Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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A STUT IN STILL LIFE THE DOINGS OF ONE CLASS OF LAW DEFYING CITIZENS. Desperate Moonshiners who Hold an Armet Camp on the Virginia-North Carolln. Border. I New York World.' More than two hundred moonshin ers have established a fortified mini in Franklin county. Virginia. ani openly defy the authorities of th< United States. They have over on( hundred illicit stills in operation ani are producing thousands of barrel of whiskey on whichno duty to Uncl' Sam is paid. The manufacture of illicit whiske' has been carried on more or less ex tensively throughout the South for - good manyyears, but the contrabam stills have been conducted on a smal scale in the hidden recesses of th< mountains. It has always been i comparatively easy matter for th< revenue officers to capture and breal up these stills whenever they coul locate them. The camp in Frankli county is an exception. however Several attempts have been mad< within the last two years by the rev enue officers to capture this moon shine stronghold. but without success On each occasion the officers hav< been driven off. Success has made the gang bold. They have gatherei recruits from the criminal class if over the country, and it is believei thatit wouldrequireaforceof twohun dred men to dislodge and break ul their stills. The gang is compose< of ex-convicts, desperadoes, and th< most daring and desperate of cut throats ever collected together. The, are a menace to the community an< have committed numerous outrage in addition to the running of illici stills. The place selected for their opera tions is well suited for their purpose Franklin county is on the border be tween Virginia and North Carolina It is sparsely settled and mountain ous. Encircling one of the lesse mountains near the North Carolin: line are two streams boasting of th, poetical names of "Shooting Creek and "Runnit Bag." The waters o these two creeks supply one hundre< odd illicit stills of the gang. Fron the top of the mountain one can com mand a view of the surrounding coun try in every direction. Guards ar stationed all around the camp, and i is impossible for any one to approac within a h'af a mile of the place with out being seen. The moment a3 alarm is given the outlaws repair t the top e the mountain and prepar for a fight. They are well equippe< foi defensive operations. They ar< armed with the latest improved breec loadingrifles, shot guns and revolvers They have built a small fort and ar in a position to stand a long siege It is stated on good authority tha they have recently mounted two o three cannon in the fort. Every per o travelling through that part o th-3tate, no matter what his busi ness may be, is escorted by an arme< guard across this district. He is me at the borred and is not permitte< to go anywhere alone until he leave: the moonshiners' territtry. This at tention is shown to every visitor no known to be a member of the gang The World correspondent is credi bly informed that two-thirds of th< -regular distillers in Virginia an< North Carolina are seriously embar rassed in their business by reason o the production of so much illici whiskey..Their sales have fallen of -ere-lhan fifty per-cent. and-the are calling loudly on the governmen for protection. As thre governmen officers are well aware of the existenc< of the moonshiners' stronghold i Franklin county the question migh be asked, "Why don't they take step to break it up?" The revenue force isn't sufficient t< enforce the law, and red tape and -scarcity of money prevent any deci sire. action by the department a 'Washington. Although there is pre -snmably a large surplus in the treas ury, the appropriation for the revenu service has nearly run out for th fscal year ending June 30, and ther is no money available to employ large enough force to break up th FFranklin county camp. The revenu - officers know by experience that it i practically useless to send a posse a fifteen or twenty men out there, a they could accomplish nothing bu their own destruction. "If thecommissionerhad any fund left at his disposal," said a revenu officer to The World correspondent "he would authorize us to engage sufficient force to break up the camp but he hasn't, and unless Congres: comes to our rescue we will be pow erless to do anything before the 1s of July, when the appropriation fo: the next fiscal year will be available For the past three or four years Con gress has cut down our appropriatio1 so low that we have been compellet sto reduce our force of men about one half.. At no time since the war ha: thr. been so much illicit whiske' madeias at the present time, and it il largely due to the crippling of the in ternal revenue service by Congress As long as the internal revenue law: are, on the statute books Congres: ishould make sufficient provisions t< enforce. them. An effort is being made in Washington now to induct Congress to pass a special appropria tion: to meet the Franklin count: case. If the present state of affair: should continue six months longer most of the lawfully registered dis tilleries in this part of the countra would be compelled to suspend. "Franklin sounty to-day is comn pletely under the control of the cut throat gang of moonshiners. Onm illieit distillery has a more demorliz ingseffect on alocality than ahundret licensed saloons. In the one case th< men meet after dark in secret an< drink the raw whiskey until they ar hopelessly drunk. It is cheap, an< they drink a great deal more than they went to a regular saloon. W< will not be able to capture the Frank lin county camp. however, unles: Congress comes to our aid. It ir har< enough to get men to go with us 0: raiding parties when we have mone: to pay them, as the government make: no provision for a man's family if h tiappens to get killed or even pay hi doctor's bills if he is woundel'. Yoi see the inducement to join the gos ernment forcesis not very great unde: the most favorable circumstances." A woman, says Sheridan, may b idle, but she is never a loafer. Sli cannot knock a man down, but sh can break his heart, and when disai pointed she goes to God, while a ma2 goes to the devil. Diseases Peculiar to women, espe cially monthly disorders, are cured b; the tlmely use of Bradfield's Femal] Regulator. -It is now said that only abou twenty of thePan-American delegate will visit the South. The Haunted Chamber, BY "TME DUCHEsS." Author of "Monica," "Mona ScuLLY,' "Phyll iS.: etc., ctc. CUAP'ER VI. "Dear Sir Adrian," says Dora Talbot, laying down her bat upon a garden chair, and forsaking the game of ten nis then proceeding to go forward and greet her host. "where have you been? We have missed you so much. Flor ence"-turning to~ her cousin -"will vou take my bat, dearest? I am quite tired of trying to defeat Lord Lisle." Lord Lisle. a middle-aged gentleman of sunburned appearance, looks unmins takably delighted at the prospect of a change in the game. He is married: has a large family of promising young Lisles. and