The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, June 22, 1887, Image 1
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VOL. 111, MA 0-NNING.s CL XI14 NDON CUTS . JDEDY UE2~I' O 7
uneers, wa- c.p+red by Capt. J. W.
S Compay - 1 ath Pennsyl
vanit Volntees. It was taken from
the hands of the coior-bearer on the line
during te enagemtnt of April, 1, 1G5,
at Five Fork,, Va.
Conie& rvte bIattle ilag of the 27th
South Cauolina r-giMent, csptured by
Private F. C. Amar o, Company "A,"
18th 3zo- ehu%:-:kt Ubatltalionl.
South Carol t ag, no history.
Conedera ..e -iAt;e fhag, captured by
Gen.Sei s forces September 16,
1th Suth Caroiina Infantry.
Batleda o sm-r F1yig Art1illery,
ca ir ied i e I le of Ac -pp)mattox
Statio'n. Apii S, 1 by Cief Eugier
Chas. Siorn, !i Virgiia Vetoran Vol
unter Cavalry, :Qd brigade, 3d cavalry
division, Gen. Custer commandit:g.
Battle ilag of the Sumter Heavy Artil
lerv, captured in the battle of Sailor's
Cretek, April ;, 1805, by Sergt. George
J. Pitman, Company C, 1st New York
Lincoln Volunteer Cavalry, 3d brigade,
3d division, Gen. Custer commanding.
Gazrison flag, "Secessionville," James
Islaind, S. C., defeces of Charleston,
captured February, 1865. Presented to
the war department by Brig. Gen. A.
Schimmeipfennig.
Garrison flag, "Fort Moultrie,"
Chareston harbor, captured February
1, 18r3. Presented to the war depart
ment by Brig. Ge n. A. Schimmelpfcnnig.
Garrison iiag of the Citadelof Charles
tor, S. C., captured February 18, 186,.
Presented to the war department by
Brig. Gen. A. Schimnelp'ennig.
The President's Action.
WASsINTON, June 16.-The following
letter was sent to the Secretary of War
by tue President to-day in regard to the
disposition of flags captured by the
Union forces during the late war:
I have to-1ay considered with more
care than when the subject was orally
presented to me the action of your de
partzment directing letters to be addressed
to the Governors of all the Statcs, oler
ing to retmzn, if desired, to the loyal
States of the Union the flags captured
during the war of the rebellion by the
Confederate forces an-d afterwards re
covered by government troops, and to
the Confederate States the flags captured
by the Union forces, all of which, for
many years, have been packe I in boxes
and stored in the cellar and attic of the
War Department. I am of the opinion
that the return o the flags in te uan
ncr thus contemplated is no+ authoiized
by existing law, nor ustified as an ex
ceutive act. I request, therefore, that
no further steps be taken in the i-ter,
cxep1t to examin and invento tese
lugs and advpt proper measures for
their pre servation. Any direction ast
tLe flal diisponition of them should
originate wita Congress. Yours trufly,
GovEa CLIvi:LANID.
At the request of Governor Foraker,
of Oio, at ecunsl should be retaizied
to institute legal proceedings to enju1n
the return of the Confederate flags to the
Governaor of the Southern States, Gon.
H. V. Boynton to-day selected Samuel
Shellaba:ger, of OLio, and George .
Routwcll, of M:-achusetts, to take
charge of the case. TIhese gentlemen ex
pected to have an application for man
damus filed in the Supreme Court of the
district at 1 o'clock this afternoon, buat
were delyed by the nonreceipt of the
neecisa:ry tegram from Ohio. The
papers were based upon the claim that
the Secretary of War was about to dis
pose of public property without authori
ty of law. The letter of the President,
however, made further action by the
attorneys unnecessary.
Gen. r irchitl Raves.
Wasrn Tox, June i;.-At a reception
to Gen. Fairchild, commander-in-chief
G. A. R., in New York, last night, ten
dered by the Alexander Hamilton Post,
Fairchiid delivered an impassionedj
speech upon the proposed return to the
Southern States of the flags captured in
the late war. He spoke under strong
excitement, and almost his first utterance
was:
"May God palsy the hand that wrote
the order, may God palsy the brain that
conceived it, and may God palsy the
tongue that dictated it."
In thes course of his speech Fairchild
'aid:
"Since about 1867 the G. A. R., has
been th e friend of the South, we have no
sort of nate or malice against our old
fo es anywhere and are ready to extend
them the right hand of fellowship. Niot-;
wthstanding all this I most emphatical
ly assert tat the Southern States have
no manner of right to take from us the
relies of the late rebellion in the shaie
of Rebel fisgs. What would Missour i,
Maryland, Mississippi, South Carolina
and other States do with the flags if thy
had them? Woudd the Governors of
these States place them in their State
capitals as emblems to be revered and
to teach coming generations treason?
No loyal Governor of any State in this
Union will receive them. They will say:
'These are relics af a dead past. We are,
members of the Union of States and can
not rceive these emblems of treason.'~
Fairchild concluded by stating that he
spoke in defence of the Southern peo
pie, whom he felt sure would feel in
sulted by having those flags thrust upon
them.
