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I~~~~~~~~~ CF'uUttJJerWIIW!IS ESTABLISHED IN 1865. NEWBERRY, S. C., THURSIAY, FEBRUARY 23. 1888 PRICE $1.50 A YE AR 31USCULAR CHRISTIANITY. A Character Sketch 1,y an Inimitable Writer. Richard M. Johnston, in "Mr. Absalon Billingslea, and Other Georgia Folk." "I shall first stick a pin right in thar, sir whar you names the preach in' o' the blessed gospel, er ruther the tryin' to do it. You names it meanness an' foolishness, an, I'll iow ast you your name. although I hain't a doubt but what it's Rogers. That's so?" "My nane's none o' your business. sir. Answer my questions." "Umpb. humph: Well, you know, Mister-Rogers-I'll call you that jes' for the sake o' the argument so to speak-that when one man astes a question, sometimes before lie can git his answer he's liable to have more'n one question ast of him his self I'll put you another. Wern't you or wern't you not the one that chawed paper an' rolled it in a wad. and ',oked at me, an' flipped it from your fingers, an' a leetle more an' it would have struck one o' the female persons o' the congregation; an' done it more'n wunst, at that*" "I shan't answer that question, sir, neither. None o' your business, nor the business o' no other clodhopping, deceitful old cuss." The preacher's eyes moistened as he said, in low, measured tone: "Young man, when I see you a standin' out yonder at one o' the back cornders. I knowned whut you was arfter, an' I let sister Aikens go 'long on home by herself. so as me an' you could settle it betwix' our selves; jes' you an' me, us two." Here Mr. Gunn made a brief pause, in order, it seemed to snuff the air. Then he proceeded : "I come back in here determin'd in my mind to ast you, like Abner ast Asahel, to turn to the left, or turn to the right, any way you choos en, so as to not be a follerin' arfter me; and I've jes' a minute :%go made my pra'ar to Godamighty to not let me cry 'ithout where ri"s will, an' ef it were to let me cry good, and bless Ilis holy name, He have heerd me, an' I feel 'em a-comin'." They were, indeed, coming drop by drop, quicker and quicker, though his face was wreathered with smiles. "Now I ain't o' keerin' not so mighty much about the names you named me, but did you mean to say, sir, that the preachin' o' the blessed gospel is meanness and foolishness?" "I did, you old-" These were the last words of the chieftain then and there. The preach er took a step rearward, doubled his fist and dealt upon the assailant's breast a blow that prostrated him upon his back at the foot of the pul pit. Snatching his cane as lie was falling, he raised it aloft. "Now try to. rise it you day," cried Mr. Gunn, whose eyes were floods of tears. "an' I'll scatter that pulpit with your brains.' "Mfy God '" cried Rogers. "Them's the words, sir; them's the very. words. Before I let you up I'm going to make you beg Godaigihty's pardon; an' ef' you don't do it 'ithiout, I'm goin' to git down on you an choke you tell you do." "You got the advantage of me, sir." "I know I has, an' P'm goin' to keep it. Come. sir. I got no time to tarry long. (Jut 'ith it. You sorry for your impudence to Godamighty in His own house? No mealy-mouth in' about it. Out 'ith it. Sorry or not sorry, whacb?" The prostrate man looked up. and he afterwards declared that if he had ever seen the bad man it was on that occasion, in the weeping eyes that went upon him. "i'm sorry, M1r. G unn." "All right, so fur, sir; but tell me. now, is it a godly sorrow, or is it y'oure sorry because you're knocked fiat on your hack, an' ain't quite shore you ain't goin' to be beat into sassage meat?" "I-I-I-reckon, MIr. Gunn, it's ?-It's-a-some o' both." r "That's jes' what I 'spicioned. Howo never, I'm thankful you got on that gainin' grotu(d. Know the Lord's "Of course I do. MIr. Gunn." "Say it " Rogers hesitated. "Say it, I tell you." * "Won't you give a man time to think it up?" -I thought you kniowed it. Said '7ou did"' "I do Mr. Giunn. but it's been so long since-" --Blaze away, and go as far as you ken." p ~ "Now I lay me dlow n to sleep." "Stop it. sir," cried the preacher, with almost a shriek. "Call that the Lord's pra'ar? M1y goodness of gra cious of merciful heavens? Look at me, Tom Rogers; I heerd o' vou some time baeN. You an' you gang detwixt y'ou driv Br'er Pilcher away from the p)astorshIip in this church, an' ived his horse's tail otT." "I di'in't. MIr. Gutnn, Gsod knows I didn't.' --Very' well, maybe you didn't: but vo kowe whoI done it. and youn could A Broken-Hearted Old Man. .illana ConstilutiUn. Mr. Brooks, the father of the St. Louis trunk murderer, better known as 3laxwell. has again arrived in this country to make a last effort in be half of his son. The father was formerly a well-to do resident of Hyde, near ManchPs. ter, England, but he has exhausted his fortune in his son's defence. 