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ESALIHDE.1 5 'WBERRY, S. C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBR8I18.PICI15 EST~ ALISHED INSZ 186--0. - . - ~ S-Y ?-.~~r%rt~ HE HAD NO TCKliT. Bil Nye tells bow Millionaire Senator Stanford was Fired from a Pullman Car. B21 Nye in New York Worll. Some years ago a big, fat and pompous man strolled into a sleeping car on board a Union Pacific train with the air of a man who owned things. After be had looked at every body till he had gratified his curios ity, he settled down in a seat and be gan to watch from the window the - swiftly changing landscape. The sleeping car conductor put his hand on the shoulder of the large, globular man and asked him if he ha.l a Pull man ticket. The wide man spread his legs a little wider, so as to take up a little more room, breathed in about 2,700 cubic feet of Nebraska ozone and said he did not have to have a ticket. "You have to show a ticket here in this car or go into the car where you belong," said the. ur bane conductor who rsists Sir George Pullman in giving his beloved sleep. "We are not carrying people this summer just to cultivate a friendly feeling between man and man." "Do you know," said the large man as he threw back his coat so as to show a two pound diamond, "that I can- have you out of a job in - three minutes and hang your pelt on the fence as soon as we get to Omaha?" .'No, I didn't know that. of course; but I know that if you don't show me your authority for riding in this car I will call the porter and we will use you to lubricate the young and growing State of Nebraska. You may be an eminent man, but you have a way of concealing it that would baffle any conductor in the United States." "You will find out who I am when we get to Omaha," said the large purple man, looking at his seven pound watch, and snapping it so that a nervous woman nearly jumped out of the car. "You will then know who I am, but it will be too late." "True, true," said the conductor musingly. "It will then be indeed too late, for nobody who comes to search for you will know who you are, and you will be a very shocking sight." "Young man, when you are my age I hope that you will know more." "Yes, sir. I also -hope I will know more, and I wish that you had been blessed by knowing more." "Sir, my name is a household word from New York to San Francisco. If you had ever travelled much you would not have to ask for my ticket. You ought to be able to recognize a man who has been in public life as long as I have.'' *"Possibly so," said the conductor, taking off his coat and calling the porter, "but somehow you do not re mind me of any great man I ever saw. You look to me more like a man who has struck a popular chord in leaf lard or quelled the national cry for an earnest and tenacious style of glee. As I said before, the rules of this company require that you shall produce currency, pass or ticket or get off and walk. Will you show us your credentials or earn the everlast ing enmity of this road by falling off the ph.tform or mussing up the right of way?" The large man's breath came quick and his brow grew black, as he ground his teeth and went out of the car. I supposed he had gone out to plung< off the platform as we sped swiftly down the grade. I went back to see him do it, for I had never seen a man distribute himself over a monotonous sweep of country that way; but, much to my surprise, he went into a large, yellow special car that was attached to the train, and we afterwards learned that lhe was Leland Stanford, - who has since that filled the overnlow lug seat in the United States senate. The conductor continued to hold his position for years after, though several times he made this samie sad error of not recognizing some of our most eminent men in politics, art and letters. Twice he missed it on me. But I did not report him, for he ought to maintain discipline, I claim, and be. sides, I have shaved off my moustache since we last met. We ought not to ask too much of a conductor. Our great men are coni stantly changing their appearance by putting on '.iff'erent hats or getting their hair cut, and a cor.ductor is al most forced to demand a ticket or some other guarantee of good faith from one who rides with him. Gov. Stauford is a very large man physically, and this giv'e2 his brain a wo,nderful amount of sea-room andl a good chance to stretch itself. He enjoys being in the senate very much, for it gives him an opportunity to me othe wealthy men and helps him to forget about the low, common people who elected him. He is sorry now that he did not go to the senate CII years ago. It is the best place to go to recover from brain fag that he knows of, and he says that his fag hasn't looked so well for years. 