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?ut Jamil]} Story. J " ONCE UPON A TIME." ! . } BY MARY K. MIL.L.KR. Karly In February, there came ' among the Cat-skills a marvellously beautiful snowstorm. It gave the 1 best sleighing of the winter. It disguised all out-door things so comically that not only all the country boys and girls were laughing, but the busy mothers and grandmothers went outof-doors to see the masquerading. Fumps for instance, looked like men stuck fast in the snow, with towering caps, and one arm extended for help. Gateposts were capped like sentinels standing guard over pathways lost under the snow There was not a On of wind, and us ' the suu came up und "chores were ' done,'' sleigh-bells jingled along the ' country roads, and it seemed as if j everybody who owned a "team," or ' even a "nag," was out enjoying ihe 1 snow. 1 A great deal of visiting was done, and the postmistress ut Springluko ' said that every letter wus taken out of ' the postottlce. David liurnet, a farmer, had taken 1 his wife und two little sons, to visit ' Grandma liurnet, neur the Forge. The long ride was a merry one, the ' strong arm of the driver reaching for 1 the heavily lakeu boughs and shaking 1 snow down upon the boys us they rode ( through the woods. After dinner ho had u snowballing frolic with them, ' making Grandma laugh till she cried, 1 watching them, aud declared thut David was only the biggest boy of the three. At last they started for home, and, of course, they came around by the |H)stoftico. Pupa tossed the papers to the lK>ys ; put some letters in his inner pocket; ' cave a daint.v 0 v w HID n 11U < WUK his seat, and tucked in tho big buffalo robe around tho boy beside him, and his own clumsy arctics; picked up the roins, and away the pet horses spod down tho hill, away and away home. After supper, before the' cheerful tiro, Mrs. Burnet read her letter, which ended : "As soon as we hoard Mrs. Kuger was comiDp, we wished you to come to New Yoi -: to stay during her visit. 11 is fifteen years since we wero together last; do say you will come." "Yes, certainly," at once said Mr. Burnet. " Boys we can spare Mamma to visit two old schoolmates, eun we not ?" " Yes, oh, yos 1" the boys agreed. Mrs. Burnet did not see how she could leave her little family. But Bertha, the smart Gorman girl, said they would bake some extra " things," and prepare the "buttery" for thw raids of hungry boys upon cruller and cooky crock, and she would risk all the housework. That Saturday accomplished a great deal, besides carrying the letter which accepted the iuvitation. Sunday it rained, and mamma half hoped she need not go ou Monday. But oh, the brightness and beauty of that morning ! TI16 whole out-door world was sheathed in the Ice, that crystal day. Tho rising sun dazzled across fields, that were like frostod wedding cukes, Bertha said. The trees wero transparencies, and gave forth all tho prism colors ; drops of violet, orange or green pendent at the tips of tho coughs. n was uoeuiou the tx>ys should ride to the station to see mamma stal led upon her journey. Never did the homely earth look more like fairyland. To Ixj sure the sleigh "slewed" in an exeiting way at every turn in the road, but the horses were sharp-shod, and nothing mischievous happened. Every Insignificant roadside trifle was tricked out in spangles; stone walls overgrown with clematis, weedy patches in dump hollows, were in all the soft shudes of olive and brown, and like the tall evergreens, glace. The telegraph poles wore iced up to their tops: and their wires were strung with lr rid ascent heads, that a princess might covet. As the vista changed with the overwinding road, through that hill country, down towards the railroad, the happy Burnetsexhausted their descripf i vn ' -1 ! ...u Bujuvvnun duu i-jucuumons in spasms or delight. " Too bad, mamma, you have to go away when everything in so beautiful,'' sain Robert, the elder boy. " I think so, too," said mamma, kissing him for good-by ; and thinking that papa and his boys hud never looked so handsome before. "And in Now York, snow is only a nuisance," said papa. " Hut wo will write mamma all about our sleighrides ; say good-by, Richard, the train is coming." The train came and went, and parted this happy family. Those who rode back through the ravines, winding around the hills, up and up, home again, were not half so chatty as when the bright eyes of mamma had helped them to spy out the beauties of the frost. In the first week of her rare visit, letters flew back and forth. In the second week Mr. Burnet wroto : " Do not hurry home ; the boys say so ; and Bertha says she can keep house well enough for auother week." The city was charming the Wisconsin ludy and the Catskill guest; and their host and hostess found, euch day, new sights that really ought to be seen. At the end of the second week, Mr. Burnet wroto: " If you will stay content till the fif leenui 01 iviarcn, our wedding day, 1 will Hpcnd it with you, und havo a wedding journey homo." Mrs. Burnet was half provoked and really dropped a tear, feeling for the moment as if homo were not missing her as much as she missed homo. Hut she was quickly ashamed, and her friends said her family were unsoltlsh and solf-denying ; and this extension of her furlough was delightful all around. A few mornings later, there befell at the breakfast table, one of thoso wretched blunders that no man can foresee, and "all the cake was dough " for our dear friend. it was the arrival of a letter from u country neighbor, asking Mrs. Hurnot to make a small purchase for her, "supposing you are coming soon, al- i though it is not half so bud as we ox- j pected. You must have been scared when you saw the papers." I Half-crazed, Mrs. Burnot began to 1 pack her trunk, but grew so faint, she i submitted to lie down, and await an < answer to a telegram already sent, i She could not, however, conceal hor | lOQptttlOQCO* i "Oh, did you telegraph? What i could you say r" i " I asked," said hor host: I " 'Something alarms Mrs. Burnet. Any one ill ? Shall she return ?" 