The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, January 12, 1887, Image 1
VOL. 1l1. IANNIN(6., (LARXE'NDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, PJANUARX Y 87 O5
A LETTEkt FROMI CAPT. TII.LMIAN.
He Givey Hi" Views O'u Certou1: Thinq .
Doune b the Iegilture ul th- !:et:zt
Session.
To the Editor of the News a:!d Couri
er: Your editorial in the The News and
Courier of December 24, headed "The
-a3 1 ITrouble, is in the aitin jut
,priate. but at the sane time :
17- -ing. For instance, speaking
of th'bills emanating from the Farmers'
Convention, and which have been either
postponed, amended out of all shape or
slaughtered outright in the Senate, you
sav:
"Who is responsible we neeL n .t -
The Senators will be prepared, ->f coure,
to explain thcir action to tneir con
stituents when the proper tinme comes,
and they will doubtless be giv; the (p
portunitv. But whatever their reason,
good or bad, the fact remain.- that the
quarrel of the farmers, if the, have any,
is with their own representatives. The
non-agricultural members of tho General
Assembly have been willing and ready,
as they have abundantly shown, to grant
every request and adopt every plan
which the farmers should agree upon for
the advancement of their peculiar inter
est, and to give to them the control of
their peculiar affairs. The failure is
chargeable to the men whom they have
selected and ekhcted to carry out their
plans, and the settlement muo, be had
with those who are responsible for the
failure."
You may rest assured that they will
be "given the opportunity to explain"
and that "settlement will be had" with
some of them when again the farmers
get a chance. If the "farmers' move
ment," which has created such a stir
among the people, is really a demand of
the masses for reform and the correc
tion of abuses, and an expression of a
desire to see our rights as farmers re
spected, it will continue to grow and
spread, rather than dwindle and die, and
will have much to do with shaping the
future policy and politics of this State.
But let that be as it may. I only set
out to show you that, while correct as to
the House, your editorial is calculated to
mislead when you say the farmers in the '
Senate are alone to blame.
And in order to make this Ckax I will
show the complexion oi our present Sen
ate as regards occupation. It is com
posed as follows:
Lawyers ............ .... . ....... . 15
Farm ers .... .. . ......-.-.-. - -.-.. 12
D octors .................. . ..... 3 :
Preachers ............-. -. - ---- .
Editors and printers .--.-...- 21
Merchants.................... 1
Total .............. ..... .
-of whom 20 are new Senator; and 1~
are old ones, two of the new ones serv
ing unexpired terms
Now, the bill of all others in which
the farmers were most deeply interested,
and which they desired to have passed 1
most was that enlarging the board of
agriculture and reorganizmng the agricul
tural department. This the Senate post
poned, by a vote of 21 to 14, on the
flimsy pretext, as voiced b, Senator
Yonumans, that they -wanted more time
to investigate tis important matter."'
The April Convention had deianded it.
The November Convention had demand
ed it. The matter has been thoroughly
discussed for a year or more in the
press, and charges of extravagance and
of incompetence, or neglect o0 duty on.,
the part of the board, proven. But these
Senatorial lawmakers alone needed
"more time to investigate." Well, we :
hope they wili improve the two years
eleven of them have got beore the next I
election to study the matter and be pre
pared to give good reasons for theirj
votes when asked. If, indeed, your re-1
porter be correct in saving the "Agri
cultural Senators were influenced bya
determination not to submit to Tillman1
dictation," it will be a pitiful excuse for
having refused to comply with the
wishes of the farmers of the State; and
an acknowledgment of having. allowed
personal motives to govern their action
rather than a desire to legislate for the
public good. No member of the Gen
eral Assembly, either Senator or Repre
sentative, can truthfully say that. I was
either obtrusive or dictatorial im pre
senting to them the measures asked by:
the two Farmers' Conventions, and it wiul
be left to the farmers all over the State
to resent in a proper way the imputation
that Tillman alone constitutes the
"'Farmers' movement."
But if the agricultural Senators re
sented "Tiilman dictation," what influ
enced the other Senators? I will now
proceed to show that the farmers in the
Senate are not aloue to blame for de
ferring this bill. My ddi friends, the
lawyers, took advantage of tie fuss
kicked up by Messrs. loumans and
Wofford to plant a sly dagger in Till
man's side and slap their agricumtural
constituents who have joined the farm
ers' movement in the face. This is
shown by the vote, as follows:
Messrs Bell.. .. .. ..Farmer.
Biemann. ...... .. .. Mer'nt a hotel
keeper.
Black..... .. .....Doctor.
Byrd..... ....Doctor.
Frvin ............ armer.
Hemphill . Lawyer.
Howell... .....Lawyer.
Izlar...... Lwer
Kennedy...... yr
MoMaster .avr
Moore . ayr
Munro ....... ar
Patterson.... Laer
Bh ame...... Lwe
Reynolds..... ay.
Smiith. .iazn
SmytheLay.r
Wingard ...... 'rr
W ftbrd........ Ear.
