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t att ~lt it Ds ESTAP,I,SH EI) IN 1865. NEWBEllitY, S. C., TiLIlSI)AY, FEBiRUARY 9. 1888 PIE$.0AYA THlE STATE GRANGE AND BOARI) OF AGRICULTURE IN SESSION. A(ting Worthy Master Wolflord Iteads his Annual Address--Standing Con nittees Appointed-Election of tiiecessor to Master Lip seonib. Coi.'\:IA, Februarv 1.-The six teenth annual meeting of the State GraL:ge began in Agricultural iiall at 11 o'clock this morning. Worthy Overseer J. W. \Wotford, acting 11as ter, presided. The following officers of the Grange were present besides the Overseer: .J 11 Stone, assistant steward; J G Richards, chaplain; A. 1. Aiken. treasurer; Thomas W. Holloway, secretary, and M D C Cal vin, gate-keeper. The executive com mittee consisting of Messrs J W Norris. W K Thompson and R A Love. were also in attendance. The roll was called by Seerttary Holloway, and a quorum being pres eat the Grange was declared opened. A prayer was offered by the chaplain Acting Worthy Master John W. Wofford then read his annual ad dress. The following standing committees were appuinted by the Acting Wor thy Master: On Worthy Masters Address -E 31 Atkinson, L L Clayburn, J 11 Stone. On Executive Committee's Report -B B Mcvhite, 1 Foster, J L Hugh e . On Resolutions-W F Russell, 31 J Jenkins, 1). B. Douglass. On Business and Unfinished Busi, ness-G V 1oselcy, Wii Horne. Aaron Jordan. Suggestions for the Good of the Order-.J W\ Shelor, T B Martin, '1 .J Cauthen. Auditing and Finance-M 1) C Calvin, S A West, J G Richards. A letter to secretary Holloway from Col J N Lipscomb, officially an nouncing his resignation as Worthy Master of the State Grange, wac read by the secretary. On motion of Mr. B B White. the time for the meeting of the GrangE was fixed at from 9.30 A 1 to 2 1 31 and from 3 P31to6P3M. 311 John S Richardson gave his view, upon the expediency of changing the time of the meeting of the GrangE Encampment, at Spartanburg, fron the first week in August to the mid die of August. , Mr Calvin offered the- followin= resolution, which waladopted : Thal , at 5 o'clock P M to-day the specia . order be the election of a Wor.th3 31ster to fill the unexpired term o Brother J. N. Lipscomb, also to elec a member of the executive com mittee. 3r White offered a resolutior looking to the appointment of deputl lecturers. which was referred to th< committee on resolutions. T1he annual report of the secretar was submitted and referred to th< auditing and financial committee A recess was taken until 3 o'clock bThe Grange reassembled at ' o'clock this afternoon. The annua report of the treasurer was submittet and was referred to the committe< 'in auditing and finance. Two amendments to the constitu tioni in relation to fees and memnber ship of the National Grange weri sugge~sted and adopted. Upon motion of MIr Calvin, a com~ mitteee consisting of Messrs 31 D( Calvin, J Gi Richards and T B Mar tin, was appointed to prepare suitabli resolutions in relation to the lati D). Wyatt Aiken. The committe, on resolutions recommended tha adoption of a resolution which provi des for the apipoilntment of deput; Plecturers in each county of thi State. and further recommended tha reasonable compensation be allowel dleputies for their services. Adopted The auditing and linence cou mittee reported that the Looks of th treasurer and secretary had been es amined and found correct. Th election of ohlicers was then in ordei Mr WV K Thcmnpson was electe' Worthy Mlaster to till the unexpire, - term of 31: rJ N. Lipscomb. J1 V Shelor was elected a member of t.h executive committee to fill the vt cancy caused by the expiration the term of Mr. J1 W Morris. Mr X P Russell was elected to fill th~ vacaney caused by thle promotion c M1r Thompson. The secretary was it structed to cast the unanimous vot of the Grange for WV K Thompson Inter State comrmssioner. At G o'clock the Grange adjourne until 9 o'clock to morrow morning. TII1E I;OAI:D OF AG ni( ULTUitE reconvened at 10 o'clock this mor; ing and compl1leted their orgzanizatio by the appointment of the followin st:anding com1mittes On Finance-D) P' Duncan, Joh Lawton, 11 L Buck. Agricultural and Industrial In. p)rovemIent. Immnxigration, Publicatio and Statisties-R A Lovx, 1 F Crai ton. D) P 1Duncan. Laboratory and Inspection of Fe tilizers-W A Anerum,n 11 L Buel J Stoney P'orchier. F"armners' Inustitute and Convei IL tions-T ,J 3loore, JIames 31ecCutchei I)D P D)uncan. -* 1-Exp erime.:st Farms~ and Stations JIohn; l.awton, T' J Mioore. W A Al e-rum. jPhos phat!Le Dept-artmnent-J Stone Porcher-. B F C'rayton, .John Lawto B;o:t nical. Vttern nary and Entom logic-al D epara nentB F1 1. rayto *R A Loive and T J1 M[oore. Fish Cunlture, State Wecather Se --vice and E-xhibitio)n and Buildings il L Buck. XW A Anerum, R A Lov Mtchanic(al D -partmnent--Jam. M1cCutchenr. 13 F- Crayton. -J S P( E.xecuntive Co tmittee- Johnia IlTionii .T-w Lawton. 