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BESIHOHD BY WOLVES. an \ovkntfkk tn noktukkn kuhsia. (>u a bright summer morula#, thoro are few pleasanter places in all Wurope than out* ?>f the #reat pino forests of uorthorn Russia. The whole air Is fragrant with tlie rich scent of the woods, and stray suiiIkmuus pltiy lx>poop amid the tioutim; shadows, ami bright-eyed squirrels llit hither and thither aiuou# the trees, and birds twitter merrily overhead, and every now and then a sturdy little Russian lx?y, rcund-faeed and yellow-haired, oouies trudging pust. with a gasket of mushrooms in his hand, looking up at you u.s no passes vviin wiue, wondering eyes. But the forest is a voiy different place when the winter winds are howltug und the winter snows are lying deep, and not a gleam of sunsnino breaks the cold, gray, lowering sky, over which the great clouds roll us thick and dark, in grim warning of the coming storm. Then is the time to pull your fur cap well over your face, and head as straight as you can for the nearest log hut, glancing warily about you as you go, lost you should suddenly find yourself confronted by the gaunt, gray body and sharp, white teeth of a hungry wolf on t he lookout for '* something nice for supper." So thought Vania (Johnny) Muslotf, a Russian peasant l)oy belonging to the hamlet of I'avlovsk, in the northernmost corner of the province of Vologda, as he struggled homeward through the frozen forest at nightfall, lie had been senton an erraud by his father to another village sevoral miles olT, and had*spent so much time in games with some of his playmates there, after his work was done, that the sun was setting when he started on his way hack. It was a dismal evening. The dullness of the frosty air felt like a cold hand pressed against Vania's head to pusn mm duck, me rising winu moaned drearily among the frozen trees that stood up white and gaunt on every side like giant skeletons,and the darkening sky showed that there would he more snow beforo morning. Vania was a hravo country hoy, aceuetomed to "rough it" in all weathers; and ho would have cared little for either wind or snow had that boon all. lint there was something else which was troubling him much more. in the thick wood that ho was traversing ?a gloomy place even in broad day light?it had grown so dark the moment the sun sunk, that even he, who knew every foot of the way by heart, hegun to fear that he must have got oil the right track, for the snow-drifts seemed to grow deeper and deeper as he advanced. This thought (in itself anything but a pleasant one) was quickly followed by another even more disquieting. Out of the cold black depths of the forest rose suddenly a hollow, long-drawn, dismal sound, which Van la had heard too often not to kuow it at once for the cry of a wolf, or rather of several wolves together. The hoy started to run, for with such enemies on his trail there was no time to be lost. Hut any one who has tried running through knee-deep snow (especially with the stilling cold of a Russian winter tuking away one's breath at every step) knows what fearfully exhausting work it is. He had barely advanced llft.v vuivls when the horrible j ~ ? " ? ?" " ' """ I cry broke out again, sharper, lloreor, nearer than before. The monsters had ncented their prey, and wore in full chose of him ! Vania looked around him as he ran, with a numb horror, such as he had never felt before, tightening round his l)olil heart. Ho was now in the very worst place of all?a wide clearing in the forest, where all the trees had been felled except a few. If the wolves caught him there lie was lost, and their yells scorned to como nearer and nearer evory moment. All at once a dark shadowy mass loomed up right in front of him, plain even amid tho blackness against the ghostly white of the snow, lie knew nt once that it must he tho huge pilo of split legs which he had noticed in passing that afternoon, and ho sprang up it like a wild-cat; hut he had barely reached the top when tho gloom around him was alive with whisking tails, and gnashing teeth, and fiery greenishyellow eyes. Tho next moment the wolves were leaping up at him on evory sido ; but luckily the wood-pile was too high for them to reach the top with one hound, ; and Vania, snatching up a heavy piece of wood, struck so fiorcoly among the scrambling monsters that at every stroke a wolf dropped hack in the snow, howling with pain, with a crushed paw, or a broken head. The yells of the wild beasts, and tho snouts in \ ama inmseii, made such a din amid the dead silence of tl?e lonely forest, that the Iniy began to hope that someone might hear it and come to his assistance. But the help for which he was looking seemed like to come too late: for the constant scrambling of woIvcb up the sides of the wood-pile, and Yaniu's violent leaps to and fro on its top, had begun to loosen the logs, which were already tottering, and must soon roll down altogether, Hinging the poor lad right among the blood-thirsty jaws that wore gaping and gnashing for him below. But just when all seemed over, an un-looked-for way of escape suddenly presented itself. A pale gleam of moonlight breaking through the gathering storm-clouds, showed our hero a single tree standing behind the woodpile, and only a few feet away from it. Could he make a spring and clutch one of the branches, and so swing himself un into the tree, he would be safe. Gathering all his strength for tho perilous leap?for he knew that if the tirSt Rttomilt. fllllftll llO nannnlliu |- - "? ovum * ?