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Calhoun'es Statue in rosition. At 10 o'clock Tuesday morning a half dozen workmen began to turn the wind lass of the huge derrick on Marion square, and the colossal bronze statue of John C. Calhont> which was to crown the work and realize the dream of thirty five years, slowly rose from the ground. The work was delaved until that hour in order to allow some of the members of the committee to be present. Six stout cables had been passed around the bot tom of the chair and made fast to the figure, which was thus nicely balanced. The head was still well covered with thick folds of canvass, tightly bound. Guy ropes kading in diflerent diree tions were held each by a worsman, thus enabling them to regulate any circular or lateral motion, and at the same time to place the statue in the position it was to occupy on the pedestal. It did not take long to hoist it to the top of the pedestal, and there it was allowed to remain. It was more sugges tive than ever of the idea of an execu tion, until the men at the end of the guy ropes had been placed in the proper positions. Then the boom of the der rick slowly moved around, swinging the statue directly over the pedestal where it was to rest. At ten minutes past 11 the statue of John C. Calhoun rested on its pedestal, thirty-five years after the corner stone of the monument had been laid. The figure faces the south, the back of the chair being tc the north. Stand ing on the ground one can hardly form an accurate idea of its dimensions or height, but those who who saw the work men on the scaffolding near it yesterday could easily judge of its size-the men looked like the most diminutive of dwarfs. There remain now only the four his torical figures and the ornaments to the panels to comolete the monument. Mr. Viett, the contractor, who did the granite work, is to be praised as well as con gratulated for the successful consumma tion of his contract. It is admitted to be 9- admirable piece of work, and it is somewhat strange that not a single stone was spoiled m the cutting. The work has taken considerably more time than it was expected, but there were unavoid able interruptions and moreover it has been splendidly done. When the Cal houn monument is completed there will be few handsomer works of art to be seen in the United States.-News and Courier. College Examinations. The following is the result of the inter mediate examinations in the South Caro lina College: GRADES FOR THE FIRST TERM. students attaining an average of 90-100 on all their studies are pablished as "distin guished'; those attaining a grade of 75 to 90 are published as "proticient." Seniors-Distinguished: T. P. Bailey, Jr.. Georgetown: C. H. Barnwell, Rich land; D. FY. Houston, Darlington: A. C. Moore, Spartanburg: . L. Withers, Fair field. Proticient: W. W. Ball, Laurens: D. 31. Blanding, Sumter: E. W. Breeden, Marlboro: W. A. Davis. Greenville: H. P. Green, Richland: J. A. McCullough, Green ville; J. H. McLure, Chester: H1. Mullins, Marion; C. R. Spencer, Sumter: P. A. Willcox, Marion: W. Thompson, Rich land; R. Wilson, Charleston. Juniors-Proficient: W. R. Cathcart, J. J. Earle, J. U. Green, Richland; D. H. Hanckel, Charleston. Sophomores-Proficient: J. M. Alford, Marlboro; W. T. Aycock, J. 21. Cooper, Sumter; G. E. Dargan. W. A. Edwards, Darlington: J. R. Fairey, 3I. W. Glover, S. Kohn, Orangeburg: G. W. Kirkpatrick, Charleston: W. B. Lachicotte, George town; A. F McKissick, Union: J. L. Wig. gins, Berkeley; F. F. Simpson, Spartan burg; B. 31cLaughlin, Richliand. Freshmen-Proicient: E. E Aycock, Sumter; L. W. Boyd, Laurens: W. But ler, Jr., Greenville; W. J. Gooding, Jr., Hampton; A. Kinard, Edgrefleld: J. 31. MlcBryde, Jr., Richland: T.MIullally, Oco nee; J. W. Simpson, Riehland; A. W. Thompson, Union. sECOND YE.U sPECIAL sTUDENTs. Distinguished: J. H. Scarborough, Sum ter. Proficient: C. W. Bailey. Georgre town; T. S. Bratton, Tork: Ii. Brunson, Darlington; J. H. Donaldson, Georgetown; E. 3N. T1urkley, Kershaw. FIRsT YEAnt sPEcIAL sTUDENTs. Proicient: J. P * ederson, Abbeville; F. C. Duke, Fa.. .: W. C. 3Iauldin. Hampton. ELEcTIVE -sTUDENTs. Distinguished:- W. A. Conant, MIass: chusetts. Proficient: R. L. Douglass, Chester; L.