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W;: ? ' -!/ ' ? /?; ..? ? ... GOD AM) OlIR IV ATIVE >1DEN, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1892 MARY-BILLS BOF. I ? BY CORA B. BICKFO&D. my foa? to thee I sia*. soy heart to tbee will ciing, Memory ! song will not grow oi^ foolisii o'teutime^ or bold. I iove the*, Memory sweet, my sojg th^jrorid to meet. nrjm hearTI know 'twill find if that heart be kiol. !o?es o'd lores to sec, ma^ir, Memory. it Prizr, ia Boston T ransoript. Icora MEMORY. y-jnz* to thee are sang. h?arti to thee hav* eiuag, r ipn^? the more I ad<$ no'. merry and not sad. ng h?re I turn the ieav** i closed to^k and thy . I *m?ie bec*u?e tangles an ! no <ai w w?ivujy, and I know old time it wa<Tiot so. OU think it's a ter'oa ci??. doctor?'* T he doctor terve d bis bead. ?'I thought it soon's I looked at tbe child. I'm " sorry for Mary Bill; yer sea 'tis the enly one she'* got/' The doctor was fas tening his medicine He$', and he did not replj. ?"I don't s'pose you think- there's a ftte of a chance T* continued the wo fl*:. "I can't see any. I've done all I can |?pr the little fellow. I wish I'd been Hriled earlier.1' ? "Yes, I know. I hain't be^n here all Bbe time mvseif. Jim heard down to Bie store that he was sick; Mis' Tar Box s boy brings the milk,'; and Mary Bill toM him ? the child had ba'n ailin1 ?hen for more'n a -True k. Boon's Jim ?tome home and told me I rigged Btght up and come over. That was ?"cursday, aad I've been here ever ?Knee.'1 ? The doctor had put on his ulster and ?was buttoning it^bout the chin. There meeraed nothing for him to say. "Tain't as if you lived nearer and we ?could call a doctor any time we wanted one. Then, I s'pose she thought of the expense and tried ter see if she couldn't pull him through herself. I wish Bill fiad been ter home ; he' i had you here in time, yet he don't love the child one Eujte mui'o Mary." said the doctor, assentingly. "You think when the fever turns he'll drop right off?'' "Ye*, I think so. If he doesn't you know just what to do. I've left every thing ready and given you all the direc tion?." '?Yes, I guess I understand it all; but I wish you was goin' to be here. T would make Mary feel as if the last thing had be'n done for him." 4>I couldn't do him any good." The doctor moved towards the door, and the .-woman unlatched and held it open for I ibim to pass out. L He stepped through the little 6x9 j entry and opened the outside door, A gust of wind met him and whirled pasta few itekes of snow, the premonition of a coming storm. The woman had fol lowed him lo the steps. t4GH>in' to be a regular nor'ea9ter," she said. "You'll I have a pretty tough ride I guess." Then with an abrupt good night she i stepped inside and closed the door. A ! neighbor's boy was holding the horse. When the doctor had seated himself in the gig and tucked the robe about him, he handed him the reina; then waited watch the team a3 it whirled away over the rough road. The doctor wa3 a busy man but kind at heart. At the 3nd of a nine milea drive there were nearly a score of pa tients waiting to be cheered by his words, or comforted by his direotions. It had been a busy season, and he was tired to the heart's core. The day be- ) fore he had been called to the Pool to attend this sick child. The Pool, so called from a bod? of shallow water that makes up between its | western shore and the main land, is a rocky peninsula La-SaShed by fiitv or more families of' Usher folk. Its con nection with the 'continent is a sandy isthmus two miles In length, aad so nai row that in the Reason of spring tides the water flows 6ver it in places. At tirst he had been inclined not to i respond to the call, but he had relented, i and had driven the ni^e miles to find the child 3 '.iferiae from a low' foim of typhoid fever. Tie first visit showed i| him that when the fever had burnt it self out the child would not have vi tality enough to rally; yet h? had come again with a feeling that if he did not it would be a duty ncglected. Now ha dreaded the long, cold ride back to the city. Already it was A o'clock, and a gloomv dusk was giving place to the short November day. Hia horse, eager to get hcAne. faced the gathering gloom and itretched off like "a steed of the desert. When they had covered a dozen rods : or more of the sandy isihmus road he suddenly drew rein, turned hit horse's i head in the opposite direction, and urged him back over the road they had I been traveling. As be neared the house 1 he bad just left he could see a light I burning m the kitchen, and the neigh !bor who bad bidden him good nigbJ moving abou^ the room. He gave a shout, and she came running to the win. J dow.- Seeing who if was she came to the door, lifting her calio apron to her : mouth to protect herself from the rough I east wind. o j ? 