1 In a few hours' timo the answer 1 came: "Noone is ill. Do not come. Letter < by next mail. David Bubnet." i That afternoon was spent at the i Historical Society, where the honor jf suspense was partly lost among the pictured scenes of centuries behind us. Not until the good dinner was over, lid the letter coine, for which the * hole company were eagerly waiting, it said "Ihar Wife?When I was driving into the village this morning, I met the messenger starting out with the telegram, which will explain why you received its answer so quickly. Is was foing to consult with the doctor, and ^ct, as I telegraphed, no one is ill. On Washington's Birthday I wont iway for a few hours. It way very add, so 1 did not take the Ixiys. As 1 mine in sight of the house, returning, Lo my surprise (and the colts') a salute wus tired, on the small cannon Cousin Boh brought down last Fourth of July. The ranort was alsnit as usual, but I iaw attouce that something had gone wrong. The colts dushed down the lane. Herman came to their heads, And I hurried to the boys. Of course the one who was not hurt, was crying bitterly; that was Richard. Robert. mum nave leu some powder on top of the cannon, although they think it was loaded and tired precisely as they loaded and fired in July. Hut there was an explosion, as quick as a wink ; [or his eyeballs were full of powder, und the lids besides. The doctor was hurried here. Your boy was a hero. As long as daylight lasted We worked at the powder blotches, and again the next day. I took the little man in my bed, und hud not left him, night notlay. until this morning. His only wail has been: " Do not let mamma know." "Oh, mamma must not see tnu !" "The doctor and Bertha agreeing that you were not really needed, wo thought it no harm to keep the bad ?? ..... t * *T iiuwb i nun you. w e uro curious to know what alarmed you. When you come, 1 think you will forgive us for trying to bear our own troubles: wo did not wish to spoil your visit. Will you stay for the wedding day ? "The boys send love, and Kobert will bo himself again before yOu see him. " David." Oh, no, indeed : no further plans for enjoyment could keep the grieving mother. Tho visit ended as in a dream. She hardly knew how her trunk was packed, and the loving friends wore left, when she was on her homeward way. "Will he bo blind. David?" was the lirst question she asked at the station. "Oh. no, not blind. We hope the eyes will be all right. Do you forgive lis ?" Mrs. Burnet could not say yes. Oh, the bonnio lads : how glad they wore! How merrily mamma talked of tho beautiful things she had seen, and gave them the presents which delighted them. But the strangely mottled face, and the bandaged eyes?oh, what a sad sight ! "So you celebrated Washington's Birthday, my darling?" " Yes, mamma, with my naughty cannon." " And not one of the bravo men who crossed the icy Delaware, showed more for?itudo," said Papa Burnet, proudly. " Not even our dear Washington could at ten years of age have beon more of a hero in boaring pain, without a moan, repeatedly, day after day, bogging that his mother should not soo him. And yet nothing on earth is so dear as mamma, hev, my, l?oy ?" "Nothing quite so dear, papa," said Robert, holding his mother's hand, while tears met his simlo, trickling from tho closed eyes. "Oh, David." cried tho sad little woman, when by themselves, ho had told her tho painful details?"Oil, David, there was Washington's forti tlido; but do you think there was Washington's truth in the sorry sehome of keeping 1110 away?" i?M ? TILLMAN FAVORS THE PLAN. | UK AGKKK8 WITH THECOIjIJKTON IDEA. Tlic Governor HiikkchIn a Itig Campaign Committee?Ho 1'rcl'erH a Frco-For-A 11 l'rimury to a Nom- | hinting Convention?He Thinks the Consorvnt i vch Will h'iKlit For the I Ijcgislnt tire. Columbia Register, March '2. "Some of them arc pulling on the bit and some of them on the breeches," is the way Gouornor Tillman regards the political situation in this State so far as the Reform faction of the Democratic party is concerned. Governor Tillman can always he depended on to speak plainly on any political matter. There is no policy about him. If lie thought he would otTend his best friends in opposing their wishes lie would express his convictions no matter who it hurt. This is why the Governor is appealed to to give his advice on political matters, llisudvico has been abked many times recently as to what course the Reformers should pursue in the corning campaign. He has not givon any free expression on the later developments until yesterday when a Register reporter saw him and obtained his consent to an extended interview. The Governor answered