OF THE HOUR. CAN LEGISLATION PREVENT LABOR STRIKES? j An Open Letter from Kx-Treslilent Jcf I ferson 1);i\-i?*?A Court of Arliitratlon i Suggested as a Solution of a DimeuD 1'rohlem. Galveston, Tkx.. April 24.?The following letter from Ex-President Jef i ferson Davis, of the Confederate States, ? to II. VV. Pope, of Marshal, Texas, in ' which ilr. Davis gives his views as to : what legislation might be adopted to bring about harmony and unity of action I betweeu capital and labor, has just been I made public. I Beauvoir. Mish., Marc!. 2". 1886. ? The Hon. II. >V. l*o\ -My Dear Sir: i Fully appreciating the compliment con J vcyed by your request ror my views as i to what legislation might be adopted to I adjust the conflict now going ou between . capital and labor, I regret that the I compliment is so little merited. The I old war between capital and labor has j called Forth the best intellects of Europe. , It has disturbed commerce, overthrown I governments, produced anarchy, and ' crept Irom the wreck without solving ; the problem. With us the contest is in I its incipient state and happily it may be : that something can be done to check its growth. Self interest and free compcti [ lion 'for labor will, where laborers arc abundant, give to the rich the power to [ oppress the poor. We cannot legislate j to destroy the motive of self-interest, for j that lies at the foundation of progress, I and our cllbrls must, therefore, he direc i led to unifying the interest of labor and i capital as far as this may be done by the I legislatures of the Slates. The present I form or conflict in our country is be ' tween associated labor and the organiza ; lion employing it. Il is not a sufficient . answer to say that the price of labor , has advanced, unless it can be shown j that the profits moved pari pa ?su with j the profits of capital; for in this, as in I other things of comparative welfare, we | must consider the relative improvement. The standard of comfort rises propor {tionately to the increase of wealth in the country. Your idea of a Court of Ar I bitration, I think, lias much to recom mend it. The organization of such a Court, so as to secure equally the confi dence of both the contending parties, would require both liberality and dis cretion, should be based on something like a co-operative principal of industri al partnership, in which the wages of j employees should be measured by the profits of the corporation. If in this manner a community of interest could be cstablised, the welfare and content ment of both would seem to be a possi ble result. ; "With sincere regard and best wishes for you and yours. I am your friend, Jefferson Davis." Tin- Work of a fiend. Atlanta. Ga., April 22.?A wrcck ! er placed a crosstie on the track of the ' East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia ltailroad, near Silver Creek, Tuesday night, then stepped back in the dark anil watched an approaching freight train strike it and roll down a ten foot embank j mcnt. One man was instantly killed and another fatally injured. The man who was killed was Thomas Slicnan who was lireing for bis transportation from Chattanooga to Atlanta. He was crush i ed and cut to pieces. Letters ou his i person show that he was a citizen of England. .lack Wright, the engineer, ! was so badly injured that he will die. ' MiKC Wrinkle, the regular lireman. was asleep in the tender. He was not ! scratched. The. engineer saw the ob struction just before he struck it. but , was not able to stop the train. The wrecker has not been captured. A Fiendish Murder Confessed. Al'ousta. April 2.'j.?Preston Valen tine, colored, who was arrested at Low inoor, Virginia, and brought to Augus ta, confessed to the murder of William Vales before the grand jury to-day. Vales was watchman at the depot of the Augusta and Summervillc Railroad. Valentine struck him on the head with a pick, saturated the body with oil and lired the buildings. Alter avoiding ar rest for eighteen months he was finally captured in Virginia. The murder ex cited deep indignation, and fears were entertained that Valentine would be lynched. The law will take its course. The objeel of the murder was robbery. The i'oet iViesl Dead. Louisville, Kv.. April 23.?Father Abrain J. Ryyan, the -I'oet Priest of the South." died at the Franciscan Mon astery at St. Bonifatius in this city to night". He came here a month ago Irom the Catholic institution at Reading, near Cincinnati. He intended to make, his retreat here, and finish "The Life of Christ," which he had undertaken. Ho became ill within a week with organic heart, disease and grew steadily worse. For several days past his mind wandered ami he has talked pitifully of his event ful life in war days and has preached to imaginary audiences. Yesterday he passed into a comatose state, from which he never roused. i mime From fright. We learn thai Miss Maggie (Tine daughter of a rcspeclabh: citizen. of Ca barrus county, has heroine insane, and ellbrls are being made tu secure her ad mittance to an asylum for treatment, The case is a sail one. Mr. Cline owns a vicious hull, which has the liberty ofa pasture, and a few days since the inung lady was going through the pasture, when the bull gave her chase and ran her across the licld. The animal came very near overtaking her. and .such was the shock to iier nerves experienced by fright over the occurrence, that her mind gave way. It is hoped that ti.nc and good treatment will effect a complete restoration of her reason.?Charlotte Observer.