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L R a-, - a~ Y_6-N PE O PE S. C.NSA L A A VOL. 61-NO 8, PICKEiNS, S. C., THURSD)AY, MAY .21, 19.OEDLA E BREATHED THE SMOKE OF BATLE. A NOTA Il1iM WOMANOF TIlE CIVIL CONlLICT. 'The Sister of Gen. John Morgan and (he Will of Gon. A. P. 11111. Few American women have had their lives so crowded'with dramatic 'ncidentsq as Mris. Alexander For-sytho, of Chicago, sister of Gen. .iohn Mor gan, whose daring raid made him con spicuous on two continents. For fou' years Mrs. Forsythe lived under the smoko of the cannon, being a soldier's wife who went through the entire war with her husband. Thrice wedded and thrico widowed, twiceo the mother of at posthumous child and again on the last day of the war left desolate with a tiny babe In her arms, her experInOlICE as wife and mother, bays the Ghicago News, is almost un precedented. After the death of her first husband, Calvin leClung, she married Gen. A. P. Hill, one of the most distinguished genoraLs in the Confederate army, a man wio-sc name was on the dying lips of Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. As a bride she went to the front with her husband and was actively in terested in his company, the Invinci blos, 13th Virginia. Among other things she presented the company with a handsome silk flag, but during an engagement the color- bearer's arm Was shot ohf, and the flag, gripped in the bloody hand, was captured by a Union soldier. Mrls. Hill proiiptly made another and it is now hanging in the White House at RichImondI. (jon. Hill was killed the last day of the war at the fall of Petersburg. Gen. Lee made a charge and recovere'd his body, andt a Ifew imoLients after the general had parted from his wifc he was brought, back to hler, shot through the heart, his wedding ring still on his finger and his cap, covering his dead face. That night the army retreated In haste and ltis. 11 ill was the last wo man to paUSs the )Ontoon at Petersburg. ]t was an aw ful journey, for the roads were choked with the disorganized troops ; sometimes they were in the enemy's lines and again in their own, but all through that dlreadful night Mrs. H ill sat inl the ambulance by her dead husbant's body, holding hier baby and little daughter in her arms. She buried Gen. Hill at Gouchlaid, Va., laying him away in the uniform he wore when he fell. Afterward the body wsi. iemoved to Hollywood, but a fow years la() Mayo' Ginter donated the spot in Richmond where Gen. Hill organizoed his 1i 'bt company, and hit body was taken there and a splendid monumunt eected to his nemory. His youngest daughter, Miss Lucy Leo Hill, the babe of the retreating army, is now a beautiful woman and was one of the board of lady mna'iwe-s at the World's Plir from Kentucky. She Is Goun. Leo's god-daughter, and his tears fell on her- baby face Asi he held her in his arms at the baptismal font. Some yars after Ge n. Hill's death, Mrs. Hill matiried Dr. Alexander For sytho. Since his death she came to Chicago and now resides at 101 Pino street. Sio was a noted beauty in her youth and her cordiality endears her- to friends now and old. The home life of the Morgan family was singu larly happy, for' there were six sons and six daght.urs to fill the hospitable homo with nicrymaking. Gen. Mor gan was the eldest child. He was passionately fond of childrun and Mrs. Forsythe says that on 64 ndiay mornings he used to take a qmantity of brtead and a~n i mnmnie brig lit tini pan full of molasses and gatthetr all the planitation, pickaninnies on the lawn and let, themt "sop' " tihe sweet stulf to their hearts' content. Inr the winter the poor, both black and white, hiad the freedom of his great woodl yard back of his factory. T1he betrayal atnd death of Gen. Mor gan are never mentioned in the family circes, anid the horrowing details were carefully withheld from the grief-stricken mother. Thie general was On his way to visit his wife, to whom he had not long been married. Worn with travel, he stopped for the night at aL lonely farm house. The p heole were ardent Southern sytmpat thizers and personal friends, but the daughter hiad a sweetheart in the Union aremy. After the faiily retired sho stole out, saddled a horse andI iode to the neare'st campil w ith thu start; ing new tha~t Gnn. Mlorgan wvas asleep at her mother's home. As the night was wild and stormly and hiis r'oti'eat ob scuro, Geni. Mlorgan felt peCrfectly' secure anid slept souindlly un rtil aI move ment in the, yard ar'ou:~'d him, lie spagout of bed and rushed out of the house in hiis niight clothes, lie waLsi mmeuiateitly surro imdted and shot. Before his heaLrt ceas.id beating hiis unclothed body was IIurng across a horse andi takenm to camplI. On the way the country was aroutsed by the sol di10rs' exultant cries: "We have kil ledh Morgan, the great Confederate rebel!" It is a mattter' of history that from the girl who betrayed him i to the men who shot him every one0 hats su lfered a violent (death. Mi's. F'orsy the's young est brother, Francis Key Morgan, named afto" his cousin, author of '"Them Star-Spangled Banneor," inherited the fearless spirit. When 14 ho climbed into the cupola of the old acad'emly at Lexington and unfurled thei