1r. Brooks is beginning to realize that the cause is hopeless, but he will ap peal to the governor of Mississippi. He is firm in his belief that his son is innocent and was convicted on the perjured testimony of a detective, who was smuggled into the prisoner's cell in the guise of a convict. In England, Mr. Brooks says. such methods are not permitted, and no man would be convicted on such tes timou. Of course he believes his son's story that his victim was acci dentally killed. le thinks ti at the young man's fatal mistake was his concealment of the body, his flight and his contradictory nonfession. It is possible that the old man is right, but he will not be able to con vert many to his belief. Brooks, alias Maxwell, has shown himself to be heartless, reckless and mendacious, and there is not much hope for such a man. But there will be abundant sympathy for the stricken father. He has a heavy load of grief to bear, and be is standing up under it man fully. ;ad for the Boodlers. CHICAGO, February 16.--The Ap pellate Court announced its long. looked for decisions in the boodle cases this morning. Both cases are affirmed. One was the case of Edward S. McDona'd, formerly engineer of the county hospital, who was indicted and tried jointly with Wm. J. Mc Garigle. After the verdict McGarigle escaped to Canada evidently fearing the three years' penitentiary punish ment imposed by the jury. As he was never sentenced by the Court the appeal was only taken in McDon ald's behalf. The other case is what is known as the omnibus case, in which twelve defendants, eleven of whom were county or ex county commissioners, were put on trial. During the trial Geo. C. Klehm, ex-president of the county board, arose and pleaded guilty, in the pres ence of jury, after having assumed to be defending in good faith with the other eleven. It subsequently be came known that while Klehm was attending the consultations of his co-defendants he was clandestinely meeting State's Attorney Grinnel every night and carrying to him the secrets of the defence. The jury convicted all eleven and and fixed the punishment of four at a fine of $1,000 each and for the re mnaining seven at two years' impris onment in the penitentiary. The four who were fined promptly paid their fines. One of the seven, Capt. R. S. McLaughry, sixty-five years old, re fused to appeal and went directly to the penitentiary. The Georgia Jim. Cro w Car MIust Go W~AsmsIo-rox, Feb. 16.-The In ter-State Commerce Commission ren dered a decision to-day in the case of William HI. Heard vs. the Georgia Railroad Company. The Commis sion hold that the petitioner, a col ored passenger on defendant's road, between Atlanta Ga., and Charles ton, S C;, who paid first-class fare, was subjected to undue and unreas onable prejudice and disadvantage, in violation of the third section of the Act to regu late commerce, in being compelled to travel in a car of inferior accomn mo(dations, of which only one-half Iwas assigned to colored passengers, the other half being used as a smoker for both white and colored passen gers; and that it is the duty of the carrier under the law to furnish to p)assengers paying the same fare equal accommodations and protec tion, without discrimination on ac count of color. But if the separation of white and colored passengers is expedient for adequate reasons, such separation is not unlawful, if the accommodations and comforts for colored passengers are in all re spects equal to those for white pas sengers paying the same fare. Opinion by Commissioner Schoon maker. Buildi Up Your T'own. Kimos.on (WIis.) Commuomne '1. Talk abaut it. Write about it. Speak well of it. Help to improve it. Beautify the streets. Patronize its merchants. Advertise in its niewspapers. Speak well of its enterprising, pub lic spirited citizens. I f you are rich invest in something~ employ somebody; be a rustier. If you dont think of any good word to say, don't say anythnng had about it. (HARLESTON PAPERS Make the City Lively-A Spicy Libel suit. 1ispatclh to the Chronicle. CIAIAiLESTON, February 15.