freely and without hesitation all the questions put to him, and at the same time showed a deep interest in atTuii's as they stand. "Governor, you have seen the eall of tho Colleton Reformers for a mass meeting in that county on Monday, March f?, for the election of a delegate to a State convention, and an invitation to tho other counties to do likewise. What do you think of it ?" The Governor answered after some consideration of tho question : 441 feel some reluctanco in obtruding my views on the public on a matter which I fully discussed in an interview shortly after my return from Washington. There is evident among the peoplo a feeling of restlessness and an uncertainly arising from all this talk and advocacy of an early convention. If tho 'antis' were making any active moves, 1 could understand it, and see how it would 1x3 desirablo or necessary to concentrate tho Reform vote in support of one leader, but the advocates of a convention to nominate a Reform candidate for Governor appear to forget that such a nomination, without previous discussion to allow the people to judge of the fitness of the various Bisttirants, is totally inconsistent with nil our previous professions and practices, and must necessarilly breed heart-burnings among tho candidates who may l>o cut out and causo disgust tmong their friends. Tho dangers which somo men profess to see, if thore is a free-for-all race In the primary, do not appear to me as groat vh tnoso wnioft will confront us should ,ho man who may got such nomination lot moot tho expectations of tho people when ho begins to canvass." "You take it then, that tho candidate ror Governor will canvass, even though 10 has no opponent?" "Why, of course. The constitute n if tho Democratic party in this State "oquiros candidates for SpLte offices to nako a canvass, and should a convou tlon pat forward a muu who did out give satisfaction on the slump, some other Reformer, or unobjectionable antl would inevitably be brought out and might beat the convention nominee. Wo had bettor bo consistent in our practices and adhere to our principles and run the one danger rather than stultify ourselves and at the same timo run the other risk.'"What, then, do you consider the best course to bo pursued by the Reformers?'" was the struight question which was asked next. "The Colleton people have hit on a scheme to allay the unrest, which is, perhaps, us good as any, with two ad- j ditions or changes. They were in too. big a hurry, and instead of calling a j convention of our from each county, the mass meetings of Reformers In the difTorent counties should simply meet and elect one of their best men, with no axe to grind, to form a State campaign committee. It takes at least three weeks for any movement among the people to got under way, so as to carry the whole muss. One half the Reformers in Colleton do not yet know that u muss meeting is culled tor that county next Monday, und not knowing it, they would resent any rudical action such us instructing their delegate of one to the State convention to cull a nnniitiiiliiur ? T' !* * ..^ ? > 6 vuu<?iii.iuii intur, li 11 1.4 the desire of.the musses of the Reformera to move in this matter, tlie process is easy and simple, but it must not he too hurried. There is no need of hurry, anyway, and any movement which does not come from the people themselves will create great dissatisfaction and meet defeat." "ilow, then, shall the tiling he brought about?" "Well, in my judgment the only way in which it can be brought about is for fifteen or twenty leading men in each county to unite in a call similar to that of the Colleton leaders for a mass meeting of Reformers at their respective court houses, mlesday in April, to elect a member of a State Reform campaign committee. This can ho done next Monday in every county, and I hope it will bo done. There are many reasons why wo should have such a committee of which I will toll you presently. A month being given during which the people can discuss the question of convention or no convention, the mass meetings in April, when they elect their representatives on the State campaign committee, can at the same time decide for or against a convention and instruct as to their wishes. If any shorter time is given the committee would not represent truly the wishes of the people." " Well, Governor, tell mo what this committee would have to do?" was asked. " The first' thing," ho answered, " would be to set at rest this question 01 a ueiorin nominating convention, and until that is done tne bickerings and jealousies and umbitions of tho aspirants for tho various ofllccs will keep tho ltoform cainp in a constant state of turmoil. If it is decided by i this committeo to call a convention (coming. as it will, from tho people, after fair and full notice) no fair-minded. loyal Reformer can object and we will have gained that unity and harmony which do not now exist. If on the other hand, the question of nomination be left to be settled at the August primary, as I hope it will bo, this committee will have charge of tho Reform campaign, and will look after tho interests of the Reform faction." 