11HE TRIPLE MURDER Pr( pet The Crime of the Rue Montaigne for air which Pranzini was Executed. Th am During the last two years there have been several murders in Paris da, of women of lobse character by men , who stole their jewels and money. me Among the most sensational of these Ch was the murder last March of Marie gei Regnault, her servant and the latter's little girl. da Marie Regnault occupied a suite aw of rooms in the Rue Montaigne in jai, an apartment house, where the people out raised no objection to Mme. Regnault in as an immoral person until she be- no gan to be so indiscriminate in her ma male visitors as to cause distrust of ne< the honesty of some of them. In sol fact, the concierge said to her : da, 'Madame, you admit all kinds of in men-perfect strangers even-to alc your rooms, and some day we shall str all wake up with our throats cut." ter One morning her door r.rained de closed until a late hour, and, as no sound was heard inside, the con- fig cierge finally ventured into her room, I where she was dead beside her bed les with her throat cut. The servant, PI who was partly dressed, was found ea also dead at the door leading back va toward her own room, and her little su girl was found gashed by the same gil weapon-a huge carving knife-in er her room. at Evidently robbery had been the motive of the murders, for Mme. ve Marie's jewelry was missing and the by whole place had been searched for other valuables. About $20,000 me worth of bonds and securities had fat escaped the assassin's notice. There ha was little clue to the murderer's cit identity. He had left the house early of and no one had seen him. Hi fei Several days later, however, it was da learned that a portion of Mme. Reg- ch nault's jewelry was in the hands of thi some disreputable women in Mar- ha seilles. They willingly gave it up ha to the police, and said that they had ru received it from a man named Pran zini. The latter was arrested and C confronted with the women. He ve denied ever having seen them, and thenceforward his whole defence was f a se'ries of persistent denials of p everything that would connect hmat with the murders. -i Investigation showed that he had ag a wonderfully adventurous career one day with Gen. Skobeleff, the next pe in Egypt, the next organizing cara- th vans in Asia or gambling at the 'bu roulette tables at Monte Cario. Hi is fo two passions had 3een play and in women, but chiefly play. On his trial ~ the efforts of the interrogatories were nc directed to showing that to sat- of isfy the second-.r Hie was about thirty years old, ye short, neither very dark nor very th fair--a joil garcon, the French would. co say-short, curly hair, very thin at es top, brushed smoothly over the th square forehead, but a magnificent va curly hair, very thin at top, brushed th smoothly over the square forehead, ne but a magnificent curly beard and dc whiskers neatly trimimed like the bt mustache; small, observant eyes and of wonderfully mobile eyebrows; no particular character in the nose or be mouth; neck shapely. re lie had many successes with p women, and among his effects were !p several letters from an American fo girl, ap)parently wealthy, educated li1 and refined, whom lie had seduced. 0( One of the chief witnesses against pr him was an elderly woman named $1 Mlle. Sabatier, who, as was stated in Court, had supported him as his mis- re tress, though nearly old enough to he tI his motber. At the time lhe met Mlle. Sabatier, $ Pranzini seems to have been -ahjectly 5 poor. The evidence showed that he el even had hardly any linen to wear, I adI that but for his bonnes fortunes y he would have bad a good chance of da strving(. S Pranazini adraiitted that he-got a big knife just before the murder, i but maintained that it was given to 11 him by a cutler in exchange for a b pocket knife which needed repairing. s As to his flight from Paris after t':e crime, he was panic-stricken at the idea of having left two visiting cards at Marie Regnault's. r< 1Ilis trial began July 9, and on the q 13 :th hea was found guilty and sen tence?d to death. President Grevy's well-known antip'sthy ,to the death( penaIty did not prevent him from r sining Pranzini's death warrant t THE GREAT QUAKE. ANGES OF A YEAR IN THE CITY OF CHARLESTON. The City Fully on its Feet Again. i Special to _tlanta Constitution. t IHAI:LESTON, S. C., August 31.