The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, November 25, 1892, Image 1
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CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1892.
thanksgiving.*^.
ith quickened heart ani with hended
head
Blew the botrnty that never ends,
The great, sweet gifts of life it send?,
lope to the living and rest to the dead;
For the boundless wealth of good it spends
t thanksgivfng sting an 1 ?ai<3.
And most for the blessing of home and
friends.
The pale years wane and falter.
And melt away like snow.
Bat on its holy altar
Love's fires unchanging glow;
To dear, familiar places.
Lured by its gentle light
Come back the dear, dead facei
Out of the awful night.
Beside it, cm Thanksgiving.
Ths kindly feast is spraad.
And old, lost hopes are living.
And old, fond wards are said;
Said by the ksng-rtilled vofe*s,
Heard by the bfearf. alone,
And memory rejoico
In the sweet undertone. .
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Though years the head may whiter?.
The heart shnil not grew gray; \
Younjr thought* thai. thrill and brighten
Poetess the smiling day,
T r, all our best and dearest
A losing cup wa ftil.
To friebds that are the nearest.
To lojra Time cannot kill.
The hearth'3 alight, and the feast is sppea.i.
Blest be the love that never ends, *
For the hope of the living, the rest of the j
dead.
Be thanksgiving sang and said,
And most for the gift of home and friends.
?New York Sun.
A Thanksgiving Surmise.
BY HELEN FOKRE3T OfelAVEf.
?
T was the close
of a brief autumn
day; the last level
beams of the saf
xon-tinted sunset
were peeping
through the
plate-glass case
ments of the !
great Eighth ave
nue store, and
Kitty Kasson,
tortured with a !
?plitting headache and wearied with the
incessant buzz of questioning voices, '
pressed both hands over her fprehead j
and asked herself :
"Will six o'clock never come? Will j
these people never go?"
The floor superintendent came up.
'?Miss Kasson," said he sharply, j
what ails you to-day? I have heard
more than one complaint. Is it simple
inattention? or don't you care whether
you retain your position here or not?"
Kitty looked piteously up.
4 'My head aches so H' said she. 4 'But
I didn't known. What can I do, please?"
* -Here's a lady asking for mode-col
ored gloves, and you've taken out the
box of blacks," said Mr. Irwin, impa
tiently. "Really this won't do!"
**Kitty murmured a wort? or two of
apology, substituted the mode-colors for
the blacks, and set herself to be as at
tentive as possible.
. Headache or no headache, it behooved
Mr to give satisfaction. She had not
only herself to support, but the ailing
mother, whose board she pattd at a
cousin's farmhouse in the Connecticut
Valley. To her every dollar meant its
full worth, and when she saw girl cus
tomers of her own ^ge scattering the i
contents of their purses with reckless
disregard, she could but wonder.
But when the crowd of 9 hoppers had
ebbed and flowed itself away, and the
much-betumbled and becrumpled stock
w is replaced in boxes and on shelves,
and the girls were departing, Kitty came
to Mr. Irwin's desk.
"Welt?" he said impatiently", biting
the handle of his pea, as he glaneed up ;
from the big book before him.
i 4,Mr. Irwin," faltered Kitty, "Ij.
haven't had any vacation this year. Caa j
have a week at .Thanksgiving?"
Mr. Irwin frowned.
"You had the chance in August," said!
he. "No, we can't spare you at Thanks*
giving, Miss Kasson. Three "of the girl*
j ?
in your department have been ahead of
you in securing that time, and, as yot
"OH, HERE'S A LETTKlt POS TOC-V
mxM Imow, -we are extra busy at this
time of year."
"I ccakla't go in August." said Ktzj. !
She did not like to teJl the superin
tendent that she had lent her saiar* for
the sooth of Angust to poor Matt iStn
cia ir, to pay for a sen. -cots* trip foe oer
oyMOttfire amc, that the sister had
i n
died at Ocean Beacbr-a:*3 that Mary Sin
clair had never been .nble to regQythe
indebtedness.
How true it is that *':t is the po<^r wlso
are good! to the poor !
'?Couldn't I possibly ? "
"No, you couldn't!^ said 'Mr. Irwin,
an^s^uraed to his big Jooks asiif the case
were cfe^ed.
Kitti# aa*son went quietly home to
the solitary\aU bedrooarthat she shared
with a hollo^-^yed stitcher in a. corset
factory, whose\ cough kept her* awake
half th? night. "V
The| made tfremSftUes a cup of fabu
lously weak tea, and mSbkjJat bread
and buitter, with a pan of clamsT'Vhich
Miss Skerrett had cooked over a neigh
bor's stove, to give some reliafc to it.
