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?ffcMOM? VOL. XI. THE BLOCKADING FLEET OFF CHARLESTON A FEDERAL SQUAD HON TAK ICS t'HAROK OP IHK II AH DO It. The Finest Ships of tlin Navy Will fctf^Assemhlft ???? u i'limoiii' "i w??? Tli? Occasion Will bo Maclo Memorable. Charleston Sunday News. The greatest ileot of war vessels that has ever assembled at any South orn port for manoeuvres will bo olT Charleston next week. Admiral Francis M. Uunce, with tho entiro North Atlantic squadron, supplemented by a number of the larger boats of other stations, will arrivo otT Charleston early in tho second week of February, and for two weeks the great ships of war will drill and manoeuvre. One * of the principal features of the rendezvous will be tho blockading of Charleston harbor. So far as understood several of the swiftest of tho vessels will undertako to "run tho blockade," while tho others will do everything possible to prevent this being accomplished. There will be, it is supposed, mock battles ou the sea, with boarding and overhauling. The search lights will each night be crossing the waters with bars of (ire, and each point touched will come out as in the broad daylight. The big guns may be usod with blank ammunition, and the ships will be moving about constantly. A score of vessels aro in tho squadron of evolution, and they are of tho finest and largest in the United States new nuvy. Tho aggregate cost of the ships that will be seen at Charleston next week is over $112,000,000 The number of oUicers and men on board these vessols will be 5,510. Tho Indiana, with her groat tbirteon-ineh guns, is considered the iincst battleship in tho navy, and a visit from this ship alone would bo considered an event of importance. The railroads have promised to make low excursion rates to Charleston during the naval rendezvous, and thousands of visitors are expected in tho city. Tho hotels are preparing for their coining, and tho city will be en fete. All sorts of social functions are proposed, among them being a urand military and naval ball at tho United States Custom liouso, but these mattors have not been definitely lixed upon as yet. Secretary Hilary A. Herbert has displayed a keen interest in tho naval display in Charleston harbor, and it will be interesting at this time to learn from Secretary Herbert just how tho demonstration about to take place in Charleston harbor was brought about. In discussing the subject, Secretary Herbert said : " Admiral iiunco came to soo me sometime ago as to what disposition should be made of tho North Atlantic squadron. He said that he was anxious to take the fleet into Southern waters for the purpose of instructing his officers and men in certain evolutions. "It has been usual to send tho lleet into tho West Indies or tho Gulf of Mexico for winter practice, but owing to the complication with Spain, growing out of tho Cuban controversy, it was deemed inadvisable to proceed too farsouth at this timo. Admiral Hunce was anxious to got away from Hampton Koads for deep sea practice, so ho suggested that Charleston would bo a desirable place for the lleet to rendezvous whilo tho practico was in jirogrei,s. That suggestion met ray cordial approval, and I at once directed him to arrango the dotails accordingly. " It. Vina Vinnn t.Vin nnlinii i\f Oin ... w. ? J department, during my administration, to give our people every reasonable opportunity to see our navy and receive an object lesson in the groat work of building up our navy. I contend that these exhibitions of the wonderful progress that has been made in naval architecture can be better appreciated by such demonstrations as that proposed in Charleston harbor. Charleston has oxcellent facilities for Buch an exhibition and I am glad to givo the people of that city an opportunity to see the lloet. I have endeavored, so far as possible, to display our modern ships in all parts of the country, becauso our people naturally take pride in our greatly improved naval establishment. " I am delighted to note the interest the people of Charleston are manifesting in tho navy generally and the proposed demonstration in particular. It is my purpose to visit Charleston during the second weok in February to witness the naval displuy and I have so written the committoe to that effect. Not only shall I enjoy witnessing tho manoeuvres of the lleot, but I 6hall bo glad to meet so many of the citizens of my native State.'' Secretary Herbert will be accoip{>anied to Charleston by Col. T. Stobo Oarrow, auditor of tho war department. The warships will como into tho harbor of Charleston, and, in tho words of Admiral Bunco, "all on board will be glad to moot the citizens of Charleston and to afford them every facility to visit tho ships." Secretary Herbert is coming also, and will be the honored guest of the Charleston Chamber of Commerce. Mayor Smyth has received tho follAU/lnne Irtftni' f??