- C. Lipsccmb, Abbeville; E. C. McGregor, Richland. JUNIOR LAw sTUDENTs. Proficient: H. 3I. Ayer, Anderson; H. P. Green, Richland: H. A. Hymes, Dar linoton- L. D. 3Ielton, J. K. Symmers, F. H. Veston, Richland; J. A. Wittkowsky, Kershaw. sUS-FREsIDIAN sTUDENTS. Proficient: A. A. Patterson, Barnwell. Age Cannot compete itlh Youth. An interestin~g incident comres from Scott county. Indiana. MIr. MIcDermott, a wid ower, fell in love with a beautiful young girl, and courted her with a zeal which only true affection knows. 3Ir. 3McDer mott has the misfortune to have a son, but the son very considerately did not object to the fair young lady whom his. father was trying to make his step-mother. In fact, the young man called en the young lady and made her feel that she would be wel come as a member of the family. This all pleased the father, of course, and in a burst of parental affection he told his son that he and the young lady were engaged. Thea the son went over to congratulate the young lady. He did it affectionately-so very af fectionately that he proposed and was ac cepted. An elopement followed, and the fond father has now a daughter-in-law and the son has no step-mother. Age should never compete with youth in contests where Cupid awards the prizes. A bad Affair. A letter to the Richrmond D2epat ch gives the particulars of a distressing accident which occurred near Pleasant Valley, Rock ingham county, Va.. Wednesday night. A few days before a 3Ir. Frank married a beautiful country girl, and in their round of visits, spending their honeymoon. they stopped at MIr. Showalter's, near Pleasant Valley. After the household had retiredl. the boys of the neighborhood, according to a long established custom, went the house for the purpose of " belling" the young married couple. 31r. Frank and his wife, being aroused by thce sound of innumera ble bells, arose :ad entered into the amuse ment with their visitor.C, and 3Irs. Frank and a lady friend, in order to add to the noise, ran to a fam ball hanging near by and begun ringing it most vigorously. They pulled the rope too hiardI, however, and the bell turning over was thrown from its place and fell, strikiug Mrs. Frank ia the forehead, fracturing her skull. The scene of merriment was at once turned into mourning :ad a numb er of ph~ysici-ans summonedi, and while alts Fak' life is not despaire-d of, she is aw -Wying i'd a mzost critical condition. Rtutue, Pile tum'ors, astu> and all disea&.s of the lowecr bow'el 'e:xcept e'nn-eer). radli-Qk eur d. n 10 cents in stamps for book. Address, W orld's Dis pensarv Me-deica aseit on, 3 3Main street,'Buffalo, N. Y. Lawyers draw convey::nces, and yet they ar not beasts of bu: dent GENERAL INEIS NOT". The American Cardinals have ar ived at Rome. The New York strike is over now and everything is working as usual. The New York Senate has passed tl:e bill allowing women to vote in municipal elec lions. The news of Prince Bismarck's success is causing unwonted firmness on the Berlin bourse. The Governor of Kansas has approved the? bill conferring municipal suffrage upon women. The two houses of the New Jersey Legis Inture met in joint session and balloted for United States Senator, but without success. The President says the new Railroat Comunmissioners must be men of neivhy, who will work hard for their salary. The steamship Great Eastern wa- sl at auction at Liverpool vestcr.ay for $: The disabled steamship Wisconsin. of the Guion ine, arrived at Ncw York at 4.20 P. M. yesterday. The Lvnehburg irginian. one of the oldest p:apers in the State, established in 1808.