The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, February 26, 1890, Image 1

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- -L- -.IANNIN(G. . C., WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1890N. VOL. VI.I r A CONVERT TO DAVIS. JAMES REDPATH, ABOLITIONIST AND UNION MAN. itemarkable Utterance trom a Strange source-The Impressive Dignity of the Confederate Ex-President-No Rebel or -raltor-The Case of the nouth Presented in a Nutshell. Now York World. DEsvzp, Col., Feb 19.-"Neither Rebel nor Traitor." Writing with this for a eubject, Prof. James Redpath, in the Commonwealth, say of Jefferson Davis: "I spent nearly the en tire summer of 1889 as a guest of Beauvoir House, the home of the late Jefferson Davis I was in his company for from six to ten hours every day during the whole time of my visit. During that period we talked of every im.ortant event in his long and eventful life, and discuss ed almost every issue between the North and South. My position enabled and authorized me to ask questions and to introduce topifs which other" wise it might have been ungracious, to say the least, or in bad form, as the latest phrase is, to refer to in the home of the ex-President of the Confederate States by any Northern writer, especi aliy one who, like myself, had been an Abolitionist of the most radical school from his earliest . manhood-a fact well known to my venerable host. "I first met Mr. Davis in the sum mer of 1888 Mr. Allen Thorndike Rice hA.d detirmined to prepare as a companion volume to his Reminiscen ces of Abraham Lincoln, as a sort of Ccafederate supplement, a volume of Re minis ences of Lee and Stonewall Jackson. Having oonvnced him that it would be impossible to secure the contributions he neseed from fa mous Southerners without Mr. Davis's co-operation, I was commissioned to visit Beauvoir and secure it and to ob taina one or two historical essays from him for the North American Review, of which at the time I was the nanag ing editor. -Well, I reached Beauvioi and re mained there about a week. Before I had been with Mr. Davis threee days every preconceived idea of him utterly and forever disappeared. Nobody doubted Davis's intellectual capacity, but it was not his mental power that most imprssed me. It was his good ness, first of all, and then his intellect ual integrity. I never saw an old man whose face bore more emphatic. evi dence of a gentle, refined and benig nant character. He seemed to me the ideal embodiment of sweetness and light. His conversation showed that he had 'charity for all ano, malice to ward none.' I never heard him utter an unkind word of any man; and he spoke of nearly all of his more famous opponents. His manners could beat be described as gracious, so exquisitely reaned,so courtly yet heart-warm. The dignity of most of our public men often reminds one of the hod-carrier's'store suit' it is so evidently put on and ill. fiting. Mr. Davis's dignity was as natural and as charming as the per fame of a rose-the fitting expressi3n of a serene, benign and comely moral nature. However handsome he may have been when excited in battle or debabe-and at such times, I was told, he seemed an incarnation of the most poetic conceptions of a valiant knight -it surely was in his own home, with his' family and friend~s around him, that he was seen at his best; and that best was the highest point of grace and refinement that the Southern character has ever -each od. Mr. Ik dpath tells of his great friend shin for Jeffersen Davis, and con tinues: "But with this slightand inadequate expression of my affection for Mr. Dav's, I must now rest content, in or der to state as clearly and tersely as I may why the oid Contfederate -chief tali never 'repented;' and why he netver iegarded himseut as either a re',el or a traitor, but scouted such tities. whenever applied to himself or tt the Southern people, as a proof that the utterer of them was ignorant of constitutional law and ot the true na :ure of the Federal Union. "I1 returned to Beauvoir and remain ed ihree or four months. assisting Mr. Davis in preparing a short History of the Confederate States. After the last pages of that work (now in press) had been mailed Mr. Davis consented to prc; ar e for the same publishers an ex tended autoiography if T would rea main to assist him. He had not .pro ceded far-with his life before business re.alled me North. Although I re turned in a few weeks it was too late, as in the mean time Mr. Davis had. visited his plantation at Briarfield, where he caught the malarial fever that ended in his death. "In order to assist Mr. Davis with the least friction and loss of time, it became necessary at the beginning of my work that I should clearly under stand the State Rights doctrine as told bv the Confederate leader. Mr. Davis, therefore. gave mes such of his writ ings on the topic as embodied his per Eonal views and alSo other arguments that he approved. In addition to these documents I had many and long con versations with Mr. Davis until I felt comnpe tent to state the Southern theory without any doubt as to the correct e ess of ray understanding of it. In this paper I waill present only such views as S r. Davis himself maintained. Be it understood that tho language only c f what follows is mine; the statements --re those of Mr. Davis 'A traitor is one who violates hins allegiseanc betrays his coun - .1 e is one who revoltas from the country to which he owes allegi ance. Now, from the Southern point Ci , er secssio~nist violated his a1 eogiance or betrayed his country. be c'uv- he held inat mis allegiance was a ohis State, and he was loyal to il'Sate iin following its fortunes after I. 1 thdrew from the Union. Of course (eer this definition the Secessiomst cak not be a rebel because he msim 1ined his allegiance to hi. sovereigr st t and 'sovereigns cannot be reb eA citizen's allegiance to the federa government comes only through his al lanice to his State, for the federa emetwas only the agent o e as which formed it, and the: nver surrendered their sm-~reignt y t 1"What, then, is