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TH E PEOPLE'S JOURNAL. VOL. 7.-- NO. 26. PICKENS, S. C., TIIJRSI)AY, JUL y '-9 ONE DOLLAR A YEAR. A RED HOT TIME IN OLD [DEFIEl. I.1(GI0ST M1EETING OF TIlE SEN ATO;IAI. CAMPAIGN. MeLaurIn and Irby Ilavo a Lively Time-l.vans Says There's a lil Out-lMayllold Declares That l lerbe Wants a New Party. The largost and livoliest meeting of the campaign was held at Edgeliold. Between 100 and 500 people were pres ent. The usual routine was broken when Senator McL-urin, following Cohjnel Irby, went for the latter's career in the Senate. Mcl.aurin, arm ed with the Congressional Records of the Fifty-second and 1"ifty-third Con gresses, frequently brought Irby to his feet to make explanations. Colonel Irby, the first speaker, was greeted with some applause. 111 was in Edgelield for the first time since ISU, said he, to sce the reception of the people's great tribune, lien. Till man. le was hero then lighting com binations and was hcre now lighting the 'State Iouae gang," whi;h was at tempting to parcel out the ollices of this State from Senator down to coro ner. '"I am running as ai)emocrat," declared Irby. "I am the only origi nal Package in the lot." McLaurin had patented his speech. At 13eaufort, he wanted protection on rice, at Charles ton on rice and long staple cotton, and so for eve'-y county, but he didn't think he had a patented protection speech for Edgelil Id. McLaurin had the peo ple fooled. 1le is not on the same plat form as Tillman. Tillman had declared he wasn't. Proceeding on a now tack, he de clared that McL-urin had gotten Gon zales for his political dad''y and the world can't beat hin'. T-, then declared that he and Tillman were political daddies of all of the candidates, but thought they were treating him with disrespect by opposing him. He had been pomltica:ly assassinated ana thrown out for dead because he re sisted the great conspiracy last year against the Denocratic party. lie was a l)emoeart, always had been and could be nothing cIse, because he was for the interest of the people. Colonel Irby thch attacked McLau rin's tariff views, declaring that Till man had said they were iniquitous, and "I know will believe him if you won't ne. You people here love him and believe what he says." Colonel Irby attacked the newspa pers. le declared that Mr. Gonzales had prevented a Conservative from en tering this race. Mr. Gonzales had called him a liar in to-day's paper, which was unparliamentary ; no one usually ca.',ed him that when close to him, how-vee. He attacked the 1'orty movement,. le believed that every white man should be allowed to vote and therefore disapproved of the con stitutional sullrage clause. Colonel Irby made the assertion that I he and not Tillman had made Evans Governor. He, with Tillman, ho do clared, had had Saluda made into a county and left Edgeulicld Conservative with Sheppard to run it. Reviewing past political history, Irby asserted that last year he could have 1 gone to the Chicago convention as a delegate. Gantt, said he, came to him at 2 o'clock a. m. and said that the State convention had left a place open for him. ie sent word back that he would not accept because he was unal terably opposed to the declared bolting pillicy fif the'. p y.. Editor Ball next came in for praise for coming out against the newspaper combination at Columbia. The Elierbe Watts episode was repeated, bu, elici ted no applause. le declared that he ' could prove that the "State IIouse. clique" were going to tur-n out Mclver anu that Tillman knew they wet-c plot ting against, him. lie concludled by reviewing his rc-, eoi-d and declaring that he had always ' been with the people. Crl. lIrby was w ild ly applauded when he t.30k h is seat. HeI kept the cr-owd in a good humor and they listened attentively. Senator McLaur-in began by ireview ing his i-ecoi-d as a l.teforamer-. The lRe form movement, he declar-ed, did not depend on the lifeoof any man, not even on that of Tlillmnan. I 1e julmpedl on li-by for saying that he made TillIman sup port Evans for Governor-. He thought it time for- a Reformer to step) in when a man lik i i-by boasted that ho made the Governor-. "Who ought to make the Governors of South Cai-olina, the wh Ite voters or Jlohn airby '. Irby, from his seat-'" The white vo ters." "But you said just now that you made Evans Governor-." Irb-ly : "' Wel-l, I helpled." (Laughter.) McLaurin attacked hima for devising the Colleton plan in order to foist Evans on t,he peoll when they dIdn't, want him. Senat,or McLaur-in caused much merriment ,by pai-aphi-aslng Hcnr-y lV, substit,uting I rby for l"al staT, Evans for Prince Hal and Larrzy Gantt for Pistol in t,he scene wher-c Prinice Hal becomes king and Ignores He had no political daddy, ho dec clared, but he did not know befoio that Editor- Ill was act,ing in that, capacity for Col. Iteby. Mr. Ball hotly interr-uptod, saying that he wais the piollticai daddy of no man11 and was opplosedl to 1rb)y. "Well, you ar-c not for ime." "That's tiruc, too,'' rejoid