IAfter Fairchild's adidresz resolutions
weeadopted as follows:
I"That the President of the UnitedI
States, having approved there commend
ation that all battle ilags in the custody
of the war department belonging to!
Southern States in rebellion during the
late civil war be returned to the respec
tive States vahich bore them, for s:uch
final disposition as they may determine,I
of the President, and records it p)rote',L
theretu; that th'e sa' rillee oi blood which
.cainre the *au'..em rfeed to was
saric to liberty. naional unionan
to God; t.at no sentiment of genoerosity
volved i h. sur'euder of these coe
sats of naional honor; tat it now
W rcoain.s to direct that the lbatt le
flag~ of tne Union be distributed among
r eesentaive of he so-called Confed
eay a s a ltting acknowledgment of the
r'hteouaes of0 the 'Lot Cause;' that
this' pos \xpre'sses its disapprobation of
the tu of th lrat President of the
United Sttes who has held the onliCe
dissocated fro' mse"'ories of the war
P'rotests~ against the propos~ed return
os tie tflags have been received from the
IGoveruor of Wisconsin, the Governor of
Kansas, the Governor of Iowa, and from
many- other prominent men at the North
and the West
('I NFLL)ERA'FL BATTiLIE ITA.X
TWELVE 111TORIC I:ANNe.N!i OF
SOUTH CAROLINA'S SOLD
General Drum's Ma:ily Letter to the See
retary of War--The Flag from the PIl
niettio stat--Tie Freiinent * aal
Actiou.
('pecial to :1e News and Cui ir.
WASHINGTON, June l3.-Te. sugges
tion of Gen. R. C. Drum that the Con
federate flags whic-h were captured dur
ing the war, and have for twent y years
been stored in one of the attic rooms of
the war department buildings, should
be returned to the res-pective States to
which they belonged has caused a great
deal of comment. The letter cf Gen.
Drum to the secretary of war is itself
one of the most notable contributions to
the history of these times. It is the let
ter of a brave man and a true soldier:
Gen. Draiu's Letter.
WAu: DEI'.iTME: 1, /
AnwT.er GENLukL'n S OFFI(:, -
WAs1IUNGToN, April 30, 3i.1
Hon. William C. Endicott, Secretary
of War-Sir: I have the honor to state
that there are now in this oflice stored
in one of the attic rooms of the build
ing) a number of Union flags captured
in action, but recovered on the "all of
the Confederacy and forwarded to the
war department for safe keeping, t-geth
er with a number of Confederate flags,
which tb fortunes of war placed -n our
hands during tLe late civil war.
Whiie, in the past, favorable aetion
has always been taken on appliclons,
properly supported, for the return. of
Union flags to organizations represent
ing survivors of the military regi aents
in the service of the Government, I beg
to submit that it would be a grace! al act
to anticipate future requests of this na
ture, and venture to suggest the pro
priet of returning all he flags (Union
and Confederate) to the authorities of
the respective States, in which the regi
ments which bore these colors were or
ganized, for such final disposition a
they may determine.
While, in all of the civilized naons
of the Old World, trophies, taken- in
wars against foreign enemies, Lav been
carefully preserved and exhibiadl as
proud mementoes of the nation's milita
ry glories, wise and obvious reasons -ave
always excepted from the rule, criu' :eet
of past internecine troubks which, by
appeals t., the arbitration of tbe s'ord,
have disturbed the peaceful marchof a
people to its destiniy.
Over twenty years have elapsed .ice
the termination of the late civil war.
3any of the prominentleaders, cil and
military, of the late Confederate Stes
are nov honored representatives of the
National councils, or in other ebitent
oositions lend.the aid of their talet
the wise administration of the affir. of
the whole country, and the peop!e c thLe
several States composing the Union are
now united treading the broader read to
a -lorious future.
'mpressed with these facts, I have the
honor to submit the suggestion made in
tLis letter for the careful consideration
it will receive at your hands.
Very truly yours,
R. C. Drx, Adjutant General.
The endorsement of the secretary of
war upon this letter is as follows:
W.tu DEPARMrENT, May 26, 1SK.
The within recommendation is ap
proved by the President, and the Adju
tant General will prepare letters to
Governors of those States whose troops
car-ried the colors and flags now in this
department, with the offer to~ return
them as herein proposed, the history of
each flag and the circumstances of its
capture or recapture to be given.
Wuz. C. ENDIcorr,
Secretary of War.
In accordance with the instructions
from the secretary of war, Gen. D)iumi
prepared the following letter which was
Bent to Governor Richardson:
WVAB DFrItr.T3ENT,
ADJUTNT GEN~r.-ds OFFICE,
WsmxNroN, June 7, 1887.