$ has suspenfded. The President has vetoed the bill appro priating $10,000 for distribution of seeds to the drouth-stricken counties of Texas. Luzl nearst, the "niagnetic." has mar ied Paul Atkinson, the man who traveled round with her and introduced her to the audience. Secretary Manning yesterday called at the White House, renewed his letter of resignation and that evening left Washing ton for Albany. The President has nominated Captain Adlolphus W. Greely. of Arctic fame. to be CI'ef Sigr.al Oflicer, with therank of Brig adler General. All is quiet among the Boston strikers. A good many cars are runninz. The pro pretors say they will resort to anything hrfore taking the strikers back. Mis Edith Elwerth Talmage, daughter of the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, was wed ded in the Brooklyn Tabernacle last nighit L, Allen Edloe Donnan, of Richmond, Va. Ex-Alderman Duffy, who turned in former on his colleagues in the "combine of the boodle Board of Aldermen, has been surrendered by one of his bondsmen. Four persons confined for theft escaped from the jail in Ilarrisburg last night. They fired the bed in their cell before leaving but it was discovered before much damage was done. A deaf mute, answering the description of Waiter Bingham. the sweetheart inur derer, has within -the last fcw days been seen in the vicinity of Leicester, Buncombe county, N. C. The wife of County Treasurer Bell, of Colleton. was accidentally burned to death on Monday. Her clothing took fire while she was sitting before the fireplace. L. Russel, on trial in the Criminal Court at Memphis, Tenn., for the murder of J. Tom Dutton, committed in ie rotunda of the Peabody Iotel on December 6, has been acquitted. A telegram from Sewanee, Tenn., on Saturday, announces the death there of the Rt. Rev. William Mercer Green, for the past 40 years Bishop of the Episcopal Dio cese of Mississippi. The vote in full for the Mayor of Phila delphia, Pa., is as follows: Fitler.. Repub lican, 90,497; Keim, Democrat, 62,204; Phillips, Labor, 1,664. Senator Cuke introduced an amendment to the River and Harbor bill. making an appropriation of $500.000 for dredging the channel across Galveston bar. The United States mint at Philadelphia has secured a counterfeit two dollar and a half gold piece of 1852, for which it has been in quest for years for the purpose of completing its cabinet 'The :nsurance men complain that the heavy loss by the recent tire in Augusta was due to the ineiliciency of the tire de prtment. The chief says the departmnt is t.oo small. The witnesses in the United States Court, nowv in session at Greenville. have peti tiuned Judge Simonton to see themi paid or let them go home. The appropriation i exhausted. A large tobacco factory at Petersburg, Va., owned by Davis Dunlap, was de s:royed by fire, together with stock, lix tures. machinery, 6-c. Loss $250,000, coy cred by insurance. J. C. Breser, who was fined $50 in the Athsnta Police Court for violating the pro h.ibition laws several weeks ago, ap~pealed to the City Court, and, being convicted, was lined $1,000. Sixty British members of the House o. Commons, at a conference, adopted a reso. ution to call the attention of Parliameni next week to the alleged packing of juric. in eases against Nationalists in Ireland. The Arkansas river at Little Rock and above, and its tributaries, are all at flood tide and out of their banks in many places. Fears are entertained of another heavy Tiood. At Snearr's station, Ga., Toney Williams sot and killed his stepson. Williams and his wife were quarreling, and her son in terfered, when Williams seized a shotgui and blew off the top of his stepson's head. The snow storms in Spain during thc past few days have been of unprecedented svrity. Railway lines in Catalonia have been blocked with snow for three days. The cold is intense and causes the greatest inconvenience throughout toe country. A serious snow blockade in the Sierrt Nevada MIountains has totally interrupted travel on the Central