Mr. H all, md Senator Mel aur-in then proceeded to severely att,ack Iirby's recoi-d while in the Senate. llufore beginning he ex plained the termis "'paired'" and ''vote cal led.'' 1Irby's record for the lit-st session of the l"ifty-seconad Congress was as fol lows: Votes taken, N), I aby voted I13 times, pairaed 10 times, not palired Oh. The hirst session of the Fift,y-t,hird (Oongr-ess, lie said, was called to ri peal the put-chasing clause of the Slher man act. Senator I rby's love for silver should be seen in his recor-d dui-ing this session. There wetre .1 votes tak&n ; irby voted 19 times and did not voteo:30; was~ not, paird 22 times ; dli: not answer- to call of Senate I i calls.I Col. Irby' trecor-d for this Congr-ess was gone I to further-. Sentator McLaur-in then declared: "'I-am sick looking up such a r-ecord. I-lre was a life and death struggle foi silver and absolute indifference as to 1ta fate. As to his absenco from the l'ifty third Congress, Col. Irby explained by saying that ho and Senator Buttler ab sented themselves to break a quorum and keep the Senate from repealing the Sherman purchasing clause. It was a filibustering measure. Ile was always on hand to cast his vote. As to his absence from the Fifty second Congress, Col. I rby said that was a I'resit,ential election year and he was at home as State chairman looking after the interest, of the party. " You all know the Conservatives didn't know they were whipped, and they were planning to capture the May convention. Till man was running for re-election. We wanted the delegates to the Chicago convention. I was sent there, and this passing b-tck and for ward accounts for mulch of my at sence." Besides, continued Col. Irby, he was paired on all political questions. .' other questions his "pair " would al ways ascertain by telegram how he sto(. Senator McLaurin again returned to the Congressional Record. After a lit tle he asked : )o you want to elect a man to the Senate to represent the Statt; and then lot him absent iimst'l to run all the parties of the State Y" Irhy-" I have quit that now." " Yes, because the people have quit you," answered McLaurin. Col. Irby, s etting permission to in terrupt Sena-or Mcl.aurin, jumped on him for his ailliliations with so many parties. le again excused his ab 'ences from the Senate on the ground >f sickness and death in his family. Senator AleLaurin con,inued on this Eggressivo line for a while longer and then proceeded to make his usual tariil 3peech. Ills speech in till lasted about Lwo hours. It was frequently applaud 3d and the crowd evidently favored it. Before taking his seat, McLaurin took i hand primary on his tariff views. About one-half showed their approval by voting. It. was after 2 o'clock when 3enator McLaurin had concluded. The ,tudience at once began to leave the ourt house for dinner. 'Then Mr. Mayfield arose to speak. Hr. May fi ,1d made his characteristic ntl-dispensary speech, but in addition mid that after introducing his bill for its abolition he had had conference with Governor Ellerbe. The Governor .sked him to withdraw it, which he lid. Mr. Maylicld said that inasmuch is McLaurin charged him with being in a combination that he would say MlcLaurin is the appointee of the Gov ernor and Governor Ellerbo declared to him (Mayficld) that he would back McLaurin with the whole force of his .dministration. Ellerbe urged him lot to run, saying they intended to avor a new party composed of con crvative Conservatives and conserva ive Reformers. By the time .Mr. .John Gary Evans' urn to speak came around the crowd md returned from (1inner. le made its usual tariff adeeelh and in itsevere y attacked Mel.aurin for his views. :ie read favorable comments from tle mublican papers. IEvans charged that dcLaurin had never been faithful to is friends. Had It not been for Nlc laurin, he asserted, Judge Wallace vould now be a juttice on the supreme >ench. While he was working for him iieLaurin was knifing him for Pope, n order to get l'ope's place as Attor icy General. When he was running or the Senate last year McL-urin cnifed him, he declared. McLaurin, who had just returned rom dinner, said that he had helped :vans in his race for the Senate. ills lefeat was due to Irby having forced lim, as Governor, down the people's ,h roat. Evans declared that the lie was out omowhere. Then McLaurin satsilent. A lively spat on MeLaurin's vote on he tariff bill ensued. The crowd lis ened attentively. There was decided ~vidence of vindictiveness towards ';vans, while the crowd checredl Ac nturin at every opplortuinity. When IEvans finished the crowd be ran t) call for McLaurin. He declined, uowever, to resp)ond. L'I TRIUSTICICS MAKE AN SWIVER. L'ho Counclusions of tihe State Board of' IIcalth are Not Acceptedl as to the Naturlie andl Causes of' thIie SIck ness. Concerning the report of the State Lloard of Healt,h in regard to the fever it Clemson College, the Board of Trus ces makes the following statement: "The Board of Trustees of Clemson Jollege, mindful of the