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THE TIRELE5S LITTLE TODDLER.: lie toddles, toddles all the day And never seems to tire. - This little iran in baby c:othes Who's full of youthful fire. He jabbers, jabbers all the day And never will be still, This little boss with flaxen hair Who lives at Copenhill, lie wanders underneath the treV With his beloved Pat, A little fuzzy dog Who's death to every rat. ie talks about the su and nnon In his peculiar way I [is m ania understands him, though In all he has to say. lie isjutt the dearest little chap Who loves to laugh and peep At one and all and littl'arms Around my neck will creep. And then he always has to grunt le loves so awfully hard: This little nian in baby clottes I pray the Lord to guard. FROM YOUTH TO AGE. PR. Dr. Taimagts InterestlIng D~scourae Through the Pre as. ERCoKLYN, July 8.-Rev. Dr. Tal mage, who is now nearing the antipodes on his round the world journey, has selected as the subject for bie sermon through the press today "Thi Rustic In the Palace," the text beieg taken from Genesis xlv, 28, "I will go and see him before I die." Jacob had long since passed the hun. dred year milestone. In those times people were distinguished for longevity. In the centuries afterward persons lived to great age. Galen, the most celebrated physician of his time, took so little cf his own medlcine that he lived to 140 years. A. man of undoubted veracity on the witness stand in England swore that he remembered an event 150 before. Lord Bacon speaks of a ccuntess who had cut three sets of teeth and died at 140 years. Joseph Crele of Pennsylvania lived 140 years. In 1857 a book was printed con tainmg the names of 37 persons who lived 140 years ana mne names of 11 per sons who lived 150 years. Among the grand old people of whom we have record was Jacob, the shepherd of the text. But he had a bad lot of boys. They werejealous and ambitious and ev - ery way unprincipled. Joseph, however, seemed to be and exceptisn, but he had been gone many years and the probabil ity was that he was dead. As some times now in a house you will find kept at the table vacant chair, a plate, a knife, a fork, for some deceased member of the family, so Jacob kept in his heart a place for his beloved Joseph. There sits the old man, the flock of 140 years in their fight having alighted long enough to leave the marks of their claw on fore head and cheek and temple. His long - beard snows down over his chest. His eyes are somewhat dim, and he can see farther when they are closed than when they are open, for he can see clear back into the time when beautiful Rachel, his wife, was living, ad his childrren shook the oriental abode with their merriment. The centenarian is sitting dreammng over the past when he hears a wagon zumbling to the front door. He gets up - and goes to the door to see who has ar rived, and his long absent sons from Egypt come in and announce to him thas Joseph, instead of being dead, is *living inaniEgyptian palace with all the investiture of prime minister next to the king in the mightest empire of all the world! The news was too sudden and too glad for t'2e old man, and his cheeks whiten, and he has a dazed look, and his staff falls out of his hand; and he would have dropped had not the sons canght him and led'nim to a lounge ard put cold water on his face and fanned hnma little. In that hal delirium the old man mumbles something about his son Jos eph. He says: "You don't mean Jos eph, do you-my dear son, who has been dead so long? You don't mean Joseph, do you?" But after they had fully re sncitated him and the news was con firmed the tears begin their winding way down the crossroads of the wrinkles, and the sunken lips of the old man quiver, and he brings his bent fingers together as he says: "Joseph is yet alive. I will go and see him beforelIdie." It did not take the old man a great while to get ready, I warrant you. He put on the best clothes that the shep herd's wardrobe could afford. He got into the wagon, and though the aged are cautious and like to ride slow the wagon did not get along fast enough for this old man, and when the wagon with the old man met Joseph's chariot coming.down to meet him, and Joseph goc out oi the chariot and got into the wagon and threw his arms around his father's neck, it, was an antithesis of royalty and rusticity, of sunplicity and pomp, filial sfection and paternal love, which leaves us so much mn doubt about whether we had betterlaugh or cry that we do both. So Jacob kept the resolution of the text, "I willlgo and see himbeforelIdie." What a strong and unfailing thing is parental attachment! Was it not al most time for Jacob to forget Joseph? The hot suns of many summers . had blazed on the heath; the river Nile had1 overflowed and receded, overflowed and receded again and again; the seed had been sown and harvest reaped. Stars rose and set. Years of plenty and years of famine had passed on, but the love of Jacob for Joseph in my text is over whelmingly dramatic. Oh, that is a cord that is not snapped, though pulled on Dy many decades! Though when the fittle child expired the parents may. not have been more than 25 sears of-1 age and now they are 75. yet the vision of the cradle, and the childish face, and the first utterances of the infantile lips are fresh today, in spite of the passage of a half century. Joseph was as fresh in Jacob's memory as ever, though at 17 years of age the boy had disappeared from. the old homestead. I found in oar family record the story ofan infant that had died 50 years before, and I said to my parents, "What is this record, and what does it mean?" Their chief answer was a long, deep sigh. It was yet to them a very tender sorrow. What does that all mean? Why, it means our children departed are ours yet, and that cord of attachment reach ing across the years will hold us until it brings us together mn the palace, as Jacob and Joseph were brought together. That is one thing that make old people die happy. They realize it is reunion with I those from whom they have long been seperated. I am often asked as pastor, and every I pastor is asked the question, "will my I children be children in heaven and for-< ever children?" Well, there was no I doubt a great change in Joseph from the1 time Jacob lost him and the time when Jacob found him-between the boy 17 years of age and the man in midlife, hisi forehead developed with the great busi - ness of state, but Jacob was glad to geti Joseph back anyhow, and it did not< make much diference to the old man I whether the boy looked older or looked I younger. And it will be encugh joy for that parent if he can get back that son, that daughter, at the gate of heaven, whether the departed loved one shall come a cherub or in full grown angel by that cricaal climi te and by those supernal years, but it will only be from loveliness to more loveliness, and from health to more radiant health. O parent, as you tMink of the darling pantimn and white in trembraneous crcup, I want ycu to know it will be gloricusly bettered in that land where there has never been a