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VOL. XVI. NO. 31 . JUDGE WILLIAM H. WALLACE Soldler, Jurist and Statesman?A Loss to the State -Sketch of His Life. (.?reenvillo Mountaineer. The UGW8 will he received with sad ness throughout the Stale that .Judge William II. Wallace has passed away, lie had been *iek for two weeks with grippe at his homo in Union and was thought to be improving, but a sudden relapse look place, on Thursday, '21st inst., which speedily terminated in his dentil. .Judge Wallace was one of the best beloved men in South '.'atolina. He had troops of friends in every part of the Slate, ami it is not saying too much that lie never lost a friend by bis own conduct. Upright, honorable, genial und companionable, from bis youth he was endearing his fellow-men to him and received their cordial affec tion. When the war clouds lowered over this section in l^iil and men were called upon to select leaders for the con flict, it was not surprising that Wm. II. Wallace was .soon chosen to command others, for lie bad been schooled to the control of himself aid was u lit leader of men 'hereby. He entered the Con federate service as a private, but in a month's time he was adjutant of the regiment, afterwards lieutenant colonel and then colonel. Later on he was made brigadier genetal, und hold that rank until the war closed. Gon. Wallace returned to the. prac tice of law when the conflict of arms bad ceased, and was u quiet, honored citizen of Union until it was determin ed in that county to break asunder the bauds of Radical domination, so far as they were concerned. He was sent to the Legislature in 1872, and his service, at that lime was preparatory for the stormy times in 1870, when be was to bear a conspicuous part in the redeinp lion of the State. Although in a hope less minority for four years, Gen. Wal lace commanded the respect of the ignorant and vicious mob then ruling the House, which was a means to some extent in the peaceful solution of the trying ordeal in 1870, after the dual government was put in operation. The Democratic membeis elected him Speaker of the House, and to his calm judgment,complete self-poise and solid determination may be attributed in large measure the avoidance of blood shed iu the Capitol when lie presided over the " Wallace 1101180," which was confronted by an angry and excited band of vicious negroes, led by a few unscrupulous white men who wore daily reading the handwriting on the . wall. Con. Wallace had won much i fume on the baltlc-lield, but in the ; crucial days of the " Wallace House," be linked hid name indissohibly with ( the regeneration und redemption of Iiis , native Stale, aud for all time to come i ho will live in the hearts of those who arc true and faithful to the history of those memorable days. , Brigadier-General William Henry AVallace was born in I.aureus County, March 24, 1S?7, son of Daniel Wal- i lace, for several terms a member of the Legislature, u major-general of militia, I and from 1849 to 18?.*! representative 1 in Congress. His grandfather was I Jonathan Wallace, a native of Virginia' I who removed to South Carolina before I the war of the revolution, in which lie j was a patriot soldier. General Wallace i was graduated at the South Carolina college in December, 1849, and in the following spring was married to Sarah, ] daughter of Robert Dun lap of New- i berry. She was the niece of .James Dunlap, appointed governoi of Florida by Andrew .Jackson, and grutlddaugh- i tor of William Dunlap, a revolutionary i soklier who was the grandson of John Hunter, a native of Ireland who was United States Senator from South Car olina in 1801. Goneral Wallace was occupied as planter iu Union County i until 1857, when be became the pro prietor of the Union Times newspaper, and in 1869 began the practice of law at Union. In 1800 as a member of the Lcgislatuie be supported the call for a convention, and at the expiration of his torhi ho enlisted as a private in Company A, Eighteenth South Carolina volunteers. A few days later he was appointed adjutant of the regiment by Col. James M. Gadberry, win. was killed at Second Mnnassas. licfoie going into the Held the regiment was reorganize.!, and Wallace was elected lieutenant-colonel in May, 1801. The regiment was ordered into Virginia in time to ongago the enemy near Mai vern Hill in August, after which it fought at the battle of Second Mamm as, losing about half its number in battle, including the gallant Colonel Gadberry. Wallace was at once pto tnoted colonel, aud be led bis regiment, in tho brigade of (ion. N. U. Evans, through tbo buttles of South Mountain and Sharpsburg with the army of Northern Virginia. Subsequently he was on duty In defense of Charleston. In tbo spring of 1804 tho brigade under Gen. Stephen Klliolt was ordered to Petersburg, whoro Colonel Wallace participated in tbo defenso of tbo linos and all tbo operations of Rusbrod John son's division. His brigado suffered most hoavily at the battlo of the Crater, four companies of his