To Governor J. P. Richardson, Co~
lumbia, S. C.-Sir: The President of
the United States having approved th~e
recoinmendation that all the flags in the
custody of the war deprtment be re
turned to the authorities of the respee -
tive States in which the regiments which
bore them were organized, for such final
disposition"a they may determine, I am
instructed by the honorable secretary of
war to make you (in the name of the waxr
department) a tender of the flags now ia
this office belonging to late volunteer
organizations of the State of South Car
olina,
In discharging this pleasant duty I beg
you will please advise me o1 your wishes
m this matter. It is the intention, in
returning each ilag, to give its history,
so far as it is possible to do0 so, statir;
the circumstances of its capture and re
covery. I have the honor to be, very
respectfully, your obedient servant,
R. C. IDurTI, Adjutant Ge nerual.
The South Carolina Flag.
Among the captured Southern ban
ners are twelve flags which were captured
by the Federal troops in battle or wore
picked up after the surrender of Charles
ton. Some of them are of very great
historic value anid it is hoped that they
will be carefutly lpreserved when they
are finally turned over to the State of
the valor of whose troops they are SO
precious a memlorial. Tue following is
a brief description of these tlags and of
the circumstanices attendintg their cap
C6nfederate battle ing, captared from
South Carolina regiment at the battle of
Sharpsburg, Septeaber 17, 18652, at the
stone wall in front of the 1st brigade.
3d division, UJth army corps, by P'rivate
Thomas Eare, Co. '4D," 89h regiment,
New York Volunteers. Private Hlare
was afterwards killed.
Confederate battle flag, captured at
Malvern Hill, near James :River, Vir
-iniaJuly 1, 1862, by Sergt. WV. J.
Whittrick, 83d Pennsylvania Volunteers,
Butterfield's brigade: This flag was
taken from a South Carolina regiment,
who piled up their dead to resist the at
tack of the brigade.
Flag of the 11th South Carolina Vol
unteers. Inscribed Port Royal. Cedar
Creek, Swift Creek, Petersburg, June
24, Weldon Bailroad.
mla f he 16t South Carolina Vol
M.OMEN RULING A C1TY.
Aild Doing It Fully as Well as 31asculine
O'-ials Could.
(&alina, Kan., Letter lto 1Memphi Appt al.)
I have just returned from a trip on the
Santa Fe road, west. Syracuse, sixteen
miles from the Colorado line, was the
Mecca of my pilgrimage, because here,
April 4, they elected a city council of
women, and 1 was bent upon seeing the
town that had made this innovation, and
the women who were filling the couucii
chairs. 1 wanted to ask the people how
it camne about and how it was working.
The first of thcse ladies introdu-ced to
me was Mrs. E. D. Barbour, a fair-faced,
gentle-mannered woman, with an un
mistakable air of business about her. I
found this accounted for by the fact that
she is a business woman. Her husband
does a large and complicated business;
the books are entirely in her charge.
Mrs. H. D. Knott is a busir ess woman,
too. I expect much of Mrs. Knott in
the management of their Suffrage Socie
ty, because of her experience in Iowa as
president of the Eighth District Woman
Suffrage Society. Mrs. Coggeshall says
they were very sorry to lose Mrs. Knott
from their ranks. She is chairman of
the Syracuse aldermanic force. Mrs.
M. M. Riggles is a quiet little woman, a
careful and conscientious mother and
housewife. She has a way of making
up her mind for herself and standing
frmly by her convictions. She has a
reputation among Syracuse male citizens
for being a person of excellent judg
ment. Mrs. S. N. Coe is a woman of
excellent ability, with enough conservat
ism to keep her enthusiasm in proper
cheek. No one of these women is more
anxious to do exactly right than is M'rs.
Coe. She is sister to Mrs. Lemert,
president of the Saxon Equal-Sufirage
Society, organized at Dodge City by ,
Mrs. Saxon and named for her. She
has several such namesakes in Kansas.
iMrs. L. M. Smartwood, the fifth mem
er, I did not see, although 1 made an
eiort to do so. She was confined to her
home by sickness; but I am told that
she is a woman of ability and that she is
by no means behind her sisters in any
requisite for her position. My short
%cquaintance with these women con
vinced me that sitting in council chairs
ind wrestling with que.stions of city
>olity have had no effect to uusex them
-whatever that may be-for these were
s womanly women as I have ever seen.
looked in vain for masculine tenden
ies. There was not a hint of it in dress
>r manner. Meeting them oa the street
>r in the cars, youa would never guess
hat they were city oflicials. From con
ersation with -them I learned that they
were exceedingly anxious to make their;
idministration a just one-one that
ould advance the best interests of the
Hity; and when they spoke of advancing
he interests of their city they betrayed
he fact that they had in mind the city";
noral as well as temporal prosperity.
Et is said of them that they are doing
>etter work than the body of men who
omposed the previous council. Their
ownspeople say they were elected be
ause "somelbody proposed it and evely
ody was pleased with the idea;" be
muse "it was believed that they would
make excellent oflleers;" because "the
temperance people thought women
wouldn't be afraid to enforce the pro
Libitory law;" because "we wanted to
dvertise our town"-Aihis last from a
me mber of a real estate firm; "because
women would take time to do the work
well and thoughtfully." Altogether, I
was pleased with my first sight of a
oma L council. This is the only one in
the United States.
A I)ECIDED) MONsTRSOSITY.