44 Would it havo any specific powers or duties other than those mentioned?" "Of course, it would be subordinate to the State Democratic executive committee, for we must never lose sight of white unity as the only means of preserving white supremacy. Wo have the right to organ 4 i and contend inside the Democratic party for men and measures, but when tho party speaks through its accustomed channels, every decent, patriotic man must submit." " Why would not tho State Democratic oxoeutivo committee, which is composed almost entirely of Reformers, answer ?" 44 Because that committee represents the entire party, both Reformers and antis, and it cannot, with propriety, organize ono wing of the party against another." " Do you think it likely that the antis will organize and put out candidates ?" 44 If there is unity and harmony and fair play among the Reformers, no, not f,-,.. .... O'-' v.. uuiuiiwi i>r OUllO UHlCOl'S, Dill thoy arc going to make a dosporato effort to control the Legislature ; and tho whiskey ring1 and railroads will furnish a largo corruption fund." "Why do you think thoy will make their principal light for tho Legislature r "Tho whiskey people because thoy want to repeal tho Dispensary law, tlm railroads in order to enjoy in security the special privileges which thoy had before I was elected, of paying such taxes as they saw lit." "What alH)ut national issues --will thoy cut any 11 gure in tho coining campaign ?" " Most assuredly. Mr. Cleveland is using his patronage to strengthen tho antis whcrovoi ho can, and tho goldbugs will doubtless supplement the railroad and whiskey campaign fund to any extent that 01113' be necessary." " You think money will boused froel3' then in tho campaign." "Oh, yes; all that can be placed where it is thought it will do aii3' good." " Have you any fears V" " Not if tho advico which 1 have given in this interview is followed. Ttio Ulovoland Goldbug Democrats and the corporations cannot buy our poo? plo. The Reform cause is as strong now as it has ever boon. With good leadership our victory next summer will be a repetition of the campaigns of 1800 and 1802." "If the peoplo instruct the campaign committee to call a nominating convention. what would you advise?" "Why, that is simple. Let the Reformers in each township meet and elect delegates to a county convention just the same as to a Democratic county convention. The balance of the programme could conform in every respect to the system adopted by the Democratic party as a whole." " Under such circumstances would the Conservatives take part in the regular Democratic primaries?" " 1 think most of them would, because, as I have said, their light will he for the Legislature. I don't think, after tho experience of 1800, that any considerable number of them would he willing to try a repetition of Haskellism. Some, of course, arc ready now to ignoro the Democratic primary and make their fight at the November election, but thoro aro only a fow thousand of them, not enough to accomplish anything." ?The State constables at Beaufort last week seized two cases of choice brandy consigned to Senator J. I). Cameron, St Helena Island, from Washington. Tho Japanese Pile Cure is the only propor application for internal piles and is gua^aq^ood in every ease by Carpoutor Bros., Greenville, 8. C. SUPREME UOURT REJECTIONS- j RKMINIHCIvNCKN OF FOHMFlt ADMINISTKATION8. President Orant Mel Strong Opposllion in IliM Day- Cleveland's Urrcnt experience Has Mcci tlie Fate of Ol hci'N. A. \V. 1). in Augusta UbroniCii*. President Cleveland's strenuous efforts to appoint a successor to the late Samuel 111atchford us Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, recalls the similar efforts of President Grant to appoint a successor to Salmon 1*. Chase as Chief Justice twenty years ago. iOuch in ado two nominations that failed of confirmation, and a third that was continued with difficulty. In each cuso the President's party was in the majority in the Senate. Chief Justice Chase died in New York on May 7, 187J. On the first day of the following December President Grant nominated Gcorce 11. Williams. of Oregon, un ox-Senator, und then Attorney Ccnerul. to tlio vacancy. Tliero was instant and widespread objection to the nomination. Mr. Williams' professional ability was called in question by his brethren in the law, und the great Bar Association of New York udopted formal resolutions in opposii tion to bis confirmation. A large num; ber of the principal newspapers of both political parties condemned the selection. ! Unfortunately for Mr. Williams, bis ' management of bis office bud involved ! him in scandal. For instance it was charged that bo bad bought for Mrs." | Williams a landuulot, and bad paid for ' it out of the contingent fund of the Department of .Justice, lie bad in consequence been nicknamed in the public press " Landuulot" Williams. Moreover, Mrs. Williams was not popular with the other wives of Cabinet officers, and a great many detrimental stories concerning ber were circulated. To some extent the light against Williams took on the form of a " ladies' quarrel." To illustrate faintly this phase of the contest, the following paragraph is quoted from the regular correspondent of a New York paper at that time: ''Mrs. Williams'carriage blocks the way. Politically und socially that department landaulet has been in the way of everybody and of every salon, and has used a week of the precious time before Lent. The ladies of the cabinet had ouch agreed to give a ' gcrman' to to Mi88 Nellie Grant after her month of mourning for (.1 rand pa Dent, but hopes had been entertained that Mrs. Williams would have been out of the set before tho invitations wore sent out." As early as December ?