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VOL, III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6, 1888. NO. 2 A STRANGE WOMAN. Wondertul Feats of Strength Performed Without Help. (From the Chicago Herald.) Among the supernatural manifesta tions now exciting attention among the curious, the so-called electric women of Georgia are not the least wonderful. For several days past one of these ladies, Miss Dixie Haygood, has been in Mem phis giving exhibitions of her power. A reporter of the Avalanche, by invitation of the little lady, assembled with several other gentlemen at the parlor of the Clarendon Hotel to test these remarka ble manifestations, and discover, if pos sible, their source and secret. Among the gentlemen present were Lawrence Lamb, Zeno Harris, Henry Walsh and several others. It is needless to say that it was the determination of the gen tlemen present to detect, if possible, any trickery or legerdemain that might be attempted. Miss Haygood is of small stature, compact mold, and apparently muscular beyond most women, and weighs about 104 pounds. She has brown hair, blue or violet eyes, and a pleasant expression of countenance, but an air also of firm ness and decision of character. The first twotests, viz., drawing a gentleman easily around the room a her hand to a chair or an umbrella held by him, or the third test of holding a billiard cue in her open palms at an angle of about fortyv-ve degrees with such firm ness that a strong man, or even two strong men, could not force the point to the floor, were certainly remarkable in a woman so small, but might have been accomplished by a woman of very great physical strength. Therefore the re porter felt disappointed to some extent, and argued with his companions that it was either a matter of sleight of hand or else a remarkable development of mus cular power. But the next tests were different. One of the gentlemen present was requested to lift the lady by her elbows, held taut at the waist. This he did, but when told to try it again utterly failed to raise her an inch. Two strong men then raised her by holding her elbows on each side with the greatest ease, but on attempting it again they could not raise her weight a particle from the floor. This was a poser and was tried several times, the party offering many explana tions, but none at all satisfactory. The fact remained unexplained that she could at will allow herself to be lifted as other people and immediately thereafter bring into play such a force, without apparent effort, that two strong men could not move her 100 pounds of weight, try they ever so hard. The next test was still more inexplica ble. A chair was brought-an ordinary dining-room chair-and a gentleman weighing about 130 pounds was placed in it. Astride of his knees another gen tleman of about 145 pounds' weight was i p and between the two a third gen tleman of at least 150 pounds was seated. I All raised their feet from the floor as the - chair was tilted back and held balanced. The little lady then approached the back of the chair and placed her open palms I along the arms or staffs supporting the chairs bak Observing the reporter narrowly ] watching her, she requested him to place his hand between her hand and the chair to prove that no pressure was ex erted. This was done, and only the I lady's thumbs touched the back of the < chair. Then, without an effort or the i contraction of a muscle, or the slightest ] pressure on the reporter's hand, the chair and its living freight was raised ] about fourteen inches from the floor.< The weight, including the chair, was at< least 450 pounds, and John L. Sullivan could not have performed the feat so< easily accomplished by the little woman. This test was convincing, but the next I was no less so. Miss Haygood stood on one foot, and holding a billiard cue horizontally before her at half-arm's < length, three strong men essayed in vain to push her, by throwing their coin bined weight against the cue, from her. balance on one foot or press her arms back to her chest. The shapely, wo-, . manly hands lifted the three great strapping fellows from the floor by sim ply touching with open palms his own bands placed upon the chair back, and Le saw the dainty No. 2j boot standing ~unmoved on the floor with the combined weight of the same three Memphis gen tlemen thrown powerfully and persist ently against the small figure of its owner. Explain it who can. But in one respect, at least, the modest little lady is like other mortals, she has a woman's heart, and last night at 7.30 o'clock, in the parlor of the -Clarendon, gave her hand confidingly to the man of her choice, Thomas L. Embry, of Cincinnati. The pair were quietly married by Squire J. J. Barry, without previous notice even to the hotel clerk, and a few minutes later went to the theatre to give the regular per-1 formance. The bride wasrichly dressed in velvet costume, and wore an exquisite corsage bouquet of white flowers with out other ornament. The young hus band has certainly a deal of temerity to place himself in the hands of one so capable of enforcing conjugal obedience, but seemed to be avery happy man. Edmunds on his Dignity. A Washington dispatch says: It was thought that Senator Edmunds, who by resolution of the committee on foreign relations, reported the