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MANNING CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 2, 1889. NO. 43 "TILE CITY STREETS." Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal mage, D. D. He Gives His Impressions of the Sights Sean in the City Streets-Scenes of - ''Toil and Struggle-A Great Field for Christian Charity and * the Study of Mankind. The subject of Rev. Dr. Taimage's recent sermon at the Brooklyn Tabernacle was "The City Streets," and histext: "Wisdom crieth withot;she uttereth her voice in the streets"-I'rOV. i.20.- The preacher said: We are ready to listen to the voices of nature-the voices of the mountain, the voices of the sea, the 'voices of the storm, the voices of the star. As in some of the cathedrals in Europe there is an organ at either end of the building, and the one in strument responds musically to the other, so in the great cathedral of nature day re sponds to day; and night to night, and flower to flower, and star to star, in the great har monies of the universe. The springtime is an evangelist in blossomspreachingof God's 16ve; and the winter is a prophet-whita bearded-denouncing woe against our sins. We are all ready to listen to the voices of nature; but how few of us learn any thing from the voices of the noisy and dusty street. You go to your merchandise, and your me chanism, and to your work, and you come back again-and often with an indifferent heart you pass through the streets. Are there no things for us to learn from these pavements over which we pass? Are there no tufts of truth growing up between these cobblestones, beaten with the feet of toil and pain, and pleasure, the slow tread of old age, and the quick step of childhood? Aye, there are great harvests to be reaped; and now I trust in the sickle because the harvest is ripe. "Wisdom crieth out; she uttereth her voice in the streets." In the first pl4ce the street i:npresses me with the fact that this life is a scene of toil and struggle. By ten o'clock every day the city is jarring with wheels and shuffiing with feet, and humming with voices, and covered with the breath of smokestacks, and a rush with traffickers. Once in a while tou find a man going along with folded arms and with leisurely step, as though he had nothing to do; but for the most part, w you find men going-down these streets, ox the way to business, there isanxiety in their faces, as thoughtheyhadsome errand whic must be executed at the first possible mo. ment. You are jostled by those who have bargains to make and notes to sell. Up this ladder with a hod of bricks, out of this bank with a roll of bills, on his dray with i load of goods. digging a cellar, or shinglins a roof, or shoeing ahorse. orbuilding awall or mending a watch, or binding. book. In dustry, with her thousand arms, and thou sand eyes, and thousand feet, goes on sing ing her song of work! work! work! while the mills drum it, and the steam whistles life it. All this is not because men love tc toil. Some one remarked: "Every man ii as lazy as he can afford to be." But it it because necessity, with stern brow and with uplifted whip, stands over them ready whenever they relax their toilto maketheit shoulders sting with the lash. Can it be that, passing up and down these streets tc work andbusiness, yon donotlearnanything of the world's toil, and anxiety, and strut gle? 0, how many drooping hearts, how many eyes on the watch, how many miles traveled, how many burdens Carried,- how u ;any losses suffered, how z battles fought, how many vie. toris a how many defeats sufered, losses,-i~hat hunger,' .what -wr cdi ta what pallor, what disease, what agony, what despair! Sometimes I have stopped the corner of the street as the multitudes hither and yon, and it has seemed tc t pantomine, and as I looked upon t broke. Thisgreat tide of hu. hat goes down the street is a ad turned aside, and dashing .an back-beautifuil in its nfused in its beauty. In es of the forest, in the the eternal shadow is hoeof the sea .over the tangled foam, iffs with a baptism is the best place ing, swarming, to study man. business and. you look' poverty, of of sin, of be through the ugh the streets, f your prayer all all the suffering, of those whom yen em in prayer before an od. Then in the great ythere will be thousands of aswith whom you in this world never exchanged one word who will rise un and call you blessed; and there willbe- a thou sand fingers pointing at you in Heaven, saying: "That is the man, that is the wo man, who helped me when I was hungry, and sick, and wandering, and lost, and heart broken. That is'the man, that is the woman," and the blessing will come down upon you as Christ shall say: "I was hungry andgye fed-me, I was naked and ye clothed me. I was sick and in prison and ye visited me: inasmuch as ye did it to these poor waits of the street, ye did it to me." Again, the street imp'resses me with the fact that all classes and conditions of so ciety must commingle. We sometimes cul ture a wicked exclusiveness. Intellect de spises ignorance. Refinement will have nothing to do with boorishness. Gloves hate the sunburned hands and the high forehead despises the flat head; and the trim hedge row will have r othing to do with the wild copswood, and Athens hates-Nazareth. This -'ught not to be so. The astronomer must come down from his starry revelry and help us in our navigation. Thc surgeon must come away from his study of the human or ganism: and set our broken bones. The chemist must come away from his lab pratory, where he has been studying an alysis and synthesis, and helb us to un derstand the nature of the soils. I bless~od that all classes of people are compelled to meet on the street. The glittering coach wheel clashes agninst the scavenger's cart. Fine robej run against the peddler's pack. Robust health meets wan sickness. Honesty confronts fraud. Every class bf people meets every other class. Independene'eand modesty, pride and humility, purity and beastliness, frankness andhypocrisy, meet ing on the same olocir, in the samnt street, in the same city-. Oh!I that ie what Solomon meant when he said: '-The rich and the poor meet together; the Lord is the maker of them all." I like this democratic principle of the gospel of Jesus Christ which recognizes the fact that we stand before God on one and the same platform. Do not take on any airs; whatever position you have gained in society, you are nothing but a man, born of the same parent, regener ated by the same spirit, cleansed by the sanie blood, to lie down in the same dust, te get up in the same resurrection. It is high time that we all