1) P D)unca The following general rights phos phate ticenses were granted: Oak P'oiit Mines Company, H- BJennings, Paul S Feleir and Carolina Mining CoInpany. Mr L S Brown, who is the district passenger agent for the Piedmont Air Line R ailroad, was appointed im migration agent for the State. The commissioner of agriculture was directed to appoint three patrols, one each from llorry, Marion and Georgetown Counties, during the fish season, to prevent illegal fishing in the waters of the Pee-Dee and trib utaries. The board received a request from Mr. Henry M Dibble, of Aiken, ask ing that a farmers' institute be held in that town. Action was deferred until the board cau perfect its ar. rangements about institutes. Commissioner Butler was author ized to enlarge the State weather service by the purchase of additional instruments. The special report of the commis sioner upon the present status of af fairs in the department was referred to the appropriate committees. The hoard then took a recess until 5 o'clock. Much of the time of the board was occupied in discussion of the plans for future work and the disposition of accumulated routine matter. TIIE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. The spring meeting of the State Agricul: ural and Mechanical Socie ty took place to-night in the hall of agriculture. President Humbert call ed the meeting to order and made a briet address in which he in glowing term alluded to the bright outlook of the society. The secretary and treasurer then presented his report, showing a bal ance in the treasury of $l,27. The following gentlemen were elected to membership: V A An. crum, Dr R F Diver, B Mclnnes, H L Buck, C V McFadden, J G Guig nard, N W Brooker, J D Brown and John W Shelor. Mr W A Clark offered a resolution, which was referred to the executive committee, asking that another class be added to the horse department in offering premiums, to be known as the second class and to consist of standard bred trotting horses owned in South Carolina. Horses compet ing for premiums in this class must show a certificate of registry in Wal lace's American Trotting Register. Col Geo K Wright then explained the object ofthe . Columbia Fail As sociation, reading- the recommenda tions adopted at the recent meeting of the executive committee. On sug s gestion of Mr B F Crayton this mat ter was referred to the executive committee. Mr Crawford offerred resolutions, which were referred to the executive committee with power to act, asking that the purses for the races be raised so that more purses be offered for trotting horses. Col T W Wood ward offered a res olution for the appointment of acom 1missioner to draft memorial resolu tions in relations to deceased mem bers, D Wyatt Aiken, B F and John WV Williamson and John S Bratton. Messrs J S Richardson, John P rhomnas and J Wash Watts were ap piointed on this committee. Col Tillman Watson suggested that the executive committee place Stihe machinery department on an equal footing with other departments. Tlhe matter of tihe place of the summer meeting of the society was left to the executive committee. Col Jonn P Thomas made a stir -ring address, calling attention to the fact that the society would attain its majority in the spring of 1889, and Sthat the coming year should be made a memorable one. The meeting then adjourned. Thei executive committee held a emeeting immediately a[terward at which the committee of the Columbia F-air Association presented their -suggestions, and after some discus sionl it was (decided to leave the mat jter to a social committee to be here after appointed with power to act. eA (OM1BINED EFFOIIT TO REVIVE TiIE INTERE$-T AND USEFULNEs5 OF TIlE oiILERI IN SoUTI CARo L.INA. e CotannaiI, Fe bruary 2.--The State Grange, Patrons of Husbandry, met at 9 o'clock this morning. The ses sionwasopeed ithprayer by the chaplain. Mr John WV Shelor, chairman of 1the committee on --the good of the Order," submitted the following re p)ort:. -We find the Order has lost ground nduring the past year for want of a g eneral observance of the grand principles upon which it was found ned. and we see no way to restore it to its former usefulness and prosperity, exceplt to return to our first declara ntion of p)rinciples, andl give nore at -tention to tile educational and social irnterests of the Order. We are pain -fully aware of the delusive hopes .we have entertained from the policy of co-op)erative tradle, and tihe vain Sattempt to till our depleted treasury , by buying all our necessaries. instead of g~oingL to the Grange and learning - therefrom the wisdom and intelli. .