the true na'.ure c the federal union? If the fathers in +ended to create and did create a ua ti hen it follows without dispnt t btte Confederates were both rebe! ad tr.itors, for they certainly di afl in thralgianto the federi goerlnent for four years and the certainly were rebels %gain-t its wu thority. But if the fathers did not create no: intend t6 create a Nation but only : Federation, then the States that seced ed only exercised an inherent right of sovereignty in withdrawing frem the Union they had voluntarily eatered, and the only question that remains is rather a moral than a polit ical one were they justified in withdrawing? Practically, such a question can never be considered, for if a community has the right to secede, it must also be the judge of its necessity. The power that holds the whip by the handle never does recognize the need of the groans and kicks that come from the body that stands at the other end! "Mr. Davis maintained that the vin dication of the South rested on these t*o considerations-their rightful power to secede and the causes that justified the exercise of that power. "I confess that while his argument in favor of that right seemed to ! e ex ceedingly strong, yet I do nou-see the same ferot in his statement of the justification ;o its exercise But then, I was at t be other end of the whip and Ijustified John Brown." Article X., an amendment of the Constitution, declares that: The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution nor prohibited by it to the State are re served to the ftates respectively or the people. "This amendment was one of the conditions on which the Constitu tion was ratified. It clearly shows that sovereignty remained with the States." The writer states the Constitution wouldnot have been ratifiedl by the m!jority of the States had it not been for the assurance that this amendment would be adopted. The stand taken by the Sou:hern leaders is described as follows: Mr. Davis submitted as ajis! ification of the withdrawal of tho Southern Statea in 1888: "The destruction of the balance of power which existed when the Consti tution was adopted. and subsequent legislation for sectional advantages rather than the general welfare, to gether with gross and persistent viola tions of obligations which the States had assumed in the formation -.f the compact of Union, adding to unceasing hostility shamefully displayed and cul minating in invasion, which treated the feeling that the fraternity in which the Union was founded h id ce .sed to exist-that the Union was was no long er one of the heart." "Were the Secessionists, then, tu-'e to the faith ouce delivered to the State? May be? And yet, right here, i seems to me, is both their be!t de fense and their weakest point. N> live race consents for very long to be ruled by dead men. Each generation manages to rule itself-i f io by the letter of the law or or a 'trict constitu tion thetu by amendments to constitu tion ar- reyision of creed! I never met any pubLic man who reverenced the Constitution as Mr. Davis reverenced It. "Lest any foreigner should read this article let me say for his benefit that there are two Jefferson Davises in American history-one is a conspirator, a rebel, a traitor, and the 'Fiend of Andersonville'-he is a myth evolved from the hell-smoke of cruel war-as purely imaginary a personage as Me phistopheles or the Hebrew Devil; the other was a statesman with clean hands and pure heart, who served his people faithfully from budding man hood to hoary age, without thought of self, with unbending integrity and to the best of his great ability-he was a man of whom all his countrymen who knew him personally, without distinc tion of creed political, are proud, and proud that he was their countryman." RUSSIA FOR THB RUSSIANS. The Czar Expeels (Germans from Ihe Em plre---The German N(ation Mad. The ery of "Russia for the Russians" is growing louder, and under its in fluence the process of Russianizing the southern provinces is steadily go ing on, involving the expulsion of va rus classes of German inhabitants and the suppression of German manners, customs and speech among those who are permitted to remain. This un friendly course doe. not tend to im prove the relations between Geimany and Russia. Armed peace is forced to arm the more, and the situation be somes acute. This being the state~ of affairs, ac tion has just been taken at St. Peters burg which can only be compared to throwing a firebrand icto a powder magazine- It is officially announced to-day that the czar has issued a de - cree forbidding the employment of German acters in inperial theatres. The decree is to go into effect on May 1, 1890. Managers will be obliged to annul all contracts with German ac tors, unon whom the best theatres depend, and the artists themselves are virtually excluded from Russian-soil, Fierce resentment is sure to be arous ed by this unwise and inhospitable act. -To 5py Out Georgia. ATLANTA, Feb., 28.-An excursion will leave Dayton. Ohio, on Feb. 24, for Georgia, composed of representa tive farmers and business men of the Miami valley. The party will make a tour of insyection of the agricultural, manufacturing and fruit-growing rec tions of the Empire State. A telegram from Cansjoharie, N. Y., sys: James Askell. W. J. Askell and Bernbardt Gillam of the Judge and Frank Leslie's, with their f amilies and several others, left here in a special car this morning for a tour of the South at the invitation of Goverrnor J. B. Gordon of Georgia,,Governor NGordon will accompany' the party in their visit to the imnportant cities. Kille:d His Old Teacher. LoU'IsvILLE, Feb., 20.-A yocun'g man namedl Bcoth waylaid Rev. Mike Whisman, near Compton, Ky., and~ fatally cut himi with a knife. WVhismaan htved two hours after ieceivingz nis wounds, and made a statement cWb. Eis attack- Booth was accompran.ied' by a man named Sparks. Whis-can had once punisbodi Booth while the latter was a scho->l boy, and Booth had threatened then to be revengred - and had never forget. his inc~iedi l wrongs. r The PrISisone:-as A.cquittedt. >RALEIGH, N. C.. Feb. 19.