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SONG OF THE CANDIDATE. "Father who travels the roads so late?" Hush my child! tis the candidate, Flt eiample of human woes Early comes and late he goes; He greets the women with courtly grace, He kisses the baby's dirty face, He calls to the fence the farmors at work, He bores the merchant, he boresthe clerk, The blacksmith, while his anvil rings, Ie greets, and this is the song he sings: "Howdy, howdy, howdy do? How is your wife, and how are you? Ah! it fits my fist as no other can, The horny hand of the forming man." "Husband, who is that man at the gate? "Hush, my love! tis the candidate," "Husband, why can't he work 1lie you? Ras he nothing at home to do' "My dear, whenever a man is down, No cash at home, no noney in town, Too stupid to preach, too proud to beg, Too timid to rob, too lazy to dig, Then over his horse his legs he flings, And to the dear Deople this song he sings: Howdy, how'dy, howdy do? How is your wife, and how are you? Ah! it fits my fist as no other can, The horny hand of the working mn." Brother who labors early and late, Ask these things of the candidate: What's his record? How does he stand At home? No matter about his hand, Be it hard or soft, so be it prone To close over money not his own. Has he in view no thieving plan? Is he honest or capable?-is lie our man? Cheer such a man till the welkin rings, Join in the chorus when thus he sings; "Howdy, howdy, howdy do? How is your wife, and how are you? Ah! It fits my fist as no other can, The horny hand of the farming man." THAT "PERJURED" LIST. Capt. Tmmam Creates Excitement by Naming the Men. HAmPTroN, S. C., Aug. 1.-The two main actors ii South Corolina's guber natorial drama met today probably for the last time face to ace upon the stump. The sultry hotness of the day did not cause any political lassitude; on the con trary today's fight was one of the most exciting in the campaign. For the first time Capt. Tillman read the list of "perjured" senators, thus raising quite a storm of indignation against him from the minority of the audience. Both speakers were equally and constantly ineerrupted by opposing factions. Gen. Bratton finished his remarks without being interrupted more than once. Gen. Earle seemed rather to enjoy his interruptions to-day. He had a "Tillman, the second," to contend with m the person of an individual just in front of him, who, looking up into his face, objected to almost every remark. ~ Gen. Earle confidently expressed the opinion that Capt. Tillman would not be elected if a primary were held. In spakng of the Clemson college, he said thathe was not a recent convert to it. Before he had ever heard the name of Clemson he was in favor of an agricultural and mechanical college. He further said that he was impressed with the fact that the common schools should be improved. He drew the attention of his.audience to the benefits which would accrue to the state could the South Carolina university be made the equalof the University of Virgmnia. He further said that he believed all the audi ,ence would be his friends before he fin ished his speech. In spite of numerous interruptions he was scrupulously polite, and sat down with the pleasantest smile. The applause which followed his speech was enthusiastic. Capt. Tillman next came forward, only to be interrupted like his prede cessor. He proceeded upon his usual line until he came to the subject of per jury There he met with a greater inter sed of perjur. Some of the audience asa who they were. "You know who thei~Fw~ithout my naming them," said Capt. Ti - When it was insisted upon, however, thathe should name the accused, he did not seem loth to comply, but proceeded in a loud, clear voice: "I'll name then all ifyou want me to. The first is Bie man, of Oconee; the second is Buist." On coming to the name of Gen. Moore' of Hamton, he mentioned it with special emphasis. This caused mntense excite ment among Gen. Moore's friends. The climax of this culmination of the cam paign, however, was reached when the name of Gen Youmans was mentioned. Col. Youumans advanced to the stand. and, in an excited manner, cursed Capt. Tilman, called him a lhar and defied him to'prove the charges against Senator Yonmans. It appeared that there would be a conflict right in front of the stand, but abme one pushed Col. Yonmans out into the audience. and Chairman M. B. McSweentey succeeded in calling the meetingto order. Capt. Tillman then prceed to tell in what respect he regarded the senatorial gentlemen as perjurers, they having taken the oath to support the constitution and not having carried out certain census laws. During the remainder of his speech he was interrupted by irrelevant re marks and questions from Hon. Mr. Oansey. L. H. PATILLO. A Scared Bridegoom. People at Trenton, N. 3., are talk ing about a matter that has all the elements of a successfull farce comedy. Last Saturday Peter Finiski and Mary Epswick went from Trenton to Camden to be married, and after the ceremony returned to a saloon kept by Mrs. Liz~ zie Purcell, where Mary lived as a ser vant and where a wedding reception was to be held. For months previous to the wedding Finiski and Charles Kepwotski had been making love with Mary, each with equal chances of success apparently, until one night when EFiniska, on his return from the rolling-mill, exhibited a big roll of bills. That roll of money secured for him the hear4 and hand of Mary. It also ob tained household goods, paid a month's rent in advance and bought a ring; in fact, it made Peter and Mary happy. It also made Kepwotski angry. The latter appeared at the wedding festivities last Sunday night and threatened to kill Fin iski. ButlPeter did not wait for the slaugh ter. He left word for his bride that he would return soon and then he hustled out of a back way and left the city. Now Mrs. Fmniski is angry and says that her husband is a coward and that she won't live with him if he comes back. She has also sold tha. household outfit back to the furniture dealers, and she smiles so pleasantly on Kepwotski nowadays that it is predicted she may soon change her name again. Millions of Worms. NEW ORLEANS, August 1.-The Picayune's Austin, Texas, special says: Millions ofcaterpillars have invaded the fields of this section of Texas and planters and farmers are busy poisonIng them. They are very bad along the Brazos River and it may be that the cotton crop of this State wll be seriously injur ed. The pest are at least three weeks earlier than usual and they are here in great numbers and make the atmosphere very offensive with their peculiar odor. Two New Comets. A special cable dispatch to the New York Herald, dated July 31, says: There are at this runoment two comets visible with astronomical instruments. 'One in the constellation of the Lesser Lion;. the other in the Lesser Bear. They are very feeble and invisible to Snaked eye. Theyhave just been dis co t Mirseilles, by M. Cog g'ia; the other at Bristol, by Mr. Den THE STORY OF THE WAR FACTS THAT SHOULD BE KNOWN B' EVERY SOU rHERNER. At the Olose of the War the Federals Rai About Ten 3en in the Field for Ever: One of the Confederates.