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OL. III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C:, WEDNESDAY, NO. 30 A Brother's Keeper. 110111'S 10K OF LOYE D DUT. )T mLwT HarTWILL cTBWooD, AUMEO O! "IaQUE O' DOOM," "STEPEn GUTnaX=," "Tam LO-2 MAN'S Car," AND OTanU STOnmaS. "But I never wanted to talk about our relative positions. The sight of him made - me shuddering sick. You don't know how horrible it first seemed to me that I should feel ab toward my own brother. So it went on until he was sent to prison for a long time I think he has been gardoned out; t's time would not expire for years. Do you know I was very glad they sentenced aim! Thorney and I drew some easy breaths. I spent some money to go to a normal school, and Mr. Barker was the lecturer on mathe matics. So I got acquainted with him." The master nodded. "Your ignorance of common geometrical rules was so marked," said he, "and your general intelligence so fair that I felt im pelled to take you in hand." "You know you said she looked like the sister that died when you were a boy," mused Mrs. Barker. The master drank his root-beer and made only a distant response to this allusion. "Man is a queer bundle of associations. I love this old cabin and I love this old dis trict. I've had one or two very good offers' from colleges, Mr. Gurley," he owned with frowning and shame-faced pride," but school term after school term sees me at the same old desk. I suppose I'll die in my rut. It seems good enough to me for a man to grow fast in the spot where he was born. I know it ain't progressive. I know it nar rows me. My opinions might not be so pat if I circulated more. But the wrench of tearing up would be more than I could stand. This is not sentiment," denied the master, sternly; 'but a simple physical fact which I can not get around. Who's that, now?" tPhbe cornered toward Mrs. Barker. "You haven't any ceremonious passage way," said Gurley, smiling. -You can open your door and kick intruders right off the threshold like they can at Tom Holmes'. Ive always envied that arrangement." "Now, Miss Phoebe," said the master, visibly warming to the occasion, as a second and very loud knock bumped the door," don't let me see you do that. It hurts me as a man." "I knowit is Thane," whispered Phoebe. "What if it is Thane! What if it's a thousand Thanes? I will now," declared ' themaster, striding to the door and motion Ing his wife back, --gratify myself with a good grip on the collar of his coat and the active use of fy -right foot." "But it may be one of the neighbors," objected Mrs. Barker. "We shall see," responded Mr. Ogre, jerking the door toward him and concentrat ing his frowning sight upon the dark. Phoebe looked an instant, and hid her tWe against Mrs. Barker. "Phobe White is here," said a voice out side. "Don't mind-don't mind! "- whispered the master's wife, feeling a strong shudder shake the girl. "Well, sir? " said Mr. Barker, gathering himself. "I want to see her. She cheated me. She gave me an envelope full of blank paper Awhile ago." "I did," said Phoebe, facing toward him. "I meant to have told that, too." "Who are you, sir, and what should she give you?" demanded the master, making himself sure. "rm her dear brother," responded Thane, ,with insolent jocularity, "and she was to give me money that she knows she owes 1ne." "Sir!" snorted the master, grabbing into the dusk, "I'll give-you-something-else - -that has been-owing to you a good while!" "Oh, Mr. Barkerl' screamed his wife, for In excessive zeal her husband diisappeared over the steps and was heard 'to strike the ground. Before Gurley could help him he had risen ap, and he calmly brushed off his coat with his palms as Mrs.- Barker held the lamp on high and gazed with anxiety into the clear ing. "Come in," begged Phobe, "come in!" Her clutch fell upon Gurley's arm as well cowrd H shl nvranoK ouaa apobn rew akrs deee Grey asbrs.h Bak sht the drbehmdherhusand "IDon'yt eterrifirkk," said heo ms cor. he hall neved noysn yoi agin whil tI phica aweo."elve. "he drew kil you epor it, ear. Basrhs Baker shtPhe. ehn e hsad "1 onawgo tw fair kisel," said the mae ter's wife, thi fond noxcping "solidIng space ile thear wimts cantinuedacnord hand Andphwsa mw.lroIn fes.". "H wi ki hado ot r.Barh hs t~rubleherel"qieedP e "Noswnse,"maid myf"si he'no mas toehr's anyie, whe ad ee,"ning sot nhe oldeavengwit apto nce." hadAndstl houas mahen fast."'l "Oh, it wismh If hd fnotroghes tuh ctrband her!"l Quver mycebe." "Hoe'seany,"ss~idB Pace'e. "Iakne sthe would anhad t why Ionet come here instead of staying at Holmes'. He might have got into the house theu, without knocking. And I was afraid ho would follow us in the woods. I did cheat him about the money. When I put my hand in the drawer there was a sealed envelope full of blank paper whichl fixed once, think ing about Thane, hut scarcely believing I could ever use it. He knew I kept my money so; and the momentmy hand touched itlI took that instead of the hundred dollars. I wish I'd given it to him now." "I begin to understand the transaction," said Gurley, "andBess' part in it. But if he tries to storm this house the garrison out asonbeis him. They both look as if we had .s4;.aIne a ha r Bre. At the door another