--Titere har been a great sensation at S-uith f field the past few days. onl account o0 - the trial of J E. Starling for murder - It has resulted in an acquittal. He B was charged with the murder of ax 8 aged woman, his mother--in-law, ani little boy, hir nephew, who wer4 found dead, withitheir skulls crushed 7 in a banch near their home. T' WORK OF THE ALLIANCI HOW THE OIGANIZED FARMER: ARE PROGRESSING. The Proupect-4 h :'d in Seuth Car olina-Chemi in ords From Iresiden ,tackhouso. The Alliance poople in South Cara lina have now entered upon the secon< year of educational and co-operativ< eflibrt on the several l'ines of Allianc< work. 18SS was devoted t lth worl of organization; in 1S89 the we . organization was continued, and i: now--Sth Fb., ISU0-planted in every county in ihe State. The planting, under the direction of your Executive Committec. has been done at the mi inum of co. t, and this work will likely be very nearly completed before your second aunual meeting in July next. Our desperate condition, fiuancially, rendered our organization possible, and to the betterment of ;hat condi tion our greatest eflorts have been put forth. Last year the ef'orts at co-op erative trade was by Sub. and County Aliances securing for thems'lves the beat terms possible. The results ob taived, while more ur 'esssatisfactory, were very inequal, the saving eflect ed beina, estimated at from 8 to -3:' per cent. on last year's purchases, de pendent largely or mainly on the financial condition of the different sections of th e State, the larger saving being only possible t.n the credit sys tem of purchasing; and attention is eos pecialy invited to this as showing how ruinous has been that system, and as ruinous morally as linanca!lly. Let us not blame others solely because such a condition of t hings was ever possi ble, but h t us like true men assume our fuall share ol the responsibilty. Reckless risks demanded ruinous profits, but we now see our folly in consenting or -ubmitting to such co: (.itions so long. And now that we have organized to correct this and oth er abuses, we must be careful, very careful,about the character of our mem bers. We have taken in and must :>.tiuue to take in members who are "financially bankrupt," if they have 'good moral character." This is right. We hnor our organizations by the effort to lift them up-to improve heir financial conditic,-but we c.an not aflord to carry them if they should even seem to be careless about their inaucial obligations. Should they fail to practice that strict economy, or to exhibit that industry and constant application to business so necessary to success, we must expel them. To re ain them would be wrong to all who are battiing for the manhood and in dependence of the farming and indus trial classes. The financial depression caused bysa partial failure of the crops last year is a trying ordeal to our youzng organ zation in some sections of te State, which is a matter of deep elcern to those more fortunate clse'ere, but their activity and forwardness in pre paring for another crop prove their indomitable pluck. In some places last year the crops were less that half the average. In such places depres sion like Egyptian darkness must be felt. Just how such conditions are to be met and overcome is a problem difli ult ofsolution-but it will best be done by our people standing together a uni ted brotherhood. The eflorts at in reased industry and a closer economy lessen the danger from such crop fail res; but for the practice of such econ omy and industry ]ast year, the de pression growing out of the crop fail ure would have been more extended and trying than it now is. In proof of this, is may safely be claimed that the South Carolina farmers, taking the verage of the whole State, commence the year 1890 in better financial condi ion than they did the year 1889; otwithstanding the short crop, the shortness of which more than offset the figher prices at which it was sold. A ager percentage of the supplies ought for Alliance farmers in 1890 ,ill be bought for cash than has been o bought any previous year by these same farmers. I should not deem it ecessary to remind these cash buy rs that they now have a State Busi ess Exchange which they can use in he purchase of supples and sale of farm products, but for the fact that they ave been doing this very same busi 1ess through agents of their local or :anizations so successfully before the Exchange was establishert. Your bus ness agent can be, must be, the larg st cash purchaser in the State, and should be, and with your patronage ill be, ai,:e to purchase more cheap y than any other. It is your agency and will be what you make it. But I have: possibly said as much as I should no w on the financial outlook. The educational work of the Alliance is probably more advanced along the financial line than any other. The methods of learning along this line are eminently practical I intended to extend this letter to convey some thoughts on political economy, and our organs, State and National, but I find it will make this article too long, so I must defer any attempt in that di' rection at this time. My recent visit to the dif'erent sec tions of the State suggested the pro priety of what I have written as well as wbat I propose writir.g in the near future, as I may have oporttunity. I gratefully acknowlcdge my indebted ness for- personal kindnesses while on this tour, and my unqualified admira tion for the devotion of our people to the principlei of our order. E. T. STACKHOUsE. Punzctuiator-y. "You've been writing poetry to sis ter." maid Willie. "Y e.,' admitted the youth. "W:iat hind of a poem was that last .ics you sent her'?" "Oh. it was a sort of apostrophe!" "Weil, ii you'd a seen the way pa acted whe~n he saw it you'd a thought it was a v dcic lot exclamation points.' I-Washington Fe-t. TheDaagby an Iapllosiont I u-wN. C., Feb. 19,.-A boile: at a saw mill at Ahosbie, Chowar county, exploded, instantly killing th< colored fireman and putting out thi eyes of Wright Poell and injurin; *ar~ot her man. Poeli is very seriousl: injured, and1 it is believed will uo recocer. Cross and White. RAIu:!GH, N. C., Feb. 20.