-Some Inter esting Flgures. On the occasion of the recent re union of Confederate survivors a Chattanooga the Times of that cit: published a comprehensive chapter o the history of the civil war, which is o interest to every man who took part ii the great struggle. The statistics con tained in the sketch were collected foi the Atlanta Constitution by Col. M. V Moore, and many of them were com piled by himself from the Governmen archives at Washington, during a tem porary sojourn there. The figures therefore, may be considered as reliabli as any that we have pertaining to thi war, the sources of information whenc< they were obtained being mostly of ficial and generally trustworthy. it is greatly to be regretted, says th( Times, that no authentic statistic. exist showing definitely the total nun ber of troops raised by the Confederac3 during the war. Mr. Stephens in hi! history says the number was aboui 600,000, and he doubtless spoke fror actual knowledge, having had access t( the rolls in the war department al Richmond. Adjt Gen. Cooper gave the same figures in a report made from memory, and after the close of the war The number as exhibited by the chaotic material now in the archives at Wash ington appears to have been about 625,000. Of this furce there remained in the field, at the capitulation in 1865, 139,788-surrendered respectively as follows, the figures given embracing the troops present and those absent whc were supposed to be alive and not in prison: April 9. Surrendered by Gen. Lee........ .... 28,35 April 26. Surrendered by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston... 37,947 May 4. Surrendered by Gen. Dick Taylor............... 42,293 May 10. Surrendered by Gen. Samuel Jones........ 6,428 May 11. Surrendered by Gen. Jeff Thompson....... 7,978 May 26. Surrendered by Gen Kirby Smith......... 17,686 Total........... ......139,78 There were, at the close of the war, 98,128 Confederate soldiers in Northern prisons. There were also many Con federates in Northern regiments-men who took the oath of allegiance and were sent out to the Northwestern frontier-and the number of deserters is estimated at 25,000. There were also at hosie on sick leave and on final dis charge about 35,000. These figures, taken together, show that the surviv ing soldiers of the Confederacy were about 300,000 men-or nearly 200,000 less than the number of pensioned Federal veterans at this date! The losses of the Confederate army are stated as follows: Confederate soldiers died in Northern prisons......... 26,744 Killed outright in battle, about. 60,000 Died of wounds and diseases, about.................... 235,000 Total, about..............322,000 "The estimate for killed is based upon the known tables of similar mor tality for the Federal armies. The latest revised statistics show that the killed outright among the Federals was 67,058." Official publications show that the Federal armies lost 359,529 in deaths during the entire war, or more thah five times as many as were killed outright on the battlefield; 43,032 died of wounds and 249,438 of disease The total number of "volunteer enlist ment"inthe Federal army was 2,859,132; making allowance for re-enlistments, the men who entered the "volunteer service" was 2,320,272?. There were also ' little over 149,00J0 in the regulars and ~r -orps. at 1 n130 12Z,000~ in the naval servirce. :he grandi total of all the troops raised Gy the Federal Gov ernment in its 3:ar on the Southern States was 3,000,000; men. At the close of the war, there were in the field 1,000,516 Federal soldiers. Of these 797,807 were reported as effec tive, able for duty. The Confederates had less than 100,000 effectives-the ratio being about ten Federal effectives to one Confederate effective at the time of the surrender. Counting the total strength of the Federals and the total Confederates, the ratio runs about seven -Federals to one Confederate. "When the war broke out it was com mon to hear Southern men say that one Southern man could whip ten Yankees. Others less extravagant placed the ratio at five to one. The above statistics show that the average between five and ten came into the feld against the Confederate before he was compelled to surrender." The Federal regiments were not flled entirely by Northern men. Sev ral hundred thousand foreigners were mustered into the Federal army, and, little as it is known, more than a half million soldiers from the Southern States enlisted and fought against the South. Of this number over 200,000 were negroes, 186,017 of whom were in what was known as the "colored regi ments," and the others credited to white Northern regiments, mainly Massachusetts commands. The total f' the Southern contingent in the Federal armies was 550,000 troops, or almost as many as were in the Con federate armies. What would have been the result of the war, if all these men had fought on the Confederate side, it is not difficult to imagine. As it was, with half a million Southerners and half a million foreigners to help them, it took the combined energies of the vastly more populous and more wealthy Northern States more than four years to vanquish the Confed erates, and the effort nearly failed in the last year of the war. The most destructive battles of the war, in proportion to the numbers en gaged, were those that followed im mediately after Grant assumed per sonal command of the forces operating against Richmond. He began his attacks upon Lee in May, 1864, with an army of 150,000-about three to one of ee's effective strength-for the Con federates did not number 50,000 effec ives then. In less than two months Grant's losses, as officially reported, amounted to nearly 100.000 men-or about two Federals captured or put ors de combat for every Confederate egaged. Grant lost in one battle 4,931 men, while Lee's loss was only ,700. This was at Cold Harbor, which batte, it is said, was fought by Grant with the expectation of showing that he coukW win a fight on the ground where McClellan had been defeated. Eis failure was in a measure a vindi ation of McClellan, and it is noted that the Federals were defeated in nearly every instance where they fought for the second time on a field previously contested. It is noted also that "the Federal troops won no victory in the war where their forces were less than the Confederates;'that altogether the Confederates "destroyed about twelve different Federal grand armies." and they wvere overcome at last only because the Federal authorities, "hav ing the world to drawv from, in addition to a native white population in the Northern States three times that of the whtes of the South," experienced but ittle trouble in obtaining all the re ruits they wanted, "while the fighting population of the South grew less and less every day the war continued," and nly gave over the unequal contest when they were outnumbered ten to ne.