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MY AUTUMN. (The following beautitui lines were written by Mr. W. E,' bristian, editor of the Charlotte Democrat, in ier->ry of his wife, the late lawn-ited Mrs. Julia Jackson Christi .. ..-all Jvakson's child.] Once there was a Sp When she was .': With :: -ning song f And bl :ring eyes f And golden smiles k The sky was happy 'Twas Atril chant a W ien she we The sum-ner came v r r- wr d :and W aen she waz h-r': Her cheek was by a het ai;.i fued. And her eyes went cut of Wom. And clouded hours died in gloom, She waked not to her baby's cry, Dark lashes o'er-swept tired eye, She was not here. Nestling, lift your little head, And call her here; Leaves are crimsoned, falling, dead, Heart and bough grow bleak and bare; Frosty spangles edge the air, 'Call her to our autumn nest, For our warmth lay in her breast, When she was here. Then, came winter to my home. With her not here; - Nor will another spring time come, For joy then quivering, now is dead, My darling and my heart are weA; Leave them-frozen into one; Keep away-both song and sun; For she's not here. , SIGN THE CLEMSON BILL ! A Call on the Governor to Respect the Wishes of the People. The News and Courier. The Cotton Plant, the organ of the Farmers' Alliance in South Carolina, is of the opinion that when the. General Assembly meets, Governor Richardson will veto the bill providing for the es tablishment of the Clemson College. The Greenville News is "informed that Governor Richardson during last summer positively declared his purpose to sign the Clemson bill." We do not know what course Governor Richards intends to pursue, but in our opinion he should gn the bill without hesitation. The State has accepted the Clemson bequest, the contest of the will has been determined by the courts in favor of the State, a bill has been passed by the Legis lature providing for the establishment of the college under the terms of the will, the people of the State have declared themselves to be in favor of the founda tion of a separate agricultuPal college for the education of the bous of farmers, and Governor Richardson should not hesitate to give his approval to a meas ure which is deserving of his favorable consideration upon every ground of pub lic policy. The governor wilt have three days after the Legislature meets with which to return the bill with his veto. hIf e declines to approve the bill, the probability is that the Legislature will not be able to pass it over his veto, and the case will then be car ried to the court -of final resort---the ballot box. It is easy to see that a more d:w&geroijs issue could not be injected it.to the politics of this State. As the Gre-".." l1e New Nways: "Decided and united "a"x." -c hy A:: ance men for their own intere-- ;,-uli -- cure .the election of Cleas-. C. t eg men 'from neatly every c .un' -. State, and a governor wh " ' . . eto a bill directly i-a the ir -- r cmers -and the farmers' sons.". -The farmers of tie S .t- re that -the Clemson College a . e- 4oished. They have a righs - -: a.; .t their 'wishes will be con e p e i . Their knumbers, their wear , a -i *c 'sipport ~which they give to the g.. aerosun. t will 'tethem to - ogcition. Ther e may ces of cpinion in re 'foroan a wr~ ural ~college, but the farme F~hat provis -iou shall be made for the education of their sons, and the very just and proper iequest should be granted. Gover'nor .'IChardson's veto of the Clemson Col +1ege bill would be a fatal political blun der, that could not be excused upon any ground of public policy or of econonmy. We do not believe that he will withhold his ap otthink that, i~ upo ths qestonhe can refuse to comply with the reasonable expecta tions of the farmers of the St*e. Fail 1stre to establish the Clemson College will * eopardize the- future success and useful ness of every other educational institu s'1on -under State control in South Carom lina, and will cause widespread dissen tion and dissatisfaction among the - -The farmers want the college, and they -ouhgt to have it. 'WATTEESON WAS JOYOUS. The Happy Little Song He Sang in the Courier Journal. LomsvniL, Ky., Nov. 6.-Following is the Courier Journal's editorial com tnme on the Dembecratic victories of Tuesday: The returns 'ste one's breath away. As was once said by a distinguished citi zen of Kentucky on a famous occasion, -"(Groundswell be damored ! It is an earth. .-quakelI" Such will certainly be the feel -.lg among the Republicans of the United States this morning. They have lost here and they have lost there. They have been caught coming and they have been caught going. They are down in the East and they are d'own in the West. It is so bad that the new -states, not even the Montana steal, will avail, them anything whatever. It is a Democratic cyclone from Cape Cod to Kalamazaoo, from Alpha to Omega, from hell to breakfast! ~ Nothing but Democratic gains. Dem ocratic victories every w bere. In Mlassa chusetts. In New York. In New Jer sey. But best of all, ao:d oie::sed of all, in Ohio and Iowa. Ev'en Nebraska is in -doubt.. 'We take nio account of Virginia, be cause we have never regarded the result there as in the smalles degree uncertain. From the first Mahone's dno was setaled. He was playing the gambler's last stake, and the loss of -all 'w'a- iunevitable. This will be the end of him. The defeat of Formk' ir.. Ohio seems tobe conceded at this be ': -:hbree t'clock a. m. The tidings ai~ rt j.y to many hearts, and no -h - emo cratic hearts, either... -..... was an ug'y partisan. 1b - . seen a thorn in the side of :., y .:::al as sociates. too. This a e ,i ai up. It cooks his goose. NY : r wdll he worry anybody--no' ev ii S ennamh, But terworth or Grosverm'r I mr ime nim to obscurit'.y. It removes thrr fr--i the list of presidential p' a.bzliies. It is his Waterloo. That this is an r'f Se'r is very true. But the significance of ywserdays vote can not be overstated. Halif a year ago the administration seemed inmpregnable. Six inonths of bluizdering, not unmixed with scandal, have done the business for Mr.Harrison and his political family. The people- have been outraged. The peo ple -have been disgusted. And this is the beginning of the end. So, hurrah for the red, white and blue and shurrah for the unterrified Democ' racy, and down with boodle, fraud and buncombe! In an interview on the el'ection re sults, ex-President Cleveland said in Washington last night: "It is evident the leaven of tariff reform has at last leavened the whole lump. Enough for me to say, I am satisfied with the re ults. The verdict in Virginia mdi, sates that the South is still faithful to che Democracy of Jefferson and Jack He Undertakes to Convert the Sultan -A Mill ion Dollars to Make a Chris