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ESTABLISHED) INer l!i 3 I sAYE. 15.NEWBEERRY, S. C., T HURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1887. PIE~o__ P"IE$.5 E THlE THRIEE C'S RlAILHADs THE GEORGIA CAROLINA 3IID LAND A THING OF THE PAST. Swallow-d by the Three C's Railroad and Made Part of it. The Line to be Built all the Same and the Sooner. Special ( ie News and Courier. COLUMBIA, June 1.-The railroad meetings here to-day have been of the most wca-isome ch^racter. This morning at 11 o'clock the directors of the Georgia and Carolina Midland assembled in a room in Wr;s Ho tel to consider the .rticles of con solidation with the Three C's, of fered -by Col. Johnson, the general manager. As stated yesterday there was no opposition to the consolida tion- on this side of the Savannah. For six hours the directors remained closeted. They could come to no conclusion.. Major Ga-y and President Mitch ell, of Augusta, were opposed to the consolidation, because the Three C's made no promises as to when and how the road would be built. They considered it unwise to consolidate upon the terms offered by the Three C's and spoke at length upon this sabject. Col. Johnson made a short state ment to the body, and said that they would certainly be able to complete the Georgia and Carolina Road in three years, but hoped to be able to do. so within e'ghteen months. For certain reasons it would be injurious to his road to give a bond to com plete the Georgia and Carolina with in a certain period. At 5 o'cock tt- directors took a recess until 6. The directors and stockholders from Edgefield and Newberry had confidence in Senator Butler, who is one of the directors of Three C's, and be had advised some of them to accept the terms offered. At 6 o'clock the directors again met, and this time a conclusion was reached. The articles of agreement was signed by all the directors ex cept Major W. T. Gary. It is un derstood that at the morning session there was some complication about the salaries claimed by the president a tonev, but a compromise is said to have-been effected: At 8 o'clock the stockholders who had been waitirg all day for their turn, assembled in Wright's Hotel. Thirty odd stockholders were pres ent, who represented about eight thousand shares. The meeting was presided over by President R. M. Mitchell, Mr. George Adam acting as secretary. After much preliminary and unimpor'ant action the articles of consolidation were read. The followig resolutions were then passed: Resolecd, That it is for the best in terest of every stockholder of this company, and for the highest suc cess of this company, that this en terprise merge and consolidate with the Charleston. Cincinnati and Clhi cago Railroad. Resolced, That the following agree ment, adopted at the meeting of the directors of this company held June 1, 1887, in the city of Columbia, S. C-, be hereby fully endorsed, ratified and confirmed: AoR~EEMENT. Know all men by these presents, That the Georgia and Carolina Mid L:nd l'ailway, a railroad company duly organized under the laws of the State of South Carolina, acting by its directors. Win. Munro , U. L. Goss, A. A. Sarras, D. Johnson, Jr., J. G. Black, A. J. Norris, R. L. Mc Caughrin, J. Y. Culbreath, J. T. Douglass, R. M. Mitchell, Geo. R. Sibley, W, T. Gary, Joseph Day, E. R. Schneider, Jas. Callison and Z. Crouch, and the Charleston, Cincin nati and Chicago Railroad, a corpo ration duly organized under the laws of ,said State of South Carolina, act ing by its directors, Frank Coxe, Philadelphia, Pa.; Richard Dozier, Georgetown, S. C.; M. C. Butler, Edgefield, S. C.; James D. Blanding, S Sumter, S. C.; II. K. Baker. Spring field, Mass.; John TP. Wilder, Chat tanooga, Tenn.; P. P. Dickinson, New York City; P. J1. Sinclair, Ma rion. N. C.: D). D). Lee, Shelby, N. C.; W. L. -Rod dey, Rtock- IIill. S. C.; Damon N. Coats, New York city; Edw. E. Brewer, Iiartford, Conn.; W m. F. Callender, SpriDgfield, Mass., proposing to merge the former into - the latter and consolidate into one railroad company, to be hereafter 7, - called and known in law as the "Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company," do hereby eh ter into a joint agreement under the corporate seal of each of said com panies to effect said consolidation as foillows, to-wit : First. The mode of cnrvin thw co.sold"ioa into effect sba" L2 that dcsc.ibcd by the law of South Caro lina as found ; the General Stat utes of South Carolina 1882, Part 1, Title 12, Chapter 40, Sections 1,425, 1,426, 1,427. Second. The name of this corpora tion formed under this agreement of consolidation shall remain and con tinue to be the "Charleston, Cincin nati and Chicago Railroad Com pany." Third. The present directors for the current year of