demanu was made for admission, but this time timid and fumbling, unlike the bold knock Thane gave. "Painted savage or- unpainted," respond ed the master, starting, "this unruly rascal shall feel discipline." "Oh, Mr. Barker!" besought Phobe. "Ogre, dear," said his wife, apparently in the act of expanding her large person to place before him, "the man will shoot." "Let me open the door," said burley. "I open my own door, sir," interposed the master. "Now, you scoundrel, what do you want this time !" He made a heavy dash at the person on the step, recovering himself with difficulty. Those inside saw it was a man quite clean-shaven excepting his upper lip; that his clothes were black, fine and old-fash ioned; and though he held his tall hat in one hand as he recoiled from the master's onset, the hat had evidently been lifted be fore the door opened and his recoil meant surprise. "Oh!" Mr. Barker snarled suspiciously. "Good evening, good evening, sir. Good evening." The stranger made some response in a nasal blur of words, concluding with an eager question. Mr. Barker turned toward the other in mates, his fierceness cooled to the temopera ture of combativeness. "Is this man speaking Latin with the con tinental pronunciation, Gurley, or is it Welsh?" -Step in, sir," invited Mrs. Barker. "Ogre! perhaps the door better be shut." "The door will not be shut," responded her husband, -until this man can untiiigibly state his business." "It is Painter. Good evening, Mr. Painter," said Gurley. Painter, seeing Phoebe, stepped upon the sill with an exclamation. During the rest of her life, when she tried to set the action of the next five minutes in its true light, and to see the facts as they occurred by the clock instead of through the medium of a terror which had no regard for time, she thought Mrs. Barker exclaimed that the other man was behind this one; that Painter turned, saw-Thane and seized him; then they struggled together without apparent reason; that she ran and hid her face in the lounge pillow; and a shot, the voices of Gurley and the master, and the bounding steps of some one running away all mingled together. Mrs. Barker looked ghastly'when Painter was laid on the lounge. Phoebe herself sat a moment on the floor beside the lounge. She heard Gurley ride off for a physician and officers of justice. Afterwards she waited by the kitchen stove while Mr. Barker and his wife attend ed to the wounded man. There was no fire in the stove, but she could see the hearth shine through the open sitting-room door, and count bricks along the front of the chimney. Here Mrs. Barker brought her a bit of paper and in agitation told her that Painter wrote it and sent it. She bent toward the distant firelight to make out the characters, and noticed that though traced by an un steady hand they were clear and beautiful. At first merely the name James Fawcett attracted her ; then she walked to the fire place intent only on reading what was written, and it was: "You are my child. James Fawcett." "No!" said Phoebe, turning toward the wounded man and questioning him with negatives: "Nos Nol" One of Mrs. Barker's quilts covered him up to the armpits. He was looking at Phoebe with wide open and agonized blue eyes. His sensitive lower face she saw was like the portrait in the Fawcett library. "No!" she repeated, twisting the paper in her fingers, "if" 4 He nodded his head, and besought her by a gesture to come nearer. In his hands. were a pencil and paper tablets which Mrs. e Barker had taken out of his pocket for him. I He was shot through the body, and the doctor, brought later by Gurley, could do F little more for him than had already been doae. Mr. Barker satnear his patient's feet, rug-i gedly silent and stern as if justice were gath ering all forces in him. His wife held a light, resting her elbow in her palm, and looked anxiously from Phobe to the wounded s i She stood behind his head and let her lnp shine on his tablets. Sometime during the, confusion Orcutt had been waked. Phoebe remembered hearing his mother command] his return to bed.] As Painter beckoned again Phocbe went to him, not reluctant but unconvinced, and 1 rested oa the floor looking at him. His hand flew from side to side of his tab lets, and when he gave them to her Mrs. Barker moved a step to shift the light. "If I tried to talk," he said on paper, "you could not understand my voice. My deform ly still mortifies me eo I can not bear to display it before my child. I used to talk thusto your mother. We had long, silent con versations, sittingside by side. Her name was Pheebe. You are her over again, a little ex panded. Do you ranember whea you brought me the maple sugari" Instead of replying aloud Phoebe took his pencil and wrote: "Yes. But why have you been away from me always?" He put swiftly dowa, "because 1 thought you were dead. When you camfe to me with that maie sugar I was startled, and my thoughts began to wtrk. Then I heard your name was Phobhe White. I fgund the boy Thorney was with you. Still I had no certain proof until this afternoon when I read a note you had sent by a boy through the woods. I unfolded It as some trifling property of his, and read your history, even to Thane White's name. Then I got ready to come after you. I brought in my breast pocket the papers which will ideitify me. I went to the house nearest the school-house where I knew you lived; but they could not ind you.: So, as you had written to Mr. Barker for help, I came directly here. You are my child, and your name is PhdI.be Paw ett. You were born eighteen years ago in San Francisco, and your mother died when you were two-and-a-half years old. 1 spent much time in Nevada, where I was interest ed in mines. Your mother was devoted to me. I took pleasure in enterprise then. left home when a boy, determined to make my family proud of me when I came bask, In spite of my defect. It turned out dlf erently. 