/\m Admlnol U??nn/\ *VT* lug *v? V VV* ? I V?U ilV4 IUII ni JJ UUV/U Fortress Monroe, Va, January 29, 1897. Doar Sir . I forward by same mall an acknowledgment of the resolutions of the City Council of the City of Charleston, received at tho samo time with your letter of the 27th Inst, and thank you most heartily for your expressed intention of entertaining me. As I have stated in my reply to the City Council, it is impossible for tho heavier ships of the forco under my command to enter tho harbor of Charleston, and the flag ship has the greatest draft of water of all, which, combined with other oiroumstances, may preoludo the possibility of my visiting the city. On the conclusion of tho exercises < at sea off the port of Charleston such of tho ships as can enter tho harbour will do so, and all on board will he r?i-v"v ?1*4 to meet the eitlzeas of X Charleston aud to alTord them every facility to visit the ships. Very respectfully, F. M. Huoce, Hear Admiral, Commandor-in-chicf, U. S. Naval Force on North Atlantic Station. This letter sots at rest the rumors Unit bavo been circulated that tho ships would not bo seen in tho harbor, and it is interesting to note also that all I hut threo or four of tho vessels can come in easily. Capt. F. V. Ablnjt, United States engineer, in charge of tho Jotty improveinonts, stated to a representative of Tho Nows and Courier that a ship had gouo out of Charleston harbor recently drawing twenty-two feet four inches. Tho pilots say that this ship had plenty of water under her keel and that it was borne little time before high water. From the ofliolal figures it will bo seen that all but a very few of the < ships can and will come through the 1 Jotty channel iuto Charleston's lino harbor. The splendid battleship Maine draws but 21 feet 0 inches of water. Tho I cruiser Montgomery draws 14 feet 7 I inches, tho cruiser Newark draws 18 I feet S) inches, tho cruiser Kaloigh draws IK feet, tho Monitor Amphitrlto ' draws 11 feot (5 inches, the monitor I Puritan draws 18 feet, tho monitor f Terror draws 14 feet 0 inches, tho gun- i boats Castino draws 12 feet, tho dyua- < mite cruiser Vesuvius draws 10 feet 1 ' inch, the torpedo boat Ericsson draws 1 4 feet U inches, tho torpedo boat Cush- I ing draws 4 foot 11 inches, tho ram ! Katahdin draws 14 feet, tho dispatch ( boat Dolphin draws 14 feet 3 inches. i Tho Hag ship Now York, tho battle- i ship Indiana and tho cruiser Columbia 1 will havo to remain outside. Tho t latest reports show that tho Brooklyn, l Texas, Marblehead and Massachusetts < need not b t xpectcd to take part in l tho evolutions oil' Charleston, owing to accidents and uulinisbed repairs. i Tho railroads havo announced a rate < of one faro for tho round trip for tho i naval rendezvous. The tickets will bo on sale as soon as tho ships arrive oil 1 Charleston, and will havo a ten days' > limit. t Tho Washington Star gives tho fol- t lowing information of the movement of t tho Hoot and of tho evolutions of tho t blockado: i Secretary Herbert lias accepted au > invitation from the Charleston, S. C., I Chamber of Commerce to visit that * city on the 17th instant, when it is ox- < peoted that Admiral Bunco will he oar- ( rying out his plan of instituting a 1 sham blockado of the port with all of * the available ships of the North Atlantic squadron. The details of tho 1 Admiral's plans have not been given 1 out, nor, in fact, are they yet known ' at tho navy department, "out thcofticors t say, to guard against popular disappointment, that very little of tho eqad- | ron will bo seen at Charleston during i tho blockado. Tho ships are generally ' of heavy draft, making it hazardous 1 for them to attempt to enter tho har- t bor, and consequently thoy will bo < obliged to lay well oil at sea, lying in < wait for the one or two small craft that will bo selected to run the gaunt- ? lot. ' If tho blockade is maintained for 1 any length ol time it will probably ( causo the licet to use tho Port Koyal ' naval station as a base from which to < draw coal and other supplies and for ' a refuge in certain emergencies. Those ( conditions, tho lying well oat to soa of 1 tho licet, and tho uso of anothor port than tho one blockadod, as a base of supplies, will more nearly duplicate the conditions of an actual blockade than would be tho case if tho lloct J should run into Charleston harbor. The accident to tho Brooklyn is deplored by tho ollioers, who aro deeply interested in this sham blockade, for sho would have been a valuable addition to Admiral Bunco's squadron. It is probable that many of tho inor- < chant steamers und sailing coasters 1 running into Charleston will be pressed I into service, all unknowingly, by the admiral, as representing would-be < blockado runners. PILING UP THE STATE TAXES. A Levy of Five Mills or More is < What Must be liaised Unless Ex- < traordinary Methods of Taxation I are Resorted to. 1 Special to The News and Courier. The matter of taxation has always been intricato and dillicult to understand. It takes almost a constant insight