V~iliani.... .Lawyaer.
preaher nd oe isawern.
garcy o lawer.Lafwer 1in'~
tura memers f th ae
evnt. r- in.t s.Farma.
uponlias . '. . Prahr
-ofa ur ofel who eleven are layr,
peer Seand' c'oei - meeht..
grcyt of ~ lawyrs"....w.m... ave
spoken ofl ntaen heeore. dd it?
tuirl me'ber w io the a e dg:. :tS
upon farmes- nei-ert 'to - t hde contri
to the firtentne 'o n~ reor ofean igr
ey have any manhood and a proper
sense ( resentment: if they are not the
0h-_s they are taken for, they will, when
th time'comes, see to it that die men
vo thus contemptuously put this in
dtignity upon them are properly reward
ed If we cannot reorganize the agri
cultural department, we can reorganize
the Senate. The farmers of the State
are fast siuking to the level of serfs
hewers of wood and drawers of water for
others. An efficient and representative
board of agriculture, together with an
agricultural college to act as a pioneer in
mapping out the new system of farming
we U. compelled to pursui. er" we can
ex'pect nuy change f'r the better, could
ilo much to aid and assist them to re
cover their lost prosperity. Eut these
six agricultural Solons and their fizteen
professional associates say to theni in
etfect: "You don't know what you want.
We will continue to tax you to support a
department of agriculture which you do
not feel is bencticial to your interests as
now conducted, because we like it. We
will vote your money to support the
South Carolina College and Citadecl be
cause we think those schools are all we
need; but your Agricultural College is a
humbug. We know it. 'Wisdom will
die with us.' So we will not even spend
your own money to investigate the mat
ter and let a commission report so we
can act intelligently."
It may be said the farmers in the Sen
ate were divided, as they were six for
and six against the bill. Then if the
professional men in the Senate had
needed light as to the wishes of the
farmers of the State. if the actions of
two farmers' convention had no weight,
the almost unanimous vote by which the
bill passed the House, composed largelv
of farmers, should have made tAem hesi
tate to postpone it.
But 1 have my own opinion as to how
this thing was brought about. I visited
Columbia three times during the recent
session of the Legislature. I kept my
eye and ears open. I learned a great
deal that would be of value to the peo
ple if I had time to tell it, and I will,
when occasion offers, let out some of the
"true inwardness" of what I saw and
learned. I could tell why and how the
hopes of the people as regards reforms
and reduction of expenditures, &c., re
sulted only in the cutting off of a beg
garly thousand dollars-the Lieutenant
Governor's salary. I could show that
once an abuse is planted and takes root
in South Carolina it is harder than nut
grass to get rid of. But just now I will
only give my belief as to why the Senate
postponed the bill to reorganze the
agricultural department. Of course
some of the Senators voted against it
because of their resentment against
"Tiliman dictation," for Mr. Gonzales
says so; some voted-two at least-be
muse they never vote against one of the
Senators from Charleston, so I am told;
Ahers voted against it because I am
redited with having had much to do
with the slaughter of the Columbia
anal and the Ring wanted revenge
though, to tell the truth, I am totaly
innocent in that matter. Some voted
qgainst it because farmers and "farmers'
movements" stink in their nostrils. But
the real cause, though many Senators
lo not know it perhr.ps, is that the
phosphate interests of the State are con
trolled by the department of agriculture,
and the Coosaw Mining Compny is too
well satisied with the present manage
ment of that interest to allow a change
if it could prevent it!
Why a board of agriculture should
bave anything to do with collecting
mining royalty, farmers of ornary i
telligence cannot understand. We do
not see the connection between the two,
but perhaps some of those who started i
this thing, and some of those who keep|
it up, can give us light. This board of
agriculture, which is liked so well, has,
spent $170,000 since its creation in 1880,
and we would like some one to tell us
what benefit it has been to us farmers,
who pay for it alone. Will some Senator,
"agriculturalist" or otherwise, answer?
Or will somc member of the boardt tell
us? B. R. T1LM..
Rloper's, S. C., January 1, 1887.
ANOTIIER HAPPY JEHiU.
A (on'necticut Coachman Elopes With isk
Employer's Dau;ihter.
The village of Rledding, Conn., is!
greatly excited over the elopement of,
Miss Eunice Hill, daughter of the most
romins?t and wealthy citizen of the
lace, with her father's coachman, Fred
erick Hicks. Hicks is twenty-seven
years old and is said to be a very dis
agreeable looking young fellow. It
appears that Hicks had been in the em
ploy of Mr. Hill for about ten months
during which time Miss Hill fell desper
ately in love with him. The young lady,
who is accomplished in every way, of
faultless form and very beautiful, was
not only the belle of the village, but of
all the neighboring towns. She taught
a class in Sunday school in her father'sI
church and had many admirers. Some
months a'go the conduct of Miss Hill'
and the coachman caused much village
gossip and it finally reached the father's
ears. He was highly indignant and
threatened to kick his coachman from
his premises. But Miss Eunice begged
him not to, as it would create a sensa
tion, and she finally succeeded in having
the servo'ut retained. Recently Hicks's
conduct toward Miss Hill was so objec
tionable that the girl's father said he
must go.