1 have lived here in the woods, rot caring even to claim my rights in the estate. There was no one to inherit after e. I have covered my identity up as muchi as possible. Now it would be different. But when I could live I must die." He gave the tablets to Phocbe and covered his eyes with one hand, his mouth set with physical agony. She dashed over the words, and advanced a little nearer to him oii her knees. "But, father," she ssaid, aloud. He started from head to foot, immediate ly whitening with the pang this stait gave him. "Father," she said again, this time af Armatively, "father, f ather!" She arched one arm over his head and was held to his breast. Mrs. Barker, mak ing a sympathetic grimace, shifted the lamp unsteadily, but her husband sat as ounded Phcebe caught her breath with a sob and explained to them, raising her face: "-All shatn heha li l Wm on to have been with him. I'm his child and de needed my care ! 0, father!" In her excess of mother-like passion her palm constantly smoothed his lean cheek ina her fluttering finger-tips petted him. She felt fierce toward his persecutors. The tears dripped from her cheeks upon him. "How you have been cheated, you dear! Ind I never suspected such a thing. And wve'd have been such friends together! I hought Thoruey and 1 had all the hard times, when you were living that lonesome ife! We can have our relationship now, athe:. we can have our relationship now !'" Mrs. .Barker shook her head at Phcebe to ndicate ti't it was bad for the patient to be gitated. Sue then turned away, holding ho lamp at arm's length, and wiped her ace carefully ; and Phobe leaned in silence gainst the pillow. With pencil and tablets her father re buned: "When your mother died I lost heart and very thing went Liy with me. I wanted o stay by myself and experiment in chem cals. It was my dissipation. There was nobody to take proper care of you. so I )oncluded to bring you home and make all ?ECBE READI\1 WHILE HEK FATUEK WROTE4 ny arrangements. Thane White was in lifornia then. He was a third or fourth :ousin of your mother's, a worthless creat .re, but whe helped him on account of his listant relationship." Phoebe, reading while her father wrote, quired at once: "isn't Thorney my brother, then e" "No; Thornev is Thane's sun. Your nother was kind to the miserable little oul. We kept him with us; his lather was >rutal to him. I gave Thane emiloymient or several years. He bore a bad name ,vheu he camne to the coast, and was prob ably worse than I knew ;but we could hardly shake him off. I never imagined theni that se would separate my child from me and inally shoot me. Your mother had known his wife in the States, a poor, dejected young oman who died early; and the boy Thwrn :y was only half-witted. When I read in our note how Thane had used you, it eemed as if I had never suffered before in ny life! And you forced to appeal to a tranger while your father lived: The sight f him filled me with such fury I don't mow what I might have done if he had not hot." TO BE CONTINUED] FORTUNE CAME TOO LATE. iss Catherine Gaffney Mentally and Phys ically Falling. (New York Star, Aug. 1.) Miss Catherine Gafney, who has sud lenly fallen heir to $50,000. is still in the lmshouse on Blackwell's Island, where he has been an inmate for three years and ight months. Since last March she has een in the hospital of the almshouse. A reporter of the Star called at the hos )ital yesterday to see the fortunate woman. .arden Vought, the genIal manager of the Lmshouse, and the matron, conducted the eporter into a neatly kept and well-ligthted ard and stopped before a feeble, old lady if arose. He cheeks were sunken, her tyes were dim and her voice trembled. Her nemory had faded from her. She is '6 rears old. Her fortune had come to her so ate in life that it seemed to mock her. She lid not know the wardezi first, and asked uim if he was her brother. He replied that ue was the warden, and the old lady replied: 'To be sure; I remember you now. God less you, warden. They have been very ood and gentle to me here." A young man and a young woman, iephew and niece of Miss Gaffney, called esteday forenoon to see the old lady and aid that they would take her away today. [hey told Warden Vought that they would end clothes up to the island for the old ady and would provide well for her after he went away. The young man is T. V. sheridan, who is one of the heirs. The old lady was asked if she would like o go away. She relied: "No, I should ather stay in the almshouse. I like it very el. They are very kind to tue." Miss Gaffney was brought to the alms