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WASHINGTON. ,THE WIFE OF EX-JUDGE THOS. J. LAOKEY GBANTED A DIVO RCE. TIo Important Federal Appointments for North Carolina-Unscrupulous Rev enue Officers in Alabama Working a Scheme Well Xnown in South Carolina. Naval Notes,. Etc. WASHINGTON, June 29.-Mrs. Iosina Mackey was to-day granted a divorce by tie District Sugreme Court from Judge Thomas J. Mackey, formerly of South Carolina. - The ground of the applica tion was adultery with Mrs. Witherbee. formerly of Washington. Mrs. Wither bee's husband is suing her for divorce. THE CHINESE CAN'T PASS THROLGH. Some time ago the Treasury Depart ment was informed that it was desired to take a number of Chinese laborers to the West Indies, and application was made for permission to take. them through United States territory in trar sit, provided a bond was given that none of there would remain in this conu try. The matter was referred to the Solicitor of the Treasury and he gave opinion that there was nothing in law to prohibit landing of Chinese for the mere purpose of passing through the country. Secretary Windom, however, was not prepared to change existing regulations to this extent, and directed the rejection of the application until the question could be considered more thoroughly. No further action on the subject is at all likely, however, as it is understood arrangements have been since made with Canadian transportation companies by which the Chinese will be taken across the continent without the neces sity of entering United States ter ritory. APPOINTMENTS BY THE PRESIDENT. The President has appointed to be Collectors of Internal Revenue Elibu A. White for the Fourth District of North Carolina, and C. W. Arnold for the Dis trict of Georgia to be Collector of Cus toms, Enos J. Pennipacker for the Dis trict of Wilmington, North Carolina. The appointment of Elihu A. White to be Collector of Internal Revenue for the Fourth District of North Carolina settles an interesting triangular fight for 1|Ns office which has been going on sine the incoming of the present administra tion. The successful candidate was op posed by three Republican Congressmen from North Carolina who had other candidates for the place, but was en 'dorsed by a large number of leading Republicans in the Tar-Heel State. He is said to be a man of upright character, and respected by mem bers. of both political parties. He w'as formerly Collector of Internal Revenue for the district which was absorbed into the present one. He is of Qupker descent and a farmer by occu pation. He has served in the State Sen ate and was a delagate to the last two national conventions, voting in that of 1888 for Harrison from the first ballot throughout. His district embraces the fastern parf-of the State. Enos J. Pennepacker appointed Cus toms Collector for the Wilmington Dis trict of North Carolina, was for many years Collector of the Port and was re movedtherefromby President Cleveland. He is an ex-Union soldier and was origi sally from Pennsylvania. "x 4 THE TRANSPORTATION OF COTTON. The Inter-State Commerce Commis sion to-day heard arguments in the cas~e of the New Orleans Cotfon Exchunge vs. the Illinois Central Railroad. and the case of the same complainant against * the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific.Railroad, et al. The third case ~that of .the New Orleans Cotton Ex ch~ige~vs. the Louisville, New Orleans and Texas Railroad-was then taken up. chinthee i thata~ pany, with neadquarters. at Memphis, Tenn., has given and does give an un dUeand unreasonable advantage to ex porters of cotton in Memphis, and has, at the same time, subjected exporters of cotton in New Orleans to ui'ndue and unreasonable disadvantage in the transportation of colton, and has been guilty of undue discrimi nation against the business or traffic of merchants at New Orleans; that the railroad company has given and is giv ---ing to exporters of cotton in Mem phis a through rate to Liver poo via New Orleans of one dol Jrper bale less than can be secured by .exporters im New Orleans, and then pay the current sea going rate from New Orleans to Liverpool. A number of *oetos were filed in the case and tmade. The commission then okall three cases under advisement. .A.aumEWEIL-KNOWN IN SOUTH CAROLINA. The Commisioner of Internal Revenue -:has called Secr-etary Windom's attention it~the practice, said to ha-ye grown up *among certain United States Commis sioners in Alabama, of making cases of alleged violations of the internal reve nue law~s on slight pretext, for the pur pose of making fees for themselves and Ssuch friends as they might select to as sist them, or for the purpose of secur ing transportation to such places as they desired to visit', at government expense. The matter has been :referred to the At torxey. General for such action as he may deem advisable. MOVEMTENTs OF NAVAL vEsSsEIS. SThe United States steamer Adams, a t Honolulu, has been ordered to Samoa to take the place of the Alert and the lpinow on their way to San Fran - cisco. The Kearsarge arrived at St. Nicholas Mole, Hayti, to-day, after a stormy pas sags from New York. She will proceed at once to Port-au-Prince. All on board are well.TH The bond offerings to-day aggregated $2i3,350 -all four and a halls at 106), and all accepted. THE NEW NAvY. Proposals for the construction of cruisers 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11 (the 2,000 and --3,000 ton vessels) will be opened at the N avy Department on August 22nd. . - All For Cleveland. * There was a large meeting of Indiana Democratic editors and newspaper pub lishers at Indianapolis Monday last to - consider matters of business interest to them. These gentlemen were questioned - by a representative of the Indianapolis Sentinel in regard to the political out look, and that paper says "they were a unit in believing that Grover Cleveland is the coming man for 1892." Mr. Short of the Franklin Democ-rat said he talked . with every man present with reference to the matter, and he found no one ..favoring any one else. "We think," said *Mr. Short, "that Cleveland is the great est leader the Democracy ever had. If the nominating convention should occur -to-day he would be nominated h, Has Had Experience. Merchant-You want a place in my store, you say? Applicant-Yes, sir. - tver worked in a store before?" "Yes, sir.'' "Let me try you. Suppose a lady should come in with a piece of cloth and want to get a number of ~yards to match it, what would you do?' "i'd sendl her to the next counter.." "I guess you've had experience." CANADA'S RETALIATION. Sir John Macdonald Thinks thepituation More Critical Than Ever Before. OTTAwA, June ;6.