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vt~ XlMANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUIARY 22, 1890. N. UROWAG BETTER. THE SOUTH ADDING TO IT WEALTH DAILY. AUd Bill trp Says If somebodY Will Solvr the Negro Problem Everythig Will B All Right. Was there ever such a time an< such a ;.:,untry? Verily, it looks lik( the ancieut Aladdin had come to li with his lamp and wasjust going about building cities. Two weeks ago I wa. at Cross Plains, a little place fifty miles from here, and there wasn' anything there much-not very mcl -just a wide place in the road and a range of high hills a mile or f wo away. There were some good cotton lands stretching out in broad, level acres amd there was a creek not far away. There was a little settlement of un pretending cottages and a few stores, where the merchants sat upon boxes and whittled and ta'ked politics and watched the trains go by, and that was all. There wasn't a blank acre in town that I could nnt have bought for $200. Well Aladdin hasn't rubbed his lamp yet, but he is there going to rub it Millionaires have been there since I was, and they have bougdl out the whole concern-everything but the women and children and the grp.ve yard, and they have stocked the 2,500 acres at a million dollars and have laid off a city and actually sold three hundred thousand dollars worth of -city !o*a in three days, and the cry is still they come. I am told they hav, en't sold a hundred acres yet. Three thousand do.ars an acre. Just think of it! I wonder what the poor fellow thinks ' WHO SOLD IT FOR FIFTY. But he got all it was worth and ought to be satisfied. He couldn't make it worth any niore-but capital can. This is the power of money. Mone, is going to put machinery there and build furnaces and rolling mills and banks and manificent h tels. Why, they have got a bank already v.ith a hundred thousand dollars capital- all paid in. Had to have great big iron safes expressed there toleep the mon ey in until they could build a bank. Some of the Vanderbilts are in the ring and lotsof moneyed men from all over the North. They say that in twelve months there will be five millions in vested at Piedmont. Thatis the name they have given the new city. We used to think that such things were just an artful scheme to fleece the lambs, but it does not look that way now. The whole South is on a boom. Look at Florence, only two years old and twelve millions invested. Look at Sheffield, and Decatur, and Fort Payne, and Middleboro. Yes, Middle oro, only six months old, and ten millions invested. Look at Birming ham, only ten years old and fifty millions invested-and this thing is going on.from Virginia to Texas. The mighty North is moving this way, nig ger or no nigger. They send down their agents to spy out the land, and before we know it they have squatted some where and Aladdin goes to rb bing his lamp. What is to be the out come of all this thing? Within the last twelve months one hundred mil lions in capital has been ad led to the industrial and cemmnercial value of the South. They will take a wide place in the road and buy up 2,5'00- acres of landl for twenty-five thousand dollars and "presto change," in a week is worth a million. Well, of course, there are mineral treasures behind all this. Te mountains or the hills are close by and they are full of iron, or coal, or something. Now will these move ments make a break into the solid South and help us sOLVE THE RACE PROBLEM that seems to disturb the country so~ much? Will we become yankeefied, or will they become Dixiefied, or will it result in a harmonious mixtnre? A year or so ago, some Boston yankees settled a little town not far from us and went to work. For awhile they were shy and peculiar, and when one of them was introduced to one of our f,1ks he reached his hand out at arms length, but by and by, they got ac quainted and found out we were a very harmless and d-ever people and we found out the same abou'. them, and w they shake hands right up close S-tell jokes and anecdotes just like ad They have got a newspaper~ we do. *.te-town and have employed~ in theirl ,?- ith Carolina rebel for an a reular Jsu 6 e1ough u hen Jeffer edor, Dandisu ie,eslapped the black ounvis lined, l ove~r a whole page, saidn lit a all right and just and they sadi wa ent to Boston kman, and the papei and a Boston on te exrohange list' -ttok w paper saw it, and now * ou pkcus by wht lege~rdema1i nor h r tnmgiiainaBs eaya ican can go to Georgia and li~ yrel or s and Lecemne a Jeff Davis rbl Well, that is all right. He is iO Jeff Davis rebel, but he is a high-to ed lberaharted gentleman, andhdr. spect. for the feelings of the people he, lived with, and expects to die with. In the first place if he hadn't been a genlean h wuldn't have come nero at all- A gent ieman is not'ean to go anywhere.. A tru geteave can get along with any people - he obere fo forty years, thatth sorern men wvho come South to stay aeamong the very best c'et S wel e totr dy tmat owhen he made p his miud to comad Suta hiseriof us venture was made o the eto wrest Drayer in the family, lfor and believed he was risking .. ll, n they felt a-s much concern as iu he was g~n tothe Cannibal 1lands as a gin to'Y We are glad he came, for he is a genitlemaltn, too, adIws gae ORE OF T EE sAME sORT vaidc)e.Right now it does look ike we were harmonizing. vnI alsis repenting and is going to bukt " pch for peace and pay a.tibt tope Grtv ie has been very sick thxe to anu that. does ake the venom ou ofamn fIngais does repent n< ilse-1 all the tears he ough ,4 ad it will give many a disconsoint r a ebhance to get itno heaven. .Ba there is anold rhyme that says: 'f~ ~vLgt I the devi a1 azL ~ e lwe ask is hAi~t the race probiez be let alone, and it will work out 1i OwIavation. Providence is ove: oen athis business It was his Wi seent~hev should be brougvht here. an heldin tiondaxge and for a purpos Eugland ships and New EnglaL oey brought them here and may1 rohey-wil et back to Africa ;n ti au a Who knows? The Soul has had them in sehooi Ior a hundred years, and if they are ,oW bitten