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ETADIN 1865. NEWBElRRY, S. C., THURSDAY, JUNE 30, 1887. AN AMERICAN IN THE WRITI HOUSE. American in His Aspirations and Sim piicity-What It would have Been with Blaine. Editorial in the New York Herald. The indifference shown by the coun try to Senator Sherman's speech mns be disheartening to those republicani who feel that there can be no assu red prosperity without a return o the republican party to power. Sen ator Sherman is believed to be a se rious person. There is nothing about him of that corruscating un certainty which is apt to astonish u, when we listen to Mr. Blaine. Hi is supposed to mean what he says, o: at least to impress mankind with thi conviction that he does, which in poli tics is the same thing. To hear i voice of thunder in the North afte: these cooing notes of harmony ani conciliation in the Sonth is wha might be expected from many Repub licans-from Hawley or Ingalls, of even Evarts. To have this fron Sherman, however, shows the insin cenity of the cause, and not the weak ness of his intellect or the poverty o his resources. No man knows bette: the folly of what he has been sayinr than this same cool headed Sherman Never, even when at its best, rep resenting the general American sen timent, the Republican party ha. come to live upon a policy of plui.dei and demagogism. Its later measuref for national development are simpl3 so many chapters in the bisuory o: corruption, and if our readers care tc enter upon the details of Republicar rule, for several years at least, the3 will beefound in reports of Congres sional committees of investigation impeachment processes and crimina proceedings at law for ualfeasanc( in office. The Treasury was robbec in the holy name of emancipation Governments of ignorance and ruf fianism were imposed upon the Soutt in the sacred cause of the Union, and if Mr. Blaine had remained in the control of our foreign affairs v: should have had one South Americar war and perhaps another war witl So badly: were our finan, aed that nothing but unpre nted material;prosperity kept a. from bankruptcy. The property fell under the control of the mercenary claases that follow all parties. It time these classes came to command it, under Mr. Blaine, thei,most bril liant leader known in American poli iics since Aaron Burr. The wisdom the prudence, the patriotism, the *piety of the party gradually left it and the Jacobins took control-a con trol that is unquestioned to-day. The French Revolution passed from Ro land and Lafayette into the hands o~ Robespierre and Fouquier-Tinville The Republican party has passed from Lincoln and Chase to Dorse3 and Jay Gould. In this history re peated itself, but it likewise repeated itself by the country, inithe electior of Mr. Cleveland, overthrowing a domination of brigands as irretrieva bly as F'rance overthrew the knaves and madmen of the mountain. This is the way in which the Re publicans were removed from power When we are asked why they shoult -be restored, the answer is that every thing is to be lost, nothing gained The country is now governed by a national party. For twenty-fivi years it was impossible for the Pres ident to find a gentleman south o: Mason and Dixon's line to hold of fice. As a consequeuce, in great de partmnents of the government-in thi Supreme Court, diplomacy, the arm' and the navy-departments wher personal character even more thai intellectual eminence is demanded, large part of the Union has for twenty five years had no representation The causes of this were unfortunat' and not always attributable to thi -Republican Presidents, who woul< gladly have had it otherwise. The: were causes all the same, which hap pily no longer exist. Our finance were never on a surer foundatio: than now. All the meritoriou arhievements of the war have bee: gonsecrated by the accptance ofever; --elass axdd condition of' man. Ther has been a manmfest advance toward a self-respectinlg civil service-if no the whole cherry of civil service re form, as we could have wished, large part of the cherry. We hay no wars, no rumors of war; and w jare not troubling over, any renewe war debt, or raising money to pay o: .gome indemnity to Great Britain, a might have been the case had Mi Blaine's audacious intellect governe' our diplomacy. As a nation it mnigh -be said of us that we are blessed i our basket and our store. The con atry throbs with busines animation, the hum of varied inda tre echoe over historical vadley which not many years ago re echoed with the clang of contending cannon. We have, moreover, an American at the head of the American people, an American in his aspirations, his sim plicity, his stubbornness, his want of pretence; American in what he knows as well as what he does not know; who believes absolutely in the Ameri can nation, and does not care much about any