The Barnwell people. (Barnwell, S.C.) 1884-1925, October 21, 1886, Image 1
MR. UAVIS MAKES RETORT.
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TIm PrMUenl of Ike Confederacy Cite* HUIory
la Reftilaife* of the Chargee ef Bhernae, and
Facta aa lalhe Late War Betweea the Htato.
The Baltimore Him prints a letter, five
columns in length, from ex-Preeident
Jefferson Davis in relation to the long
standing controversy between' himaolf
and General W. T. Sherman. The let
ter i*dated’feeauvoir, Mias., September
23,1886, and begins as follows:
“At various times, and from many of
my friends, I have been asked to furnish
a reply to Gen. W., T. Sherman’s so-
called report to the War Department,
which the United States Senate ordered
avc Document No. 36,
Forty-eighth Congress, second session.
1 have been compelled by many causes
to nostpone a reply to these invitations,
ana haVe in some instances declined, for
the time being, to undertake the labor.
A continuing sense of the great injustice
done me and the people I represented,
by the Senate making the maucioua as
sault of General Sherman a public docu
ment, and giving to his slander the im
portance which necessarily attaches to
an executive communication to the Sen
ate, has recently caused the request for
a reply by me to be pressed with very
great earnestness. For this reason 1
have decided to furnish a reply for pub
lication in the Baltimore Sun. The hu>-
a .of my public life bears evidence
I did all in my power to prevent the
war; that I did nothing to precipitate
the collision; that 1 did not seek the post
of Chief Executive, but a .vised my
friends that 1 preferred not to fill it.
That history General Sherman may alan-
deroualy assail by his statement?, hut be
eannot alter its consistency; nor can the
Republicans of the Senate change its un
broken story of faithful service to the
Union of the Constitution until, by the
command of mv sovereign State, 1 with
drew as her ambassador from the United
States Senate. For all sets of my public
life aa President of the Confederate
States I am responsible at the bar of
history, and most accept her verdict,
which I altall do without the least appre
hension that it will be swayed from the
truth by the malicious falsehoods of
General Sherman, even when stamped
M an executive document by the United
States Senate.
Mr. Davis then recites the statement
made bv General Sherman before a gath
ering of ex-Union soldi* n, in 1A H 1, that
he (ohemany had seeb a let Ur from
Mr. Davis to a United States Senator, in
which he (Davis) said that he “would
torn Lee's army against any State that
might attempt to secede from the South-' been
cal statement,’ already branded with
falsehood and unsupported by evidence,
ought fo have bean Tejected with only
wonder how it got before the Senate. It
is apparent that this so-called historical
statement had been seen by Republican
Senators, and that they were not igno
rant of its real character when the Haw
ley resolution was under discussion in
the Senate. Those Senators then knew
that General Sherman had, in his letter
of January 6,188S, to the Secretary of
War, changed the issue between us from
one of veracity to a rambling, shuffling
discussion of a ‘conspiracy’ and of ‘con
spirators’ In the winter of 1860-61, and
that which at Frank Blair Post may have
been ‘s white ]ie,’ not intended for'pub
lication—came before the Senate as ‘a
historical statement,’ bolstered with oth
er falsehoods equally without foundation
or support in anything written or uttered
by me. It now survives as an ‘executive
document’ of picturesque prevarication.
I know nothing of any ‘conspiracy’ or
‘conspirators.’ There was no secrecy
about any of the political affairs which
led to the sooesrion of the States in
1860U61. It was the opinion of the con
ference of Southern Senators in January,
which is introduced in this historical
statement as evidence of ‘conspiracy, 1
that secession wss the only remedy left
to the States; that every effort to pre
serve the peace had failed mainly
through theJWJtion of that portion of the
Republican party which refused all
propositions for adjustment saade by
those who sought in January, 1861, to
justify confidence, insure peace and pre
serve the Union. In the same month in
which that conference wss held I served
on a con mittee raised by the Senate to
seek some possible mode of quelling the
excitement that then existed. That com
mittee was composed of the three politi
cal divisions of the Senate, and it was
considered useless to report any measure
which did not receive the concurrence of
at least a majority of each division. The
Republican Senators rejected every
proposition that promised pacification,
and the committee reported to the Sen
ate that their consultation was a failure.
Was there lost conspiracy in the Repub
lican Senators combining to prevent
pacification than there waa in the South
ern Senators writing in a conference to
advise conventions of their States thrt
their cause
TWO 00TT0N MIRACLES.
