Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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LONOCSTREL.T- PC17.!TCS. lRow e lmecmwe a nRibucan-Tf "Te story of HIi Aedn Afkr the War. Gen. Lonsre e %xploded a years as an h planato ols m tior with thc k publcan pty. The common repoirt s been h L street made up his mind on this suw in'ct at a cnferenc wit severlother vell-kWwn Confederae Glener:As soon after the closo of the war: that they all agreed to indorse the pciiey of reconstruction: that Longstrvet wrote a letter folowing out that idea, and ihat in e*nsequence of the abuse which this action brought upon Long street the other Confederate generals who had agreed to go into the move ment with him "backed out. (en. Lengstreet was in St. Louis last Monday. and a reporter of ihe Globe Democrat called his attention to the story which has been: frequentiy told in explanation of his alliar:e witn the Republican party. (ten. Long street said: "That is not a truh statement of the facts. There never was such a - mg held in my office. It was just af: ter the military bill had passed, and friends of the South felt that they were in a dark hour. The New Or leans Times ca out in astrong d torin calling upon Hood, Wheeler, Stewart, myself and others as South ern leaders to join the paper m a plea fr reconstruction of the Union. We were asked to declare ia so many words that we accepted the results and were ready to aid in the speedy restoration of the Union. "Gen. Hood met me. andwe talked about the editorial. He said in effect that it aimed at a condition that we all devoutly hoped for. but, he added. 'If you declare yourself on those lines, the Southern press and the Southern people wil vilify and abuse you. It may be very patriotic and all that, but it will be very foolish.' I replied -I don't exactly remember what were the words, but it was to the ef feet that, if it was patriotic. I was willing to be called a fool. Tbat af ternoon I wrote my letter on recon struction to the Times. It was first published in these columns, and first read by Gen. Hood when it appeared in print. However much Gen. Hood may have shared my sentiments, he never trusted himself to pube ex pression of tlem. Gen. Wheeler. I did not conslt in the matter. He, therefore, did not interline and make marginal notes in my letter. There never was an arrangement under which my letter was to be followed. The soldiers named were all gentle men, and had they made any such an agreement they would have carried it. out. If I did tread the wine-press alone, I did so on my own motion." This statement of Gen. Longstreet lii be accepted as final. It destroys a.legend whkh hmbeen repeated for year, and whieh msny have believe. The strangest thing about thewhole matter is that Gen. Longstreet did not long ago deny a story which did some of the most distinguished of his associates in the Confederate army grave injustice. It is well that the truth has come out at last.-Macon Telegraph. KISSED THE WRONG MAN The Ludicrously Painful Expertence of a Young Husband There came near beingsa tragedy at the union depot at Indianapolis the other day. "'A pleasant faced little woman went to the station. equipped for a journey; She was young and pretty, and h'er young husband went down to see r safely off. The woman was re- s. Finally, the train came' It was a moment . 'eat excite ment. The coupl" ed out to the ate. Hun -of people were pushing g. The little oerhead completely. At on gate her husband had K: p. The gateman took her ticket. She threw her arms about her hus band's neck frantieally, turned around and started through; then, with a fial "good-bye," turned-quick y baak and, like a flash. soundly kissed the gentleman. She did not discover her mnistake,but .the crowd broke into a great laugh, and it was a question whether the husband or the gateman was the more embarrassed. They looked at each other red as fire for a moment, then laughed and shook hands. "It's all right, she thought it was me," explained the husband. turning away. But all that day the gentleman was observed to grow pensive, and -ajar-away look would come into his eye whenever he had a little leisure to thinik. CROPS GUT TO PIECES. A Feartnuly Destructive storm Strikes Pickens. Pzcros, S. C.. June 2.-The most terric hail storm that has been known in this section for years, passed through last night about midnight. -At this early hour not many people have come in from the country, but reports from a mile and a half east of this place say that the crops are en tirely ruined.. Your corresponadent was on the farms of Judge J. H. Newton and T. C. Robinson. Esq., just one mile east of here and found their cotton corn, etc.; literally torn to pieces. Plenty of hail stones could be picked np in the woods and low places in the field as large as patridge eggs this morning. Your correspond ent measured one drift of hail stones ear Mr. T.C. Robinson's house which & ~urdabout eight inches. Wht of the erops the hail old not destroy, the wind and rain ruined.* The extent of the storm cannot be etimated.-Greenville News. Carlise on thte Sub-Treasury. Undr tho date of last Saturday, Senator Carlisle, of Kentucky, has written a long letter to the Farmers' Alliance in Tuskegee, Ala., in regard t the "sub-treasury" bills now pend 'g in Congress. In this letter Mr. Carlise says: "The whole scheme in its general form and design is vicious in principle, and if adopted would prove in practice ruinous to every in terest it is intended to benefit."' He saysafurther that it is a plan to compel the government to issue and distribute money for the benefit of te people living in the rich and pro ductive counties, at the expense of the people living in the poorer awl. less productive ones. Moreover, is a plan to enable unscrupulou speculators to take advantage of the farmers' pecuniary neces sies and extort exorbitant prices for food from people who reside in cities, towns and villages. The plan. if adopted, he says. would throw the country into pro found confusion twice a year, e-nnieh in some by inflation of currency. audbakuping others by