fisheries treaty, would have itin charge during the de bate, and the fact that the leadership has prcial been taken by Senator $heraand that the voice of the Sena tor from Vermont was not heard upon a subject with which he is so familiar in the colloquies which closed this after noon's debate, caused some surprise. The explanation is understood to be that Senator Edmunds believes it improper and unwise, to use no stronger term, for the Senate when in the act of advising the President, and especially upon an important matter of diplomacy, to do so in thie presence of the public and the other pryto the case. Though assent ing rlcntyto the will of the majority. and voting w't his party for open doors, he isunesoo oprefer to take no public part in the proceedinigs which he holds to be so irregular. General So~lJsnsremains will, inaushort time, be removed to a place called "Jackson Circle" about one hundred feet from the present grave. When this is done a beautiful bronze mannat will ba areated over the prave. A PREACHER FROM TEXAS. Dr. Smoot Drives a Nail in the Coffin of Presbyterian Union. BarmnioRx, MD., May 29.-The South ern Presbyterian General Assembly spent all of to-day wrangling. Organic union roused the members to a fever heat, and Dr. Smoot, of Texas, made a red-hot speech. The report of the com mittee on overtures, declaring organic union impracticable, was further con sidered and finally adopted by a vote of 88 to 40, thus killing the scheme. So impassioned were the speeches that the Moderator had frequently to call the speakers to order. Dr. Smoot, of Texas, created a sena tion. He flourished his right arm and almost shouted: "These Northern bretlren keep talk ing about what we owe this country. We started out on the principle that we would conserve the interests of the Church of God at the expense of the country, whether it stands or falls. I owe nothing under God to the country. I pay my taxes, abide by the laws and the powers that be, and love my family. I don't mean to tie myself to the apron strings of any flaunting government. Talk about the country being united! It is not. You might as well talk about uniting the Democratic and Re publican parties. They talk about the color line. Why, a white woman actually went to a member of the Legislature in Texas and asked to have the laws changed so that she could marry a great, big, black, stalwart negro, on the ground that he was flesh and blood like any other man. The only difference was in color, which was the most superficial thing of all. They tell us that it will be discourteous to the Northern Assembly not to seek organic union. But these brethren have forgotten all the wrongs of the Northern Assembly to us. I say it kindly, Christianly, bluntly, I don't want organic union. But the Northern brethren are sharp. What they don't know is not worth knowing." The Rev. J. A. Waddell, of Virginia, a precise little man with gray beard, took the platform, with his manuscript in his hand and his umbrella held close Ly under his arm. This created a great deal of amusement. He did not mind that, however, and, undisturbed by a suggestion that came from within a few feet of him to drop his umbrella, he held Du to it and proceeded to deliver him self against organic union. Organic mnior by fusion, he declared, was dan gerous. Organic union was not com nanded by Christ or required by the aospeL. The Rev. S. M. Neel said: "The great Inestion of church unity has fallen upon 1 )ur age. I carried a musket in the Southern army for four years, and for hat I might be supposed to be opposed ;o the North, but I want to do what the ,huch of Christ wishes me to do, and I neanto do it. The first question that separated us was as to the spirituality of the Church, but if there had been no I war there would be now no separation. I hank God the war over, and now shall 1 e stay separated? We have been told i that the Northern Assembly dodged our 1 uestions as to pelagianism and semi >elagianism. I don't believe it. I be ieve they met us squarely like men." Mr. R. T. Simpson, a ruling elder rom the Synod of Alabama, said: "If inity is not needed in matters ecclesias ical let us abandon our Presbyteries and >ur Synods and go back to Congrega ionalism. It is time for us hide our eartburnings of the past and go for- I ward in the work that is before us. The orthern Assembly did not evade our testions as to heresy, as they have been harged with doing. They are just as ound on that subject as we are. These uestions have all been sifted until it1 as become ridiculous. We are told hat we are making progress. What rogreus have we made with the colored an? This is a solemn question that onfronts us in the South. There is our eld of evangelization. We should lay side all prejudice and take up this duty. t is alone our duty, who know their ~haracteristics so well. After twenty rears of professed evangelization can 'ou point to a single Presbytery that has lone anything?" A voice: "Yes; in North Carolina and south Carolina." Mr. Simpson, continuing: "Yes, that' sll we have accomplished among a eople who have been for one hundred rears our tutelage." Dr. Smoot, of Texas: "Yes, and if the Nforthern preachers had let us alone we ould have done more." The Moderator: "Order!" Mr. Simpson: "I deny it." Dr. Smoot: "You can't deny as to exas. You