TKB MX MX HARVBttTKR
MASON CUN.
AK» THE
Aa latMwsUas Kxhlfcktoa the New Machlaea
at Suiter Yntertay-Pfektss Two TheoMaC
— PsaaCe s Pay.
(N ws sad Courier, October 14.) _
A practical teat of the Mason Cotton
Harvesting machine was made in Sumter
yesterday before a committee of three
from the New York Cotton Exchange,
and committees from the Charleston
Cotton Exchange, the Agricultural So
ciety of South Carolina, the State Agri
cultural Society and the State Board of
Agriculture. The committees were ac
companied by the board of directors of
the Mason Cotton Harvesting Company.
The New York committee arrived at
Sumter at 4 a. m., by the Wilmington,
Columbia and Augusta Railroad, and the
other committee* arrived at 9.30 a. m.,
by the Central Railroad of South Caro
ling. Abont 10 o’clock the whole party
drove out to the shops of the Mason
Cotton Harvester Company, which are
located about half a mile from the hotel.
On arriving at the shops the committees
and other guests passed half an hour
pleasantly in examining the tools and
machinery with which the shops are
equipped, and in having explained to
them the several processes employed in
turning omi Asf wonderfully ingenious
i|s used ‘
BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1886.
m
, in the harvest-
whieh
net.
veryttmg^'oOlng in readiness one of
the Harvesters was pulled out of the
shop, two horses were hitched to it, a
cotton field negro jumped into the seat,
and the machind, followed by the visi
on, started for the cotton field, abont
one hundred yards off.
To an obaCrVer of the machine, who
had never aeaa its mode of operation, it
would seem absolutely impoouble to
carry it ov*r the- cotton plants without
tearing them all to pieces. , Consequent
ly when the macLine was driven into the
was generally known in this Stats, and,
in fact throughout the Southern coon-
try, that Charles T. Mason, Jr/, of Sum
ter, S. C., had invented a contrivance
for picking cotton from the field by ma
chinery, without injury to the growing
plants or to the immature fruit. This
contrivance wss the employment of a
pickingstem, or finger, abont eight
inches long and abont an inch in diame
ter, on the surface of which were ar-
rai ged small teeth or barbs, so pro
tected by adjacent guards os to prevent
the teeth from coming in contact with
any material except nbrons substances.
Tins principle of picking cotton by a
sense of ton'll, a* it were, ia the essen
tial feature of the Mason Harvester,
without the employment of which it it
self-evident to any one who has paid any
attention to the subject at all that the
picking of cotton by
be an impossibility.
Having tested by a number of experi
ments the correctness of thin principle
of discrimination between fibrous Mid
non-fibrous material, the inventor gradu
ally developed the stem from its first
imperfect and costly form of construc
tion to its present beautiful and efficient
condition. The evolution of the picking
stem is in itself one of the moat interest
ing and striking features in the develop
ment of the Harvester as a whole. The
first stems were made of wood and were
simply small cylinders having grooves
~ irfac
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cotton-growing oouatrie* of the world,
and in those countries also, such as
Great Britain, where agricultural ma
chinery is manufactured or likely
ufactored.
These patents and all future improve
ments on the Cotton Harvesting Ma
chines made by Mr. Mason are owned
by the Mason Cotton Harvesting Com
pany, in which Mr. Mason has a large
interest. The President of the company
ia Mr. Theodore D. Jervey, the senior
member of the old firm of Wm. C. Bee
and Co., and also collector of customs at
the port of Charleston. The company,
up to the present tune, has been ratber
a close corporation, numbering only
machinery would about fifteen stockholders, three of
whom are resktents of New York State,
and the remaining twelve are rosidenta
of South Carolina. Among its stock
holders the company numbers some of
the moat prominent and successful busi
ness and professional men of Charleston.
