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VOL. XXV. BARNWELL SOUTH CAROLINA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER' «, iqoi. THE PRESIDENT DEAD. The Nation Mourns for Him. A THIRD MARTYlt IN A GENERATION -• - ' • • . - • V President McKinley died at the itilburn residence in Buffalo, N. Y., on Satuiday morning, Sept. 14, at 2.15 o’clock, from a wound received at the hands of an assassin on Friday fcfternoon, Sept. 6th. “God’s will, not ours, be done,” were the last words of President Mc Kinley, which were addressed to his wife a few hours before his death. He had previously murmured the words of the hymn, “Nearer, my God, to Thee,” and soon after Mrs. McKinley entered the room, when there was an affecting farewell, after which he lapsed into unconsciousness from which he never recovered. ______ __ Thursday for the first time there an untoward break in the news from the bedside of President McKin ley, and there was genuine apprehen-1 of much at sea. McKinley had more per sonal friends than any man whose name had been proposed to the convention and the Ohio delegation was ready to go to him in a body. The suggestion of his nomination, which came from a delegate from another State, was re ceived with a whirlwind of cheers. It was a trying moment. There be sat, the cynosure of all eyes, barely 40 years of age and with the Presidential nomination of a great party Seemingly in his reach. But be was equal to the temptation and proved the quality of his manhood. He arose in the convention and in a manner which left no doubt of his sin cerity forbade most positively the use his name by the multitudes that sioo as to his condition. The food be j clamored for his nominatiqji. He said: had taken in the morning did not agree „ “ *. . ani here * re8< ’^ ul ‘ on °f th* .... ... , , j . Republican convention of Ohio, passed with him, and his pulse increased l« Uniwot one dl^ttarrotn, coiSimS 12H, when one of his physicians said it j mg me to cast my vote for John Sber- shouid be 96. For hoars the President man and to use every worthy endeavor failed to respond to the treatment, but for hu aomiimtion. I accepted this at midnight relief came and the physi- *"“* “> heart and judgment ^ w . were in * ccor d with the letter and ciana were much encouragaq^. apint and principle of that reaolnUon. Between two and three o'clock Fri-j It haa pleased certain'delegates to cast day morning President McKinley their voles for me. I cannot with hon- experienced a sinking stwll. and the “rablefidelity u» John Sherman who m . r s . , v-T .T 1 :”T““ , *T**P4nWWo~in* r tn nu > suae and with Tphydalw ai nm ■^■^■ssdsaa<aaa [^ gsmraitt - T - I —J tlvaa, which did not have the desired «uh my own views of per*.>nal istag- effect. j ruy, cooacut or seem to consent, to Tbs Aaeociated Press was then autbo- P* rrn it J»y nams In lie u*ed as a candi- - «*>*-; tzy’SSFrZ;'™ ' D '" "■ Vh* would not cast rtdecti cast a ballot for me '' er degree of personal animosity ia his own party than any former President. Senator Hoar, who has been one of the jnost conspicuous and relentless opponents of the president’s foreign policy, declared, when that conflict was at its height, that the United States has never had a President of purer life, or one who was so general ly beloved by the people. The president’s wife, to whom he is most chivalrously aud beautifully de voted, has been an invalid for most of the time since they were mamed. She has only recently recovered from a severe, illness incurred on her visit to the Pacific coast with the President. THE MARTYR PRESIDENTS. Three in a Generation Have Been Shot Down—How Lincoln and Garfield Fell. Three Presidents of the United States have suffered at the --hands, of assassins within the last tbirty-siz years, and in two of the cases the mur derous attempts were successful. Pre sident Lincoln was shot at 9 o’clock on the night of April 14, 1865, and died at 7:22 on the morning of April 15, President %artkld was shot on the morning of July 2,1881, and after a lingering illness died on September 20, 1881. The shooting of President Mc Kinley has occurred just six months and^twodays after his secoud>accea- sion to the presidency. Krim the raomeui President Lincoln Received the bullet of Wilkes Booth