* It is a record of which every South erner may well be proud, and the story f the glory of it should be taught in very home until the end of time. nrdny Naes BAGGING QUESTION. How Farmers Lose by Packing their Cot ton in Heavy Bales. The farmers are on top in the jute bagging ight. It is now only about half the price it was before they tackled it. They are still keeping up the fight, and intend to fight it to the end. Our merchants are laying in a big t supply of sugar sacks, as a substitute for the regular jute bagging. This is well for our farmers, as it is both cheap and heavy. We learn that it weighs about 2% pouncls to the yard, and is to be sold at 7% cents. Instead of keeping up the fight at a loss, as was done last year, the farmers - will, this sear, lose absolutely nothing t in weight, and will get the covering at - a less cost than they did last year. We are not informed as to what a quantity of sugar sacks has been 3 bought, but it is reasonable to suppose 3 that the supply will not be equal to the - demand, for the reason that it is heav ier and cheaper than the jute baarging. 3 It may, therefore, be well for our plan ters to investigate this matter, and make such arrangements as they deem most desirable. In connection with this, we wish to call the attention of our farmers to the i importance of packing their cotton in standard bales-four hnndred pounds. Six per cent. of the gross weight of a bale is knocked off for the bagging and i ties. The farmer, then, should put on 6 pounds of bagging and ties, for every hundred pounds of the gross weight of the bale. If he pats on less than this amount of bagging and ties, he forces himself to submit to a loss of lint cot ton. There is obliged to be - loss to the farmer of about 60 cents a hundred for any excess in the bale over 400 pounds. If a bale weighs 600 pounds the tare is 36 pounds. If only 24 pounds of bag ging and ties is put on, the farmer loses 12 pounds of lint cotton. Abbeville County has been losing, by packing heavy bales, enough money to pay her taxes. There isn't a farmer in Abbeville County, who packs his cotton in 600 pound bales, who will not lose an amount equal to his taxes. The fight on jute bagging, and the opening of the eyes of the people to their loss in packig heavy bales, will be worth to this county alone, in years to come, hundreds of thousands of dollars. When th3 people find out that they are losing from 50 cents to $1 a bale on heavy bags, they will save by reduc ing the weight This together with their victory in reducing the price of jute, should be a sufficient recompense for their trouble, even if nothing else is gained.-Abbeville Press and Banner. A Border Fray. NEW ORLEANS, August 6.-A special to the Times-Democrat from Marfa, Texas, says: News was brought in yes terday morning by J. E. Outhes, fore man of mines at Shafter, of a killing which took place at 2 o'clock that morn ing. It seems that a crowd of Mexicans had got on a spree and were firing off their weapons, when several of the white miners, rangers and deputy sheriffs went down to see what was the matter. Sud denly they were fired upon from ambush and State Ranger J.F. Gray was instant ly killed, and J. Lee, deputy sheriff and deputy United States marshal, was se riously wounded in the arm. The fire was returned, and it is believed that one Mexican was killed and several wound ed. A physician, Capt. Jones, several rangers and deputy sheriffs have left for the scene. Trouble has been brewing with the Mexicans at Shafter for some time, and it is believed that the intention was to rob and burn the mine. Graves, the dead ranger, belonged to Company D). and was very highy thought of by his fellow-rangers. Yesterday evening Itwo rangers came in with the body of Graves for shipment to Laredo, his home. Thy reort that the miners and rangers have aboutone hundred Mexicans sur rounded andiite' aiding them until further assistance can get~ae' when they will pick out those connect ~ the shooting and bring them to Mafra for safekeeping. The whole trouble is said to come from the lynching of a Mexicsn some months ago. Shot Him Through a Horse. News comes from ins Run, in Colleton County, of a shooting affray which occurred there on last Saturday morning under somewhat peculiar and amusing circumstances. A North Car olinian named Williams, who has been engaged in the turpentine business in that section for some time, was trans acting some business with a negro who had been imbibing rather too freely of a mean quality of red liquor. The white man and the darkey could not agree on some point in a bargain, and the bibulous Afro-American grew rather boisterous and abusive. The Tar Heel was not accustomed to this sort of behavior, and proceeded to chastise the offending darkey with a fusilade of bullets from a revolver which he deftly extracted from his hip pocket. The negro had no idea that his oppo nent was going to drive his point in so emphatic a manner, and sought refuge behind his horse. But this did not stay the anger of the infuriated North Caro linian, who fired at the terrified darkey through the horse and all. The bullet, which was from a large pistol pene trated entirely through the animal's body, killing it instantly, and coming1 out on the other side, wounded the ne gro. At this juncture the combatants,1 or rather the North Carolinian, was stopped, and the affray was ended. News and Courier.1 The Corpse Trust Again. After a lapse of about two years the facts in the gigantic insurance swindle in Charleston, known at the time as the "corpse trust," interest has been revived by the extention of executive clemency to Tom Bond, who was convicted of conspiracy to commit fraud and forg ery in June 1888, in Charleston, and sen tenced by Judge Norton to three years in the penitentiary. The Governor pardoned him yesterday, and thus about the only surviving member of the famous gang is a free man once more. Trhe Governor gives as his rea sons for granting the pardon below: "The petition on which the pardon is based is a remarkably strong one in the prisoner's behalf, the superintendent presented a strong endorsement for good conduct and attention to duty during confinement, the Board of Di rectors recommended the granting of the pardon. and some weight was at tached to tho precarious and weak con dition of his young wife, whose infln ence, it is hoped, will lead Tom to bet ter ways."-Columbia Record. Horribie Death of an Unknown Man. GRmANITEVILLE, S. C., Aug. 7.-Some( time during the night of August 5 a man was run over and killed near Vau cluse by some train on the Charlotte, 1 Columbia and Augusta Rlailroad. lie was apparently about 33 years old, about 5 feet tall, with brown mustache and dark brown hair. ie wvas badly cut up by the train, ie had also had a club foot. From appearances, he wast a tramp. Ihis clothes were poor, indeed. ie had 30 cents in money, a pocket knife and a pack of cards, and I sup pose some whiskey, as a broken bottle wvas found near him. The verdict of the jury was that lie came to his death by being run over or struck by some train on the Chairlotte, Columbia and Augusta l airoad on the 5th day of August, 1890.-News ad Courier. Mobbed a Circus. IiurEMIN, Mich.,XAug. 7.