contrac c- reney a lde mn FRENCH ARMY DISCIPLNE French .iarnv are of a very severo . t are. % ore espe(c11 y when it is n sidered thi the imu thus punishie re not by any Imas ciminal, but oiv soh01ers who have not beimved So well as they might. These aro de norted to Algiers under the ntame of -Camiserds," where they are en-, rolled in th -compagnies de disci plne" 3efore embarking the man has his boots taken from him. which are replaced by sabots,. and on arriv ig at his destination .ie receives a uniforl of gray wool. ind a cap with a large bimi. The men are farmed out to do work. and are all the time under the supernsion of non-com minssionea2 oleers. who treat thei; inferiors with the veatest bratality. It is. however. the )Ulisllllts to wich Ihese men ar- subjected for the most triiEng offenses which most cxcite indignationi. A common punishent is to keep them night and day in a hole in the ground with perpendiclar walls, so that escape isimpossible. Scorchiig heat by day amad cold at night, witul ration1s redtcd to one-quarter O1 their proper (lu:tity, make the very common punishment of the gargo ule extremely trying. The imprison ment of men in the tombeaux. or reg ulation tents. which is only fifty cen tiuetres broad and sixty high, is no rarity; and during their incarceration the prisoners receive no wine nor water nor coffee. A little meat and some bouillon is their whole nourish ment during the day. But those who are m:nished with cells are iu comparably worse off. They are never allowed, under any circumstan ces, to leave the hole they are kept in either by night or by day. They have no dn ies of work to pass the time. and only get warm soup every second day, with a very limited quan titV of water daily. The punishment is made still more severe by putting the man into irons on certain occasions. The delii quent has two rings around his an kles. which are.connected by an iron bar rather more taan a foot in length so that his legs form an isosceles tri angle with it. He is forced to lie down on his face, and then his arms are chained on his back, whereupon he is put into his tombeau. He can only eat his soup like a dog. and if he wants to drink he must seize his bottle with his teeth, and should he let the bottle fall his ration of water is lost for that day. Any complaints are stopped by a gag. Only quite recently a punishnient was m use :alled the crapaudine. The prison er's hands and feet were chained to gether and in this posture he was strung on to an iron bar. The sol dier is at first put into a strait-jacket, his hands are tied au his back, and round his neck an iron col4 is fas tened, which is attached to an iron bar in the wall. The man has to stand in this position as long as eight days. unable to lie down or to do anything for himself. Agricultural College Presidents. Gen. Stephen D. Lee has made a fine record as president of the State Agicultural and Mechanical College of Mississippi. He has made the in stitution one of the most fanmous and most useful of its kind in the country. It is easy to understand therefore why Gen. Lee has been elected unani mgi]lypresident of Clemson Cole at Fort Hill, S. C. The trustees"of that institution were on the lookout for the best man they could find for the position and their choice fell on Gen. Lee. The college will occupy the homestead of John C. Calhoun. His son-in-law. Mr. Clemson, gave 8100,000 to the State in addition to a magniient site and valuable build ings. The institution will receive $50,000 a year from South Carolina in addition to this bequest. Gen. Lee was paid 833.000 a~ year by Mis sisippi. South Carolina gives him 8,000 and a home. He is worth it. But this incident shows how preca rious is the tenure of Georgia on any valuable teacher that may develop in her service. Teachers are paid mis erable salaries in the public schools of Georgia,and the folly of this policy will become evident when other States begin to take our best teachers from us. Alabama now has one of the best agricultural schools in the country at Auurn. Three of its most distin guished men were formerly in the employ of Georgia and would proba bly have been there yet if their ser vices had been appreciated and they had been reasonably compensated. One of these is the president of the institution, William Leroy Broun, one of the most valuable professors that ever adorned the University of Geogia. Another is Professor J. Stanley Newrman, a trained teacher, and the man who did more for the agricultural bureau of Georgia tita~n any other. The third is Professor P. H. 3.ell, former State Chemist of Georgia and a teaeher of the first order. All these men wvent away from Georgia because they could do better elsewhere. It is a cheap policy in one sense, and, in another sense, a very expensive poliey, to permit such men to leave the State because we do not appreciate their talents and use fulness and offer them mean salaries. The recent experience of Mississippi in losing her most valuable educator and the oft-repeated experienee of our own state in the same line ought to teach a lesson. Good men are in demand, and if we expect to keep them we must pay them.-Macon Telegraph. [The sta.temnent that General Lee has been made president of the Clem son College is incorrect. The trus tees have not yet made any appoit ments.] Smitten by a Thunderbolt. A special from Cairo. Mich., says: At seven o'cloek last evening four farmers were struck by lightning four miles west of here. T. N. Fag gett, Edward Goodehild, Win. Hol mes anad Matt Finglewere engaged in performing an operation upon a young horse. A thunder storm came up suddenly and a bolt of lightning struck in the midst of the men. As Mrs. Faggett looked from her door she saw the fo:-musof four lifeless men upon the groun~d. Goodchild and Hones were dead when assistance arri' ed, although no marks or traces of the current could be found upon their persons. Goodehild was a far mer thirty- seven years of age, and :n d a family of five children. Holmes was thitty one years of age and un married. Rlingle and Faggett are re covering. It was one of the worst elec trical storms ever i. xper-ienced in this section. -Bemoral Healy, a convict serving a life sentence in Joliet, Ill., State Iprison, on Tuesday received notice of his pardon. Wednesday he fell dead of heart disease while telling A TALT coMu1P)N.:ANmc.. TLm following~ C'creendeni n eently passed hp!