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S. L Al Iu U L -i. BIL V Ta L. HE GIVES HIS EXPE.iENCES ON A CERTAIN DOMESTIC OCCASION. And ne -auk or a ( aTltky (f subject i at Yy Fr"ee ami E'asy 31anner.i I thuglit it was Sheicrimani. No, I did 't eithecr-t. somuehow it remninded me of Sherman. We had company for dinmer-chldren and gran-chil dren and other kinfolks, and were winding up the general re-past with strawberries aid cream when sud denly there was a clap of thaunder that shook tlie eleniwts and brought a storm of wint and rain and hail so swiftly th at it stopped the feminine conversation. Mrs. Arp looked at. me and I loo ked a'. her for a mo ment. Ticre was a wild racket and a rattiing overhid and against the wnNUdo.ws, and in the back hall. like a thousand guns had onIaed tre upon our de'o d houselld. Tim long back h;1 was oen to the wind aid the hail-one~s rolld and bounced furiou'st throu. i and into tie front 11and1 covered the fioor. Most of rk.e marbles. but many wr- :- *V-ehmts, and suha falor .i as .at b.eenl scu i thes parNts fo .rr and yeaurs. The wind lew like aorung eyelo, and took a,1lla to close the win dows and slatm the doors. Mrs. Arn looked out aiid exclaimed: --Oh the pit. J., .ust see tie hail crashing through the glass." The horse :id the cow were grazing in the front lot, and sudde-1)y waked up to the sitaa tion, and set out on a run. and ai loped round an-d round, but found na place of ref u;e. The peacock seroar ed, and made for the House. but ii beautifl tail was in his way. He had too much rudder for his ship. and soon found himself away down: in the grove. To,) much tail is bad dressing for anything in a storm. Old Fido, our superannuated dog gave an indignant bark, and slowly trotted to the piazza. The -leave and twigs from the forest trees i the lawn filled the. air and tra'veled with the storm. The ground was white with hail, and it banked uy against the house and fence several inches deep. Iwouldlike to be up in the clouds and see how that thing is done. The children screamed with delighi and wonder, for they had never seer anything like it before, but it was nc delight to me, for I knew that it car ried destruction in its pathway. I thought of. the farmers' cotton thai had just made a narrow escape fron: the frost. I thought of my garder and green-house, and all the pretty flowers and plants that I had toiled 'so faithfully over to please Mrs Arp. I could see them bend and shrinls before the icy blast that stripped them of their leaves and flowers More work; more work for me, I ru minated. And sure enough m3 beautiful squash vines that werE just beginning to bloom are torn all to pieces, and so are my butter bean that were just reaching their young tendrils to the poles. I said I thought of Sherma-I al ways think of him in May when the strawberries come. Just twenty-su years ago we had a strawberry feasi one night at our home-strawberry and cream for supper and a little later on old Sherman began to scat. ter his unfeeling shells right over th< house, and we all waked up to the that General Johnston had ordered another fall back, and that Rome was being abandoned to her fate. I hai partaken too much of strawberries and cream and they were holing: secession meeting within my corpo rate limits. but all suffering and beni up as I was we had to get up and de part those coasts prematurely, in the darkness of a foggy night, and mean der away to parts unknown with vig ilance and alacrity. All night long we hustled from the foul invader and left our beautiful home to his merca and our strawberries and cow to hi! appetite. And that's why I though1 of Sherman when the hail-storn broke up omur feast. But it is all right. I can plan more beans and more squashes. Shave already planted my garden twic< this spring, and I can plant it again It is not near so bad as war, and thanks to the good Lord for his mer cies, we are not running from Slher man now with a one-horse rockawa: full of infantry and the materntal an cestor looking back every few minute: to see if the yankees were comning t< take them from her. But now every 1 hing is calm and serene. There arn some litile disturbance in the politica horizon, but they will soon pasi away. Just before an election ther< are so many fellows "sidewipin around huntin' for the orthograph: of an office," as Cabe says, that th< people do get eicited a little, but i will soon pass away. Them what i in want to stay iii just one morn term, they say, so as to wind up thei business, but its alway's one mor< term. It's like "tomorrow"' tha never comes. TheseAlliance men an going to wake up the old veterai politicians for one time I reckon. bu they 1.ad better watch their leai horses, for some of them won't pull pound except they are in the lead and they are not worth a cent to holc back when the wagon is on the dowr grade. Watch your lead horses,J say. A long time ago there was know-nothing party that called them. selves the American party, and theia motto was, "Put none but American on guard tonight." It was a party o: good principles and good patriotisir and good intentions, but ambi tious men got at the head of it and they wouldn't work anywhere but ii lead, and they run away and turned the wagon over and spilt the contents, one of whom I was which. It was an oathbound secret organization and on that account was attacked by Alex Stephens and others, and was overthrown. Well, it does make at outsider feel helpless. Idon't wonder that our members of Congress ar disturbed and our aspiring lawyers who would like to go to the Legisla ture, but we can all risk the farmers one time and then judge them by their works. If they do any worse then send Larry Giantt to Congress]I don't care. He wants fifteen cents for cotton, but let him go. I traveled with seventy five women to Rome and back to Atlanta last wveek and they were all for Larry because of that splendid tribute to woman he had in his paper-that penitent confession that he had not been as considerate a husband as he should have been. These good w~omen were on a State tempenee mission to Rome. but I dont think thiey alluded to Larry's exalted Mn. perance( proelivities. It wa' U: '' '&g iL ihis late sui1 the nmue uma at lilled i.L:m with ad. t. Mthey were not for Colonel Slaugh?ten or anything or for any T4c is the high rail road mentiwi~ogive.s nhmau! n to excursions-, ftnd 1.reued,0cm A(eld oiee.