Confedo ate flag. Tihe city swarmed with Union roiliers anid It would have gone ha~rdl for the lad had he nt been sple1ited away in a closed carriage. About this timo Gen. Morgan sent aL trusty Irish boy with letteors to his mother. His bridal rein were full of ningtheblocade sally.Butafter \hls arrival the news reached the sol diors, who searched the house and captured him. That night Francis crept unider the carelessly guarded tents, cut the little fellow's bonds and tihe two escap~ed in the dar'kness. -The summer just closing In the Southern Hemisphere has been ox cossively hot, anid the wheat and other 4 - cops of Australia and Argentina are far below the average. American far mor01s are in shatpe to supp)ly the deficit, and a favorable season will add to tihe lead they hold in the agricultur-al world, VI'1CLY CROP BULLITIN. rho Conllition o1 tho Crops Inmprove as a General Rule by Reccu Railinls. This bulletin covers the weatht.ran crop conditions for the week ondin Saturday, May 9, and in its prepart Lion were used reports from one o nore correspondeuts in each county c bhe State. Although the average temperatur ror the past wook was just the sam, (s for the week preceding, yet, roli Lively, it was slightly coolor, as th< seasns iierease in tenperatur< :verages about 2 degrees a week dur ing May. There were several coo nights, and minimum temperatures o >0 or below wore reported from th< bigh lands of the western and north arn counties. The minim' for th week were 49 at Ridgeway, 48 at Che 'maw and Elloree, all on Friday, th< th. The maximum temperature wit, )4, reported from Cheraw on the 6th The mean temperature, for the Statt or the weck-beirg the average o M Weekly mean temperature reports vas 69, and the normal for the samt )erio'l is approximately 19. The high ast ieans was 7:1 at Poverty Hill idgeleiad County. and the lowest W4 tt Reid, Greenville County. Th< nean temperature for the State sinc< Vlarch Ist has been about 1.5 degret >Or day above normal. Thoro were quite general showert wer the entire State on the 3rd, 4t0 Lud 5th, but the rainfall was never huless partial, and in consequenct here remain large portions of th( itate where the drought is not rc ieved, the ground' having received mly surface wetting. Over a strip of ounty about six miles wide, ir 'ickens County, the ni 'fall exceded ouri inches on the 3rd, and was accom. )anied by large, hail, that in the vici lity or Looper's destroyed all vegeta ,ion in its path and stripped the tree, if fruit. Tie path of this destructive tail was narrow and short. The heavy 'ains washed lands badly in Pickens Aid ENdgefield Counties, and newlv )lanted lands have since then crusted >ver. Over the greater portion of the area omprised by Aiken, Lexington, Rich and, Sumter, Fairlield, York. New. )erry, Union, Karshaw, Chester and auncaste' Counties, the rainfall re nains deficient. Over the romainder if the State enough rain fell for tb. ummediate needs of the crops. The following heavy rains were re. meted : Looper's 4.20 ; Liberty 4.00 utugusta, Ga., 1.75 ; Crecaivillo 2.3.1 lorence 1.58; Yemassee 1.716 Trial .60 ; Reid 1.75 ;imgshor' 1.011; Clem. on Collego 2.87 ; FIlloreo 1.25; Gillison. ille 1.216; Poverty Hill 2.10. Thirteer >ther places reported amounts fron 1.50 to 1.00, and fifteen places reporte( imounts less than half an inch. Th< Lverage of 41 rainfall reports was 1.03 tnd the normal for the same period I: tpproximiately 0.78. The sunshine was in excess of th< iornal: the percentage of possiblh -anging from 39 at Trial to 89 a Waterloo, with an average for tha state (26 reports) of 70 per cent. Thi iormnal is approximately 60. The prevailing wind for the weel vas from the N. E., followed by S AT. and W. They were generally ligh1 and without material influence on )ops. Crops, its a rule, made satisfactor3 r'ogress during the week, except thal few cool nights seemed to put i lecided chock on the growth of corr nd cotton, but fortunately the weath r soon turned warmer. With the ex. cption of the territory alieaidy noted here seems to be sutlicient moistur' or most crops, but grains would b( frieatly benelited by moc' rain. T'h >lanting seatson is priactically over', cx. :ept for' some of the mninor ci'ops and or' tihe bottom land corn, and this it nakinog satisfactory pr'ogross. Thet ollow ing brief summaries express the encrnal conditions of the various cropi amed, and when a particular crop it ot mentioned it may be assumed thai h~ r'eports on it are in the main (a Corn continues to do well ; is gen. rallly worked clean, has good color, ,nd stands are satisfactor'y. Reporti mn corn iiwithout exception continu< avor'able, unless that some report il mnall for' the season, and that cut ani md or heart wormns are damaging th< atand in a number of the counties. Cotton i'cceived a slight check tc rtow th duriing the few cool nights mt1t iIthout sustaining any material njua'y. Stands are reported the bes mver' known in Anderson, Darlington nd Chesterficld Counties, and ovei Lhe entiiro State the stands are' good somo comlaittnts of gi'ass in iEdgefich nd P ickens Counnties, where th< rTioundi was too wet to wor'k. Cottom s repor'ted as having a good, health: Lolor geinerally. Saa