into its workings to keep up with the details of its operations. Just at this time, vhen the Genoral Assembly 1 must soon pass tho supply and approfirlation bills, the matter is of especial ntorest. The firut consideration is that the State now baa an abrogate taxable property of 4170,755,474. Thoro is no ?;ood reason to expect any material or mmediato incoase in this assessment, as the real estate will not be reassessed in time to alTect tho levy that now has to be made. At 44 mills the possible gross income from tho taxable property amounts to 4768,428.15, at 4! mills the taxes that would be raised would bo 4811,058.50. Under prosont laws the extra income to tho State is about 415,000 from insurance fceb and incorporation fees; this does not includo the 400,000 possible from tho dispensary for tho general fund of the State, which is to be paid in during the present year in all likelihood. Under the present arrangement tho taxos that were collecttfd up to January 1,1897, without penalty, on tho basis of 44 mills, are now in the hands of tho State Troasurer, except so much as was necessary to pay tho January interest and appropriations already made. What remains in the treasury at this time is what the General Assembly now in session is to appropriate. The raonov now to bo appropriated is that which has beon raised on tho tax levy of 44 mills, and which was collected from October to January 1. Tho levy that 18 io do raauo Dy tho present General Assembly is not what is to be appropriated tbis time, but the levy that is made will raise tho money that the next General Assembly will appropriate, If the present basis of appropriations is kept up and is neither increased nor diminished, it will take about $800,000 to run tho State government, no less. Vow tho question is how will tho ?enV j OONWAV S. < oral Assembly mako provision to raise this money? VVhilo there Is now no deficiency In the State treasury, and tho Stuto is working on an entirely cash basis, it is proper to say that there is now iu tho treasury just about $500,000, as interest to tho umount of alN>ut $110,000 and outstanding appropriations huve had to bo paid. In making the appropriations for the current yoar at this session this fact will have to bo considered, and when tho next taxes are collected they will bave to bo used in nart on t.hn lai. of Jtt' nury, unci there will not be tho ontiro taxes raised on bund. So It will bo bo seen that, utiles* tho State want* to run behind year by year and got In possiblo trouble, tho tax lovy for 18U8 will have to bo live or live and a quarter mill*. This is whut those who have most eurofully considered tho matter have to say about the question. It is either a live-mill tax lovy or over, or a dellolency, or a resort to some other means of raising reveuuo than those now in force. It is to be remembered that tho State has entirely lost Its revenue, so far as general expensos go, that formerly came from tho phosphate royalty. Comptroller General Norton has been warning tho General Assembly of coming to this pass, and in previous messages ho has advocated tho raising of revenue from other sources than a iireet tax. In tho lirst placo he thinks that about $25,000 cun bo raised by taxing tho Insurance companies 11 toll aor cent, on thoir gross business in tho State. This, ho thinks, would bo ac joptaMo to tho insuranco companies athor than pay tho Stuto, county and jity taxes on thoir business separately. Uo has no inteution, in this plan, ho (ays, to impose any hardship or in jusice on the insurunco companies, and >n tho contrary ho thinks the plan ho proposes will bo quite aeceptablo. Then ho thinks it would bo a good dea to require a State license, as is lone in Georgia, for dealers In cotton md other futures. Another ideu of his is Unit there are icrsons in the State who ought to bo equlred to pay a graduated income ,ax on the grounds that they receive ,ho protection of the State and its laws, md have their investments in such diuoc that they cannot bo reached by i direct tax. This plan, lie thinks, vould reach tho I'oilman palace car looplo and others who now take conilderable p.ouey out of tho State and lo not pay tho State any taxes whativer. Sucii a graduated income bill 10 estimates would bring into tho State from $10,000 to $15,000. Another source of revenue could bo roni professional men who coiuo into the State to do business in competition with those now in tho State who pay ,heir tuxes. In a word the tux levy for '8518 will lave to provide $150,000 more than is noluded in the current appropriation lills, unless some provision is made for m additional source of revenue, or the .ax levy will liavo to be live mills or >vor for 1808 to koop the State on u :ash basis. Tho estimates, on which tho ways md means and finance committees say diey aro waiting, are incorporated in die annual report of the Comptroller Heneral. This report was handed to die Statu printer just as soon as it jould be possibly made