> reports began to be circulated that Grant would withdraw Williams' name, but days grow into weeks without such action. Finally the holiday adjournment was had, with tho nomination still ponding. On January 1871, Congress having reassembled, President Grunt visited the Capitol. He sent for tho Republican members of the Judiciary Committee, Fdmunds, Frolinghuyson, Conkling, and Wright and Carpentor, all of whom, except Conkling, were understood to be opposed to Williams. This gave rise to rumens that. Williams' name would bo withdrawn, and Caleb Cusbing's name be sent in. On the morning of January 7, Hamilton Fish, Secretary of State, culled on Attorney General Williams at the hitter's ollice, and represented to him that his continued candidacy was seriously embarrassing President Grant, and that he (Williams) ought to send to the President a note asking him to withdraw his (Williams) name from the Senate, adding that this was tho only way in which President Grant and his administration could be relieved from embarressmont in tho matter. Williams yielded to these representations, and that afternoon sent a note to the President in accordance with the suggestion of Mr. Fish. Tho next day Williams' name was withdrawn. On the following day, January i), 1871, Calob Gushing was nominated to the vacancy, and the same day tho ' nomination was favorably reported iuu-k iroin ine judiciary Committee, despite tho fuct that Mr. Cashing was within awook of his 74th birthday. 11o would huvo boon oonlirmed that day hud not Morton, of Indiana, objected , to an executive session. This enabled the opposition to Cashing within the Republican party to organize. The Republicans who opposed Cashing did so because he had presided over the Charleston convention, and had east his vote with the Breckinridge wing of the Democratic party in the campaign of 18(1P. They recalled the fact that Governor John A. Andrew, of Massachusetts, had declined to employ Mr. Cushing in a military capacity in 18H1, despite his excellent record in the Mexican war. It was also claimed that he had denounced the reconstruction legislation of Congress as unconstitutional. Tho contest grow vory animated. and finally a caucus of Republican Senators was called to consider the matter. Cushing's cause was advocated by Sumner and others, who , vouched for his loyalty during tho war, and for his sympathy with tho reconstruction legislation of Congress ' Had matters rested there he would have been confirmed, but they didn't. , Senator Sargent, of California, rose and read tho following letter : Washington, March '20th, lhdi. Dkait Sm: Mr. Archibald Roane, for the last six or seven years a clerk i in tho Attorney General's office, desires from me a letter of introduction to you, and ho deserves it, not in the view of anticipating administrative favors, hut that ho may have the honor of your personal intercourse. Of this 1 tako pleasure in assuring you he is eminently worthy. A Southern man by birth, family and affection, ho has carefully studiod and ably discussed in Mr. DoBow's Review, and other Southern works, tho lamontablo events which have been gradually undermining, and have at last overthrown, tho American Union. While a practical man, he is a ripe and accomplished scholar, with, indeed, predominant literary tastes and habits. In the discharge of his official duties, he has continued in a singular degree tho llllPftttt. Intoin'iJu 1 ( ...? h! .^T uiiu 111 w,->l, UIIII^IIUilK'd | intelligence, with modest contentment in his lot. Having moro than once declined oflicea of more conspicuous employment in tho public service, ho now resigns his present oflleo from sentiments of devotion to that which alone ho can feel to bo his country, namely, tho Confederate States, from one of which (Texas) he was appointed. I most heartily commend him as a gentleman and a man to your contidenco and esteem, and I am, with tho highest consideration, your obodiont servant, C. CUSHINO. Hon. Jefferson Davis, Prosidont of tho Confederate States. The reading of this lotter put an end ( to all chance of Cushlng's confirmation. Senator Sargont explained that \ that morning ho had received an an- ( onymous letter calling his attention to ( the existence of the lotter he had read, and telling him it was among the Confodorato archives tho Government had bought, and which werothon in its possession. He had gone at once, ho said, and examined these archives, find lug the letter he had just read, and of l which he had made u copy. He had shown his copy to President Grant, and then hud gone tothecuuous loaded for l)car. Grant had the original let- i tor sent him for inspection, and Immediately decided to withdraw Gushing's name. Gushing, learning the < turn matters had taken, sent the Presl- i dent a note asking that his name be , withdrawn. Itwus a superfluous acton t his part. His name was withdrawn on Jan. h, having been before the Senate just six duys. i Previous to his nomination for Chief 1 Justice, Gushing had been nominated i and confirmed us minister to Spain, u mission he filled with great credit to himself and advantage to ills country, in connection with thisappointmentan interesting story is told. The Virginia utlair was still pending. President Grant sent for Gushing and