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nut mil in If th«r« wm one thlnff la all bar a»- C rlooa that Susanna Morton was artilf tlrad of it was the evident and oontinuoua purpose of laanklnd to permit her to remain a spinster. True, she had been one so long it . - would seem that ahd should have be* come accustomed to it $ but by some strange fatality women, that is the majority of women, never accept their lot in this form w ith that calm resigna* _ tlon and , beautiful Christian spirit ' which has won Tor thorn the endearing title of the gentler sex. ' a , And Susanna Morton had put up with it just as long as she was going to. Four leap years had passed her by, and she had submitted gracefully, but cacb year less gracefully than she had done the year previously, and there ■ were momenta lii the last-©f tb« four when she became almost desperate Now that a fifth had come, her mi ad was made up. She would take the reins of Cupid in her own hands and drive that harum-scarum little rascal in a manner to suit herself. She bad —what men seldom disregard—a com fortable fortune. n : It was this fortune that had been the real stumbling-block in the matri monial path of Susanna, and not any lack of attractive qualities in her pos session, for she was not homely, nor was she anything but charming. The vfortune, however, which was hers from her sixteenth birthday, had ! developed In her a fear that men sought herJbr her money and not for herself, and, never having fallen in love with any of her courtien,, she did not find it difficult to resist advances, believing, as she did, that some day the one man+n ail ttre world for b er would appear and claim her as his own. However, he did not appear, and he continued not to .appear, until Susanna had reached an age and a firmness of character, to put it mildly, when her fortune would have to be at least doubled to make her as attractive as she was at twenty. This knowledge had come to her gradually, but was none the less force ful oitfthat account and she was de- days, teaching you the newer doctrine that women have the right to say whether you have the right to do u you please with yourself. In other words, some one of them will capture you in spite of yourself.” “ Not much they won't,” asserted Mr. Culver with n great show of oour age. "If there is anything I don't want to marry, it’s a woman with fool notions of that kind.” Susanna’s heart went down to her shoes on the instant. Here was an in surmountahie obstacle in her path, and with Mr. Culver holding to such an opinion, what good would a pro posal bo from her even if she should muster up courage enough to make it. The thought made her mule for a min ute, and in that miqute a new thought came " I think myself theyNaro horrlbd," she said with an t tTyrt to swallow something that would glit go dow n very easily. " Hut there is the leap-year privilege. All women, new and ok], can elatra that, and you muBtn't forgei t lduc that this is leap year.” “I had forgotten it,” bo said, moving his chAir over into the far corner ol the fireplace, but still not so far away that be was out of the pleasant in- fiueuce of Susanna's nearness. He sat there; for an instant making himself shiver with terror, and then be moved baok, possibly a little ' nearer* than before. " Forewarned is forearmed,” she said, "and now that I have told you of the dangers ahead, I hope you will profit by my advice,” “ Oh, I’m not afraid,” he asserted in a good voice, "I’m lust'waiting for that sort of thing. This custom, or tradition or whatever you may call it, is an old-fashioned one, and only an old-fashioned woman would think of it, aud that' is the kind 1 wan'.. So tormined not to let this leap year pass without results of a lasting character. Of the men in her train there wore perhaps half a dozen who were eligible, and any one of whom would have made a husband any woman could be proud of. But ^they were merely friends: not a man-jack of them bad ever suggested such a thing a» matri mony to her and, possibly, this was why she liked them. So perverse is the nature of woman. Among this half dozen wasonowho found the greatest favor in Susanna's eyes, the others taking their positions after him in regular gradation, and this one Susanna selected as her victim for leap year, resolved to try all the others in case of failure in the first instance. Truly, Susanna was a desperate spinster. » And no less spry, for in the course of his first call in the new year she began her operations. Hut it was a dreadful task, and the evening passed without a single step taken forward. The effort had been made, however, and courage always comes with effort. When he came again she was so wrought up over the work before her that her eyes sparkled and her cheeks glowed in rosy coU r. "Why, bless my soul, ti^ss Susanna,” be said, " bow pretty you look this evening.” He was ten years older than she and always assumed that bless-my soul style affected by elderly men " Oht thank you, Mr. Culver^eho twittered. “I’m sure you only think so. I look just as I always look.” "Of