up, and as it s a heavy and dilllcult report to get up >ii iiuuuuiib ui uie inimy tames, ii nas lot yet been banded to the members. AN UNPLEASANT SURPRISE. An Important Part ol'the Recent Dispensary Decision of (ho United States Supreme Court Which Escaped Publication?State Constables Cannot lie Enjoined as a Class. The State authorities have found on examination of the decision in tho dispensary ease that tho omnibus injunction against constables does not hold. This phase of the decision is brought jut in tho equity case dnlded In tho United States Supremo Jourt. The decision requires Judgo Simonton to modify his decroo of injunction to eonform to tho decision, making it apply [inly to the constables named in tho original action. Tho State, however, does not propose or intend to antagonize the principle laid down, it is stated. Tho anti-omnibus injunction principle is said to bo of much import, and tho decision of tho United States Supremo Court says on this point: "Hut while wo think that tho complainant was entitled to an injunction ugainst these defendants who had dospoilod him of his proportv. and who wero threatening to continue bo to do, wo are unable to wholly approve the decree entered in thin ease. The theory of the decree is that tho plain till' is one of a class of persons whose rights are infringed and threatened, and that ho so represents such class that he may pray an injunction on behalf of all persons that constitute it. It is, indeed, possiblo that there may bo others in like case with tho plaintitT, and that such persons may bo numerous, but such a stato of facts is too conjectural to furnish a safe basis upon which a court of equity ought to grant an injunction. We prefer to accept in this rospoct tho views expressed by Justico Nolson, in tho case of Cutting V. Gilbert (6 Hlatch, 269). Extracts are cited from the docision. Similar views prevailed in the caso of Liakor vs. City of Portland (5 Sawyer, 56(1). The decree is also objectionable because it enjoins persons not parties to tho suit. This is not) a caso where tho defendants named represent thoso not named. Nor is there alleged any conspiracy between tho parties defondant and other unknown parties. Tho acts complained of are tortious, and do not arrow out of unv common action or agreement between constables ar.d sheriffs of the State of South Carolina. Wo havo, indeed, a right to presume that such otlicors, though not named in the suit, will, when advised that certain provisions of tho Act in question havo boon pronounced unconstitu tionat by tho court to which tho constitution of the United States refers such questions, voluntarily refrain from enforcing such provisions ; but we do not think it comports with well settled principles of equity procedure to include them in an injunction in ? suit in which they wore not heard ot represented, er to subject them tc C- THURSDAY, FEBF penalties for con torn pt in disregarding ' such hii Injunction. (Follow vs. Follow, I John Chun, 26: citing Ivorsou vs. Harris, 7 Vesoy, 267). Tho docroo of tho oourt bolow should therefore ho amended by being restricted to tho parties named as plaintitYs and defendants in the bill, and this is dlrooted to he done, and it is otherwiso alU.-uied. Mr. Justice lJrewer did not hear tho argument, and took no part in tho decision of this ease. mid, Altl' AS A NUUSR The Children. arc llomping Around Him and tho Family hell Him to LIUOK AIIOI' XllCtll. I consider myself an injured person -wife gone to tho missionary mooting, my two daughters gone visiting and here I am alone with three grandchildren?got to watch them till somebody comes. I've never soon one of the stock that wasn't full of mischief and frolie. Thought 1 would take a little nap on the 6ofa while they played around, hut it was no uso. They got all the chairs in a row and played railroad and locomotive awhile. Then they played soldier, and Tired guns and killed one another and fell dead. Then they played horse and run roe- ' ?he centre table. T ! ou, ; . mo luuo gu ts would get tirou after a while and settle down to tie it* dolls and make playhouse, but Li o boy didn't like that and so the racket continued. They turned the chairs u side down and slid down tho backs he id foremost and rolled over and turned summersaults, and tthen jumped off the table and loungo and shook tho 11 or and made the windows rattle like un earthquake. Will they never got tired ? thought I. No, never, llut by and by, when my wife came home she settled them down and played club list and trimbletoo with them and 1 had pcaco. My folks have got an idea that it suits mo to take care of tho ohildrou, and tho children have an idea that thev are to do us tlioy please when thore's nobody about but mo, and so 1 sulTor myself imposed on and fool like au injured person. 