haven't seen it." Mr. Simpson: "I don't undertake to pek for Texas. They have such funny hings down there that I would not be Brprised at anything that happened here. How can we accomplish any hing with two churches working side by iide both jealous of each other?" Most of the members say they are glad the question has now been finally ropped. A Forgotten Man. Southerner, who saw much of William ilmore Simms in his later years, says hat Simms was "choice in the selection f his language," and that "if thesubject required grave thought and anything like laborate discussion, he delivered himself n an oratoric stle, bordering upon the ragic. He would rise from his seat, pour orth a flood of words-strong and full of neaning-he would quote alternately from history, philosophy and poetry, and mit the action to the word and the word o the action; not infrequently falling nto the loud declamatory tone, and >ccasionally, like Thomas Carlyle, throw ing out a jagged sentance, such as you would characterize as rough and uncouth, ut packed with meaning. It would be Simms talking and no one else; he seems o feel it to be so, and made you under tand the fact. He never dealt in abstrac ions at the expense of his concrete in ividuality of intellect, opinion and self sateem. He was, therefore, dogmatic. Ee was not unlike Dr. Sam Johnson. As it was said of Pericles, his tongue was med with thunder. He would fulmin ate, whilst his style was strong, heavy nd sometimes diffuse. He had an ardent temperament and a vivid imagination, a methodical mind and an inexhaustible und of electic knowledge; and withal, the command of his vernacular as to cor rectness and elegance, as well as force." -ew York Tribune. THE CAMPAIGN DEVELOPING. A Serious Scandal on Cleveland, at Blaine's Private Papers Stolen. (Special to the Baltimore Sun.) Nuw YORK, May 28.-A few bc Democratic politicians, who pride then selves on being anti-Cleveland mei have been holding secret conferenoc with some Blaine Republicans in th; city within the past two or three dad for the purpose of putting into effectiv form a "sensational statement" derogt tory to Mr. Cleveland, which they declar will be made public in time to kill th President's chances for a renominatior It is promised that a pamphlet will b issued on Thursday or Friday that wi "startle the country." The anti-Cleve land men, who in almost every instanc are Hill partisans, talk gleefully abon affidavits yet to be produced which wi] convince the country that Mr. Clevelani has violated social proprieties in th Whit. House in such a way that the mere telling of the story will convinc the country that he is unfitted to b President. These significant insinuation would would be as so much idle gossil were they not encouraged by the in dorsement of some of the most active o Blaine's supporters. The positive asser tion made by some of these men "tha sworn statements will be laid before th< St. Louis convention," such as wil make Cleveland's candidacy an impossi bility, indicates that the Blaine mans gers have brought themselves to believ< that another campaign of scandal ani vituperation will help their candidate The story that the anti-Cleveland peoph promise to give to the public the latter part of this week relates wholly to per sonal matters, and it is a story that musi either be substantiated by the most in xontrovertible proofs, or it will over. whelm and disgrace forever its authors NEW YORK, May 28.-An Augusta (Me.) special to an evening paper says "During a conversation with one of Mr Blaine's personal and political friend: last Saturday he gave our reporter s piece of news which has never beer made public. 'Did you know,' remarked the gentleman, 'that Mr. Blaine's house was broken into some time ago while he and his family were absent and all hit political and business correspondence and private papers, involving financial perations, which were in his library, were overhauled and a portion of them abstracted? Well, such is the fact. The natter has always been kept a secret in ;he hope that the thief might be discov ;red, but he never has been, at least I lever heard he was. I don't think that anybody in particular was ever suspected if being the thief. The supposition is hat the robbery was perpetrated in the ipectation of obtaining something among Mr. Blaine's private papers which night be used to his political injury if )ver wanted. I never learned the char ter of the papers stolen. When the obbery was discovered the floor of the ibrary was found to be littered with etters and papers, which had evidently een carefully exanined. Every drawer ras found to have been ransacked, and s contents either disturbed or dumped ipon the floor." "W HAT'S IN A NAME.?'' 1n ExcitLg Episode in the Presbyterian General Assembly. PBu.ADELnHnA, May 2.