death and where all the inhabitants will live on in the great future as Goc! Joseph was -1 oseph notwithstand the palace, and your child will be your child notwithstandinz all the raining splendors of everlascnrr noon. What a thrillin- visit was that of the <ld shepherd to the prime minister, J.Yseph! I see the old countrman seated in the palace locktng arcund at the mirrors, and the tcuntains, and the carved pillars, and oh, how be wishes that Rachel, his wife was alive and she could have come there with him to see their sot in this great hous(! "Oh," ssys -he cid nan withiu himself, "I do wish ibechel could be here to see all this!" j I visited at the larmh use of the fa ther of Millard FAIlmore when the son was president of the United States and the octogenarian farmer entertaiced me until 11 o'clock at night, telling me what great things he saw in his son's hcuse at Washington, and what Daniel Webster said to him, and how grandly Millard treated his father In the White House. The old man's face was illum ined with the story until almost the midnight. He had just been visiting his son at the capital. And I suppose it was something of the same j->y that thrilled the heart of the old shepherd as be stood in the palace of the prime min ister. It is a great day with you when your old parents come to visit you. Ycur little children stand arcund with great wide open eyes, won dering how any body could be so old. The parents cannot stay many days, Icr they are a little restless, and especially at nightfall, be cause they sleep better in their own bed, but while they tarry you somehow Feel there is a benediction in every room in the house. They are a little feeble, and you make it as easy as you can for them, and you realize they will proba. bly not visit you very often-perhaps never again You go to their room after they bave retired at night to see it the lights are properly put out, for the old people understood candle and lamp bet; Ler than the modern apparatus for illu mination. In the morning, with real interest in their health, vou ask them ow they rested last night. Joseph, in the historical scene of the text, did not think any more of his fa iher than you do of your parents. The probability is, before they leave your ouse they half spoil your children with kindness. Grandfather and grandmoth .r are more lenient and indulgent to your children than they were with you. nd what wonders ot revelation in the ombazine pocket of the one and the leeve of the other. Blessed is that iome where Christian parents come to risit! Whatever may have been the ityle of architecture when they came, it s a palace before they leave. If they isit you 50 times, the two most memo -able visits will be the first and the last. hose two pictures will hang in the iall of your memory while memory lasts ind you will remember just how they ooked, and where they sat, and what hey said, and at what figure of the car >et, and at what doorsill they parted iith you, giving you the final goodbye. Do not be embarrassed if your father ome to town and he have the manners f the shepherd, and if your mother ome to town and there be in her hat no ign of costly millinery. The wife of he Emperor Theodosius said a wise hing whlen she said, "Husbands, re nember what you lately were, and re. nemnber what you are, and be thankful," By this time you all notice what kind y provision Joseph made for his father, acob. Joseph did not say: "I can't ave the old man around this place. Eow clumsy he would look climbing up bee marble stairs and walking over ese mosaics! Then he would be put ing his hands upon some of these hies oes. People would wonder where that >ld ereenhorn came from. He would hock all the Egyptian court with his nanners at table. Besides that he might get sick on my hands, and he might be inerulous, and he mIght talk to me as iough I were only a boy, when I am he second man in all the realm. Of :ourse he must not suffer, and it there famine in his country-and I hear bere is-I will send some provisions, >ut I can't take a man from Padanaram Lnd introduce him int- this polite Egyp in court. What a nuisance it is to iae noor relatione! Joseph did not say that but he rushed >t to meet his father with perfect aban ion of affection and brought him up to be palace and introduced him to the ~mperor and provided for all the rest of he father's days, and nothing was too ~ood fo: the old man while living. And when he was dead, Joseph, with milita y escort, took his father's remains to e family cemetery. Would God all ~hildren were as kind to their parents! If the father have large property, and i be wise enough to keep it in in his wu name, he will be respected by the eirs, but how often it is when the son nds his father in famine, as Joseph ound Jacob in famine, the young people nake it very hard for the old matD! They Ire so surprised he eats with a knife in tead of a fork. They are chagrined at is antediluvian habits. They are pro. roked because he cannot hear as well as is used to, and when he asks it over gain, and the son has to repeat it, he >awls in the old man's ear, "I hope you ear that!" How long he must werr he old coat or the old hat before they et him a new one! How chagrined bey are at his independence of the En lsh grammar! How long he hangs oni seventy years and not gone yet! Seven y five years and not gone yet! Eighty ~ears and not gone yet! Will he ever ro? They think it is of no use to have a loctor in his last sickness, and go up to be di-g store, and get a dose of some hing that makes him worse, and econo nise on a coffin, and beat the undertak r down to the last point, giving a note or the rednced amount which they never >ay I have officiated at obsequies o iged people where the family have been o inordinately resigned to providence hat I felt like taking my text from ?roverbs, "The eye that mocketh at ts father and refuseth to obey its moth tr, the ravens of the valley shall pick it >t, and the young eagles shall eat it." n other words, such an ingrate ought o have a fiock af crows for pallbearers! congratulate you if you have the onor of providing for aged parents. ['he blessing of the Lord God of Joseph nd Jacob will be on you. I rejoice to remember that, though ny father lived in a plain house the most of his days, he died in a mansion rovided by the filial piety of a son who tad achieved a fortune. There the oc. ogenarian sat and the servants waited in him, and there were plenty of car isges to convey him, and a bower in rhich to sit on long summer afterncons, reamimg of the past, and there was not room in the house where he was not relcome, and there were musical instru ents of all sorts to regale him, and when lhfe had passed the neighbors came >t and expressed all honor possible nd carried him to the village Machpe a and put him down beside the Itach 1 with whomn.he had hved more than ialf a century. Share your successes qith the old people. The probability that the principles they inculcated chieed your fortune. Give them a ation. Lei Josep% dcvid wit1 Jacob the pasture nelds oi Goshen and the glories of the Egypiiau