1 believe 1 will go to the missionary society myself next time. But after all, there i? no use in posing as a domestic martyr or a patriarchal paekhorso about these things, for I do like to have the little chaps around mo, especial ly little girls. Children are a blessing to the household. They take away our selfishness and purify our feelings. Their joy and gleu and sportive happiness carries the old people buck to their early life, when the days were all sunshine. It is a sad sympathy wo feel when wo see them so happy now and foreseo the troubles that await them. I'oor Tom Hood, '.low sail he was when ho penned those touching lines : "1 remember, I remember The lir trees ilurk and high ; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky. It was a childish ignorance, Hut now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther oft from heaven Than when l was a boy." There is no hanpiness like ti child's. If I could 1 would oxohango all that 1 have realized since 1 was sixteen years old for that 1 had before. Those sixteen years aro about one-third of the average life and the memories of them aro more precious than all the rest. If a child is blessed with loving, indulgent parents those years are an unbroken season of unalloyed enjoyment. Sometimes I see my wife looking sad and dreamily into the glowing embers and Know sno is thinking about her children or hor childhood and redalling tiio joys of lier youth when she tiud a mother and could lay her head upon her Ian and fool the soft caresses of hor gentle hand. What a weight of care and anxiety presses continually upon the heart of a mother. How often do hor prayers fcscond to heaven in the dark watehes of tho night? prayers for their health, their welfare, their good conduct, their salvation. Hut with all tho cares, anxieties and foreboding, children are our greatest blessing and the family tho groatest bulwark of good society and good government. It is tho law of our being that man and woman should mato and marry and roar ehildron, and thoro Is no substituto for tho marriage relation, j I hardly know tho value of a child i until a few weeks ago a dear little ' grandchild got sick?very sick, and for days and nights was very near tho gate of hoavon. Hho suj^rod and wo watched and sull'orod r a ht r. Hor little lips and throat we. swollen and inllamed with diptharotlc sores. Hor lungs rattled with pneumonia. How she pleaded with us for help?for rollof?pleaded with oyes and hands, and we could do nothing but caress hor and weop. I would have given a million dollars?yos, ten million, if I had had it?to roliovo that child and savo her from sutYerintf. I'ravers or m?(H cino or good nursing or something waved hor, and wo aro all grateful. What ia tho value of a child, anyhow ? If one was up at auction what would tho mother glvo? How insignllieant ia property or gold or ailvor when compared with it. What aro we all working for but children, their happiness and prosperity. Daniel Webster, tho greatest man this country has over produced, said : " A good fathor will 1 shrink from no toil, no sacrifice to raise his children to a hotter condition than his own." If I was a judge and a father wija brought before me for stealing or oven for robbing, I would seok to know tho hiddon motives that i prompted him to tho crimo. Many a > man steals or choats to got something for tho children, and tho world is out' raged and calls him a thief and tho law sends him to tho ohaingang. i But after all, it is tho mother who screens them, protocts them and wraps ' them In her bosom. I thought my I wife was tired and would liko to rest in hor old ago, but tho maternal in> stinct still possesses her, and she i seems as much concerned about the > grandchildren as she over did al>out ^Ar Aurn I n fn/?f uVw* U 1 uvt VfT Ml A a* IUV/V| OUO IO IUOD I'Anutlll[^| and more indulgent. Tho little boy wo have with us is a young cyclone > and keeps tho home in an uproar. Whon I got outraged with his tumul tuous racket and threaten him with I punishment my wife takes his part > and says he is nothing but a baby. k Yes, a four-year-old baby who slams * the door like an athlete forty times an > hour and don't mind anybody and I H ? ^UARY 11, 1Qb?7. could regulate him in an hour if 1 hud my way. My wife novor allowed such liberties from her own. They wore afraid of a spanking or of being shut up In the parlor when they got too boisterous. And now she pleads for this boy and says ho is nothing but a babv. Milt. I'll iri't. Mm OHinn ??f llinon .. - ...... .V...V V. v.v-ov, days when she goes to tho missionary mooting?sen if I don't. I've promised him a licking every day for two months and iio retreats to tier and looks deliunee at mo. Hut I'll got him, soo if I don't. Ho is nothing but a baby, but lie takes tho dog to the cow lot and sets him on the eow, and when I toll him that tho eow will horn him and that she gives him milk, he savs ho don't want any moro milk. Ho lets tho chiekons out of tho coop, but ho is nothing but a baby. Hut I'll got him boforo tho year is out?soo if I don't. I'll do like l)iek Johnston, who was trying to raise his boy on love. Hut