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d I ESALSE 180 EBRR,S . TUSA,A SAPPING THE SURPLUS. What it is Said the Direct Tax Bill Will Accomplish. (Special to the New York Herald.] WASHINGTON, April 7, 1888.-Half a hundred Democrats, most of them, to the honor of their section, Southern men, still stand solid in the House to prevent a raid on the Treasury for eighty-four millions of dollars. The House to-day took a recess un til a quarter to twelve Monday, when the fflib".stering will go as it has since Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Oates and those acting with him do not mean to give up unless they see that the pub lie cares nothing about this raid on the treasury. But they mean to continue their opposition until public opinon can be informed and and aroused. The contest will therefore go on next week 0. and it ought to. Filibustering has seldom had so com plete ajustification as in this case, and when the people's attention is fixed upon what is going on in the House the filibusters will receive, as they de serve, general thanks. The direct tax repayment bill is nothing more than the entering wedge for measures which will so deplete the Treasury that the protectionists may have cause to cry out that no tax re duction can be safely made. The fif teen million direct tax bill is the pilot fish for that great shark, the cotton tax repayment bill, which calls for sixty nine millions. The two, the shark and the pilot fish, will take eighty-four mil lions out of the Treasury, and leave it tolerably empty. That is the precise purpose of those who are trying to force these bills through. Mr. Randall and the Republican pro tectionists therefore combined to force this treasury raid into the House. When the day came the bill was brought up, and the votes showed that it has the solid support of the whole Republican side of the House and a number of Democrats. The pro tectionists are all for it, and it is in fact a Republican measure, as it has the solid Republican support. The pre tence has been set up that it is a South ern treasury raid, but as a matter of fact most of the Southern men oppose it. It is a Republican and protectionist scheme to prevent any reduction of tax ation. There -is-no justice in the measure, but the bribe it holds out to twenty eight States gives it the strength which igg rolling river and harbor bills always have. So many are to have a "share of the pork" that the Republican pro tectionists have felt sure of success when, with Mr. Randall's help, they were able to force it into the House. The direct tax was laid by Colgress in 1861 and was collected for only one year, and only in that year. It was a requisition on the States, but where these did not choose to act the Federal authorities levied upon citizens of the State. The bill which Mr. Ran dall helped the Republicans to force in the House proposes tb return to the States what they paid, or what was col lected in them by ;the Federal power. and to forgive the sunms unpaid. The ,following table shows the amounts in volved: Amount Balance dlue State or Territory. Collected U. S. Alabama...... 18,28.303 $ 54,028 30 Arkansas..... 184,08218 77,893 82 Caliorni.......25,.538 67 Colorado....... 22,189 96 715 87 Connecticut ...261,981 801 Dakota........ 3,241 3.3 T)elaware......70,332 82 .Columbia.. 49,437 33 pposi ida.........3,52981 3.3,992 86 ni *---...106,963 17 477,404 16 t-a the C1 -.... 769,114 03 cetha i s .... 334,274 80 - ts xisene- ..71,743 33 - codth cgntt 60C,641 03 - 'donte~ Cit~ae 468,15 12 117,371 5.3 to Pui dowa agricute ,702 104 unds to eO si tha the . )99 3 One member - aise oCA41 1aa UnersitI nudno . t' te t ttarw , the the'at-it aon 1 coferierre men V h - O.0 pun arboro, arc twoofthtshi Crosland' f~dX has stated tha h1 Ct. Tijllmiani0er ao was in - isaetwo ato the Citade1 makinga comp and Courier, %L,763.6 question. he greatest p- -,098 51 Moutely , ,. 26,982 00 d' iia. ..... 51 5,560 72 213,501 30 W.iSirgini... 181.306 73 - Washington. 4,238 16 3,487 17 Wiscons~in .....44,944 84 25,307 40) S. Carolina..... 37,961 30 Mr. Oates, of Alabama, who is head ing the fillibustering opposition of the bill in the House, made astroflninfori ty report against it. The bill is simply a huge offer of plunder to the States. New York, for instance, would get nearly two an a quarter million; Ohio a million and a third; Pennsylvahia over a million and a half; Massachusetts over $700,000; Indiana, $769,000); Con necticut, $261.980; California, 254,.538, and so on. So great and so adroit a bribe has never before been offered by men bent on Treasury spoliation in order that they may defeat tax reduc tion. They have the help of "State agents." who have been pushing the bill here for years and who will doubtless get a large share of the plunder for their efforts. But they never had a chance of success until now the Republican protectionists turn in to help them. It is very well understood that this repayment of the direct tax is only the beginning. It will be followed, if it succeeds, immediately by an attempt, sure to be equally