~e.en Mr:. A. .Lu mner, of Beltoni. anzol. J. J. Dar gan, of Sumiecr: Belton. ., May 2:. 1S0. Col. J. 3i. Dargam. Sunder~tc. S. C. Dear Sir: I S* from. the- News and Courier you propose to 1 In Ad.Th& Son on the 16th and propose - to a the people to hear you in vindication of your course in tis campaiwu and to hea wn 4, iYou s~hadl hlreo say ol Mr. Tilnes tohisae o wr4i ,o S1y to0 you,l n behalf ofth gOUd pple Ander.tatf the( uiL.t Of LthiS polte ol be giad to a a yo Y .1ut.i not, in i the pressb i o.en for yu explan your po.ition. nd. if there is a di:'r onic between y'ourself' and! MV...ni The colr.'eo .rOpose canno re sult inl any .) toyourself o' !t the Deorc oftiseunty. and it ?ig * he ih l nans oV . Ilt A. insist that You desist from the course proposed, aId notify you now ta I shado 1 y utmo0t to prvn ny- L thing that S1h1ll be(-1 calula t ro duce discord Among us. Yours r.. spec*tfull1y, A. C. LIimr State burg. S. C., May 24, l,90. Mr. A. C. Latimer. Blton. S. C. DaTr Sir: Your favor of the 22J iust. is at hand. I had not suspect ed that plain, honest spX'ch in refu tation of slanderous charges. m:iade in my absellce before a peo'e to whom I am little known, witho:ut. the least pertineney to the question un der discussion. would so ofind -good people" as to brirng ou a -row" which might result in bloodshed." I al unwilling to believe the good people of Anderson so backward in civiliza tion. so devoid of the instincis and principles of justice, so out of the way of the efnas otf true Democracy. as to refuse to hear both sides of all poitical controversies with cam di nitv, and to accord a gro-1l and gratuitouasly reviled citizen a word in his own defence. But I confess. frankiy, that your declaration. coup led with the marvelous display of ravity with which the assenbly at your recent meeting witnesse, the m-annisInmess On thest grown-up person was alling for .ome one to look him in the eye anl as serting himself not afraid of this,. that and the othcr like a 1e3-year-old on a baseball ground, is not reassur ing. Surely there wl.cas a broad smile on the faces oI .the good" while al this was passing which the rporter failed to writo. However, until the contrary fully appears by subsequent occurrences I will not be persuaded that you rep resent any large body of your peo ple in Anderson when you bespeak rowdyism for them. I shall have to isk myself at your mass meeting on June IS, though I feel that I must promise y ou under the circumnstan - ces that, if your fears and misgiflgs are generally entert ained, I shall not venture an address to the c.rowda.'lest I become in some measure repsons: ble for blood-letting among~ a peopile so excitable and with so lttle self control. If I .tind such to be the situ ain~- cn patiently bide' my time Here my friends and my'sel f and all the goodl peopnt winl see to it that he is fully and fairly heard in present ing hi's charges against mc. I shall. of course. be granted an unrestrained reply. This is all I have asked or wish. *We, of Sumter, unfer tunately have a few rowdies in' our midst. but I trust an efficient police force will keep down any demonstration on their part. I extend to you a1 cordial in;vi 'ton to attend the Sumter meetig that you may witness the conspienous fair ness with which your un' tamred ( n didate for Governor wil be treated by his determined oppolnnts. Rec spctfully, John J. Darg~m The Oldest Te. MILLEDGEvILLE. GA., June -- Census-taker Bethune. in discharging his duties ran across the "oldest in habitant" and was puzzled for awhile as to what entry to make for her age. Jane Moore, a negro woman living in the northern part of the city. gave her age as a hundred and twenty-one ears old. Mr. Bethune questionecd her some time and discovered that the old woman was a regular ency cloedia of the early days of Ameri can independence. She knew all about it: was there and saw ii: she re membered Washington and all of the fathers, she remembered their haoits and eccentricities, and said she was married and had children when Washington died. Her oldest living child is eighty eight years. and since its birth she has been blessed with twenty-seven others She is evidently not less than a hundred and teni years old, andi may be a hundred and twen ty-one, as she says. Cleveland Far Ahead. ArsTn, Me., June 5.-Tsterd!ay the Boston Globe correspondent cir culated among the delegates to the Democratic State Convention slips asking several questions. including the following: "Whom do you favor at the present time for President in 192?" Two hundred and twenty ne of the delegates returned answers showing the following result: Cleve land, 186; Hill, 2S; Carlisle,.5 Whit. ne, 20. Second choilo--Cleveland 4 Hill 60. Campbell 9; Carlisle 10: 'Whitney 11: corhees 2: Gray 2,: William L. Pu. ::inn, of Maine, 3; Pil mer. of lElinois. -:: RI. Q.. Mills 2. -A telegram from San Antonio, Texas, says: A sensation has been reated throughout the South by the announcement from Rev. Virgil Maxy,. the noted Southern revivalist and Baptist minister, that he will go on the stage September 1st. lie hav ing been engaged by T. Stutts, the theatrical manager. to play prommnent parts during the coming season. Mr. Maxey, in an interview, stated his object to unite the pulpit and stage. He will be on the stage six days in the week and preach on Sundays. He is a nephew of ex-Unitedl State's Senator Maze. -The Rev. J. Cleveland Hail, late pastor of tihe Presbyterian church at Manehester. 'a., wats oane of lth class confirmed by Bishop Whittle on his recent visit to that city. Mr'. Hall will probably enter theo Episcopal -The British Museum recivedt one day last week a Chinecse Ltuk 'note is'sued from the Imperial ninut 300 years before the first use of oa a1I, &tetile -ort 12ioi'C PIureQ thTe C e '-;;raphl5 wirI are doiwneo '.zthr 0 par i as1au belned.b (' )'(.,! 