-Bough's1 circus was ha nded roughly here last night. They aidvertise.d a free balloon ascension. w ich failed to materialize, so a molb of several thousand peoplel tore the tent to pieces, mobbed the circus people and looted everything inii sight. DEFENSE OF CHARLESTON. REVIEW OF AN INTERESTING WORK WRITTEN BY A PARTICIPANT. The )efenso of Charleston Harbor, by .John Johuson, Formerly Major of Engi neers in the Service of the Confederate States, Charleston, S. C. The defense of Charleston was one of the most sti-ring episodes of the war between the States. Its moving story, only second in interest to that of the great armies in the field, is told in the work above cited by one who bore a greater part in it than his modesty per inits him to record. No one can read Major Johnson's first chapters without recognizing the spirit of a soldier and the literary art which reveals thought and culture. No one can finish the book without feeling the thrill which always responds to the simple, rapid, and intense narration of great events, by a writer who, as eye witness and actor, took part in them. In language almost as completely "stripped bare of every vesture of orna ment," as a great orator described Cusar's style, Major Johnson places his reader at once at the very centre of the action, and soon kindles his interest to the white heat of the surrounding battle. After a brief sketch of the evening preceding the 7th of April, 1863, the de tailed history opens with the attack of the iron clad fleet on Fort Sumter, which signalized that day. The author's fine descriptive powers are here first displayed, and the reader who, in spite of Major Johnson's grave and scientific attitude, has perhaps already become a partisan of the fort, is relieved to find that the fleet was repulsed with four vessels disabled and one, the "Keokuk," sunk. The "Keokuk" went to the bot tom off Morris Island, not far from the station of the fleet. The story of the removal of the guns from this wrecked monitor by night, under all sorts of difficulties and perils, and almost with in hearing of the federal sailors, is told with spirit and effect. Then follows an account of the federal descent on Morris Island; of the two assaults on the Confederates battery Wagner blood ily repulsed, and of that which marks the next attack on Fort Sumter as the beginning of a new era in war-the breaching of the walls of a regular for tification by rifled guns on Morris Is land, 3,400 to 4,300 yards distant. This was the first great bombardment of Fort Sumter by General Gillmore. Be ginning on the 17th of August, 183, it was maintained uninterruptedly for seven days, and was continued after wards at interval till the 2d of Septem ber. By this time the guns of Sumter were silenced; its offensive power was gone. But, recognizing it as the cita del of his combined defenses, General Beauregard determined, on the advice of his firm and able engineers, that it should be held to the extremity. Out of this vigorous resolution grew a mast erly and unparalleled defense, in the course of which the fort suffered two other great and eight minor bombard ments, and was transformed from a heap of ruins into a "shapely and pow erful earthwork armed with five heavy guns and protected against assault." It is a popular error to suppose that the tumbling in of the walls was itself a principal element in this magic trans formation. These ruins were merely a part of the materials with which the genius of the engineer patiently and skilfully wrought. But for the intelli gent and ceaseless labors which before the first bombardment had strengthen ed the sea front and gorge with thous ands of cubic yards of sand and cotton, the opportunity would not have occur ed for the novel and heroic defense hich followed the destruction of the riginal fort. One hundred and forty ix days and more than one hundred ights of continous fire on Fort Sum er distributed over two principal and ight lesser bombardments, the evacu tion of Morris Island, and a fierce at ack on Sullivan's Island, followed Beauregard's intrepid decision not to give up his citadel. In suchge pg f shot and shell wgaae-few creation f the engineet'sti-t to take its rise on ~he ruins of,~umter. ifgeisider the physical and moral tram uinder which this work was done, mnd 291 days during which the fort was mder fire, the losses by the enemy's nissiles and the explosion of magazines, he monotony of the passive defense, ~he fierce obstinacy of the attack, and ~he accumulating and portentous dan ers contemporaneously pressing on the onfederates on other threatres of war, ve cannot fail to admit that this de ~ense was worthy of careful and cir ~umstantial narration. During every ight and many days of this long eriod the labors of some one hundred nd twenty men, on an average, with ut counting the garrison, were direct d by the engIneer in charge of Fort umter, Major JTohnson. J ustly and nodestly does he declare, "Foresight ~ontrived, and hard work executed the lans of defense." With equal justice, ve must add, that dauntless courage nd overmastering energy are also qual ties which the future historian will scribe to the engineer immediately re ponsible for that stubborn and pro onged resistance. We have no room left to mention in letail the unsuccessful boat attack on ort Sumter, or the operations on ames Island--the key to Charleston ~vith the dash at Fort Johnson, or the nstructive account of the torpedo de ices for the destruction of vessels ~he first use of these methods in war, f the author's luminous discussion of he whole problem of the defense of harleston, or to mingle gaieties with ravities, that felicitous description of he Christmas dinner in a casemate at ~vhich the half of an exploded 15-inch hell did duty for a punch-bowl, and it id wvell or those solemn pages, recount ng the final collapse of the Confeder te power and the consequent abandon at of impregnable Sumter. The ook should be widely read for its vivid nterest. It is a noble record of a noble assage of war. The ordinary reader will be carried long on the stream of its rapid narra ie, the military student will find in rich and precise technical instruction, upplemented by abundant maps and ~ngravings, and in it the soldier will tudy noble examples of professional asight, vigor and daring. But espe ~ially will it be valued on the moral ide by the people of South Carolina nd her sister Southern States as an im ressive memorial not unworthy-by ts manliness,its simplicity,its strength, ts transparent truthfulness--to per etuate the fame of heroic deeds, pride n wvhich they received from their athers with the obligation, if they are rue to themselves, to transmit it to eir children.-Richmond Times. To Be Tried in Lexington. COLOAMIA, S. C., August 7.-In the ~ourt of General Sessions at Edgefield esterday morning the counsel for Jones sked His Honor, Judge Witherspoon, ~efore deciding as to what County the rial of Jones should be transferred, to Lear from him further in relation to the latter. Judge Witherspoon stated that e had about made up his miud to have e case transferred to Lexington Coun . Major Gary, Jones's counsel, object d vigoroursly to having the case remov d to either Lexington or Richland, and xpressed a preference for Aiken. Solicitor Nelson said that he had no jection to the case being tried in any 'unty in the State outside Edgefield xcept Aiken, but he wouid not raise his -oice in opposition to its being transfer ed to any other County. Judge Witherspoon then said that the 'easons advanced by Jones's counsel as why the case should not be transfer ed to' Lexington County were insutli ~iet and he should, therefore, order the se to be transferred there for trial, nd it was so ordered.