to gc back and civilize their brethren in Africa they will be sent, I reckon. But the time has not come yet. Arkan sas seems to want them a while longer and wants more of them. So lec it work along. They are doing very well in our part of the country. There is no friction. We are all calm and serene uuon thia question.. If he wants to go, we say go and God bless you. If he wants to stav, we say stay and behave your'el -es. So it is all right all round with u,. I can draw water, and cut wood, aud feed my horses, and work -y garden. I ca cook breakfas.t anti ny wife or nay daughter can cook dinner and supper. I haven't a child--girl or boy but. who can catch Molly ad put the harness on 5nd hitch hr to the buggy. and drive, and go wlh --n they please and where they pl :e. *o i* is no ground hog case with us. The old ones will stay aiyhow, and umri wvill last about as long as we will. Uncle Sam says he ain't gwine naiy stpp; says he wilrun away first-just like- he used to when old matssa gwine to whip h:in. "Where will von ruu to. Unce Sam?" said I. "Run to e canebrake, lay dar all day and sleep wid one eye open, c me out at night git sumfin to eat. I h'aint torgot how to run away." Th. truth is we havn't given it up yet that thep have got to go at ail. Wise men keep on PARADING THAT OLD MAXID. of Jefferson and other philosephers that an inferior race can't live in peace with a superior race. Is that so? Wl y not? They are doing it right now all over the world. Ther- ;s just as much ditference between the astillians and the greasers of Mexico as there is be tween the negro and the white man. There are grades and castes all -over China and India. And here are the Jews and the Gentiles, both races claiming to be the peculiar people of Go1, and yet they get along. Let us wait and see. If the negro will behave and the white man be considerate, I am sure e can get along. If he doesn't be have he will have to go somewhere, and that is all of it. Here we are pay og $30 to the colored teachers of their public schools in Cartersville, and we furnish a good school house for them, and yet their par; of the school tax is only fifty dollarm. The white foiks pay eight hundred dollars and the negroes pay fifty to educato their own children; and it. is that way all over the South. Now the yankees don't believe that, and we don't care whether they do or not. We are go ing to run this machine according to our own convictions of justice ani morality. it is either our fight or our funeral, and we are ready to meet it. BILL ARP. QUICK TIME TO THE WEST. The Plans of 31anager eBee-Twenty four liourts From Columbla to Cincin nai. On the occasion of his recent visit to Columbia, Col. V. E. McBee, recently appointed Superintendent of the Spar tanburg andUnion and theSpartanburg and Asheville Railroad, was interview ed by a Register reporter, who gives the following: Col. McBee said that the chief object of the presence of himself and party in Columbia was to look over the field nd to see in what ways the railroad ystem with which he was connected ould better serve the people through hose country its lines run and to hom it must look for patronage. He stated that with a view of estab shing a through line to the West he General Manager of the Rich ond and Danville syatem had for ome time contemplated the combina tion or union of the Spartanburg, Un on and Colnimbia and the Asheville and Spartanburg roads, both of which, hile parts of the same system, bad been under separate management.4 The General Manager's idea has now been carried out by making Mr. IcBee, Superintendent of both roads, and they will hereafter be run in as lose conjunction as is possible and proper and as the demands of through trafic may render necessary. The change has been made and the ques tion of new scnedules and better con nections is being considered. By arrangements recently perfected he Richmond and Danville, with its onnections, furnishes the shortest line rom Charleston to Cincinnati and gves Columbia a through line to the YVest that will at once be able to offer superior inducements for patronage both for freight and passenger tratlic to and from Cincinnati, Louisville and other Western points. Just what changes will be made in the present schedules, Mr. :A cBee was or,, last night, prepared to say, but thi he promised as the result of the General Ma'iager's arrangemnen ts-a ine by which a traveler can leave Col mbia any morning, at a slighitly ear ier hour than the present schedule, and arrive in C'incinnati at 7 o'clock the next morning, spend the day there, if he chooses, and return to Columbia, having occ.upied but three days in the round trip. Improvments-will also be made in the freight service, in thbe direction of pore rapid transit., closer connections, and better facilities in general. Ti.e distance between Columbia and Cincinati, via Sprtanburg, :Ashe vi1.' and Knoxviile, is less tban 6i50 miles. Ali that is needed to iaccom Aish the trip in the time proposed is La proper use of the facilities at hand -and these it s Col. McBee's pur pose to employ and to expand. Cl. Thomas W. H~olloway, secretary of the South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical Society, writes from Pomnaria a3 Iollo ws: "Tuae con tiued warm is becomning. serious to the f,rers. Those who killed hogs have lost the joints. I have heard of sonme whose meat lay in the pickle for aix weeks or over, and when the joints were taken out was good, b-ut a few days' exesure developed taint. I have four teen fat hogs vet to kill and in the event the warm teather continlues much longer, I propwe' to kill a~d I1ickle in strong brine in barrels. Tbc salt shoula e boiled, (takiog s. I the scum,) and applied whe-n Zi'.nt milk warn., The joints should be put in the barrel witn Sthe large end downwards and the crev ices tilled , with the sides cut i n ah estrips. An :ged 11ady of N ye-ara wrrce: "I recollect weil such a winter mixty two aears agoi~lS27-2:3 No cold until .sabout E.str- iu! the tire of April 11thrmeter 'beno inser than aTan are bivOmnrim, ir:il' : :ees ziudding egrao, Wireat sr .en la'e hn (lctuer Leas high as it usually is the first of March h Thr wil be ofrit this vear." ! READYS CRUEL DEED. DETAILS OF TIE LATEST 1LOODY DARNWELL HORROR. An Negro Petty TIief. Under Arrest. Tied to a Tree anti Ni Brain" shot Out b a Brutal Wbite Man-The Murderer Left to go Free and 1i s Cowardly Compan Ionn Discharged from Custody. The Charleston Budget. BARNWELL, S.C., Jan. ii.