Pacific road for two days, and heavy rains in Southern Calitor nia have caused considerable delay on the Southern Pacific by washouts. The whole country from Lyons, Mich., to Muir presents a panorama of desolation. '1.'any merchants have been unable to visit theirstores since Thursday morning. and several who attempted it were swept down by' the current and narrowly escaped death. Benjamin Coliender & Co., wholesale hardware dealers of Boston, Mass., have failed and gone into insolvency. They were one of the oldest hardware houses in Uision. Liabilities are $117,000; assets unknown. While the bark Wimnon, from Tacoma, was crossing the bars at the entrance to the Sa n Francisco harbor yesterday afternoon, in tow of tihe tug Relief, the butts around which the hawser was fastened on the bark~ broke and struck the forecastle, killing t'nee seamen. News has reached Virginia City, Nev., th::' the snow sheds at Blue Canon ha~ve co:iped. Couductor Hood, the brake mn, roadmraster and one other person me. mi-sig. A snow plo0w andlh seven engines :: been dispatched to the scene of the accident. T he rapid meltin~g of snow last week has i m 2datd South Chicago, and transformfed ot of that region into a va.st lake. A lar, portion of the town is under water, in' seems likely to remain so some time. The' re is great suffering among the inhab The Arrowv steamship Company, of New York. as sg"ned a contract for the pur ch?o the. Alexandria Mariae Ihailway and hieuilingCompany's yard, and will a :::th irna stemship, for which ;;e::ts Lave recmly bOen granted. The drought comnmiss0ioersappoiated byV Governor Ross, of Texas, to distribute the 8100,U00 appropriated by the Legislature find plenty of people in need of stock food and seeds, which they are not authorized to fr.nisha nd but few who need flour :nd meat. the only suppies they can dis tribute. The President has allowed the Act ap propriating $400.000 a year to provide arms and equipments for militia to become I law wAthout his siun:I ure. Tihe constitutional limitation of W days withia winch he shLould have acvted( onl this bill t xpired Sat u Idr. is be' l " 'to htv-te e ani over g as he was o; knlown to object to any1\ of its provii:;o,, The: bDy ofV F"rd 0 dr I s- yars kld a victim o-le W !e 1vr i:er 1 idetti id a:al 2 : r td. :ui le:n I: iwa:~ :!2.B :(, recordn s 1*1 tilt, o e 0' Th n iu-r -6', a 1.%it o ..ah IiNV Ier miakes :11 bodi< r ' teni. The inve-tgDo ie leflie was' beun (':I Tue'- t\ :V -.;e mmP of the 5:e Committe a T' 1lr. Spooner. Puhi : 'i-i Tlh wholes: re ryos and hot :and 4 of Galvte'o, Tex.. !1. d rreodarn !ker of th--: -,irntire storck m;,!AG-i t'"e s to lee::1 r i . I kw l Or its 11Im. The w% ie a-sets ar ZU-::2, A special from SuCpeni'4on Ni Y., s-vs that John tever. a 4nt Sus pension Bridge, aged about 1 years' pre cured a ticket frm01 the gac- r a t 1 1t Le entrance of the railway at lu'pos'n Bih'die about 10 oclock, :md, after petring stran-ely over the railw::y, jumptd Into the rapids, falling 1" Ife. A conmitle" re at eT p y of the Pott.-ville iron :n." c; nmny, wiho struck agaA::t the e 4yment of o m in011 hdti a in'.rvie' wviti PreI dant Atkins, h'io r thm t 1i.' the e..npIlovmnt'I Of nom-unlona men" wnithout1 his knowl-de r atprovya, and that the shAould be prtiy discharged. This st i-t'ed the s:trikers and they returued to work. . dispatch from Rome says: Miss Terre. of South Carolina, who has been received into the Catholic Church bv Mansignor Sallua, will marry Count Muccoli at the 3iunicipio, on February 20. Cardia:l Gib, b'ns, if his engagelents will perit, will afterwardl perform the relig"ious ceremony in the chapel of the American colleCe. Tlhe Cardinal confirmed 3Miss Terrvs mother. A conflict occurred yesterday between a force of police, oi their way to excuite a number of eviction orders. and part of the population of Dingle, a seaport town in county Kerry. Ireland. The people barri caded the roads, in some cascs