-Since Charleston has had three daily pa pers things have become warm. The 'ut and the World are quarrelling, and the News and Courier stands apart looking on. The Sun has, be sides, a libel suit on its hands. An article published a day or two since in reference to an alleged case of swindling an insurance company has led to the complication, and papers will be filed to morrow, it is said, bringing suit against its owners for an amount aggregating $60,000. The case which gave rise to the suit was that of a colored man, named Dud ley, who died in December last with life insurance policies amounting to $10,000. The Sun charged that the doctor who had charge of the patient is interested in the insurance money, hence the suit. It is also rumored that a Pinker ton detective is here investigating the case o: a citizen who was acci dently shot and killed while out hunting a fortnight ago, and whose life was insured for $20,000. Big Game for the New York Grand Jury. NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-The c. &rges against Jay Gould and Russell Sage, made on behalf of the stockholders of the Kansas Pacifc Railroad C-n pany, charging them with appro priating to their own use three mil lions of the company's bonds, were laid before the grand jury this morn ing by Assistant District Attorney Semple. The jury was given all the documen' s bearing on the case, and on Monday next witnesses will be summoned. A decision will prob ably not be reached before the latter part of next week. WHAT THE PARTIES SAY. District Attorney Fellows in a re cent interview on this matter said : "I know of no reason why there should be any dispensation as far as these men are concerned because the. are rich, nor on the other band ought they to be persecuted. Men have met me on every corner, full of advice to do this or that. There is much vindictiveness shown by some men. I shall submit the whole case to the grand jury and let that body act." George J. Gould said yesterday: "I think the whole proceeding is an outrage, and can hardly restrain my indignation. I do not care for my self, but the effect on my wife and my mother may not be calculated. Even if there should be no indict ment found, innocent persons will suffer from the apparent disgrace. There could have been no indict ment the very day after the transac tion was completed, and certainly there is no chancc for it now, nine years afterward. I have every rea. son to suppose that the persecution of my father is simply a blackmail ingz scheme." Russell Sage said that he had ex pected the action of the district at torney. * I should not kn(.w Col. Fellows by sight if I met him on the street," he added, "but I can under stand that he really has no escape 'from the popular clamor raised against him in the recent political canvass. He may be of the opinion that there is no case against us, but if lie did not present the matter to the grand jury it would be said at once that he yielded to improper mo tives. I expected that he would do just what ne has done. The grand jury will be allowed to examine the question, and I have no doubt that it will reach the same conclusion that any sensible man, who is made ac Iquainted with the facts, must come to. The transaction has been open for nine years, and bondholders could have comp)lained before this if there hiad been any injustice. On the con trary, it has been approved as a wise measure and the Union Pacific reaped the full benefit of it." End of a Celebrated Case in Charles ton. - Special to the Register. CHARLEsToN, S. C., February 16. -The real property of the estate of the late T1. W. Malone, consisting of twQnty two houses and lots in the city and suburbs, was sold at auction to-day, and realized about $21,000. This ends the celebrated Malone es cheat cases. Malone came to Charleston many years ago, and began the practice of law. Nobody knew where he came from or anythisg about him. He was very eccentric and successful in his business, and died in 1864, leaving a large estate and without a single rel ative, as far as is known. The estate was taken in hand by Mr. Buist, a well-known lawyer, who carefully nursed it until it has reached the value of nearly $70,000. Various claimants have appearea, from time to time, with a view of claiming as heirs, but none of these have suc ceeded in establishing their claims. Under the laws of this State. his