course, Miss Susanna, only slightly more so,” he smiled, but there was that in the tone which had the ring of insincerity, or at least super fleial and society sincerity, which is verv nearly the same thing, and which made Susanna despise the fiattery of men that so far had meant to her no dissolution of the continuity of her ipintlArhood. She was good natured about it. how aver, and let Mr. Culver goon with whatever he had to say, for if there was any man who could make flattery any more palatable to her than any other man, that man was Mr. Culver. Hut it wrs soon over, and when he had fixed himself comfortably in an easy chair with which he was familiar, he seemed to have forgotten whether Susanna looked like a fright or a fairy, and began talking about all sorts of things, as people do who talk for the mere sake of talking. At all events, that's the way it pre sented itself to Susanna, and she felt the spirit of desperation slowly creep ing over her. She took a long breath for encouragement, and tentativoly turned the subjectof conversation upon the most recent wedding which had occurred in their circle. " What a pair of fools they were and are,” said Mr. Culver, sententiousiy^ "to marry on nothing but his salary, and that not big enough for two.” " But they are happy,” argued Susanua. "I suppose so,” Mr. Culver.un willingly admitted; "it< taker fools to be happy; wise people know too much.” “Are you wise?” questioned Su- anoa, nervously, for she felt that she was launching herself at this point upon,an unknown sea. " I'm old enough to be,” Mr. Culver frankly responded. ‘ " Isn’t there something somewhere about the old fools being the biggest ?” laughed Susanna. " Hut I’m not so old as that yet.” " Ah !’’ and her eyes twinkled. " Is | you r's a case of « Standing with reluctant feet, Where the silly seasons meet ?" Mr. Culver assumed a more serious air and there was no smile on his face when be replied ; there «aa rather a shadow of regret, "Yes, Miss Susanna,” he said, "I do stand reluctant, for I think if I had been more of a fooi-in one-regard I would have been less of a fool in anoth: ar. That is to say. a man is a fool to waste his life selfishly as I have done.” Xhis was the the auspicious moment Susanna had been seeking. She would now lead right up to the matter and find a listener to her proposal. ~ “ Wby don’t you marry, Mr. Cul ver?” she asked with ^ directness. " You are not too wise to consider the question, I hope.” "Certainly net, Miss Susanna,” he smiled. "I've been considering it for twenty years.” "Then you ought to stop ocnslder* log it and pop it,” Susanna laughed, and Mr. Culver also. \ "T hardly think I’ll ever do that,” ho said seriously. "I wculdn’t know how to go about it to make my oase half presentable. I’ve giton myself up, you know, as a bad job.” , of these now women will be Surely no finer opening could bo pre sented to a young woman in her mood than this, and Susanna gave herself a little 'shake and took another long breath. The time had come, and she was not the woman to lose so glorious an opportunity. “Mr. Culver,” she began in ^Irm voice and with great earnestness, " 1 have for a long time been thinking that you ought to marry, aud I have even gone so far as to select just such a woman as I think would suit you. I have had two or three consultations with bee, and she is willing tbvt T should present the matter tu^you, be cause 1 know you so well, and you will understand it oetter from me than if she should present it herself,'’ -•"•v-* ■ "Miss Susanna,” he disclaimed, don’t say another word, itettlly.’l cannot listen to it.” Bull must say it to you,” she in sisted, because, as it seemfed to her, that was the proper way to conduct a successful courtship, aud now that she had begun it, she moat decidedly wished it to be suecesaiei. " 1 tell you I won't ht ur it. This is entirely unexpected, and 1 am sure fibthing in my conduct bas ever war ranted you in broaching this subject to me.” - Mr. Culver was very evidently in earnest, and Susanna almost chuckled to herself,' for this was the very way young women acted under the circum * stances in which Mr. Culver was placed. All it needed now-was a little more coaxing, and Susanua nerved her self for tho final pop. "Ferbaps you have not thought so,” she said in her softest voice, " but to me there has ever been a desire to say to vou what I am now tayiug. Mr Culver—John,” and Su.