successful, to repay theotiton tax That will take 869,000 000 more out of the Treasury. There is not an argument for the repayment of the direct tax which does not hold equally for the repayment of the cotton tax. The same kind of inter-Statt log rolling makes that strong, which is used by the protectionists to push through the repayment of the direct tax. The cotton tax was laid during the war. It was collected on raw cotton wherever found, and therefore in North ern as well as Southern States. Twentv eight States would get $15,000,000 out the Treasury under the direct tax bill; twenty-five States would get S69,000,t00 out of the Treesury by the repayment of the cotton tax. Eleven of these twenty five are Northern States. The followidg table shows what each would receive from this grand raid on the Treasury: In Alabama....................$10,3&4,072 10 In Arkansas.................... 2,555,t638 43 In California................... 430 04 In Connecticut.............. .493 64 In Florida....................... 918,944 98, In Georgia....................11.897,094 98 In Illinois..................... .379,144 42 Iu Indiandia................... 92,727 21 In Kansas..................... .286 15 In Kentucky..................53,227 45 In Louisiana................10,098,501 In Maryland..................51,349 52 In Massachusetts............66,679 30 In Msssissippi................ S,742,995 93 In Missouri..................... 592,098 36 In New Jersy.......... 3,656 42 In New York.......... 7,942 In North Carolina..........1,959,704 87 In Ohio.......................... 447,127 12 In Pennsylvania........... 78,;W- Of; In Rhode Island. 2,424 73 In South Carolina..........4,172,420 16 in Tennessee.................. 7,573,460 71 In Texas........................ 5,502,401 24 In Utah...................... 1,875 34 In Virginia ................82.5,S.56 .87 JUDAS ISCARIOT. The Probable Origin of HIia Name-Some Legeiads About Him. [From the New Orlcanis States.] There is no doubt or ambiguity with regard to the earliest part of Judas Is cariot's name. Judas is merely the Greek or Hellenistic form of the He brew "Judah," familiar to everybody. But "Iscariot" is as it has always been, a puzzle. At least half a dozen inter pretations of the word have been su gested by philologists, but not one of them is in all respects satisfactory. The most seeming of their number is that the word is a condensed or cor rupted form of the two Hebrew words "Ish Kerioth," meaning "the nian of Kerioth," Kerioth being a village in Southern Palestine, where, perhaps, Judas or his family had their origin. The name, however, is no consequence for our present purposes ; and we have remarked it only to show the mystery attaching to the man in every phase of his surroundings. With regard to his birth, legend and myth are as copious as is conjecture with regard to his name. Here are two o them for hich e 4ar im 4e (liatly inebtedto Mocure 4onwa8 In the apocrphal8"Gosp 4 ofth Infanc" it s relted tht 9a1dmonia cal boy brougt to te chil Jeus strikes hm, wherepon 3Jesu we5s and Satan onIeS outof0the5bo inth shape of furiousd5g. ,Thi boywa Judas9.3 Accodin tonoter lgen,4,9 Juds' mothe had (Irem befre6hi birt that he son wuld muder9hi fahe and sellhisGod. ,To9aver thsrh child as suk inhe4se,1ut was east o shore wasadopte by a kingand ueen whohad 17so,4 whom Thesie ProbableOrin of His ather,meare From smther er ream. Inaterror read cntonh Juarist hears of Jas Is-ph whrot' forgie Juas whe herl thw hielf atr Hleist feet Jeus teogni ing "Isearit"dissa it( hastalaysr,een, ceptzle him ast dicile, ade intr-t pretaitin ohe woritd andave pln sug gsvtion not fil.lgss Juda thu oeame and i in ual pispects ofatisfatry. chrTshe st earsn oft(lo therkmec s [that a t the wodiacneisedr.] or "Isheriot," mening-Yu r"then tativer wasine,wheroesperas, Juapearc hiaihd polaionrI climsn Thenam,hwrsn consequence ev anta heard flnth only tros ah consider aan(t the man wneereyut pasy. Tfhs suwrrydings. ,fwhc Hon. regr to MCuhrnis rth,leent, and onetofate largstpiu an mos Poserue illhi her stte. hIt namploysr are diatel hunded ads MTnere Coavy bee sonsimnso the p roduct"G se of ths oncy itLMcghi is relate thetadmna esidey, bogt the childrr Jetios, striks hich whereupobnsucwes, full Saagoesdu f h oyi h shaperrf aos dag hisn bin fac toretdiss toatherd leend,Judas's to the ppritydof trea b)ere hs at buidin her oan ocitrdrio s ofathch ad Jaehs Gcno. is prertdehis t cidwsski the seat,fta ot ebulet in ea ohoe. bul te ciaotiens oyf kingwer and quen wo had ason, ishon udasc spiri. H lwt ue,bcm th age of rthqlate, andhatetekre dsockmue of hatqaeis father,d toarned ofrodhin mothersher county on tero dho fogtver sins whn dae, how inghis epedtestiinity wetraer osie ablyexite exieIn h lno BITS OF WIT. Famous Sayings;of Famous Men and Oth ers Not so Famous. [Atlanta Constitution.1 A few days ago the Constitution ad dressed the following inquiry to a num l,er of prominent gentlemen through out the state: What is the best piece of wit you re member to have heart or read of in legal or political circles? To suggest what we want we offer the following: "A friend of Mr. Blaine's once asked Conkling if he would not take the stump for Mr. Blaine in the campaign of '84. 