-lu the Pres yterian General Assembly this morn ng, the Rev. William Aiknian, D. 1)., of Atlantic City, offered a resolution that rave rise to an unexpected diversion. It ras as follows: Resolved, On the near approach of )ecoration day, the day set apart by our ational Government in memory of ose who during the war of the Re ellion gave their lives that the Union .nd the country should not die, this eneral Assembly desires to put on cord its grateful recognition of the 2estimable services, the devotion unto eath of those heroic and patriotic sod tiers, and our undying attachment to e great principles for which they ught and died, and with the great mal itude of our fellow-citizens to extend ur prayerful sympathy to those to hom the day brings still the memory mf immeasurable bereavement. Dr. Aikman entered into a somewhat passioned discussion of questions in ~olved in the war. He was interrupted y several Commissioners with cries of The war is over" and calls for the ques. ion. The Moderator put the question d the resolution was lost. Here ensued a scene of confusion. )r. Stewart, of Pennsylvania, moved hat the Rev. Drs. Dickey, McCook and Icontosh l'e appointed a committee to aft a resolution expressive of the sense i the Assembly upon the matter. Dr. )ickey jumped upon the platform, and, after expressing his regret at the former rote, moved as an amendment that a ipecial committee be appointed, of hich Dr. Crosby should be the chair an, to prepare a resolution on the nbject. Drs. Johnson, of Chicago, Heckmian, f Cincinnati, and Lawrence, of South Jarolina, spoke with some heat, depre tating the action just taken, and the de ate was growing very lively when Dr. Vallace moved a reconsideration of the rote by which Dr. Aikmnan's resolution iad been lost. This was agreed to, and then a sub ititute was offered by the Rev. Dr. 'alconer and carried, it provided fom he appointment of a special committee o prepare a resolution. The Moderato2 appointed the Rev. Drs. Crosby, Aidman and Johnson, and Elders J. H. Baldwin and William Wade. This qluieted down a somewhat ex iting episode, and just before adjourn nent the committee reported the same ~esoltion, word for word, execpt thai 'civil war" was substituted for "war f the rebellion," and it was adopted by a unanimous choras of ayes. There is a temporary scarcity of funds n the New Jersey State treasury, and ihe authorities, in consequence find bhemselves greatly embarrassed in sev eral ways. The printing of the lawm passed by the last Legislature in the iewspapers requires an expenditure o: bout $75,000, and Gov. Green hesitatem to proceed with the designation of the papers to do the printing. It is doubtfu) wing to the same stringency, whethei ny encampment of the National Guard will be held this snmmer. Decoration Day was generally observed hroughout the North, and also at somi points in the South. FROM POVERTY TO PURPLE. d A Beautiful American Girl Becomes a Prussian Princess. The embassadors of some of the powers il at the Court of Berlin act as if they had i- been instructedto makeup to the Princess i, Noer, Countess von Waldersee. I ,s remember that lady as one of the galaxy is of pretty Americans who were drawn 's here during the middle period of the e Empire by the ease with which access was then obtained to the most amusing e court in Europe-that of the Tuileries. e Some of those transatlantic charmers had L. varied destinies. e Eliza Cook got hold of the King of the. I Netherlands and the petroleum springs - on the Orange estate in New Jersey. s She had such incomparable diamonds t that the Empress, to avoid seeming to J complete with her at the Opera House, I used to go there unadorned with jewels. s A New Orleans beauty, small, sparkling, a and petulant as a humming bird, made a e conquest of the old Marquis de Chasse a loup Loubat, when he came to propose s for her in the name of his nephew, and at her far famed fancy balls at the Marine - Ministry opened the official world to f many of her countrywomen. Another beauteous American from t Boston was all-powerful at the Home 3 Office in Persigny'atime; and De Mornv's 1 death robbed a pretty New Englander of unbounded influence at the Palais - Bourbon. But the American girl (or rather young I lady for she was more than a quarter of a century in existence), who was carried highest by ambition, resolution, audac ity, style and beauty, was Mary Esther Lea, who now, as Countess von Walder see, is about as bad a thorn as there is among the many thorns in the side of the Empress Victoria. If trust were to be placed in the favor of princess she would be certain to govern the German Empire through William II. and Augusta Victoria when Frederick IL is called to another world. However, even should the favor he enjoys cantinue, her reign may be cut short, owing to ill-health of the Crown Prince. In that event, Prince Henry would be Regent, and his future wife, Irene, worships her Aunt Victoria. I have not seen the Princess Noer since she used to be boarding around here. Her father was a Wall street operator, who was unknown to the Astors and Vanderbilts, and never grew to be a millionaire by his operations. At that time Miss. Lea was beautiful. She still, I am told by a friend holding an upper function at the Court of Berlin, has jolies restes, and ina country in which women of ll ranks are heavy and grace less is of exceptionalelegance. She has brains, is resolute, independ ent, sees her way to the objects she has in view, and is counted one of the most ambitious women in Europe. Mary Esther Lea picked up here that Prince of Holstein who was among the beaux who revolved around the Duchess de Berri in her widowhood and settled down in life with a Danish heiress con nected with the royal family. That heiress, I have been told, left him her fortune. He was born in the year one and was quite