a fervent passion for ten nis. Mrs. Talbot having proved a very contemptible adversary. he is charmed L at his chance of getting rid of her. So Florence, rice Dora retired. joins the game. and the play continues with unabated vigor. When however Lord Lisle has scored a grand victory, and all the plavers declare theiselvee I thoroughly exhausted and in need of refreshments. Sir Adrian conies for ward. and walks straight up to Miss Delmaine. to Dora's intense chagrin - and the secret rage of Arthur Dyne - court. - "You have often asked to see the 'haunted chamber.' "lie says; "why not come and visit it now? It isn't muchjo see. you know; but still, in a ghostly sense~, it is, I suppose., interesting." "Let us make a party and go to I gether," suggests Dora. enthusiastical I lv clasping her hands-her favorite - iethod of showing false emotion of any kind. She is determined to have hei art in the programme. and is equally determined that Florence shall go nowhere alone with Sir Adrian. "What a capital idea:" puts in Ar thur Dynecourt. coming up to Miss Delmaine. and specially addressing her with all the air of a rightful owner. "Charming," mutters a young lady standing b., and so the 'question is settled. - "It will be rather a fatiguiig journey, you know." says Captain Ringwood, confidentially. to Ethel Villiers. "It's an awful lot of stairs; I've been there. so I know all about it-it's worse thau the treadmill." e "Have you been there too?" demands Miss Ethel saucily, glancing at him from under her long lashes. "Not vet." answers the captain, with a little' grin. -But, I say. don't go Swill vou?" "I must; I am dying to see it," replies 1 Ethel. "You neelin't come, you know; - I dare say I shall be able to get on - without you for half an hour or so." "I dare say you could get on uncom monlv well' w ithout me forever." re t torts 'the captain rather gloomily. To 1 himself he confesses moodily that this - girl with the auburn hair antl the blue I eyes has the power of taking the "curl out of him" whensoeve d'e .wishes. "I believe vou are a!. . qf the bogies hi'den in this secret v.. mb ai nd so dc's care to come." say's Miss Villiers tauntingly. "I know something else I'm a great deal more afraid of." responds the gal lant captain meaningly. "Me?" she asks innocently. but cer tainly coquettishly. "Oh. Captain Ring t wood"-in a tone of moc i jury r "what an unkind speech! . ow I know - you look upon me in the light of an ogress, or a witch, or something equal lv dre-"lful. Well, as I have the name 6f it. -- as well have the gain of it, and so- rmand you to attend me t to the * ed chamber."' I "You -I obey." says the cap a tain. -'C.. and I folow-I follow. though I die!' " After which quotatien ~he accompanies her toward the house ithe wake of Dora aiid Sir Adrian, -who has been pressed by the clever - widow into her service. SFlorence and Arthur Dynecourt fol low them. Arthur talking gayly, as thouwh determined to ignore the-fact ~that fie is thoroughly unwelcomre to his fcompanion; Florence, with- head erect t and haughty fotstepsanhd eves care E fully averte. . ' Past the hall tnroug -the corridor, un'the staircase. throu the galleris t aflg more corridors t o ragieng a last to an old an apparently 'much dis i used part of the house. t Traversing more corridors. upon which dust lies thickly, they come at Slast to a small iron-bound 'door that blocks the end of one passage. ) "Now we really begin to get near it," i says Sir Adrian encouragingly, turning - as he always does, when opportunity Soffers, to address himself solely to Flor -ence. "Don't von feel creepy-creepy?" asks -Ethel Villiers, with a smothered laugh, Slooking ujp at Captain Ringwood. SThen sir Adrian pushes open the Sdoor, revealing a steep flight of stone Ssteps that leads upward to another door above. 'l~s door, like the lower one, is bound with iron. 3 "This is the tower," explains Sir Ad s an, still acting as cicer'one to the [ small party, who look with interest around them. Mrs. Talbot, affecting nervousne:sa, clings closely to Sir Ad rian's arm. Indeed she is debating in her own mind whether it would be ef a fective or otherwise to subside into a a graceful swoon within his arms. "Yon der is the door of the chamb~r," con tinues Sir Adrian. "Come let us go up to it." They all ascend the last flight of a stone stairs; and presently their host - opens the door, and reveals to them whatever mystery may lie beyond. He enters first. aiid they all follow him, but as if suddenly reeollectiing some -important point, he turns, and calls - loudly to Captain Ringwood not to let the door shut behiind him. I "There is a peculiar spring in the lock," he explains a moment later' and,'if the door slammed to. we should find it impossible to open it from the inside, an dmight remaiin here prison i ers forever unless the household came - to the rescue." - "Oh. Captain Ringwood, pray be careful!" cries Dora faltering~y. "Our 'very lives depend upon your atten a tio~i!" a "Miss Villiers, do come here and help i me to remember my duty," says Capt. 3 Ringwood, planting his back against - the open door lest by aiiy means it , should shut. SThe chamber is round, and has, in stead of windows, three narrow aper tures in the walls, through which can b e obtained a glimpse of the sky, but of Snothing else. These apertures are just large enough to admit a man's hand. - The room is without furniture of any description, and on the boards the dark -stains of blood are distinctly visible. 3 "Dynecourt. tell them a story or - two," calls out lRingwood to Sir Ad I an. "They won't bdlieve it is yerita a bly haunte"d uniess y'ou call ump a ghost to frighten themi~." SBut they all nrotest ini a body tht* that they do not wish to hear any ghost stories, so Sir Adrian laughingly refu ses to comply with Ringwood's request. S"Are we ta~r from the other parts of - the house?" asks Florence at length, s who has been examining some writing on the walls. "So far that, if you were immured here, no cry, however loud, could pene trate the distance." replies Sir Ad riaii. "You are as thoroughly remioved from the habitable parts of the castle as if you were in the next county." "How interesting:" observes Dora, with a little simper. "The servants are so afraid of this r room that they would not venture here even by dayligh," Sir Adrian goes on. "You can see how the dust of years is on it. One miaht be slowly starved to death here witnout oiie's friends being e a bit the wiser." e luhs as he says this. but, long aftrwrd, is words 'come back to his litnr'memories, filliing their breasts with terror and despair.. "I wonder you don't have this dan gerous lock removed," says Capt. Ring wood. "It is a regular trap. Some day .you'll be sorry for it." SProphetic words! e"Yes; I wish it were removed," .re sonds Florence, with a strange quick t Sir Adrian laughs. s "Why, that is one of the old tower's ...a+est'charms." he says. "It belonEs to tne aarK ages, ana suggests ani aUL ; O of horrible possibilities. This room tc woul( be nothing without its myster- |r ious lock." At this moment Dori.'s eyes turn slowly toward Arthur Dvnecourt. She SC lwrxtf hardly knows whv. at this par- r1 tiular time.