-Register. T HmE Tennessee State Republican Con ~etionl nominated Lewis T. Baxter for A. H. STEPHEN'S ROMANCE. The Fascinating Belle he Fell in Love with at Sight. There was always much speculation during the life of Alexander .iStephens why he never married, nor did this speculation cease after lie had gone to the grave a celibate. Johnson & Browne's ',Life of Alexander H. Steph ens" gives one version, and the News, upon the authority of the lady interest ed, gives another version, but as to what is the best founded, or whether there is some foundation for both versions, the reader must draw his own conclusions. "The life of Alexander H. Stephens," alluded, to says that when Mr. Stephens was a teacher at Madison, Morgan County, Ga., in the fall of 1832, he lost his neart. It says : "One little episode not noted here, or even stated by him until nearly forty years after this oc cu'rrence, we may briefly advert to. One of the pupils at this school was a young girl, lovely both in person and character, from whom the young teach er learned more than is to be found in the books, and whom he grew to love with a depth of affection all the greater that it was condemned to hopelessness and silence. The poor student, with no prospect of worldly advancement, the invalid, who looked forward to an early death, must not think of marrying must not speak of love. And he never spoke of it to her nor to any until a generation had passed, and then to but one friend." The other version of Mr. Stephens's early love is located in Sayannah, which he visited early in the fall of 1834, and the authority of the story is Mrs. Caro line Regina Maria Smith, a lineal de scendant of Lord Richard Percival Bland. Mrs. Smith says that when Mr. Stephens was in Sava'nnah he met her self, then the wife of Edward Thomas Courtenay, her unmarried sister, Belle, and their father, and after the meeting Mr. Stephens asked permission to pay his addresses to Mr. Bland's daughter. Mr. Bland, on his return home, related to his daughter Belle what Mr. Steph ens had said, and she very pettishly said that she would not receive Mr. Stephens for a suitor, whereupon Mr. Courtenay spoke up and said : "I think my wife is the younger looking and the most handsome, and I would not be surprised if Mr. Stephens fell in love with my wife instead of you, Belle." The father of the ladies, patting his married daughter on the shoulder in an affectionate way, said : "I would not be surprised if Courtenay is right; I shall see Mr. Stephens and bring him around to tea this evening, and then we will find out." Later in the afternoon Mr. Bland met Mr. Stephens in the office of Mr. McLaws and asked him to which of the ladies he referred, and Mr. Stephens described the personal appearance of Mrs. Courtenay and remarked that she was the only lady he had ever met and loved at first sight; to which confession Mr. Bland made reply that the lady in question had been married. Mr. Stephens rejoined that he did not care if she had been married; that he desired to renew his request to pay his address es to her, and then Mr. Bland said : "My daughter's husband is living. and you see how vain your request Is." A shade of pain passed over the face of Mr. Stephens, and the invitation to tea was declined.-Savannah News. JUTE BAGGING OUSTED. Georgia Farmers to Use a Covering Made of Cotton. ATLANTA. GA., August 7.-The far mers of Georgia will never use jute again. The next crop will be clothed almost totally in cotton bagging, and jute will be thrown away. The Alli ance Exchange is busy continuously shipping cotton bagging, eveng this early period, in great qunt es to" Ahe various alliances all over the State, and the orderu~are-ificreasing every day. ML.d~-kWynn of the State Alliance Exchange has shipped 50,000O yards of cotton bagging to the alliances of Geor gia, and is busily occupied filling new; orders for the article every day. a "It will be used exclusively this se son," he said, "and although jute bag ging has become about one-fourth as costly as cotton bagging, none of it will be used. This would seem strange at first, but when you consider the matter you will find that it is the best plan for farmers to use cotton bagging, even though it is about four times the price of jute. It is selling for 16 cents a Dound, or about 12% cents per yard. Jute has gone down to 4 cents a pound or 8 cents a yard. "The reason that it is cheaper for the farmers to cover their cotton with cot ton bagging rather than with jute is because the consumption of cotton is increased considerably by using the cot ton bagging. This naturally increases the demand for cotton, and hence is profitable to the farmers by raising the price of cotton. If that rise is only half a cent the difference between the cost of jute and cotton bagging is coun terbalanced. You can see, therefore, the advisability of the farmers using cotton bagging. "Jute will nrot be known as a cover for cotton fibre a few years from now. It will never be used again for this p ur pose. Cotton bagging has whipped in the fight for all time." A movement will be brought before the meeting of the State Alliance, which is to be held in Atlanta soon, to estab lish a cotton bagging factory in this State for the alliance. The matter has been talked of before, but will be brought before the next meeting in a business-like shape.-New York Times. Ghastly sight at Long Branch. LONG BRANcu, N. J., August 6.--The wreck of a barge was washed ashore here two days ago. This morning an artist for Harper's Weekly was sketching the wreck when he saw projecting above the water abooted foot. Cor oner Vandeveer was immediately sum moned, with the idea that there was necessity foran inquest. He mounted the barge and was astonished to see the floating corpse of a man in a green jum per. The coroner took charge of the wreck, which was then explored, and three bodies were found. Her name or number cannot be ascertained. She may be coal barge, B. 13, which belongs to Heisley & Bros, Newport News, Va. The theory is held that she was the barge struck by the steamer Thingvalla. If that is the case, the barge had three men aboard of her. The names of those Onl the barge were Capt. Summer, Bob Wa ters and one Fleming. They left New port News on Saturday afternoon about 2 o'clock. Wonderful Vitality.1 GREENsBORO. N. C., Aug. 6.-At 4 o'clock yesterday morning a negro named Schofield Grant, alias Merritt, was killed on the Richmond and Dan yille track in the southern part of this city. He stepped off the main line out of the way of a train on a side track directly in front of a backing engine.1 He was knocked down and run over. 1 His body was cut almost completely in i two at the waist, only a shred of muscle i holding the two parts together. The I wheels of two cars and a tender passed I over, yet when the train stopped he told the hands how to take him out. He was laid on a skid and lived and talk ed calmly of his injuries for an hour or more. Occasionally he would glance! at the parts of his body lying around. The first of his relatives to reach him I was his aged grandmother, who dIrop- I ped dead after looking upon his injur-i Throats of Lynohing. MorroOMERLY, Aug. 7.