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ESTABLISHED IN 1805. NEWBERRY, S. C. , '1'HURSDAY, MAY2618. -_- --PIE$50AEA O'BRiEN NARROWLY ESCAPE$ BE ING MURDERED OUTRIGHT. The Irish Envoy and a Party of Three or Four Friends Set Upon by a Mob of a Thousand Roughs. ToaoSTO, May 18.-This evening President J. A. Mulligan, of the local branch of the National League, called at the hotel and asked Mr. O'Brien to go out and have a walk. Several gentlemen present suggested that it would not be prudent, as darkness had fallen and a crowd of about two hundred rowdies had gathered around the hotel hissing, hooting and groan. ing. Mr. O'Brien, however, persist ed in going. Upon leaving the hotel with his friends the mob groaned and hissed into Mr. O'Brien's face such cries as : "Away, traitor !" "Down with the dynamiter !" and "God save the Queen?" "Come on," said Mr. O'Brien smiling; "these men don't own the :treets." And the three pushed through the crowd, with Mr. Mulligan and R. B. Teepy bringing up the rear. A riot was imminent as the Orange men were armed with short sticks, just as they were in the meeting at French Park. They came up to Mr. O'Brien as he strode along York street with his friends and shoved him and jostled against him, making several attempts to strike him on the head with sticks. He dodged the blows, however, and his friends ral lied around him. But they were as one to fifty. The body guard was broken again and again, and Mr. O'Brien driven up against the wall. Here, with Kilbride, Wall, Mulli gan and Cahill, the little party stood at bay, Mr. O'Brien shouted at the top of his voice: "You cowardly dogs, don't you see we are not armed? Let us alone," Hisses andi cries oi "God save the Queen" and groans for the dynaiiters greeted this ap peal. Two policemen stood near by but made no effort to disperse the mob, The party then turned into Klng street while the crowd increased. From the windows of some of the hoses in this street broken bricks were dropped down on the crowd. Mr. O'Brien and his party, however, escaped injury so far. As the party turned into Bay s reet D. P. Cahill, secretary of the local branch of the League, had his hat knocked off by a stone. Now the Orangemen began their real attack, for Bay street furnished a good opportunity, beinz covered i pyep i$ih py, brglieq l4picks gnd 90blge stones. Mr. O'Brien had on a tall hat, which furnished a good target. Mr. Wall was on his right and Kilbride and J. A. Mulligan were on his left. A volley of broken bricks and cobble stones soon came gyIng (fogg the pentre of the Qrange men, missing their beads but knock. Ing the plaster off the adjacent wall. Shouts of "To hell with the Pope !" "Kill the traitor !" and so on, rose high above the din. O'Brien's party were still on the side walk and the Orangemen in the street. D. T. Kellogg, reporter of the Njew Yorg Suni now rushed be-~ gy} Q'hrien gud was abog4t to warn hiwh Wlie4 g 5tQne strqck Q'Brien's het anid knoeged4 it off. OBrien stoioped his head, and J. M. Wall, whg was stand4ing by his side, lifted his head to look in the direction from whence the missi'e came, when a huge stone struck him on the side of the uead and tumbled him heels over head. He reeled into Johnson's lane, a little alley running off Bay street, and fell upon a heap of stones. Regrais Wilbid4e, MF. Tfeepy, treas: ayer of the NIational league, and Mr. Mann, a telegram reporter, lifted him up and carried him into Cooper's drug store, .where his wound was dressed by Dr. Frazer, and he was then helped to the Rossin Rouse. The cut made by the stone is two inches long, slightly above the left temple. "Take care of this man," si4 r.'peepy, ad ressing a police: 199% t he e WoHged. t him page pepe af hitp.self,2 retgerned the pqlicemarn. "What does he want Mr. Q'ltrien and~ his friends then turned into Wellington street, the 1ones still yngadte yelliptg and pgens 1rg<ley, if possible. than eiver, Mr. O'.BFen attem~pted to take ref. uge in Sharp's laundry, and failing In that, rushed into the bicycle store of Thomas Lalor, Jr., adjoining. A yotley of stones eabattered the win. dow's and the mob burst in, yelling like demons and showering missiles in the direction which Mr. O'Brien had taken towards the end of the str.Some ladies and old women peged and fainted. The gob .en rushed pell-mnell, helter-skelter over tii bicycles and other ma chinery. smashing them one agains the other in their savage attack, cry ing : -Kill the traitor !" ""Hang him: "Lansdowne forever !" O'Brien, however. was safely le away by C. Cashman, an official o the Crown land department, an( reached his hotel in safety. D. P Cahill was knocked down and re ceivrd two tlangerPus cuts fron broken bottles, and more than a scor( of other persons were more or les: severely injured. The mob noR seemed satisfied. Mr. Lalor's store was completely wrecked and several hundred dollars worth of his prop erty destroyed. Two more police men appeared, making four in all, in the presence of a crowd of fully one thousand rioters, who had possession of the streets for at least half an hour, throwing bricks and cobble stones at a group of unarmed men. Treasurer Teepy, of the local branch League, sent out the following telegram to leaders of the League in New York and Chicago: "O'Brien mobbed in the of streets of Toronto to-night by Orangemen. J. M. Wall, of the New York Tribune, seriously wounded. Police Sergeant Adair got cut in the head, and when his three comrades saw this they moved away to a respectful distance and let the mob do as they please. Up to midnight the neighborhood of the Rossin House was filled with a mob who groaned and yelled to their heart's content, but as there was not at any time an opposing crowd, the rioters grew tired and hoarse, and began to abase each other and fight among themselves, and dispersed at last with the cries of 'Hang O'Brien !' 'Away with the traitors!' and 'God save the Queen !' ' Mr. O'Brien said to an Associated Press representative: "Lansdowne has now done his worst. His police men absolutely surrendered us to the mob, and if w! had not taken refuge in the bicycle shop we would have been killed." Justice Woods' Successor. Washington Critic. There is a great deal of specula tion as to who is to be appointed to the vacancy on the Supreme bench caused by Justice Woods' death. Persons who claim to know'say that the President will unquestionably make the appointment from the South-that he is couvinced of the justice and propriety of limiting his chcoice tg the SQgthern States of the Circuit over which Justice Woods presided. Neither Arkansas nor Vir ginia being included within the cir cuit, the range of prominent candi dates eligible if this rule is to be followed is not very large. Senator Qibsqn of* L.ouisiana is mentioned by some of the prophets as the lead. ing and representative Southern law. yer within the circuit who would most desire and best deserve the ap. pointmuent, and whose loyalty and friendship for the President are un questioned. Secretary Lamar, Sen ator George, Judge Edmund V. Pet tis of Alabama and ep.Qgngressman Hmmand of Georgia, a man of splendid judicial equipment, are also mentioned. Qutside of the circuit limits Hion. J. Randolph Tucker of Virginia is by far the most promi nent Southern candidate for the place, and of high legal attainments. ex-Governor Hoadley, Secretary Bay ard and Secretary Endicott are also discussed in connection with the honor. A Pretty liettle of '['1' Alberile .Vessenger. Here now is a pretty kettle c: fish. Tfhe question of license or ne license in Oconee county was recent ly submitted to the voters of that county, and at majority voted in faor of license. Seneca City, a town in that county, had previously, by an Act of the LIegislatLgre, been de pr,zived of the right to~ sel spirituou ligg;ors. It is now contended that submitting the que tion to the voters of the wh('le county (did away with1 this special legislation, arnd an efT'ort is being made to open up bar-rooms~ in that town. The Sqpremue Qogr will liaye to ieciqe the question, bt it strikjes qs that it is a poor rule that don't work both ways. F.allure of .J. D. Chalmers & Co ABBEvILLE, May 20-Messrs. J D. Chalmers & Co., furniture deal ers here, made an assignment to-day to Richard IIill for the benefit o their creditors. Assest $1,200, lia bilities $2,000. The assets consis of their stoclk, with the exception o $100 in accounts. CONSIDERING CONSOLIDATION. I A Meeting of the Directors of the Georgia and Carolina Midland and Representatives of the Three C's in Reference to Consol idation of These Railroads. Coluabia Cor. Neus 4- Courier,:iay 18. We are having an Important rail road meeting here to-night. The meeting is being held at the Grand Central Hotel by a committee of the Georgia and Carolina Midland Rail road, formerly the Augusta, Edgefield and Newberry Railroad. These gen tlemen are Col. R. L. McCaughrin