-The Su vreme Court has denied the motio: to graut :an arrest of judgmecnt in th Ica'e of Cross and White, the Raleig bank forgert 'ihcretore they wil Ihave to serve out thetr respectiv +erm on the County road. AN ATTACK (N O RAI . .In Exploded L Srory Revarmped-l A butr. S x : :enator Bob Toombs m.d the Holl of 11; slaveu. BosvoN, Mass., Feb. 20.-In his lec - tare at Fremont Temple yesterday. the Rev. Joe Cook made an attack upon the dead editoi, Henry W. Grady. He said: "I think Boston ought not to cheer treason. Mr. Grady was a man of genius. and be is now in his grave. but his principles are not in their grave, and therefore I take the occa sion to say that since a Southern Sen 'or thratened to call the roI cf his . on Bunker Hill, nothiug has been _.mch T ra e atrociouscy in sulting to Northern entiment than the affirmation of the Southern orator before his Boston audieuc, that even if the nation were to put forth its whole military power, the douih would yet trample on the newect par agraphs of the Constitution. That is calling the roll of slm es on the heights of the political Constitution itself, and the slaves are those who cOeiish such politiaal sentiment." A BOSTON MN'6 SWALLOW. A Big Eu:lisrHnu Bullied 111i. but Fr-nchr Wouldin't stanI it. There were a number of uz in one of the London taverns made famous by Dickens, when a great big fellow slouched in and made himself very dis agreeable wi:h his mouth. One of our party was a man from Boston, and in some way or other he and the big man came to exchange words. The first we heard of the row the I ig man was saying: You Yankees is great on Ihe brag, and that's all you can do." "Well, I dunno," replied Boston. "But I do. W'ben did you ever do a blooming, blarsted thing!" "How. about 1776?" "Never heard of it." " How about 1812?" "Never heard of it." "Did you ever hear of Bunker Hill?" "I have sir. That's where G00 red coats licked the life out of 4,000 brag ging Yankees!" "I1 guess not." "Not! Does you dare to dispute the Liverpool Kid?" "You'd better read what;history says." "I have done that 'ere, you bloom ing idiot, and it says as how all you Yankecs run at the first fire! Don't it now?" "I never heard that it did." "Don't it say that?" 'Ihe big fellow had pushed u;> his sleeves and put up his fists, and it was plain that a row was on hand. He was big enough to eat up two sach men as Boston, while he had fiends to look out for the rest of us. Our companion therefore took the most prudent course,and acknowledged that history might say so and probably did say so. This satisfied the big fellow, and lie turned away and glared at a Frenchman, also a tourist, who had come in later. After a long stare he walked up to the Crapco and shouted: "Blast yer blooming parley vous, but we've always licked ye out of yer boots on land and sea!" "You speak von big lie!" shouted the Frenchman, hot in a minute. "What? Call The Liverpool Kid a liar to his face?" "Aye! and I shall now give ycu von awful beeg licking!" "Johnny" grot out of his coat in a jiffy, danced around with his hands up, and to our utter astonishment the Kid went right dow a into his boots and slunk out of the room, having no more pluck than a hen. We sat there for fiv'e m-inutes before any one spoke. Then it was the Boston man who said: "Just think of it! I can lick six fel lows like' that banty Frenchman, and yet that big dulfer made me swallow two wars for independence and Bun ker Hill on top of them.--New York Sun. Dennis' Powerful Logic. A merry young Irishman, not long from the "old dart." is employed as coach man by a Jefferson avenue family. Re cntly, while suffering from a severe cold, he made his appearance one morn ing with his hair cut close to hi, head. "Why, Dennis," said his mistress, in shocked accent, "whatever possessed you to have your hair cut while you were almost sick with a cold?" "Well, mum," replied the unabashed Dennis, "'I do be takin' notice this long whIle that whinever I have mec hair cut I take a bad cowld, so I thought to my seif that now while I had the cowld onto me it would be the time of all others to go and get me hair cuttin' done, for by that course I would save meself just one cowld. Do you see the power of me rasoning, mum?" The lady was obliged to concede that Dennis' logic was irresistible, and now adays never attempts to cedl into ques tion his motives for anything he dos. D~rsi: Fr ee Pren. seeking Southern Investments. COLUMBI, S. C., February 20.-Mr. R. A. Lynch, formerly of this city, but now of Boston, is in the city, ac companied by Messrs. A. E. Bonney <d G, W. Emerson, who are undler stood to bc capitalista sseking invest mets in South Carolina. They ex pect to be shortly joined by Prof Charles H. Hitchcock, of Dartmouth College, N. H., a geologist and miner alogist of some note, and it is said the party intend to take a prospecting tour over the State. Mr. Lynch has established an agency in Boston for the sale of Southern lands, and the gentlemen named above are represen tatives of the agency sent to investi gate the resources and possibilities of South Carolina. The party will visit other Soumhern States A Young Candidat e For Hanging. CoLUMBI. S. C., Feb., 20.-Arthur Turner, the thirteen-year-old son of Merchant Turner was stabbed twelve times yesterday afternoon by Leslie Holland, a young son of Engineer SHoland. The boys had qjuarrelled in school. Alter dismissal H-olland fol Slowed Turner and catching his head Sunder his arm stabbed him repeatedly in the neck, back and head. He was revented from continuing what would t very probably have been his mturder Ots work by a comlpanion who jerked Ioland off. Young Turner is badly wounded and miraculously ee'nped .- wit a his life. No arrest was made. a .