The coaehmian secured a situation in a
livery stable, but kept up a communica
tion with Miss Hill. Laist week he came
to Mr. Hill's residence and begged that
gentleman to take him back into his ser
vice. Tihis Mr. Hill refused to do.
While the tw'o men 'were in conversation
Mliss Euinie quietly stole out of the
hoQuse and got into her l over's carrige,
*s pe arrangement. The couple drove
ct once to Brev ster~ 'a neighbgiing vil
!ge, where they were married without
delay. The father of the gir! is greatly
enraiged over the affair.
Another '"mammoth cave" is reporte~d,
tiis time in Missouri. The first explora
ton w::s only a partial one, but took in
sevral chambers and was prosecuted for
a distance of a quarter of a mile, and still
othe'r chambers anid labyrinths of ptass
ges' 1ay eoind ini several directionls.
Tesee' is reported to be indesrib
iv'. beauiu, the abundant stalactites
miu stialtes assm~tning all sorts of fan
,i-'m eom. Pnle overni-bt.
INDUSTI-Y OF THE T H.
iss s--I [urpan"e ,:y Year. Ev e of tihe
In its annual review oi the iudustrial a
progress of the South, the Idtimore'
Manufacturers' ivcord says that 1886
y
was the most remarkable year in manyC
respects in the history of 'the iouthern
States, and more accomplished for the
prosperity and progress of the whole
South than ever before in any year.
This is shown in the enormous invest
ments of capital in industrial enterprises
and in the growth of contidence among0
Northern and European investors in the 0
stability of the Souti's ironi and other '
manufacturing interests. a
The amount of capital, including the.
eapital stock of incorporated companies,
repres nted by new manufacturing and th
mining enterprises organized or char- d<
tered at the South during 186, includ
ing the enlargement of old plants and
the rebuilding of mills, aggregates S129,
226,000, c'36,S12,000 in 1885, divided .
among States, as follows: 1
States 188. 15s. w
Alabama ..... 19,S48,000 z 7,41,0010 W(
Arkansas. 1.524,000 1,220,000 co
Florida... . . 59, 000 2,09,010 ea
Georgia. . , . 9.000 2,0A0,001 or
Kentucky ... . 2t8,404,000 11;.:30:,200
Louisiana . ... 2,240,000 :, ,00 br
Maryland. .,765,000 6.013,$00 fr<
Mississippi . . 774,000 761500 bl
N. Carolina. :307,0,00 :12,000 fu
S. Carolina. . . 1,208,000 .5 ,'000 TI
Tennessee.. . 21,240,000 2,692,000 by
Texas ........ 5,694,000 :%3.2,000 un
Vir '. .. ... 8,514,000 ::',314,0"0
W irginia.. 8,365,000 12,056,000 mi
Total.... $129,226,000 $66,812,000 MI
The development of iron manufactures j lo
employs the bulk of this new capital. fai
Other interests as well as iron, however,
are being rapidly developed. Included
in the list of new enterprises organized
in the South during 1886 were: 2S iron
furnaces, .50 ice factories, 68 foundries
and machine shops, many of them of T
large size; 1 Bessemer steel rail mill, 2
miscellaneous iron works, including iron a
pipe works, bridge and bolt works, etc.;,
6 stove foundries, 24 gas works, 34 ec- at
tric light companies, 11 agricultural im
plement factories, 174 mining and quar no
rying enterprises, 16 carriage and wagon lea
factories, 9 cotton mills, 23 furniture th<
factories, 42 water-works, 58 tobacco s
factories, 92 flour mills, 448 lumber !
mills, (not counting small portable saw I
mills,) including saw and planing mills, in
sash and door factories, stave, handle,
shingle, hub and spoke, shuttle-block thi
factories, etc.: in addition to which there fo
was a large number of miscellaneous en- be
terprises. One of the most gratifying
features of the South's industrial
progress, says the Manufacturers' Re-no
cor<, is a wide diversity of new indus
tries that are developing all through that m
section.
A BE';UILINi PROSPEITY. the
(From the News and Courier. fir
It is exceedingly gratifying, of course, ho
to read the statement made by the Balti- agi
more Manufacturers' Record in evidence 'T
of the wonderful development of mann- elg
facturing in the Soutn during the past'my
year. The total increase of investments yo'
m all kinds of enterprises in the South
ern States during 1886 is shown to be toc
nearly $63,000,000, and it is claimed
with truth, upon the basis of these str
figures, that the year which is now
closing has been the most remarkable in str
many respocts in the history of the 1;
South. aw
It will not escape attention, however, go:
that the development of iron muanufac- to.