building stone walls across them. The police were at first driven back, but soon charged through the crowd, wounding several men and women. Mrs. Boles, a married woman. while about to enter the Salvation Arniv barracks in Sharon, Pa., two weeks ago, was joStied bv a drunken'mob and thrown lint a deep culvert. At that time no injury except a broken collar-benle was observable. She was internally injured. however, and is 111w in a Iying coIdition. I1er assailants will be arreste(. Mrs. Frances Goodlett. an ol iady of 7~ or *0 years of age. living in O'Neil town ship, in Greenville county, was fintally turned on M1ondy while standing before a fire alone in her house.. From old age and feebleness she was unable to help herself, and before help could rchca her sie was completely enveloped iii Ilames, ad died from her in juries. Sh413 was 11 whiw of Spartan Goodlett, once a p',ominent cize and a member of the Legislature from that county. When thle vcrdict entencin;: (ex-County Treasurer Hiollinswortn, .f \Vi-c"nne-s wasread 'icour'tC' tur"y . e we troke downt comp ceel a'd er.dlie child.i Since th'' his mat::1eni '(pe* (,-ndition has und' ergone a gret e''''e H e refuse." food li 'Iny form,:m' :1ni: c. -sint ont.V fter hc - was "'ttced with1 a violent fever. It is fear~ed hUs n-'nu' wii bec.ome imp i..tl The corresIpondence between MIr. I nin'g and the P residenut , n which the ftrme teuders his res'gnation of the Secr'-1ship of the Treasury, ha 's been mnade publ'. 3Ir. 3Ianning plecuis thai-t the dutlies of the olice re(U I wor'k Loo 5evere fr h srength.' In accepting the resgnation, the President refersi to the~ (cordia: personlal'e h.tions existi b~etween 31r. M-nnigan himijself, and t.o the ability with whi the Eeuretary has man::ged: the" ot.airs of his Eotfolid, and fixes April 1las the dayv en ivhich the resignation shouhi I o into etfeet. 3Mr. 3M-mning's successor wLli a' apointcd before the aujournment. Following is the list of the tota am.tounits of the items~ of the rivcr and harbor ill which have been inserted or icreasecd by tlhe Senate Committee en Appropriation, affecting the South: The approach to Nor folk, Va., $l100,000): tihe waterway between Newberne and11 Beaufort, N. C., $lta.o00; Savannah 805.000: AXpaktehichicola, $3 0, 000(: 3Mobile, gdi5,00: Apomaattox river, Virginia. $ 1i,000; Naniemload river, Vir gia:a, $10,000: Cape Featr river. North Cair oina, $14l0,000; Contenltia ereek, North Ca~roina 1 75,000: Pandico antd Ta':r river. North Car'.finn, $:300: 3deherrin river, Noarth Carolina, $20, 000: 3Manatee river, Florida. $5,000: the mouth of St. John's river, Florida, $123,000: Arkasas river. $125,000. The appropriationl for Cumiber land sound is reduced to $75,00O0. The total appropriation recommended byv the committee is $10,:3;5.:30 the net increase IOver the Ihouse bill being $2,027,050. Frnc's War 3Mimster. The~ Paris (,Gdolst. anl able but r:ather spiteful nmonarchical journ:dl. thus exprecses itself about thc prescent position1 of the Fench MIinister of W4ar, who has assumed suefi protnence in poliues w~ itin the last few months: "if the 31inister of War, by one of those sudden chainges in opinion which may always be e xpected1 under a prliamientary government, should get, in the Chambter a vote of cn~l!iee which would render him master of tihe situation, would he dare to undt rake a o'itp ddat: Without c-aling into questi''n the bravery of the gallant soieiir who .0ugh~t a&s a col onel at Chamnpigny. we mi'. n oubt any' such0 attempt. for thel siimle~ re. son that thle Mini'-'er of W\ar, if he were to try .uch a oe 'of theC 18 atrmy4 enrp't4.nuade --nth I day tf a'-y telegraphI 'Genera! t. couarevr.,- e 'tls p1-dea tie reiw) on t 14''h'f l J-oy -4s "ius recent evente- IT -u p a:i. aste i onal i Ge1a 13aIn a coJup d'etat." It' ari'ght y moen m-an; wh vo wro '' downf the .