They sat with shawls around them, and
left the door into the* hall open, iu hopes
j that some current of warmth i rom the
I down stairs rooms might set th3ir way.
"Ob, here's a letter for you, which I'd
I nearly forgotten!" said ifias Skerrett.
"It got slipped under the bread plate.
Kitty opened it and read it eagerly.
Then her head dropped on her. hands;
she burst into "tears.
"2fo bad news, I hope!" said Miss
Skercett, who was mending the worsted
glovas which had so often been i mended
before.
"So," said Kitty. "Not&ing * but
what I might have expected. The old
home is sold ? to somebody * from the
West!"
"But it hasn't been really yours for a
long While, has it?" said Miss Skerrett.
"^eft. no!" Kitty admitted. "But
as long as Squire Taft owned it, there
was; some chance of our buying it back.
When I first came to New York, you
know, Sarah, I was sure I . could sell the
novel I had written, and rebuild the fam
ily fortunes. I fancied it was only a
matter of a year or two. Now I know
what nonsense it was. No matter. I'm
young, and tolerably strong. But it'll
come hard on mother ? poor mother! ?
who has kept hoping all her lifetime for
things that never came. I've got to
write to her, now, that I can't be at
home for Thanksgiving. They won't
spare me!"
Miss Skerrett shrugged htr thin shoul
ders.
?'Well," said she, "what you haven't
got can't miss. I never had a
Thanksgiving!"
jKitty did not not answer. She was
thanking of the red November sun, the !
aromatic scent of dead leaves, the sound
ol church bells chiming across the frosty ^
fields, the smell of burning beech logs
oc the old stone hearth.
And all that night long, when poor '
Miss Skerrett slept and coughed b/turns, '
Kitty Kasson lay awa&e and thought ,
abcut Thanksgiving
" stop! " CRrED KITTY.
I -She was unusually qmet and dejected
the next day.
Mr. Irwin frowned a little.
"We want our girls to be spry and
smiling," said he. "The customers
don't like to see a death's -head- a ad
bones behind the counterl"
So Kitty tried to look cheerful, while |
all the time she was asking* .herself :
j "How could Abiram Taft break his |
I promise to me? How could he let his
father sell the old home, when he told
. me I should have the refusal of: it? Of
{ course, I couldn't buy it; out tfee blow !
wouldn't ha7fr eome so sudden if I had j
kao;vn beforehand."
; Mis? Skerrctt was full of a new plan
when Kitty cime home that nig-'nt.
i "Kitty," said she, "you felt bad about ;
icsinj your Taanksgi ring. Let's hare j
a little one of our -own. A chicken ,
won't cost much ? poultry is alwajs
eheapif you wait until the night before i
Than k^iring. And Mol will let
us cook it in her oven, tod we could
hare a few rout chestnuts and two red
apples, and a cranberry tart from the
^baker's. It won't cost so much if we
jom together.
"But i* wouldn't be a real Thanksgiv
ing," said Kitty, shaking her head, with
a sad smile.
Just then the letter carrier's whistle
sounded in the hall below.
Dow flew Kitty, and with
another l&wer, directei taw tfms in Mr^
Copley's* sutf hand-rritinx. C
Kitty turned pale. .
L ; "Open it, Sarah," said she. "I can't.
Either mother's sic'c or? or she's dead!''
"Neither one nor ti^e other.," said
Sarah Bkerrett, who had male haste to
jreak the seal. "Snail 1 read it to you?"
"Dea.r Krrrv: C3meto Thanka.^iring
rhis rear, and brm^ your friend Hiss
Skeirett. Do not fall. It is to be a sur
prise to your niacher. So no moce at
repeat. "Fro n roar cou?ia,
Daaoava Coflst."
Kitty grew re 1 and white.
"Oa, but I can't!" s le. jpj H
"Oh! but rou must!" said Mas 8ker
0 "Wnat will i?r. Irwia say!"
"What he pleases. Oh. Kitty, we are
such slaves all our life long, do let us
have one free and risk the con
sequences !"
Hie dimples came into Kitty's cheek.
. "We will!" said she.
_ It was a stormy sunset that brooded,
in its red magnificence,., over the ralley
that night; but Thansgiring is ooe of
the few things that stormy weather can
not spoil ; and as Kitty and Mis3 Sker
rett stepped" of the train, a gust of sweet
scented air came up\ from the pine
glens, the leaves rustled under foot, and
the red barns in the distance seemed as
' SCRS. COPLEY PREPARING THE TUEKEY.
if it were but yesterday that she had left
them.
r ? *
Mrs. Copley was at the station, rubi
cund and short-breathed as ever. ..