said to him : "Mr. Gushing, 1 want you to go us minister to Spain." " Do you speuk as a military man or a civil official, Mr. President? in other words, sir, is this an order or n request V" "This is an order, Mr. Gushing," replied Grant with u smile. \ cry wen," said Cashing, " I will hw ready to go whenever tho Senate confirms my nomination." After Cushiug's name was withdrawn thut of Morrison 10. Waite, of Ohio, was sent in for Chief Justice on January 19, lt*74, favorably reported on the 20th, and continued on the 21st. Cushing's loiter was compared to that which caused tho expulsion from tho Senate on Februuiy o, 1802, of Jesse D. Bright, of Indiana. Mr. Height's letter was us follows". WASHINGTON, March I. 1801. My ])kah Slit" Allow me to introduce to vour acquaintance my friend, Thomas 11. Lincoln, of Texas. He visits your capital mainly to disposo of what ho regards a great improvement in firearms. 1 commend him to your favorable considerat ion as a gentleman of tho first respectability, and reliable in every respect. Very truly yours, j kkkk i). Bright. To llis Kxcelleney, .Jefferson Davis, President Confederate States. It is something of a coincidence that both t he gentlemen who brought Bright and Cushing to grief hailed from 'P . 4 ? -1 la ivaiiit. aihi iii is another that Aaron A. Sargent, who discovered tho Gushing letter, was born in Newport, Mass., whero Gushing, then a man of 27, lived and practiced law and which, at the timo of Sargent's birth, he represented in the State Senate. Another of President Grant's nominees for the Supreme Court who failed of continuation was E. Rockwood Hoar, as he called himself, or Ebonczer II. Hoar as he appears in the records of the Senate. While ho was Attorney General ho was on December 15, 1869, nominated for Associate Justice and on February '), 1870, rejected. There was no question of hisability, integrity, or loyalty. Ho was defeated because he hud an acrid temper and had quarrelled vigorously with Republican Senators. So far as can bo gathered from the published records the following is a complete list of nominations to the Supremo Court which failed of continuation, except those named above and Uorublowor and l'eckham : Judge Rut ledge, of South Carolina, appointed Chief Justice by Washington in 1765 during the recess of Congress. He presided at the August term of the Court t hat year. I u the following December his name was sent to the Senate. That body rejected the nomination. By some accounts because he opposed the Jay treaty with England, and by othors liecauso his mind had given away. John J. Crittenden, of Kentucky, Associate Justice, named by John Quiney Adams in 1N28. The nomination was indefinitely postponed. Roger B. Taney, of Maryland, Associate Justice, by Jackson in 18,'l5. This nomination was indefinitely postponed on motion of Daniel Webster. A few months afterwards, tho Senate, having changed from Whig to Democrat, Taney was nominated for Chief Justice vice John Marshall, deceased, and, on motion of James Buchanan, confirmed by a vote of 25 to ID. It is an interesting fact that John G. Calhoun voted against Taney* John C. Spencer, of Now York, Reuben N. Walworth, of Now York, and Edward King, of Pennsylvania, all by Tyler in 1844, and John M. Read, of Pennsylvania, by Tyler in 1846. All failed to be confirmed, Spencer being the only one actually rejected, George W. Woodward,'of Pennsylvania, nominated by Poik in 1845, and rejected. E. A. Bradford, of Louisiana, nominated by Fillmore in 1852, and never voted on. Jeremiah S. Black, of Pennsylvania, nominated by Buchanan in 1861. Henry Stanbory, of Ohio, nominated by Johnson. Never reported from the .Judiciary Committoo. . i In all, including Hornblowor and Pocklium, there have been sixteen persons nominated to the Supremo Court i of the United States who have failed j of confirmation. In other words, about 25 per cent, cf all the nominations to i tho Supreme Bench have failed to bo confirmed. Usually the cause of the failure to confirm has been a political one, but this has not always been tho i case. i SOMETHING ABOUT HOGS. HARDWOOD ASHES FOR HOGS. Corn is deficient in ash or bone-muking constituents, so that pigs fed ex- ! elusively upon it have weak or brittle ] hnnno l? Mr: 1_ - . .. uvuud. tu ?? experiments, tho effect of tho hard wood ashes and bone meal feci to pigs witli corn was to save ( about 28 per cunt, of tho corn in pro- ! ducing KM) pounds of gain, livo weight. ( lly feeding the bono meal tho strength of tho thigh bono was douhlod ; ashes 1 nearly doubled tho strength of the bones. Those experiments point to tho groat value of hard wood ashes for hog feeding, and show that they should )>o regularly fed. Bone meal is oven better than ashes, hut tho latter aro sutlieient, and do not usually cost anything. MORE VARIETY FOR HOUH. Tho fattening hog has usually less variety in his feed than any other animal. What is worse, its nutriment is concentrated in small bulk, and when this feed is corn, as it usually is. there is too little other nutrition. The result of such feoding is that tho hogs become surfeited and their digestion is injured. They may increase fat, but it is not good healthy pork, and they will not gain so rapidly as if they had greater variety. They will eat cut clovor hay in considerable amounts If It ia steamed and wheat middling put ? on It. Hogs thus fed will continuo to ' grow, and may be fattened until a year old with profit. It. in indigestion chub- h ed by poor feeding moro than anything also which makes it unprofitable to koep hog? after they weigh l.'