an old boy when David Lea's daughter bewitched him. The bewitchment took place as the stuggle between North and South was going on in America, and a marriage was the consequence. The old gentleman's hobby was Syria, where he was born. "Partant pour la Syrie" was then the national air of France, and after Misas. Lea became Princess Noer she begged her illustrious husband to take her to the Holy Land. In going to the East he was away from his relatives, who naturally were hunger ing for his fortune, and he made a will 1 leaving everything to his bride. The 1 hardships of the excusion were not great, seeing that it took place in winter, and] with every convenience which wealth and and the good offices of Turkish Beys and Pashas and European consuls could procure. Nevertheless, such as they are, they killed the poor old beau before the spring had come round. As there is no such thing in Danish law as a morganatic marriage, her position was a solid one and the will was binding. She was created Princess of Noer by the favor of the Emperor Franz Joseph, who, at the time of the marriage, wanted to be (to defeat the plans of Bismarck) on the best1 of terms with the Schleswig-Holstein Sonderburg-Augustenburg family. With her good looks, quick wits and immense fortune the Princess was not long in experiencing I'embarras do choix in regard to suitors. After Count von 'Waldersee had covered himself with glory at Sadowa she preferred him to others. But, as she was not "born" her Austrian title did not meet with any but sullen recognition at the Berlin Court The Crown Princess (now Empress) was mis trustful of her cleverness. The Princess Noer's opportunity came after Prince William married the big Holstein Princess, Augusta Victoria. The actual Crown Princess went to Berlin a tall, finely-built, country-bred girl, lumbering in mind and body, unattractive and incapable of improve. ment. The mental superiority of her mother-in-law humiliated her. She had no taste for study and good excuses for not studying, there being, since her first child was born, pretty nearly always a baby in the cradle. Princess Noer undertook to reform her, bought lovely frocks and charming toys for the babies,gave life to the dinners and teas of her late husband's great-niece, and became indispensable to the Imperial couple. It is irritating to the Empress to have her path blocked by the N~oer-William Bismark combination, and to find that the adroit Princess nee Lea is the rising sun. She is to Prince Wvilliam (in point of moral influence) what John Brown was to Queen Victoria, and what the Battenbergs now are. Consular Service. Brown (to Robinson, returne~d from abroad:) "You say you were robbed in Italy?" Robinson: "Yes, they took every cent I had." Brown: "I suppose you went to the American consul for help?" Robinson: "Yes and he wanted me to lend him $5." Therc is a deadlock in the Dcmocratic Convention of Florida, on the nomination Ifor Governor. Twelve ballots have been takean without result. A JEALOUS DOG. Strange and Unmistakable Development in an Animal of a Common Human Passion (From the Youth's Companion) Jealousy is not a distinctively human feeling, but is shared by animals in general. A parrot will often manifest the most extreme discomfort, and even work itself into a downright passion, at seeing its mistress playing with a canary, while the sensitiveness of dogs upon this point is proverbial. A lady traveling in Siberia relates a ludicrous instance: We had five dogs. Mme. Jatier was the favorite and was allowed to sleep in a corner of the youth, or enter it at pleasure; she was fed first; in one word, she held a distinguished position. One day Mr. Atkinson was away on a hunting excursion and the task of feeding the dogs fell to me. I had soup made and when it was brought I gave it to them one at a time. First L called Jatier, according to custom, but as she did not answer the call I gave a portion to Appoleck. Before he had finished Mime Jatier appeared and started to drive him away. This I would not permit and we had a grand scuffle. When Apooleck had dined, he walked away in an orderly manner and I filled the dish for Jatier, but she was sulky and would not eat. I called another dog, and there was another battle, but I was firm. So matters went on till all had dined except Jatier. Even then the jealous creature refused to touch the soup until I offered it to her in a clean plate. Then she relented. Not long afterwards, as I was seated on the carpet with my sewing, Jatier entered the court; but as she did not come and lie at my feet, as usual, I fancied that one of the other dogs had dared to enter and turned to order it out. There stood Jatier, certainly, but scarcely recognizable. She was literally one mass of mud. Of her glossy black coat not a speck was visible. Tnere she stood, wagging her tail, and looking as impertinent as possible. I was angry, and seizing my whip said: "You dirty creature, how dare you come here!" But before I could reach her she was off like a shot, and by the time I was outside of the tent she was racing far over the steppe. Not many minutes afterwards she returned, looked as clean and glossy as ever; and now she came without a word tud took her accustomed place. I maintain that she was fully aware of ny horror of dirt, and rolled in the mud on