- gence of those assembled there. how~ to make thenm at home. And wilt Swe ph:c.e so much stress upon the ipolecy of buying. we cannot expc1I thalit prosperity which belongis t. those that use brains instead of mnus c-le. Therefore our first duty is tC rinculcate more the policy of educa t ion and( social intercourse betweer . our members as a lever to build u[ sand restore our lost condition. anc - we would recommend the importanci of the secretary of thne State Grang< niuin mre knowledge and infor . . -.;-;i th rn andfle of on Urder, and as soon as the funi in the National Grange could be obtained that the executive committee be au thorized to employ some competent lecturer, if the waN be clear, to visit the subordinate Granges in each county and attempt to create a new zeal and inspire them with new hope. and by every possible means attempt to raise the enthusiasm of its mem bers to forget self and work for the vreneral advance all along the line. Further, that each member present consider himself a committee to arouse the spirit of the Order, and thus inspire it with new life and new bope which will secure a greater de gree of prosperity than we have en joyed before," The report was adopted. Mr B B McWhite, chairman of the committee on the executive commit tee's report, made various recommen dations in regard to the same, which were adopted. SoUND RESOLUTIONS. The committee on resolutions, W F Russell, chairman, reported favor ably on the following resolutions in. troduced by Mr. Colvin, which were considered separately and adopted : Resolved, first, That we are in fa vor of a strong endorsement of the present Inter-State commerce law, and oppose the repeal of any of its provisions until they are clearly found through test to be oppressive of the rights of the people or unjust to the rights of the railroads. Whereas, a bill has been intro duced into Congress to remove the tax on whiskey and tobacco. which have by common consent been found to be best calculated to bear this tax: Resolved, second, That we most earnestly protest against the abroga tion of this tax, but instead believe that the necessaries of lire should be placed on the free list. Resolved. That we are opposed to that species of gambling upon the products of the soil called dealing in "futures" and "options" and recom mend the same be legislated against by our national law-making body. Secretary Holloway was instructed to send a copy of these resolutions to the secretary of the National Grange. COUNTY OR(:ANIZEIS. The following deputies to organize new Granges and reorganize dor mant ones were selected for the coun ties named : Abbcville-A M Aiken, W . B Millwee." Anderson-J E Breazeale, E B Murray. Chester-W J Austin, J K Henry. Chesterfield-John' B Smith, Wm Horn. Fairfield-M D C Colvin, James Pagan. Kershaw-W K Thompson, W F Russell. Marion-B B McWhite, WV B Al len, J N Bostic. Newberry-T WV Holloway, R T C Hunter. Oconee-J WV Shelor, Andrew Beard. Orangeburg -M J Jenkins, J C Holman, J Hamp Felder. Spartanburg-Jno WV Wofford, N F Walker, J WV Stribling, Thos- John son, S J Hester. Sumter-J E Shaw, J S Richard son. Williamsburg-J M Parrott, R J Parrott. The annual password was then given to masters, clear on the books, and the Grange adjourned sine die. RICHIOND AND DAN VILLE. Change of General 3Manager-Major Randolph Succeeds 3Mr. Thomas. WAsmNarc;oN, February 2.-Geo. S. Scott. president of the Richmond and Danville Railroad Company, has issued a circular, announcing the resignation of E. B. Thomas as gen eral manager of the road, to accept the second vice presidency of the New York. Lake Erie and Western Rnilroad Company, with headquar ters in Cleveland. The announcement is also made of the app)ointmnent of Peyton R andolph, oh Virginia, to be general manager, vice Thomas, Major Randolph is a member of the old Virginia family of Randolps and has been a civil en gineer in the employ of the Danvill Road for several years. lie will make his headquarters in New York city and will have general supervision of the tratlic. maintenance and cpera. tions of the road, and all matters per taning thereto. This order goes inte effect to-morrow, February 2. The Congressional Library at Washington will cover 111,00H square feet, more than two anda half acres. Mr. Smithmeyer, t whom the library has been in. trusted, has carriedI on, says th( A mcerian A rchitct, elaborat4 tests of the resistiug power of the soil on which it will stand. A loaded car was brought to beai on the earth of the excavate( trenches in such a way as to prov< that the resistance was eq1ual t thirteen and a half tons to th< square foot. As the estimalte( weiht of the building is betwee1 two and three tons to the squar< foot, the chances of subsidence o walls and consequent disasters ar< reduced to a minimum. Thi German Parliameut house cover 110,000( square feet. andl th' Royal Library at Munich 90.000 the library of the British Museui marriage altar has been pro unced. says, by his marner, if not words: ~- have you now in my wer. What can you do ? My arm stronger than yours. My voice is ider than yours. My fortune is ater than yours. My name is ghtier than yours. Now crouch fore me like a lo,. Now crawl ay from me like a reptile. You nothing but a woman anyhow. >wn, you miserable wretch !' Can 1is of mosaic; can long lines of ruscan bronze, or statuary by Pal r; could jewels like those of a Igenic make a wife in such a com nionship happy ? Imprisoned in stle! Her gold bracelets are the ains of a lilelong servitude. Her xrdrobe is full of shrouds for deaths iich she dies daily, and she is buried ve, though buried uuder gorgeous holstery. "As if to show how wretched a od woman may be in splendid sur indings, we have two recent illus Ltions, two