court. And here 1 would like to sing the praises of the sisterhood who remain unmarried that they might administer to aged parents. The brutal world calls these self sacriticing ones peculiar or angular, but if you had had as mr y annoyances as they have had Lantippe would have been an angel compared to you. It is easier tj take care of live rollicking, romping children, than of one childish old n'an. Among the best woman are those who allowed the bloom of life to pass away while they were caring for f"eir parents. WVhile other maidens *ere sound asleep they were soaking the old man's feet or tucking up th covers around the in valid mother. While other maidens were in the coijllon they were dancing attendance upon rheumatism, and spreading plasters for the lame back of the septenarian, and heating catnip tea for insomnia. In almost every circle of our kindred there has been some queen of self sacrilice to whom jeweled hand after jeweled hand was offered in marriage, but who staid on the old place because of the sense of filial obligation until the health was gone and the attract iveness of personal presence had vanished. Brutal scciety may call such a one by.a nickname. God calls her daughter, and heaven calls her saint, and I call her domestic martyr A half dozen ordinary woman have. not as much nobility as could be found in the smallest joint of the little finger of her left band. Although the world has stood G,000 years, this is the first apotheosis of maidenhood, although in the the long line of those who have de clined marriage that they might be qualified for some especial mission are the names of Anna Ross and Margaret Breckinridge and Mary Shelton and Anna Etheridge and Georgiana Vil letts, the angels of the battlefields of Fair Oaks and Lookout Mountain and Chancellorsville, and though single life has been honored by the fact that the three grandest men of the Bible-John and Paul and Christ-were celibates. Let the ungrateful world sneer at the maiden aunt, but God has a throne burnished for her arrival, and one side of that throne in heaven there is a vase containing two jewels, the one bright er than the Kohinoor of London Tower, and the other larger than any diamond ever found in the districts of Golconda -the one jewel by the lipidary of the palace cut with the words, "Inasmuch as ye did it to father;" the other jewel by the lapidary of the palace cut with the words, "Inasmuch as ye aid it to mother." "Over the Hills to the Poor house" is the exquisite ballad of Will Carleton, who tound an old woman who had been turned off by her pros perous sons, but I thank God I may find in my text "Over the hills to the palace." - As if to disgust us with unfilial con duct, the Bible presents us the story of Micah, who stole the 1,100 shekles from his mother, and story of Absalem, who tried to dethrone his father. But all history is beautiful with stories of filial fidelity. Epaminondas, the warrier, found his chief delight In reciting to his parents his victories. There goes saeas from burning Troy, on his shoulders Anchises, his farther The Athenians punished with death unfilial conduct. . There goes beautiful Ruth escorting vener able Naomi across the desert amid the howling of the wolves and the barking of the jackals. John Lawrence, burn ed at the stake in Colchester, was cheer ed in the flames by his children, who said, "0 God, strengthen thy servant and keep tny pormise!" And Christ in the hour of excruciation provided for bis old mother. Jacob kept his resolu tion, "I will go and see liim before I ie and a little while after we figd them walking the tesselated iloor of the palace, Jacob and Joseph, the prIme minister proud of the shepherd. I may say In regard to the most of you that your parents have probably visited you for last time or will soon pay you such a visit, and I have won dered if they will ever visit you in the king's palace. "Oh," you say, "I am in the pit of sin!" Joseph was in the pit. "Oh," you say, "I am in the prison of mine iniquity !" Joseph was once in prison. "Oh," you say, "I didn't have a fair chance. I was denied maternal kindness!" Joseph was denied maternal attendance, "Oh," you say, I am far away from the land of my nativity!" oseph was far from home. "Oh," you say, "I have been betrayed and exas perated!" Did not Joseph's brethren sell him to a passing Ishmaelitish car ayan ? Yet God brought him to that emblazoned residence, and if you will trust his grace in Jesus Christ.you, too, will be empalaced. Oh, what a day that will be when the ld folks come from an adjoining man sion in heaven and find you amid the alabaster pillars of the throneroom and livmng with the King! They are com ing up the steps now, and the epauleted uard of the palace rushes in and says, Your father's coming, your mother's oming!" And when under the arches of precious stones and on the pavement of porphyry you greet each other the scene will eclipse the meeting on the Goshen high Ray, when Joseph and Ja ob fell odl each otner's neck and wept a good while. But, oh, how changed the old folks will be! Their cheek smoothed into the lesh of a little chIld. Their stooped posture lifted into immortal symmetry. Their foot now so feeble, then with the sprightlines of a bounding roe, as they shall say to you, "A spirit passed this way from earth and told us that you were wayward and dissipated after we left the world, but you have repented, ur prayer has been answered, and you are here. And as we used to visit you ou earth before we died now we visit you in your ne w home after cur ascen sion." And father will say, "Mother, on't you see Joseph is yet alire ?" and :other will say, "Yes, father, Josheph s yet alive." And then they will talk ver their earthly anxieties in regard to you, and the midnight supplcations in your behalf, and they will recite to each other the old Scripture passage with which they used to cheer their staggering faith, "I will be a God to thee and thy seed after thee." Oh, the palace, the palace, the palace! That is what Richard Baxter called "the saints' verlasting rest." That is what John Bunyan called the "Celestial City." Tat is Young's "Night Thoughts" urned into morning exultatlons. That s Gray's "Elegy In a Churchyard" urned to resurrection spetacle. That is the "Cotter's Saturday Night" ex hanged for the cotter's Sabbath morn ing. That is the shepherd of Salisbury plains amid the flocks on the hills of eaven. That Is the famine struck Pad maram turned into the rich pasture fields of Goshen. That is Jacob visit. ing Joseph at the emerald castle. Burned the Tent. WILKESBARRtE, July 1.