eir coum! was > in Waahuurtem? *■** • nd ttarted down a row of cotton
“ITT ST 1 p*-*’ of ***»
Sherman, in debate, applied to myself, ' “° w muc ' t ^‘ >y w ‘ re ‘‘ u n , «’““ , d in seeing
they
as hia mode of retaliation for my denun- I wWk!?,*
ciation of hia brother, I have been com-1 ®* ua *^7 wl .. ut
surprised
■through
injury, while
the
at
polled to prove General Sherman to be a
faUjfUr
my character and reputation from hia
willful and unscrupulous mendacity. If
his urotheiT the Senator, felt the sting
of that exposure, and his epithets are
any relief, I am content that be shall go
on the record as denouncing mo as a
‘traitor,’ because I have proved hia
brother to be a liar. • • • i i u
'This historical statement mivht have ! * “T
Confederacy. _ Mr. _ Davis then | ate end made to embrace the delibotate
the
same rime they saw a constant stream of
After running it over the field for some
time it waa suggested by the committees
that the operation of the machine be
timeed in order that they might arrive
at an idea of its capacity. This waa ac
cordingly dona, and aa fast aa the
ere lilted others were subeutatod until
called. The cotton waa then
weighed in the presence of all present
and showed a picking capacity of 2,000
pounds a day. The cotton
enlarged m
id made to
and extended by the Sen-
oapaetty of i
quotes his tetter'to the HL Louis Itepob-) misrepreae^UtionTy “Gei^il 'SW^ i W* • The ootto ? frum
bean, printed at that tune, denying the j uf t communication to him by OoLJ w bteh this cotton wxa picked were not
truth of Sherman's statement and the | D. Stevenson in regard to Albert Sidney
interviews had subsequently by reporters! Juhnston’sottttmnd in San Fratuhaoo. ! u _ ,,
with Sherman, to whom the latter laid:) In a 1 tter toCoLWm. H. Knight, of ?° Qth Jbe capacity could
j'Thia is an affair between two gentle- Cincinnati, Ohio, dated October 28, 1 ** oottntod u P° n be much
tepn. 1 will take my time about it and | 18H4, General Sherman asserted that
write to Mr. Davis myself. \t e will a*-; CoL J. D. Stevenson, now liviag
t)e (be matter between us. 1_ --
“Tttt
cut in their surfaces, in which grooves
teeth were set, which were protected by
the shoulders on each side of them.
These stems were made by band with
great labor and included various forms
oi the same principle. Later on the in
ventor adopted a metal cylinder with
elliptical perforations in its surface. In
these openings teeth were set so that the
points were disposed' evenly with or
slightly below the surface of ths open
ing. Than came the style of stem which
is now in use, being constructed of a
metal envelope, the teeth being punched
out of the metal itself and being sur
rounded by an opening which guards
the teeth from coming in contact with
anything except it oa ' fibrous. Very
dear and perfect cuts of several of Ma
son's picking sterna were published in
the April number of the Southern
Bivouac, together with a very interesting
description of the whole machine. The
teeth in the sterna are punched by a
special machine constructed for the pur
pose by the Pratt and Whitney Compa
ny, of Hartford, Conn. This machine
is capable of punching four thousand
teeth a minute, and cost the Maaou Cot
ton Harvester Company aeveral thousand
dollars. ” ! ride
Having solved the problem of picking '
out the cotton from the growing plants
without injury to plant, boll or bloreom,
the inventor went to work to apply the
stems to the plants by automatic
mechanism, so that when the stoma had
picked out the cotton from the holla
they would at the proper moment re
nt K STARS AND sTRIPKS .
Ilsialrd b»mm om aa AoirHcaa VcmcI by the
Captsla of a mutes Ysud—Sertsw* t omfU-
rsilon. Abroad.
Halifax, N. 8., October 11.—By far
the most serious event in international
affaire since the abrogation of the Wash
ington treaty occurred at Shelburne to
day, when Captain Quigley haolod down
the United States flag from the American
veaad Marion Grimes. At midnight
Thursday the Gloucester schooner ran
into the entrance of Shelburne harbor to
escape the fm y of a heavy southeast gale.
She anchored eight miles from the cus
tom bouse. The storm moderating at
daylight, Captain
, Captain Landry
abont to pn o-ed c
waa boomed by ai
on his voyage
when he was boarded by an armed guard
from the cruiser Terror, and, subquent-
ly, seised for not reporting at customs.