>inid." 1He wouldtk pro'.bb '.te BRIC.A-BRAU. HER ANSWER. "I'm going to be married," he softly said: She looked up in swift surprise; The color from out her bright eyes flied, The l. i- grew dim in her eyes. "You're going to be married*" she echoed low. iler voice had a steady tone: 'I ho.n you'il be happy where'er you go." A cough hid a little moan. "I k n:rv tha't your bride will be good and t rue. You ne'ver could love any other." she eaidilv lookend in his dark eyes blue; -I tender pou joy, my brother." "I- )noing to be married-that is, I hope To be, though I hardly know !hr lov'. shall I longer pine and mopet' I tremble for fe:ar (f 'o.' The color that out of her face had fled ':im: bav'k with a deeper hue. "Why. isn't it funny," she shyly said. "h'lat I'm to be married, too," Tim,,- is the best preacher. Hard to beat-A china egg. Spell-bound-The dictionary. A professional race-Doctors. Always in use-The letter s. The weigh of all Ilesh-Sixteen ounces to the pound. Thcre are about 700,000 kernels of wheat to a bushel. it's 'uite natural that a boy should blub ber when he is whaled. The riches which always take to them selves wings-Ost-riches. The ancient Roman began his dinner with eggs and finished it with apples. A health journal says that marble top table.s are unhealthy. They do look pale. When summoned to do so, a man gccs to court for the sake of appearance. -Why are you so distant?" said a tramp to a beefsteak in the restaurant window. "Marine blue" is rightly termed a seas on-able color. A 3Iaryland justice decides that a hus band is liable for his wife's slander. Where there is a will there is a way to break it. A bent pin can't pull very much, but, Great Scott! how it can push. A hand in the bird is worth two in the bush-especially if it happens to be a briar bush. The "power of the press" is best felt by him who gets his lingers caught in its me chanism. Sarah Bernhardt is five feet eleven inches t:dl, but her other dimensions are not worth mentioning. To keep apples from rotting, eat them up. is the gratuitous advice of one of our agricultural exchanges. In a recent sermon Henry Ward Beecher said: "I have no sympathy with eight-hour men who have fourteen hour wives." The man with a single English eyeglass looks as if lie had a pain ia his eye, and in such a condition presents an odd spectacle. What a small population this world would have if all the grumblers were out of it. A new style of writing paper is called "Dude." We infer that it is a kind of foolscap. Couples court before they are married, and they must, also go to court before they are divorced. A countryman speaking of an individual notorious for his assurance said he had "cheek enough for two rows of teeth." The rain falls alike upon the just and the unjust: but it is the unjust who steal the umbrellas, and let the just feel the rain. An eminent historian traces base ball back to the time when Rebecca went down to the well with a pitcher and caught Isaac. If we are going to quarrel with England, fo:- Ieaven's sake let us wait until MIr. Johna L. Sullivain's armn gets well' A correspondent inquires: "Is it wrong to cheat a hawver?" Possibly not; but it is a p)retty hard job tondrtake. Says an exchange: "Women should never a~s :t 1t-iron on their husbands to smooth out matrimonial dilliculties." Wihat in a woman is called "curiosity" in a ma:n is grandiloquently magnified into the "spirit of inquiry." According to that wise man, MIatthew Arnold, " the poor are very much what the ichl made them." N cw. doth the coal dealer andl plumber rejotice, while the ice man can't "give it a weigh." lIcard. at the theatre: She-Thay, Guth, do, you perceive that I lithp? He-Ther tinly not; you don't lithip any more than I 0o. The father of his country is said first to have learned the pleasure of traveling on oar wheels when he took a hack at the cherry tree. Why women kiss each other is An undetermined question, Unless the darlings would by this Give man a sweet suggestion. When you see a good cow, buy her. When you have