--The great est excitemsent prevails in Miners Mills bree miles north of here, owing to the urning of the Moody gospel tent. The tent was being pitched in various por tions of the Wyoming valley for the past month, and by an alliance of all the clergymen and united chorus choirs ogether with the'personal efforts of oody and Sanky. Major Whittle, Mr. Bliss, Mr. Stebbins and a dozen other assistants, several hundred people h~ave been led to the churches. The night's eeting was the first for which the tent had been used at Miners Mills, it aving just been taken there from shley. After the servidce Watchman eorge Thompson was left in charge t midnight he saw two suspicious 1 baracters around. They were sur rsed at seeing a watenmnan, and ran of without replying to his challenge.. ater the same two appeared and en gaged his attention at one side of the tent, while an accomplice crept tip and I brew a quantity of oily waste on the1 ranvass and set it on fire, and escaped without his identity being discovered md Watchman Thompson can only 1 giv4 a gner.a description of the men, AcSESSMENT OF REAL ESTATE. The State BOard ot Eqiualizit tons R1ise8 J Seven Per Cent, CoiLnuMti, S. C., July 14.-The Stat IFcard of Equalization completed it work of adjusting the tax assessmen on all real property in the State. Th result isan average raise in the values as reported by the County Auditors. o 7 per cent. for the whole State, whici is equivalent to an increaso of the valui of all real taxable property of abou SC.000,000. This makes the total valu, now about $101,000,000. The Board met at 10 o'clock and re sume(1 the consideration of the distric committee reports. At 1:30 p. m. thi Board adjourned and reasembled at 3:31 p. m. and continued its labors until : completion of them was reached at 5:31 p. m., when it adjourned sine die. The following are the charges mad, as to the County Auditors' reports. Abbeville-2 per cent. added. Aiken-5 per cent. added. Anderson-2 per cent. added. Barnwell-i per cent. added. Beaufort- 5 per cent. off. Berkeley-5 per cent. off. Charleston-5 per cent. added. Chester-2 per cent. added. Chesterlield-5 per cent added. Clarendon-12 per cent. added. Colleton-5 per cent. added. Darlington-5 per cent. added. Edgefield-10 per cent. added. Fair field-10 per cent. added. Florence-; per cent. added. Georgetown-5 per cent. added: Greenville-2 per cent. added. Hampton-5 per cent. added. Horry-10 per cent. added. Kershaw-13 per cent. added. Lancaster-5 per cent. added. Lsurens-6 per cent. added. Lexington-15 per cent. added. Marion-15 per cent. added. Marlboro-5 per cent. added. Newberry-2 per cent. added. Oconee-12 per cent. added. Orangeburg-10 per cent. added. Pickens-12 per cent. added. Richland-5 per cent. added. Spartanburg-2 per cent. added. Sumter-17 per cent. added. Union-2 per cent. added. Williamsburg-5 per cent. added. York-2 per cent. added. On motion of Colonel Stokes of Colle ton a committee was appointed to pre sent the following memorial to the Leg islature: Whereas the Legislature in its wis dom and liberality at its last sessioi suspended the collection of taxes in th4 storms swept region of our State for thi fiscal year 1893, and extended the timt for the payment of the same to the fal of 1894; whereas the distruction of th property was greater and the scope o: territory far exceeded in extent, injur3 to property and damage to crops, s( that our paople were reduced in a greal many instances to want and absolut destitution, depending upon the aid o others for meansof support the pasi year; whereas the action of the Legis ature was only partial in the sense o relief; therefore, be it Resolved, That it is the sense of thi Board that the said taxes of 1893 shouli be remitted altogether, and that a com mittee of our body be appointed to me morialize the Legislature upon th ubject of relief indicated and any kin :red matter. The following gentlemen compost the committee: Theron Earle, Green ville; W. D. Scarboro, Sumter; F. P Hlardee, Beaufort; J. E. Pettigrew Florence; Dr. H. Baer, Charleston. The following resolution offered b3 Colonel Stokes was adopted: Whereas, there is some misunder tanding in relation to the scope of da ties of this body in respect to persona "property, and tbe right of appeal as t< where it vests the appellate court as t< the special subject of taxation, includ ing banking property of a personal na ture, and character; tberefore be It Resolved, That in the opinion of oul Board that all appeals by the taxpaye1 an only be from the Board of Assess ors to the County Board of Equaliza tion, which B'oard has cognizance o the subject matter and its decision it final. That there is an underlyiha principle of law that the right of thi State to appeal does not exist . T[he gentlemen who composed thi Board have performed a work of greal mportance. The work was hard ant the strain severe. They deserve th' thanks and commendation of the peo pie for the thorough and satisfactor: manner with which it was done. Thej were all glad when their labors were completed and nearly all of them lef| for home on the first train.-Register Many Lives Lest by Earthquake. CONSTANTTNoPLE, July 11.-Fou: rresh shocks of earthquake were felt hera today. Up to this morning many house: bave fallen at Stamboul. At Grant Bazaar, thejiewellers' quarter fell thi: morning~ occasioning the greatest con fusion. The merchants fled in terror leaving their valuables behind them Many shop-keepers and passers-by wer' bured beneath the ruins. It is impossi ble as yet to give the number of peopli killed and injured, but it is known tha over 150 people are buried beneath the debris. The Regie tobacco factory ant other houses at Djouvali have been seri ously damaged and several persona havt been killed in that quarter. The shocd was very severe at the Princes Island At Prinkipo the Orthodox church ani many elegant houses and villas wert destoyed. In Constantinople four houset ell and a nu uber of others were dam iged. Five people were Ellled. Al lalatea ten were killed and great dam. age was done to property. At the vil lage of Stefano the Catholic church ani monastery fell, burying eleven persont beneath its ruins. From nearly all the illage in the vimicity came similar re oorts, except from about the Bosphorni where the damage was slight. Publn buildings generally escaped. No newt s to be had fr,)m the provinces, as the wires are all down, It is reported that he village of Adabazaar has been com plately wiped out of existence. Nc English or American victims are reported rom any part of the earthq1uake.-shaker listrict. Many houses nave collapsed ncludng several foreign villas in Soythe md Missi, where four persons were illed. Ca the Island of Halki nearly ml the houses were wrecked. A portior f the Ottoman Naval College fell, kill g six people and iniuring several oth rs. At Monastir the Orthodox churcb md a portion of the seminary fell, kill ng one of the priests and injmiing sev ral others. Ca the Island of Antigon ill the buildings except the monasteries were wrecked. Race Riot. SCOTTDA LE, Pa., July 9.