ducal palaces in Great itain. They are the focus of the st things that are possible in art, literature, in architecture, the ac. mulation of other estates until eir wealth is beyond calculation d their grandeur beyond descrip on. From the one castle the duchess s removed with her children be use she can no longer endure the gies of her husband, the duke, and the other castle the duchess re iius confronted by insults and >oninatitions in the presence of iich I do not think God or decent ciety requires a good woman to re .in. Alas, for those ducal country ats ! They on a large scale illus ite, what on a smaller scale may seen in many places, that without ral character in a husband all e accessories of wealth are to a fe's soul tantalization and mock y. "Before things are right in this )rld genteel villains are to be ex irgated. Instead of being wel med into respectable society be use of the amount of stars and Lrters and medals and estates they present they ought to be fumigated -o or three years before they are lowed without peril to themselves put their hand on the door knob of moral house. The time must come .:en a masculine estray will be as pugnant to good society as a femi ne estray, and no coat of arms or mily emblazonry or epaulet can pass Lothario unchallenged among the nctities of home life. By what law -God or common sense is an Absa m better than a Delilah, a Don .an better than a Messalina ? The -ush that paints the one black. "Iligh worldly marriage is not !cessary for woman, or marriage of iy kind, in order to your happiness. elibacy has been honored by the ist being that ever livea and His eatest apostle, Christ and Paul. That higher honor could single life Searth have ? But what you need, ,woman, is to be affianced forever A forever, and the bans of that arriage I am this moment, here and >w, ready to publish. Let the an als of hieaven bend from their gal s of light to witness while I pro >unce you one-A loving God and forgiven soul." Feteing a Murderess. Bro:Mnson.A, Ala., Jan. 28.-Sallie .oyd, who is in jail charged with eing accessory to the death of John eslie, has had streams of callers at le jail ever since her incarceration. .mong those who called were many omen who brought her flowers and spressed their sympathy for her. 'he story of the crime is a sensation l one. Sal lie Boyd, a beautitul girl, iarried a man named Giles at 'rall ign, Ala., but lived with him only irec weeks, when she deserted him, ning to Birmingham, where she met u~d loved John Leslie, who provided er a neatly furnished cottage. Ben with. a man anout town, and an ncle of Sallie Boyd, has recently een seen visiting the cottage, and it ~eems that his niece had suddenly iken a great fancy t) him. Smith and .eslie quarrelled bitterly a few days go. and then Sallie proposedl to her nele that they put Leslie out of the 'y, and then go off and live as man nd wife. She fixed the night, had mith concealed and decoyed Leslie ' her cottage. Late at night Leslie wy down on a sofa and went to sleep, 'hen she slipped in the next room nd toldl Smith to go in and do his art of the work. Ile went in and1 hot Leslie twice in the head, killing im instantly, and then went home .nd went to bed. The conflicting t.tements of Sallie Boyd directed uspicion to Smith, who, upon being .rrested, confessed everything. John -eslie. although he had been keel) ng the woru an for two years, was not yen susp)ectedI of such a thing. He i'as looked upon as a model young nan. She is very p)retty, and is no0w mly' nineteen years old. A hsican living on the seaboard ,swrites: "Within the last lve -ears. in a district embracing sixty .quiare miles or so bjy the sea, I have w(ted the hour and th~e minute of nc ess than ninety three demises in my >wnI immediate practice, and every ~out o)f them fias gone out with t.he ide, save tour whoi died sudldenly b3 ~at.al accid ent." The Raiiroad Men. The editor of Our Rail roaid Men,. Nor Vfk. Va.. states that an old faiend wvh< hadii a chronIi(' couahzi couild tind no0 phly sician or01 remendy Ihfat would cure hini iutiflihe tried Taylvor-~s Cherokee Reme 'i of ..., e G m un ana .li11ein. TALMA(;E ON MAIUIA(,E. tht no Matrimony for Wordiy Succ(eS- With- in out Regard: to 1oral ("naracter, pu HandlleI Without (loves--Sorme is Advice an<d ITelling Blows lom :t the Tyrant 31in. gr tii ""I- the millenniumn we will all be dwell in palaces awl ride in chariots, aw and sit at sut3ptu3us hainuets, and a ro: sleep ur.der rich emb roidleries. and Ik live four or five Lundred years," said Rev. Dr. Talnage yesterday norning, Ft in his second sermon to the women 3m of America. The popular preacher announceu his subject as -Marriage p for Worldly Success. Without Regard ca to Moral Character." Several hnn- cIh dred people were turned away, un able to find even standing loom in the big church. al -This domestic tragedy is repeated u every day, all over Christendom marriage for worldly success, without regard to character," continued the rol divine. . tr "Good and genial character in a i man is the very first rcquisite for a be woman's happy