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DEATHS OF ritOMINKST MEN. York and UdKctlelil Count low Lone Uscflil ami Honored Citizens. The fuueral services of the lute Col. W. 11. Wilson, of Yoi'kvlllo, took place on tho 5th inst. It was one of the most largely attcuued funerals that has ever taken pluce in Yorkville. The services were conducted by the Rev. Mr. Guorrv. chaplain of Sowannoe University. The building was unable to hold the many friends who had come to pay the last tribute of respoet to their dead friend. Col. Wilson was born in Columbia, April 5th, 1827. His father was the Rev. Statiyarne Wilson. He graduated from the South Carolina College with first appointment in 1840. In 1848 he removed to Yorkville and began the practice of law with 1. 1). Witherspooii, anil upon the hitter's death a partnership was formed with i. D. Witherspoon, Jr., which continued until the firm of Wilson & Wilson was established. lu 1853. Col. Wilson was sent to the Legislature for this county and was again sent for two terms, beginning in 1882. In 1800, Col. Wilson was sent as the head of the ticket, to the State convention which adopted the Ordinurwww^fU I? l-"-* ? vi uwcsaiuii. rillllTlll^ me VOllfederute army as a private ho roso until he was commissioned colonel of the 7th South Carolina Regiment. At one time Col. Wilson was the only Episcopalian in York county and it is duo to liis untiring efforts that the Church of the Good Snopard was established. In this church he served us a warden for thirty-threeyears and as Sunday school superintendent for seven years. Col. Wilson leaves five sons, one of whom is an ex-State Senator and one is serving at present in that capacity. A correspondent of the Abbeville Pross and Banner furnishes the following sketch of the life and services of Cupt. .lames S. Callison, who died Maidenly at his home in Shatterflold, Edgefield County on the 5th of March : lie was of Irsh birth, coining to Edgelield when a youth, lie did not have a collegiate education, but by studyand reading lie became a well informed and intelligent citizen. His education was derived from a eon taut reading and study of newspapers. This reading had been so broad and close that lie was one of the best informed citizens upon all commercial and political matters. His first effort in politics was in 18(10, when lie was a candidate for the Regis- , laturo, the issue being State appro- I nidation to t he ' Blue Ridge Railroad. Upon this he was defeated. In 1801 he went to the army in Captain Tolbort's company, in the oovoiix.il uegimont, and artor arduous services was discharged for disability. During the dark period of reconstruction ho was bitterly opposed to Republicanism, and in 1H7(J was one of the most uctivo spirits in rolling up the tremendous majority for Goneral Hampton. lie was onu of the most vigilant and useful members of the Legislature that Ldgeliehl has had since the war, i always working for economy, an active j advocate for the adjustment of the public debt, and favoring economy in every branch of the State and County government. After a useful and honorable career in the House, he succeeded Genemil Gary in the Senate, and was ever re- | cognized for his ability and energy. Captain Callison was one ol the best stump speakers in the State. As a citizens he was most usoful: as a merchant he often befriended his neighbors ; a practical farmer himself, ho was an example to those around him. No man was more beloved in 1 his own neighborhood than ho was? was often stiled the " Duke of Shatterfield." Prior to the war the section in which he lived was poor, but since the war . ? n?3 uctuiiiu uiiu *?i mo most prosperous itiid cultivated in the State. To this prosperity and improved educational and religious advancement of his neighborhood no man has contributed more than Captain Callison. MIo leaves many political friends in j every part of the State, llis entire neighborhood feels his death. A devoted wife and a number of grown, ' useful and educated sons and daughters to mourn his loss. Voluntary Sukhknukk.?The Columbia Register says; All the convicted criminals in this State seem to have determined to surrender them- , solves to the prison authorities and to enter the Penitentiary with their own commitments in their pockets, coining to Columbia unaccompanied by officers and acting as if they wore as free as any man. Martin Wheeler, colored, of Newberry county arrived in the city yesterday and went to the Penitentiary and surrendered himself. He hail been convicted of burglary, but had appealed to the Supreme Court. That cour* de- 1 clined to give him a now trial. He has a sentence of three years to serve. Major Whitnor Symmcs, of Greenville,also arrived in the citvon Sundav afternoon, lie went to Wright's Hotel and yesterday went for Superintendent Neal, of the Penitentiary, to toll him ! that lie had coiuo hero to begin a live years' sentence in prison, bringing his own commitment with him. Major Symmos belongs to one of the most prominent families in the State >and was at one time immensely wealthy. Ho is still worth a g<xnl deal of money. About two years ugo lie killed a white man named Gary at Central, in Pickens county. He was convicted of manslaughter and was sentenced to live years in prison. The Supremo Court refused to give him a :.