regiment being j blown up orjlcstioycd by falling earth at the explosion of tho mine, July :;o, 18G4. Iu September,ho was promoted brigadior-genoral, and up to tho ovo of tho surrender ho commanded (he brigade, fighting gallantly at Gravelly ruu and Namozino church qu tbo ro i, eat. At Appotnattox Court House, on the night of April 8th, ho was as signed by General Gordon to the com mand of Johnson's division, in which capacity ho reported to Uon. Clement A. Evans and participated in the last action of the army on tho morning of April Mth. After his parole ho devotod him self to tho practice of the Iaa , the care Of his plantation and the roatomfctcn nf good government in the stak-. lit; was one of the few Democrats elected to the Legislature lu 1872, and was ro clccted tu 1874 ami 1S7??. Lu 1877 ho was chosen judge of the. Seventh cir cuit, a position in which lie continued to serve with honor and nhilily until I8l)3j when he retired from public life. It is safe to say that no man ever sat on the bench in Soutli Carohun who gave more satisfaction lu the iul miulstration of Iiis ollice and this to lawyers and litigants alike. Ho was patient, thorough, alert and painstak ing. Courteous always, he nevertheless maintained the dignity and c.nfo ced the rules of the court on all occasions. I'rompt in bis rulings, he showed always an adequate conception of the question made and an exact know ledge of its bearing upon the issues ? ented. 'n los charges to the jury, Judge \ ullnc ) w.. always clear and strong presenting the law in a style which, whilst it evidenced tho well-inform and painstaking lawyer, yet enabled tho jurors to understand the points presented and Hie legal principles by Which tho issues were to be deter mined. Ltl the course of Iiis labors on the bench?bis long contact with the bar nnd the people in all parts of the State .Judge Wallace continually rose m the. public esteem. The impress of his character and of bis conscientious administration of justice remains yet helping to maintain the character of the judiciary. ' Since his retirement from public life, Judge Wallace has lived quietly m Union, but taking a deep interest in public affairs and tho industrial de velopment of his town and State. He was a stockholder in cotton mills at Union, Pacolot and Lockhart. ? Judge Wallace's wife died just a year ago. Four children survive him : .Mrs. John C. Shcppard, of Edge Held, Mrs. James II, Maxwell, of Greenville, Mrs. Victor tinge, of Alabama, and 1) II. Wallace, of Union. He has two sisters living, Mrs. Dr. Nott and Mrs. Lydia Sams, both of Spartanburg. A TRAGEDY IN REAL LIFE. Truth is Stranger than Fiction ? Remarkable Reconciliation. A special dispatch from .?rund Rapids, Mich., was sent a few days BgO to the, Detroit free l'rcds, as fol lows: Within the pasl tou days in the beautiful country home of Charles 1'. Lambert, a prominent member of society and business chclcs, a drama has been enacted that in a novel would lie described as bordering on the. im possible. It has been generally accepted for the past quarter of a century that Mrs. Limbort, the aged mother of Charles Liinbcrt, was a widow. Recently the iged lady was strickened with paralysis ind about two weeks ago, while very low, she began to call for her husband, isking to see him but for a few min utes. All attempts to soothe her were In vain. Olio week ago an aged stranger Irove unto Hie house and asked Miss Jlara Limbort, who is the constant companion of her invalid mother, it he might see Mrs. Liinbcrt. Miss Lint fort refused on account of her mother's llness. "Are yon Clara" asked the old gen tleman. "Yes," was tho answer. "1 am your father," lie said with a lob, and he was ushered in when Miss Liinbcrt had recovered from the lirst ihock. The old man was greatly agi alcd and sank in a faint into a chair, Hit revived and after consultation with .ho physicians, was permitted to sic lis wife. The recognition was in ilantaneoua and as the two embraced he household withdrew. Tho door ivas shortly shoved open and ashy white the fathered staggered into the mil and sought the arms of the nurses is props. lie rallied during the after noon, but in the evening when he wit nessed his wife's suffering again he sollapsod and was earned to a bed in i remi-conseious condition. Later be Ire amo totally unconscious and never revived. Friday be died and Saturday with the gientest secrecy he was buried in a country cemelry nearly ten miles mt of town. There was no COllln used, but the children insisted on re viving an old Indian idea of wrapping the body in rich linen and rolling it in a beautiful shawl and then resting it upon a frame With handles. Before he was gono the venerable man said he was a ranch owner with property in Colorado and on his person was found a large amount of currency and some valuable papers. The funeral was conducted so quietly that the mother still believes the father lives and is in the room opposite her own, ill. It is feared that she will not survive if the news of the death is