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VOL. III. MANN~-'ING, C LA RENDON ('0 UNTY. S. C., WEI)NESDAY. tJNL ikY1.~ O6 T.llE LA OF TIEH Ei . so:E E OF Tu~i t:AT PA,'dJ M: T ';; RECENT LEGILAT - Statutory 1'r.vaioon, on Variot-N Matt: or rune1:Gen. The following are some of the mere important Acts passed at the recent ses sion of the General Assembly: AIn tET AND M.uL. AN Acr to Amend Section 20 of the Code of Civil Procedure, relating to Arrest and "ail. SEeTION 1. That Seeo'iUR O.) t Code of Civil Procure be aen adding thenreto the followi-g, to be knowni as Prangaph "In an action for ti ovr s damages in a cause of actio r out contract, when the defe n is a non-resident of the State, or is about to remove therefrom, or when the action is for injury to person or character, or for injunig or for wrongfully t.kueg, nte tainig or converting property. IIAwKM: .AND) PEDULOi. AN Acr to amend Sections 1,33' and 1.: 12 of the General Statutes, rlating to Hawkers and Peddlers. SECTIoN 1. That Sections :.1 of the General Statutes be. nd th, same is hereby, amended, so that said section, as amenaed, shall read as follows: "Section L,33. The clerk o: the Court of Common Pleas for each coauty shill have authority to issue such license to any hawker or peddler, to be available within the limits of his county, and to be of force for the space of one yetr from the date of issue; and he shall charge for any such license a fee of one hundred dollars, to be paid by him into the hands of the county treasurer for the use of the county." SEc. 2. That Lcetion 1,:l2 of the Gen eral Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended, so that said sect:on, as amend ed, shall read as follows: "Section 1,:M2. The provisi::ns of this chapter shall not extend to vendors of fruit, maps, newspapers, miagazines, books. vegetables, tobacco, provisions of any kind,or agricaltu-al products, or to sales by sample by persons traveling for established commercial house-, or to sales of staple articles manufactured in this State." PAMTrION. .LN AcT to amend an Act entitled "An Act to amend Section 3,S'0 of the General Statutes, in relation to Parti tion," approved December _,i, A. D. ~..ro 1. That an Act entitled "An Act to amend Seztion 1,830 of the Gen eral Statutes, in relation to 1:rtiion, approved December 26, 1865, be amend ed by adding thereto the following proviso: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to affect the power of the Court of Common Pleas to dispense with the is-suing of such writ in cases where, in the judg ment of the Court, it would involve un necessary expense to issue the same, and the Court slall have power i all pro ceedings in partition, without recourse to the said writ, to determine, by means of testimony taken before the proper officer and reported to the Court, vhetli er a partition in kind among the parties be practicable or expedient; and in cases where such partition cannot be fairly and equally made, to order a sale of the property and a division of the proceeds, according to the rights of the parties. THE sTEA~IlNG OE MIELONS AFD) FRUIT. As AcT to Punish the Stealing of Melons or Fruits. SECrioN 1. That whoever shall steal from the premises of amnother any melons or fruits, whether severed from the free hold or not, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof, shall be pnished by imprisonment for not more than thirty days, or by fine of not more than Iifty dollars. REP.uP.S OF HdwAYs. As Aer to amend Section 618 of the General Statutes of South Carolina, relating to the Repairs of Highwas. SECnoN 1. That Section Gld of the General Statutes of South Carolina be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read: "SECTION C18. The county commis sioners shallitake charge of and superin tend the repair of the highways in the county; the bridges shall be repaired under their supervision, and the expense of the same shall be paid out of the money in the treasury, raised and appro priated for this purpose; and all the work on bridges given out by the county commissioners, whe n thc amonnt shall exceed the sum of ten dollars, shall be done by contract; when the amount hall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars the county commissioners are hereby required to advertise the same in at least one of the papers ina ths county: said proposal in all such cuses b~e accom panied by two or mocre suilicient sureties; when the amount is less than one hun dred dollars and is over ten dollars, the county commissioners are hereby re quired to advertise the same by posting a notice in three public places, one of which must beC at the p~lace where the work is to be done; said notices to be posted ten (10) days prior to the day on which work is to be let: and the county commissioners shall have the right to reject any or all bids if in their judgment the interest of the county so requires.' cosm>E~nTE so .nils As Acr to allow persens wh sh1l have resided within this State for ten years since the close of the* Ci War, and who have lost~heir legs oruarms, or have been permanentl di'ebled in: their legs or arm's, durng Military Service mn the years *3, i 2 164 an 186r to:antebdt of an Act enitled An Act to pirovide Artific"ialbs fo hl .lies of the State who lost their leg~s (o rms, or who have Lsen p1 an sr abe in their legs or artu aurig M-ilitary Service in th years~ j. , s, *;, 1864 and 1s8.