4 Why, how you scared me, doctor! Hamt anything the matter, is. there?" I she asked in a voice pitchy "high ! enough to be heard above lie rising wind., "ieii them down to the <***'* '~??p i some one there to-night to tend the tele j phone; if there's any chance for the, little fellow to live, send for me and I'D come down if I can get here."' Then he ; was gone, his 'noise needing only th? { motion of a rein to be off azain. . j The woman c.'os?d- and went back to the warn ro ortt. Once after she stepped to the window to sen if she ccuid cm the team on tat ottehj bat the. risTng ^torm and the gathering darkness bid objects so far away. The oppress i7e aiience tiiat had filled the room all day settled down again, the only sounds beiag the ticking of the old clock ia the comer and the breathing of the ?ck cfeftd in the tic v bedroom be yond. About six o'clock the boy that had held the doctor'? horse came in. aad re plenished the wood box aad the water j j>aiis. ^"ne gave nun the doctor's mes sage and he vent away again. "" At eight o'clock a neighbor who wa? j to share the night's vigil came, ana tnen there w^s a short, whispered conver*a tion. The new comer wanted to know ' how Mary- Bill wa3 staadia' it, aad she offered her opinion thlk^he child would probably go about midnight a3 the tide would then be on the ebb. Thea she drew a chair to the -store, placed her feet in the oven and unrolled her knit ting. It was tea o'cieck when the sick child opened his eyes aad called "Mara ma." Io3tantiy the mother was oa her feet end beading over him. All day he hid 'jiii-a ia a stupor, and all day she had watched beside him, at times as uncon scious of all that was going oa around as the child himself. The child recognized his mother as &he beat over him, and reached up a hot, wasted haad, aad pressed it against her chee*. 4 'I had a dream, mamma. T was in such a pretty room. Grandma wa there and she was knitting; but when she saw me she put down the sock and took me in her lap. She 3ung to me. mamma, the song you sing sometimes? 'Hush, my clear.' I went to sleep then, and when I waked up I couldn't rind you." The tears that had held themseivei back all day now came and dropped oc the hands of the sick child and on th< coverlet. Toe dream needed no intet pretation. Tne only grandmother th? child had ever known had live 3 with them, but she had crossed the "dark river" two years before, when the little fellow was five years old. "I love yon, mamma," the little, weak voice weut on, "and I love papa, too. Tell him I love him, mamma. Now sing to me 'Hush, my dear,-'" The mother heart was breaking, bul choking back the tears, with those wist ful baby eye? looking straight into hers, she gathered streugth and 3ang ? "Hu3h, my dear! lie sciil an I slu-nbjr, Holy an^e.a ?uard thy bed; Heavenly oles?;n^s without nu nbv Gently falling on thy head." Before the firs' verse was finished the weary eyelids began to droop; with the second verse they closed, though the little hand that tested ia his mother's itiil gave hir a gentle pressure; at the close of the third versa the hand was limp and cold aad no breath came from the parted lips. Tne mother sank bask and buried her face in the pillow as it she would hide from her thoughts the scene thai had just passed. The neighbors straightened the limb3 of the child an I robed him iu a clean wane aignc are;s, arterwaras prasnag the parted lips together and folding the little hands geatiy. They drew the bed clothes ncativ abjut him, turning the sheet dowa ovSr the coverlet, ana cover ing the fuei with a handkerchief. Still the mother kepi her position, and it was not tilt the darkness of the night had jjiveu place to the gray day dawn that "she allowed herself to be led from the room. Outside the nor'easter was at lti height. T.ie window shook beneath ench blast, arid the snow lay in ridges before the door. Bat the mother did net heed the raging temoest. Ther? was agony in her heart, and her face wore a look of atony sadness more piti able than violent grief. It was not alone for the child that her heart was breaking; there was a sharper grief for the has baud oa the sea? the father who had not been allowed a last good -by to the child he loved better than his own heart's blood. Wnea he had talked of this trip to the "Banks" she had urged him not to go, but to try b>3 luck nearer home; and he had laughed and said that it would be the last for the wialer, and that he would bring her back silver for a few luxuries she had been wanciug for their home. Already it was tine for hia return. Two weeks before she had received a letter posted at a port ia the "Pro vicces,'" saying that the :atch had been large; and that he" mu*t look for a market. But would he get home in time, and tf he did would he forgive her for let ting the child die? Towards night a faint streak of red ia the we3t showed that the storm had spent itieif, Oiaer neighbors came, paths were shovelled, and the ten aad-one homely tasks performed by rough yet willing hands. They had sympathetic natures be neath a rough exterior, these fisher-folk, and they, too, were anxious lest Bill should not get home in time. They knew the little place boasted neither family vault nor receiving tomb, and that in a few days dust must be given bscki to the dust from wheace it came. There was only csie thing they could do while this cloud hung so darkly about a neighbors hom?. and the aext moraing the mea of the hamlet begaa to scan the strip of blue ocean for a sight of the Storm