-Tne negro who was so brutally mzu)-rred near Rob bins Tue-day morning, as puoli 4d ex clusively in the World today was Wilham Black, aged 20, an ex-convict who had just been released from the State peni tentiary, wherc he served a short term for larceny, having pleaded guilty. He wa. on his way home when he entered tLc house of Jim Bennet, about five mill from Robbins, and ate some cold victuals that he found there; then stole an overcoat,:a hat and some other small er articles and left. Bennet soon re:'lrned and discovered that some one had entered his house and that certain articles were missing. He at once looked about for any trace of the thief, and soon found some tracks lead ing from his house in the direction of Robbins. He followed these tracks, after going to Trial Justice Dunbar and informing him what had happened, until he came to Robbins. Here he inquired of some men, among whom was Dave Ready, an unprincipled white man, if they bad seen anvone around there with an extra hat and overcoat. Ready said that a negro had just left there a few minutes before, going in the direction of the mill (on Mrs. Elmore Ashley's place), with an overcoat under his arm and something else, but he did zt know what. Ready was drinking, wid volunteered to assist in catchitg the thief. He and Bennett went in the di rection that the negro had been seen go ing a short time previous, and soon came up with him. The negro had the miss ing articles, which Bennett identified and took from him. Then they took Black back to Robbins, where they were met by Henry Sweat, a negro who Mr. Dunbar, the Trial Jus tice, had deputized to arrest the thief if he could be found, and bring him be fore him. Dave Ready said to Bennett: "You ave got your things back, so I guess ou are satisfied, and if there is any money in this I want it." Bennett said he was satisfied, and then he and John Walker, a young white man, Dave Ready and the negro onstable, Henry Sweat, started with the prisoner to go to Trial Justice Dun When they had gone about four hun red yards from Robbins, Dave Ready, ho had the negro in charge, turned off rom the public road, and went down an ld road leading through a field, crossed he railroad, and then told them that he 'as going to kill the prisoner. Bennett, Nalker and Sweat all say that they beg ed Ready not to do any thing of the >rt, but he said he was going to do it, nd told the negro to say his prayers, rhich he did. Ready, who was the only one armed, hen gave his gun to Sweat and told him > hold it while he tied the prisoner to a itle hickory tree standing by - Sweat aid he did not want to take the gun but ec was afraid Ready would kill him, as e was drunk, if he did not, so be took . After binding Black around the eck and waist to the tree, the three >wards stood by and saw Ready deliber tely place the gen to the negro's temple Ld blow out his brains, scattering them an the tree and over the ground, round. This was done about 11 o'ciock on uesday night. The three men who ho were present and saw the murder >mmitted, and who are wanted as ac tssories in the first degree, did not ention it until Thursday, because as ey say they were afraid Ready would r till them if they told it. They finally I formed some one, who swore out ac arrant against the four parties, three f whom, Bennett, Walker and Sweat, f ~rere arrested on yesterday (Friday) orning. Ready went to Augusta on Thursday, I d it is not known here whether he has I een arrested or not. The above contains the facts and cirt ~umstances as gathered by your corres ondent from a conversation with Mr. ugene McCreary, a merchant of Rob bins, who was here to-day. He said it as a most foul murder and that all the I arties should suffer for thei' crime. Trrial Justice Dunbar failed to bind ver the three prisoners, Bennett, Walk r and Sweat, notwithstanding they tea tided at the coroner's inquest, held by )unbar, to the fact as stated above. e seemed to think that as the three risoners did not help directly to mur der the negro that they were only wit esses ag'ainst Ready, the principal mur erer. Mr, James S. Davis has been retained o assist the prosecution, and says he ill see that the guilty parties are rought to justice. The Deed of a Fiend. ALIAN, Ga., January 16.-A negro oy, eleven years old, Andrew une by name, tried to take a bycicle rom the little eight'year-old son of Ir. J. W. Joiner. He resisted, when he young fiend beat and kicked him ad then held him down on the rail road track as an incoming freight train was approaching, intending to have him run over. Some negro men, who saw his terrible design, made him release the boy. The negro was jailed and upon being released was given a terrible beating by his sister. As Mr. Joiner went to look for the young fiend he was followed by a negro man with a piatoz who swore he would kill Mr. Joier if he touched the boy On the subject of cotton bags the Southern Alliance Farmer says: A geat deal of interest is being felt in he use of cotton sacks for tertilizers, corn, oats, etc. There is no trouble about the use of cotton to hold gr'tin and all other goods of that kind, bnt for fertilizers, cotton sacks are in a great measure a complete failure. For dry, uaixed fertiliaers, such as are usu ally made by small mills by mixing ottou seed meal, kainit and acid, the cotton sack will answer, because the cotton seed meal and kainit absorb the acid sufliciently to prevnt its out. titg the co.tton. All wet nmixed andi actLi e goods such as high grade ammo iated and acidulated mixtures, wdil destroy the sacks in forty-eight hours so that they cannot be handled, Bur laps mnake~ the best sacks, because they rsist the