>, an wh have' noL t beeni supplied under the provisins of form er Acts of the Generai Assembly," ap prove'd December 17. D. 18H , and the Acts amendatory thereto. SrnoN 1. That p~ersons~ who w. en gaged in the milita~ry . \ vi f- C: ('' federate State, un-i n he so ye n~vc - sided~ withini thle Stae for a period nil ten years since the close' of the~ civil war, *y be pe*rmalnenltly disaied in 41heir e r dring such s.nice, shall , nted to the benefits of an Act 6n iIt "Au Aet to provide artfi:-i;d limbis ftr al 'oldiers of tle State wlo los tieir legs or arms, or who have been pernently disabled in their legs or arus during military servie" in the years A8t3, l', 1 1,'186 and i '15, and who have not been supplied under the provisin"s of former Aets (f the General eiy," approved December 17, . D. -1 an d of all. the Acts of the Generil ably amendatory thereto. The provisions of this Act siall not bc to 1pply inl the case of any one wa> may v received as.sistaine froi ..y t -.r.tato. And every applicant r t relijej tftendac.l I. tli Act ,llH f ~nih tisfactor pi rooi to the compt taller gene'ral of the State- that no such ass.tc hs been furniiACsd such al) pl'cant by anv uther Statc. THE H T oF DEEP. AN AeT to Amend Section 1, (67 of the General Statutes, relating to the Hunt ing of Deer. SEc-noN 1. That Section 1,67 of the General Statutes be, and the same is reby, amended, so that the said see Lon shali read as follows: 'Sction 3,'87. It shall not be lawful for any person in this State to kill any ueer, or to worry them with dogs, or otherwise, with intention of (es-troving them, between the first day of l'ebruary and the first day of September. in any year hereafter, except in the ecunties of CIarendon, Georgetown, Colleton, Wil liamsburg, Mariboro, Kershaw, Horry Darlington, Marion and Berkeley, in which counties it shall not be lawful to hunt them between the first day of Feb ruary and the first day of August. Any person violating this Section shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined not less than ten nor more than twenty dollars, or be imprisoned not less than ten nor more than twenty days, which fine, if imposed, shall be recoverable before any Court of competent jurisdiction; one-halk thereof to go to the informer, and the other half thereof t o the use of the county in which the conviction is had." SzC. 2. That an Act entitled "An Act to amend Section one thousand six hun dred and eighty-seven (1,6187') of the General Statutes, relating to the hunting of deer," approved December 23, 1884, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. THE LICENSE LAW IN ANDERsON AND LAtRENS. AN AcT to submit the question of License for the sale of Suirituous, 3alt or In toxicating Liquors in Anderson and Laurens Counties to the gualified i Electors thereof, and providing pena-! tics for the violation or evasion, or attemnpted evasion, of the Prohibition Law, ii a majority of the said Electors vote in favor thereof. SEc-ToN 1. That it be submitted to a vote of the qualified electors of the Counties of Anderson and Liaurens to pass upon the question of license for the' sale of spirituous liquors within the Limits of said county, or no license; therefor, at a special election to be held' on the tird Tuesday in August. A. D. 18187, between the hours of 8 eelock a. m. and 4 o'clock p. in.: Provided, that no election shall be held except upon a petition signed by a majority of the! owners of real estate in either c'ounty in which the election is to be held. That for the purpose of holding sail election, the commissioners of elections for such counties be authorized and required to ppoint a commissioner of registration in each township, who shall serve with out compensation, and likewise appoint three days in which such commissioners of registration shall register all male citizens residing in their respective pre-! cincts over the age of 21 years, and give to them certificates of registration, which shall be delivered to the managers of election when such voter deposits his ballot. The commissioners of election for said counties shall give fifteen days' notice by publication in one or more county papers of the name of such com mussioners of registration, the days upon which and the places at which such registration shall be had. The books of the registration shall be open for inspec tion by the public, and shall be, on the: day preceding the election, turned over to the managers of election. A separate book shall be kept for each poll; and no: pers.