impo'*tant arust in their charge, feel called on to make a statement for the information f the people of the State in regard to tho recent sickness at the college and its causes. "We have road the report of the Staito Board of Healt,h, and have also had under consideration the report of t,bc college surgeon, Drm. lHedfearni. In addition to the light thus thrown on t,he subj.aet, we have made a p)ersonal examinat,ion of the college buildings and the surrounding grounds, and we are not satislied at all as to the nature of the fever which has p)revailed or as to its cause. "We have great respect for the scientific ability and learning of tl.e State Board of Healt,h, but we are houndm to qjuestion their conclusions, from the fact that eminent p)hysicians n the neighboring counties have de clared the fever at the college to be malarial and not typlhold in it,s nature; and there is grave doubt whether moroe than fourm eases of typ)hoidl fever havq have been at the college this year. "' The cursory and imper'fet exam I nation muade by tihe Stato lloar~d of Health is shown by tho fact that two palumablo errors are made in their re poet,~ The dai ry, which they place under the ban as a probable cause of disease, was not built, on a pondl w hiich had been ll ied In, andl there is not a single privy on the "surroendling lills " above the dairy. The water from the only p)rivy in the neighbor hood reaches the ravine below tihe dairy. Then the statement, is made, thrmee sep)arate times, that the water closets should be, out,side the barracks and not inmsdo, and should be "'detach fd " from them. In( fact, the water closets were removed from the build ing more thani two years ago, and they are now detachedl, with an open cur rent of air passing betweon. They are reached by a latticed gallery fifteen feet long, and there Is no nos sibility of sewer gas gett,ing into tit building. " liut We are not dispos 'd to criti else the State Bloard of Ilkalth, amt will cartry out all-of their recolmmcn dations that are possible, and leave nt stone unturned to allay all causo of doubti as to the proper sanitation of the college buildings and grounds. " We h1ae never had any trouble before, a:nd we ant,icipate none in the futoure other Lan the u,ual climatic and unavoidable diseases of the ;ouu try. " The vacation will be changed, and Instead of being in the winter will be in sumnier, the scholastic yea. heginning hereafter on the second Wednesday in September and closing the second hur'1'uslay in J une. " l,very suirgested or possi ie cause of fever will he removed and the build ings thoroughly I is nfee'l and pILt inl good order. " We do not besit ate to give assur alees that the collire w iA be guarded agailist it recurrence 01 the trouble, if it be possible." A CAUSTIC RI'JOINDIEIt. Chairman Taber FilrlMt' Exposes ile Sit uat iot at Clemson College. To the Id:dil'r of The Slate: In the latter part of .J utne, the comr uitteu of the State hoard of health were instructed to investigate the cause and type of fever at Clemson, and to report, the results to the gover nor. This was done and the report of the committee wits 1)ulished through out the State. The iegister of the 10th of July contains a statement by the trustees of Cletnson, in which they criticise the report of the committee, and while denying certain statementk made by then, they aIllrm" additionally that the examination of Clemson b the commit,tee had been "very cursory and imperfect." Against pIrofe:siotnaI gentlemen, sent upon an important mission by the highest authority of the State, these charges are grave, and cannot pass unchallenged. The coni mittee were content to determine the type of the fever, and, by ruyuest, to imalke whatever suggcstions they t,haught best. They blamed no one, even by insinuation, and were very glad to be the neatns, if possible, of re lieving the olliciuls of Clemson of utn pleasant embarrassnent. It is to be greatly regretted therefore, that the trustees failed to appreciat,e the dell elte position of the comIn mittee, and have forced them into print in self defence. The trustees claim that the "cursory and iipelrfect examinat,ion made by the State board of health is shown by the fact that two palpable errors are made in their repetrt. The dtiry which thwy place unl_er the han, ais a probable cause of d isease, was not built, in it pond which had been titled in." In reply wo beg to state, Upon au thority, that the present site 01 H Ie dairy had been a bathing pond made by the Calhoeuns and had been tilled in with earth and then und erd rained. Our informant even pointed out where the dan stood. There could have been no motive for one deeply interested in the wet fare of Cl-mson, to have invented this statement, the truth of which we had neither inclina tion, nor the right to question. in fact the stat,ement is apparently con lirmed by the character of the soil and its surroundings. The trustees in further denlial of our report, assert, that there " is not a single pr;vy on the strrounding hills above the dairy." We were informed that the hills were often used for un sanitary purposes in place of the water closets. This we found to be true. On the hill tbove, and to the north of thle dairy, and at the foot of the hill wvi thin thrtee or four' feet of t,he spring, wye found abundant excrement,itiouts maitter. Thiis condition of th ings was really wlorse thanti a privy oin the hill top). On the oppiosi te lilil, at, the hotel, there were twvo privi' es-one at thie stable, wh'ich waIs visited by myself and D)r. I ieese, and the other att tIle hotel, examIi ned by Dr). 