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' I .' / ', . 1 ,l '( Fp s .1 ," r ".. rAl VOL, ell III. 11 AN IN , 'I,: I I ; TI : ' ; 'y' ', S. C., Wl I.JI)NESDAY, I; IiIII UAR 1 LAWS OF THE STATE. Some of the Work of the Recent Session .of the Legislature. An Act in Relation to- Forfeited Lands, Delinquent Lands and Collection of Taxes. Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House. of representatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting in General Assembly, and by the authority of the same, That hereafter immediately upon the expiration of the time allowed by law for the payment of taxes in any year, the County Treasurer of each County shall, and is hereby au thorized and directed to issue in the name of the State a warrant or execution in duplicate against each defaulting :ax payer in his County, signed by him in his- official capacity, directed to the Sheriff of his County or his lawful deputy, requiring and commanding him to levy the same by distress and sale of so much of the defaulting taxpayer's estate, real or personal, or both, as may be sufficient to satisfy the taxes, State, school, County and special, of such 'de faulters, specifying therein the aggregate amount of all his taxes, as well as the amount to each fund; which warrant or execution shall ran substantially in these words (filling the blanks to suit each case), viz.:......................... Treasurer for the County of ........ to the Sheriff of...................... County, or to his lawful deputy: W hereas.. ........ ........... - has been duly assessed the sum of de .n ................. dollars for defraying the charges of the State, school, County and special, for the fiscal year beginning November 1, 18...., as follows, to wit: For the State, .......... dollars; for public schools,............ dollars; for County,..........dollars; for special,....................dollars, which.......................has neglected to pay: These are, therefore, in the name of the State, strictly to charge and command you to levy by distress and sale of the personal proper ty, and if sufficient personal property cannot be found, then by distress and sale of the land of the said...... ... , the sum of...............dollars, together with.................. dollars, the charges hereof; and for so doing this shall be your sufficient warrant. Given under my hand and seal this ..........................day of .. ................. . ..... t. s.] Treasurer of.............County. And the Sheriff to whom such warrant shall be directed shall take from such defaulter the following fees in the exe cution of his office, viz.: For serving each warrant, $1.50, besides mileage; for advertising sale, $1.00; for making sale and executing deed of conveyance, $3.00; and for all sums levied as afore said, five per cent.; and the County Treasurers respectively for every such warrant he shall issue shall have from such defaulter $1.00. Section 2. That under and by virtue of said warrant or execution the Sheriff sball seize and take exclusive possessibn of so much of the defaulting taxpayer's estate, real or personal, or both, as may be necessary to raise a sum of money named therein and said charges thereon, and, after due advertisement, sell the same before the Court House door of the County on a regular salesday and within the usual hours for public sales for cash, make titles therefor to the pur chaser complying with terms of sale, and annex to said title the duplicate warrant pith endorsement thereon of his acticn threunder, put the purchaser in possession of the property sold and con veyed, and after dedacting from the proceeds of sale the amount of taxes and charges to pay over the excess, if any there be, to the defaulting taxpayer, and the taxes so collected to the County Treasurer. And in case there be no bid equal in amount to the taxes named in said warrant or execution, the County Auditor shall buy the land for the Sink ing Fund Commission as the actual pur chasers thereof for the amount of said taxes and penalties, costs and charge-; and the sheriff shall thereupon execute titles to said Sinking Fund Commission as to any other purchaser, and in the manner above provided, and shall put them or their authorized agent in pos session of the premises; the land so sold and purchased and delivered to said Commission s-hall be treated by them as assets of the State in taeir charge, and be sold at such times and in su man ner as by them shall be deemed most advantageous to the State. *In all cases of sale the Sheriff's deed of conveyau~ce, whether excnted to a private person, a corporation or the Sinking Fund Comn mision, shall be held and taken as prima facie evidence of a goca title in the holder, and that all proceedings have been regular, and all