->anua came very close to him, notwithstanding she whs so nervous she hardly knew what to do. "Hold on, Susanna, hold on,” he exclaimed. “ Confound it ” (that shocked her, for she kifbw no girl ever tilked that way under such circum stances, however much she intent have thought it] “ I don't want ybfftb be talking in auy other woman’s in terest. There is only cue woman in the world that I want, and—and—and ” [Mr. Culver was getting uervous himself uow, and Susauna gasped], ‘and—oh, Susanna,” he said desperate ly, "don’t you know that woman is yen ¥ Yon, Hosanna. Don't you know it is you ?” Mr. Culver caught Susanna's two hands in his, and looked into her two eyes with such a pleading, pathetic# Intense sincerity that all her plans were consumed as straw iu a fierce blaze, and she simply tumbled into his arms and let him finish the proposal she thought she had begun in such a masterly m anner. And Mr. Culver finished it with glittering success, much to the relief of Miss Susanna Morton, spinster. and amount, a considerable amount of that eventful period la his political then discredited coin is driven out of earner be was not so particular lb his .Tlrculatiofl, aad if such debts become ! personal appearance, and It was not general the grtaterpart of its entire unusual loses him in mixed suits of various colors and texture. Now, he looks well groomed amispruce, as If he Intended to go directly from the Sen ate chamber to an .afternoon tea." Mrs volume is retired.. It Is no answer to say that every one make his contract for himself, and if be makes it payable in gold It Is bis own oonoern. It might be replied that erelryone makes his own contract with the usurer, and yet the law prohibits such contracts. But there is a butter and more conclusive repl^; the reply is that it is not ex olusively the concern of him who makes the gold contract. The public interest is involved In the consequences of these contracts, If they should become general. ' The public is interested in anything that destroys the volume of monqy upon which the people rely for eschange. You may use your own property, or vour liberty, in any way you choose so long as the use you make of it does not injuriously affect the rights of others, but when the rights of the public ara bed. you must pause. Ho, when the right to make contracts as one chooses is used to make contracts which, if they become genera', uould drive out of circulation a medium of exchange that is not only convenient but necessary for the business of this State, the publio intorrst n quires that such contracts should no lunger be allowed. It is not my purpose or do- sire to elaborate this view of the sub ject,- but to suggest it for your con sideration, and if you reach the con clusion that an evil is threatened, i briefly suggest to you that in framing the constitution of the United States, the States before that time having power to make anything legal tender, restricted their power over the sub ject, in the fdllowing languhge in Section 10 of Article 1 : "No State shall make anything but gold and none of them had better Jtrx-It. nnlesa I silver eoifus legal Uinder Tii~nirymnnt' lb« means business.” of debts.” The power to make the coin had pre- vioulyf io section 8. been delegated to congre^. Hut, when' congress ex orcised its power and made and coined and regulated its value, the power to make that coin a legal tender the States have reserved. If the Legisla ture shall enact a law that the gold and silver coin of the* United States shalt be a legal tender in payment of all debts hereafter contracted and that shall apply to all debts, (hereafter contracted), when the process of law or of the courts, Stata or Federal, may be Invoked for their collection in this State, all will be done that is In the power of the State to avoid an evil that, in my judgement, ihrewfens grt&t danger.'^ - — Respectfully, A. J. MuLaukin, Governor, WASHINGTON NEWS‘AND GOSSIP. Prpminsnt Democrats W H Not Attsnd ths Cn .ago Corwantion —Rea j and Crisp ara Parsonat Frands—Pres,dantai Asp,rants Frock Coats. ’. vided WHAT SHALL BE A LEGAL TENDER ? The States Hava the Right to Designate Ge4d and S iver as Debt—Pay ng Cun rency—Gold Contracts Ougnt Not to be Allowed. \ Thq fallowing ia a from Govwnor McLaurin, of Missis sippi, in which he contends that public interest requires that gold contracts should not be allowed : Jackson, Miss., March 3, 1896. To the Senate and House of itepresen tatlves: —. I respectfully recommend for your consideration the suggestion that you enact such law as will prohibit tne making contracts payable exclusively in gold. Money is the blood of trnde and commerce, and anything that tends to destroy the money of the people is in derogation of their in terests and welfare and of the pros perity of ths State. By the constitu tion of the United States (section 3 of hrticV 1), the power ia delegated to Congress to coin money aud regu'ate Its value. Proceeding under this authority end exercising this power Congress bas coined a quantity ol gold and silver and regulated its value, and the people ought to have the right of the circulation of this coin as the money of the State. 