'vanis. SomlewVhat southeaCisterly from thae (iry P'Is a dlwellg, whtereS we were informed, there wVas an additional privy. I iut more LI) n all these, and how ever i ncredlibhle, we foundl a spring (provy ? ) locatted w'ithi in0 the dairy3. It0 or 12. feet f romn the mnilk and buttter, anid thelroo lOin ( whlich the privy wits plIacedl was lilled withi olfensive gases. t"urthernmnore, from the grounld wvith out the buliling nIoxious1 gases' were escinitg, ei thier froun the~ pipe oIf the lpivy OP from the senel r, wichlel, stranlge to say, rUuns wi thin two or thri ee feet of the dairy. We <pi'ote aginI from the t.irustees, who claim that "'the stat,emert Is inade three separat.e t,imrs that the water closets shioulId be outsi de, of the Ibar racks, and not i nsidle, 1and should11( be detached from themi. In fart, the water closets were remzoved from tlae bu1id i ngs more than two yeiars ago." liy substituting a"buit' forp "tand," as was1t initendedi, tiht senattec wIill be changed to a simupie al lirm ationm that water cilosets shltmd niot ihe VId wihin the main1 h bulIdingis. Th'le report oIf the commiiitteo was1t hasetily3 prepared~ and illegibly wr1itten, bmenec it numlber (If typ)ograph1ical errors appeaar. The secondt time the staternenot is miade "'thatt wat,Vr closts shlou Id bie Ih-taed from dwel lings,"' has irefernceIII ptainly anId tile third Li me the statmnentt is used to impreI'ss tIle fact, thait wa'ter closets should bie detteed fromI buiildi I ngs. There Is, thae refo re, no( ground1iit for the truIstees to assono111 tha tt LIha commini ttee f ailed to irco g n iA.LIthat. the waiter closeLs wereI detachied froia thle blarracks by~ It hit,t.i rad galer (135I fact, lomt!. T1he L truistees imighlt hiava visi ted JCemson for it gamle a,f "Iit b ind iman's Ilitber to Lhe ic onnnitteLe con lined0 themsel ves to reporItingi thi fiaitary ii' defects of (Clemson.l Wha tt shltl tbey say (If its mlaaIeent,'- Shial we s peak of tile diett, pIronounced001 iade qlute for stu1den1ts I who,e phIysial andi mlontalI pIowers are. tatxed by ian ex hausti ng cuiulum 111 and1 by3 theC severity (If Illilitary dliscipline 11 Thait the studeints arle r altired, when th day's work is enIded, Lto be shiut upl iI their roomis from an hour1 a tfter sunset until bedtime, to swye1irl it buiillldi little supeOrior, In satnititry arratnge mnnte to t.ha ibby nerIan i.n Lieh the students have been crewded like Criniinltls, four in it room, barely liarge enug i to alford breat,ling space for two ' Shall we tell them thata deep ditch, reek ing t, ith aCcutiulated excreta, was ' inteitionally rt'rested in its Ilow and -ohjeeted to tite duecomposing te. tion of intense solar heat, antid that the students were kept workiig in the low lands beside it, day by day, under the beaintg noonday sun-a menace to their lives y Shail we tell that the mlilch cows were driven daily through this poison ed water, of which they p erhatIis drank, and which mtust have splashed upon their udders-iin either in tance, enough to alfect the m11ilk in irmuosly Shahl1 we tell that, the f,rest itater venling between this pe.tifuous dit.h and the barracks, the o.:ly protection for the students against the inrush of poisonous etliutvia, was t eklesly de stroyed y And that an Ill :ial tetit'ed, Of his own per onal experience, that the barracks were invaded by a "':orrihle stench '" .1ust think of it : All t,hi- right under our" noses, at Clenon. wh ieb aspires to be the br ightest j nwel in the educational erown of South Carolina. Sieack not of typhoid fever att t Clem son.i It, cannt,t and must, not he : le te the i horrible itscril)tionl over the gates of Iiades than that of t"pidenic typhoid fever at Clemison Guard the secret-and let fathers and met,blers cotne, and after weary days and nights of ceaseless vigil, and with bleeding hearts, earry back to their homes their own dear diead. MIight we not write upol the walls of Ciemnson that the " ( t o-a "' of igno ranee is piled on the " i'elion " of i im beellity : C.l.\ni,i:s Ut. T.lm.:U, .M. I)., Chatir. Coin. State li.aard of Healt h. ort, Motte, July 1 .1 1i7. IMVW '10 MAK'l I ND). "arrttes eln Incr-ease Area by 1':n Iarging Pr1ot ion. 