- a >bably nine-tenths of the colored )ple in the city are out in the open holding religious services to-night. n ere is no unusual excitemeut S ong the white people, but there is I be no perfect rest until day c wns to morrow. e C'he 31st of August will be a 0 morable day in the history of 1, arleston as long as the present rE eration shall live and for many r' Lrs thereafter. One year ago to. e r this fair city lay in ruins. The it ful hand of Providence had been til 1 uporn it, and its people, camping E in the open squares, knew noth- b of the fate before them, and had 1 hope for the future. There are r ny sad and bitter memories con ,ted with the day-memories of tI is and brothers and fathers and ti aghters and wives slain and buried t4 the ruins; of sorrows which time tl ne can heal; of homesteads de- li oyed and household gods shat ed; of crushed hopes and sullen ti -pair. P But to come down to facts and 0 ires. On the 1st of September, fl 36, over 6,000 buildings in Char- i1 ton were in ruins and 60,000 peo- t homeless. Later on, a careful s ,imate was made of the money t iue of the damages that had been P ,tained. The commission of en ieers sent here by the general gov iment estimated these damages between $5,000,000 and $6,000,000, ich figures were subsequently ified by a commission appointed 5 the insurance companies. 6 What has been done in the twelve I nths that have elapsed since the 1 eful 31st of August, 1886 ? What b s not been done ? Look at the t y to-day. The only actual traces i the earthquake are to be found at N bernian hall, and, perhaps, in a t v other localities. Within three ys after the earthquake the mer- v ants of the city had cleared away 1 debris in such of the stores as t d not been absolutely destroyed; a d excavated footpaths through the ins to their stores, and had re med business. Strangers who visit ~ barleston to-day will have to search t ry diligent for traces of the earth- t ake other than such as are to be d in the new houses and im oved buildings that meet the eye every turn. Charleston~ has once >re risen from her ashes, and is ai the queen city of the south. In the twelve months ending to day rmits were issued by the city an rities for the erection of 271 new ilings at a cost of $450,875 and1 the improvement of 141 old build s at a cost of $144,445. These ures, it will be borne in mind, have reference whatever to the repair earthquake damages. They rep sent over a half million dollars in sted in improving real estate in e city during twelve months, not unting the repairs rendered nec sary by the earthquake. Add to e amount 25 per cent for under-1 luatlons, and it will be seen that e people of Charleston have spent arly three quarters of a million llars on improvinents and new rildings since the night of the 31st A ugust, 1986. To summarize, therefore, it may said that over $1,009,000 has been ceived in Charleston during the st year and spent in repairing uperty. The contributions are as lows approximately: General re if fund, $640,000; churches, $288, )0; societies, lodges, etc., $50,000; -ivate individuals, $25,000. Total, L,003,000. The expenditures in the way of pairs to real property, etc., during~ year was about as follows: Through the relief committee, U0,000; private funds, repairs, 1. )0,000; new buildings, $500.000; urches, $500,000; city buildings, [0.000; improved old*buildings, 140,000; total, $3,350,000-add un er valuation. $200,000-grand total, 5350,000. This is what Charleston has done the way of pulling herself together. is a wonderful showing; it would e encouraging under any circum ~ances. he Confederate Dead Near Chicago. WASAINGTox, Sept. 1.--The Sec tary of War has approved the re uest of the Ex-Confederate Asso ation at Chicago to erect a memo al to the Con federate dead buried the government lot in Oakland emneterv, near that city, under such agulations as may be "prescribed by .e Qu,aremastr-G enerat. Maine Gets Left. Atlanta Constitution. Maine has a hard road to travel. "hen she gets her State machinery to the proper shape for suppressing e liquor dealers the federal govern ent comes to their rescue. i For years the liquor dealers in t aine have found it necessary as a 1 easure or safety to take out United t tates revenue license. The legis- f ture recently passed a statute de- f aring that the possession of a rev- I ue license was prima facie evidence I an intention to violate the law. I ere the United States collector of < venue interposed an obstacle by t fusing to allow the State officials to I camine his books. The State author- I ies then began to make it hot for ie collector and he had to yield. j ut the temporary advantage gained y the prohibitionists was soon lost. I be collector's office for Maine was ] moved to Portsmouth, N. H. The [aine detectives visited Ports- t outh and were curtly informed by i ie collector that he did not propose E help them in their crusade against < ie men who had paid him for their t cense. This was bad enough but the ac- l os of a Portland liquor dealer in im orting liquor and selling it in its riginal packages is giving the State I irther trouble. State laws cannot t iterfere with the traffic carried on in As manner, and the only way to i op tt