Kmg, Bill's vessel. But the day passed and no familiar sail. So went bv the second day, and the third. , Tbe fourth day had been set apart for the service?. A coffin had been brought from the ci^y and the child placed in it, the wasted face nes:iinuT in a wealth of geranium leaves, for which the foliage of a dozen growing plants had been s ? : Seed. The minister from the "Road"? for the litwe haml.t claimed no under shepherd? had been engaged, and every thing amused with decent care, it was hi^h noon when tae people began to gather, and when the clock struck two ?4he minister rose in lis pkee. But his "friends and neighbors was lEte-rapled by a grasp at his elbow and a har-h voice that whispered ? * "She's off shore. They're goin' to put a boat o!f back side. We've sig nalled and got an answer. Hold on till we git BHI here"' Those i:esrest heard the oe*a. and it 3ew from lip to lip. Fearing to have it orokea thus suddenly to the Wife, the preacher raised his hand, but the warn in" came too late? she had heard. The rflieyed look that follow* a lifted grief came to her face, bui it wa? qulcsry replaced by the old iook oi despair. No oae ifaevr her husband and hi* inflexible disposition so well as she. The boy had been his idol. Would he blame her, and think that in some way she might liavesarel the -child's life? How these % A . ? thoughts burned h??r very soul a? she waited! And th^ minutes became an hour before steps w^re heard crunching the uewly-fallen snow. Bill had come, aad the men drew back with respect. The women shaded thalr eves, as if his sorrow was too sacred to be looked upon, and the children stared at Wallace Hussey's f ather, who ii&d come back from fishing to find Wallace dead and his coftio. But he did nothe?d them as he passed to the little bed -room where the coffin stooi. And he did not stop at the coffin ; hs went straight to the woman sitting beyond it in such stony grief. "Mary!" It was only a word, but there wa? tender, yearning lo *e u it. Then tht strong man reached down and took the weary, broken-hearted woman in his arms and held her against his itroqg breast; and their ?iief for the child wai softened in the consciousness that thej still hii each other. ?Boston Traaf script. NOMINATED AN EX-CONVICT. Predictament of Democrats in the Fourth Illinois Senatorial t)xstrict. [Columbia, S. C., State.] Chicago, III. ? Democrats of the 4th Senaforial district are indignant over the discover j that Charie3 A Spring, -whom they have nominated for the House of Representatives at Springfield, is none other than the notorious jailbird, Char ? ley O'Brien, alias Frisco O'Brien, a no torious thief and burglar, whose mug adorns the rogue's gallery, and wbo has done time in at least two penitentiaries. He belongs to a gang that infested the West Si<Je iu the seventies, and twelv# y^ars ago joined thirteen o'her toughs in aa att mpt to loot the Puiace Hotel in aan Fraucisco. Twelve of these worthies did time out West as a result of their mission to the Pacific coast. They gath ered later on at Portland, Oregon, nnd from that point came to Chicago in 18S0. In Feb uarv of that year O'Brien was implicated in a burglary hero and was photographed by the police bureau, where his picture numbered 2tl, may still be seen. For some years he had been keeping a sec nd class saloon^ and became prominent in Democratic poli tics Spring was warned not to accept a nomination, but ambition got the bet ter of prudence, and to-day a Democra'ic evening paper exposes his record. It is supposed he will resign from the ticket. Sullivan Bids Corbett Beware cf Jack son. A special from New Orleans sr?ys^ that when all was over Sullivan was tskeu to \\U dressing room and attended by Dr. has L. Seaman, who found him in a ;> ti bio coudition, covered with blood an 1 weeping at what he considered his disgrace. His nose had been split and rcqu red three stitches, his face was swol len and his lips were cut. Sullivan felt very badly. He turned to Charley John son and said: "I'm sorry about my friends losing th ir money." "Never mind," said Johnson, 4 Til put up $20, 000 on you to morrow to fight Mitchell j or riuy one else, barring Corbett. lie j seems to be a very clever young fellow." "Yes.*' sr?id SulUvan, "He'* cleverer j than any tighter lever met in my life. 1 ! let him hit me one or two body blows ! purposly with the idea of catching him as he lauded, but I could not touch him. Well, he has won the championship and he had better keep it. My advice to him is that if he wants to keep it he had bet ter not meet the 'nigger' Jackson. If he j ever Joes he will get licked." AFT Eli THAT CHAMPION9HIP BELT Portland. Ore? Tue Pastime Club lias raised $ 1-5.900 .i:id will increase it to $23, 000 for a match betweeu Ccibrtt tad Jack^ou. The Plague Die3 Away. New Yoke, X. Y.'