>n~ shall be allowed to register or vote in such election who has been con victed of any crime which disqualifiesI under the Constitution, and who is not a citizen of the State and a resident of the county for six months preceding the election. The county commissioners shall furnish the necessary blanks and. books re quired herein. Sre. 2. That for the purpose of hold ing said election the commissioners of election, for State and county oilleers,1 in said cotunties, are hereby required to appoint three mlanagers of election for each voting precinet in the counties, and! publish a list thereof at least fifteen days before such election, stating the time and places of such elections and the question to be voted upon, and the form of ballot thereon, as follows: Those who favor the granting of license to sell sirteus bliqul~ors in such counties shall v~oe abalotwith the words "no pro hi-' bition'' written or printed thereon, and tho0se v~0 opp~ose sush license shall vote a ballot with tihe word "prohibition" written or pirited thereon. In case any uaage so appolinted refuses or fails to serve in such elections, said commission ers of election .',hall have the right to ap,-oint some other person to take tihe ple" of such manager so refusing to erv e . The commissioners of electioh shiall furnish the managers with suitable balot-bo' as and the necessary stationery 'or condiucting the election, and the said tnagr .shall qualifs i ur State elec 'ens. They "shall proeed to count the bal '< a so as the polls close-, and shal lodge with the said commlhissioners i elcto th ballet-boxes containing e alt n- poll jists, with a certified ,t emet of th. r'sult of tile election, *: * 'lc p. m. on the day following le elein. Th commrissiouers and -nnagers of e'lection shall serve without :Oitypensiation in ti s election. but the -o'unty commissoners for such county shall fromi the coPun.y funds. deiray all aceessry expenses incurred byv the com ruisioners of eletion herein ordered. T:1 That the commissioners of *eetion shall tablate and declare the snu a m i lec ion an publish such -rilete threof with the statemnt, by ceinets, i th ollier of the clerk of die Cut for Anderson county and Lairens county reslpective-ly, which !shall he deemed and ;aken to bet' notice to &l the citizens of the sail counties as t tht result of the election therein. Sc. 4. That if a majority of the elee tors voting in such electio shall vote "no prohibition," then the council of such city, town or villagi in such coun tv shall continue to grant licenses for the sale of spirituous liquors under the provi-ions of law as now existing in such city, town or village. Sao. 5. That if a majority of the elec tors, voting in such election, shall vote '-prohibition," it shall not be lawful for the county treasurer or the council of any city, town or village in such county to grant any lic-nse for the sale of spir ituous. miiait or imoxic:'g li(quor. Shat ia nijority of tie elec tors voting in such elect ion vote proli bition, it shall be a misdemeanor for any person or persons except druggists, to sell any spirituous, malt or intoxicating liquors, except domestic wines, as now provided by law in such counties, with out a municipal license, and any persor. violating this law, upon conviction thereof, shall Le imprisoned for a term of not less than thirty days, or more than twelve months, and fined in the discretion of the Court. SEc. 7. That if a majority of the elec- J tors voting in such election vote prohi bition, it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to give away, barter or exchange spirituous or malt or intoxicating liquors in connection with any business con ducted by such person in such counties without a municipal license, and upon conviction thereof such prson shall be imprisoned for a term of not less than thirty days or more than twelve months, and fined in the discretion of the Court. SEc. S. That if a majority of the elec tors, voting in such election, vote prohi bition, it shall be a misdemeanor for any person to keep any spirituous or malt or intoxicating liquors in any room or house in said c 'unty in which a United States license to sell the same is posted, without a license under the State laws also, and upon conviction thereof such' person shall be imprisoned for not less than thirty days nor more than twelve Months, and fined in the discretion of the Court. SEe. 9. If a majority of the voters in uch election vote prohibition, it shall bc the duty of every railroad agent in uch counties to keep a separate book, in which he shall enter every barrel, keg! >r package of spirituous, malt or intoxi nting liquors received at his station by freight or by express, the date of its re -eipt, the consignee, the character of spirits marked on it, and the amount .ontained in each package. i Sc. 11. If a majority, of the said alectors vote "prohibition," it shall be a; a1isdemea nor for any druggist to sell it my spirituous or malt or intoxicating iquors, or any bitters compounded by Liim, or for him, to evade this law, with >ut a written prescription from a regular practicing physician in actuc 1 attendance apon a patient, which shall certify that: uch physician is attending the person or whom the prescription is made, the imout prescribed, and that in the judg nent of such physician the stimulant is aeeded for that patient, and that the 3ertiiicate is not given to enable the atient or any other person to procure . Inch stimulant as a beverage. All such prescriptions shall be filed to them- . elves, and shall be open to inspection 1 by the police or any member of the city >r town council, or by any other person interested therein. Any person violating ;he provisions of this section shall, upon 3onviction thereof, be imprisoned for, sot less than thirty days nor more than weve months, and fined in the discre ion of the Court. : SEc. 12. That if a majority of theI