the Charleston, Chicago and Cincinnati Railroad Company to-wit: Frank Coxe, Rich ard Dozier, M. C. Butler, James D. Blanding, H. K. Baker, J. T. Wilder, P. P. Dickinson, P. J. Sinclair, H. D. Lee, W. L. Roddey, D. N. Coats, E. S. Brewer and W. F. Callender, shall continue to be the directors of this company until others are duly elected and qualified in their stead. dourth. The number of shares of the capital stock of this corporation shall be 150,000. Fifth. The par value of each share of stock in this corporation shall be $150. Sixth. The manner of converting the capital stock of the said "Geor gia, and Carolina Midland Railroad Company" into that of the "Charles ton. Chicago and Cincinnati Railroad Company" shall be as follows: Every owner of shares of the capital stock of the Georgia and Carolina Midland Railroad Company shall be entitled to one share of the capital stock of the Charleston, Chicago and Cincinnati Railroad Company of the par value of $150 each for each four, shares so held by him, and for any number of shares less than four scrip of the Charleston, Chicago, and Cincinnati Railroad Company to rep resent such fraction of shares. Seventh. The annual meeting of the stockholders of the company shall be l'eld on the sec8nd Tuesday in October, 1887, at 12 o'clock noon, at the Charleston Hotel, in the city of Charleston, S. C., at which meet ing it will be in order to transact any business within the power of the cor poration. Eighth. The stockholders in gen eral meeting may adopt by laws pro viding for the election of such other officers and agents as the interests af the company may require and for the removal of any of its officers al ready elected, or for such other pur poses as they ma~y see fit, and the present by-laws of the "Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company" shall govern until others are adopted. Ninth. The seal of the company shall consist of the words "Charles ton, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad Company" in a circle, and "organi zed September, 1885," in the centre. This was signed by all of the di rectors with the exception of W. T. Gary. .Resol-ed, That said agreement is hereby adopted as the act of the stockholders of this company and that the directors are hereby autho rized and empowered forthwith and as rapidly as possible to carqy out the details of the provisions of that contract, and to do anything which may be required to be done to com plete said consolidation which this body as stockholders can legally do. Thle next resolution passed re quired that before this consolidation should take effect the Three C's should pay off all the floating in debtedness of the Georgia and Caro lina Midland. The secretary of the meeting was requested to file the articles of cor poration in the office of the secretary of State. The auditing committee of the road Messrs. A. J. Norris, J. H1. Day and E. R. Snyder, were continued as the auditing committee until the ac counts can be straightened and set tIed. All the offices of this road will be vacated and the directors are no more. The great Three C's has taken in everything and will have the sole management and direction. The last treet,g of the stoc-k holders of the Georgia and Carolina Midland adjourned after 11 o'clock to-night. The joint agreement -vill be forwarded for the signatures of the Three C's, when tihe consolida tioni will be completed. W. Ei. G. Earthquake in Columbia. ~Special to the Xezes and Courier. CoLtMBu, June 3.-At a quarter to 9 o'clock this morning, Columbia was visited by the first eartl'quake shock which has been felt here for sevg ral nio.aths. The vibrations were not' severe, but lasted fully 20 sec onds, and shook the window sashes, coaing them to rattle freely. Dissatisfaction in Augusta on Account N of the Consolidation. Augusta Chronicle, June 4. There is no little dissatisfaction about the railroad consolidation made in Columbia the other day, and the local prophet who once said -it is f written that in a year Augusta will r be linked with F.dgefield by a direct t rail line," withdraws the prediction and now contents himself with look. t ing on and watching events. The terms of consolidation are much to the advantage of the C., C. & f C. it appears. The Georgia and Carolina Midland, better known in Augusta as the Augusta, Edgefield t and Newberry, surrenders its fran. chise, and the Three C.'s promise ot build the line projected for this pro- I posed line out of Augusta. But can they do and will they do it? Their promise is the only assurance given. Of course, it is their intention now to construct the road, but obstacles may spring up at any time, and they for teit nothing if they find themselves in position not to be able to con struct the road-that