Island cotton ha; Lgood stand iand is thriving. Chopi ping to a stand con tinues actively mUd in plaices cot m has been llowet t~he second time. Planting has finish '.L'ransplanting tohacco was putshea (luring the wveek. Some farmers at' obligede~ to wateri the plants to say them, it being necessar'y to transplan r'egartdhl,'s of the condition of th gr'ound, on account of the sizie of th plants. The scarcity of plants wil lesson, the contempnllated ar'ea dievotei l,'ish padatoes arc generally reportoe to he v(ery small, almost a failure eve a larg'. portion of the State, owin g t the 'any weather, and1( arc needin mmo' ' rin i oyvywei'e. Potato bug ar' repor 'ted fro m a nitumibr' of coun 'ies, being imiore deCstructtive in Chat leston County, where some flelds ar practically3 r'u nedl by them. Grain have mamdo gr'eat inpro)vement, bu spring oats are ge~neral ly considered; failure, although in laices the mrain star'tedl a vigor'otus griowth. Oats ar about i'eady toi harvest in the J'Iasteor portions of the State. itall eats ar short, but heaiding well. Peaches con tinute to di r'op badly, othe frtuit doing fair'ly well. I'lums riper ing In Sotutheran poi'tlons ; infer'io qiuality. Blerries plentiful. Grape promising. Melons doing wvell ever) where, and in places are in blossox Larger areas than usual being di voted to sweet potates in a number ( couraties Draaws plenti fuil. Gardens yielding piecnty of vogcta bles, although where tihe r'alnfall wa l ightest they continue to fall. J. W. I3Awmn 1)iranior. THE CONFYlRENCE LAUGHS. :1 The Woman Question Brings to Liglit t a Kanefts Humorist. Bishop Vincent, the venerable found or of the Chautauqua Society, presided at this morning's session of the Moth odist General Conference. The usual r routine was followed during the morn f ing until the Rev. Dr. Lowther, of Southwest Kansas, created a great 3 deal of laughter by introducing the 3 following resolution : Whereas, this conference has do 3 cided to send to the annual con ferences, the question as to whether the word - laymen should be so construed as to I includo women, and, f Whereas, it is believed by many i that on scriptural grounds women can - not be admitted to the general confer ence ; therefore, Resolved, That we also submit to the annual conference the following questions: Are women included in our articles of religion, which road: "Man is very far gone from original righteousness." While this question is pending be It the order of this general conference that the women of the church obey the apostolic injunction : "Let your wo men keep silence in the churches." That thcy do also refuse the knowl edge that comes from books, papers, magazines, lectures, lyceuins and reading circles, and if they would loarn anything lot them ask their hus bands. Since " on scriptural grounds " some of our brethren have served notice that they will raise this question on the day of judgment, let the annual conferences decide by vote whether women arc included or excluded in the language, " Every man in his own order," in Paul's chapter on the resur rection. On motion of Dr. A. J. Kynett, the resolutions wore referred to the com mitteo on eligibility. Several changes in the discipline, recommended by the bishops were re ported by the committee on revisals. The first two sections of the report were adoptee. A warm fight occurred over the adoption of the third section of the report, relating to infant bap tism. During the debate Mr. Buckley said that he was satisfied that there were in the Baptist church over half a mil lion members who would now be in the Methodist church if they were given the right to choose the way they were to be baptized. le moved that a part of the disci pline be stricken out, so that adults baptized in infancy might be allowed to be baptized again in any way they might elect. Rev. A. 13. Leonard opposed the me tion. He said that the motion would discredit infant baptism, and that it would be a step backward for the great Methodist church. He said " I be lieve there is no person so it to be baptized as an infant." Rev. S. W. Matthews, of Southern California, said that he did not believe in discrediting infant baptism, but he did believe that adults who have been baptized in infancy, should be given the same right to be baptized, that unbaptized have. Rev. Dr. J. E. C. Sawyer said that he thought the Methodist church would be much bettered by striking out the foot-note. le was sure that It would help the growth of the church membership. William H-. Daniels. of Northwest Indiana, created a sensation by inquiring if the foot-noto in ques tion was the one that some one had surreptitiously put in the discipline, without any authority from the gener al conference. The section was recommitted, with Dr. Buckley's amendment to the com mitteo on revisals. The comm1ifitt'ee on episcop~acy did not rep~ort~ in accordance with the in structions it had received. Drm. Buck ley stated that the .committee had as yet been unable to agree upon the number of bishops it would recommend to he created, but that it would be ready to report to the conference the first thing tomorrow a fter the reading of the journal. The time for the comn mittec to report was extended to that hour. Though the committee was unable to rep~ort, this much is known of the deliberations at the meeting. The members agreed to recommrend the retirement of Bishop Thomas Bow man, Bishop Ri. S. Looster and M ission ary JBishop Wi lliam Taylor, of Africa, on account of their feebleness andi ina bilIity to Perform the ardus dIuS Pties of their positions, by reason of advanced ago. This action 'will necessitate the election of two regular bishops, and one mnissionary hishop. 