1 say the people ought to have the right to the circula tion of this coin because all the money thus coined is needed in the business of the country and I may add a great t eal more could be profitably^utilized. do not suppose it will be seriously asserted by any one that there ia more coin in the United States than is neces sary to serve the use of money in order to secure the greatest prosperity to all the people .of this country. Nor do I suppose it will be seriously contend ed that the volume of money can be materially decreased without hurtful results. If I am correct in this, then anything that is calculated to sbflnk the volume of money in use, should be prevented. When debts are made payable, in coin of one of these- two metals instead of ooin of both of them, it is to the extent of suoh debt* i|e- c re as log the volume of money. It also puts a premium upon the coin in which the debts are made payable and discredits the other ooin. If the debts made payable in one of these ooins j TOM "one of"these 1 »loae become considerable in numbers Special to the News and Courier. Senator Calvin $• Brice has decl that he will not attend the next Demo cratic National Convention. lie has not made this announcement to his polit' ia! friends in Ohio, but if any movement is made in the Buckeye State to select delegates to the Con vention Senator Hrioe wilt formally state Uis reasons for retiring from the national organization of the party in which be has long been an active and influential member. This bit of politi cal information leaked out at the Capi tol to>day, and {occasioned ■coneiderable comment among Democratic Cmgress- uit-n. " What does this mean ?" inquired a well known Southern Senator who has been in several national oonven* tiomf with Senator Hrioe. " Why," he continued, "it will not seem like a real Democratic Convention without Gor man and Hrioe there. Some of us may dlllor with Gormau and Hrioe on the tariff questions, but the party cannot well aflord to lose the active service of such level-heaued men and such gifted politicians in a great national contest.” One of Urice’s friend spoke up and said that Senator Urice proposes to give way to some other Ohio Democrat who may desire to go to the Conven tion as a delegate. He has served iu many conventions and has worked bard in the last three national earn- paigur, aud he feels that he has earned a rest from the trials and vexations of a national contest. It is said that a number of Demo crats wuo have heretofore been eon- spictous figures in the councils of the Domocraticc party have determined to remain aw ay from the Chicago Con vention. Their determination in that direction is not duo to their disloyalty to the party, but they ooutend that they have givou their time and money to promote the best interests of the party on all occasions, and they are now perfectly willing that some of the other a-pirants for national honors shall have a free field for the coming Convention. Thu absence of such lead ers as Gorman, Hrioe, Wattersoa and TUnmui from a Democratic-^Couvea- He walks with a more sprightly step, and his gensral nature appears to have undergone a decided change since he declared himself to be '*Pennsyl vania’s favorite son.” It appears to bo the style for Senatorial favorite sons to affect black frock coate as soon as their boom Is announced. Senator Allison seldom appears in the Senate chamber now in any other attire. Senator Cullom, Davis an4 even Sen ator Tillman recognize the demands of the occassion, and wear frock coats just the same as the other Freeidontlal possibilities. SOLO BY HIS OWN SIM. way, Mack frequented the various fashionable saloons and gaming houses of the city, where he easily passed as a Virginia planter and contrived to form a considerable acquaintance among the fast set of the day. While walking on the street one evening with one of these acquaintances bis master passed by on the oppoelte side. " See that boy over there ?” s^id Mack eareleesly Indicating Hubbard. *' I brought him down here with mo,, but he’s got so develish independent wd'fre equally ignorant ar to ths C olley which may govern tue possible uyers, but we think that if only the spare lands from the water power were opened up to desliable settlers sud the proper effort was made to bring immi grants from the West, or elsewhere, that a vast fortune would reward the effort. If intelligent enefrgy and a sufficient capital Is put Into this enter-’ prise no man could estimate the possi bilities that await the endeavor. Hut on the other hand : If the whole wa- that I’ve got to seH him. Think 4 ! he’s ter power and land should be sold for as good as a white man, and talks hack to me. He’s got to go. Mighty smart boy, too. If you know anyone ‘who wants a good boy to look after account- or run a pines, he’s a bargain. I’lls**!! him cheap if I ean get rid of him wi-h tut any fuss.” * What will you take for him ?” " Why, he ought to bring ms fifteen hundred quick, nut I’ll take a thousand if iheaa ba arranged quietly. 4 ’ Mack was w»*ll aware that his New seventy-five ernte or a dollar an acre, it might be held by some rich capital ist a.