acknowledged not only the fatherhood of God, but the brotherhood of man. Again, the streot impresses me with tne fact that it is a very hard thing for a man to keep his heart right and to got to Heaven. Infinite temptations spring upon us from these places of public concourse. Amid so much affluence how much temptation to covetousness, and to 'be discontented with our humble lot. Amid so many opportum-~ ties for overreaching, what temptation to extortion. Amid so many saloons of strong drink, what allurement to dissipation. In' the maelstroms of the street, how many make' quick and eternal shipwreck. If a' man-of-war 'comes back from a battle, and' istoe into the navy yard, we go down to' look at the splintered spars and count the bullet holes, and look with patrioticwadmira' tion on the flag that floated in victory from fae mathead. But that man Is more of S curiosity wno nas gone through thirty years of the sharpshooting of business life, and yet sails on, victor over the temptations of the street. 0 how many have gone down under the pressure, leav ing not so much as the patch of canvass to tell where. they perished' They never had any peace. Their dishonesties kept tolling in their ears. If I had an ax, and could split open the beams of that line house. perhaps I would find in the very heart of it a skeleton. In his very best wine there is a smack of the poor man's sweat. 0, is it strange that when a man has devoured widows' houses he is disturbed with indi gestion? All the forces of nature are against him. The floods are ready to drown him, and the earthquake to swallow him, and the fires to consume him, and the lightnings to smite him. J3ut the children of God are on every street, and in the day when the crowns of Heaven are distributed, some of the brightest *ill be given to those men who were faithful to God and faithful to the souls of others amid the marts of business, proving themselves the heroes of the street. Mighty were their temptations, mighty was their deliverence, and mighty shall be their triumph. Again, the street impresses me with the fact that life is full of pretensions and sham. What subterfuge, what double dealing, what two-facedness! Do all the people who wish you good morning really hope for you a happy day? Do all the peo ple who shake hands love each other' Are all those anxious about your health who in quire concerning it! Do all want to see you who ask you to call? Does all the world know half as much as it pretends to knot Is there not many a wretched stock of goods with a brilliant show window? Passing up and down these streets to your business and your work, are you not impressed with the fact that much of society is hollow, and that there are subterfuges and pretensions? Oh ! how many there are who swagger and strut, and how few people who are natural and walk. While fops simper, and fools chuckle, and simpletons giggle, how few people are natural and laugh. The courtesan and the libertine go down the street in beautiful apparel, while within the heart there are volcanoes of passion consuming their life away. I say these things not to create in you incredulity and misanthropy, nor do 1 forget there are thousands of peo ple a great deal better than they seem; but I do not think any man is prepared for the conflict of this life until he knows this par ticular peril. Ehud comes pretending to pay his tax to King Eglon, and while he stands in front of the King, stabbs him through with a dagger until the haft went in after the blade. Judas Iscariot kissed Christ. Again, the street impresses me with the fact that it is a great field for Christian charity. There are hunger and suffering. and want and wretchedness in the country, but these evils chiefly congregate in our great cities. On every street crime prowls, and drunkenness staggers, and shame winks, and pauperism thrusts out its hand asking for alms. Here want is most squalid and hunger is most lean. A Christian man, going along a street in New York, saw a poor lad and he stopped and said: "My boy, do you know how to read and write"' The bov made no answer. The mar asked the question twice and thrice: "Can you ~read and writer' and then the boy answered with ahear plashing on the back of his hand. 'He said in defiance: "No, sir; I can't read or write, neither. God, sir, don't want me to read and write. Didn't He take away my father so long ago I never remember to have seen him? and haven't I had to go along the street to get something to fetch home to eat for the folks? and didn't I, as soon as I could carry a basket, have to go out and pick up cinders, and never have no school -mg, sir? God don't want me to read. sir. I can't read nor write neither." 0, those poor wanderers! They have no chance. Born 's, ra 'ton, as -the~y get up from their an Sand aees to owalk, they take their first step on the road to despair. Let us go forth in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to rescue them. If you are not willing to go forth yourself, then give of your means; and if you are too lazy to go, and if you are too stingy to help, then get out of the way and hide yourselves in the dens and caves of the earth, lest, when Chri c's chariot comes along, the horses' hoofs trample you -into the mire. Beware lest the thousands of the destitute of your city, in the last great day rise up anal curse your stupidity and your neglect. One cold winter's day, as a S'hristian man was going afong the Battery in New York, he saw a little girl seated at the gate, shivering with the cold. He said to her: "Miv child, what do you sit there for, this cola day?" "0," she re plied, "I am waiting-X am waiting for somebody to come and take care of me." "Why," said the man, "what makes you think somebody will come and take care of you?" "0," shesaid, "my mother died last week and 1 was crying very much, and she said: 'Don't cry, my dear; though I am gone and your father is gone, the Lord will send somebody to take care of you.' My mother never' told a lie: she said some one would come and take care of me, and I am waiting for them to come." 0, yes, they are waiting for you. Men of great hearts, gather them in, gather thiem in. It .is not the will of your Heavenly Father that one of these little ones should perish. Lastly, the street impresses me with the fact that all the people are looking forward. I see expectancy written on almost every face 1 meet between here and Brooklyn bridge, or walking the whole length of Broadway. Where you find a thousand people walking straight on, you only rind fact is, God made us all to look ahead be cause we were immortal. In this tramp of the multitude