~w triulfeMajor Symines is said to be a lirst cousin oi ex-President Harrison. He is a highly educated man. Luther Trammell, who surrenderee about a week ago, and Colonel Morrow have both been put to work in the hosiery mill. ? ^ - ? ,A Mixed Romance.?A Gorman widower, in the village of Sanborn. Minn., sent, some time ago, to the old country for a young lady whom he expected to make his wife. Soon after the lady came over she made up her mind that her widowed adorer was not the man she wanted. She did not, howover. return to Germany, but engaged herself a servant girl to J. G. Yager, looking through Yuger's album she became fascinated with the photograph of u man and thought that with him she would like to cast her lot. On inquiry she found that the young man might bo inclined to consider a proposal of marriage, if it came in a quiet way. A correspondence was begun, followed by an exchange of photo- | graphs. The yaung mun, who lives in Indiana, went to Sanborn. When he stood face to faco with his correspondence eatno to the conclusion that ho did not want to marry her. The matter was settled amicably. The young man <Uid not depart immediately for his homo, and by accident became acquainted with a very estimable young widow of the place, lie proposed to bar UCd wa* SENSATIONS IN l>KO\VNING. Ml TIic Actual Kxpcrlencc of" a Man Who Was Drowned. Mr. O. A. Ilartloy relates his experience in undergoing tho struggles of drowning and resuscitation as follows in the Cineinnutl Tlinos-Star : To stand helplessly on tho viiv01' shoro and witness tho struggles %f a drowning follow-being is a harrowing experience, and little loss hourt-rondI ing to contemplate, hut, in matters of ; this kind, like many others, "tilings ' are not what thoy seem." At any ! rate, death by drowning is not as i horrible as it may seem to tho oni looker. Tho tiiougiitof being dragged ! along tho muddy bottom of tho river and found later in some out-of-the-way, willow-tangled spot is what adds to the horrors of such a death. The dread of such a fate is really worse than tho fate itself. 1 once left this world by that route as nearly as one can una gei duck, it whs an ucciUent. ami was sumo twenty yours ago. A companion ami myself were bathing in the Ohio ltiver. At the point whore wo were a large raft of logs was lashed to the bunk, and for quite a long while wo amused ourselves by jumping from the raft into liftcou foot of water to see who could bring up the largest number of white gravels each time. We went down several times with varying success. The last time I made the elTort I tilled my lungs with air uml leaped far out into the river and went to the bottom head tirst. I groped about for a handful of gravels and spent more time in the search than 1 should have done. The water was warm, however, and I huil no fears of drowning. When I could stay down no longer 1 started swiftly for the surface, and when within a footer two of the top of the water my companion, not knowing exactly where I was, jumped headlong into the river. His head struck mo squarely between the shoulders and knocked the last ounce of air out of my lungs, and a deluge of water at once took its place. The weight of his body falling on me produced a terrible shock, and I sank to the bottom of the river like a stone. That is where I got my experience in drowning. When the water rushed into my lungs and stomach it felt for all the world like a pleurisy pain, which has also given me a tussle in later years, but was over in a second. 'im l.-.-l - *> i m il iny MUUJ MUttlUU IJUH'I I)' l() LI1L* bottom and my arms full limp at upside. In my half-conscious condition I I could sou all my relatives and acquaintances crowding about and looking! down on mo with tearful faces. All the events, it seemed, of my prosy earner passed slowly in review, and the good, had, and indilToront acts stood out before mo in bold relief. Even little school boy tricks claimed attention. 1 knew 1 was drowning and remember thinking, " Why, this is not so hard after all 1" 1 wondered where my body would be found, and shuddered at the thought that it might never ho found. I also wondered whether or not my companion had he- i come alarmed and run away and left j me to my fate, or whether he was diving here and there to lind mo. Then I pictured my burial, and how the eloils would resound on my collin when it was lowered into the chilly grave, and my fate would he pointed \ out to other boys by anxious mothers as a warning. At the next stage I could hear bells softly ringing in the distance, together with little tinfclingc and chirrups sounding in my ears. Then I begun to see pretty pictures. The colors of the rainbow danced before my eyes and intermingled and formed into all sorts j of odd shapes. I had no pain and no feat" of what was expected to follow. 1 seemed to be enchanted tit the scene before me. Everything was light and calm and moved about without any visible impelling force. It was like looking into a largo mirror with every j beautiful thing that the most vivid i imagination could conjure up revealed thereby. The last stage which 1 en- I tered increased the beauty of the surroundings. All discordant noises ceased and were superseded by the , softest, sweetest music that could be | thought of. Apparently L had been transported to a place Hooded with bright, calm sunshine, it was neither \ too hot nor too eoid. but seemed like a clear autum day. Then 1 seemed to j rise from the ground and Moat oil" into j space like thistle down. Higher and i higher I went until 1 seemed to look : down on the world from a great height, j and then came a blank. The next thing 1 know 1 was lying on the raft ; with my companion looking down on me with a pale face. After J several unsuccessful atteinps he had i succeeded in finding me and getting me out of the water. By vigorously rolling me over a log he had succeeded in rekindling the spark of life that remained. For the next half hour 1 think I sulTered a great deal more; than for the same length of time before or since. 1 shall never forget how it feels to drown, but would not ? ? - 1 ' tiiivinu *i 11 unu IU try it W) 1111(1 out I or himself. Resuscitation is too painful. - ? !