Captain Landry’s protests, that the cus
tom house was eight miles distant,
it had been closed eight hours before he
anchored and would not be open for
four hours after he sailed, and that he me
had had no communication with the
shore, were of no avail; a • fine of A400
fully by the churches. There Is no species
of licentiousness visible in the
quarter. They have their Jons
or God houses where they gn to prey, as
we go to our churches. Their fsitn is
about like the Unitarian or Jewish
They believe in one God, who has such
attributes as omnisoieiioe, omnipresence
and potentiality. They reject all prophets
who elate to have a spiritual con
nection with God. They say God ia too
great to need a prophet or assist
ant Their food is usually rice, peanuts,
oil, imgaa, and cheese. They live on
about eight cents per day, apd are
healthy and fat They are all learning
to talk English. They never fight un
less first assaulted, and then it is for pro
tection. The Irish are fighting Ml
around them, but the Chinaman ia only
a curious spectator. Yesterday an Ink-
man and hia wife were fighting in front
of the Josa house. A reporter asked one
of the twenty Chinamen who waa watch
ing the scrimmage why the Chinaman
didn’t fight too.
“You wan tee know why Hittiman and
Melican man likee flghteeT” asked Jokn,
avoiding the spirit of the question.
‘‘No, I want to know why you China
men don’t flghtt"
“Iliahman and Mel'
John, still avoiding the
ftghtee 'smae he field of
MelioaM
young fellow of
oeived aa Appointment fi
influence in the division I am
in. You know that waa beta
of civil service reform. He
and intelligent and it wee not long be
fore he was as familiar with the work as
the oldest clerk in the office. Fora week
ha wm
sort of a look,
and told him he would be
jaatiy, too, if he did net
care of myself; you needn’t but about
me.’ Htt downfall didn’t sarpriae me
for I had i
▼ally food stay oat
‘Me givee him fit
wata—say, ‘Me ooolee him
Meliean
waa ini pool'd by the Ottawa authoritiea.
Consul Geoend Phelan wired the Miais-
**.’ Bimeby I *«"
. W off him I '7» I
shoe, stealer upstey—say, ‘Me foolse ole
woman.’ Alle mm# him wtfao opm him | 1
Ha! why yum ba so
Melican man him my, ‘You betta leaves I
K# -— man in 1
nitytol
him’ -tZT Ihmlkh. —d mmlsm m to how Ihmr mnin
ut— ut— 1 their living. Things wont on tide w^y
_ T until the peasant adsahtitentton same
itotuL. Um >»to power, and the heads of th edtfte
folly fruited and it was th*' general opln- ] 0< ?**"* ruc j^ d :
ion that in the rich field? of the far style of maohinp which
ter of Customs the trivial nature of the
alleged offense, and asked for a reduction
of the fine. This wm refused. But
pending the instructions of the Gloooes-
tor owners regarding the payment of the
fine the Marien G runes wm aliowsd to
at anchor under the bow of the
of being docked and
in charge of armed guards, m ia
'a habit with captured
This
morning
in flag fly
i hardly necessary for me to say,
Mr. Davis,
i-
continued Mr. Davis, “that General
Sherman did not write to me, and we
had not settled the matter between us,
otherwise than I settled it bv dt-noonc-
irg Hi- statement m tai** ami himself as
A slanderer. There the matter would
1mm rested, so far m I wm concerned.
But when the War Department of the
United States wm made the custodian of
hia slander and Republican Senators be
came its endorsers, and the statement*
rnod* at Frank Blair Post were lifted
into official importance, it becam. a duty
uiikp to myself and to the people L rep
resented to follow the slanders w ith
denial and to expore alike its author ani
his endorsers.”
' lb. Davis reviews at length the pro-
grem of the ooatrovefsy, reciting the de T
EW of every Senator fro m the Southern
that he had received such a letter
that spoken of by Sherman, and ac-
of lint trying tosubeti-
n letter from Alexander H. Stephens
to Henohel Y. Johnson for the alleged
Davis letter; then of representing that
the Davis letter wm lost in the confusion
of the rebellion arehivM in the War De
partment, and finally of pretending that
vhad seen the alleged letter at Raleigh,
N. 0., and intimating Hut it_ was ad-
dreoaed to Governor Vance, Mr. Davis
quotes the published denial of Governor
yanoe that he had ever received such a
letter from him, and mys:
alleged Raleigh letter has never
in Sa»i
„! Francisco, has often told me that he had
Motioned the government m to a plot or
conspiracy through deportment com
mander Albert Sidney Johnston to de
liver pooanreipj of the forta, ale., to men
in Culiforoia sympathising with the
rebels in the South, and he thinks it wm
by this advice that President Lincoln
sent General Suiter to relieve Johnston
of his command before the conspiracy
wm consummated. That statement <H
Sherman, the veteran. CoL J. D. Ste
venson promptly nku emphatically de
nied. General Grant himself has not
» en exempt from Sherman’s malice.