11.. 1.;E f i l u a eyelonie las nicht can b~e obtained fif " f f curreni'+lma n~'ig wre)v xart ey L or I I.,, Nebiask w\r visiad by'a tereic p ~ ~ u 1' A,-a trugho wki adri o to s far as1C The vlklle f- Can w is siuaed in H3 nto It Ci om :. about twenty c11'* .._ 1Jri x 1 1 %!ra o~w i . mile northwe* o Hatis. Last er Son ; s Ilae and tern ijur. T . :- down in that s'eio a i :;xiul*r ar-e not yet at hand.l Co.'t t-wnO A "~ ne Iahi de iln Arizona. Niur.al bil, ou PUine Creek, in one of. sh gret:.i natural criosi ties in the11 Untitl Sttes, equlinlhfg if not. srpa.sin h .tural lridge of Vigiia .It ans the creek at a hih o odfl feet, au the w-lN o' th ennTy~lon ri. above it on ilr si 70 cr 80 feet. and on one &id form a pv'rpoudicuilar 1-:reei pi1.Th bri: "is of lime forma itinc. and - th', Jid of - thah whih is some 250 fet acro. is worn bh, w 01 s 41mooc0nth as though e'hitele by th skillf.l hands of a stnemn sen.T a. oh on top is nely. i u A. (uito. 400 feet in width. 1,00'0 fe iliength aeross the canyon, "nd at the th( mest part only six feet through. About the centre of the arch .(! isle large enough to admit thebody of a mian. and through w huione can look down into the. rsta "i> o1 wa-er 200 feet below -D.io Tran '-cript. Ger.;rai Jo;, B. Gordon, Com :nan1.t: l ejneral of the United Con fed~erne iE ~ terans. announces that the first iinnur.a encampment of the eterans w 1 i held at Chattanooga, Teun.. on the ard, 4th and 5th of Ju I There vwill be a business con vrien'on to dises'a l ho best inethod of relie virg theo who were injured aedi bereaved by the late war. The a's1 ' of welco"m e will be delivered by John A. . Hart. May or. which will h'e resp'onde"d to by General John B. Godon. Speci:d advantages of trans portation to the ola battle grounds have been provided oad everything possible for the entertainment of visi tors has been dlone. The railroad fare' is one cen t per mile. A Charge on the Ctlado. L.wreNs. S. C.. June 2.-A confer enCe composed of citizens who do not favor Tilhnanu for governor and rep resenting all of the townships b~ut one in this count' m wet here today and discusse.d the olitical outlook. The conference w of the opinion that ive out of the nine townships can be earried gainst ililman. Among those preent were Dr.. R. Smith, Joshua Crar. Casper Smith. S. D. Garling on and Dr J P. Hunter, and about a dpoecn others. Laurens vote for Governor has not yet been recordled. apd thc winnng man in this co unty has a hard fight before him.-G5reaniville News. A::other M[onument Project.I The 3iaconi (Ga.) Telegraph warm lv seconds the suggestion. which, it says. comes from' all sides, for the erection in Richmiond,a monument to the late Hon. Jefferson Davis. It says: "3Ir. Davis dleserves a grand monument and Richmond is the place for it. Let the movement for its erection be started at once. Contri butions will flow into it from all parts of tile South, and before many months there may be0 unveiled a monument to the President of the Confederacy as beautiful and imposing as that which now preserves in bronze the heroie likeness of the greatest soldier of the Lost Cause. TEIown up by Dynamite. PInis. JUTme 7.-La Grand Char trense, the famous mionastery in tho Depazrtment of T.Iere fourteen miles from Grenoble has, been much dam aged by the explosion of a quantity of dynamite. The daistardly outrage was a work of desig~n and is believed to hlace been don'e by persons living in the locality who took this means of venting thir anger at the failure of an att& pt :nade 1, them to extort blakmail fromi the monks. I Zteenf Children Kuille. S-r. P.. Minn., June 5.-A special from Sioux Falls. S. D., to the Dis patch says that during a storm yes terday. lightning struck the Blass man schoolhouse. 1:2 mile's southeast of Flandeure, S. D.. killing sixteen ---Baltimuore's first month under the high licns e law has been more than satisfactory. Over one thousand saloons have been forced out of busi ness, arrests ha~ve decreased, and tihe anmmu1l revenue has increased, from less thanf $150,000. under low license, to more thin 84(0,000 under high license, of which the city gets 8350, ooe where it formerly received nioth ir. Th lie.1Ise 100 is $:250. Al ready th:-re is a strong sentiment for doubling it. andl an effort to that end will be made at the next session of the Legislature. --The Yew York Sun's St. Louis special say thiat Sheppard Knapp, soin of the former proprietor of the Repulican. Col. Geco. Knapp, has re ine1(d his positionl in the money or der depa.rtmenit of the postoflice be eause a negro has been appointed to a clerkship in the oilie. --The following is the Senate Comn mitte~e onf the bill1 for the establish mnt of' the University of the Unii ted States: Edmunds. Ingalls, Blair, Shrman. Dolph, H arris, Butlr, Giib Muchi pain andj suilering may be voided b y chilL-hearPing' womnl by tle timely u:-l- of the Mothers Friend. S-ld by all draggists. llrysipelas.-I. L. Irviu, of Thomn asville. Ga., says he was ailicted with erysipelas, for ten years and was on1ly ....'e ei- P. P. P. wes Ingals on J we. Fox .:1 t 'y 'bur.: spv:.eg of the las-t two davs in t :l : 'o say a few wr . b to any subject tt : withi thelt- tl(yllt-. of h- u. unless the ideas for ; - our. : died wee r-ligt, 1hey i. dL i. v vainl. But,6 the oly e .tve m to be felt by our ade.saries is that in reocllin th1y have fild to Fi coed. Robert E. L.,e w,-as undoubt e'lly one of the "reatc.st soldiers of of thcaRe. lofty of character, nue of life and with a liag" lead in- bnewk to the moing1 f jiiro{t-o 11 thIis lidspher. He w - andl~ withofutI repro. ' '-u im " herred to thf- eten er i shortly bef:ore t bi world have ben .:m.1 .- 2 COI1: Mld'rship 1)o our twenty-five v-r .s hi' wor1 i.re hen unider the fla' of lie ro-uAiv. H, had be Ueit ducat( at h-r expn ai takent oath to supportr cons.ti tution and 1:ows. But he vio-1:-d1i cath. pit as'de her sw ord. m'l'i t'eoo the iea~ership ofh t rebl i0 si let lht ! .i r:-iLil. against the sanctity of hxeaen, and yet in perjury and iu violation Of faith and honor. "On. a day two !y iv" vear ago imade sacred. thos:e who profess to have accepted the results of the war in good faith. selectcd this c(asio:i of all other anniaversnries of tih 36 days of the year with every tation of insolent T)oinl to the South this is an exampl'e to -Ift- which they should copy-a Confederate L ie placed in the hand cf ashington. (Cries of shame. shame.) What w.