'ratclical Farmer. It is sald that an Enaglish politician who claims that "t,hu land is the prup erty of the naation," recently assutired the beaters of one of his speeches that we can make boAts and coats, build cathedrals, railways, c:i nal's br-idge", tunnels, and nake all Lite other at Iiclos which we associate wit,h the necessities of mtode-u life, but no m11ani ever mad lan(. No mnL ve made ani aire one foot lon..rer or )re foot hroadcr." Jle cause o' this difirtnee hetwecn land and various articles of human mani facture the speaker claimetd that a dif fereit rule rerarding owner-hip and t.axat,ion should be m ade and enforced. Tllr artie a ;ret. Iltl,jy pelMie bt: Ill Country, a, well as abroad, who seem to thiuk that the fartier has nothing to (10 wit.h the .arking of the land w bhc he owns. Ationug them there are rut. a few farru.s wtho,e pratctiee is In advance of their theory, but who do not reail.:e hotw inuch t,hey are a ready doing in the way of nmtking 1 tnd. There are, also, many other, wlo, have, as yet, made no use of their oppo'tuni tics in this direction. If the making of the land Is regard ed merely as at creation, the formatittlot of the actual elements of which the ground is coin posed, we shall, of course, be obliged to adllit that the I-::glish speaker was correct in his assertion thatt "no man evr made? c1."'ni, if we take it in at broader sense, and rc gard the matter in a practical light, we shall lind that, to all Intents and )ur"pus:s, man can lake Ind. Not only can he convert great areas which are ,ver-llowed by rivers or seats, into fertiho soil, as has been done in Ifoi land on tin extetsi ve seale, butt lie can also(, by3 ~ wise mainagenient, greatly in crease thte pIroductiveness (If ti-acts al recady uinder- culitiv~ationL. ''The mant w~ho maiikes hiis farmi prtodulce tw%'ice its mutch ats it, did at an eartlier pletiod, hits prac tically entlartged it,s iarea. So, too(, has tbe main who1( by sub isoiIi ng '( drati ni ng hais dheepenedi thte solil hat he citIt,ivattes. As lhi:teisoni sid (of the fat-trer of Con. cotrd w ho adoIpted im proved tme Lb,hIds, ho has found a fatrm uinderi the oneC that ihe fornierly enultiv~ated. The iphtnts have a inuich gre-atert surfaace fr-omt which t.o (obtain foodi atnd mioistur-e. I 'racticatlly the arcai of t.ho lanid htab bteeni enil artged. Th~len if wei takc produ ctivenecss in stead (If area ts thte st,andard-( of mecas uisemt,i the manti whIo seedst hiis land)4 to the blest adOvanitage ireally3 gins l5'a good deal over the oneI whot( does itot fully uit,i ilze the ateca that lie cuiivates. 'lTus at man11 lanIiting ptatitoesli in hills I. vo feet aplart aitd ini rows three feet apar-t will have abiout 2,100) mtore htills oni ant iaci' thantt will otte wilo plants in rowsV oIf the~ samte, wvidth, but who1( has the hills thriee feet, atimeit ini the ro(w. I f the landt is ~in good( conldition to Ill dutce the erop, and fetrtilizors arei Ipro peirly us5ed(, thte closer plant,ing shou)ld( yil I as mtuhel to the itill ats thte other andtI a ver-y muitcihitarget- crop will be secured3( itt at considerahtloe lower- cost In te vatriouis ways3i we have tmci ti (nledi, antd itt other1sN uni ch will siug gest thtemtselvyes toI titoughitful in tds, it 'S possible1 to do( wvhat, its fare as results atre concl(ern'tedl, IS eqivailt,t toli mak in g tthese~ miethiod s is openci to iabiint eve'ry, ftamer. it working (lit somet (If thes plantis not a few farnmer-s wouldhi ind at wvhich now weigh heav-ily uponli tI.tem. An itlwork in this direct,b>n caries it dloubile r'ewiard. It gives mtater-ial hen cli ts w hiich can itbe reckoned in doll uri and I cenits iand atlo g)jivYes eour iage men3it and)4 pleasulre' and( tan inIcr-easa of toI thintk het,it.orits triiy aA Ite lot.irns toI work b)ett,lr. TVhiat he( not 0only ae-3 colisljhes muchel in the present, but hue alsof quatlitiUsjh imlself folr still mor01- elli cilent cutfort ini thte ft,tare. --A iar'ty oIf St. I,oulis commiTericail travelers to save htotel hul;I, haivc dbar tred ia ral Xway citr Iitted til ats at hotel and sailesoma fort it "it days tip. I''orty chiants wi I comue tI the ear to ibuy. 'FThis is a new wrKik Skindo111lita' i- tadvIer ing is good(s for sitie formi a - f raction (If the i r rel valuto.'" "' Yes, abiouit eight-li fths, I guess."1 BEHIND STONE WAL AT FREDERICKSBURG IIOW' GEN. T. It. I. (01111 1t'I1, Gra)hi(r Sr3' Sr hf e It ghtt nhg W'hert T%wenty-itie inndirel ('onI'eiler aterl Killedl and Wonnede iycg 'I'ThollNiati h'elerals. The ren't'11L deniise of Mr. 