on the streets I hear the tramp of a great host, marching r.d march ing for eternity.. Beyond the office, the store, the shop, the street, there.is a world. populous and tremendous. Through God's grace may you reach that blessed piace. A great throng lills those boulevards, and the streets are a-rush With the chariots of con querors. The inhabitants go up and dowan, but they never weep and they never toil. A river flows through the city, with rounded and luxurious banks, and trees of life laden with everlasting fruitage bend their branches to dip the crystal. No plumed hearse rattles over the pavement, for they are never sick. With immortal health glowing in ever-y vein they know not how to die. Those towersof streugth, those palaces of beauty, gleam in the light of a sun that never sets. 0, Heaven, beautiful Heaven! Heaven where our friends are. They take no census in that city, for it is inhabited by "a mrititude which no man can number." Ramk above rank. Host above host. Gallery above gallery, sweep ing all around the heavens. Thousands of thousands. 'Millions of- millions. Blessed are they who enter in through the ato into that city. Oh ! start for it to-day. 'hrough the blood of the great sacrifice of the Son of God, take up your march to Heaven. "The Spirit and the Bride say come, and whosoever will, let him come, and take of the water of life freely." Join this great throng marching heavenward. All the doors of invitation are open. "And I saw twelve gates, and there were twelve pearls'* Bernhardt's Widow's Weeds. The New York fferald's Paris corres podent gives a rather indefinmte descrip tion of Sarah Bernhardt's widow's weeds. Sa'ys this writer: "She wore a long and lain black crepe gown. tier waist was 'encircled' by a back jet belt loosely ar ranged; the sleeves were full, but fiu-* ised at the wrist by close fitting cuffs o black jet deoigned with marguerites. These sleeves are long, reaching almost to the knuckles and finished in points over the back of the hands. Such is the striking mourning garb designed by Mme. Bernhafdt herself, and wbich will be the style of mourning in vogue. dur ing the coming season.4 The Czar's New Train. A new Imperial train has just been 'ouilt for the Emperor of Riussia. Tire saloons are covered with iron outside, and thetn come eight inches of cork. in stead of the steel plate with which the carriages of the 01(1 train were protected. All the saloons (which communicate by a covered passage) are exactly the same in outward appearance, so that no out sider may be able to discover in which carriage the Czar is traveling. During the Emperor's journey last autumn he passed most ot his time in a carriage which, from the outside, looks like a luggag-van. IT MAKES FOLKS DANCE. Strange Effects of Water Found in Texas-A Remarkable Natural Fid. A discovery of immense seientific in terest has recently been discovered near this place, says a Wharton (Texas) letter to the Philadeiphia Time,-a discovery which it is thought will add a hitherto unknown element to the sixty-five already familiar to the chemst. Chud leigh Mason, a prominent cotton planter lis ing about five miles from town, while boring an artesian well on his place struck water a few days ago at a depth of 215 feet. A powerful stream was thrown up with a loud report and a trembling of the surrounding earth. Mr. Mason, in older to test the quality of the water, drank a glass of it, and the negro workmen also crowded about and drank freely of the water, which was found to be very cold and good, though possessed of a slight unfamiliar flavor, which was, however, not disa greeable. Within a quarter of an hour, or even less, after drinking the water Mr. Ma son began to feel strange twitchings in the muscles of the face, and his work men also commenced to complain of the same sensation. This twitching soon extended to the arms and legs, increas ing all the while in violence, until at last the negroes east themselves down, crying that they had been conjured, and rolled about on the ground shriek ing aloud and writhing with hideous contortions of the face and body. As the jerking and jumping of the muscles of the limbs grew more and more vio lent all hands sprang up and joined in a wild, uncontrollable dance, or rather hopping up and down like so many disturbed frogs. Mr. Mason, describing h!s sensations, says that he was con scious of a feeling of great exhilaration and an increased '.teness of every sense. The sight of the leaping negroes, who were too frightened to realize that they were suffering only from fear, and their cries and shrieks provoked him to bursts of laughter that sounded almost maniacal. Mrs. Mason, seeing her hus band's extraordinary behavior, became alarmed and, running out, attempted to hold him down, but, though he endeav ored to assist. her by clinging with all his strength to a post, it was foana impos sible to restrain him. This dance was kept up until sheer exhaustion caused the involuntary par ticipants to fall prostrate to the earth, where they lay and kicked for some minutes, after which they fell into a deep sleep. This sleep was the heavy, dreamless slumber that follows intoxica tion and lasted for several hours, bar left them with clear beads and no evil consequences beyond a soreness of the back and limbs and a pain in the face resembling neuralgia, which, however, soon passed away. Mr. Mason sent a jug of the water to Houston, to have it analyzed, but the chemists of that city profess themselves at a complete loss to account for one of the elements entering in.to the composi tion of the water, and give as their unanimous opinion that it may be added to the number of known elements as a sixt-sixtb. This element imparts to the water a beautiful bright blue tinge of a metallic lustre and gives a taste more like that of fresh cider than any thing else. When the water is heated the element passes off in a colorless gas of a most agreeable odor, resembling the perfume of tube-roses, only more penetrating and pungent, and so power ful that a gallon of'water simmering over a slow fire will render a whole house fragrant for hours. Taken from the well and left to stand, however, the water loses its beautiful blue color and thireo t' the consistency of turpen ~ine, with a faint greenish tinge, and will whdn drunk or inhaled produce vio lent nausea and vomiting, accompanied by a swimming in the head and a fail ure of the sight and hearing which lasts for hours. The negroes aliout have christened the well "Devil's Water," and regard it with superstitious awe. and, with one excep tion, cannot be prev-ailed upon to even approach