-on derif the dead should cry aisth sacrilege. "Colonel" Shepard's War Service;. Aproposof Colonel Elliott F. Shep ard's ebullition of oratorical bravery, I heardl a. story la:,t night of the Colo nel's first and only experience as a warrior. It was shortly after he won his title of "Colvnel" by being ap pemited an aide onGoverniorMorgan staff that Mr. Shepard wr , sent to the national recruiting station at El mira with a squad of recruits. Fo: some reason or other they were lef in his charge for a few days,. and th( Colonel. of course. took the oppor tunity to put them through a thor ough course of discipline. aecordinL to his ideas. Commencing wi. four courses of prayer on Sundvay. th( recruits wero marched, drilled and worked about twelve hours a da.y un til Thursday. That day the Colone: had set down on his program fe: "skirmish day." He considered tha1 his soldiers had advanced far enoug1 in the bloody trade of war to bc shown what skirmish duty meant, st he led them out on the wooded hiil above the town to skirmish. The are kirmishing yet, so far as Uncle Sam has any official record. Fin days with the Colonel had coole they military ardor, and they took tt the woods and the cornfields. Ate two or three encounters with infuriat ed bossy calves and wild-eyed farrr dogs, the Colonel returned, a forlori hope, to camp.-New York Star. What is a Good Book? A good book is one that int cresL you. One in which the bright rather thai the dark side of life is shown. One that makes you see how mneni are the small vices of life and hov despicable are the reat sins. One that glorifles virtue in womoa and honor in man. One in which the good are reward ed and the wicked arc made to suie: -suffering, by the by. that mlay be o the conscience-oriln a more materia way, a reward given either on eart] or promisedi for the fnture. One which convinces vou that thi: world is filled with good men am good women. One that breathes forth the good ness of a Creator, and resnects his muJ governing laws. One that makes you el you ar meeting real people-people who elt vath yuthoughts as you associat wihthem.-Laiehs' Home Journal A Girl Who Hasi Slept Two Monthe Axsnoy. ILL.., June 7.-Grace Grid icy, the nineteen-year-old daughter o: a prominent business mean, has bee: sleeping soundly for nearly ivw months. She went to bed in he usual health the night of March 15tt andecould not be roused from slee: the next morning. After sleepin, about a week she roused up some what, and getting out of bed. walkc over to a rocking chair, where sh immediately went to sleep, and ha not awakened since. Her cheeks ar rosy and breathing regular, and he sleep is seemingly as normal as tha of an infant. All attemputs to arous her are fruitless. She is fed regular ly with liquids. Her esse lpuzzles al the doctors. The Pulpit aund the' Stage. SAN ANToxto, Texa, ,Tuno .-. sensation has been create~d thr ougl: out the South by the anlnouncemen from Rev. Virgil Maxey the niote, Southern revivalist and Ba~ptis~t mir ister, that lie will go on the staug September 1st, he haing been en gaged by T. Stutts, the thea~tica~ manager to play prominent parits dhn ing the comning season. Mr. Mavx in an interview today. stated his oh ject to unite the pulpit and stage. H< will be on thle stages~six days in the week and preach on Sundays. He i: a nephew of ex-United States Senate Maxey. -It is announcedl from Baltimao that work on the Maryland and D).lh ware ship canal will be connuece this week and pushed to c cmpletjion The proposed enterprise is in the hands of a party of French capitalists, who have organized a company witi a capital of $8,000,000 t~o prosecutt the work. The route to be taken ex tends across Chesapeake peninsuk from Sassafras River to BlackbirC Creek on the Delaware. -Capt. Win. A. Darden. of Gates ville, who was the ablest lecturer o: the Farmers' Alliance of North Cziro lna, died Monday-. He se:rved gal lantly in the Confederate army and was a member of the Legislature. He was very promiinent in the Farn. ers' Alliance and was the first Sitat business agent. --Saginaw. Mich.. has a fiaily which lives in a shed 12 by 1n0 feet iiu area. The family consists of father. mother, three children. three horses;. two cows, two goats. six dogs, a floc of pigeons and six cages of s'agring birds. A bale of hay separates the so-called brute portion of the family rm tem rst I A "DEAD LAULF" IN TOWN. AP Trkit uwvn-v . P Mi. a !ttd1o tbi I - is t ibr -s not k n a the frautes o theC 1n.ri m ia up a mee * 1 /~' 01 ~ N' i'S :' 0 11 111-)S of l l'.:- ~n j..r fao h f artolinha, w- t il : t. t o~ (ci Tahie itih ::s at whte.noh::' Is t 've: of the Chree N .a:i.;.. The~ (,1hero..i-s are the miost, ciVIlimt iof -,Ith in di:1anI tribeA. andl on ofw 14 irl 1::;e i11n fatvor of prohib; tionl. The- la-w of the United States is that no m: --hai iv or zeli lirewater to an eic. but the Cherokee legisia ttcrs -o FarhIe and prohibit the brin ing- of it it t:e Territory. i Tahic:,h.wh1en Buhyhead was Governor, U -l-c was an Irish black sm:ith ninel Mi- Delaney. Now. 