lectors, voting in such election, vote prohibition, any physician who shall:J give the prescription, as prescribed in the foregoing section, to enable any per ion to obtain an intoxicant as a bever age, or who shall give the prescription ander circumstances different from those stated in the certificate, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, his name shall be stricken from 1 the roll of physicians, and he shall not again be allowed to practice medicine in such counties, and shall be liable to iine and imprisonment in the discretion of the Court. SEc. 13. That all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be repealed, in so far as they may in terfere with the operations of this Aet, so far as they may affect the counties of Anderson and Laurens. -rhe FamtiXouon .5tory. -. moon story, which appleared in the fall-of 183~>, in the columns of the New York Sun, was the most gigantie newspaper hoax ever perpetrated. It was known that Sir John Herschel had gone to the Cape of Good Hope, to make observations with the new instra ments of extraor linary power. Then there appeared a gies of p~apers de scribing what Sir Jolms had discovered. They purported to b >pied from the pages of a supplemen he Edinburg (Scotland) Journal s ce, exclusive copies of which had been -ceived at the Sun ofiee. It was known that the~ Ctiosphere of the Cape of Good flop~ unequalled for purity, and of courise has a corre sponding facility of astro'nomical ob servation, and w it was stat i, that nobody amorw u could undertake to deny, ~espei.' as it was said to be con-] firmed by actua obseryvation, that the great olbj c glas., '1 e astronomer's chif t elegraph wa a' lensx of seven tons wieight, no great vwonder was felt if the reu ? romi its use were unexampled. It w:.s said, then, in the alleged report of the "grea isc~oveies," that so great was th'e mnifing1 powevr of this in strumeant. ( ,A 4 time.. that it could impa)rt to ob'jects at the distance of thle mloonI a deg.re of visibility equal to that enjoyed by' objlects on our earth nt x?ore thian on e hun'xdredt yards ofl ' his pu it in St.IJohn' power to new\. not~ oLy the larger class of natural ob jects in t'e m~o' n, but to see w'ithi eaLs th e dwel'ings, anias and even pesn of the L'inarians, which he accordingly described.-Ben. Perley Poore in MI.n uatureis' Gazette Alice O)ates, the weelilo non coamic Upera singr, died 3Ionday. even4ing'' at the re'idenc- of h--r husb~an, m ji a-~ delphia. She had wast el awy' greatly under a painfuli compxllication of diseases, some iterest::: t-; About tar Con gr- eron:: Cot-ntt i:: 1he Buck t riet Hlow smlsWas 1eatenl. (S:ahor'c Sani in th0 Au:na Chi::e.) A few days ago I had the rlasure of 1 meeting James Singleton, one of the I colored members from Berkeley county i in the Legislature of 1882-and an in teresting and powerful factor in the re cent contest in the Seventh district be- I tween Col. William Elliott and Robert 1 Smalls. That fierce political race is I fresh in the recollection of all, and it I will be r-emembereLd that Colone! Elliott p ntered the 'neld against his expressed i nMcliuation. and yielded his pleasare and I iludgment to the wishes of his party. 1 yhe Seventh district bad been a Ivpub- < ielan stronghold since the days of Fed- a eral occupation, and in 1882 had sent a < Rlepublican, E. W. M. Mackey, to Con- 1 yress 1,y a overwhelming rajority. t Macker died in 183, and Robert Smalls t i colored Rdepublican, was elected to till s the unexpired term. In 1881 Smalls was retuned to Congress, defeating Colonel h Win. Elliott. the nominee of the Demo- t rats. In this election the Republican najority had been considerably dimin- t shed, bint not enough to afford amy hope S Or the Dei crats in the next election. v ft was under such adverse circum- 1 tance-4. and in the teeth of despair, that t olone: Elliott was tendered the Demo- ] ratie nomination in I8S. He had no le. ire iora second sacrifice, but yielded b :o the solicitation of his party, who be- c ieved him the only man in the district f hat eenid lead the "forlorn hope." His I ictoy is Well known, and to that victo- a -v no one contributed more than Tamesil ingleton, of St. Stephen's parish, 3erkeley county. t Singleton favored me with a short I iketch of his own political career. He ( -eceived no furher education than a l )rief course at a country school, and s rhat he has achieved has been due to 9 heir force of character, aided of course, f y the peculiar power held by the Re- s )ublican party in his county. in 1882-83 1 te represented Berkeley county in the la tate Legislature. His colleagues were I nderson Singleton, W. W. Becket, C. i . Rlavenel and W. G. Pinckney all col. t red men. - 8 It was in this Legislature that Pinch- b iec made himself famous by voting for Y giself as Urited States Senator. When u s name was reached, in course of the I d lection, he called out, "I vote for Wil- b iam G. Pinckner." Pinckney's vote Ie as the only one c ast for himself, and c ien. M. C. Butler was elected. Since 18S Singleton has not been in e )oities himself, though at every etection a ic has worked for his party, except in i he cliction in 18s-, when he joined h orces with the Democrats and insured h he election of Colonel Elliott. Ie is r till without