'I cannot,' he said. 'I have re tired from the criminal practice.' " Please let us have your answer as early as possible. We have received a great many re plies, sonic of which we print this morning. It will be noticed that most of the yon mots are taken from other eras than our own. Whether this implies a decadence of wit in public men of the present day, we cannot say, but assuredly nothing quoted below is better than the following from Dr. H. V. M. Miller, who, when the conflict was raging between wlhigs and demo crats. arraigned the democratic party with terrible force toa big meeting. He then said: "Is there any man in all this assem bly that will now dare to get up and confess himself a democrat ?" Contrary to expectation, a chubby Irishman with an exceedingly red nose arose, and placing his hands on his hips, with his arms akimbo, said : "Yes, sir, I am a democrat." The doctor drew attention to the queer looking figure and said: "My friend, if you would wrap a few wisps of straw around you, you would be a demy-John." But let our correspondents speak for themselves, and if most of the bright things come out of the classics, it may be that wit, like wine. gets its bonquet with age. FROM RANDOLPH OF ROANOKE. Hon. John T. Glenn writes: Is there anything better than what Randolph said when he met a very dis agreeable enemy on the sidewalk. The fellow, blustering up and occupying most of the way, said: "I never give way for a rascal." "I always do," said Randolph, polite ly stepping aside. THE SHARP TONGUE OF GOOD QUEEN BEES. Judge H. B. Tompkins writes : "Without fully understanding the pur port of your inquiry, I submit the fol lowing from Queen Elizabeth, Eng land's virgin queen. She became offend ed at Lord Burleigh, and intended to point her scorn by an allusion to his enemy and her favorite, Lord Leices ter. She said: 'Though burly you be, Lora Burleigh, you shall make less stir in my kingdom than Leicester.'" Hon. W. B. Hill, M1acon, Ga., writes: To select the best among one's favor ite legal repartees is like the attempt of the royal mother to select from her childeni the one whose surrender was the condition upon which a city's siege was to be raised. As each passed in re view before her, each seemed the best loved. 1 can only say of the following that it is fairly good. A client reproach ed his counsel for having been in a semi-boozy condition when he con ducted his case in court. The lawyer replied: ''It wa absolutely necessary that I should fuddle myself down to the capacity of the jury." Hon. A. 0. Bacon writes: An excellent piece of repartee is ac corded to a MIr. Harris, of Atlanta whose initials I do not now recall, but who is named( byv the irreverent as "Fatty Harris." He wvas on the wit ness standl in Fulton sup)erior court, and was being examined by the then attor ney-general of Georgia. The witness did not rely to a question as dlirectly as the at torney-general wished. The latter repe ted his question, andl adlded with emphasis: "Now, Mfr. Harris, you cer tainly understand that question, for you are a very intelligent man." "'Thank you, Mir. Attorney General," rep)lied M1r. Harris with a bow, "I would return the compliment with great p)leasure if I were not at present under oath." JIudge Nisbet writes: It is not necessary to go outside of Georgia for a good piece of repartee. Judlge Underwood, the elder, was a greater wit than Sheridan, but, unfor tunately had no Boswell to write his biography or Constitutm repo)rter to publish what he said. He was engaged in a case once and the judIge, after charging very decidedly against him, locked the jury up for the night and adjournedl court. After tea the judge and U.nderwoodl were walking on the piazzal of the hotel nxear the courthouse, and heard quite a movement of chairs and of feet in the jury room, when the judge remarked: "I believe the jury have gone to prayers." When Under wood said: "I expect so. Failing to get any light from your honor's charge they are seeking it from above." Goverdor Gordon writes: I'll give you another from Under wood. When he lived in Elbert aman was abusing him roundly, and ended by saying: "Yes, sir; and I understand you were a federalist?" To this Judge Underwood replied: "~In those times, there were but two parties in this country-federalists and fools. I was a federalists. I never heard you, sir, accused of being one." General Henry R. Jackson writes: The b)est p)iece of repartee I remember to have ever read or heard, fell from the lips of John Van Buren, at one time generally known as "Prince John" un der the following circumstances: H had undestaken the representation of certain cause before the courts, ver; much to the disgust of one of his friend who having vainly expostulated wit] him and losing temper, exclaimed "Van Buren, is there a case so low, s vile, so filthy that you would declin to represent it?" "I do not know," re plied the lawyer, hesitatingly, an