requirements of the law have been duly and fully com plied with. No action for the recovery of said land sold by the Sheriff under the provisions of this Act, or for the recove ry of the possession thereof, shall be maintained unless brought within two years from the date of said sale. Section 3. That in case the defaulting taxpayer, after levy of distress as afore said, shall allege that the taxes le~ve been paid or are unjustly assessed against him, he can and may have said sale sus pended, provided before said sale lie pays to the Sheriff the amount of taxe-. and costs named in the warrant, accoma panied with his affidavit that said taxes have been paid, or are unjastly assessed against him, nd within twenty days thereafter take such steps as are pro. vided by law for corrections of unj ug asssment, or to . prove payment,, aid prosecutes the same to a successiui re sult within a reasonable time. And in case the defaulting taxpaye-r, alter the levy of the distress as aforesaid, makes no payment and affidavit as herein pro vided, he shali be deemed in law to have waived all exception to the omissions, errors and irregularities (if any there be) in the assessment of said tax and in au preliminaries to said sale as prescribedi by law, and to have admitted that each and all preliminary steps to said assees ment and sale, and said assessment and sale, are in accordance with requirement of law. Ta Section 4. Thtthe County Auditort of the several Counties be, and are hereby, authorized and directed to re store to the tax duplicate of their Coun ties respectively, in the name of thes former owner, or his heirs or assigns, each and every parcel of land in theni several Counties now listed on the For. fete TLand BIcord, and said to be Is charge of the Sinking Fund Commis sion, and enter against the same the taxes, State, school, County and special, of its said owner for the fiscal year he ginning 1 November, 18S7. Section 5. That the State of South Carolina hereby renounces all title by forfeiture fob non-payment of taxes to each and every of said parcels of land and will treat them hereafter as the lands of the former owner, his leirs or assigns; but this renuuciatien of title is upon the reservation and condition that the State may hereafter collect by suit at law, or other legal method, from said lands a sum equal to the aggregate amount of all annual assessments for taxes with the penalties that imight and would have been assessed and charged against the said lands in ease the same had nheve r 'been declared delinquent and forfeited: and the retention of the possession and use of said lands for ninety days after the approval of this Act by said former owner, his heirs or assigns, shall be deemed sufficient evidence of his or their acquiescence in and acceptance of the reservations and conditions of said re n'unciation of title. Section 6. That the Sinking Fnud Commission be, and is hereby, author ized to hear and determine, upon satis factory proof, the petition of any tax payer prayirt relief on ground th at all taxes, as de::s ibed in last Sectio', lavwe been paid, or that portions of such taxes have been paid and an offer to pay the balance, accompanied by the sum ad mitted to be owing; and said Sinkiug Fand Commission shall grant such reliet in the premises as may be just. Aud the said Sinking Fund Commission is hereby empowered to compound with the former owners, their heirs or assigns, for all such taxes as described in last Section at one-balf part of the whole sum so due, without penalties, provided the money is paid into the hands of said Commission on or before the expiration of one year from date of approval of this Act, and the receipt of said Commission for such part thereof shall discharge the said taxpayer and his said from any further liability to the State on that ac count: And provided, further, That the Commissioners of the Sinking Fund be authorized in such cases and to such cx tent as they may deem most advantage ous to the State to bring an action as for debt against the former owners, or any person or persons having any legal or equitable interest in said lands for the recovery of the full amount of all taxes, costs and penalties accrued, to and in cluding the levy of 1886, upon any land upon the Forfeited Land Lists at the time of the passage of this Act; any+ judgments obtained in such actions shan have a lien upon the lands respectively upon which taxes, costs and penalt have accrued, and the same shall be old under execution by the Sheriff in due course of law, and the prcceeds of any such sale shall be applied first to the payment to the Sinking Fund Commis sion of the taxes, costs and perletits charged against the property, and rx t to the payment of the taxed costs in the suit and expenses of sale, and the