chemical action of the acid longer than any other rnaterial. These things have been thoroughly tested nd need no further discussion. T1.kNTPTON~ AN\D Ii2-A . A Leaf irroas tie ii-tory of tht- W:tr IIann1pton' nocjtly i. Th reai to MUrder ConfrederFate Pri..ner4 o War. The Charlotte DAily News quote: from the Daily North Carolinian March 28, 1805, the following a.coun of the correspondence between Geu Hamton and '-sen. Sherman in refer ence to the treatment of some of Sher man's bummers: Sherman writes that his foraging parties are murdered ifr earture and labelled "Death t.) :J!i fbragers." i goes on to s'y-"Uie iAance 01 lieu!eaaOt and sevi.1 mcn, near te terville, and .maother of twenty, ncar aravine eighty rods from the maiu road, about, three miles from Feaster villa. I have ordered a similar mum ber of prisoner- in our hia ds to be di posed of in like mxanner. I hold about one thouu:aud prisoners, captur ed in various ways, and can stand it as long as you, but I hardly think these. murders ,re committed with your knowledge and I would suggest that you give notice to the people at large that every life L'tken by them simply results in the death of one of yours." In his reply Gen. Raipton says: "Your comutunication of the 1:2th inst.;reached me today. In it you state that it has been officially reported that your .orag!ng parties were mur, dered' after capture and you go on to say that you ,ad 'ordered a similar number of prisoners in our hands to be disposed of in like manner.' Thar is to say, you havea ordered a number of Confederate so!dwe to be 'murdered.' "You characterize your order in proper terms, ior the publ" voice, even in your on n country, where it. seldom d.ares to express itsvlf in vin dicaten cf truth, honorand jimsice will surely agree with you in pronouncing you guilty of murder, if your order is carried out. "Before dismissing this portion of your letter, I beg to assure you that for every soldier of mine -murdered' by you, I shall have at once executed two of yours, giving in all cases, pref erence to any officers who way be in my hands. "In reference to the statement you make regarding the death of your for agers, I have only to say that I know nothing of it; that no order given by me authorizes the killing of prisoners tfter capture, and I do not believe that my men killed any of yours except inder circumstances in which it was perfectly legitimate and proper that hey should kill them. "It is a part of the system of the hieves whom you designate as your oragers to fire the dwellings of those itizens whom they have robbed. "To check this inhuman system, hich is justly execrated by every ,ivilized nation, I have directed my en to shoot down all your men who ire caught burning houses. This or er shall remain in force as long as ou disgrace the profession of arms y allowing your men to destroy pri ate dwellings. * * * * The In ian scalped his victim regardless of ex or age, but w ith all his barbarity .e always respected the persons of his male captives. Your soldiers, more avage than the Indians, insult those hose natural protectors are absent. "In conclusion, I have only to re uest that whenever you have any of y men 'disposed of' or 'murdered, r the terms appear to be synony ous with you, you will let me hear of , in order that I may know what ac on to take in the matter. In the aeantime I shall hold fifty six of your eri as hostages for those yon have or ered to be executed." THE SPECTRE DEER. ~uer 5'lghts on Walden. Ridge-A M~onn taineer's Account. 'rom the Griffin call. The mountain people on Walden's idge, within fifteen miles of Chatta ooga, are convinced that a spectre Leer protects the living ones. There Lre still a large number of deer to be und on the mountains, and parties equently go from the city on hunt g expeditions. They seldom fail to et within sight of game, but frequent returned without any. The reason r this is explained by one of the na ives of the ridge in a most singular ay. "I know," said he, "that there a spectre deer on the mountains, I iave seen it, and so have a great many thr people. Now I can hit a top of cap box at one hundred yards, and I ever missed a deer in my life when it 'as an actual flesh and blood deer. 3ut often, when I go hunting, I jump ialf a dozen deer at a time; one ot hem will stop within a few feet, with ts side to me. I shoot at it and it nev. r moves, and I load and fire again. hen I know that it is the spectre leer, and there is no use in my unting any more that day; I would ever see another der. Vanderbilt's Forest of Pines. t.shetle citizens. The planting of trees on Mr. Vander bil's estate has been discontinued for the present. One hundred and twventy acres have been plougbed up and plan ted with white pines, which have been arranged in rows seven feet apart withb space of fie feet bctwcen the trees in the same row. This makes 1,200 trees to the acre. The young trees are from 15 to is inches in height, and are ob taed from Mr. Douglas' nursery at Waukeegan, near Chicago, which is one of the largest in the United States. Only last year Mr. Douglas had a con tract to set out three million trees i'n Kansas. His son is now employed as landscape gardener at the University of California. This university has 80,000 acres of land, which was given to them by Senator Stanford. It is located a~out twenty-five miles from San Fran cisco, and has on the estate a vineyard of 4.000 acres. The white pines which have been set out on the slopes where the timber has been cut dowvn, take one year to root themselves firmly in the soil. The second year they grow about one foot higher and evcry succeeding year they receive an additional upward growth of three feet or more In three years from the time of plantiug they will be at least six feet high, and in this climate will at tain a maximum height of 450 feet. The idea in planting them so closely together is to make them grow very tall and pre vent them from putting forth branches near the ground. One thousand acres are yet to be planted, but by the time Mr. Vanderbilt's mansion is ready for occupation the whole mountain side will be coveredl with dense woods. The sameness of the timber land will be re lieved by planting many different kinds Iof trees at the base of the hills .and nI ong the drives. AN OUTLAW AT A -B!1.i THE PEOPLE OF ROCKINGLIAM COUNTY, N. C., TERRORIZED. Wratt mienzite., a Notorious Emcnped Murderer, Accouipaniae4 by -ix Othcr Desperadoem. liunting for "in Men Whom lie Threatens tc x>: -icht. CHARLOTTE, N. C., Jan. 16.