--The Russian Nihilist Stepniak l :writes all his works in English, and e the:y are revised by William Westhall. FOr"'fl1) A WA HOW MADAME SIGIDA DIED UN. DERI THE CZAR'S KNOUT. Three Other Female Priscnera. Fearlui 1er Fate. Couimir sicie-Sorrow Alsc 1)ivC Two 611:i to Death-ttR1:ilI Atrocities. Provided with a cable dispatch of in treduction from Geo. Kenan, the cel ebrated 3iberian traveler, the Londor agent of the Associated Press callei en Serguis Stephnian,:the well knowr writcr upon Russia's political and ser ial conditions. Stephnian was aske!i whether he could give any informa tion in regard to the outrages in the political prison at Kara in Eastern Si beri., rumors about which had re cently reached the public press by way of ti e Russian colony in Paris. ONLY .A HINT OF THE TRAGEDY. Stephnian stated that the reports already published gave only a hint of the horrible tagedy enacted at Kara. Perfectly trustworthy information, he said, hed been recived in cipher let ters that -u:ceeulcd in getting through to Par.s and London from exiles in Eastern Siberia. These letters, which are nothing but meagre scraps of pa per, tell the story of the recent horror only in its nin outline, but one who knows about, Siberian life does not need a circumstantial recital to un derstand the cruelty of the discipline and the agony of suflering of which this horror was the culmination. The full details of the dreadful story can not be long now in reaching the Wes tern world, coming so soon after the publicity given to the Yakutsh atro ciy. It,:an hardly fail to deepen the seuse of horror already felt by the ivilized world at Russia's treatment of political offenders. ONE WOMAN FLOGGED TO DEATH AND THREE SUICIDE. The facts so far received are as fol lows: Madame Sigida did not com mit suicide, as the earliest reports tated. She died from the effects of a ruel flogging to which she was sub jted. The flogging took place Wed. nesday, the 6th of November. It was ontinued until under the brutal blows the unhappy victim lost consciousness .nd lay as one dead. The poor wo man never revived from the terrible hock. but continued to grow weaker and weaker until Friday, when death came to her relief. The news of her shcking oilicial murder produced ide-spread dismay and anguish aong ber fellow prisoners and three ,f them, unable longer to bear their retched fate, committed suicide by akiug poison. How they obtained he poison is not known, but probably hey had it a long time in their pos. ession and were keeping it as a last resort. The names of the women wer:e Marie Kalush, Maria 2adlovina Karalefskega and Nadesenta Smir etka. SAD FATE OF A QIE*L. Maria Kalush was arrested in 1882, being then a girl of 18, on charge of isloyalty. Her father was a merch nt at Odessa. During her imprison ment every means was tried in vain to extort frem her a confession implica ing her friends. At last Col. Katus kye a gen d'arme officer, brought to er a skillfully forged statement, pur orting to be a confession from her Uellow conspirators, and promised im unity if she also confessed. Marie fell into the trap and confessed, and er confession was used against her friends, who were senteneed to penal ervitude. When she learned they ad made no confession, but had been onvicted on her testimony alone, she irocured a revolver and on Aug. 21, alled upon Col. Katuskya and fired t him, wounding him slightly. For this attempted. assassination she was ondemned by court martial at Odes a on Sept. 10, 1884, and sentenced to wenty years penal servitude. TORN FROM HER HUsBAND. RlEAsoN FLEES. Mary Padlovina Karalefskega was young married lady 35 years of age daughter of a well known lauded roprietor in the south of Russia aul Verautsog, and a sister of Basil orautsofl, one of the best known olitical eeonomrists in Russia. She joined a secret circle. which was sur pried and captured by the police in ebruary, 1879, and was sentenced to hirteen years penal servitude with exile to Siberia for life and depriva in of all civil rightt. Her husband, hough not present. was sent by an aministrative process a thousand miles from the mines to which she was sent. The separation drove her insane and she was put in a straight jacket. In 1881 she was allowed to join her husband in the hope of restor ing her reason. She recovered, but the new governnor separated them ain and she was restored to the ra mines. Nadsenta Smirnstzka was 33 years l and aetudent in aiwoman's college. De was sent to the Kara mines for fteen years with penal servitude. EORROR DRIVBS TWO 513N TO DEATH. shortly after the suicide of the three womeu, a brother of Marie Ka lush, a'so a political prisoner, died suddenly. It is not definitely known as yet whether he too died by p~oison or whether his death wa's the result of overpowering grief on learning of the dlth of his sister. Another exile, named Bobokov'o, oemmitted sucide rather than submit to the cruelihumiliation and suffering of flogging. Bobokovo was a university student and took part in some publhc demonstrations of the students which were displeasing to the authorities. Be was therefore, ordered to make hi abode aL Pinego, a small village in he province of Archangel, the north ern-most portion of European Russia. From there he attempted to make his eseae, and for this heinous offenSe, was exiled to the mnines of Eastern Si beria, TIE FLcGiGING OF MADAME SIOIDA. The ilagging of Madlame Sigida oe curred under orders issued by Lieut. Gen. Baron Koff, governor.general of the province of Arnour, in whicn the Kara mines are situated. These orders directed that the secret edict of March; 1888, signed by cialkine Vraski, director-general of the prison for the empire, should be enforced. This edict wa to the effect that polit ical convicts should be treated by pris. on officiels in Drecisely the same mau ner as criminals condemned for com Imon law offences. Political prisoners were thus mde liable to fiogging for breaches of prison diseipline. In what Iparticular way Madame Sigida had transgressed the prison rules is not clearly explained, But the fioggina death for any lack of conformity to prison regulations Stepniak thought would impress the Western world - with a profound horror. The political nrisoners at Kara, Step niak said, had in some way learned that the political exiles imprisoned at Saghalien had also been subjected to cruel flogging. They were constantly in dread of similar torture to that in flicted upon Madame Sigida. FLOGGING ORDERED BY THE CZAR. Stepniak was asked whether he thought the czar, in view of the fact that the exceptional horrors at Kara had been made public, would mitigate the severity of prison discipline in the case of political convicts. He replied that he thought it was not unlikely that the publication of the facts would force the superior officials of Russia to take some notice of affairs, but he said flogging and all otber brutalities were entirely due to the direct orders of the central government at St. Pe tersburg, namely, the edict of March. 