it. This exception is an old darkey familiarly known as Uncle Dence, who is actually becoming a contirmed drnard on the water, on which hie induges in a daily spree in spite of all attempts to keep him from drinking it. He claims that he feels youger and sprer after each dance. Many of the crowds that come daily from all parts of the County, and even from adjacent ones, to visit this well have the curiosity to taste the water to judge of its singu lar qualities for themselves,. and it is curious to observe the (ditferent ways in which it affects individuals, for, while the twitching of the nerves and muscles and the uncontrollable propensity to dance are common to all, the effect on the minds of different persons is of eadless variety. One man will shout for joy, betraying all the abandonment of a child; another will weep with a gentle melancholy; a third wvill sing hymns, and perhaps a fourth at the same time will be pray:ing aloud. Your correspondent found himself reciting whole pages of blank verse from the different poets that he had been unconscious of having re taied in his memory. The ettect on the spirits is deligntful in the extreme, a feeling of exhilaration and light ne.s pervading the whole system and the senses take on an acuteness and refine mnent that is most remarkable. By the advice of one of the ablest heists of Houston a hermetically scaled jar of this wonderful liquor has been forwarded to the Society of Chemn ists'andl Pharmacists in New York for their careful analysis, which process when completed he is confiident will onfirm his opintion of the value and uniqueness of the discovery.. Mr. Bayard on IDemocratic Policy. In an interview published in a Wil mington (Del.) paper ex-Secretary Bay ard is quoted as saying that lie does not want any office, and will not be a can didate for oflice. Mr. Bayard's tersely expressed views upon the future policy of the national Democracy are in ac cord with his past record. Among oilier thngs ho said: "The tariff quest ion is a grave and~ profound oneC and should be fully discussesd. The D~emocracy, I thik, will again advocate taifft reform. I lad Mr. C'levelanid taken my advice he would have declamred ini favor of the reform two vears before he did. Of course. it will take time to settle this issue. ~I think t axation for protection is communism The manner and time used by- the Republican national com mitee in raising enormous sums of money during the last campaign to in fluence the election was only an addi tional proof of the necessity of the re form. I think free wool will be the first step toward reform." A prominent capitalist of Oakland, California, married his fifth wife last TWO TRAINS HELD UP. BOLD WORK OF ROAD AGENTS IN MISSISSIPPI AND TEXAS. A Mobile and Ohio Passenger Train Cap tured at the Point of the Pistol by Three Disguised Robbers. MOBILE, Ala., September 25.-The Mobile and Ohio Southbound mail and passerger train was held up - at 3:10 o'clock this morning by train robbers at Buckatunna, Miss., a station seventy miles North of Mobile. The train was due here at 6 a. m. Just before the train left Buckatunna, two men mounted behind the tender of the train, and, climbing over, covered Engineer Sack Therrel and Fireman Thomas Hust with their revolvers. The robbers were disguised with -red ban danna handkerchiefs over the lower part of their faces. The leader ordered the engineer to pull out and stop at a bridge two miles below Buckatunna, and to place the train so that the express and mail car should be on the -further side of the bridge from the rest of the train, the bridge being a trestle over a deep creek. "You obey instructions, or it's death,. they said. The engineer looked down the barrel of the pistol and slowly pulled the lever. The train ran rapidly down to the spot indicated and the engineer ran the train just where the men with pistols wanted it. Then there appeared a third robber, disguised like the other two. These three made the engineer and fireman come with them to the express car, and the engineer had to call the expressman, J. W. Dunning, to open the door of the car. The wooden door was already open, but the iron-barred door was closed and locked- - Dunning was seated with. his back to the door, and.-hen he trned round he looked down the muzzle of three revolv ers. The command was given and Dun ning opened the barred door, and in the chief robber jumped. The other two re mained outside to guard the engineer and fireman. The leader made the messenger dump the contents of the safe into a canvas sack, but noticing that he was not closely watched, Dunning shoved some of the money aside, so that about $1,000 was hidden, the robbers getting $2,700. All this- money belonged to the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company. Alongside the exress ear door was a pile of $70,000 government money, en route to Florida, which the robbers failed to notice. Then the robbers made the express man get out of the car and go with them to the mail car. W. C. Bell, the mail agent, had suspected that a robbery was going on, and tried to get into the bag gaae car with a number of registered packages of mail. Just as he stepped to the cod door of the car he saw through the glass that the robbers h'id inter cepted him. The robber leader, sup nosed to be Bunch, faced him, pistol in hand, and finding Bell's arms full of packages, said, "Dump those here on my left arm." There were twenty-four packages in all, and Bell dumped them as requested. The robber made Bell hand him the registered pouch, and ordered' the agent to open :t: but Bell had no key, so the robber carried the pouch cff with him. The pouch was made up at Meridian, and its contents and their value are unknown. Just then Billy Scholes, the' conduc tor, who hat bee tr t the trou6Ta~ndTa armed himself with a Winchester, came out of the rear of the train, having his lantern, and shouted, '-What's the matter?" The robbers fired two shots at him, crying ot, "Come up here and you'll see what's the matter." The engmneer told the robber to let up n shooting, as the train hands would oen fire and be shooting their own There was no more shooting, and the train was ordered to pull out at once, which it did, the robbers disappearing in the undergrowth on the West side of he track. The train pulled down to Citronlle and swapped time with the 1eommdation tran, engine and one :ar was sent back to the scene of the robbery with detectives and an armed The leader of the robbers is a man six eet high, of about 170 pounds weight, -essd in common clothes and a slouch tt. His assistants wore common lothes and had nothing to distinguish :hem. When the handkerchief slipped Iown a little off the leader's face, the xpress messenger says he saw he had i black moustache, and thinks he baa a T HE SAME G AMEr IN TEXAS. F'ive Robbers Hold Up a Train Near Port Worth and Rifle the Express Safe of its Contents. CHCAGO, September 25.