-Will Join son, a negro boy, burglarized two houses in Opelika yesterday and to-day killed P. J. Moone, a merchant of Gold Hill, who was trying to arrest him. A special to The Advertiser says threats of lynch TWO TRAGEDIES. ONE AT AUGUSTA AND ONE NEAR CHARLESTON. Two Mon Meet on the Street and Ex chiange Shots--One Killed and the Other Wounded-The Cause of the Difticulty. AUGUSTA. Ga.. Aug. 2.-Mr. L. H. Patillo, travelling correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle, shot and killed Mr. Charles P. Hutson on the street to night. The two gentlemen met about 11 o'clock in front of the Hawthorn sa loon in Broad street, three doors above Jackson. There are no witnesses to the homicide. About six shoots were fired. Mr. Patillo received one bullet from Hutson's pistol in the right thigh. Pol iceman Baston caught Hutson as he was falling, attempting to fire another shot, but he was too weak to pull the trigger. As Hutson was gently laid on the ground he turned over and died. Both men fired five shots and only one from each pistol took effect. One of Hudson's fingers was broken, and this may be the effect of another of Patillo's bullets. Patillo was standing near the wall of the Hawthorn restaurant, and the sidewalk has been crowded all day with curious people looking at the marks made in the wall and window by the four bullets which missed Pattillo. Hudson was out near the curb when he fell, and a great pool of blood marked the spot where he died. Both men were near each other, and the dead man's face and hands were burned by the powder from his antagonist's pistol. Hudson lived for a few minutes after the shoot ing, but was unconcious. Patillo is receiving every possible attention at the Arlington Hotel. The cause of the tradegy is the subject on everybod's tongue to day. Of course there is a woman in the case. It is shocking to drag a woman's name into such affairs as these men have done, but it is generally understood that this is the origin of the difficulty. And, strange to say, the killing was not in defence of a woman's reputation, but simply the result of a seemingly insane jealousy. Mr. Patillo was married a few years ago to Miss Ella Hall, a beau tiful girl of Warren County, but they were divorced after a few months of unhappy and uncongenial married life. She had even resumed her maiden name, and was to all intents and purposes free and so deemed herself. It seems, how ever, that Patillo madly loved her and decleared time and again that he would kill any man who paid her attention. It is said he has made these threats to several young men who met and went out with his former wife, and it is sup posed that he had sent a simular mes sage to young Hudson, who met the lady here in Augusta about three month ago. Both young men have a host of friend here, and the deepest re grets are expressed at the sad occur rence. The Other Tragedy. Between 4 and 5 o'clock on Sunday morning W. H. Ahrens was killed by T. D. Green in the house of the latter it Ten Mile Hill, S. C., near Charles Lon. Ahrens has for some time been mixed up in the affairs of Green and his wife, mausing jealousy on the part of Green that resulted in a seperation of the man and wife. Since the seperation Ahrens as returned to visit Mrs. Green, which aused gossipy tongues to wag. Green mays he was informed of these reports and determined to see for himself if they were well founded. He says he went to his wife's house an Saturday night about 12 o'clock and aw through the blinds his wife and Ahrens sitting side by side drinking nd talking like man and wife. He re strained his impulse to enter and went away. Returning in the early morning e forced an entrance into the house nd founid Ahrens-and his wife in bed together. He says: "My wife screamed and waked Ahrens, who had a pistol uder his pillow and one on a mantel piece, but I had the drop on him and ired first." Green went to Charleston :n the first train and surrendered. Mrs. Green's story is that having her store robbed only recently, she was fraid of burglars-her son being in Dbarleston--and asked Ahrensi to stay Lntil he returned, at 11 o'clock. Ahrens at first declined, for fear of iving offence to Green, but she insis ~ed and he complied, but declined to go o bed saying he would sit up and guard he premises. She retired to her room ut did not undress, being uneasy. To i reporter for the News and Courier, Mrs. Green said: I was awakened between 4 and 5 when [ surely heard someone breaking into ihe window on the second floor. I ran lown stairs and cried out, 'Mr. Ahrens, someone is breaking in the up stairs window: Ahrens appeard to be oundly sleeping and did not seem to ear me. Waking up he looked dazed md reched for his pistol from the man ;elpiece. By this time I saw that the an behind me was Mr. T. D. Green, md he was right behind me on the steps. Bfore Abrens could get his pistol he was shot at by Mr. Green from the steps. The first must have killed him. or he fell after it and seemed to die lmost immediately. I will tell you ionestly, he had never seen or heard mything that would make him believe nie unfathful to him. I consider Mr. Ahrens's killing willful murder It was done without cause. Ahrens' body was found upon the loor of the room in his night clothes, Lnd was covered with a blood-stained iheet, which Mrs. Green claims her isband placed over him. Mrs. Green is a wvoman of striking ippearance, well developed, with hand some black eyes and hair, and appear mtly well educated. Her maiden name vas Miss Alice Shirer. She marriedl a tir. Appler, and after his death was wedded to Mr. Green. She owns the tore at Ten-Mile Hill and Is said to :ontrol about $40,000 worth of phos >hate lands. WhyTNot End It ? Why not end the political excitement n the State at once by nominating can lidates for the State officers at the Con rention to be held on the 13th of Au ust? In the language of the Rock Iill Herald "what is the use of waiting mtil September, when it must be clear o even the most rabid opposer of Capt. ilnan that there is no hope for any ther outcome of the struggle for the tubernatorial office than the endorse nent of the suggestion by the Farmers' jonvention ? What is the sense of con ining the strife and turmoil until september just to suit a few irrecon ilables who will not be satisfied with he nomination of Tillman by a~v ethod and would perhaps vote against im under any circumstances ? It is onceded by both factions that he will e the next Governor of this State, and or our part we are in favor of his be ng made the nominee of the Democrat e party for that office and a full State icket chosen at the August Conven ion, and in order to pave the way for hat result we think the State Execu ive Committee should rescind the call or the September Convention, and thus eavethe August convention free to act nd finish the whole business at once." A Murderous Negro Preacher. ATLANTA, August 3.