entire property, both real and person A Summary of the Blair Bill. The bill appropriated annualiy for a eight years the following sums to be "expended to secure the benefit of common school education to all chil dren of school age living in the United States:" First year, $7,000,000; second r year, $10,000.000; third year, $15,- t 000,000; fourth year, $13,090,000; t fifth year, $11,000,000; sixth year, t $9,000,000; seventh year, $7,000,000; t eighth year, $5,000,000. The money 1 is to be divided among the several States and Territories and the Dis- t trict of Columbia in proportion to il- t literacy-the computation to be made t according to the census of 188' t and (afterwards) 1890. There t are to be separate schools for r white and colored children. No State i or Teritory is to receive the money 1 under the Act until its Governor shall i have filed with the secretary of the < interior a statement showing the common school system in force in the State, tLbe amount of money expended f during the preceding school year i for the stpport of common schools; the number of white and colored chil dren between the ages of 10 and 21; the number of schools in operation, average attendance of scholars, &c. No amount is to be paid to any State or Territory in any year greater than the amount expended out of its own revenues in the preceding year for the maintenance of common schools. No part of the fund is to be used for the erection or rent of school build ings, but an additional fund of $2, 000,000 is to be allotted in the first year for school-houses, either for construction or renting, in sparsely populated districts; not more than $150 for each building. Schools of the Olden Time. Wn. Edrington in Fairfield News and Herald. I resume my subject by giving your readers a concise sketch of the system of "teaching the young idea how to shoot" from 1810 to 1822. The books used in 1810 to 1816 were Dilworth's spelling book, a poor thing, the New Testament and Amer ican Preceptor, as readers, Pikes' and Gouph's arithmetics. In 1816 Mr. Jas. R. Wood, from Newberry, taught at Rock Creek meeting house, and until 1820. He first taught us how to spell and. read correctly, was thoroughly versed in English gram mar, and introduced Webster's spell. ing book and Columbian Orator and other readers in the reading class, and Walker's dictionary. Geography and history were not taught till 1822, and then only the former in any school that I attended. I recollect in 1810 and 1815 the students had much fun in turning the schoolmasters out, as it was called. It was accomplished first by calling on our teacher for a holiday, say at Easter and Fourth of July. If he refused, the students met early next morning at the school.house and bar ricaded athe door, as there was but one; some of the smaller ones were put insisde with pikes to contest the teacher's entrance by thrusting them through the cracks between the logs, as they were built of logs, unhewn and covered with clapboards with weights. The larger boys remained outside with a view to clinch the school-master and duck him in a deep hole in the spring branch, should he refuse to give them the holiday, Hie was a young athletic man, and was as fond of the fun as the students1 were. He, of course, refused and sprang off a race, the larger boys fol lowing. After a circle of a mile or so, he returned, tile boys at his heels. They clinched him and carried him to a deep hole of water, and after two or three duckings of the head, lhe capitulated, giving the wanted holi day, and sent to a still house for a gallon of peach brandy, of which some of the boys drank too freely. They remained till noon and after demolishing the contents of their school baskets and playing and talk ing over their triumph, they all re tnrned home to tell their parents of the fun they enjoyed. This olden time custom was soon after abolished. The tutors in those days taught twelve months without vacation, at the rate of one dollar per month. The country then was densely populated with whites, and but few negroes, and the schools generally contained from thirty to fifty students. From 1810 to 1815 there were many fully grown pupils of both sexes in their spelling books and Testament. The fullest capacity as teacher, then, was to write well, set plain copies, and make good pens of goose quills and mend them for pupils. The pupil that was the best pen sman and could read the fasted without stopping till he finished his lesson was called the smartest. Miss Cornella Shock's Arrival. From the New York Sun. A citizen of Portland, Me., was annoyed to receive a few days ago a letter from his sister in the county saying that she would send a friend, Miss Cornelia Shock, to spend some time with his family. It was an unu sual liberty een for a sister to take, CAUSE OF COTTON FIRES. 