communicated to her. Tin: ONLY Woman jAILKtt.?Mrs. Evelyn Smith, of Greenwich, Kent County, Long Island, is the only wo man In the country who ollicially oc cupies the position of jail keeper. Mra. Smith was born in the building over which she has presided for the last twenty years. For more than llfty yeara some member of her family has t-ctved in the position which she now occupies. She has never been attacked by a prisoner, and during her long term of service there have been only two escapee, both of them at the same time, before tho present modern jail was completed. Mra. Smith rarely has trouldo with a prisoner, oven those I who aro brought into the jail by force quieting down under her Influence. She declares that no class of people aro quicker to apprecialo kind treat nicut and courtesy than criminals, nnd that It is much easier to handle them with pleasant words than with hand cuffs and solitary confinement. Tho number of prisoners under Mrs Smith's care averages ton. During her tem porary absence from homo her place as jailor is takon by hor daughter, Mrs. Anuio I Un dick. Btanth* ^ The Kind Ycu Hava Alw^s Boogbt BILL ARP DOWN IN FLORIDA. He is Back from the Land oi Flowers and Tells His Ex perience. 1 had n pleasant call to Florida, and have just returned. The railroads make it so easy for you now (hat even a veteran can travel if ho lias tho money. 1 left home one morning after early breakfast, and was in Jack sonville that night to supper with my boy and his family, ll? miles iu thir teen hours, and traveled over parts of four roads. It was a daylight trip and I had opportunity to notice the changes that latitude make iu vegotation. This new route to Florida Is a star line from Atlanta and the West. It in cludes the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis, the Western und Atlantic, tiie Central to Macon, the tleorgin aud Florida Southern to Valdosln nut! tho Atlantic, Valdo'ila and Western 10 Jacksonville, the prettiest cleanest ami host regulated city in the South. x\il of them (irst-clnss roads, with parlor cars aud dining cars and sleepers that run all the way through. They don't even tarry at Jacksonville, but keep on and on to the jumping oil place, it you wish to go there. That new road between Jacksonville and Valdosln has made this speed and comfort possible, for it has done away with tin- elbows at Tifton and Wnycross. The meal Plant system has no elbows alter you get on it, but it is a long ways from Atlanta and the West. The new road was just what our people wanted. It is ilrst-class in all respects, and makes its 110 miles in less thai) three hours. 1 like these straight Florida rail roads; they don't reel you about like our roads among the mountains, aud they just glide along like a snake in the grass. These mountain roads swing an old man around the curves and sttaill Iiis groin ami loins ami diaphragm ami epigram ami make him sore aud stiff for two or three days after he gets home. 1 can hardly navi gate now, and yet my wife wants me to plant some lettuce and beans and okra and work among the roses right away. Besides all this, the cook has quit, and 1 have got to get up by sun rise and tire up the stove and put on the coll'ee and hominy and then call her to get, up and cook the. rest of the hreakfast. 1 used to mako the biscuits, hut f have struck on that; 1 don't bo lieve that a man1? rough old horny hands were intended to mix up Hour and milk and lard in biscuit dough, Aly old friends, Judge Ilillyei and Judge Undorwood, were once walking along a side street in New York and as they passed a bakery they saw the bakers through the blinds, ami tin v were treading dout.li in the long troughs with their feet. .Judge Ilillyer said: " Do you reckon their feet are clean?" " Well, yes,"' said Underwood, 1 reckon they are by this lime; they have | been treading a good while." Hut I , don't care a cent about the cook quil ting. I believe in self-tnaiulcnani c? I believe that every household should be ', raised to do thcit own work when it is , necessary and I am proud to say that my wife and my children have never begged a co k to stay against her will. Honors are easy, let her go and resl if sho wants to. The fact is, it suits me. pretty well, for the cookiug is heller and the things are cleaner and it saves money?we gel along on less victuals and can dine out with our children every day or two. We can use bakers' bread and make toast and hake Irish potatoes and fry eggs and gel along line without a cook. Hut 1 was thinking about Florida fair Florida that Ponce de I,con found fifty years before the Pilgrims found Plymouth or John Smith found James town. Fair Florida?the Fldorado of ibis continent. it lias been hidden for all these years, but has been found I never saw the lik; of Northern tourists, the hotels at Jacksonville are overrun, and it takes several columns in their papers lo give their names. These tourists are all rich, and spend their money freely. The men are i fairly good-looking, but the women look tired aud