< ? Oats feu Hokkkk.?Experience has proven that as a grain food for horses lew feeds are equal or superior to oats. Many farmers and teamsters, however, by experimenting, havo decided upon a combination of feeds that, in their judgment, makes a ration superior to any thing else obtainable. Some use a mixture of ground corn and wheat bran. Others feed the corn soaked vith a sprinkling of chopped stulT, whilo others get mere value Iromcut hay dampened and sprinkled with ground feed. For those who are satisfied with a standard food and one j that careless teamsters and stable men 1 will not he liable to injure horses with J by over-feeding, oats will prove more satisfactory. When American corn is worth less than a cent a pound, and i oats sell for over a cent and a quarter j per pound, the feeding value is no i doubt in favor of corn, but corn being very heating, great care must needs bo exercised in dealing it out. In fact, gome horses ure made sick by a few rations of corn. Constant feeding for two or throo months deranges the system, requiring a complete change of diet, and often necessitates the calling in of a veterinary surgeon. The thick hull covering the out kernel prevents fast eating, consequently moro saliva iw f/.t. K....I .1: : * u .t/1 .tivuf if IIIVII (iiun ui^wntlUH, t some horses oat. so voraciously that many of tho kernels are swallowed whole. When this fact is discovered, either have tho grain ground and fed dry, or place several stones two inches iu.-diametcr in the feed box. These will prevent the grabbing of a full mouthful of grain at once, and thus cause twice the time to bo spent in eating a given quantity.?American Agriculturist. ?? - - ??? Ladies, if want a pure, delate soap for the complexion. Carpenter Bros., Greenville, ft. C., Druggists, will always recommend Johnoon Oriental Medicinal Toilet yuuj/. MIIS. 1.1.ASi: OF KANSAS. The Succwis of a Kcmarkahle Western Woman. The story of Mrs. Lease's advent in polities is interesting. With her husband and her children she lived on a claim in Kinsman county. One day she was in Witchita and leisurely strolled into a union labor convention. She was requested to make a speech. She had never boforo attempted to speak in public, but the calls wore so frequent and earnest that she resolved to try." For half an hour she surprised hertolf, as well as her audience, niuking a speech that fairly started her on the road of fame and fortune. Soon after this the Lease family removed to Wichita, where the husband I became a drug clerk, and fro in the j modest salary he received in that capacity supported his family, which consisted of his wfTo and four children. Through the influence of his wife he was subsequently made manager of a leading Wichita drug store, but the proprietors having disposed of the hll-.incKs lie tt'iw t hrown outof iiniiilnii. niont, since which time lie has been a gentleman of leisure. About u yeur ago Mrs. Louse purchased u handsome home in u fushiouublo residence part of the city and turned it over to the ; management of her husband. Two I elderly female servants are employed, ! who are paid by Mrs. Lease, but Mr. j Lease has entire control of the estabi lishment during his wife's absenco, ! which is maintained in the best posi sible style. Since ho lost his position I Mr. Lease has looked after the minor | details of curing for his wife's property | and the children, while Mrs. Lease has j been traveling about the country delivering lectures, making political speeches and acting as a member of the State board of charities. About a year ugo Mrs. Lease became interested in the subject of hypnotism. She made a study of the science, her ambition being to acqurie hypnotic power. With this object in view she engaged the services of a professor who has been giving cxibitions through the State, lie pronounced her a good subject, and claims to have developed unusual hypnotic powers in his pupil. Mrs. Lease dislikes to talk of her hypnotic powers, but admits that she has given the subject of hypnotism much study and thought. People in Kansas have ceased to J wouuer in anyuung airs. lamse says or does. Her political earoer has boon a series of sensations. She is constantly : in search of something to say or do that will attract attention to her. She j first came into prominence in the cam- ' paign of 185)0, when her speeches pregnant with bitter invective and sarcasm caused many to compare her methods with those of Senator Insults, whom she took groat satisfaction in abusing. Her success as a speaker consisted more in arousing the enthusiasm of her partisans than in making converts. I'p to and including the campaign of 185)2 she was t he idol of her party, and was called by People's party papers the modern Joan of Arc. ilor influence in party councils was greater than that of any other half dozen persons. Pew men loaders had the temerity ' to cross her path, and her wishes always commanded respect, at least in her presence, for no one wished to in\ ite the sting of her sharp tongue by opposing. A few tried it while she was in the height of her popularity with disastrous results. Her success turned her head, and she began to use her power in such a bold manner that friends deserted her and enemies sprang upon all sides determined to crush her. Gov. Lewolling opened the battle by attempting to remove her from the State board of charities ! to which he had appointed her. She fought back, repealed to the Supreme , Court and came out of the fray vieto- 1 rious. She is still president of the hoard, and will remain in that position until April, when the places now held by two Republicans will become vacant. ; They will be filled by I'opulists of the ' Governor's choosing whom ho can rely upon to reorganize the board by re- I dueing Mrs. Lease to the ranks, and deni'ive hoi* of nil inlliinnun U... I munagcancnt of the churituble institutions of the State. Mrs. Lease delights to talk of herself and her achievements. She says that if she were a man she could easily , he the acknowledged intellectual giant 1 of the People's party. In an interview, in speaking of her oratorical ability, J she said : " 1 believe 1 owe whatever ' power 1 have in this line to parental influence. My father was an Irish exile. He was banished from Ireland ' and he fled to America, with a price ; set upon his head, and his property 1 confiscated to the Knglish crown. 