tho boy got so bad that one day Diek picked up a lath and walloped him good. It was a desperate remedy aud had a tine temporary ctYect, and Dick walked the piazza with a triumphant stride. " 1 told you I was going to whip you, sir. For tivo long yours I have promised you a whipping and now you have got it, you son of Heliul." And Diek putted and blowed 1 ik'1 ho had fought a great battle and ?i..ppod the light, lie bragged about the performance for a week. Hut it didn't do tho boy any lasting good. Tho whipping cutno just live years too late. I never did take much stock in bad little boys. They aro a nuisance, not only at home, but abroad. Hoys rhyme with noise, and tho little rascals want a gun or some tiro crackers or a drum or a tin horn, it always suemod strange to mo that mothers love thoir boys better than their girls, but 1 reckon it is right. I have known boys who had no other friend. A father loves his boys according to thoir conduct, but a mother loves them any now. i A sweet llttlo prirl id u troasuro In the family. Sho is very close kin to tho angels. Her value cannot bo estimated in dollars and cents. Jf she is seriously sick tho ulurm paralyzes everything about tho house. We whisper our anxieties in sad voices. 1 Wo walk lightly and close tho door gently and breathe our prayers silontly. If sho dies there is un aching void | tho world ran never till. 1 What is the value of a child ? When the railroad train kills u man the lawj yers sue for his value. It may be a thousand or ton thousand or lifty thousand according to his consequence, : but that is nothing when compared with tho value of a little child. How rich thoso mothers are?rich in their children ! How utterly poor when they lose thorn ! BILL AiU'. KM,1,1.1) 11 Hit HISTHH-IN-IjAYV\ A Kentucky Woman In Jull and Awaiting Trial for Murder?Tlie Husband Visits Her Kver) Day. Mrs. Amy Mcintosh, who stands ind'eted for murder, Is in jail at Boonovillo, Ky. Sho killed her sister-inlaw, Mrs. Polly Ann Fox, wife of tho noted mountain murderer and counterfeiter, James Fox, now sorving a term of t.en vnkl'u in tll? nnnllnntioBH f.... counterfeiting. ' The story of tho killing is one of the most'thrilling in Kentucky's annuls of crime. About a month boforo tho killing, which took place on the 10th clay of last June, Amy liiley was married to Merldoth Mcintosh, brother of Mrs. Fox. 1 "oily Ann was opposed to tho match, and circulated a report ' damaging to Amy's character. She could not prevent the marriage in this < way, however, and after her brother married the girl who wes just twentyone, Mrs. Fox continued to slander her sister-in-law. A few weeks after tho marriage the two women met and Folly Ann abused Amy in tho choicest mountain billingsgate. At that meeting Amy showed adisposition to resent I tho abuse heaped upon her, but friends interfered and provonted an altercation. When thoy parted Folly Ann told Amy t hat she would see her again, and tho next time sho would beat her to death. On tho day of tho killing Folly Ann armed herself with a sled standard about three feet long, and as largo around as a chair post. She went to tho homo of her sister-in-law, but Amy saw her coming, and desiring to avoid a difficulty, oscaped from tho house by tho back way and went to the home of her brother James ltiley, about a quarter of a mile distant. When Folly Ann learned that Amy had escaped to her brother's sho followed. When Amy saw her coming to her brother's house sho armed herself with a large dirk and started back home, going across tho hill, a near route, in order to avoid mooting hor angry sibtor-in-law. Hut Folly Ann saw her, and running aftor hor, began to throw rocks, several of which struck Amy. Tho last rock sho threw knocked her down, and tho infuriated Folly Ann rushed toward her with sled standard upraised. Just as sho was about to strike Amy sprang up and dodged tho blow at tho same time stabbing Folly Ann in the left side. The dagger wont to the hilt, and the point of the blade pierced tho lower part of Folly Ann's heart. Folly Ann made another feoblo effort to strike her sister-in-law, but sho was too weak from tho loss of blood and fell over, expiring within two minutes. Amy immediately surrendered to the authorities and was acquitted on her examining trial. But James Fox had been acquainted of tho killing of his wifo, and he wrote letters to several of his friends in Owsley county, and they succeeded in having Amy indicted for murder at the last term of tho Owsley circuit court. She was unable to give bail and had to go to jail. As Fox and his friends have often evaded justice when brought to book for their lawlessness and counterfeiting, by packing juries and manufacturing testimony, it is feared by Amy's friends that sho will be convicted. She seems cheerful and appears to think that sho will bo speedily acquitted. Shu says : " Yes, thoro had boon a hardness botweon us. Sho called mo bad names and said 1 was a mean woman, but she was