To Colonel Soott Sherman wrote: ‘If C.
J. Smith had lived Grant would have
disappeared to history.’ The remarka
ble statement was published by General
ry and pointedly and
denied b
Rh«rp\an aaya it wm sent
Savannah, Washington and
IS
."when
ex-
wbich
]
to .
St Louis, and may have been finally
burned in Chicago in toe great fire of
1871, But in it* Ravels no other person
but Sherman saw it; not a single officer
aft anv headquarters has been produced
WhoreaditaaditpaasesW that m
fbe excitement of toe closing days of the
jrur gad during my imprisonm
every letter of mine wm car
to find evidence upon
convict and destroy me. not an officer
gll these headquarters should have read
tittt latter. Every fair-minded man must
therefore conclude that General Sherman
stated at the Grand Army Post a wilfu
ad deliberate falsehood, and that his
afttve had its inspiration in that mean
ictioe which bar characterised his acts
Md writing in other respects toward the
.jfeatoernpeople. The so-called bistori-
ool concerning the pnblic
policy of the Executive Department of
ton Confederate States, as Shermans
letter to the War Department is headed
SSjSutemcn^ihS^ShOT
Wren) hod ftpeu papers which convinced
SetoaUven MuDavisPresideiit of toe
doctrines, and had threatened to
cm—even Lee’s army—should any
by which General Sher-
‘ I bat* no oo
which he alleged
be counted upon to be muc
The maeliincd-picked cotton wm to* 11
taken to one of the Mason Cylinder
Gina, which wm in running order on the
place, and wm ginned out in the pras-
cnoe of the company. The Gin worked
superbly, and everybody present wm de
lighted with its capacity, with the beau
tiful condition of tire lint cotton turned
out, and with the perfect safety to the
with which it oan be
gumer ’
Several members of the different
mittees bundled u
with them, that
idea to take home
ipsnmi
they might show the
ootton which they had seen in a few
emphatically
denied by uenerai anerman. Prompt to
slander, tie ia equally qpiok to deny hia
language. The letter of Sherman dated
September 6, 1888, wm written to Colo-
Soott, now of the war record office.
The denial of Sherman has caused toe
publication of the letter and the exposure
of his hypocrisy in his recent laudation
of the dead chieftain,
“The deliberate falsehood which Sher
man inserted in his official report that
Columbia, S. C., had been bun ed
General Wade Hampton wM
confessed in hia tifemoirs’ to have been
‘distinctly charged to General Wade
Hampton to shake the faith of his people
in him.’ Even when confessing one
falsehood he deliberately coined another,
and on the same page of his ‘Memoire’
said that the fire ‘woe accidental, ’ when
he knew from the letter oi General
Stone, who commanded the provost
guard in Columbia, that the fire wm not
accidental. How much more he knew
he may in future ‘Memoire’ or ‘state
ment’ reveal Can any man imagine a
leas moral character, less conception of
truth, lem regard for what an official re-
rt should contain than ia shown by
deliberately concocting false-
for the dishonorable
toe faith of the peo]
Carolina in their fellow-dti
Wade Hampton? I have in this vindi
cation, not of myself only, but also of
the people who honored me with the
highest offiaial position in their gift,
been compelled to group together in
stances of repeated falsehoods deliberate
ly spoktai and written by General Sher
man—the Blair Post slander of myself,
the defamation of character of General
Albert Sidney Johnston, the disparege-
f the militorr lame aFfienSoi
minutes picked from the Add by one of
Mason’s machines and converted into
such beautiful lint by Mason’s Gin.
An boor or two more wm spent at the
shops examining other Harvesters of
varying styles and in different stages ot
completion, when toe party drove beck
to the hotel.