there was no prospect of his recovory. Him devoted wife and members of his cabinet remained with him through ih»l memorable night, when all Wash ington was in a fever of ezciledient 1 cally 111, and at three o'clock all phyemaoe were at hie bedside. It stated that digitalis wsa being admim, • tered st that time, which is given in extreme cneee to revive the heart nc- Uoo. Telegrams in the forenoon were I indicative at an early and fetal termt- 1 aatloo, aad at 12 o'clock it was said that the Prvenleal coaid not live font boors A report was sent bat from Wash- 1 tngtoa that lbs President died st 6.30 p m., which was in accord with the news that cams dnnag the afternoon, hat he lingered oniil 2.15 o'clock Saturday morning, when his spirit look its flight from garth. The following sketch at the lift sad I work of William McKinley m from the pen of F. H. Rn hardeon. of the At lanta Journal: William McKinley, like Andrew j Jackson, Abraham Lincoln, James A , Garfield and Grover Cleveland, me) be emd to have woo his way to the ! presidency, without the aid of arcideo- ; tal influences. Us was born at Nilos, TruMbnll County, Ohio, February M, 1844. Uis parents were In vary moderate circum-1 stances, but took a great pride in their boy, who at ’'VtrvstmLgiitt. » delegate wh< u|>on me shai Thie noble eprevh in its digoitv and evident eincerity won the admiration of the cooveouou aud made a host of new friends fur the neiog man of his [the age* l* rt y- • At 11 McKinley gave another signal proof I l.«th Chi The Uut< e >ver Uie attempt* on .the life of Lin- o)n and of Seward.As dayiigbt dr w near thy IMllae ul the sufferer be came nitre feeble. A bulletin at 6:30 said “Sinking slowly.” Another bulletin at 7 * said that the end wee near. Deaib came at 7:22, w\}b the I strt.'keu widow and Secretaries Sum- ton*, Wells sod Usher ami Private ^Secretary John Has—now a member of the McKinley cabinet standing at the tmdside. There was a prayer, aud then the solemn voice ul Stanton broke the silence wtib ** Now he h^^ng* to ecliuve of the nation in fact as well as in name; bis cabinet met from time to time; and not until the fatal turn of affairs on September 20, when the President breathed his last at Elberbo, was there an actual change in the ad ministration. General Arthur was at New York when the news reached him late at night that the President had passed away. A,mong those who joined Gen eral Arthur at that solemn moment were Elihu Root, now a member "bf the McKinley cabinet. Mr. Blaine, and his associates of the Garfield cabi net had telegraphed General Arthur to take the oath of office. Kong after midnight—at 2 o’clock on the morning of September 21—General Arthur took the oath of office, which was admin istered by a local official of the city of New York. * The course pursued during the lin gering illness of President Garfield ap pears to be a precedent directly appli cable to the present condition ol af fairs. President Garfield without doubt was utterly iucapacitated to perform any executive duty, although he was himself in a certain sense. There was no acting President at this period, and in fact the people did not desire one dui ing such a critical emergency. Some leading papers advocated the assump tion of certain of the duties of the President by members of the cabinet; but this untried and unconstitutinn-il measure was not attempted, and all executive function remained in abey ance. The acts usually performed by the President were simply omitted until he should recover and President Garfield continued to be the constitu tional President of the United States up to thg moment of bis death. The leaeona of Garfield’s death led nact nent of a law on January tog him serretarv flrvl cabinet against tb< Hepub.tcao leader* wb man was too far |iast Uis the odtre properly. When •f Male in h educe of many felt ti»M Mirr. prime to till t became MI- old end h< i Kmley faced HMMdutv i" in Mcaasary to dup ace hi* ored friend, Preenlcot M and perfumed the iu-wi of his Ufa. Benjamin Harr.»