ouse when she was two years past three core and ten. From the day she entered ill the day she inhexited her fortune no unman being ever visited her or inquired but her. When it wvas learned that she uad inherited a large anmout of umoney two >f- her kinfolks rushed for the island at >nce. The visit ot her niece and nephew resterday was the first she had received lince she entered the institution.. "Paren~ts seldom bring ther children to ,he lmshouse," said Warden Vought, "but :hildren often bring their parents here. W~hen the children see their parents safely ntalled in the almshouse they kiss their nother 'good-bye" and shake hands with heir father. Then they say to their parents: Oh, yes, we'll come and see you.' and are >ff They come to see them once, andl gen *rlly they never come again. If their arents should unexpectedly inherit a great leal of money they would come over to see hem with a carriage. "When Miss Gaffney came to the alms iouse, she told me tihe story of her rich rother, Patrick H. Gaffney of C'hicago. At her request I wrote himz two letters, in ~orming him of his sister's .situatiion. In aswer to the letters, he sent her two dIOl ars twice, there being a considerabile in erval of time between the two gifts. "Misa GIatTuey was an intelligent and ady-like woman and has never given uis ny trouble. She was a very pleasant and and interesting talker up to some months ago, when her health failed her." Miss Gaffney has a brothe~r in Buffalo, before referred to, and another brother, Matthew Gaffney, in Brooklyn. She is eir to but a fourth part of her dead brother's state, valued at $150,000, and will proba bly et about $35,000, instead of the $50, )0 it was thought would fall to her. The physician thinks she has btut a short time o enjoy her fortune. Mr. Blaine will review an immense Repblican procession from a hotel balony when he arrives in New York. Ee had better steer clear of New York dotels. Burchard's B. B. R. may hap rumaonm THE MEETING AT SUMTER. Speeches by Governor Rtichardson, Itient. Gov. Mauldin and Others. (From the News and Courier.) The meeting appointed by the State Democratic Executive Committee to be held at Sumter, for the seventh Con gressional district, came off on the Jst inst. Speeches were made by Gov. Richard son, Lieut.- Gov. Mauldin, Attorney General Earle, Comptroller General Verner and Capt. B. R. Tillman. The Governor and the Lieutenant Governor spoke generally to the same effect as at the previous meetings. Capt. Tillman's speech contained nothing new. Comptroller General Verner spoke of the State finances. He invited Capt. Delgar to ask two farmers in the meeting to exmine their two sets of figures, and decide whether he or Capt. Tillman was correct in his statement of the differ ences between the expenses of 1878-79 and 1886-87. Tillman: "Take Gen. Moore and Gen. Earle, both are respected." Verner: "I will show the committee what a manipulator of figures you are." He read the correspondence between himself and Capt. Tillman on the vexed question and Capt. Tillmrn's statements at Chester on Monday. There was a lively and continued running tilt on this matter between the two. Here is the summing up of it. Capt. Tillman charged that Mr. Ver ner, in his statement of the differences between the fiscal years of 1878-79 and 1886-87,bad used the comptroller's report for 188687, and the treasureir's report for 1878-79, and that he gave as a difference, after taking off the funded interest of $192,000, only $27,000. Mr. Tillman claimed that this was done fore partisan purposes. In the figures which Capt. Tillman gave the reporter of The News and Courier, which were published Tuesday, he claimed to prove that he had proven substantially the correc'.ness of his statement in the recent Democrat ic Convention, but when pressed by Mr. Verner he admitted that he had culled out of the treasurer's statement for 1878 79 the figures which he used to swell the difference to $237,000, they being in cluded in the aggregate expenditures for the year 1878-79, as shown by the trea sure's report. That is, he admitted doing just what he had charged the comptroller general with doing. He claimed he was right in doing it, however. Capt. Tillman and Mr. Verner alter. nated in speaking on this subject and there was the liveliest interest among the audience and much confusion. ArroRNEY GENERAL EARLE. was now loudly called for. He defeated the State Government from the charges made against it and reviewed the State's work in education. This talk about reducing taxation, he said, was demagogic. If legislators were untrue to the beheets of the people, let them be turned out and new men put in their places. Again, in answer to Capt. Tillman, he said he was willing to abolish the annex so-called and give its funds to the agri cultural college. Capt. Tillman announced that the Hatch fund had been stolen from the farmers and that the agricultural board did not represent them. Col. Earle dis sented from Capt. Tillman's position in regard to the privilege tax fund. That should not go to the agricultural college. It belonged to the people. Tillman: "The agricultural board don't represent the people." Earle: "Put them out, then." Tillman: "But the Legislature is ma