-& re p:,rt has reached here that Wyatt Mc Keever McKenzie, a notorious outlaw, who has given the citizens of Rocking ham County considerable trouble, has again appeared in this St:l: He is now said to be hiding in Rockinghmn County, heavily armed and swearing vengeance against a number of citizens. McKenzie h;:' banded with him six other men of very desperate character, and they are all armed to the teeth and announce that they are ready for any sort of fray. Some years ago McKenzie murdered a man in Rockingham County by the rame of Goode and was sentenced to hang. Four days before his execu- 1 tion was to take place he broke out of jail at Wentworth and escaped. In bout two weeks he was recaptured and gain lodged ii jail. The Governor ap pointed another day for his execution but again he broke jail and escaped. Nothing more was heard from him until Sunday when he was seen with his band t of six men in the upper part of Rocking- c ham county. It is reported that Mc Keuzie a day or two ago sent for Dr. Withers of Blakely, Stokes County, who is an old acquaintance of his, and met c him in the woods, where the two were engaged in a conference for a number of hours. The outlaw told Dr. Withers e that since he escaped the gallows at Wentworth he had rambled over many d States, and said that he had killed a man in Georgia and had been sentenced to a long term in the penitentiary there, but hai escaped. He inquired about 1 the whereabouts of six men whom he bl swore he intended to kill on sight, say- t( iun he would shoot them like dogs and g spit upon their carcasses. The people p: of the County are terror-stricken and tc don't know what to do. The authorities think it is useless to undertake to cap- n ture the outlaw, as he has grown so des- ir perate that to do murder is his only sport. bi McKenzie and his band stay in the A woods and swamnps most of the time, w ad when they want any thing to eat tj they march to the nearest farmhouse and ti (rder that it be prepared, always paying w bcra!!y for what they get. Recently p many bold- robberies have been commit- di ted in Rockingham and adjoining Coun- ia ties, and now these are all charged up to McKenzie. It is said that the six men who compose McKenzic's band are all trangers, and as he has just come from Georgia and Alabama it is beheved they ire some old associate of Rube Burrows, he noted Alabama outlaw, and it may be that Rube himself is in the gang. to IcKenzie is described as quite gentle- n< 'nanly in his manners and not a danger- p )us-looking man. He is over six feet 2gh and about 3-3 years old. The peo- is f Rockingham County are much d< larmed, and a bloody outbreak is ex- sh >ected. w bt A STATUE OF TILDEN. ir lit krno, Curninjdga Wat One Erected and Placed In the CapitoI's Rotundn. In the House Nr. Cummings, of New ork, offered a joint resolutton for-r Lhe erection of a statute to the mnem ry os the ]ate Samuel J. Tilden. The joint resolution was readi as follows: Resolved. That there be appropriat- T] d from the treasury of the United Ri states the sum of $50,000 to *erect a as ronze -statue of the late Sam'l J. Til- dt ~len, to be placed in the center of the 0 otunda of the capitol. That on theiz ablet, at the front base of said statue, a here shall be conspicuously engraved th hese :Vords: "Samuel J. Tinden, nine. eenthi President of the States. Elected, a ut not seated." [Applause on the emocratle sice.] 'that on the right da the square base shall be engraved ~ the dates of birth, election and deathtv fsuch President, and that on the op- en osite side shall he enigraven an eagleti with a snake in his talons, and .under eem these words. "For the right." Resolved. That the president of the a nited States, chief justice of the su-le remne court, president of the senate tr nd speaker of the house of represen -li :atives be authorized to superintend the expenditureof the money, and that copy of these resolutions, with the fu ames and titles of said (jignitaries, e engraven on the rear of said base. Mr. Sweeney, of Iowa, inquired vhether the gentleman exnected the nscriptions to be in cipher.-[Ap lause on the rep~ublinan side.1 The Battle Flags. Colnmlb!nl Re-rist er. The Legislature, at its recent ses- v sio,, iustructed the Adjutant and -In- it secor General to colleet as many of rq the flags uaed in the late war as he a could find, and to deposit samoe with ft the Secre-tarv of State, who is to have li them properly preserved. As he is a totally ignorant of the. number of such 'I ais, as well as of the names and resi- na deice-s of their cutotdians, he requests -i that all persons htolding -flags will corm- v muicate with him at an eardiy date, j in order that thi-s vers laudable object I ' may be carried out. The Le.gstature I aied to provide any funds for thme 'I collection. ard be is comfpelledI to rely c uon the Inress of the State, to whose b: liberality land patrotism he has so of- i ter been iudedted. 1 A Madman's Leap. I CUiAsROTTE, N. C., -I:tu 1G.