<>n was Dominated lor Prtudeoi and ■ levied m ISMH, end the KepobUcoos secured a clear ma jority ui both boases of i'oagret*. William McKinley was put forward as chairman of the ways and means com mittee to embtdy the then prevalent o clock co the morning of the if J tidier Chase administered of nftlce to Andrew Johnvun. r remained at the modest lav- eiu on Pennsylvania a venae abere he ha*l been quaitered, until the catafal que cuolaimog the renunus of the ■aarivrcd Presuleot was bqQicfrusn the A bile II' u*e to its final resllug place at bpnugfic l*reetdeol Peons) Ivau ingtou as h six Hit In dc the two dia Id HI. 1 isrflc ia railr il 14- »h<>i at th« >ed del l in Wash- e and Secretary Blaine were part for I^oog Branch. lingui»bcd men At were pass- etews of his imny oo lanff legislation But the McKinley bill wa« as extreme in one direction as President Cleve land's Ties sage of I8rt7,ahicb coat him a re-elec tion in Inm8, was m the other. The country revoiiol at the higher du ties laid by the Kepublieao party io spring of 1890, and m the foilow- swepl the Coo ing through the ndiea’ waiting room, two pistol shots rang out upon tbs a‘r. Mr. Blame sew a man running ami started toward him, but immediately turned and saw the President lurch forward ami fail. A moment after ward the assassin, Charles J. Guileau, was discovered, and was rescued with oiAculty from the infuriated mob. A pistol a very' heavy calibre was wrench- LSklg lami-shskea . - _ - - - ,ed out of his baud, aud it became clear * •*n r, v® l’ that a large ball had entered the 1‘reai- ing tall the Democrats swepi the Con- ^ Tbt bml eoU;red gresaional elections. lht . of lbe Fremdepl’a back. McKinley waa defeated for the near tne spinal column and immediate- House, never to reappear aa a mew ly over the hipbone. The sufferer ber of that body,. Bui the confidence. Jin. the boned of training nLjKajiublK acLools In die oeqpboroood frombu' ninth year^unlil the outbreak of the civil war, when be was a little (Mat sixteen. Soon after the beginning of hoatili- lies he enlisted in the Twenty-third regiment of Ohio rolanteera. with which command he served- in various capacities until the close of the war, when he waa mustered out aa captain and brevet major, having won the latter title by* gallantry on the field of battlg. He was just a little peat 21, and took up the study of law. He was ad mitted to the bar early in 1866. and veiy soon acquired a considerable practice by his devotion to business and his attraetive personal character- iatica. In 1869 he became proaecuting at torney for Stark County, in which he had opened bia Aral law office, and held that poaition two yeara. Hia natural love of politica developed alioul this time. He became one of the moat popular and effective of the Republi can campaign apeakera in bis part of Ohio, and waa elected to the Forty- Fifth Congreaa, and held hia aeat for six conaecutive ierms He was then deleated by the popular uprising against the tariff act of which be was the chief author, and with which his name ia permanently connected. He had not been in Congreaa long before he developed remarkable powers aa an orator and debater. He became a favorite of his party by reason of hia reedineaa on all occasions, hia strict party loyalty and hia efficacy in party eervice. At the same time, hia geni ality and courtesy won for him many friends among hia political antagonists. Befofe he waa 40 yeara old William McKinley wu a recognized Republi can leader and a prominent national figure in politice. The nobility of his nature waa prov ed in the national convention of hia party in 1888, where be waa chairman __ 'ffimn'/biiw tntt the Codntiy at largi-, waa hy hia dalnat lea S hun n-n 4 TmeT an-Bol wlit-n ui Itt, 1KH6, providing a mode of »i (i tolhe I'reaadeut'v. This eatabhah- i <! That in case “of death ot disability of both the I’resident and Vice Freai- denl the suiceasiufl should devolve no members of the cabinet io the follow ing older: Secretary of Mate, Secre tary of Treasury, secretary of War, Atlornev Geoetal, I'ualmaater General, Secretary of Navy, x Secretary of ths li'tertor. The new law made no con- •tiuelina of “ disability.” An im- ponaut provision of Una law ia that whenever the pojrera and duliee of the presidency shall devolve upon anv of the persons named, that », the Vice . FraaulcJU or mam here of Use eaUoei, if i oogreaa shall not meet witbio twenty days, then it shall be the duty of the new Frealdrut to issue a proc lamation convening Congress Id ex traordinary