'lanterm the Blame-The 1ewing of Bales Faulty. NEW YORK, February 15.-The cational Board of Fire and Marine nderwriters have investigated the ecent cotton fires and have decided hat the fault must he laid to plan er:. The underwriters contend that he sewing of bales are so faulty hat large spaces are left which ex >ose the cotton to danger from fires. ['he underwriters invited r. commit ee from the Cotton Exchang to meet hem yesterday afternoon. They no ified the cotton men of the results of heir investigation, and stated that hey would shortly issue rules and 'egulatious which must be adhered to n baling cotton, if planters and ship yers wanted insurance. The cotton nen agreed fully with the underwrit ,rs, and at the next meeting of the xchange they will recommend that otton not baled according to the orthcoming rules shall not be dealt n on the Exchange. Death of Nasby. the Hunorist. TOLEDO, 0., February 15.-D. R. Locke (Petroleum Y. Nasby) died at is residence in this city, of con ;umption and a complication of or ;anic troubles, at 6 :30 this morning. David Ross Locke, who has fo Fears ranked among the leading iewspaper humorist and practical iewspaper men of the conntry, was t native of New York, and was, at ;he time of his death, in his fifty-fifth rear. In early life he learned the )ainting business, and while yet a )oy took his turn at "tramping." After a while he settled down in a ittle place called Plymouth, Ohio, here he founded the Plymouth Ad ;ertiser. le started with no capital, >ut the enterprise was successful. Later he was counected with several Jbio papers, among them the Mans leld Herald, the Bucyrus Journal, he Bellefontaine Repub>lican, the Findlay Jefersonian, and the Toledo Blade. It was at Findlay that he first be an to write the "Petroleum V. Nas >y" letters, which were destined not )nly to attain a wide circulation, but o play an important part in the ex ;itement of war times. His first let er was upon the withdrawal from the Lnion of South Carolina-"Wiu ;ert's Corners Secedes." The popu. arity of these letters throughout the ]orth was something wonderful.. It .s said that Abraham Lincoln kept a )amphlet edition always by him. 3eorge S. Boutwell, in a speech n New York, attributed the suc ess of the northern armies to hree great forces--the army, navy and Ka9by letters. Charles Sumner asked he privilege of writing an introduc ion to a compilation of the series. I'be letters have becn kept up in the Blade up to the time of Mr. Locke's .11lness. Mr. Locke has found time to do a great deal of literary work, having vritten several successful plays. Among them "Widow Bedott;" leveaal successful books of ravel and other works, and and has kept hard at work editing sis paper all the time. Mr. Locke's :onnection wit'.1 the Blade began in 1865. and he has built it up until now it is one of tihe most prominent papers of the north. Mr. Locke had amassed a large for. ~une and leaves his family in com rortable circumstances. The New Factory at Piedrnont. Greence Entecrprisec andv Xoundtineer. The reliable statement that a new ractory is to be built at Piedmont, falls most satisfactorily on the cars af the public. The building is to be 300 feet long and four stories high. Four hundred looms are to be put into it, and from 12,000 to 14,000 spindles. Old Piedlmont and New Piedmont combined will have 1,000 looms and 40,000 spindles. Of the spindles, 8,000 will be used in making yarns, which are not woven. From 18,000. to 20,000 bales of cotton will then be used each year, according to the kinds of goo's mad~e, which are at present 4-4 sheetings, 3-4 shirtings, 7-8 shirtings, and drills. From 200 to 250 new operatives will be employed, making about 900 in all. This immense es tablishment will be under the man agement of Col. IIammett, and will be driven with water-power, soonnle mented by steam when necessary. TLhe population of Piedmont, it is expected, will be increased 1.000 persons, making a total of about 2500. Work on the new enterprise has been begun, which is in Anderson County, and will be in operation by the first of October next. The Place for the Quill D)riverM. (Barn eell People.) Greenville will invite the State Press Association to meet there next summer. But if our quill driving brethren want a better time than they have ever had in their lives let them A Colored Man's Splendid Farming. eeberry Obserrer. Lewis Duckett, of No. 4 Township, who owns one of the largest and best p antations in Newberry County, and who is a number one farmer, has given the O!