'lhoaItl I". IZ. Cobb at her home in Athen., (Ga., recalls the tragic deatlh of ert;t brave and gallant husband, (;en. T. lR. it. Cobh, on the I:LI of I)ceenber, IS-' at, the battle of I 'rederickshiurg, \'a. G;eneral Cobt was in eomllnuand at til mlo,t bnpi)trtant point on (Gen,'raIl i.:'e's tine of hattle, and hisspiendid deft-lnce of a strattegic position gained the ad iration of the entire airmty. I Iis loss was sincerely lamtnented, not only by it is own conuilnand, ht titrolghout t he niagiiili(elt. corps under I Aongstret. (GeneraI Cobb was killed behiiinil the famnous stone wall at th^ foot of Marye', l leirht,, where for tL ree days his colm iiatd, in snow all ice, haid foug it one of the liercest battles of the war. ''hc slaughter was terilie, seven or eighit thouland l''ederals being killed fit vounded by Cohh's brigade and tll Con federate hattterics on M are'i Heights, while the killed In Cobb' brigade ninered only 'cigiteen. ('apt. W. A. Starnes, of Atlanta, wa in Cobb's legion, and was near the gen eval when .he was killed. Spieaking ( that fateful day lie said : "Genera (')hh was one of the bravest, the hies and the nohlest, men the world ha ever known. Illssoldiers loved him a a father and would have followed hili to the ends of the earth. We had bee IigliLing three days behind the ston wall. The weather was hitter cohl and snow and sleet hid been falling T'he wall was several hundred y ard long and was ILL the foot of the height n)o n whib about one hinndired ('ifed erate grnl were planted. When Lii l"ederals would mlove out of Lie totwt ulpon the openi fi id ive lines of hatit deep, the cannon woul play upon then with t'rri ble slaugiter. (Cienra Cobb, behind the stone wall, would order hi: mlen to reser ve teir i;r"e un til the I"cd erails were within easy reach. "'liKep cttol,' he would say. 'Ke.p) cool. Wait nntil they comi up; don't fire unt,il the i)rder is gi ven.' lie moved 1upi and down the line, cont:t.ntly giv ing thee instruetios with words of cncou)tlragmt'Ilient aid liiself showed abll utelv tit fl'ar. ( )a the lieti, diny elb'rge :aftcer lIargo was inade ulntil the l"'edirals literally natc breaStwot'ks of their dead. .l ust before t charge sime Qf our mhen exposed theiselves Indi General Cobb went to where they were and cauitinicil them to t th ure careflul. Al. that itrint a shell ex ihiidct ah,)ve him. (Onel piece struck Gener:al (.olhh ill the thigh and lie fell and bled to detath., A:; he wait wound ed thme Chrge" advlnct'al in thi , lir b(e lLe itt " errilie. In the midst of tL.e fearful hbttle ill as his life blood hbed away he said to those ahout him: ' Widid your position. boys: hold your position : be ltiuiet: I'i all right.' lut lie was mt all right :and in IL few moments he wa, dead. 'w( of his comrades who trid tocarry him from the lield were shot am!l kiluei, lie was one of the lo: t heroie men ever seen in battle, and one of Lte coolest.' "The brigade behind the .to)e wall.' continued CIltain St.arns,"W..- ,' , mi posed of Cobb's legion, I'hillip legion the Sixteenth ( aorgia, the I',igIteentt Georgia, and the Twenty-fourth (Genr' hot.'' L.tN\ w;t i- :I-:'l''$ l)-: unm '-'rt . Generai Lungstr'eet's graphie de scrli)tion of the light before tibe stoui wvall is aLs follows: in front of MarLIye's I Jill Is IL pliateaut a11 nd iiinedilately ILL the baLse of the ihil there is IL sunken roadLC, known aLs Liii telegraph r'oad. (On the side of L,h r'oadL next, Li) the town w'as at stonie waLlI should ber igh, aLginst whiiichi tile eareti wasL banked, forning an1 atlmlost 44nap1 prhoachleI defense. it was imipossibe for LI)e tr'oops) occu1pyig it, to expost. morei' Lthan IL small por'tionl of their bod i, s. ]Hehtindi this stonle wail 1 had Geni. T. I I. lI . Cobb's br'igade, and14 a portLion of the brigadtte of Genelltral li'r shaLw, hoit,h of MeLaw's ivisIoni. i t mu 4st, noiw lie uinder'sLiood thait, the l''ed - erls, Lio reachi whallt appiiearetti to b)e miy waiki't pint, wold have to pias diiirectly' over Liihis wall, ihildi by Cobbl's inlfan.try. (if aLrt,illr iy, hauml hie ytehiping the li guns, and4 in goinig iivier the liel wit,h him nonil. I :,igge-tedI that, lie p)lace it so) aLs to aid inI covin g L,iim phd ii in front of .\arye' i| i. i ie' anlswer'edi,"Gnr, we Lviii comb I i it a if w' IhI ai ie-toothi A li t.tle he'fiii'i noun, I sirit, orders Lii iali my1 battteries i tipin lire Lhthrogh tbe sLtreet 4 iLL at,iany pintt whleret Liii troopst) were' sern abitI theii city, as a diIverioni ini favor of .Ilacksoni. 'Thiis inl hinid ftr my3sel f. Th'ie l'iderial tr'oops tiled (lit, of t,be it,y lIke htiis tout of aL hive, c:omin rg liiini loule .1ilk marLieb and1( lilhirig Lihe edtgte of the lieltd in) frionit of Cobb I. Thiiis as juis.t whIi(e w'et had(i(: expecittd attack andli I wvas pIre' beftori uis. thety were'i mhtiil aLnnoCyed by the lire't of our hatLLt,eiis. The ifi eld waLs te vaIst 11 n ,ib' of troops thaOt had I~s t, fiear'fui eaII'riage. WVit L ur ar1' It. ii l'iry fromi tIle front, i'ight, antd left, te:ar inig LI(through their iranks, the l''ederials pre'tssedi forward with abnitosL ininciilet sLtady st.e p't andI icoting up their biroken ranks8. Thius re(sioluttely they3 mlarchetd upon)1 the stonelt fencie, behiInta whiei'e waited LIhe Con feder'ate bigaden of G enerail Cobbh. As thle i"-'(derials en me withiiin reaIchi o)f thiIs brigade, a stormn of head waLs p)ouredh intio thleir advancing irnks and t.btey weire swept from Lthe tiehl like cha~Lf befoi'e the wind. A c liud of smiiok e sihut ou0t the scene for i mromienrit, andlti, i'isinflg, reCvealied thlt s11ht tred fr'agmnts recoiling firon their gallhIant but hopeless charLgi The art.iller'v st,ill nlomhed throurl 'lmllitt is, we are too 1)l: [.ow Prices keep us )usy, The Iacket Store is LII ways )tuy what you wvtallt cl e 11('ia What. eVC Say. :utr corllipctitor's call iu atcklllobige (ie charge an< of this cotill y to say wlcill Stoi'e l1is been 'a etllct to i1s goods as the bc st. Bought at Low Prices, andl(l our (tcistoincrs rejoice i Rtcket, Store is doing foir t Askitng that one aind tl to " U nderbuy and Unders, Yours in dett NEW YORK l P. S.