-> t<? repeat it the daring lad shot out into the empty air. The wolves yelled and leaped up at him, hut it wan too lute. Vaniu had seized the nearest bough. The slender limb bent and cracked terribly beneath his weight, but it did not givo way, and in another moment he was safe among the higher branches, just as the whole pile of logs caino crashing down at once, burying three or four of the wolves underneath it. But now that he was sitting up on this uneasy perch, cramped and no longer kept warm by the violent exertion of beating oil the wolves, the piercing cold of the wintry night began to tell upon him in earnest. Vaniu was a true Kussiun, and could bear without IIinciting a degreo of cold that would have killed a native of a warmer climate outright; but oven he now began to feel that he could not sturid much more of this, and must oither drop down among the wolves or be frozen whero ho sat. A flash, a crack, a sharp cry from the nearest wolf, a lusty shout of several voices at once, and a broad glare of light through the gloom scared the cowardly 1 trusts into a general scamper. The last of theai had hardly vanished into the thickets, when V ania's ?u?her. three or four other peasants I with axes and pine torches, aiul the village watchman with his gun, came just in time to catch the half-frozen boy as he fell fatting among them. AN HONOKAHIjH CAltHKIt. I The Oldest Itallroml rnuitww... t.> Xincricn An Interesting Skclcli ol' the Veteran and IIIn Work. Mr. Henry C. Kaworth, of Augusta, Ga., is tho oldest living railroad engineer in America, and his sands of life are fast running out. lie is gradually sinking from waste of l>ody and mind, as might bo expected from one who hus long since passed his four score years. Mr. Kaworth enjoys the proud distinction of having pulled the cars of the tirst locomotive over used on the South Carolina Railroad. He adds to this the remarkable record of more than half a century of continuous service on the same road, lie has held the throttle in every style of locomotive from the crudest engine to the finest mogul and has witnessed the evolution from twelve miles an hour over a rickety track to sixty miles over steel rails and rock-ball as ted roadbed, lie has kept pace with the improved machines, and when at the age of 7"?, ten years ago, he stepped from the engineer's cab for tho last time, it was from failing eyesight and not because of any lack of ability to discharge the duties of the position. The following sketch of Mr. Ha-1 worth's life was given eight years ago j in the Railway Ago: I "There remains hut few among us 1 who from personal observation or participation are able to tell us of the early history of our railways, of tho practices, methods and accidents which went to make up this history. So deeply were tho actors in these events 0111 gaged ill iuinrovinir ??! ,.voili.w ods, in meeting aud providing for tlio necessities by which thoy found thomsolvos constantly surrounded, in discharging duties of a most exacting nature, that t hey did not have time or disposition to record their experience for tho benefit of their successors. And this was true alike of the humble ! and the conspicuous of every grade, 1 from the president who dictated policy | and practice to the laborers who toiled on the track. While, therefore, there are few living witnesses left from whom to obtain information, there are*' fewer books whose pages supply it even in a disconnected way. " The most notable of these remaining witnesses only a few years ago pulled the locomotive's lever for the last time, and after more than tlfty years of continuous service on a single railway, stepped from the footboard never to mount it again. We refer to Henry (I. Haworth, whose last years are being passed quietly and happily among relatives and friends in Augusta. "Mr. Haworth was born Dec. 15, 1811, in Charleston, S. C., and entered the service of the old South Carolina Hail- i way as apprentice in its shops about ' the year 181111, his duties as such and as , a machinist qualifying him later on to i run a locomotive, in which more rc- i sponsible service he engaged as a life neenmit.irm ir> ? -? ?? ,? v winiuwiii^ wnixmi j interruption until August, 1885, when he was com polled to quit work because 1 of the partial failuro of his eyes. Were it not for this misfortune he would now bo as competent, to presido ut the lever as is the youngest and strongest engineer in active service. When Mr. Uaj worth began his long career as a loeomotivo engineer the science of railroading was in its infancy. The pioneer American locomotive, the 1 Host Friend,' had after a brief service exploded its boiler through the ignorancoof its colored tlreman, who hud fastened the lever of the steam valve down to roleivo himself of the annoyance caused by escaping steam, and it had just boon rebuilt as the ' Phoonix.' It was in l.S.'M that Mr. Kaworth became the engineer of this rebuilt locomotive. True, he did not find himself emharrascd hy the dangers attendant on the fast running of later years, for the ' l'hoenix' did not average a speed exceeding twelve miles an hour, hut lie had to contend with very many dillicultios common to the experimental period, in which he was an early and earnest worker and which are unknown to the engineer of today. " During 118 years of Mr. Kuworth's career he had but one tireinnn, a negro ?of whose faithful services he speaks in terms of unstinted praise. When lirst employed ami for many years afterwards this man was a* slave, his I owner having contracted his services I i to ;no rail way company for an uvorago I consideration of a dollar a day. When | ho became a froo man ho still continued to work as flroinan, rccoiving the same wages |)aid others, and continuing at his post until