>merrer the results of some of his farming operations last year. He made good crops round; but the following were special yields. On two acres he planted cotton seed that he bought from Prof. Harris, of Greenville, which the Professor called "Duncan's Im proved." He broadcasted the land with home-made manure and then put in 400 pounds-200 to the acre -of acid. The cotton from this patch yielded 35} pounds of lint from 100 pounds of seed cotton. From the two acres he gathered 8,833 pounds. He had the cotton picked by day labor at so much per hun dred, and weighed it carefully him. self as it was picked; so that there can be no mistake about the yield. The two acres made 6 bales of 508 pounds each, exclusive of the weight of bagging and ties-or 3,1131 pounds of lint. On a 20 acre new ground, the third year of cultivation with 200 pounds of ammoniated fertilizers per acre, he made 26 bales of cotton weighing 527 pounds each, 233 pounds over. On a 7 acre new ground, second year of cultivation, he made, without fertilizing, o7 bushels of corn, ex clusive of the rotten and refused corn. This was not an estimate or guess-work, but he shucked and measured the corn. Lewis says that he has a little over four acres of ground that he thinks he can make 20 bales of cotton on, and that he is going to try it this year. Some persons who do not know Lewis Duckett may be disposed to question the figures above given; but those who know him know that he is a splendid farmer and a thoroughly truthful and responsible man, and that his figures are correct. He is probably the wealthiest colored far mer in the State, being worth from $20,000 to $25,000. An Old New Mexican Crater Shows Signs of Bursting. SAN MARCIAL, N. M., February 6. A miner who has just returned from a prospecting tour through the Oscura mountains, which are situated about 100 miles east here, brings inforrma tion to the effect that a crater, which for many centuries has been in a state of-inactivity, is showing signs of bursting forth anew. Being inter viewed to day by a Globe.Democratic reporter to-day, he said : "The crater lies to the south of the Oscura range and to the east of the great lava beds. I was attracted to the mouth of the crater by the rising -of the smoke, thinking that it arose, perhaps, from the camp fire of another party of prospectors." "Was the smoke arising direct from the mouth of the crater ?" "Yes; I descended to the bottom of the crater, which was probably seventy five feet deep. The bottom was composed simply of a crust of hardened lava, near the center of which was a small hole about as large around as my arm and from out this aperture the smoke was aris ing. Some times it would come in a large volume, once more filling the air with dense, black smoke." "Was this small hole the only one on the surface of the bottom of the crater ?" "Yes, it was the only hole, but the whole surface was intersected by large crevices." "And was the smoke pouring from out these crevices also ?" "No. I sup)pose the crevices were caused during the cooling of the lava, which was left in the crater after the volcano had spent its force, anid are of no great depth, while the aperture from which the smoke was arising was caused perhaps by the air es caping from some vacuity in the depths of the volcano and forcing its way through the lava, when the lava was in a semi-hardened state, being too hard to run, and yet soft enough for the air to force its way throughb." In addition to the facts giver above, he stated that a low, rumbling noise could be distinctly heard at in tervals, and that the smoke arising from the depths of the volcanc smelled strongly of sulphur. This crater is situated right in the midst of a volcanic region, being one of the many craters that are situated in the southeastern part of Socorro County. It was, no doubt, as were also the others, at some prehistoric period it a terrible state of activity, as the country for miles and miles around is one solid mass of hardened lava. It is not much to be wondered at, then, if this volcano, like nmany others, after lying for centuries in an inactive state. should suddenly break~ forth with reneweC activity. Heavy Taxes. The City Concil of Charlestnn or THE HEATHENS BLUSHED. As They Feasted Their Eyes Upon Washington Society Women. a --- A WASHINGTON, Feh-uary 14.