other; American in his r weakness as well as his strength, with the people and of them, no bet " ter and no worse-the embodiment of their common sense. Why should we change? France had her time of stress and storm-an r upheaval of classes, civil war, dynas ties overthrown, the guillotine en enthroned, invasion, bankruptcy, chaos. In her agony she swept from e one faction to another until, in sheer exhaustion from terror, weakness and despair, she fell from the blood ( stained hands of the Jacobin into the blood stained hands of the Bona partes-from the assassin with the , knife to the assassin with .the sword. She had her opportunity t when under the beneficent sway of I the Gironde, her councils ruled by e the austere wisdom of Roland and the chaste eloquence of Vergniaud, ( of winning that liberty with peace ( and honor which was not to come for ( generations, even if it has come to day. France threw her supreme op. portunity away before the sinister c temptation of Jacobinism. ( The United States, under the Pres idency of Cleveland, is in the po sition France would have maintained if she had accepted the Girondists. t The lesson of that refusal is too ter. ( rible for us not to profit by the ex. ample. Blackwood Convicted and Sentenced. AUGUSTA, GA., June 22.-The case of F. A. Blackwood, the noted Caro lina forger, has at last been disposed 1 of and he will serve nine years in t Dade coal mines or at some other ( place where convict labor is worked t in Georgia. i The court room was crowded with spectators when the.case was called this morning. At the opening of the C court Judge Roney appointed Mr. F. t W. Capers to represent the prisoner. t Solicitor-General Boykin Wright rep- t reseuted the State. Blackwood, upon t being arraigned, plead guilty upon three indictments. The checks weret forged upon Mr. T, P. Branch, and cashed by Mrs. Eliza Fogarty, to the amount of $70. He also procured I $60 from J. P. McNally. The third offence was for trying to purchase c $95 worth of jewelry from Mr. A. J. Renkl,on a forged check, which was discovered before Blackwood could C carry the goods off. After the plea of guilty was made, ~ Mr. Capers made a short and touch. ing speech, asking for mercy at the ~ hands of the court, and eliciting much I sympathy f->r the prisoner. After Mr. Capers concluded the I judge commanded Blackwood to ' stand up, and his sentence was de liver.d. The jud'ge said that theC punishment for each offense was from two to ten years in the peniteu- 3 itentiary. He did not give him the full extent prescribed, but for each offense he sentenced Blackwood to the t penitentiary for three years, making his term at hard labor nine years. Thus~ended without trial, and in a few minutes, the celebrated inter state issue and the cases against the forger, F. A. Blackwood. Some Spoons Yet Missing. Atlanta Constiution. Editor Dana's Benjy Butler is very mad about the flaga. He says the South has already received back nearly everything the Federals cap. tured. Well, there's a missing spoon r two and some silver doorplates; but, really, these amout to nothing. SHorrible Death of a Young Lady. SRALEIGH, N. C., June 24.-Miss Rosenthal was run Qyer b,y the fast mail on the Atlantig Coast Line, and killed last evening, She was riding Sin a buggy with a young man. The horse became unmanageable and backed upon toe track before an ad vancing train. The young man -jumped out, the better to manage Shim, and the young lady jumped on Sthe other side, fell on the track and was caught by the train. Both of Iher legs were cut o[ above the knee, Sand she died in an agnr. I Ooming to Stay, Y'orkl Enguirer, 22nd. xMaj. Jno. F. Jones, general super intendent of the Charleston, Cincin s nati and .Chicago Railroad has built - a handsome'residence at Black's and movedis familytit. THE THREE C'S. Ar harlotte Falling into Line--The Work on the Main Line. C'arlotte Cheronicle, 16th instant. ge A meeting was held in the rooms ga >f the Merchants' and Farmers' Na- thi ional Bank yesterday to confer with an arties from South Carolina and tal ;teel Creek township, in reference to tei he proposed railroad from Augusta, pr< ia., via Edgefield, Newberry, Union, pe orkville and Bethel, S. C. ; Steel cli ,reek and Charlotte, N. C. on Gen. R. Barringer was made chair- we nan and John Vanlandingbam, sec. cit etary. sal The object of the meeting was ex- of ilained by Mr. J. H. Weddington, of in( ;harlotte, and Dr. T. W. Campbell, cei if York. to After some discussion, which howed that the business men of an harlotte wanted more outlet, the fol- sir Dwing was offered by Mr. J. H. Wed- ad lington and was unanimously pn ,dopted: W Resolved, Tnat we sympathize with he proposed road from Augusta to to Tewberry, Union Yorkville and Beth 1, South Carolina, and Steel Creek ,nd Charlotte, North Carolina, and thl hat a committee of six