will be to persuade congress 1 change existing laws. It is a very I retty fight. Conkling's Conversion. Atlanta Constitution. Roscoe Conkling was for several 1 ears one of the most conspicuous 1 gures on the political arena in the inited States, but during his public fe he was never a man of truly road and national views. His na ire may have tended toward liberal ;y, but he was shackled by his de otion to a party which was essen [ally sectional. Conkling's aspersions of the South rere not so brutal as those of Chand r or Morton, but they were none ae less severe because of their ele 'ance. On one occasion in the senate he aid he.had seen "both wings of the apital swarming with the enemies of he republic:' This was an allusion a Southern men who were visiting he capitol of their country over ten ears after the war. It was the influence of Grant and onkling which carried New York in 880 and made Garfield's election ossible. The burden of Conkling's peeches in that campaign was the anger to the country resulting from e influence of the South on federal egislation.- He proclaimed that the ~lection of General Hancock would e a national calamity. No man ept the sectional issue more promi lent in that excited contest. Soon after Garfield's election. Jonkling resigned his seat in the en ate on account of a quarrel of the drinistration. Hie has been out of )oitics over six years, during which ime he hqs devoted himself exclu ively to the practice of law. Retirement from politics has en bled Mr. Conikling to build up his battered private estate and to attain a~ emiuence at the bar which he ~ould never have reached if he had ~ontinued his active and laborious yolitical career. Another effect of is turbulent scenes of political strife as been his emancipation from see iongl prejudice. Recently the ex senator was invited to attend a re 2nion of "the blue" and "the gray" it Evansville, Indiana. In his reply. 2 said: "My earnest sympathy and hope o with every movement and idea iaving for its real purpose to weld ~ogether all sections and classes and o make our country throughout all its borders united, prosperous and reat. Could wish or act of mine de ide, every community and neighbor hood in all the land should be crowned with the fullness of peace and pro gress as much at the South as at the East, the West or the North." These are noble words. They con trast beautifully with the sentiments which Mr. Conkling uttered ten years ago. It is more than probable that he would prefer to be reinem bered by his Evansville letter than by his campaign speeches in 1876. Mr. Conkling is an exceptionally gifted man. Hius big brain and his brave heart could not have rested content in any narrow sectional creed. We are glad that he has adopted a broad, patriotic, national faith, which includes the whole coun tr in isneolence and its hope. BLIND TOM. 'he Early History of His Life-The Re markable Memory of the Blind Musical Prodigy. From the Augusta, Ga., 1ews. Since the recent action of the court a taking Blind Tom from the cus ody of Mr. Bethune, his former life >ng friend, manager and protector .as brought him so prominently be are the public in the newspapers, ew facts concerning his childhoot iy one who knew him then may no rove uninteresting. He was bori ear the city of Columbus, in Mus ogee County, Ga., of slave parent he property of General James N ethune, at that time editor and prc >rietor of a newspaper called th orner Stone, but in exactly wha 'ear I do not know, as he was som ix or eight years, or it may be ittle older, when I first met him i 855. My first meeting with him was i his wise: I had just married a fel nonths previously, and one of Get ral Bethune's daughters had bee: ne of our bridesmaids. On our r( urn from a northern tour we were it ,ited to dine at General Bethune': )uring the day music was propose and upon the piano and flute my wif 6nd I played a tune which we ha eard for the first time at one of th heatres in Philadelphia. At the firs ound of the music, Tom came rus ng into the parlor in a single gai nent, so common among the "littl iggers" in the South, and while tb nusic was going on he fell dow ipon the floor, rolled over, turne iomersaults, clapped his hand: ;roaned, and went through diver notions, really more as if he were i )ain than experiencing emotions < )leasure. As soon, however, as tb ast note was played, he sprang ul ushed to my wife, and pushing i 3er, cried out, eagerly: "Miss Fai ie-he knew her well-please g Iway; I wants ter play dat tune ! And jumping upon the piano stoo e played it off perfectly, although now he had never heard it until th; moment, for it had only been recen ty published and had not yet con South. To test him, then othe played tunes he had never heard, at he would immediately play them