quickly approaching his ear close to th lips of the inquirer, he whispered "What have you been doing?" Judge S. B. Hoyt writes: Hon. Nathaniel Macon, of Nort] Carolina, was one of the few intimnat friends of John Randolph, of Roanokc They served together in both house. Mr. Macon retired from the house is 1815. His successor made every effort t succeed him in the good graces of Mi Randolph. Mr. Randolph snubbed him Angry at this, he took the first opportu nity to assault Randolph in debatc Randolph made no sort of reply, but few days after, in discussing some sul ject, said: "Mr. Speaker, I am remind ed of a remark of my friend, Hon. N1 thaniel Macon, of North Carolina, th wisest man I ever knew," and thei pointing his long, lean finger at th seat formerly occupied by Mr. Macor but at that time by his successor, c"or tinued, "but whose seat in this house am sorry to say is now vacant! vacant! vacant! !" This may be in print somewhere, bu I never saw it. It was told to me whe; I was a boy, by my grandfather, an ol Virginian. I have always regarded i as the most withering satire I eve heard of. I append, however, the following which, under the circumstances, I r< gard as one of the keenest and mos polished specimens of satire I eve came across: Disraeli, the great English premie) as is well known, was defeated seven times before he was elected to parli ment. In one of his speeches on th hustings, he denounced Daniel O'Cor nell, the great Irish agitator, as "bloody traitor ;" to which Mr. O'Cor nell made the retort: "For aught know, the present Disraeli is the tru heir at law of the impenitent thief wh died on the cross." Disraeli challenged O'Connell's sor Morgan, who took up his father's qua rel, but the challenge was not acceptei Hon. Charles C. Jones, Augusti Georgia, writes : "When that brilliant but erratic on tor, the late Thomas Marshall, of Ker tucky, was addressing a large audienc at Buffalo, he was interrupted by politicel opponent, who, pretendin not to hear the speaker distinctly, ex deavored to embarrass him by puttin his hand to his ear and crying or "louder." Several times did Mr. Ma: shall pitch his voice on a higher ke but the only effect was to draw fort from his tormentor still more energeti cries of "louder, please, sir, louder. Thus interrupted in the midst of ou of his most thrilling appeals, M1r. Ma: shall, indignant at the trick, paused ft a moment and fixing his eye first c his enemy and then on the presidir officer, said : "M1r. Chairman, on th last day, when the angel Gabriel sha have descended from the heavens an< placing one foot upon the sea and ti other upon the land, shall lift to his li1 the golden trumpet and proclaim to th living and to the resurrected dead th: time shall be no more, I have no doul sir, that infernal fool from Buffalo wi start up and cry out : Louder, pleasa sir, louder !" One of the neatest retorts ever mad by a public speaker was that given 1. Coleridge in response to sonme mar]a of disapprobation indulged in by tl: audience during his democratic lectui at Bristol : "I am not at mall surprise that, when the red-hot prejudices< aristocrats are suddenly plunged int the cool elemient of reason, they shoul go off with a hiss." .Judge Richard H. Clark writes: Before the war in the high par' times between the whigs and the den oerats, Horace Greeley then as afte wards was editor of the New Yor Tribune a violent whig p)aper. E was dissatisfied, even dlisgusted wit the platform of a whig national col vention. After denouncing it in manner that only Horace Greely coul< his contempt reached its climax, whe his denunciation ended with, "I sp upon the platform." Then, George D. Prentiss, anoth< whig editor of the Louisville Journa rep)lied : "If you spit upon the pla form, you cannot expectorate as whig." The Ups and Dowws of a Notable Ca,'e. CorrUnnI, S. C., April 10.-A som what remarkable case was dlecided I the jury in the court of common plc here this afternoon. In 1874 Legrau Benedict sued Wmn. E. Rose for a no held by Benedict and alleged to ha' been indorsed by Rose. The case w first tried in 1876, and the plaintiff w thrown out of court on some technica ity. The supreme court granted a ne trial, which camne off in 1881 and ti plaintiff won. The snpreme cou again reversed the decision below. 1882 the third trial resulted in favor thc defendant, but the supreme cou again reversed the finding. The four' trial to-day resulted in favor of the d fendant, who claimed that the pr tended indorsement wa a forgery. TI amount involved was over $4,000. TI case has excited much interest here am elsewhere because of its long standir and its ups and downs. The verdi just rendered is thought to be the er of it. BREAD RIOT IN RICHXON D. e a A Story of the Late Civil War by an Eye Witness of the Occurrence. [Dixie in Washington Post.] It was in the early part of the late pwar, in, I think, the second year. Our armies (the confederate) had been gen erally successful, and there was as yet little of that great suffering to which the people of the south were afterward to be reduced. The dearth