sur plus, if any there be, shall be paid over to the former owners, or parties in ter st as their interest may appear. The Sinking Fund Comtmis:ou are hereby authorized to employ suitable agents in I Counties where the said lands are located, on such terms as they may deem proper, to take possession of said lands, and lease, control and manage the same for therg. Section 7. So much of all Acts or parts of Acts as are inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be, and hereby is, repealed, and this Act shall take dieet from and immediately after its soproval. Section 8. That the Compt:cher Gen eral shall immediately after the approva.. of this Act have the same printed in panaptilet form and send a copy of same to each of the County Auditors una Treasurers of the State. Approved 24th December, A. D). 1887. (From the BuIfalo Expresa) Here are some of the names of Texas potfiices: Sihoo Fly, Podtry, Sceinsion, Tex Popu-li, LHayrick, Glory, Giraballi, Baby iltad, Exile, Goodluck, Die-hcx,. Uz, Fiairy, Ditto. Teninessee has these queer rnames: Tum Yumi, Hfatmaker, Sweet Lips, Trump, Miser, Aunt, Pokeberry, Help, A. Z., U. Bet. Missouri has some unique specimens of nomenelature: Peculiar, Pure Air, Good Night, Lingo, Pay Down, Usefdl, Umpire. And in Georgia you can find: Hard Cash, Ty Ty, Kat, Crane Eater, Pay Up, Duck, Ha~t Oil, Drone, Alligator, Pu~n kin, lkecovery. Alabama has some fantastic addresses: Dojar, Dug, Widows, Pea, Slip Up, Fail. Kentucky isn'.t far behind with: habit, Hard Money, Hlonesty, Goforth, Tiper, Pig. You have to go to Virginia for these; Peanut; jBachelor's Hail, Rain, AhSid Potato. Sezm dec w,:r in S4outh ('::r:-lira a Bnea .Uutchoaan, uad a E>.chlonf 1aireat. lu Pennsylvania, Ballion, a Ilusbaud and a Crumbo.1 In Ohio, Philanthroiw and Sodomi. In California, an Angel's Camp, You Bet. In Wisconsin, a Dry Bone. In Wcst Virgmui, Gin. in Arizona, a Tot:d Wreck. In~ Dakota. Wonums. In Kausas, Popicoru. In Arkansas, Delay. In Oregon, hake Ovesn. In Montana, an Anaconda. In Mmnuesota, 1Faith. The total colections of internal reve nue for the tira six months of the fl~ year ending June 0, 19S, were 6, 13,(us, bemng an increase of $1,t;.0,10 oer colliections diaig the correspona ;g peiodU of the previous ilseal year Tihere was an * ine ao each orth principal objects of tax\ ,]i, as folio ~s On ijpirit, ' ,435,'5; on tawcc S1,418,'u15; ferme-nted 1quors - Y,l. 0; lcomargarine 86177 The total col lections on olc'omargarinec for si a months of the present year ws re 83970 Iue collections fromt banks and bankers de creased .82,645 and on miscellaLneous ob jects decreasta 65,1 The reccipts for December last w-ere $1,085,361 great er than those for December, 1880. Two NntUiitt 01t 2'tl i.)" i i avztr i (Letit.-r to i.Ne The same feature ra"c the first hlr~aI l tilt' relN noticable ait the ltcs- h '.:id. to NaLToeoti 1 ! . and i-'J)'1 1 - his Lac~e on Lug. ;* soil b coitirs. On allriil n tilt . - early mor fog andfl/ mitat!JLl )'n "nr Ct.ii"''Xi , 1 ar met en all t il ;( :e? taotr ue dll self-interest. for now~ the rttracti~ons o Chiselhurst ve- being- I" f "" through the obs t L," otry of a1o of the m~anor, Who 1. to iechill and Papists, had res": , "1 I tares otf thme (, ""n an to sl LC .-'I.' stlienri gro...uti ; t'..t nmlasoeunm. The railway cirri:~ ft_ h rc~ of the coiii'is was Pt""'. C..:!c wbitO Liti'm? Cro' I . s_._ the carriage woe .io laet e . tcu:gug,. lltrrc the walls of te ot :~o shiel.2. it i*i ais fr 'I: r n .Te r st:ars. - chapel was private, C'.i a", speil fluor was thet 1l lo ical r-tatmc nmaster fir~ whom the ? i. an(ro L i"L;es atl' I-:iie h ~i a I{a ' rt- ice.> fond of sLowmi' ; ont~ a ' r'1 teiniJ hot, the, Pi *n"- I1av fo zo"tt to SigtU i5 in c'Gra' h~ 'L H sgned and dated it besd (1thera~ blotting~ pad at the st: 'ti..n as L e wa leaivingifor Scmntt Africa. Thle service was nu!iu h t-c" which tale family are c~ LC it '1ee to) a on theti J of every monti t c:Iel~ pr'Al peprayers n e eal f,, r ;!ic : l t r): L a ino the entie., service a noiro l) 0.o:i Sit( hc owled in~i'ur0Ptil" au~ IC ~ij Several of the chililedi c ngr ""rz~a~ shivered the glare as tb'-v )yard t~i drearv sc',ud. smliexer "_:incr ;i' th h ca... '-ta " \h-imthe :?_V U1". 11 t"iC s' le y '. the & o - :, t '.- ( a1t - ac cowed hi w o clan 'a 1: tc sl.t" rayer with an w'nas &r tht was~ tee-bin arsl ytell: e :)'i erLiL the(:. teihe lo~awra el~' t. c:~. ;t( e ptat s L o rlL -%,.:~~ acr"". he sentCD by t . t 1t~i r 1 'e(..;e ona 11.e: hlict' Cromaud t^_ of ;'-n LZ. [': r bl': dii-s'i p ''e (j the weightn twrd th. Oa' ara a Quewsthe firsto to e" hi lat The ill.aar~soncd ab.1U e"" s v'dv L ' r 1 t \vALi~t":.ii i,i:.lA Gt1'O )E~tl). A South Carolini.tn Who filed a iingdom I. tch ut Rtemarkxie Career. (Fr:m the New York cral'd.) w:.ter M%. Gibbon, ex-Prime Miniiter of thw Hawaiian 1n tries, under King calaa, died in San Francisco on Sat nrday eWCen, of conhumption. His ;:..sitb .i !:" c g! radual.y failing since Sai he in Ju y,, last. The body w i 'e e)ra 1a ed and taken to Honolulu for interment. Walt -Murray Gibson, who was born in South G trolina, has had a career that r:ads alro:t like a romance. Years ago he was a comnon day laborer at Ander a S. C., aid wais then regarded as a ts ir iewfo'w. HE remained at : . . 