1-OMiI)l AT1 ChiISON .--The News Iand CJourle r's correspon pdent gives thme follow ing particulars as to the shooting at Clemson College oni last Tiuesdamy: Wm'~n. D.. James, foreman of the convict farm here. dIie(d to-day about 7~ o'clock from the efcts of pistol shots m e cuived yesterday ait the hands of' I. W. Lindlsay, sergeant in charge of the convict~s stationed here. Bad blood hadi existed between the two men for several months, it is said, occasioned by a disagreement as to the manage moint of the coonvict labor, and yester (lay JTames seems to have felt especi ally aggievod at something landsay had dlone, lie went, to thbe stockade 'and found Lindsay seated at his table 1In his oclico andl began using abusive L language. Lindsay Is rep~orted to have ) told hiim to go awaiy, b~ut instead JTames f started into the room. As lhe entIed a Lindsay shot him twice in the face. - James continued ad vancing and caugh t - hold of Lindsay, when the latteir shot 3 him in the abdomen. 'The two men se cfled for a few seconds, when James t sank unconscious, lIe afterwardls r'c Scovered corsciousness, but peritonitis a set in, from which ho died. lic leaves a six children. I ndsay at onlco gave a himself up to the College authori-ties, o and was turned over to Sherilf Douthit, who happened t~o be here. Trial Justice Ihook has summoned a jury of inquest to viewv the body to r night, and will adjourn it till to-mnor s row to await the arrival of Solicitor 'Ansel, who has been telegraphodl for. - -An ingenlus use of ele'ctrielty 's to warm the bedclothes. 'Tis is done by heating asystem~ of wiire insidle a dou-1 s ble quit. The current can be reg ulat I d at will and the temperature main tinend at. the ,,,...re, dor -... BILL ARP HAS A VISITOR, PIROF. TUCKEIt OF TlE UNITEJ STATES LABHOR DEPA ITMENT. Sample'of Fancy an4 Other Work Gatliered to Coiimpare by Ills I , artient Witli the Prilmiltive am New Metliod-,, Cost, Etc. For 'lhe Constitution. This is a great government. W4 don't know very much about it unti we go behind the scenes-behind tho screens as it worc-and soo what il going on. Tle doings of .Congress a, we read them In the papers are ver' noisy and exciting, but is mostly rou tine work and tolls us nothing of wha is going on in the various.de partintits scientific and industrial. We used to got the patent office reports that hia a world of curious information ant explanatory picturos, but they seem tc have stopped coming. And there wert books on agriculture and horticulture and pestiferous insects and books that told about cattle and sheep and all the diseases to which they were subject All these used to be distributed among the people like the garden seced art distributed, and pretty much for tht same voto-catching purpose, but the3 cost a big lot of money, and now are given only to the scientific. The moc of scionco make but little noise in thc world. They care but little for faint or fortune, but they arc over at work studying nature and solving nysteriet and lessoning the burdens of life. 11 does seen to be a disposition of pro vidence that great mnon care bat littlc for money. What they discovor or in, vent sooe. becomes conimon property I am not speaking of the small mar who takes out a patent on lish hooks ot hairpins, but of great mo. liko Jennea and Pasteur, Agassiz, Fulton, Watts Newton or Morse. But I was ruminating about a visit] had today-a visit from Professoi Tucker, the United States agent fo the labor department. le came tc find out about how the silk busines was conducted in Georgia fifty yeart ago. So I told him how ny father, it 1837, got some morus multicaulis cut, tings from Washington and in tw( years had several acres of young trees, and then built a house, forty feel square and two stories high, and fillet it with hurdle frames and got somc silkworm eggs, and when they hatched the wornis soon filled the house ant cat up all the mulberry leaves anc wanted more. We got enough from ; neighbor to finish up with, and wo boy: were glad enough when the nast' things begau to wrap up in their muni my-liko shrouds. But my curiosity was excited. Wha does the United States Waut to knov all this for? So heexplained by say in that his department is comparing th, old with the new-the primitive m13( thods with the modern-and the cos of each, and which was the best an gave more happiness, and other econt nic qestions. le had a leather gri full of samples of the handiwork of th women of western North Carolina an northeast Georgia. E very little squar or scrap wits pinnod to a printed slicl that gave the name of the weaver an her age and residence. There wer samples of woolen and cotton and lino and silk,tsamples of linsoy and jean and countorpanes