of Newberry, President R. M. Mitchell, of Augusta, Senator Wm. Munroe of Union, and Senator J. G. Black of York, who were appointed to nego tiate with the managers of the Char leston, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail road Company with a viewv to the consolidation of the two roads. On the part of the Three C's Road there are here General Manager R. A. Johnson and Senator M. C. But. ler. The train trom Charlotte with some of the conferees was late in reaching Columbia to-night and Pres ident Mitchell did not arrive here from Augusta until 10 P. M.. so the Conference did not begin until a very late hour. At 1 A. M., the rail road men are still locked up in room 14. The conferees are very close mouthed, but it is known that the Three C's have made ran attractive offer to the Midland for a consolida tion. Uf course the minor road will be merged into the trunk line. If the arrangemen tis made the Three C's will have two outlets to the sea, the first from Black's to Camden and thence to Charleston, atd the second from Black's to Au gusta and thence to Savannah, Char leston and Port Royal. The Geor gia and Carolina Midland is an am bitious line, but it has not the capi tal behind it which would make it independent. If it consented to be swallowed by the Three C's it would be speedily completed and well equipped and operated, and that is probably all that the counties and townships whose money is building it care about. The Three C's will not only have a second route to the sea if it absorbs the minor road, but it will get a short line to Florida. Rapid progress is being made in the construction of the Three C's. The section between Black's and Rutherford is being operated ener getically and is developing the coun. try very much. All of the stations on the line are of a very ornamental character and the equipment of the road, it is announced, will be the finest in the State. A-t 1 A. M. Mr. J. C. Jeffries, of Gaffney, came down from the meet, ing, which he had addressed in the interest of' his town. Gaffney wants the Georgia and Carolina Midland to tap the Air Line within its limits, instead of Black's, eight miles away. Limestone Township has voted $50,003 for a railroad and Drayton ville Township $20,000, although the latter subscription is contested. Mr. Jeifries showed that these sums could only be obtained by a road touching the Air Line at Gaffney's and ar gued in favor of such a route. The committee from the Midlar.d prom. ised to take the matter under advise, mlent. The conference adjourned a few minutes after -1 o'clock. Nothing was concluded. Another meeting will be held at 10 o'clock to-morrow. It is expected that the consolidotion will be effected. The committee of the Midland di rectors have nio authority to ponclude an arrangemnent, but only to report thecir findings. to the directors and stockht-lders of their road. Consolidation Recommended. Columbia ]Register. 'The following is the full text of the papers drawn up and shows in detail the arrangement concluded : Resolced, That we the undersigned, a committee of Directors appointed at a meeting of tile pirectois gf the Georgia andf Caroling Midlend rail road Company, held at Newberry on the 4th of May, 1887, for the purpose of conferring with the authorities of the Charle-ston, Cincinnati and Chi cago Ratlrnad Company, in regard to a proposed1 consolidation of tire said Georgia and Carolina Midland Com pany hereby agree to revommend to the Board it the Gieorgia and Caro lina Midland Railroad Company, at a meeting to be called for that pur pose, that a consolidation be effected with the said Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company in the manner prescribed by the Gen eral Statutes of South Carolina, and with the following conditions to be -set forth in the agreement for consol idation : 1. That the said Charleston, Cin cinnati and Chicago Railroad Coin rpany, within sixty days after the -agreement of gon:;'idatian ii~ wade, shall begin the construction of said road, and by continuous work, in SIgood faith, and within three years shal complete -the roa wi...: trac. laid, equip and operate a railroad of standard gauge from Augusta, Ga., ( by way of the towns of Edgefield. r Newberry and Union to the town of Black's, by the most prscticable w route, and at Black's connect with it the tracks of the Charleston, Cincin- w nati and Chicago Railroad Company p now built. . 