-The attempt f a colored preacher, named WV. H. 3oone, in Gordon County, to kill by oison a family of ten persons, three of i victius being now dead, has created atense excitement, and the prisoner .nd his wife are carefully guarded in jail. Ic put rat poison in the food of a colored rime ou his wife, saying she was jeal us of Mrs Talley's affection for him. he wife puts it on her husband, saying e sought to obtain possession of Talley's rop. The oiher v'atimns arc not yet GROWTH UF THE CHURCH. Strength of the Different Denominations in the United States. The Independent has gathered some valuable and interesting statistics showing the strengLh of the various Christian Churches in the United States and their growth during the past year. In some cases the figures are estimates, but our contemporary believes that on the whole the results "very closely ap uroximate the truth." From these it appears that there are in the United States 151,261 churches of all denominations, 103,300 ministers and nearly 22,000.000 members. Dur ing the year there has been an increase of 8,500 churches, nearly 4,900 ministers and nearly 1,000,000 members. The most numerous denomination is the Roman Catholic, with its 7,500 churches, 8,300 priests, etc., and 8,277,000 population, of whom 4,676,000 are esti mated to be communicants. Then come the Methodists, with, in round numbers. 4,980.000 communi cants; Baptists,4,292.000; Presbyterians, 1,229.,000; Lutherans, 1,086,000; Congre gationalists, 491,000, and Episcopalians, 480,000. The increase in the Catholic popula tion during the year was 421,700. The estimated gain in Catholic communi cants was over 238,000. The gr-wth of Protestants member ship was 668,000. The Methodist gain ed more than 256,0000. the Baptists more than 313.000, the Lutherans 98,000, the Presbyterians nearly 49,000, the Con gregationalists more than 16,000. and the Episcopalians about 9,500. The accession of new members was even larger than these figures, since in every denomination there were deaths of members whose places were filled by new acquisitions. The number of deaths in the Methodist Episcopal body. for example, was reported at 28,300. This is a highly satisfactory and en couraging showing to all who have the welfare of the church at heart. A gain of nearly eleven hundred thousand in membership in one year, with a corres ponding increase in the number of churches and ministers, indicates that Chistianity is marching on with no un certain stride. As our contemporary well says, "It is in itself a most over whelming refutation of the assertions we hear now and then from various quarters that Christianity is losing its hold upon our people, and that our churches are declining."-New York Sun. DICTATOR REED. An Indignant Democrat Gives H Im Rasping. WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-The House resumed the consideration of the Senate amendments to the sundry civil appro priation bill, the question being on non concurring in the Senate amendment appropriating 850,000 for a light -iouse near Maryland Point, Potomac River. Mr. Rogers, of Arkansas, rose, and, be ing recognized by the Speaker, said that he wished to submit a few remarks. Mr. Cannon made the point that de- I bate was not in order. The Speaker was at first inclined to sustain this point, but, after debate, in order to save time, he recognized Mr. Cannon to move the previous question. Against this Mr. Rogers protested, saying this was the second time the Speaker, after having recognized him, had summarily taken him off the floor. The Speaker thought that he had I always treated the gentleman with po liteness and respect. The Chair had not recognized the gentleman for debate. When the gentleman rose of course the Chair could not tell what he rose for1 until he stated it. Mr. Rogers suggested that when no one was occupying the floor and agentle man rose and was recognized it was none of the Chair's business what he was re cognized for.1 The Speaker: "The-Chair respectfully states that it is the Chair's business as Speaker of the House." Mfr. Rogers: "The Chair arrogates that TLhe Speaker: "The Chair arrogatesi nothing. The Chair acts as Speaker of the House. He has always endeavored] to act towards the gentleman with entire fairness and respect. Mr. Rogers: 'It is a difference of opin ion." The Speaker: "It is a difference of opionion which this House can and does base its judgment on." fr. Rogers:"I have no doubt about that, and I have no doubt what the ver-t dict is." The Speaker: "I have not either." Mr. Rogers remarked: "That was one point on which the Speaker and he agreed." The previous question was ordered on non-concurring in the Senate amend ment. No quorum voted and the House adjourned.________ FIGHTING THE FORCE BILL. Bainess Men North and south Work To gether. WASHINGTON, August 8.-The busi ness men :of the North are joining hands with their brethren of the South in protesting against the passage of the force bill at this time. A conference is said to have been held at Senator Qnay's residence last night, participat ed in by Senators Plumb, Teller and several other recalcitrants so far as the tariff bill is concerned. There were also present several representative ~ manufacturers from New .York and Philadelphia for a general discussion of the tariff bill. The manufacturers 1 said that the business men of the coun try are deeply interested in the speedy adjustment of the tariff question, for while it is pending commercial inter ests are in a very unsettled condition. They are aware that the force bill stands in the way of a prompt disposi tion of the tariff bill, and they appealed to their Republican friends in the Sen ate to give to the business interests the preference over the politicians. There is a growing impression in Congressional circles that the force bill will have to be side-tracked in order to secure the passage of the tariff bill. The Democrats in the Senate and House have it in their power to prolong the p resent session indefinitely, and the Republicans are beginning to appreci ate that fact. Speaker Reed showedC the first signs of weakening to-day,a wvhen he admitted to yc ur correspond- a ent that the Democrats have hit upon t a new plan for filibustering by de-t manding a roll-call on every proposi tion that comes up. He has been keep. ing count of them, and he finds that the roll has been called over 350 times ai during the present session, aggregating n something like ten days. lHe is also commencing to complain of the lack of courage on the part of the Senate in forcing the consideration of public business, and he congratu- ~ lates the majority in the Hlouse on C what it has accomplished, and is ready ~ to shift the responsibility for the ' failure of any general legislation upon C the Senate.