A Yery Stran;;e teig ilegenliiy laorn ink
the Old North State.
A dispatch from Asheville to the
Inoxville .Tribune says: Conspicuous
mong the freaks of nature in this sec
ion of the State, is that one just re
orted from the little town of Coopers,
ight miles east of the city on the West
em North Carolina Railroad. Informa
ion this morning reached here that at
his place, on yesterday, a child with
wo heads had been born. Finding the
hysician, Dr. R. I. Wilson, who at
ended the mother, he confirmed the
report and gave a full description of the
freak.
The child with two heads. the faces
being opposite. The front face is p!er
fetly white, the one at the ba: it is not
regudar. There is only one neck for the
sklls and the hair on the forehead
:omes down to the eyes. The arms of
this being are covered with a heavy and
shaggy growth of hair, entirely to the
wrsts.
A number of people to-day went from
the city to see thi monstrosity, and were
stonished at its remarkable peculiari
ties. Ruth and Havey Lythe, two
reputable and hard working colored
people, are the parents of this strange
being. They live in an humble cabin
lose by the Swarre river in the suburbs
>f the village.
The child is an unusually large one,
weighing about sixteen p)ounds, and ap
parently two feet long, It is amost
white. and has facial features that are
rather pleasing, when the shaggy Lore
ead and rear head are concealed. Its
voice is not that of the human young,!
suggestive of the lower animals in its
strange unnatural cries. It has not
taken nourishment from its mother's
breast, but greedily swallows what is!
otherwise given it. The mother appear
attached to this strange creature and
refers to it most ende'ring terms.
Numabers of our citizens from the sur
rounding country have to-day visited the
cabin, and gene away in wonder. .l
ready the adjaptability of the freak to the
demands of the nuseuma Las been freely
disassed and it is said that business
oirs have been made and declined.
shze ijth Idol or10 01y' !Harr.
Well, then, why don't you do some
thing to bring back the roses to her
cheeks and the light to her eyes? Don't
ou see she is sutffering from nervous
-eiiy the result of female weakness?
A bottle of Dr. larte' s Iron Ionic
wijl brighten those pale cheek and send
ne w lie through that wasted form. If
you love lher take heed.
A wife syX attachied a pedometer to Ler
hu.'kad's coat when be wvent eut atler tea.
just to bahmece his books. T1he littie
meter told 'f 15 miles on his return. It is
a long~ walk around a billiard table for so
many hours.
TIIE IVALIE OF TILE OATS CROP
FACTS AND FIGURES DRAWN FROY
ACTUAL EXPERIENCE.
k1w t IG irain "loirih es I n 1)ilrerenI
et ior.an :( How it is Made a Profitabi
Crop.
'Frorn the St. Paul, Minn., Farm( r.)
From the results of the analyses of
161; samples of American oats collected
from all parts of the country, the De
paitment of Agriculture at Washington
has rendered a service much needed.
The results prove much variation of the
oat grain in its plumpness and relative
proportion of the kernel and the husk
and other physical qualities. The kernel
is found to be in proportion of 7 to 3 of
the husk-the samples from Western
States contain least husk.
Where the white oats will grow they
are generally heavier, and have a larger
proportion of kernel in consequence.
Connecticut oats weigh 29.3 lbs. per
bushe], Dakota 48.6 lbs. and Colorado
48.8 lbs. The average of sorts being
37.2 per bushel. The Pacific slope 43.2
lbs; Northern States 38; Southern 34.5,
which is 2.7 lbs. lower than the average
is for the whole country owing to the
looser. husk.
Oats from Washington Territory gave
7(;..- per cent. average of kernel. One
sample gave 79.28 per cent., and one
sample from Dakota 55.37; but the
amount of meal from the best varieties
does not exceed 50 per cent. of the oat.
The warmer temperature of the South
lowers the average weight, and the aver
age yield is relatively about 10 bushels
per acre in the South against 30 for the
North. This is an item of value very
necessarily to the farmers' interest, and
should be taken serioudly into considera
tion.
The relative quality of oats is a money
value, affecting the miller as well as the
farmer. Of the 179 samples analyzed,
18 samples from the Pacific slope were
lower in albuminoids, and richer in fiber
(husk) than the average for the whole
country.
The average composition of oats was
found to be:
In tle kerl.Cl Il t: inak
it c Per cnt.
A bI noids ... . .. .14.31
F i br isk inl Uf graMill) 1.:3S
j................' Nut Estimated
As!...............
Fiber of husk.
4 Only 1 to II. per cent. i the hutk of
Euglish Oats.
As the husk and kernel are given to
tockl it was considered desirable to ex
amine the husk to see if any variation
existed in different localities; the results
proved that the hulls from Western ter
ritories contained less Albuminoids than
from other localities. But as a whole
the oats showed more albuminoids and
oil than other cereals. Ohio samples
were the highest in albuminoids, and
Texas samples the highest in oil, yield
ing as much as 11.20 per cent. and com
pare favorably with Scotch and best
English oats.