1e - e rarrying a good 'orhdc', who was a 'i-c cof M:..1. JR. Smith. Some six or seen rears a') Gibson re'isied the scenes of his c'i-1a days, and -emained a wk or two in tce mate. His h ir' t wife !a: been long sainCe dead and he had i i, the stcOUtd time a daugh t"r of Kiu K d.1aLna, the ruler of the (Gib1) on was arrested in 18532 for trying t. violate tau ncutrality laws b taing \msim tenezula. 1epg in a .r went to .rszil and Sm-e to SuNmaa, where be stirredl the chfs oe'"in_-'i' Dutch (overnrment v 'sri td for two years. Re ing to 0e U-itad S-ates be sued the - ) ~iover:nment -for 1j0 ,00 for al .e a-rest ii' Sum atra, and Secre * - ... -ey instructtt Miister Bielmost 1i'". uule-s the money was paid war :ould be de cid. .aut the matter was 'u-gnetitiv hued u-soun then c-nt to Hawaii as an ent of rhm Young and became the ir et the Mormons there when it was t(o:g ht they miht F: forced to leave Ua-. He pr-ia -ud hin:slif of the "'yor er of 1-::lnbiz- ch and said: SL' : , 0ls-, 1 will had you; like L ,I wial tight for you, and, like Cri I d die f!r" you." He was in tr at.d with fundsh to buy Lnds for tic.- nd did mak' a purehase on the island of Sanai, but had the deeds made out in 1is o*a rame, and when the sdIts wanted their propercy he had for go. n al! aibont them. Later he est' Ibih1d a newspaper in the Hawaiian :tiguage, professing the warmest love e his "brown-skinned brtha u,"n won his way into their -anr so c i'ectualy that when he became a candidate for "- Legislature he ran far ah a 1o the ticket. He raised the ry of "H-a i for th- Hwaiians," and rnning cia-self slicd with the King, was inal ele-.aced to head cf the Ministry. times tie hed more than one port , a' d Cei?eil:lT (dominated the whle C iAnet, besides making himself aent of the Board of Health, School -o-al and various other boards. - The recent revolution at Hawaii re mitr' in the overturn of the Gibson ad :ninistration .id the granting of a con a-ition to the islcud by King Kalakaua a 141 of the ex-prime minister. al, of cour"e, came to his native coun trv, but prostrated by iiiness on the 'ei-'c loe, he remained there stricken ir a relieved his stuii-ring. s'g t-.:tti N A bout tir ar- es. Th. c" - r n of the grassas has been too r'anh ignored by the people of the C n ?-te. Many think that with ye. bearle, cats, se., all their wants ina be auplied for green food, in ad dition to te unatural grasses found upon their places. We do not claim that the c1ttCn belt is eminently adapted to the ordinary cultivated grasses, yet by prop er management the stcek on our South ?inf farrms may have a good supply of pass food which will be of great ad mcnta;.te to th-em through t'he Lot month, :iid withI silos ifor~ -ensi they can have -a arct -arietv or valuable green food danring tire winter. \What mn-y be said 01 gras-'es and other green food for 3eogia woua c-eo app?i able to all the tio St ates, as their geelogicai formna ou ~e in'a great mneasure alike. To o':ta- god results the land for the rna . s1 shouk be well brokvn up rind tnorou. :hir pulve z--. aT'his is needed r thei ourg anu tender roots to easily: Ieera. theA soil that they may absorb buut. feriit from the mnanuariad elemetsin rue "so, and the air and mois~yecoutine init. The soil n:rai o~em chemiLcal conditions otf me-ar -- ti Ali to plants, and the t..unis in 1- co-an -acid' which; sustai the roots and rap'-ily forces th~e growth We are notatempting' a) phiutely de arin-ore us.au 'inl vro rti-.n to the pul 'erization ofl the" arl hTis-an deoted by atop raie ofai-ou t any o0th "-r'-' iettilzing1 m tl used for corn u- e- i.-.u. IThe be-at tm to saw the see s i &psubr :a ont climat. .cm may be 'own ver~ earlyV m'ta sugaldo well bat S''emberrs the ix-- to - ::-n cariy eroppng by .Weare awar2 thast grass seed t o,a ah orbje::t lbeing to - ' r-ot .HI il.i e srengttaaitd a.sAiuld b-' scw'n with the gasvs sLeed u cu-1 that ks 'o 'be eut-, leaving t* vou-n', - -:s '-xpos-;a to our South rn i, Es i me int ees it would be k-de. As :c's vkevaleyit is b: oS0,,- 1xe -re-eds such as orchard -es-, herd :.r.:s-,-red top, timothy, -'-e j-;r. -.i i etteir thuan th~e rd. We \ i'r 1a '-l-a -re(-tha~t somue, w-ho ::- :igass desth, -aver that stodk -:1rt c rab -r--- toI any of them, so th b- a mixur o- the1 seed some of *h --- --- -abg:s Id shotal be addeda If th- a a- or-ce. The following is nv-ii-m i ut-r-i for an2 acre. Sow fradn in Stcin!:r and harrow ---ehT~--10 polirh-; li C r --- onds -a r lt rt:.hun: -: d. 1 ':er c-r:Iaphdrt IA -c.remnila. er I u .sernfrrl:ad o th u -- . Ir l'ic'ree's "Golde.a 1--6-emery"-''C' c-s al! threse Of THE CATH!OLiC IIIErtA ICH. Inportant Chan::es Said to la About to b' Made A mong the Church Di;.:uitaries in America. BALTmORE, January 25.