four years ago, when he died. During his long service on the South Carolina road (ho was never employed on any other) Mr. Itaworth had only one accident, which occurrog in 1KT>2, and was the result of a washing away of a culvert. lie claims to have killed less stock than did any other engineer on the road, i When the 'Heat Friend,' which was the lirst locomotive built in this country, was received in Charleston, Mr. Uaworth was an apprentice in the shops of the (south Carolina road, and he helped to put it up for service. " He attributes his pust good health, which has always been perfect, to his habits of life, not a drop of intoxicating liquor over having passed his lips. On behalf of the great army of railway men who are now in active employment the Railway Age extends cordial greetings to this grand representative of the early days of an interest which has now grown to such wonderful proportions. Although he has gone into the 'side track,' may it be long boforo he goes to the 'scrap heap.' May ho live yet many years to witness even greater progress in the science in which ho was pioneer more than half a century ago." A LAWYKits Tlticu.?111 the murder trial before a Western court, says the Chicago Times, the prisoner could account satisfactorily for the whole of L! A! 4 " * iiih umoexoopi. nvo minutes on the evening when the crime was committed. II is lawyer argued that it wan impossible for hi m to have killed the man under the oircumstunoos in so brief a period, and on that plea largely based his defense, tho other testimony being strongly against the client. When tho prosecuting attorney replied he said : "How long a time really is live minutes? Lot us see. Will his honor command absolute silence in the courtroom for that space? " Tho judge complied. There was a clock on the wall. Kvory eye in the courtroom was lixed upon it as the pendulum ticked olT the seconds in breath-\ less silence. The keen-witted lawyer waited until the audience gave a sigh of roliof at tho close of the poriod and then asked quietly: "Could he not have slruek one fatal blow in all that time?" | The prisoner was found guilty, und, as it was proven afterwards, justly. A CONFEUKItATE II HI to. Cii|it. ('. I> Itnrkstlnle, ol" tlit* Carolina M liiylil Infantry- A llcaulit'iil I'oeni' in Ills Memory. I Kd iters of tho Augusta Chroniolo : llero and there throughout tho tor: ritorv reached by your excellent paper | may Vo found a survivor of the famous t . I'Mrst Kegllnont of South Carolina t Volunteers, familiarly known in the ; early days of tho war as " Maxoy > Grogg's Koglmont." In this city there | ! are several, and I know there is not < I one of them who on perusing the fol- < I lowing beautiful lines will not with the ? WVlii.?u I " Hut O, for the touch of a vanished hand, v And the sound of a voice that is still!" * The matchless valor of the "Hoy Com- ( pany " of that noble regiment has, per- ( liaps, been the subject of more coin- (1 mont among those who personally know of its deeds than any other coin- I ' maud that ever went forth in defence of its country. Could Cuptuin Harks- j, dale have lived, and had his talents. |, which were of the first order, achieved for hin. the most exalted proferments -| of his native Carolina, I am sure that , not one of them would have supplanted f, tho proud honor of having been the commander of the Carolina Light In- | ^ fantry of Charleston. In the desperate , ,] encounter in which our bravo and be- j |, loved Captain lost his life the second j j battle of Manassas, August lihtb, 18(12 (j the compauy, at sunrise on that i (( memorable day, numbered twenty- | t eight, and at sunset the record showed I nine killed or afterwards died of their |( wounds, oight wounded and one taken prisoner. The smallness of the num- ^ her, twenty-eight, with which we en- ' to rod tho battle, is best explained by |( a remark that the gallant (..'aptain, I). 1*. Cogguns, of tho Newberry Company, t | once made about us. lie said : "Com- ! puny L. always has more men on the (1( imttle lield than on dross parade."' The ( seven days' battle around Kichmond bail reduced us to that. 1 * In tho old family burying ground some two miles from the city of Laurens, S. C.. and within a stone's throw .1 of his " His Father's Hall," the soldier I sleeps. Last Friday through the kindness of Dr. .1. A. Harksdalo and bis two ^ sons, brother and nephows of Cnpt. Harksdale, 1 was most hospitably taken ,, charge of and tho opportunity afforded mo of visiting our Captain's grave, j As my memory took mo buck thirtytwo years, a tear welled up at the changed scene and 1 turned away. y I am told that immediately upon re- f ceipt of the intelligence of the Cup- I ,, tain's death the writer of tho following t| lines, who Is a very near kinswoman I ^ and who was at his father's house at J the time, with wonderful self-compos- >. ....... A 1 1 uio Miiu uuwu una penned 1110111, not ; (| rising from her seat until they wore finished. j, To the great majority of your road- | ,, org thoy cannot have even the interest of a passing glance. hut to those of us j' (and thoro are very few now) who wore with him in the fray, and who witnessed liis splendid courage and devotion, they are peculiarly touching and sjid. When they were first published in the paper at Laurens in |N(?2and copies " circulated at company bivouac on the Rappahannock I became quite fainil- / iar with the lines, hut as time rolled on they passed from my memory. A p verse carved on the monument over |> the Cuptain's grave called them hack p tome and upon repeating the first two h lines, which was a'.l I remembered of ft the piece, Dr. Harksdalo at onco