"There's awaggin' back o'the freight
house, " said she. < ' Wait a spell, girls,
till the tram's gone by. The hoss, he's
ekeery of the cars."
"But what do we want of a wagon?"
said Kitty. "It isn't a quarter of a mile
to your house, Cousin Deb."
"We ain't a-going there!" said Mrs.
Copley. "Your ma, site's moved."
"Moved ! Oh, Deb, I know I haven't
been able to be very regular in the pay
ments of late," said Kitty, a sudden suf
focation coming into her throat, "but I
surely? surely you haven't let them take !
her to the town house?"
"Wal, I guess not?" said Mrs. Cop- j
ley. "Get into the waggin. You'll I
see!" ?
|
Abiram Taft was driving. Kitty 1
viewed him sternly, scarcely returning j
his nod.
"You arc not vexed with me, Kitty?"
said he.
"You have broken your word," said j
si e in a low voice, while Mrs. Copiey j
pointed out the various places of interest !
to Sarah Skerrett. "You did it out of
spite, because? because I wouldn't mar
ry you. xs
"I may be a pretty mean man, Kittv," j
said he, "but I ain't as mean as all that.
Get up, Bonny;" with a lash across the '
old red horse's fat back.
And they drove along in siience i
until ?
"Stop!" cried Kitty. "Here's the*
old home. Stop, Abiram, and let me j
have one look at it. And there are j
lights in the window ! Look, Sarah? 1
there's the window where I used to peep :
out winter nights and watch for Santa !
Claus's coming. There's the big flat i
stone where we used to playjack-straws, j
and the apple tree, where the red gills- j
flowers grew. And, oh, Sarah I am I
dreaming? There'3 mother coming out \
to the gate to meet me, iust a* she al- ?
ways did. Drive on, Abiram! I I
think my brain must be going."
"I guess we won't drive on," said
Ahiram Taft, alighting and deliberately I
tying the sorrel horse to the post.
"Your brain's all light, kitty. It is !
your mother; and you be comia' home !
again, just like you always did. Tue j
house's your mother's, Kitty; I deeded 1
it to her, I bought it of father with the I
proSts I made in that Western ranch '
affair. I never felt quite satisfied about i
that foreclosure business, and this is what
I call restitution money."
"But," cried Kitty, "the old furni- |
ture ? the dear, tail clock and the high
topped chairs ? ."
"I managed all ^hat," saii Abiram ,
simply. "I sort o'lplanned to have it
all -dovetailed io bji Thanksgiving Div.
You see, Kitty, I kn^w rigat weil yon
dpn't love ra^; bat*' for ail that, no oue
can stop as from loving you an 1 work
ing to make you happfc. I couldn't no
how staad the idea of your betn' shut
up m that kig city store yke a bird in a;
^age. Go in, Kitty, t I^on't you see your;
mother waitm' for yoi^iL /?
"Bat ? but you'll comX* and spenl
Thanksgiving Day with us^o-raorrow,
Abiram?" faltered Kitty, still lingering
out under the lilac bashes, although her
nand -vas tightly cla?pe<l in her
mother's.
"Da yon want m? to, Kitty I"
"Yes, I do "
"Then I'li come!"
B ick to the old nearch ran Kittr. The
familiar criccet still ciirpel betweea
its stones; the kettie sang the same
sleepy tune over toe nr?.
"Oh, mother, mother,"' she gasped,
| "how happy I a^n! Oa. hay cai we ever
; pay Abiran Taft back?"'
\ Tne little, biaci-robsd widow smiled
| as she took a pin of hot oiscuit o it of
the oven and the steaming teapot
I further bac i on tae stove. r;
"Taere's only one way, daughter, that
i know of," said she. ."Yoa're sneered
at honest Abiram and laogaeJ at him fell
these years, but now?"
"Now," said Sarah Skerrett, turning
Kitty around so that she could look
full into her eyes ? "now she loves him.
I can see it in her eyes. _ Ah, Mrs. ]?as
son, time has taught her mora lessons
than one P' t l-:
And Mrs. Copley, singeing the pin
feathers off a fat young turkey in the
back id tehee, mused to herself.
"Well, I shouldn't wonder if "that
tangle came straight arter all. Me anaX
Copley got engaged on ? Thanksgiving
Day. It always was a l&cky time."