is, there is no guarantee. By the consolidation of the Three -I C.'s get 65 miles of graded road out from Black's and i ugusta, $63,400 of township bonds, Y150,000 of town ship bonds conditional on certain grading being done, and S7,000 of cash subscriptions, and in return en gage to pay the outstanding indebt- E edness of the Georgia and Carolina Midland. The idea was advanced in the Co lumbia meeting that Augusta was in different as to this road, which alle gation was promptly denied and re- t futed by gol. Mitchell and Major t Gary, who strongly argued against 1 consolidation. Augusta does want t the road, and has interested herself 1 in it, and the idea that we care no thing about it is fallacious. It has I been our hope to have direct rail con- i nection with these thrifty Carolina counties through which the proposed road is to run. The only guarantee we now have, is the moral promise of the Three C.'s to construct the line. This they will do if they can. Let it be hoped that they can and will. By some it is stated that the effort pf the _consolidation will be to kill the building of a line from here to Newberry. Col. Butler, however, has given as surance that the road will be built, and this is a strong card in its favor. A CARD FRO3I PRESIDENT 3IITCHIELL. From the Augusta C'hronicle, June 41. In to-day's*issue your reporter has unintentionally, doubtless, mistaken my position as to the merger and consolidation of the Georgia and Carolina Midland with the Charles ton, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad company. Instead of opposing the consolidation, I favored it. Two months ago I opened correspondence with the authorities of that road and afterwards met them by appointment in New York, and, while I did not oppose the consolidation, I advised our directors to require a guarantee that the Georgia and Carolina Mid land would be built in a ct.rtain pe riod. The last paragraph of my re port to the Board is as follows: "This report is not written to defeat the consolidation of the companies. But the president has conceived it is his duty to the stockholders to en deaver to induce a majority ol this Board to require guarantees that the road shall be built. He suggests that if you will determine to recom mend consolidation with the Charles ton, Cincinnati and Ghicago Railroad Company, that you require that cor poration to give bond with ample per sonal surety to five citizens to be se lected by you that your road shall be completed from Ha nbarg to New berry in eighteen months, and a sim ilar bond to build to Black's in eighteen months more. Do this in justice to the sections you represent, and the Directory will, in some meas ure, have performed its duty." Respectfully, R. M. Mirenstrr. The Finieth Congress. New York Star. With~ seven seats contested and two vacant-Hliscock's in New York and that of the Second Rhode Island district-the roll of the Fiftieth House of Representatives stands: Democrats, 168; Republicans, 151, and Independents, 4. Counting all contingencies against the Democrary, there still remains a good working majority to sustain the party of the administration. The narrowness of the control enforces the necessity of thorough De!rocratic acco'd on all questions of policy and disciplire. First of all there must be unity on the fiscal and revenue questions. Neither can be postponed until an the session of the ame oneress., OLCANO IN THE SIERRA MADRE he Report of a Tn.Iler just Arrived at Tombstone Arizona. To-nsToxE, ArIZoNA, June 2. enor Campa, who has just arrived rom Nacosari, states that authentic ews has reached Oposura that at the me of the first earthquake a volcano roke out on the Chibuahua side of he Sierra Madre Mountains, near 'iedras Verdes, about thirty miles rest of Casas Grandes. Differeiit arties, numbering thirty persons in 11, have gone from Casas Grandes o inspect the volcano, but owing to he inter.se heat they have been un .ble to approach nearer than within bree miles of the mass of molten ava, which pours down the mountain ide, and which is estimated to ex end fully ten miles from the crater f the volcano. Volumes of smoke y day and the glare by night from he burning mofntsin are visible for long distAnce. Governor Torres, f Sonora, has directed that a party e sent from Oposura to inspect and eport upon the phenomenon. A slight shock of earthquake was elt here on Monday and another at o'clock Tuesdav morning. olunhia's Way of Building a Cotton Mill. Special to News and Courier, CoLtUBIA, June 3.