2. After the ratification of these articles of agreement and before the n articles of agreement for the consoli- v dation shall have effect, the Charles- T ton, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail- c road Company shall pay all the then existing legitimate debts of the Geor gia and Carolina Midland Railroad o Company, the said indebtedness to u be ascertained by an examination li and inspection of the books and ti vouchers of said company, to be ap proved by the Board of Directors of r the Georgia and Carolina Midland b Company. t< 3. That the township bonds of h. Union County, voted in aid of the t Union, Gaffney City and Rutherford ' ton Railroad Company and Atlantic and Northwestern Railroad Company, t< now belonging to t9e Georgia and Carolina Midland Company, and now C in the hands of E. R. Wallace, trus tee, shall be delivered to the said C Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago d Railroad Company upon the presen- b tation of a certificate of the Chief Engineer of the Charleston, Cincin. A nati and Chicago Railroad Company, to be countersigned by one of the Board of County Commissioners of the said County, that the terms and conditions of the subscription have been complied with by the said Char- : leston, Cincinnati and Chicago Rail road Company. 4. The shares ot the capital stock s' af the Georgia and Carolina Midland u Railroad Company being each of the tl par value of $25 and those of the Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad being $100 each, the same shall be consolidated upon that basis ti and in that proportion. S Representatives of the two roads G to be consolidated, soon after the st conclusion of the conference, ex pressed themselves as pleased and satisfied at the results att'.iaed, and n to the effect that the agree' ient would ti at the proper time be rutified and G carried out successfully. s< What Senator Butler and Col. Johnson b Say ;About the Prospects of the Road. at Special to the News and Courier. M COLUMBIA, S. C., May 10.-The e, representatives of the Charleston, H Cincinnati and Chicago, and the li G-eorgia and Carolina Midland Rail d road companies, met again at 10 p 'clock to.day and continued G in conference for four hours. v After the adjournment a representa- i tive of the News and Co crier had a e long talk with General Manager R. a . Johnson and Senator M. C. Butler c f the big trunk line. They said that they had reached a satisfactory biasis for the consolidation of the Midland Road- with the three C's, and that the terms would be submitted to meet. ings of the directors and stockhold ens of both companies, which will be held in Columbia on June 1. They c entertained very little doubt that the onsolidation would be ratified. Inquiries in regard to the purposesv or the management of the three C's and the progress of work upon the line elicited the following informna ion from Col. Johnson and Senator Butler ; u About three thousand men are at work grading the line between Cam :len and Black's. A quantity of 60} pound steel rail suficient to rail thirty mailes of line is already at Camden, and track-laying will begin r within thirty days. The grading be- o tween Camden and Lancaster andp Black's is proceeding rapidly. It is a expected that the line will be comp pleted from Camden to Lancaster by n September 15, and that trains will be , running from Rutherfordton, N. C., e to Charleston by January 1 The recent purchase of the Chat' u taroi Road by the three C's company A supplies an important link in the line. u The road runs from Ashland, Ky.,-on ~ the Ohio River, up the big Sandy a River to the town of Richardson, ti fifty miles distant. The equipment p of this road consists of six locomo- tu ives, 200 coal cars, 75 box cars, six ti passenger coaches and two, ma~il cars, n a dail~y schedgle is being operated i upo,n it. Tfhe three Q's Company is now extending this Chattaroi link from Richardson to the Virginia line, Ten miles of the seventy-two have already been graded and steel rail is n being laid as rapidly as the road bed f< is prepared fur it, Two surv-eying ti corps are now locating the line acrossp Southwest Virginia into North Caro- a lina. b Col. Johnson says that it is the ti purpose of his company to comp)lete It the line between Johnson City, Ten n., e on the East Tennessee, Virginia and i Georgia Roact to Richardson, the t~ present terminus of the Ch&ttaroi j Road, within the next eighteen h~ months. Within the same pePigt g also he ho