-A dispatch from Fort Worth, Texas, says: At a ate hour last night, as the Northbound Snta Fe train was pulling out of rowley, ten miles South of this city, three men boarded the train and two jthers jumped on the locomotive. The :wo on the engine placed pistols to the bleads of the engineer and fireman and told them to stop. The robbers cut the mngine, baggage, mail and express cars from the rest of the train and made the mgineerpll half a nmile furtiter. One of the men then got into the express car id ordered the messenger to show them ihe mone. He pointed to three hags of Miexican silver. One of the nmen ripped >pen the sack and shoveled the silver >ut the door, while the other one .threw >ut the other sacks. They took two onekages said to contain $5,000 each, but overlooked three or four packages or Fort Worth. The enigineer was then nde to couple uip and mnove. The train ached here at midnigtht, and a posse >f twenty men started in p)ursuit at The Laugh Was on the Legislator. Representative Reed. of Putnam, was one of the legislative committee sent to inspect the asylum. There was a dance on the night the committee spent in the nn'estigation, and Mr. Reed took for .t partnetr one of the fair .unfortunates & whom he was introduced. "'I dlon't remembr having seen you here before," nidi she. "H lowv long have you been in th e asylm?' -Oh, I only came dlown ge-eriday" said the gentleman. "as one l~ h legislative commit:ee.'' "Of L-ourse," replied the lady: "how stupid I am! However, I knew you were either an inmate or a member of the Legislature the moment I looked at yoou. But how was I to know? It was diffficult to tell which."-Albanly (Ga.) Suppressing the Salvationists. The police commissioners have or dered the chief of police to suppress the Salvation Army in Kansas City. The order was issued on account of the nu merous cases of peace disturbance at the HANDLhING T.E MAILS. Personnel of the Immense Postal Army and Its Work. The whole country, during the entire four years of the late' Administration and ever since the Republican restora tion, says the Cnmercial Gazette, has been discussing, opposing or supporting somebody for postmaster, and every community and cross-roads in the coun try has bad its own particular experi ence on this subject. Very few people form any idea of the immensity and di versity of the postal system. The per sonnel of the postal army comprises about 170,000 employees--of- all kinds. Of this number. 16,000 are post masters of the four classes and the balance are clerks and other persons employed or having direct relations with the department. .Although every branch of the postal service is interesting, that which opens 'the deepest interest is the manner of -paying this great army of office-holders and employees. When Benjamin Frank lin had charge of the mails of the colo nies, and later of the Continental Gov ernment, he kept his accounts in pounds, shillings and pence. A small book af forded ample space for all entries and a tin box contained all the accounts and papers which belonged to the postal service. Everything then depended upon the honesty of the postmaster. From Franklin's time to that of Amos Kendall. Jackson's Postmaster-General, about 1836, moneys for postage were collected and paid out by each postmas ter and the surplus was was turned into the Postoffice Department, without any system of accounts or checks upon dis honest officials. In that year the office of Sixth Auditor of the Treasury was ereated, and sin + ~ -',-t -een a resp rteation betweu- postmas ters and the governmen*. In the office of the ixth Auditor an account is kept with every postmaster of the land. There are, therefore, about 60,000 of these accounts. The govern ment expects every postmaster to keep an account of all the receipts of his office. he is then charged with all the postage stamps furnished him by the government. The number of stamps furnished depends upon the average bus iness of the office. The smallest amount furnished is $3 worth. Out of the reve nues of his office the postmaster is re quired to pay all the employees. At the end of the quarter he makes a state ment to the Sixth Auditor. with vouch ers, which are examined, and if found correct the account is passed. The entire personnel of the pcst masterships is divided into four classes, according to the volume of business of the office and upon that basis the annual compensation is scaled. The annual pay of the first class is rated from a minimum pay of $3,000 at offices with receipts from $40,000 to $55,000 and a maximum up to $6,000 salary. Second class-From $8,000 to $9,000 revenue, $2,000 salary; from $35,000 to $40,000 revenue, $2,900 salary. Third class-From $1,900 to $2.100 revenue of office, $1,000 salary; from $7,000 to $8,000 revenue, $1,900 salary. Fourth Class-This class, which con stitutes the great mass of the army of postmasters, receives as compensation the whole box rents and commision on canceled postage dues, stamps and on abandoned stamps, envelopes,' postal cards and newspapers and periodical stamps, and on amounts received-frm waste paper,-. and newspapers and prtted matter and twine sold, at the fgllowing rates: For the first- $50 o less per quarter, 100 per cent.; for tile next~$100 or less, 60 per cent.; for the next $200 or less, 30 per cent., and for the balance 40 par cent. When the pro ceeds in the fourth class reach $250 per quarter and continue not lees t han that sum for four consecutive quarters, mak ing $1,000 a year, the offce becomes Presidential at an annual salary as stated for third class officers. The post masters are paid an annuail salary based on the receipts for four quarters prior to the adjustment. In nmanv cases a matter of-a cent may make a difference of $100 for or against the rating of the an nal pay of the postmaster. In the higher offices a difference of $1 would make a difference of $1,000 in compen sation. Trhe government requires all post masters to deposit funds daily in the United States sub-treasury if there be one in tue same city. The government assumes no re sponsibility for current funds, but re quires that a national bank must be given the preference. The fourth class postmasters arc required to deposit their surplus funds quarterly in the sub treasury, if convenient, or in the post o6ffie most accessible. In the entire list 9 postmasters are required to deposit dail3 in sub treasuries,'76 monthly, and 2,628 Presidential and '58,111 fourth class officers deposit balances in the suh 'treasury monthly. The pay of the personnel of the Post office Department reached the enor-mous totals dutring the last fiscal year, of com pensatio'n of postmasters, $12,000,000; clerks, $5,800,000: letter carriers, $5. 