By extensive selectioni and introduc
tion of heavy oats from Sweden, Nor- I
way, Poland and Scotland, and dis
ributed extensively by the D~epartment
f Agriculture, the quality has been
greatly improved. and the last five years
the acreage under crop very considera
bly increased in consequence, so that
:>atmeal now figures in the exports of
grain to Europe. As corn is too heating
in summer for horses, there is a greater
emand for oats, as the more wholesome
and nutritious ration for horses. The
total area under crop for last live years
was 18,628,029 acres, against 11,076,822
acres (annually) in the previous ten
years. With the improved milling and
bruising process of oats by rollers, re
ently introduced, and sold now in
America as "rolled"~ or flattened oats, it
is reasonable to conclude that we shall
soon see the increased demand as an
article of diet and drink or beverage for
the table much more appreciated, owing
to the more nutritive quality than the
:orn preparations as articles of food,
many of which are only "corn starches"
and lack the nutritive albuminoids
lesh, blood, bone and brain forming
elements of nutrition. There is a nat
ral dislike by the cooks to stand over a,
fire stirring the "oatmeal grits," which
have to be boiled and stirred for a long
time to keep it from burning and to get
oftened, as the hard skin prevents the,
ot water dissolving out the starch and
lten. The rolled or jlated oats is
asily cooked and easily digested by the
md delicate man, womian or child, and
it uothing more or less than pure oat
meal, which is growing more and more
into favor. It only requires to be bet-I
ter known to be more popular an the
most desira1>le food for child, invalid or
robust mian or woman. Finer meal is
nade. w hich can be used in mak~ing
puddings, cakes, thickening soups,
broths, or suet and bread dumplings, of
hiher ntritive quahty than any uther
melor wheiat ?Aour manufactured. It
is specilty likely to expand and grow
ito a~n a'rticle of food of vast uses for
xpart. W\ en treated by the new
prcs of miling, the kiln drying does
not iei the samne Scotch oatmeal-like
(u and tste e Scoteh and English~
..h.al uls, bult it the more easily
te..acs ther ilour or meal in cooking,
d inmaking' sundry articles of food in
wbeh the high kiln dried and roughly
gru;nd oatmeal cannot be used. The
an tritive properties, however, are the
smxe, and more palatable to many mn
valids or children.
Following up the subject compara
ti;dy with the numerous and complete
analvsis of English and Scotch oats, un
der the direction of the late Prof. J. F.
W. .1oioon, the eminent agricultural
eh.nit and geologist; by Prof. J. P.
* ion, o. Y ale C'oliege, laboratory of
he Higvh ad Society of Scotland, in
W -te 'most elaborate and important
inn .:tigations on record, either before
or .rene, deserve special notice-which
occu.pied eighiteen months of constant
lab. P~1rofessor Norton found samples
Fahr. to yield the following results:
Per cent
Starcl........ ...... .. 5.
Sugar...................... 4.5
Gum ....... ........... . . 2.1(
Oil .... . .....*.
Casien 15.
Albumen ................. ... 0.41
Gluten ........... ........ 2.4
Epidermis .... . L ,
Alkalies . .. . . ..
Total . .. . 100. otl
Protein compounds...... ...I.
-Nitrogen ........ .. . . 2.1D
*The oil is of a beautiful pale yellow
color; its smell may be perceiyved on
heating oatmeal cakes. Seven per cent.
may be taken as the average-about as
much oil as is found in corn.
American samples seem tenacious and
hard, and therefore it is necessary that
oatmeal grits or groats shoald be ground
into meal and not into grits. In like
manner oats for horses should be bruised
in order to get them thoroughly digest
ed; it is the common practice in Eng
land, and found to be far more econom
ical in feeding horses on oats. It is
noteworthy that the Hopetown variety
grown in Northumberland, was remark
able for its weight, which was grown on
a sandy soil, suffered from drought and
yielded only three quarters per acre.
The other samples, grown on deep, rich
vegetable loam mould, produced eight
quarters per acre, and less ash. As the
oat grain constitutes three-fourths of the
weight, it will carry off 45 pounds of
phosphoric acid per acre, and 60 bushels
per acre carry ofi 300 pounds of bones
per acre.
In conclusion, Professor Norton sums
up his 18 months' arduous labor thus:
"We see that even including the 'husk,'
the oat is superior to any other corn in
the ingredients which go directly to the
production of muscle in the body. The
strong muscular forms of the Scottish
ploughmen hive long been living wit
nesses to the good properties of their
favorite and almost only food; and, now
that it has been shown what those prop
erties really were, I feel sure that Di
Johnson's definition of 'oats:' Food for
man in Scotland, and for horses in
England, will be remembered only for
its good and appropriate answer: And
where will you find such men and such
horses?
We may add, and where in America
will you find any man like Professor
Norton at his own expense and time de
vote 18 months' labor in investigating
with others such important practical re
search into industries of world wide imi
portance and interest?
The importance of the subject in the
growth of the oat, and comparative
analygis of the straw at different stages,
in like manner as Professor Norton con
ducted his investigation, deserves more
notice and investigation of samples in
every State of America by the Washing
ton board of agriculture, which the
chemists there seem to have left undone,
and their investigations consequently in
complete. Surely this will be soon in
vestigated and published.