nipulated." ' Earle: "Then put out the members. Capt. T.1illman is not the State. He mustn't expect everybody to trail after his opinions." After a lively passage beyond the reach of reporting, Gen. Earle said: "I approve many things you advocate, but do not abuse people without cause. Do not charge a class with wrong-doing and array class against class." Tillman: "I've said harder things against farmers than lawyers. l've called them fools and puppets." Earle: "You cannot point to a single South Carolina Representative in Demo cratic days who has stolen a dollar." Tillman: "I don't know about that. There are some fishy things," [Great confusion, the entire platform being cov ered with excited men crowding about the couple. Cries of "Put him up to testify !"] Earle: "Come out openly and say it." Tillman, with hesitation and looking awkward: "A reputable man in Marion charges-(and then he repeated Big ham's slander about Governor Thomp son.) I don't endorse it, but I was in the House myself when Dean made that report Bigham says he did. The News and Courier tnis morning has a reply mentioning a lot of things in the man sion, but that is not conclusive to me." Verner, excitedly: "That schedule was copied from records in my office. There is not a scintilla of truth in that accusa tion; not a scintilla." Tillman. doggedly: "Glad to hear some one deny it." Earle: "Then the thing that looks fishy has disappeared. With all respect for Governor Thompson, if a man will make an affidavit against him I will have him brought to South Carolina and tried. But don't let us have these accusations." Tillman: "It's not my charge, not my business.". Earle: "Not your business when a Governor of the State is accused of theft?" Tillman: "I would be ashamed to make the charge." Earle: "Ashamed to accuse Governor Thompson, and not ashamed to accuse the Legislature of stealing agricultural funde?" Tillman: "Am I under cross-examina tion?" Earle: "I ask you to specify anid prove."~ Tillman: "I'm satisfied about Gov ernor Thompson, but the people are not." Mr. H. R. Thomas, Tillman's lieuten ant, interrupted with some sneer at Geuo. Earle's showing off his ability as a law yer. Earle: "I am fishing for trout, not for minnows. While 1 respect Capt. Till man, I think he has got one of the poor est lieutenants I ever saw." THE END. The meeting ended amid great conf L Verner's departure had been intense. Calls were made for Col. Dargan, but he had left. Capt. Tillman left imme diately after dinner, to spend the night with a friend in the country. The Meeting at Florence. The meeting at Florence on the 2d inst. was a very noisy one--the noise be ing made chiefly by the followers of Mr. Bigham, now a candidate for the Senate from Marion county. Speeches were made by Governor Richardson, Lieut. Governor Mauldin and Captain Tillman and Col. B. W. Edwards. No new points were developed. Then came Mr. Bigham, of whose speech and the subsequent proceedings the News and Courier contains the following report: Mr. Bigham opened by declaring that he had been grossly misrepreented by the "clicks" and rings of Marion coun ty. His subsequent remarks could only be heard in fragments above the din, but he secured silence when he turned to the News and Courier Reporter and de manded a fair report. The reporter un fortunately has not the most patient temper in the world, and jumping up he shouted: "You seem to be an infernal ass, and if you don't shut up and attend to your business you will get hurt. Stick to your text, and prove if you can that you are not a slanderer, but leave me alone." Mr. Bigham remarking, "I know if I fail to prove it I will deserve a whipping and get one," proceeded with his labori ous task. He first quoted Governor Richards'n's remarks in Greenville as to him, and said that the Governor this morning, when he spoke to him at the hotel on the subject had "eaten dirt" and said he was "willing to take it back." [Note- Governor Richardson subsequently told the reporter that this was a lie out of the whole cloth. No decent man will doubt which to believe.] Above the disturbance Mr. Bigham was heard to say: "I'm a goin' to whip out the State." The next thing heard was a declara tion that the News and Courier had pub lished everything against him and would not publish his replies. If he sent any thing to the News and Courier they would keep it for eight or ten days until they could consult the "elick." Then turning to the reporter of the paper he began to instruct him to note this, that or the other thing about the News and Courier. The reporter got over the benches and up to Mr. Bigham, and told him that he could not talk at thi News and Courier through him. That if he had any com plaint against the home office he could go to (5arleston and make it there. That if he wanted satisfaction in Charleston he could go down and help himself, and that if he wanted any here from the representative of the paper he could have it then and there and wel come. These remarks were emphasized by the vigorous shaking of a fist within a few inches of Mr. Bigham's classic nose. The wildest excitement prevailed. A party of Bighamites were preparing, it is stated, for a raid on the Reporter, when a counter-movement was made by the more