took from his poeketbook a printed copy 01 which he had been carrying on his per- ai son for over thirty years. The doctor f y, vury Kintuy mauo mo a present of tlio ']' ])Oom, and to say that I appreciate the ti ift is l)ut to {,rfvo poor expression to o< my feeling's. t) "Ills 1<'ATHICK'8 HALLS AUK lONK ,l TON I(IIIT." S Linos on the death of Captain Cullyar 1,1 Douglas llarksdalc, First I'cgiment South hi Carolina Volunteers, by Mrs. I'hoebe IV pi Farley, Laurens. S. C., tst.'J. Ilis father's halls are lone to-night, And lonely is the hearth, ' Where in his ehilhood's joyous hour, I 11 llis voice gushed out iii mirth, oj As with von graceful greyhound, j j| He hounded thro' tins hall: Their pictures now hang side by side. Upon the silent wall. (' We sec them in the litful light, (]( Of the tires' dazzling bla/.e. u. They seem almost replete with life, 'As thro tears wo on them gaze, His aged parents, weeping here, His name blend with their tears a Thev call him not as once they called tl In youth's bright, happy years. tl And saw him dash in gladness out SJ" Their loved, their latest horn, tl: When to his coueh, they came and cried- - " " Wake, hunter! wake, 'tis morn !" oi War against earth's oppressors vile, to K'en then Mashed from his eye, A soul of noltle daring, Of impulse bold and high, He grew a monarch of the soil, (jj A man of feeling deep, And he hath died, these hearths and halls, ., Inviolate to keep. And fell as lie so wished to fall, ai Amid brave comrades lying, til Home with them from tha' hartle Meld, hi Where stars and bars were Hying. w Gallant young hearts were'round him then, 1" Who loved their leader well, Whose blood with his have bathed the soil '' Where the pride of manhood fell," No mother now with streaming tears, 1'.' Calls on him for her son, lie lies beside them on that field, pt Where victory was won, $| ifi ? * .i .... ? iic iiwiu <1 iHiiiM' tiiiii i*#ii^ iit'un nccn Henowned in song or story, ?> Mingled with shouts of victory, lii Another nnme for glory, Well, well,old Scotland knows it Her proudest battle cry, When her martial hosts were gathered, , On her hills,' to do or die." hi " 1 Heeding heart and rampant lion," Onward in triumph swept, The brood claymore in Douglas' hands, C1 The good Held always kent, From that hero race descended, at High, high, his spirit soared, cj And for his country's holv cause, His heart's best blood lie freely poured. II. F. IlltOWN, 1 Sergt. Co. h. 1st. Hegt,, s. o. Vols., lstii <>.r>, ni Augusta, Oa., June 25. inot. He was regularly descended from hadv ?i June Douglas, of Scotland. ?I)r. M. S. WalUor, president of the Merchants' and Planters' Hunk of Greenville, Miss., was fatally stabbod , by Win. Magrudor, at Wtlzinesky, !K Miss., lust week. 'J'ho tragedy grew *'(j out of Dr. Walker's alloged intimacy with Mugrpder's wifo. Walker is one Ul of the wealthiest and most prominent planters in tho lower Mississippi valley. 'U ?Tho trouble with you, John is," said a lady to her husband, who was tl suffering cannot say ' No.' J ..earn to say 4 No' John, from the effect of the w night before, and you will have fewer so hsiulsc.hnH. (km viwi ..... ? J .... avu UK) IIUVl! a uc littlo' monoy this morning?1' "No" naiil John, with apparent ease. Ij, ? A guest was shown to a room on |)( tho upper lloor in a hotol in Memphis. U lie noticed that'^ho roof evidently leaked, and spoko of the matter to tho ri attendant. " Yes, it leaks." said the latter, 44 butonly when it rains. You'll find an umbrella alongside the washKtand." |gi ^' * - r- ?t ** CAlMr.Alj MOWS AM) CiOSSIP. I'lir is SI ill IiicrcuMinj; ? lilO Tin ill" Hill Nut Yet Out ol'l>aii* K<'r Cmici'iss Will Adjourn \\ lien I hU Quest Inn In Set I led. Washington, Aug. The; gold eservo passed tho $54,000,000 murk o-duy. being a gain since yet* erday if nearly $200,000. Since export of fold have ceased it is noticeable that noro gold coin tbun iihuiiI is being 1 mid in at Now York on account of the nistoiu duos, it amounting to 8 H> of ?no per cent, this month as against lothing for the corresponding period .f July. Senators A Id rich and Quay were at irork this morning endeavoring to mooth the way for tho passage of the louse bill through tho Senate that orrects tho error made in tin tarilf ill relative to tho rebate on alcohol iscd in tlie arts and sciences. Such etion, owing to the absence of a , uoruin, can only bo bad by unanimous | onsent. It is understood that if the ill does pass the Senate, it will go j aek to the House in a very different hapo from that in which it left, it. 'he sugar men will amend it by tucking n to it as a rider the MeKlnley bounty >r the crop of 1H1H, and it is not linrobablo that other aiuendinonts look- ' ig to the protection of some industries hat suffered by reason of the tarilf ill will ho made to the bill. Tho I louse will then be given the ultornaive of agreeing to these amendments ! r permitting the error regarding Ichol to go uncorrected. So many disturbing reports have ecu made as to the effect of disputed oints in the new taritf law that ocrotary Carlisle, it is said, will lake public an ohieial statement as to is understandiii'_r of its lirovisions. ! t is well understood in tho Treasury nit tlio Secretary will construe disuted provisions in a liberal way in ueimlunce with the manifest intent of 'engross, not taking advantage of nibbles based upon mistakes of mu tilation, but keeping in view the urposo of the law makers. Speaker Crisp is quoted as saying' nil he felt very certain that tho tarilV ill will become a law. lie does not xpeet the I'rosiilent to sign it. lie, links it will become a law without j 10 executive signature