tures is creditedl with the employment mc
of the bulk of the new capital, about
36,000,000 of the total increased invest- oul
mnt being divided among the three ab<
States of Virginia, Tennessee aad Ala- tio
bama, while a decided falling off is air
shown in the States of West Virginia noi
and Florida. Arkansas, Louisiana, Mis- Lo
sissippi and North Carolina barely hold ate
their own. There is much ground for I e
gatification in view of the development an
of the iron industry in the States where eff
it has taken such a hold, but it would beha
far, far better for the South if the devel- Wil
opment were more general and more:m
equally distributed. The impetus given bu
to the iron busineas, it is conceded, p
comes from without. and the profitr> Isu<
from that business will largely go out of
the South. While a good deal of moneyw
has doubtless been made by Alabamians An
and Tennesseeans, for instance, in dis- ti
posing of their lands, the bulk of the t
profits has gone to speculators 'who .wa
bought up the lands in large blocks and Lc
at nominal prices. The control of the' dn~
lands, moreover, has passed forever out sh<
of the hands of the people who live on an<
them, and the enterprises which have as
been founded by small home capitalists h
in the mineral districts are rapidly pass- Ie
ing into the possession of outsiders, as oi
has been reported in severaleconspicuous1 up
instances, he'
Another and certain result of the great luti
rapidity with whi'eh the production of Ipe
iron in the South irs inereasing is that for
the production of The same metal in the ph
North must be ehnapeiied enormously, W1
or else the South will eventually monop- wi
olize the iron inat"strv. It is too much wh
to expect that the iron manufacturers of
Pennsylvania, for instance, will consent sel
to have their business crip~pled in either tic
way. It is pro'oable, therefore, that sta
these will soon come forward and ask It
for lower duties coal to enable them Iwi
to compete suec'uliy with the South-' wi
ern districts; (i5 vhen the demand is be
ma-le, the J4 7ites and other Pro- en
tectio JA ste no longer about sil
sti 481 , o at the Alabama ter
and j- ..-)alia. d iron mines and'th<
iroa mnunay. Lahan they would ga
hesitate now to aestroy the sugar in- far
dustrv of Louisiana, if the votes of the in
Louisiana Represen'ztives were not wlI
courted by their sclhish allies. Idr<
The very prosperit.y of the iron ini ler
dustry at the South, 'i short, is fatal to inj
its continuance. tune, it passes into the thi
hands of Northern owners, and the new-!
ly converted Protectionists in the South- w
ern iron-producing States wili Iindl in let
the end that they have sold out the true fa:
interest of the South and of the country ett
for a prize that will crumble in their e
hands, or pass into the hands o f nou
residents as soon as it become:, worth c
the. taking.
Michael Davitt has traveled ov.er ten au
thousand& miles, delivered forty-eight la
speeches, and been married, :dl in n;
beiod of less than ten weeks. it
eneral A-exanrte rt ie hn w attle
of (ettysburt iin January CenI ry.
In the January number of the Century
7e articles on the third day's tight at
ettysburg, by General H. J. Rant and
. P. Alexander. From the latter's ac
>unt of Pickett's charge we quote as
ilows: "At exactly one o'clock by my
atch the two signal guns were heard in
lick succession. In another minute
ery gun was at work. The enemy was
>t slow in coming back at us, and the
and roar of nearly the whole artillery
both armies burst in on the silence
most as suddenly as the full notes of
L organ could fill a church.
The artillery of Ewell's corps, how
er, took only a small part, I believe,
this, as they were too far away around
e town. Some of them might have
mne good service from positions be
een Ill and Ewell, enfilading the
tteries fighIng us. The opportunity
do that was the single advantage in
r having the exterior line to compen
te for its disadvantages. But our line
s so far extended that all of it was not
J1 studied, and the officers of each
rps had io opportunity to examine
h <itr's ground for chances of co
eratlive work.
"Th- eemy's position seemed to have
ken out with guns everywhere, and
m lound Top to Cemetery Hill was
izing like a volcano. The air seemed
1 of mis.siles from every direction.
e severity of the fire may be illustrated
the ualties in my own batallion
der Aiajor Huger.
"Before the cannonade opened I had
te up my mind to give Pickett the
ler to advance within fifteen or twenty
nutes after it began. But when I
)ked at the full development of the
my's batteries, and knew that his in
itry was generally protected from our
I bv stone walis and swells of the
mnil. I could not bring myself to give
Sword. It seemed madness to launch
antry into that fire, with neaily three
arters of a mile to go in the midday
ly sun. I let the fifteen minutes pass,
f twenty, and twenty-five, hoping
nly for something to turn up. Then
rote to Pickett: "If you are coming
all you must come at ouce, or I can 1
give you proper support; but the
amy's fire has not slackened at all; at
st eighteen guns are still firing from
cemetery itself." Five minutes after
Lding thai message, the enemy's fire
Idenly began to slacken, and the guns
the cemetary limbered up and vacated
position.