T..E WIDOW OF PIcKiETr.
Heroism of a Somlier's 1nrtde-A 'crfet
and Fearless Rider anda BIrave Woman.
LFrom the Baltimore American.)
The recent recovery in Washington
from a severe illness of the widow
of the late General George E.
Pickett recalls one of the most interest
ing stories that come back to us from
the war. Its chief interest is her devo
tion to her husband in all the hours of
his hardship and danger. Privation,
sickness or suffering of any kind only
served to bring out more beautifully her
heroic and womanly nature. During
the closing year of the war she followed
him to the battle fields, lived under can
vas, and went through camp life like
a soldier, being repeatedly uinder fire
and making narrow escapes, yet still re
maining faithfully by liis side. When
she married him she was but fifteen
years of age, beautiful in face and fornm,
gifted in intellect and gentle in her na
ture.
She was, too, a perfect and fearless
rider. When the war was over an eff'ort
was made to take from General Pickett
the privileges given him by the Grant
Lee cartel, and they went to Canada.
There they had no friends, no money
and no prospect of either, with a young
child to care for. But her brave nature
never faltered. With that indomitable
courage which never deserted her, and
aided by her superior education, she
obtained a professorship in belles lettres
and took care of the family until General
Grant insisted that the cartel should be
kept, and they at once returned to their
home. General Grant then tendered
General Pickett the position of Marshal
of Virginia, but he accepted a position
in an insurance company with a hand
some salary attached. Though all then
seemed bright, the worst sorrow was yet
to come. In a few years General Pickett
died and she was left to her own re
sources. It was then that her heClless
condition aroused the South and a sub
scription was started for her, headed,
with $8,000 by the State. She firmly
declined to receive this uplon hearing of
it, and shortly afterward secured a small.
government position, sufficient to sup
port herself and family. Among her
friends and visitors are some of the lead
ing societ- an:d oJflcial people, whom she
occsionidy entertains in a modest but
dignified way.
ove-r-Worked Won~ea.
F'or "vor-out,"p "u- down~." debilitted
sch:ool teachers, illiners, seamstreSses.
housekeepers, and over-worked w'.mn
.a-e;eraliv, Dri. P'ieree's F'avorte Prcerip
in is the best of i!restorative touieS.
It is not a "Cure-all, but meimirably ful
ils a sintleness of puirpose, being a mos~t
ptnt Speiic for all those Chronie Weak
nesses and Diseases peculiar to women. It
is a powerful. g;eneral as well as uterine,
toic and nervine, and imparts vigor aLnd
streugth to the whole systemn. It promptly
ures weankness of stomach, indigestion,
bleating, weak back. nervous prostration,
debi~ity and sleeplessness, in either se':.
F-a 'orite Prescription is sold by druggists
under our positre guarantee. See wrapper
arund bo'ttle. Price $1 .00 a bottle, or six
bt:ies for $5.00.
A laree treatise on IDiseases of Wouw'n,
prfuseiy illustrated with c.oored lates
and inmerou wood cuts, sent for tenl (:ents
in staimps. Adidress, World's Iediical As
sociaion. 06:3 31ain street. Buffalo, N. Y.
A woman may be as true as steel. bat
then you know some steel is too highly tem
ered.
A SIT NDOVS STEAL ti
-- tl
Tli-: ;alnl:1-: ' -JA KE SIH ARPI' AND
I ir
TI! : nw ORK ALDEJIIRMEN.
The ThAeit Lias N -1 Than -,;10,1110.000 s
t o n.; tm-:- 1: nr. al
Froi Ntew Yu. k w old ) St
It i, very well uIderbtood now that it
01
cost Mr. Jacob Sharp very near to z*0,
00 to get his Broadway franchise from
the Board of Alaermcn. This does not TI
include his "attorneys' fees" nor ex
penses at Albany in securing the passage
oi the General Railroad act, which made cc
his Broadway franchise possible. It is pi
very w-ll understood by those familiar ti<
with the facts that the total cost to Mr. cc
UI
Ir. Sharp was in the neighborhood of ni
81.:300,000. w
What a costly franchise it would have a
co
been, then, had he bought it at an th
honest sale! He risked .1,300,000 of be
bribe money, the chances of a legal for- P
feiture afterwards and of the criminal
proseention-th-t has in fact come to le
him-in the dishonest purchase rather de
than to attempt to buy the franchise at Pe
its real value.
The twenty-two members of the Board h
of 1884, Reading Clerk Maloney and sn
General -Manipulator Keenan pocketed no
8600,000 and sold the franchise at an of
annual rental of $40,000. They at first ki
gave it for nothing in excess of the 3 per tr
cent. on gross rreipts required by tile l
law, but when the World, MIayor Edson so
and the general public raised such a row be:
about their ears, they had another meet- to
ing and agreed to demand of Sharp an
ananal payment of 4 per cent. on
$1,000,000-or $40,000.