tian. New York Times. In course of time the world may real ize the scope of that good man, Colonel Elliott F. Shepard, editor, manipulator of stage company stock, religious cru sader, and politician. The latest revelation concerning the notorious moralist is to the effect that he once had an idea of converting to the Christian faith no less a person than the Sultan of Turkey, and that not by the sword, as the crusaders of old sought to effect their purpose, but with the jingle of good American dollars, some of them, having in time gone by belonged to William H. Vanderbilt. One beauty about this incident in the Colonel's career is its absolute truthful ness, which can net be said of some things told of public and historical char acters like Mr. Shepard. It seems that when the Colonel was abroad some four or five years ago he visited Constantinople, and there he was entertained by the wife of a Pasha. The pious Colonel studied the Turkish char acter and the Mosle.n creed at length, and his tender heart bled at the thought that so mahy human beings knew not the blessing of Christianity. On his return to this country he put into practice a plan that had suggested itself on the way over. He wrote to the Pasha's wife request ing her to inform his majesty, the Sul tan-dearly the Colonel loves these words- that he, Colonel Shepard, would present him, the Sultan, with $1,000,000 in cash if he would embrace Christian ity. "Embrace" was the word the Colonel used, and, considering his well adver tised reputation for morality and mod esty, it would seem that he might have employed a term less susceptible of a double significance. In his letter Mr. Shepard gave as his reason for writibg to the lady in question the fact that her husband was close to the Sultan, and conseq.ently could easily find an oppor tunity to make the proposition. On his return to this country, Colonel Shepard conveyed the idea to his friends that while his reception in all the Euro pean countries was enthusiastic, it was in Turkey alone that he made what the atrical people term a "hit." "Had this been the case. however, he would have known," said a prominent Turkish trav eler yesterday, "that a Christian, no matter how high his rank, would never be able to approach the Sultan on any thing like intimate terms. And the Pasha to whose wife the Colonel's letter was written, never speaks to his imperial master except in relation to the stables, for his duties are connected with the Sultan's horses." When the Pasha's wife received the letter her amusement was unbounded, and she told about it with great glee at a public reception. Not so her husbarnd, the General. He looked at the matter in an entirely different light. What, ask Mohammed's viceregent to forsake his creed? The very idea caused a cold per spiration to break out on his forehead, and sent floating through his mind vis ions of the bowstring, the rack, and the cool waters of the Bosphorus. Yesterday a reporter of the Times asked the Turkish traveler already re ferred to what would have resulted had the Pasha transmitted the Colonel's mes sage to the Sultan. "Why," was the reply, "the thing is absurd on the face of it; but, for the sake of argument, suppose that the offer had been made to the Sultan. The Pasha would have been dismissed instantly, and would have been wonderfully fortunate had that been the end of it." It is not known whether Colonel Shep ard had a certified check for $1,000,000 made out in tevent of tuapecu Swi ness to "embrace" Christianity. AN INFANT MURDER. Deadly Use of a Gun by a Boy Tbi Years Old in Charlotte. CHARLtrE, N. CO ~r ~- er ful tragedy ,- ...eated at Biddles. . ne western suburbs of Char. lotte, at about half past ten o'clock this morning. Wesley Hunter is. a colored man who lives with his wife and two children in Biddlesville. The eldest child is a boy of three years, and the other was only a babe of six months. This morning Hunter's wife went into the yard to get some wood, and left the babe propped up in front of the fire. The three year old boy was also in the room, and an old fash ioned musket heavily loaded sat in a corner of the room. Their mother had hardly left the room when she heard the gun fire, and rushing in found the1 babe dead upon the floor with half of] its head entirely shot off. The gun occupied its same position in the cor ner, and the three year old lad stood1 in the floor as cool and calm as if1 nothing had been done. As his mother came in he ran up to her and exclaim ed: "Oh, mother, gun fell down and killed sister!" A Probably Fatal Row. Cwuro, Nov. 10.-Last night while a crowd of negroes were holding a festi val at the house of Munroe White, about 4 half a mile from this place, a row en sued, which may result in the death of ene of the participants. It seems that i White ordered one of the negroe*Tom Turne-, to leave his premises, and as 1 Turner started off White shot him twice,] ne shot striking him in the arm and thee other making a very dangerous wound in the side. The direction of the ball could not be determined by the attending sur eon, Dr. 0. G. Falls, who .considers it a very serious wound. White was, later last night, committed to jail by Trial i Just'ice Wardlaw. The trouble was one f long standing, and a woman is said to have been at the bottom of it. t A Colored Man's Fidelity. a Greenville sews. The fidelity of a former slave to his old mistress is well illustrated in the ase of David Hicks, a modest and prosperous colored man who lives in the upper section of the county. He was owned during the wan by a lady who was then in prosperous circum stances and was the owner of many other slaves. The tide of fortune urned and not long ago saw the lady ~ reduced to abject poverty and aban :oned by her relatives, who allowed . er to go to the poor house. Hicks gratefully remembered the kindnesses ~ f his mistress and he could not bear ~ to see her spend her last days in anr alms house, and so he took her to his cme, cared for her until she died and then had her decently buried. The story was heard from his own l ips by several, and those who knows Hicks believe what he said. Instances of ' this kind are cheering illustrations of C the fact that a black skin does not shield a black heart. Ex-Speak'er Carlisle is quite sure that the recent elections havegvindicated the wisdom of Mr. Cleveland's policy and mphasized Mr. Cleveland's command ng prominence in the Democratic party. The country seat of the late John E. Owens, in Maryland, was recently j sold at public auction for $28,000. The house and grounds, consistin~g of 208 acres, with improvements, cost Mr. Owens $125,000. The house alone cost him $60,000. In one room was a large walnut bedstead that he had built in i the room, and which went with the hs,. ai was tno big-to be removed.: A STORY OF liORROR. &BLOODY BATTLE IN A COURT ROOM. The Killing of Henry Miller, Dr- Wal ker and his Wife-The Unfbrtunate Lady Shot Dead by Her Husband's Side. Special Dispatch to the Baltimore Sun. STA1.xTOx, Va., Nov. 10.