1 1 was the first child born from my exiled parents in America. My earliest recollections are filled with a struggle against every form of injustice that came in my little world. 1 was liberally educated and finished at Allegheny University, and when fifteen years old 1 left school. The poor wages paid women aroused mo and when 1 began | teaching, scarcely more than a child, 1 rebelled against this and started a i ! movement in northern Pennsylvania ! and southern New York for bettor i ' wages for women teachers. Hearing \ i that women were paid better in the | i West, I came to Neoso county, Kan., ! when 1 was seventeen years old, and j taught at Osage Mission, where 1 met t | Mr. Lease and afterwards married ! ! him. A few years later Mr. Leuso | got an idea that we could do better , on a farm, so wo moved away out West to Kingman county and took up a claim. 1 lived in the very midst of of the desert. It was solitary and | desolato, and there was no society but our children and no companions but our lonely thoughts. It was an awful i life, dreary, monotonous, hard, bleak, and uninspiring. After that we moved to Wichita, where i took up the study of law with Kby & McMahon. I did not go to the oflice much, but Mr. Kby ' came to our house and heard mo recite. When I wily admitted to the bar and | made my first address to the jury the court room was crowded. My first real public appoaranco was in Kansas City, in 1HS8, whore 1 delivered the address of welcome ait ai labor conference, and whipped Mr. Powdorly, who ait that, time wais in favor of labor organizations keeping out of politics. 1 championed the movement and I won tho day. That was my first fight. There i got any first blood, and 1 want to say right noro that I have never been defeated in my life in any fight, and 1 do not intend to lose any battlo now. My strength has ahvaiys been, as it is now, that I am right." On the question of religion Mrs. Louse expressed horself as follows: ' 1 think any religion is as ba'oad as any political creed, for thdy are one and alio same. I was reared in the Roman Catholic Church and I have at various times worshipped at other altars, but 1 am only a member of the groat big i.uiii rn uic i iiuruii >v ibiiuub otlWJCll 1SIJI, tho church with nocrood. I huto manmade beliefs and priest-mado orthodoxy. I tako the sermon on tho mount and tho golden rulo and bolievo in thorn and they a;-o butlloioutr sulliciout uuto salvation." WASHINGTON NUWt* AM) NOTtfitt. Cleveland an<l CiirlUlt* ure Oupimcd to Itliiid i Uill Alxiliihinti t'scl* ki OfllccH-Thr Carnegie Irregularities. Washington, March 8. The statement is made by one of the must prominent men in nubile life that Prosldent Cleveland will veto tbe Bland seigniorage l)ill if it pusses tbo Senate. This gentleman talked with tbo President yesterday regarding the matter, and tbo reason given is that tbo bill would bo destructive of tbe repose which now surrounds tbo financial condition of tbo country and further that it would tend to wonkon our credit abroad. Secretary Carlisle is known to bo unfavorable to tbo bill and ho is understood to have represented to tbo President that tbe money that would result from tbo coinage of the seigniorage is not needed and that it is bis intention to sell whatever bonds mm bo necessary to supply tho dofleionoo* of the National '1 reusury and this without any regard to tho contention raised that this money ought only to bo used in compliance with tho tonus of the resumption act. Mr. Richardson (Rem.) of Tennessee, called up the hill reported by the Rockery commission, uholishing the offices of Commissioner and Deputy Commissioner of Customs, and asked its consideration as a privileged matter. Mr. Reed asked how its prlvMogod character had been retained after being reported. "Because an examination of the records showed that tho Speaker had stated when the bill was introduced that it was privileged." Mr. Reed ?" Can that be done excopt by unanimous consent? The Speaker does not seem to have asked the House for it (humorously). I withdraw my objection to present consideration. IOxhi hit ions of tyranny are not unpleasant to mo." Whereat the Speaker could not restrain a smile. A letter from Secretary Carlisle, recommending tho passage of the bill as tending to a hotter and more accurate accounting in the department, ami the report of tho commission explaining' the desirability and .scope of the meration of the measure were read. The report claimed that $.'10.l.'10 would ho annually waved in expoiiHCt by the passage of the bill, and a more speedy and accurate accounting obtained. The bill was passed after brief discussion. Relative to the Pittsburg report charging collusion of naval inspectors in the matter of the Carnegie armor plates, R< presontativo Cummings. chairman of the committee on naval a Hairs. to-duy said: "The reports from Pittsburg about collusion of government officers in the manufacture of armor are incorrect. The investigation developed nothing of the kind. There wore certain irregularities that were seen by workmen in two departments at Homestead. These workmen informed the Secretary of the Navy of the fact, and an investigation proved that irregularities had existed. The Carnegie Company denied all knowledge of them, but wore afterwards convinced tb-'.t such was the ease. They were lined $11.