respectable element; and unex pected backing came from many quar ters. A number of prominent citizens expressed their satisfaction at the snub bing Mr. Bigham was receiving, and were apparently desirous of seeing a regular tilt inaugurated, but M:. Big ham, having taken the hint and returned without a word to other subjects, the Reporter had no reason to continue the interruption. Mr. Bigham was now frequently inter rupted by questions. Dr. Weatherly cornered him about the furniture matter. Mr. Bigham declared that he had never said that Governor Thompson stole the frniture. Dr. Weatherly insisted on a ves or no answer as to .whether he did teal it, but Mr. Bigham dodged the question. He gave a long statement as to the matter, which, as well as could be heard, was simply a rehash of his letter to the News and Courier upon the sub ject, and since answered and refuted conclusively in the News and Courier. He gave not one new piece of evidence, simply stating that he did not believe Cl. Sloan's statement or the circum stances reported about the inventory. He could not find in the Journals of the House any mention of the resolution Governor Richardso. said he had passed. Dr. Weatherly: "Why did not you fight tbese furniture appropriations in the Legislature?" Bigham: "I had the Marion County licks and rings to attend to." Mr. Bigham having commenced a sen tence as follows: "Solomon being the wisest man that ever lived," was inter rupted by a chorus of ironic ejaculations: "Except Bigbam!" Theu Mr. Bighanm turned on lDr. Weatherly with the qus tion: "If you object to this, why didl not you send other representatiyes from Ma rion?" Dr. Weatherly, (devoutly): "Would to God we had not sent you, Mr. Bigham!" One of Mr. Bigham's audible remar-ks was that he had expected Governor Rchardson to stay and henar him. Another was that Col. Jo'hn C. Hlaskell, fies up figures so that the farmer can not understand him them. Then because $16 60) bad been paid by Glovernor Rtich ardsoni for gas consumed at the Mansion and about its grounds durinug Governor Shepard's Administration when no family lived in the house, the [undt for the pur pose of the fiscal yetar just closed being exhausted, Mr. Bighamn gravely an nounced that the G~over-nor had been guilty of a penal offence, and .that he hd proved it on him, and that lhe should be punished for it as imopartially as the man who stole a 2!5 cent cbieken. . f thio people of Marion endlorse the principles of John P'eter Richardson, said he, they must send s'me one else to, the Senate. [Voics: "We will do it !"j 1 don't want the votes of sueh people. T[he Legisla tre, he declared, had proved by its action that it was unwilling to trust John Peter Richardson with the furniture in the Governor's Mansion without taking his receipt for it. If a member of the Housue conld make such a stir as this in a short time, what could not he do if he was sent to the Senate and put on a com mittee of investigation? [ Voices: "Why did not you investigate when you were there?" "Oh you could make a line dog of the treasury if you could only get back!"j He accused Governor Richard son of liotching the State House and misappropriating money while a member of the State House commission, and was going on in the same indecent style when the Ilnprters who were tired out and disgusted left him at 4.30 P. M. to hun snme food. They were told afterwardi that be continued, to the end his attacki on the whole Administration. DR. SINoLETARY'S SPEECH. Dr. Singletary had been waiting lone for a chance to express himself. Wher Mr. Bigham ceased, he addressed thi meeting in somewhatthe following terms "Fellow-citizens of Florence: I an surprised and mortified that you should have stood here to hear such a blanked set of hypocrites and scoundrels as Till man and Bigham, I am deeply ashamed of this event. I could hardly control my, self when this scoundrel Bigham abused a man of honor and integrity. like Gover nor Richardson. Why are these fellows so mad with the Government of Sount Carolina? Because, by George, its mem bers are gentlemen, and gentlemen art the only hope of the State." More .vas said by the. angry orator, and it's declared that he received the most liberal and continuous applause of the day. His remarks above are given at the earnest request of prominent citizens of Marion Cunuty. Lem Gadsden, the worst negro Radical in the town, is said to have led the hur rahing for Bigham, and it is further stated that Bigham received the hand shakes of the negroes upon his conclu sion. A PROMISED ITOGRAPHY OF BtoHAM. Mr. Bigham's active tongue will soon be called to his own defense. It was announced that Gen. W. W. Harllee will publish in the n xt issue of the Marion papers some account of Mr. Bigham, in which will be included information that in a certain trial he swore in Court that he did not believe his own mother on oath, and that he brought two witnesses from another county to testify against her veracity. The good people of Ma rion have realized rather late rhe mistake they made in not scotching the Bigham snake when it first raised its fiead. SAM JONES OF GEORG[A. He Talks in His Peculiar Way About Poll tka and Rteligion. (From the Chicago Herald ) Rev. Sam Jones stopped over