session, giving twenty days' notice of the time of meeting. BRYAN'S TRIBUTE to McKinley. Are Our Public Servants to Live ia Constant Fear ot Aaaaaoiao tioo T Tbe following editorial in The Com- moHtr.ut last wedt gtvee Mr. Wm. J. Bryan's e-innate ot th# sorrow aud humiliation of the American paople io the present emergency The nation bows in sorrow and in humiitalioa—io sorrow because its chief executive, its official heed, ia passing through the valley of the shadow of death in humilintion because the Pree- ideul of our republic baa fallen a victim l to the cruel and cowahlly methods em- Mtaa^bdtMmftaaahiafladMhHmanfcaMMi in 1896. He becamw the Republican nominee for Governor of Ohio in 1891, and was elected by a handsome ma jority. He was re-elected in 1893 by a largely increased majority. In 1896 be was nominated as the Republican candidate for President cu the first ballot. His nomination was a foregone conclusion for months before the convention met, and his election seemed certain for several weeks be fore the event. He defeated William J. Bryan in November, 1896, by an overwhelming majority, both of the popular and electoral vote. In. 1900 McKinley was nominated uoammou^v for a second term and in creased both his popular and electoral majorities over the same opponent whom he had defeated four years be fore. His popular majority was 623,- 677, by far the largest ever received by any presidential candidate, Tbe principal events of President McKinley’s first administration which ended the fourth of last March are fresh in the p'ublic mind. Since he became President our country has had its war with Spain which was among the quickest and most decisive con flicts in history. To the United Slates have been added the Philippine islands by purchase and Porto Rico by cession under the terms of the peace treaty with Spain. Our government has also established a virtual protectorate over Cuba, for whose liberation we went to war with Spain. President McKinley’s latest public utterance was at the Pan-American Ex position on the day before he was shot. In that address he took strong ground in favor of freer trade with other nations, the repeal of non-revenue duties, extension of cdmmercial tecip rocity and the cultivation of more cordial fore'gn trade relations. It is probable that no President of the U cited States has ever enjoyed a more universal personal popularity :‘3UUV4 cm vpl wUeu_iULii_r the in.., wad hapulitaa »uhji*av**m»Umea < flue no* of opiates. When, m answer arbitrary power with violence. *qq€ttjonf, W4 a TTY ffidriW’hntfTt7^h e~confe m platTo'n lllfllUQHM, informed him that he had “one chance in a hundred” of living, he said calmly and bravely; “ Then, doctor, we will take that chance.” The wounded President was borne to tbe White House, and then followed those days aud weeks of prayerful auxiety among tbe watchers at the bedside and tbe people of the whole country. General Corbin, then as sistant adjutant general, immediately provided a special train to bring Mrs. Garfield to Washington where she joined those at the President's bedside. Messages of 4 condolence came from <4ueen Victoria and from the crowned heads throughout tbe world. The public watched the fluctuations of the suf-, ferer’s condition with feverish anxiety. From day to day the bulletins, usually hopeful in tone, encouraged th: belief that a recovery would occur. Arrange ments were even made for a sea voy age ou the government ship Tala- poosa 1' * — aaavrav* u u 1 V X, I oai JlCrSUUili IM)1) of the Ohio delegation. Ohio had pre4than William McKinley. The ^ AS* 4 A T «-vh* V* 4*.** MM MM MM I 4 M MM aM I J A 4.' . 