marriage. .listake in me not as depreciative of worldiy cu prosperities. There is a religious cant that would seem to represent an poverty as a virtue and wealth as a crime. I can take you through a thousand mansions were (ol is as ca much worshipped as IIe ever was in a or cabin. The whole tendency of sill is toward poverty ani dL whole ten dency of rigtteousness is toward wealth. Godliness is protitabile for a the life that now is, as well as for that which is to come. "It is a grand thing, to have plenty se of money and horses that don't coin- tr pei you to take the dust of every lumbering and lazy vehicle. There is no virtue in owning a horse that takes four minutes to go in a mile if you can own one that can go a lit er tle over two minutes and a half; no vir tue to running irto the teeth of a northeast wand with ti in apparel if wt you can afford furs; no virtue in be ing poor when you can honestly be cc rich. There are names of men and women that I have only to mention and they suggest not only wealth but religion and generosity and phil- al anthropy, such as Amos Lawrence, tc James Lennox, Peter Cooper, Vil- a liam E Dodge, Shaftesbury, Miss Wolfe and Mrs. Astor. re '"The fact is that about all the brain and the business genius is on the side of religion. Infdelity is a incipient. insanity. All infidels are cranks. 'Many of them talk brightly, o but you soon find that in th ir mental l machinery there is a screw loose. When they are not lecturing against b. Christianity they are sitting in bar rooms squirting tobacco juice, and when they get mad swear till the place is sulphurous. a - C -Ien may pretend to despise re - ligion, but they are rank hypocrites. Most of the great. honest, permanent a worldly successes are by those who reverence God and the Bible. Buit 0 what I do say is that a man has noth- a ing but social position and financial r resources a woman who puts her hap piness by marriage in his hanti re enacts the folly of Ahbigail when she accepted disagreeable Nabali, 'whose possessions were in Carmel, and thea man was very great.a "The sacrifice of woman on the altar of social and financial expecta tiou is cruel and stup)endous. I sketch you a scene you have more than once witnessed. A comfortable B home with nothing more than ordi- b nary surroundings but an attractive IL daughter, carefully aud Christianly t reared. From the outside world comes A in a man with nothing but money, w unless you count profanity and sel- e: fishness and fondness for champagne T andl general recklessness as a [part of a his [possession. iIe had his coat u collar turned up when there is no e chill in the air, but because they t giv-e him an air of abandon. and eye g' glasses, not because he is near. a sighted, but because it gives a class- hi ical appearance ; and,. with an attire S somewhat lou i, a cane thiek enough u to be the club of I lercules and clutch b ed in th(e min d c, his con versation in - s terlarded with French phrr,zes inac- I curately p)rononced and a sweep of L man ner indlicati ng that lie was not a btorn like mist folks but terrestrially landed.-I --Bv arts learned of the devil he in-a sinuates himself into the affections. of the daughier of that Christian home. t< A i the kindred congtratulate her onb the almost sul)ernatural pirospects M Reports come in that theC young matn is fast in his habits, that lhe hatsy broken several young hearts, andi that s he is mean and selfish and c ruel b lint all this is covered up with tiea fact that lie has several houses hn hiss own name. and has large deposits at the bank, and, more than all, has a father worthl miany fhundred thousand dollars andl very feeblte in health and i may any day diropt oil, andi this is thee only son ; anid a round dol!ar fiel close to one's eye is large enougzh to shut out a great desert andi how muchl< more will several huishels cifriollars shut out ? -The mnarria!!e dlay comes anid trot-, T 'he wedding r:n:; was cotstly. ougttih an gthe angem bossotm~s fra:ranit enough. aiid the wedinigi miareb str ring! enoughl. Theire they ar. the newly inarried pair. ini their new~ home. Hie turns out to be a tyrat. Ilr rw~ill is nothirg, htis will every th ig. Latvishi of moneyv for is ,own i)leasure. heo hte!rndtles her tie pen n iesh pinache out inito her tre-c bli ng prim. Instead of the kindtt words shle left be hin in he r ftrmner home, now there are com;plaints.andnt fault findin!!s and curses. lie is the master and the slave. The worst .villain on earth is the man whto. hav ing cnptuiretd a wVomian from her ROW THE (HIEF' J'STI('E STA NI)5. IPetailed Report of .Judge imp.uon'. Remarks on Granting Bail to Ilarby and Bowman. Coiu'ii3i., February 2.