~she should~ look at him. iVet slet feels ti-at some unaceountable I fZsination is compelling ler gaze to a1 encounter his. Their eves meet. As i thev do so. IDora shuddlers and turns deadly ale. There is that iii Arthur in 1ni('court's dark and sullen eves that " st'ikes her cold with terror and vague a] forehodings of evil. It is a wicked look that overspreads the man's face-a ti1 cruel. implacable look that seems to w freeze her as she gazes at him spell bcoind. Slowly. even while she watches ri hin, she sees him turn his glance from m her to Sir Adrian in a meaning man- 41 ner. as though to let her know that the L vile thought that is working in his k( brain and is betraying itsMf on his face el is intended for himi. not her. And yet, u with this too. he gives her silently to 01 understand that. if she shows any treachery toward him, he will not leave ti it unrewarded. it Cowed. fright ened. trembling at ti what she knows not. Dora staggers backward, and. laying a hand upon the wall beside her, tries to regain self possession. The others are all talking together. she is therefore unobserved. She stands. still panting and pallid, trying to collect her thoughts. 'Only one thing comes clearly to her, filling her with loathing of herself and an unnamed dread-it is that. by her tu own double-dealing and falseness to- g ward Florence. she has seemed to enter it into a compact with this man to be a companion in whatever crime he may decide upon. His very look s ,ems to Implicate her. to (Irag her down with A him to his level. She feels herself Ai chained to him-his partnei in a vile s conspiracy. Andi wha-t further adds to the horroi of the situation is the knowl- A edge that she knows herself to "e blind- vE lv ignoraiit of whatever plain' he may ac b'e forming. After a 'few seconds she rouses her self. and wins back some degree of ec composure. It is of course a mere N wea-ness to believe herself in the pow- in er of Arthur Dvnecourt. she tries to convince herself. Ie is no more than P any other ordinary acquaintance. If Pf indeed she has hel;ed him in his little d1 efforts to secure the love of Florence, sc there was no great harm in tiat, ac though of course it served her own pur pose also. "How pale vou are, Mrs. Talbot?" re- b marks Sir Adrian suddenly. wheeling w rouil to look at her more closely. te "Has th is damp old place really affected pi your nerves? Ccme. let us go (lown fl again, and forget in the sunsine that h2 bloo.y dleedus were ever committed here or eisew xre.d "I aiu nervous. I .nfss." responds Dora. in a low !ow. --Yer. yes-let us at leave ibis terr. .)I Iom.wr." -e i,. ;.- S * Sir .tdrian gayly. "For n. part. I. feel no desire to re-en ter it." "It is very high art, I suppose,' ob- l serves Ethel Viliiers. glancing round ?1 the walls. -Uncomnfortable places al- B ways are. It vould be quite a treastre th to Lady Betty Trefeld. who raves over the early .fritons. It seems rather thrown away upon us. Captain Ring wood, you l6ok as if you had been sud- al denly turned into stone. Let me pass, in p1e ee." "It la l was uncommonly friendly of Ringwood not to have let the door d slam, and so imprisoned us for life," i says Sir Adrian, with a laugh. "I am sI sure we owe him a debt of gratitude." fe "I hope you'll all pay it," laughs a3 Ringwood. "It will be a nice new ex perience for you to give a creditor tl sor.3thing for once. I never pay my ti own debt; but that doesn't count. I feel sure you are all going to give me something for my services as door ke~ hshall I give you?" asks Ethel ir couettishly. "Tll tell you by and by," he replies,d with such acn exnressive look that for P once the sauev~ .girl has no answer 1U ready, but, blushing crimson, hurries b: past'him down the stone stairs, where n she waits at the bottom fc r the others. As Florence reaches the door she pauses and stoops to examine the lock. "I wish." she says to Sir Adrian, a U strange subdued excitement in her tone, "you would remove this lock. Do." . b "But why?" he asks. imujressed in spite of hiniself, by her iganner. "I hardly know myself': it is a fancy . -an unaccountable onm-, perhaps-b ut si still a pwerful one. Do be guided by pi me and have it removed." "What-the fancy?" he asks laugh-' ing. '-No-the lock. Humor me in this," she pleads earnestly, far more earnest lv than the occasion seems to warrant. la "'Call it a silly presentiment. if you like, sc but I honestfy' think that lock will wvork g you evil some day. Therefore it is that e I ask you to do away with it." "You ask me?" he queries. "Yes, if only to please me-for my u] sake." She has evidently forgetten her late jj distrust in him, for she speaks now in la the old sweet tone, and with tears mn her eyes. Sir Adrian ilushes warmly. "For your sake." he whispers. "What c4 is there I would not do, if thus re- ta quested?" a A bitter sneer contracts Arthur tI Dynecourt's lips as he listens to the first part of this conversation and guess- 0 es at the latter half. lHe notes cor- cc rectly' the kindling of their eyes, the m quick breath that comes and goes like ei happy sighs from thme breast of Flor-p warm omsnl ana giances expressively at Dora. Meeting her eyes he lays his Uj fineron islips to caution her silence, b< andthe, wenpassing by her, whis- tl: "etme inhalf an hour in the low- c er gallery." Bowing her acquaintance in this ar- a4 rangement, fearing indeed to refuse. hb Dora follows the others from the of haunted chamber. o At the foot of the~ small stone stair- aI case-before they go through the first c ron-bound dooi that leads to the cor rider without--they find Ethel Villiers tI awaiting them. She had been looking aj round her in the dimly lighted stone er passage, and has discovered another ra door fixed mysterjously in a corner, o: that has excited her curiosity. "WThere does this lead to, Sir Ad rian?" she asks now, pointing to it. "Oh, tnat is an old door connected with another passage that leads by a t dark and wearying staircase to the ti servant's corridor beneath! I am afraid w on won't be able to open it. as it is s usty with age and disuse. The ser vans would as soon think of coming up here as they would of making ant appointment with the Evil One: so it sc has not been opened for years." b "Perhaps I can manage it." says Ar- - thur Dyvnecourt, ti'ying with all his ca might to force the ancient lock to yield b< to him. At length his eiforts are g crowned with success: t.'