prematurely old. Northern women will not compare with Southern women for beauty and refinement of manners. I have known this for fifty years. They have to work too hard; poor things, 1 am sorry for them. They have got nothing but money. I walked round the St. James and Windsor and never saw a beautiful woman; they are masculine ami coarse, and not an angel among them. New England or New York or any of those cold, icy Slates won't produce fairies or sylphs or angelic creatures. You have lo come as far South as Philadelphia and Baltimore lo find a beautiful woman, and they are scarce even there. You don't dud lliem In ploniy until you get down lo Charles ton and Savannah. Down here where I live they are nearly all good-looking and graceful, and as David 11 arum said, urc coupled well and stand up square on their pasture joints and step like a deer. This is their good fortune, not only from heredity and climate, but because our men are more Obivalrlo to their wives and daughters and do not work lliem ho hard. A recent liumbor of a New York paper says our long-haired philanthro pists arc fearfully in earnest about tho Southern negroes, but you never hear of them regulating the toil of a woman clerk in a retail btore. She rises at ? o'clock every morning, cooks her own breakfast nud spends a nickle for car fare; she attend* to all receipts and shipments, she k ;eps the hooks ami balances the cash; she is nofallowed ono second for luncheon, and never eats iu tbo middlo of the day. She does not go home till after 7 and on Saturday nights till after' 12 o'clock. Her salary is #7 a week. She is bright and interesting, and of good family. For bor f>7 a week sho labors never less than ninoty and often one hundred hours, ami this is about K ccnls nr. hour. Thoro is no hope for this girl except in matrimony, nnd tho right man will not I)nd her. And yot theso Northern philanthro pists will skip over them all and, hko Ogdon & Co., mako a tour down South to sco how tho nogro is getting on? I tho best eon tented rnco upon tho [earth. J From Jacksonville I dropped do ? 1 to HigJi Spring*, whore the good lad ul the isovs ( i niury Club wore call f Don't Coinpkin about poor health if you won't spend one dollar to secure a full quart of that panacea for all the usual ills? Quart Bottles, It has been used for thirty years in the cure of Scrofula, Rheumatism, Indigestion, Nervousness, Neuralgia, Catarrh, Anemia, Female Troubles, Eruptions, Insomnia, Salt Rheum, and Similar Complaints. Sold by all druggists at one dollar for a full quart bottle. Take no substitute. MADE ONLY BY THE MICKira DRUG G0.9 Detroit, Mich. or ?ale by The L?nens Drug Co., Laurens, S. C. mo. I had a delightful lime?an ova* I lion of young maids and matrons and ' old volorana whose gray hairs and care worn faces reminded me of the passing /ears and Iho passing of the old sol ilicrsoftho Confcdoincy. These vete rans Will soon all be gone, l"i " Time tails down all. Both j;reat and small, Except a pensioned soldier; Thoy do nol die, Hut multiply As fast as they grow older." Wo have bul 70,000 loft now, all told; but thoy have nearly a million up Noi 111 on Hie pel) -ion rolls. High Springs is on a boom of im provement. The i'lanl system has its largest hospital liiere, and its most px? tensive shops except those in Savan nah. lOvorybody is busy and every body seems COlltonlcd and happy. 1 wns the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Ciracy, whose, beautiful homo and lovely little children made me feel at homo. Wherever I (hid little children 1 have no fear, and 1 do as I please, and eat with my knife and drink codec out of my saucer if I want to. The good looking mayor was selected to inlio lluco mo to the. audience, but not being used to such performances, forgot bis little speech, and began with " Mow 1 lay me down to sleep," and so they had to gel Iho preacher to take Ills place l shall not soon forgel Iho kindness of those good pcoplo of High Springs, and especially the cordial greeting 1 received from the twenty one ladies of the New Century Club, The Scriptures tell us that Hie. lime will come, when seven women shall lay hold of one man, but 1 was captured by three times seven und maintained my.sclf well considering my antiquity.. Caiinkciik's Colossal Incomb.? It is said that Mr. Andrew. Carnegie will retire from active business life with an income of at least 910,000,000 a year. A few COluparisyns may be helpful in an effort to realize what these figures mean. At the average rate of wages paid lo the soldiers in our regular army Mr. Carnegie's yearly income would maintain a standing army of 00,000 men. The average salary of Clergymen in the leading Protestant denominations in ibis coun try is about .