the arena, but the bee has t] Lot entirely ceascd to buzz in his bon- so tet. There is no certainty of his con- si inued allegiance to the Yemocrats, as h is defection was rather because of the a: 'bossism" of Smalls than from any con- B ersion to Democratic principles. There g s no doubt, however, that his alliance u ron the vietory of '86, and the party e wes him its gratitude and a part in its a: riumphs. t After meeting Singlzton I inquired n uto his work for the Democrats last in -car. What he helped to accomplish ay be appreciated by noting the change a the votes of Berkeley, and especially a St. Stephen's Parish. where Singleton tid his best work. In 1882 this Parish a ,are Mackey about 400 votes against 56 n or E. Sam Lee. In 1884 Smalls re- al eived in the same Parish a large major- n tv over Colonel Elliott. In 1886, Colo- e: 1e Elliott received 401 votes in the si ame Parish against 45 for Smalls; thus ore than reversing the Republican ma- ft ority of 1882 and 1884. T Ithas been claimed that this enormous it aajority was obtained through fraud. I p iill not now discuss this charge, but lIi ertainly there was widespread defection st n the ranks of the Republicans in the d eventh district. The strength aof that ti >arty, indeed the life of the party, and h he party itself, was in the colored n -oters. Smalls was a colored representa- p ive, and they looked at him as a friend n n places where he could benefit his own e ace. This, they claimed, he always tI ailed to do, and rep~resented his con- jk tituents only in color. b In the words of one of the disaffected, a inmalls "had grown too heavy for the I arty to carry," and the party "had to rop him." ~On one occasion, speaking 1o :o a voter who was working against him, ti imalls is said to have exclaimed: "The b an dog can't stand by the fat dog," k Ld struck his hand on his pocket for cm miphasis. Such a representative must o .c lefeated, and lhe went down beneath k he we'ight of indignation his actions t] td his neglect had brought upon him. a t is said that Smalls helped to defeat v aimself by his candid recognition of the g robity and honor of Colonel Elliott. a smallanounced from the stump that h Dolonel Elliott was in every way fitted si or the place, and that his own (Smnalls') it egal representative in Beaufort. What- t aver may be the result of the contesti ver the seat in Congress, it appearsb 2vi dent that outside of fraud practiced b >y either party, Colonel Elliott beat a Smalls by just and unpurchased votes. b In An 1 idahn I~dito:ttui a larg?-lar. c "We wish to return our sinceres hanks," savs the editor of an Idaho 0 paper, "to "the enterprising but mis- I ~uided burglar who broke into our resi- t lence night before last under the im pression that he was cracking the crib >f the druggist who lives next door. He ntered at a window and carefully re amoved his bouts, setting themn down on. thme Iloor. To this circaustancee and to i thme Lfat that we saw him c'olne in we are indebted for the tirst good pair of boots we have had in ten years. WVhile he was1 rusn'&ing thle haouSe we imetly slipped ut of bedu and excanmgei our1 old boots fr is ad ah wentiac'k to bmed and Wi e-. ilow loug he was in the hu we do n ot kuow, but the p~resumpnl um is tlamen he went away be took a th ld bo ot.. Thmey have been missing ever since. and there was nothing else to tak~e." -, rs.- L. A. B'ib of Montgomery, "lI. ed-I Sunday' night inm the eighty-~ I-r...dent...the hi lLr ipil Si- a eietyXi an her goo d deds to the sick j and wounded on b~othj sides. jt H1OW THEF.Y Pi.AYEb T. k Base LaHl Teamn ihat :tNeerMn severe. (From the Miwank.:e wi'nr.-) If the dramatist who declared a quar er of a cycle ago that "much villainy nay be vented in a pudding," had stood vith a Wisconsin reporter near the -acant lot at the corner of Grand avenue .nd Ninth street, yesterday afternoon, te would have added: "Much hu!mor nay be vented in three little colored >oys and two little white boys playing >all." The game was a side issue to a -ame in which larger boys were engagd n the other part of the field. The irgest white boy, who wore a tight >lush cordurov suit, and tie lrgest olored boy were a the z0L. playing gainst the'other three. The n a-'est olored boy was catcher, while a woolly Leaded, sable-skinned youngster twirled he sphere for the outside, aid a diminu ive white boy played the bases, short top and tieltrs' positions. A still maller colored boy gamboled around ome-plate and behind the catcher, get ing generally in the way. The white boy in corduroys went to [le bat as the reporter came on the cene. The pitcher asked him where lie anted it, and when he said, "High all," threw it and struck the batter on he foot. The catcher said 'Dead ball." i next ball was out of reach, and the amboling urchin ran after it, as it ounded against the brick wan. The atcher ran after it too, but the other all upon the hll and fought for it, -hile the man wn second base ran around ad came in. Tiien the catcher, whose .p was short enough to show white ,eth, angrily cuffed the little~ iellow on de head with his fist, and obtained the all by force. The tiny coon was evi ently half-minded to cry, but changed is intention, and kicked at the catcher's ain. The fielder, meanwhile, had be un