'We Confederates often did such
ngs as that to save our ammunition
use against infantry, but I had never|
ore seen the Federals withdraw theiri
as simply to save them up for the
antry tight. So I said, 'If lie does
run fresh batteries in there in five'
autes, this is our light.' I looked)
ciously with my glaws, and the five
autes passed without a sign of life on
deserted position, still swept by our
, and littered with dead men and
cses and fragments of disabled carri
Then I wrote Pickett, urgently:
)r God's sale, come quick. The
liteen guns are gone; come quick, or
ammunition won't let me support
i properly.'
'1 afterwards heard from others what
.k place with my first note to Pickett.
'Pickett took it to Longstreet. Long
et read it, and said nothing. Pickett
1, 'General, shall I advance?' Long
et, knowing it had to be, but unwill
to give the word, turned his face
y. Pickett saluted and said, 'I am
ng to move forward, sir,' galloped off,
his division and immediately put it in
tion.
'Longstreet, leaving his staff, came
alone to where I was. It w'as then
>ut 1.40 p. m. I explained the situa
a, feeling then more hopeful, but
aid our artillery ammunition might
;hold out for all we would want.
ngstreet said, 'Stop Pickett, inunedi
ly, and rep>lenish your ammunition.'
xplained a ~t it would take too long,
the enemy would recover from the
~et our fire was then having, and we
1, moreover, very little to replenish
.h. Longstreet said, 'I don't want to
e this attack. I would stop it now
t at General Lee ordered it and ex
:ts it to go on. I don't see how it can
:ceed.'
- listened but did not dare offer a
rd. The battle was lost if we stopped.
inaunition was far too low to try any
ng else, for we had been fighting
-e drys. There was a chance, and it
s not my part to interfere. While
ngstreet was still speakmng, Pickett's
ision swept out of the wood and
>wed the full length of its gray ranks
1 shining bayonets, as grand a sight
ever a man looked on. Joining it on
left, Pettigrew stretched farther than
ould see. General Dick Garnett, just
Sof the sick ambulance, and buttoned
in an old blue overcoat, riding at the
Ld of his brigade, passed us and sa
ed Longstreet. Garnett was a warm
~sonal friend, and we had not met be
'e for months. We had served on the
ins together before the war. I rode
:h him a short distance, and then we
hed each other luck and a good-bye
ich was our last.
'Then I rode down the line of guns,
ecting such as Lad enough ammnuni
n to follow Piekett's advance, and
rting them as fast as possible. I get,
hink, fifteen or eighteen in a little
ile, and went on with them. Me-an
ile, the infantry had no sooner de
uched on the plain than all the
amy's line, which had been nearly
mt, broke out again with all its bat
ies. 'The eighteen guns were back in
cemetery, and a storm of shells be-!
a bursting over and among our in
trv. All of our guns, silent as tihe
antry passedCt b.etweenl them, reopened
en the lines had got a couple of huni
a yards away, bat t he enemy'~s artil
y let us aloue and tired only at the
antry. No one could h-ave looked at
~t advanc. - without feeling proud of it.
"But as our supiport1ig guns advanced
pssed many a poor mangled vietim
I in its trampled wake. A terrific in
arndir as now opened upon Pick
, adaconsiderable force of the
e'my moved out to attack the right
ui-'of his ine. We halted, unlimber
.and openerd lire upon it. Pickett
n never alt d, but opened rea
.r:aiee. swarmed over the fenes
d among ihe enem's guns, were swal
,ed up in suioke-aind that was the
i of them. The co dmiet hardly seeme'dI
melted away. and only disorgauit
stragglers were coming back pursued b
a moderate fire.. Just then Wilcox'
brigade passed by us, moving to Pickett'.
support. There was no longer anythinu
to support, and with the keenest pity al
the useless waste of life I saw them ad
vance. The men, as they passed us,
looked bewildered, as if they woudered
what they were expected to do, or Why
they were there. They were soon, how
ever, halted and moved back.
Story of a Georgia Towi. True but Terri ble.
I was recently in a small Southern vil
lage; the county was Auti-Prohibition,
and of the four stores two were bar
rooms, or whiskey shops. It was no
common sight to see staggering men and
crowds going and coming from these
shops. On court days, for the county
court house was there, many men instead
of eating geod wholesome food for din
ner, would go to the bar and drink thei
dinner. Just think, a dinner of this vile
burning poison; wero they fit men to
judge their fellow men? a thousands
times no. But while I sojourned at this
place, I knew three bright promising lit
tle boys. aged four, five and six. Then
there were two others, little ones, seven
months and two years, each having a
nurse, young colored girls. One day at
dinner we were at the hotel, the oldest
boy said 3ama, "Mr. Barber-shop man,
(the pronrietor of the barroom also cut
hair) called us and gave us all some cider.
Liz took Clyde and the baby too, and he
made every onc drink even the little baby.
The Mamna said, I will punish you and
your brother for going. I strictly for
ade it. The little boy said Liz, (the
oldest nurse) said come on, your ma
won't care for sweet cider, and 'Mrs. Max
lets Mr. Walter go. Mr. and Mrs. Max
were all present: and I'll not forget the
look of horror these words bought to
IMr. Max's face. He was a strict Presby
terian minister, Walter, their one little
lamb; he turned to his wife and said,
Edna is this true; do ;ou let Walter go
to this drink shop? She replied, he
went there to get his hair cut, and brother
Ralph said he was too young for any
harm to come of it. He Faid, why don't
1,ou see even the baby is not too young.