1888. The government was, therefore, directly responsible for the renewal oT the corporal punishm ent of political prisoners, which had been suspended in 1877 after Trepoft ordered Bogolu boff to be flogged. THE STAMP CLERK. An Inutrestinr Srrrdy o' Character ii :a City Postcffice. "I should think you have a pretty easy time in here." "4Well, pretty easy." .You don't have much to do. Just stand at the window, count out stamps, and take in the money. " "That's all, save the little item of making correct change every time." "0, of course. But it isn't much." "No. not much, though sometimes half a dozen people, all in a Iurry, want stamps at the same moment." "Yes, to be sure. You must be busy at times, say early in the day, or at Christmas and Easter. But most people could do the work. wilh little prr.ctice." "Yes, practice is a great thing, but I've been a stamp clerk for ten years, and yet yesterday I made a mistake in counting out a small number of one cent stampa. Still, practice is a great thing." "Well. I should like to have your place, that's all. It can't be very hard to sell postage starmps." I wish you had it, as you think it is so easy. But, should you try it a day, you might think differently." The conversation between two ac quaintances occurred in a city post office a year ago. The change which has brought about a new administra tion removed about a month ago the old postoffice clerk and installed an other man in his place. The new clerk entered upon his 1u ties the first day with a feeling that selling stamps was a diversion suited to his genial temperament'. Ile hadit been at the window an hour before he was a sadder and a wiser man. A woman came up and wanted thir teen cents' worth of two's and one's, half and half, seven postal cards and a package of two cent wrappers. She had nothing smaller than a $5 bill. When the clerk had recovered from the temporary slow fever into which this enisode threw him, there was a crow<i.waiting outside, and all he could hearrwas: Twenty-five cents' worth of twos, please." "Package postal carks." "Dol lar's worth stamps, quick." "How much'll that take? Goin' to Canady." "Nuffstamps on that, hey?" "Gimme two twos and three ones, will you? I'm in a hurrv." The young man nervously counted out stamps, weighed packages, consult ed the printed schedule, for rat.. in foreign countries, and perspired fredy. Cold chills ran down his back, for he had a vague idea of giving somebody seventy-five cents worth of stamps for fifty cents, and of selling a package of postals cards for half price, The crowd a~t the window did not diminish, but grew. A man finally cabme up in a hurry ard threw down a handful of loose ilver and nickels and coppers .and asked ar "Twenty-sevea ones, sixteen was' worth of twos, two and a half pack ages of postal cards, and the rest in twos and one cent wra~ppers." The new clerk choked down a big word or two, mopped his brow ner yously with a sheet of stamps, and be gan counting out a package of stamped envelopes, government official size. "How many did you say?" "How many what?" "Envelopes." "Envelope? I don't want any envel opes. Twenty-seven ones. sixteen cents' worth of twos, two and one-half packages of postal cards and the rest in twos and one-cent wrapp~er3. That's what 1 want, and in a big hurry, too. Got to catch a traic. "Sixteen cents' worth of twos?" "Yes, I said so." "Oh, well, all-all right! There you are. Andi-and how manny ones?" "T wenty-seven. Come, hurry up." "Tv ty-seven; twenty-seven. .e v times :ire is twenty-flye and two is seven--twenty-seven.. Twenty- seven And now, the rest in envelopes did you sayi" "'Envelopes? I don't want any en velopes. One cent wrappers is what I want." "How manvi" "How mnany.? Well , give me just one. Perhaps you can co ut thaat out straight." (Sarcastically.) "A one-centwvrapper is two cents. "All righi I can stand it if you can.' "How many packages of postal cars?" "Never mind. i can't wait here all day. Besides, there's a crowd out here stretching way around the cor ner. Just give me my change and T'l get out, of here." 'When the clerk ad recovered from the syncope into which this little trans action had east him. he spied the olid acquaintance, the former stamp clerk at the window. "Ah, you seemn to be having a pleas an'; time in here. Pecase let me have $2 worth of twos and sixes, $1 worth cf ech. And just wecigh that little bun die. Groing to Hon"duras. Needs two] more stam-p', I think. Should :hink you would have a gcod time in here. Not much to do but stnd up and sell stmps, and' give back the right chauge evyX You must enjoy your p)lace- here. O course, it will be at little busy early in the mnorning, or "t Christma- or Eater times.