and quilts and wit gon sheets and curtains and tabl cloths, and some of them were goms c beautiful fabrics, and in those mountai counties the humble people are stil spinning and weaving in the old-fash ioncd way and are happy. In man, families their handiwork is piled upoi the shelves and clothes prenses, await ing theMarriage of sons and daughters to whom they wvere to be given a. bridal presen0fts. P 'roioessor Tuckci had seome specimens of silk sowing thread and ilax-thread that were madt. at home. Hce found good people ui: there who seldom bought anything and were able to give a stranger a good bed and plenty to cat and a sincera hospitality, lie told me of an old msar in Ih:.bun wvho said lie never fell ou1 with the United States until the rove nute officers began to sneak around hi: little still, whereo he had been mnaking pecach brandy for fifty years, andi had the respect of his Maker and his neigh hors and ho told them that the Unitec States wasent big enough to stop him for the right to make it was biandet down from hiis father and grand father lie said they threatened him ever' time they camne ab~out, but he kept twc pitchiforks in the house-one undei the front doer and the other at thc head -of his bed, and they dident dair<: to arrcst him. But after worry inja with them for three years things kepl getting hotter and hotter and hi. neighbors advised hiim to quit stilling and lie did, for he was getting oild anc wvanted to live in peace, but is wvas a had government that would let a rich man still and not let a poor1 mtan. Tlheso big distill'erics, said he, swinl. the government out of more tax mfoney3 than all ourim moonshine stills put to. gether. All they have to dio is to bribt the storekeeper. i know of one ir North Carolina that sold 3,800) gallenm ini one year and1 never paid a dolilai rl tax on it. IIe told Professor Taokei that the revenue men broke up fort3 stills in that~ region last year, but t< his knowledge there were a hundre< that were still running ana a smal scale. " The boys sorter like tShe dani ger' of it,'" said he, "' and the inuforme: catches it when found out. li.e gen orally leavtes this part of the counta ats soon ats he pockets his bribe. Thei mou11ntain pcole are not as honest atn< hionorable. na they used to be, andi amlI comeas of th is br'ibo-tiak ing butsi iess TIhe Un ited States ought to be ashiame, oif it.'' Th'e pr'ossor sid 1t is itmpos tlble to convince those mlountinemer: wvho arc seven ty-fivye miles fro mciiiar ket that It is wrong to convert thoil cornm into whiskey when One bushe will make three gallIons and they ca. haul a hundred dollars' worth with little yoke of steer's. But they can' r'un a still oni tile government plan, fo it would cost two or three hundre< dollars, and they havent got the mooney Ie watnte~d to know if there were an: old-fashioned wheels and looms use< in this county. Yes, a good omnoy. good ol nii n died near here las yea whose family never wore any othec clothes as long as lie lived. I kne another man who was quite well o for a farmer, who was a dleacon in th ohurnh and sometimes foreman of grand jury, who nover- bought store clothes-and he always looked well in his home-mado jeans. lie tannod Sleathor and made shoms for his family. D is socks and sutispenders and turkey red handkerchliofs were all made it home and so was the bed-ticking and the feather beds and mattresses. i Raiso your girls to work," said lie, "(and they will make good wives and good mothers. During the war the women of Columbus, Ga., sworo olY from Iweariig Yankee goods, but m1ineo do the saino way in peace." That is pretty hard on the girls and I should think would lit them for a convent Gr to bo sisters of charity. I had a tenant once who believed so strong in working the children, that they grow up without any schooling. They d ident havo any themselves and dident se the need of any. They had a bright little girl whom they called Tholby. "What is that child's nari? " I asked tho mother, and she said " Her name is Othello." " Why, that is a boy's nimie," said I, but sho insist ed that some man who staid all ight at their house said it was a purty name for a girl. " What is your boy's naime ? " said 1, " th ouno you call Dco ? " " Oh, his namo is Desdemony, but we call him Dec for short." The poor woman had got the namies mixed -Otbello and' Desdemona. Some of theso rude peoplo (1o actually lovo to work. They get up before day and cook and eat breakfast beft ro sunrise and are off to the field. One of my tenants told me he was always sorry when Sunday came, for it was a mighty long day to him. 3ut the old-fashioned wheel and loom were very useful and pleabant things to work with. My wife still loves to tell her children how she used to spin and weavO oin Saturdays and sometimes whenI she camne from school in the evenhuitg, and how Ailsey Tip's mothier-w-. the bst weaver and could make fenl yards of plain cloth a day or six yards of jeans. Becky was thb brag spinner and my wife was taught to spin .mid weave by these family negroes, for they all loved her and were good to her and she was good to them. She used to spin awhile and weave awhile and then practico awhile on the piano and it was a