4. sented John Sherman aa its caodidaui' for President, bat it became evident the first ballot that be could not*be nominated. The convention was very most extreme opponent of tbe policy of Mc Kinley, the President, is the friend and admirer of McKinley, the man He has also been bleaeed with a small- of law all lives are of equal vaftae—all are puceless—but when seventy-dve millions of people select one of their number and inveit him 'With tbe an thority* which attaches to the presi dency he becomes their representative and a blow aimed at him i< resented as an attack upon all. Beneath the partisanship of the in dividual lies the patriotism of the citi zen, sometimes dormant, it is true, but always active in hours of peril or mis fortune. While the President’s life hangs in the balance there are no party- lines. Tbe grief of personal friends and close political associates may be more poignant, but their sympathy is not more sincere than that extended by political opponents. Although none but his family and his physicians are admitted to bis room, all his countrymen are at his bedside in thought and senti meat and their prayers ascend for his recovery. It was characteristic of his thoughtfulness that, even amid the ex- While President Garfield thus linger- citement following the assault, he can ed between life and death an import ant question arose as to the constitu tional provision relating to tbe “ dis ability” of the President. Un the part of the Vice President, General Arthur, there were no move toward aesumiug the responsibilities of the executive office. To the vice president the situa tion was exceedingly trying, but he so demeaned himself as to win universal respect, day of of |the scene was such as to indic ate the profoundest sorrow and anxiety. But iu other quarters the President’s “disability” was earger- ly discussed. The question arose, social or political conditions by tbe shedding of blood. ' Free governments may be over thrown, but they cannot be reformed, by those who violate the command ment, “ Thou shall not kill.” Under a government like purs every wrong can bo remedied by law and the laws are in the hands of the people themselves. Anarchy can neither be excused nor tolerated here. The man who proposes to right ^ public wrong by taking the life of a human being makes himself an outlaw and cannot consistently appeal to the protection of the government which he repudiates. He invites a return to a state of bar barism in which each one must, at his own nsk, defend his own rights and avenge his own wrongs. The punishment administered to the would-be assassin and to his co-con spirators, if he has any, should be such as to warn all inclined to anarchy that while ttiis is an asylum for those who love liberty, it Is an inhospitable place for those who laise their bands against all forms of government. BILL ARP 18 KEPT AT WORK. Hia Wife Reminds Him Neceaaary—He Always Orders. When Obeys for the rheumatism, but I never found ing it into other property ajnan that had tned it, Some poisons the possible owner from k h“ otiginal propertr. “In this they were all Atlanta Constitution. My wife said she had a premonition that we would have an early fall aad I had better pre|»are for it right away. She reminded me that there were some broken glass on tbe roof of the flower Nt aud the sash needed repainting and the shelves redewiug %ud I might whitewash the brick wall and so forth sn4.so fifth, and so oo. Wsll, I Lave dons ail that aad was humbly waiting the next ox<Ur whoa •he told me that Sara, tbe darky, wasent coming to ran the lawn mower over the grass iu lbs front vard and maybe 1 could do it aad *ave 75 reals. Well, 1 have done that, 1>01 oo&xly paid me the 75 cents aad next thing 1 knew ths sent one of tbe grandchildren to me for 75 cents to pay bar debt to ths aid society. These men have got nearly as many dubs and Rffeelies aa the men, but thty stay ai home of, nights and that is bettor the men do. There are the Masons and Odd Fellows sad Nights of Pythias aad Nights of l>amoQ and the R^yal Arcanum sod the Elks aud the Nights of Jsncho sad Nights sf Labor and they are all nights, or mid nights, aol the women have to stay at home aad nurse the children If 1 waa a marrying woman I would sinks out the word obey and put io a promise for tbe man that he woeklenl join any thing that “ took him away from home at mght.” It’s bed enough for young folks to trump around at night bunting for the moou. They are crasy about the moou, and that's why crasy folks are called lunatics—for luua mesas the mooo and the licks are not far off oo a mouolight walk In ths woods. Last Tuesday night there were six eoo| of our lunabes who weal up the n road Io search of the mooo. They wacted tc see it rise from out the water aad they bed to get out to the big, flat rock iu the river to sec it, sad they had to slide down the bank to reach I rock, sod