-No tragedy has ever occurred in Virginia having more sensational elements about it than the Walker-Miller affair Friday, at Brownsburg, in Brockbridge county, 22 miles from Staunton. It w:s a sudden and bloody happening, which took place in the midst of a judicial proceeding in stituted for the preservation of peace and good order in an eminently law-abid ing community. bot in the very presence of the justice who beard the peace case, two persons were butchered, another was so badly wounded that he died in ten hours after the affray, a third was mor tally wounded, and two others were hurt. The distressing feature of the whole is that a modest and innocent woman was cruelly done to death beside her husband, who had been rendered helpless in the fight. Bad as tlge other features of the slaughter were, her mur der, in cold blood, is the one episode of the tragedy which naturally excites the greatest indignation and resentment in the community. HOW THE TROUBLE BEGAN. The trouble began with a gross insult offered this unfortunate lady in her own house while her husband was sick. Henry Miller, it is stated, went on Wednesday last to Dr. Zachariah J. Walker's house, in Brownsburg, for medicine, which Mrs. Walker compounded in the surgery, and while doing so Miller attempted to kiss her, offering other indignities, which were repulsed. She refrained from tell ing her husband until Friday morning last, when he was well. The information made Dr. Walker very angry, and he started out with a colored man servant and a Shotgun. to kill, let ting it be generally known that he in tended to shoot on sight. Towards noon Henry Miller heard of the matter, and procured a warrant from Justice E. B. Bosworth, and it was in the hearing of this peace case before the magistrate that the tragedy took place. THE HEARING BEFORE THE JUSTICE. The hearing was held in a building known as the Academy, a large struct ure on a commanding eminence, not five hundred yards from the residence of Dr. Walker. Justice Bosworth sat in a room where the Friends of Temperance and other societies held their meetings. The room was fitted up with stands for the officers of secret societies, and on the table of the presiding officer still rests a large gilt-edged Bible and a hymnal for religious meetings. The size of the hall, as it may be called, is about 35 feet square, and it was full of men when the hearing began. Mrs. Walker eat on a bench in the furthest corner. Her hus band sat on a chair, and Henry Miller, who had sworn out the warrant, was near by. The magistrate, who is an experienced afficial and a man of high worth, heard both sides of the peace case, and Mrs. Walker had to corroborate the statement that her husband had threatened the life f the complainant. The justice said he would require Dr. Walker to give bail in $500 to keep the peace for twelve months. On refusal to do this, the justice said here was no alternative but to send him to jail,much as he disliked personallyto do so. Dr. Walker replied, "That's what I want you to do, bat I would like to get my dinner before going.'' This. was igreed to, and Dr. Walter said, "There s one other request I wish to make, and I~hat is to be allowed to slap Henry in the face." Of couree the justice told him that ould not be done there, but Dr. Walker persisted that he would do so, and, ris ng. he put his hand to his hip pocket md drew a revolver. A DESrERATE BATTLE. This weapon he seemed to be trying to ock, when David Miller, a son of the :omplainant, wrenched the pistol from aim. Ins'tantly there was a shuffle of reet on the floor and a rush of parties to gether and great excitement, and then a. pistol shot was fired in the room. Mr. A. Gould, who was . an eye witness and ;he first to advance to the aid of Dr. Yalker, says David Miller fired this shot, d that the bullet struck Dr. Walker in ;he back. There is good reason to sup ose that Dr. Walker was wounded with ais own pistol. Justice Bosworth, who ;ook the weapon from David Miller after he affray, says that every chamber of he revolver was empty. Justice Bosworth says the scene in the -oom was indescribable. Every one eemed to be more or less involved in it, ~ither as peacemaker or antagonist. Pis ol shots were rapidly fired, men were triking or menacing each other with iplifted chairs, and when the firing got sot not a few ran out of the room. Mr. ould says when Dr. Walker was first ired upon he ran forward with a chair to trike down David Miller, but was quick y surrounded and defeated in his pur >ose. Justice B->sworth says the first hing he saw was Dr. Walker stabbing Ienry Miller with a large dirk knife, leaing ctdly blows with unstinted Dr. Walker held his enemy in his ,rms part of the time wuile he stabbed nd stabbed. They were both powerful nen and remarkably strong, the Doctor ieing about 55 years of age, and Miller .bout 60 or 70. 'Ihe blows which the )octor gave caused Miller to turn pale, o reel and fall oackwards. Dr. Walker hen crossed the room to a bench resting gainst the side of the wall, on which Le laid down. MRS. wALKER KILLED. Mrs. Walker, who had been in the ex reme corner opposite, went to her hus and's side, and taking a bottle of sal olatile from a hand bag she carried, ent over her husband and administered be restorative. While she was doing. is wifely and womanly act she received fatal pistol shot, and slipping down eside the bench where her husband lay, ied in a sitting position. Dr. Wallrer, 2 his solicitude for his wife, managed to et down from the bench to the floor, nd was lying there beside her when he ceived the pistol shots which caused is death. Justice Boswell says he saw Villiam Miller, 23 years of age, son of [enry Miller, go to Dr. Walker as he v beside his dead wife, and shoot him. ome witnesses say William Miller stood ver the prostrate pair and poured three r four shots right into Dr. Walker as .e lay on the floor helpless beside his rife. Mr. Gould corroborates the state aent and says he interposed and tried to hame William Miller, begging him not o shoot a dying man, and that he ralked away after discharging his reapon tbree times. Henry McCormick .nd John B. Lavelle both say that James tiller, one of the brothers present with heir father, killed Mrs. Walker. These ritnesses state that James Miller said: -You caused the death of my father, .nd you shall all die together." WHAT DRi. GEORGE SAYS. Dr. Joseph George, of Augusta county, iear the Rockbridge line, who is attend