pleasant mixture of music all round, and she looked mighty. pretty in her home-made linsoy dresses-she did-- that's a fact. 1Ll. Am. IllS THItD PUNISHMILNT. A 31issionary Who Had lleen Utniort a nte Wilh lls Wives. Tih story is told of a missionary Who, as sm01110 110 remarked, "had been unfortunate with his wives." This missionary had married at home and takIn his Wife Witlh him to iiidia. There after two years, she died, and the broken-hearted widowor received permission from the missionary boart of his churich to come home. Here he promptly consoled himself and with his second spouse returnet to the field of his former labor. Bu P fate was still unkind, and at the on of a year lie was once more boraved. Again he sought the permission o 0 his board to return homo, but thi; time they gently but firmly declined saying they did not feel justified in the 3 expense of giving him two holiday 3 within two years. They suggested, s delicately, however, that if his desire - was to recoup himself for his recent 3 loss, it was possiblo for him to depu tizo a friend to secure for him a now partner of his joys and sorrows. This lie accordingly did, and, after consid crable corresponlenco and sundry de lays, the twice-boroaved widower re colved word that the bride selected for him was on her way tv his arms. The day the stcamc' was signalled the bridegroom-elect wvnt down t~o meet it, accomplanlied1 by a married friendl. On the return of the latter to his house, lie was p~ouned upon by his wife, who demanded all the pa'ticulars of the meeting. "IDid D~octor' Smith seem miuch over come when lhe saw Miss Brown ?" wits the first quiestionl. "Well-yes-a little." "Wasn't he overjoyed ?" "Well-overjoyed is not, just, the wor L. perhatps." " y~, didn't he say he was de lighted ?" " Well --no- -not exactly." "But, at least, lie seemed fpleasedl ?" "Well I dlon't quitito know." "For mercy's sakce, tell mec just what he (lid say atnd do." "' Well,'' with evident roluctitnce, "when lie saw lier she was at the other ond of the deck, and she was p~oinited out to him by the friend she had traveled with. Sm itli looked at her for' a in ute, and then lie patssed his hand over' his eyes, aiid I hear' d him imurmor audibly : ' Red hai for the third tinie anid after so imuich AN Emx0t1't18rA K(idMN(.-Thle Ale Cormick correspondent of the Augusta Chr'onicle says: One of the most audacious cimtes that has eveir black ened the history of this section of the couttry was committed near here last lFridlay evening. Garuiy Dor'n, the son of one of the most pi-ominent men in this community, killed Prank Smith, a negro man, by striking him a deadly blow on his head and aftei-wards sever ng the hteitd from thme body and kick ing it about five feot away. It seemis that Major D~orn had sent his son and the negro boy to a field to cut se -brushes. T1here they got into a d Is pultCo ab~out ia woman~t andl, accor-d ing to the evidence of lDorn, the negro cal led him a liat-, whet'eupion thme illicuity biegani wvichi ended in the death of the -negro. I orn struck the negrgo oni the head with his axe and atccotding te h tis owt evidence, ecut the negr'o's head olf after he had fallen to thu grtound. A warrant was issued for D~orn and it Is understood lie was ai'restcd this even inlg. i. -rho bidge to be built ovoi' the .Tennessee river -at Knoxville is to be it remarkable stt'ucture in many respects I It is to 1)e entirely of pink marble fr'n: . near quarries, 1,6100 feet long, with on< arch of 2.10 feet, 20 feet longer than any 1 other arch in the world. At its high e (st point, it is to he 105 fee. above tb<( r watem', and is to have a roadway f r feet wide. If -President Uraighiead, of Clemsot e College, will go to the D~emoct'atic con a vontion an a delgate fi'om Ononn Collecting Co llelerate Relics. A SrATE MUSEUM IN COLUMBIA A Letter to General Hamlpton and IIlis iteply--Veterans 1111d Peopcl Generally Asked to Co-oporato Tie Plan Starts Oi' With Good Prosptects. Cohnnnbia Register. Wade Iampton Chaptor, 1). A. R., has dotermined to form a museum of Confederato rteliCs inl thIs city at the South Carolina College. The follow ing correspondence will explain itself CuiuMilmA, S. C., April 17, 1806). General 'Wade Ilamlpton, Colu.nbia, S.C. Deatr Sir : The Wade llampton Chapter of the United Daughters of the Con federacy recently adopted measures for the collection and por mnantent preservation, in our own Stato. of Confederate relies, believing that an enduring State depositor'y and museum of such precious relies will be valuablo in nuturing proper senti mllents ItId litaltining the truth among Our own pooplo. VO naturally preserve with Care the treasuir'ed lust of our sacred dead, aind these chorished relies of our ionored heroes and gumarded mementoes of our hallowed cause will serve as testimony tnd symbol of our loyalty to thbe Conm federato soldiers and to the truth for which they fought. It is tile (Iuty of the generation that waged war for States' rights to pirovide for the proper tcation of coming generations conicerIlinmg the principles which our people hid and the struggle they itmade to tmaintaini them. The atissciations linked with the relies gathered in our proposed mu10seum