The man know- his part well. He begins
with the tender young babe, bringing
them up, cultivating a taste for it, bait
ing them for his own aim. I am horrified
that in this fair village there is such vile,
black crime, and our beautiful boy, Oh!
I shudder; I wished to say when he be
came a man, Walter has never set foot
in a dram shop, and now I cannot, little
did I dream of this, so young. Why,
I'd let his haii CTow long upon his shoul
ders, and I'd punish him severely if he
knew it was a whisky shop. Edna, I am
surprised at you, his mother, nearest to
him on earth; you who should be ever so
wary and watchful of this evil. I am
leeply stirred within me. Walter, never
set foot in this man's shop again, and
never taste or take any thing he offers
you. If I hear of you doing so, I shall
punish you severely. The other two
mothers showed equal distress for their
boys. The mother of the babe especially,
to think, as the good minister said, he
was bringing up even the babbes to love
is drink. Her father drank away reason
and life, under this same man's inifluence,
ind her only brother on the verge of
nanhood; dh! she trembles to thin!z
what will be his fate. Is this fitful gaiety,
his bright bloom upon his young face,
he bloom and gaiety of youth? She
rembles and prays God it may be, and
aot the fatal poisoning bloom and gaiety
>f strong drink. Edna, God watch and
piide your fair boy. And the widowed
nother of the other two, the two oldest,
nay she never experience the deep sor
ow of seeing her boys intemperate. Ohi!
ilage, Oh! county, banish alcohol from
rour land, from your people, and you
anish these fearful crimes that are now
acing you with deep distress, then o
ill see progress and prosperity, where;
iow is dilapidation and non-progressive
ess. Whisky is your curse; tremble
~or your children, tremble for their
uture. Do you recognize this true pic
are? It is as it really occurred!-Georgia
['emperance Advocate.
Waste in the Kiitche.-,
Waste in the kitchen is very often greatI
~rom apparently trivial sources.
i cooking meats, the water is thrown
ut without removing the grease, or the
grease from the dripping p'an is thrown
away.
Scraps of meat are thrown away.
Cold potatoes are left to sour and spoil.
Dry fruits are not looked after and be
ome wormy.
Vinegar and sauce arceleft standing in it.
Apples are left to decay for want of
sorting over."
The tea canister is left open.
Victuals are left exposed to be eaten by:
mee.
Bones of meat and the carcass of tue
Key arc thrown away, when they could
>e used in making good soups.
Sugar, tea, coffee and rice are care
essly spilled in the handling.
Soap is left to dissolve and waste in
he water.
Dish towels are used for dish cloths.
Napkins are used for dish towels.
Towels are used for holders.
Brooms and mops are not hung up.
More coal is burned than necessary by
ot arranging dampers when not using,
he fire.
Lights are left burning when not ussd.
Tin dishes are not properly cleansed
tnd dried.
Good new brooms are used in scrub-*
iing the kitchen floors.
Silver spoons are used in scraping
ettles.
Cream is left to mold and sp~oil.
Mustard is left to spoil in the cru:-:c
:tc.
Vinegar is allowed to staud until the
in vessel becomes corroded and spoied.
Pickles become sp Jed by the leaking
mt or evaporation of the vinegar-.
Pork spoils for want of salt, and b e
,ecause the brine wants scalding.
Hams become tainted or filled with~
ermin for want of care.
Cheese molds and is cateni by mice or
Tea and cofTee pjot: are injured on the
tove.
WXoodenware is unseaided and left t
arp and cick.
All apJpree.ious iouchling th- safet
1 stoves usn gaLsoline for fuel are set
a? resrt by the.. imorovemenits observable
nt the Fro.nt Vapur moe. For fim-ther
to see a man who drinks .perform an act
that other men could appaud, unless he
commits suicide.
THE CONFEDERATE VETERANS.
What the State of South Carolina Hui
Done for their Support.
South Carolina furnished more soldiers
to the armies of the late Confederacy, in
proportion to her white population, than
any State in the Confederation of seced
ing States, which is, however, only
natural, considering the fact that seces
sion had its birth in her borders. She
has also done less toward relieving:her
maimed and wounded soldiers than any
Southern State. This is, perhaps, owing
to the fact that the State was longer un
der the control of the carpet-bag regime
than other States and that she was prob
ably the worst-plundered State in the
South under that plundering regime.
Soon after war, when the first Legisla
ture met under Governor Orr, and be
fore the enfranchisement of the blacks,
an Act was passed providing for the fur
nishing of artificial limbs for those of
her soldiers who had lost a leg or an
arm in the service. Under this Act dis
abled soldiers received from $100 to
$200 each, the necessary funds being
appropriated annually. It is to the
credit of the carpet-bag Government
that this appropriation, about $10,000
annually, was never withheld.