from harlottee, two each from Steel of ,reek, Bethel, Bullock's Creek and ,ross Keys, one each from Pinkney hi nd Mount Tabor, and four each rom Union and Yorkville, be ap an ointed to confer with the authorities ga f the Charleston, Cincinnati and tnl 'hicago Railroad, and ascertain Ti that will he required of the people long the proposed line to make the arlotte the terminus of said road, cu: ,nd that the said committee be au- lin horized to call a general meeting at tei sharlotte at as early a day as prac icable. The committee was appointed and rill meet at a later day. PROGRESS OF TIIE WORK. pei Yorkeille Enquirer, June 22nd, we We met yesterday, Col. Kirby, let rho is the principal contractor for Le he grading from Yorkville to Salem br Thurch, in Lancaster County, a dis- ex ance of 55 miles,-and he reports sat- str sfactory progress on all his work. tu Mr. J. E. McIntire, of the firm of is >mith & Ripley, in the timber part a ,f construction, and having full con. rel rol of the bridge construction be- fol ween Black's and Camden, passed ga hrough Yorkville last Monday on a efi our of inspection. He is an exten- th' ive bridge contractor, having con- of racts now in course of fulfillment on wi everal roads, among them the Atchi- ha on, Topeka, and Santa Fe. His ab rincipal office is in Buffalo, N. Y. fe~ One of the contractors near Cam- thi en having bad much trouble with foi egro laborers, has sent for Italians mi o take their places. The testimony mi f contractors between Blacks and ho lock Hill-the majority of them forthern men and professional rail- as oad builders-is to the effect that th: he negro is the best laborer tiley I ave ever employed. They say, in treat him kindly, pay him what is ca romised and he will do faithful he rork." ea The Johnson City, Tenn., Cornet sl< f Thursday says: "Gen. J. T. at Vilder returned from New York th esterday morning and went up to at loan Mountain in the aftersoon. ho le has been attending a meeting of wi he directors of the C.. C. & C. road wi eports every thing all right and pro- It ressing favorably for Johnson City. m le says-dirt will be broken in John- bc son City in 60 days." ed It is said that there are now about rit ;,000 men employed on the line, in a ,he States of Kentucky, Tennessee, gc irginia and South Carolina. Th~e A. G. & W . Attachment. GREENVILLE, June 22.-Col. J.11 Eumbough, of Susong & Co., was in ;he city to day looking after the at- m achment brought against that firm, hi s controlle:s of the Atlantic, Green rille and Western Railway, by W.w 3. Sullivan a few d ays ago. It is earned that the suit in no. manner i prejudices the road or the credit of Susong 4 Co. WVhen the firm assumed ontrol of the road they took also its m iabilities, including a claim of Mr. Sullivan for grading. Part of that account was paid to Mr. Sullivan inL ash. The original company had hi previously transferred to Mr. Sulli- tt van s.iveral thousand dollars in notes of private parties. Susong & Co. now claim that including the notes, hey have already oyerpaid Mr, Sul ivan, and they r.efuse to pay more ntl the notes are accounted for. j1 he suit is simply a dispute over a eitlement, and does not affect the it ~oad itself one way or the other. - When he is at home Editor Pultizer ai gives the British aristocracy fias, but -a when he is on the other side of-the w water he manages to swell around st VikAa armn1e yta1t-h I Evangelist Sentenced to the Chai gang for Vagrancy. Savannah Times. C. H. Overman, the St. Paul evan ist, was sentenced to the chair og by Judge Harden to-day fo rty days. Overman has a certaii ojnt of shrewdness, but would b -en for a crank nine times out c i. He admitted that he had beei aching on the streets without : rmit from the mayor, and he de red that he did not intend to ge e. Had he acted differently, b uld have been allowed to leave th y. He denied being a vagrant ring that he had two visible mean support-the profession of preach and an aggregate capital of thirt: its, which he remarked was enougl support him for five days. 'We do not know anything of yoi :1 cannot tell whether you ar cere or not," remarked his hono ressing Overman. "What do yol >pose to do if we turn you loose ill you leave the city ?" I will do whatever God orders m do." How long will it take you to fin it out?" -I will learn as soon as I get on this court." some further questions were askei n, but he would not give direc 3wers, and he was sent to the chair rg where he will' have an oppor iity to preach to the convicts. J mnes reporter wanted to interviei prisoner, but he got mad an sed everybody within the cit; its and threatened the town witl rible vengeance. A City Sinking. 3HHENANDOAH, PA., June 24.