and thatCon-| ress will adjourn within an hour fter this fact becomes known to the lumbers and Senators. A large number of Southerners re- i idont in Washington assembled at i HI lard's Hotel to-night to arrange >r the reception of the delegations! x pee ted he.ro to the convention on | lie :tot!i inst. Col. Ulackwell, of i klabamal was made permanent eliuiruin and Dr. Walter i'. Murphy, of lorth ('arolina, permanent secretary f the reception committee. Over six mill red liiil.ill(>iit.iniK fivim ni>iimlii.nil usiness men, boards of trade and coinlerciul organizations liuvo boon reeived, unnouneing tlioii* intention to 0 present or represented at the eouention. " Vr.KV ,\N\()VINCJ." low Aii I'hlitor Can <?et In and Oul ol'Trouble. iiigiistu < lirt niele. \Vo havo frequently heard the exrossion " tho language failed him," at we have never seen a mere striki}* illustration of it than is contained 1 the following mild announcement ! om the Brooklyn Times: " An unfortunate typographical j rror occurring at the last moment 1 nd undetected until the paper had one to press, made a headline in the imos yesterday declare that ' Ovor?n Thrashed Ills Wife.' It was trident to every reader of the stor,> lat the Times had intended to say nit Mr. Overton 'trusted' his wife, ueh errors are, perhaps, unavoidable i the rush work of a daily newspaper, : it they are very annoying to all the irties concerned." It is easy to read between the lines this pathetically simple announce- 1 cut the bail quarter of an hour that j ic editor had when Mr. Overton ill'd to demand an explanation of ! ie damaging headline. The contrast jtweeii the simple paragraph in the 1 litorial column and the editor's in- ' irview with the proof reader, was mbth'ss as st riking as tho dilTeronce 1 itween the language of a Carolina | ilitieal debate and that of a prayer >ok, and none but the inhabitants of newspaper olliee can fully api>"cclato 1 ie editor's tired feeling as ho penned ' ie foregoing lines. A man who will and being called a thief will resent 1 ie published statement that he thrashed his wife," and while the iginal headline familiarly referred i him us Overton, wo note that after is call at the ollloo he is referred to i 1 i Mr. Overton. Occurrences like these make editors j 1 o young, and only a newspaper man | m appreciate the feelings of the 1 ' rooklyn editor, as with worried look id an exhausted vocabulary, he wrote ' iat publishing that a man " thrashed s wife" instead of "trusted his ifo" was '-'very annoying to all irties." ??? ?The New York ICvoning World ints a list of lop men and women reding in that city who will have to iy an income tax of from $1,000 to 78,000. It puts Mrs. Ilettie Croon at ie lu: head of the women, and Win. 'ahlorf Aster at the head of the mon's st. ?Andrew Franklin, of liurlington, ans., one of tho oldest pensioners on ie rolls of the War Department, was >rn on Christmas day in 175>1. lie light in tho war of IM", in two Indian ars, and served as a teamster in tne j vil war. ? A dispatch to tho London News ates that the king of Corea has cleared himself independent of the (Jlii se government, and has appea.ed to ipan for assistance to expel the Cliijso from Corea, ?The IC in press Frederick, daughter Queen Victoria and the widow <d io late Kinperor Frederick, lives in itirement in German/, but enjoys the mors and distinction usually accorded tho widow of an lOmperur ?Seven hundred lie nor dealers have ion arrested in Mpiriphis for failure | ' pay "privllogo taxes." It is suit! ,000 has been lost by the State | id eouuty through failure to collect. ?The famous" Littlo Church Around > io Corner," the Church of the Trans- | juration, in Now York, recently re-1 | lived a chock for $00,000 on its cbllee- i on plate. ? ?A collection of 80,000 stuffed birds ' ill be one of the attractions of a mu- 1 urn now in course of erection at l.ey>11. Holland. 1 ( The production of cotton yarns in ( ipan has increased from 1,000,000 . muds in 1888 to 01,000,000 pounds in 02. S ?Lightning caused the destruction 2,000 barrels of oil in the Standard , i! Works at Jacksonville, (.Ma. It apiiears that l'opulisip in Ocor- < a is to break up in a family row, i _ _ TilI? TOWN II \I)1'?I/\NC;KI) II\N'I)S. I (JikmI Story on a I'arty of Prominent lv\-t 'on I?-?I CrUt OS, Con. Money, of M ississipni, tolls a story of tho famous Mr. Martin, of | Texas says The Chicago Record. VVhoti I JclYerson Davis died tlio Uovoi'iHii's of 1 tho Southeun States united in calling I upon tho people to observe with divine ; service and memorial meetings the day |and hour of his funeral, and, knowing J there would ho no services in vVashiugton, a number of the faithful wont down to Vlcxamlria. There wore < Jen. 4 and Mrs. Cordon, Justice and Mrs. 4 I annul*. Strmii11 ii? I'munni .....1 I.:.. . (Jon. VValthull and his daughter-. Mrs. ' Milr<d Loo an<I her brother. Speaker H Crisp and thirty or forty others, so i that tiio forry l>out was pretty well j orowdod. To tin; surprise of ovory y 0110, thoy discovered ujiou thoir arrival at Alexandria that there wore to bono services there, and wliilo the crowds 1 waited in the forry house (Jon. Lit/.