eg all the surviving victims of the lreadful butchery, and made the post whic. Di. !i .a.!er istd on H. Miller w:a n r.d f. ,-aed dirk, wAh a pointed blade about six inches long and about one inch wide With this weapon Henry Miller was stabbed ten times, first in the heart, then in the liver, and all over the breast. There were three or four in the liver, two or three in the lungs, and the blade of the weapon was found broken oft in the lower part of the victim's back bone. The broken blade had to be pulled out with a pair of horse shoe pinchers. Dr. George thinks that the heart thrust was the first of the knife wounds Miller received, and that Dr. Walker must have held him while the others were dealt. The autopsy showed that Dr. Walker had received in all seven bullet wounds, and his arm had been broken below the elbow with a chair. Though be lost conciousness for a few minutes in the court room, Dr. Walker quickly recovered and was carried down to his home. He knew that his wire, whom he called Bettie, was wounded. He asked if she was dead, umen asked if Henry Miller was dead, and said: "I, too, have a mortial wound in the bowels." He added that he had no regret for hav ing to die. The shot which killed Mrs. Walker passed through the base of the brain from one side of the head to the other. Death was instantaneous. Dr. Walker died in his own home at one o'clock Sat urday morning, abdut two hours after the affray. THE coRONER's VERDICT. Justice Bosworth, acting as coroner, held an inquest on the bodies of the vg tims, and the jury rendered a verdict that James Miller killed Mrs. Walker, that Dr. Walker was killed by pistols shots fired by the Miller boys, without individualizing them and that Henry Miller, the father, was killed by Dr.Walk er. THREE KILLED AND ANOTHER DEATH PROBABLE. This makes three killed, but Dr. George is positive that D. 0. Miller will be added to the list, as he is mortally wounded in the back in a way similar to the fatal shot which killed President Garfield. T. A. Deaver, another parti cipant in the affray, has a knife wound in the neck, and John Hempsey is slight ly wounded by a pistol shot in the side. NARROW ESCAPE OF OTHER PEOPLE, It is wonderful in so crowded a room and with such a general firing that more people were not hurt. A number of those present were scratched, and seve ral had bullets sent through their bats and clothing. The walls of theTemper ance Temple show the battle scars thick, and the sheet-iron pipe of the stove was riddled witb bullets. On the floor where Mrs. Walker died is a large puddle of blood, and the floor is sprinkled with gore. The question was asked Justice Bos werth where all the pistcls came from, and he answered that it was in evidence before the coroner's inquest that four or five pistols were brought into the room after the altercation began between Dr. Walker and Henry Miller. The justice says these weapons included several va rieties of revolvers, and it is said that one man had a gun. There were five of the Miller family, the father and four sons, engaged it the affair. Three of the Mil ler boys, .ames, George and William, are in jail at Lexington, along with John Reese, charged with aiding and abetting, while David Miller is under charge of the sheriff until the result of his wound is ascertained. FUNERAL OF THE VICTIMs. The funeral of Henry Miller took place this morning from Newv Providence Prea byterian Church, two miles from Browns burg. Rev. Dr. C. R. Vaughn, officiat ed, and there was a large attendance of people. The remains were buried in the graveyard adjoIning-the church. at two o'clock. The funeral of Dr. and Mrs. Walker will take place Monday at eleven o'clock, and they will be buried in the same cemetary. The Masonic fraternity will attend Dr. Walker's funeral. The dwelling-house in which their remains lay at Brownsburg was festooned with heavy mourning over all the windows and entwined around the columns of the portico. The bodies of the Doctor and the unfortunate lady were in handsome rote wood caskets~and a stream of people, including many of the most prominent ressidiits of Rockbridge and Augusta counties, paid their respects. The stream of visitors passing through tne modest little parlor was continuous all day. Mr. and Mrs. Walker leave no children of their own, hut an adopted daughter, Miss Hope Ervin. SKETCH OF THE WALKERS. Mrs. Walker was Elizabeth Brooks, of Augusta county, near the Botetourt line. She was about 50 years of age, a delicate refined and firm woman, of irreproacha ble character. She had a striking tace. EHer hair, which had been black, was plentifully sprinkled with silver. Dr. Walker was a surgeon in the Con federate ervice under Roster. He was born Ein Rockbridge and was considered eminent in his profession. He lately resigned the position of medical examiner of the State of Virginia. There is no doubt of the fact that his death caused widespread egret for the loss of a much beloved itizen and a useful member of society. Some of his friends think that in~the past few months he showed signs of physical and mental break-down. In his prime be was a magnificent specimen of man ood and of a presence which would ommand attention among a thousand en. It is mentioned in his circle that he day of the tragedy was the anniver ary of the marriage of Dr. and Mrs. Walker. A celebrated European specialist for iseases of thie throat, nose and ear, as erts that tuberculosis is making alarm ng progress among ciga smokers. He oes not attribute this to the use of obacco. but to the manner in which igars are manufactured. Rolling the obacco leaf is a craft that requires nei her strength nor intelligence, conse uently in this branch of the operation t is usual to find male and female oper tors wbo are weak and diseased, and wo, in consequence of their infirmities,] re economical employes. Mast of these 1 uffer from scrofula or tuberculosis. They cough, and often give the finish- < ng touch to a cigar with their lips. 1 Mahone's fate is that of all traitors rom Judas Iscariot down. He is de pised by the men who bought him,, nd kicks and cuffs are being shower-i d upon his miserable carcass trotn all arties and factions. The respectable epublican newspapers which gave im a perfunctory support are sidling away now, and washing their hands ith ludicrous haste. - Greenville ews. A Disagreeable Man. Washington Capital. "Are you still taking painting les ons, Mamie?"1 "No; I quit yesterday. I don't like my teacher." "Why not?" "He has such a disagreeable way of alking. He told me that if I kept n for some time longer I might be ble to whitewash a fence." -' Quali fled fhr .Jury Duty.i i Terre Haute Express. Judge-"You are a freeholde14?" Prospective Juryman-"Yes sir." Judge-"Married or single?"' Prospective Juryman - "Married tree years ago last month." Judge-"Have you formed or ex ressed any opinion?" Prospective Juryman - "Notfo REBL KED FOR LYI'. SENATOR HAMPTON'S LETTER Ti W ANAMAKER The Postzmaster General and Sunda. schoolSup.rinntndent Reminded of Broken Promise, and the Story ( Ananias and SapphiraComii m 1ded t his Attention. Corx.UnrA, Nouember 12.