. door lies S creakingly open. and a cloqa of dust cc uprising covers them like a mist. a "Alh'" exclaims Ethel. recoiling: but or Arthur. stooping forward. c'arefully in examines the dlark stair-ease that lies o before him wurappled in iimpeneti'able gloomi. Spider-nets have been drawn "M from wall'to wacl andt halng in dhusky Si clouds fro'm ti'- be~ veilin'.: a faint, gi Btaie, stillin.g sne:l ;:n-ets hci. nostrils, sa yet he lingers there andl looks carefully J& around him. 4 "You'll fall into it. if you don't bh mInd," remarks Captain lRingwood. "One would think uncanny spots had tC an unwholesome attraction for you." th Ringwood,. ever since the mefihorable 31 night in the smoking-room. when Sir sic Adrian was so nmear being killed, has looked askance at Arthur Dvynecourt, and, when taking the troubile to ad dress him at all. has beeni either sharp bi or pointed in his remarks. Arthur, B contenting himself with a scowl at him, th closes the little door again, and turns 3j away from it. "At night," says Sir Adrian, in an amused tone. "the servants, passing by S. the door below that leads up to this Ice one, run by it as though they foar some hostly ancestors of mine, 'descending rom tehaunted chamber. will pounce fl out upon them with their heads under Ifri their arms, or in some equaily unpleas ant position. You kiiow the door, or don't you, Arthur-the second from as the turning?" "No." renhie .Arthur. with his falseo nIle, -1 (10 not; nor, maeea, ao .t care know it. I firmlv believe I should I mn past it too after nightfall. unless ell protected." "That looks as if you had an evil con -tence," says Ringwood carelessly, but me~ thles purpolselv. "-It loks more as if I were a coward. think," retorts Arthulir laughing, but looting an angry glance at the gal nt eaptain as lie speaks. 'Well. what does the immortal Will .m say'.' returns Ringvood coolly. Conscience doth make cowards of us 1!1" "You have a sharp wit, sir," says Ar ur, with apparent lightness. but pale ith passion. "I say, look here," breaks in Sir Ad an istily, pultig out his watch: "it ust be nearly time for tea. By Jove, lite half past four. and we know what ady FitzAlmont will say to us if we sep her deprived of her favorite bev age for even five minites. Come, let i run, or destruction will light upn ir heads." So saving, he leads the way. and soon tey leive the haunted clIaiber and all i gloomy associations far behind em. [Continued.] GENERAL NEWS ITEMS. wts of Interest Gathtered froan Various Quarters. -Vice-President 3Irton has re rued from his trip through the >uth with the kindliest ;eelius for people and the brightest hopes for ;future. -A syndicate of New York and agusta capitalists has purchased veral thou.and acres of land in yuth Carolina on the hills opposite agusta. The purchasers will de lop the property and make it easily cessible to Augusta. -Win. E. Christian, late associate itor and owner of the Charlotte, . C.. Democrat. has disposed of his terest in that paper and accepted a sitioli oI the staff of a Philadelphia per. Mr. Christian married the ughter of General Stonewall Jack n. This lady died a few months o. leaving two children. -The Midway hotel and several isiness houses at Kearney, Neb., ere burned Monday morning. A rrible wind from the northwest evailed. The loss will probably :ceed 8150,000. One man was killed jumping from a fourth-story win )w. -A sensational tragedy occurred , Redlands. Cal., early Monday orning. D. C. Gresham. connected ith The Citograph, a weekly paper, as shot and killed by C. C. McCon ,y, proprietor of the Windsor hotel. :cConkey then committed suicide. oth men stood high in society, and Le affair has created great excite ent. -Aleck Copeland, colored,was shot id fatally wounded at his own house the vicinity of Clinton, S. C., on st Saturday night. On opening the >or of his cabin in response to a ock he received two loads of bird iot in his face and body. Suspicion ,11 on Fearow Leak between whom id Copeland there was an old mdge. Leak has been arrested and iere is strong proof of his guilt. Pianos and Organsa. N. W. TRUMP, 134 Main Street, Co Lmbia, S. C.. sells Pianos and Organs irect from factory. No agents' comn issions. The celebrated Chicker tg Piano. Mathusek Piano, cele cated for its clearness of tone, light ss of touch and lasting qualities. Mason & Hamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Upright Piano, from 822 Aion Piano, from $200 up. Mason & Hamlin Organs, su-passe v none. Sterling Orgeans, $50 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for x years. Fifteen days' trial. ex mses both ways. if not satisfactoro. Sold on enstallments. The Rate of [aterest.. By anAct of the last Legislature the w in regard to rates of interest was >amended that no higher rate than per cent. per annum may be charg for the hiring of money, the legal ste remaining seven per cent. except on special agreement. The'law did t take effect until the first of~ March, 90. The following is a copy of the w in question: "No greater rate than seven per ntumi per annum shall be charged, ken, agreed upon or allowed upon iy contract arising in this State, for Lehiring, lending or use of money or her commodity,except uponitten ntracts wherein, by express agree ent, a rate of interest not exceeding ght per cent. may be charged. No wson or corporation lending or ad tneing money or other commmodity ;>on a greater rate of interest shall allowed to recover in any court of is State any portion of the interest iunlawfully charged; and the prin pal sum, amount or value so lent or Ivanced, without any interest, shall Sdeemed and taken by the courts the State to be the true legal debt -measure of damage to all intents kd purposes whatsoever, to be re >vered without costs: Provided, that be provisions of this Act shall not ply to contracts and agreements itered into, or discounts or ar .gements made, prior to the first March, 1890."~ Mrs. Jackson's Pension The Washington correspondent e New York Herald, referring to e application of Stonewall Jackson's idow fora pension for her husband's rices in the Mexican war, says: "I called on Commissioner Raum 'day and asked whether Mrs. Jack in's application for pension would favorably considered. He replied: ~I have not taken it up yet, but I *n see no reason why it should not granted. Section 4,716, Revised :atutes, says:--'No money on ac unt of pensions shall be grented to y person, or to the widow;, children heirs of any deceased person, who any manner voluntarily engaged in aided, or abetted the late rebellion ~ainst the authority of the United ates. But section 5 of that Act ~anting pensions to the soldiers and ilors of the Mexican War, approved inuary 29. 