It is a carious; faet that maniy hone:,t its
bni misguided yxpl~e say about Sharp the
and the Board of '64 tat we would not ins
have had a railroad on Broadway at all 4,0
if the franch'ise haLd noet been given then, 7
and that tle leiber 'I bribed were 6:i
not, therefore, so guil1y, after all. Let tot
us see: 18
The Ci' of Ne. York :s g from bal
the Broadway u-arace RLailzoad Compa- sh<
ny fur wbat is probabl.y, considering the 18,
lengdt of th. rod tie rIuot valuable r
railroad franehise cver granted by a sa
munegai t7 to u, tion, the sum of
of ,aM year. T a sem is made to
up of .10,1 0 a y.r re-at anI per cent. co,
of the. gr.'erins which'l, on $1,061,
(m;.- te go'i.eaings for the vear the
ended September :j, i-ma,, gave 831,- dia
840.14. 86
In the ccas of ahe key trial, Mr 1,5
E. Iery. L name ,asei to the Cor
poration, since appointted by President for
Cle;Cveland a Je of t1i United Statcs bal
Circuit Court, -was on the witnebs stand.
This was on 'uz.ch 21, and during his in
cross-eX Unin ti, he assLked by 3Mr. Ir:. as
-amr the folw eion concer- I
iu tle aiount rceived b0y t Lc city from pal
thf. iiodayt' Suf Company: 18&
"You thisVL as.. a fair rentai, coi
didn't vol'
Mr. Lacombe answered: du
"I regarded i- as quite salicient to Fr
protect the city i te percentages it sax
should receive. As to rental, I thought the
it a fair value." les.
Mr. Lacombe probably spoke without an
onsideration. il cent events, in any the
event, prove him wolully wrong. the
On 31ay 30 Lht-onil a little less than
two years after Shiarp began to run his sin,
cars on Broadway -the franenise of the bal
Twnty-eighith and Twenty-ninth street in:
crosstowna road and of the I'ulton street the
crostown road were puat up) for sale at wei
aucton by Comptrolier Lee'., und~er the me:
prosions of the Cantor Railroad law, -oal
passed after the granting of the Broad- sto<
way franchise. The former franchise, the
for which there were two bidders, sold san
for 26.2 per ceint. of the gross receipts, 188
to which must be added, under the Gen
eral Street IRailroad law, a per cent. on
the annual gross earnings for the first
five years and 3 per cent. thereafter.
The city will, therefc re, receive 2J. 2 per ty
cent. on the gross earnings of that road u
for the Iirst five of its~ operation and jud
31.2 per cent. every year after the tirst per
five years. ror the Faiton street fran- da'
chism there were three bidde rr, and it cr
was finally knocked down for 85 lper tuin
cent., making the city's rent for the first! int
ive years 38, and 40 for the subsequent pie
years. "b
As the Broadway franchise is un- the
doubtedly much mor'e valuable than aos
either of these, it is safe to assume that 2. 1
the competition for it w~ould have been see
more eager, and consequently that the it,
city would lhave secured a considerably col
largr percentase~ i uk t'em, it had fun
admii' th..t it ai,1 not ha've so . ior .tiu
anyaousuth T*en-' eigiah and jol
Twe:: -; d...ee fa umhs" he w much aist
is the ' . i*' ng 'auavt : hec "i'l
the eu'enring: b00.is il -.:h me rehapmg ig]
the bu "ent:
But, :cetpting that s'unas a~ fir b'i
wou'. ethe. city .- ,*.'4 a yer
fr Iie C eatr'. iaerth expirM~ationmfl
lie ar~ tue city would receive, at *.1.
pe aet., 8:81 ,:30.72 ayear. As the
ciy is getting ouly .-:1, 10.4 per' yearlk
francis, it will lose ~ .:i8, 156.17 anou
ally for Iie years, and af teri ards .250,
if a." it voLd b peic i pcpr to
assame, th'e ' 'ud.s ranchise hadt
sehi for a' muh's heFlton street
frachise. it would have brought into
thL cit t~asury .' 103,483 a year for nym
yer and . 2b1,0.t2 a year t all tune
altr tive year's. On this lbasis of calen
lineon, then, taic city is losing at the
pesen. .ime by the corrupt compact
j:1530 er aunum, anud it will lose
aferi tue lapose of four yeatrs from date
Do thi *.ligures make plin the fu'l
e'svIt of ib'ecity's loss by the vnahity
f ls 1'i :dermeni? No, and for thi
ra .on: Montev is worth at the present r
time in New ork city' fully 15 per cent. e
per ainnuin, and $.;52,bi6.:i8 would pay eat
the interea. at uive per cent. on .$7,056,- i hili
327.60. Therefore, wheni those alder- Itali
men gave the Broadway franchise _for lur
$71n0n a yearu+hn andi own -orrptin ar'
mid, they gave away for no considera
on whatever at least $7,056,327.50 of
ie people's money.
So it was that, by paying $1,300,000
bribes, Jacob Sharp intended to save
ve and half millions of money which.
ith the thirteen hund-'ed thousand be
des, he should rightfully have paid for
te franchise. And, when each of the
dermen pocketed his $24,000 bribe, he
ld out the people of New York city to
e amount of $7,000,000 in gross, or
er $352, 000 a year in revenue.