*),00b. Twenty-live per cent, of this went to the workmen who gave the information and the remainder was withheld in payments duo the Carnegie Company for armor under the contract. The investigation reflects the greatest credit on the Navy Department/' An annoying error has boon discovered in the distribution of the tariIT speeches of ex-Speaker lleed and Chairman Wilson of the ways and means committee. They wore printed at the same olliee and the usual euro was exercised in their preparation and circulation. Among the Congressmen who sent out Reed's speech was Mr. Van Vooihisof Chit), lit; received yesterday from an excited and indignant constituent the flu* eiwov.il. 4 v 4 * \?i uuv ii nt'Ul Ul III ill Willi il request for explanation. The cover was all right^?'* TarilT Speech Delivered by the lion. Thus. II. Reed"?while the body of the pamphlet was thotarifi* speech of the Hon. W. L. Wilson. An investigation is in progress. HICK IN Till-: 1*1 KDMONT. Highly HiihIicIs to I lie A ere In Vork CoiintV?How it Was Hone. Yorkville Knquiivr. Mr. C. II. Smith, who lives five miles southwest of Yorkville, is one of those farmers who last year experimented with rice culture. He niado a success of it. From Mr. Robert Conrad, he bought live quarts of seed, which ho sowed on one quarter of an acre. The yield was twenty bushels, or at the rate of eighty bushels to the acre. Mr. Smith was in the Knquirer ollico last Monday, and told the story of his experiment as follows : " 1 first selected a level piece of bottom land, which measured a little less than a quarter of an acre. After broadcasting stable manure over the patch, I broke it up and pulverized it thoroughly with a disk harrow. Next, about the 1st of April, 1 sowed the rice, just as I would wheat c?r oats. Then 1 built a dam and Hooded tho patch, allowing tho water to remain on until the rice began to sprout. After tho rice sprouted, I then lot the water off and kept tho pluco dry until the rice was about four or live inches bight. The weeds wore from two to On.i.A tnnltnti I.I 1-4*1 -4_ KUIUQIUVIIUDIII(illU. I lull 1/IU5 Y\ JtUfU" Oil again about, up to tlio first barrel of the rice. Within four or live days the weeds and grass began to turn rod and die. In loss than ten days more, the rice was high enough to allow the weeds and grass to bo entirely covered with water. Soon after this was done, the weeds and gross died. 1 let the | water oil and turned it on once or twice more during the growing season as I thought the rice seemed to require. As the rice began to ripen, I let tho patch become thoroughly dry, and when harvest came, it was in first rate condition for handling." Mr. Smith also informs us that he sowed some rice on a piece of upland, and that it mod* a pretty fair crop. It was sowed about like wheat and required no more attention than sorghum cane, lie says that hv lias been using home-raised rice on his table over since last summer, and still has plenty to spare. ? n.M ? ?.. ?M. Blondin, now in his 71st yoar, is giving marvelous performances upon the high roue at the Crystal Palace, l<omlon. In 1801 he walked across the Niagara Kalis on a rope 1,100 foot long, stretched at a height of 1(50 foot ubovo the torrent. At the Crystal l'alace his performance is upon a rope stretched across the center transopt at u height of (50 feet from tho ground. The rope, which is an inch and throoquartors in diameter, is made of steol wire, covered with six strands of manila, and from anchor to anchor it is loo feet long. Blond in walks across tho rope blindfolded, stands on his head, carries a man on his hack, and performs other fouls, ull of which ore accomplished with the old graco and during. j i 1 THE PltOtmiONAIi WITNESS. Tlio United States Court Hootim Musi not bo Turned Into JiiLeting ( rounds for I'mlrswioiial WIIiiomi'm in Search of Mileage nml Fee*. Speo'ul to the Newt and Courier. (jitilknvili.k, March i). Tho people of Greenville were very much pleased with Judge liruwley'a work uU tho late to i'm of the United Stn^RT District Court in this city. lie presided with grout dignity und ability and won tho approval of the liar by tho promptness with which lie discharged tho business of the Court. Tho regular correspondent of tho News and Courier kept its readers informed from day to day of what was done in Court, but did not cover one of tho most important incidents of tho term. Thore was so much saving common sense in what Judgo Draw ley said about tho professional witness and tho useless and expensive litigation promoted by his activity that 1 shall attempt to give what Judge Urawley said touching the matter. In dismissing the juries for tho term Judge Urawley thanked them for their prompt, patient and intelligent discbarge of their duties, which duties lie said had been rendered more arduous by the consideration of a largo .......I..... i.:..i. >-i u i a ukj i wi u nail Miuiini HOVIT have boon sent up to that Court for trial, and which had every appearaneo of being instigated and prosecuted by a sot of professional witnesses for their own advantage, and not for tho promotion of justice or the vindication of law. AH eases for the suppression of illicit distilling, ho said, wore of importance to the Government and he did not wish it to be understood that any of the ollieers charged with that duty should relax their vigilance and his remarks were not applieablo to that class of eases, but the great bulk of the prosecutions wore for violations of i Section 