-A special corrcpondent of the Baltimore Sun, at Rome, writes that a number of import ant changes in connection with the gov enr;nent of the Catholic Church in the United States are contemplated. Though nothing has been formulated yet, it is agreed upon in ecclesiastical circles that Archbishop Williams, of Boston, will be made Cardinal at the Consistory in March. Other changes foreshadowed by the Sun correspondent are that Bishop McMahon, of Hartfori, Conn., will be the new Cardinal's cona jutor, and the Rev. Dr. Byrne, of Bos ton, will succeed Bishop 31eMahon. The Rev. Dr. Chapelle, of Washing ton, will probably be promoted to the vacant Archbishopric o. New Oileans. That a new Archbishopric will be created out of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, and Bishop Ireland will become the new Archbishop, and that Dr. O'Connell, rector of the American College in Rome, will succeed Bishop Keane, of Rich mond, when the latter assumes his duties in the new University at Washington. A member of the Papal household, and one eminently <ubh lied to speak, told the Sun correspondent that Pope Leo would not take the slightest notice of an attempt to provoke jealousics be tween Irish and German Catholics in the United States. Strange stories, to speak of them in the mildest style, have crept into Rome regarding alleged complaints at the pre dominance of Irish prelates in the Amer ican heirarchy. The Pipe has said that in making promotions in that direction he will not recognize. even it accom p.aied by the strongest r ccmmenda tions, any claims for appointment based on national preferences. He is deter mined not to give ear to either side, should the issue ever come, for he holds that no citizen is Irish or German solely and distinctly in the United States, but an American and as such mentaiy and spiritually qualified for the position in question will be only considered the cases to those who are named as fitting persons to be promoted. Senator Chandlers' Good Work. Senator Chandler, of New Hampshire, is doing a great and good work in the Senate, and we hope that the Senators will give him the widest latitude to in form the body what he knows about naval contracts and Southern elcctions. Senator Chandler has just offered two important resolutions in the Senate. One rdlates to the Navy Department, and calls for oiicial information a, to the cost ot plans, designs, drawings, specii cations, etc., of ships or engines, re ceived from foreign countries; also for chrnges made in original plans of several vessels designed at d contra !ted for by Mr. Chandler when Sccrtary and also for contracts made for naval vessels since March 4, 1885. There is no man in the country who knows more about crookedness in naval contracts than Senator Chandler, as most of the wide-spread crookedness and ap palling waste which obtained under pre-' vious administrations were planned and earrisd cut by Mr. Chandler either as outside manager undtr Robeson or as Sretary of the Navy under Arthur. Ho knows exactly what is wrong in both present and past naval contracts. and he is just the man to hunt for it. Let the Senate heartily aid him in an exhaustive inquiry into naval contracts, and see that Chandler doesn't weary of the hunt when he gets back of 1885. Another great and good work started by Senator Chandler is a bill he lately introduced to regulate national elections.: What Senator Cibandler doesn't know about regulating Southern elections i-n't worth knowing, and he may be accepted~ as standard authority on the subject. A mn who conceivcd, organized and exe cuted the theft of Electoral votes of two States in 1876, and put a man into the Presidency who was defeated b~y a quar ter million majority, must know exactly what the South needs to regulate elec tions. Circumstances have somewhat changed since Senator Chandler perpetrated the most monstrous fraud of our lhistory in Louisiana and Florida. Then Chazdler had the Returning Boards in the hands of carpet-baggers and a iventuaers, but now it require:; an elction to el-et ia the South quite as much as it does in the North, and~Cuanrdler isn't happy over the idea. Let Chandler have a chance. Oi course, he will be expected to give some reasons in support of his bill to eguate national elections, and those reasnhs would be incomplete without go ie boek to 1876. Senator Chandler has opened twso very instructive issues for Congress and the country if Congress shall give him a chance to exhibit Chandlerism in its true light as Chandierism would regulate naval contracts and national elections, as Chandlerism v~ould present the maxi mum of possible theft in both. Give Chandler a chance.