-Special t The News and Courier: The raciest Ie ter of the political year is cffered to th great American public through Tb News and Courier. It was written b Senator Hampton to Postmaster Gener: Wanamaker in referenes to the app-inI ment of a postmaster for Columbia. Tb Senator hag sent a copy of it to Pos master Gibbes in order toishow the falst ness-of Wanamaker, ands by permiissio of its author, Major Gibbes has hande .:s copy to The News and Courier ft pubieation. It is known to be a fact, although ti Senator does not state it in his letter t the poniaster general, that be was tol by Wanamaker months ago that Mi Edwin E Gary, a moderate Republica of this city, who had received strong ei dorsements from the businesscommunit' should succeed Major Gibbs asjpostma ter. In this also the head of the pos office department failed to keep h word. Mr. Clayton, an "Independent, was appointed, for a reason which ma be guessed. Senator Hampton's pen is pitiless, i Sherman and others have found befoi now. His letter to Wanamakei which follows, will maintain his reputi tion as an expert exposer of hypocris and cant: GLEN ALLAN, MISs. NovEBEiR 8, 188f Hon. John Wanamaker-Sir: The et closed extract from a South Carolir paper caused me great surprise, for pe haps you may remember, if your mnemor is not treacherous, your assurance to m a few days ago that Mr. Gibbes shoul not be removed until the expir.tion his term, in Febuary next. Not onl did you do this, but you voluntarily a sured me that in as much as Columbi was my postrffice you would, wh'n successor to Mr. Gibbes was to be al pointed, consult mi. It is a matter of small importance t me who takes the place of Mr. Gibbe: but as I informed bim, in passil through Columbia, of the promise yo had made. you may, perhaps, understan how your action has placed me in false position. But it is fortunate for me . that M Gibbes will know that I, at least, tol him the truth, though I was grievousl deceived in believing what was said t me. I sh'll krow better in future wh: reliance to place on statements emana ing from the same source. The ecwspapers state that beside mausging the great department ovt which you preside, you are running Sunday-school in Philadelphia, and occurs to me that you might with prof to yourself select as the most approprial subject of a lecture to your pupils tb instructive story of Ananias and Sal phira._ This would give you a line. .fiei for your eloquence in explaining to yot young charges the importance of confit ing themselves to the truth, excef where some fancied advantage might > obtained over a political opponent. I am your obedient servant. Wade Hampton. The Senator has expressed the opir ion of an overwhelming majority of bi constituents. "hurrah for Ilam pton! . N.G.G. The State May Punidh Them. The Supreme Court of the Unilte States, last Monday, rendered an opoiio affirming the judgmeunt of the Su'prem Court of North Car "ina in the case t Cross and White, preszient and cashih respectively of the State Nationai Bank of Raleigh, N. C. The crime with whic they wcre charged was 'he forgery of promissory note and the making of false entry in the books of the bank fa the purpose of deceiving the nationi bank examiner as to the financial condi tion of the bank. It was contendedi behalf of Cross and White that their oi fense was cognizable in the Federal an not in the State courts. The Suprem Court .decides against the convictel bank officers and in favor of the State. Rome Boasts the Most Valuable Bool in the World. Presbyterian Observer. From a money standpoint Rome boas t of the most valuable book in the world It is a Hebrew Bible, preserved in th Vatican at Rome, and remarkable for it size, weighing over three hundred an twenty-five pounds, and requiring ust ally threemen to carry it. In 1512 syndicate of Venician Jews offere Pope Julias its weight in gold for it (2 about $125,000, but, though needing th money greatly, he refused is Accorcin to the present standard value of goldl a compared with thsat period the boy. ought to be worth, upon the te-rnms c: those old Jews, about$S375,000, and. iti doubtiul if Rome would sell it for an such amount. Yet notwithstanding h wonderful money value set upor. I., iti of little practical service. It is too, cumi Dersome for use, and is prehemwd as memento of the past, and as a librar treasure. SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. There are now in the insane asylut 1,759 patients -820 white andi 939 col oredl. On the 4th instant the county De-m ratic convention of Abbeville notuinia ted C61l. E. BsGary for the vacarncy 1 he House of Representatives caused b he resignation of R. E Hill. Ther was no opposition and Col. Gary wa 2minated unanimously. Mrs. IHanuah Jennings, of the town o r]gefiel 1.attempted suicide the othe :iay by taking laudanum. The dos :r'.ved wo small to prodiuce the desire' :fL et, aiad she togh: chloroform, whic] eold have proved fatal had not friend lsovered the fact and applied anti lotes. The cotton crop of Oconee is far shor >f what was expected two months ago n the first place there was more wee< han fruit, and then the' eariy fros rut off all the late cotton. Sum f the best informed farmers are of th he opinion that there will not be mor han two-thirds of an average crop mad is year. W. W. Russell, the newly appointe< ostmaster for Anderson, is receivingf 2 ow from every side. The Democrat rfer a straight-out Republicans rath r than an Independent. A very ho ight is being made against him. Thb epublicans of Anderson held a meetjini Sfew nights since and declared wa gainst him and are now making a des erate tight. They will do all ttley cai o prevent Mr. Rus-ell from receivini is commission. They prefer the pres t incumbent [Mr. C. WV. Webb] rathe an Mr. Russell. Mrs. J. R. Cochrai s the Republican candidate for the ofiic d has recerved the endorsement of th usiness meni generally, provided the: annot have a Democrat. The New York Tribune, which ha een a Mlahone organ of the deepes lye, now remarks thatt Billy is a "bacd umber." Truly, Mahone is in a bat ay. _______ _ An Unkind Cut. itostoun Courier. Miss Sere-"I suppose you hav< teard that Mr. Short has proposed?' Miss Fresh-"Indeed!" Miss S.