-News, and Courier. S r: Tima Daily Champion, of Atchison, Kansas, founded by and edited by thea late Governor John A. Martin. has come out squarely for free trade. For thirty years it has been a stalwart Republican organ, and the active defender of the protective idea. While still retaining its Republican principles, it says that hi the West has no use for protection. "The Western farmer," it says. "has no f interest whatever in a protective tariff. fi His interest lies in the direction of free o trade and access to all markets where- a ever his products may be in demand." PRnESIDENT Celnman appointed too ,a many relatives to otlice; hence the !1 trouble in the Argentine Republic. I " President Harrison has not a known re- |bl lative or connection unprovided with al an office save one who is a Democrat, [e THE FARMERS ALOUSED. THEY WILL RIGHT THE WRONGS OF ALL THE PEOPLE. imue Kind Words from one or the Lead ing Agricultural Journals of the Coun try-Some of the Thing the Farmers Should Do Pointed Out. More than ever before the. politicians ire asking what the farmers intend to lo in politics. North and South the 3ommanding force of the farmer's vote s recognized. Heretofore the farmer3 have marched to the polls likethe sheep :o the shambles, but at last they realize 'he situation and intend to count for as much as the negro vote, the prohibition rote. the libor vote, the Irish vote, the lerman vote, or the purchasable vote. Into the merits of the various local :ontests Home and Farm can not enter. We cover a vast field, and in that ter .itory there are numerous local causes >f oppression with which only local >rganizations and local agitation can leal. In some sections county asess nents are unfair, county expenses are axtravagant .and county taxation is igh. The remedy here would be to yut better Men in local offices. Inother iections the difficulty is with the State governments, with the Legislature, Arith various commissions, or with the lovernor himself. Elsewhere it is with the courts, or, as n Louisiana, the enemy of all enemies, lebauching public sentiment and defy ng the moral law, is the lottery com pany. Again and every where the far ners are suffering from a vicious sys ;em of nationaI taxation. and from reckless extravagance in appropriation. Congress has increased pension ap propriations to $167,000,000; it is offer ng subsidies to steamships and sub sidies to the sugar trust; almost every tern in the appropiation bills shows an ncrease, but the opinion at Washing 'on seems to be that there is little to ear from the farmers' vote. They will think differently when the votes are counted in the fall. In the meantime we wish to give to the far ners a few words of caution, in order ,hat they may not fall in error and dis ipate their strength in attempts to do what can not be done. In the first place, there is no power in government ;o make an idle, ignorant farmer rich. armers can not be made rich by help )f the government; only by what he Jigs from the soil. The trouble hereto ore has been that the government has lirectly and indirectly taken a large art of what the farmer raised and ap ropriates it to the support of other nen in idleness. Farmers are not communists; they lo not propose to rob any body; they dmply do not propose to be robbed any onger. What the farmers have to do s simply to repeal bad laws; stop ex ravagance, and punish crime. This is L great undertaking, and beset with lifficulty. In the first place, hundreds )f politicians will stuff their trousers n their boots and parade as special riends of the homey-handed son of ;oil. Others entirely sincere. and un ielfish, will over-state the case in the ndictment of public officials, and when )rought to book will have to explain or tpologize. Others still will present irude and undigested plans of reform, flans like Bellamy's nationalism,which, iave in their essential features, been xperimented with and abandoned. It is well to Iceep in mind the fact hat a few years ago the American !gricultural Association was announ ed as the special foe of monopoly and he friend of the farmer, but in a few rears the secretary, in his role of the 'armer's friend, was exposed in his at emptto unload on the grangers alot of -orthless mining stocr, while the ac ive organizer, Mr. Thurber, is now be ~ore Congress asking for subsidy for his steamship lines. Every man who cries, 'Lord. Lord !" shall not enter the king lomn of heaven. Furthermore, let us consider the fact hat a majority of the people of America re honest, patriotic. wveil-meaning per ons, who have no enmity to the far ner or to the farmer's interest. They iave simply been made bo~~o~ de igning politicians, as the a hemselves have been. The cause of the farmers must be so resented as to appeal to the intelli ~ence, to the morality, to the sober econd thought of all classesin the com nunity. The most important interests f the farmer are interests common to il classes. and they must all be united n onae coramon platform of equal and ~xact taxation to all men, exclusive >rivileges to none. It is not possible o right one wrong by committing an >ther. The evil of taxing the farmer o enrich the manufacturer is not ighted by taxing the mechanic to en ich the farmer. What should be done s to abolish all systems of taxation vhich enrich one class at the expense >f another. All that the farmer wants is fair play, ood government, low taxes and justice like to the rich and poor. He will con endl for all this as best he can, gaining ere a little and there a little until the vhole field has been won.-Hlome and ~arin. They Cannot Be Bought. The Washington correspondent of The Iacon Telegraph declearsthat President arrison and Speaker Reed are looking ith the reatest comfort upon the Far aers' Allhance movement in the South, ,nd are encourging the Alliance leaders ,good deaL This correspondent states urthermore that the Republicans have ecided that wherever the Allmance ovement is found to benefit the Repub ican party Alliancemen shall have the cal offices. In dozens of counties-in outh Carolina every postmaster recent y appointed by Harrison is a member f this organization. This scheme won't rork in South Carolina, and President arrison and Speaker Reed will soon nid it out. As the Augusta Chronicle ays "'the farmers of Georgia and South ~arolina are Democrats, and cannot be on over by postoflices or government- - ositions. D~emocrats in the Seutr liffering among themselves, bnt in the ace of the fc:e bill and the sectional agislation of the Reed-Harrison party he Democrat, will never divide and let a a Trojan horse. The farmers are the ackbone of the D~emocratic party in ese states. They may be misled t times, but they always get right, and ey never afterwards trust the men who eceived them. We look with interest t the dlistribution of the postoffices mong Alliancemen. Southern farmers re not made of the treacherous stuff at the Reed-Harrison combine seems >tbeieve them to be." Warning Weak Humanity. ROCHESTER. N. Y., July 31.-Over month ago J. W. Sillck, a commercial ian of good appearance, representing Boston firm, registered at the new )sburn House. where he remained for me time, drinking pretty hard, but aing his bills. Yesterday he complain d of' not feeling well, and to-day about oon Clerk Sheldon mIssed him and -ent to his room. The door was locked, i breaking in Mr. Sheldon found Sillick trehed on the bed, dead. He had taken it poison. lHe left a letter warning young men ~ainst alcoholie stimulants and op'nn ad roundly denouncing the false friends ho had tirst led him into an opium joint-" His letter stated that he was short in s accounts wvith his firm, and concluded: "Andl now may the all merciful God rive me. Let this be a wvarninlg to all r I would like it posted over the door every rum shop and opium den in the old. Good-bye." T HlE }MOSton Commercial Advertiser, stalwart Republican organ, manfuil gives up the fight for the force bill. [t is very doubtful," It says, "if the 11 can demand a majority of the Sen e at this time, and with the determmn I tight which is sure to be made against , its prospects are anything but bril