~Ag nt Schwab, Df the North G-rman Lloyd line, received 1 cab'cgram from Bremen as follows: "Health conditions unchanged. No cholera here; no. suspicious case*; every thing well." . Dr. W. T. Oppenheimei, ihitfhcdih 1 officer of Virginia, arrived here and had i ? ? . I a consultation with Dr. b ukuj?. and ae- ? c mpanicd !he dortot on s tour of in- | spection with a vkw of, ii necessary, pr#. j tecting Richmond ?gain t t lie cholera. The health departme :t i?uc?i a bulletin as follows: "JN'o cases of cholera in the city yet.5' AH>usjho'd Divinity Next. Albany. N. Y.? Senator D. 15. Hill Ttv.v becomes a permanent resident of AiWfrs For some tune the beautiful vill i just ror'h of the city line, built by Jos. K. Emmet, the deceased actor, has been offered for sale by his widow. To day r enator Hill put down $50, C00 for it and will reside the:c in th? future The p'aec was built by Fritz Emmet and is mode'ed after villas he saw while i4i Germany. It is said to have cost him $310,000. It is surrftuided by fifteen ac esof land and contains 30 rooms. The grounds contain rare ornamental shrubs, plant-, etc. It was intimated here to-day that the ui mion would not be long with out a mistress and lhat an EijCcira giri would be insr-Urd lhero^ ...x A Quarrel With Fatal Results. Winston, X. C. ? The particulars of a fatal shooting Scrape in Mokes eaunty reached here. George Hall and Arto S.nirh. son of Jim smith, had a quarrel over a pistol which Smith had. Hall j i took ,t away from Snvth. who then went i I home and reported'thi trouble to his i father, who armu i himself and followed i Hall three miles an-i shot him ir. the back j of the neck, the ball coming out under his chin, killing him. Smith is stid at large. L ? I v Jail Del very in Chattanoog a. Cu ATTNOOC A, | I'enn. ? On ?C count Oi ; the gr. is carelessness on the part of the she iff and jail officials, fifteen criminals broke jail; The escape was effected by sawing through the iron bars of a window. In the gang were four murderers under sentence. The gang had been working ai the plan for two months The shern with :? jjosse is no^n^ pursuit. rne First Nations! of Middies boro, Ky., closed its doors Monday. Bid collections were the cr.user . s Idaho has unprecedented crops this year, which the press of that Stat# it tributes to increasing rainfall v THREE STATES' BRIEFS. Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Points of Interest. The Fields of Virgina, North and South Carolina Carefully Gleaned For News. VIRGINIA. Geo. James R. Anderson, of Rich mond, died Wednesday. j A gredt religious revival is in progr^t at Appomattox. ^ T-47 1 i Joe Bearies, aged 3,9, was riding a colt at Chris tiansbury which threw him, frac turing his skull and causing instant death. The Free Masons hare laid a corner ?tone at Staunton for the Methodist church, for the third time on the name spot, 1834, 1830. and 1892 J. J. Biglev dropped dead on j the street at Sa.ftm, and the corona*'* jury i found that the cause was "dropsy of the ' heart* aggravated by too much tobacco.,'' ; Two-&us*ian Jews, of Norfolk, were arrested Friday night at, the Jastance <?{ Dr. Thorn, quarantine officer.1 for at tempting to smuggit imraflgranti from Sen York ioto^Norfo'k. The immi grants arrived on Ua*K. T ated N. rs.il - road, andafe now quarantined lit the N. Y., P. and N. wharf. . J. W. Grant, a farmer near Claremont, beat his wife and daughter, and they fl?4 to a neighbor's Grant a few dajf-s after r$c Ived a notice signed "White Caps," which gave him warning that if he was still in the county at the exptra tion of ten d tys he would be visited and roughly dealt with He hieded the warning, has told out Ms crops and go-ie. NOFTH CAROLINA. j ,o ? -T^ ] v. Thejox hnntere of GoHsbotio have al ready brought in twenty-fty# brushes this season. The project of establishing a line of freight steamers between Wilmington and Baltimore is assuming sha^e. The Swannanoa river is nearly dry a$d Asheville is threatened with a wafer famine. Isa-c Osborne was killed in Mitchell county by . moonshiner3, upon -whom be had reported. Massachusetts capitalis e who own 70, 000 acres in Madison county are develop ing the -tact and building; a railroad through the property from Hot Spring*. Rev. H. D. Lequoux. formerly pastor of the Baptist church of Flickor.-,' hns ?e nounced his allegiance to that faith and has been ordained a minister in the Presbyterian Church . The directors of the Atlantic & North Carolina Railroad have declared a 2 pet cent, dividend on the ^ capital stock of the road, to be paid October 1st. This is the first dividend the road has ever been able to declare, and it carries $24, - 000 into the State treasury. Gearge Harper, John Aaron and H. Mills, three desperate eolored crimiunls, escaped from the jail in Halifax county. Harper and Aaron were recently con victed of bi^tally mutilating Richard Burt, and sentcnccd to fifty years e*ch in the penitentiary. Senor Jose Falius Santos, of Havaua Cuba, is in Raleigh. He crnie to lenru the English language and to fiud out something about American business meth ?ds. When he arrived he knew not a word of English, but he is learning jap idly. He expressed himself pleased with our country and people. SOUTH CAROLINA. D. A. Chandler was shot and killed by ' W. B. Boyd, ^fts employer at Sumpter Wednesday. Fire at Marion, Wednesday, destroyed I the dental office of Drs. Hamilton &. j Gasque. Columbia now uses filtered water, the j capacity of their n?w filters being 3,354.