'i' ke id been recd into the tribe becausei lie had! raarried a squaw. and, stran- a.s it Inar Seemnii. was more o an ii dtn I n. ;ative. He use-d to ;ra;e hr he hou ovor his forge at the wronmIs of the red mnc. andl one of hi faVorij'e uraiusWats: --e1:A .' be'n parMecited bv the wite mii:., dhrivcn from ouvr hormes in Geor"ia over the mountains an' ral Ao-s, an' uruoblc inheritance stbolen a,.lav from11 us." Aike frequertiy delivered himself of this, and the more fire-water he had in h1m the more flanel-monthed and un i Indian w.as his brottue. He and Bushy iead were great friends, and one day aw thc Governor was at the court house presiding over the meeting of the Legrslature, the squaw-man ap pearedl ancl beckoned imperiously. "Cone here," he whispered, "Oi've sonmethinge to tell vou. There's a dead mule in town.' A '"dead mulo" is W 'vstern slang for a keg of whisky. -Give me a dollar," continued Mike, '--ii I 1 -uv a bottle an' keep it in the shopz uut' Nez can be afturr ~comin' to dhrink it. T'he Governor gave the money, avi half an houir later, deptizing some to takc his e , he made his wa the force. Fr a afar off lie heard thr iis'piri strains of the "Irish Washet. won: m,":d as hle dre w near he recog ;izedi thec oft-recne)ated refrainl. "Ocht hone. Vidow Maehree, och hone, Widow Mach ree." the melody stoutly mailltainled I. an anvil chorus. Rush. ing~ iin. l was con froited by the bilari ous blacksmith, whom he at once asked for hi share of tie "dead Iulc." -Be aisv. Guvner." cried the Irish Indian. --there's tn v two heels left. an l'i dhrinik thlat. ats Ielaw:~s agin, riv. Aid, he ssa;!:iwlAecl the re.st, the Gov ernt:' of the Ute-mckee Nation not dar mg to pi'vent hhn.-iraside/lo Cor. K.Y. K rbue The Coor ofWater. What is the color e tTe Watet Aimot ain verson who has To speceIa knio.led .a :Iie subject will reply al .i - '11 is no color." Yet every 10(t: knos. either through hearsay 01 '.I ev ci of his own eyes. that Hit o'eeau loksi blue. Wh the oceat looks b'ut : a qlueStion that few wil) have -rssed it have ever Soigh1 to solve. XfIrs Swrr. and there ar( pro' bl mnamy travelers whO. though th'er have seen most of the fanmou: rivers and lakes in the world, havn fa'ile d to notice the remnarkatble differ enee i olor which their waters lre sent. Even tic ocean is not uniforn ini color: In some places its waters atr( green.~ icr even ye!!owish. Sonie lakes ar~,e ditntv le nters present yar ious shaides of .r'een, so that in some cases ithey are ' hardly dlistinguishable f romn thecir level, grass-covered banks: - ai fev: are almost black. The lake o. Genelva~" is azure-hued; the lake of Con. . stauce andi thle lake of Lucerne are gre:the Cclor of the 21editerranear - ha been called idgo. The lake o. .) Bieuz is igreenish vellow, and it: niichbo'lcr, Laike 'Thun," is blue. Nen~ Yol has' both green and blue lakes. The colori of rivers dliffer vet more wi delv. The Rthone is blue, and so ia Ithe D)imubeX while thle Rhine is green. Anybo vxO n who has traversed the wen deful1 Adirondack region and fished it iIts wacters must have noticed the re markab'e difference in the color of its r ivners and s:iler streams which radi ate in every direction from thle central roup 0f mountains. The waters o: - tile Saconidaga are yellowish. while those of the Canada creeks and of the Mohawk are clear, with perhaps bluish tint in dleep p)oles. Fish creel is black or deep brown; and its neigh -. bor1, Salmon river, is colorless. Next comeCs the Black river, whose colorni indicated bY its name, but between i and the Gr:asse,. which is also black 01 1brown, is the Oswetratchic, with clear, )white waters. The'St. Regis, again, ia -black, but the Raquette is whvlite. Th< St lawece is blue. These various huts Lare ntcaused by mud or anm aniaque 5eimI~ent, such'as that which n makes the Mississippi coifee-colored, but belong to the waters. like the golden color of tea, without greatly impairing their transparency. The cause of the difference in the color of 1:ie an d ruiveris has engaige( toe attenion of many~ (clebrated in vesO't itgaiior of n'at ureti.'h ais Tyn vdall, Bun-elI Ar':. Sa'' - inte-Claire Decville, an t~he:- . Recetily Priof. Spr'ing 0: ithe LInier ity of Iege has carefully inetiae the. quesCtionl of the colo: of wa ter and halc"s rec'ihedt somel inter. esing'' concions.I Ac'ording" to hin abs-olnte 1urev w"ter. w'ccn sen n1 an al~ il thei v"arie''es o co lor e:Chilbited presen(.ce. 1in thie wateri of mCral salt: of diferen deiLgress'- of solub1ilcty ndc il caionate o t' ime in 'a -tate cof amos1 the .~cltin is le'ss compdlete' the wnatel ill hav'e a tiin;:e of green, which will row stongr as tile pcomit of precipi tatio 'cis ' approalchedt. Fref. Spring conciadeI'l' th:.a if l'Imed is added to blue wa'VIter ini which so) mc'h ca.rb)onle of imeI' i . alreadytin disso!-:ed that rho point ofI ;au:in is appclroacheid t he wate'i wi bcome t reen'cc~. Inl ;'rof of tidls he shorcecs ofi ::tke- andi sea-. where i comes'I ill icIntac't w~th imnestone. ia ennll'riy c a.e-urh d ia o Agis Takin-' Ofif Rats. inu dispatenbs to London News: A u ov eent is on focot ill Austtria and fori' o' s.iut. ion custoaryh n~ me -,ctlfi::in off the ha't. Al Baron tneb i and Gmt rbad Im: :-: .- . 1.1io th rcc uto tian cit unI -eI n. thi aItmi for a *~ft of ' ' ti-i' lit fclue'a's .iiud ice :F ifh .-: iaithe ha: i nce h .s' tinn~an ol AFRICAN CURIOSITIES. Rori-.';e (.,i!...tion itrnucht by Her % -.ni rrom tim Da:rk Continent. Thedi V w lin"st colilection of Af -i the world is owneni ;g a;.An Ward. who) was;oviat(di fo-:v Vear ~With ellnrV M. Staile i . A very hasty exanimation of iu ar, ie h-s wi.l at once change a ht. :111s colitelpt for the ignorant aa ito admiration for his manual skill: it -emIs at tirst sight that the collel i mu ROUst contain a speennen of verthin''' made, used or worn by the een raAfcan. epecialy i view of the ,c.canut', costume in vogue in that country. Ibut although the equatorial t'ontleinan mar be considcred over ill a string with a tuft of grass behid it, yet he has as many kids of weauOus as we have cravats and ul sters, SaVs the N. Y. Sun. The lirgest but not the most inter esting feature of the collection is seen in tile sheaf of spears. le has col lected a startling number of them. Each tribe has a distinctive kind of spear, and the spears resemble or dif fer from each other according to the distance which separates the tribes. They bear a pretty close general re semblance, however, since all are made with wooden handles and leaf-shaped irou blades. Many of the tribes have a small spear for active business and a large one for dress parade. Next in prominence and high inter est come the idols, and here it must he remarked that the central African does not usually worship his idol or con sider it almightY. Mr. Ward describes the idol as a kind of middle man. Un less it can show that it is a good, prac tical, working idol it is liable to va rious indignities and is even often burnt. The most fascinating aud blood curdling objects are the knives. Mr. 1 Ward has a number of the knives most used for executions. which functions, by the way, are usually performed to celebrate the departure of a chief for another world. They belonged to the Bangala and Babangi tribes, and Mr. Ward has seen them actually used in cutting off heads. The executouers never bungle. The most strangely shaped knife of anr is one used in rough and tumbre tighting, and for throwing, by the na tives in the upper reaches of the Ouella river. There are knives of every imi aginable shape in the collection. 