- n hugh Loo and (Jon. Money were sent, n as a cniiimi ttcc to tiio reetjjr <f tho > Kpiseopal ('hvreli, which tin; Southern aristocracy has always attended, to ask him to hold an impromptu meeting, at c which (Jon. (fordon, .lust,ice Lamar W and otliors had consented to speak. The committee waited upon the clergy- q man and upon thoir return reported ' tliat he would not grant, their request. ^ (Jen. r.oe explained the reasons with *great detail. In the first place, the church was cold, and it would take a d 1 <>11j4f time to heat it. In the second y place, the trustees hud considered the question and had decided not to hold services. The clergyman did not think it propei to do so without consulting them and obtaining thoir consent, and finally, after a number of other equally good excuses, the clergy man explained with great delicacy that Confederate sentiment was not very strong in that g church, and that the death of .IclVcrson K Davis was not an event that required V any especial demonstration of sorrow. With this remark (Jen. Loo concluded his explanation. There was absolute c silence for a second, which was broken _ by th" strong < lour tones of Maj. Martin, u( Texas, who exclaimed: "I nckon this town has changed hands.'' .. WllKN IT (JOKS INTO KFFKCT. There is irroiit. ii?u?nt?tjilii(-.?? ...i..,.. . 0 W..vw? VUIIIV) UO H/ *? iil'U J tho tarilVact goes into clTeet. Many w i-ondieting stories have boon tele- al graphed broadcast, and tho public pi mind bus naturally become much b ;< in fuddled. Secretary Carlisle and Attor- Mi ney General Olney held a conference i $ over the disputed points, and Seero- fo tary Carlisle soon after this meeting in said : tw " The bill provides that so far as tho T1 internal revenue and whiskey taxes are eu concerned, they are payable as soon as in one bill is signed, or it becomes a law, ar but on the other articles, the Supreme el' Court has held that persons paying es taxes can prove the hour and minute hi in which a bill becomes a law. If the be the 1'resident does not sign the hill, it will become a law at midnight on the sa 2Sth, and will be in full ell'ect and force to on and after the 528th.M te In regard to those goods which arc fa now held in bondand which arc placed so on the free list by the new tarill' bill, wl the Secretary holds that they cannot be withdrawn from the bond for consump- to lion without paying the McKinley wi duty. To escape this tax, these ar- cc tides will have to be re-shipped to a ea foreign port and then sent back to this er country. I his is not truo of dutiable tli goods beeauso the section of the bill a which relates to tllem provides that w they may be witilraw 11 for eonsurap- as tiou. se The second section, which relates to fu the free list, makes no such provision, wj Asking A Simxial. Skssion.?The j'| Attorney General has reqnested that , 11 special session of the Supremo Court 'i(] lie called to hear and decide upon the onstitut ionality of the dispensary law. 1 ! It all eoines out of the Aiken dispensary ease. Assistant Attorney General ' '' Ihi' bi-r lias returned from Aiken where ^ j lie had been to perfect the appeal of the State from Judge AUlrich's decis- j j ion in the ease between the town an- ^ Lhoriticsaud the dispenser. It turns jjj :?ut that both the State and town auLhorities have appealed. The town ^ authorities hecaiise .1 udge Aldrich granted the writ restraining them ^ from interfering with the dispenser or ' his clerk in the discbarge of their du- j ties, and the State appealed because . I udge Aldrich held that the act of * 1 IShll was unconstitutional, and upon ^'J exceptions to his ruling that a inunicipal corporation can plead unconstitu- jj( Lionality in a case in which the State is represented through a relator. When the Supreme Court will meet . V cannot'now be said, but it is thought 1 that it will meet within the ne\t. ten m\ days and hear tho case. How long it will he before a decision can be rendered is another matter, but it i9 entirely probable that a decision will be ren- 8? tiered very soon after tho hearing of the case.- Columbia .lournal. eh Wkatiiku Hints. Watch tho sky "~~ for what is called " mare.->'-tails." CJ These appearing aftor clear weather v' show the track of the wind in the sky. A rosy sunset predicts fair weather. A read sky iu the morning foretells had weather. A gray sky in the morning means line weather, if tho (irst streaks of light at dawn are / seen above a bank of clouds, look out for wind : if they are close to or on the et< horizon, tho weather will be fair. In coi general, soft, delicate colors in the sky, foi with indefinite forms of clouds, mean wt fair weather; gaudy, unusual colors, ??a find lmrd-edged clouds, mean rain, and Bh probably wind. ^ A dark, gloomy, blue sky is windy ; but a bright, light blue skv indieutna on lino weather. Goncrally, the softer ^ douds look, the less wind (but per* coi hups tnoro rain1 muv bo expected : and f?' Lh?- harder, inoro 4" greasy," rolled, [J?, 111fted, or ragged, the stronger tho boi joining wind will prove, ole A bright yollow sky'at sunset pre- ?','1 mgos wind : a pale yellow, wet, orungo wii ?r copper-colored, wind and rain. H'" These are some of the most important p points about weather which have been reji tot down in the books by old and ex- Jns porienccd sailors. ,'^i The income tux clause of the tarilT tin bill states that from and after .Tnnunov M I, 1H1>5, until January 1, 11)00, there 1 4l1u.ll ho assessed, levied, collected and J," paid, annually, a tax of "J jut n nt. on tho amount of income over *1,000, and Hin that this tax shall ho assessed by the of i ^'jmmisftionc* of internal revenue and J,"," collected and paid upon the gains, and U nrotit,; and Income for the year ending i" December 31at, next preceding the V"j time of levying, eolleeting and paying nta juoh tax. Tho law cannot go into tar atTect until January I. 1S05, and no In- T(fT 30mo tax will ho paid until Dccombor lior $1, Thin it' tho status of the tax, ^h'1 ?nd it is in no sense rotroaetivo, s'0|| Don't he talked into having an opera* ' Lion sis it may cost you your lifo. {'j'. lapanero I'ileCuro is guaranteed to