es to haye Wains running I be Back's and Augusta, a dis tance of 150 miles, a good portion of the line being already gradd. Trhis t achievement is of course, conditionala upon the proposed consolidation. s Senator Butler remarked that harleston did not realize what this )ad was going to do for her. lie ent over the map of the route, show ig that wonderful mineral wealth L ould be developed by the road, and ointing to the fact that it will be v ie only road crossing the Allegha- s8 ies in all the long stretch from Dan- b ille, Va., to Chattanooga, Tenn. b he map certainly shows a very fas- b nating route. p Col. Johnson hinted at the effect a r coal at $2.50 a ton upon the man- o facturing industries of South Caro- it na. The remark was made that if it te Columbia. Newberry and Lan. t< ns only extended as far as New- it rry, the three C's would not object absorbing it, but that it would til ve no use for a line from Newberry d Spartanburg. a The conferees will all have left d Wn to-morrow. ei President Coxe, of the Charleston, ui incinnati and Chicago Railroad ti ompany, was not in the city yester- p ty, as was erroneously announced b the local papers. p - - - -- - - - - -ti Soutbern Journalist for Vice Presi- sg dent. 81 New York Herald. a That there should be a Southern t an on the Democratic ticket next e: ?ar, as the Herald some time ago i iggested, is, we are pleased to see, iiversally acknowledged. We have ought that Mr. Grady would be a >od man. Mr. Grady is a Georgian, it id Georgia is the empire State of le South, as New York is the empire S ,ate of the North. Cleveland and rady would, we thought, make a rong team. Somehow the Southern press has c >t received the suggestiq as en- b usiastically as we hoped. Colonel rady is a good man-nobody, so far as we have seen, denies that; h it we confess our disappointment o the cool reception his name has et among his own people. How. rer, that need not hurt the colonel, a e is a young man yet, and if he a ves and does well he may see the S iy when an enthusiastic party will ace him at the head of its ticket. h eneral Garfield could not get the k ce presidential nomination but he b ved to go higher. Even Mr. Lin >ln once wanted to be vice president, 81 id was disappointed because the >nvention preferred a New Jersey e an, Mr. Dayton. Well, how would Colonel Watterson n lit?e Cleveiad and Watterson. . e It looks well; it sounds well; itn ould run well. Why not? The sople are tired of mach.e politi ans. They want something fresh. e hey demand intelligent, men fa. i iliar with the country's great and i ~ried ia,terests. Why not try a urnalist? And if a journalist, who > famous, so brilliant, so well in irmed, so skillful and "square" a >litician, so widely, and, indeed Tiversally popular, as the Kentucky litor. The Anti-Poverty Society. NEW YoRK, May 18.-The Anti-0 overty Society met in the great hall ~ r Cooper Union this evening for the V urpose of perfecting its permanent g -ganization. Dr. |McGlynn was esent and detailed the obiect of the ecting. A constitution and by-laws t ere read and the following officers P ected: President, Dr. McGlynn; t lee-president, Henry George; treas. t] rer, Benjamin Urner; secretary, [ichael Clarke. Dr. McGlynn spoke f< pon the principles of the society. c uantities of tracts were given out, 1, ad the names of many taken for ac- cl ve work. Mr. George was not f< resent. Five hundred and fifty. e iree members had already paid n1 ieir inlitiationl fees previous to the a eeting, and many mnore pid before sa ie evening ended. si Death of a Famous Virginian. -In RmcuoND, VA., May 18.-Gover- it or Lee to-day received a telegram ei om Warrrenton, Va., announcing ti ie death. at his home near that ace, of Ex-Governor William Smith t1 ho for upwards of sixty years, has ti een conspicuously identified with ci ~e affairs of this State as lawyer, te gislator. Congressman and Gov- it nor, serving several terms in the il nited States Congress and two k~ ~rms as chief executiveof the State. p) [ad he lived until S.eptembe next il e Wog.! hQye beeni ninety years of r ge. Uis remains will be brought to o ~ichmond for interment. d i?rom the evidence brought out by i le Paciflq railroad commission it h ppears tliat Mr. Jay GouId is a very p lick citip'ea. CANNED FRUIT FACTORIES. outh Carolina's Advantages as th< Centre of Enterprise. or. T. G. White in NVews and Courier Since my sojourn in Beaufort on i isit to my native home, after an ab