-A a , ed said one of themu. * y n canl start out on a chamapagne or wiLSkey excursion, and go anywhcre for a nonmial fare; but here are seventy five noble women. whose mission is to save the young aen from ruin and sIave the State a n sae &r ads and everything lse. faid l. Slaughter says you haven't got women! -nough -You iust pay i'l [ wish the Colonel could a - there. He would have thoughd thcre were woniwn enough. My op~inionI is there were 150, at least. One good woman ought to be counted as two men. anvhow. I cc.unt ta my h111. C0lonelSlaug A. d -!( better recollsider and refmI that 10 money. Tile llission of ilts noble wonu-n is wvorth more to the railroads than a ,we!s. (-Xcursion1. It enubr.lces the( ood sober conduct - irn ofli &:ds, from the prestents to the brakemen. and will gie mem' sober ",tniel's who won't get hurt and ithn sue for damages. I had rather be Larry Gantt than Colonel Slaugh ter now. I don't know where Larry's fan" is nor tl - size of his Cott)l pa1h. )ut 1e may have ifteenl cents a poundl fo all the cotton he raises,. and nobody will complhin. We are all for Larry at uy house. Bi. An r. GAMBLING RU!NE'I HIM. D>rummer R ohd -ion GeSAl fint!) Regenftvin & Co.of Atlanta. Adolph Robertson. the traveliin. siesnal of j. llegenstein & Co. of Atlanta, who was recently arresedin Opelika, Ala., ha s mllade a full col fession. He says 'Ie g:unbledaway ins firimA money and is short -1.110.25. He denies, however. that he comm!litted forgery. with which he has bei chargedas the drafts he had -ashed were signed in his ().;n name :mdc drawn on the house that emuployed him. Robertson was 1roighlt tc Atlanta and a warrant was swori out against him for lareny afti trdst. Robertson wvas called on at tht station house by a number of He brew friends who offered to do what lay in their p..ow. to help him. H< furnished the names of those whc won from him Regenstein & Codu moiley, and the parties will be called upon to return it. If this is prompt ly done.perhap a settlement will be effected and the case against thc drummer not prosecuted. Otherwise sensational develcp I ments are threatened. Robertsor wants the money to turn over to lm employers to stop the prosecution, Should it not be forthcoming his in tention is said to be to expose al] those who played poker with him ir Alabama, among them some official of the highest local standing in Bir mingham and Opelika. ALIVE IN HER COFFIN. She SIts Up, Moans, Fanls Black Dead, and . is Barica. NEWPOR T, liY., May 22.-The .wifi of John Korb, 40 years of age, hivmn on the river road near Four-Mills, ws to appearances dead last Monday after a long spell of sickness. Th< body was prepared for burial, and or Wednesday._.gile the pall bearerl ere carrying the~ casket -irem th< church, they heard a noise inside th< coiin, and upon removing the lid the woman was found to be alive, but tot weak to speak. The greatest consternation amonl relatives and others in attendance en sued. When the woman opened he1 eyes womenl screamed and ran aboul as if demented. Some fainted Many of the men lost their presenc< of mind, and it was only when th< woman sat up that aid was extended She could not speak, and was evi dently frightened at her situation She was taken into the church ani made comfortable while a physiciai was sent for. Before he arrived th< woman moaned, started toan uprigh position, and then fell back dead. The physician on arrival pronouncei her dead, and she was buried at once There is mu ich excitement in th< neighbothood, and many believe sh< should not have been buried. SENSATIONAL SOMNAMBULISM. A Brooklyn Man, While Asleep, Cags ane Robs Himself. NEw YORE, May 22.-Frank. D Echemendia, a Cuban music teache: who had just begun business at 481 State street, Brooklyn, took a nove method of bringing his name befor the public. On Thursday mornin ne failed to appear at the breakfas table, and when some of his fellow boariers visited his room they founi him bound and gagged on the bed ani in a dazed conadition, as though h< had been chloroformed. He was im mediately released. A handkerchie: was tightly bound about his head and his hands had been tied behini his back. His 14-year-old brothel Albert, who occupied the room wit] him, said he had been awakened b: his brother's moans but he could throw no light on how he came to b< gagged. When Mr. Echemendia recovere. his senses he said he was unable tc explain the condition in which I< was found, except on the hypothesis of robbery. It was found that hih clothing had been rifled, and his watch, chain, key and $4.50 in mon y had been taken. When the case was reported to Capt. Earley of thc tenth precinct he assigned Detectivc Reynolds to make an investigation, and that officer very soon succeeded in establishing the fact that Eche mendia had gagged himself. A search of the room disclosed the missing valuables, and the bottom was knock ed out of the sensation. After Detective Reynolds had sat. isfied himself that the gagging was done by the man himself Echemen dia accompanied him to the station house and there acknowledged to Capt. Earley that he must have done the tying himisel. He said that he was a somnambulist, and though he has no recollection of anything that happened after he retired to bed, lhe (jqite certaiin that no one except eself had any hand in the matter. Swas discharged. -The United States Supreme Court was rendered an opinion hold ing to be unconstitutional the law of Mnnesota requirinlg that all thc fesh meats. sold in the State shall be Icut from amnimls slaughtered within th ~State and inspected twventy~our rs!! beft- .. wh ihter. The caeis~ rv ID. Barber, na an is f great inter est to the dr essed beef men,.tt who wiu | n ecse. A DEAD FACE AT HIS WINDOW. sheka IUoirib)X 1)i-<.Very Shtde by a hurt of; a litisburg Hotel. Pra rmaSay 22.