The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, September 23, 1892, Image 1
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GOD AM) OlIR IV ATIVE
>1DEN, S. C., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 23, 1892
MARY-BILLS BOF.
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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
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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
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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 ?
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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A DESPERADO KILLED.
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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.
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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. \
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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& ' ^
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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.
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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
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