-Th, ple of the west end of the cit; re alarmed this morning by a vic it shock of the earth's surface mps were thrown from shelves ani c-a-brac strewn upon floors. Th, ited residents rushed into th, eets to learn the cause of the die -bance. The Kohinoor Coal Min nnder this section of the city, an :ave-in was imminent. A Worl >orter visited the scene to-day an< mnd thirty-five families busily en ed in removing their householi acts. There are four large cracks o1 surface, about 450 feet long. Twi them at some points are 15 inche le. An r of 16,000 square fee sunk from 4 inches to 2 feet, an< ut two hundred buildings are al ted. Twenty-two on a line wit: se rents are torn asunder. Tb idations of half a hundred build s have been shattered, and i: ny cases the framework of, th uses is pulled asunder. he great squeeze is looked upo a warning for residents to vacat t undermined portion ot the city eC whole surface is liable to fal o the mine at any moment. Th~ ve-in is attributable to heavy rain re during the past two weeks. Th eth is still cra<.king and sinkin wly, and is expected to give wa any moment. In other partsc city boring machines have bee work for months past sinkin les from the surface into the min th a view of filling the excavatior th fine coal-dust packed by wate: is thought by engineers that thi ans will prevent cave.ins. Tb ring machine will be at once erec in the vicinity of the sinking te ory and worked day and night wit view of preventing the surface fro1 ing into the depts below. When the Emperor Dies. Newo York Herald. The death of the Emperor Willias 11 be a serious calamity to ti bole Continent of Europe. ' nre wars till I am gone" has bee s constant warning to Bismarcl 'hen the Franco-Prossian confli s over he determined to force ace that would last during his lif ne at least. ie cannot live much longer, F< me yes.rs he has been growii anifestly weaker, and the fact t to be concealed that at any tin > he may quietly pass into histor ntil within-a few weeks it has be4 s custom to show himself at one e windows of the palace at not Ichi day. It was the signal -f -eat cheering by die assem~bI owd, Sat he is now very feeb] id, although better than a few da; ;o, must husband his little remai strength with great economy. After his death Europe willI led with possibilities and probab~ ies. Nobody is rash- enough ake a prediction. It sufflees th ussia, Germany, Austria, Fran id England may at any time, if r I at the same time, resemble rar ay teams, and under such circu ances accidents are pretty sure ppen. But to whQrm i Ah, tha Le qnnation.~ L- END OF A DESPERATE CAREER. The Logan and Tolliver Parties of Rowan County, Ky., Fight it out on the Streets-Craig Tolliver Killed. r LEXINGTON, .KY., June ~22.-In formation bas been received by the Transcript of another battle in Row an County, which occurred this morn n ing at 9 o'clock. In this fight Craig Tolliver, the desperado who lorded it over that section, was killed. It is t said that a large party of men, osten e sibly led by Dr. Logan, whose two sons were murdered in cold blood by the 'olliver men about two weeks ago, and who was in jail in this city at the time of the tragedy, had organ. ized a band of regulators for the purpose of ridding the county of the desperadoes. The rumors of this band being in the neighborhood of Morehead have r been frequent. This morning, a lit tie Wafter nine o'clock, the regulators belugconcealed in close proximity to Morelead, opened fire on Tolliver e andj dome of his gang who were on the 'streets. Tolliver was killed in the - engagement, and the fight as sumed a bushwhacking character, t men biding behind houses and trees and shooting at any one that could be seen. t Reports differ as to the number killed; one placing the number at five, including Tolliver, and another stating that Craig Tolliver, two of his brothers and thirteen others had been killed. There is great con fusion in the telegraphic reports coming, and accurate news is out of the question. CRAIG TOLLIVER. Craig Tolliver was about fifty-five years old and has been a desperate character for thirty years. He re velled in bloodsded. In 1884, at the August election, the Martin-Tolliver feud was started, and since that time more than a dozen men have been killed in encounters between these factions. At the first breaking out of the feud John Martin killed Bill Tolliver, a brother of Craig, in a fight. Martin was placed in the Flemings. burg jail, from which he was taken by Bill Bowling and others on a forged writ of habeas corpus, and shot dead while on the cars en route to Morehead. The warfare I - been carried on openly or in the . ,oush ever since that time. Two years tago martial law was proclaimed in Rowan Ce nty, but as soon as the troops left the old troubles were re newed. Tolliver pretended that he e intended to reform, and some people Lwere foolish enough to believe his pro fessions. They elected him to a judge e ship which office he used to punish his old enemies. His first official act re Ssuited in the death of the tw< Logan e boys, sons of the Doctor, who lead !the assault of to-day. It has been Lasserted that nothing but the death eof Tolliver would bring about peace sin Rowan County. THlE DEAD TOLLIVERs. LOUIsVILLE, June 22.