of men in Richmond made it necessary to employ a large force of women in the various departnients of the government, a great many of them refugees, and many from e the eldest and wealthiest of southern aristocratic families. The treasury department occupied on Broad streetin Richmond, a large store, and in that store a number of ladies were occupied in numbering and sign ing coupon bonds, and others in sign ing and numbering the one and two dollar notes with which the confedera cy was flooded. _ One afternoon there was a rumor in Richmond that a body of disorderly women and boys had assembled on the e Capital square,, clamoring for bread. It was asserted that Governor Letcher and e the mayor of the city had addressed ' them in the interest of law and order, and promised them relief. But as yet little was known for cer tain, and I gave the rumor little thought as I walked up Broad street the next morning toward the depart ment, now only a few squares off. d'Bread, bread; give us bread!" amid a pandemonium of yells, startled me. r As I turned in alarm, a scene met my eyes that I will not soon forget Pouring out of a side street a motley crowd of women and boys surged uplin t y wake to the very building that was my goal. It was a striking and unique sight-not a man visible, but every wo man in the city seemed to be there, yel ling for bread. For me to be thus the unwitting e leader of a mob was anything but a pleasant sensation, and, hastening my steps, I reached the department just be fore it was closed against the mob. Halting in front of the building they vainly sought to force an entrance. Fearing that they might have firearms our chief had given orders that the la dies should keep clear of the windows. But Mother Eve's vice got the better of us, and we eagerly watched the crowd as they battered at the doors, at the same time demanding that the money should be given up to them. Foiled in their attempt to obtain the govern a ment's currency, they turned their at g tention to other more accessible plun der. A milliners shop and a shoe store were quickly sacked and their contents t appropriated. Decked with the unlaw ful spoil, they next proceeded to break in a bakery and appease their famished stomachs by emptying the flour into the streets and tramping the bread be ,neath their feet. While employed in this congenial occupation they were rinterrupted by the arrival of a detach >rment of soldiers sent by the governor nto disperse the rioters. The troopi opened fire with blank cartridges, with Cno other effect than causing a laugh and 11 jeers from the mob, who seemed amus Ied. The plundering continued, and Lthere seemed no way of dispersing themi without using bullets, which the sol e diers were unwilling to do. Finally, by t charging with the bayonets, the milli. >t tary managed to stampede tne crowd Iwithout, however wounding any of them. They returned to their homes and gave no further trouble. To the ecredit of the women of the south, ii should be said that the women who in. spired the riot, though in the south, were not of it, but the wives principally eof foreigners, who, when the war broke (out, went north, leaving their wives to carry on their market gardens and shops in Richmond, and thereby savE (their property. The leader of the riot. a market gardlener, was said to be wortl Sl0,000 in gold. Many of the partici. pants wvere knowvn to b.e almost as rich, b)ut their victims were reduced to pov 1ertv. The leader of the rioters was sen ktenced to the penitentiary... It was [e thought in Richmond that it was con h1 cocted with a view of making the c-aus( of the confederacy appear more desper a ate than it then was, and thereby bringing it in discredit both at hon< and abroad. itThe Quinine Product. ePittsburg Dispatch. 1, It is a curious fact that while th< t annual supply of quinine for the whol< a world is about 8,600,000 ounces, th( consumption of this drug in the United States is more than .3,100,000 ounces, 0] nearly one-half the entire product. ThE price of quinine has been so low for the last three or four years that large plan e- tations of the (chinchona tree have beer y uprooted in Ceylon, and the tea plant is is substituted. Ceylon produces a very d large share of all the bark that is marke. te ted, and the exports from that island e declined more than one-third bet weer is 188.3 and 18.87. 1she Fixed It. w A few weeks ago a lady who keeps i 1e boarding house was stirred to angei rt. when she saw that an advertising n fiend had painted in big white lettern of just under her sign these words: rt. "Smith's Bile Beans Cure Indigestion.' :h She tried to induce the painter tc e- obliterate the sign, which she felt sure e- would repel boarders. IIe refused tc le do it. "Then," cried the indignianl 1 hostess, "I'll fix it myself." Sh egrab. Ld bed up his paint brush and, elimibing ig up to the sign, added a "d" to the se et cond word, so that the notice was: id "Smith's -Biled Beans Cure Indiges tin_ TRAGIC END OF A ROMANCE. Ho The Suicide of DeGrassie Bulkley's Bride The Story of Her Engagement to W. L. Trenholm. [Special to the News and Courier.] aw WAsHINGTo\, April 13.