c with both hands, just as he had hea tnem. He seems to love all sound whether musical or harsh. He lov to do the churning for the famil just to have the monotonous sour of the dasher in the cream. He h: even been known to pinc11 and othe wise tease babies just to hear the cry. One habit of his seems to savor good deal of romance, vet it is tri Being blind he would stay away fra home, listening to the songs ot biri as they flitted from tree to tree t he would get lost in the woods, r able to find his way back. Up< such occasions the most practicat way to find him would be for 1 John Bethune-his first manager go out in the woods and play I fute, when Tom would hear it, cot to the sound, and thus get backbhon Although idiotic, he was, even that early age, endowed with a Wc derful memory. After spending t day at General Bethune's as relat above, it was over six years befori saw him again. The war was goi1 on, and one day on taking a train unexpectedly found Mr. John I thne with Tom on the train. I~ dressed Mr. Bethune and then To not dreaming that he would recogni me, when, to my infinite surprise, said : "How'd'ye, Mr. Sharp; hoi Mis3 Fanny?" To which I sai 'Why, Tom, how do you know me well?" Hie replied : "Oh, I kno you, en Mis.s Fanny, too; don't y know when you was at our house a played dis tune?" and he whistled t very tune mentioned above. On ti trip I discovered how the absence sight had rendered all his othe more acute for as we dashed alo at perhaps thirty miles an hour could always tell whether we w< passing woods or open fields, hous cuts, embankments, bridges, or most anything else. I remember entered a small village on the r: road when I asked Tom what v outside, to which he promptly repli< "A heap of houses." A very amusing scene was wb Millie Christini-the twin negr< (united at the back)-known as1 Carolina twins, were in that secti Tom called them. Tom being idio was not at all educated, while ti had been very highly educated a had travelled extensively, exhibiti before all the courts of Euro Tom, however, though uneducat had traveled a good deal and I picked up some sharp phrases. D ing his visit he asked the twins, dressning- them a one, "Miss Mil Christini, did you ever drink Italian DI water sweetened with etars?" At - which the:r superior education ap. B1 peared disgusted as they replied, "If you mean to ask if we have ever been ' Italy, we answer yes, which is ha 3 more than you can say." They are both, or all three, rather, (as the Caro- ha lina twins are evidently two separate TI beings) black and full blooded ne- lal groes. , There was always a warm friend- i I ship between Tom and the whole T 1or t Bethune family, and it is an injustice a a to take Tom from their custody, for da he was better off with them than he tr , will ever be with any one else. hr They raised him from his infancy, hc and unless he has changed-which it s e seems not, from the papers-be prefers t to remain with Mr. Bethune. But e such is fate. and only proves that a though intended to he founded on it, a law is net always justice. "C. SHARP." re B "Bill" McKinny at Ox Hill. ti Abbecille Medium, September 1. di To-day is the twenty-fifth anniver- th sary of the battle of Ox-Hill or Chan tilly as the Yankees call it. The in battle was fought late in the day, h< during a heavy rain. During the ri, heat of the engagement William R. b e McKinny, familiarly known as "Bill," h< a member of Co. B., Orr's Rifles, had cc e his gun to burst in his hands. Near si t him was a comrade down on the in ground groaning as if he was nearly dead As "Bill" was without a gun to e the captain ordered him to carry out w e the wounded man. Bill got him on T his back and struck out for the rear. bi d In a few hundred yards William set at the wounded man down to rest when tr s a shell exploded just above* their T heads. The cripple jumped to his at feet and although pursued on a dead p] run for a quarter of a mile he was ai never aken but disappeared o1 through the dripping woods as if he bi had wings to his feet. ti "Bill" spent the balance of e the day watching a staff officer i , who would stand behind a tree and peep around it with his field glass until a bullet would hit the tree and then run to another tree, repeating e the operation every time a bullet came near him. Bill got him a tree and when the officer changed trees he did the same. They raced from a tree to tree until darg, getting away s, from the firing every time. The d amusingpart of the affair was that 'the officer could not see twenty yards dwith his glass, the rain was so heavy. r- A PATHETIC INCIDENT. m ~ - Of the Chatsworth Horror, as Told by a Lady Survivor. a -- ( Le. Mrs. Merriam Grant, one of the r m people wounded in the Chatsworth ~ ds disaster, was in the rear car with