a good cow, keep her. Whe you own a bad cow, sell her. Some people have no more sense than to ask a man who is addressed by the title of "Colonel" in what war he was. Why is a wrinkled face like a well. pougied field? Because it is furrowed with care, of course. They used to call it matrimony. but a crusty, disappointed old bachelor calls it " matter o' money." Well, it may be some times. It was the newly-fledged bee that, after venturing out of the hive on a wet day, sang on its return, "There is no place like comb." Feminine amenities: "Now, which of these two phlotogratphs of you may I have, dearest? The beautiful one, or the one as I know you?" Every man who carries a pistol ought to be obliged by law to wear it in a belt at his side, and have it labelled "emotional insan There is a man in montreal who has been struck by lightning three times, and lie has made up his mind that he is tough enough now to get married. A scientific writer says the American a toay' is not the bilious man of fifty years ago. No: the bilious man of fifty years :'o succumbed to the doctor crc this. A Lexing~ton bridegroomi is 83 and his bride is 90O. Poor young things' How little they know what is before them in the trouled sea of matrimony. "I'i ow 01(d would you take me to be?" used a bewigged and sup~er'anuaited co ouete. "everl years older than your aimaam," was the remorseless answer. The: ecconmie:d side of a wvoman's char ater Thiaes forth with radiane when she lc(cedis in fastening an 18-inch belt aroundl a ~2-inch wast Whencu a pooir widow linds a load of wood l t gautousi' at her door she can con u that she 'has struck a tender chord 'ane xhere. -t *c're- in a"' Nsew Yo(rk theatre wore r oer'rmberries around her neck. thi \et mrning'r' the paipers spoke of ii 'len 1 *Icor'al necklace." n, ier.ya' hms been found b 'r-'c"uIl of "not always tut with sullicient careful demnd, of veracit'.". - outell m'e how yocu came to get e I' s ti.t aked a man of his r.'Cert. .l' ysir: you were tight n ; I ne.sured you. This is thet third time you have called "That so?" replied the aggressor. "Only three times? Then I fear I have not dis charged my duty." Despite the rumors of war with England. we doubt if there is danger of any of our scaside resorts being shelled until the cln bake season opens. "Is natural gas to be relied upon"' in qures a contemporary. From what we kaow of Legislatures we should emL.phai cally say "no." A boy who will yell Ike a Tartr if a drop of water gets ol his wib'allnd whia his neck is beinI washe-d. cn wi ' rnii a sewcr after a hall and think no n "Pa," said a little hoy. "a lor.- Iz wort a good deal more, isn't it, after its broke" "Yes, mny son. Why do you :A l 'bl qIlestion" "Jc'ause I br'lm the new.ro ing horse you gave me this mor:ia . There is no more excitement inugeng a girl dressed in a toboggan suit than r is in a bale of ha.-ck. 'e some chaps, you know, cMi 11et up1 a 1li..e excitement with a grass widow%. 'ihe Royal Arc!h Masoz.4. The Grand Council of loyal and Seie:;t Masters met in ontal assenlv ye"rdo. at 10 o'clock. at the 31aso de TYal Charleston. 3Iost lilustriou-s (G rl M - ter V. WV. Huniphrlies, of AndlerS.ll . (.. presided. After the reading, of the addre!-f d Most Illustrious Grand Iser, .Oil * Pr. sentation of reports from the Grimd Treas urer and Grand Recorder and the be ver committees to whom the 'everal ia;ers were referred. the following oilicers wcre elected to serve for the ensuingr- year: G. T. Berg, of Columbia, M. I. G. 3as ter. A. H. White, of Rock Hill, Dep. (. Master. W. H. ). Gaillard, of Pendleton, G. C. of Works. C. F. Jackson, of Columbhia, G. Treas urer. Zimmerman Davis, of Charleston. C. Recorder. Rev. J. 31. Boyd, of Chester, G. Chap lain. J. E. Brazeale, of Anderson, G. 3:'ra:. Ed. Scholtz, of Newberry, G. Capt of Guard. W. T. Branch, of Abbeville, G. Con ductor of C. Alex. Lindstrom, of Charleston, G. Stew' ard. L. F. Meyer, of Charleston, G. Sentinel. The