3,24ii in selling liquor without 1 license. The greater part of these ! eases were properly cognizable in tho ' Courts ol tho State where any selling | of liquor by parties other than the | ollieluls of the State was made illegal. The Courts of the United States, he ; said, had a jurisdiction limited by law, they had no general police powers, they had no concern as such with any question of prohibition or with tho advancement of the cause of temperance, and so far as he could control it the power of the Court should not be invoked either in aid of or in hindrance of such legislation as tho State, j in the exercise of its general police i powers, might see proper to adopt unless it was made clear that such j laws were an infringement of rights requiring the protection of this Court, i The cases that were the cause of the J animadversion were not of that character. They were in the main petty cases of retailing, which, in the ' judgment of the Court, did not proper-; ly come within the purviow of the ; section referred to., 'i hat section of the Revised Statutes was ono of many i features of the internal revenue laws, j designed to protect and increase the revenues of the Government by the ( imposition of a tax or license fee upon persons conducting certain kinds of business. It was diflicult to lay down any precise rule by which it can ho determined whether one or more acts of selling liquor constitute a carrying on the business of a retail liquor dealer, hut it is not dillicult to determine that many, if not most, of the prosecutions that have boon brought at this term are not within the true intent of this statute. Most of them come from a few of the commissioners of this Court, and relate to isolated selling of drinks or half pints of whiskey by negroes on the public highway or 111 obscure localities, which negative the idea that a business is being conducted which it is the intent of this statute to license. They are simply cases of un- 1 lawful selling obnoxious to the State laws. 1 This Court would be in perpetual 1 session if the commissioners all over 1 the State followed the example of two 1 or three who sent up most of tho.cases, and the expenses could he enormous 1 and out of all proportion to the good ' accomplished. He wished the commissioners to understand that, hvhi-u . casual and furtive sale of whiskey was not an offence under the section referred to. The commissioners should exercise more discrimination. With 1 a little care they could readily determine whether the party charged was conducting a business in violation of the statute. If they did not the Court would lind commissioners who could. He did not wish to say anything that would discourage all proper proseeu- ' tion for violations of the laws of the United States, but he did not intend to allow its Court rooms to he turned into junketing grounds for the professional witnesses in search of mileage and fees. ? ?? Kkki* Youk Mouth Shut.?Don't ! he olTended. The admonition is not meant as a reflection upon your talkativeness. Talk as much as you please, but keep our mouth shut when we are not talking. ?U- I A\ t . % ruu|no wnu Kut'|i itiioir mouin closed except when thoy are talking, eating or drinking, rarely contract colds or coughB. Savages, oven those living in northern latitudes, seldom take cold. Scientists say it is because they are close-mouthed. Disease germs Heating in the air tind a direct route into the lungs of a person who breathes through his mouth. They are arrested by the lino, sleeve-like wtjyk of hair in the nostrils of the individual who breathes through his nose. Keep your mouth shut and you may defy pestilence. , The teeth sutler from too much and too frequent exposure to too atmosphere. Sudden changes of temperature, whether liquid or atmospheric, are hurtful to them. The best teeth in the world are those of savage tribes, whose members always keen their mouth shut except when talking or outing. i Throat and lung diseases are often , contracted by persons who go about open-mouthed. The frosty air of ; winter inhaled directly into the lungs , through the mouth is a frequent cause of bronchial dUordors. Taken through , the nose it is modilied and sifted of ( many of its dangers. Keep your mouth ( shut! , ?Tho following declaration was signed by 2,(MM) mombsra of tho modi* i cal profession in tho United Kingdom: " That tho most perfect health is com- i patiblo with total abstincnco from all , intoxicating beverages, whether in tho < form of urdent spirits, or as wino, boor, , alo, porter, cider, etc., otc. That persons uccustomed to such drinks may with perfect safety discontinue thorn 1 entirely, oithor at oneo or gradually . after a short time. Tho total und uni- i versal abstinence from alcoholic ' liquors and intoxicating bevorages of au sorts would greatly contribute to ' tho health, tho prosperity, thomorali- 1 ty, and tho happinoss of tho human > raoo." * ( Till-: ALLIANCi: MAN1FF4TO. riieWtilliMlla Cntrt'lilNiu lo be Broun'"' ForwHi d Immediately-('a ml id a t c* Musi Not Dodge lilt' Issues. The Cotton I'lunt, Uio official organ of the Stute Alliance, has come out with a manifesto urging the immediate application of sundry questions to ?tho candidates now Hocking' to the Hold. The questions were adopted lust summer at Wulhalla, and the Cotton Plunt is calling upon the Alliance to enforce its demands for prompt and unequivocal answers. The urtielo is as follows : 44 We havo at various times sot forth the attitude of the Alliance, as an organization, towards candidates and political parties. Wo have endeavored to impress on the minds of our people that a firm adherence to our principles, aiiaid down in our platform, and their unqualified support at the ballot box j by the membership of the order, WM 1 the only way we havo of making our i wishes effective. That adheraneo and support should be given without a consideration of the aggrandizement of a political party or the elevation of some man to a position of honor and profit This attitude of independence and determination will force men and parties to do our will and wo can't enforce our demands in any way except to make it a matter of business. 