will serve Is a nu!ceus of historie knowledge, a promoter of loyal interest, and an incentive to historic research among our young people. The llembers of our chaptet' arc grlad to know of the movement now in progress over tihe South, an11d prose clted through another organization int Columbia, t3 gather relies for a gon eral Confederate mnuseutm. As inodi viduals they will aid in making the proposed national collection worthy of the eause it represents, and of the noble men and women whose labors to make it a sIccess dese've alaus)eIit5C. W'Ve cannot have a great national mutisCum of Confoderato relies without the aid and stimulus of good State col lections. The two will helpfully react on one atnothet. ILocal collections will foster Statto pride, atwaken theI his toric spirit, trouso universal interest Ill the State for such treasures, toeh the itrtportitneO of a national iiuseIum as t common bond and source of unify Ing k owled ge and inspiration atut 0(petn the CCs of ou' )COple to the ilm portalce of presrvilg and nmassint together for historic uses soivenmir's o untold value in moulding the view and sentiments of our youth. Tho nu tional collection for lattle A bbey a Lichmond, or wherever it shall b located, will b improved in size an quality, and enhanced in value in ti minds of our people as a priceles treasury by the parallel creation' an maintenance of State collections. We fought as Confedet'ato States and we should h1 Iave a Confedm'ation O. Imtseums, representing our statehoot and our Confederation. Tle materials gathered in the .a tional and State collections will prove a rich mino to the historians of the States and of the Confedoracy. For i )r'ief, clear account of the leading fadts and associations comiected with time relic---writteon by the donor Or len de" thereof--would manLko e each one an ill utm'ationm of prii inciples5, a sti mutluis to lnquir3 and a clute to fruitful investi gation. T1he peopile of each State woul natum rally prize, prtesetrve andl classify lac cor'ding to subjects, pertsons5, laIces, dates andl cyontts their' relics, and thmIl mtultiply in value tile collection. If all our1 rel ics were collected itn Otn Sttei that State woutld enjoy a dlegr'ec 0 Con federate kcnowledge and inttertest not piossessed by othetr Stateos andl the result would be that the State ownling the historic t'ecoi'ds tand r'elics woulId he made itndu lly prinenfhlct inl the piages of history. Edvery State should have in the tna tionatl mutseumif some( t'il ic 0or relics of eatch comt)nitd andtc notodt cent nandet', reprtesentti ng her sons, antd also of the illmtat, U.(ventsl thtt occurr't'd in her biorder's. 'Te same sort of col lectiotn shoutld he made for each State tmtu scum, which woutld lie fuller in de(tails of per'sons mand evemnts of mnainly local iter~est. To carr'y out the purpos o')53(f our1 ebaptet' thme board of dirtectorsz ap poi1ntod a cotmmnittee consisting of the utndet'si gned, and chtarged w ithm the dutly (if col lectinig, preserving aind ex Itib itintg at stated titmes in thbe large rootm in the Sou th Car'ol inia col lege lI brar'y, given biy te college authotri tics as a depositot'y fot' such reclics u~ntil a per'.nanen t place can be suita b ly prtov ided . TPhis roomI~ is dIevotetd solely to th is putrpose andI is undet' the charge oif our1 chmapter, and there all. r'elics. cotntrib~uted will lbe sacdly kept andI exh iblited undet' pirotr regu lation by a cotmmittme from our chap A South Catrol ina col lectioni wouldt be incomnplete without the gift or' lean oif a swor'd, 0or somte oither' timmon)to, fr'om CarolIn a's most illutstrious CJon federate son atnd hero, General Wade .itHtmpton ! IIalampton 's sword on ther battlci ol, llattmptomn's voiice and~ gutidi i ng hantd in tlbc days of South Car'o itau's tial atnd gloomtaft er tihe wat'. [1 amplton~t's wisdom amnd ts tatanshipm itn time cou neia hil s of th e recpuite-i these are among time elmief glor'ies inm the Itistory of out' State. Therefore, wo) h~ope that you will contibulte to ourlt State collectIon m gIft or' loatn, SomO wax' memento thal wvill aId in kindling our youth t emulate your~ hleroism. and stand faw by the >rincipims for wvhich you rilske" yout'll fe and shed your' blood on th< battlefields of right. With best wIshes for your' welfare Fathfull y yours, '(Signed Mrs. J1. W .LFli nn, c hairmani Cardwcll, Mvrs. D). Gambr'ill, Mt's. A thur) Met,ts, Mrs. .Jamnes 11. Woodro' committoo. HAMPTON'S RE1PLY. the foregoing will be prese'rved. The following is a copy of General' Hamp ton's letter In reply: MILrLwooi, May 8th, 1890. To Mrs. J. W. Flinn, Chairman of Committee. My Dear Madam : The letter your comm~tteo did in the honor to addross to io would have boon answered sooner, but for the fact that I have not been well since its recoint, and indeed, save to thank your committee for honoring me by the request made of me, and for the flattering terms in which that request was expressed, no reply was needed ; for your committee, coimposed as it is of devoted and pa triotic womon, n-ust have known that it would give me sincore pleasure to comply with any requebt made by thom1. Aa soon, therefore, as an opportun ity Is presented to me to do