jj juini you by (Jurpopter Dyes., (ireon- opt /Hie, a. c,' s ? J; AFTER THE "GRIP" 1 r in convalescence from pneumonia, , evers, or other debilitating diseases, ; rout* quickest way to g? t llesh and I itrongth is with Dr. Pierce's Golden dodical Discovery. That gives mrity to your blood, plumpness to j our body, and puts every function \ nto perfect working onlcr. It i1 uakes thoroughly effective every latural means of repairing and lourishing your system. For pale, i < amy, scrofulous children, especially, ; i othing approaches it. it builds up * oinpletely their tiesli, their strength, nd their health. : The " Discovery" is the only | uarantevd blood medicine. In the ' ? uost stubborn Scrofulous, Skin or ! lealp Diseases, Kczema, Salt-rhrum, 1 nd every kindred ailment, if it ' loesn't benefit, or cure, you have our money back. A "eoi.ii in inn hicad" is quickly cured by I)r. Sage's Catarrii Remedy. So m&^'X is Catarrhal Ileadaclie, J, / I :lM(' <>V<M'.V trouble that t<tg \ caused by Catarrh. |( b;'^) So '* Catarrh itself. , I'he proprietors offer > jj.-OO ju (.asj, fol. Jiny v use wiiieh tiny cannot euro. an in i i-:i.t.i(;t;\ i' anim xl. own II i. Ir|ili;| it I t'e'iiiiglil .? filler lo .1 lis! li e. 'J'be elephant, at li: st glance, appears bo a (iull, heavy sort of a M ow. i iLit a mind, if ho has such a tiling, out suited to the appreciation of j a-nuts and noting' more. If wo look to the elephant's oyo, however, wo ?: mil see that it is a pretty sort of an i J'o, and uioro often than not it will be , i,; and to twinkle in a manner which * dieates the possession of an idea or i, (> inside of that mammoth head. 111 liis second glance will give us a more y rreet understanding of theelephaut > < telleetu.al qualities than the Hist: id as wo never judge a man by his C nthes, so we should not attempt lo ' ~ timatc the elephant's intelligonee by ^ s personal appearance, which is not lautifui. ' ? Many a time and oft. as the poet !' ys, the elephant has shown himself j| he a creature of very 1 > markablo inlligonco?(piite as intelligent, in | ,, et, as the horse, and sometimes more than the dull-patcd witless persons ? ho have had hint in eharge. In illustration of this point there is Id a story of a large elephant which us sent some years ago to a remote umtry district in India, to assist in rrying and piling timber. Tho ownof tho elephant-, suspecting that 10 native driver was dishonest, wrote letter to tho wife of a missionary, at hose house the elephant was lodged, Icing her to watch tho servant, and |> e that ho did not defraud tho faith1 animal of his rice. The hidy [itched. ami her suspicions being oused by his conduct, she expressed sr doubts to tho servant, lie pre- U ndod to be much surprised, and very gry, and exclaimed in his own lanlago, " Do you think I would rob iny iid V" riie elephant stood quietly by, and |, poured to understand what was goes; on. No sooner had the driver utI'ed his question than the animal row his trunk around him, throw in down, and untied the unusually It llcy cloth the servant wore around s waist. Out rolled a large quantity rice which had been stolen by the I'vant out of the elcphant'sallowance. We have frequently seen elephants t at could wait'/, and ring dinner bolls, , 1 d play pranks with a circus clown, j fr t this, we believe, is the first in- I ineo on record of one of those mon- ' ous beasts turning detective and inging a thief to justic. nirther- j, ire, the circus cioplmnt, smart us he g, had to be taught to do the clever |. ings he does, while the bulky do- 1/ jtivo had to reason out hi ; work of b ; own accord, relying solely upon his n intelligence to help him through. J' Harper's Young People. ^ ?Congressman Wm. L, Wilson will I. to Kurope when Congress adjourns. b ?.losiah Quiney has resigned the J', airmanship of the Democratic; party g, Massachusetts. A DltUOUNDEl) BY MYSTERY!:? 1 1/ A Great Mistake. k V recent discovery Is that hoadaoho, j? ;z loess, dullness, confusion of tho mind, \, nre duo to dorangeuient of tho norvo liters which supply tho brain with norvo j ^ ooj that Indigestion, dyspepsia, neuralgia, nd In stomach, etc., nrlso from the derangenit of tho norvo centers supplying theso or- Ai lis with nerve, fluid or force. This Is likewise 10 of many diseases of the heart ami lungs. 1,> i0 norvo system Is llko a telegraph system, a, v. :!l >.,111 11y tie- accompanying j IV ;hly celebrated ''v octal 1st and .imSfm flwr*>- ; As (lent of nervous diseases, and author ; many noted treatises on t he latter subject, ft K Binco realized t he truth of the first y|. tcrnont, uiul his Restorative Nervine * ' prepared on that principle. Its success .' curing all diseases arising from derange- ? " nt of the norvous system is wonder- Ca , as the thousands of unsolicited test Into* ' Is in possession of t ho company manufac- !?> Ing too remedy amply prove. ... r. Miles' Restorative Nervine Is a reliable . ' nedy for all nervous diseases. ,uch m tdacho, nervous debility, prostration, P 1 aplcssncss, dizziness hysteria, sexual do- 'I by, nt. Vitus dance, epilepsy, etc. It Is \i| it by all druggists on a positive guarantee, *ontdirect by the l>r. Miles Medical (hart. I lid., on receipt of price, rl per liot, six DOttles fur t??, oxpicss prepaid. I' 1 !? itutative Nervine positively contain? no . ates or dangerous drugs. i >1(1 by Carpenter Bros.. Druggist. Ki.evkn Years in Prison. Henry Williams, colored, was u life convict in the penitentiary. Ho lias been pardoned by (iovei ;? 