-The proposed stablishment of a cotton mill in olumbia is heartily endorsed by very one in the city who has been poken to on the subject, but the .olumbia people are hard to move nd it requires considerable pressure o make them put their hands into heir pockets. Quite a number of )usiness men are willing to take from en to fifty shares after the will is >uilt, the machinery put up and a lividend of 10 per cent. is being nade. This is not the kind of spirit ,bat will build the mill, but it is the ;ort which will keep the city at a ;tandstill. The establishment of this nill is the idea of Mr. 'Geo. K. Wright, and he will do all that >ne man can do to get enough money subscribed; but he cannot be ex )ected to accomplish the work alone. I'o raise such a subscription in Col imbia is a large undertaking, and an only be achieved by the co-ope -ation of every one who is Interested n the progress of the city. Mr. Wright is confident that this nterprise will be a success if proper y managed, and to have a mill so nanaged he believes that a man's war ecord or high family connections should not be considered in connec zion with its superintendency. Sev ?ral failures in Columbia and in the State in recent years can be well at tributed to bad management. The Glenn Springs Railroad. eSpcial to the News and Courier. SPARTnsnUno, June 1.-The di rectors of the Glenn Springs Rail. road Company met yesterday at Glenn Springs. There were present : D). R. Duncan, S. J. Simpson, Mar shall Smith, WV. F. Smith, Harry S:mnpson, Charles Zimmerman, S. T. D. Lancaster, George D. Smith and RI. Z. Cates. Trhe report of Engineer Ellis was before them. The main question was to decide as to the two routes p)roposed. One of these leads out from Glenn's by West Spring,s through Bogansville and Cross Keys townships, in Union County; the other bears to the south at Glenn's and goes down through Cross An chor township, in this county. After considering the report of the engin eer the directors selected the first route, although their individual pre ferences would have been in favor of the other, as that would have given us twelve or fourteen miles more of road in this county than will be se cured by the route selected. The West Springs line is wo miles short er, and it has an advantage of nearly twenty thousand dollars in subscrip. tion. THlE C~oAT LINE S NEW ROAD. ConM>Ima, June 2. -Another im. portant railroad movement was ef fected yesterday. At a meetirg of the president, general manager and engineer of the Manchester and Au. gusta Raiiroad Company, held in Wilmington, a contra.ct was given out for the grading of the road from~ Sumter to the Santee Pdver. Mr. J, HI. H ardin, of Cheraw, a gentlemar of large experience in such matters is the contractor. He is required tc begin work by the 20th inst., and tt complete the grading of the line t< the Santee River by the 1st of nex1 April. MORE RAILROAD RACKET. About twenty miles of the Colin hian Newherry and T.aurensRilrmac is graded and ready for crossties and C iron. The Charleston, Cincinn-ti and Chicago Railroad is now running 5: daily trains from Blrck's to Shelby, s N.C. w Seven miles of the Blackville and C Newberry Railroad is graded, and C the work of .aying the crossties will be begun immediately. n Track laying on the Charleston, M Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad will be commenced at Cemden in a very short time. The steel rails are there for thirty miles of track and more will soon arrive. Mr. Arthur Smith, of Ninety-Six, t has told the Edgefield Chronicle that there are three thousand dve hundred hands, mostly negroes,' laying iron w on the Susong road above Ninety. Six, and that trains will run to May's Cross Roads by Christmas. U Blackville and Newberry. h CHARLESTON, June 3.-At a meet ing in Charleston last night of the c stockholders of the Blackville and Newberry railroad and extensive and rich ::aolin mines on that road, an t offer was made through F. W. Wag- lE ener by Northern capitalists to buy one half interest for one hundred thousand dollars. The offer was ac cepted. The other one hundred thousand dollars of stock is held by D. 13. Sally, W. H. Duncan, Alfred a Aldrich, Mike Brown and Geo. A, d Wagener, all from the vicinity of t< Barnwell, except Geo. A. Wagener, b who is from Charleston. The road b is being pushed rapidly to comple- b tion and the affairs of the company S are prosperous and encouraging, The c kaolin clay is of a very superior n quality and practically inexhaustible. a Ex-Confederates as Judges. New York SSar. S Some very silly Republican jour. nals in the rural districts have been raising the cry against "the ap pointment of an ex-Confederate to the Supreme Court." It is not, how ever, the Confederate record of law yers that is objectionable to these critics. Their - real complaint is against the Democracy of candidates. Republican Presidents have wisely disregarded this "rebel yell." We have on the benoh of the United States courts, in the Western dis tricts of Louisiana, Judge