---Still reCiem etr w i1ll rt u nitce (UC carriage this the ranks of the retreating i"eiorals iand sought the jht's of concealentler into which the troops had ptlungedi. A - vast, nutmb(1er wenL, pell-me l into anii old railroad cut, to escapeu fire froi the rIght and front. A battery on I,UU's Hiil saw this and turned its fire into the ent,ir length of the cut, and ii shells bugan to pour down upon .hi l'cder"als witi the nost frighltful de struction. They found their position of refuge more uncomfortable thnt the tied I of bhe assault. ''hus the rig htV grand dliv. ion of the Army of the I'otonlac found itself re Illsel and "lat.t.e d"l ii, as iir-t at bemplt . do rivu us from Marye'sc lill.I Ilhadly was this attat-c !'ithe tie h1.l when we saw ,bie leteruinedt I"-edcralk again liling out, of I'rclcrickishurg and ii'eparing for anither charge. Thie Gon(fvtlcrate's under (Cohhl rsrvcdl their lire ani riuietly awaiteid ti' ap toi>ahe of the iin y. The I. irals Camett nearer" than be"foru, but were forced1 to r.L ir"i ' b;!fore te v- .liro-e tl gunite of C'obb's brigadu andtt the lire of thu arl.illury un the. hi;.:bt.-. iBy that tune thei Ith1 in front of Cobb was Lh ick ly st,reLw n with tii dead and dy ing I,'udcral. biti, aain thuy formned vi,II des,eurate cuurage ar.d ruenewedi the attack and were aigain diriven oil. At each attack Lhe litugeiilr way so great, that, by the tilni. (he third att tack was r"lr,piisel, the t'inrund was so thickly strevii with dat! 'thtt the botlics seriouisly ilnii.p-de.d the a>proach of the t-ed-rals. (;u-ral . lu, vho was with iime on I, "', Ilill, bietenme un cay when he saw the attacks so piin11il1y rn wet a i tiushi i ft~/". "i - wi rb4en-i, itil feartd-t the I-'. h-ratlii'lt h reak througrh our' Iinu. A\ ftii Lithei thr ebmamr e the .aiid Lto me: "G neral, th y art nas-irig Very ht"avily and will break your tie, I atmll afraid." "Gcner al,"' I rulplie'd, "if you pit every Imtn noiw (In the othr side of the I'ulo tiitti on that liuld to ip troicl me nver the v tsam line, uand give ime plentby of anniunitin, I witll kill Ltieiii all before Ithey reiach iniy liine. I 4ink to your right; you) are' In some dainger' Liiere1, buit no oni iliniy linre." I thiink the fou rthr l,hno the i-'ederials camne, a gallin i t felowi reaich ed it, in i on hundrei xiii'd feeL of Cobbli's pos5it,ion atnd then foil. Close behind hi im etne somen few sent,b,rI ng ones, but, thLey were cithe r killed or Iiedi firin certin deilath. Tihis 0 imrge wvas Liie onlty e i>rt that iiookeii like aniy i'eailt danger Li) Cobb, and aft,er it wvas repulised I felL noap preheinsion,~ assur-ing iiysel f thatt Lhere was enough oif the dead I''ederails on the fielid to g'ivye rme hal f the biattleo. The anxiety shown by Gehneral I ,ne, hiioever, I inued ime Lto bri ng upJ two or.Li hr'ee ibrigadiles, Lto be0 on1 handi, and i G;eneralt Kerishiiawi wvas orde cred, ithLi Li,he i'itraer oif iIs hi'lgadioe, idown to Lthe stone wail, but r'athera to canrry am muniiiioni t,hani as a reinfor'eomnti for Cobbi. Kershraw ditshied dowvn theo de 1,1iviby ini Lim to Li s ucceedt (obb, whoin fell fi'rm a wvoiuind in thie L,i gh, and ied in a few miiinute Ls frorm loss of A Iif, iiLIme tIbe i-ieeeratis formiied and chargedi'i anad iier' reptiulsedl. A sixth L,im the;Li y chiar'gid and we re dir'ivein liack, whenun night, eamne Li) end the fiear fri eatiriage, atnd Liithe ederalis with dr'iw, leaing thie bat,ble-tield liLeratlly hcapedl wv it,h the bodies of thieir deaid. Inefor'e the weillirecbti fire- of Cobib's briigadi,Li t,heledratls hnad falleni like Li,b etiy dr'ippirng of raini fr'om Lthe eaves of a liouso. (ou~ir maunsketry alone had kitled arid woundiied at leatst 5,000;l atnd Lihese, ith thiLze sl aughlter by Lihe artiller'y, left, over 7,0001 killed'u aral wou)1ndd bI efor'e the fioiit of M arye's itill. Theii deatd wer,ie piledl soimetirres thr iee deep, andt when mring bi'oke, ire spicL,aele t,bat, we sawv iuon Liibe b,lie-flie ld was~ one (of thu imost,i dis tr'essing t ever itnessed. Thie eliatrges hiad been itd5~espert,e atnil bioloody hut uLterly hiopetess. I thouighit, its I sawi Liie i-'ed eral s corne atga in and iagain Lto Lhir d ieath, Lthat Liihey deired ' i suO cess If eonurage atndi dainig conuld n title sohliers to vietor'y. Goveirnor' lIhierboii Wil Seizor All IIi irni's WVhier' Oihginaol Packauges atre lirok err. Thle Columbia I O gister', in noting the fact thatt ani origil piatckatge str .wias iraled in lPlorenc atnid i contents con1fiscetd by the constables, says: Tis wias the second closuro of tho kind since Ju dge Simionton's decision amd indicntes a deteMrminattion on the part of