The pleasant custom of beginning a
Thanksgiving feast by laying five ker
nels of corn upon the plate of each per
son at tne table, in commemoration of
the time when the Pilgrim founders of
New England had'butrfive grains of corn
each day to eat, serves, so far as it is ob
served., a double purpose.
It must, in the first place, render th
mere physical enjoymebt of a festival
keener to perceive the plain contrast be
tween the fare of those hard days of the
past and the plenty of the present. A
little nibble at the hard kernel* of corn,
with a momentary attempt to fancy that
this is all one is to have, gives an added
zest to roast turkey, cranberry sauce,
minseund pumpkin pies and things of
that sort.
But the custom may also bring to mind
the real meaning of the Thanksgiving
festival.-/
It exptesses the conviction that afflic
tion, adversity, privation are merely
trials of our character, a3 a nation and as
individuals. Sometimes it happens that
a Thanksgiving seemB almost inappro
priate. There has baen great personal
loss, or some public tuhinity ; a pesti
lence may have carried off thousands, or
the times have been^haird for the people.
'
But these things are the five grains
of com upon the plate; all may be sure
that the account will be much more
than righted; that our debt will be much
greater than all our thanks can pay, our
table more beautifully .spre^l than we
deserve. ? Youth's Companion.
Thanksgiving Preiaf&jons.
??ST
A good dinner w one of the things we
generally have reason to?be thankful for,
and although Thanksgiving Day means a
deal of work for the ordinary house
keeper, she is happy with it ail if she is
making others happy. If she has .planned
so that the greater share of the work can
be done the dav before Thanksgiving,
she as well as her company will be saved
from much uneasiness. Mince pies may
be baked a week betore and are reaily
better for having stood a few days.
Pumpkin pies are just a? good if bake!
the day before they are needed. Chicken
pie may also be baked tue d iy biiore
and warmed over fo&dinner. Tnerc arj
many little things that, taken serarateiy,
do not consume much time but aitogct Vii*
repay one for attending to the a th-; dav
or evening before. Fruit mty be nil
prepared ready to be put oa me table
and set in a handy place. Vegela jlej
may be washed and put in a cool pla:2
over night. Dishe3 that are only use I
for company occasions should be ail ready
and in a convenient place. An extra
table in the kitchen. at such time> is a
great help. I generally bring my handy
cutting table into use. I used to think
it quite an art to be able to wait upon a
table gracefully, but I found that one
great secret of success was to have plenty
of room and go about the work quietly
? Mrs. Clay.
Prjlltabie f>r Him.
r*4Have we any special reasoa to give
thanks?" asked Mrs. Boneser, as htr
husband packed his surgical case oa
Thanksgiving Day.
"We have," replied the doctor, put
ting in an extra roll of plaster; "we
should be thankful for the invention of
foot bail." \
No >'eck in Hi?.
The Minister ? liWeli, my little man,
?what are you thankful for to- lay f"
Bobby ? "That the Tnaakjgivia' din
ner's mos1 ready."
Somebody has said that if Pastern
were paid a royalty on ail the money he
has saved to the commercial . world he j
would be the richest manr on earth.;
/ ?
j. A Cloud oa the
DIXIE NEWS.
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The Sunny South Gleaned and Expito
mized.
All the News and Occurences Printed
Here is Condensed Prom*
Charleston, 8. CM has another savings
bank? the Commercial.
The mayor of Lynchburg, Va., Hon.
Robert D; Yancey was married Thursday
eight to Miss Rosa Faulkner.
In the Virginia Supreme Court of Ap
peals at Richmond, B. Larey Hoge was
admitted to practice in the court.
The new trunk factory to be built at
Petersburg, Va , will be quite a largo
affair. With the most modern machin
ery. ~
_ * a -v
The Hebrews of Charleston and Sum
ter, 8. C., are each preparing to build a
synagogue. One will also be built al
Charlotte, next year.
Work on the Ocmulgec river is being
pushed forward rapidly, and within a
short time the channel will be clea* from
Macon, Ga , to the sea. Congress " ap
propriated 125,000 for this work last
session.
The Atlantic Coast Line are making"
extensive improvements in its terminaV
facilities at Columbia, 8: C. It intends
putting in additional side-t?ck to reach
industries heretofore shut off from such
a convenience.
Win. Mi ler, who killed Jack Witton*
in Iredell County, N. C. , on the 1st, wa?
convicted of murder in Iredell Superior
Court this week, and sentenced to be
hanged in January, but apnealed to the
Suprereme Court. W
It is reported that a company is being'
organized to purgjjpse 20,0j0 acres of
land in^Craig vf\ W, Va. This land will
be dmaed iata tyn plantations for thi
cultivation of su?h products as the soil i
best adapted to? , A large tract will t>?
set apart for sheep ana, stock raising
The location will be ucar the town m
Gfaig City and Xew Castle*
jThe Association of Southern Cannes
representing the Slates it Virginia'
.North and S.uth Carolina, Georgia.