-At A the Cninese ball last night the Core-' rc an Legation was present in court K costume, and its members moved ti about through the big parlors of Sen. cl ator Stewart's palace with their big T black sugar-loaf hats held on to their curiously shaped beads by a strings of long glass beads of different col. ors which ran around under their yel low chins. Their almond eyes curi ously watched the beautiful bare L necks and bare backs of the fair ladies present, and the Corean Min ister says the women of this country, D as they appear at evening receptions, look as though they grew up out of their clothes. When the Coreans T first appeard at a White House re ception-it was in the jam of last week-their lemon colored cheeks A blushed to a decided orange hue, and the leading members of the Legation came up to Dr. Allen, their Ameri can Secretary, and asked him if he really thought it would be etiquette s for them to look at these women. Allen told them to feast their eyes, and the indications at the ball last night showed that they were follow. ing his suggestion with a vengeance. In the mean time the young girls at C Washingtoo, at least some of them, seem to enjoy the admiration of these Corean nobles, and they hung around them at this ball like the beautiful nymphs about the ugliest satyr. UP IN THE AIR. The Freak of an English Millionaire In Mexico. 0 p SAN ANTONIO, TEX., February 12. -Mr. George Fay, of Guanajuata, G Mexico, passed through the city yes- L terday en route for the City of Mexi co, from which eapital he returns to his home. Mr. Fay is an English millionaire, and has been on a north ern and European trip, where his mis sion has been one of a remarkable l character. He has lived for some t years in the city of Guanajuata and a owns considerable property in that h vicinity. He is a cultured gentleman a of immense wealth and eccentric 8 tastes, which lead him to indulge in t fantastic luxuries as rare as they are phenomenal. He is now engaged in building in a suburb of Guanajuata, t a magnificent palace that will not be C less than 100 feet'high and surround- ' ed by immense gardens which will e recall the legendary hanging garden m of Babylon, an i to which access will b be gained by a gigantic elevator. Mr. A Fay believes that it is necessary for e him to live at this latitude in order to a be,from the noxious effects of the micropes, which infest the atmos- t phere of large cities. This aerial pal- c ace will have telephone connections v with the city of Guanajuata and i be supdlied with water by means o of huge tanks with hydrau- 1 lie power. The most curious feature of this Cabyionian palace will be that it will be supported by enor mous columns of brick composed of asbestos and paper. Mr. Pay has re cently been to France to see in course of construction the mammoth towers of the Paris exposition of 1889, for the purpose of getting some ideas that will assist him in the building of his palace. It is said that Mr. Pay has drawn all his plans and calcu lates to spend $6,000,000 in this queer freak of his fancy. PHIL SHERIDAN'S HOTmtR she Tells Where He was Born, and Says He Would not Have the Presidency. CmICAGo, February 16.-A Times special from Somerset, Ohio, says: Mrs. Sherdan was visited at her home to-day to learn what she had to say in regard to where her son Phil lip R. Sheridan was born. She said : "Mr. Sheridan, my husband, and I were born in County Carlin, Parish1 of Kilibran, and near the town of Virginia. We landed in this country in 1828. After residing in Albany, N. Y., we came here to Somerset in 1826. On March 6, 1831, Phil was born in a little frame house still standiog on WVest South street, near Columbus street." "You have no doubt heard he is spoken of as a candidate for the Presidency?" "I have, and I hope I will not hear it again. His whole life trom his1 childhood has been one of hard labor and he should cease. I am sure he will not be a candidate and would not accept the Presidency if tendered to him." A Colored Preacher's Comment. New York Tribune. Governor Taylor, of