---estterday :t -ust of oe's5 HoteI. wNas -makene-md from h is 4wiunr by mIjthing like a tapping at his win dow. He got up in bed and nected out into Le night, and was thrilled with horror to see the white face of a corpse. The body was hang ing by a chain arotud its neck from a window on the floor above, and the wind in swaying it about caused the n1oise that awakened 'Waggoner. The ev.s of :he corpse were wide open, anld the 1: ands were clasped together. A.; soon as lVaggoner recovered ron the shock he alarmedtlic house hohl. Tie body proved to be that of . ino. Smith. an oil driller. He had gone to his room alout midnight, taken the cha1in used as a fire escape. wrapped it twice ar xid his neck and swung out of the window, where he hun111g until he was strangled to death. Seve'al years ago Smith lived in Ebensburg. A mxurder was commit ted there in which he was implicated with a manx named Bowls and another named Brooks. Bowls fled and Brooks was killed. Then S;nith turned State's evidence and got clear, but he was from that time on known in the oil country as the niiarderer of John Smith. To be called 1 this name preyeid upon his mind and led to his suicide. UNVEIUNG OF LEE'S STATUE. Extensive i'retrations for the Event--A Let ter'jvron: .Xrs..Jefferson Davis. RienoMxn. XVa., May 19.-Exten sive preparations continue to be made to receive the military and vet erans who will attend the nveiling cereonoies of the Lee statue on thea 29th in4t. Among the distinguished unests who have aILready signified thicr inten ton of being present arc G enerl Dabney Hf. Maury. M. C. Butler, James Longstreet. Senato' John S. Barbour, GovernJor Daniel E. Fowle, Colonel Charles Marshall, General Maarcw J. Wright, R. L. Walker, Colonel Charles S. Tenable, Geileras A. L. LongJo-iz'ph E. John son and B. '1. Johson. The olowing le(ttvr was received. from Mrs. Jeltere:n D-lvis: UE.1rVon: HoUsl, Lay 1. 1890 To His excellency Governor P. I. McKinney. President of the Lec Monument Association: Dear Sir Plea:-;e accep.. On the part of my daughter. who is still in France. and from me my sincere thanks for you kind invitation to be present at the unveiling of the statue of our great general. R. E. Lee. His fame is the proud heritage of all the Souierr people. and our whole family feel in tensely gratified by the knowledge that a fitting nonumenxt has beer reared to perpetuate his wisdom an1 valor in the beloved city that he sc long and ably defended. Sorrow and physical infirity will - prevent my being with you. I trus that nothing will mar the grace anc dignity of the ceremony over whiel you will preside and to which th< Southern people havelooked forwari with such glad expectations. Believt me, dear sir. your's faithfully, V. JEFFE1soN DAvIs. A HORROR IN HAVANA. Explosion of a Barrel of Powder in Burning BUilding-Twenty- two People Killed and One Hundred Wounded. HAVAN, May 22.-At. 11 o'cloel Saturday night lire broke out 11 Ysasi's hardware store. In a shor time the flames reached a b~arrel o: powder in the building and a terrilil explosion followed. The whole strue ture was blown to pieces, and tw~enty~ two persons were killed. Among the dead are four fire chiefs Senores Miussett Jenicoviech, Osca: Conill and Francesco Ordenez, an< the Venezuelan 'rnsul, Senor Fran cesco Silva, who happened to be ia front of the building at the time o the explosion. In addition to the killed over one hundred persons were 'injured. IThe explosion caused the wildes iexcitement thr'oughout the city, ant thousands flocked to the scene of dis aster. The Governor General, civi Governor and all the principal au thorities of the city were promptly 0: the ground and did everything i2 their' power to aid the injured anm calm the grief of the stricken relative of the victims. Several houses adjacent to th wrecked building were damaged b, the explosion. Gangs of men are at work on th debris. Many human limbs hav been taken from the ruins. The rela t ives of missing persons supposed t< 1 be in the ruins are gathered on th spot, and as the bodies are brough out the scenes are most distressing SThe conduct of the authorities i; the subject of universal praise. Th< highest oflicials have incurred per sonal risk in conducting the searci for the dead and have ofl'ered the usa of their' own carriages to conv~ey thi injured to hospitsls. Ysasi, proprie tor of the wrecked hardware store has been arrested. It is feared that there are severa more victims in the ruins. Over th< the theatres an' Chamber of Comn merce anid many other buildings flage arc hanging at half-mast. Every where are signs of mourning. Up ti the present time the number of deat is thirty-four. The Republican Plan. The plan of the Republicans in th< House is said to be to allow each mai of that side to file his protest anm make his speech against features o: the bill likely to be unpopular witi his constituents,. but all will vote fo2 it as a whole. several Republican Presidential iispirants in the Senate -however, have theft' knives out, and will hack and cut the bill in such -way that McKinley will not recognizi it upon its return to the House. Ii is said to be the intentionl of Allison Sherman anid Cullom to put a knif( into McKinley's Presidential aspir'a tions by cutting his bill to pieces. The Clemson College. GREENvILLE, S. C., May 22-At a meeting of the Clemson College trus tees, held at Pendlet on on Tuesday and Wednesday, a large amount of detail work in connection with the beginning of operations on the Col lege buildings at Fort Hill was dis p)osd of. The contract for three nlon b.ricks was given to Poole & Co., of Newberry, and a contract for sawing the iumbler, to be secured on the place. was let to Griffin & Co.. of Pickens. Bruce & Morgan, of At lnta, were chosen architects for tile College buildings. Arrangements were made for working a force of twentv conviets just received from the Peniitentim-Iy. The Er'st wvork will be done on the experimenlt siationi and laboratory buildings, the inten tion being to have the .station ready fohpra~n y October. THE FAIRMERS) UcmER-:.: S-,.eontiCon-, itationo Thxose Oppon:d t.) tizm .ctionl of thle Karch iovnin e-afIc.ni Tilh1131 i annerPIS' C-11 frn be:mII its; sessim i P: the sit I il~ 1(101 ,! Swit( ~d J( eIoli'. a :t)9 'l'ck thisP morni. The several count'.es were represeinted as follows: bbeville--Ellis G. Graydon: Ai ken-A. WV. Cush manl aid Claude E. Sawyer: Anderson-Lewis J. Camp bell: Barnwell-L. W. Yomnans: Berkeley-C. St. G(. Sindkr: Charles ton--W. G. Hinson: Chester-R. T. Mockbee: Clarendon-J. A. Mills. S. J. McFadden and W. M. Plowden: Edgefield-T. I. Denny; Fairfield Thomas XW. Woodward and T. L. Johnson; Florenct-E. W. Johnson; Georgetown-S. M. Ward: Horry Jeremiah Smith: Kershaw-A. H. Bovkin and H. Baum: Laureus-W. G. Sullivan and S. 1). Garlington; Lexington-Theodore Holtzhauser; Maxion-D. W. Betlhea; Newberry J. R. Davidson: Orangeburg-J. A. Peterkn 'in I Dr. J. W. Summers; Richland-J. C. F. Sims: Spartan biug-J. W. Stribling: Sumter-John J. Dargan: Williamsburg-Edward Harper. York-Iredell Jones. It will be seen that twenty-four counties vere represented by thirty one conferees. The counties of Ab beville. Aiken. Berktley. Chester. Edgeich. Florence. Georgetown, Horry ad Newberry. which were not represented at the first Confer ence, had conferees present to-day, while the conferees who attended the first meeting from Br avort, Colle ton, Ciesterfield ;ii :u I HIOnl ITere unable to be presOInt. but sent letters expressinlg thir earty sulpport of the objects of the conferencev. Messrs Iraydon and Sawyer are not farmers, but are leeplterested in the movement, and were adiutted to the Conference. The Conference wNas not a pIllic one. sitting with closed doors. There wa no occasion for ipblicity, how ever, as the discussions w(re desul tory and connittee-like. Nearly all the conferees spoke. giving reports of the condition of sentiment in their several counties and their individual opinions as to the best course to adopt. It was early made manifest that a convention would not be called. Speeches for and against such aetion were made, but when a vote was had only three or four voted for a con vention. The large majority did not desire to adopt any plan which sa vored of Tillanism or looked likE going outsidelof theDemocratic party. The Anti-Tillman Conference met again at 3.30 and after voting down propositions to nominate a candidate for Governor and to appoint a cam paign committee adjourned. Mem bers of the conference subsequentl. met and discussed the availability oi various prominent gentlemen for thE office of Governor. A poll being ta ken, it was found that a majority ex pressed themselves in favor of Gen John Bratton, of Fairfield, Col James L. Orr, cf Greenville, being close second. It is understood thai when the conferees go home those it favor of Gen. Bratton will interesi themselves in having letters writter to him from their counties request. ing him to announehimself as a can didate. This is news picked up her< and there. The conferees when ap proached said, what was true, that th< Conference itself had taken no action -that they would like to get as man: Scandidates as possible out: tha1 whatever was 'lone would be pone unoficeially and that the expres sion of opinion would bind nobody A conferee stated that there was a very strong feeling that Col. Ort -was the most available man, buti had been found impossible to ascer tain whether he would make the race if requestedato do so. His associates he said, did not want to leave with -out expressing a preference, whie] Swould indicate a nucleus for commo. action. A number of the conferee! left on this afternoon's and to-night' trains. Some will remain until to morrow. The situation does no seem to have been affected much b: the Conference. What is done here -after will be by individuals. Any on< 1who becomes a candidate will have< fair showing to develop his strengt] but those who propose to run shoul not put off the start too long. Col. John J. Dargan wa~s asked to day whether he would not meet C:1pt Tillmnan at Eastover, in this county3 on the 28th inst., and have a littli public talk with him about that "Ju 'las" business. He said: "The cit izens of Eastover originally invitei Capt. Tilman and me to addres: them on that day. I accepted th< invitation, but was then informei that Capt. Tillmnan would not b< there, and that the meeting wat strictly an Alliance gathering. Nov I think these strictly Alliance gath erings are very much neoded at tli time all over the State, and I wouli not like such a purpose on the par of the people of Eastover to be de feated, but at the same time it wouli have suited me very well indeed i: the original programme could hav< been carried out, as it will be a greal disappointment to the people of ad ,oning counties who were invited t< attend and hear the joint discussion.' Col. Dargan was told that the Green ville News had suggested that any per sonal issue between himself and Capt. Tillman should be settled at som< other than the Democratic camnpaigr meeting at Anderson. He re-plicd -I would infinitely prefer meetint Capt. Tillmnan at a time and plac< which would not interfere wit] any regular Democratic meeting at which meeting the charge againsi me might be fully stated and freel:, met, but if no such meeting can bt had, and the people of Anderson pre fr not to have the discussior there the people of Sumter will cer tainly accept Capt. Tillmnan's propo sition and hear him at the meeting ii that city, although I don't 'desire the( advantage of confronting him in my own county, One thing is eer tain, the meeting between us is inev itable, and I would prefer that it occur at the earliest day possible. Met by me Capt. Tillmnau will be, evenl if I have to wait until he goes to Sumter. You can say that a meet ing in Edgefield or Laurens will be entirely satisfactery to me. Let Capt. Tiinan namec the timec nd place.-Speci-dl toNews and Courier. Two Youthf'ul Fiends. MIANceHEsTER. N. H., May 1 9.-Ludie Danielson and Alex Anderson. aged 12 and 17 years respectively, were ar rested last night on complllaint of the mother of Charles B. Howe, a deli cate 10-year-old lad, charging them with acts rivaling those perpetrated ry Jesse Pomneroy. It is alleged that the boys took Howe into a shed, stuck p)ins into neariy every part of his body, poured boiling water on him, burned his face with powder, and left him insensible. 'TMS OF INTEREST. aLs : (i oa tfor the Litir in -Foreign coal to tl! mon o 7. .10 torns entered theLL Fi1:eiseo port during April. -The MIaine Savings Bank in Port land has 325 unknown depositors. of which number twenty.-six have not troubled their deposits since 1859. .