-There ieems to be some misunderstanding about the remarks made by chief Justice Simpson on Tuesday night ust prior to his granting bail to tlessrs Ilarby and Bowman, of Sum er. It might, therefore, be well to' publish, as nearly as possible, the Lx ,ct language used by the Chief Jus uJce. IIe stated that he would not re view the testimony, but injustice to bimself desired to say something. The following points of law, he aid, were involved in the case, de pendent upon the facts: First. When two or more by con cert attack another, either premedi tatedly or suddendly,and a bystander is killed by one of them in the prose cution of the unlawful purpose, whether all of the assailants would be guilty? Second. Under the supposition that a conflict arises by an agreement to meet to fight in a public place, and a bystander is killed by either side, whether all would be guilty of murder? Third. Whether. upon a sudden riot, both sides engaging in the riot illegally, and a bystander is killed, all would be guilty? Fourth. When one is attacked in a public place suddenly and without sufficient cause, endangering his life and person, and he strikes back and kills a bystander in his own defence, whether his assailants would be guil ty of murder, he himself being ex used because acting in self-defence? As to the first. case, Chief Justice Simpson stated that there would be no doubt that all the assailants would be guilty. In reference to the s?cond and third cases, without pro nouncing any positive opinion, ne said that, assuming that all would be guilty, yet whether that principal ap plied in these cases under considera tion, and therefore would prevent bail to the parties before him, would depeBd upon the fact whether the affidavits submitted brought the cases evidently under one of these classes. In briefly discussing these affidavits as to this question, he said that he was not satisfied that these parties met by consent for a conflict on either side. Nor was the proof evi dent or the presumption great, in the sense of the Constitution, that there was a iputual riot, because, as to the Keelses-father and son-in one view of the testimony, it appeared that they had been arrested, disarmed and carried to the trial justice office by the sheriff to enter into a peace bond; after getting into the office and being seated quietly awaiting the preparation of the papers, fire was suddenly and unexpectedly open ed upon Keels, the father, at short range. What could the son do could he fold his arms and look on with indifference? Could he have fled and left his father to his fate? If he had nature in him he could not. What did he do. lie seems to have started to his office for his pistol. As he passed out of the door his eye fell upon a pistol in the hands of some one, who turned out to be the sheriff. He seized the pistol, wrenched it from the sheriff and wheeled and fired through the window at the as sailant of his father, the door of the office having been closed upon him. If this be the state of the facts, of which the Court below will have tc determine with all the witnesses be fore it, then it might be held that young Keels, if not acting in self defence, was acting in defence of one whom the law would excuse him for defending, and it he accidentally killed the trial justice by that shot the case might be brought under the last class mentioned, and if so he was not prepared to hold that it would deprive the parties before hin of bail. In conclusion, he said that amid the conflieting affidavits-the wit nesses not being before him and all of them unknown to him-it was im possible for him to say under which class the case fell, and therefore the proof was not evident nor the pre sumption so great as to reqmire a his hands denial of bail, which is in tended only to secure the presenct at trial, when guilt or innocenet is t< be determined. A Poorly Paid Judiciary. Allan/a Constlituion. The judicial salaries of the Unite( States are probably the p)oorest o Iany civilized country of the earth ind those of Georgia are p)robably the most economically based of an3 of the states of the United States. The justices of the supreme cour of Georgia are paid ahout as muec a a third-rate lawyer mitht average .nd the judges ot our sup]erior court Iare not paidl much more than thi head clerk of a second class estal lishment ought to get, and out their meager compensation they hay to pay expenses, which reduce thei salaries to an average about equal t that of a poorly paid p)ohiceman. What a contrast is this with th judicial salaries of England, a tab] of which we have before us. and th liberal basis of which allows her command the services or the ables judicial minds of the land. Whilei is true that our courts are not wani ing in able heads, still the salarie are certainly not sufficient to otTe any inducement to those5L worthy t ccup)y the high positions which the frequently accept without hope of b g justly compensated for their se v-ices. The heads of the English tribt nals are salaried as follows: APPELLATE TRIBUNALS. - Lord high chancellor...........500 Threea lords of appal, (ech.h\ % pecil .iudge of the privy council 25,000 tl IIIGI COURT OF JUSTICE. I M.st0er of the rolls ....................$30,000 Five lords justices ( cli) ............. 25,000 il IIIGII COURT'0F JUsTICE. I Five chancery justices (each)......25,000 w Lord chief justice....................... 40,000 d Fourteen queen's bench justices u (each)..................................... 