Boarman; r in the Western district of North I Carolina, Judge Dick; in th.e West- ' ern district of Florida, Judge Settle; a in the Southern district of Georgia, ~ Judge Spear; in the Eastern and Mid dle districts of Tennessee, Judge I Key, and in the Western district of ~ the same State, Judge Hammond, all I of whom were Confederate soldiers. C It is too late for any one to raise i the objection of service in the Con- C federate army against a proposed United States appointment. In all< branches of the federal service< Southerners who took part with their section in the war are doing loyal and excellent work. It has been so since Lincoln's time, and it is as tonishing that partisanship should at< this late day bind men so completely as to permit them to assume a posi tion so utterly ridiculous. Sabbath-breaking in the Postoffice ] NEwBURGI!, ,N. Y., June 3.-The Synod of the Reformed Presbyterian Church of America, in session here, has adopted a resolution declaring that the violation of the Sabbath by the postoffice department is one of the greatest sins of the Government, as well as one of the greatest causes of Sabbath desecration throughout the whole Commonwealth, and call. ivn upona the orgLnizations of all evagelcalbodies in the United States to combine in order to secure the entire abolition of whatever in the postoffice department is in viola tion of the Sabbath law. A Rising Young Man. News~ and Courier. COrUMBIA. Junel 2.-Mr. W. C. Whiltner, who graduated from the South Carolina College last summer and who for ten months resident en gineer on the Augusta, Edgefield and Newberry Railroad, has been selected by Chief Engineer Matson, of the Three C's, to survey and locate the line of road from Newberry to the point where this road will con nect with the Three C's, which will probably be at Black's on the Air Line. Hard on the Plumed Knight. New York Herald. If it is true that Blaine has already written his inaugural we vent opinion that it will appearf i isttm in his posthumous . plumbia Thinking of a Cotton Mill ews and Courier. CoLUMBIA, June 2.-Many thou- , Lnd Carolinians have doubtless t ondered before now why Columbia, t bile waiting for State aid to the F anal, did not apply herself as reenville and other cities have done immediate work in the establish ent of factories. Because we will ve a superb water power when it developed, we need not make up ir mind to do nothing until the ca il is completed. There are not eking persons, even here, who think a at the canal has been a curse to e city, and that but for its prospect e and long postponed completion, e would now have several fine steam 1 ills :n Columbia. We have ad- 8 urned every large factory project atil the water power could, be ob .ined, while half a dozen counties ve built and snccessfully operated ills to be run by steam power. Let ' 3 hope that Columbia is about to lange her methods; to do something r r herself; to show that she deserves rosperity; to prove that, is not she be killed by three-for-a-quarter t gislation. . t Mr. George K. Wright, one of the ost enterprising business men in the t ty, has started a movement. to.s e - E blish a cotton mill here. It is pro- E >sed that the mill shall be built on good site on the canal band and be r riven by steam, the motive power r be changed w.hen water power can e obtained. The capital stock will a 5,000 shares of $50 each, and may e increased to 20,000 shares, Sub :riptions will be payable in 10 per mt, monthly instalments. Lists ay be found at Mr. Wright's office, ad he will make a personal canvas >r subscriptions. It is expected iat at least $125,000 will be sub 3ribed in Columbia. If our own eople take a majority of the stock iere will be no di:ficulty in placing ie remainder elsewhere. The site ,ill be secured at a strictly cash rice, and will be paid for either in tock at par or money. The enter- 1 rise will be in competent hands. ,et us see *bat Columbia will do-to elp herself. A Prosperous Cotton Mill. Special to the News and Courier. RocK HILL, June 1-The annual ieeting of the stockholders of the bzzk Hill Cotton Factory Company ras held in Roddey's Hall yesterday fternoon, the Rev. J. S. White pre iding. The president read his annut.1 re iort, showing that the mill had done ,very profitable business during the >ast twelve months. The following irectors were elec..ad: E. H. Hutch son, John R. London, W. L. Rod tey, James S. White and A. H. Vhite, of Rock Hill; C. A. Chisolm, f C -:lestoni, and W. G. Atkinson, ~f Baltimore. A semi annual dividend of 3} p)er ent. will be paid on July 1. The tock is held firm and none is offer ng. From the report of the presi !ent the intrinsic value is probably 1130 per share. At a subsequent meeting of the lirectors Capt. A. E. Hutchison was ~lected president, J. R. Neisler su )erintendent, and David Hlutchison ~ecretary and treasurer. ~o 3More Whiskey ar d Cigars at the Ex pense of the Government. WAsIIINGTON, June 1.