Florida, Alabama, Tennessee and Ken
tucky, was organized at Savannah Tues
day. A resolution was passed which will
be sent to every canner in the Sou'h for
signature^ protesting against the duty on
tin and demanding its repeal.
It is reported that a large cave, equti
in size an,d beauty to thnt in Lurar, ha
been discovered near Harrisonburg,' Va
The discovery was made while blaslint
? for rock. Thus far twenty-four rootm
have been found and further exploration
will, it is thought, open manv^ more.
People from all the neighboringf towns
are gathering at the plac i and collec tint
specimens of stalactites, some of wh ic^
are remarkable, beautiful. "
THE INTER STATE COMMISSION.
A Decision on~Eong and Short Hauls.
WASfirxGTON, D. C. ?The inter-state
commerce commission an nounced its de
cision of the case brought by the Oeor?e
railroad commission against the Cin
cinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific
Kailway Company, ths Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, and ether
railroads and stejmship lines, seven cases
in all, mvoling rates for longer and short
er hauls from Cincinnati and other Ohio
river points, and from New York and
other nor. h Atlantic ports to points in
sou hern territory.
Among other points the commission
ho?ds that the fact of a receivership for
a defendant carrier subsequent to com
plaint fch uld not interfere with the pro
gress o; a proceeding brought merely for
the purpose of railwav regulation The
phrase -common control, management or
arrange in nt for continuous carriage or
shipment,' in the first section of the "act
to regulate commerce," wus intended to
coverall interstate traffic carried through
fines3 rai1 ?r poit *atei md port r"ji
The competition of markets on d fftr
ent hires for the sale of commodities at a
given point served by both lines does
not create cireumsta cesund conditions
which the carriers chu take into acrount
in determiniog^forlrhcftiiselves.in the first
instance, wlwth?r tlsey rue justified in
charging more for shortvr thau for looser
distances over their line. ?
Two cues were dismissed, and the
others defendants are ordered to cea*e
and desist from charging more to short
er than to longer distance [oints njen-v
tioned iu the compUiuts or file applica
tions for rel ef under the proviso clatise
of the fourth section aod show cause
tnereon, with n a time specified.
> Twin City Devastated.
Winston, N. C. ? Fire was first dis
c?)V. red a few minutes after midnight in
the drug store of 3rown & Brown.
After it was extinguished it ignited
a?:iia aud spread rapidly, resulting in
the destruction of nearly $300,000 worth
of property. Two blocks were burned [
up by the flames, one of which is the
I finest in the city, on which 6tood the ,
| hn'idsoroe now First National Bank
| building. Betides these the tobacco
! warehouse run by Abott & Jones and
I livery stable run by A. M. Simmon9. In
i the latter eleven horses perished. The
k>il ; w ing is an estimate of th" 1 sses by
t?u .o^!^SS4'wImw; !
other conteot3, $3,000; Hanes building.
115.0 0; Brown &, Brown, drug?sts.
$10,000; A. Kadden. clothiers, $5B)0,
onther contents, $3,000: Buxton buud
! ing. $10,000: Rosenbanher <? Bros.,
i clothier?, $40,000: Pepper building,
$10,000; Caldwell & Ruff, merchant?,
j $15,000; B. J. Sbeppard. leaf tobacco
| factory, and stock, $19,000; tobacco
: warehouse and content?. $10,000; livery
I stable and horses, $5,000; leaf f&ct9ry
! owned by M. Tjrogan estate. $5,000; ;
brisk grist mill, $5,000, with sucdrv
] losses whictuwiH in a tot*l segregate '
i about $-300,000-; insurance foots upwards i
i of $20^,000. Nearly every buijding w ill i
i K? renlaeed at oucf
Burning of Shenandoah College.
s ST.\rsTON,f Va. ? The Sbehandoah !
Normal College at Basic City, Va . which
wms burned, together with nearly all it?
i fontents, was a large three-story frame
s ructurc. The property was leased by
Prof. G.% W. Hoenshe! who had a flour
: isbing ?ehool attended bj about 100
j male :\cH female students. All esc-ifjed !
; irj safety, thou gh macj !os> th ir rffecU. !
j Th?? l<?a i? ?.* tlA ft?W j.
ol membership.
asion composed of
*'tj years old or
? fifty and a hua
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
V ^
What i ? Being Don* Toward# Repre
tenting the South at Chicago.