-One hun red armed negroes marched into Scottdale today. They carried revolv 3rs and clubs. When Burgess Robinson rdered them to disperse they opened ire on him. Then Burgess called a aumber of citizens to his assistance md a general riot resulted. The ne troes ran pursued by 1,000 citizens. Fully 200 shots were fired. Two ne roes were shot, one fatally and others were badly beaten. They escaped to ayette county and went to McClure's Works, where they are said to be re~ ~ruiting forces, preparatory to making m attack on the town. The wildest ~xcitement prevails. The Burgess has isked the citizens to arm themselves to epel the anticipateu attack, One of ne negroes who was shot in the head vas brought to Scottdale. Threats of ynching are heard on all sides, The uns of Veterans, armed with rites, ave been called out and are on guard it the lockup. The negroes are headed >y 5anford white, superintendent of he 31cClure Coke Company. They are iow at the borough limits and an irmed body of citizens have just gone . meet them. A battle is expected In hormt time. HLE IS V ERY MAD. t WADDILL, GIVES THE GOVERNOR A PIECE OF HIS MIND. s He ."ys a Great Many Hard Thioge About t Tiliman--He Wan Oace a Friend of the Governor'm, bat Now He in a Hitter Enemy. CoLrumrI, S. C., July 11.-The tol lowing letter explains itself: 3 To the Public. A few days ago Gov ernor TIllmau cowardly attempted to hold me up to the scorn of the people of my country. I was denied the oppor tunity to reply to this charge oi hs The Governor denied callinz me by name, but his friends and coat-tail swingiers did it for him. 1 had information of the matter the day before, hecce lie is guilty of false hood and cowardice in the same breath. My former advocacy of Tillman and prominence in Alliance work and pres eat position cause me to become an ob. ject of Tillman's hate and vindictive ness. I wish to retire from active partici. pation In'politics, but before I do I want to put myself right before the people of Darlington county and the State at large. Governor Tillman charges me with being in the pay of Wall street. I sell flour for J. A. 0. Moore, broker, Darlington, and one of Tillman's best friends. 1 am also agent for the Home Supply Associa tion of Chicago. Because I will no lon ger worship the false and ugly God, Tillman, I am to be slandered by this selfish, mean fraud; for he is nothing but a fraud, a traitor to the Reform Move ment and to the Alliauce. One of the first acts of treachery was to the Reformers of Darington county in making an appointment which was in violation of his solemn pledge made in his first address at this place in 1890 and reiterated to several gentlemen in his of. fice in Columbia. Then violation after violation of his pledges to the Alliance at Spartanburg in 1891, and May con vention, 1892. Tillman is in the inter . est and I believe, in the pay of Tam- t many Hall. Tillman denies voting for Hill at Chicago. I don't believe he can t prove it, and, if he does, he can not dis prove his advocacy of Hill before the convention at Chicago, for he took the delegation (all that he could influence) one night to Tammany Wigwam, where we weie introduced to Croker, Bourke Cockran, Cummings, et, al, wined and cigared Tillman. and it he gets to the Senate he will only have Hill to welcome him. He has vilified and abused Popu lists, Democrats, and Republicans alike. Tillman wrote one of his henchmen here that I was traveling in Edgefield in the interest of General Butler. General Butler was kind to me in the war and I prefer Butler to Tilman, thereby no principle involved. Butler is an honor able, brave soldier and an old soldier knows how to meet Euzh a man. Ex perience of four years, often in contact with Tillman has lead me to judge him a cold, selfish, crel and cowardly man. t I thought at the time that I saw evi dence of his cowardice at Florence in 1892, and so stated to a f 5w friends at the time, and I have seen more evidence of his cowardice at Cbester and Oats. If the Alliance of South Carolina will support such a man, who plainly te'ls them why they can do so, I, fer one,t will draw the line right here and say It will support Butler until a simonpure Allianceman is put out. If the true Ailiancemen of Darlington county will -allow an office holder, coat-tail swinger, -dependent on Tillman, to carry thsm( -into a packed caucus to push aside true -and tried Aliancemen for a shyster law .yer, an eleventh hour conver~t, why they . can do it, but I will oppose such raethods and fight such a candidate. One word Sto the true one-gallus boys who followed Tillman on so blindly and who swallow every word he says. If you, the poor tenant white farmers, who rent lands and to whom Governor Tillman is so1 tondof apealngif you lived in Edge-: feenerGoveruor Tillman's tenantry place, and wanted land of him, you could not get it. Be has not a white tenant, all are negroes and his neighbors say that he will not have a white man on his place. Any further information on -this line will be furnished on application to ]D. C. Bullock, E q. (farmer,) NEne ty-Six, S. C, He is a man of integrity and high standing, a descendant of Revo-t lutionary ancestors, and lives on land ofi SSires who fought in 1776 at Ninety-Six. I In conclusion I ask the Reformers of J arlington county, what has Tillman - done for you? Has he cut of his abun- 1 ,dance, contributed one cent to anythinr 4 . here? Our paper went down; did he ever'i Spay his subscription? Has any Reform - enterprise or work every gotten a cent from Ben Tillman; and in the least of Sthe epithets cast upon him, so justly, Scannot I add one more any say stingy I Ben Tillman? Who will follow longer -a shelfish, crael. cowardly and stingy man, however able he may be? In thee end he will disappoint us.c JOHN M. WADDTLL. IDarlington, S. C., July 7.t Praise for the Citadel. CHARLESTON, July l.-One oi the issues in recent political campaigns in South Carolina has been the education al institutions which have been sup ported by the State. It was feared at i one time that in the general work of reconstruction, the South Carolina Mili- 1 tary Academy might be upset, but Gov-( ernor Tillman and the Legislature have not withheld State aid from this institu I tion and as the report of Lieut. Col. G. H. Rurton, inspector general of the United States Army, declares, they have acted with rare good judgmenttv In this report, after setting forth in de- t tail the phyiscal condition of the acad s enty, Col. Burton says: I "The discipline, military instruction, s bearing and general appearance ot the p cadets; the general care and c idi un ti of arms and equipments, and the enLdre a military aspect of the military depa'rt- b ment of this academy, admit of no n ti parison to any of the colleges with which t I have had experience. It is so superior ini all its methods, scope, appointments c and its distinctive military features, that p it must be classed alone, and can only a be compared to our national military d academy. In the military bearing, cohe- I sion and drill of all kinds in the mnfantry tacics,this battalion equals any organiza tion in the army and is but little short of thatsuperb excellence generally believed tobe possessed by the national cadets." After extolling the work and merits t of Lieut. .Jenkins, the military instructor ' assigned to the academy by the war de. partment, Col. Burton says: "The col- c lege merits the best support the govern- c ment can aive to the most advanced of the civil institution where the art of b war is taught, for the reason that the na- tl tion receives from it results correspond ti ing to its greateat demands."n ' Verdict for $5 ,O00 . el COLUMBIA, S. C., July 12.