-Comptrol er Butler, of the treasury depart nent, in auditing the accounts of the mperintendent of the Naval Acade ny, has disallowed all items of ex penditure for whiskey, brandy and >ther intoxicating liquors furnished to members of tihe annual board of visitors. This disallowance will be a hardship to the superintendent, who has been required by the board of visitors to furnish these luxuries, and who will have to suffer a loss of from $300 to $500 on last year's accounts if Congress does not come to his relief. Officials of both the Naval Academy and the Military Acad'-ny'av i>ueen notified that no such items in future ill be al lowed. It has also been Cecided by the auditing o'licers of the treasury department t'i ti e law creating the board of visitors and providing for the payment of their expenses by tile Government, does not contemplate nor admit of their taking their fam ilies except at their own exper se. A Woman to be Hanged. NEW YORK, June 3.-Shortly after noon to-day sentence of death was imposed on Mrs. Chiari Cignarale, who was copvicted of murder in the first degree for shooting ther husband. She was condemned to be hanged in the Tombs prison yard Friday, July 22 next. PE?SONS'AND THINGS. Mrs. Frank Leslie, now in Paris, till go to the City of Mexico in Sep. ember to arrange for the publication bere of a Spanish-American news- re ap^r. tb The name Itaska given to the sc ource of the Mississippi, was coined af >r the occasion by School craft, from ja e Latin veritas caput, the true pE ource. it: The owner of the alleged Salvator cc tosa landscape, who brought suit in SI New York court for $25,000 dam- ro ges against a storage company, ras awarded $800. Oscar Wilde's latest attempt at iterature is a short novel of the blood gT nd thu,ider species entitled "Lord ro rthur Seville's Crime; a tale of in heiromancy." p Harvard's gymnasium cost $110, 00, Yale's $125,000, a:d Columbia's 156,000. There are five young women en olled in the law department of the lichigan University. p Gen. Stevenson, of Illinois, was f he founder of the Grand Ar-my oft he Republic. c ot Senator-E'ect Pasco, of Florida, is e he only Confederate private who h ver been chosen,o1'J'ietTnited tates Senate. Ex-Senator John J. Patterson, for aerly of South Carolina, now of Mif- s ntown, Pa., is said to have made a andsome fortune in a recent busi- bi Less transaction. T R. E. Wells, an aeronaut, says he n, s negotiating with "Lucky" Bald- m Pin to secure his aid in building a' h: ;reat air-ship, in which he declares t te can circumnavigate the globe in hirty days. Baldwin, he says, is g egarding the project With some favor. The 300 young women of Welles- t y college do the housework of the ollege on the co-operative plan. It akes each one of them forty-five min ites a day to do her share. A Winnepeg photographer recent y exhibited a case full of photo- h ,raphs of his debtors, each being la elled with the.name, address, and e ndebtedness of the person represent- b d. Tl'e late James Lick left $100,000 f or the decoration of the San Fran- t isco city hall. Competitive designs 't1 or a groupe of bronze statuary to be c >lac Z. therein have been called for. Miss Anthony, known as the only c "lady lawyer of Dubl'n," having b brought suit for ?10,000 against Sir ti John Arnott, proprietor of the Irish c Times, d'smissed her suit, "without v prejudices," because one of the jurors s Laughed at her. Edito: Moses Handy, of Philadel- f phia, says that the question of stat~es t rights was finally destroyed in 1865. i Does E~ditor Handy mean that the a people of the Northern States fought ~ to destroy their own rights under the t constitution? And if he doesnt i mean this, what in the name of com mon sense does he mean? A distinguished doc's. has discov ered that ice water is a stimulant. Now, then, anybody can go off and kill himself with impunity, according to strict hygienic principles. Seven thousand goatskins have1 gone into the binding of General Grant's book. This is an interesting item. A great many hooks now issued ought to be bound in calf'. It is reported that the bills for the reception of Queen Kapiolani in Bos ton show that '"two hundred gallons of l'quor were consumed by the one hundred guests." That is only two gallons apiece, which proves th~at Boston is rapidly becoming a prohi bition city. It must not, however, be called '-The Huh" any longer, but rather '-The Tub." The crop of ladies over a hundred years of age who were intimately ac quainted with the Washington family is unusually-large this year. One of them has the little hatchet with which George cut down t'"e ch'err'y tree, and another has the lie that he could not tell. When that grand old man Jefferson Davis departs this life what in the world will the Northern editors hee to write about?