When the Government reverted to the
whites by the revolution of 1876 an at
tempt was made to provide pensions for
the disabled Eoldiers, but the State was
too poor, and the one-armed and one
legged Confederate soldiers in the Leg
islature were always the most strenuous
in opposing the measure. Every year
since 1876 half-dozen or more Acts have
been passed appropriating specific sums
ranging from $25 to $200 to maimed or
disabled Confederate soldiers, each Act
being, however, a specific appropriation
for an individual named. No general
pension Act has ever been passed. At
the recent session, which closed on De
cember 24, an Act was passed enlarging
the provisions of what is known as the
Artificial Limb Act, and extending its
benefits to persons who have resided in
the State for ten years, whether they
were natives or not. This is about all
that has ever be en done for the maimed
soldiers of the State.
THE HAND OF GOD.
A 3laphemer Curses His Creator and is
Stricken with Paralysis.
DoarGLAS, GA., January 4.-"I hope
that God may paralyze me" were the
words spoken by Wiliam Burkett. At
once his hands dropped to his side, his
legs refused to move and his eyes rolled
wildly around. His prayer was answered
as he stood parlyzed on the spot where
but a few minutes before he was a mag
nificent type of physical manhood. He
tried to speak, but his tongue would not.
move. Half a dozen men, who were'
present, were rendered motionless by
the evident visitation of the hand of
God. When they recovered self-pos
session they tenderly moved the afficted
man to his residence, a half mile dis
tant. When Miss Rhody Burkett saw
the plight in which her father was
brought home she screamed and fainted,
and died a few days later.
For years Mr. Burkett had been the
ferryman at the Hawkinsville road crosa
ing of the Ocmulgee River. He was of
giant physique, with long gray locks,
d became especially noted because of
the brace of revolvers which he kept
strapped to his waist. He was a great
hunter, and the ferry being in the
midst of a swamp, he was convenient to
m abundance of game. From those
who lived around him it is learned that
he was fearfully profane. Whenever he
sighted game and was called off from it
by an alarm from the ferry he would
pour out such a volle of oaths as would
nake the flesh of ordiar .men crawl.
Lt was while in one of teeprofane
spells that he cursed his Creator, and
wound up with the expression above
luoted.
The news soon spread through the
:ountry, and scores of people cal to
see the victim. He was at first com
pletely prostrated, but subsequently was
mabled to take a few steps, when he
would fall. When spoken to he replies
a an inarticulate mumble, and acts in
~he most idiotic manner. The physicians
~an ascribe no natural cause for his
ifiction, but admit that it is a visitation
f God. The preachers in the neigh
borhood have used the incident in their
sermons with great effect.
A Fearful Railroadi Accident,
A dreadful accident occarred near
Ui~in, Ohio, at four o'clock on Tuesday
morning. The fast train on the 2Balti
nore and Ohio Railroad, which lest
Slew York about 9 o'clock Monday for
lhicago, with five coaches and four
sleepers, all well tilled with passengers,
:ollided with an eastern bound freight
:ain.
The fast train was about fifty minutes
ate and was running at the rate of sixty
niles an hour. Passing Republic, a
small station, like a flash, it rushed along
;o a curve one mile west of that town,
when suddenly the engineer saw the
Ereight train under full headway within
>ne hundred yards of him. He at once
tpplied the brakes and reversed the en
;ine, but it did no good, and the next
.nstant the crash came, telescoping the
oaches and piling them up on each
>ther. To add consternation to the
lorrible scene fire broke out in the
imoking car and soon spread to the other
mars. Many were killed outright, while
>thers, wedged in among the broken
:ars, were slowly consumed by the
tames.
The aomident was due to a nmisunder
,taruding of train orders. Another state
aient is that the engineer of the freight
rain was drunk. 'The whole number of
assengers was 65. The number of killed
vas 20, with many wounded.
Thomas Stevens. who is making a tour
>f the world on a nicycle, and who a few
lays ago was supposed to be lost some
There in China. Las been heard from at
Flong Kong. Hie reports some pretty
s~ugh experiences, and expects soon to.
e in San Francisco.
One of the finest and biggest nuggets
df gold ever found in California is on
ixhibition in San Francisco. .It is as
arge as an ordinary derby hat and
weighs thirty-live pounds troy. It is
y'orth $20 an ounce and i : anust pure
cold.
ic;:(:loNS ON TIMIPERANCE.
UvT.v lner.t.. 31. W1., of the
The growth of our order and the notice
taken of I by the press of the land has
awakened ta interest in the labor move
ient aniong men who have never given
the question of organizatioi a thought.
Thousands of men are knocking for ad
mittance; they are actuated by all sorts
of motives. Among the number who
would like to become members, I find
quite:: few liquor dealers, and I am
written to every day to know "if
cannot be admitted; it is true lie is en
gaged in the liquor traffic, or his wife
sells liquor, or he is in some way con
nected with the pm interests, but we
know he would maze a good member"
The decisions of the General Master
Workman are now published in book
orm. Turn to the pages of that book
and you will see decision after decision
on the eligibility of those connected with
the saloon business.