-"Yes. Now I wonder i t's my money he's after." wriss F-"What else can it be?" WORKINGMEN OF LONDON. low They Manage - More Economical Than Those of America. The workingmeu of London are oorly paid in comparison with the vorkinmen of New York, but as far s I coulid judge they lived as well, or etter. The reason for this senied to ,e that rents and everything used and ,onsumed in the ?amilies, except heats, were lower in London than in few York, and that the English vorkingmen were better managers Ld more economical than the work ngmen of the United States. Having mnderstood that the watchmen in Lou [on were. receiving only a pound a week for their services, I thought that would like to know how they man ged to live on so small pay, so I asked a night watchman on the square 0here I lived if he had a family. "I iave, sir," said he; "I have a wife and hree children." "And can you live omfortably on a pound a week?" (In Jnited States money seventy cents a lay.) "Yes, sir," he replied; "we've nananed to Bet along so far, and as wo of my children will soon be able o earn something I am pretty well atisfied." "Will you tell me," I asked again, 'how you manage to make both ends neet-=you don t run in debt, I lope?" "Oh, no, sir, I never runs in iebt: I knows just how much I am to et each week, and, as the saying is, I :uts my coat according to the cloth. I annot tell you exactly how much ,verything costs, but I can tell you ;hat we do. In the first place we sets tside what we have to pay each month 'or rent, and the next what we have o pay for coal-we must have a roof >ver our heads and fire to cook with md keep us warm when the weather s cold-then a few pennies are laid tside which go to the society, that will ive us a. decent burial; then we cal sulates just how much we can spend a lay for food, and have enough left >vcr for clothing, and a little besides. 4e usually have meat once and some imes twice a week, and always on Sundays, and we have plenty of pota es and bread. The city furnishes ne with two suits of clothes a year, mid my wife buys the cloth for the )ther things I needs, and for her :othes and the children's, and she akes them up. I helps her myself, sometimes, about the housework." "You say," I remarked, "you have 6 little left over; what do you do with hat?" "Oh,. sir, that is put in the avin bank, so that we may have ;ometning to fall back upon if any of is gets sick." "Do you drink any iuor?" "No, sir." "Not even beer?" 'ot often, I like a glass of beer as sell as anyby, but I might lose my lace if I was often seen in beer shops, ind I can get along just as well with >ut it; besides, sir, I could not afford o drink beer if I wanted to."' "A good nany df your class," I said, "do drink t, and a good deal of- it." "That is rue, sir; and a good many of them lies in the almshouse." "Do you take 2thing in these long, chilly nights?" Nothing but tea, sir, which my wife nakes for me. I takes a bottle of it in ny pocket, and drinks that as I takes ny rounds. It is a good deal cheaper, md I am sure it is a good deal better or me than beer." "One question nore, and I have done; how is it about tour children; you don't let them orow ip in ignorance, I suppose? TVho :aches them?" "They goes to the ree school, sir; we have free schools. n London." I was agood deal inter 'ted in -this man's story, which I rew out of him by questions. He vas a man supportinno himself and his amily on 70 cents a &y, and yet hale, carty and contented. Who are more mtitled to respect than such men! Iugh McCulloch's Men and Measures. The Feeling in Saxony. The Saxons, although now under le protection of the Prussian flag,~ do ct all takre in the most kindly way to heir protectors. The writer talked .vitzmembers of different classes in )resden, Leipsic, Frankfort and other saxon cities and heard remarks which -ere anything but complimentary to he Germans and the present emperor. n case of war they owe allegiance to 3ermany and must fight, but they ike to indulge in the belief that they tr a separate power and kingdom. Chey 'etain their old flag, and at rail ,ay stations and public buildings it oats side by side with the Prusin olors. Everywhere do you hear re rets for the death of Emperor Fred rick. It is believed gnerally on the :ontinent and in En~and that not mly Prussia but the wc ole world is a oser by his death. Nobody seems to mow exactly what will be the policy f the young emperor. It is like sit ing near a-barrel of gunpowder; you lon't kw when it may explode. -M. P." izome Journal. The Blind Sculptor.. Vidal. the blind sculptor, is one of the wonders of the French capital. He has been blind since his twenty-first year. We can quite easilyv understand how a blind farmer wouild cultivate the ground with the plow, spade and hoe. How he would feel around the tender plaints and gently loosen the dirt from their rootfs, or how the blind Biringhami (Ala.) miner tells, with the sense of touch alone, the di rection and to what depth to drill his holes before putting ini a blast; but the work of Vidal stands out in bold relief, unique, wondeirful and incom parable. To bc a sculptor it is gener ally supposed that one must have the "nechanic's eye" and the ar'tist's taste and perspicuity. The latter faculties Vidal has to an exiceptional deoriee even more acute, he believes, tinan if the former were not lost to him for ever.f~y slowly passing his hands over, an object lie notes its external Proportionms, and i:r'itat!e themn in ch:y m a mainna- which uraike:S the Lu holder dumb with surprise. A dog, horse, human face or anything alive :r dead, lie models with as much ease is any of the dozens of Parisian sculp ors who still retain the faculty of siht. "Fromn 1855 to 1875 Vidal received nore medals than any other exhibitor >f works in the Paris airt exhibitions. ~Iany of his woirks, made in the soli :ude of his perpetual midnight, are ow on the shelves at the great expo ~ition, where the blind wonder con eids in friendly rivalry with his less .nfortunate brother artists. He never ~omplains, is always genial and fes ive when among his friends, who al ays speak of and to him as though e could see, and well may they do so, 'or lie is one of the best art critics in d Paris.-John' W. Wright in St. Louis Republic. Inras Trade. Our male aristocrats star'ted the novement. For several years the Iarquis of Londonderry's coal carts are perambulated the streets of the netropolis bearing his lordship's name n full; the Earl of Shrewsbury's han oms are the smartest and swiftest in m~don, and quite recently the Earl of ~oventry has blossomed out into a ona flde manufacturer of jams and ickles. Soon the ladies began to fol ow suit. If lords miay sell coal, why hould not ladies sell milk? And so hie Duchess of Hamilton has started a aost successful dairy at Ipswich, and L one thinks any the worse of her -race for doing so; while the Honor ble 31rs. MIaberhy presides over a .aintily fuirnished establishment of a imilar nature somewhere in the re ~ions of Notting Hill-London Cor. ODDS ANiJ ENDS. It is asserted that Paris shop4keepers ] have raised prices fully 50 per cent., but only to strangers. It is an ancient belief that a change I in the body of a man occurs every a seventh year. ?