TENNESSEE.
The schooner Mary, built by -Captain
Bettes at Clifron, on" the Clinch river, to
carry a floaVtg exhibit from Tennessee,
has arrived in Chicago. It is loaded
with products of East Tennessee, includ
ing gold, silver, copper, ^xinc, fifteen
kinds Of matble, onvx aajj relics ^ fiora
Tennessee bittlefields. Whe route was
' down the Tennessee river to the Mississip
pi, then up to the Illinois, and thence
through the canal, making iu ail a voy
age of 2,000 miles.
SOUTH CAROMSA.
s" One of the most interesting of the
curios to be sent from Columbia, S. C.,
?o.tJ?e, World's Fair will be a photograph
which is.soid to be the fust takea in Am
erica. It is the picture of Major J. G.
Gibbes, and was taken December 15,
t854:f when this gentleman ? bad just re
turned from Paris, where Daguure had
just discovered his process of photo
grapliv.' It is p.inted on the cornci of an
otit yellow sheet of wri.ing papar and
while somewhat indistinct, the likeness
can be plainly pcrceived. The W order's
Central World's Fair Ciub has secured
juany interesting Indian relics aud other
curios which they will send,
KLOBIDA.
Florida'* State Luilding at Jackson
Pork, Chicago, is new under construction
aud \^ork on it is progressing well. Fouo
da ions are finished and the frame uork
for thecal Is is being put up. fcincei'
is to be a reproduction of Fort Blarioo at
St Augustine, its uuiquc architecture
and historical associations have cau-.ed
^?t to attract as much attjeutiou as auy
other State building on the grounds
Commissioner Jackson will endeavor, to
obtai'u at the comiug Pensacola Tobacco
Fair some good exhibits of Florida grown
tobacco for thk Colu ubian Exposition.
By request ofc the Horticultural De
partment, Mr. Plant is forward ng from
* he Tampa Rxf. Hotel gardens a i arload
of choice plants, and next spring will
*end a larg. r number. These, with tho.'c
already r. ceived or expected from the
Ponce de Leon gard-ns, will make a very
beautiful display.
Mrs. Ellen Call Long, whose efforts to
introduce silk culture in Florida haw
been untiring, has had made from silk
produced iu Florida an elegant American
fliig, and has prerenud the 6ame to Mss
I 'otter Palmer, the head of the woman't
department of the World's Fair.
KCNTOCKY.
The appropriation msd# by the legisla
ture for a Kentucky esfefliit is not yet
ivailub e for the purpose intended, ,
Qwing to a constitutional point beinj:
raised as to its legality. The commis
siooe s at last advices had not deterniiuen
w hat cours ; to take, auc^will prajjabl\
wait the action ol the courts.
LOUISIANA.
I The picture of Acadian life in Loui*
i na will fonu a prominent part in the
State's exhibit. At the last meetiue ol
the Worn tn's Auxiliary, Mis. Paul Leeds,
delegate from New Iberia, said she hoped
to have the pleasant life of the Acadian <>
well depict d in Chicago. One of the
ro nis in the State building.will be sc!
apart for this exhibit, and fitted out it
' simple fashion like the homes of the
peasants, furnished with looms aud (
wheels. cards and cotton, the rep recent a
tiou being completed by the woman
weavers plying the shuttle. Part of tin
room will be converted into a bcud u
decorated with fabrics woven on the
loom, and other articles for use and orna
ment will be t-howu. Mrs. Preston John
son hopes to get | emi ssion to use pa;: 3
of Charles Dudley Warner's articles ??n
tlit.- Acadiaus, written in 18ft7, and wants
to have these, together with p?rts e>f
Evangeline and a skctch of the Acadian*,
bound in cloth woren by these people
and ornamented by their artists.' . j
The c-ieule kitchen department will be
in the hands of a s Ock company anu
appehr as an annex to the Louisiana
; building. The contract for the construc
tion of the State building has bieu let at
a cost of $14.-500. The World's Fair"'
Association ha3 decided to have {he
grounds about the buildicg betuififuliy
laid out aud embellished with ail the j
plants and tree3 and shrubs typical of
Louisiana The structure will be a inuiy j
one, and represents an old style planta- :
tioD house. with the lower story- cement i
ed an-.l < rnarnerited in characteristic
style. Tall columns, broid galleries and
tiny panes of glass will form distinctive
features of the famous mansions of day*
gone by.
Improved Condition.