?0 to 200 pounds each. FOOD row YOU NO PIGS. ( Prof. Henry, of the WitseonMin ata- t tion, gays: "We feel warranted iu maintaining that the kind of hxxl sup- > plied to young, growing pigs has a very ; marked effect upon the animal carcass ; that foods rich in protein (shorts, bran, skim milk, pea meal, etc.) tend to build up strong, muscular frames and largo individuals with ample blood and fully developed internal organs; that exclusive corn feeding with pigs, oven after they have obtained a good start on proper feed, tends to dwarf the ani- I mat in si/.e and prematurely fatten it: that, owing to the large amount of ash contained, and perhaps for other causes, pigs receiving the usual nitrogenous feeds have stronger Iwmos than those of pigs fed on corn, and that the bones of pigs fed on corn contain the least mineral matters. It is u rule, with some farmers ,that the manure of fattening animals pays lor the time i used in taking care of the stock. If ; this is true, and it is without doubt, the one who feeds shorts instead of cot u meal, gets double the pu> for his work. TIIK ivmivv if?i * i*w? 3 1 IU'j .A 141'i A N CUT ANIMAL. A writer says : The future hog must be a rustler, by which is not meant a ,k ruzor back," or " inizel splitter," but one that bus the got up anil if row to him; an animal of fine proportions, with extra top line, broad, deep hums, clean-cut. smooth under line, free from flabbiness of jowl or holly, with deep bacon sides and deepness extending well back to llank and forward to shoulder, not uneven, and deep in center, having a line cut head, smooth ami broad between the eyes, jaw broad and tapering well even to muzzle, eyes clear and prominent, with ears standing out well from the head, breaking evenly and smoothly towards the point, but would even prefer a standing up ear to a drop or Hop ear, as a drop or a Hop, flabby jowl and under line, in my experience, are not rustlers, and are more inclined to disease from their nature of sloth fulness, and these had liubits are generally found together. The bono should not bo too largo, but one of fine and strong texture, legs firm, standing erect in their pens and tapering well from arm down to the feet. FEEDING YOUNG SOWS. There is one thing that should always be kept in mind in feed in<r a brood sow. and that is that she should he kept growing, says Farm and Dairy. She will bo kept busy enough taking earo of her litter next spring, and will not be able to do any growing from the time the litter comes until the pigs arc weaned. Consequently the timo between now and farrowing should bo busily improved in growing and laying on ai supply of llesh to draw on when she noeds it after farrowing. There is no danger in overfeeding the young sow if the right kind of food is given. There is danger in getting tho old sows too fait before farrowing time. When an old sow is fait, she becomes lazy and will not get up when a pig is euught under, no matter how lustily tho little follow may squeal. A young sow is more careful, and we never had one too fat at farrowing timo if the fat was put on with the right kind of food. She should have some oats, bran, shorts and the like, foods that mako bone and muscle, along with her corn. A good deal of bono producing material is necessary in order to make a strong litter. If souio of these foods are used with corn, there is little danger in feeding the young sow too much, or at least in getting her too fat, after she is once safe with pig. Many sows, and othor nnimals, for that matter, are fed too littlo instead of too much. Tho brood sow needs a good store of llesh to draw on after tho litter comes. If she does not have it she almost inevitably becomes stunted, because she cannot eat enough to keep a good strong litter from pulling her down to a mere skeleton. See that she gots plenty to cat now. How to Kill Nut Grass.?i have soon sovoral inquiries lately for a method of killing nut grass. I used to think the only way to get rid of it was to move oil' and leave it, but have found a hotter method of treating it. 1 had about one aero of very rich garden land thoroughly seeded down with it. I could raise a winter or early spring crop, but it would choke out any corn or cotton crop I could plant. Fivo years ago 1 raised a crop of Irish potatoes on it, then planted it in corn. Fleforo it was large enough to hoe, it was a mass of green nut grass, and to get it out of tho hill pulled up nearly all the corn. It was very dry at the time, and by tho time 1 was through, my corn was nearly all dead, but the grass was doing finely. 1 concluded to try heroic treatment on it. So 1 took a Planet (Jr.) cultivator and tore up every blade of corn and grass in the field, using a hoe around tho feneos. In about four days a new crop came up. Then I cultivated it tho other way, always in the hot sun. The fourth time I plowed it deep, and 1 got another pretty good crop of grass started, which 1 cultivated as before. in one month, 1 think, I had sprouted and killed every vestige of it, as not a stalk has appeared since, and it has been planted to corn or sweet potatoes ovory year since. You can take this for what it is worth, hut tho only way to get rid of it is to keep it from seeding, either top or root, and cultivate and germinate till dormant seed and kill them by cultivation in the dry hot weather of May and Juno.?John Axtell. Wisher's Shortage Paid.?The "Uato authorities have been informed that George II. Walter, the County Treasurer of Charleston, has been paid m.2sni.hj, the amount of the shortage sf John L. Weber, ox-School donor of Charleston, thestoryof whose jrimo has been published. 