* The man who boasts that he is ready o to shed his last drop of blood is apt to be particular about the first drop. o A Huntin-ton paper says: There are villages in tfiis county of 200 or 300 e inhabitants where it would be impos e sible to find a soul astir on Sunday afternoon. It is a universal custom to "nap." An offensive trunk raised an excite e nint in the depot at New Oxford, A laniscounty, Pa., the other day. On being opened it was found to hold ladies' wearing apparel well stocked j with naphthaline to keep off moths. r Australia is as cosmopolitan as the l United States. At a hotel in Sidney e the other week there were thirteen o dilfferent nationalities represented at 0one table. - The size of the canvas on which Millet painted "L'Angelus," the fa nious $110,000 picture, is 21j by 251 inches. The painting was paid for at the rate of $204.05 per square inch. Lightning struck the house of CoL L. N. Edwards of Oxford, Me., knock ing a kerosene lamp into a thousand p pieces and taking a metal clock from the wall of the room and hurling it s under the colonel's bed. Nothing else e in the house was disturbed. ' Miss .lary Graham was awarded the prize in political economy at the com n-ucenent of Wesleyan university at Middletown, Conn.; Miss Lily B. Conn in natural science, and Miss 3lttie J. Beach in English literature. a A scheme for hatching' partridges for stocking Montgomery county, Y Pa., is to be put in operation e by the Game Protective associa a tion of that county. The egos will be bought in large quantities an2 hatched - in artificial incubators. The present English national debt may be said to have commenced in the reign of William III, 16S9. Eight years after the date given it amounted to about ?5.000,000 sterling, an amount then thought to be of alarming mag nitude. A curious theft is reported from Prague. A burglar having gained ac a cess to the cabinet of a well known collector broke open a small but rich ly chased steel coffer fort of antiq te workmanship, and, having taken only its contents (about $150 in Austrian currency), obligingly left the casket, the worith of which at a moderate com putation is said to be $1,250. When Jacob Foss,of Green Bay,Wis., a died a few weeks ago eight different r men presented bills to his widow, but a she had a receipt for each one in fulL t Her husband had filed away a matter of 2,000 of them, saying they might e come handy some day. e An invention has been made which oromises to revolutionize completely i the industry of china decoration. By r a process discovered by J. B. lonnaud it is possible to obtain in a few minutes t the same artistic effects which cost the e hand painter on china days of labor. Landscapes, groups of figures and por traits are produced by this means on vases, plates and plaques in their na . tural colors, even to the most delicate s shades. " The New Orleans Times-Democrat, taking the data afforded by reports from sever-al of the states, estimates thiat very nearly half of the cotton is now raised by white labor, whereas ethirty yvears ago not over 400,000 bales, ornie-'tenith of the crop, was raised by r the whites. The Railroad Age gives the approxi Li mate mileage of raili-oad construction a during the first six months of the pres-1 a ent year, which is estimated at 1,522: r miles, or less than half that of the1 ,1 same per-iod of 1888. More than half . of the ne w construction is in the south, a The Age estimates the total mileage .for this year at from 3,500 to 5,000 e mits no more possible, says Rev. I Sydney Smith, for an idle man to keep together a certain stock of knowledge, than it is possible to keep together a c stock of ice exposed to the meridian sun. Evary day destroys a fact, a re lation or an influence; and the only a way of preserving the bulk and value . of 'the piie is by constantly adding e to it. 4 Cratritude for an Umbrella. - 'Do y-ou know7 why Governor Gor a dlon appointed Alvan D. Freeman to 3 be judge of the county court of Co rweta?" a gentleman from Newman c asked. "No; was there any special reason?" " There was. It was on account of San old umbrella. When Governor iGordon surrendered at Appomattox it s was raining hard. The water was run ninig down his face so fast that it was 'with difficulty he made a little im promptu speech composed for the oc Casion. *Seeing the general's embarrassment Alvan Fireeman, who was the owner of the only umbrella in the Confeder ate army. raised it, and, stepping up close to the general, held it over his head. pi-otecting him from the rain -until his little speech was finished. The general was very grateful to Al - ian, and the very first occasion that pi-esented itself proved that he had not forgotten the umbrella act by appoint ing himn to a judge's place.-Atlanta Journal. The Monkey and the Shah. fThe shah of Persia specially appre r ated two of the Berlin sights during ahis visit-the menhgerie at the Aqua I rium and the Zoological gardens. He iadmired the mokeys, but was rather shy of seeing them at close quarters. - However, the ma'nager at the Aquari um induced his Persian majesty to stroke a very tame chimpanzee, when, to the general hor ror, another mon key, which was not being watched, sudlenly clung to the shah's unifor-m, and danmaged both the iroyal visitor's garments and his n.rves.-New York :eiegram. Too Smart by3 Hall. New York HeralId. "Good morning, Madam -" "We don't want n> sewin' ma chines." "No?" "Nor no patent clothes wringer-'' ;"Indeed?" "A n' we got two grau' pianners an' a cubunet organd." "An' ev'ry room ht z a clockt an' aionus has watc-his." "How about pictures?" r"Kain't sell us none o' them, nei ther, stranger. They ain't a wvall in the house ye kin see for th' rafts o' oil paintiu's hung on 'em." "I suppose you have a dog?" "Yer a shoutin'! Pap has more'n forty, an' all bloodid." "How about carriages?" t"Barns full on 'em. An' we don't I :buy no hosses on this ranch." l "Good morning, madam." "Mornin'-say, tenderfut, who bees h ye, enyho?" t' "Im the tax assessor." Hie was anl E:ditdr. Burglar-What are yo-u laughing at you fool? Do you see this gun? fAwaken citizen-I was laughing to s see you hunt in the dark for the mon-y T cat find in broad davlight. " *, .TTh~R!A WAN13ERIt4Gg. .after Twenty-five Years It Reaches the Party It Ia Addressed to. Among the many curious things that occur in the handling of the mails none