[Columbia S- C. Record. ]
We hear much complaint among the
farmers of short cotton crops throughout
.the State, much of which is well found
ed, but we a e not so bad off as one would
be ltd to suppose by hearing th'-se com
plains - Th-' truth i?. South Caroliua i?
better off than she has b?en any veur
since the war.
The past twelve month# with it' low
price eif cotton and burden of d'bt h?s
been a blessing in disguise. Jt did wiwt,;
nothing else could <iu, outl-wm
c-'s to turn fr<"-rn o.tton * cultbre to "the
cuiture of p rains iot Itrtste consumption,
and paitiallv to^tclsidBO for ft money
nop. The result is our corn cribs are
ip many instances fil'ed to everfl >wing.
[ aud every f*rm ia the St3te h*s m ore |
i corn of h</mc pr duction that for twe -
| ty rears. Mu~h in re at has b on
! rnise i than formerly. a'l <f w hich re
lieves ?i= '( the necessity of sending the <
monrv for. exit cotton, to ite West
In thv meantime, our people have had
a m ;t wholes tne lesson in economy, j
With no mone. and no credit a' luc be
ginning r A '0- tu' v wfe for ed lo econ
omize. and n:*M v.! I Live t h*v d "i:o if:
a practice they will not so<>g forge;t.
Ali they want to do n-jw to increase
their prosperity is to continue to diver
s:fy their ei- ps Root crops are the
cheapest -*toek food they c^n raise, and
take the place, io many instances, of
grains most admirably, c rtainij making
a 6 e supplement, and the sooner they
appreciate the fact the l>e-.ter.
North Carolina's New Chaef Justice.
Rai.eioh. N\ C - <iov r^or Holt ap
pointed Jame K. rhepperd^to be Chirf
Jus ice of the jSmth Carolina Suprem>
j Court, to succecd August S. Merrrmon.
dccea-ed. Mr: Sbepperd has fgr some
j yean been Alsocu ejJus ic? of theCou t.
j fie began business *iu iif< as a telegraph
| operator at Wa-hiVj^ton' D. C. He
studied law and-bec^ne prominent in ^rhe
profession. The uuctmor has aifo ap
pointed Armwtenu li-irweUJ-of Charlotte,
to be Associate Justice, vice Sbepperd
promoted.
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ELECTION ECHfljBS.
Ger.pral Disciisuion of th( Po!itif*j
Excitement, ^
A Full Cabinet Slat# Ma?* Wttij
?Gray, cf Delaware, for 8ecraUrjr
! of State.
For the first time in the
this Government women voted Cor
idential electors. Wyoming has
suilrnge.
to, is s*id that Gov. Flower if*
be Senator Hkcock'ssacceaaor, [and Ho *
York Democrats 8 re of thg opinion ? th 4
hie desire bpgrtt!5e3T
Hie Washington represenUtiveaOf t il
Associated Press figures out the ?< rt
House as follows : Democrat* 21$-. I *
publicacs 120, and lOFusioaiats orWn)
parry men. ^
Joha Davis, theriff-ciect of ' lit 8i If
cpuuty, Texas, was killed by bialffet 4?
Win. Irvin",becaus3 he said Irviu dtd wt
work for bis election .
A man at Bobbin. W. Va , Ate a Oft 4"
ed rat iu the presence of an opera ho: tU
full of people Saturday- nigbt, io'k
ment of an election bet The coot
called for the- eating of a raw rat but 1
Democrat allowed the Republican
have it cookeck, ' r
Ex<>8ecretary Whitney stated t< I
Courier-Journal correspondent that tto
der oo -circumstanccs would he becofl 16 fl
member of Mr. Cleveland's cabinet. Il
he accepts any position it wlU, Jo At]
probability, be that of minister to- Kog
Ian J,. V
South Carolina wil
Wade Hampton fortli^
cretary of War ia Clevc
(Jonerai Ifampton while
was for years chairman*
mittce, and took an active iotereft .ia
affairs. _ r / .x. tj
W iK?ft6TEoi, Tbs*. ?Chief
Turuey, Governor elect of TtOMfl %.]
lying dangerously ill at hi* home ttft
this city. Judge Turnty ia onlte ft to)
man. There is no prov! ?ion
fee's constitution or statute* for i
(or in thc-cveut of the death of
<rnor- elect, and should"5 Judft
die before he is inaugurated, -it ?