night at the Sherman House. He is on his way to Madison, Wis., to lecture. "I think the importance of my work is increas ing," said he, "I have a thousand or two thousand applications for me ahead. The earnestness of the people who listen to me is shown by their number and the results that come. As for prohibition in the South, the number of voters isn't a fair criterion of the temperance senti ment. The largest vote will probably be in Georgia, 10,000 or more. I hope the Republican party will be defeated be cause then it will break to pieces and a prohibition party will be formed. The new party ought to take up other ques tions, also the Sunday question, for in instance. It has come to such a pass that we won't have any Sunday in this country in eight or ten years. I believe in the grand Jeffersonian principles of the Democratic party, but I can't go the whole hog. I don't think a man can be a Christian and be a Democrat. If he is a good Christian he will be a mighty weak-kneed Democrat, and if he is a good Democrat there won't be much spine to his Christianity." Mr. Jones had not made up his mind as to whom he would vote for. Vitality of Bernutla ras Seed. The July Bulletin of the Experiment al Station of this State contains the fol lowing: In the May Bulletin the result of a test of the vitality of a sample of this seed was given, in whicha, at a tempera ture of '70 degrees, none could be made to germinate, although remaining in the apparatus for a mouth. Since then the tests have been con tinued, but at higher temperature, viz., 80 to 85 degrees, or still lower than that to which the seed would be exposed in the soil. The result has been that 65 per cent. of good seed have germinated, 43 per cent. of the germs appearing on the third and fourth days, 8 per cent, on the fifth day, and the remaining 14 per cant. during the following thirteen days. TIhe sample as purchased contained 19.13 per cant. of i-npurities, such as trash and foreign .seed. The per cent. value of the sample is therefore 54.6. Still further tests to be made at high er temperatures may show a higher ger minating value.. The different results obtained at differ ent temperatures furnish valuable guid ance to the farmer in sowing seed of this grass. The plant is a native of warm elimuates, and only perftects its seeds in low latitude.s, and these require for germination a sufficient warmth of soil. Our results seem to show that plantings should be miade not later in the fall than the middle of October, nor earlier in the spring than April 10th. An Ab,,urd Fashion. Unconsciously perhaps,, several men here in Jacksonville have fallen into a London fad- -that of shaving the upper lip. There is an organized movemient at the English capital against the mus tache and attempts ar-e being made by the Anglo-maniacs in this country to popularize it here. T1his has proved a dlead failure in Philadelphia. The Record of that city remarks that it has beeni cle-arly demonstrated that "most men wouhi sooner part with their little fingers than with their mustache." Why, no one seems to know. A mustacheless man has no charm for a girl who is looking for a husband. Villains and heroes all wear beautifully trained and formed lip covers. Audl physicians say that a bare lip is injulrious to the eyes, the mus~tache servinig to b'reak the downward fall of one's visioii somiewhiat. - Jacksonville Times- Union. Arraniginig the Republicau Camipaignx. Nsw Y'mai, A'ugust 2.-The Executive Committee of the National ltkpublican Commlilttee went into ssionl -at noon today. le:e- were present, Chairman Quay and Cnuiiteemien Clarkson, I lobart, New, Fessendlen andl Duidley. No informtation was vouichsatfed' as to' tei r putrposes, but it is probable- that they- will <hi-:l with all the oceessiries piertininzg to' c:,upaign busi ne.ss. It was anii-ii'red thait the campaign wou'ild begIin in :laine-, and the lion. James (A. slalie is booiikedl to speak in Augusta iu August 15. Gen. W. H Gibson, of (.hi, and1 Gen. Li. I1. Grosvenor will leave for 31ame tn a few days. They will make speeches during the campaign in different nrtrnf the State. AN ISLAND FULL OF GOLD. The Romance of the Treadwell Mine in Alanka--"It Cuntaina Enough of the Metal to Pay the National Debt"--ock that Will Require a Century to Exhauat. It was whispered from time to time in the last year that Alaska has the richest gold mine in the world, but people who heard fragments of the story simply shrugged their shoulders and paid no further attention to the subject. Inves tors in mining property have been fleeced so often that every enterprise for getting the precious metals out of the earth bears to their eyes the marks of a swindle. And then (barring the beautiful fur seal) they think there is nothing in that far off country but Thlinkets, Hydahs, Chii kats, muskrats, icebergs, glaciers, and other unmerchantable articles. Only a few o' the more favored tourist who have been let into some of the secrets of the small clique owning the property appre ciate the great wealth that is looked. up in the forbidding cliffs on the shore about two hundred miles north of Sitka. It is no concern of the insiders to have the world know that they own millions of tons of rock into which long ages