my husband's sister, and 1 didn't want to hurt her. I tried to got away from hor on that awful day, but sho wouldn't let me. I believe she would Highest of all in Leavening l'o Roya ab^olui havo killed mo then and thoro if I hadn't uned my knife." Tlio prisoner was born in liroathitt county, Kentucky, in 187f>. ilor father was James ltiley, a niemher of one of tlio oldest families, his ancestors emigrating to Kreathltt early In this century. The Kileys havo been often connected with the terrible feudal wars whirl) rayed in eastern Kentucky in the early eighties, and it was on account of his partlcipanoy in a feud that James Itiley removed with his family to Owsley county. Tlio prisoner is a rather good-looking mountain woman. She Is livo feet four inches high ; has light, yellow hair; large blue oyes, and withal a pleat-ant countenance. Sho is very retiring, and when addressed by a stranger, looks down to the ground und replies at first in monosyllables. She weighs about Kin pounds, and is as strong and muscular as the averago man of her age. Her husband maintains that sho Is innocent of murder. He says his sister forced tho deed imon Amy. Hut bo is too poor to ball nor out of jail, and he has to content himself with visiting her every day. mtm ? * - ? ? Governor Ellerbe Strikes for Economy. Til Hi DANOKH8 OI< A DKPIiKTKD TItKA.HU it Y. A Deficit That Must lie Met by Itotrenoliment?Income ami License Taxi's are Hiiii-ireatcil. Gentlemen i>f tho Gonerul Assombly: After u thorough investigation I lirul ttint tho flnanoes of the State are not in a very favorable condition, and 1 doem it my duty to call your attention to the following facts : There was in tho State treasury on January 20th, 1897, $413,958.04. italance due tlie Statu on general account 4192,000; insurance license foes (estimated) $10,000; fees of the Secretary of State's otlieo, $.'>,000; uncollected taxes (estimated) $85,000; making$005,958.31. The above Is all the revenue of tho State available for current expenses for the liseal year 1897. Estimating the eurront expenses of the State at $30,000 nor month for ten months, beginning January 1st, 1807, and coding November 1st, 1897, wo have current expenses, $300,000; legislative expenses, (estimated) $15,000; special appropriations for militia, $10,000; pensions, $100,000; miscellaneous, $20,000; public printing, $20,000; total, $010,000 ; making a deficiency in the general fund of $31,011.00 unprovided for. 1 have counted tho expenses to November 1st because the books are not opened for the collection of taxes until October 15th and tho State Treasurer will not receive remittances from tho county treasurers until November 15th. We estimato tho expenses at $.30,000 per month, on the basis of the lust year's appropriations. Of course, if any of tho appropriations be increased or additional onus uru made for special purposes, mo ueneienoy will 0e increased in proportion. The trustees of the Winthrop Normal and Industrial College liave asked for an additional appropriation of $.'10,000 to build another dormitory. They now have room for 240 students, while the attendance at the college is 40.'l, Kill havini*1 to board in the town, it would be intinitely better for all tiie students to board in the college, and if wo knew that the attendance would remain as large as it is now you would take no risk in making the appropriation, but as wo can have no guarantee of this, after the ephemeral favor which generally bubbles up and around a now college subsides, wo may have bore as wo had at Clcmson a decrease in the number of students. When Clomson Coilego was lirst opened many boys out of curiosity and without serious purposes, rushed in anil there was not suflleient room to accommodate them, but aftor running a year or two the attendance, as might have been expected, dwindled down to normal numbers and the dormitory is largo enough for present use. Should you decide to build anothor dormitory for Winthrop, i would respectfully suggost, owing to the variable condition of the State's finances and the financial condition of our people, that you havo all tho brick necessary for tho construction of tho dormitorv mado tm ?hn ..I ** 1 www VyV/IJ ? IV/IO Ul WHO penitentiary. Thin could ho done in tho summer after the crops on the State farm have boen laid by and bofore harvesting tlmo begins. You could then alTord at tho next session of the General Assembly to make a small appropriation to have tho work completed. The deficiency that I have callod your attention to should bo provided for and tho question for you to decido is whothor It should bo dono by Increasing tho lovy or by increasing by some other means tho rovonuo of the State. This can bo dono by a graduated income tax and a graduated 11conso tax. Every legislator should bo commondcd for his efforts to glvo tho peoplo a low rate of taxation. It is unwise and unbusines8-liko to lovy a tax insufficient to moot tho current exponscs of tho govornmont, thereby