- i ?40 gallons of pure water per day. Gov. Tillman has respited until Oct. ? i Williams. the negro who murdered Mayor j Heuncman, of Spar'.unburg. Jonas Robinson a?d J. L. Trammel), two iocal spores, ef Greenville, have rgreed to fight to a finish, with five ounce gioTcSjJn a in )uth, for $^50 aside. The Republicans carried Vermont last week, eleciiug Fuller, Governor, by 20, 000 majoti ty. The Confederate monument at Green tiile, one of the huudso u- si and costiicst in the South was unveiled on Sept. 18th Military from all over the State were ties ent. The monu ucnt i* the result of years of loving labor by the Lalies Mem- \ morial Association. GovcinorTi l;nau, hi*- r<??:?i<ca until j October 7th the ilt ?ll? sentence of Mlly Brown, a fouitccu year ol ? negro girl, w ho whs to have been banged Friday for murdering a baby. A. Foster, who kilic i his rival *nd Andy Jeffries who killed a white man .. two ne^iwes, were hung at Spaitn burg, Friday. \ ? OTHEJR STATES. | The Convention of Siationai v Engi i neers, in session at A'tlav.ri. Ga . have ; adopted a resolution in fivor opening the Worlu's Fair on Suuuiy. The body of a mulatto !> >y. arrested on | Tuesday on suspicion of burg! a:\-Mid in cend'arism committed i.t NVaidon. Fia., was discovered hangi g fi >m a portion of the coll storage l>tiiwliitir ia the aeait,. of the village. There is no i'sue CO the lynchers It is said the b<ty confessed the crime. Female stifEnge has ?t last won a vic tory in Mississippi The fi fct election perhaps at which women ever vot.-ti in the South is tint on s!st^Kv q icstion just closed in Jack90n county. Only 'a few exercised the privilege. The law j says tha* all \ ersons who are hon ehold ! ers and none other shall voteo the f nee ' question. Th's admits all won n who j own homes to the right of ?uffrnge" The Arkansas Election. j Little Rock, Ark From returns al ready received of the election, it is probab'e that the Democratic. St ttc ticket is succcssful by fiom I8,000to 20, 000 plurality. The Legislature will be Democratic by a large majority,,. The People's party ticket polled a surprising ly light vote. They (fid not carry six counties in the State. Sullivan to Have a Benefit. t Niw York. >' Y.? It has not be.n j ! cet decided whether Sullivan wi',1 h ve a : 1 benefi' at Madiv>n Square Garden and I probably will not until the mrty returns Korth. Cori/ett announced that if a -?feecefit was held he would p*v $1,000 for a box and wt>u'jd appear and spar with the beneficial r. ? \ . ; ? 'M \ i 'jJsrt-Al A DESPERADO KILLED. * !* i - . . In Rwistiig Armt He Is SkotDowu Expires u th? Sheriff i? in the Act of Handcuffing Him. . XosroLK, Va. ? Saturday., eight Bep uty Sheriff T. J. Jackson, ol 2\^rfolk county, was called ujjou to raid ; the gambling hauae . $o Western Breach. One of the pin tie* fjBfldjfe hip escape, but rras recognized on 'th? foaq the foiled ing morning fry fractal aad placed usder arrest.sbut resiated and s ruck the efticef a powerful blow an the left check, stun ning hSm for the instant. The u*gi . tvho wj*s a desperate man. ra* away, and M sooil as JscksoD rec6r?refl he fired at the craping. man thraa times. The 1 ne ffro r.?a about seventy-fire yardt and hi i otjliind a stack of foader, where fce %. s ovcrhaiilod by Jtekson. Ht clm'iu'd to have bten shot, irat tba o#lper nut beN lieUog him put a pair of handcuff* cc 1ttin, -who almost imnaeiJijtteJy rb| the ground au<i ; expired. Jackson no iiW the authorities . A corccfcjj's J^ry kf*;d the evidence and brought ia^vc-rctft | is accordance ? it h the fact* Haled, t; >? reported that the deputy theriff "*U be arrested. , ' , THE NAVT CLAIMS HIGH HONORS. - J ' Liouttnattt Pea*y Discore-s Indepen dence-He Trsrels 1, 900 Miles ?' Inl?nd--Loss of Mr. Verhoff. TttowKGiis, D.C.? Lieutenant P^ary, wb<fwiih.his party arrived at $t. John's, K. F.,l fro ni the Arctic regions. after absence- of 12 mouth?, has kiegtsphed the ^Department from St. . Johns that the United States ifary claims the highest discoveries on the e ?< coast of Greenland? Independence par, 82 de grcss N . latitude, 84 degrees *W. longit ude, discoveredJ.Tuly 4. 18&3. Greanlatd Ic? Cape end? south of Victoria Inlet. Sir. IJoHjr, K. F The stg^mer Kite arrive* here from McCormawc harbor af ter-12 months its ? he Arctic rontons bring ing "with her Lieutenant Peary, with his wife and party. All arc safe and wel', with one exception. Lieutenant Peary made a stage journey with docs of tbir iee i hundred mijes over the Interior ice, whicl\ he found aviiilible. He was out 9 i day* and returned all rigfct, August 4. UeSrv^dp important discoveries, con firming histheory. ' * ? * Mr. Verhoff, the meteorlogist' of the party, w ent oil*# two days' geological trip to a nt-i Airing settlement jFnil ingto retutn tifrthe end of that time, the party started after him, but found no tvacc of bim. For six days, the entire party searched for him. On the ' sixth day they found sortie minerals placed by Verhoff on a rock and tracer of his foot steps to a large, wickcd looking glacier, and here ail signs of him were lost No signs of the missing man were found and they were forced to believe that he had mc his fat,e in one of the numerous