grand officers being duly inatalled. the Grand Council was closed in due form. Causes all the Wars. "Casus Belli has been the cause of more wars than all the other foreigners in this country put together," said the driver of a Blue Island avenue car as he leaned heavily upon his brake. "Who brought on the Revolution? Casus Belli. Who started the war of 1812? Same cuss. Who was it that made us fit the South in '61! Casus Belli. Who was it that tried his darndest to git up a war with 31exico? T'eili. I see by the mornin' paper that the same bea:st is figgerin' on a war with EnIgl:d over a mess of fish. In the coun try where I was reared a feller n'i medi Bostwick used to go round stirrin' up tights between his neighbors. le had h-eaps fun as long as it lasted, but one day late in the fall an uncle of mine and the Kendrick family squatted themselves in a brush heap and when lBostwick came along they alled hinA so full of holes that he fell to p- -es when they peiked him up. I'm for choa. the gizzard out of this Belli, even if h- do"s come from Roman and Italian stock. He's got no business in a free country. He's wuss'n Satan. How old is he, anyhow Negro Baus in Paris. This month a reigning social sensation Is a series of negro balls. They are unde' the patronage of several ladies of nol blood from Zanzibar and Ethiopia. The' dark-hued contingent of Parisian socit a numerous one, and contains rmany. fa lies of rank and wealth. So you mul != liev'e that these halls'are truiy aristocrai gatherings. The supposition is that ora persons of negro blood are invitedi. As mater of fact. however. nearly half oftie are white. But ali Stuchi have to stain timi faces black for the time being. These is~ guised revelers are persons of the best stand in~g in French society. Indeed. no less per sonages than Prince Waldenmar and h:s bride, Amelia d'Urleans, attended the fir-t of the series. Their faxes were stained a rich brown. so that they looked rather like dark quadroons. Several cavaliers ofth Duc de 3Iornev's set attend all these gatther ings, with their hlands and faces dyi!..and withi wool wigs over their natural hair. Paris Cor'reytnance. A Tall Mexteran. The tallest ibarternder in1 Nc;'. Tork is a 3Ixican employed at Sheridan's poplar liquor store at the corner of Sixtieth st reet and Third avenue. Trhis 3Mexican is sev'en feet six inches tall, and as he is very slen' der he seems fully ten feet high. In mix ing drinks, he throws a cataract of' mint julep about eight feet from one "lass io another. He has traveled with B3arnumi, Forepaugh and other showv managers as a giant, and says that he is as tall as any giant in the business. The height of al the giants, he says, is greatly exaggerated. no one of them being eight feet igih. The number of giants hats greatly increased in the past fifteen years, and, though they for merly earned $75 and $100e a week, thc competition has reduced their wagzes to $I% a week. They talk of forming a trade unon. Important Decision. An important decison was filed in the Supreme Court this morning by Jutdge Simpson. It changes the jurisdiction of Trial Justices in cases of petit larceny. Heretofore Trial .Justices and the Court of General Sessions each claimed to have juri diction to try eases of pett larceny, Thet sentence for the offence in Trial .Justice courts was limited to :10 days in jail or a & of $100: whereas, if the pi"soner was tied~ in the General Sessions for the soame offence, he could b~e sentenced to the peMtitnir for a term of years. The point was raised in the Circuit Cout in the case of the State es. Robert .Jinkins Judge Aldrich ruling that Trial ,Justiees have jurisdiction. 'The defendaint appealed and the Supreme Court decided that onl the Court of General Sessions has the right to try ai case of petit larceny. The credit of reversing this dcision ofi tihe Circuit Court Is due to 3Mr. I. C. 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