-The Cabinet is in daily session, one of the most important measures under consideration being the proposal to retaliate against the United States authorities by withdrawing the bonding privilege in the forwarding of goods from one United States port to another United States port through ('anada. This has been brought about by the action of the authorities at Wash ington refusing to allow the transmis sion of goods from one Canadian port to another Canadian port in bond through Maine by the new short line railway. Officials are busily engaged ascertaining the probable result of such legislation. The abrogation of the bonding privilege would seriously affect traffic over the Canada Southern, the Canadian Pacific and the Canadian canals. Four hun dred and thirty-seven thousands tons of United States freight passed through the Welland and St. I.awrence Canals in ibond last year, or twenty-six per cent. of the total traffic going through. The Canadian Pacific, notwithstand ing the fact that the recent order from Washington strikes directly at their new short line, are urging the government to take no hurried action. as it will have a very serious effect on the American traffic they expect to secure from the Western States over their recent con nection at the Sault Ste. Marie Canal. ir John Macdonald regards the situa tion as more critical than it has ever been before. The British Minister at Washington has been feeling the way to discover, if possible, the policy the Washington authorities are likely to fol low in dealing with matters affecting Canadian~ interests with no satisfactory result, it is said. No formal negotia tions have passed between thel United States and the Dominion government toward a reconsideration of the fishery question since the rejection of the treaty by the Senate. Sir J no. Macdonld informed Parliament last session that the initia tive must now come from the United States government, whom he had good reason to believe would take steps to ar rive at an early and satisfactory adjust ment of all matters of dispute between the two countries. The time of the Cabinet during the past three days has been fully occupied by a discussion of the Behring Sea ditli culty, the fishery dispute, alleged dis crimination against United States citi zens in the use of the Dominion canals, export duty on logs, the action of the United States government in suspending the bonding system over the short line through Maine. and several other minor matters which have for several years past been the constant cause of irritation between Canada and the United States. A prominent politician in the conti dence of the government remarked to night that Sir John was greatly worried, as could be seen by the change that has come over him since Parliament was prorogued. The fear that existing dif ferences will become more complicated is giving him great anxiety. ROCKED BY MOTHER EARTH. Seventy-Eight Earthquake Shocks Sway Buildings and Drive Californians Frantic. SAN FRANCISco, June 26.-Susanville the seat of Lassen County, far up in the Sierras and remote from railways and telegraph, has been having a lively time for the last week with eart bquakes. On the 16th occurred the heaviest shock ever felt there, and ever since then no less than seventy-five- distinct shocks have been felt. The local paper thtus describes the first day, with its terrors: "-The first great shock was followed at intervals by more or less heavy shacks for over two hours, until seventy-eight shocks had been recorded, of which the tirst shock-which rits something fear ful, rockmng buildings from side to side and scatterings crockery and glassware - people rushed out of houses in whatever clothes they happened to be. Onema ran into the street with his parntaloons in his hands. Main street was crowded in an instant, and people were afraid to return to bed until far in the morning. When a shook would come the crowd would yell and run for the middle of the street. '"The vibrations were from South to North. The shocks were.generally pre ceded by distinct ryimbling noises." A Romantic Courtship. How the late Mr. James Maybrick made the acquaintance of Miss Chandler (his future wife) has already been vaguely hinted at and described in va rious ways. But the followitng is the authentic version of the incident, which is even more- romantic than any of the previous accounts: One day, about eight years. ago, while on board a homeward bound steamer from Atmer ica, a lady stumbled in descending the companion-way leading to the dining saloon. She would have fallen to the bottom but for the fact that Mr. James May brick was there and caught her in his arms. In doing so he sprained his ankle and was laid up for some time. The lady was none other than she who now lies in Walton jail, accused of the terrible crime of poisoning him who had become her husband Later on. the then Miss Chandler (daughter of a Mobile banker) called on the gentleman who had saved her from an awkwvard accident; and subsequently, when she was staying at the Chiidwall Abbey Ho tel with Major and Mrs. Hazzard of New Orleans, Mr. Maybrick visited her. It was a case of pure love, and the Liv erpool cotton merchant felt that lie could not (10 better than marry this young American belle who had so cap tivat ed him .-Pall .Jall Budget. An Insidious Endemic. From what we have heard and seen printed and from the effects which have come undecr our observation, baseball where the craze prevails-is doing no littie injury to the mor als of men and boys, and to women andl girls-that is, where women and gir-ls patronmze the evil with their presence. And where the negroes have caught the distemper it is just as bad with them; for they seem unwiiling to be~ "left" by the whites in anything of the sort they go at, and will bert if they- c-an. The prevalence and popularity of baseball in the colint-y is alarmin. though sonie persons say they see no harm in it; others believe it diemoraliz ing, but say little or nothing against it. Whether the little or nothing said in the pulpits and journals of the country against baseball is through fear of los ing the patronage of baseball players and their sympathizers or whether these who ought to be leaders and molders of better morals andl nmanners think there is no harm in siuch gamnes they them selves know. To their own Master they stand or- tall. '~h~t hit-h i mch to be iregr-etted is the countenance aTt. .nort given to this spor-ting distemnper b1. me news aers. But then one must not forget that in this country a newsnaper may be foul as well as free.--Ch/ristianl Kefh bor. Death of Carlotta Patti. PAnts. .June 2s.