crevasses. The expedition was is great success Among Lieutenant Peary's dis-.overi'S, was one of a great bay, latitude, 81.37, longitude 41, opening outeas' and north east, which he-warned Independent Bay. iu honor of the day, July -4, and the -reat glacier flowing north into it Acad emy Glacier. COLUMBIA CANAL IN A TAN8LE , The State's Sale of the Canal and th* Probable Results. Columbia, S. C. ? The State of Carolina spent years of time and thousand* of ru;ney cuild ng a canal around the fall* at Columbi*. The primary objcct wis, we believe, to improve and extend navigation. Subsequently plans were chajjg?d. and since the war tliu purpose has been to develop a water power aud conduce to the development of manufactures. Sev eral \ear6 ago the State grew tired of the undertaking and sold out to the city tf Columbia. About year ago tht citv ttld ojit to one Eretus Flood and associati s. ?f New hnj;land, the entire canal, fran chises, privileges and iiumaaities. But wheu Flood and his associates had purchased the canal aud settled for it. they soon found that all available mill sites were owned by local partiv*. Amongst the responsibilities ef the own ers of the canal was a statute conpelliug its extension to Granby. Those local partus who own the land bwtw??o thr present terminus of canal and its pro jjOMfil lower terminus have b?en th>?at ening to bring suit to compel the owners? to extend the canal through thoir laud is Qranby as required by l*w . - But sud denly it is found out that the Stats for meily owned all the lund from the head of the canal to Grauby; that the State nevtr soWl these Kadis but simply sol 1 h usufruc interest iu jthem. till needed foi "_canal purposes. The present owners aver their readine s to coniple e the canal to Granby, but demaud that they now need the land, the title in fee simple for which coints to them with their purchase of the canal with l,all rights, privileges, im munities, etc." A week ago the local land company felt that they had tue canul owoets bot tied up . At this writiog the canal own ers have the whip handle, if their alle gations are true' and the prospect of a bier lawsuit is substituted for CoIumWla's immediate prospect of one or more large n factories. Ailival Great Eastern. L ndon, England. ?The Campania, the iar?e$ts eauaship in the world, was launch ed on the Clyie The spectacle was witnessed by ou enormous crowd and the affair whs in every respect successful. The Campania was built f r the Cunard Steamship Companies f -r New Yord and Liverpool service. Lady Burn* christen ed the ship in the usual form. \ ' ? , . HXr3. Martin Turns up Missing. N iwYoKK. N. Y.? Mrs M. G. Martin, f Atlanta, Ga , who was arrested ?cent ly charged with smuggling laces and osher goods in^o this p^jt, failed to appear fore United btates Commissioner Hitch cock v/hen called to appear to-dav. for ex ?mr-v.jou. Mrs. Mart:n is out on bail if? r counsel claimed she was in nocent of the date of the hearing. A Bobber Mail Carrier. Tat.larasse, Fla: ? T. B. Farrell w*hs ir.e^ted here this morning ob the charge of robbing the mail on The route to Car r. belie, on the Gulf coast, for which he h?s the contract . Postoffice Inspector V. D. Peer worked the case up =?nd took Farrell -to Pensacola today, where be we* j. lied, in default of $6.0Q6 feilj Thm nx.je been losses of mail ma ter i oa thk route far the past three yean& ' ^ | Wf] ? ? ?f- [ j. " I -. ''Jy;'-. If.; ISSUES OF THE DAY ^AftDZDATB BTSVSKSOX'S ADDRESS AT * BLOOMINOTQIT, ILL.? -THE WAF TABirr A5D THE FORCE BILL. Vice-Presidential candidate, A<i^ E. 6tevenaon, spok? before a great gaThcr ing of Democrats at Bloomingtoo, III. Mr. Stevenson's speech, vrhich wai re ceived with tremendous enthusiasm, in substance was at follows: > "The responsibility determining what lint of public policy shall be pur sued, and who shall be selected as Chief Magistrate, is again upon us. Upon tee correct determination of theso ques tions through the peacctul methods pre* scribed by law, will depend the welfare j of the people. i "It will be my endeavor to suggest of the reason* why <Mr. Cleveland should bs elected President and the. Democratic Party restored to power. ! The four years' administration of Presi- j dent Cleveland was confessedly an ; honest administration. Those who pre- : ' dieted evil from Mr. Cleveland's election ! proved false prophets. The Democratic administration ending March 4, i$$9, i has gone into history ss an economical and able administration ot the Govern- I ment. No scandals attached to any of ! its appointments to office. uAt the close of President Cleveland's j Administration the surplus in the IVeas- i ury, exclusive of tho gold reserve, was, in round numbers, eighty-three millions ; of dollars. {., "What is the condition that now con- j fronts us at the end of three and a half j years of Republican administration! On '"thecbasis^revenues to the Government, \ as estimated by the Secretary of the 1 Treasury, for the present fiscal year, and | of the liabilities of the Government on ; account of the annual and permanent appropriations for the came period, there J will be a deficit of fifty-two millions of 1 dollars. The