-News is rceved here of a peculiar case at Ho Springs. As a fast train was entering tbat town Saturday a white man tired ii a pistol several times from the rear coach and then jumi~ed fr-am the train. He fell on his head and turned around se v-t eral times- lisi head was crtished, one eye was knocked out aint his arms and: one leg were broken. H~e did not live long. Hbis name was V-an Henderson | and he lived near Hot Springs. He was f in a drunken frenzy when he made the fatal leap. Beyond dour. the oldest mnan in North C2arolina is Mr. William Foster, a who lives near Burling on. Mr. Fos ter is nowv 110? years old, and is as sprightly as mo-t men forty years hL junior. He lives on a farm with on Iof his grxeat-greatgrar~dchildren, a'd cn tpilt mils, elto. p~ow and doI any .sort of farm labor. It is said 01 himn tha he never drani- a drop o any sort of iatoaXicating spirits, andl never took a dose of any sort of medi cine. APONVER IN NATURE. riu -ritrnae oinii,' of DIaiY !ins: .. ommenrt :a: Advertis;er. Miss Daisy Robinson of Sumter, oath Carolina, ought rather to l loolfed up as a centre of force than ha,.a. being of commion mol Whercver she may be, most myster. out end striking events are apt I occur, and it is not to be marl eled a that, as a dispatch from sumter say: she seldom smilcs. A person s dreadfu!ly apt to have unearthi events attends attend her presenc nust have small reason to smile Th people of her neighborhood are muc excited over Miss Daisy an io net pretend to understau ber. When she enters a room the fur iture seems to be aware of her pres meCe, and at once begins to Mov round and act in a way that huw t to be laboring und-r the impre.sioi bat sonething must be done, an< lone at once. 1 a ; late happens t Le at case on a bure-:u thinking o 2othing, and taking the world a i 1imeC:, r: sooner does it preceive tha lies Daisv is in Lh.- ir-nidiate vicini -y than it springs up like a guilty hing surprised, and reaches the ceil ng at one boul, and then dazshe i elf to pieces on the floor. A humble coal tcuttie, sitting rui tly in the chimney corner atid dream ng, perhaps, of the d.tya when it was right and young, will try to get out f the room as soon as tnis singular onug woman erters it. In its haste o escape it wili forget even its own oatents and waddle to the door rhen, if (t had had but theforethought : empty itself on the heath, it might s well as not have made its exit up 2e chimney. And we have the word f a local policeman fer it that a seem igly inanimate two-quart bucket, -hich was dreaming away it.s existv ace on a mantlepiece in fancied se arity, leaped headlong from the izzy height so soon as the door open I and Miss Robinson put in an ap earance. A shuve, also. that was aning in a corner "came prancing it" as thot-gh it had -ocne important isiness on haud which must be at. nded to witLout further delay, and en, becoming aware of that awful %esence, fell clattei ing and banging the ground in a dead faint. These are strange doings, and they ) only recall the Roches'er knock gs andI the work of Miss Lula Hurst, it they remind us of Orpheus and mphion, and the days when the orld was young, and treps were in e habit of pulling themnelves up by .e roots and daucing on the greens. ard of the music of Pan's pipes. )ets haye dreamed of such things, as d that great singer to whose iofty iagination it seemed that The sow came in with the saddle, The little pi- rocked tlyi eradie, The Spit, stoA behind the door And threw the dish-cloth on the floor. "Odspiudm!" sald the gridiron, "Can't you agree? I'm the head constable, 1,ring it to me." It must be a terrible responsibility have control over what in our blind vss, we call inanimate nature, as is >sessed by Miss Robinson. That the iungwoman feels this responsibility we judge, the reason why she sel m smiles. It is to be hoped that e will use her tremenduous power ith what circumspection she may, it if, as is possibly the case, she is t the centre of force and therefore -eponsible, Sumter, in South Caro Ia, has some heavy sailing before it. "MARRtlIED JUST FOR FUN." e FooI1sh Freak of 'Two sillry Young s~ociety People. FT VALLEY, Ga., Jan. 20.-On mrsday night a couple called on the v. B. L. Ross at his residence and ked to be married. The groom pro ed a license issued by 0. 1P. Wright, dinary of Crawford County, author ng the marriage of Mr. Murchesou d Miss Brunett. Dr. Ross invited em in, but they refused, saying they re just from a mass~ed ball and had their costumes. Dr. Ross proceed to perform '.he ceremony in the rk, and pronounced them man and fe. The affair was kept secret for 'o days. Yesterday, however, it be me known that the contracting par 3 were W. H. Harris and Miss Pho Skellie. two prominent young ieey people. Excitement ran high, Dr. Ross pronounced the marniage ;al. The young couple are in great )uble over their adventure. The ense was a forgery. The courts 11 probably have to settle the mat r. They say they married "just for BATTLING FOR THlE FAIR. xe hry Fight in the H~ouse over the special Coxzumit tee Itesolin. WAsNGTON, D. C., Jan. 17 reat interest was taken here in the >tes udon the World's Fair Question, Sthe House today. The members presenting the competing cites r active in concentrating their rees and keeping their men in -a. Dozens of members kept tally, ld every vote was closely scauned, he most energetic of the Chicago rn were Lameiron, Mason, Lawkir ad Sprinzer. The Missouri troops re trar-ealled by Hatch, Dockery, 'rank arnd Bland, while the New 'ork interests were attended to by lower, Farqiuarhar, and Cummings. he resrit of the contest is that a spc il comittee o.f niae members will e apoited with:2ut receivi ng, any aistrutios.It ray choose a site if .es fit, butt it is mocre procabie tat ate' deter:.n-ttion o-f that question wil e releated to the House. That $atiliedt Ulim. "Lat Monday morning," he began, in olemn voice, "Iast M.onday morning] oppd bere and ordeted a large list of oceries. Tlo-day is Thursday, and becy have not come up vet." "They haven't? Ob. Ces, I remem f oW," replied thne rocer. "Wha themt excuSe?" "Yu are ow.ing us $40, and we car . no further order until that la paid.' "~Is that it ?" "Then it is all right. I didn't knov. t one of your horses was sick, a wag n sased up, forgetful clerk, ur mething of that sort. That makes i 11 right." an Exprss Trainx's Bloo~dy '.Mh.; JOHNSTOWN, PA., Jan.18s.- fhe linm ted expres west-bound on the Pennii vivania Railro~ad struck and kilie< h ard Gallagher. aged 17, Michar aliagher. Iris brother, aged 15, ar.< ~rs. Kate Stockhomer, their marrie4 tister, aged 23, at Morrillville, nea he as t night. HIS LETTERMWAS LOADED. PASIOR TlIcOMP1SON, OF CIARLES TON, STIRiS UP A SENSATION. n He V.riten a Communalcation 1)en[oun 1cim11 the Proate.