'The idea of the pattern in most cases :s taken from the palm leaf, and when the knife is made long and curved it is verv handsome and suggestive. The handles are usually made of brass and wood and the workmanship is very tine. They are always made by the natives. Endless curiosities with a particular history attaching to them were scatter ed about the collection. There was a pair of wooden clogs, with Arabic in scriptions on them, which were sent to Mr. Ward by 'T'Hpo Tib as a kind of Christmas car-:. They only way to keel them on % our feet is to grap a I peg, which stickb up In the forward I part, with two of your toes. The for I tunate central African has toes as deft as our fingers. Lying around were instruments that proIuce uneartitv sounds, bracelets made of elephanti skin, human teeth, buffalo's teeth, leopard's claws and iron bells, necklets made from the teeth of victims of cannibalism, chunks of ivory worn by members of sonic tribes in their upper lips, brass collars of the order of Makoko for chiefs only and plenty of little poisoned arrows. IThese arrows are shot with great pre. cision to a distance of 100 yards. and the wound will prove fatal within lif teen minutes if it is not thoroughly cauterized. Few. persons would guess the use of ive or six strauds of tiber tied together and sometimes covered with metal. They constitute the court costume oifa lady, and are worn around the waist. Wi Xenever there is a tatt or othe'r ap pendage to the string it goes behind, thtus sho(wing tile prmtv and wide spread use of the bustle. Excellent taste and splendbil work manship were visible in all the imple ments. rThey came from the interior, for the natives lose all this skill after contact with the rum of civilization for a short time. The mec't artistic 0ob jeets were probably the ?mmense war horns made of elephants' tusks hollow. ed out and most elaborately carved, and the shields of dyed and woven palm fiber. There were also some brooms, very light and long, which should form elegant and valuable ad ditions to the hoeusehold furniture ofa theosophist. They are intended tc drive away spirits when their pres. enee is not desired. Altogether the collection will soon convince a man that the central Afri cans are far ahead of most savages in manual skill-in fact, much of their work is quite equal to that of the Ja, Beauty Only Skin Deep. A fewv days ago a young girl, beauti ful in form, feature and dress, sat in a Madisou avenue car, says the N. Y. Ecning Sun. Directly opposite sat a oor child of about the same age, shab. Iilv clothed, with a shambling body, Jslightlv deformed as to the shoulders, and an exceedingly plain face which hore the lines of sufl'ering~ and want. He11r eagecr eyes were fixedT on the face an-d figu re opposite her with a devour ing, pathetic 'look that showed how~ kenly alive she was to th. exceedin~ batyof a beautiful bd.The object of the gaze began to grow uneasy un der its intentness and fixity,and finally, looking the 'irl coldly in the famce, she leaned partly across the misle and said: looedl atiss Imp~ertine~nee, if you hare lkd enough long enough, will you be kiu enughto look somewhere else. I'm tired of it." The poor child grew first red and hen white. A look of keen pain came Iinto her eves, and then tears, and as~ Ishe turnled awvay she said softly: "I was only thinking hiow~ beautifuml you A Chronic Growler. Wife-'This is a pre'tty timhe of night for ~ you toicm hlome. At irst you cane ho':iie at 2, thlell at 3. alid now you stav Otut unttil 4."' Hu blt1d---"dJust yoll keen quiet. Whe 1 etOne in at 2 youl grow led;: whenct I e' :ne hioime at ~3 you role noe, aini now youi growl wIore than ever' whenC' 1 emnett Lshme at 4. I am oingI home after this at 5 just to see ifA out dlon't Lrol). thjen. too."-TCXzd8 A. Reasonable Suggestion. Represen5Ctative Allen of Mississippi wai requested the other day by one of constituents-it was a colored "friend and brother"-to give hinm a recomn mendat ion in writing by means of which he hoped to secuire a situation as wvatctman or sonmethinig equally im portat. Mr. Alien complied with reainess, its he new time matu to bo ca pale and trustworthy. In f et, the ''certiieate of character" was so excep tionaly comiplimientalry anid set forth abo' qua jt~iiliicationis'in such glo wing terms that. turning~ to Mr. Allen, he Look healh. Mairse Aien, can't von ib me someithing to do vou'self on dat rtcColtnenldat ion?" It took .hlnw timet oni thle part of Mr. Allen to exp ~hlda to I he coh ,rd. ''friend A King in Egypt. I think I iie by the lingerin; Nile: I t1!Tik T am oe that has :m loge whilO, I think T Ii 1) n a A n-i Tih l i- li1 n yI w eye w i ; 12son u tn- h.. P.. ':Ut N I I I_-.)Ieo i it4' I tlinki tihre are e rsv''n ::i'h"-l gri . That 10)(0 o1*i.'v*I-& v it:xiU-r d~in. Ani the barnper"d hand aiI 1.: muled liibt Lie hed in tih - pIt of tier gazes .6in. I think I li' in I lini'or v: . Nu: unimb soul :in a, ly f:st, waitiulg i)lg as it he' worlbI ,i:d! last. Lyinr cast in a languor vast: Lying nified in fold on fold, Nith the guni, and the gold, and the spice en rolle(I. A nd the grain of a year that s old. old, old, Wound around in the fine-spun fold. The sunshine of Egypt Is on my tomb: I feel it warmng the still. thick gloom, Warming aidI waking an old I vrfiimne. Through the c:rven honors