-New Orlean~s S&'est You seem to have forgotten. the young man who teased the life gut of some passengers by continually cry ing out, "Oui, how thirsty I am" When they filled him full at the near est pump, he simply altered the re frain to "Oh, how thirsty I was !" Trying to Reacht a Verdict. Court Officer: "A message from the jury-room, your Honor." Hlis Honor : "What do they want, further explanation of evidence?" Court Officer: "No, your Honor, they want a fresh box of cigrars." ~or the UEgALD AND 'W SeleCtions for the Young. BY XBS. E. S. IIERBEUT. It is made very evident by recentit I.urs romthe various preCincts at in Iowa Prohibition prohibits ne things that the public can well ~odt owithout. It prohibits >r which are half way houses to itentiarie--and so prohibits pen niteareafifty-three ,ntiaries. There are fif- that unties of the one hundred in ate which had "To LeL' over every om in their jails during the entire t ear. Nobody applied. his work in Chicago, which s just closed, Francis Murphy;that and a ostle of total abstinence, en led 20,000 persons, old and youn his "blue ribbon" army, a large oportion of whom have given gocd >porion oh conversio. ideuce of thorough evac ht has ever left Chicag aring with him more prayers dd r'. nedictions than did Mr. M. On a recent morning our Chic8 perQ recorded twenty-sven cn .es e of which were murders a on the previous day. In a se the cause was whiskey, or som her liquor egicient in thesa , ction. .And yet we mu T eor pe "An intelligent young . me: c =e ood up in temperance meeti id said, I have a rich treat ght among my books_ I saved my er money and spent it for books ecost me with my book-cse,; early $100. They furnish enjoy' ent for my winter eveiin~8 'n ye enabled me by God's blessing . gain much useful knowledge, euch gai could not hase - pots and pipes co en me. By having nothing to do, one lear do evil. Do Not Wait. "I wish I was a big woman to -;; mother," said a little grts.. Bring mother's thimble; th el p me," said mother, smiling ast as if God meant. for ;ii ildren to wait until they. -- efore helping; their fo, no! Godgave tem twon. et on purpose to take steps fo eer, and eight fingers and two mmbs on purpose to bring an trrr for her. M r. --, further writes: "Ater . ver twenty-one years of careful Pro- e ibton Reform Study and Observa- .> 2on I am sadly compelled to believe ur Prohibition leaders have so far rtt lly defeated or postponed them-> rivs-by working harder for Prohi itin license religion than they have rr Prohibition politics. Satan -in e h curch can never cast out Satan - th hesaloon." Then he solemnly dds "We shall see what we,-shall ee If the whiskey ring can elect he next Republican presidential min ue, I thnk he will be elected." Wayside Courtesy I was walking beind a handsome dr resed young lady, and thinking, 3.sIIlloked at her beautiful clothes, [ wwonder if she takes as much pains ith h her heart as she does with her - ody?" " A poor old man was com-* igg up the walk with a loaded wheel arrow.. Before he reached us he nade two attempts to go into a yard, - )ut the gate was heavy, and would wingg back before he could gdt ihrough. "Wait," said the young ir1,rspringingg lightly forward, "11l old the gate open." She held the atetettille passed in, and reegved iss thanks with a pleasant smile as de wwent on. "She deserves to have , eeautiful clothes, for a beautiful pirirttddells in her breast." RRoe's Great Earthquake Story. Arrangements have been perfected rherbyereyr. E. P. Roe's latest work, Maare; a Story of the Charlestom~.~ artrthuake," will be published in hee Sund ay News and The Weelyi iewes a:ul Courier. ~"Mara" is a strong love,.story that ulminatesatemong the terrible scenes f ththennver to be forgotten earth uakeakeoofAugast 31, 1886. It pre ents,, with dramtic picturesqueness, remeaarkble phase of American ei- - erience,, and incidentally brngs ut.t one great fact-Northernl good rilll towards the South, as shown by~ bee spontaneous outpouring of synm pathy and gifts, and the effect of this - rataternalsirit on the South. This story will undoubtedly be the great ststwworkoofa novelist of wide-spread opopularity.It wi' "e published as asserial,ad will oegin on the first Ass it may not be possible to sup >ply the demand for back numbers, veverybodyhould subscribe at once for either The Sunday News or The . WeeeellyNNes and Courier. T he anr nual subscription to The Suntdayf News is $2, and to The Weekly N&-. ndndCCurierr$1.50. 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