400,000; rent of offices, $500,000 ; rail way clerks, $5,000,000, and mail mes senger service, $850,000, a grand total of $30,150,000. A Young an's Blunder. There is one young man in Detroit who will think twice before he speaks after this. He had been invited to visit at a house where there was a family of twelve children whose parents wecre very proud of such a goodly number. A lady -a mutual friend--had desired him to meet a young lady in the family, the sister of the matron who possessed the dozen olive branches. She did not, however, state this fact to the young man, but invited him to make the call ostensibly . upon the mistress of the house, who was her relative. In speak ing of her the lady mentioned the fact that she looked very youthful for her When they made their call the young lady relative was in the parlor. Before she could be introduced the young man bowed low to her: "Have T at last the pleasure," lie said airily, "of meeting the mother of twelve children?" For a moment the young lady was somewhat embarrassed - then she laughed, but the young man did not stay long, lie wvas afraid to trust hini self to speak again that crening.-/). troit Fre~e P'ress. A Joke on Jay (iould. A New Yorker just arrived from sara toga tells this story on Jay Gould: A Saratoga clergyman in making parochial calls on the guests of the United St ates Hotel asked Giovanna Morosini, Gould's old Italian patner, if Gould was a moral man. "Does Mr. Gould keep the Sabbath?" asked the clergyman. "Gould keep-ee the Sabhath?"repeated Morosini with an Italian shrug. --Gould keep-ee the Sabbath. Why Gould, he keep-ee anything he lays his hands on. You tr 'uim." the Pront Gate. An old and etipped gite atu J. And twcnlv ye:.rs h ye ia-sed Siace I wa hu. g up high ,.tni dry Betw:xt these r20.ss so fa,t; But now I''.e rruwn so powerful weak Despieed by iuan and beast I'm tearcely stroug enough to squeak, Although 'm Leaer gre:aed. 'Twa- twenty years ago. 1 say, \1 hen Mr. Enos Wh te Ca-e kind of hanging round my way Mo-t every other night: Ile hun;g upon my starbo,rd side, And -he upon the other. Till Susan Smith became his bride, And in due time a mother. I groan d intensely when I heard Despite I am no churl My doom breathed in a single word; The baby was a girl! And as she grew, and grew, and grew, I loud bemoam.d my fate. For she was very fair to vies., And I-I was the gate! Then in due time a lover came, Betokenitg m ruin. A dapper fellow, Brown by name, '!he grown-up baby wooin'. They sprang up-oa inc in the gloatn, And talked of moon and star. They're married now and live at home A:ong with ma and pa. . My lot was I appy for a yea.r, No courting night or da) I had no thou tht, I had no tear Bad tuck would come my vay But oh! this morning, save t.ie mark! i There came awild surprise A shadow ilitted grim and dark, Across my sunny skies. A doctor, with a knowing smile, A nurse with face serene, A bustle in- the house the while. Great Scott: wh-at can it mean? My hinges ache: my back is weak, Mly picket's in a whirl: I hear that awful doctor s;eak: It is another girl. --Denver TriZ.ne. HrISS. SMETH'S TAME FISH. They Eat Ice Cream, Beans, Tissue Paper and Ginger Snaps. - Nobody visits Lake Pennesseewassee, the prettiest point in Oxford County, Maine, s-sys a writea to the New York Sun, without going to see Miss Emma Smith's natural acquarium. The young lady is the possessor of Tanglewood, a picturesque cottage on the Western shore of the pond, one of many built in recent years on the shore; and islands, where merry parties from adjacent towns find summer recreation. She spends the season at Tanglewood cottage, and takes ulea.sure i2 entertaining the Igirls of her circle and in cultivating this rather ren;irkable aquarium. Tihe aquarium had a small beginning, but it has become great. This is the third suason of her cottage life, and she noticed at the beginning that the sun fish, ctubs and horned trout liked to loaf around the little dock. ,They were carefully encouraged to come by liberal uonations of crumbs and food scraps until this year the number attracted to the landing reaches up into the huu dreds. After every meal Miss Smith and her guests have half an hour's fun feeding il.c fish. They swim up to the wharf with an amount of splashing worthy of a lot of sharks and scramble for the crumbs like a lot of small boys after eappers. eariy all -kill eat from the hand. Tivo or three have bees educated to eat from a spoon, and ihese.favored ones get luxuries. Two for three more have become -sufficiently reckless to allow themselves to be picked up by the fair hands of Miss Ma4 Allen, a fearless young lady of By , who -rewarded each one by feed ing it with beans from a spoon. The latest experiment tried on the fish was to test their taste for ice-cream. . They foutht to get at the tempting spoonfuls after e couple of tastes.OChocolate cream seenis to hit a horned tr:>ut right where he lives. A horned trout's greatest joy is found to he in eating ginger snaps. He doesnt nibble, he bite-s. When small Virgie Sargent, the 7-year-old belle of the cottage, pokes a gmnger soap, into the water the trout will take a bite out of it equal to anything Miss Virgie could (1o in the same line. While feeling tender toward beans, ice cream and ginger snaps the tront are not partieular. They will open wide their mouths at anything. One young man who saw them perform recently filled them up full with wads of tissue paper artfully rolled up, and was pro. perly denounced for doing it. The fish didn't mind. The trout are in thie majority in the collection, chubs come next, and sunfish last in order of numbers and boldness. Some of the chubs are a foot long, and this is the average' length of the trout. The latter are getting horribly obese and roll aroand weightily. They occasion ally try to go off with a pink finger be oging to one of their hosts, and slide away. looking up reproachfully from the clear depths when they learn that it can't. be had. The lordly black bass and pickerel with which the pond is stocked refuse to be beguiied into accepting this pro fse hospitality. They are all invited. Tariff Reform in Missouri. 