bankruptcy which aow threatens the Treasurv is the result, first, of the enactment of the McKinley Tariff law, and, secondly, ot the lavish appro- j priations of the Fifty-first Congress. i t mm TAxnr "The tariff is the all important issue of tbe campaign. The position of the two lesding political parties upon that question cao not be misunderstood. The " , Republican Party, as illustrated by "Its 1 recent enactment of the McKinley law, stands for a high protective? in other ; ^ertfs, a prohibitory tariff. The Dem ocratic Party, aa emphasized by ita ut terances and its acts, is the advocate of tariff reform. "The argument advance^ by the early advocates of a protective system was the necessity of protecting our "infant in dustries." Yet Mr. Clay, the author of ! the famous tariff bill with which hit name is inseparably associated, declared sr.cii protection to be only temporary, an<i that so soon as such industries were able tc stand alone, tariff duties should be rcduced. Tbe compromise tariff law of i833, of which Mr. Clay was the j author, provided that at the end of ten ! years there should begin a rapid reduc tion of duties, until the average rate j should not exceed twenty^ per cent. In j , vie .v of the fact that protection to the j "infant industries" has more than trebled since the passage of the bill of which Mr. Clay was the author, Clay would himself, if livinz, be now de nounced as a free trader by the protec tionists. I "ine average tarm tax at tne oegtn- j niug of the Civil War in 1861 whs but j ninete9n per ceut To purchase muot- j tioDS of war, to arm and equip soldiers J and meet all of the expenses incident t^ the great struggle, required large turns' of money. Tariff taxes were largely iu creased. Our Government was in the throes of war, struggling for its exist ence, and but little heed was gireu by the people to the fact that duties under the pew tariff law were not only highly j protective to manufacturers but burden- j some to the people. But this wa? not l til. By subsequent increase by succes- ! live Republican Congresses the average 1 rate of duties reached four-seveuth per j cent. This wai the average rate of tariff i taxes when the McKinley bill became the ; law. "Iu the early days of the war a new ; system of taxation was devised by Con- j gress known as the Internal Revenue | system, by which enormous sum:- flowed 1 : Into the Treasury. With the war closed, j j a Republican Congress relieved the j i manufacturers from this taxatiou. iu-i j added to their profits and to the burdens : of the people by increased duties I grant the neccjsity of repealing these ia- ; ternal war taxes when the evidences of war no longer demanded their con tinuance. But why did not the R->pub- i lican Congress repeal the war taxc? ? ! tariff taxes? which bore so heavily upoa ! i the farmer, upon the mechanic, upon the laborer, upon the great mass of our j people? Why was not the war tux rc- i duced upon the necessaries of life? "Why remove from the maoufacturor the tax* of less than five por cent, and j leave him the power to tut the consumer { forty-seven, sixty, eighty per cenU upon Lata, upon shoes, upon blankets, upon clothing? "But this is not all. Tbe protected ? classes growing y.-ar by year stronger . and more powerful with the protection] atTorded them, ile;uatidei of the fifty- j first Congress yet higher duties. Ii N1890 their demand was in subslaccc fo a prohibitory tariff. The response V J\ : ;j I this demand was the passage by a Re- | publican Congress of the McKinley bill, j | The avowed object of this bill was to ' | check importation. Ita purpose *o to | increase the rate of dutie?, a* in many j j instances to exclude absolutely foreiga I I goods from our markets, and tbtn by i cutting off competition, enable the home manufacturer without let or hindrance I to fix tbe price of his wares. In a word, the McKin'.ey law, by it* prohibitory features gave its benedciaries a prac*. t'cal monopoly, and enabled them in i' act to levy an additional tax upon the consumer, to the exteat that the duty I had been increased. .Was this not class I J legislation of the most odiouq p!iarsr.\er? i The American people unmistakably set j their teal of (^ndemnation upon this , bill. Slowly but surely they liave be come convinced that 'protection does 1 not protect" them. "It is worse than idle to speak of its benefits "to ,the American farmer. It ia ?mockery to tell him he is nrotected 4 . MP;" agaiaet the corn and wheat product* ot the old world. While he i compelled to sell ia the open markets of theircfld he should be allowed the pa )r privilege of buying what his necessities requite _:.1 ? - ??- -? ' * iv? without navina' hich tecteti [Classes ot IMS frihuU j t/> th* nm own country. To the mechanic and. laborer no less thsn to : hjss proved a de- ' In no instance baa j the farmer, protection lusion and a snare. _ Ll . * A- . M ? Hi it opened lip to t ho fanner ' additional market for a pound of meat or a bushel of grain.' Has it in a staple iostanoaj given , to the mechauic or laborer "it-* crease# vragerf The present high tariff addsirsy.j to the cost of \ rt:cles!?ec- j cssary to the comfort of the i age carter* 5 How ha* be been benefited! .Has ilia creasoi his wageat H*s it wy manner benefited his condition TJ . "Recent events connect* I with' the most highly protected establishments of ! this country sadly attest the fact tiki a ? high protcctivo tariff affords op protection j to thofio who earn their bre 4 by dall y toil, j It was never lotoade< them. to. benefit land? 