the young men corned it down Orel to dear the way aad yailer jackets were waiting' for | and by the time the girls were oo the slide the little devils began the attack sod they took ’em oo the slide to the flank aad in the raer, in the face and shirt waist and arms and legs, and (6ok r~ J ‘~T ‘"' 4 affect one person more than another. A good citiz»n of tbi* county died In 24 hours from a bee sting, but my faithfpl servant, Tip, can take them up in hit hands and let them “hie” on his neck and face and sting him furi- ously, and he brushes them off and laughs and says they tickle him. I have picked tbe stings off his flesh by the dozen, and he has never had rheu matism. A colony of honey bees num bers 6,006 r , yellow jackets 600 and hor nets 200. ..But this is enough about such pesky thinffs, though tbe sting of a mosquito seems to be attracting much attention from the men of science. But I was ruminating about thin; that have to be done before long wife says it is about time to make a lettuce bed for the winter's supply and it is about time to transplant two or three rows of strawberry plants from our own runners, for it is a good plan to have some new ones coming on every year. I receive so many letters from good women asking about how to grow them and so forth, that I will say brief ly: Prepare the ground about like you would for any garden herb or vegeta ble, fork deep and manure liberally, opep a furrow and scatter ashes in it— any kind of ashes, wood, coal or mixed. If you can’t sift the ashes, be sure and throw out the cinders and lumps. Place the planta about a foot apart, spread out the roots, drew the earth around ighlly. If ground is dry, nse water to each plant, then pull some dry earth ov* r the wet. That’s all. Have the rows two feet apart. ’ If you have oo plants of your own, then order some, and get Brandywine, Lady Thompson, Gaudy . aad Kineiaint.. There are several other good kinds, but I know what these are. If ashes are scarce a good handful to each plant. .Stalls manure makes the plant grow and. ashes makes the fruit. Let me make another suggestion to these good women. If you have no asparagus bed, make one this fall. It la the cheapest thing grown, and about the heft. # We had it in Abundance all the ■prtog sod are now having a second crop. Buy one or two hundred crowns at 76 cents a hundred, plant shoot like rou would plant elrawberriea. Don’t dig any ditch as they used te do. Give a good coot ef manure every fall or winter and the uuue bed will last yon 10 years. Fork up the ground ones or twice a year, but do not fork too close to the crowns. One other thing and I Plant the imall bottar bean, h is sometimes called the see-wee been. It is sura aad prolific ami keeps ou bear ng ufitil froei. U will take an arbor or very stoat poles to hold up C vines. Thri’e aL. Bill Anr. GOLD BARB WITHOUT OWNER tag and, tinned bis companions not to exagger ate his condition to his invalid wife. And the humiliation ! Are our pub lic servants—those wbo are chosen by the people and wbo exercise for a lim ited time tbe authority bestowed by tbe people—are these to live in con- sunt tear of assassination ? Is there to be no difference between our con- stitptiooal government and those des His whole bearing from the fpclic governments which rest, not upon the crisis to the close the consent of the governed, but upon brute force ? There is do place for anarchy in the United -totes ; there is no room here for those who commit, counsel or ton- done murder, no matter what political excuse may be urged in iU defense. was ' President Garfield disabled in the sense conieluplated by the fra- Tbe "line between peaceful agitation i you must look mere of the constitution? Doeg that and violence is clear and distinct. We the sc Aits aud n in that part of. the country. The •young meti did not desert their part ners, but abovedthem up ths slide again with great alacrity. The whole party were bunged up amazing. Eyes and ears and noees and hands and legs be gan to swell, and they never got to see the moon at all. ThA girls cried with anguish and the boys moaned and groaned and there was no ammonia, no soda, no doctor and no house with in a mile. They could just see enough to find the horses and by ths time they got back home some