to climb a sapling which served as rst base, and, missing his hold, had :raped the skin of his wrist. The next all was over the base, and the striker it it over the fence in left field. He roceeded to run around the bases. The elder was bewailing his sore wrist, and 1e pitcher threw his hat on the ground ad stood on his head, facing second se, and stuck out his tongue at the ase runner, while the catcher shouted i treble, "Put her home! What yer ing Jimmy!" A bystander threw the all over the fence, and it got in the' tcher's hands in time to drive the )rdurov voungster back to third base. Jhen the'ball was thrown to the pitch he lav down on his stomach upon it, Ad en<Ieavored to induce the man on, tird to run in on the supposition that e had lost it. By this time the - iielder ad got to third, and when the - inner started to run in the pitcher irew the ball to third. Then the fielder dd'he wouldn't play, and the pitche ood on his head and walked around on is hands, making horrible grimaces, 2d the ball rolled under the fence. :armony was finally restored and the tme progressed. The pitcher threw p his hat and yelled, "Butterfingers!" rerv time the catcher misscd a foul tip, id there was constant discussion be reen the batsman and catcher as to the mber of strikes. The game remained statu quo when the reporter left. Old-Fashioned I!oiskee.rs. Therre's a kind of woman who is fast appearing from the race. They are t being born in any great numbers, id in a couple of generations they will >t be known at all. They will be an tinct race, and as they leave no atues or endurable works of art or onuments behind them, nobody in tture ages will ever know they existed. heir monuments are eaten every morn g and every evening and they disap sar. As long as women of this kind re their good works will renew them lves, and they'il be missed when they e; but it looks sadly as if this genera n would see the last of th-m. Per tps some of you may have guessed 1 an the lady of the old school who ides herself on her housekeeping. I ean the lady w-ho is in most cases rath old, who will not accept anything but e best meat from the butcher, who ows butter and eggs and cheese like a >k, and whom the grocer hates cordi ly while he respects and admires her. know one, and I would like to see the an who would try to palm off on her eomargarine. Those housekeepers, Lose mothers who pride themselves oni einging up their children well, and who sep a constant eye on their servants, mn only be beat from the strictest rules Epropriety in the household by house ieping considerations. There's one of is dear, old-fashioned school up town ho has a very pretty servant maid, a ry tempting servant maid, who always ts served first in the morning, and has 1 the tradespeople interested in the oue. The milkman tries to come late, >he may find her, and the buttermnan wild about her, and the butcher some mes comes himself to see that the meat all right. Those advantages have not een lost upon the lady of the house, at she is a stickier for propriety. So, hen, the other mnorning, she found the ther's boy kissing the pretty servant aid, she was shocked. She wrote a te to the butcher and told him if he >uldnt send a boy who behaved him dl she would take her name off his list Ecustomers and she'd get her meat else here. At breakfast she spoke about it. Well, mamma, you'd better write to ie uttermnan, too. He kisses her every toring," said the daughter of the ouse. "What? The butterman, too?" "Certainly. I saw him yestera mornll - "Dear me! Well, I can't lpdy it.H ust just doe it. for I can't get anythin1 ke as good butter anywhiereee.-a rancisco Chronicle. The str-ike of the coal band 0~ n' ork is causing somleaprhri bout the coal 5upliy and c'r'plai e being made on that score Phil. Y. Green, a p~roin-nt colored anter living near Carey, lliss, wa illed by unknown men who a'ccused hhn ienticing away their tield hand. Fire occu;rred- in th aleaz'ar pal'n, as compljletdy d 'e'yd Jt isi orted that seve ral per?ons were burnedl ::::y .n'. . Scenv, and People. Ti wor d has been girdled by a biceele. An American has brought a new Arai'an Nights tale to the city of Harou 'l Rxchid, and a fresh wonder story to tie nursery books. A young ii an from tile little village of Turney, Mo.. 'Mr. Thomas Steveus, started from san Francif)eo at S o'lock on the morn oig .o ril 2- 1844, to go around the vr hi ' ib yele. He has just arrived ;in S"n Ftrncel, after spinning about t vhir1ing globe for two years and elit mionth. He went as specil dele late to all nations of the prosperous maazine, Outing. 31r. Stevens wheeled across the Sierras through snow sh'is, tunnels, canons, along precipices and around mountains where he heard the roaring of the snow slides and found the peaks covered with thirty fcet of snow, Then over the dresert of Nevada, with its mirages, where no birds were visible and little shining lizards were the only living things; now calling on the Piutes, now aiming a shot at a mountain lion, then riding by the clear moonlight through the Rockieg; next crossing Utah, swimming in the Salt Lake, chatting with a pretty Mormon maiden, riding past the castellated rocks o a G rcen 1;iver, and slowly crossing the red desert. Then going through Ne braska and Iowa, past a communistic community of 15,000 happy people, with 30,000 acres of rich land, with towns and factories. So on through Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Northern Pennsylvania, New York and -Massachusetts. At 2 o'clock in the afternoon of August 4 he caught sight of the spires of Boston. He had crossed the continent in 103; (lays and had traveled 3,700 miles. 