'To the toiler the McKinley bill has ?kept the word of profile ;to the ear,, but broken it to the hope.' < /^'My fellow-citizens, llo you the* tWLia the all-important question* The quesSon is col how much of your earn- j iugs thall be giTon to t^e support of tike ' Government, but how much; shall under the forma of law be seised by the favored ?the "protected" classes. Are you* interests safe in the hands of a JWfty^ controlled by the protected monopolists of this country) This Is the important question for your determination at th? polls. The Democratic Pirty beUffes that the burdens of taxatioi should be equally distributed. Weyoppoee all l|g* i islatioa that enriches the Je* by taring the many. j, j "Shall high tariff, conif anally increas ing with tho demands of the proteofcft classes, be the settled policy of our Gov* eminent, or shall there be relief to Ike people ation? from the burdens of insist tax THE FO&CB BILL. \ "Another issue of great: mome&tViBj the pen o i uncontest u the Force Vltl; The magnitftdcof this issue cannot be overstated. \li may mean the control of the election tyf Representatives in Con gress by th^-bayonet. "The Republican Party, -by its acts it] the Fifty-first Congress, and i>y lt*| platform, in its late National Conven tion, stand* pledged to the passage of the Force bill. That it will pass tWs bill, when it has the power, no sane man can doubt. To ail of the people, aM who desire the peace aud prosperity our common country, this important. To the peoplejof tjfe ern States it is one of;: traascelidi portance. Shall they still have _ and the protection of the Haw, or < ^ the horrors with which thejr are meoaceil find their counterpart c Jk the darkest hours of the period?" only in tboit <# reconstruction If the claim of the froteetiMfe* j is w<Al founded, why hare not wageain- J creased, astariff* hare iticretoedt Wtf > constant roAuction of waseeiin the most * highly pro tec ted, establishments in the The Tin Plata Ufant. ' T ' ; According to the report of Speoia! Agent Ira Ayres for the fiscal year end ing June 30th last, just i published by the Treasury Department, the number of works in operation and the productioa by quarters have been as follows: Traduction. Wotk^. Fuel quarter ?> Second quarter I t Tkird quarter VJO Fourth quarter...., 28 Pound*. M i||S 8,2ou,ni! are crowing brightest U protection ; t as glowing id McKinley iled iu 1$9 ) in six month*, Total r 18,W^71V Of these twenty-six works nine pip* duce their own black plate*, while loveo teen do the tinning only. The nine, produced 5, 1(17,023 pounds >( tin tod terne plates\ during the ' 'quarter, and the seventeen prodj^j 3.003,723 pounds. \ V ? H Protectionists every wh loudly and think^if fant yet born by' n, and ?ome are making promises for its future ai and Allison, who propl that it would be born and ihat iu a year or two it would havf its growth aud be producing all of ocf tin plate. It i? to be expected that th* llepublicans will crow alwut something during a Presidential campaign. but ljf there is nothing better :or them to oroir over thau this tn plate; industry hi present condition, t!i<.' i>R.r:y lacklug for campaign material. A Freight Train Kills Thsm Lynmibi'Uo, V a.? Frank Mart) Lynchburg, and Joseph VanCle Lexington. Va . both in the er tt'm. Sncad & Co., contractor city: were struck and instantlv a freight train war Green^^fi a oii ih" C. & 0. railroad. of the unfortunate meniv Loui- K/'V-ich r.iii be e nil a'f Hu efnety yiinrs old iwM Saturday, at^dj a'i Hungary frcpar?f to do him honor. ' An excursion of mem lursof the J&riish Parliament to bi|? Uotne was planned btit has been givea up, in rte fere nee to the withes of Eos suth's son. who says }u<h a demoastra-t . lion would hasten the patriot's cod. x ? * r | I '? * J. A Touch of Sentiment in .Quarantine. New York. N. \. - A dispatch from Fire Island state* ou?i|?f the qusrnMifltH lady passenger-, on bi-;irdl the C'cphiui. was safely delivered of a baby b >y 'in the night. A Birth in Royal Life. Berlin, Gkrhant ? TheGornian Em prii.-i gave birth to a dauifitcr. the first daughter born to tlie fuK-crial couple. The child was bom in the palace tf Potsdam. j Director Leech, of Washington, htior derc-d f:om the Philadelphia Miot, in additiou to large otdirs of small coins. 200, 1 00 new half dollars for circulation in Washington during the veterans*' en cam pme t. Treasurer Nebecker is al*o prepared with large orders of snardl note*. The Dct earnings of ihe sugar trust a*ii iu / the pa?: tue stated to have b*r-n f 17, 000,000." j ,j . Nancy llauks has broken the vroildV trotting record on a regulation track, go? iac a mile ia 2.07., j j Chicago bracers hive 'formed *a 000,000 combine to purchase l*ta fcalooci r ; -i ? ?>;!? it jj-; ?!* .1 ? if-- ?! ?*?