-rloo. The L'iltsburg capitalist, therefore will receive at) an nual income BUfllciont to pa)' the stipends of 25,000 pastors, a number greater than the entire ministerial force.of the l'rc.sbyleriiin and the Mctbo dist Epi8COpal denominations in Ibis country. At the average per capita cost of living in America $10.000,000 would bo gufilciont to maintain a city of more than 7?,000 population. It would pay what would be accounted a large salary C$10,000) to 1,000 men, and a fairly good annual income to ten times that number. It would give about o,000 young men or women a college education, and allow each one of thorn not less than $1,000 besides for "a start in the world." Perhaps tbo 810,000,000 in Mr. Carnegie's bands will do the world us much gooo ultimately as though it were divided np for some of these purposes, espe cially in view of tbo ifnnounced fact that ho proposes to give away tbo most of it for public libraries.?Leslie'* Wookly. Ill i.i. A III*. OA8TOIIIA. - tl !l ?TIT t vz4vp?! It WHEN IN THE PHILIPPINES The Drinker Gets Drunk After the Liquor Gives Out. "Conditions in the Philippines will ii< >t improve in the nexi -?"? years, and a quarter <?i" a century from now the Hinted Slates will hnvo the same light on its band?. I think the only way lo . pacify tin: Filipinos is to do as was done with the Indians?kill thom off 1 and s.tait a new hrccdauu generation." Thus declared George W. Sanders, cd' Norwood, (Ja., a private in the Twenty-ninth volunteer in tan; ry, Com pany 10, the rcgimuni thai was recruit ed und organised tit Fort McPhorson n little more than two yoara ago, and which since then has been on duty in the Philippines. The. regiment is now CO route hack home for muster out, the terms of the commissions of the 1 olliccrs and the enlistment of the men being expired. Sanders was shot in the hack ill the province of Satnar, 1 wliere for the. past 18 months the regi ment was on garrison duly. Ho was in Ibc post hospital for a long time ami WHS then removed to the general hospital in Manila, and upon his re covery ho was mustered out for physi chil disability. Ho Is youug in years, but his experiences in the Philippines lias made his hair gray and Ik; is bellt ami doubled like an old man. lie has sorved through two enlistments in the army, one in the Third Immunes in the Cuban occupation, and the ono ho has just. Iluishcd in the Twenty-ninth volunteers. "I hayo had all the army lifo I want," said Private Sanders, "and the life and hardships and treatment tin; private soldier receives in the Philip pines has knocked all the patriotism out of me. if a War should break out right here in the United Slates ami Georgia should bo invaded i would uot enlist or volunteer in the (Jliitod States army unless my yard in NoiWOOd should he Ibc scene of lighting. itI would rather bo a hound dog in Georgia than a private in the Philip pines. The volunteers arc sent out lo occupy towns and provinces, and have lighting to do to capture thom. Throe regular regiments have never been out of Manila during all their service in the Philippines. The niillilaiy authori ties seem afraid of an upiisilg or an attack on Manila, and llicy want the regulars on hand. "It is no wonder hundreds of insane soldiers from the Philippines nie brought to the United Slates on almost every transport. Army authorities give it out that the men are insane from the excessive use of Inno, the alive drink, a dccoclu n of wood alcohol, sugar cane juice ind cocoanut oil. The men dims (his all day ami get drunk (he next day when the liquor gives out. Then lluy are put out in the rain or the broiling hot sun on the dring line or on sentry duty. Poorly fed and nourished, they are unable to stand tbu strain, and they become < razed. Not a few soldiers have COnimlitCd suicide, and many mote soldier? have been killed or died of their wounds than is shown by the. published reports from the Philippines. 1 Thilo the men do drink the native hp. , they do it because they cannot all. the high-piiccd whisky. The poorest whisky costs about per quart, while bino, tbo so'diera' drink, costs but 10 cents per quart,. And yel lbe.ro is no moro drunkenness in the here in Atlanta following tho pay day of the troops. Iforo In Atlanta 1 'have seen soldiers buy whisky at 30 Aoiits a pint und find tlliiiv.-?tfhte in Ivors REMINISCENCES OF WALLACE HOUSE. The Stirring Events ot 1876 Hampton's Tribute to Wallace. Tlie death of Gou. W. LI. Wallace, Confederate soldier, legislator, juri.st, and a prince among mon, has called forth many strong tributes to his worth and excellence. Governor McSwccucy scuta telegram of condolence lo the family, and the Hags on the Stale Houso were placed ut half mast. Al though it, has been a number of years since Gen. Wallace was iu public, his eminent, services to the Slate are well remembered. The following is taken from the (lolumbia State : No tribute to his memory could be. more gratifying to his loved ones than the kind expressions from Cen. Wade Hampton, who watched Cen. Wallace's career in the war and who was Cov ornor at the lime that .lodge Wallace was leader of tbo Dcmocinlic House of lteprC8OUtallV08 in 1870. To a repre sentative of The State Ceil. Hampton expressed bis rcgrol at tin- death of C 11. WalblCt . lie said that '? Gctl. Wallace's great soldierly qualities W< re