-ats who T-ouii Pyart in the Reception of . ardinal 'oon and the ICathedral Corner stone Cer.-mnoniee "'one 'Neu Who are .aid. 11CrAnLESTON, S. .. Jar. 14.-- he letter o published this morning from the Iv. ' Dr. Thompson, pastor of the Scotch Presbyterian Church, denouncing the Protestant, who took a pror.inent part i in the rectption of Cardina! Gibbons and in the ceremonies of the laying of the corner stcne of the new cathedral has created something of a sensation. The Catholic portion of the communi ty is diposd to look on andr view the quarrel from afar. The m- t irdiznaut are ie iPrctestant cureianeu who are duounced by .1r. Thompson. Amor.g those who took a prominent part in the receptio6 of the Cardinal aud the cere macaies were the Rev. Dr. Smart. pastor of Bethel M. E. Churab; the Rev. Dr. Levy, Raboi of the Jewish synagogue; Mayor Bryan and Colonel H. E. Young, Wardens of St. Michael's P. E. Church; Judge Magrath and Maj. J. C. Hemp hliU, of tne News and Courier. both members of Dr. Thompson' church; Geo. W. Williams, the leading lay mem ber of Trinity M. E. Church, and a dozen or more prominent and leading members of other Protestaut churches in the city. Many of these are mad. Dr. Thompson's Letzer. The following is the letter referred to in the above dispatch, printed -n the News and Courier of yesterday: To the Editor of the News and Courier: I have noticed the accounts given in your columns Lf the visit of Cardinal Gibbons to our city and to ihe ceremo nies attending the laying of the corner stone of the Roman Catholic Cathedral. C Your report of the citizens upon the platform includes some prominent b Protestant laymen and one Protestant e minister. The pecsence of those Protestants was doubtless intended only as a courtesy, but it was more-.it was a virtual en dorsement of those proceedings and a God speed to the gigantic ecclesiastical T urganiz .tiou that conducted them. It is the boast of thut church that it is the only church of God. The Cardinal b said us rmuch on yesterday. It brands b all others as heretcs. A former Bishop of Charleston declared "within thirty years the Protestant heresy will come to an end." It claims for itself temporal b and spiritual supremacy. It tolerates d th'1se who differ from it only where it g as not the power to enforce its claims. The Archbishop of St. Louis said: "Her esy anid unbelief are crimes, and in P Christian countries, as in Italy and Spain, for instance, and where the Cath olic religion is an essential part of the -s law of the land, they are punished as other crimes." The Catholic Review 0 says: "Protestanism, of every form, has a not, and never can have, any right r Its spirit has undergone no chlarg, since those days when it gave its order d for and sang its "Te Deum" over the a wholesale. indiscriminate slaughter of b b helpless Protestants. Its fundamental principles are antag- P onistic to our government and its cher- b ished institutions. its growth in this country menaces r. some of our dearest rights and privileges. P Notes of warning have come to us from many of the foremost statesmen and thinkers as to what we may expect should it ever gain the ascendency, and yet 'we have the spectacle of Protestant preachers and laymen, some of them the dlescendants of Huguenots, glorifying a Romiish Cardinal and encouraging the extension of the spiritual despotism he.. represents. Had the circumstances been ri re.versed Romanists would have been .li conspicuous by their absence. -e I contend that Protestants are sacri- h ficing their history, and are putting con tempt upon their martyr dead, and are a stultifying their former te'stimony and d are sweeping the ground from under their feet as to mission work in Romish s lands, and are imperilling the future ofd their country, by thus favoring Romish d pretension and progress. W. Tr. TroxrsoN. h ART IN WLATERBURY. CONN. P a A 31ortuary Memorial That Beats the Record. Hartford Courier, Everybody has read of the renmarka ble memorial to his wife which an ec centric Charleston (S. C.) mau has r placed in the cemetery there. This is r more than equalled by the pecular i memorial which a Waterbury (Conn.) f woman has construc'ted for her late -1i lamented husband. It is described as follows: A unique piece of handiwvork bas: just been sompleted by Mrs. Sophia Larrmore of this city, who is now ap proaching her 70th yeatr. It is a mnor tuary wreath in memory of her hus banti, who w as dead nearly five yea.rs befor e the curious symbol was begun. She made it of relics of h: late lius band and os articles which were the nro'perty of the wives who precede her. Thie frame is of putty, into which while soft, the w idow placed amuon' others the following articles: In n centre of' the top cross piee are me .geeee of her late :amnented and'a were left over from: his lat tisllne .Be sides the e, there are iany a i stones which he had treasured durng~ his i his jaJk-knife, ar p 'if canidy, whiuch 'she -ays he: had le?ti neaten; but ons of all ei.:ds from his clthing, and a a~ali boutle conta'ining "lhees made by his 11rst wife. All of the col lection is labelled, as, fo instance, ' Th smelyn ho:tie use: b tae wif be*r me: Eicsed in the framie i a ,ieture of him w'h:ie memory~ th wreat isJTppmed to perpetuate. Th wreat. shve the iortrait is cor'osd .I ahuiost entirely o. iowers .i le2Ave , echC1 of th: ma~de either of some.. nekties or suspenders, and wvorked to. gether artistically. The shirt in which he died is honior':d by having miae fromi it a snowy bird, too woxderful and .-trange~ for~ description. Just out side the wr~e:.Ah are pliaced suspender buckk..s and watchn cheias enltwvied with the hair or the mother of his firs wife. Some of the hair of his own head has been made into tendrils. andI the stamens of one of the flowers is of thle material that lined the coffin On another side ox the wreath is a bunc of raisinlS he bought her the ; ear he died, sayinig: "Noev d~n' -:00k ::ny o.:::'e, t'nt eat every; one.'' Bal t:eigt raisins are three wires. l Lc upporting one ot his teeth, andI lbehind them the last toothpick he ever TEE PRIETTY YOU NG WID(W. ICharg'e:: wtih~ I'oainning fier [Iu,,ba CHARtL' :, N. C. Jan. 18.