25,000 ti Probate divorce and admiralty, I two .iustices at........................ 25,000 ' Judge of the court of arches......... 25,000 t' Of the federal courts of the United States the chief justices of the su- a preme court receives the most liberal e salary, $10,500. Eight justices of the i same court receive $10,000 each; nine c circuit court judges, $6,000 each; e fifty.seven district court justices, $3,500 to $5,000 each. and five court w of claims judges, $4,500 each. There p is certainly nothing extravagant C about any of these salaries, and in R some of them there is room for a lib eral increase without fear of overpay. t But if anybody is inclined to justi- f fy the adequacy of these federal sal aries, what can be said of our poorly C paid state judiciary? Within the past h few years three distinguislhcd Geor- n gia ju iges have gone to their graves, t from the supreme bench of the state, a frDm overwork; and yet the salary c which a justice of this court gets is C only $3,000 per year, while many lawyers less able than those now on t this bench, average annually from b their practice several times this t amount. The last legislature increas- i ed the number of justiLes form three a to Ive, and this amendment to the a state constitution will no doubt be ratified by the people next Novem. t ber. r The salaries of these justices shonld now be made proportionate to the I work which they are called upon to I perform, and to the ability which is I required of them. When this is done, I and our superior court judges are better paid than the $2,000 a year c which they now get, our state judi ciary will be on a better footing. ELECTR ICA L EUTHANASIA. Bill Nye Make% a Few Remarks on an Exceedingly Popular Subject. Finding these vital questions in my mail yesterday, with no postage inclosed to prepay a terse reply, I take the liberty of holding the fol lowing animated conversation with myself: 1. What do you think of the pres ent metbod of administering capital punshment? 2. Will electricity be an improve ment on hanging? 3. What do you think of the cus tom of allowing criminals to make a speech on the scaffold? 4. Do you believe that cremation will ever take the place of the pres ent method of burial? 5. What are your literary habits? 1. The present method of execu tion is not a great success. We have now so many styles of death by acci dent which excel hanging in the mat ter of rapidity that it is strange we do not introduce some of these meth ods. 2. Electricity would be a popular and successful style of execution if once introduced. In the old days of barbarism men were put in the ring and required to fight a ten-hundred poundlion with a tin sword, the public required the sight of blood in order to be entirely convinced that the law had been properly enforced. Then no one felt perfectly satisfied with the execution unless a ringtail tiger from Bengal gnawed large holes in the defendant, exposing his methods of dige.stion. 3. Now we have advanced to that p)oint when we are satisfied to read the sp)eechi of deceased. Some day we will get where we not even crave that. Too many people are now com mitting capital crimes for the pur pose of getting into the papers. Some day the gentleman who kills his par ents because they will not pass the molasses will not be permitted to make a speech on the gallows, but he will step into a little room off the jail, sit down ini a seventy-five-dollar scarlet plush chair, and while he is reading the morning paper the gover nor will touch a small collar-button in his otlice, which connects by wire withithe plush chair, and a brief au topsy is all that will be necessary. Trhat element in our natures which seems to demand dying speeches, long black funerals, harrowing de tails, blood, horror, wails of anguish, fdull thuds, cold creep)y crape and the sickening odor of coffin varnish in a close room is a relic of the times when we used to live in hollow trees and eat acorns. t4. Cremation will some day take the place of the present style of buri al, which is only a p)olite way of Smaking a p)oor helpless remains assist in a miserable exhibition. - .. M1y literay methods are simple. f d o none of my writing while under the influence of liquor. I state this in order to correct a wrong im pres >sion which the public seems to have found after reading my work. eI devote thec forenoon to thought. i In the afternoon I take my thinker through the p)ark in a perambulator. > In the evening I think some more. t .1 eat phlin food when at home, but t soar above it while visiting others. -Rather than appear rude while the 5 guest of eminent people I eat the best of food with impunity, and act > as though I liked it. Wealthy and prominei.t people are so sensitive - that I eat what they set before me - and say nothing. I read all the New York papers in - the morning before rising. I then rise. feeling refreshed, and go down stairs where I jerk a low refrain out )O of the furnace. By that time the eve )( nine ,.a..rs arrive. I read them oughtfully. I then think over what have read. I eat almost anything with perfect