testified toby bis rapid and di served promotion ; that his eminence as a leg islator is a matter of history ami that his broad judicial mind qualified him to preside ill the dignified, able manner winch characterized bis long, true and faithful sorviee on the bench. I sin. ecrely regret his death," concluded (?'en. tlaniptou. tlen. Hoben It. llcmphill, <d' Abbe ville, who was a member of the Wal lace House, was 111 the city yesterday. He. spoke thtisof Judge Wallace: "My Qrst acquaintance with Judge Wallace Wa? in 1870 when he became Speaker id the historic "ouse of Rcproscolii lives which has sittco that linn; been known as the Wtlllae ? House. He was the right man for that critical lime. His courage, judgment and discretion saved the Statu from ;inny evils. Lfhe had not been perfectly self-possessed when the State House was llrst? nlercd a conflict would have, ensued and all our people would have become involv ed. The same is true of the time whin the House was: compelled to quit the State House, lie was an excellent presiding oillcor, impartial 111 bis rul ings and quick in his decisions. TIlOSO who served with him will hear of his doath with profound sorrow. He was a bttlVO and patriotic soldier, a learned lawyer, an honorable counsellor and a jus.t judge. The State has lost 0110 of her noblest so.is." The death of (.111. Wallace recalls vividly lo the minds of not a few the exciting scenes enacted while South Carolina was in the hands of 0 dual government. Mr. John S. Verlier, master of Richland County, was a member of the Wallace House, repre senting Ocoiieo County. lie pays a 1 high tribute to the character of Judge , Wallace. That gentleman, he says, , was one of the most even tempered i men this Stale produced in tin closing years of the last century. In all the excitement, when tragedy brooded over the law-making assemblies, <o 11. Wallace was eool determined and in full possession of the situation. I to for- , ring to the incident i of thai lime, Mr. Vernoi' gave a running statement as ( to the principal happenings. In the general election of 1870 the Democrats elected a large number of representatives to the General Asse in- ( bly, which had formerly been over- , whelmiugly Republican. The election . of the delegations from IDdgC?cld and Laurons counties was contested, how- , ever. TllO State Democratic executive committee urged the Democratic mcm bers 1 b et lo report to Columbia prompt- 1 by. This was done and the night be fore the assembling of the Legislature the Democratic representatives met in Clark's hall and in caucus nominated the following ticket : W. II. Wallace, , Union, Speaker; JllO. T. Sloan, Sr., Hu bland, clerk ; W. II. Williams, of York, rending clerk; andJohu Drown, I tariiwol), Bcrgeanbat-arms. TllO negro secretary of Stain, Uuyne, had in the meantime refused lo grant , certificates of election to the Demo, crntic contestecs from lOdgclleld and LntirOU8. The LlepublicatlS gathered in the Slate capitol the day the Gen eral Assembly was called lo order am! elected K. W. Mackcy, of Charleston, Speaker. TllO Democrats in a body, headed by ttic Kdgellold and Laurens delegations marched to the Slate capi tol, luit wore refused admission. Whereupon John C. Sheppard, of l?dgcflcld, dolivorcd a protest. Tho capitol building Was in charge of Fed eral troops commanded by Gen. H tiger. The Democrats then man bed back to the Carolina hall, which is now stand ing, in Iho rear of llicblaud County court house ami behind the stores on Main street. This building is historic in many ways, having been built of brick still hot from tho smoking ruin-, of Columbia ill 18(50, In Ibis ball the Democratic members, constituting a quorum (though not a majority) of the General Assembly, proceeded to olect the ticket nominated in caucus the night before. The Senate, which was conceded to be Republican, was noli tied of the organization at Carolina ball, but took no notice of tho bod) and recognized tho itopubllcail House, which was in session al the State capitol. From this the Democratic House brought action in the stale supremo court lo mandamus Ilayno, tho secre tary of state, to issue election certifi cates to the Democrats from Kdgcllcld anil Laurens. The. Democrats won their point. Then at the suggestion of the State Democratic executive committoo tho Wallace House decided to get control of tho hall of tho House of Represen tatives. Gen. linger agreed to interpose, ho martial interference if the Democrats would conduct themselves peaceably. However, although udmtSSloo to the building was obtained, it was nccor sary to pass tho portals of the legisla tive ball. Strategy and force were both brought inlo play. Tho Radical Homo was to assemble at noon on-Thursday. Tho 1 >ontocratht ouigiy^ud^^Jwd^dm pecliug this movement. Ilowovor, (ho negro scrgeant-at-arms, a burly fellow, attempted to prevent entrance at Iho swinging doors of greon baize. Col. JnmOS I.. Orr, of Anderson, tbrust bitn to one side, in (1)0 SCUillo Mr. .lohn S. Venial" scrambled Ihl'OUgh