-C'arlotta Patti, the well-known singer and sister of Adelina Patti, died in this city to-day. T1he Providecnce (R1. I.) Commioii Coun cil has voted $6,700 to the public li COMMENCEMENT DAY. CLOSING EXERCISES AT THE SOUTH CAROLINA UNIVERSITY. The Creditable Essays and Orations of the Graduates-Certificates and Diplo mas Presented and Conferred-The Able Address of the Hon. Edward At kinson. (From the Columbia Daily Register, June 27.) The regular commencement exercises at the South Carolina University were held in the chapel yesterday, commenc ing at 10 o'clock a. m. The attendance was not large at the opening of the exercises, and while the niumber was considerably augmented by an intermittent stream of arrivals dur ingr the first hour, the total number present at tle regular commencement exercises of this, the-greatest educa tional institution of South Carolina, was hardly equal to that attending the clos ing exercises of many a country academy. It is certainly a matter for regret that columbia's citizens at least do not more generally lend the encouragement of their presence to an occasion interesting in itself and connected with an institu tion of special importance in many ways to our city's interest and prosperity. The platform was edged with banks of gray moss, which hid the receptacles from which sprang graceful ferns and beautiful flowering plants. Upon the rostrum were seated Presi dent McBryde, the Hon. Edward Atkin son of Brookline, Mass., on his right, Governor Riebardson upon his left, and the following distinguished gentle men: Chief Justice Simpson, Colonel A. C. Haskell, Captain J. Stoney Porcher, the Hon. W. H. Brawley, uol. J. E. Hum hert, General .ames L. Izlar, the Hon. U J. C. Hutson of the Board of Trus tees, Mayor John T. Rhett, Colonel F. W. McMaster, Colonel I. G. McKissick, and the following members of the faculty: Dr. J. W. Flinn, Dr. James Woodrow, Prof. F. C. Woodward, Prof. W. B. Burney. Lieutenant J. R. Ed wards, Prof. Lougbridge, Prof. E. W. Davis, Prof. R. Means Davis and Prof. M array. After music by the Bearden Bros., orchestra of Augusta, which was in at tendance, and an impressive prayer by Dr. J. W. Flinn, Chaplain of the Uni versity, the announcement of the honor lists and scholarships, certificates and degrees for the session of 1888-89, were made. THE ORDER OF EXERCISES was then entered upon apd carried out as indicated by the programme given below: The Tendency Towards Socialism, William Thomas Aycock. The Probable Effect of an Interna tional Copyright Law on American Litera ture, William Alexander Barber. Southern Literature, Jacob Risher Fairey. The Way Out of the Wilderness, Ed ward St. Julien Grimke. Music. The Success of Electric Lighting, Sol omon Kohn. Education in Civics, George Hall Mof fett. Education in South Carolina. Frank Farrow Simpson. A Plea for the Primary System, John Lewis Wiggins. Music, The Conflict of Races, John Howell Green. Electricity versus Steam, Anthony Foster Me6Kissick. Suffrage and Its Restriction in South Carolina, Bush McLaughlin. Mfusic. President 3MeBryde then presented certificates and conferred degrees as follows: CERTICATES.--WilliamJames Good ing, Hampton, shorter course of applied Iscience; Jesse Bernard McLauchhin, I J p loter .cirse ~nra science. . GRADUAT~s. Bachelors o;fArts.-William Thomas Aycock, Sumter; Charles O'Neale Mai tindale, Jr., Richland; William Alexan der Barber, Chester; Robert Beverly ason, Fauquier Co., Va.; William Wil son Bradley, Sumter; George Hall Mof fett, Charleston; Jacob Risher Fairey, Orangeburg; Marshall Dantzler Murray, Orangeburg; Mortimer Worth Glover, Orangeburg; Frank Farrow Simpson, Spartanburg; John Howell Green, Rich land; Ebbie Julien Watson, Richland; Edward St. Julien Grimke, .Charleston; John Lewis WViggins, Berkeley; August Kohn. Orangeburg, Thomas Gregg Wil kinson, Florence; Edwin Raymond Lu es, Darlington; William Alfred Wilkin son, Florence; Samuel McGowan. Jr., partanburg; Legriel Adolph Wittkow sky, Kershaw; Bush McLauchlin, Rich land. Brhelors of &ience-Albert Earle Boozer, Richland; Harry Alexander Brunson, Florence; John Henry Donald son, Georgetown; William Augusta Ed wards, Darlington; Isaac Hayne, Charleston; Solomon Kohn, Orangeburg; Anthony Foster McKissick, Union; Charles~ Elijah Wright, Spartanburg. Bachelors of Laws-William Alex ander Barber, Chester;-George Lynwood Callaway, P&. B. (Furman) A. B., Greenvile; Wilhtam Bratton DeLoach, Hampton; William Davis Douglas,. A. B., Fairfield; John Howell Green, Richland; Daniel Heyward Hanckel, A. B., Charleston; Edwvard William Hart, York: Jesse Bernard McLauchlin, Richland; Fitz Hugh McMaster, A. B.. Fairfield; John Ash by Sawyer, Richland; John Oscar Westfield, Greenville; Legriel Adolph Wittkowsky, Kershaw. Graduates in Pharmnacy-Williami Henry Gilliland, Darlington; Charles Jason Pettingill, New York.. Licentiates of instruction---T homas Pearce Bailey, Jr., A. B., Georgetown; Harry Alexander Bru nson, Florence; Charles O'Neale Martindale, Jr., Rich Xastes of Arts-homas Pearce Bailey. Georgetown; Edward St. Julieni Grike, Charleston: Anthony Foster Mc K~issick, Union. HONORARY DEGREEs. Doc~tor oif Divinity-Rev. R. N. Wells, Charleston. Doctor of' Lenes-Hon. Ed ward Atkin son. Boston, Mass. t the conclusion of his .nerformane of this pleasant duty President McBryde made one of the peculiarly'appropriate addresses with which lie favors each graduating class.- These addresses brief, pointe, practical in counsel, beautiful in sentiment andl most graceful in ex pression are gems of pure English and models of their kind. He said that it had been his privilege to present the diplomas to the first class graduated after the reorganization of the ollege, in 1883, and it had been his pleasant duty to do the same to the first class graduating after the expansion of the college into at University in 1888. The intervening time seemed short, yet how great the progress made. In h-eautitul language he compared the young men now starting on the voy age of lite to barks freightedl with fond est hopes. whose sals the watchers on the banks hope will be trimmed with favoring breezes in safety to ports of happiness and prosperity. In the psalm of life he said the words of refrain were truth and duty. Success was the object of them all, but he hopedi they sought success in the highest ac ceptation of the term-the highest living in the sight of God and man. They first should have self-respect. " To tine o.vn self be true." Continuing lhe said: "I'have a purpose in life and throw into it. all the strength Sand biit which Gard ha griven you. From each failure learn a lesson. Let g- owth be the law of your being, so that the latest years of life shall be the best. Each one of you stand as the heir of all the ages, with all the advantages and possibilities of the nine teenth century at your command. Your Maker and the world wants your best. Rise then to the full possi bility of your powers and my wish is that God, who has thus far showered blessings upon you shall continue to .the end. God bless you all, farewell." THE ANNUAL ORATION. An intermission followed in which the graduates received the cordial congratu lations of their friends present. When the assemblage was again called to or der President McBryde introduced as the orator of the occasion, and one who had done much with tongue and pen to advance the industrial development of our country, the Lon. Edward Atkinson, of Massachusetts. Mr. Atkinson pro ceeded to deliver an able adilress on the subject-"Consumption Limited ; Power of Production Unlimited." The address was a fine presentation of the resources of our country and the grand possibili ties incident thereto. In conclusion Mr. Atkinson drew a glowing picture of what might be ac complished in the improvement of many processes, and the employment for man's comfort, convenience and support of the powers of nature, and told the graduates that they and their children or their children's children might realize the very vision of the poet, when shall be estab lished a nation which shall be "Good, great and joyous.beantiful an-] true. This is alone life, joy, empire, victory." As he left Harvard College. enjoying its class-day festival, he thought he might venture to bring the fraternal greeting of that ancient University. and to (10 so President Eliot empowered him. At the conclusion of Mr. Atkinson's address the audience was dismiss-d with the benediction by the Rev. Dr. Flinn. THE HAYTIAN SITUATION. Latest Reports from the Seat of War. Statements of Legitiminsts. NEW YORK, June 26.