upon my tomb. The old sunslhine of Egypt is on the stone. - And the sands lie red that the wind hah sown. And the lean, lithe lizards at play alone. Andl T Tie with the pyramid over my head: I ian lying dead. lying long, long dlead. With ny days all dlone, and my words all said. And the deeds of my days written over my head. -Helen Tbayer Hlutchinson. In St. Nicholas. STEAMBOATINC ON DRY LAND. Eight Mnhles of Their Regular Trips to Be Made on Iron Rails. The long expected report of the Board of Government Engineer Officers that was to consider the subject of the obstructions to navigation in the Col umbia River, between the Dalles and Ceiilo, and devise some method for overcominT them within reasonable limits of expense. has at last been given to the public. In this project boats are taken from the river at the foot of the Dalles rapids, and are returned to the river at the head of Celilo falls by means of hydraulic lifts. one at each terminus, and are transported over the interme diate distance a little more than eight miles in length by a boat railway. The lower lift is designed to raise the boats 68 fee: at low water and the upper lift, 40 feet. The distances to which the boats are to be lifted diminish as the water rises. The lift is an adaptation of the hydraulic dock in use for some years at the Union Iron Works in San I-rancisco. The process is, therefore, not experimental. The lower lift con sists of sixteen cast-iron cylinders,each thirty-one and one-half inches in in terior diameter and ninetcea feet seven. inches long, weighing 19 tons. In these are rams having a full stroke of seventeen feet three inches. They are placed in two rows, forty-six feet apart, the rams in each row being twenty two and one-half feet between centres. There is a platform or cradle between these rows, supported by chains from the heads of the rams. The chains are so arranged over sheeves as to give the cradle a speed and movement four times that of the rams. A device for regulating the admnission of the water in each press so controls the movement of the rams as to maintain them at a uniform speed and the cradle in a hor izontal position. notwithstanding any difference in the load on several rams. The cradle is placed under the boat while in the water. After it is raised to the top of the lift this is removed. an( the car on which the boat is to be transported on the railroad is substi tuted. It is required of the car that it shall transport with safety the loaded boat or barge, and leave suficeient flexibility to pass over the horizontal and vertical curves of the road. The maximum load to be carried is estimated at 600 tons. The platform is 168 feet long by 38 feet wide. The lateral flexibility to enable the car to pass 'around curves is obtained by the arrangement of the trucks. There are thirty-four four wheeled trucks placed in two lines olf seventeen eatch. The weight of the~ car is 300 tons. The maximum weight-is 600 tons.mak ing the total weigzht of the loaded car 900 tons. The nkerage load per truck is 27 1-2 tons, and per wheel 7 tons. The ear, with its load, is propelled on the track by two 50-ton ordinary loco motives. The boats are 165 feet long and 3$ feet beam and .5 feet dIraught, weigh ing with eargo 600 tons. The weight of the cradle is 184 tons. The total weight to be raised in the lift in 1,4.5$ tons, and the speed 4 1-2 feet per min ute. The estimated cost of the whole sys tem, wvith equip~ment of two cars and four engines, capa ble of passing eight loads of 600) tonls in each direction in twelve hours, including necessary buildings. andI 10 per cent for contin gencies. is $2.690,356. Estimate for improving Three Mile Rapids. $170, 600, making an aggregate of $2,860. 656. It is estimated that a further ex penditre of $716,000 in buildings, cars, engines arm1 sides tracks, will afford the maximum of forty boats each way in twenty-four hours. The annual cost of maintenance to pass sixteen boats in twelve honrs is es timated to be $80, 000. and to pass thirty two in twenty-four hours would cost $50,000. Tlh'e estimated time for trans porting one boat from the Dalles to the head of Celilo falls is one hour and a half.-krlUeai Oregonian. Tennyson Flogged at School. More Tennvsoniana, referring this tie to the laureate's school days. -'v uncle," writes a correspondent, though four years the poet's senior, w~as in the same class with him at Lothl, atnd lhe used to threaten Alfred Tennyson with a thrashing when he did his Latin verse for hium; thus early did he begin to be a poet! To this day he and my, father often talk of the tremendous thrshings that 'old Waite,' the headmaster. used to give them for such a smnall matter as false quantity. I believe both my uncle and Tennyson were laid un for some time with one thrashing. ~ -Old Waite's portrait hangs in my father's study now, and only a few years ago. shiortly before M1r. Waite's death, my uncle went to see him, then a very old man, and lie ex pressed his regret at ha'riug been so cruelly free with the stick: and, if I mistake not, he alluded with pride to Tennyson's fame. "-Pull Mdi Jusdie Somea Things in Good Form. By the by. there are some things that are good form. It is good form to be able to say a leasant word about whoev'er is spoken It is good form to refuse to listen, among'a crowtd, at least, to disagrees ble tories. It is good form to be0 polite to elder it is g'ood form to make room for the stranger getting into the street It is good form to have your skirts a r'-efiul Ibut not a dl isgran' fuil lenlgthi. t is good forum to show the imte throat of a romun:: gir'i, but not to have her aim to ontstip an opterat-botic dancer. It is good form to call only your mn tinate rrienids hr their first name. t is goodl forth to pay your bills. It is goodl form not to mmid if your friends are' a bit shabby, but to be sat isied because they are your friends, and curiously enough, although riches re apureciated, it's good form not o vy' ainyblody their gold, but to mtke thme most out of one's possessions, and in the miater of costly banquets nd rich gifts to take the *will for the