-« a pleasure ground, and thus clog and retard our progress in the march of material prosperity for another half a century. A Strangs Tals of Ante-Bslium Days Down £ -i Soyth. New York Sun. The patrigjTchal idea was, as all the world retn|jQbers, atonca the moral foundation and justification of the slavery system ip the South under the old r •gitne. But in none of the slave States was this idea carried into * ths practical every-day life of the people so fully and consistently as Virginia. And this again, was particularly true of Eastern, or Tidewater, Virginia. The condition of affairs, both moral and material, growing out of the situa tion thus created had already become critical when the Civil War solved the problem. Among the slave owners of eastern Virginia especially it was held to be t point of honor to protect and maintain Orleans acquaintance wanted just such a " boy,” and in less than twenty-four hours they had come to terms, and Hubbard was seld by his own slave. The pape rs were regularly made out' and transferred and the money.paid over, Mack only stipulating that the buyer should take his property quiet ly, " because he didn’t want any fuss.” This sort of arrangement was unhap pily, all too common at that lime and place to excite either comments or suspicion. So that Mack was enabled to gain a long start before the thun derbolt fell on Hubbard. When Hubbard was sc’zod of course there was trouble. He fought like a wildcat, but was finally overpowered and taken from the fashionable hotel their human chattels at whatever cost. The man who sold a slave, except undei*v«beolute compulsion or neces sity, was disgraced. The present gen eration will never realize the heavi ness of the burden thus imposed upon and accepted '-by^the Virginia slave holder. The owners of estates which would have yielded a handsome reve nue with, let us say, 100 slaves, found their substance consumed and their profits destroyed by the (increase of a dependent population which their own principles and the moral sense of the community would no* allow thorn tu dispose ol *' down Soutn.” It was this overplus of the negr population which made slavsssocbeaj in Virginia and the business of.ltu stave speculator so profitable. For when ruin overtook an old estate, the was the harvest time of the desptseu " nigger dealer." Slaves which would sell for 1400 or 1500 in Virginia readily brought tl.000 on more in New Or leans, and hence the sueculators were always on the alert for such oppor tunities, weigh were all too few to satisfy their trade. It was the custom in Virginia for the friends of an em barrassed man to purchase, so far as their n.eans allowed, the best of his slaves, to sa^e them from being " sole away.” One of the most successful negro speculrtors who operated on the Pen insula in the forties was a man named Hubbard. He lived upon his own estate at Yorktown, and was accounted one of the wealthiest men in .those E arls. The nature of his business. owever, debarred him and his family from all social intercourse with the better class of whiles, and bis whole energy was concentrated upon the ac cumulation of wealth, in which he was eminently successful. He left, at his death, a very considerable fortune for those days to each of bis two sons, who were both gallant soldiers in the Con- federato army, the eldest dying in one of the battles of the Wilderness. About the year 1845 James Murder, a young man, last in the male line of one of tneA>ld colonial families died suddenly, leaving his large estate completely involved, it was necessary to sell otf everything to satisfy his creditors. Among his slaves EUr&RBE F0H GOVERNOR. k Tfis Announcement of His Candidacy Fie- garded as a Declaration that Governor Evans will Seek-Senatorial Honors. ( olumbia Register. Gen. William II. Eilerbe, of Marion, is a candidate for Governor. This an nouncement was made yesterday by a member of. the Colleton delegation in the General'Assembly, who said he was authorized to speak lor General Eilerbe. Thiu announcement was not unex peeled, for the Register several weeks ago contained an interview with a leg islator, in which he stated that if .Gov ernor Evans became a candidate to sujceed Hon. John L. M. Irby in the United States Senate, General Eilerbe would seek to succeed him as the ten ant of the Executive Mansiou. While there has been, no ant.hnrit.a> tTve declaration from Governbr Evans then that if the chance ’erer came they would make amend^by support ine him for Governor. The only o her openly avowed Demo cratic gubernatorial candidate at pres ent is Col. -R. B. Watson, Senator from Edgefield, whose platform is epposi'. tlon to SUte support of institutions for higher education. ~ It may be tbat other eanditate* will enter the Democratic primary. Thi rc has been some talk of the possibi’Uy of General McLaurin’a, {entering the gubernatorial race, but the general consensus of opinion was that he would go back to Congress, in which l e Las made a particularly good record. Whoever the Democrats name as their candidate he will have to beat that chronic office-seeker, Samps Pope, who is reported to be determined to play a lone hand once more. Chstmcey M. Depaw give* the re cipe for success in these words: "The main elements of success in this world are good sense, good temper and mind ing your own business.” —If you wish success in life, make perseverance your bosom friend, ex perience your wise counsellor, caution your elder brother, and ■ hope your gaurdian genius. —George Bancroft told a bevy of young girls that sl;o secret of long i,fe lay in never losing