'J ho money was paid by Lcland Moore, a brotherin-law of Weber, but ono of the best i md most honest men in Charleston. i'\?r him and the other innoeent onos there is the deepest sympathy. No news has recently boon received is to the whereabouts of Weber, but ho is supposed to bo still at Trinity College. Much h?uj appeared in North Carolina papers about him since his exposure. '1 he most of those papers, t is said, have charged the exposure to political persecution, and have been trying to exonerate Weber. They lavo stated that ho handled ovor >100,000 a year in school funds, and ,hat it. is a wondor that his shortage vas not greater. Tho Stato authorities iay that Weber never handled tho unds of tho Charleston graded schools sxcept in bulk and that tho monev rom that source merely passed through ?ls hands, as is tho caso with the graded schools in other cities. The amount of money which ho handled for he county schools and ovor whloh ho | lad complete control was about fc.1,300 i > year.?Columbia Register. | -p., ? j Intlainod itching, burning, crusty ! nd scaly skin and scalp of infants \ oothod and cured by Johnson's { )riental Soap. 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It mires nm-voiiM prostration, insomnia, or inability to sleep, and many nervous disorders duo to dcraugement of the functions* ^7| An invitation to X,- X oonnu motion is ^ ^ \v what a bud caso Nl of Catarrh means. ^on't take tho risk 1 The M3B3&jy inakcra of Doctor Sage's Catarrh Remedy agreo to cure your Catarrh, or thoy'U pay you $500 iu cash. END or A MONOPOLY. The Prospect I'or t'lienpr r Telephones in I iu* I n(lire. So general is the use of the telephone in our thriving cities and villages, that we shall doubtless render our readers a service by placing before them tho situation at the present time. Perhaps wo shall not supply unnecessarily elemental information in remarking at the outset that tho two principal features of the telephone covered by tho patent laws nn> t.lm transmitter into which the message is spoken, and the receiver, by placing which at the ear, the message is heard. As we have said, the patents bear especially upon tho receiver and tho transmitter. But the patent on the receiver expired on the last Wednesday of January. This might leave the impression that half tho telephone was free to the public, and the other half covered by patents, thus insuring tho continuance of the monopoly a while longer. But right here two important facts are to bo noted. First, tho receiver can boused as a transmitter, as any one can discern by making the experiment. Tho Boll transmitter is preferable ; hut supposing that to be protected by a patent the receiver can be made to servo as a transmitter. These receivers aro now oll'ercd for sale at less than two dollars, and will doubtless soon be sold cheaper, the batteries, wires, and other ouuipmont being also offered at reasonable rates. Tho result is that any one can buy a pair of receivers, put up a private wire between rooms in Ins house, or between his house and offleo, or his ollieo and stable, or between his own houso and that of a friend. It is evident we are about to witness lively competition in the matter of telephone extension. Of course, the Boll Company's exchange facilities by which it maintains such extensive connections as its central olllces afford, give it a groat advantage at the start, but two companies are already advocating the setting up of independent linos, and the maintenance of oveho??rr? fe" systems. Kight hero it would seem as if a law should bo passed requiring the Hell Telephone Company to receive and transmit messages from other systems on the general plan of exchange required of the various telegraph and railway companies ; probably wo shall have such a law before long. Another matter to bo noted is the fact that it is by no means certain that the patent of the Boll transmitter still holds. Without going into the parciculars of this matter, it is sullicicnt to say that the question is now in the courts. Indeed one of the independent companies offers to supply a long distance transmitter ; and it publishes a letter from the President of the Bell Company notifying the company that probably no suit will be brought against it until a decision on the mat', tor, now pending, it reached in the I 7nitn/1 i <: :? ' ' VIIUUll OOlU'l. It will'bo seen, therefore, that the prospect for cheap telephones is exceedingly good, and the cities are taking the matter up. A large company has been formed in Chicago, and in Philadelphia it is known that the Clainond Telephone Company has decided to light the Bell monopoly for the business in the Mast. Contracts are now being made by this company for towns and cities in Pennsylvania and New Jersey. Both these cities have granted permission to two independent companies respectively to put up lines. 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