At 4 o’clock the party all dined togeth-
HotcL Among those
er at the Jerrey
present wm Mr. W. L. Langley, of New
York- This gentleman, who is a me
chanical engineer, and hearing that a
committee from toe New York-Ootton
Exchange had been appointed to come
South and witness a practical field test
of the Mason Cotton Harvester, came
down also aathn represeDtativeof North-
mentof to e military Ion |
Grant and the shameful and corrupt
charge against General Hampton. I have
prepared this examination and
onl; f because the Senate of
States has give# to Sherman’s
the endorsement which gives it whote
claims it moy have to ottonond of P©
to mislead in the fulure. Having specifi
cally stamped the statenwat aa false,
having proved ifts author to be a
- end net having a
!or tott i
era capitalists who own large plantations
in Texas, nnd who for many years have
been endeavoring to secure a practical
ootton harvester. In response to a toast,
Mr. Langley took occasion to my that
he hod been more than pleased with
what he hod seen; that he had never
seen a new machine tested with such suc
cessful results, and that he wm prepared
to report favorably to the gentlemen
whom he represented. He waa
beyond preadventure that Mr. Mason
hod discovered the correct principle, and
that he believed that he had solved the
that ootton could be and would
in the future picked by machinery.
The visiting committees were invited
to stay over at Sumter and witness a test
of the Ootton Harvester by moonlight
in order to show them that toe maehuie
oan be utilized at night ss well m tor
day. The committee, however, found ft
impossible to remain over.
The Mason Cotton Harvester and the
Meson Cylinder Gin will be exhibited at
the State Hsir of Georgia, commencing
at Macon on the 27th inst, sad at the
State Fair at Montgomery,
commencing on November 8th.
TEN H ABVS8TKB AltD ITS naroRT.
The exhibition st Sumter yesterday of
the Mason Cotton Harvesting Machine,
before committees appointed to invest!
gate its practical operation and report
upon its success and usefulness, is a
signal event in ttn history of toe devel
opment of on invention which ranks in
impottimee with those gret^toorwaving
machines which hove, more than
other influences combined, oontribr
to the rapid conversion of the vest wastes
of toe Ajaetiaaa Ooutinent into fertile
fields aad flourishing cities, sad hasp
it, so tost it might be depoetted
1 seeks provided for the purpose.
Several different styles of
The _
ted at
work in the ootton field to-day is known
m “ths Radial Stem Machine.” In a
strongly constructed frame of hickory
and ash are placed two PM« of cylin
ders, from which radiate the pirkm#
stems above described. The machine ia
mounted on two iron wheels similar to
thoM used in mowers and reapers. The
■eehniB straddles the row of coll on
plants, the wheels passing along the
alleys. Therefore, m the machines move
forward through toe field the cotton
plants peM backward* through the ma
chine between the two pairs of cylinders
mounted with the picking stems The
cylinders are mounted on vertical shafts
and rotate backwards around their shafts
at the Mine rate of speed m the machine
1 moves forward. The stems, being jour-
' naled into the cylinders, revolve back
ward* with them at the same rate of
speed m the cotton plants move bach-
ward. Thus, when toe machine starts
temperate upon a row of ootton plants, the
homes which pull it enter the alleys on
each aide of the row, the stems begin to
revolve backward with the plants, and,
while they penetrate every part of the
boshes, they do not in any way jostle or
tear the plants. Now, In addition to the
backward movement of the stems with
I the plants, they have an independent,
indmduil rotation on their own axes—
M
and
Quigley observed
flog flying from the
of the Grimes, upon which had
placed the Queen’s broad arrow.
wm astonished aft the Yankee
audaeily, and ii
quire if had been
tome authorities. On receiving s nega
tive reply he ordered the American skip-1 no* attend
per to haul down the United States flag. | CsftholiM,
M its display wm s gross
whan the tsmsI wm in the
British officials for s breach
law.
Oapftaiu Landry accordingly
down his flag. The American
«he
Iron Mubjocted, ani immediately returned
to ids vessel, and wm again in the iflt
of hoisting the Stare an. I Stripes
the Canadian tar once more hailed him,
7*
uni my, ‘i
rally bad
ftghtee slle night Pstses Hog**-Paddy I
Lyan. Me L<«p Mbs Sallivwn knock
yttaoutiaiai
—ffiree you tail-Mesas
You let up; ms rally tough
“Whet does his wife do
asked ths reporter.
“Den him wifee
him rally held. Flo |
him. lakes him wipe de I
man ywlte, Modds! fi! ftl
-nd than what?"
Nm* day
■BjnKy bad
, all vsily
sod learning that th*
been released by the customs depart-
that he had
right to fly Elia American
American vessel and 4H*a
other man could prevent
therefore hauled the Stan and
the masthead.