are more curious or out of the ordinary than a story related by Mr. John Schomaker, a saddle and harness maker at 1341 North Broadway, and a member of Ransom post, G. A. R. At the beginning of the late war, Mr. Schomaker was living at Fort Madison, Ia., where he enlisted as a member of the old Fremont body guard, and came to St. Louis to Camp Ashboth. He went south, and after Fremont was superseded by Gen. Hunter the body guard was disbanded, and the members joined other companies. Mr. Schomaker became a member of com pany F, Fifth Iowa cavalry, which was attached to company G, of the Fourth Michigan cavalry. He was under Gen. Thomas, and as a mem ber of the headquarters courier line, carried dispatches on the Chicka mauga battle field, and also acted in the same capacity on and around Lookout Mountain and Missionary Ridge, and went as far east as Jones boro, Ga., on Gen. Sherman's march to the sea. On April 11, 1864, John H. Schomaker, father of the soldier, directed a letter to him from Fort Madison, Ia., and, thinking he was in Tennessee, wrote the following ad dress on the envelope: JOHN SCHOi A ER, Co. F, Fifth Iowa Cavalry, with Co. G. Fourth Mich. Cavalry, viaNashville. The letter reached Nashville in due time, and was forwarded to the Fifth Iowa cavalry, lying near Chatta nooga, Tenn. But Mr. Schomaker had been detailed on the headquarters courier line and was gone a few days before the letter arrived at the camp. The letter was sent back to Nashville, where it remained a few days while the mail officials were looking up the whereaboutf of the Iowa company. It seems that Company F, of the Fifth Iowa cavalry, had about this time gone home on a veteran's furlough to see their wives and sweethearts, and were afterwards thrown among two Iowa companies. The letter was forwarded from Nashville to the Third Minne sota cavalry at St. Paul, Minn. But Mr. Schomaker, instead of taking ad vantage of the furlough in his Iowa company in Tennessee, had gone on to Georgia with Sherman, and of course the letter did not reach him in Minne sota. However, the St. Paul postoffice officials, thinking that Mr. Schomaker was among the Iowans mixed up with. the Minnesota companies, redirected the letter as follows: On detached duty at Fort Snellin;, Minn. And the letter now found its. way to this outpost in the north, while the soldier to whom it was written was fighting far away in Georgia. The letter was finally advertised, accord ing to the postal laws at Fort Snelling, but on July 31, 1864, was sent to the dead letter office, in Washington. Up to this time the nearestin time and space that the letter came to Mr. Scho maker was the distance from Nash ville to Chattanooga, and the period of one day. He left Chattanoogafor Georgia one day before the letter ar rived there. But the letter was again sent to the exact place he had left only a few days before it arrived. Mr. Schomaker visited his home in Fort Madison, Ia., for one month in 1884, and a few days after he left the letter was returned to its writer, John H. Schomaker, .from the dead letter of fice. The envelope and letter were enclosed in a new envelope. It was thrown into a bureau drawer among several old letters and relies, and was forgotten by the family. Mr. Schomaker, of this city, Ifever visited his home again until last Sep tember, and while there he was nosing around among some old letters ran across this identical letter which his father had written to him during the war. The envelope was covee with the mold of twenty-five years, and the ink had faded i ato dim lines at p laces. Yet the sentences were en tirely legible, and Mr. Schomaker read the letter for the first time, with as much avidity as if he had received it twenty-five years before when it ar rived in Tennessee, and had then per used it by the flickering' light of the camp fire. But he read it at this late date with a very different phase of in terest than if he had seen it in 1884.. Then it would have been fresh news from the loved ones at home. Now it was read with only an eagerness that recalled the thrilling scenes of a quar ter century ago.- Received at the camp long ago the letter would have been fresh news. Read at this time it was a memento, a reminiscence. -Mr. Schomaker brought the letter home with him and has placed it among. quite a cogection of war relics whc he has obtained to satisfy his anti quarian tastes. The letter is held dear by him, and it could -not be pur chased by gold, greenbacks, or an African diamond mine. - St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Appie Cider. It will surprise many people to know that cider made of apples is not an American drink distinctively. Its manufacture was imported from France, where the annual output equals that of the wine of the country. In France cider is not onymade of apples, but of pears. In England it is also a popular drink, and the cider miakinig industry is quite extensive. The state departmnent has found cider making in both France and England to be of suflicient importance to have our consuls in both nations prepare special reports upon the process, appli ances, output and prices of the bever age, which have been published in a separate volume for free distribution, al are all of the consular reports, in what thev call. I bclieve, down east, "Ev-arts' 'Monthly Magazine," that gentleman while secretary of state having instituted the publication of these valuable papers on trade, com merce, govern" ent and natural his tory of the countries where we are represented as a nation.-Interview in St. Louis Globe-Democrat. Dwarf Japanese 'Trees. One of the interesting things seen at the Paris exposition are the dwarf trees which the Japanese horticultu rists are showing, and which are at tracting nmucli attention, says a wiciter in The Pittsburg Dispatch. Pines, thujes and cedars, said to be 100 or 154) years old, are only eighteen inches Ligh, and with such specimens it would be easy to have a coniferous forest on a balcony. These arboreal deformities are produced by great la bor, and if the truth is told about their ages, this work of arresting the tree's development and forcing it into eon torted forms must be persisted in by several generations of foresters. All this painstaking is hardly paid for by the beauty of the resulting' abortions, but a look at these trees w-ill explain where the fantastic forms come from which serve as models for the plants we see on lacquered trays, bronzes and embroideries which conie from Japan. In Russia when coffns are covered with cloth, the color of the covermn is, to a certain extent. distinctiv.e, pi. beina used when the deceased is a childJ or a youing person, crimson for wonmen and brown for 'widows, but bla s i,, no as employed.