one’s temp* r. "If t ou will nevor got argry,” s tH tho istorian, “you will live to be 9o ” provided for such cases instituted a fits it. ” Hia utrr r* a t n Wlife 1 tiou will be a novelty, for that quar lette has been among the principal attraclious at such gatherings for the post ten or flfteoh years. There are some pl« usaut fruits in connection with the rendition of such party service, but juuiro-ar^ many-disagreeable circum- ’stances of a personal as well as a politi cal nature which cause men to hesitate about euduring them for an indefinite period. Spectators ip the House galleries to day saw’Speaker Hoed and ex-Spcaker Unsp the rival leaders of the two political parties in that body,‘laughing and taiklug together in tho most friendly manner imaginable. The impression bas prevailed in the minds of tno casual visitor to the Capitol that Speaker Road and Ex-Speaker Crisp are mortal enemies. Tnis im pression probably arises from the fact that-in tho debates Ex Speaker Crisp never lo^es an opportunity to punch holes n some of tno rulings of Speaker Reed, and when the latter was leader of the minority and ^ Mr. Crisp was Speak :r of the House Mr. Reed took great delight in ridiculing decisions made by Judge Crisp. To-day the iiou-o was engaged iu considering a bill from tho judioiary committee illative to the salaries of judical officers of the Government. Speaker Reed called Representative Payne, of Now York, to the chair while he went dowu upon the floor to mingle with mem hers back of the desks. Strolling a oug the Democratic side of the chamber, Speaker Reed came upon Judge Crisp as the latter emerg ed from the cloak room. They stopped, gre eted each other familiarly, and swepped s’ories to the delight of a group of D.-mocrats who gathered net r. In debate Messrs. Reed and Critp enjoy a "rough and tumble ” d+M uenion, atcHheygivenud take some body servuu’. called “ Mack,” who was a remarkable character. Mack was nearly tne same age as his deceased master. The two boys h*/l s 11 -^**- sfflo enpty ail the educational ad van tages of uis master, of which, as was sometimes the ease, he made far better use. He had lived for some years abroad with young Murder, aad through constant and close association with good society in many countries had acquired an ease and grace of manner and flueucy of speech which, combined with bis handsome person, would have made him. an ornament to any society. There was very little pure negro blot d in his veins and he would have passed as a white man anywhere. Between Mack and his former master there had been an inti macy and affection which had well- nign obliterated the social gulf between them, and the faithful servant aud friend of the unfortunate Murder was held in high esteem by ail tho latter’s friends. It was therefore determined that Mack should be saved from t-hw KsnAs of the speculator and find a purchaser among his master's friends. Accord- ingly, upon tno first day of the year, which was the date sstabiished by custom for thesaleand hirou.'. n groos. a number of geutlemvu attended at the Court House mWilliamsburj prepared to pay a long price for the accomplish^ ed young ioegro. James iluhbaru was also there. Ho was. faiuiliffr with Mack’s history aud talents. He knew, too, that the Wiliiamsburgh people were determineU to prevent Mach from going to the New O.-leacs market. Therefore he » vurc an oath that he " would have that nigger if it cost himjiis fortune.” For Hubbard had a two-fold grudge Pi gratify. Many a time before JU'e Williams burg a m..n had prevented him from securing a *’ bargain ” ojl sucii.ociiasliiua-as tins; and be was very hitter against them becahs.; of tue social ostracism which his business had brought upon his family. So that in the end Mack was knockcu down to Hubbard for a price seldom paid for a stave in Virginia. A few days later Hubbari started south with his band of negroes, taking Mack with him as a body servant. Hubbard was a man of powerful physique and coarse manners. His hair and eyes were intensely black and his complexion so swarthy that he would have sufToreJ by comparison with many of the human chattels he dean in. Oj their arrival at New Orleans, Hubbard soon disposed oPhis negroes to good advantage, but retain* in uis or any of his friends as to his inten- freedom suit.” His stgpature was I ^*b Q s, the announcement of Eilerbe’s identified, accepted at the bank which J ? u ^ erD f lor ' ii * aspirations, coming did his business, but*-bankers refuseirt T t,nn source whence it issues, is almost tantamount to a declaration of Evans’s Senatorial candidacy, as it would be a waste of time and money for Eilerbe to run for Governor if Evans were seeking re-election. General Eilerbe was one of the orig inal Reformers and did much to bring about the triumph of the movement in 1890, when ho became Comptroller General, which ulli je he hold four years, filling it to the entire satisfaction of the taxpaying public, of whose inter ests ho was alWays a v.gilact guardian. In 1894 General Eilerbe was a candi date lor Governor, canvassing the State snl making vigorous speeches 'rom the stumo in e»ery county. When John Gary Evan!) defeated him for the Reiorui ’‘suggestion” in the Colle ton prima-y, he gr acefully submitted and turned in aud helped Evans defeat Dr. Samp* Pope, the independent can didate. This conduct made him many friend*, o^peootHy a'.iiOng the lUppOrT-" era and admirers of Evans, who vowed did his business, but* bankers refused] to vouch for his person. It was there fore necessary to send to Williams- burgh for aid. Accordingly three weH-known residents of that city prop erly fortified with papers of identifica tion from the authorities, made the long trip Is^iew O.