-The last tht act in the Bessie Hillyer-Bulkley ro- tht mance was a most terrible one. It was ad enacted last night at the residence of is t Judge Curtis J. Hillyer, on Massachus- gr; etts avenue, near Dupont circle, and tim the result was that the young lady in wl the case died from the effects of poison fac taken, it is supposed, w.ith suicidal in- thi tent the day previous. The family and ex: the physicians are extremely reticent thl on the subject, the former being east thh down at the untimely death of their sP< beautful and beloved daughter and the CO] latter declining to discuss the subject th< on professional grounds. m The unfortunate Mrs. DeGrassie sh' Bulkley, nee Hillyer,-was taken very ea ill on Wednesday morning, and the fil' physicians were hastily summoned. A thl pump was used and every effort em- m ployed. At first there was some hope. to Later this hope was dispelled and her re] mother was summoned yesterday after- tal noon. Mrs. Bulkleydied ai>out 9 o'clock. tr" She was seen in public early this week. ty and nothing unusual was noticed about pr; her appearance. gl The doctors were in almost constant R attendance through Wednesday and w up to the hotr of her death, Dr. W. W. Johnston, the family physician, calling fel in Drs. George W. Johnston and D. W. W Prentiss. All possible efforts were made t to save the life of the young wife, but in she was beyond the aid of medical skill. pb The family are especially sorrowful se on account of the peculiar circum- is stances surrounding the case. The Pe young husband, DeGrassie Bulkley, "' was not with his bride of five months gr during her sickness, and the news was go a sudden blow to him. in The death of Mrs. Bulkley recalls the cy other part of this sad story. Mrs. Bulk- an ley was the only daughter of Judge co Hillyer. She was about eighteen years n old, and her father's wealth and her cy own beauty made her a belle -much ve sought after in society. She was en gaged to be married to Mr. W. L. hi Trenholm, son of the comptroller of tu the currency, last December, and so- hi ciety was looking forward to a brilliant w wedding. when it was suddenly an- t nounced that Miss Hillyer had eloped pr and married -Mr. DeGrassie Bulkley, t the young son of Dr. J. W. Bulkley. c The marriage took place in Baltimore, e December 20, the couple having gone to or Baltimore and been united in marriage c and returned to this city the same s evening. . Upon their return they separated, r the bride going to her father's house. P( The sudden marriage greatly shocked it the parents of Miss Hillyer, and they began in the daughter's name, proceed- le ings to have the marriage annulled ona the ground that the young lady wast coerced. In a few days, however, these di proceedings were withdrawn and the couple were reunited. ai They were apparently very happy c3 then After living together, however, for ten days they separated again and in it was . announced that proceedings would be begun for absolute divorce. w Since then Mrs. Bulkley has lived at e* her father's house. Mr. DeGrassie t1 Bulkley was sick at his home to-day ~ and could not be seen. Conkling and Agnew. r --- ZE NEw YoRK, April 14.-Advices froni tI Mr. Conkling's sick room up to 10 oc o'clock to-night are vaguely encourag- ti' ing for the present and hopeful for the st morrow. The physicians, with the ex- h< ception of one watcher, had left the tl house for the night. pl Dr. Agnew, one of Mr. Conkling's w physicians, continues in a more critical fe condition than his patient. Neiiher of mi them have a very good prospect for life. ct LATER.-Dr. Barker said to-night: w. "Mr. Conkling is quiet; he sleeps well ti and takes a fair amount of nourish- al ment, principally milk. What little 1y change there is. is for the better. There a is no return of the nervous symptoms. ts It is not what he might eat, but what et he cares to eat, that is the trouble, and d: these things are perplexing. He prefers G milk to anything else, and it is the tc best.." 01 Woman and Night Travei. u tc [From the Boston Herald.] di We find the singular statement made Ic that very few women are now found w travelling in sleeping cars. It will be a ti surprise, we imagine, to the ordinary traveler. If the statement had been that few women enjoy that kind of travel it would have been nearer the truth, and, indeed, in more respects than one, the comfort of the fairer sex,is not so C well eared for on the sleeping ear as that of the other. A western railroad it man suggests that women be employed t as conductors on these cars. We doubt if much would be gained in this way, if it were practicable. What is most a needed is privacy, and the new system of Mann boudoir cars comes nearer toa affording this than the Pullman. Byt and by the railroads may provide a car e1 exclusively for women, and then a wo man conductor will be in order. We do bi not see why it should not be reasonable li to afford such a car on the longer routes now. l Too Much Stuffing. [From the Cedar Rapids Gazette.] ~ The country don't stand so much in need of a ballot-box that cannot be stuffed, as it does of voters who cannot SHORT-HAND WORK. w Reporting is Done In the Hanl. of Gongress. pecial to the Atlanta Constitution. VASHINGTON, April 7.