This
first in the direction of the
thsif teeth, so a*,to catch the
then, m they pass oat of the plant, in
toe reverse direction, so M to throw toe
ootton off by centrifugal force. When
the ootton is thrown off it falls on a con
veyor, which conveys it to a carrier belt,
which in turn picks up the ootton and
throws it over toe buck end of the ma
chine into bags suspended in position to
receive it When tod bags are fall they
are dropped and others are placed in po
sition. The machines ere so light and
the machinery moves so easily toot they
eon, be drawn by either one. or two
Ironies. The pse of two hones hM been
found preferable,-however, for the rea
son that they poll more evenly and
the machinery, in order to per
form the work suooeesfully, most he
made with great care and exactness, yet
it is by no means complicated, nor easily
deranged. The public, no doubt, think
that the invention has been developed
very slowly. This, in a certain sense, is
true, but in addition to the natural di
coitus which have beset the inventor aft
every torn, it should be known that the
company has been again and a_
harassed by piratical attempts to inter
fere with their patents. The company
has, however, fought out every esse,
both in the patent office and in ths
courts, and the result has been that it
hM won every ease op to the preamt
time and baa now a long list of patents
which cover so broadly every essential
detail of the machines that the invention
may be said to be thoroughly protected.
an
iy boarded
armed guard and vigorously remonstrat
ed with the American skipper upon the
foolishness of his proceedings, which
would probably result in tbs toss of his
vessel and bring abont international un
pleasantness. Quigley then lowered the
Stan and Stripes from the masthead, un
rove the flog halyards of toft schooner
sad
WM subsequently brought to a wharf and
placed in charge of a guard.
Captain Landry is reticent about this
action, bat Consol General Phelan be
came very indignant when the telegraphic
reports reached him this afternoon, and
1 regards it m the most high-handed out
rage yet perpetrated. He immediately
telegraphed toe facta to Secretary Bavara.
WASHDiOTOit, October 12.—Advices
received oft the Department of State this
morning corroborate the published re
port of the hauling down of the Ameri
can flog on tor American schooner Ma
rion Grimes, at Shelburne, by Captain
Quigley, of the Canadian cruiser Terror.
The action of the captain of toe Marion
GrinuaIn runningnp the colors while
AS
■ forbade him hoisting
i raged Quigle;
ed the Grim os with an
ey, who ita|
k
ZS.
_ Me to
s school where I wm
ligton than geography.”
“Then you do not
Catholic church school
place for a boy to get an
our regular American public
inquired.
“Certainly I do not I shall
forth send my children to the New York
public schools. 1 am a Catholic, but I
am not willing to cripple my children M
I myself have been onpptei IT I bud
ue to our public oebook 1 would BOW
in toe Custom House aft $1,600 per
C ir. Instead I foiled in my exam mo-
n and I go back to a menial pi so*
where I only make $600. No boy who
graduates st the avenge Catholic school,..
where they have old fashioned books.ijg**
old fashioned *y*tems and solemn end | d ®V
shallow teachers, will be
Iffq
Sfi
setnee
Catholics are hurting ourselves,
keeping ourselves in the mud
ignorance when we could go to the
be schools without money and wh
price, and fit ourselves to cope with ths
rest of the world. If we want to taka at » ,.,t. nr
QH
A Tata That tistTs Bates
following is a list of ths
to the srasp^fiy
already issued
United States.
No. 886.03*
No. M8.4M.
.m.4
patents
totog
Oct 2, 1888
....G..Feb. 18.1884
No. 98V.486 Feb. 18,1884
No. tll^...; .Jan. 87,1885
~ •4,1885
the vessel wm in the custody of Canadian
officers is deprecated at the department.
it Secretary of State Dorter to
day Mid he hid received from Consul
General Phelan a dispatch narrating toe
ion hod been
facta of the ease, t
taken and ha did^not
but no action
know that there
would be. “It seems to me,” Mid he,
“that it may be construed into a retalia
tion MMinst this government for the
placing of the Stan and Stripes on the
topaust of on English vessel in Behring
Straits not long ago.” ^
All Fms4 is UMcsfs’a IMrectary.
Did yon ever look into the <
tory with the anticipation of fi
thing,amusing? Perhaps not The driver
thumbed the leaves of the big book toe
other day, and this te what ha found:
Victor Hugo tew engraver on Sedgwick
street; Cteorge Washington te following
the meek end lowly occupation of ahest-
ler,. and Andrew Jackson cats hair qp
Folk tenet John Bmwft’e body n
i;jm - \i
iiYQiy poucenmn.
and Brutus te I