-Lieutenant SGovernor Windman, acting Gover n nor in the absence of Governor g Proctor Knott, has received the fol ~lowing telegram from Lexington: s~ "Fighting all morning at Morehead. . Craig, Budd and Jay Tolliver are s already killed. Don't know how e many more. The town is full of t. armed men. Think the worst is over. r. The killed include Craig Tolliver, ,h Bud Tolliver, Jay Tolliver and Hir. a m Cooper. They were all shot through the heart, and died instantly. Craig Tolliver seems to have been a general target, as he was so thorough. ly riddled as to be scarcely recogni zable. Cate Tolliver, a twelve-year. ie boy, at1d three others, all of whom were captured except Cate Tolliver, who crawled into ;the brush and es kcaped, were wounded. Three others ~escaped, but one was captured after. a wards. The attacking party was a . strong sheriff's posse. 3rBeecher's Mantle Not Yet Bestowed. g NEW YoRK, Jiine 2.-The report s that Rev. Charles E. Stowe will be Scalled to the pastorate of Plymouth 7- Church is denied. The congregation n is pleased with him, but are looking out for some one else-people say n Dr. Reun Thomas, of Brookline, Mass, d Swindling a Lottery. te, - ys HAVANA, June 22.-The Roya n- Havana Lottery, after the last dra'! ing, was mnulcted to the amount o be $85,000Q through counterfeit fraction to al portions of a ticket bearing tl at number drawing the capital pri . ce The capital prize called for $200,Yst ot The forgery was not dsoeeu atil after h hv amount h 'bee: Spaid out. Active efforts are ad. b's made to discover the perpetrat2 the swindle.. President McBryde Will Stay. Special to Augusta Chronicle. S COLUMBrIA, S. C.. June 22,-Before the graduates of the South Carolina College bade their fond and last fare well to their alma mater, they to. night in the library building partici pate in the grandest ball ever given by the students of this renowned in stitution. The order of exercises as an nounced was attended this morning by the elite of the city, and the. n chapel was crowded by friends of the students and institntion anxious to hear the speeches of the announced e orators and listen to the burning elo quence of the Hon. J. Randolph h Tucker, LL. D., of Lexington, Va. Just before the presenting of de- r grees Governor Richardson came for a ward and in beautiful words impart ed the information that President McBryde had concluded to remain in d Columbia as president of the institu- t tion which he has so faithfully served for a number of years. This an- h nouncement was received with a wave of patriotic and deafening applause ,by the audience. This information will set at ease the great anxiety of many and devoted friends of the col lege who at one time thought the loss 0 of President McBryde was a fact, and the news will undoubtedly carry e much joy to theihearts of those who are interested in the welfare and progress of the "old college." t a Peculiar Customs of Johanna. From the Boston Journal. The Island of Johanns, Comoro Islands, has some very peculiar cus toms. The natives are jet-black, but neat and clean. The girls after mar riage are not allowed out on the streets at all and can see no one but their husbands. Rich men are allowed four wives, poor men one. When a poor man gets poorer he can sell a half-share in his wife for so much money. regulated by law. A native belle, before her marriage, makes a fine display on the fashionable streets of Johanna in this rig-a red-calico Mother HIbbard gown, printed with a pattern of banana leaves, reaching to her knees-no shoes or stockings -and for headgear, a wide-rimmed, blue china teacup, worn with the handle on one si<e for convenience of taking off. Friends of the temperance cause might find a realization of their fondest hopes and dreams in Johanna, one of the Comoro Islands. The vice of drunkenness is wholly un known there. In all Johanna no one but the consul is allowed to have. any alcoholic liquors. Any one else, no matter who, found with any in his possession, is immediately, with all his family and all his relatives, thrown into jail and his house burnt, to the ground. And this is an island where there is not a single mission ary, and the inhabitants are all Mohammedans. Two Pictures of the War. Atlanta Constitution. While the politicians were raisingI a sulphurousracket over the Confed erate battle flags, the boys who did the fighting on both sides were hay-1 ing a good time in Boston. As the Richmond veterans were marching home their Boston friends yelled: "Hello, Johnny, got any tobacco you want to swap for coffee ?" and every time the answer came