-A London gravedigger died re cently while pursuing his calling, his dead body being found iii a grave by those who wentin search of him. --D young lady. 19 years of age, named CyrenaA. Boyd, died at Sacra mento. Cal., of blood-poisoning caused by having h-er ears pierced. -At a sale of autographs in Lon don a letter of Queen Victoria, dated 1854, and telling what charming skat ing parties they had at Christmas. brought 14 Ss. -The young woman of Wilkes. barre. Pa., who married the Mexican giant in a rink at Scranton before 3,000 people has returned, disgusted with circus life. -Some 3,000 women of Greece have petitioned their government for puldie schools in which all female subijcts may be educated in the lib eral arts and industries. -The new German milizary rifil has a range of 3.900 yards, and will shoot through the bodies of six men standing o )(hiid the other at a distance of seven pace-s. -Stamling near the yard at Jona than Farmers. in Oglethorp' county. Georgia. is a I ed cak tree, which lmleasurcs t wenty seven feet in ciremn ference two feet from the ground. It is hollow, and the recess within is sufficiently large to acconnuodate half a dozen men. -Grasshoppers are very numtroM on the Grass VAlley slope of the Sierra Nevada. In the edge of it snow line they come forth in greal munilbrs. As the edge of the snoN erelps up the mountain the grass hoppers rise out of the yet moisi ground. -A chili of six years old in Mar chester. M1e.. drank half a pint o: whiskey that had becen obtained foi medicinal purposes, and two days af ter died of alcoholic poisoning. -Nature plays queer freaks witl the flower seeds sent oat by th Agricultural Department at Wash ington. A man received a package of seeds labeled '-gi:mt pansy- plante( tiem in a flower bed and soon had s1ai -rop of turnips, while a numbe: of seeds labeled "kouble pinks" pro duced. Iong-leck squashes. -Th latest experiments mada wit, carrie-r niigeons in connectio with I'e various European armie! show that the normal velocity of th< carrier in calm weather and for i short distance is about 1,210 yards : minte. With a very strong wind ii the direction of the flight a bird ha: eacihed 1.900 yards a minute. A Comit tees PartI isanship. The sub-committee of the Hous, committee on elections, which won to Arkansas to investigate the Clay ton murder, will, it is said, out c courtesy to Mr. B3reckinridge, dela; its report until his retini. Itis uni derstood the report will be of th most radical partisan character. Th committee permitted their investiga tion to be managed entirely by th brother of the deceased Clayto and his counsel. The only infractio iof the dignity of the committee an< the only disorder of any kind attend ing~ its sittings. was when Mc~lurt Sthe counsel for the Claytons, delibel ately marched up and slapped in th face one of the witnesses on t other side. If this had been don by one of Mr. Breckinridge's friend: it would have been her alded all ovc Sthe North as an instance of the r-u: fianism of the Southern Democrac2 tAs it was, it will be quite safe t< ~predict, no criticism will be passe upon it in the report of the com Smittee, as no rebuke was administe: ed by the chairman of the committe at the timne it occurred. Of a thous Iand or more witnesseR summonei nine-tenths or more ~were negroe! The object of summoning them wa to prove they bad voted for Claytor and their votes were not countet SAfter all a numrber of them swor they had voted for Breckinridge. Th committee proposes to examine sonm Imore witnesses in Washington, whic Sis entirely unnecessary, as the ctharat ter of its report has long since bee: Idetermined upon. A Remarkable Maariage, A letter from Scotland Neck, N. C. -to the Richmond Dispatch says: remarkable marriage occurred nea Lewiston a few days ago. Somec-twi years ago a <iuartermaster in th, United States army at Fort Rjile Kan., advertised for a female corres pondent with a view to matrimony A young lady in Bertie County nam ed Eliza Drew jokingly answered th< advertisement. She could not rcat nor write, but some friend wrote fo: -her- Her letter was answered. phc tographs were exchanged, and it i: said that one hundred and fifty let ters passed between them. The young lady was poor. had worked in th< field, cooked and washed all her lif< is not good looking, weigrhs 22' nounids, andi wears a No. 8 si-oe. Sh< wrote the young army officer all tihes< facts, but to the surprise of every body he camne a short time ago wit] plenty of money, stayed a few day: at the girl's house, gave her mone; to dlress herself up, and married bet He took her ofT on a bridal tour t< Washington city. Ho says he wil -show her somnething of the world bring her hack to see her parents anc( then take her t~o Kansas." -Ex-Senator (Thas. W. Jones. o: Florida, has been adjudged insan< and committed to St. Joseph Ikereal by Probate Judge Durfee. -The Chinamien of Astoria, Ore. are amusing themselves with a huge top made out of an empty t sventy ive pound white lead keg. A squarc opernig is cut in the side, and it takes three men to spin it. one to heki the top and two to pull the string with a stick which sets it in motion. While spinning it sounds like the whistle of a steamer and can be heard throe0 blocks away. It is said that the canvass for the Spe'akership of the necxt House has al ready begun. It is a sigrnificant fact that all the gossip on the subject refers to Democratic aspirants. It seezos to be universally admitted that the next House wiui be Detuocratic. The country could ha rdly standI another such House as that nlow performLig in Washing tn. 1 Chlifean Tii , ti( ! 1 -the 4iiuetlsp nsI fr7)1 mvt'' hi Jt'sh i-e of Chilino Vi-jo. Itsiend of grievin, the i re 1 solved to take advantage hi absen( to obt:ln possession of 1 spm-perty. hle was; prevallent at the thue, and she procured the body of a man who had died of the (pidemic and had it clandestinly con veyed tot her house. There it was de cently coftined and she said that her husband had died of cholera. The nature of the disease did :not allow of the customary waking, and burial quickly followed death. After erect ing a tombstone to his memory the disconsolate widow took legal steps and soon obtained possession of all the property. A few days ago the husband. who has i)cen carrying on business inl Con-peiou, turned up in Chilian Vuijo. What promises to be a cause celebre has already begun. Killed as they Prayed. BERLIN. May 22.