-P'hiladelphiai Timer. C. A. MIatthews, of Reidsville, N. C , a boy about 18 years of age, was ar:edted here'Saturday morning on a telhgramu from the Mayor of Wilmington charging him with forgery. Matthews was taken by the' chief of polic from the sleeper o the South bound train, a kind-hearted de mt r l'aving paid his way from Wil mngton to Charleston. Saturday a war rnt wass issued for Maitthews by Trial Juzstiee McN eili on the aftidvit of CThief f Po'lice Meciena'ghan, and he waa paced in the custody of a special c'n t~be. T?wo p',licmen from Wilming ton ar ricd in Floirence, took :,athlews from th~e sp-ccia! con.tabh-, and returned with him to Wilmington Sunday night. iThe No; th Carolina ulhicers virtually ab dutcd Matthews, for he was a prisoner Iof tis State, and they had no authority unde the law for taking him from the borders of South Carolina unless armed with a requisition. Verily, the Black wod case has been duplicated right here at Florence; and if the integrity of the law is to be upheld, then here is the op portunity for action, that should be Iprompt and decisive. It has also been somewhat commented on that it took two able-bodied city policemen to come ito Florence and receive irom custody and escort a mere boy back to Wilnming to.-lnrenc Times. FUN WE~ DON'T HAVE HIERE. Graphic Descrip! ion of a High Day on Steel a d Riuun-rs in Central Park. (fron the Yew Yorl lcra'd ) Between skating and sleighing at least forty thousand New York.:rs turned out for exercise yesterday. Central Park never saw a more glorious day, and even when ten thousand happy children danced around May poles ou its velvety swards under a cloudless sky. For what are the soft delights of a summer's day compared to the wild whirling multi tudes that swept about on the polished latkc with sparkling eyes and blooming cheeks? The scene on the main lake was an ex traordinary one. From the top of the tray Belvidere it looked as if a vast swarm of bees had gathe:rcd on a huge wedding cake. But the sound that rose on the clear air was like the voice of the ocean. Every train on each of the three elevated-roads carried a new batch of hilarious skaters to the scene. As the day wore on the crowd became denser and wilder. The waiting house was packed with squirming, struggling hu manity. Boys fought tht ir way in and bat; led out into the air again with pies in their hands. Girls squeaked as they were lifted ol their feet by the tide and carried in or out. "It's terrifie!" said Captain B alty, as he watched his oflicers to-ling in vain against the overwhelming current that s" t toward the pies and hot stoves. How it was that the ice could support such a frightful weight of filing people no one but Superintendent St. John could explain. A gorgeously arrayed young man or woman attracted attention till the edge of the lake was reached, ard then he or she was swallowed up in the immense human sea. To watch a single skater was almost impossible. As a Iler.ld reporter watch the crowd a girl took to the ice. She was a pretty creature, with long, floating tresses and bright blue eyes, as gracefui as a fawn, as she bounded off with her scarlet dress flowing about her lithe form bewitchingly. The reporter tried to follow her with his eyes. At first she looked like a bright fl>.mingo struggling in dark reeds. Then she was lost in a ned whirlpool of skaters. Again her scarlet dress was seen gleaming through the multitude. At last it faded like a speck of sunset in a elon1. Over and over again the reporter tried to find the pretty skater, but she was lost as com piktelv as if the ice had opene.d and En gulfed her. So it was all day. We-1 might the girls cling close to their gal lant escorts. To be separated was to be parted for a long time. When com panions driftsd apart en the ice they male for the waiting house at once. To look for each other in such a scene was worse than us lss. Fancy skatin g was practically stopped. A man had to be content if he got room enough to go ahead even in a tortuous course without thinking of a clear space for cutting artistic pigeon-wings and grapevines on the ice. Now and then a double ring would be formed to protect some handsome young fellow and his girl while they exhibited their grace and skill, meeting and parting and skimming about ii. bewildering cures. But, alai! the great multitude would surge against the circle and it was gone in a moment. Of all tie wonderful things to be seen the most astonishing was