purpose to annoy me because I had ot waited for her to dine first. I Lad rever before seen a speck of dirt on her at, and she must have gone some listance after it, as there was no mud nywhere near. Fashion Notes. The newest parasols are made of China repe, lined throughout with China silk. ts the crepe will not admit of stretching, t is gathered into the stick and to a narrow cord about the edge. The candles are long and of twisted silver All gowns this season will show some aggestion at least of one of these styles, he Pompadour, Directiore or Empire, he two last having the preference among lender women, the first among women hose outlines are not sufficiently slim ;o be graceful in clinging draperies. The "dinner coat" is the latest fancy a London. It is the Directoire coat, vrhich is something in shape like a man's vening coat, cut off short in front and laving long tails reaching to the bottom )f the skirt behind. This is very be ming to the few figures of thatpeculiar !haracter which perfectly straight lines 'dress" more than anything else. For hese few the severe Directoire swallow al coats are madein the richest material. The skirts under these coats are of the ightest substances-lace, ribbon or ~repe. A striking dress was worn at the oyal academy the other day by the eautiful Mrs. Drew. The skirtE were f cloth, simply made and pinked out round the edge. The color has no ~pecific name, a sort of a Boulanger red ith a hint of crushed strawberry. Over his was a Directoire coat of black moire ilk. Hayward, the London dressmaker, akes also what she calls Pompadour i'ner coats. The Pompadour brocade akes the bodice, which meets in front, ightly fitting. Just in front is a many eamed carefully shaped piece, some hing like the waistcoat worn by fash onable men. The neck opens like a ~oat and his coat rever.i of dark velvet, vr which falls a full jabot of white lace. ho elbow sleeves are of brocade, with ufs of velvet and deep lace ruflles. here is also a "tea jacket" made by Iayward that is immensely admired. It a made of cream colored satin plush-a ovely material-fits tight behind, but in ~ront is loose and crosses over, showing o fastenings. It is braidedin gold, and he high policeman's collar is gold. The flowered foulards for summer .resses are in most beautiful designs :his year. They really make flower resses. Some of them have a broad silk ge like a ribbon, which when the dress s made up borders all the drapery. lummy cloth is being revived after aving been out of favor for six or eight -ers It imitates the texture of the ~loth in which the Egyptian mummies rere wrapped. It is very light and cool nd does not wrinkle. One of the French resmakers is making costumes of it in uch a fashion as to give a vague imita ~ion of the straps and bands of thre unmy wrappings. Some dresses of it how broad stripes of B3oulanger red al ernating with stripes of "mummy olor." One of these is made up with the utripes in a redingote over an underdress > rich cream-colored English embroid cry mounted on cream silk. On one side the bodice fits gaite tight and is made of mbroidery, the other side is of mummy loth, drawn across in folds and fastened o the side of the waist with clasps. The Marie Antoinette Iichu is being nade of folds of the dress materials to omplete light dresses of cashmere, repeline or Bengaline, for carriage and street toilets. Three or four wide folds, cross the back and shoulders and arrowed as the waist tapers, then crossed ver the bust and carried to the back, each end being finished with a ribbon ow on the tournure. This is a pretty finish to a young lady's pale gray crepe ine dress made with full sleves tucked own from the armholes, and a plaited skirt with butterfly wing points in front nd back for drapery. Suede-colored nuln dresses are imilarly made. and both these toilets are worn with large black rounds hats of straw, with the crown nearly covered with long stemmec flowers and the brim capriciously bent tc suit the taste of the wearer. Cashmere, veiling, Bengaline, India silks and black lace are the materials foz the new toilets worn at afternoon recep tions and weddings this spring. Gray is in greater favor even than last year, and is trimmed either with ribbon of the same shade or else there is silver galoon or old fashioned gimp on the waist. The polo naise and princess style, as well as all straight designs, are worn by all to whom they are becoming, especially those with full plump figures that do not require drapery about the hips. The English fashion very generally prevails, of wear ing a black hat and a small black wrap, eitht r mantle or jacket, with dresses of any color no matter how light. The anglomaniacs take father pleasure in wearing small far capes late in late in the season with black lace dresses. A feature of new French dresses is an attempt to do away with the high stand ing collars so long in favor, leaving the throat bare as low as the collarbone and finishing the neck of the dress with a turned-ovr knife plaiting of silk like that of the dress, or else draping a lace barbe along the sides of the neck, arrang ing it in a fan-like pl.iited bow in back and front. This new departure will only be adopted by those with a short, fair and plump neck and throat, hence most of the imported dresses brought over this season when cut