1887, says that 'section 16 of the Revised Statutes is here repealed so far as the same relates this Act or to pensioners under is Act.' This latter clause gives rs. Jackson a clear titl- L-> her pen >n in my opuuion.' -George W. Peck, the well known imorist and author of "Peck's Bad >y,"' was nominated for Mayor fly e Democratic city convention of ilwaukee on Monday. -Most of the creditors of Henry Ives have agreed to accept live ts on the dollar for their claims. es has been released on 85,000 bail. e was arrested on the charge of -A call has been issued for the ganization of a Southern educational, sociaton,in the city of Montgomery, I the 6th f Jue. A CERMAN MARKET-FAIR. The Ancient Teutonic Custom as It Still Flourishes at Hanover. This week there has been an oppor tunity to see a market-fair in Hanover, which occurs only thrice a vear, and lasts but two or three days. savs a cor respondent of the Hartford 'Couwrant. In fact. I ai just returned from wan dering about town in a drizzling rain, bumping umbrellas in the crowd of chaffering Hanoverians. and receiving an occasional curse from some booth owner because of the unintentional but none the less wet stream of water which my uumbrella-tip plumped down I upon her eakes or candy. The stalls and booths for the display of the wares -were to be found in various parts of the town, according to the nature of the sales; thus live stock was to be had in one section, books in another. -no tions" in the third, awl so on. To-(dav I spent my time in the old portion of the city, and here the center of bustle and interest was the ancient Market church. From the square upon which I this church stands the lines of booths stretched up the streets. radiatingrig't and left from the Market square. These booths were hastily riged affairs. built of boards, with their tops covered with canvas against the rain, so that they looked like a row of In dian wigwams. Every conceivable ar ticle, and some inconceivable, were to be purchased along these rows, behind which stood men and women crying up their wares or doling out small por tions to the peasant buyer. Before 4 o'clock of this rainy after noon the oil lamps were lighted and flared picturesquely in the wind. Through the middle of the streets surged the crowd of buyers. many of them country folk, who had come in solely for the fair. They clattered over the cobble-stones in their sabots and beat down prices with high heart and volubility. Above rose the gray old houses and high over all the venerable and massive church, under whose walls for five centuries humanity was bought and sold, lived and died. It was a scene for a Dickens and I sighed for his insight and his graphic power of description. At some of the booths a foreigner was especially tempted to rid hiniself of a few pennies or marks. For exam ple, here hung by the score those long, porcelain-bowled pipes which are so typical of this country, and hard by were all manner of blue earthenware drinking jugs. mugs, and tankards, with bibulous mottoes in Germanscript and metal covers that were a joy to see. In some cases sonme magic sign like "Aus Italien" was hung in front of the booth, and there you are sure to find cheap jewelry, tawdry paintings. or bizarre house ornaments, those be hind the improvised counter being dark, sallow, and melancholy eyed, and wearing large rings in their ears after the manner of their race. There seemed to be no congruity here in the arrangement of the suc cessive stands; beside one exclusively devoted to worsteds would be another where the succulent sausagc and the malodorous but beloved limburger reigned supreme, and a little farther on the toys of childhood hobhobbed with a murderous array of knives, big and little, ranging from the tiny nail trimmer to the long, keen blade of the hog-killer. The motley sales and sights only made the scene richer and a char acteristic picture of foreign street life I am told that the articles to be bought at these fairs, though cheap, are shoddy and unreliatble, and arc avoided by the wily citizens, the chiof protit accruing fromn the open-mouthed country bump kins who judge by outside show and the oily assurances of the proprietors. DUTIES OF LADIES' MAIDS. What Ne r York Society WVomen Require at Their Hands -Their Compensation. .New York letter to the New Orleans Picayne: The duties of a lady'snmaid, says one of them, are almost constant, if'seldom heavy. One may have leisure for half a day or scarcely get a breath ing spell of ten minutes in twenty-four hours. There is not a great deal of variation. I get up at 7 mn the morn ing and am through my bath and toile~t in time for breakfast at 8. Immedi atelv afterward I take a pot of choco late~and the morning papers to my mistress and while she driinks the choco late I read from the papers aloud. Her mail is brought up at 9 and I manicure her hands while she reads it. Then I prepare her bath and afterward arrange her hair and dress her for her 10 o'clock breakfast. While the chambermaid is doing up her room I arrange her toilet brushes and boxes and get out her afternoon dress. I have my dinner at noon. If my mistress feels like nappiing after luncheon I read her to sleep. If she goes shopping I usually acecompany her. At 3 1 dress her for her afternoon drive, and at 6 for dinner. I have sup per at 7, and the evening is generally my own, but I go to bed early when my mistress is out, because when she cones home I have to undress her, brush out her hair, give her a cup of hot bouillion, and read her to sleep. Brushing, mendine, and making over her dresses, atten mig to her laces, and looking after her linen take up most of my spare time. Sunday afternoon I always have to myself, and altogether I am very well satisfied. Ladies who require the attendance of maids have to treat them with a certain degree of consideration in order to keep them. Once I lived with a woman who would not open her eyes in the morn ing until I had bathea them with rose water, and who compelled me to brush her feet for her. I found out that be fore her marriage she did all the house work for her father and a family of several children, and the discovery so irritated me that I soon conjured up a pretext for leaving her. The lady's maid in most households ranks with the housekeeper and butler, and is not required to eat in the kitchen. Her average pay is $25 a month, but if she fulfills all requirements the very wealthy often give her $50, or even more. If she is a capable dress-maker and milliner it is a positive economy to retain her at high wages. English maids who have lived with the aristo cracy are the first choice with New York women at present. They are able to give poiints. All the Vander bilts have maids who have lived in the families of English noblemen, and as much may be said, with slight limita tions, of the Astors Lorillards, and other families. Mrs. William Waldorf Astor's personal attendant fo rmerlv waited upon the queen of Italy and Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt had one who served Lady Churchill. Recently a lady's maid was dis chaiged because she was mistaken for her mistress when the two wore out together. Another was sent flying be cause she accidentally pulled her mis tress' hair while brushing it. A third discharged herself because her mistress insisted that she should administer a hypodermic injection of muorphine every night. Legal Advice. "What are you asking a month for the rent of this room?" asked a young New York lawyer of the proprietor of an exceedingly small room. "'Ten dol lars a month, invariably in advance." "Whew! That's steep. You have no ventilation and very little light." That's so. but you seem to overlook the advantages this room has for a young lawyer." "What are they?" 