the good nature and politeness of the people. It didn't matter a man knocked you down and sent you spinning a few yards, you' laugh as if he had done you a kindness and pliced you urder a deep obligation to him. If yor. bumped roughly against a girl you simnply waved your hand apologeti cally or ble' a di~tant kiss from your fing'~ers-if her escort was not looking ad she smiled a pardon. Hallooing lads dashed the feet of old men from beneath. them and the ancient fellows simply muttered that boys would be boys. And while this mightv gathering frolieked and shouted and laughed and irte-d the jingle cf sleigh bells made' music on the roads. How the gleaming bidles and proud manes and humming runners and tre medous shaggy robes and marvelous warm coats and be-ribboned whips fled like a swift river aang the smooth high-1 ways. How the noble pacers raced fiercely against each other ill the pant ing mounted policemen put a check upon ihem. To look at the fleeting pictures of animal courage and strength and manly enthusiasm--not to mention t e ldies-was to learn love for horses of every kind and color. Verify ing th-- Book. icaMND, Mo., JTanuary 23.-David Whitme-r, the last one of the three wit nesses to the truth of the Book of Mor mon, is dead. Before breathing his last he called the family and friends to his bedside and bore his testimony to the truth of the Book of Mormon and the Biblo. lHe was past 83 years of age and was known by every one here as a man of the highest honor, having resided here since the year 181l3. He was not, and never had been, a believer in polygamy. lie left the Mormon Church in 1838 on account of their departing from the faith, as he beliives.--New York Star. mo1 .uuAM u~nu mN. We arc prepared to scll Pianos and Orans of the best make at factory pries for Cash or easy Instalments. Pianos from .i210 upn; Organs from S24 up. The verdict of the people is that they can save the freight and twenty-five per cent. by huying of us. Instruments delivered to any depot on fifteen days' trial. We pay'frYnht both ways if not satfactory. Order cud test in your own homes. Respectfully, N. W. TRUMP, Columbia, S. C. The statement has been made that the damage suits resultng from the Chats worth disaster of la.-t August on the Tolo, 1Peoria and Western Ra-.ilroad, savc four minor c:ases, have been satis factorily ad justed. There were 22~> cases in all, anad they cost the c >mpany a little H. Jf. Farber, Jr., is a young man not yet 20, who i preparing to found a geat university in Chicago after that of Heidelberg. to will devote 81,000,000 as anl inducement for other citizens to join in the movement. He is a graduat~e of the late Chicago University, and is ow in Berlin studying philosophy un der Geman masters. WAR IN THE SPRING. A Rusnian Oficer on How the Straggle Wilt Begin--Germany, ustr a and Italy to be Ar rayed A gainst France and Russia. Lo',Dos, January 23.-It is beyond douts that the powerful war party in Rus sia has several times in the last two months nearly aueccedd in committing the Czar to overt acts of hostility. The latter has been persuailed ;hit fim-irck wishes war, and ii endeavoring to precipitate it, and the anti German manifestations in Lithuania and other provinces are an indication that the Russian Government is earnest in its desire to banish the language and other re mainders of tne detested Teuton from Rus sian soil. As a natural consequence many theoretical warriors have favored the world with their views as to the campaign which they regard as inevitable between..Ger many, Austria and Italy on the one hand, and Russia and France on the other. One of the most distinguished Russian Generals has enlightened the public thr' ugh the correspondent of the Paris .&lkci with precise details concerning the coming struggle. He takes it for granted that Bismarck wishes war, for several rea sons. The aljiance with Italy may not last long. In a couple of years a change of miirstry at Rom. may withdraw her sup port, and he w sies to make use of the Italian troops while he can cnmmand their aid. Nor can Austria entirely be depended upon. The Hungarians particularly detest Pri.ce Bis:narck and distrust Ge-:anv, and several speeches in the Diet have lately shown the animus of the inhabitants of that powerful portion of the Austrian Em pire. An article in the tre sty of the triple alliance engages each of the contracting powers to mobilhzu a portion of its forces yearly. The Austsin Governmenthaving faileil to keep its agreemen. in this respect, a pressure was brought upon it from Ber lin, and as a further incentive the alarming articles in the German and Austrian jour n :ls as to the threatening Hussian move ments on the Galician fron'.er appeared, setting all Erope in a turmoil. Tue contlct will begin, continues' the