so, I shall try to find some relic of the i ar to be plicted Ii your hands and if It Is deom ed worthy of your a'.ceptance, I shall esteem it a great honor to have it among the sacred relics of the noble Soldi ers of South Carolina. Tihanking your committee again for the kind terms in which they wore pleased to speak of me, and with earn est wishes for the success of their patriotic work, I am, Very respectfully and truly yours, WAn )HAMPTON. In its report to the board of Direc tors the committee well says : " The complimentary and beautiful letter is a gratifying expression of synipathy and approvid of our aims and plans from our great chieftain, which we hope will incite the veterans andpeol of our State to co-operate inthe work we have undortaken as partially expounded in the above let tr to the other voterans hereafter to be given." Tle recommendation that this letter he framed and preserved In the imuseumn wam adopted by the chapter. TWO GOOD STORIES. A Confl-dera anti ai Federal Ex chliaige Experiences. Rev. Robert Wilson, of St. Luke's Episcopal Church, says: " In 18S3 I mmet in Richmond a Colo nel Mcooy, of Pennsylvania, who had been a gallant wearer of the blue. We got quit chummy over a 'mixed Wood ' camlp tire, and, wishing to put him at hi;ir ase, I told him the story of Kershaw's Iagnificent reconnois sano at IPrdericksburg, which can never he too often repeated. An or derly had arrived In hot haste with a command for General Kershaw to have the enemy reconnoitered at all hazards from ia knoll which was swept by the tire of the sharpshooters of both arm ius. Every bush and troe had been cut away by the sto)rm of bullets, and it looked liko certain death to the man who should attempt It. Calmly sling S ing Ills ld glass, and turning over his commniand to the next officor in t rank. Joseph B. Kershaw, rode slowly lup to tile death trap, into which he would not send any other man. The _ sight of his heroic action as he sat iamlid the whistling iminies, sweeping tile op)osing ranks with his glass, was too mcl for the clivalry of the Yan Ice conmander, and tile order wont down the Podoral line . " Cease firing on that ofileer ! " The rifles becama silent, thu reconnoissance was finished, and raising his cap in acknowledge mont, General Kershaw quietly rode back at a walk, unhamed." " It was ai splendid incident,", re mariked Colonel McCoy, " but I can cI) it with a personal expiicnce of the clivalrolls disposition of your men. I was on Gencral Meado's staff near I.lichm ionld, and~ OneC morniing, wilthl the gener-al at our heamd, we rode down to take a look over the river. As we turnued shne ply out of the bushes and camm out on the bank we found ou' selves in point blank range of a Cou feder-atc picket (drawn Up) on the other- side. A volley would have (elmptied every saddle, for we were cL tir'ehy at their mercy ; but it would have been miurdecr, for theym could not crotss and captlmrc us. Itecognizlng General Meade, the commander of the detach iment I orderedl his men Into line and they pre-sented arms. We raised ourI caps ini gratefuli ackniow ledgelnt, rode slowly .back 1.to tihe bushels, and, as5 soon we weit falirly .out of sight, Pst spurs to our hiorsos aind sculd(dd back to thme camnp as if the D~evil was a fter' us." ----. -- Tillu CON FFDIRATIC SEA L.-The A n'hmrson l'ople's Advocate repro dulces an interestinig incident of the last (lays of the Confederack', as told by J1udge Coth ran at the memorial exercises ill Ander-son: J1udlge Cothiran, in his addreiss onl Nieimoirial D ay, gave a little unwitten history of tihe last meeting of tihe Con federate Cabinet at A bbevillo in Anril, 18615. The meeting was hold( at the house of Ilon. Amostoad Burt, and Col. Cothran said it was evidently the thought of M r. Davis' mind to make a stand at A bbeville. Thecy were sitting on the piazza.i of the house and as one after anot,her gave his judgment against it and Mr. Davis realized that there was nothing muor'e that could be done, that h uman effort was exhausted lhe thriowi his head1( back in his chair andmi with his handkerchief over his face remained for some moments in that positioni where none but the Unseen Eye could see the struggle troing on ini his great soul. Some mem~ibers of the cabinot wVoro quarter ed at Col. T1. C. P'err-in's, the father-in law of Juidge Cothran, and among themii was Mr. Honmjamnin, the Score tary of State. and a number of large trunks were brioughit into the library aind great numbers of important State papers wered burnt in the lire p lace. Among other things Mr. Benj amin took out a little box and, opened it and drew out the Great Seal of the Con.. i, dei-ato States made of. solid silver md1( asked what he mu~st do with i t.* Col. Perrin replied, " Mr. Ben jamnin, to-morrow morning about 10 o'clock you wvill eross Savannah - river at Petorsburg in a flat. As you .cross you can drop it in the waters of the Savannah and It will be forever 1safe." Mr. Ben jamiln replied, "I will r do It,'" and Col. Cothrani sald ho be v lieved he (did it and that the original Great Seal of the Confederacy was now In the bottom of the Savannah river. Col. Cothrnan exhibited a fac simile of .o .It given him in Washington,