tihe SLtLa to close upi these place; on the leatst violation of the law as lat down hy .Judge Simnonton. in thii - paricular case it anna. thn.t. t.h ,y to write very much. Our e place where you can al ueip. When we say cheap, by cheap namres, and we I leave it to the good people er the New York Racket them or not. Our goods are so let our competitors weep it the good the New York is people of this county. I remember that our motto is ll," we are d earniest, ACKET STORE, <1,Y lI: & NA I,l.Y, Proprietors. thie Stirry of'er. Some one fall FREE 1 dealer was closed up on a more toch nicalit.y. He was rogularly an agent of a foreign firm, but, It appears that his half pint measures were not half jIints according to the dispensary mea surenent and he was arrested. le was selling in what ho called half pints, but becauso they were not up to the usaal ilspensary neasuremont the dealer was arrested for violating the aw. l"rom this it Is soon that the Stato is going to take advantage of every possible loophole and nake it as troublesome as possible to every original package dealer. The Govcrnor stated in this connec tion that he would certainly order 5i4ed all liquors found in any place where the original packago had boon broken, and by original package he ,Aid he meant the box or other cover ing in which the bottles came. He said that ho certainly did not intend that liquor should be brought into the State and sold unless in original pack ages, and by that turin ho means that a certain quant.ity in a bottLe cannot he taken out, of a package and sold. In other words the Governor holds that each bottle of liquor must be shipped into the State separatoly in order to constitute an original pack age. He goes further than that and says that. if bottles at.ro shipped by the cur load packed in saw-dust or paper or any other packing t.hat It. must be sold that. way else the original package Is broken. If this Idea is carried out then the original package people are not going to have any pie ile and the dispensary :ll,avu iii tie serious opposition. Thus it will he seen that every possible t,einicality will he taken advantage of by the Stateu in order to uphold the monopoly of the business. It is even held that the order of Judge Simon ton in the case of Moore is only a tou mporary injunetior, that being all that was asked for in the complaint, and that, therefore, the State has anotber chance of having the whole thiing reopened before Judge Simon ton w Ith the conseqjuent delay which atlways attends the settlement of any ease. It Is not. likely that such a pi)Ont will be taken advantage of, for it would he a foolish wast,e of time and money, but like a dIrownting man every st,raw Is bieinzg grabbed at by the staito. While the original package estab l ishimenits are sure to dlecrease the prof()it,5 of the dIspensary, yet, the ligures shouw thait the (decase has not been so1 .erions as yet., and taking them as a enriins as yet the diispensary ollicials are inclined to believe that the business Is not to be seriously in terfered with. t''or instance it Is pin ted (out. that the business has niot only not. deercased arce the first du cision of Judge Simnonton, but has ac tually boon1 great,er. Taking the mont,h of June the showing is that for thIs month In 189J7, 7,0:34 crates of lquor were shipped out, as against ti,E;N5 for the sarme mzonth in 18961, being a dill'olrence in favor of the present mont.hlI of :Ilt cases. In the inattor of boor the shipments wer :1:1:1 and :15:3, a di l'orence In favor oif the rnonth for this year of 20 bar rels. Taiking the first eleven days of the prosenit month the showing is a sh ipmlenit of :1,uit01 cases of liquor for I1Sltt, as against :i,f;Iti for the same po: idc oif 1897, hbeing an increase of s!xty-threce cases. Per the eleven days of the month in I89)h the boor sales were 202 barrels as against 218 for the same time in 1897, an increase of six teen barrtets. Th'lese figures are taken by the ofl cials to lhe evidence of tbe fact that the ortiginat package b)usinesa is not going to seriously hurt the dispensary. The comnparison for the year 1897 Is for a period wheni the constables were on joined, andl when in Charleston plartic ularly, the original plackage stores were in active operation. Taking this as a criterion the ohieals are of the opinion that the dispensary will be able t.o hold its own. U pon these fig ares they base the opinion that the de cision is not going to materially injury the dispensary. However the evident intention oIf the State to take advant age of every point, no matter how technical and far-reaching it may be, shows that the State does not welcome the comp ietition and that it will do all it can to break it up. -There is a man in Glasgow who, when he goes to church, notes the hour when the sermon begins, and it it does not exced 20 minutes he sub scribes two shillings, sixpence to the collect,ion bag; i over 25 minutes he subscribes one shilling ; but it it goes over that time he buttons up his pocket I and gives nothng.