'The movement in favor of tariEf re form is making decitdetd headway in Missouri. An educational campaign as been inaugurated, which will be prosecuted until the voters of all parties at-e thoroughly instructed on the iniqui lies of ths high taritY and trusts and combinations. At Lamotte, Saturdlay last, a tariff reform picnic was attended by 5,000) people, including many who have heretofore voted the Republican ticket. Senators Vest and Cockrell were the principal speakers. The former de clared the tariff fight wais the same old fight that has been going on for hun Ireds of years. It is the contest be tweni righit and wrong, justice and in justice, andl involves the fundamentil principles of free government. Mfr. Vest was followed by Mfr. Cock roll, who, in a calm, dispassionate speech of t wo hotrs, left nothing on which a high pro teetinist eoul hatng an argument. At asville, Barry County, on the same day, a taii r'eforii picnic was very largely attended. There was a great procession, witht over 4,000 people in line. Senator Berry of Arkansas. was the first speaker, and was followed by several well known Mi.souri orators. The speakers all d-i-lared themselves in favor of Grover t'leveland for President 'in '!J2, atndl alo ini favor of making tariff reform the issuec. Eva Hamit's Punishment. Mlrs. Ray llamiiltoni goCs to prisoni for tw year's. which means t wenty monthIs if shte does no. let her temper get the bctter of her while she is in confinement. This is light punishment for all the crimes of whic-h M1rs. Hamilton seems to have been guilty. It is not every wo Iman who can lead a life of shame for years. have a vounig lover, ent rap a man f good family andl high preferment into marring~ her, palm otT another woman's ~abe'on him as his own child, treat him with contempt atd cruelty, and finally stab a woman servant, and only have to suffer twenty months'imprisonment for Iit all. And, what is better, there arc ew women who want to.n A ROMANCE FROM RAGUSA. His Wife a Beggar and He Remarried, Thinking Her Dead. A trial involving circumstances of an exceptionally romantic character, says a Vienna dispatch, will come before the Tribunal of Ragusa next month. About twenty years ago a peasant of the neigh borhood of Ragusa, being no longer able to support his wife, emigrated to the United States, leaving his better half in charge of the village priest. From the first luck smiled on him, and he was able to send the priest fifty florins a month for his wife. As his position im proved he increased the amount of his monthly remittances, but the rascally reverendo only handed five florins a month to the woman. This went on for fifteen years, when this worthy clerical gentleman forged a certificate of the husband's death and it placed in the hands of his wife, whose death he likewise certified in a forged document and sent it to the husband in America. Shortly afterward he piously betook himself to Corfu, where he hoped to spend the remainderof his days in peace, rejoicing in the remembrance of his good works. Fate had decided otherwise. The unfortunate woman, his victim, was forced to get her living by begging from the passengers of the Lloyd steamers that touched at Ragusa, anti her husband sought consolation in remarriage with a ri.ch American lady, by whom be had two children. After twenty years' absence he resolved to make a tour to Europe with his family. He visited Paris, Vienna, Trieste, and finally Ragusa. They recognized each other 'simultaneously. The beggar woman was his wife, whom he believed to have been dead several years. The priest has been arrested and will be tried in September, when, in all proba bility, the second marriage will be an nulled. Editors as Delegates. The Governor has appointed the fol lowing as delegates to represent South Carolina at the Southern Industrial Dis play to be held in Raleigh, N. C., Octo ber 14th to 19th. It was suggested that so far as possible editors of newspapers be appointed, and the Governor followed the suggestion, as will be seen by the list which is given below: J. W. R. Pope, TiE REGISTER, Colum bia. M. B. McSweeny, Hampton Guard ian, Hampton. J. C. Hemphill, News and Courier, Charleston. J. W. Holmes, Barnwell People, Barnwell. O. C. Cohen, World, Charleston. J. E. Boggs, Pickens Sentinel, Pick ens. A. B. Williams, Greenville News, Greenville. H. T. Thompson, Darlington News, Darlington. R. R. Hemphill, Abbecille Medium, Abbeville. W. J. McKerral, Marion 'Star, Ma rion. James L. Sims, Times and Democrat, rangebu ence. Charles T. Connors, Lane Lancaster. W. J. Montgomery, Pee Mafion. S. H. Rodgers, Palmetto Po fort. S. A. Nettles,-Manning Times, Man ning. L. M. Grist, Yorkville Enquirer, York ville. James T. Bacon, Edgefield Chr>nide Edgefield. S. A. Brown, Marlboro Democrat, Bennettsville. E. H. Aull, Herald and News, New berry. H. L. Darr, Sumzter2 Advance, Sum The delegates appointed are requested to communicate with John T. Patrick, Commissioner, at Raleigh. Much ben efit is expected to localities represented at the display, and every assistance possible is promised delegates. Delegates to the Farmers' Congress. Thbe Governor has appomnted the fol lowing delegates to represent South Car olina at the National Farmers' Congress, which will be held at Montgomery, Ala., from November 13th to 15th: First Congressional District-J. E. Wannamaker, St. Matthew's; -Alter nate, Hon. J. H. Counts, Selwood, Lex igton County. Second Distriet-Hon. D. P. So journer, Graham's; Alternate, Thomas H. Rainsford, Trenton. Third District-David Aiken, Cokes bury; Alternate, D. K. Norris, Pendie Fourth District -Hon. Jos. B. Hum bert, Princeton; Alternate, Cap. L. Wil. liams, Greenville. Fifth District-A. H. White, Rock fll; Alternate, S. Logan Lang, Cam Sixth District-Qol. Jas. McCutchin, Churh; Alternate, J. J. Lucas, Society Seventh District-Capt. W. Miles, Hi good; Alternate, J. F. Townsend, Edisto sland. State at Large-Hon. John Bratton, White Oak, and Hon. C. St. G. Sinkler, Eutawville; Alternates, Col. J. W. Nor ris, Varennes, and Capt. B. B. McWhite, Bostick's. A Bishop's View of It. Rt. Rev. C. B. Galloway. D D., of Mississippi, Bishop of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was inter rewed a day or two ago at Memphis on the "race question." He said: "I re gard the race difficulties as exaggerated. There have been some unfortunate con flicts, but in most cases they have been precipitated by the worthless classes of both races and under the in'luence of liquor. Last yea- I spent three months in he discharge of moy odficial duty on the Pacific coast and I had there oppor tunity to study the Chinese problem. I came'to thbe econclusion that the negroes are far m:ore valuable as laiborers, and add more to the wealth, morals and general prospenit' of the country t ban he (hinese. I believe that the senool ouse and the church- the Bible and the spelling book--are the most potent factors in ;the solution of the Southern problem. Whatever immediate relief ay he secured by legislationi, the final sotion' of the question naust come of education and Christianity." A Good Law. AuNca, September 23.