'In the first place, you aire necar the court-house, and there are two p~awn broker establishments and several free COURT DAY IN THE FIJI ISLANDSe Scenes That are LUwrous to the Gravity of thr- -,S etators. The gala drp;-es atre not startling. Here is a dignliel old gentleman ar ra'od, in a IIcral.han'i tunic of a marine. in iIh he StIe plight as to buttons as its c-wir is to teeth: near him stands : line voung village police mau.nT whose oiicial gravity is not en haniced by Ile swallow-tailed coat of a nig-rer minsti-el. while the back gronid is taiken 1) upby a bevy of village Inaidens clad ;In or-.teous velvet pina fores, who are g gling after the man ner of their white siters until they are fixed by the st-ri gray eye of the chief policeman. which turns their expres sion into one of that preternatural solemnity theyv wear in church. The court-house, a native building carpeted with iiiats. is now packed with natives. sitting erow-s-legged, only a small place beiiig res--rved in front of the table for the accused and witnesses. The magistratze take his seat, and his scribe, sitting on the- floor at his side, prepares his writing materials to record the sentences. The dignitv with which the old man adjusts his shirt collar and clears his throat is a little marred when he produces from his bosom what should have been tA pair of pince-nez, seeing that it was s:t-:red by a string round his neck. but is, in fact, a jews harp. With the soit notes of this in strument the man of law is wont to be guile the tediuni of a dull case. But, although the spectacle of Lord Cole ridge gravely performing on the jews harp in court would at least excite sur prise in England, it provokes no smile here. The first case is called on. Re iterated calls for Samuela and Timothe produced two meek-faced youths of 18 and 19, who, sitting tailor fashion be fore the table are 0harged with fowl stealing. They plead "not guilty," and the owner of the fowls being sworn, deposes that, having been awakened at night by the voice of a favorite hen in angry remonstrance, he ran out of his house, and after a hot chase, cantured the accused red-hand ed in two'senses, for they were pluck ing his hen while still alive. Quite un moved by this tragic tale, Vatureba seems to listen only to the melancholy notes of his jews-harp: but the witness is a chief and a mian of influence withal, and a period of awed silence follows his accusation, broken only by a subdued twauging from the bench. But Vatureba's eyes are bright and piercing, and they have been fixed for some minutes on the wretched prison ers. He has not yet opened his lips during the case. and as the jewsharp is not capable of much expression, it is with some interest we await the sen tence. Suddenly the music ceases, the instrument is '-.':st hdrawn from the mouth, the oracle is abutt to speak. Alas! he utters but two words, "Vula tolu" (three months), and there peals out a malignantly triumphant strain from the jewsharp. But the prose cutor starts up with a protest. One of the accused is his nephew, he explains, and he only wished a light sentence to be imposed. Three months for one fowl is two too severe; besides, if he has three mouths he must go to the cen tral jil and not work out his sentence in his own district. Again there is silence. and the jewsharp has changed from triumplh into thoughtful melan holy. At length it is withdrawn, and oracle speaks again: "Bogi tolu" ee' days.) -Cornill Magazine. The Terrible Tcherkesses. The Tcherkesses-the term now most used in Europe to designate the differ ent Caucasian tribes-are a wild, bel licose, and rap~acious nation. The Therkess is a warrior in his very soul, siy, cruel, and blood-thirsty. The suf ferings of an enemy awaken in him only a sensual smile of enjoyment. He tortures his prisoner, kills him, and mutilates him terribly. How many loved comrades have I found with their arms twisted out of joint, and other parts of their bodies cut off and stuck in their mouths! The Tcherkess is not a fanatic, but be is a great fatalist; and now he is in the Russian service he at tacks with the same ruthless ardor and blood-thirstiness the Mussulman with whom thirty years ago he used to fight side by side against the Russians. ~He always seeks to attack his enemy on the sly, but when he does not succeed in surprising him, he dashes upon him and displays prodigious courage. Tcherkess boys are trained from their tenderest years to ride and handle weapons. ~The Tcherkess horseman will rush at full gallop into a small court-yard, and not turn his horse un til he strikes his naose against the wall. In the same way he will gallop toward a precipice. and turn his horse only when his forefeet arc over the abyss. All the Tcherkess games and dances are of a warlike nature. One of the most picturesque sights one can im agine is a Tcherkess fete, when these tall, dark-skinned men, handsome and muscular, with their swords and pon iards drawn, execute their favorite dance, the "Lesginka," around a fire, which, with its red glare, lights up their strong features and illumines the surrounding woods,- and rocks. A favorite game is to leap on horseback over the tir-e when the flame is at its highest. All the natives of the Cau casus carry arms up to the present day. and the Russian government finds it prudent not to interfere with this usage. Still it must appear strange to one who travels for the first time in the Caucasus to find himself surrounded by people who are all armed to the teeth. Doubtless the Caucasus is .acified, but travelling there is not completely safe. The Tatares and Kurds in the southern Caucasus, and the Jangouches in the northern districts, often indulge in brigandage. In European warfare the Tcherkesses are very useful on outpost duty and as skirmishers. Even in open battle they can make very successful charges. In the last Turkish campaign it happened once that a trench occupied by the Turks was attacked by a battalion of infantry, but the deadly fire prevent ing them from reaching the intrench mets, order was given to the Jan gouche militia to mount to the attack, and they simply (lashed upon the ene my like a hurricane, leaped over the defences, and massacred the Turks in side.