-The village of St. Mahlen, near Hildesheim. has been visited recently by several hail storms which have done a great deal of dam age. Today the people gathered in the church to pray for a cessation of the storms. While the services were in progre-s a thunder storm came up and the ciurch was struck by light ning. Four persons were instantly killed, and twenty were injured, four being rendered completely blind. The people were panic stricken and in the mad rush for the doors, two chihlren were crushed to death. Mills to the Farmer's Alliance. Representative Mills has answered th. letter of the Farners' Alliance 0: Milan county, Texas, asking him tc favor the establishment of sub-treas uries. His answer is published ir the National Democrat, and contaiin three columns. He xays when the governeni-nt ba gis to take charge of cotton. wheat corn, oais and tobacco it will go on :ld in time bacon, pork. beef. butter cheese, lard, hay and all other farn products will demand that govern meit take their surplus and advanc them 80 per cent. on it. lie adds that the only way in whici the farmer can be helped is by th< success of the tariff reform for whic - Cleveland fought and fell. Regret fully he declines to support the A liance proposition. In closing he says. 'I am too o - to ch:mge my convictions. I am I Demo rat because I l)ieve that th l great sum of the woes which hu t manity suffers comes from a disrc gard of Denocratic principles. I cal - afford to retire to private life, but'. ciin not afford to share the guilt c participating in that which will brin: i distress and suffering to millions c 5 my fellow citizens." A uncl to the Dea.th. SEALE, Ala.. May 22.-A duel to th death was fought here between Loui Smith and Edward Elkins. travelin salesmen from Montgomery, Ala. - year ago the two men quarreled o: account of a young lady both wer 2 paying attention to. They did nc tsee each other again until yesterda ~when they met on a country road b accident. Both drew pistols an opened fire at the same time. At ill thir-d shot a bali struck Elkins in th breast, killing him almost instantly Smith is thought to be fatall wounded. 1Thc Macklenburg Ann iversary. SCUAntOTTE. N. C., May 20.-Tb one hundred' and fifteenth annive: sary of thec Meckdenburg Deelar-atio: of Independence was celebrated her to-day. Senator Vance was the or-t t or of the day. In his speech he sait every aggieved cla.ss seeking redlres e ould be careful not to let redres he turned into revenge. Governo Fow~le and State Auditor Sanderli: also spoke. 2The finest trades parade ever see: in this city was muade by the loc: m ierchants, assisted by- four- militar com1pL1anie and nine lire c-omupame There were four- enbiries for the mili etavy prize drill-Raleigh Stat Guards. Wilmington Light Infantra Monroe Light Infantry and Charlott Hornet's Nest Riflemen. The Wi mington c-ompan~y wxon the first priz of .'O00: Char-lottc the second. 610( and Monroe the third, .$25. Th fiemen's prize contests and the ban, otsts wdll take place to- morrox The State iremen's Association is session hero. L--According to a California pape the Chinese at San Jose, Cal., leas property from white men for twelx months in the year and e-narge thei tenants for thirteenmnontis. there bt ing this inumy months in the Chines r ear-. 2 l_-C~tiforniia has a fruit pest in th gray linnetit. far worse and muox damaging to fruit raisers than th -English sparrow. If some means ax not systematically anid methodicall; adopted to exterminate this bix there wvlll be very little pr*fit in fr-ui raising in those sections where decid u ous fruits are exciusively 1r~du-ed - -_ExPresid-nt Cleveland, in th, SI evnt of attending the Garfield mcmo rial dediention in Cleveland, Ohio. thit week. will be teindereda rCeeption~ bU the Thurman Club, the leading Demi oeratie- or-aguiz:tin of that city. Tan reception will include a serenade am -the presentatijon of an elegant bon quet of Power:;. Every miani of th< club will appear in full unifor-m. -It is stated that Senator Mat thew Stanley Quay has at last deter mined that there is no0 mxore viirtut in silene-e. He therefore proposes ic bring action for libel against Tht World, andi possibly against severa other newspa per~s that have atssisted in exposing is rec-ord as an embez'. zlr and defaulter. The Pexnnsylvam -nia boss has tried "dignified silence, -on temptuous silence" and several other brands.but found the-m all pow e-less to r-hieve the embarrassmnent of his position. He has therefort r-ached the conclusion that some thing else imust be0 done to stemi the. tide of popular disapproval that i setting so strongly against him. -The rep~ort of the sub-committee of the House judiciary committee-, which went to Georgia aind Alabamas to investigate the chiarges that the oi ials of Federatl -oturts arc in tne habit of making fictitious zurrests to . utply their fees,. ha~s not yet been pr1epared. bult it is understood that they were convinced of the accuracy of the charges. and1( that the report will be0 a vigoroeus one. They will p~robably reconuend investigation of the methodls of the marsh:dls and other court officials in the bac-k coun Eatmag With a ni 0 f Ye' vat ih i forkI atheapnchg 'i:me~r ortK. "l-l try not to forget, '.t de:i. 2: 1 wa't brought uip to it. :to do what they'e br.ought 1_-L lie did hiot remember at the dinner narty. Ilis knife went to his mouth a dozen times. Next day. when the fam iiv was (ining aloe., the old judge dt tected his son, Frank, with his knife at his lius. -E"ating with your knife. sir? Leave the table! thnnder4l the old judge. -You'll eat bread and milk till further orders." "Really, paps, I think you are too hard on poor Frankie," said Mrs. Dewey, as 'she little fellow left the ta ble. 'The faces of the elder boys and the grown up daughters showed that they agreed vith their mother. -"lie ate with his knife," growled the old man. 'So did you at dinner," retorted Mrs. Dewey, severely. "Dont I know it!" returned the judge. "Don't I know it! I eat with my knife because I was brought up to it. but that boy vasn't brought up to it. None of my children was brought up to it, and if I catch any of 'em do ing it, as sure as I live.I'lf lock 'em up on spoon-victuals until they learn the use of a fork!"