the le^s of (ho combatants ami .snalcbcu (ho door open The Democrats then tiled m an. C . - allaco took tin speaker's cbatr. Tins was a few minutes before 12 o'clock. When the hour of noon ar rived the Republican Hoteio ollicials attempted.to gi t their seats, hut were refused. They obtained chairs, how ever, ami sat beside the Democratic oiliccrs. From Thursday until Mon day at hOOU the dual government con tinued thus, two Speakers, two clerks, two of every olllcc. During thai liiuo no Democrat loft the hall for fear that In-could not gain roaduMssiou. Food was brought by friends, ami the Demo cratic legislators slept in the ball. If a Democrat Would rise to ad dress speaker Wallace a llndicol would address speaker Mnckey, and both members would speak lit the same time, each dying lo drown out the other, No business was transacted or attempted. In ihe meantime four negroes came dyer to ?In' Democratic standard, Hamilton and Myers, of Beaufort; Wostbc ry,of Stunler; Boston, of New berry, and another from Fnirlicld. Hamilton was the llrst to make u break. Ho 18 said lo have been a ne gro of intelligence an I menus, Ho walked into the hall faultlessly attired in broadcloth. Laying his heaver hill ami gold-headed cane on Iiis desk, and displaying his revolver, which he also laid cu 10 at baud, ho addressed Judge Wallace as 44 Mr. Speaker.1' The ne uro? s crowded around him on rag d. The white men also surged up towards his <Ie.sk. v* Whom did he mean t-> address as 'Mr. sneakers?'' Tolling ihe negroes to stand hack, Hamilton kept them at bay with his pistol ami said that as soon as ijulci was rcstoicd ho would explain whom he meant. The eager crowd foil buck and the ne gio then proclaimed why be would up hold the decent political parly ami would align himself With Iho Demo crats. The following Monday at noon on the advice of Judge Wallace the Dem ocratic House abandoned Iho hull of the House of itcprcseulativob and went hack to Carolina hall. This was done for * JUSOU that no good could be accomplished by remaining and it was f a'ed that the terrible strain on the people WOllld be followed by disaster unless the tension he relaxed. Having now, with the negro re cruits, a clear majority as well as a fpiorum, Iho Wallace House elected Uon. M. ('. Bullov to bo United States ?senator, A stand was buill in front of Caro lina hall, there being m> buildings be tween that spot and Main Street, and here Ceti. Hampton was inaugurated [iovcruor, the oath bcit.g administer ^d by J. <,?. Marshall, a Democratic rial justice-; now Senator from this on my. The Republicans elected D. T. Cor Irin to Iho United Slates Sonate, dr ain was an alien, but a very capable lawyer. No business wars transacted, no laws ?mu ted. 1!< solutions we c discussed by the three several brauche- of the general Assembly meeting daily. Dr. lames Wood row voluntarily did the lirinlillg of the Wallace House, bin was afterwards repaid. ,lusl before L'hrislmas the Itadicnl House adjourn 8(1 and '.he Wallace House followed suit. The expenses of tin: Wallace House were met by VOluullliy services if the members ami by voluulary con tributions from patriots. The next spring affairs were chaotic. rllO Democrats refused to pay taxes Lo Radical county ofllcials, but mad. a contribution to the Hampton govern ment. When Buthcrford B. Have-; became President Match Ith, he with IrcW the United States troops from 3outh Carolina ami the backbone of ihe Bndical party was gone. D. H. Uhnmborluin, Republican Oovornor, ibdicntcd, and Wade Hampton, the licro and idol of the Democrats, oc cupied the executive OllicC ill the Stale capitol. A special session id' ihe Gen eral Assembly was called, and as there Were no funds for the expenses of the Radicals, the Mackey House was dis sipated. However, I hero were many Republican negroes who sat in the Legislature aller the Wnl'.UCO HotlSO gained full COIlll'Ol, bocaUSO the coun ties whic h they i( presented were un [loubtodly Bepubllcan. W. D. Simpson, of LiUU'CUS, bad al ready been sworn in ae Lloutennnt (lovornor. When Chamberlain gave way to Hampton, Greavos, Iho negro Lieutenant Covcrnor, gave way to Mr. Simpson, GroaVos tried to fcrco ClOVi Simpson to lake the oath of Oillcc, ?0V? Simpson, swelling with indigna tion, replied: 4" The Senate will come to onlcr. I have taken the oath of olllcc mice, ami no power on earth can make me lake it again." There was n dramatic scone after Ibis announcement, but quiet was alter some diflicully restored and Co,-. Simpson did not take the oath as pro posed by the ncgr >. Cen. Marl W. Gary was a member of the Senat" and defied Hie negro Senators to dispute QoVi Simpson s right to the olllco. Cov. Simpson was elected chief jus tice of the State SUpiOmQ court ami Jeter, of Union, became LiuulonanI (Jovcmor. Cen. Wallace, the presid ing olllcor of tho House, was nlsc ?i.ini, Union. When (loll, Wallace the presiding oflluor of the House, was elevated lo Hie circuit bOdCli in LS77, John C. Shoppard, alt ir an in lorosting contest With Jas. L. Orr, be came Speaker of the House. Mr Shoppard aftorwards married Gon Wallace's daughter. Nono but a mail of highest attain incuts, doliCatO tuet, SUprq no courage and Indomitable will conM have been Speaker of the Democratic. House of 1870 and such ,i man W. H. Wallace is declared liy all whj Kervcd with him. Confodcrato rounion .headquarters [ have, bocn opened in Columbia with Wade H. Manning iu charge. armer owning a Hock Of shcop Every cotton planter should write for our valuable illustrated pamphlet, "Cotton Culture." It is sent free. ^ S i ! 