in this way require a little guimpo of net or embroidery or else kerchief like folds of India silk laid close against the otherwise uncovered neck. For misses, graduates and very young ladies are pretty dresses of white veiling or of China siik made with a round gathered skirt, and round plain waist buttoned behind and cut off even across just under the arms, to be filled -out at the top with a guimpe of figured net or embroidery permanently set in. The sleeves, of mutton-leg shape, are of the material of the guimpe without lining. A WONDERFUL BANK. Which Pays Dividends of 150 Per Cent Per Annum The Chemical Bank of New York city is probably the strongest financial insti tution in this country, and its prosperity and success have been a marval in busi ness and financial circles. A New York letter gives the following i.teresting points in reference to this wonderful moneyed institution: Ten shares of Chenical Bank stock were sold the other day on the Stock Ex change at $.3,600 a share, without the bi-monthly dividend of 25 per cent. This is the highest that this stock has yet sold for, and it has long been noted as commanding the highest premium of any bank stock in the world. First National Bank stock commands $2,000 per share, the Fifth Avenue Bank $800 per share, the Bank of Ireland $275 and the Bank of England $350. The dividends of the Chemical Bank have for a long time been at the rate of 5 per cent bi-monthly, with an additional dividend of 10 per ceut some time during the year or an even 100 per cent per annum. The dividend declared for the first of March aL d to be continued there after is 25 per cent bi-monthly, or 150 per cent per annum. Last year the bank paid $3,000,000 in dividends, equal to the amount of capital stock, and carried a surplus of twice the capital stock. It is very seldom this valuable 'stock finds its way to the market, and then only in the settlement of some old estate, and when a sale takes place it attracts great atten ion. John B. Manning was the purchaser at the sale. In 1843 or 1814 David Wolfe, the father f Catherine Wolfe, bought 200 shares of hemical Bank stock at par, or for $20, 00. To-day, that same stock, at the rice commanded, would be worth $720, 00, and has paid more than $1,000,000 n dividends since the day it was pur hased. A Gorgeous Swell Dinner. The following details of a dinner which was given the other day by a New York lady may be read with interest by people who want to. know the latest thing in the way of American extravagance: The dinner table was arranged about a iniature lake, in which palms, lilies and ferns appeared to be growing, while ropical trees rose from the banks amid miniature parterres of flowers. Small electric lights, with vari-colored globes, were arranged About the lake, and elec tricity was introduced under the water f the improvised lake, and caused to ance about in imitation of vari-colored fish. There was a fountain in the centre f the lake, and a colored glass ball, ighted by electricity, spurted up and own a jet of crystal water. There was o cloth on the table, and each of tihe wenty courses served at the dinner was placed before the guests on a natural palm leaf. The wall and room decora tions-some of which came from Florida nd South America-generally were of smilax, ferns, ivy and palm, mandarin, anana, orange, and other trees. Hang. ng among them were hundreda of very mall colored electric lights. The decorations of each plate cost thirty dollars, the favors sixty, and the enus were painted to order at ten dollars apiece. The truffles came from France, and the strawberries cost seven dollars and five cents per bunch of five berries. Roman punch was served in oranges hanging on the natural trees, the pulp of the fruit having been deftly emoved, so that the guest picked the oranges from the branches.-London ourt Journal. A Somnmbulistie Editor. Editor J. C. Garlington, of Laurens, who, by the way, publishes one of the best of the Carolina weeklies, is a somnambulist. While glancing over the matter in preparation for the issue of his paper ior the current week, he noticed n article telling of the destruction of aurens by an incendiary fire. Efforts to ascertain who wrote ~the article, or what printer put it in type, failed. It soon leaked out that Editor Garlington had written and set up the article while asleep, walking from his residence to his office in the dead of night to do so. The account of the fire recited, among other things, that the loss occasioned by the fire would foot up $70,000, with one eight insuranna .....Aun-na Chronicle. ACCUSED OF WITCHUUM&a . A Singular Trial Recently Held In the Indian Territory. MUSKoGEE, I. T., May 30.