that Governor Buchanan would hoi
1 893./* NOVEMBER
CABttTCT TALK in WASOltfffinflflH
W asuington, D. C.? One Of thd noat
prominent and influential Demoaitsjo
Congress was io the city, fcesh fax rlfaw
York, where he took ad active I art In i
the reeent campaign. He stood Cl we to
Mr. Cleveland during the fight, ti d w<t#
posted at all times about what was gofog
an. To The 8un correspondent tbij
Democrat, who will no# allow the use Of
his name, laid to-night that hale t cbn
fidout that Mr. Cleveland had gi ran
serious thought "to the make uo ^jr.lsiv
Cabinet,] except . so Lu a* one quae i>
' concerned. That is the naAe of
Gray of Indiana, who, it is saidwlj
itiveness, his already been
portfolio. Much informal Cabinet)
he added, haa-becn indulged in
men who had been active in th<
paign management, and who wSl
after be consulted by the Presided
und that the uames of Senator!]
and Gray, WiUou S. Bissell of
Gov. Pattison ol Pennsylvania,
Campbell of Ohio, Gen. "Pat" C
Boston, and Congressman V^ilfiam A.,
Hatch of Missouri would undoubtedly be/,
kept in mind by Mr. Clevelaof
appointment of Senator Gray
ware, as Secretary of State, wc
very suitable and timely one it is
as it would make way for the
Mr. Bayard to the Senate, wl
be particularly p easing to him. I Should
Mr. Bayard get Mr -Gray's seat and Mr;
Carlisle go into the Cabinet, ' Mr, Bajard
would pro';ably resume his old/ place aa
Chairman of the Finance Comitt^e, ftbicb
promotion he cannot get if Mr. Carlisle'
remains a fcjerjator aud wants,1 it.: Thel
gossip uf the fclatc maker* placed: Gray
of-io-iana at the head of tha Interior
Department and makes Campbell Pott'
master General, Collins Secretary of War,
Bissell Attorney General, Pattison Score- ?
tary of the Navy, and Hatch Commis
sioner of Agricul ufe.
PREPAKATI NS FOR CLEVELAND'S IKAUO-.
PRATIOK.
Washington, D. C ?Already prepar
ations ate under way for toe insw juration
of Mr. Cleveland on March 4. It is the
intention of Democratic organizations in
j the larger cities to wake it more notable
than aj:y similar event that has preceded
it Tammmy Hall of New York, the
Harrity C ub of Philadelphia, the Iro
i quois Club of Chieago, and other similar
j organizations have already senti represent
atives to Washington to secure accommj
1 dations for their members, vho will.
' present and participate in the ev<
i Estimates are heard fixing the numboj
; marcher* i? the proctsrion, tr eel "
| the return of the Democratic pi
power, at 50,i)00.
SINNED AfMINSI THE
Prof^fcsor Smith Seiioi
This Charge ftt;
Cisciw.vm, O. ? In JKe Sicnith heresy
trial Dr. T4**ma,0, Lowe, for ^the pto|- i
ecoi-lob, Professor Scslthls objec,^
tion1to,the garget. | He quoted, the ac
tion of the General Assembl May last j
to the eff- ct that a minister who. changes
hie vic*s after ordination should leave
the Church, which Christian honor re-!
quired without awaiting the? tedious mo-,
ceas of dUc:pline. Dr. Lowe, cohclud-i,
icg. accus 1 Professor ^3irthv of* ab>
against the Hoiy Ghost and! blnsphexaj.
Professor Smijjh protested against bemg
accused of sin ag.inst the feolir Qbost,
Dr. McKibbeo -?wl he had lot been, bat
Pro lessor Smith i: -iited that Lowe hvi
made such riecu ration an^ asked the
pres6;.teiy if t;sc committee thought him
guilty of that *ia it would have bead
more manly to consider it it the charges .
Dr. McKibbea attempted to smooch'
matters aud an Jtider demanded that
Lowe make his o*n explication. Dr.
| Lowe replied that Dr. M- Kibben had
made it for hit?*. Th?-re \f*s much feekf
inginthe di?usss>&*
Sad Dro^mg.
Lrxin<ttov. Va, ? N-;** hat just reach
ed here of the 3rV*fuog of Gardner
Drain, a young farmer of this county,
jiear Co'iierst^wn. If ; hid beea attend
. iA^ a con huikiri^ i "caving imbibed
frwlfLbf tj'ard cs>i r Say {down on , the
roadside near a Dond to sleep. On being
I arouse i by ais cumpaniotn a little later,^
r jumped sudden y to his feet and spraftg
! over&jence into the pond He ntg
t dirowoed ibefore.be 4could be rescue^.
' He lues ty-two y ear* ^old, 'acd be-,
longed W a very weU^a^wcj twmUy i?
his town.
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