11:1111? ;?inl ntldrcss t.> CKRMAN K M.I WORKS, 9} Nassau St., N. Y. STATE NEWS AND NOTES. ' Senator Tillmnn lias been olocled numversnr) orator of the commence incut of ICrsklno College in June. C 1. Joshua F. Ilobbs, (lio Nowbor riun who was formerly kirg of one ot the South Sea Islands, is now associate editor of the National L'rovislouer of New York. It is said ?76,000 worth of now re sidences arc immediately in prospect in Columbia, and work has commenced on sonic ol them. Severn] wholesale stores are also being built. The fertilizer shipments from Char leston during Fobruary broke all re Cords, Two hundred thousands tons were scill out in the twenty-eight days. This v.av ban lied by all the roads lead ing out of the city. Thomas J\ Hrccdon, a motubor of 1 prominent family of Ma rib ro Coun ty, committed suicide on the 18th lost, lie was sick with grip and pneumonia. He killed himself by cutting his throat on! then shooting btmsolf. Space at the Charleston Imposition ias been set aside for. exhibits from the Philippines, and it is expected that ?otne valuable and interesting relics roin these historical isles will boon ixbibition ai this exposition. The carnival to be held in Anderson April I lo 0 is exciting much oppo sition in religious circles, that being Holy Week. Protests and petitions ne being freely circulated by the Jatholics and Episcopalians. The Governor has received a letter ;oin Ada Doniinick, al Prosperity, taking return of two gallons of whiskey ?ei/ 'd by the C0IlStnblC8. She says the A'biskcy is for use. in sickness, but her lusband ia suspected of wanting it for ?Und tigering. The final reporls from Urn county luperiutcndenls of schools for Ham h rg, Chcsterllcld, Ilorvy, Spartan mrg, Union and Williamsburg are still uissing. Until nil of those reports aro 11 hand Iho $100,000 ol dispensary noney cannot be distributed. J. s. Hlalock & Son have made a vonderfttl transformation about ttold TIlO new cotton mill of 5,000 ipindlcs is nearly completed. Kleclric i.; - are now being put In, and by the Irsl of May, peihaps sooner, the mill vlll bo ill opi ration. The new 15 noiii b >tel was opened Oil Monday. .1 is kepi by Mrs. Atkinson fl'OIU Srcenvillo. in looking over the old records in be Stale House Mr. .lease T. Gantt omul an original survey, signed by 'at Calhorn! and W. Anderson. The Irawing shows Hie survey of the lino >clWC< n "Abbevilln County and Edge leid County." Tho survoy was made, inder legislative authority, between bo Salllda and Savannah rivers. A ?oad is shown on the map going to vards "Augusta." Tho survey is dat .1 September 25, IT'.?:;. The Slate board of pension coinmis donors will moot on the 1st of April, twill Iben apportion the amount of be pension fund to go lo each of the ?lasses and take up such matters us !om< before it, Thero are six counties rom which no report has yet been ro seived, and If the reports from these ? minks, long since due, arc not ro icived, the UUfoi'tlinalO pensioners nay not get anything Oil account of he delays of the county boards. It is lindcrslootl that .he Carnegie >lcel company, which recently went nlo the. Morgan combine, has selec ed Charleston as its port for exporting lUsiness, The president of the sleel lompany recently visited till the sea ion towns in the South, Norfolk in dlldod, for the pill'pOSO of selecting a ?oil through wll'Cll to do business with 'oroign countries. Aller visiting Jbarlcslou the prosidenl <>f the com lany was impressed with tho shipping acililies and selected that port. Mr. J, ('. Gailin t ill, editor of the ?parlanburg Herald, has undertaken Lo proparo and publish a handsome volume that will bo of Incalculable valuo lo many classes of South Caro linians. No library of the period can 1)0 complete without it. Ills tobe on tilled " Men of the Tunes,' und is to bo a biographical encyclopedia of Eonlomporancoua South Carolina lead ers." TllO scope of the volume will include South Carolina authors, archi tects, artists, agriculturalists, bunkers, EOinposors, divines, doctors, engineers, sdiicalors, investors, journalists, jur ists, manufacturers,mineralogists, phil mlbropists, pools, politicians, siutes mon, travelers and warriors. CASTOR IA ."For Infant3 and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Boars tho 1 jie.u.Um o of A NICK H1MIINO SUITOFOIiOTIIKS Will boelvon (roo to anyone who will aell only 100 paokstn Heeds for us ?t 5o. each. No monoy required In advance. Write us a postal saying you accept tb.1