-Sme inter.-t is amain beluig centred upon the N!rs. Co'a Seales 3lorris case at Rei1vilh-. The cae wil: be cad ind the Suprior Cou-rt next week. and be preu v vru-'( womnan must face a jury on :e cbre of poisoning her hu;hr, The case :s the most easia tional er known in North Carolina, and oii c-,tt of the ;)rominence of apl' arie*' e-:icered, it will atract u'ni-r. geenir*. ars. Morris, the de.: is a beazutiful young woman azn.-c, me e wita the v ery bes-t fami. lit? .f tbs State. D. E. Morris, the man she :s charei with having mur dered by administering chloroform to him while he slep, was one of the leadig capitaliss and business men of Reids-flle. le was a bachelor of 45. He loved Miss Scales but she did not love him and told him so. He begged her to marrv him but she refused. He begged her but stili she refuawd. zurangc to say, ou account of Morris's we-alth, Miss Scales was almost made to nsrry Lim by her people. The day for the weddin ws et. It came off, but when -he m:rr-age ceremony had been perfoed the young bride sat iown, and, crying bitterly, declared ,hat sLe wouni never live with her usband. -he went (ai-together against aer wishe:-) to his home, but thtre hiev oncupied different. rooms. They ived this way for nearly a year. They iever atfended church together, and vere Liever seeu anywhere as man and vife. Morris pleaded with his young vife to become recouciled. She asked iin to make his will and put all his )ropertyetc.,in her favor. This he lid. Then ,he asked him to insure is life fur $20,000 and mauke the policy inyable to hei-. Obeyed. One week ater Morris wss fouu- dead in bis ed. There ware sigus of chloroform ud strong evidence pointing to foul lay. Tiad young wife was arrested, nd the stonlach of her dead husband Ut out and placed in the hands of the ourt. There is plenty of money on oth sides, and the case will be watch. d with interest. DISASTROUS OVERFLOW. he Little Wabawh Drivea People From Their Homes in Carnie, Illinoiw. CAIRO, ILL., January 19.-Three undred persons at Carnie, Illinois, have een compelled to leave their homes by sudden rise in Little Wabash River, .nd it is feared that a still larger num er will be forced to abandon their wellings and take refuge on high round. The river is out of its banks, Ad the northern part of the town is Doded to the depth of 20 feet in some laces, and from 7.5 to 100 houses are ibmerged. The houses have all been icated, the people seeking refuge in >are rooms of their neighbor in the >uthern part of town. Vast stretches. low land and meader are under water, 3d a number of animals have been car ed away or drowned in the fields. enc- rilfl-ho is ild Qtbe=_drift Mrje trwam by the raging waters, in icate that the farmers have suffered uch. Hay on the bottom lands has een ruined. It is reported that the orst is yet to come, and that the peo le in the towns along the Little Wa ish are prepar;ng for the worst. At orwin it is expected that the river will se 15 feet higher. If this does hap en, the result will be appalling. FLEEING FROM THE FLOOD. armners Driven From Their Homes by The Ei,-ing River--Prospects ef Disas troas Freshens. Ev.sisvlTLE, IN., January 17.-The ver at this point passed the danger ne on the gauge at eight o'clock last rening and is still rising at the rate of i1f an inch an hour. The water is rap Ely spreading over the bottom lands id those who have not already been riven from thecir homes by the rising aters are removing their families and ock. A great amount of corn has been estroyed and farmers having grain in anger of being washed away are at work ith the balance placing it above the igh water mark of 1884. The pros ets now are that the water will reach. much greater height than any time nce the flood that year. With a rapidly sing river at this place and advices of a additional rise of the upper Ohio and de streams the situation is anything hut - :couraging. The officers of the steamer Blue Wing" from Calhoun, which ar ved here last night, report the river sing at Lhe rate of two inches an hour. [undreds of famxilies have been driven com their homes and many of them are ving in churches and school houses. Deadly Faiah. Brooklyn furnishes another faith cure ectimn in William 0. Halverson, a bright oung Swede, who went to Brooklyn a aw months ago from his native land. te had no relatives, and the only people e kuew at first were members of the ueer association of believers known as wedish Faith Curists, who flourished in arge nmbers in the immediate neigh 'ahood of his shop. Once within their ircle he grew to be an ultra fanatic, rid took a conspicuous part in their acetinugs. Two weeks ago, he contrac eda cold, which developed into a fe er. He refused, in3 accordance with he rules of the society, to take any audicinic. Is death occurred among trangers, all his associates as soon as hey knew the end was near having de erted him'. They refused to see that he yen received a decent burial. No one mu: the grave-dmigger and an assistant va present when the remains were low red into the trench amoog the bones of he fricadless and nameless dead. .A New Trinl for BorIe. IIA.:Iwr, N. C., January 16.-The e:te Sapreme Court today tiled an opin o-2 in the niotable capital case of J. J. 3ovle. a prie:,t of the Roman Catholic jhurch, wgo was convicted of rape up mf Geixva Whitaker, a young girl whe vas the organist at his church. The >pnion is by Chief Justice Merriman, md gives Boyle a new trial, The :our: holds that there was an error in he' Jndge's charge in the Superio lourt in failing to sufficiently and plainly steate the evidence given and :xplaian the law arising thereon. The ludge should have called the jury's. ttention to the evidence as to the . pace where the alleged rape was co ritted, and the p:esence pf perons' near the house who heard no outcry fro gr, and the fact that after ward she joined her companions with oat telling them she had been outrag.