- Youth's ConpanO Monkeys and Their Prey. The way in which monkeys catch and land crabs is described by a sports man who made an expedition to the jungle around Signapore, and there he enjoyed sport which makes the contemporaneous records of Indian experiences pale into insignificance. The monkey lies down at on his stomach, feigning death. From the countless passages piercing the mud in every direction thousands of little red and yellow crabs soon make their ap pearance, and after suspiciously eyeing for a few minutes the brown fur of the monkey they slowly and cautiously sidle up to him, in great glee at the rospect of a big feed off the bones of Master Jacko. The latter peeps through his half-closed eyelids, and fixes upon the biggest of the assembled multitude. - When the crab comes within reach out dashes the monkey's arm, and off h( scampers into the jungle with a cry o delight to discuss at leisure his clever ly earned dinner. "Rarely did th monkeys seem to miss their prey, adds the describer of this scene. saw, however, one old fellow do so and it was ludicrous in the extreme t< see the rage it put him in. Jumpin( I for fully a minute up and down on al fours at the mouth of the hole int< which the crab had escaped, he posi - tively howled with vexation. Then h< - set to work poking the mud about wit] his fingers at the entrance to the pass age, fruitlessly trying every now an< , again to peep into it." These sam monkeys. the so-called pigtail variety are taught by the Malays to pick fim for them in the forests, The monkey select the ripest fruit, and their mas1 ers, by following their movement, catch them in a cloth before .hey reac the ground. The monkey is too wel trained to attempt to eat any fru while at work, but when suficient ax 1gathered he is duly rewarded for h self-denial. cSt. Peter's Wonderful Dome. If we happen to be at church c Thursday morning, when the public allowed to the roof and dome, or, we have a written permission, any da ewill do, we will make the ascent. Alon series of very easy steps brings us to ti3 roof, which is of great extent, and hi on it small dlomes, and also housesi which workmen and other persons en ployed in the church have their home! Above this roof the great dome rises-t tho immense height of 308 feel Around the outside of it we see stron iron bands that were put there 1C years ago, when it was feared that tI dome might be cracked by its ow enormous wei'eht. There is an inne and an outer ffome, and between thes Swin dingr oalleries and staircases, vern hard on t~ic legs, lead to the top, whic is called the lantern, where we can g out on the gallery and have a fine vie of the country all around. Those wh choose can go up some narrow iro 1steps and enter the hollow copper ba at the very top of everything. Whe we look at the hail froii tihe ground: seems about the size of a football, bt it is large enough to hold sixteen pel sons at once. On our w~ay down, b< fore we reach the roof, we will ste uoaninside gallery andI lo'k dow intot the church, andl as we see the littl mites of people walking about on t marble Iloor soi far beneath us we ma begin to wonder, that is some of us, Ithose iron bands around the outside the dome are really very strong, for they should give way while we are u there-but no matter; we will go dow soon.--Cathli Youth. "A- Sovereign Spectacle." eA letter in the S:lt Lake Tribus describing tile sno0w- storms in th Sierras. says: "T'he 11aLkes come1 dowi eas larg~e as a man's palm. Thecy eatel and cling to thle hlmbs of the glorifice pies and turn themi into ten ples. Th< trunks of the great trees are t:he pillar: while all above is a mass of exquisita work in green and white. Thlere ari efestoonls anid streamers. and the sof soginig oif tihe wind comes to the ea: ie themill.~ed beat of the breaker unon)0 a w coa~st. It reqires strone n'rtes nt to be itmpressedl with thI immllensityV andt wild grandeur of every. thing around llt. When01 a mloun~tainl storn i onds all its solen pilpeS andh startO tuon thet imarchi, it is a sovereign specta The Samnaria of To-day. F rom" an article on 'Sonie Waside -Places ini Palestine." in tile C'entury, we quote tihe followving: "I am free tc confess that I (lid not nmeet the prover bial good Samaritan as I journeyed through this much-favored country. If one meets a tiller of the sodilhe will sidle oil as fatr as the narrow pa:thl wili allow, and scowlingly watch the travelr's approach. The offer of a piaster will bring him to a standstill. "'How far is it to Nain?' 'God knows,' comes the fervent answer. "'How long will it take to go there?' 'As long as God pleases,' lie an swers, with a shrug of his shoulders and a pull at his pipe. "'Shall I reach there by noo-n?' "'If God permit.' "'But may I hope to make the dis tance in an hour?' "As God may direct,' he answers, walking away. "Is Nain distant, or is it very ne'ar?' "'hei'e, he answers, moving his finger through a wide arc. If one ex tracts a more nebrhb~orlv spirit than this from a Samaritan he must ha:ve the my~sterious power~ of a dervish.' Baltimore Free Pulhic LiIn--u-ye.. Te free public library estab idedI in Ba :ltiore live years ago by En>ochi Pratt, at an expense of about :31,:?50. (I0, is accompishinig a great work amog the reading ('lasses. Latst y'ear the number of bootk:, issue reached '1,40. The r'otus1~ ar~e eroi't edt daily, nd' it hasL' beielt a greait educa':tional fore in the cty. heing '*-peci::iy val abl to the po'or. Bre'hit's the main ibrary there are tivec branches located A Very Woma-l F ..tl a ..s tile re e. III;* 0.vlwu itiv -piit it down t" t' Pit '*Our rcIaly' tp 1 e at e k i; tow l. ,.ou, swear :ny i:LdIY ko(a.S SO SWet and saNlnt 'he Is an agel un tigu but the whiLg until you'14 vwd. aud then we hear you swear Ing. She Watft no C.O1 of bonnets, gOWnS, and To heavenly heghts abore life's plain proede, Cold facta. a%'ver's fancy lightly vauntS, She~ Is n pttr.rt'A of puire perfectlon Si110l you Ind tim- silo Is fuLl Of faults. T1' not a gcb-Mss. but a very woman, This lldo! that but now you did adore. 