'Mr. Stevens rested in New York dur ing the winter, and in the spring of 188 sailed, with his bicycle, for Liver pool to take up the thread of travel that he was going to Lie about the world. He sailed on the City of Chicago with two slips of bicycler's paper-one to paste on the Chinese wall and one on the cliffs of the Kvbeer Pass. On 'May 2, 1885, he started from Edge Hill Church, Liverpool, to wheel across the vast continents of Europe and Asia. He wheeled :00 miles to London, meet ing at a bicycle tournament on the way Mrijor Knox Holmes, who had recently taken a spin of 114 miles in ten hours. Crossing to Dieppe on a Channel steam er he wheeled through Normandy, down the valley of tie Seine, passed noble hateausand ruins, till, on May 13, he saw the Arch (if Triumph and entered Paris; then by vineyards down the val eys of the Maine and Moselle to Nancy, rid through German Lorraine to Stras burg, through the Black Forest to Munich, where he tipped a student of the university under the impression that lie was a waiter. Through Austria, where he met a man who spoke English, ut had never before met anyone else who spoke that tongue; through Hun ary, where rows of women were work ing in the fields under overseers like blacks in the South in the days of ,avery; through Servia and Bulgaria, and through Turkey, where the Turks were delighted with his bicycle, and a pasha had a Turk play "Yankee Doodle" n a harp for him. He arrived in Con tntinople July 2, 1885, two months ter leavng Liverpool. Pishing oi through Asiatic Turkey d Peria, the plucky American arrived t Teheran in November, 1885, when the uiter came and he had to stop till pring in the Turkish capital. He then tarted to go through southern Siberia nd northern China. The Russians re ued him passports. He tried to go hrough Afghanistan. The Russians bjeted. He started to go anyhow. he Russians stopped him. He wheeled ack to Constantinople, took a trip to alcutta, and rode through India and outhern China. lie rode through hina last fall. Mobs of superstitious hinaen mobbed him as the devil on vheels, and he reache'd Shanghai sur ounded by a Chinese military escort. ihen he took a spin across Japan and ad finished his journey. He sailed from 'okio to San Francisco. He traveled about 10,000) miles on his bicycle, which s an ordinary road machine. .* Chibl's Devotion. Some years ago there was a country rntemaan in D)erbyshire who met with errible rev erses, and was bereft .of wife an' son, only a daughter about twelve eirs of age being left him, relates a vriter in Cassell's Magazine for D)ecem ber. A neihbor sent a few chairs and t couple of oeds into an ernpty cottage o btt thec father and child migbt have roof over their hieads, bat could do n~o nore, though she would have gladly ave keit the little girl, wiho, however, usisted that she must be at home in the ew house to welcomei h.er father, and nake him as comfortable as she could. he only possession she had clung to was a small rosewood workbox, which a belcnged to her dead mother, and whon left alone to awai.t her father's re turn from the county town, she opened wn' work~box and sat down with her iedie like a little old wvoman. It was a warm atituman afternoon when she thus ~'tt led herself, but in the course of an ura heavyt rain came on, which lasted her whole evening, and it was long aftert lar k wh en she heard her father's weary otteps aIpproachiing and joyfully peea the door to let him in. lie was wet thtrough, and almost broken hearted, t torougidy beaten man, andthe child's ne ie was that a cup of tea would Omort him. She had been provided 0 ith thle tea and the pot to make it in, 1d a etl and everytingi necessarvy 'a pl' nwoal, buit her de.p:p'it may )h.u1ie Vhea o.he fo1101 there_ .asnt a art':i cof 1t, '; the house. E ih oi *her i:-. e sitting shiiv.:ring, .r e a .,ri.: in: his Lands, was noiatia o he and a unie as '>0b : h I Iru tup i w rkbox, ont th :digt avi io l'o cot s ec.,etH:.:2to ibet on thea .dddtie th"ke p*liecs ais son ha iame '~ st eough, boiledi e~ etl . adL e te hot cur> of tea uere wat.J .aomthing sublime about that' bid' mother-wit and devotion.--New wup- whousiicted for~ brin od rieitde to pass the Blroadwa~y GRAIN PRODUCT OF THE COUNTRY. Great teduct ion iii the Corn Product-De crea'e of Value of Wheat and Oats. WAsixeTo , January 13.