-The wid- I ow of J. WV. Walling, a conductor on ti a material train, killed several years C ago while engaged in the building of a the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens al railroad for the Congaree Construction t< Company, obtained in the Rtichiland C County Court of Common 1'leas today ci a verdict for $8,00 against the latter v; company, the largest verdict of the d: kind obtained here in many years. The fi plaintiff obtained a verdict for tive ce thousand on a former trial, but the de- ci fend vts appealed and obtained a new ai trial wi-h the result given above. STAND FROM UNDER. The President.M Proclamation of Warning to the People of Ilitnc is. WASHINGTON, July 8.-At a late ,our tonizht Prceidert Cleveland issued the following proclamation: Whereas, by reason of unlasful ob 3tructions, combination and assemblages )f persons it has become impracticable n the judgment of the President to en orce by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings the laws of the United States of Illinois, and especially within .he city of Chicago within said State: And whereas, for the purpose of en orcing the faithful execution of the aws of the United States, and protect ug its property and removing obstruc rions to the United States mails in the State and city aforesaid, the President las employed a part of the milhtary orces of the United States: Now, therefore, 1, Grover Cleveland, President of the United States, do hereby idmonish all good citizens and all per ons who may be within the city and State 'aforesaid, against aiding, counten. mncing, encouraging or taking any part n such unlawful obstructions, combina .ions and assemblages; and I hereby varn all persons engaged in, or in any ?ay connected with, such unlawful ob ftructions, combinations and assem >lages to disperse and retire peaceably to ;heir respective abAdes on or before 12 )'clock noon, on the 9th day of July in tant. Those who disregarded this warning md persisted in taking part with a riot )us mob in forcibly resisting and ob tructing the execution of the laws of he United States or interfering with the unctions of the Government or destroy ne or attempting to destroy the proper y belonging to the United States or un ler its protection, cannot be regarded ther wise than as public enemies. Troops employed against scuch a riotu us mob will act with all the moderation md forbearance consistent with the ac :omplishment of the dasired end, but the tern necessities that confront them will iot with certainly permit discrmination etween guilty participants and those vho are mingled with them from curiosi ;y and without criminal i'itent. The only iafe course, therefore, for those not ac ,ually unlawfully participating is to ibide at their homes, or at least not to )e found in the neighborhood of riotous issemblies. While there will be no hesitation or racillation in the decisive treatment )f the guilty, this warning is especially ntended to protect and save the inno ent. In testimony whereof I have hereunto et my hand and caused the seal of the nited States to be hereto affixed. Done at the city cf Washington, this fth day of July, in the year of our Lord me thousand eight hundred and ninety our, and of the independence of the jited States of America the one hun [red and eigteentb. Grover Cleveland. By the President; W. Q. Gresham, ecretary cf State. The proclamation was communicated o Gen. Miles by Secretary Lamont, who elegraphed as follows: "In view of the )rovisions of the statue and for purpose >f giving ample warning to all innocent Ld well disposed persons, the President ias deemed it best to issue tiie accom Janying proclamation tonight. This loes not change the scor.e of your au hoiy and duties, nor your relations to he local authorities. You will please nake this known to Mayor Hopkins." Three People Shot Down. DANV:LLE, Ill., July 9.-Mrs. Mitchel ilennan and Miss Clara James were tilled and one unknown man mortally wonded and at Westville this after ioon by a volley fired over the heads >f a crowd of rioting miners by a com yany of militia. The miners had been ioting in this vicinity since yesterday ftertoon. During last night a number f freight cars were destroyed on the astern Illinois yards by incendiary lires. This forenoon a number of cars nere derailed at Grape Creek on the helbyville branch. Where the wreck ge had been cleared the in-bound pas enger train proceeded without molesta jion until Westville was reached. hen it stopped there it was surround d by a crowd of miners and word was elegraphed to Danville and a special rain with a company of State troops tarted at once for the scene of trouble. bout one mile from Westville a large ~rowd of miners had collected and upon he approach of the train bearing thel niitia began warlike demonstrations. everal pistol shots were fired at the oldiers, who retur'ned the fire, shooting mver the heads of the mob from the rain, Intending to snare them. Miss 1araJame, the 17 year old daughter iJonas James, was standing in the loor way of her home. A bullet struck ier just below the right breast'and she lied almost instantly. Mrs. Milchael lennan, a widow, standing in her own rard, was also struck and died in ive ninutes. An unknown man received a nortal wound and will die beforenight. Lhe militia then left the train and harged the crowd, securing three pris ners. After this the crowd dispersed ,nd no further resistence being offered, le troops returned to their train which iad been coupled in front of the pas enger and made the tripto Danville vithout further delay. Want's a Joint Dabate. The Columbia State says the ball y og letter was written Monday and for rarded from that city and will go down ao history as one of the curios of South aroina politics: Columbia, S. C., July 9th, '94. Ion. J. William Stokes, Orangeburg, S. C.: Dear Sir: The number of candidates rho are now in the State campaign for arious oilices, demand so much time hat it is impossaible for thle Congres ional candidates to have the time which nessary to discu i the questions which o essentially concerz the welfare of our ople, upon the national questions of be day. I write to say to you that I m anxious to meet you in four joint de ate, one in each oi the following coun tes: Richland, Orangeburg, Lexing n and Sumter. I hereby extend to you the courtesy f asking you to name the time and lace in each of the aforesaid counties, t which you would like to have the joint iscussions take place. Address me at lxington Court House, S. C. Yours truly, F. C. CAreIIMAN. Troops Ditched. SACASW3TO, July l1--The lirst rain to leave sacramento with troops ras ditched on a trestle eight miles com Washington, Yolo county. The recked train was bound for San Fran isco. Regular troops were stationed n the engine and upon each car. Re orts differ, one is that fish plates had een removed from the rails, allowing 1em to spread, and another is that e timbers of a trestle had been sawed early through causing it to collapse der the weight of the train. The gine and four cars went down. here was nr ,nooting at the train as rst reported. The killed are Engineer larke and privates Burns, Lubbarden nd Clarke. Private Dugan lost both Ems and is likely to die. All belonged battery L, Fifth Artiliery. Private larke was drowned. The others were rushed in the wrrek. Another pri ate named S;mith is missing. Tne isaster occura.d only a short distance :om Srarmez;o. T wo companies of valry thoroughly skirmished the vi nity af ter wards but made no captures ad met with no resistance. The train smroise l'ra te, Sacr-mento. A MAN NOT EASILY KILLED. 