-Few people ay from Washington- are aware of fact that every word uttered upon floor of either house or senate, when Iressed to either speaker or presi(dnt, aken down and appears in the Con ssional Record. It is true that much te, money, paper and printer's ink is sted by this, but nevertheless it is a t. But to do this, of course, requires employment of the most rapid and >erienced stenographers. Five of se are employed upon the floor of house simply to take down the eches, debates, etc. The chief of the ps receives a salary of $6,000, while other four are paid $1,000 less. These n simply take down the words in )rthand, working for fifteen minutes h in succession. When each one's een minutes expires he repairs to official reporter's room where ten re stenographers are employed-two each man-to whom are read the )orts taken on the floor, and who ce a copy in shorthand. Then they .nslate this into long hand, using a )ewriter to prepare the copy for the nter. These men are paid by space, :ting one dollar per column in the cord. The same is also gone through th in the senate daily. [he stenographers have in the past r days secured a machine to facilitate rk which has already proven of ines ,able value. It is one of Edison's rentions, and is called the grapha one. The machine very much re nbles a lady's sewing machine and worked in the same manner-by a lal. The instrument is used in this se: When one of the principal steno iphers concludes his floor report he es to this machine, reads his report :o a funnel connecting with the main linder, which is gutta percha coated, d revolves while the point of a needle anecting with the tube from the fun 1 mouthpiece rests against it. The linder envelopes a screw which pre nts the needle tracing a firmer line. hen the stenographer finishes reading i report another operator attaches bes to the cylinder, connecting with s ears, works the machine and the )rds of the stenographer are- repeated him in the same tone of voice of the evious talker. The rapidity of the k can be regulated and the operator a thus, with ease, take down the act words by the use of a typewriter an ordinary pen. The machine is rtainly wonderful and enables a per n with the assistance of a typewriter do the work of two ordinary stenorg pher w6to first have to take the re rt in short hand and then translate These gutta percha cylinders, I neg ;ted to mention above, can be stored ray, and years after, if placed upon e machine, the same words used to ,y will be repeated in the exact tone the speaker of today. Thus should ty record become destroyed these linders may be resorted to. Another thing about this machine is at a person here can talk for an hour to one, mail the cylinder to Atlanta dere by the use of a machine the :act words used here will be repeated, us saving the labor of writing long mmunicationls. There is a young man here from ugusta, Mr. Robert Middleton, once a porter on the quondam Augusta Ga tte, who came here without anything e first of the session, but who now cupies one of the most lucrative posi mns around the capitol. Being a good enographer, shortly after his arrival, secured a position under the chief of e official reporters of the house, a ace that averages him about $22 a eek but being an ambitious young lowv he secured additional employ ent as clerk of the Reading st.rike mmittee, from which he draws $42 a cek andl in addition t.o this occupies .e position of clerk to a congressman $7.50 a wveek, making the total week salary drawn by himi $71.50. Quite nice place for a young man barely renty-one years of age, and quite a >ntrast with the salary of $9 a week awn by him while reporting for the azette. But because young Middle n did this is no reason why every her young man in Georgia can do the me thing. Most young men depend >on the congressmen for their district provide them places. Mr. Middleton d not do that, but came here and oked out for himself, and has proven hat a young man of energy and amnbi m can do. The Festive Knight of the Grip. [From the Jewelers' Weekly.] Do you know that there are about ghty thousand commercial travelers the United States? Surprised'to hear Yes, most people are when they are ld of it, but it's a fact, nevertheless. ou may also be surprised to learn that -ery one of them spends on an aver -e $3,000 a year, or a total of $240,000, 0. If you add to this their salaries, eraging at least $1,000, you have a tal expenditure by commercial travel s of $20,000,000 a year. This is natu lly spent in all parts of the country; it the hotels and railroads get the mn's snare of it. During the last ten ers there has been a great change in e character of the commercial trave r. The old Bohemian type has almost tirely disppeared from the road, and 'inking men are much more rarely et with there than formerly. Hope for Most of Us. [From the Louisville Courier.] "Only good men egn wron." REV. SAM JONES ON POLITICS. ae Thinks Cleveland's Nomination Certain -The Tariff No National Issue. PITTSBURG, April 10.