'i llman. and it was Kranleu with >ul li e papers being referred 11? the Judge and Solicitor us is usually the ease. The fuels are tboi-o: When Williams W)IH 11" i.r.w. 1 * .. ihu< iuuv tuiun'u ooy no worked for a man in Orangeburg County who refused to pay him hi? wages. Ono night lio stole a Hutlleion^iniouiit of clothing and small article* to maku up the value of what was jwing him. lie was tir res tod. but re* dort-d tho stolon floods. When lie was ?ut on trial before Judge Wallace iu issi. lie had no lawyer to defend liiui uid pleaded guilty. At that time life MiprHomuent was the penalty for nir;.. iary and larceny and Williams ecived the full sen to nee. He bus ec? nt ly been working at a rock quarry n KdgetUdd County. Ho told his >tory toa white man who mode an In, i t e at ion and to-certained the facts, i >\ < rn r Tillman promptly pardoned lie poor u?'t:ro a? soon as tlie facts vorc ailtlioritati voly put before him. The hoe-keeping industry is growng ^ cry rapidly in this country. In Still the I'nited States produced 15?" iOtl,000 pounds i f lioney: in lsso the iroductioli was (il.tioo.OOO pounds, la lio.-c two decades the cot..sorption pau1 npli'il, while tlie popululiffc, did tot do as aiindt as double. Magnetic Nervine quickly restores ost manhood and youthful vigor. Sold ?y Carpenter llros., Greenville, S. C. The Georgia Farmers' Alliance ais disbanded. Johnson's Oriental Soap is far so icriorioail the othur so-called inediinal soups for beautifying the collide.\ ion. Sold by Carpento.' Bros., freenville, S. C. Men are made manly, the old nuulo oun^und vigorous by Magnetic Noritie. Sold by Carpenter Bros., G reonille, S. C. MAGNETIC NEHVINET v'xCv ,s so'') with written -ye- \ yitarantoe to cure I sVSA fo'f-ir ?*Nerrcu8ProRtr.v i KY tfr* ilon, Fits, TJU/I 0/ V'- noBB.Hoiuli.i'jAuiit Nournlgln 1 ! v f. Jt.K. futuertt.cAumjd IVyox<\i C?.BlVOUMM?fOpiUIII, 1 /*, '$>3 1'otmeco und Alrof\cLrrinc. _ rvV v'i n ~ ho,I Mental Ot-pro* t E"!'0rtc Ai 1 LR Hion, 8oftoninn?' 10 tsroin, rausiPK Winery, Innanlty nnd Death; irrou Be, Inipotency, Loot Power in elthorNb remoter? Old Atio, Involuntury T.os?e?, enured y iiver-inilulgonro, over-exertion or tho 15rain and rrors "f Youth. Itiftverto Weak ortram* their ntural Vigor and doublea the Joya of life; curca in or?bean nttd Fomalo Woskoou. a months treat* out, lu iilatn package, by mull, to nny uddrovH, ft r box, * boxen f.%. with every fr> order we give it Irttton Guarantee ! > euro or refund tl?o money, in ;ili?? free, Gunrauteo issued only by our ex* usivo :igeiir, '.AHl'KNTIlK BltOR . BltKKNVILI-K, S O , \J ACl'AM AW LINK STKAMKKS. } V The Steamer will leave her wharf t i'n hmh cvi'iy Monthly and Wednesday mining for Georgetown at I o'clock . touchrjf all intermediate points. At it will leave i-r wltarf at Georfcetown every Tuesday mi l'Titlav morning for Conway at I 'clock, touching all intermediate noiiou I?. r. M"NKIK,<;oiFt Ag't and Tie 8.. Conit y, 5*. ' 15. A. Ml N N Kill.Y N, Aironl, Georgetown, . ' Schedule of Local Mail Routes. or I K No, 2027:1 ?From Gallivants Ferry to Cod way, mail arrives 1.45 pin, on Monday, Wednesday and Friday: leaves at 2..'it) p in on same days. Mail closes at 3.95, Ol TK NO. 202s0.?From Conway to llirewav. N. C? mail arrives at 4 :M0 p in oil Tinsilny, Thursday and Saturday; leaves at o p m on same days. Mail closes at 4 p m. Ol' I'K No. 2<).si.--From Conway via For.iey, .Jordativille, Gideon, I alinna and retnr >, mail arrives at 7 p ui on Tuesday., Thursday an ' Saturday; leaves at 0 a in on Monday, Wednesday and Friday, Mail C;loses at U p in. ol'TK NO. 203512.?From Conway tol.i*. C" lliver, mall arrives at 5 p m on Monday, Wednesday and Friday; leaves at 7 a in Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. Mail closes at 0 p in. ol'TK No. 2t)28o?Fron Conway to Fort Jlurrolscn, nin'i arrives daily at 13 m; leaves daily at 1:45 p in. Mail closes at 1:40 p m. \T I L\] I NGTON, CllADUOUHN & IV Conway 11. U. Passenger and eight daily, except Sunday. SOUTH IIOUNI).? NO. 4(>. v a 1 rutin v 1 lions a 80am rChudbnurn ... 0 OOuiri v I hadbourn 10 10nm i Clarendon 10 10am v M t 'labor 10 65am v Loris 11 20am v Sail ford ...... 11 87sin v llayboro 11 nam v Pii vetts II 67aiu v Adraiu 12 02pm r Conway 12 80 pm NOHTIIHOU^)?NO. 14. v Conway . 2 OOpm v Aurain 2 80pm v ITivoits 2 85pm 11 llayboro 2 45pm / an ford 2 66pm r I .oris 8 20pm r All. 'labor 8 55pm r t lareudon 4 20pm r Cbadbourn 4 60pm / ?,'bndboorn 5 15pm i I lion 5 45pm r Hub 6 00pn? t TLANTIO COAST LINE. "WILV mington, Columbia A Augusta 11. . Condensed sehodulo, in clTeet Dec. 1803, TRAINS CiOlNU SOUTH.?NO. 55. , \\ i!m ngtou 8 20pm , Cbadbourn 5 60pm /Marion* 6 50pm r Florence or.ni.nt NO. 00, i Florence 7 10pm r-under S-J.spm ; jc niter ~ 828ptu i- Columbia ' 10 OOpw NO. 58. / Florence 7 lOam r tun. tor " 20am no. r?2. r Huuitei' V 50am i* Columbia 11 Oliftffl TWAINS GOING NORTH.?NO. 51. r Columbia 1 80am r Sumter f> 57 am i Sumter .. .... 5 f>7am r Florence 7 16am so. 50, ' ( olumbla 1 20pm r Siwi'ter 8 85pm NO. M?. Sumter,,,, 0 45pm Florence 6 55pl? NO. .'if'., Florence 7 40am >1 iirifin ....... .-s^. 8 liiiiin < luulboni n ... . 0 20am \\ ilm ngton I 10 loam So. 52 runs through from Charleston via ntrnl llullroad, leaving Fnncu 8.14 a in, uiiiiuK 0 20 a in. So runs tlnou-h to Charleston, 8. O,, i Central I*. H., arriving Manutag 8 p m, i es M0 p in, Charleston in.40 p in. train on Alarichester .V Augusta It. U. ivcr. Milliter, daily < \ccpt Sunday 10.60 a nvrivcH Ulnilni 11. 0 a m, Returning ! ivo Kimini 12.00 p u\ arrive 8viinter 1.40 . n. I rail.a on IlnritvlUe K. 11 P ave llarlslc, daily except Sunder, at 6 a in, arrlv( Floyda 5 2a a in Returning, leave >> a 0.45 p in,? rrivlng at Hailsvde 10.15 n. T. F. HlViNK, Ucn'l Bupt. I. K. KlNLY. Snpt. Trans, f. M. Emerson, Oou'l I'ush. Agent.