-The steamer Prins Wilhelm. from Port-au-Prince, which arrived here to-day, brings among her passengers several friends of Le gitime, including General La Forest, Military Governor of Port-au-Prince; Mr. Preston, son of Minister Preston, and M. Leon Hutinot, Chancellor of the French Legation at Port-au-Prince. General La Forest said: "I am the Mili tary Governor of Port-au-Prince, and I left the city in' a normal and healthy condition, both physically and morally. Hippolyte wasn't in town, and just be fore I left I made a tour through my district, which embraced a circuit of thirty miles around Port-au-Prince, and I did not discover Hippolyte there either. He's in the torth somewhere." General La Forest is on his way to Paris as commissioner to the exposition. M. Hutinot has dispatches addressed to the Minister of Foreign Affairs in France. Mr. Stephen - Preston is en route to Germany on a "secret" ision to ask Germany, in behalf of Legitime, it is said, for assistance against Hippo lyte. He leaves- here on Saturday. 'The situation in Hayti is about the same as it was eight mouths ago," said Mr. Preston. "Legitime is still in pos session o! Port-au-Prince, and any one that says that the city has been besieged lies. Hippolyte has never been within fifteen miles of the city. We have lost in the North through the cowardice of General Piquant. The steamships Ca rondelet and Mercedes of Hippolyte's navy are in a very bad condition. They have been chased many times by our boats. We are expectinga new steamship from Spain. It should be at the Port by this time. Legitime is still certain of success. He Kills a Sheriff and His Deputy, and is Hmsnelf Fatally Wounded. KFOKUK, Iowa, June 28.-W. Mc Ginnis, living about six miles North of Cambria, Iowa, has D~een showing symptoms of mania for some time. To day Sheriff Ramsey of Lucas County, Deputy Rollins and a man named Blouse went to McGinnis's house to take charge of him. McGinnis, on seeing their approach, drew a revolver, shool - ing Sheriff Ramsey through the head, killing him instantly. Deputy Rollins then drew a revolver and shot McGinnis through the lower jaw, inflicting a pain ful wound. McGinnis then shot Rollins through the arm, the ball passing into bis left side, inflicting a fatal wound. McGinnis then turned on Blouse, but before he could fire, Blouse shot him through the head. Rollins and MeGinnis will die. The Ice Cream Season. Society Mau-I have clipped a little item from a Connecticut paper about a whole congregation being poisoned by ice cream. If you insert it in your paper and call attention to it I will take seventy-five copies. Editor-All iit: I'll do it. But why do-you take such an interest in breaking up the ice cream business? If you know as many young ladies as I do you would catch on. By the way, you can interline that all the sufferers died in great agony and that their fea tures were fearfully distortcd. I've known young ladies to faint irn front of an.ice cream parlor, so they could be carried in. Yod might remark, e-li toially, that even when ice cream is pure it destroys the complexion and brings on premature old age. I hate to do this, but self-protection is the fir-st law of nature.. The Way of the Negro. The ignorant, pleasure loving, happy go-lucky negro of Washington is as carefuly discriminating with reference to the payment of bills as the insolvent merchant who is making a list of pie ferred credhtors. The grocer o- butcher who trusts him is often likely to wait for his money until the ink on the ac count book becomes pale and illegible, the professional man-the doctor or-the lawyer -always gets his money. He looks upon a doctor with a kind of su perstitious respect. The simplicity of his mind makes him an uncanny being who brings about wonderful results by means that can be little short of super natural. He will bring his last fifty cents to a doctor whom he has employed and force it upon him, whether he wants it or not. "Take it, boss," says he; "I'll be hoodooed if you don't take it." The lawyer is also regarded with awe because of his mysterious connection with the powers of the law, and in most cases has little trouble in collecting his fees.- Washington C'ritic. Mormon Statistics. The official statistics readl at the last Mormon Conference in Salt Lake City show that "the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints" has 12 apostles, 70 patriarchs, 3,919 high pr-iests, 11,805 elders, 2,069 priests, 2,292 teac-hers, 11, 610 deacons. 81,899 families, 119,915 of ficers and members and 49,303 children under 8 years of age-a total Mormon population of 153,911. The number of marriages for the six months ended April 6, 1889, was 530: number of births, 2,754; new members baptized, 48: excommunications, 113. Extensive Tannery :Burned. BENIc~i, Cal., June 26.-The Pioneer Tannery, owned by McKay & Chisholm, was burned this morning. The loss will SIMON CAMERON DEAD. THE GREAT LEADER OF THE REPUB LICAN HOSTS IN PENNSYLVANIA Yields to Paralysis and the Weight of His Ninety Years-Sketch of His Re markable Career-A Self-Made Man. LANCASTER, Pa., June 26.