-Rev. Sam . Jones passed through this morningen route from his Northern lecture tour. As religion and politics seem closely illied these days, for want ofa better Lopic the Leader reporter asked the reverend gentleman what he thought f Cleveland's chances for renomina tion. "Excellent," he replied. "There is no one else thought of, despite the cheming of Bill Scott, Barnum and Senator Gorman. Cleveland will be nominated because the people are for him. The people are the power these days. They won't stand any boss die tation." "Well, how about his election ?" "He will be elected, too. No ddubt ibout that. In my travels through the - North I find an unanimous sentiment for Cleveland. It seems to be growing md spreading. The Republicans are ilarmed and are casting about for a heet-anchor for their hopes. They must get a new issue. The red flag, which has been their battle cry ever since the war, will no longer serve their purpose. The great majorityofthe south ern people are loyal, and the majority of the Republican party in the North have accepted them. This practically kills the 'bloody shirt' issue. Cleveland will win this year and at the end of his second term the Republicans will come again into power." "What do you think of Ingall's speech ?" "IngalLs is an ass. That is all I have to say of him." "What about the tariff 1" "That is a local, not a national, issue. It only affects certain States." - The Negro Had Better Stay Where He Is. [New York Herald.] It is reported that a large number ot so-called agents are at work in the Southern States. Their object is to per suade the colored people that they can make their everlasting fortunes by em igrating to Bra7il. The most remark able yarns are told of big crops, big wages and big money generally. It won't work, though. The negro is not as simple as some folks take him to be. He has heard of the old adage, "Out of the frying pan into the fire," and has altogether too much sense to make himself a illustration of it. . Of course there is a good deal of pov erty among the blacks of the South. Stil, we venture to say that no three or four millions of people in their pecu !i,r circuriistances ever did so much twenty years to better their surround ings. Nothing could be more depress ing than the condition in which they found themselves at.theend of the war. It seemed impossible, even to us of the - North,- for them to get any grip on American life and ambition for at least couple of generations. But they have made steady and, in many instancesre markable progress. The money they have saved, the thrift they have mani festetd the celerity with which they have fitted themselves to the new A circumstances, are clear proofs that time will make all things straight. The Brazil scheme is a delusion anda K snare. It is a spider and fly arrange-< ment, and the colored man can mnke more cash and vastly more progress by sticking to his home than by the most promising exodus that ever appealed to - his imagination. He is all right where he is ; anywhere else he would all be wrong. An Interesting Suit for Damages for As asault and Battery. [Special to the News and Courier] GREENvILLE, April 1.-The most ..A important case of the present and civil term was tried to-day. It was the dam age suit of Capt. W. R. White, formerly proprietor of -the Goodwin House of this city, against W. D). Goodwin, ow ner of the building, the claim being made for three thousand dollars dam ages for assault committed on the 14th February, 1887. The proprietor and owner quarrelled about the matter of - rent and a dispute arose, in which Mr. Goodwin, struck Capt. White five severe blows, felling him to the floor ' and striking him again when he had ~ arisen. Mr. Goodwin claimed that Capt. White accused him of lying, which - furnished the provocation for the blows. Capt. White d'enied having muade such charge. The case created a great deal of interest, the parties all - being well-known here. One of the strongest arrays of legal talent seen here in a long time appeared in the case, the plaintiff being represented by Wells & Orr and Cothran & Ansel, and defen dant by Perry & Heyward, and Blyth & McCullough, Argument was made by, Col. Orr and Congressman Cothran - on one side and by Congressman Perry and Capt. Blythe on the other. The jury to-night rendered a sealed verdict after the Judge had left the Courtroom. L ATER-The jury gave the plaintiff $.500 damages. Robert Minls Dead. (;ALvESToN, TEX., April 14.-Robert Mills, one of the most remarkable of .. the Texas pioneers, died in this city to-day, aged 79. Prior to the war of the rebellion, he was, perhaps, the wealthiest planter in the South. His slaves and plantations were valued at $3,000,000. He was known throughout the south as "the duke of Brazonia." President Lincoln's proclamation emancipated one thousand selected slaves belonging to Mills, and resulted in his financial ruin, from which he never entirely re