her 8 ill husband. In this car was a party of t n- six people. In order that they might ~ n- sit together, Mr. and Mrs. Great ~ ile chan gad seats with a young man and ~ [r. his 'oride. Their courtesy saved their to lives, for the young couple were both is killed. Mrs. Grant thought this ne party were theatrical people or cony e- cert singers, they were so jolly and at sang so well. They could sing, and n- they laughed and told stories and an he ticipated the pleasure of the trip un ed til late at night. Then Mrs. Grant I composed herself in her chair and coy 2 ered her face with her handkerchief to , I go to sleep. Nearly everybody in thet le- car was quiet but the jolly party of Ld- six. About this time the young< m, bride was requested to sing "Sweet ze Hour of Prayer." Something in the t he desire to sleep and rest recalled the r's sweet old song. The young woman d: sang, and all listened while the train < so sped on. wys As the little gleam of devilish fire ou appeared far down the track their t nd voices swelled in :t ,he "Yet in my dreams I'd be, iat Nearer, my God, to Thee." t of The speed of the train increased are down the grade. Again the song gswelled: e"There let thie way appear, steps unto he heaven.l re The way was already in sight. es, "ll that Thou sendest me in mercyI al- given." I we And then with but a moment of 11. life left for each. Even when poor Ed as5 IcClintock's hand was giving its d: last desperate wrench to the throttle of his engine, the singers sang to en their God, who seemed not to be >es holding them in the hollow of his he hand: 3fn. "Angels to beckon me tic Nearer my God, to Thee." iev Enough. It was finished. The nd engines struck the frail bridge and it ng sank. The car containing the singers pe. crashed like a bolt of Jove through ed, the two cars in front of it, killing iad and grinding as a foot kills a worm. ur- In the same instant another car ad- crashed through it, and the singers SASTROUS FLOODS IN TEXAS. univ . -- was : siness Houses and Residences Swept nobo Away. But i its c' Monaax, Texas, Sept. 1.-The evid rdest rain that ever fell in this title( intry began Tuesday night and excli s continued without cessation. woul ie damage to farmers in low valley that ids in every portion of the country men1 estimated at thousands of dollars. half e Texas Central and the Gulf, Col- scho %do and Santa Fe railroads are dly damaged, and it will be many sity ys before either of them can move wit ins. The following business this uses, with all their goods, were rept down the Basque River: Sel- by rs & Hamilton's dry goods store, is d im Frank's grocery store, M. that cHail's grocery, J. H. Justice's ddle shop, Anderson's furniture e re and three cotton gins. Nine d sidences were also washed away. a case asides these houses, which are en- The ely gone, every house in town is Lmaged. Life is all that many of sent e citizens have left. tice At Whitney, twenty-two miles east, st the hill country, a number of uses were washed away. At Me- s dian, a man whose name could not and has learned, was swimming to his >use to try and save some of the vote ntents, when the water became too . .anti rift for his strengch, forcing him asce to the current and drowning him. beel Between here and Cleiwine, a dis- dre; nee of thirty miles, there were eight col ashouts on the Santa Fe road. hree of the number are large iron the idges, which span the Nolan River mot different points on the Texas Cen-' phi] al between Morgan and Whitney. wo large iron bridges, which havea cod the storms for years, are com- wil Letely destroyed. Between here its id Hico, on the Central road, thirty-inc 1e miles distant, there are eleven the ridges washed away. The loss to Stai e railroad is over $100,000. No timate can yet be made of the loss bee and i small towns and to farms. late Co-Education inGeorgia. woc ing New York Times, Republican. mes The Glenn bill, which has for some in t me been pending in the legislature tal f Georgia, is now, it appears likely, bill be surperceeded by another meas re worthy only of a community of T avages. A C The question which formed the retet for the Glenn bill, and which be new bill proposes to solve, is not - roperly the question of co-education to1 t all. It is a question of the mis- A< .pplication of public moneys. The res eople of Georgia have already de- noz ided against the teaching of the two an< aces in the same public schools. p Ve are bound to assumo, in the ab, se ence of any 'testimony to the con rary, that they have decided rightly ing or the interest of both races. It is caj f the utmost consequence that the cc hildren of Georgia, both white and ed lack, should be better'taught than ros hey have been heretofore. It is a ci natter of very much less importance, if 1 n any reasonable