-General .Simon Cameron died at 8 o'clock this evening, of paralysis, with which he was stricken on the night of the 20th instant. He was 90 years old on the 8th of last March, and on the 9th of last May was attacked by a hemorrhage, which many of his friends though at the time presaged very serious conse quences, though the General himself spoke very lightly of his illness, saying that it was of no consequence. SKETCH OF HIS CAREER. Simon Cameron was born in Lancaster County, Pa., March 8, 1799. He was left an orphan at an early age, but received a fair English education, and began to learn the printer's trade when 9 years of age. He worked as a journeyman in Lancaster, Harrisburg and Washington, and so improved his opportunities that in 1820 lie was editing a newspaper in Doylestown, Pa., and in 1822 one in Harrisburg. As soon as he had accumu lated sufficient capital he became in terested in banking and in railroad construction in the central part of the State. He was for a time Adjutant Gen eral of Pennsylvania. He was elected to the United States Senate in 1845 for the term ending in 1849, and during this period acted with the Democrats on importantparty questions, such as the Missoari compromise bill. This was re pealed in 1854, and Mr. Cameron be came identified with the "people's party," subsequently merged with the Republicans. As its candidate he was re-elected to the Senate for the full terni of six years, beginning in 1859, a period that covered the exciting crisis of se cession. During. this time he was so earnest an advocate of peace that his loyalty was suspected. At the Re publican convention that nominated Abraham Lincoln he was srtongly sup ported for the Presidency, and again for the Vice Presidency, but lack of harmony in the Penn sylvania delegation prevented his nomination for the latter office. Mr. Lincoln at once called him to the Cabinet as Secretary of War, and he proved equal to the arduous duties of the.piace. He advocated more stringent and ag gressive war measures than Mr. Lincoln was prepared to carry out, and when General Butler asked for instructions regarding fugitive slaves, directed him to employ them "under such organiza tions and in such occupations as exigen cies may suggest or require." Similar instructions were given to General Sher man and other officers in the field. In the original draft of his annual report to Congress in December, 1861, be boldly advocated arming fugitive slaves, but this was modified on con sultation with the Cabinet. Mr. Cam eron resigned the Secretaryship January 11, 1862, and was at once appointed Minister to Russia. His influence un doubtedly tended in a large measure to secure the friendship of that powerful nation durihg the civil war. His official conduct in "investing Alexander Cum mins with the control of large sums of public money, and authority to purchase military supplies without restriction and without requiring from himany.guaran tee for the faithful performance of his duties, while the services of competent public officers were available, and on involving the government in large contracts with persons not legitimately engaged in the business pertaining to those contracts, and par ticularly in the purchase of arms for future delivery," was censured by the House of Representatives April 30, 18t2, of ~apartments, an equal share in the responsibiiity- He resigned as Minister to Russia Nove'mber 8. 1862, and remained at home until 1866, when he wats elected United States Senator and appointed chairman of the committee on foreign affairs on the retirement of Mr. Charles Sumner in 1872. He was sent to the Senate for the fourth time in 1873, but resigned in favor of his son, the present Senator--James Donald Came ron. During the years of his active public life he was a powerful political' leader, practically dictating the policy of the Republican party in Pennsylvania and wielding a strong influence over its policy in the nation at large. J4N INDIANA MONSTROSITY. Twin Girls on the Order or the Siamese Twins. INDIANPOLIS, June 28. -The Journald's Kokomo correspondent reports that on last Tuesday, twelve miles South of there, Mrs. Henry Jones had born to her tin girls, inseparably con ncted at the hips and lower abdomen. No vital or gans are connected except the spinal column, which is continuous fromr one end to the other. Each' breathes and pulsates quite independently of the other, and both are perfectly formed and have free use of their limbs. Thbe infants are apparently as hearty as any children of their age. Picture of the President. President Harrison is peevish and fretfut, and if all the stories told here are true he has said some tart things to the politicians who have been thronging the White House. He isn't a man of ro bust health like Mr. Cleveland. The present Executive is thin and looks careworn. Many people do not think be can stand the strain to the end of his term if he is not more careful of his health. Cleveland is fat and ponderous, but-he is a stolid, stubborn man that neither hard work nor strife can effect. He was able to stand the strain that was put upon him, and left the White H-ouse in just as good if not better health than when he entered it.- Washington Letter. Destructive Forest Fire in Montana. HELENA, Montana, June 28.-All ef forts to check the forest fire which started in Cascade County, near Sand Coles, two days ago, have proved un availing. Advices up to last night show it has covered an area of over one hun dred square miles and has destroyed the best hay ground in the vicinity. The 1oss will be very heavy owing to the fact that the dry season had already greatly reduced the hay crop. No such prairie ire has been known in Montana in re cent years. So far no lives are reported lost; though several ranchmen were burned out. Sound Advice to the Girls. The Ne w York Herald quotes from a baccalaureate sermon at Vassar College' as follows: "To become what you should you must build your lives on the broad lines of duty," and adds: "And above all things get married. Don't let po lemics or transcendentalism take the place of. substantial joy. It is better to know how to win and keep the love of a good man than to trace the human amily back to a protoplasm." A Tennille, ga., gcntleman caught a1 number of fish and threw them, with an eel, on the grass. Later he prepared to string them, but found that the eel had run his tail through the gill of each fish and tied the end into a hard knot, thus onverting itself into a genuine fishi srin. A Fair English Socialist. Mrs. Annie Besant's popularity and influ ence with the London democracy are un doubted. There is a wonderful magnetic at traction about her. Her face !n repose can hardly be called handsome, brt when ani mated her dark Irish eyes flash fire, and as one of her lady friends once said to me, "she has one of the sweetest smiles I have ever seen." Her short, curling hair and the some what peculiar attire which she a4ects add to the individuality of her appearance. But her eloquence is after all the greatest attraction. I have heard her speak time after time, and always with a renewed sense of her graphic power and deep earnestness. At the debates of the Fabian society, the Socialist body of which she is a member, she is the only speaker whom you feel to possess a thorough grasp of the socialist problem. As regards energy and downright hard work, very few women can approach Annie Besant. She lives alone in a pleasant house in St. John's Wood, but she is usually to be found immersed in business in a little office room up two flights of narrow stairs above The Free Thought publishing office in Fleet street. There it was that I saw her for the first time six or seven years ago. She writes largely, she lectures all over the country, she edits The National Reformer for Mr. Brad laugh, she founds working girls' unions and takes up every forlorn political cause' in the metropolis. And yet Mrs. Besant is the best abused and most misrepresented woman in London and the bugbear of polite society. Her advocacy of Neo-Malthusian theories, and still more her almost bitter antagonism to the Christianity of the present day, fully account for this.