- Most people Lould do it wih a little juractice. "-United sates - New Or eans is to be thoroughly cleaned up for the summer and pu~t in first class sanitary condition. The work is to be done by co-opeiration between the city authoritics and the citizens. and all the money necessary has been ARFS PHILOSOPHY. BILL TALKS ABOUT THE MISCRIE3 OUS LITTLE ONES. The DIAerence Bletveen Mischlevousuet anud Mennness-Some Remarks on th Peculiarities of Boys. There is a wide difference betwee mischief and meanncss. But miscef i close akin to it, when it injures an body or hurts their feelings, or break the rules or the laws. Most all boy love a little mischief. I used to love : good des!. I remember when we though it ever so smart to slip around at nigh and change gates and the signs, o: stretch a rope across the sidewalk, or ti( agoat in the school house, or put on mar's horse in another man's stable. have worke-d mightv hard at such thing and I did thic it was just as funny a it could be, but some how or other I don't !ee a bit of fun in it now. I won der what is the matter with me. M children inherited mischief, I reckon and so I have to excuse them, but when my little girl thoughtlessly pulled the chair away just as I was about to sit down. and I came down with a shock that jarred the house, and my feet flew up and knocked the lamp off the table, I was mad, very mad. until I looked at her and saw how frightened sie was, for she hadn't counted on such a catastrophe. So I tempered down, picked up the bro ken fraguients and never said a word, :nd was a minute before anybody spoke. Mrs. Arp was the first to break the awful silence witli an explosion of laughter, and that started the children, of course -all but Jessie, poor little thing, who came to me atnd said, "Papa I didn't mean to do it." I knew th-: she didz't, but my odlended dignity was at stake, and I got me another lamp and went to vriting. I wanted to laugh as much as they did, but I 'wouldn't. That was four years ago, a.nd Mrs Arp. is not done aughing at it .t whenever it is alluded to. I beleve .t would do her good to -ee me bump the floor and kick over a amp about once a week. I was ruminating about this because my boy came home from school ahead of :ime and sat down before the fire looking solemn and sad. I was writing by the window and wondered what was the nntter. For a while he never moved or poke, but suddenly he lookzcd up at me .nd said, a pitful voicc: "Papa, was vou ever susoended!" "Susc-nded?" said I. "I don't understand you-sus >cnded how i" "Susperded frum :chool," said he. "Why, ro," said I. "What makes you ask that qucstion?" EIe choked up, and said: -Weil I'm ,uspended, and so is Tom 31lir" "Is t possible?" said I, as I laid down my en )c "a have you been doing?" T'hen u he told as how he .di rm aai z: oring water Ft ma .tner -:hile tis urofessor was in the other :com and how he missed Tom and the hole dippe fall struck the blackboard ind put out the sum and ran down upon :he floor, and the profes -eeijns Lt the wrong time and asked who did it, ind suspended him and Torn, and told them to take their books and go home. [ felt greatly 'relieved of course, for I iaw that it was mischief and not mean 2c8s, but I never said anything and tooked solemn and resumed my writing. Now, it distresses my children to see me I:istressed, and that is a good sign. As Long as a boy loves his parents, and gia Lroubled when they are troubled there s hopje of that boy. After a while he aid: "Papa what must I do obout it?" -I don't knew" caid I, "until I see the professor. Not long ago we had up a case of suipension, and the board refus d' to 'ake the boy back, I don't know what they will do with you and Tom. I 2apoat you have been trying the profis sor's patience for some time. You are not bad boys and are very good scholars, but your dis position to mischief has troubled him a~d set a bad example. The other boys are talking about you, and say that the professor la partial to you and Tom, and I'm afraid that be is; [ am glad that he has stopped your mis thief." But it camne out all right. The boys were not suspended, and they wvent, back the next morning and apo&.ogized, and now everything is calm and serene. The boys must conform to the r'iles. If one boy throws water, all the bys have the right to throw water, arnd that would ot do, and a sensible boy knows it. Let every boy act upon principle. T&hey may be tempted to telt. a story tc get out of a little scrape. Tout it is bettet to tell the truth. The truth is the thing -the biggest thing I kno w of. If I hac a great business that w ould give en ploymnent to a thousa'id boys, and I hac to gto aoout and select 'them, the firs question I would ask v mcud be "Does ha ahay tell the truth?- I wish ':he hey racd girls could realize 'how muea anxic they give us. IHere are 400 gaing ti school in our little to'.n, and in.a fev years they have got to- take our place andi make the laws aail do the hnsines ?.nd make u:p society and estabiish th mnorals of the coirmuity, and rlan thei conduct the hapruiness and goo.namse o the people wilt depend. T'.:e youn; men of this generation wifl ha'm to solv the race problem and the et er prol: lems, and upon them will dyt and the es istence of the government. We thin about this a good deal, for ' a ffects cu childilen and grand child . .It trot utes us to 1.hink about we-. .-nd auLch ba.i mien getting into pvz:r zuasa tLhe rich getting richr: and to pot poorer. I know that . ? .ilea rid! if the people wiilto :ugh'i- th'- chi dren grow up rvith go.od mora lsn good principles. We jjan go go schools ahnsrt veirere in the Soutl I know we have in Cat tersile I al pro-d of the professors and the beachel Ona the' pupiis. We arc a log w: ahead of B~os son There are no h pockets our- schoos-no kicking teachers, :o '.nd cf forty thievez. M have Christiase teachers and the mor; tmiunn g r Tright abong wahi the schSO books. T'e'oy or the girl who getsr mlore editnf tha~n cn be had in oi SChools 'as the foundation said for at bitw life. TA: Oi i Cousp's y Respionsibility. cir:.i eau- Pee vsa was awarde 15 sum o fi,00 du~maes against ti : "'nda L. Company, is the suit whi< has ccusid.Lt e atnion of rhis cu fora ee. IThe- 'Mlitif sued~ for ti ful ext.:n i to damages, amiountir to 's",000. saineda~c August 23d, 188 by th de'sriction of his marble yar in th:- northwostern raburbs of the cit by th buri . nig of the Otandard Oil Coz paa s' sbaaseent. There is auoth .i5aai :. : ci opn o the d truction of thc. bonded warehouse of '. P~ears, from (the same ,cause, in tl A FOUL MURDER. Jehu Ucod an Aged Mas !%Itot and Killed A Negro Arrested for the Crime--Fears of a Luncilng Cnse ills Removal to Columbia for Safet-. CirARLOTTE, N. C., Feb. 19.