ago the precious metal was so' generously filtered. They have no mine for sale. It is the little fellows owning holes in the ground which have been heavily stocked who want to sell. They are con tent to quietly dig out 100 per cent. a month in this dark corner of the earth. Modest fellows they are. On the west side of the Gastinean Channel, says the Chicago Tribune. with in pistol shot of the mainland and under the shadow of preceptous mountains, is Douglas Island. Just back from the shore, in a cliff 800 to 1,000 feet high, is a horizontal shaft 400 feet wide and nany hundred feet long. At intervals along the top of the cliff are perpendicular shafts. This is the Treadwell Mine. It is said that some rock has been taken out which yields as high as$200 per ton, but that is exceptional. Tne statement of one intellgent man is that the average is $9 per ton, that it costs $1.50 per ton to convert the raw material intogold bars, and that 300 tons of rock can be reduced per day. These figures being correct, the net product of the mine is $675,000 a year, allowing only 300 working days. Another authority estimated that the output for the year 1887 would be $100, 000 per month, or $1,200,000 per year, and the yield this year certainly cannot be less. Diamond drills have been ran long distances in various directions and show no change in the character of the rock or the ore. A thousand feet below the level of the earth it's just the same.. It sounds extravagant, but experts who have made careful investigation deilare that there is unquestionably enough gold in this mine to pay the national deft (about $1,200,000,000) and that there are many million dollars' worth of pay rock in sight. The confidence of the owners of the propety is shown by the fact that they have in peration more stamps than there are in any other mill in the world. The appeciation of the mine by other people is indicated by a bid of $16,000, 000 which was made for the propersy some months ago. This is a case, how ever, when the insiders don't want to get out and the outsiders cannot get in. The mine was named forits discoverer. - Treadwell was an old Californian of long experience in mining. He was one of a great number of people who, knowing that there are valuable mineral deposits in Alaska, went there prospecting. The natives, a good-natured lot, are always ' on hand to take tourists and explorers along the coast almost any distance. Many old miners are constantly testing the rocks with hammer and glass. They have located deposits of gold, silver, cop per, iron and other metals, but it ss reserved for Treadweli to lind this mnass of gold-bearing rock. It is said that when he first visited it there was a vein of gold running conspicuously up and down the face o1 the clitE -After satis fying 1.imself that it was worthy of far titer tests, he went to California, bought someznachinery, and then returned. It required but little woik with thismachine ry to excite his cupidity to the nighest pitch. Having secured hic rights in the claim, he went to San Francisco with some specimens of the ore. Senator Jones of Nevada was at that time in bad luck and poor. It was his opportunity. He went up to Alaska and was convinced that another fortune was his if he could get control of the Treadwell Mine. He rormned a syndicate and was given a quar ter interest in the profits of thie mine as a consideration. Treadwell, it is said, re ceived $1,000,000 in cash and a small percentage of the profits. The stock of the company is now owned mainly by four persons, of whom Jones and a) 0. Mills are two. Some wealthy Chicago men, including'C. B. Farwell, S. A. Kent and P'resident Blackstone of the Alton road, have been allowed to examine the property, but it is not believed that they have any financial interestin it. The mine employs natives and Cornishmen as laborers, paying them $2.50 per day and upward, aud has already become quite a center of miscellaneous business. With California losing its prestige as a gold-producing country, Australia disap pointing its friends, and other parts of the earth failing to meet expectations, the students of finance are lookingabout the world for a new sourse of supply. Perhaps Alaska will fulfill the require ments. Burmah, a mysterious country, of whieh Americans know even less than of their own Alaska, is said to have enormous btores of gold ore, of the loca tion of which nobody but a few persons connected with the Government know anything, but developments cannot be expected there for many years. Mean while Alaska will come to the front. At all events, people who have seen the Treadwell like to remark: "Alaska was certainly worth the $7,200,000 Seward paid for it twenty years ago." P'3A%0s AND) O1GANS. One thousand Pianos and Organs to c:ose out by October 1. All Organs and Pianos sold at cash price, payable November 1-no interest-deliverelt to your nearest depot. Fifteen days trial. Organs from $24 up; Pianos from $150 up. All instruments warranted. Send for circulars. Buy now and have the use of the instrument. Remember we pay freight both ways if the instrument don't suit. Prices guaranteed less than New York. N. W. TRUMP, * Columbia, S. C. A woman seldom preserves her temper when she is canning fruit.