-The billre ently passed prohibiting the sale of cigar's, cigarettes and tobacco to minors1 'is now in force, and dealers violating the provisions of the Act 'render them selves liable to a fine not exceeding 'Death of General Hill. General D. H. Hill, well known as one of the most gallant corps-commanders in. the Confederate army, died at Charlotte; N. C., on the 24th ult,, in the 79th year' of his ae .RUANUJE AND MUikL. AMERICAN HEIRS TO ENGISE PROPERTY WORTH $2,000,000. Peculiar Incidents in Conniction With a Fight to be Made for a Fortune-Eon William E. Gladstone as a Wites in the Case. NEW YoRK, Septem~ber 27.-A NI York lawyer is getting ready to, make., European trip whose outcome mafb.,tk$ a decided interest for people on two continents. Incidental to the attorney' purpose is a plan that may lead' -up' putting William Ewart Gladstone;,pon the stand as a sort of chancery:wted in the probate division of the -Egis high court of justice. At. any. ratM statesman may, in obedience to.tfe. r gency of the case, appear as -.an i a project which aims to endow American citizens with 'a ple abundance of British coin. -= Joseph Casey of 50 Myrtle ae Brooklyn, and Lawyer 8tepben-MC. will sail next week for E will represent the Amercan a heritage of $1,5000,000 orpehb .' $2,000,000. Since 1876, whenthe wiiei of the fortune, Mrs. Ellet Blake, wov of Gen. Edwin S. Blake, died,thisin t anee has been in the hands of a bg London trust company. It has- bet drawing interest at the rate of 211W cent. ut.til now it may now have to $2,000,000 limit. Mr. Caseytb he has a claim to this immense fund He is well off and can, spend money freely to substantiate this claim. The story of this fortune has a tinrag of romance. In 1819 Edwin 8. Blak was the officer in charge of the garrisoin troops at Athlone, Ireland. While tbereX he married Ellen Sheridan. In 1820Th. soldier took his bride to Scotland, wbe a baby was born. He went back to Ire land in the same year and the childdiedt Blake,had a bitter quarrel with his fan ily, threw up his commission,.drew his patrimony of ?6,000, and sailed for America. After residing in Ohio for yearse - went to Chicago in 1847 and began. t m' - manufacture silk. Le followed up the real es te boom closely and In,1873M started Uack to England with his for; rune. He died in London in 1874, bis widow, who inherited his el passed away two years later. She made - a will but had not signed it. It is sttil ,n record, however, among the archii at Somerset house in London. :heA present keeper of these records is G.L Fster, a Dublin lawyer, Henry. Ste phens, has obtained a copy of tbe widow's intended will. Its bedesta were mainly charitable. .., The decedent had forgotten both hem busband's relatives and her own. Wil-? Liam Ewart Gladstone was pat down fort ?10,000. The Dublin lawyer, accordiug to Joseph Casey and his atorney,Aie-, :lares that long ago,. by special favor oft Her Majesty, Mr. Gladstone was allowed. to take his legacy. For the last &e. bythe En la m an be claimed int In the .Forum for October the ,ev.T Snyder of St. Louis undertakes- to di-' uss the aversion of the peopli ~he Northern States of the Union to~heis negro as a negro, a feeling which e says, is hardly noticeable in Europe. Jn England social relations between whites persons and Africans are possible, 2 ct very common, but in New Yorft, Boston or Cincinnati the thing is eoi idered intolerable. Mr. Snyder thnk~ uch prejudice more or less natural .je he Sc'thern States, where the negroe>.., were .ses, but he can find no atisfo :ory reason for its existence, in an equa1k legree, in the Northern States, where slavery has not existed fer so long . period, or in the Western States wee it never existed at all. Europe, itshotIjld be observed, however, is simply benevo9 lently indifferent. The negro thereiN idulged as a curiosity. Se is- not ned~ Enerous enough to constitute a prolm~ politically or socially. His power isal luanity so small that it may be safely eglected. Not so in this country where his presence has been the occa! ion of a revolution, and may yet lead' : further mischief. The aversion with~ which Chinamen are regarded in some arts of this country is scarcely lees in :ense than the negrophobia of other arts. Close study might how that the'~ inderlying .cause is the ~me in both ases. Races may be so incompatibie :at the suggestion of close relations. levelops a desise for separation.-Bal ~imore Sun. Georgia's Confe4erate Home. The Atlanta Constitution announces :hat everything is now ready to begin :he erection of the main building for the Donederate Home of Georgia. The build ng . designed by the architect, the ame paper says, looks more like acounn+ :rv villa than a soldiers' home, has ev arv ~onvenience and comfort for the old rterans and is surroui'nded witfi im nense piazzas. It will be placed in a >eautiful grove and will be ready for >ccupancy just as soon as the contractors an finish it. There is money enough >z hand to pay forit. The purchase money *or the location has been paid and a force of hands has been at work ~for wo months cutting out roads and las g out the park. The architects are' io at work on the cottages, stables, lairy and other houses. In the mean ime the directors have received scores >f applications from old veterans and heir wives who want a home, and in-. ess than six months every one of them ill have a home. Loved Fondly, Rut Not Wisely. Professor L F. Shuford of McDowell. Iounty, N. C., is in trouble. A few' jays since he weas arrested at his school* ouse, four miles from Marion. charged vith a felonious assault on- Miss Mira! fleming, a beautiful and well known: ~oung woman, who was one of hi& upils. The prisoner was commnitted ithout a preliminary hearing; but on he day of the professor's imprisonment, me day early last week, the father cf ;he young woman went to Marion' where huford was in jail. Some of the cacher's friends loaded old man Fleci g and got him in a good humor, id 2e consented to forego the prosecution f the professor if he would leave the :ountry at once. This was a satisfac :ory arrangement to the sheriff, who iad no objection to that course. The sedagnann has gone.