back: "All right, yank, pass over the coffee !" And then. everybody laughed and cheered. A Gallant Man. From the Manchester Times. An old war veteran, who had been through half a dozen campaigns and was not very particular about what he ate, was invited out to a swell dinner party. He sat almost oppo site the hostess and was painfully conscious that every move lie made could be observed by her. Sudden ly, at the height of the festivities, the veteran came across a catterpil lar in his salad. A furtive iglance at the hostess disclosed the fact that she, too, had discovered the embar rassing circumstance. It was a crit ical moment, but the old soldier was equal ~to the occasion. Without changing a muscle he gathered up the catterpillar with a forkful of salad and swallowed both. The look of gratitude which he received from rhi ' hostess a few minutes later armed the very cockies of his heart. In due time the story leaked out, -and when somebody asked the -old campaigner how he liked catterpilar salad, the reply came Slike a hot shot, "Do you take! m for a man who would spoil a din-j rner party for a. little thing like a cat4 GUITEAL"S HEAD. ispended in a Glass Case, it Will Be Put in Service as a Star Museum Attraction. NEW YoRr, June 19.-Prof. E. M. 7 orth, nephew of General Worth, iys that the head of Charles J. uiteau, the assassin of President arfield, which was always supposed > have been buried under the floor f his prison in Washington, is in is city. There is nothing repulsive i the sight. Guiteau's face bears o marks of suffering, and simply loks as though he were asleep. The ead will probably be exhibited soon [ther in this city or at Coney Island. 'he manner in which it came into the ands of the present possessor is re iarkable, and will probably prove a relation to the government offieials t Washington. Before Guiteau's execution the ids for ownership of the coming ca aver were occasionally flattering to ue assassin's vanity; but after his relings changed to one of horror that is body was to be hawked around r dissected, and he made every pro ision to defeat any such plans. He nally ordered his remnains to be laced at the disposition of Rev. Dr. [icks, as he feared to trust even his wn relatives. Dr. Hicks did all that e possibly could, but in spite of his Torts the body was dissected and ruiteau's bones are now on exhibi on in the Army Medical Museum t Washington, while his head is in ossession of Professor Worth. After the execution Dr. Hicks ielded to the desire of the govern. ient for an autopsy of the brain, and e subsequently, as he thought, saw be body lowered into the grave rhich had been dug within the jail. le saw a coffin buried but it con ined no human remains. Professor Worth says that he first eard of the existence of Guiteau's ead two years ago. He received a atter signed'with a fictitious name, aforming him of the fact, and offer ug to disclose its location. It took im some time to gain the confidence f the writer [and. learn where the ead was concealed.. He finally ound the head floating in alcohol, ontained in a glass jar, in the cellar f one of the finest residences of Vashington. It was in a perfect tate, except that the nose was slight y flattened. The circular jar also nagnified the head and distorted the etures. An effort was therefore nade to have a square jar made, large nough to hold the head. Molds rere wade, and the leading glass nanufacturers attempted to make the ar, but without success. In every ase the jars broke as they cooled. t last a sectional vase was made by rofessor Worth:himself, and in this he head of the assassin is suspended. he glass case rests upon a bronze >edestal, so that the top of the head s just at the same height as when liteat stood upright. Professor Worth's life has been spent in gathering a collection of :uriosities, and he has gradually athered up every relic of G3uiteau >osesing a public interest. Said he gentleman who saw the head a lay or two ago: "The stitches made y the physician in restoring the ~calf to its original position are as eat as the most skillful embroidery. here was the yellowish furrow, show g the pressure of the rope, exteud g three-quarters around the neck. [t showed that the knot had slipped 'rom the left ear around to the back >f the neck. His short hair and nustache were as perfect as in life." Chlvalry Out West. Dayton, Nec., Newcs Reporter. Scene-Strawberry festival; portly erchant .iancing quadrille with good looking young lady. Enter Carson iver cowboy just as caller cries grand right and left." Cowboy tands in and at end of change finds himself standing with portly mer :hant's partner. Portly merchant unceremoniously crowds cowboy out :f his place. Cowboy stands baclb ad deliberately sizes up portly mer aant. Comes to the conclusion thai portly merchant would be too muct for him at close quarters. Cowboj throws his sombrero on the floor hitches up his pants, thrusts his righi hand into the rear pocket thereof, ani in a loud voice thus delivers himself "Partner, I. corraled that air heifer She are a maverick; leastwise yoi hain't got no rope on her. Now, just reckon TIl gallop with her durn the balance of this 'ere round.up Light out, or I'll set my old forty-fiv' a barkin." Portly merchant con cludes that discretion is the bette part of valor, and sits down. Musil btarts up and cowboy finishes thi "gallop" with the "heifer" of hi: Greenville's New Cotton lm Special to Atlanta Conatitudion.; GREEN LE, S. C., June 22.