upunity. except health food. That the only thing I ever have trouble ith. Health food will send my pulse own to 48 in less than an bour. A tan must have a very strong ccnsti tion to stand up against food which already prepared, so that all he has > do is to allow it. I exercise a great deal in the open ir. In summer I follow a lawn-mow. r around for an hour each day, and i winter I like to hunt rabbits cross untry, or take a spin on the elevat I railroad. I keep a note book, in which I rite all my best thoughts. I then ut the book in a side pocket of my oat and give the coat to a poor man hose address I do not know. I give a great deal to charity, but y to keep it out of the papers as r as possible. When the weather is such that I annot exercise in the open air I ave a heavy pair of dumb bells at >y lodgings, which I use for holding Lie door open, I also belong to an thletic club and a pair ofndia In lubs with red handles. I owe much f my robust health to this. I do most of my writing in a sit ing posture or in an autograph al um. When I am not engaged in bought I am employed in recover og from its effects. I am very genial nd pleasant to be thrown amongst, nd frequently submit to all kinds f indignities, especially from people o whom I am indebted, rather than esent it and thus cause them pain. I keep a large pair of brass knuck as, which I wear on my feet while iding in a crowded car. This I like etter than getting myself newly up Lolstered every week. I do not believe in mixing up al ohol with literature. Literature rith nothing else in it will last lon er when exposed to the air than be other kind. I dress expensively, but not so as o attract attention. In the morning wear morning dress, in the evening wear evening dress, and at night I rear night dress. I have forgotton what books have telped me most; also, what my favor te passages of prose and poetry are, had the benifit of the best of home nfluences when a child, and every ody has been very kind to me, so I ,annot say definitely what it was hat brought me here. BILL NYE. Symptoms of Dissolution. New York Star. There is one fact of grave import mnce to the Republican party which hat organization ignores or seems gnorant of-possibly because it is a act-and that is, its motality. It is loomed to die soon or later, and is Liable to death at any moment. This condition of mortality comes of necessity from its mortal structure, and is the history of'all parties so constructed, from the adoption of our Constitution to the present day. The old Federal party died, and was followed by the Whig party, that flourished for a season; and then, folding its cloak of protection about its feeble form lay down to die. The Republican party had the same seeds of death deposited in its corpus, and is waxing old and feeble. This condition comes of the fact that such party is, of necessisy, based on the claimed privileges of proper ty, against the rights of the citizen, and is a deadly antagonist to the spirit and progress of true republi canism. Ingeniously constructed, it may, for a brief period, retard the stream; but the stream gathers strength from the obstruction itself, and ends by sweeping it away. Modern civilization advances, the world over, on the recognition of hu man rights. The advance is slow but sure. It is not a current of the ocean; it is the ocean itself. We began, a century since, under a writ ten constitution, based on the broad truth that all governments are created fo the benefit of the governed. Th le party organized on this great truth, known as the Democracy, is immor tal because it means the American people. History tells us how it sur vived the Federal organization, and again the Whig; and now, after the Republiean party has become a thing of the past, the grand old Democracy will be found in good health and great strength, carrying the destinies of the great Republic in the hollow of its hand. It is the difference be tween a class, claiming privileges, aDd the people, content with ajust administration based on the rights of all. The true test of a party's vitality lies in its ability to live after defeat. For nearly a quarter of a century we have seen the Democracy deprived of official power. Out in the cold it stood, and its enemies p)roudly boasted that it was doomed and would rapidly disintegrate and dis appear. Tro their amazement and consternation, the deposed and de spised Democracy grew stronger and stronger year by year, until it is again called to power, and its ene mny, subjected to the same test, is totterina to its death. The familiar story of the fabled god who gathered immortal strength when hurled each time to the ground illustrates the power got by the De mocracy from a touch of mother earth w~hen overth~rown. It comes upI smiling after each fall, perbsps a little dirtier, but ever more power ful. It is, in fact, more of a terror to its foes when out of oflice than 'when in, for, relieved of the hampering sense of responsibility power brings, it more boldly proclaims the truths upon which it lives, and again wins the lno and confidence of a majority.