znce of ten years in British Colum ia, where, during that time, I havE en engaged in the salmon canninr usiness, which forms a considerablE art of the industry and enterpris pon the Frazer and Skeena river: r that province, I have noticed witk iterest through your journal som( idications of starting a canning fac >ry for fruits and vegetables at oi t the vicinity of Charleston. I have recently been informed iat the enterprise has assumed s efinite shape in the organization of company under a charter for the evelopment of such enterprise oz aterprises, which I am confident, ader proper and favorable condi ons, would not only redound to the rofit 'of the investors, but to the enefit of the State. I use the ex ression proper and favorable condi ons, and in this connection I might ty the most essential element of iccess for such an enterprise is the bundance and cheapness of the ma rial to be procured. Other condi ons of my own knowledge, without inmerating them,I regard aabound. ig here to an extent as to justify rery assurance of eminent success he success of the first enterprise of is sort is greatly to be desired, as would stimulate other enterprises a similar -ziature in numerous othei ctions, and be vastly contributory its material prosperity, and hence y interest. During the recent visit of his Ex llency, the Governor, and the mem zrs of the State Board of Agricul. re to Beaufort, I had the pleasure f meeting and conversing with your ighly accompliished Superintendent f Agriculture, Col. A. P. Butler, hose mind is evidently stored and assessed of information relating to il matters tending to the material ad physical development of the Late, derived from his extensive )rrespondence and study. I found im so attentive a listener to my owledge and experieuce of the usiziess, and having so liberal a dis Dsition not only to encourage all ich manufacturing enterprises in ie State by his active efforts and >ntributions, but to desirei suci ractical suggestions as might be lade by one having been actually agaged in them, that I ha,ve beer uboldened to address this commu. ication to your widely circulated aper in the hope that if it serves ac ther purpose than'awakening inter. rt in others it may contribute to the auguration of simnis~r enterprises, u which I have confidence, through at the Soutfiern country. Having been manuger of a Britisi ampany on the Skeena Riyer, in thE rovince of British Columbia, foi ve years ofthe time I was employe a the salmon canning business,J are thought that some suggestion: *om iane having ample experience it 11 the branches, from the practica: perations of the "catch" and the orkshops .to the handling of im ense numbers of cases of cannet oods in foreign markets, might noi e out of place and would probabl: e acceptable to those interested i: le success of this initiatory enter rise that has contributed so largelj > the- manufacturing industries o ie Iiceific coast. The Ipdian labor which we use4 >r catching salmon was, of course, ertain kind of skilled labor, in whici erhaps no other race but those ac ustomed to, and trained from youtl >r that particular work was so adapt i after being taught. The employ ent of 150 or 200 of the tractabli ud docile race which inhabit thal action was there a matter of neces ity and economy, even at the big! te of wages they received. Theil cility of handling their canoes and ets was an acquirement 'derived -om constant practice and experi nee, stimulated by instructions frovr le white man. The shiHled artisans from among ie Chinese. whom we imported foi ie season of about two months, be ame trained and skilled under mas r hands of which they were only nitators. Of these we employed om fifty to one hundred. As thb id of labor n,ost likely to be em loyed her'e are qui;e as capable as ielr Mongolian brothers, while theil emuneration would be much less it omparison, I should regard that con ition as easily filled from amonl de common negro field hands, thn omen of whom, in the instance o andling fruits and vegetables an reparing them for acking," ar nita a ewa Aht nayher eaal of laborers, while the men and boys could as easily and readily be in structed in the art of can making. soldering, &c., and conducting the "processing," as it is called, and which, of course, is regulated by the foreman with his proper appliances for regulating the heat and steam, all of which is acquired by practice and experience. Before I left Carolina, twelve o' thirteen