A PLAGUE OF SNAILS.
icy Are Eating Every Growing Thing in
Center County, Pennsylania.
rom Harrisburg special to New York Sun.)
The entire lower portion of Center
iunty, Pennsylvania, is at present
agued by a most extraordinary visita
m of snails or garden slugs. They
me from their hiding placesin crevices
ider board walks, stones, etc., only at
ght, and they cover the roads and
ilks by the million. In Penn's valley
,d Bloomfield and the surronding
untry they have eaten every growing
ing in their path. Some gardens have
en entirely destroyed. A letter from
mn's valley says that mornings after
a= nights walks and roads are literal
covered with the slum these insects
Lve in their trails and by bushels of
ad snails that have been crushed by
destrians and wagons. Lime, paris
een, salt and other insect destroyers
ve been scattered liberally where the
ils travel and feed, but they have had
effect on them. The singular part
this plague is that no insects of the
id were ever known to be in the coun
r before. Where they came from or
Lat influences have brought themthere
suddenly and in such immense num
rs is a mystery no one has been able
solve.
The Cotton Movement.
he New York Financial Chronicle, in
weekly cotton review, says that for
week ending Friday evening, the 10th
tant, the total receipts have reached
32 bales, against 7,599 baleslast week,
65 bales the previous week, and 10,
bales three weeks since; making the
al receipts since the 1st of September,
6, 5,179,919 bales, against 5,207,949
es for the same period of 1885-6,
owing a decrease since September 1,
6, of 28,030 bales.
Che exports for the week ending the
ae time reach a total of 5,588 bales,
which 2,859 were to Great Britain,
France, and 2,729 to the rest of the
itinent.
E'he total sales for forward delivery for
: week are 700,500 bales. For imme
te delivery the total sales foot up
12 bales, including 7,017 for export,
95 for conamption.
Che imports into continental ports
the same period have been 34,000
es.
Chere was a decrease in the cotton'
sight, Friday night, of 46,311 bales
cozared with the sam date of
6, a decrease of 21,025 bales as com
ed with the corresponding date of
0, and a decrease of 273,389 bales as
apared with 1884.
)Id interior stocks have decreased--'
:ing the week 1,587 bales, and were
day night 70,471 bales less than at the
lc period last year. The receipts at
same towns have been 4,387 bales
than for the same week last year,
I since September 1 the receipts at all
towns are 03,104 bales less than for
same time in 1885-6.
'he total receipts from the plantations
.e September 1, 1886, were 5,183,518
es, in 1885 6 were 5,311,006 bales, and
884-5 were4, 740,493 bales. Although
receipts at the outports the past
:k were 4,032 bales, the actual move
at from plantations was only 1,858
es, the balance being taken from the
eks at the interior towns. Last year
receipts from the plantations for the.
ie week were 1,839 bales, and for
5 they were 489 bales.
Lamar as Judge.
M ississippian said recently to a per
>f gentlemen in Washington:
ecretary Lamar could never do for
ge. Why, do you know what hap
ied to him on a street car the other
i He came into the car with a
inch novel under his arm, jammed
iself down in a corner, ran his hand
>his pocket, pulled out a fifty cent
ce and put it nto the box. It was a
>b tail" car, where passengers pay
ir own own fare. Then he poked his
e into his book and began to read.
ady on the opposite side who had
a his mistake, called his attention to&
saying: "3Mr. Lamar, you put fifty
.ts in the box." What lie did was the
niest thing I ever heard of. He
red into the box a minute absent
idedly, thrust his hand again into his
ket and pulled out a nickel which he
dropped into the box, as he said:
made a mistake! Oh, thank you,
nk you. Guess this will make it all
it."
tNEW MUsICAL iPRODI(or of Paris, the
ld Hotiman, continues to excite the
atest enthusiasm wherever he appears.
thou.t considering him as a modern
zart, he has certainly wonderful exe
ion, facility, memory, and a remark
Stalent for improvisation. He lis
Sattentively to a melody which he
rs for the tiri~ time and immediately,
hout a mome. 's hesitation or study,
earries that original theme through a
:en o r more variations, never losing
Lud never giving it more embellish
at than its rhythm and musical idea
supplort. Hoffman comes from Vi
., andt is said to. be only nine years.
iImioA. E. P. ALExiNDERI, a well
ted man in railroad matters, thinks it
y doubtful whether the Inter-State
iaission will suspend the fourth
ise of the Act after the 5th July. He
iks that instead of rigid enforce
ait of the long and short haul clause,
line ought to be drawn somewhere,
the iadicates the rule which he pre
as follows: "No rates below cost;
compietitionl above cost."
iuouL o A.acars-rs, numbering
iv ma and women, has been discov
at .olumbus, 0. A blasphemous
set circular issued by the group advo
e-s arson and murder, and even the
tag of the wives and children of capi
sts. The Knights of Labor in Co
amu unsarmingly dnncen the .z