-London Cor. Chicago In ter Ocean. - Always Late. I have observed that during the successful run of any play or opera that the me: who have the middle seats on the row are nearly always the last to be seated, to the conse quent annoyance and discomfort of those pos sessing aisle seats. Treasurer McKeever, of the Madison Square theatre, thus sagely ex plains the anomaly: "The forethought that actuates a man and sends him to the box of flee at an early date, securing to himself a choice of location-which is invariably the end seats of a row-sends hin to the theatre at an early hour that he may be in time for the rising of the curtain. That man is prob ably a good business man, punctual at his ap pointments and a person of reliance. The man who comes in late probably came to the box office at the last moment, was obliged to take middle seats to be as near the stage as is then possible, and. the procrastinating spirit that induced him to buy his seats late sends him to the theatre a half hour after the cur tain has risen, to climb over punossal people, crushing hats and toes alike of both ladies and gentlemen."-New York Star. Duman' Dog. We cannot all be so strong and lucky as Dumas, and we do not want to be so unlucky; though strong, as another person of whom he tells a story. M. Alexandre Dumas pere had a hound called Mouton, an undemonstrative brute, which rooted up a favorite dahlia. M. Dumas had introduced this dog into a novel. As he sat and wrote he kept an eye on his paragraph (where the hound was performing the noblest acts) and with the other eye he watched Mouton's excavations of the dahlia. When the paragraph was done he gave the unsuspecting Mouton a kick behind, and his Mouton returned to him. With one hand he caught the dog by the throat, Mouton caught the other hand in his jaws, and there was a noble fight. At last Mouton gave in, and for three days M. Dumas, with his hand under a stream of cold water, waited to see if Moutor would "take his meals regular." For three days Mouton abstained, and it seemed ten to one that he was mad. But then he picked up his crumbs, and neither it was that died. In the other story the other man collared the other dog and was not bitten, but died of the nervous shock.-Saturday Review. Barking Up the Wrong Tree. Two wandering organ grinders the other day made a dead set at a hospitable looking house at Eleventh and Clinton streets. Chil dren's smiling faces are constantly seen at the windows, and the gentlemen from IKing Humbert's realm seem to think there is a mint of money there for them. Sometimes half a dozen stop during the day in front of the house, unlimber their music boxes, uin hitch the cranks and start In. They grind out everything, from the "Last Rose of Su~m mer" to "Nadjy," all the time looking prayer and fromi their ignorani he Eng - lan guage utterly oblivioi of the fact that a sign on the house sets fo th the fact that it is a deaf and dumb asylum, and that the in mates are smiling at the futile efforts of the organ grinders to make their lives unhappy. -Philadelphia Press. "Bludding Wisdom." To-Bo had a passion for accuracy, r.nd when she could not command the expression for an idea would quickly make one. Thus she was overheard one day saying to a little playmate who had put a sand pie into the oven dad instantly taking it out again, de claring it was done. "You can't do it so. It wouldn't bake in just a now." Her father used to say to her as an induce ment to good behavior: "If you are a gcod girl all this month I will let you be so many years old on your next birthday." This wans a very solemn consideration, and always had an immediate effect, till one day she answer ed, as a light suddenly burst upon her: "Why, papa, you can't step me from being 4 years old in January! You can't make mec 4 years old and you can't stop meP"-St. Nicholas.__________ Rules for a Rainy Day. If the umbrella is at the "other end of the line," bear It patiently. Some other uim brella will do just as well. Be sure and info'rm every one you meet that "it rais." Otherwise they might re main in ignorance of the damp fact. Waterproof garments may be depended upon to abed water upon other folks. That seems to be the chief objectof their existence. Do not allow any ventilation In a horse car on a rainy morning. It might exilarate the passengers to deeds of-violence. Carry your umbrella very carefully and you can just manage to drejn one quarter section of it down the ned of the person who is so unfortunate as to he ahead of you. He will appreciate this.--Hartford Post. Young Looking Actresses.. Maggie Mitchell, after some thirty years upon the stage, continues to play extremely juvenile heroines. Lotta,. whose career as a star has lasted more than twenty years, has no difficulty in appearing as a sprightly and mischievous child. Agnes Booth, Kate lRogers and Rose Eytinge all look, both ou and off the stage, from ten to fifteen years younger than they are. At her recent benefit Mrs. D. P. Bowers appeared as Mary, queen of Seo:., and was able to realize much of the charm at tributed to that unfortunate heroine. While Mrs. Bowers was on the scene the veteran actor, Harry Watkins, told the writer that thirty-nine years had passed since he had played for her benefit In Baltimiore.-New York Tribune. A De~ndant of Pocahontas' RIcrMOND, Va., June 20.-Colonel Sherwin McRae; formerly a plromfinent lawyer and ex-nmember of the Legisla lure from Henrico County, compiler of State records, anud of late years con nected with the State library, died to day, aged 84 vnars. He was, it is said, a descendant of Pocahontas on his mother's side. Death of an Aged Minister. ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 28.-The Rev. George A. Smith, one of the oldest min isters of the Episcopal Church of Vir riima, and att one time editor of the Southn1 Chiurdhman, (lied in this city o-day, aged 86 years." Funeral of Mrs. Hayes. FREMONT, 0.. June 28.-Mrs. Hayes vas buried this afternoon in Oakwood emetery. Thbe funeral services were ' mple and unostentatious, preserving he character of a private rather thant g ublic occasion. A Woman Hanged in Philadelphia. PHILADELHIIA, June 25.