years ago, then a youth with my father on his- plantation near Chappell's Depot, in Newberry and Laurens Counties of this State, I re member to have seen the immense waste of fruit, principally of peaches, in our own and in our neighbors' orchards, and since my experiences throughout California and the Pacific coast of the uses to which this other wise waste is adapted, I have won dered that some such enterprise as seems now to have awakened public lethargy in this regard had not been thought of and adopted before. The advantage of being able to work at some of the various products of the soil which come into season, almost every month in the year in the Southern country is certainly in. favor here, whereas in the salmon canning business alone the whole "pack" has to be accomplished with in the limited space of two months or ten weeks from the middle of May to the first of August, during which time the salmon "run." As to the capital and outlay neces sary for an enterprise as contem plated, I can only give a few figures that may lead to further investigation for the proper inauguration of the factory, before starting upon s prop er working basis. The factory in which I was em ployed had a capacity of 500 cases of 4 dozen tins per case per diem, with a capital of $25,000 invested in buildings, plant, nets, boats, &c., for a capacity of two months' work. We employed from 150 to 200 Indians, n apd women, during the season, and fr to 100 Chinamen, as can makers and so g., imported for the season. The pay of the Indian men was from $26 to $35 per month, of the women from 371 to 50c. a day. The pay of the Chinamen was from $1 a day of 11 hours work to $45 a month, and when there was broken time 11 hours had to be made up to constitute a day. I have not time or space within the limits of an article like this to go more into details, but can only ex press a very decided conviction that if the prime and essential condition arising from no lack of material to can is fulfilkcd, that the enterprise would be one of great profit. BeanIfort May 15, 1887. Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly for June Warm days tell us of approaching Summer, and au article that takes us to the woods and mountains has an attractive appearance. Mr. Charles Bacon allures us all to follow him in his sketch, "Camp-Life .Among the White Hills," in Frank Leslie's Pop UZar Montly for June. Miss Lily Higgins tells something about the "Jubilee of Queen Victoria." Mr. 0. W.' R iggs writes a chapter which will be new and interesting to many, "The Coffee trade 'of New York." "Percy Bysshe Shelley, one of the most marked literary figures of our century, is sketched in his whole ca reer as he has not hitherto been done rin any magazine. Colonel Bhaille Long tells of "The Khedive's Expe dition to Zanzibar and the Juba." "The Arch ducess Ferdinand of Auis $1,000,000, has been slightly aug. mented, and its securities are well invested. The session of the Board was de voted to the consideration of the wants of various schools receiving aid, and an aggregate allowance of $45,000 was made for the years 1887-S. Dr. Haygood assured the Board that there are many signs of in creasing interest at the South in the problem of negro education, and that wise methods of procedure have been promoted by the agency of the Sla ter fund. D)uring the year he has traveled 15,000 miles and delivered over 200 addresses and sermons, be sides having collected a vast amount of information by correspondence, circolars and personal interviews. A Man with "Aliases-' Committed to Jail on the Charge of Vagrancy. Coix>mIA, S. C., May 18.-Ned Gaston, alias J. M. Pearce, alias En. gene' Viceroy, the would-be "bank worker," "United States detective," "locomotive engineer" and "hotel 'beat,"~ was committed to jail this Imorning by Trial Justice Marshall on a charge of vagrancy ti. await his +A1ate Jne term a orL. BILL ARP TALKS. His Views on Slavery. ew York TrZiune. A quaint and pleasant talker of the old school is Major Smith-"Bill Arp"-of Atlanta, Ga., who was here the other day to deliver a lecture. The major was a slaveholder in his younger days, having received three families of negroes, some twelve per sons in all, as the wedding portion of his wife. In talking about the slave question, he said : "This talk that the south lost $400,000 by the eman cipation ~ proclamation is all none sense, I am prepared to show that the South did not lose a dollar. In all my