'he New 1inister to Uruguay Has Hail 31ay.v Narrow Lcaje'. in the Ve-t. A tall. ilender man. with irngra: lea rdi :ind hair :rl~ pierinlg eyes which r"vid aroulnd iider a pair o. hei: gra eybros.saunltered through1 Ihl. .\rliniOn ldbV at \Vashingtoi the tliei dlay. '*Tiat is Granville Stnart, if l.ntaina. I lie new ininister to) ri u iatii(I araargua V.* snill ana oli-ti liti-' 141a Star reporte~r. -.11k is- on hlis wayv Ihis new p')t,. aid this is lit firs: 1i - -e has b 1 . cast -f the . tiissippi for <ijlarter of a century.. lle hans had mo.re startling adventures al Iinir breth:il escape" than :noit an:. man v..'n tVert heard I f. I retinber i-n'> theni well. Stnat was one of I lie firt 'iners in the territory of -\ nta i1 ;nd was qiartz erazy like the rist 17 t!liti. liv was 4ut 0in :a pro jht Ini tri 1llcu11 all h:il liifiuntid friiu Ili horie. h-avinzg'is rifle raIppei t. i III sldle. whieii til- ail rlial aVw:i I t wa:s late in the year and that night snow began falling. lie was iii away fronm :av habitation. ini th. heart ,If tbi- m ititains. an(I in soareliit fo. r his iorse he l his hearings. lie -I:I (nily a sniall pIkethniif' and his lu s::fe only contai nel tw or th ree tirt makers. The first niglit he was out it grew very cold1 alnl he made a fire. whieb attracted somie sniall birds. Stuart caiuglt about a dczII if t hem and coiked them. Fo)r tell l:tys lie w'nidereil through the moiintains with noithing else to eat but those little birds. One day an elk rubb ued against . tree within two yards of hii. but he badth t- kill it with. Then a frog crossed his path. but he was not strong enougih to catch up with it. When he was narlv dead two Indians found him and took him into their camp to have fun with him. They fed him up so as to get strong enough to run while the, could beat him with tepee poles. One night lie escaped. stole a horse and got away. Ie got lost in 'the mountains again, and dog goned if his second horse didn't get awa from him: Ue wandered around a.rfain for three or four davs. and thea. when he had given tip completely and lain down to die. some of the party who had gone out to hunt him up came across him and carried him to camp. It is devoutly believed in Montana that nothing can kill Granville Stuart. lie was a mighty hunter in those days. too. lie has the record of killing sixteen elk from one spot. without getting up. Ile. is a man of powerful mind, and will uphold the stars and stripes and al that they mean in his new position." A QUAKER HEARSE. It Is esed By the Rich and Ithe Plainet t Hearse in This Country. The hearse that carries the remains of the ordinary New York man to th grave may be bedecked with waving pluies and conspicuous festoons cf inmurning. but the New York iillior - aire. if he follows the example of dea l and gone millionaires, makes his jour ney in a plain black vehicle with n, unnecessary ornamentations. This is called the Quaker hearse. The Qua rer nearse. sys a New Yor' exchiange. is let out only to people who want to be buried as befits the rich. Strictly, speaking. there bave been a number of Quaker hearses, for these vehicles, like all others, will wear ou-:. but as soonf as one shows signs of goin: 1o pieces another precisely like it is built, and it is a preious fiction of the undertakers that the Quaker hearse v~i:-h cai'i:ed i'. e'rim load to G;reeni w:iid recently Ns the same Quaker ii.:: rrse behind which the sad procession :f bygonie generation marched slow Iy t.> the cemetery. It is called the <utu:ker heiarse because of its extreme siumic~iit V. which has endeared it to th e Quakers. They and the millionaires always use it. I t is drawn by a span of black horses driven byv a black driver. Johna Gil mrt in. who has been drivingr it for1 the l*w t wenty years. has a soleum face th ii maitchles well the melancholy Ince of his. clothles. ( ccasrinlly. specially n in ruted.1 dinh puts idraped cockadles onhi hrses and ani extra w ideI werd h i hat. lint he conirsidercls phiainne:s ilirale to an atteenpt at effect in tSi fr ai s is known,. no Quakeir hiear's 'veri disgraced a funieral by brmeakinrg dlown while carrymilg a body. 4 nce t he' .Ju::Reri had a narrow escape. That wei years ago. when .laye vilia e-~ moy I died. Theii ,Juaket' cairriedi the h.rirv saifeilv. but no' sone'r hail itr tii'raed toi thet stable tha~n the re'ar aie 5:::v w:iv anud t he h e'a r-t.ile ine dwii will a 'i'aslh. Thie prlesenlt Quaker' ha-, .iutrVi.iru thriee sets ot whls. Sinci' ithei rig'inal Qia c ;:ir: : t out on I! s tr'avel's it hais carr'ii die r'eminls of thre Va:nderliil t;. A'stiiis. .iay I ouldh. -thrarinie WolIfe. th li'Stewvarts. ilave mierls. andi mnanyt iithers. I I'iury. S. Ivyes iiade his last jouifrney in the Quaker. It is thre pliest and Jip hearse in this countr'y. Two Great l'ost 01Hiee. Foir several years piast the po.4 4hee depairitienit at Washitngtoni has Ibeen Pre in itg against the iniferioir aceom miodat~tins iof the New. Yor'k and C'hi engo i llier's. which are the giovernl miient's chilef moniteyt makers. Ihithi buiiilingsai'e ownted by' the federal governmencit. and~ 1both are conducted niot fromn their liberal postal revenutes. bin t' appropriation made byecongr'ess. The New York post otilee. in use since 105. is on land eeed by New York to the feideral government. The receipts of the New York office in a y'ear are seveni million doillars. The expeur 's, including eight thousand dIolladrs to lie postmaster anil seventy-five thlousm : (1(l1irs for' gas. fuel aindl other detai ih-. items. aret two miilliin tive hlun !red thioiusaniId ollars. leav'ing a nect pir. fit, ti thle giovern:necnt fromn its IOiperat ion of four million live hundred li thosandii ifdllar's. The~ i'eceip~ts iif the Chicago of1cee are four million dollars a year. and the expenses (including six thou sand doi hllarils for piostmaister) ar'e onfe millioin five hundred thousand ii. illars. le::ving a net proifit to the government'!i of two million five hundred thiousandl dollar::: so that New York and Cieugo together net seven million doilars. ,Two Brothers Executed. RALEIGHI, N. C., July 13.