mind, whether they gr( re taught together or separately. ba< yhen public opinion or public preju- pe: ice is in such a state that an in- on istence upon co-education for the sol lacks imperils their chance of get- Ta ing any teaching at all the public hai pense nobody but a fanatic wdll the Lrge co-education. Every sensible So erson who is interested in the edu- we ation of the blacks will confine his ye: fforts to seeing that their share of an< he appropriation for schools is se- wo ured to them and is honestly ex- we ended in giving them the equivalent po f the teaching imparted in the white th: ichools. With'education which is mc ot public the State has no occasion thi o meddle. If it be true that the sen iment of the white people cof Georgia inalterably opposed to co-education ,here is no need of enforcing this entimenji by statute. A teacher who est indertakes to carry on a mixed dr< chool for profit will find that there kn s no profit in it, since he will get no un vhite pupils. Yet the Glenn bill bu >roposed to make it a penal offense do 'or any private as well as for any ho ublic school to take pupils of both ci aces, and the excuse for the bill was te< ,hat public opinion made the bill en- sri irely unnecesssary ! co The one grain of sense that was oncealed in the folly and brutality ca >f the Glenn bill was that an insti- or ution which received State aid as a wt chool for blacks received white at pupils. This is the Atlanta univer- th sity, so-called. rhe money accruing as from the sale of public lahids and fe: distributed by the United States ro among the States in aid of education Cs was divided by Georgia into two a1 parts. The income of one of these sJ was allotted to the State university ze at Athens, as a school for whites; e~ n that of the other to the Atlanta as ,rsity as a school for bi mn equitable division dy was entitled to f the State university h asses to colored youth mntly have been' no I to its share of this f isively white school. T d have had reason to the blacks under this received more than ?th the money going to Dl and the other half d school. The Atd took its share, and e youth to its classes. is not the division con ,he law. It is the bl to complain, now that t ivided between a whi they have not the ben e sum which the State >te to them. here is thus, it seems, made against this question raised' is n iment at all, but of law f ' The Glenn bill prc id, clumsy and brutal it. The settlement ,d is sensible, bu humane. The. resolt passed one branch of, simply directs that the d to this school shall be I an investigation has rtain whether this mone i spent in educating co i. In educating both red children with thep and intended for the university has been iey under false preten anthropic intentions and "s zeal of its professors can'_ unpleasant fact. H be compelled, to choose white pupils and that p> >me, said to be tout oc whole, that is derived. te. If the question at n put, in the first place, reasonably .as it is st acttln of the hous Ld have been no chane~ a dispute .about it. its of the case were he natural indignation it tyranny embodied in .ti E BLUE RIDGE EA - 'rps of Engineers Old Route. - - Wakalka Courier - he Blue Ridge Ra >e about to get on its1 ~orps of engineers are rveying the old route~ r at some point between I Clayton. One of ~sed through Walhalla king information about gVe understand this sz made by a syndicate of >italists,*who are interetd~ mberland coal mines. Iti this company intends bull d. d, if it can get the rights afi ses belonging to the cha4C he survey shows the cost a at. A survey made 3k showed that nearly ora cent. of the work had bee.' the old route, and that it id and permanent chi king this to be true, w~ dly think that the comple Sgreatest thoroughfare! uth at one-third the origil uld not pay. The road wr rse a rich country, both in 1 agriculture, and at E uld connect with the great"~ st. We have been so ot nted in the building of th t we merely mention tI~' vement, hoping yet doubti re may be something in it" A Deliberate RaIIroad.t New York World.1 Capitalists in Buenos ablishing a horse railroa A miles long. Steam is~2 own in tbat region. In lerstood and used wh t in this case it is ca* ubtlessly judiciously seta rses: These animals, or mt , ap; the market is perennial i with time, so that spee~ all consideration, while atF peratvely expensive. The capitalists ascertain tha n make more money by using mules and do so. The 0 uld rather go two hundred. a jog-trot speed for five. df an pay six dollars and go fiv>. fast. It is probable that theC Sthe slower rate anyhow.t ad isto beequipped with sled rs. It is a pleasure to contexi eole of this kind. Theyj ch a refreshing contrast to o us, who are constantly a~ ery nerve to go througb h4 fas a possible