experience as a slave-owner, if I ever made a dollar by their labor I do not know it. We got their labor in exchange for their food and their clothing, the rearing of the young and caring for the old. We get their labor for the same price now without having the burden of responsibility for the young and the aged and sick. We used to pay their doctors' bills; nnw they pay their own. The difference is already seen from the fact that many men are accumulating wealth through the em ployment of negroes who never got ahead a dollar in the slave days, al though they were owners of many slaves." . In chatting about Northern men Major Smith remarked that many Northern men had gone into the . South to make their homes there during the slavery period who at tained distinction. Among others he cited Judge Hiram Warner, a na'ive of Vermont, who occupied the high est judicial position in the State of Georgia os the bench of the Supreme Court for thirty-seven years. "It is a curious phase of human nature," said .iajor Smith, "that as old age comes creeping on the incidents and tria," is a char.ming sketch of a wo man, lovely in face and character, won her way into a royal family. "Marseilles and its attractions" fills a pleasant set of pages. "Some adven tures of Capt. Paul Boyton." When the bell rings for dinner our readers may not stop to peruse Rob ert Wilson's article on "Hungr," but proceed to suppress the sensation. It may be read, perhaps, after dinner with more comtort, and you may puz zle yourself to find out just exactly rM what hunger is. The articles are all - well illustrated, and the stories, six in number, are very cle veras&w'orth reading. The whole number is most- - attractive in matter-and pieturesque . y effect. LIBERTY HALL. Have a. flourishing Sunday-school at Fairview and Tabernacle, superi:tended by Messrs. Johnson and Bishop. They make good officers. A dog fight is the latest news, from the school grounds, and which' mischiev ouis boys wanted to witnes-pleading to such an extent as made us both scared' and mad, independent of bite; which re suited in boxing our live freight .saely within walls of school house, for fear the dogs' bad tempers might not be con fined to themselves. Farmers and collard plants seem most- - ly benefited by the rains. As they drooped alike, so they rise in all the ~ sprightliness of renewed vitality. Cot ton, also, makes a good stand, but wheat said to be short. Corn flouriish- ' ig, but crows destroy a great deal of it. . They sit on the very "scare-crows" and saucily croak hurrah! hurrah! at fre- - quent replantings by farmer. So the farmers say. 'Twas our fortune to be present at the * e anniversary at Clinton, which wa a de cided success; exercises being held in the Presbyterian church, crowded with well dressed ladies. So nnmerous and pretty were the flower-bedecked hats that shaded those lovely faces, as con-A verted the church into a bower of roses. R1ev. Jacobs opened with prayer, fol lowed by eloquent speeches from. emi nent divines, interspersed with such glorious music as if the sweet strains had stolen down from the "gates ajar" to.ref resh the pilgrim on his weary walk through life. The exhibition, on the , part of the members of Sunday-school, was admirable-the orphans singing, in touching imanner, melodies suggestive of implicit trust in the Fath.er of the fatherless. One of the distinguished l speakers reverte1 I o an "old folks' con cert" he attended the night before, at . which old time melodies were sung, and all dressed in ancient costume. One of the guests wore a coat made by Andrew Johnson while following occupation of ' tailor in Laurens. 'The orphan girls are pretty, intelligent and graceful, showt- ~ ing visitors at the orphanage every at ten tion. Memory will long claim the time we spent there as one of her bright est gal dr..How quickly sorrow follows ot .ie heels of joy. During the exercises Mr. Jacobs received notice of 4 the death of Billie Workman, the twelve year old son of Mr. Charley Workman, , whose wife, also,lingers in the la.st stage of consumption. The bereaved family - have every attention from kind friinds and relatives; which sympathy, although appreciated, fails to turn the edge of sorrow... .The wife of Mr. Emanuel Oxner, Jr., married but a -short while,. also dad on the 8th inst., and wa burie~d at Sharon on the 10th. She was a kind and loving girl... Mr. Hlughey . Bonds is better and able to spend a day aa CL AEA LonSA&.