-Earper'S Magazine. A Brain-Racking Situation. Did vonu-ever have three clocks in your house, all running on different time? if you want to have a block of five andI a'tifteen-puzzle on your hands day and night, week in and week out, try the three clocks. I'm sorry, mum,"' said the servant girl of a lady who had three clocks, no two of them keeping the same time, "m sorry, mum, but I will have to give you a week's warnino." "What's the matter, Ifary? Isn't the work lig-ht and don't you get good pay?" inquired the lady. " Yes, mum." sobbed the girl, "but those three clocks of yours give me the headache. I'm always ahead and al ways behind at the same time. I get up too early in the morning and stay in bed too long at the same time. It's dreadful. I discovered last night that the three clocks were chasing me all ground the house, trying to kill me. I'm sorry, mum,. but I'll have to go." The trouble was only compromised by the lady running the three clocks on the same time and pr-t-enting the girl a gold watch to i-tn onm whatever tne suitel her 'mst. Several calculating machines receir-1 CHINESE PRESENCE OF MIND; L PhUosopher Relates an instance of ThOir a Wonderful Self-Control. -It is not along the broader lines of social life alone that we can trace race -haracteristies and distinctions," said % seedy-looking individual yesterday evening as he stoodi in front of a Chest nut street hotel, buttoining up a well worn fall overcoat closely to his throat so as to conceal the still more worn summer coat beneath. and drawing on' with careless fastidiousness, a pair of kid gloves that were badly in need of repair. His general appearance. says the Philadelphia Inquirer, was that of a broken-down sporting man or a ward politician who had been subsisting for many months on the expectations of an appointment when the civil-service law is repealed; his air was that of a mil lionaire just sauntering out after ;hav ing enjoyed a sumptuous dinner, but, according to his own statement, he was neither. "I am a student of social science," he said, "and nothino delights me more than to study national peculiarities and characteristics as they arerevealed in the trivial occurrences of every-day life. "To illustrate, I went into a Ninth street Chinese laundry the other even ing. The heathen had neglected to send my linen home. That, however, did not strike me as a race peculiari ty; it is rather a class characteristic common to all laundrymen, no matter what their nationality. But some thing occurred while I waited that did strike me. "It was just about dusk. The streets were crowded with people going home from work, and in the room half a dozen Chinamen were busy ironing at different tables. A coal-oil lamp that hung in the bulk window had just been lighted. A good deal of oil had been smilled on the outside of the bowl in filing it, and suddenly this caught fire and blazed up, not only endangering the red curtains draped about the win dow, but threatening to cause an ex plosion of the lamp. "A Chinaman on the far side of the room saw the flames and uttered a single exclamation to call the atten tion of the others. That was the only sound made by any of the celestials, and none of them left their work ex cept one nimble little fellow, who jumped lightly and quickly into the window. "But the flames had been seen from the street, and instantly the room was filled with the passers-by, who rushed madly in, each one shouting directions at the top of his voice. "'Throw the lamp into the street!' 'Dash water upon it!' Run for a police man!' 'Strike the fire-alarm!' they cried, and one excited individual yel led: 'Take a club ana smash it to pieces!' "Meanwhile the little Chinaman in the window had quickly seized a large, damp cloth from his table, and while his fellow-countrymen looked calmly on amid all the confusion and hubbub he wrapped it around the burning lamp and held it there till the ilanies were completely smothered. Then he quiet ly returned to his work without stop ping for a moment to discuss the occur rence, but it was several minutes be fore the excitement died out among the Caucasians who had crowded in and they were ready to depart. "Now, this difference of behavicr in the face of danger and amid exciting circumstances does certainly indlicate a fundamental and characteristic differ ence between the oriental and the oo cidental races. You raiay say that the conduet of the Chinamen resulted merely from oriental apathy, or you may attribute it to the fatalistic habits of thought engendered by eastern re ligions, or you may say that the occur rence furnished a confirmation of Her bert Spencer's theory that hurry and overwork have resulted in a condition of nervous instability among all the races of the west. But whatever you attri bute it to, I tell you the Chinamnan's method of action is the best when you have to deal with a coal-oil lamp that is about exploding. Two Fools and Their Money. The eccentricities of the late Dr. Henry Hiller and wife of Wilmington, Mass., whose fad was magnificently carved and luxuriously upholstered burial caskets, have been described in the press already. The doctor's funeral took place a year ago, and the corpse was carried to its last resting place in a silk-lined, gold-plated. elaborately carved casket of solid mahogany. Not satisfied wi~h the ghostly magnifi cence of a year ago the widow has been at work on the construction of new caskets, one for her husband, the other for herself. Each casket- is in two parts, the basket proper and the sarcophagus. The material in all four is solid mahogany, imported specially from South America. The upholster ing inside is as elaborate as money could make it. Corded si"'. of the value of $40 a yard is the mat 'ial used. The lids are made of separate panels, highly polished, richly carved, and fastened by solid gold hing'es, with knobs of solid gold for opening them. The doctor's new casket is fastened by a heavy brass door of Gothic design, having a knob made of six pounds of solid gld. On the panels are solid gold tblets ascribed with the doctor's favorite passage of Scripture. Mrs. Hiller has also made for herself a burial robe of which it may be truly said that it beggars description. The dressmaker completed it after four months' labor and an outlay of $20, 000. The robe is made of white ottoman silk, corded heavily. There is also a wilderness of white silk lace running in perpendicular panels and tucked and gathered and fluted until it stands but to a distance of five inches. The total outlay by Mrs. Hiller will be not far short of $500,000. The mausoleum will be of hammered gran ite. In the four walls will be built windows, through which it is planned to have rays of colored light enter, a different light to each window, which, blending, will fall upon the caskets resting side by side within.-Boston Herald.___________ The Mexico Cathedral. ] The interior of the grand cathedral in the City of Mexico is, even at the present day, after having been succes sively plundered, most magnificent. It contains five naves, six altars, and fourteen chapels, which contain the bones of some of the viceroys and de- 1 parted great men of Mexico. A balustrade surrounds the choir, of a metal so rich that an offer to replace it with one of equal weight in solid silver was refused. This weighs twen ty-six tons, and came from China in the 1(d days of Spanish dominion,when the richly freighted gal'cons of Spain sent their cargoes overland from Aca- ~ pulco to Vera Cruz on the way to the miother country.1 The hig~h altar was formerly the rich- ~ est in the world, and yet retains much f its original glory. It contained e candls~ticks of gold so heavy that a single one was more than a man could z Lift, chalices. cruets, and pyxes of gold ncrusted with precious metal, studded ~ with emerald, amethysts, rubies, and I. supplies. Thle statue of the Assumption (now issing) was of gold, ornamented with jiamonds, and is said to have cost $1,- y )00, 000. There was a golden lamp, It alued att $70,000, which it cost at one d ime $1,000) to clean, but according to . t IFrech wr'iter-andl the joke is his- it he liberal troops cleaned it for noth- t< SAYS RAVITATION DES Remarkable Clock that 1- Said to Go Without Wimiine: T. G. Farrer, watch manker has in ented one of the most jlleenh'iar clocks f the nineteenth cent ur\. it consistg f a plate glass dial 11 hfrn he ceiling, and all til t. of 't that re visible are the two h:m' the piviot pon which they swin*. :m I te iial. t is marked "Gravitah oeok. atnd ot one person in 1,0)U who pIaSes it as the faintest idea th:it it i the most ngenious device of the century. Many locks with glass dials have tne works f a watch as their motive power, but his clock has no motive power that is risible. Mr. Farrer worked on the invention or six vears' before he sueceeded in erfecting it. He alleges that the only notive power is the gravitatioi of the arth, a'nd that the clock wili run on orever without winding. The only mperfection is that it los-es from rour :o five minutes a day by the frietiou of :he hands on the pivot. anid. therefore. -he hands require to be regulated once in twenty-four hours. He showed a reporter somethin about the way the clock worked. When the hands pointed to a quarter past 1 Mr. Farrer caught hohi of them together, and sent them twirling around the dial, like the winder of a wheel of fortune. After o-enlaltOting un til the momentum hlad been o% ercome the hour hand and the minute hand re sumed their respective and proper po sitions, still marking the correct time. At 1:20 he did something still nore re markable. He slipped the inuuiiite hand off the pivot and laid it on the counter. At the end of six minutes lie re placed it and sent it whirling around the dial. When it camie to r-st it set tied at the right place, twenty-SiX min utes past 1 o'clock. The hands are of tin and are hollow, and perfectly balanced on the pivoL Mr. Farrer says they a:-- -d iy the gravitation of the earth. i.uit it puzzles the spectator to account for the power that rai-es them after t:wyt reaci 6:30. All kinds of theories are atloat to ae count for this. Some peo pIe say that the hollow hands are tiIed with fluids of different densities that m% ereome the ravitation of the earth when the hands reach that point. lIut Mr. Farrer keeps his secret, and rejOic'es over the mystification of the beholder. He in sists that electricity is not the motive power.-FresnoRepubli"n 'Neath the Turkey's Foot, There is clinging to some of theearly settlers of Hendricks and Morgan counties an impression that buried be neath a huge stone somewhere in the fertile valley of White Lick creek there are valuable treasures. The story is that when the Delaware indians were forced to vacate their hunting grounds along the creek they believed they were to be sent from their lands temporarily, and rather than risk carrying their wealth into a strange country they buried it under a huge rock until they returned. The rock was marked with a turkey's foot carved in the stone pro jecting above the earth. Early settlers along the stream say that several years after the tribe had vacated the lands a lone Indian came through the country in search of a treasure which he said had been buri'ed under a stone. He disappeared as mysteriously as he came. but he left behind him that tradition that remains with sonic people to this day. Following the disappearance of the Indians the settlers began to search for the treasure. Then it was found that there were plenty of hiuge stones marked with 'turkey tracks," it seem ingly having been a favorte pastime of the red man to carve out the imprint of turkey's feet upon all the great stones along the stream. Notwith standing this obstacle, many farmers excavated beneath huge stones, and were disappointed at not being re wvarded for their labor. It is dou~btful_ if there is a great stone within three miles of the creek that has not been burrowed under in search of the treas ure. As late as ten years ag the story of the treasure was revived along the stream, and rocks that had never been disturbed were burrowed under.-Inz dianapois News. Flowers as Political Eimblems. One result of the elect ion ha's haud a strange effect on the tiower maruket in Paris. Since the election the price of red carnations has gone down: ike the shares of a bubble comup i~. Wh ile the white carnation is ';iim in u the Marche aux Fleurs at the i~etal figure of 1 franc a dec.ea., ti. red is ofered freely at no man-i that an so Neither in Pa:ris nor any whben- e~se does anybody care to lbe ideutiilwi with the svynbol of a failure. Scotchmen in America. The Rev. Maleemt Mac'tregor of New York thinks thetre never will be what would technicat:lv iae called a "Scotch vote- in thi: e.,untry. He says: Scotchmen ha:m- ,so thoroughly idintifid themsel ve. with the v-arious interests of this cou at" rt tat they have never occasioned th-- s; i'h iest sectional feeling, and have ben tr'.ated so well in this country that t:wyv have never had gronudfor complaiut. Laughea. The word "hell" among Germans is not looked upon wvithm a horror that it is among Amiericauis, andl even the most cultured Ge~rmani wonetd not hesi tate to use it anv :aore th.mz he would the word "heaven." A Jotung lady who learned the English language in her home in the obI country and can. tpeak it .tluently weatij to ai inWionable arty the other day. A gr:0e iire had een kindled and the ro. :.n was nucom ortably warm..T was a pause in hi conversation, when ini a rather oud tone of voice was heatrd the re nark in English. buit witha a pretty 3erman aceut: ''It is hot as hell in ;his room" The electrhiedh guests sat ts if stunned for a miomni.:t. and then Ls if by prearrangedl =ignai, all broke >ut in a laugh. Up to this date the erman girl does.: tknow what the augh was all about. --UICi~ami Plain Albert Edward's Rtudeness. A strange story of the rutdeness of a nember of tihe royal famnily of England omes to The M1an About Town dlirect rom a lady corr'espondent at Edin >urgh. A fair was in progress there d rs. Langtry was sell ing coffee at me of the booths. Enter the Prince of Vales, who asked for a ciip of the de icious Mlocha. Mi's. Langtry served t in delicate Worcester. and just as he handed it to himi threw a dainty ss into the cup. "How much?' thet fuiture monarch of 1 he surveyvs querI~id. ''It was 10 shillinip.," answered the Il of the .Jerser I,!',:. ''n:ml I threw hiss into it. A..atis 0 .'billings." TWhat wvill yon ;h.:rve mue for a lean cup?" retor ie. th Prince. v'ery ingallantly. as' Ieturned the coffee If the story is :rte i~tide'te's that lie Prince of W:.: i :::g to be iss and less of' a .... .s eedges eaarer the tliron .. :. I:,ublic. Elderh~ Spinsterl- --1 can't see why ouyoun~ girls 'houild be so absurdly mid. YOU can't walk a block after ark ithot being in ain agony of fear minking that sone bodlv mari be follow gtg vi." "Do yon re-ver' look back see some nman is following you?" No. What's the u.se? It wouldn't