41 This is a campaign year and the candidates for all the offices, from United States Senator down, are coming out utnl getting themselves in posi- | tion to strive for their ambition, it is , time now that the Alliance was also getting itself in shape to enforce its j 1I0111 n ?<lu W?? 4...1 I v?v>m?ii\*o. m v ai u ill bi:rt'9tL'U III L11 election of every ollioer, beeun.se every otlieecarrion its inllucnco which may be used for or against our cause. State and county ofiicers, for that reason, should be required to pledge themselves just the same as t he members of the State Legislature and the National Congress. It is true that the members of Congress are tho ones directly concerned in carrying out our demands and their election shbuld be more carefully looked after than those not so directly concerned. We are forced to depend on their firmness, fidelity and energy in working for tho enactment of our demands and every precaution should be taken in making our choice. 4 We are also directly interested in the j ol<w>i inn nf n\nm Kmio '?f 4 I. C4 . l ? ' w.vvv.wu v/1 iiiMiii m;i n VII tliu Qbtltu liUg* islaturo beeuu.se of their participation in the election of a United States Senator. "Tho election of n successor to Senator Butler is, for ohgfous reason^ the most itnj)ortant of tho year. The man elected during a period that will decide the fate of this republic. Ho will help to decide whether we are to luvvo a i rule of the people or tho rule of a money monopoly. As the candidates for that otlieo are very properly required to come before the people and express their views, the people can ' and must apply tho yard-stick to thorn as well as to Congressmen, and not allow them to take any equivocal or con- \ ditional position that will admit of dodging their responsibility when elected. If a man is earnest and sincere in his advocacy of our demands he will have no reasons for not complying with what we require. " In order to protect ourselves in this matter the State Alliance passed resolutions at its Wulhulla meeting last July requiring its executive committee to got a written answer without ambiguity or equivocation from candidates, as to whether or not they would discuss and defend our demands and pledge loyalty to those demands above loyalty to party caucus. In each county the duties devolve upon the executive committees in carrying out the orders of the State Alliance. The hesitancy and slowness of men to act in important matters of this kind when their personal interests arc involved makes it extremely unfortunate for one who is chart/ed with this rlnlv U?> it candidate. For that reason \ve have always opposed Alliance ollieials becoming such during the time they are expected to serve the order. Such a course has hurt us in tho past by giving an opportunity to make the pluusiblo charge that the Alliance was an otheo-seoking machine and would be an impediment to our progress as long as it is kept up; bbcausc, very natu-?? rally, a man does not wish to ioopardizo his personal interest by taking action that will likely bo unpopular with some. " We call on tho ollieials who uro re- ' sponsible for carrying out the resolutions Lo get themselves in shape to do so for a great deul depends on it for tho advancement of tho cause of the people as represented by tho Alliance organization in tho elections this year. Let us take a long step forward and do our duty fearlessly." ? DOWN AN Ki?lI1ANKMEXT. A Kailroatl Train IMiiiikcb Fifty Feet and Halts on the Brink of the lttver. { Roanoke, Vft., March, H. ? The , southbound voutibuled train on tho Shenandoah division of the Norfolk 1 and Western Railroad, was wrecked at 0:40 o'clock this morning, between Natural Bridge and Buchanan. Engineer .Jacobs Hardy was instantly , killed and tiroman Will Noftsinger wiih badly injured, though not fatally. 1 Tho disaster was caused by a landslide frotn the blutYs along tho James, to tho tracks, and oeourod almost exactly ten miles north of Buchanan. 1 The engine was thrown from the track, and ran along tho ties about forty feet ( and then plunged over a fifty-foot em- f bankment, and was converted into a I 1 mass of debris at the brink of t he \ river. When tho crash catno tho en- ' gineor was at his post, with his hand 1 on the throttle; tho fireman was in ' tho cab. Neither of the men had time 1 to jump, and when the engine foil on ! the right side, Hardy was buried be- f noath it and was killed at once. Mr. 1 Noftsinger had reached tho platform 1 by tho sido of tho boiler, and was ' thrown over the engine into tho river. ( Tie managed to swim to the shore, 1 although badly scaled by the escaping 1 steam. After he was pulled ashore 1 his wounds wero dressed by Dr. J. S. ( Stewart, of .Jonosboro, Tenn., who was ' on tho train. ( No one eleso on tho train was injur- s i * .1 A 4 I - > uu. /\ trmu was rnaao up hero jus soon ] us tho news of tho wrock was received, 1 and the passengers and tho body of tho ' onginoor were transferred to that and reached tho city about noon. Enginoer Hardy resided in this city find leaves a wife and throe children. His burial will occur Saturday. Tho brain consisted of an express car, a lining car and threo vestibule cars, s Dnlv the engine and tender woro do- 1 inolishod. v * i ? n If you have sour stomach and feel r bilious, and your head aches, take a t Japanese Livor Pellet, it will rolievo /ou. Sold by Carpenter Bros., Groon- * /Hie, S. C. ( H. C. Taylor, Murfreesboro, Tynn.J t vrites: "I have used tho Japanese { Pile Curo with groat satisfaction and success." Sold by Carpoutor Bros., iroonvillo, S. C. C A LL O VJBR THE OL OBR ?Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets are known. I'ills of American nianufaotnro easily lead. Why? Because they're smaller; tho vegetable extracts are concentrated. There are many liver pills, yet there must bo a reason why Dr. Pierce's Pellets give the best satisfaction. Probably because they're sugar-coated, small as grains of mustard seed, therefore, easily swallowed. Most of all?they act in a natural way, and aro effective in result. Then, too, after they're taken they can't be felt?so different from the old-fashioned pills, with their griping and violence. For indigestion, pain in stomach, costiveness and habitual constipation, v as well as sick and bilious headaches, these " Pellets" bring such a lasting cure, that they can be guaranteed! Your money is returned, if they do not givo satisfaction. To every sufferer from Catarrh, no matter how bad the case or of how long standing, the proprietors of Dr. Sage's Catarrh Remedy say this : "If we can't cure it, perfectly and permanently, we'll pay you $500 in cash " Sul.t l?v oil ?~ v? j ua mi Ul^iOVO. An Kxim.anation.?Ex-Mayor Hewitt. of New York, litis issued an iimcndnicnt to liis speech before the Southern Society, wherein ho criticised the Southern members of Congress. 11 av- ^ ing rcnil what Sotialor Butler and 1 t others have said in answer to hi* speech, ho says : " Now that 1 am 2 speaking on this subject I wish to say that inv address lias boon misunderstood by many people who did not hoar it, but road the short reports in the newspapers. While these reports wore fairly accurate, so far as they went, tho^ gave a different impression than would have resulted bad the speech been given in full. Then, again, my criticism was confined to tiio Southern statesmen because I was talking to a Southern audience. 1 hold tiio same opinion of the average statesmen in other parts of the country, and had I been speaking before a more general audience and I would undoubtedly have included the whole country in my statement. I have read the remarks of Senator Butler and others, and all 1 care to say is that their words prove the truth of my statement. If they were as big men as Calhoun. Olay and others of their time they would not have said what they did, even if my position was a wrong one." lMtorKK Timk to Bat Kkuit.?Tho proper time for eating fruit is in connection with meals, especially at breakfast and dinner. It should bo supplied in generous measure with those two repasts, either in its natural state or simply cooked. In either of those ways it will be found easy of digestion, agreeable to the system, a corrective of many demoralized conditions, and most highly relished by all appetites of normal condition. Tl^fe has come into vogue in lato years what may be termed almost a fad for tho production of strangely compounded things, in the form of Bauces and relishes of ono name and another, of which fruit forms tho foundation, but which arc so disguised by the addition of spioings and other foreign ingredients that the original fruit is practically lost, in sight and taste. Let it be understood, once for all, that til esc thinirs urn nn lom/fif fruits, and are not to bo considered such, and can in no manner or degree yield the beneficial results to be derived from tbe uso of fruits.?Good 1 lousekecping. mm ?Gen. Eurly's celibacy is said to havo been due to a romantic attachment for a llckle girl. As the story goes, when bo was a second lieutenant of artillery ho went to the Greenbrier White Kulpher Springs on a furlough, und while horseback riding saved a belle of the resort from drowning and fell in love with "nor. His suit prospered, and when ho wont to the Ev<\r? lades they wore engaged. 'I^tno wore on until the young artillery officer yearned to see his betrothed again, fcnd applied for a furlough. With the mail that brought his leave of absence 3amo a newspaper that was undoricorod at its announcement of the marriage of his sweetheart. lie vaived bis furlough and continued in ictivo service, brooding over the diadow cast on his life until he sudlonly decided on quitting the army, md this explains his resignation of luly 31, 1838. ?The Eskimos havo many customs >f peculiar interest, not tho least imong is a remarkable roluetaneo to ironounce his own name before a itranger. If a white man meets a amily and asks the head thereof bis lame, his wife will promptly answer or him, or vice versa. If a child 1h> iskcd his name, both parents, if th'^/ ire present, will reply, while tho lftfTe >no will stand dumb, [f but one Eskino is about, and tho same question bo mt to him, ho will look about in a disressed way, as though seeking somo mo to give tho desired information, ind will ?iwi* ? w.mumn tiu evuuo uio query nitil a mem her of tho tribo cornea up o answer for him. If pressed, and no >thor eourso is left him, lie will tell lis name, hut with marked reluctance. )n all other subjects, except their pirituul beliefs, they will converse irith volubility, and do their host to mpart information." iTAPANJbJSB gmiRUsm: y CURE A Nrw and Complete Trontinont, consisting of IOPPOH1TOHIE9. Capsules of Ointment and two loins of Ointment. A novcr-fnUtna Cure for Piles >f every nature uiid decree. It makes nn operation dth the ktilfo or inject tons of carbollo neld, which ro painful and seldom a permanent cure, mid often esuttln# in death, unnecessary, why endure hie terrible disease? 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