-leans at Hubbard’s expense, and upon their positive ideuti- fleation he was released and restored to cit zenship. The trial had cost him thousands of dollars and .consumed a S teal deal of time, and meauwniU lack, well supplied with funds by the sale of his master’s body, was beyonc pursuit. Large rewards were every where offered for his apprehension and the beat detective talent was em ployed absolutely without avail. He was never traced beyond the whan where he took passage for the Nurth and is supposed to have gone straight to France, where he bad lived during his former master’s student days anu where his antecedeaU would never be suspected, and an honorable career would be within his reach. It may be imagined that Hubbard <5Jv PIEDMONT AIR UN8. Tratas. Northbound, don. S. 180S. Lv. Atlanta, C. T. “ Atlanta, K.T. •• Norcr<JM.. Buford “ OalnesvlUo.. •• Lula • Cornelia. .T. - lit. Airy •• Toocou • Westminster • Seneca •• Contnl “ Greenville .. “ Bpartauburf " Gaffneys. .. *• Blacksburg “ Kins’* Ml. . Ar. Charlotte . * Lauville T0 ntUT No. JS Dally 12 OOw loop i»p oesooeo tup 6 SO p SUp V at p iSSi: Ar. Klctuuoud.... met with little sympathy on his return Hpoff OlCPACP C IIPaH to Virginia, and it U said that he never | Ilcai 1 VUI CU By Dr. Miles’ Heart Cure. made another trip to New Orleans, but soon gave up the business and died a few years later on his plantation. . THE CALHOUN ESTATE. Ar. WaAblngioB Balun’e. f KR 1 lliiUdelphia, 1 M«wYurk ... very sharp blows, but personally they arc very go.Ki friends. Since Senator g iay f >rthally launuh- .1 his Presidential boom he appears ...ni> in the Senate chamber attired in ' a blacx Prince Albert coat. Prior to ed Mack In his personal service, either becau-ie ho coitfd not find a buyer for him at the high figure he had paid, or because he had become vain at having so acooraplUhed a valet. At any rate, Mack was still in his possession after a couple of ’Mrepks in the Gulf metropolis. Mack had some money of his own, and as a matter of Pfida as well aa hiiaUl-l^a.r-^lriTf hiss TIuBoard dressed him like a geu- •- ■' tletqafi. A great deal of liberty was allowed him, anil he took advantage of it to perpetuate one qf the most au-, daoipus an l successful schemes in the mate success! suns is of the ante-bellum days. Keeping carefully outof his master’s Sals of tr>* Vast Landed Property of the Late James Edward Calhoun. Abbeviilq Press and Banner. The vast landed estate of the late James Edward Calhoun will bo sold by tbe executor on March 31st, 1896 The sale will take place in the town ol Calhoun Falls at twelve o'clock. The estate oooeists of sixteen thousand acres—twelve thousand in Abbeville County and four thousand in Georgia —the Savannah river running through it. The tract, it seems from the ad vertisement, will be sold as a whole- sixteen thousand acres, including tbe tiue.i-t water power in the State. Taking no consideration of the water power, the land-iteelf is a fortune, and unless some one, or some syndicate, looks after this sale, tho land and wa ter power will go for a song. The v&s' stretches of unimproved land cqulu.1 Lot pusbttrty t>e worthTess Than' say. four, five or six dollars an acre for farming purposes, and, with the facil ity for transmitting electric power the waterfalls of the Savannah rivet would be an inexhaustible and ever increasing source of wealth to thost bo may improve it. x If the water power should be improved, and lh« lands should be occupied by thrift) immigrants this estate may yet bt worth an amount far in excess of our ildust dreams. It was wise in our constitution and laws to prevent alien.- from buying such land for hunting grounds and deer parks. The opening of these lands and the improvement of tbe water power has been the dream of the peop'e of this county for half a century, and now it seem!) po-sibli '.hat these dreams may be realized. To tbe younger generation it may seem strange that way one man could buy and own so much land in one body, bet these large estates by purchase fronj adjoining Ir.ndo vn- ers. Mr.Calhoun commenced life with a fortune and he was economical, and all his savings in a long life he inve.