-The de partment of agriculture's estimate of the area, product and value of corn, wheat and oats for permanent record are com pleted. The official work of the year has been thoroughly reviewed with State co-operation. All the available data of crop production and the aggregates are substantially those recently reported. The corn crop in round numbers aggre gates 1,665,000,000 bushels, grown on 75,000,000 acres, and has a farm value of S610,000,000. The yield is 22 bushels per acre, 4- bushels less than last year. There is an increase of area of over 3 per cent. and a decrease of product of 10 per cent., while the average price has in creased 12 per cent., or from 32.18 cents to 36 cents per bushel. The aggregate product of wheat is 457,000,000 bushels from an area of nearly 37,000,000 acres, having a farm value of -9314,000,000. The average value is 68.7 cents per bushel, against 77.1 cents for the previous crop and 64.5 cents for the great crop of 1884. This is 35 per cent. reduction from the aver age value between 1870 and 1880. The yield of spring wheat centres is better than was expeeted early in:the season, but on the Pacific coast much worse. The general average for winter and spring wheat is nearly 12.4-10 bushels per acre. The product of oats is 624,000,000 bushels, 5,000,000 less than last year, from an area of over 23,000,000 acres, producing a value of $186,000,000. The average yield is 26.4-10 bushels against 27.6-16 last year. The average value is 28.8-10 cents per bushel, last year 28.5-10 per bushel. The Right to Blacklist. In the city court at New Haven, Conn., Saturday, Judge Pickett rendered a de eision in the cases of William H. Wal lace, assistant superintendent in the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad, and Stacy P. Opdyke, super intendent of the New Haven and Northampton Road. accused of conspira cy by Thomas F. Meany, who charged them with "blacklisting" him. The ac cused were fined $50 each. They will undoubtedly appeal from the decision. The Judge, in his decision, said, that he was clearly of the opinion that a con spiracy designed to hinder any man from putting his labor on the market when, where and for such compensation as he may agree for is equally criminal with any conspiracy designed to hinder the sale of merchandise of any producer or dealer, and is more disastrous in effect than any other form of conspiracy except that to take life. To convict of such conspiracy circumstantial evidence is competent and may be conclusive. It is sufficient if it is shown that the parties had a mutual understanding to the com mon design and tLe part each was to perform in the attainment thereof. The court was satisfied that Wallace and Opdyke had a mutual understanding that a man not approved by one should not be employed by the other. This was to all intents and purposes a boycott. upon the individual.-Baltimore Sun. The Last of a Heroic Family. Paymaster Milton BuckinghAm Cush ing died at his residence in. Dunkirk, N. Y., last week. He was the last of the famous Cushing family, one of four brothers who entered largely in the his tory of their country, to whose service they devoted themselves. Of a family of five l>:others and two sisters, fouir brothers and one sister survived. Two of the brothers entered the navy and two the army. All died in the service, and their mother, now of the age of seventy eight, survives all. The Gushing name is familiar to all who are acquainted with the history of the war. The most famous of the four was, perhaps, Com mander Win. B. Cushing, of the navy. 01 his many exploits during the war, the sinking of the Confederate ram Albermarle in the Roanoke River in October, 1864, was the greatest. He became a commander in the navy, but did not survive the war. He is buried at Annapolis. Alonzo H. Cnshing, another brother, graduated from West Point, and received a commission as lieutenant of artillery. He was killed at Gettysburg, where he commanded a battery. He was buried in the West Point Cemetery. Howard B. Gushing, another brother, was killed by Indiana in Arizona while serving as a lieutenant of regulars. He entered the regular ser vice from the volunteers, with -whom he enlisted during the war. Paymaster M. B. Cushing, who has just died, 'as the oldest of the four. He entered the navy at the outbreak of the late war, and had a record of twenty-six years, making him one of the oldest in the service. His last active service was as paymaster of the Mediterranean fleet in 1879. Since then he has been incapacitated for ser vice. Sound( ing the Alarmi. The Jacksonville Times-Union says the tourist travel is being diverted to a. considerable extent from Florida to Cal ifornia, and asserts that scarcely any ell'oxts have been made to secure for Florida the attention at the Narth to which it may partly lay claim. b furth er says that the diversion to California has been made by a systematic and thorough advertising of "its attractions and by the liberahity of railroads in granting extremelye low figures to travel - - to the TNcilic coast. A convention ot the h.otel men of Florida was held at Jacksonville last Wednesday and action to avert the disaster which threatens them by the diversions of the travel which has for several seasons crowded the hotels of the cities and towns in Florida, The Times-Union says the railroadis and the hotel men must reduce their rates, and that these reductions and theL advantages of Florida must be advertised in a thorougL and inteuiigent Laannher. The troubles which have existed for sometime between the beer brewers and Knights of Labor, at Philadelphia, have. been practically settled. Receipts of the French treasmy~ for issn havxe a decrease of 32,000,l%0i francs t-s compared1 with the receipts of 1885 and aL deliciency of 71,00030')' francs as compared with the amount estimiated in