General, in this wise: in the spring Italy will be summoned to mobilize an army carps on the northern frontier. France will respond by an analogous military measure. Germany will order France to disperse her troops, and then war will be gin. Sixteen of the e.ghteen German army c:>rps will enter France from Lorraine, while a cloud of Italians will debMich by the St. Gothard upon the basin- of the Rh- ne. At the end of the first week France will be victor upon the Rhine or thrown back into the middle of Champagne. She can certainly hold out for a month, and at the end of that time Russian armies will be thri atening Berlin or Vienna. This is the programme furnished by the Russian war expert, who concludes by saying that Russia is a powerful machine, :anid as such, stow to be put in motion, but orce started she will crush e ery obstacle in her path. HERO AND MARTYR. 4 Bank Cashier Killed by Robbers and Avenged by Lynchers. LItESTONE, I. T., January 23.-Four masked men, all heavily armed, who sub sequently proved to be citizens and cattle ranchers of the neighborhood, entered the Citizens' Bank Saturday. and, presenting a pistol at the head of :he cas.hier, W. T. R ynolds, demanded that he should turn over the cash on hand. While pretending to comply, Reynolds slammed the door of thu.e safe and turned the lock. He was at ogee laid out by a bullet from the pistol of one of thd desperadoes, whicu struck him above the heart, killing him instantly. The bank-was then ransacked, and all tihe money in the cash drawer, some $2,300, was taken. An attempt was, made to open the safe, but in this the robbers were foikd. As the sound of pistol shots was heard several people came running toward the bank to ascertain the cause of theo trouble. They were fired upon by three of..the men who were on guard, and retreated to get arms. In a few nminutes the town.~s-. aroused, and twenty or thirty armd Iten hrried toward the bank. The robbers were muting their horses, and a hot tire w is starte d, in which one of the robbers, Thomas Evans. was killed outright, being shot several times in the head and body. He was identitied as a ranchmnan living, near town. In the tight four citizt~ns were wounded, but not fatally, two receiving shots througn the arms3 and two others being slightly wounded in the legs. Tbe three surviving robbers then ode away with the booty cptured. A p >sse of pursuers was sooni upon the trail, riding rapidly in the direc tibm of Atoka. A fter about an hour's hard pursuit the robbers were surrountded, cap tued and taken back to Limestone, where Judig:: Lynch was cailed on to hold c-urt. The leader was found guilty of the murder of Reynaolds and was forth'vith strung up. The other two were placed in charge of a strong guard and started for Fort Washita, where they will be turned over to the Unted States authorities. The stolen money was recovered. R&aIroadzaa in a Blizzrrd. 1 talked with the engineer as I came down, and lie told me that the storm in Da.kota was the fiercest ever known. He had seen several of the train hands as they came into St. Paul, and they gave a terri b'c account of the state of' affairs. All freihit trains haid been abandoned, as it was imnpossible to find men to manage them. It is hard to see how any one could stand the exposure to whbich the freight brakemen are now subjected. The brakes must be put 'in constantly, which involves crawlin'c alog the narrow footho~ards on top of the c irs, whichi aie coated with snow and ice and exceedingly sipery. With the wind blowing at fifty mihts an hour, and the train butting its way through the snow, it is im possible for the brakemen to maintain an upright position, and they are obliged to crawl from car to car en their hands and knees, handle the cold iron, with the ther mometer 40 degrees below zero, and re main exposed to the storm for hours, as they never have time to go to the caboose. The men have no shelter beyond what they can find by clinging to the ladders between the ears, and sutler fearfully. The engineer told me that dozens of mna had frozen their hands and . feet, and that finally several crews had refused to work longer and had taken shelter in the caboose. It wasa well known fact in the Northwest that scarcely a freight brakeman works more than one year, as the experience of one winter is such as to make them prefer anything to re peating it.-St. Louis Post-Dispatch4. One concern at Waterville, Me., made 1,00,00 Equare yards of cotton goods last year, and a Maine newspaper figures that the cloth would make a tent that would could cover 370 acres, and hold all the people of Maine. New Hampshire and Massachusetts comfortably seated, with a ring of more than 168 acres in the centre. In that ring the 84,000 horses oaie coul be ehibited all together.