-Mrs. Whiitei ing, who poisoned her husband and wo children. was hanged this morning n the inilvnrdt THE~ POW, AN APPEAL FOR MELDDY OF A WHOLESOME CHARACTER. The "Classic" All Right in Its Place, but the People Want Popular Ballads and Nadonal Airs - The -Poor Love Good Music Though They Cannot Buy It. Give the people music, and let it be both popular and good. - Music rouses and trains the emotions, as the gymnasium trains men in the exercise of their limbs. Inward activities long dormant or never before awakened are called up and become new powers within the breast and emotion nerves for action. The stupidest horse that goes up hill to the sound of bells, the timidest soldier who marches to battle with fife and drum, the most delicate girl who spins round and round tireless in the dance, the poorest laborer who sings at his work-any of them are good enough to prove that music rouses and sustains the emotions. But that is not alL It will discipline and control emotion; that is the explanation of the art of music as distinguished from the mere power of musical sounds. IT MAKES THEY BETTER. Have you ever noticed how men, women, and children will stand around the door of a saloon listening to the wretched version of some tine melody executed by a getter band? Many who come to the door will not enter, preferring to hear the music, such as it is; those who are- inside will come forth witir lighted pipes and pause. Slatternly girls, with ragged children in their arms; idle ex , press drivers, and dirty, stone throwing, dog worrying boys, will all stand still in wonder ment and joy. And what is it all about? A cracked fiddle, a wretched cornet, and a harp of which no two strings are in tune, trying wildly to follow "The Last Rose of Sum mer." The masses of the people want music and if it be of a suitable quality it will do them good. The masses who attend the free, open air concerts in the parks include many persons of wealth and refinement, but as a rule the majority care nothing for what is usually called "classical" music. To them this means something ground out with great exertion by the performers, with much bleating and gesticulation, full of many trills and phrases and banging and clanging, but without any simple air in it which can be easily caught up and remembered afterward with pleasure. So if leaders of bands really desire to strike the :ey note of the class of music most popu lar with- their audiences they should listen to the selections given on the streets by the organ grinders and the vagrant bands. They will hear much that has been written by such eminent composers as Mozart, Verdi, Schu mann and Sullive n. They will find not un common old English ballads of the same style as the patriotic airs of "The Star Spangled Banner," "Hail Columbia," "Yankee Doodle" and "Marching Through Georgia," and they will discover by no means infrequent pretty and "catchy" airs from the comic operas. The peasant songs of France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy and Ireland can also be heard. In short, the free park concerts will be a greater success than ever before if the music sele-ted by the band leaders is both popular and good. And supposing that every Saturday after noon through the summer and early autumn hard worked men can look forward to a feast of music that will soothe, solace and refresh them. They will be there with their wives and children, they will spend less on the whole family than they would squander on them selves in one idle afternoon; they will meet friends and form new acquaintances and have pleasant chats; they will go home satisfied. recreated, having had their exercise and con pany, will be likely to go to bed early. BETTER THAN MEDICINE. The rich have their grand operas and their high toned concerts. They have their musicales and their "at homes." But there are thousands and thousands of mechanics and laborers and toilers-denizens of un fashionable streets and sections-whose only use of the emotional life is base, undisciplined, and degraded. Pleasure with many means crime; restraint, the real handmial<; of pleas ure, is unknown; system, order, harmony in their feelings, habits of self control, checking the impulses, moderating and .economizing the feelings, guiding them to powerful pur poses and 'wise ends and wholesome joys-of teach and give. The music of the churches has become so prominent a feature that it attracts as many hsteners as the sermon, but the vast majority of the poor do not go to church at all. Yet these people have their feelings and emotions, and a beautiful strain of music, whether sacred or secular, is as likely to cause a sob within the breast clad in fustian as within one attired in silk. Music will some day become a powerful and acknowledged therapeutic. And it is one especially appropriate in this excitable age. Half our diseases-some physicians say all our- diseases-come from disotder of the nerves. How mainy ills of the mind precede the ills of the body! Boredom makes more patients than fever. Want of interest and excitement, stagnation of the emotional life, or the fatigue of over wrought emotion, lies at the root of half the ill health of our young men and women. Can we doubt the power of music to break up that stagnation? Or can we doubt its power- to soothe, to recreate an overstrained emotional llfe, by bending the bow the other way? There are moods of exhausted feeling in which certain kinds of music would act like poison, just as whip and spur which encourage the racer at first tire him to death at latt. There are other kinds of music which soothe, and, if one may use the word, lubricate the worn ways of the nervous centers. When good music ceases to be the luxury of the rich and the-degradation of the poor it will open the golden gates of a wider and happier realm of recreation for the masses. It will have a marked influence on crime, and it will promote thrift and increase the sum-now lamentably small-of the people's wholesome pleasures.-Chicago Times. Grafting Part of a Nerve. An interesting surgical operation is report ed in England. The patient had a small tumor in a large nerve on the arm. In re moving it some of the nerve was itself un avoidably taken away, causing a loss of sen sation in those portions of the skin to which the nerve led. The surgeon, nothing daunted, performed a second operation forty-eight hours after the first. He then took a piece of healtjby nerve frocm a leg ho had just ampu tated and patched up the injured nerve with it. In thirty-six hours sensation returued, and the subsequent progress of the patient ga.e evidence of complete recovery.-New York Telegram. Ten years ago the superintendent of an Iowa railroad booted a tramp) out of his office for having the check to-ask for- a pass. Today that tmamp is the superintendent of that same road, while the muan who'lifted him on his boot keeps a restaurant and sends him over lunches. Tom Woolfolk to Hang August 16. ATrLtx'Tr. Junec 25.-Tomn Woolfolk, who mtmdered nine of his family, has eeln coaviete'd iii the Superior Court of murder in the first degree. lHe wias sentced to be hanged August 16 next. A mo(tion for a new trial wi's entered. A Costly Blaze in Chicago. Cmncaco, June 2.- Burton block, corier Van Buren and Clinton streets. was bur-ned this morning. Loss on build vied amo~ng a numbher of firnrs. The llok was 200) feet front on each str :t and six stories high. Marriage at. Greenvil'e. GnEvim.te. June 25.