0. do .C)u love her iat she 1.3 human? Ali. no: Ali. no: You do but love ber -Boston Globo. IN MARBLE CANON. Quick Work Down Stream by an Adveote urous Exploring Party. To give you an idea of the number of the rabids from the head of the Colorado River to this point. near the mouth of the Little Colorado Rtive'. a distance of about 290 miles, I wil say there are just 200 rapids, not count ing small draws or rilUes, and from Lee's Ferry to this point a distance of eighty miles there are just 100 rapids, writes a Deuver Republican correspond ent. We have run the greater part of this 100 and portaged but few, and over many of then our boats have danced and jumped at the rate of fifteen miles per hour, and over some, by actual measurement, at the rate of twenty miles per hour for half a mile at a time. Standing irf the bow of one of the boats as she goes through one of these chutes, with first the bow and then the stern jumping into the air as she shoots from wave to wave, with the spray of the breakers dashing over one's head, is something the excitement and fasci nation of which can only be under stood by being ex rienced. That part of ' arble Canon from Point Retreat for forty miles down to the mouth of the Little Colorado River is far the most beautiful and interest ing canon we have yet passed through. At Point Retreat the marble walls stand up perpendicularly 300 feet from the water's edge, while the sandstone above branches back in slopes and cliffs to 2,500 feet high. Just beyond this the canon is narrowest, being but a little over 300 feet wide from wall to wall, while the river in places at this sta-e of water is not over sixty feet wife. The marble rapidly rises till it stands in perpendicular cliffs, 700 to F 800 feet high, coloved with all the tints of the rainbow, Out mostly red. In ) many p laces toward the top it is honey combed with caves, caverns, arches and grottoes, with here and there a 1 natural bridge left from one crack to - another, making a most grotesque and I wonderful picture as our little boats glide along that quiet portion of the river so many hundred feet below. At the foot of these cliffs in many places are fountains of pure sparkhng water, gushing out from the rock-in one place, Vassey's Paradise, several hundred feet up the wall-and drop 1 ping down among shrubbery, ferns and it flowers, some o which, even at this e time of the year, were found in bloom. S Below this for some distance, are a number of these fountains with large patches of maidenhair ferns cinging to the wall, ifteen to twenty feet above the water, green and fresh as in the Smonth of May, and with the sparkling 1water running down over them they 1make a most charming picture. YOur weather has been most wonder gful through the whole winter. The ethermometer has never registered at 6 ?o'clock in the morning lower than 24 ndegree above zero, and in the sun im Sthe middle of the day has registered as high as 75 degress. We have had but one snowstorm down in the canon and one rain. The sun has shown brightly Snearly all the time, though for eight edays at one time it never shone on us, we being under the shade of the cliffs all the time. "He Evened Up." Col. Mosby relates the following ~amusing incident which occurred in a ~cavalry fight in the Shenandoah valley in 1864: In the midst of a sharp cavalry cn gagement with Sheridan's men in a charge near Berryville there came rid. inlg into our lines like a whirlwind a tYankee soldier on a black horse. A score of me-i tried to stop horse and rider, but the old black's blood was up, and he went on clean through our lines before he was under control. The ~rider was sent to Libby prison, and we mustered the black charger into the confederate service. A few days later we chiarg'ed some of Custer's men, and that old horse was ridden into the en agement by one of our soldiers. The b lck evenedl up things, too, for he carried his rider into the federal lines, and never came back. Where Wild Fowl Go. Until the acquisitior-. of Alaska by the United States it w'as a matter of wonder where certain wild fowl went when they migrated from temperate climes on the approach of summer, as well as snow birds and other small species of the feathered tribe, says the Sitka Aaskan. It was afterward found that their habitat in summer was the waters of Alaska, the Yukon River and the lakes of that hyperborean region. A reporter recently interviewed C. J. Green, of Norton Sound, Western Alaska, and he confirms the statement of Dall and others. "People wonder where the wild fowl come from," said he. "They see the sand-hill crane, wild goose, heron and other fowl every spring and fall pursue their unwearied way, but, like the wind, they do not know whence they come or whether they go. Up on Golovin Bay, on the north shore of Norton Sound, is the breeding place of these fowl. All the birds in creation, seemingly, go to that country to breed. Geese, ducks, swans and thousands upon thousands of sand hill cranes are swarming there all the time. They lay their egos in the blue stem grass in tIhe lowlan~s, and if you go up the rivcr a little way from the bay the noise of the wild fowl is almost deafening. Myriads of swallows and robins are there, as well as millions of magnificent grouse wearing red combs and feathered moccasins. This grouse turns white as' snow in winter. You can kill dozens of juicy teal ducks or grouse as fat as butter-balls in a few moments. The wild fowl and bears live on salmon berries, wvith which aP the hills are literally covered." Flowers as Political Emblems. One result of the election has had a strange effect on the flower market in Paris. Since the election the price of red carnations has gone down like the shares of a bubble company. While the white carnation is quoted in the Marche aux Fleurs at the respectable o~ure of 1 franc a dozen, the red is ohered freely at no more than 7 sons. Neither in Paris nor anywhere else does anybody care to be identitled with the symbol of a failure. William S. Burroughs, a young St. Louisan, who ten years ago did not know that he had mechamcanl genius nough to use a file, has perfected in a trong, durable, comp~act machine of 2,16.5 pieces an adjunct to the counting house that is already in successful operation in fifty banks. It is an add ing machine, w'hich is saiid to work more rapidly andi more correctly than