One of my correspondants asks why I
reversed the decision of my predecessor;
the decision reads as follows:
'22. Men of go od report, respectable
and honorable keepers of roadside inns,
for the bona fide entertainment of trav
elers and their animals, with bed and
board for the same, connected with the
real interests of the locality in which
they live, do not come under the classi
fication of saloon keeper and liquor
dealer, and may be admitted to member
ship under the "law of the ballot."
It is true that my decisions are in con
flict with the above, but it was through
no disrespect to Brother Stephens that I
made them. They are as follows:
"67. An agent for any liquor estab
lishment (be that establishment whole
sale or retail, or be he the agent, manu
facture or dealer) is not eligible to mem
bership."
"85. No person can be a member of
the Order whose wife sells liquor. He
must either get a divorce from his wife
or from this organization. The latter
can be granted in the shape of an hon
orable withdrawal card."
"86. Rumsellers CAS NOT be admitted
to membership, and an member engaged
in the business of rumselling, directly
or indirectly, whether by barrel, gallon,
quart, pint, or gill, who sells either by
himself in person or in proxy, must ap
ply for and be granted a withdrawal
card; and if he neglects to make appli
cation therefor, at once the Re-ording
Secretary of the Local Assembly shall
notify him of his neglect, and at the
next meeting a withdrawal card shall be
issued to the brother."
"97. If during the interval between
the election and initiation of a candidate
he engages in the liquor traffic, either
for his own purpose or of another, he is
disqualitied, and cannot be covered with
our shield."
"211. The manufacturer of beer (that
is, the proprietor or owner of the
brewery) is not eligible to membership. 1
The men employed in the brewery are
eligible to membership. If you turn to
pages 2S.5, Proceedings of General As
sembly of 1886, you will get an idea of
why 1 oppose the admission of those en
gaged in the liquor traffic. Our Order
cannot be beneficial to the liquor dealer
and the laborer."
If the reader will examine No. care
fully he will see that if allowed to stand
as law it would open the door to every
rumseller in the land. The man who
keeps a saloon on Broadway, New York,
is the "keeper of a roadside inn," and
up to the present time no one has heard a
man engaged in the liquor business ad
mit that he was not "respectable and
honorable."
Even with the law as it now standsI
am pestercd every day with inquiries
and appeals from Assemblies here and~
there to give a decision on the advisia-f
bility of admitting some one who has anj
interest in a liquor establishment. All'
sorts of excuses in order to open the
doors of the K~nights of Labor to the
dealer in spirits. To-day I find the fol
lowing on my desk:
"Mr -is a good-natured,
liberal man, and very favorable to us.
One of our members, while in his place
spoke rather unreservedly of the affairs
of the Order. Mr --has gained a
knowledge of our secrets. We are of the
opinion that a dispensation from you to
allow us to initiate Mr. ---would
settle the difficulty."
This is my answer to that request. I
will never grant a dispensation to any
man engaged in a calling likely to bring
discredit to the Order. In frequenting
this man's place a meniber loseshiis wits.
If he gets into the Order he will be in a
position to do more injury. I do not
car'e how good-natured he may b~e, that
belongs to his trade. The spider would
be considered good-natured by the per
son who saw hum invite the fly into his
parlor, but if Mr. Fly could get out of
the parlor his testiniony would convict
the spider of being "good-natured" for
ai purpose. This man may be liberal,
but if other men were not idiots he
could not be so very liberal on the
money they stole from his wife and
child to give to hum. Ho may be liberal,
but you cannot anbrd to be, because you
have given to the saloon keeper your
earnings.
I am asked if a young man working~
for himself, over twenty-one years of
age, may become a member if his father
sells drink. I have no ebjections to
such a person, but if his presence in the
Asebyis likely to lead one person
inohsfather's "parlor" who would not
otherwise go there, then i am opposed
to his coming mn. I
It regret to note the narrow interpre
tation given to my rulings. I t is not
the saloon keeper I object to. it is the
influence of rin; anid if I know that
th admission of any war. or womain
will lead men into saloons, I am of op inion
that his place is outside. My decisions
were aU made with a view to prot-eig
the Order and the cause of 12x.>r. Not
only dto I Oopse the~ P-:.n who sells, but
'ithm u~ ho dri' s as w ell. I have no
uefra 'm"n when he is drunk, and. ii
any one can point OUt to me at heroic
.!e~ed, a mauly1. *'ct, a noble achievemeut.
perfor1med by' a dirunkeni man. I will
gladly1" ap)ologiz for 'lU the hard thinigs
i ae sa i of the artnkard.
I hae dL od at the moot of the gailows
andim hiave s'een the dr'op fall from be'
neath the feet of men who were nmv
equails in all things~ but one-they' drnk
to get drunk, anti while drunk they comn
nitted zmurder. Ii have seen murders.,
theIte. Leglaries', all crimes co~mmitted