- [Special to Tne Register. I-Geor-ge C. Smith of Milledge ville. Ga.. was n'arried t>-day to Miss Chalotte Smith of this city, a daughter of Julius C. Smith a wealthy and promi- t euet citizen of G;reenvnie. The mnarriage tok place at the home of the bride's f .her and after the ceremony the y-oung I roupe lett for a bridlal tour to the I North r'ia C'har-leston. The bride ~s one of Greenv;"e's most popr'ar and hand-d some yomi hlies. 6kWs8 eft at man who came to ask for Near the camp fire's flickering li1 In my blanket bed I lie, Gazing through the shades of night At the twinkling stars on utgh. O'er me spirits in the air Silent vigils seem to keep, As I breathe my childhood's prayer - "Now I lay me down to sleep." Sadly sings the whippoorwill In the boughs of yonder tree: Laughingly the dancing rill Swells the midnight melody. Foemen nay be Lurking near, In the canyon dark and deep; Low I breathe in Jesus' ear "I pray the Lord my soul to keep.' 'Mid the stars one face I see, One the Saviour called away: Mother, who in infancy Taught n y baby l'ps to pray. Her sweet spirit hovers near In this lonely mountain brake: * Take ine to her. Saviour dear, "If I should die before I wake.'' - Fainter &ows the dlickering light, As eat. ember slowly die-: Plaintively the birds or night Fill the air with saddening cries. Over n.e they seem, to cr.: -You nay nevermore awake" Low I lisp, "If I should die, I pray the Lord my soul to take." "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord n-.y soul to keep, If I should die before I wake, I pray the Lord my soul to take." A DYING MAN LYNCHED. TilE SHOCKING CRIME PERPETR.TED l'> 31ASEED 31EN IN UNION COUYTY. Andrew McNight, the Negro Who Had His Throat Cut and Was Shot by Daniel Gallman, Taken from His Bed of Suffer ing at Midnight by Six Unknown Men, Conveyed to a Graveyard a Mile and a Half Distant, and Shot to Death. UNION, S. C., June 25.-[Special to The Register.]-Last Thursday after noon Daniel Gallman, a young white man, brother of the chairman of the Board of County Commissioners, was (driving in his buggy past the house of Andrev McNight, a negro. McNight asked Gallman to give him a seat in his buggy and Gallman - kindly comp with his request. They had not ceeded far when the negro, for no e whatever, kicked the dashboard off buggy. Gallman told him he wo have to pay for it. McNight th upon became enraged, and tried force Gallman out of the buggy. In t scuffle, Gallman got out his knife a cut the negro's throat from ear to e~ but not deep enough to produce serious resuitb. McNight then jumped out of the buggy and tried to attack Gallman with a stick. Gallman whipped up his horse and drove to a neighboring house, where he procured a shotgun. As Mc Night followed him, he warned him to stop, but the negro replied: "I'm goin' to kill you, or you kill me." Gallman thereupon emptied the contents of one barrel into McKnight's stomach, producing what were supposed to be fatal injuries. The foregoing facts were reported is this correspondence in last Saturday's issue of THE REGISTER. McNight was taken to the house o Sol. Cook, near by, where he lay suffee ing until Saturday night, when a ~ rible sequel to the tragedy occur A t a la te h o u r th a t n ig h t w h ile M c N i t , was lying on the floor on a quit, fering from his wounds, at knock beard at the door, arnd immediately terwards six masked men entere house, and roughly, picking up wound negro, rushed off him down the road, a mile and and :a half to a chu where they literally erddled -t wretch's body with gunshot an balls. He evidently died aIr stantly. The body wa~discovere morning. inesi ther a ol wounds. His earrings were torn I his ears, and, in short. he was mangi in a terrible manner. His entrails we oozing from the gaping wounds in h' side, and it seemed, from the position the body was in, and from the position. of his hands, that, as near death as was, he attempted to keep in stomach his already wounded. vitals. There is no clue to the identity of murderers. The verdict of the Coron jury was that "The deceased came to his death by gu'nshot wounds in hanlds of unknown persons." Pinching the Breadwinners. The industry of the Northwestern mil lers in putting up the price of flour be yond all relation to the price of wheat is shown by the fact that they have suc ceeded in advancing their asking prices for flour 50 cents per barrel within the past two weeks. An attempt has also been made to advance wheat on the re port of short stocks and tinfavorable weather, but, notwithstanding all efforts of that sort, the price of wheat has con duich o decline. Tile millers' conmbi eetup r' however, continues to screw up nitatou. of flour until it is now between .50 cents and $1 per barrel higher than is indieated by the relative price of wheat. Of course, the inevitable result is that consumers will buy less flour and that the millers who sell their products at a rea sonable margin will hold the market un til the Northwestern crowd begin to see the advisability of a decent respect for the laws of trade. In the meantime the supply of breadstuff is artificially en hanced in price, and an attempt is made to impose an excessive charge on the cost of life for the benefit of the few by the stereotyped trust method.-Pittsburg DOESN'T BELIEVE IN IMMERSION. He'll Have No More of it in His Mill Pond. Baptists Hunting for Another. BIRMINGHAM, Ala., June 2.-The Rev.,, Robert Gaines, pastor of a country Baptist Church about twenty miles from this city, has been houlding~ a revival meeting for ten (days. It closed yester day. and he had fifteen converts to bap tize. Mr. Gaines has always baptized his converts in a mill pond belonging to Mr. Burton. Burton is not a church mem ber, but has always allowed the use of his pond free of charge. Yesterday when Mr. Gaines, his fif teen converts, and several hundred spec tators arrrved at the mill pond they found Mr. Burton tbere with a shotgun. Barton informed the clergy' man that lie did nor believe in immersion, and would have no more of it in his mill pond. The preacher tried to reason with Bur ton, but the latter cocked his gun and told the crowd to "Git!" Mr. Gaines asked all Christians present to kneel, and he then offered up a prayer for the conversion of the wicked Mr. Burton. At the conclusion of is prayer- it was announced that the baptizing was post poned until another mill pond 2ould be secured, and the crowd dis persed. . A Free Menagerie. Lady' Visitor (in hospital)-Poor man! 2ow he groans: What is the matter vith him, nurse? Nurse-He's got the delirium tremens. Lady (to man)- -My friend, yon should ~ive up s~ron< <hinik. Don't you know hat you woaild be happier an~d have no -e pleasare without it? ~Patien.-Do it know about tha.. au-n! I> e ha seeing circuses an' me ageries an' snakes an blue monkeys rith pink tails for two (lays, an' I tidn't have to pay to get in, nuther. -Frwmno DrA. JJraaine. .