-John Hood, the father of Sheriff W, H. Hood, of Choster. S. C., was shot with a dou ble-barreled shotgun, and killed, In Chester, Saturday night. Mr. Hood's s body was found at 7 o'clock Sunday y morning. Suspicion pointed to Green s Brown, a negro, as the assassin. He was arrested. and a double-barreled gun was found in his house, with mid on the stock, and apparently having been only recently shot. The Chester corresnondent of the Chronicle says the evidence was so strong that fears were entertaired of Brown - being lynched, and Governor Richardson was immediately telegraph ed to and asked for instructions to re move Brown to Columbia or elsewhere. The Governor replied, instructing that the Lee Light Infantry be called on to protect the prisoner,. Sunday afternoon the prisoner was taken to Columbia. As to the cau2e of the murder, and the verdict of the cororer's jury the corrs pondent says: "Other facts gathered by your correspondent are that Brown suspected a colored man of being too intimate with his wife and Saturday night awaitcd in ambush the object of his jealcusy. When Hood passed by on his way from visitiag some relatives, Brown mistook him for the other party and fired. It w-xs on a street without any lights whatever. The verdict of the coroner's inqueet, held here Sunday, was that Johu HIood !arne to his death by aun-shc't wcunds at toe handa of Green Brown (colored.)" Mr. Hood was 79 years old. Shot His Wife and Her Uncle. CHARsTOT, S. C., Feb. 18.-A double tragedy occurred here last night. Ntpoleon Laval called a& the store ef B. Feldmann & Co., and asked to %ee his wife, who had been separated from him for some time. Whenthe woman came down Laval shot her, and then entering the store shot Feldmann. She has since died. Feldmranu will recover. Mrs. Laval was a niece of Feldmann and had been living with his family for some time. On being arrested, Ival stat& thtiat it was merely a famIly aflair, and that there was nothing more to be said 4tbeut it. The affair has created a great sensation, as the parties are well known and prominent in busiress ;.nd society circles. LOTTERY'S DESPERATE EFFORT.-. Wililu: to Par -the Debt of Louisiana, for a New Lease of Life. NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 19.-The Louisi ana Lottery Corapany is making a des perate effort to retain its corporate life. It has fui!ed to secure a charter from North Dakota, and its next move said, will be an enormous b to the Louisia.na Legislature for a r ewal of its present charter, which wi expire two . ep will be to pay the entire State debt, amounting to from %11,000.000 to $12,000,000. The lottery is earning $250,000 a month,. or $3,000.000 per year, net. Many promi nent Louisianians fear that the bribe may be accepted. So Near and Yet so Far. RALEIGH, N. C., Feb. 20.-Last night was ilxed upon for the celebration at Pine Level, Johnson County, of .the m..,rriage of A. D. Godwin and Miss Ida Oliver, the pretty daughter of Pine Level's leading mearchant, T. T. Oliver. The invited guests had come, the, atten dants were all present, the officiating clergyman on hand. The time had come for the couple to step in front of the preacher. Godwin and his intended locked jarms and marched out together the attendants following. As they stepped in front of the preacher, Miss Oliver coolly informed Godwin that she had given up the idea of getting married. This effectually put a stop to the cere mony. Her father stepped forward end told the would-he grcomi that he, per haps, had better desist from all further proceeding, and leave for home. God win quietly retired, got in his buggy and departed. No reason for Miss Oh-? vers's strange conduct is given. Fir'e in a Lunatie Asylum.. OcIAc-o, Feb. 20.-A speciali fronm Little Rock, Ark., says: At 3 o'clock Sund-uy morning. tire broke out, in the boiler ~room of the Insane Asylum near this place and spread rapidly through out, the entire building.There were nearly .500 patients in the building all of whom were removed from the different wards to the nl-t fioor, preparatory to taking themi from the asylum.- During the_ Iremoval, a scene of pandemomium reigne&, the ntients sareaming, cursing >ad sobbing "with terror as the keepers hustled thnm fromn beor to fioor, until sthey were in comnparartive safety. Meah I 'while the water gave out and only the 3 timely arrival of the fire engine from r thi. city preeted the complete destruc f tion of the b.uding. Oae included the i boiler room., pump room, engine house, S laundry, dry house, kitchen, bath-rooms and pantries, were destroyed, entailing a loss of a bout $35,000. There is no in Ssurance. t.The Georgia Alliance. y A'ruxNT. Feb. 20.-The State Far' d ,mers' Aliance hats taken possession of its new and: more commodious quarters r. the cornier of Hunter and Forsyth t trees. The Aiiiance has been expec - ting to make the change for months. d The building was donated for the use aof the ordcr for nye years as one of the 'inducemients oleredi by Atlanta for lo elc..s.ti;. th.e etcthange here. The secre trofhe Allianeand the organ of the. brotherh~ood, the Southern Allianee Far mer,~ no have rooms in the exchange Sbuilding. Er gagee Roomss for a Years. .o The 2barlotte Chronicle states that Mr. ir Thomn.- A. Edison has engaged a suit of .y rooms i' that city for a year. They will be for Lhbe usa of himself and his experts whenever they shall be there, during the next twelve months to pursue their min iog investigations amoag the the miles eof Southwestern .Jorth Carolina, which i he decle'res is the richest mineral region ec on the globe. Mortality from Small-Pox. gS.esATO~XO, Texas, Feb. 19. -Late 9, reports from the small,pox districts is along the Rio Grande show an appalling y, mortality list. On a ranche in Duval a- county. 147 out of 150 employed were er strieken with the disease, and 65 of them e- died. There is a great scarcity of nurses lu. and lysicians. A number of ths ze younger doctors of this place are pt s. ing to visit the afflicted place.