-For several days there has been consid-' erable interest here over the prospect of a new cotton mill. Capitalists in Boston, deeming this the best location in the Piedmont belt for a mill, have been negotiating with Colonel H. P Eammett, the president of the Pied mont mills at Piedmont .and the Camperdown cotton mills here, with the view of obtaining his consent to manage the new mill. Colonel Ham- = mett, after consulting with severatin fluential friends here, has given consent to act as desired, and the"' mill is now an assured fact. It witl be built just outside the city limits,; near the fair grounds, alongside the track of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company. A half million dollars will be invested, one hundred thousand of which will be contributed by local stockholders, and the balance' will come from Boston and other Northern cities. The mill will oper ate about twenty-five thousaud spin dles and about six hundred looms It will manufacture plain cloth, and is expected to give employment to about six hundred hands. Coloni Hammett thinks that in a short ,,"' after beginning operations he have a town of some fifteen hundred inhabitants. It is the purpose of the company to retain all its land for the" convenience of its operatives, giving;Y to each tenement a good garden plot No store will be erected on the la of the company, and most of trade, therefore, from the mill peop1es will come to the city merchants. The Telephone of 1665. From the Norl American "There is nothing new -ve' sun," not even the telephonei mit me to state in theyear 1665 there? was published in England a bool with the title of "Micographia." The author was Dr. Robert Hooke, s cel' ebrated scientist, mathematician and philosopher, who was born in- the Isle of Wight in 1635 and educated at Oxfoid. The work referred to contains 'various philosophical de< scriptions of minute bodies, made bj magnifying glasses, as indicated in the title, together with "Observations: and Inquiries" on them. . In the pre face, the learned scientists assert that the lowest whispers, by certain - means (which he does not make pub.-- j~ lic), may be heard at the distance of a furlong; that he knew a way by which it is easy to hear anyone speak through a wall three feet thick; and.~ tha*by means of an extended wire, sound may be conveyed to a very great distance, almost in an instant Twenty-three Days Without Food. Yorkcille Enquirer, 22nd. Mr. B3ailes, the mail carrier on the route from. this place to Bullock's Creek, informed us yesterday even ing that Mrs. Good, an aged lady living in the Bullock's Creek neigh borhood, was stricken with paralysis on the 30th of last month, since which time, a period of twenty-three days, including yesterday, she hs eaten no food of any kind, and taken no nourishment except an occasional . sip of water or coffee. Mrs. Good is the grand-mother of Johnnie Lee . Good, the little boy who was ruth lessly murdered last November. The Greenville Cotton Fire. Special to News and Courier. GREENVILLE, June 22-In the hurry and excitement: prevailing at mid night when the dispatch to the News and Courier was forwarded the mill offcials made an error in estimating 700 bales as the contents of the ware- :z house. The building really contained 1,084 bales, on which there was $45000 insurance, all in New En gland factory mutual companies. The house was insured for $10,000, which - fully covers the loss. In spite of the complete sweeping away of the season's supply Col. Hammuett says e will be ready to start up again in two or three days, having secured by telegraph to-day a lot of 450 balesk Atlanta. The purchase was made at.a aivantageons price, and isispecially fortunate as itiremoves the necessity for a long shut-down. A very small part of the damaged cotton willb available again. A.Threatenied Famine Coss-rANTNOPLE, June 22.-There has been a failure of crops in Asia Minor, and other districts of Adans and Kutahia are threatened with - famine. An American missionary, Mr. Montgomery, says that th-e peo pe of these districts are already in reat distress. The sultan held a cabinet council to-day to discuss the subject, and dispatched a commis- . sioner to institute measurSo ei(