incurring a dobt. I Ijellevo In tho principle of paving as you go. fn my opinion, thore is extravagance in tho managomont of county affairs whioh should bo thoroughly investigated. Tho county govornmont act is objected to by many on tho ground that it ie too cumborttomo, and that tho work of tho chain-gang coats more than it is worth. I would rocommond that you examine thoso matters thoroughly before making any radical changes in the laws. W. H. Ellkrue, Governor. -v y . ' 0> NO 25. wer.? Latest U.S. Gov't Report I Baking a rowcier rEK.V PURE Till-: UEAVKNH FOIl FKBHUAItY. Tho Constellations anil tin- Planets Now Visible. No month during the present yoar will present moro attractive astronomical features than February. The brightest constellations are now visible. and four of the largest planets aro In favorable positions for observation. The planet Vonus is now tpioon of the western sky, and her brilliancy Is increasing day by day. The telescope shows her to no in the shape of a half moon, hut as she approaches the earth she wlll|uHsumo the form of a crescent. After the 10th Venus will begin to approaoh'tho sun once more, and in a few weeks it will pass out of view in dazzling rays. The planet Mars is almost directly overhead at 8 o'clock in tho constellation Taurus, and it may bo easily recognized by its large aizo and ruddy color. Jupiter risos about 8 o'clock, and soon It will be In opposition with tho sun and nearest tho earth. This giant world is always one of tho most interAUIaaA I? 41 % * uaviuK uujvuiih in uiu neavens, una during the next few month* it will bo in very favorable positions for observation. Well up In tho east at dark Is tho brilliant constellation Orion, so rich In stars and other objects of interest, ftast of Orion bla/.os, Slrius tho brightest of the tixod stars. This star has a wonderful history and is strangely connected with Homo of the oldest religions in the world. Its color was red in ancient times, whilo now it is dazzling white. It has a companion revolving around it nearly as largo as our sun, but its distance is so great that it can be seen only by means of the largest telescopes in tho world. Sirlus has been estimated to ho ono thousand times as largo as our sun and to be moving from us at tho rate of twentytwo miles per second. Tlio Host Way To Cure Disease is to establish health. Dure, rich blood means good health. Hood's Sarsaparilla is tho Ono True lllood I'urlller. It tones up tho wholo system, gives appetite and strength and causes weakness, nervousness and puin to disappear. No other medicine has such a record of wonderful cures as flood's Sarsaparilla. Hood's LMllsarotho best after dinner pill; assist digestion, prevent constipation. 25c. ?A blind man was sitting in company with somo visitors when ono of them left tho room. " What beautiful teeth that lady has !" said tho blind man. ' Why," said a friend, in great surprise, " how can you toll ?" " Uocauso," answered tho blind man, " for the last hour she has done nothing but luugh." It Saves the Croupy Children. Sea view, Va.?Wo havo a splendid sale on Chamberlain's Cough Remedy, and our customers coming from far and near, sneak of it in the highest terms. Many have said that their children would havo died of croup if Chamberlain's Cough Remedy had not been given.?Kellam Ac Gukhbn. Tho 26 and 60 cent sizes for sale by Dr. K. Norton, Druggist. ? ' How often do you presont your i.mii uiiub yuuuK itjiiow r" saiu a gentleman to a eigpr man when a dude told him to charge him with a package of elgarottos. "Quarterly."' "What? You don't mean to say you trust hltn for three months?" "Oh, no, of eourao not. Quarterly In thla case moana every tlmo the bill amounts to a quarter." This la the day of anti-thia, andantithat, but what people need most nowadays is, the anti-bilious medicine, Simmons Liver Regulator, tho King of Liver Medicines, and better than i'llls. "I have used no other antibillious remedy for six years and know from experience that for ladies of a constipated habit nothing eouals it."? Laura V. Craig, Ellenbury, rla. THE BEST SPRING MEDICINE is Simmons Liver reoui.ator. Don't forget to take it. Now is the time yen need it most to wake up your Liver. A sluggish Liver brings on Malaria, Fever and Ague, Rheumatism, and many etftar ills which shatter the constitution wreck health. Don't forget the word regulator. It is simmons LlVBR regulator you want. The word REGulator distinguishes it frem ail oVher j remedies. And, besides this, SIMMONS / liver regulator is a Regulator ef &e ( Liver, keeps it properly at work, that your J system may be kept In good condition. / LOR THE BLOOD take SIMMONS I .iver regulator. It is the best blood purifier and corrector. Try it and note the difference. Look for the RED Z on every package. You wont find it on any other medicine, and there is no other ( iver remedy like SIMMONS LlVBR regulator?the Kingof Liver Remedloo. Be sure you get it. J. it. ZolUn At Co.* Philadelphia, I'*. .