were blind in one eye and some in both, and you couldeut tell a hand from a foot, nor a note from a turnip beet nor the ankle from a calf —calf of the leg, I mean. Well, thjey got home about midnight and that fi nale ride was the longest 'and most! miserable of their lives. The young men have not yet reported for duty nor have the girls dared to look into a mirror, for fear of breaking it. It is wonder that those girls with'such thin apparel were not stung to death, but suppose that the stuffiing and padding about the breastworks saved them. We old school boys kuow something about yellow jackets. It is bad enough to tackle a nest iu tbe daytime in open ground where yon can run and fight but to slide down into one near the water on a dar< night must, be awfu In the extreme. The last time I came in conflict with the spiteful things located the nest and went to the house and got the wire fly catcher and set it over the holes. It worked beautifully and was fast filling up when an out sider took me, “ker-bim,’ : on the back of tbe neck, and I departed those coasts with alacrity. By and by the boys came and built a tittie-flrenot far away and set the fly catcher over the smoke and killed tbe whole concern. But out for the outsiders— sharp shooters. Bees Worth a Quarter aim Million Dot laro The Mystery Never CloaroA Up. “ Ths recool theft at $30,000 worth of gold ban from the anal la Haa Frmactsco aad the robborv at over a quarter of a millioo of dollars, also ia gold bare, from the Hal by Hoseluog orks. aaar Hau Francisco, calls to uiod ths discovery of a lane, but no known, quantity of gold bars ia house which was being demolished ik Oakland, just accrue* the bay fr Iu fact, luck appeared to bo with tfo one came forward io hidden treasure for the very giod son, undoubtedly that the only leraou ou the face of the earth iad known of its whereabouts dead. One man bought a ranch in central pait of the State for $70 The Italian living io Oakland a fine new house, furnished it In ously, piying $1,000 fora piano, and bought his wife ao unlimited ooantitv of diamond jeweliy. Tbe old adage, however, that rtoi- en gold brings to its possessor bad uck in the end proved true. In leti than five years the ranch owner was bankrupt, and the ranch reverted to ts origmial owners on foreclosure. The Italian lost all of his property and returned to live in the little cottage In North Oakland he had vacated for *»«• line house. The only thing he pre served to remind him of the day* oA his fleeting wealth was a Turkkh ng worth about *1,500, which he placed on the floor of the cottage, and would not sell when all elee gone. “ Tbe third man dissipated all of hie wealth in fast living aad gi died a panper io a hospital ia The career of the fonrta —g I recall sccurately, bat I know that he, too, lost all that he bad. owner, by tbe way, died e death alone in a cabin oo the mento River aad waa buried by (be town In the potter's Held. " The gold, of course, did art right fully belong to the man who it io the walls of the house. It stoien from sums one. aad if It raeriy no claim for it for tbe raaao knew it did not rightfully him. It was oonshtamd •ay person other than'he secreted it, however, as he had la the house for tnaay that they it hisseelf, if my recotleetlea la ear- 1 been for SO 1 sag aa uttat the fuaerailm- time wee ihsi he hod <VRh -mpl'iye 'AT the preseioa at stolen the gold, a bar at a mint vaults, when be quit wort at i explanation cepted the singular part el the is that if It were true the made no effort to taa nor was say gold bare * n ‘ 1 was engaged ia newspaper work oo the coast, at the time io Oakland, in (act, aad I am conversant with the particulars from ptrtooal knowledge, though the discovery at ths Urns ex cited but Utils local interest, aad so re markable wae it that it was doubted in some quarters. Subsequently, how ever, the truth was developed. The gold bars, to an estimated quantity of $250,000,' were actually found, but to whom they hid originally belonged, or by whom they were stolen, is still a mystery- As it happened about ten yean ago I cannot recall the names of the parties with accuracy, though I once knew them, every effprt, of course, being made at the time to keep the ‘find’ a secret. “ A two-story frame