- • ed in the lands which are now inclu - ed in his estate He always boutrh huVbever sold land. The pr* seno-< of a great number of slaves made the im mediate vicinity an undes rw-i e cm munity for white men, and Mr. Cal houn’s neighbors became fewer an<' fewer. People moved away. Tnen settlements were dismantled. Theii churches and their school houses were ailow-d to go to destruction. Under conditions of this sort the white men who had sma l Quloiugs oi lands, one after anoth< r, sold then farms and went to the West. I > tho*- years Mississippi, Alabama, am Lmisiana afforded the most invitim fields for our nou-slave-holding fa pi ers. These sturdy and well;to-do fai* mors could not stand the potty anno.- - anoes to which tin y were suhioOUid h\ the multitude of slaves, and, accepting liberal prices for their lands, tuey l«di the homes of their nativity to populate and build up the waste places, when the slave uol ler had not or could not croird them out. It was thu* that the fine«t portion o' Abbeville County was depopulated ol white men. It was thus that theii improyeiqents went to waste; It wa- thus that their mills, their fine dwell ing houses, their school houses, th.-d churches, and all the evidences of s thrifty civilization were ab-orbod b< tho neiguboria' slave-holders, aur. nothing but si-vves, decimated f> rfest* and cultivated fields wore left..'Are* the war these fields were either al lowed to remain idle, or were culti vated by negroes, who had not tb< intelligence nor the capital with which to preserve the finest of the farming A few slave holders on the Savannah side becam Fainting, Weak or Hungry Spells, Irregu lar or Intermittent I’ulse, Fluttering or Pal pitation, Choking Sensation, Sh-iftneas of Breath, Swelling of F>-«t and Ankles, are symptoms of-a discXnodtir Weak Ur-art. 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M-LLER. Of Fort Wayne. Tu l., wr'.;. s 6a Nov.20.1364: "I was afnjrted for forty- years with heart trouble and suiTcrvd uaUdrpmgnny. I had weak, hungry spells, and my heart would palpitate s<> hard the vain -T.nCd be so acute and tor.-irin*. that I htvarui! to weak and nervous I could not sl-t-p. I was treated hy several physicians viihcut relief and gave aperer being well again. About two years ago I commenced using. Dr. Ml lev' Remedies. One bottle of tbe Heart Cure stopped all heart tronbles and the Restorative Nervine did tbe rent and now I sleep soundly and at tend to my household aud socialduties with out any trouble. Sold by druggists. Book sent free. Addri Dr. Miles Medical Ca, Elkhart, lad. Dr. Miles’ Remedies Restore Health. A $25 Cooking Stove <\ • A • a. m -r’ p. m. uueu •*! 0»-WashluftuB aad toutbwwstsn Ysttibale Limited Tbiuugh Pullman -‘tsiwrl xasau Kaw Vvrfc aad New Orteat I, via wSp Ingu-u, Atlanta aad Moutgiunacv, ami alsaow twean Nsw York and Memphis, vis Wash mg too, Atlanta and Birmingham. Dining Sara. Hus. » and IS—United Mates Fast Mail Full, nan slcwning ears bstwssn Alls/ ta. New or. sans and New York. Nos. 11 aad IS. Pullman slseptag ear I Uohmaud, Dan rills and Orssnsbo v>. W, H. ORKXN, Ow l SupL. Washington, D. 0. /. * CULP, Traffic M f a Washing can, A ^ XX, taper!DteadaaL ChariaOM ■asdi Carolina. i H. H ABDWIC3L Am'iGws' SOUTHERN RAILWAY. ^ Osa’l Pass. Art. iu, D. 0. rKitdn.:. OUTWIT FOB onx/x: Dtitvarsd fas y* I all frsight a (issariptiom « = Oaoklag Stovs is •VAOTONg. tho owncrii of many thousand" acres oi land. The free white-man wai crowd ed out to give piacn to the ne-ji o slave Tbe Press and B isoerls not it form ed as to the capital that may possibly . be invested U tbs Calhoun estate, and railroad depot,, paid.* Head this This apla«dM i. _ _ fo. 8; has four 8 laeh m* holes; 18x16 Inch oven; 18 inch die box, 84 lashes high; 81x88 inah top: ales smooth easting. I I have had this stovs mads for my j xftsr my own idea, combining all ths good points of all medium priced stoves, aad leaving out the | objectionable features. Beyond all donbt the best No. 81 Cooking Stovs mads, for the price. wKk 8 pots, 8 pot coven, 81 skellets, 8 griddles, 8 baking pans. 8 joints of pips, 1 elbow, 1 coUax/l lifter, 1 scraper, 1 cake polish, 1 Iron | tea kettle, 1 shovel. We want to make customers and friends in every part of the South, for the purpose of introducing oar business to new people, and to renew our cooualnt- aaoe with old friends. We will ship this splendid Cooking Stovs and the above described wan to anv depot, all freight chargee paid, for only &La.OO when the cash comes with ths order. This stovs is agood one. well ma, will give satin satisfaction. Our illustrated catalogue of Furniture Stoves and Baby Carriages mailed free. Addnae ^ Is* 3r\ ap-AJSOET’T [848 BxoaP trxBR, Aceurra, G4a_ sr No. 12. 10 30 »T5 11 00 a m 11 2s TToT STATI0N3 - t:h »Ho»ton. Arf SOOi.'li lfa k3 V . . (k.im-T.ii iT B 12 *S> p t 04 p ift »»>a 8 oo p m Bully! iMUj No.uuwr GilumTIa..... ... Alston ^ ....bantuo...... * .... Union. " ., Jono*villa •• ....Paeolot •• • ftpartanburg.. Lv .. 810p Lv Spartanburg.. Ar,!! asajM CAiPiAr.. Aslieviils Lv 8 3ftel f s 40i>n sk 8 Mp 12 Vw ISSpill 4:lp IS MpjllSIVp I JSfl. ll 07p 1? I"i» 10 54p II 4ua!10 25p “P/’p.m. "A," a. m. Trains 16 and 18 carry elegant Pullman •loeploK sars between Columbia and Aaheviite eurpuoe daily between Jacksonville aadauoul neti. 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