-Many years ago in the early history of our country it was no uncommon thing for a person to be accused of witchcraft and brought to public trial and often severe ly or fatally punished for alleged inter course with the evil spirit; but probably the only persons who have been openly accused and brought to public trial for being witches for many years past are Willis Loren and his two sons, who on Saturday last were called before Judge D. M. Windom, of the Union agency, to answer this charge. It appears that in the Cane creek settlement, which place is some five miles north of Muskogee, Willis Loren and his two sons have for the past two or three weeks been practie ting their mysterious art upon several of their neighbors. So thoroughly do the colored people who dwell in Cane creek bottom believe they possess the power of witches that they have lately petitioned the United States Indian agent to ex pel them from the settlement. The agent paid no attention to the matter until, on Thursday last, when a specific charge was brought in, he decided to give the matter a hearing, and appointed Saturday morning as the time for the trial. Early Saturday morning the agent's office was crouded with colored people from the Cane creek settlement, all of whom were evidently excited over the strange happenings and mysterious occurrences that had lately shookup their neighborhood. The specific charge brought forth was that Willis Loren and his two sons had bewitched one Island Reuty, a neighbor, and as aconsequence he had completely lost the faculty of reason, and acted very strangely in other ways, untilsome of his friends discovered the material which was used by the Lorens for bewitching him buried in the earth near his cabin. Immediately upon the discovery and removal of the "witching trash" he recoverered consciousness and cooled down to his normal condition. Reuty is a little, crooked, black negro, and it would be a question with many whether or not he ever possessed the facalty of reasoning to any great extent. He was the first witness called by Judge Wisdom, and he started that onthe night of the 12th inst. Jim Loren had buried in his back yard at exactly midnight a bucketful of "some strange stuf." At this point he produced a sack and poured out on the floor before the judge the "strange stuff' which consisted of little black dirt, a few pieces of broken glass, a turtle shell, some horse hair, and a few burnt rags and strings. Reuty, said that immediately after the stuff was buried he felt a dizzy sensation and coulden'tsleep. When he woke up the next morning some thing in his left side pulled him coniinuonly that way. Whenhe stood up he leaned or staggered sideways, and when he walked it was sideways; besides, he coulden't recognize anything or anybody, and he was continually in that condition from the time the material was buried in his yard until his friends had taken it up and removed it. Several witnessess corroborated the statement of Reuty. The Loren family claimed that they had done nothing, save try and scare some of their neighbors, and that they did not have any relations with the devit and were not witches. Judge Wisdom dismissed the case and told the negroes to go home and behave themselves and not trouble about such foolishness. WHERE IS HE? A Negro Who Can Get Five Thousand Dolnaru. Ganzsvmu, S. C., May 30.--A man amed Hudson from near Augusta, Ga., was at the stationhouse yesterday in search of a lame negro to whom the curts of Georgia had recently granted $10,000 damages from a railroad compa nfor his foot having been cut off in a ralodaccident. The name of the egro, the railroad, and the place where it occurred were withheld, but he ex ibited such credentials that proved be yond doubt that his mission is a genuine ne. 'The negro had turned the claim over to lawyers, who were to have half, if they won. After a hard fight, they were successful. The case then went up to spreme court, but during the time the egro became discouraed and left the neighborhood. Severa months ago the supreme court affrmed the decision of the lower court. Hudson was then em ployed by the lawyers to find the mis sing man. He traced him from Augusta to Greenwood, S. C., from Greenwood to Pelzer, and thence to Greenville. Here all positive trace of the wandering :arkey ceases, but Mr. Hudson says he proposes to stay in Greenville until he either finds his man or where he has gone. If he can be found he will come into possession of $5,000, which will be a fortune for the poor wounded negro who is wandering from place to place ad living from hand to mouth. Few Southern Negroes Land-Owners. We doubt whether the value of propety held by colored men in New Orleans is my greater today than that held by the reedmen of color in 1860, and yet both in New Orleans and throughout Lonsian the negro has been improving his con :ition steadily. It takes more than one generation, however, to raise a race held in honds of slavery to the condition of propety-holders. When the hundreds of millions of dollars paid the negroes in wages and the millions wasted by them in veriest trash are considered it seems strange that so few dollars have been invested in land, houses or any per uanent propety. The freedmen of color who inherited land or houses held on to them, or at least to a portion of the-n. The negroes engaged in any profitable trade or business may have laid aside something and own some little property, but the great majority of the race, who are simply farm hands, laborers or do mestic servants, have acquired no per manent property of any kind.-New Orleans Times-Democrat. Mrs. Ella F. Young, assistant superin tendent of the public schools of Chicago. s the only lady who has the honor of holdiug such a position. She was educated a the Chicago schools, is a lady of supe rior refinement and cultivation, and is in every way qualified for the duties pertain ng to her position. There is no change in General Sheridan's ondition.