bouse on Tenth street, in Oakland, was owned and oc cupied by a family, the head of which at the time in queation, and for a great many years, over twenty, I think, was an employe in the Han Francisco mint. I remember the house well. The old man died suddenly and the house was at once sold by his heirs. The new owner begun tearing it down, intend ing replacing it with a business struc ture. Jn digging away the lower walls an Italian laborer came upon a gold bar hidden in the foundations. He covered the bar up with earth and went on digging, but soon unearthed so many other secreted bare that bis find was discovered by three other men em ployed with him. They at once en tered into secret compact to collect tbe bare themselves and inform no one else, especially the contractor and the owner, of the great and unexpected wealth with which they had so suddenly become possessed. “ The men were all laborers, two be ing Italians, I think. They were sue cessfnl in getting the gold away from the premises unobserved by others. reported to Uus toe Kveeiag Mer. It Was Like MeKixlet’s —Dr. J. J. Leffertj, Richmond Chrietlee the following story at the vennds re ceived by CeL W. K. i‘e«ers iertre the Civil War, which ■ of speeW In terest at this Lae, in new of Abe re* cent shouting of the PrasSdeeA ef Ai Uoiled Htatos: ”Tlw perforation of the «■■§ of Mr McKioley’s wound ante ope l*rof. Peters, of the Ui Virginia, who in • hnaJ-to-hond fi^fl between cavalry, near Ms art laid. W. Va., during the Civil War, of hie through the body, t re led 0 lUwenh io a few fired. The to get to the Jail, in whose occurred. No sergioel performed. The two covered with pieces of eottoi the size of a silver dollar. Peters made a prompt and good covery. . Jt may be added T A ve rill, a chivalrous man,) forty miles into the Confederate lines to wire Colonel Peters’ condition to hie family.” Tux Assault on Jacksox.—Tho unsuccessful assault oo President Jackson, January 30, 1835, ia one of the attempted ssasssinethas of hletorr that few remember. He wee eltand ing the funeral of the Hon. Warren R. Davis from South Carolina. While stepping out on the portieo ef the Capitol on the arm of Secretary of the Navy Woodbury, ho waa confronted by a stranger, who, at the distanoa of eight feet, deliberately aaned a pistol at him and palled the trigger. The weapon missed fire. The wonld-be assassin dropped it and drewj It also missed fire. The then started to strike the man with hie caoe,. when Lieutenant Gedney of the navy jumped on the aaeaaeln and die armed him. He was arrested and taken to Jail. He proved Ri be an insane Englishman named Lawrence, n boaae painter, work. crazed by being long kind of prostration of the bodily pow- have freedom of speech and freedom can’t sting but one time, but a jacket -Fhe first intimation that something of ere in which there is still a prospect of of the press in this country, and they can keep upas long as the poison lasts, an unusual nature bad happened to recovery, which leaves the will tree to are essential to the maintenance of our The sung of a bee is bad, that of a these four men was tha’lhey quit work act, and the mental powers unimpaired liberties. If any one desires to criti- jacket is badder and a wasp is the bad- for good and made heavy invesiments really involve disability? White questions were much discussed the universal public judgment that President Garfield was not in fact “dis abled ” in tbe sense of the consttui- paired liberties. II any one desires io emi- jacxei is oauuei »uu ■ •• ^ i these cize the methods of government or the dest of all.e^cepfa horoetor, perhaps, in re it was conduct of an official, he has a perfect the devil’s pscksaddle on a fodder cited real estate. Their purchase- ex- suspicion, as they all had been right to do*so, but his appeal must be blade. They do say in Texas that a very poor men. To cut shorty long io the intelligence and patriotism of tarantula u worse than all the rest put I'torj, however, it wls ascertained Uiat bis fellow ciiize.is, not to force. Let together aud frequently proves fatal, they had in fact found the gold, and turn. He continued to be the chief ex- q® one imagine that be can improve They say/too, that any sting is a cure they were, under Isgal advice, c invert