-Two rothers, Tom and Calvin Coley, white en, aged 20 and 22, were hanged today at Louisburg, the execution being pri ate. The rope used to hang Calvin ad been used on seven prior occasions uring the last ten years. The condemned men were unable to ead or writ2, had never been to school or inside of any church. They re fused to make any statement but indi cted that they had not intended to ommit murder. Two ministers visited hem in the jail, andi they expressed he hope of being forgiven for their in.In Juns,1892,th ese men and Charles Thcker, a Jewish peddler, met at the ouse of two negro women in Franklin ouinty, N. C., and all drank. Calvin oley incited his brother, and they kill d Tucker with an axe and carried his ody into a neighboring thicket and ~overed it with brush. Finding in his ack 81,69, they went to Norfolk. A year after wards the crime was d is ~overed, the entire party was arrested, :he wcmen turned State's evidence nd the men were convicted. An im ense cro~wd gathered around the jail >day to see the execution, which, ho w er, was strictly private. T1he men iet their fate without emotion. The eck of Tom was broken by the fail;4 alvin died in eighteen minutes ofi i-onanltn. ~OYAL, POWDER Ab3oluteLy Pure. A cream or tartar baking powder Highest of all in leavening strength.-La test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 vall St., N. Y. IMPROVED CROP CONDITIONS. The Weekly Bulletin of the Weather and Crope. CoLUiA, S. C.. July 11.-The fol lowing is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops about the State for' the past weez, as issued yesterday by Observer Bauer of the State weather se:vice: The weather during the past week favored the rapid growth of all. crops and continued to afford opportunity for repairing and planting minor food and forage crops, such as peas, pota toes and turnips, and so forth, and the acreage of such crops promises to be the largest ever known in many sections. Such crops deserve greater attention than is generally accorded them in the system of economy of the Southern planters and farmers, and togethpr with vegetable and fruit gr dens should more largely suppant strictly "money crops' tban Is at present the case. The increase in acre age is, therefore, an encourag sign. The temperature for the week ranged below the normal, averaging about 4 degrees a day on the coast to about 1 degree a day in the interior and wes tern portion, and thIs with more than double the usual cloudiness has devel oped a tendency in cotton to shed its fruit in a few localities, and favored an almost too rapid growth of "weed" everywhere. The rainfall was more general than heretofore and in the southeastern portions of the State was excessive to the point of serious im pairment of the crops. Portions of Pickens, Fairfield and Spartanburg counties are comparatively dry and need rain. Cotton made rapid growth and is generally fruiting well, but the wet ground has prevented ploughing to a considerable extent and consequently some fields are becoming grassy. As yet no material injury has been done by the grass or lack ot sunshine, and the crop is in fine condition over the whole State.. It needs more sunshine to favor fruiting and to check its ten dency to grow to weed. Corn improved very much and even that of early planting is responding to the nushing weather, althougn the stalki of such corn are in many places reported "spindling". "Laying by" Is being delayed by the wet weather, but will soon be general. Peas are still being sown but seed are getting scarce. Early sown a poor stand, that sown on stubble since the rain set in, growing nicely. Potato slips or vines in de mand for settings, the planting of which continues quite general. The melon crop falls below expectations, being a small crop of small melons, al though so'me fine fields are reported. Rice, tobacco, sorghum, potatoes and gardens as well as grasses all show marked improvement over their condi tion a week ago. Farm work generally behind hand, owing to rainy weather. The adverse conditions were washing rains in Sam ter and Aiken counties, and a severe and destructive thunder storm in Ab beville, which bEsides damaging crops, killed considerable stock. There were some high winds in various portions of the State but the damage resulting was, even in the aggregate, not very great. The following heavy rainfalls are re ported: Charleston, 5.71; Chera, 2.72; Florence, 266; Greenville, 1 00; Sar tanburg, 2.75; Batesburg. 2.75; Blc yille, 2.20; Greenwood, 2 97;Hardeeville, 3.41; Kingstree, 3.87; "Saint Matthews, 4.48; McCormick, 1.75; Elloree, 3.45; TrIal, 2.34; Liberty, 1.75; Easley, 2.58; Statesburg, 4.14; Oakwood, 2 90; Pino polis, 3.07; Howe, 1.12; Central, 1.01; Port Royal, 4.02; Ried, 1.00; Heath S prings, 2.00; Efingham, 1.34; Society Hill, 2.54; Con way, 3.81; Waverly Mills, 3.30; Chesterfield, 2.04; Longhr,1.35; Holland's Store, 1.54; St.8 Seen, 4.30; Camden, 1.69; lla, 1 80; Tle'Ferry 1.87; Trenton, 2.53; Beaufort. 6.95. bomne of Our Future Teachers. The following circular to School Comi missioners has been given out for pub. lication by the Superintendent of E I1 cation: Columb :i, S. C.. July 9th, 1894. D)ear Sir: As re quired by law, I here by beg to calh vcur attention to the fact that at the c. ing of the recent session of the South Carolina Mlliitary Acad emy, several beneficiary cadets were graduates fromu that institution, a list of who.-e names I fu:sl 3 ou herewith. These graduates are under obligation to teazh two years in public schools of the State. I respectfully ask that you do what you can to secure for them suit able positions in your Cor'nty. Should vou need the services of any ol these gr.diuates who do not reside within your county, and will make known the fact to me, I will be glad to assign them to your county, provided they are not en gaged at the time you send in ycur re quisition. Call the attention of the trus tees of your county to the fact, that they may have the services of these young men, provided they need them, and upon proper requisition made to me. Very truly, W. D. MAYFIELD. State Superintendent of.Education. Following is the list: S. J. Barriss, Anderson, W. S. L*.e, Jr., Anderson, 0. F. H~unter, Hartzog, J. P. Smith, Mt. Pieasant, b. J. DuPre, Mt. Pleas. ant, W. W. Clenient, Enterprise, J. A. Moroso, Charleston, D. Kearney Charleston, C. C. Fshbourne, Charles, ton, T. E L. Lipsey, Cheater, T. C. Stevenson, Rossville, W. P. Witsell, Walterboro, B. R Hiers. Bell's P. 0., W. P. Odom, Chesterfield, J. E. Pen. ifoy. Harvirdsville, P. S. Norris, Aiken, it. H. McMaster, Winnsbbro, F. Hn nant, Winsboro, F. W. Gregg, Claus en, J. T. Wes t, Chandler, R.L. Hughes Brunson, J. W. Rouse, Brunson, H. E. DePass, Camden, L. L. Gregory, Taxa aw, RI. IE. Robb, Lturens, W. G. Fike, lau:ens, P. E. Hlutto, Leesville, St. C. J. Gw ynn, Spartanburg, E. R. Tomp :is Reck I1ll1, Geo. M. Stackhouse, onoho, J1. G. Jjhnston, Newberry, J. J. Cazby, Newberry. ___ Mlade A state. WasinINOTON, July 12--The house as concurred in the senate amendment o the house bill for the admissIon of tab. This passes the bill and sends to the president for his approval ?ne senate amendments to the postof ce appropriatons bill was also concur ~ed in. The army appropriation bill was aken up; the committee amendment triking out of the house bill the item f "'12,000 for the general services of lerks and messengers." and which also ~epeals the law of 1886, authorizing iek employment, wa agreedA to.