Tennessee, recently told of a colored clergyman who preached a sermon on the text: "And the multitudes came to him and he healed them of divers dis ease." Said he: "My dying con gregation. this is a terrible text. Disease is in the world. The small pox slays its hundreds, the cholera its thousands and the yellow fever its thousands, but in the language of the P(e's Acrost:c. St. Valentine's day, calles to mind very ingenuous acrostic by Edgar llen Poe-which appeared in the ew York Evening Mirror of Feb. Lary 21st, 1846. The reader will tve no difficulty in spelling out the iree names if he hits upon the right ew. It is entitled: D Her whose name is written below: For her these lines are penned, whose luminous eyes. right and expressive as the stars of Leda. Shall find her own sweet name that, nestling lies pon this page, enwrapped from every reader. Search narrowly these words, which holds a treasure. ivine, talisman, an amulet That must be worn at heart. S. arci well the measure, he words, the letters themselves. Do not forget The smallest point, or you may lose your labor. nd yet there is in this noGordian knot Which one mighig not undo without a sabre. one could mere comprehend the plot Upon the open page, on which are peering ich sweet eyes now, there lies, I say perdee, A Musical name, oft uttered in the hearing i poets, for the name is a poet's too, In common sequence set, the letters lying, ompose a sound delighting all to hear. All this you'd have no trouble in de scrying, rere you not something of a dunce, my dear, And now I leave these riddles to their seer. POINTS ABOUT PERSONS Senator Wade Hampton has shaved [f his side whiskers, and a newsp . er correspondent says that his face oks lrke a peeled onion. -"Slaves and Poltroons," began rovernor West in a speech at Salt ake City. He did not finish. The adience made a rush for him, and ie speaker retired. General Wilson and Senator Rea an had a pleasant meeting in Wash igton, the other day. Wilson cap ired Reagan with President Davis rd his party. He offered Reagan is parole, but the latter refused to ecept it, saying that Mr. Davis was ick, and he would stick to him. At iat time Reagan fully expected to e hung. Mr. William Means, president of :e defunct Metropolitan bank of incinnati, is a brother-in-law of ex ongressman Henry S. Neal of the leventh Ohio district, and their ives are sisters of "Bunnie" Camp ell, the young lady in the famous ,rbuckle case. Mr. Means was sev ral times a millionaire and a gener 1 favorite in Cincinnati society. William Preston Johnston, son of ie General Johnston who died at hiloh, is president of Tulare Tni ersity and a Shaksperean expert. [e has not a single hair on his head r face. Even his eyebrows and eye ashes have disappeared, Senator Harrison H. Riddleberger i tall, straight and not bad looking; .e has a long, thin face, a high, full nrehead, and his brown hair, which s thinning rapidly at the crown, is embed well back. He refuses, it is aid, invitations to state dinners at he white house, and once declined o go to a dinner party at Senator malmer's because he had no dress oat and was too poor to buy one. Attorney-General Garland writes o an Arkansas paper that he will *trictly adhere to a resolution formed n 1883 that he will not, under any ircumstances, again be a candidate or the United States Senate. The best thing in Bismarck's re lent speech was the sentence : "We ermans fear God and nothing else n the world." Sir Morell Mackenzie, the Eng. ish physician who operated on the ferman crown prince's throat, has -efused $30,000 to come to this coun ry to treat a prominent citizen. And ret $30,000 is a very respectable fee. Captain Calhoun, who recently lied in St. Joseph County, Michigan, iad four sons who had not seen each >ther in 19 years. They met in Chi :ago on their way to their father's 'uneral and rode home in the same :ar, two of them occupying the same ieat, yet they did not recognize each >ther until they met in a livery sta >le at White Pigeon, where each was rying to get a rig to go to the old iomestead. Standing Side b.y Side. A laundry which stands in the shadow of a New York church, bears he appropriate legend on its sign. oard : "Cleanliness is next to God .iess." Half of us Agree With Himi. Congressman Tiliman, of South Carolina, says that the overcoat is a :iorthern luxury, unworthy of a man with blood in his veins. Peculiar Phenomenon. A ,-oenle n.hannnipnnn was wit